This autumn rain has been raining for six days, not to mention the stagnant water in the small river ditch, and the road surface that has become thin mud, even the food and clothing in the house, have begun to mold, so it is indeed not easy for the Qi army to survive this time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, the price paid is also very large, the march is outside, all of them are eating and sleeping in the open, and there was no tent that can cover the rain in ancient times, so whether it is marching or fighting in the rain, it is taboo.

And the Qi army happened to catch up outside, and there was no better way, so they could only grab a few Weiguo Xiaoyi first, drive out the guards, and let the Qi Marquis and the generals live, as for the ordinary soldiers, they could only find a place by themselves, either under the eaves, or under the big trees, or go far away to rob the houses of the Weiguo villagers, in short, the chief didn't care, and solved it by himself.

In the end, the price paid by the Qi army was that one-third of the people had a mild cold, and one-third had a severe cold, that is, nearly two-thirds of the people lost their combat effectiveness, and there were hundreds of people with the most serious high fevers, most of whom had to give away their lives before they even went to the battlefield.

On the evening when the continuous autumn rain stopped, when the statistics of the army were sent to Qi Hou, Qi Hou's face turned green.

Qi Hou's face turned green, not that Qi Hou also had a cold and his face was not good, it was naturally because this non-combat attrition was too serious, and the most important thing was that Qi Hou sent troops this time, and he did not divinate or ask the sky, so he didn't even bring medicine in the army, so it was difficult now.

But in fact, in Qi Hou's heart, the most important thing is not the life or death of those soldiers, but whether this battle can be fought or not?

In the eyes of Qi Hou, the soldiers are all cheap lives, as long as they are given food, they will not die. However, there are so many attritions, only fifty or sixty thousand people remain, although there is still a lead, but the advantage is not so big, this Puyang City is still not attacked?

If there were no soldiers to attrition, even if it had rained for six days, the Marquis of Qi would still have given the order to attack the city without hesitation, because it was reported that it was also raining in the territory of Wei. But now there is a dilemma, more than 50,000 soldiers, whether they can break through Puyang before the Wei army arrives, and then evacuate safely, this is a question.

So, in the evening when the sky was clear, Qi Hou walked around the temporary palace, and the senior generals on the side, as well as the new marching Sima Duan Ganpeng, were silent, this multiple-choice question is not so easy to do.

The time of a stick of incense has passed, half an hour has passed, an hour has passed, and Qi Hou is still walking around.

However, just as an hour had just passed, Qi Hou finally didn't have to move around anymore, because the scouts sent out brought the latest news from Puyang City.

As soon as the autumn rain stopped, the Qi army increased the detectives on Puyang City, and there was no need for Qi Hou to ask about this kind of work, naturally the generals were responsible. But I didn't expect the news brought this time to be very shocking, the city wall in the west of Puyang City actually collapsed part of it today.

This news immediately made Qi Hou ecstatic, this is simply God bless Great Qi, otherwise why did the wall of Puyang City collapse here? Although it is very common in this era, the ancient city walls are rammed earth structures, and it is difficult to have much resistance to the impact or brewing of rainwater, so this is not unusual, but it happened to be at the time of the collapse, you know, this autumn rain only fell for a few days, compared to the summer rainstorm, the rainfall is actually much smaller.

And there is also a key point is that the rammed earth structure of the city wall, after the collapse, it takes a lot of effort to clean up the clods, coupled with the continuous autumn rain during this time, the soil on the ground is wet, and the wet soil can not be directly used to tamp, to wait for the soil to dry or dry, it takes time, and then to ram the earth, it takes time, and the bricklaying is not so fast. Therefore, the wall fell today, and it will not be able to be rebuilt in a few days.

Qi Hou was overjoyed when he heard the news, this multiple-choice question is not difficult to do, in Qi Hou's view, the collapse of the city wall is the will of heaven, and if God does not take it, he will be blamed. So Qi Hou paused, and immediately shouted, "The will has been decided, mobilize all the troops tomorrow and storm the west city of Puyang." ”

"No!" The generals were also overjoyed when they heard the news, and they shouted together for the wisdom of the king.

Immediately afterwards, the Marquis of Qi quickly issued an order, and early the next morning, gather the remaining 50,000 soldiers who had safely survived the autumn rain, whether they were Qi soldiers or Lu soldiers, and all of them drove to the west of Puyang City, concentrating on attacking the section where the city wall collapsed, and it was necessary to break the city before dark.

Hearing Qi Hou's resolute and decisive order, the generals in the camp hurriedly said in unison, and it was indispensable to congratulate Qi Hou a few words, nothing more than some God-given opportunities, Qi Hou Yingming and other compliments, in this matter, almost all the generals are rare to maintain a high degree of consistency with Qi Hou, and those sycophants, although the shooting is extremely obvious, but it also seems to be not far from the facts, so Qi Hou suddenly fluttered when he heard it, as if tomorrow's dinner has been set in the Puyang City Inner Guard Palace.

