Chapter 219: More Troops
These two people are both sharpshooters in the army, if they can really kill the enemy officers, it is indeed in line with their wishes, but Zhou Bian obviously will not be willing to let the two lose, so Zhou Bian looked up and saw that the two were fully armored, so he nodded. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"Okay, then be careful yourself."
The two of them saluted and left.
In the royal army, only some generals can wear a full set of armor and helmets, and there are less than 2,000 such people, and the royal family can only supply so much.
And all this is caused by the poverty of the royal family, so Zhou Bian thought about it again, is it still a small step in his economic development? For example, shochu and refined salt, etc., the business has only been done in the nearby three kingdoms of Qin, Han and Wei, such as the iron spear and other businesses have not yet been carried out, and the toilet paper that Na Shen illegally made has not yet started production. It seems that he still has to develop a lot, just like this catapult, he always thought about secrecy at the beginning, so he built so many dozens, and now there is no way to build more than 200 at once, and sure enough, he suppressed the Korean army so much that he couldn't raise his head, it seems that he was really wrong at the beginning.
Thinking about this, Yang Zhongqiao and Yan Gao had already been invited to the back door of the main hall and wanted to go down to the city. Although the city wall can also reach the East Gate and the Peace Gate on both sides, who is stupid, the arrows of the Han army have not stopped, so it is naturally safer to walk from under the city.
After seeing the two leave, Zhou Bian looked at the city again, now the two sides are fighting to the death, although they can't see clearly in the distance, they can still hear the sound of shouting and killing, and although Zhou Bian can't go into battle to kill the enemy, but his fists are still clenched tightly, he has done this, he must not lose, even if he is a king, even if he is a person of later generations, if he falls into the hands of Han Hou, he is afraid that it will be difficult to turn over.
Besides, when Yangzhongqiao and Yan Gao walked to the stairs of the lower city tower, they saw Yangzhongqiao smile with his hand, "Yan Gongzi, why don't we make a bet to see who shoots more enemy officers and who has less, who will buy wine and drink?" ”
"I think it's okay, the centurion is not counted below, and the thousand-sized one person is counted as ten centurions, how about it?" Yan Gao was not ambiguous in agreeing, and the relationship between the two in the past few days has made the relationship between the two very good.
"What if it's an enemy general?" Yang Zhongqiao squinted and smiled. In this era, there is no post of commander, and a commander of 10,000 people is a general.
"There are only three generals on your side, if you can shoot one, you can just buy wine, hehe!"
As they spoke, the two walked to the ground, arched their hands and said goodbye, one to the south, the other to the north, and hurried away. With the relationship and arrogance of the two, how many people they killed, they just counted it themselves, and the two never thought about who would blindly report the numbers on the other side.
And at this time, there is a lookout platform outside the Dingding Gate, and the battle between the two sides at the north and south gates has also entered a white heat, under the scorching sun, the Korean soldiers climbed up the ladder one after another, and the royal soldiers also desperately leaned against the female wall to kill the enemy, and the death toll on both sides began to rise in a straight line.
Two miles away, in the rear army of the South Korean army, Han Hu and other generals looked at the fierce battlefield, all with solemn faces.
Finally, Han Jin spoke.
"Father, if you don't press more troops up, I'm afraid that our army will not be able to build an inch except for increasing casualties."
Before the general could speak, Su Rui on the side also spoke, "General, what Han Jin said is extremely true, but I think that it is better to concentrate on attacking all the city walls east of Luoyang." I thought that after we pressed the army, the Zhou room would be tired of defense, but now it seems that the Zhou room not only withstood the attack of our army on both sides of the north and south, but also left soldiers at the Dingding Gate in the middle. ”
"Well, it does make sense, let the old man think about it." Han Hu squinted and looked ahead, and said without his head parting.
Gongzi Jin behind Han Hu didn't like Su Rui, and said coldly, "It's all because you said a few days ago that you would build more boxcars and high platforms, but you see, the stones flying out of Luoyang City can still smash the boxcars, but the high platform can't suppress Luoyang's catapults, and the people who operate the catapults are hiding behind the city walls, how can they shoot them?" Let's listen to the general's words more today, lest the yellow-mouthed boy miss the prince's big event. ”
Feeling that Gongzi was-for-tat, Su Rui just smiled slightly and didn't fight again. The old general Han Hu didn't make a sound, and several people suddenly quieted down again.
