Chapter 100 Excavation and Slope Construction

The two rows of generals on the left and right of the tent touched their bellies and laughed.

Chen Xu was ridiculed by everyone, and he was also angry in his heart, and said: "This colleague said this, there must be a clever plan, why don't I report to His Majesty to give you this position of envoy, how about you come to attack Shouzhou?"

The military general who had just interjected suddenly choked and didn't dare to answer, Wei Jun fought for so many days, and he didn't bite this hard bone, it can be seen that this is not an easy thing to do, and the emperor has high hopes for it, hoping to tear a hole from Shouzhou, if the performance is not good, it is not a joke to lose his head, who will take this hot potato? Whoever picks up is stupid.

"Jung Jae-sung, don't say it." Li Wenzhao ordered the military general and told him to stop talking.

Chen Xu didn't continue, under the same roof, looking down and not looking up, there was no need to tear his face with the big boss for the sake of a momentary anger.

Although it was his subordinates who took the initiative to provoke trouble, it was up to the owner to beat the dog, Li Wenzhao's face was a little unbearable, and his heart was unhappy, "General Chen is also a fierce general in the world, how magnificent Gao Ping is in the first battle!" Now His Majesty has appointed envoys for Shouzhou to control hundreds of thousands of troops, but now he is tiptoeing in the face of Shouzhou, which I can't figure out. ”

Li Wenzhao also participated in the Battle of Gaoping, and killed Zhang Yuanhui, the first fierce general of the Northern Han Dynasty, with an arrow in the battle.

Chen Xu said: "Can the general listen to me first?"

"Let's talk about it."

"The last general has analyzed the troop deployment of our army and found a major loophole." Chen Xu paused, and said, "Many of our army's 300,000 troops are new to the battlefield, and what can really be fought is the elite of the 40,000 forbidden army in the hands of me and the general, but the general is in the northwest, and our department is in the east of Shouzhou City, and the two are more than ten miles apart. ”

Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven.

With the previous communication and conversation, Li Wenzhao is likely not to retreat.

Sure enough, before Li Wenzhao could speak, a military general in the position on his left said disapprerovingly: "Since the beginning of the war, our army has won successive battles, and the Southern Tang Army has long been frightened, how dare you go out of the city to fight with our army!" General Chen is too unfounded. ”

The name of the person who spoke was Li Jixun, and he was currently the commander of the Infantry Division.

Li Wenzhao thought deeply and said: "What Li Duenvoy said is right, my Great Wei 300,000 horses are here, how dare the Southern Tang Army go out of the city?" The general thinks that General Chen is best to continue to attack the city according to the original deployment, the Southern Tang defender Liu Renzhan is the general of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Shouzhou City is an important town to control the Huaishui, as long as our army continues to attack the city fiercely, the Southern Tang Army will continue to send people to help, our army is here to attack the Tang Army, and all the casualties lost in the siege can be recovered on the Southern Tang reinforcements! ”

Li Wenzhao's method of "encircling points and sending reinforcements" sounds quite reasonable, but Chen Xu obviously does not agree.

Continuing to say, it seems that it is impossible to convince all the adults to deploy.

Simply, Chen Xu didn't argue too much, and said directly: "General Li, the last general will rest for three days, and after three days, he will attack the city, and I ask General Li for permission!"

The Huainan camp has the power to control the soldiers and horses of the Huainan Wei army, almost except for the emperor, he is the biggest, among which is the overseer Shouzhou to recruit the power, Chen Xu didn't want to follow him to continue to tear up, so he asked.

"Okay, three days is three days! Your Majesty has ordered you to be in charge of the attack on Shouzhou, and I have high hopes for you, I hope you had better come up with good countermeasures, don't delay the big thing, and I will play it truthfully today! Li Wenzhao readily agreed, but he warned Chen Xu at the end of his life.

"!" Out of the account, Chen Xu scolded in a low voice.

You can do it, don't be grinning if you don't go!

It seems that I can only figure out a way for myself.

When he returned to the army, he continued to summon the generals to discuss, and everyone talked about it, but there were no good countermeasures. Chen Xu listened to the dozens of people discussing below, and he was also thinking about any other way.

He didn't believe that he was also a time-traveler from the modern era, with a thousand years of more knowledge than them, and he couldn't think of any good way.

Playing digging tunnels? No, this is the most common siege method, and the Southern Tang Army has been prepared for a long time, so it is useless.

Find a way to exceed the height of the city walls? Pushing the ladder is very easy to be counterattacked by the Southern Tang Army, and the "big meal" of fierce fire oil is not delicious.

Destroying the walls? Siege equipment such as stone throwers and siege engines are not powerful.

In the 13th century, the Mongolian army faced the tall city wall of the Southern Song Dynasty, and repeatedly attacked, but they were very good at learning, and the skilled craftsmen innovated and improved the ancient stone-throwing machine to make it more powerful, and repeatedly performed miraculous feats in the Song and Yuan wars, called "Huihui Cannon", also known as Xiangyang Cannon, which can throw hundreds of pounds of boulders, destroy the city wall, sonic shock the world, and all the blows are destroyed, seven feet into the ground! It can be described as a big killer in the era of cold weapons! In the era when artillery did not appear, it can be described as a standout.

So to learn more things to be prepared, Chen Xu is very distressed now.

Hey, wait, find a way to make our army higher than the enemy walls......

Suddenly, Chen Xu had a flash of inspiration, and an idea popped up in his mind.

It's the method mentioned in a certain article I saw before.

The more Chen Xu thought about it, the more feasible he felt, his own personnel were far more than the defenders, and what he needed to consider was probably whether there were enemy reinforcements to attack and disturb when building fortifications, but the only thing that could be close to Shouzhou was that there was Li Wenzhao's commander in the west, and the Wei army was attacking the cities in other directions, and he was pinned down, so he was too busy to take care of himself, let alone draw out extra troops to rescue.

Chen Xu said: "Everyone, I have promised General Li to suspend the siege for three days."

The generals all set their eyes on Chen Xu, and Chen Xu continued: "Within three days, you will lead your subordinates to dig the soil on the spot, collect the sand and soil you have excavated, and pile it into soil outside the range of the enemy's defenders' bows and arrows, and build the soil into a mound. Let's disperse first, and I will convey more specific assignments to you later. ”

Everyone was puzzled, but Chen Xu had won many battles and was famous, and everyone was more convinced, so they didn't ask much and took orders one after another.

A golden sun was embedded in the blue sky, and a white cloud was like a lone sail on the blue sea floating in the clear sky. The light blue canopy, like a clean velvet, is trimmed with yellow gold.

The clear blue sky was cloudless and as clear as jasper.

In the sunny afternoon, the afternoon sun flowed like the notes of water, and it was wet with a different kind of sorrow.