At the same time, in this evening, nearly a thousand miles away in Luoyang, several pedestrians in a hurry knocked on the side door of the palace, and soon after, they were taken to the east side of the palace, the hall where the Taishi and Bai Xiang worked. Yes, the messenger sent to Luoyang by Zhou Tianzi, who followed the Wei army, also arrived, bringing the latest will of the king to Bai Xiang, who was busy with it.

Unexpectedly, after seeing the king's will, Bai Xiang smiled slightly, and smiled at the Taishi on the other side, who was constantly telling the officials who were going in and out, "Taishi, according to the king's will, I still have to go tomorrow." ”

In his busy schedule, the Taishi was stunned for a moment, asked a few words before remembering, and finally nodded.

"Well, well, it's hard to be white."

The next day, outside the city of Puyang.

Before dawn, the Qi army began to show as a big country, and should have high-quality military quality, when the sky was still dark, in the Qi camp, there began to be a sparse sound, when the sky turned blue, the smoke has risen everywhere in the Qi camp, this is the first to get up in the army and the people began to make food.

And just as the smoke was rising, the roar of the commanders was heard in the camp, and then many sergeants ran out of the many makeshift tents. As soon as the autumn rain stopped, the generals of the Qi army gathered the soldiers back, except for some sick people who remained in the robbed houses, all the soldiers who were in good health were all gathered together, which was also the preparation of the Qi army for today's siege.

And when a hint of fish belly white appeared in the east, the 50,000-strong army had already had enough breakfast, and was shouting at the shouts of their respective commanders, looking for weapons and finding their own queues. There are also some soldiers who have found the wooden ladders and wooden shields that they have made a few days ago, and these things will not be damaged by a few rains, so they can still be used.

At dawn, 50,000 troops galloped out of the camp in an orderly manner and headed northwest.

Half an hour later, the army appeared a few miles west of Puyang City.

However, when the chariot with the banner of Qi in the front of the Ling army rushed to the west of Puyang City, the face of Qi Hou on the chariot was a little unsightly.

For there was already a faint sight in front of him, and there was no legendary gap in the wall where the scouts had collapsed.

However, Qi Hou did not suspect that the scouts had misreported the news, because there were still faint figures shaking on the city wall, and the most conspicuous thing was that even if it was two miles away, the color of the new city wall was obviously different from the others, and the color of that section of the city wall was darker.

Came with joy, but suddenly saw that the hope became smaller, Qi Hou couldn't accept it in his heart, could it be that he was wrong, so Qi Hou rubbed his eyes, and then looked carefully, and sure enough, he found that there was no gap on the city wall.

And there has been a bit of an uproar in the front army, because because of the joy of Qi Hou and the generals, they did not hide the news that the Puyang city wall collapsed last night, and even some generals were happy and were still deliberately publicizing it everywhere, and the soldiers who walked in front were naturally not blind, this would be seen by Qi Hou, and those soldiers also saw it.

At the same time, several chariots following Qi Hou also rushed up, and someone could be heard shouting, "Qi Hou, why did this Puyang City be repaired so quickly?" ”

This really shouted out the unhappiness in Qi Hou's heart, no one saw it, hearing this, Qi Hou's face became gloomy again, but because of the anxiety in his heart, Qi Hou did not look back to see whose mouth these words came from, if it wasn't for the urgency, Qi Hou really wanted to rectify the guy who was called out first.

Qi Hou took the lead, and after the army rushed out for half a mile, he slowly stopped, because as he gradually approached, on the Central China Plain of Pingchuan, Puyang City was clearly looked at again, the city wall was indeed almost repaired, but it was cyan, it was estimated that it was not rammed earth, and there were still people busy, and I had seen people running back and forth on the Puyang city wall, and there were spears erected from the city, obviously the guards had been alarmed.

Therefore, at this time, Qi Hou took the lead in stopping, and the army behind him also slowly stopped. Qi Hou needs to think about the current situation, whether he should continue to attack, or make another plan.

As soon as Qi Hou's car slowed down, the two chariots behind him caught up, and on top of the first one, it was the young general Gongsun Qiu, who only heard the chanting, "Your Majesty, the morale of the army can only be drummed, not discharged, if you don't fight, you can kill it directly." ”

I only heard Qi Hou shaking his head slightly, but on the other chariot, the veteran Tian Zhong also called out.

"Your Majesty, the old minister's view, this Puyang city wall must be the blue bricks used to demolish the palace wall in the city, and it will be built layer by layer, and the new city will not be solid, and our army can still storm it."

Qi Hou lowered his head when he heard this, it really made sense, so Qi Hou waved his hand, "The whole army listens to the order, immediately press up, and attack Puyang!" ”

"Don't you call the battle?" The other general who followed behind him wondered.

"I called it a few days ago, but I don't need it today." Qi Hou's tone was resolute.

"Isn't that a good formation?" The veteran Tian Zhong looked back at the chaotic army behind him that had just stopped from the march.

However, Qi Hou didn't look back, "No, rush up directly, I didn't see that they are still repairing the city, do we have to wait for him to repair it?" ”

"No!"