After a while, it was the deep voice of the great general Han Hu, "Pass the order, add 10,000 soldiers to the north and south, and let them strengthen the offensive, the old man wants to see how long the Zhou royal family can carry it?" ”
"No!" As soon as Gongzi Jin gave up his hand, he immediately sent an order according to the prior arrangement, and the army had 10,000 troops on the left and right sides, and rushed straight to Luoyang City.
Is it time to decide the winner today? Su Rui turned his head to look at the white-haired and bearded general, but saw the latter's solemn face. Yes, since the Korean army broke through Xinzheng and destroyed Zheng Guo, such a tough battle has never been fought again. Although the general is still the same general, is today's Korean army still the Korean army of the past?
Su Rui pursed his lips, but he never asked to come forward to supervise the battle, rather than being surprised by his colleagues or even his superiors, it was better to watch the Han army defeat Luoyang City, anyway, in the eyes of many people in the world, it was by no means a wise move to attack the Zhou royal family.
The movement of the Han army outside the city was soon discovered by the sentinels on the city tower, and Zhou Bian in the main hall of the city tower naturally got the news as soon as possible. On one side, there is a big formation, then it is 30,000 people attacking a city gate, this strength, there is not much difference from the first day, does the Korean army want to use superior forces to overwhelm the royal family?
If the Korean army came up like this on the first day, then Zhou Bian's troops might still be stretched, but now he is not so afraid, except for the reserves and people, there are 17,000 troops on the eastern wall.
After thinking about it, Zhou Bian asked people to pass down the word, the city gates on both sides can add more people, but you can't add all the strength at once, I think that several generals should be able to grasp it by themselves, and they can't really worry about everything.
Looking up, the sun has risen so high, it has been nearly an hour since the war started today, and I don't know how our army's casualties are, but I can only wait, today the Korean army will attack the city directly, but it is inconvenient to immediately count the number of casualties, but fortunately, the news from both sides is okay, at least they can resist.
So, Zhou Bian stayed quietly in the hall like this, although he didn't do anything, but as a king, just staying here can also play a lot of roles.
The sound of shouting and killing came from both sides, still shaking the sky. The sergeants who reported the news came one after another, and the 20,000 soldiers added by the Korean army had rushed to the city, and the Korean army's offensive intensified, Wang Sunjian in the north added another 1,000 people to fight in the city, and Liu Yun in the south also added 1,000 people to fight in the city, and two catapults were damaged and unusable, and three watchtowers fell in the north, and so on, the news was sent like a tide, and generally Zhou Bian just nodded, and did not interfere with anything, the preparations were prepared as early as before the war, and if he could not hold it anymore, he had no more way.
However, although he did not come to the battlefields on the north and south sides, Zhou Bian could still imagine the cruelty of the city wall, according to the troops invested by the Korean army and the firepower of the royal family today, I am afraid that no less than 10,000 people will be killed, and I don't know how much loss of troops the Korean army can bear under the city of Luoyang.
Zhou Bian knows that South Korea's total military strength is about 300,000 to 400,000, in the Warring States Period, there were constant wars every year, South Korea is in the hinterland of the Central Plains, if it is less than this force, let alone open up the territory, even the land is afraid that it will be difficult to preserve, South Korea, with a population of millions, maintains such a force all year round, I am afraid that it is not an easy task. It's just that I don't know what Han Hou thinks, if he has to break through Luoyang and hold the royal family hostage, does he really think that the Zhou royal family is weak and easy to bully?
I don't know what Han Hou would think after learning about the battle situation here, and knowing that the 100,000 army under his command lost 10,000 troops every time he succeeded in the city, whether he would continue to increase his troops or withdraw his troops to stop the battle.
It's just that I don't know how Han Hou and his people are, whether they are good at strategy, good at forbearance, or easy to be impulsive and short-sighted, Zhou Bian shook his head, it seems that after the Han army retreats, the royal family should increase its business, in addition to taking a bigger step in business, it is also necessary to increase the collection of intelligence from other countries.
Think about the Han army again, Luoyang is such a big city, he Han army more than 100,000 people dare to attack, I don't know whether to look down on the Zhou royal family, or the Han army is self-sustaining and brave, Sun Tzu also said, ten sieges, and siege for the city, the Han army came this time, chose such a strategy, and must pay the price it should pay, otherwise I will be sorry for the soldier Sun Wu.
I thought about it like this for a long time, but Fan Yu woke him up from his daze, and it turned out that 10,000 Korean soldiers outside the Dingding Gate were about to withdraw.
