In addition to a strategy and an ambush, the most important thing in ancient warfare was morale. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIn the case that both sides are top strategists, it can only be seen in the tough battle to see whose soldiers have more morale. When there is no good military cultivation, the key to morale often determines the key to the victory or defeat of a tough battle, and those who are good at fighting tough battles have Qin soldiers......

Liu Qi in Fancheng routinely checked the harassment of the other party, it was still more than 1,000 people, Xu Huang had been hanging around the city every day for the past two months, occasionally putting a few arrows in the distance, and occasionally coming around the city, but he never attacked, this seemed to be telling them to cooperate with the acting?

"Lord, that Liu Qi is patrolling, but although there are a lot of soldiers above the city wall, they are extremely scattered." Fa Zheng also took out his binoculars and kept observing the situation on the city wall. Speaking of which, this telescope is really a magic weapon. With this thing, there is no fear of enemy ambushes at all, and even the enemy's movements, numbers, and other vital news can be clearly observed.

Xu Huang watched the two people holding a small cylinder and couldn't stop watching, he was a little unsure what this thing was? Liu Zhang saw Xu Huang's doubts, but he handed over his telescope and said: "Gongming, look at ......" For Xu Huang, Liu Zhang is not worried at all, this person is still quite reliable, after all, he is a good boy who grew up under the Han flag.

Xu Huang took the telescope and learned the Fa to look into the distance, and after a little temptation, Xu Huang almost threw this thing out with a wave of his hand. Looking at the cylinder in his hand, Xu Huang was shocked and said, "What is this, lord?" Why do you look so far? Like clairvoyance? This... This ...... "This thing is terrible, and with this thing it seems to increase tens of thousands of troops."

Liu Zhang hadn't spoken yet, but Fa Zheng smiled and said, "Why should Gongming panic? This is made by my Chang'an craftsmen, this thing is very easy to use, and it is simple to build, but ordinary people don't understand, only the lord understands. The power of this craftsman is really terrifying, terrifying. "Fa Zheng only understood at this moment why Liu Zhang treated craftsmen like that, whether it was gunpowder, or telescopes, or even those iron gods, which one was not a national treasure? With these things, why is it difficult to unify the great cause?

Liu Zhang said with a smile: "Filial piety is vain, I am born to be useful, everyone has their own uses, although the craftsman is strong, but not as good as filial piety." The two are indispensable to me, but with both, I still need a good general like Komei, otherwise how can I conquer the world? This telescope was given to Gongming, Chang'an did not produce much, not even Zhang Ren, Gongming should cherish it. "Liu Zhang didn't make much of this thing, Ma Teng took one, Fa Zheng took one, and Liu Zhang took the remaining one and gave it to Xu Huang at the moment.

"The lord is in a while, then Liu Qi will go down to the city after his inspection, and I will lead the troops to test it......" Xu Huang put away the binoculars as he spoke, rushed to the city with a dozen people, and ran back in a circle. The soldiers on the city wall watched Xu Huang wander around like monkeys, and they didn't even shoot a few bows and arrows.

"In the past, the soldiers defending the city could shoot arrows, but we quickly withdrew, and then we collected more than 10,000 arrows on the wooden planks, and then those people stopped shooting arrows." It's also funny to say that Fazheng is here, they have earned a lot of arrows here in the past two months.

Liu Zhang smiled dumbly, what is this? Planks borrow arrows? Zhuge Liang's straw boat borrowing arrows has not yet been released, did he borrow arrows from the wooden board first? As Xu Huang came back, the soldiers on the city wall probed their brains and looked at the city gate for a while, still closing the city gate, without the slightest intention of attacking, even if there were only a thousand people in front of them, but they still didn't want to attack?

"My lord, have you ordered the siege of the city? These people must be careless at this moment. Xu Huang got the telescope, and he was overjoyed at the moment, and couldn't help but take it out and look again. This thing is very good for a military general like them, looking at the overall situation, arranging troops......

Liu Zhang held the command flag high and waved it down violently, and various instruments began to be rolled out in the rear barracks, and the foot soldiers on both sides immediately lined up. The sound of trumpets and drums immediately spread throughout the barracks. Liu Zhang is not averse to carrying these things, but he is very disgusted with carrying so many flags. However, a team of thousands of people carries hundreds of flags, which is very redundant......

As Liu Zhang's side began to attack, the reflection on the city wall was still lazy and lazy and didn't really take it seriously. But tens of thousands of people poured under the city wall, and the people above reflected it, which was about to move seriously. A lieutenant shouted frantically: "Quickly tell the son, then Liu Zhang is really attacking the city!" "Dozens of ladders were erected in the blink of an eye, and hundreds of soldiers were already rushing to the top of the city walls......

A sentry quickly rushed towards Liu Qi's mansion: "Report...... Childe, that Xu Huang led the army to attack the city, and at this moment there were already soldiers killed on the city wall. The sentry spoke quickly and urgently......