The generals behind the Marquis of Qi replied in unison, the monarch said so, and the generals dared not to implement it? Besides, not only was the Marquis of Qi impatient, but when he saw the city wall that seemed to be repaired at a glance, the generals were also a little anxious.

So the military order was quickly conveyed, and the army suddenly roared, rushing towards Puyang City like a tide, and after many days of autumn rain, the Qi army seemed to be released from a cage, and the momentum was high.

And the section of the city wall with a different color from other places was too conspicuous, and without the commander's orders, the key target of the Qi army was set there, and everyone rushed there.

Due to the anxiety of the Marquis of Qi and the generals, the soldiers were naturally infected, so the whole army was disorderly, swarming towards Puyang City, a piece of black pressure, but the defenders on the head of Puyang City were startled, panicked so that the generals and captains ran around, and it was easy to wait for the Qi army to be hundreds of steps away before the formation was formed, and the crossbowmen pulled the bowstring, and the Qi army was almost caught off guard.

Also, without a report, just come up and do it really, this is not the style of this era, and Qi Jun's actions are already taboo.

However, there is also a style in this era, that is, the strong have more right to speak, so if the Qi army wins, the slope of Puyang, or even the destruction of the country, then the Qi army's actions today are at least at the moment, no one will question it, maybe only the historian will make a note, in a certain year and month, the Qi army fought without telling and broke Puyang.

Therefore, the key issue is the outcome of the war.

It was Qi Hou, who also held the wheel, squinted his eyes, and stared at the front tightly.

And the Qi army did not live up to expectations, braving the rain of loose arrows, and soon rushed to the bottom of the city wall. However, the soldiers who rushed to the front were dumbfounded, because their comrades carrying the wooden ladder were still running behind. Although this wall is newly built and only two people high, you can't climb it with your bare hands!

This is the consequence of a swarm of bees rushing forward, unorganized and undisciplined, otherwise the siege battle is basically the shield hand guarding the archers in front of the suppression, and then the ladder hand rushes forward, followed by the main force of the siege, just like the Han army attacked Luoyang, and the Wei army attacked Xinzheng.

And now the Qi army happened to be reversed, and the main force of the siege ran to the front, no way, the siege of the city were all light infantry, no big shield, no bow and crossbow in hand, and no ladder to carry, the weight of the body was the lightest, and it was obviously the fastest.

Although there was no building car to climb high and look far away, Qi Hou behind the army was also aware of this problem, but as the initiator, Qi Hou did not feel embarrassed, but just put his already gloomy face even heavier.

However, under the attack of the guards with strong military quality and bow and arrow, the loss of the Qi army was not large, on the contrary, some brave soldiers even set up a human ladder and climbed towards the two-person high city wall, which actually made the siege war omit the steps of the previous shooting and suppression, and went directly to the extent of short-handed combat, and actually saw that the Qi Hou in the rear was also nervous, and even secretly regretted in his heart, he knew that the human ladder could be set up, why did he want to do a human ladder, otherwise maybe the Qi army would be able to hide from the rain in Puyang City.

Fortunately, Qi Hou did not regret it for long, because it turned out that the human ladder was okay for escape, but the siege was far away, and the soldiers at the top could not stand steadily, so how could they kill the enemy? In the end, it was still by relying on the wooden ladder, and the Qi army really entered the hand-to-hand encounter.

Gradually, the wooden ladders and archers were in place, and the combat effectiveness of the 50,000 Qi army finally broke out completely, and a fairly long piece of the city wall had already entered the outermost part of the city wall, and due to the desperate resistance of the guards, it was difficult for the Qi army to move forward after all.

The fierce battle lasted until noon, and Qi Hou's mood went up and down several times, his fists clenched countless times, and he let go in sighs countless times. Even General Tian Zhong's request to withdraw his troops at noon, the Marquis of Qi did not approve, looking at the fierce battle, maybe the next moment, maybe the city will be broken.

Sure enough, an hour later, the Qi army finally ushered in a major breakthrough, and the newly replenished section of the city wall in Puyang City was only hastily repaired after all, and under the impact of the Qi army, it collapsed with a bang.

Although the collapsed city wall crushed dozens of Qi soldiers to death, the entire Qi army still roared as a whole, and squeezed towards the gap, and the desperate attack in the morning and the hunger in the afternoon were all gone at this moment.

Qi Hou raised his right fist even more excitedly, as if he had seen himself sitting on the high throne of the Guard.

But he didn't want to be half a quarter of an hour later, a small scout broke in, but brought bad news, five miles behind, found the traces of the Wei army.

I really didn't expect that the Wei army would arrive at this critical moment as if it had fallen from the sky.

Qi Hou suddenly sat on the chariot, the light that had just been lit in his eyes dimmed, the distance of five miles, half an hour can be killed, and then look at the city wall in front of him that seems to be about to be breached, Qi Hou's heart Heaven and man are fighting, is this to continue to attack the city, or retreat to defend?