"This is a retreat?" Zhou Bian was a little confused for a while.
"King, it's not that the Han army is going to retreat, but that the 10,000 Han soldiers outside the Dingding Gate are going to retreat."
Oh, that's the case, think about it, I ordered the soldiers on the side of Dingdingmen to hide and not fight back, and the catapults are still throwing out pieces of flying stones, although the 10,000 Korean soldiers keep shooting arrows, but they can't hurt this side, not to mention, their own losses are quite large.
Sure enough, under the cover of the shield, this group of Korean troops slowly retreated, leaving behind corpses on the ground and more than a dozen scattered lookout platforms. The city was roughly counted, and there were more than a thousand corpses. There was no siege on the Dingding Gate side alone, so many corpses were left behind, and I don't know what happened to the north and south sides.
After the Han army retreated, Zhou Bian walked out of the main hall of the city tower, walked to the female wall and looked down, only to see that under the scorching sun, scattered corpses were paralyzed irregularly on the open space outside the Dingding Gate, but there was not much blood, after a little thought, Zhou Bian understood, it was all stoned to death, it was blunt trauma, and it was not stabbed by a sword, so there would be so much blood flowing out?
Poor Han Bing, who may not have even killed an enemy, was stoned to death like this. Thinking about it, it feels terrible, a few catties to dozens of catties of stones are flying all over the sky, but I can only hide behind the shield, the force of the flying stones, even if you can't smash the shield at one time, but you can also smash your arm numb, and even break it directly. No one knows where the next flying rock will fall, what a sad fear it is. Perhaps in the last years of the Song Dynasty in later generations, thousands of return cannons kept bombarding Xiangyang City, which is also such a fear, and I don't know how the people of Xiangyang withstood it.
Look at the front again, the 10,000 Korean troops only went back less than 9,000, holding the bricks of the women's wall that were hot by the scorching sun, but Zhou Bian was still worried, Luoyang is located in South Korea, except for Luoyang City, but there is no danger to defend, not to mention how to develop, it is in front of this, how to deal with the past?
The shouts of killing on both sides were still shaking the sky, and groups of soldiers were falling, and more soldiers rushed forward. The people sweated like rain, but they still pulled the heavy catapult again and again. Although I can't see it, this picture is all in front of me.
And equally sad are the South Korean army two miles away.
I wanted to use the 10,000 Han soldiers in the middle to contain the strength of the Zhou royal family, but in the end, Han Hu could only tragically find that these 10,000 Han soldiers did not have much effect except for wasting the flying stones of the Zhou royal family with their lives, and they kept shooting like this, not to mention that they couldn't kill the enemy, the soldiers' arms were already tired, and tens of thousands of arrows were spent in vain.
In the north and south of the hope, although the offensive was fierce, and from time to time there were Korean soldiers attacking the city, but in the eyes of Han Hu, it was immediately clear that it was still insufficient to attack the city wall. The Zhou Chamber actually has so many troops, and it can defend three city gates at the same time, resisting the simultaneous onslaught at the two city gates, it seems that he still underestimates the royal family.
After thinking about it for a while, the old general Han Hu turned his head and ordered, "Pressing another 10,000 people on the north and south roads, let the 10,000 people in the north increase the offensive and storm the east gate of Luoyang, and the 10,000 people in the south are only shouting and cheering under the city, pay attention to keeping the troops, and don't attack the city with all your might." Do you hear them all? ”
Gongzi Jin arched his hand and said, "Is the general going to attack the upper east gate and let the flat gate continue to attract the opponent's troops?" ”
The old general nodded, "Old man, it seems that our soldiers and soldiers frequently climb the city wall at the upper east gate, but the enemy army at the flat gate is much fiercer, so it is better to attack the upper east gate in order to break the city." ”
Gongzi nodded and was about to arrange it, but Han Jin on the side spoke, "Father, let the child lead the team to attack the East Gate." ”
Hearing his own child speak, Han Hu hesitated for a while, this main attacking side will inevitably suffer great losses, thinking of this, Han Hu turned his head to glance at Su Rui, but saw that the latter seemed to turn his head unintentionally, so Han Hu sighed and said, "Just let me go in, be careful at home." ”
"No!" Han Jun clenched his fists, turned around and retreated with Gongzi Jin, and gathered his subordinates.
Han Hu turned around again, but heard Su Rui say in a deep voice, "General, there is a plan, or you can break the city, I don't know if you should say it?" ”