Liu Qi suddenly got up and asked, "How is it possible?" Didn't Xu Huang go back after shaking around the city? Why did you suddenly attack the city? In the morning, he also saw that Xu Huang only took a few hundred people to walk his horse under the city wall and went back, why did he attack the city in a blink of an eye?

"Report ...... Xu Huang's military camp in front of him had tens of thousands of horses out of thin air, and according to the spies, it was the men and horses of Yizhou Mu Liu Zhang, who rushed to Fancheng overnight last night. A spy rushed in in a hurry, and didn't even have time to report it.

At this time, Liu Qi was shocked and said: "Then Liu Zhang is not fighting Cao Cao?" Didn't it come to the news of Cao's defeat a few days ago? Why did Liu Zhang suddenly arrive here? "I can't think of it at all, even if Liu Zhang intends to be in Jingzhou, then why do you want to go to war with Cao Cao? Could it be that the battle with Cao Cao is the old suspicion? Is the real purpose to numb oneself? Father has already let half of the people go back, so how can Fancheng hold on?

"The news is wrong for me, quickly send a message to the lord, Fancheng is in a hurry, let all the people come back......" Liu Qi immediately arranged, he took out his sword, put on his armor, and hurriedly rushed to the city wall.

Several generals defending the city immediately ran over: "Gongzi has repelled a wave of siege, but under the sudden prevention, our army suffered heavy casualties, and even more than 100 people were rushed up the city wall by the soldiers. Suddenly, the soldiers who came up killed a lot of people, and together with the siege equipment in the distance, they killed as many as a thousand people.

"Quickly clear the battlefield and bring up all the materials for defending the city, I have already sent a letter to the lord, and reinforcements will inevitably arrive at that time." Liu Qi is also bitter in his heart, even if the reinforcements arrive? That's just a tired soldier, according to Liu Zhang's calculation, he must have calculated everything to capture Fancheng.

Liu Zhang, who was located under the city, had a miserable look in his eyes, and thousands of people died on his side just in the siege just now. Especially those soldiers who rushed to the top of the city, none of them survived. This is just my first time attacking the city, am I afraid that I will attack more walls and kill more people in the future?

At the peak of the Han Dynasty, it had a population of 55 million, but by the end of the Three Kingdoms, the population was only 8 million. Eight million! It can be seen how many people died in the warlord melee during the Three Kingdoms period. Hundreds of thousands of troops moved on the side, and hundreds of horsemen were left who were wiped out at every turn. Natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people are struggling to make a living, is this the real end of the Han Dynasty?

It's just a small battle of Fancheng, Liu Zhang seems to have seen the defeat of Guandu Yuan Shao, and only a few hundred people died in the 700,000 army? It was really a terrible scene of corpses everywhere, bones exposed, thousands of miles of no people, and no villages for thousands of miles. After that, Cao Cao led an army of 800,000 to attack Chibi, and after that, Liu Bei led an army of 700,000 to attack Eastern Wu......

Liu Zhang didn't know if these numbers were false, and he didn't know if he was underestimating them, but the dead people were really there. Liu Zhang looked back and found that the people here seemed to think it was normal? Quite a few soldiers are still in high morale and don't even have the mood to be afraid? What kind of era is this?

Xu Huang rode over and said excitedly: "As long as the lord continues like this, the city will definitely be broken within three days." "Today's cursory observation shows that more Jingzhou soldiers have died, you must know that Liu Zhang brought elites this time, because of the previous promise, and the realization of taking care of the families of the fallen soldiers, which really gave Liu Zhang a lot of morale.

Family members don't have to think about it, you can be promoted if you kill the enemy, so why don't you work hard? The family of this era is not an individual but a whole, as long as there are people in the family to carry on the lineage, these people from the common family will dare to work hard and dare to work hard, for the opportunity to get ahead......

Liu Zhang knew that he was the commander, and he decided the momentum of the entire army: "Tell the soldiers that the soldiers who open the city gate will be rewarded with a hundred gold officials and a third rank." Tonight the soldiers eat well and continue the siege tomorrow. Be careful at night to avoid enemy attacks. "Although I am not afraid of many people, I still need to be careful.

With the cheers of the surrounding soldiers, the camp was filled with the smell of food, but Liu Zhang was not in the mood to eat. One man returned to the tent and sighed and told himself that there was nothing he could do. I want to be able to stabilize the world, otherwise the world will be more difficult. I did this for the sake of justice, for the sake of tomorrow's sun......

After a good disgusting experience, Liu Zhang was resurrected. Phew, I'm also hypocritical, isn't it because Liu Biao's wife is not beautiful, so I don't seem to have any desire to attack? For example, when I beat Zhang Ji, I was very excited, could it be because Zou Fu was very beautiful?

When he was thinking nonsense, Li Ru walked in: "My lord...... I saw that the adults were in a bad mood just now? Didn't expect to recover so quickly? I heard filial piety say that adults have never lost so many soldiers and horses, so I must feel uncomfortable, right? "Li Ru is a human spirit, and when Liu Zhang comes back, he will see something.