Chapter 234: Controversy Outside the City
The father and son smiled at each other, as if the estrangement in the morning had all disappeared at this moment. It seems that www.biquge.info father is not as uncompromising as he thinks, although Han Jin also knows that there is not so much attention to in today's government and politics, but as a child, he always hopes that his father will have more positive images, which has been the case since ancient times, isn't it?
At this time, a sergeant ran in outside the tent, "Report to the general, there is news from Luoyang City, let us send a thousand people to the city to collect the corpse." ”
"Didn't you collect it in the morning?"
"This time it was sent out of the city last night."
Hearing this, the father and son glanced at each other, but Han Jin stood up suddenly, "I'll take a look." ”
Han Hu naturally knew that Han Jin wanted to determine Su Rui's life and death, so he didn't stop him, but said to the sergeant who was still hunched, "Just do as they say, and take back all the corpses." Hey, it's just a pity for these 5,000 warriors. ”
With the urging of the general's son, the work of recovering the fallen soldiers was carried out quickly, and by this time the war had arrived, and the people who pushed the cart had long been numb. But under the whipping of General Han Jin, the speed of this group of people was much faster.
It didn't take long for more than 5,000 corpses to be transported back, and Han Hou naturally did not guess wrong, this 5,000 elite soldiers of the same age who were directly under Su Rui were completely wiped out. Then, as usual, the fallen soldiers were dragged to the hills north of Chengzhou, where more than 20,000 Korean soldiers had been buried, and in this era, the high transportation costs and lowly ordinary soldiers determined that except for a very small number of generals, the vast majority of those who died on the battlefield would not be transported back to their hometowns, and the better ones were buried on the spot as the Korean army did now, and almost even left them alone.
And I have to say that although in the eyes of all Koreans, Su Rui and Han Jin should be in a competitive relationship, but as a pair of young people who have been on the battlefield together and talked about life and death together, in fact, Han Jun and Su Rui's personal relationship is still extremely good. Han Jin, who was anxious, found a lot of old people in the army, searched for the corpses one by one, and even held back his nausea and personally looked through a lot of corpses, fortunately, it took half an hour to finally confirm them one by one, and there was no Su Rui among the corpses sent back.
The thing he was worried about finally didn't happen, Han Jin breathed a sigh of relief, at least Su Rui wasn't dead now, otherwise it would be useless for the Zhou Chamber to hide his body. Maybe he is hiding in Luoyang City, or maybe he is locked up in a cell in the Zhou room, but no matter what, as long as he lives, there is hope.
That night, it rained heavily between Heluo, as if to cool down the brutal battle.
What no one expected was that the rain stopped for a few days, and both sides inside and outside Luoyang City took a good breath.
Ten days later, the rain finally stopped completely, the sun was shining, and the scorching summer days returned.
At this time, on the city wall south of Luoyang, a group of people were crowded, looking at the surging Luoshui flowing by, but Zhou Bian had a worried face.
"King, the Han army does not dare to block the flooded city of Luoyang, Luoyang is the royal city, if it is called flooded, the damage is far greater than that of Bingge, and the Han army does not dare to do so." It was the master who spoke, a good old man.
"The master touches the hearts of the people with his own heart, thinking that others are as kind as you, but in the eyes of this king, he still has to guard against it, and he orders to go down, concentrate manpower to block the city gate with bricks and stones, repair the city wall, and then dig drainage ditches in the city and dig deeper."
"No!" The king made a final decision, and the ministers responded one after another. Still not at ease, Zhou Bian led the crowd to inspect again before returning to the palace.
At this time, there was a controversy in the Han camp, and many generals were arguing, naturally how to attack the city. As a general and the supreme commander of the army, the old general Han Hu sat on top of him, without saying a word, looking at a group of boastful sons and brothers in the audience, Han Hu really didn't want to make a decision anymore, this battle was too difficult, beyond imagination. Han Hu didn't have much confidence anymore, what he was waiting for was Han Hou's next order.
Ten days after the letter was sent, it should have been a reply.
The controversy in Han Yingshuai's tent lasted for a day without results. The next day was another controversy, but the old general did not speak, how could there be a resolution. Finally, on the third day, Han Hou's latest instructions arrived, and along with Han Hou's instructions, there were 10,000 recruits and a large amount of grain and grass.
This time, it was Gongsun Qi's escort team that came, and after reading Han Hou's order, Gongsun Qi helped Han Hu, who was kneeling on one knee in front of him, up with both hands.
"Old general, in the military array, the king only respects the old general, and the old general wants to disappoint the king. It must be known that this time the monarch has given time again, and replenished the troops and grain and grass, in fact, the pressure on the monarch is still very great. But the old general don't think too much, although Luoyang is strong, although it is beyond our expectations, but under my superior forces, there will always be a day when the Zhou room is exhausted, and the old general should not give up on himself. ”
"Your Majesty, thank you!" In fact, Han Hu's heart wished that the king didn't value himself, and it would be nice to change to someone else.
However, Han Hou, who is far away in Xinzheng, naturally does not know Han Hu's thoughts, in fact, Han Hou has no choice, and the other generals can't pull it out, last year the north was defeated by the Wei army, and he didn't dare to transfer the army, and the Chu State in the south was about to move, and he didn't dare to change people again, so Han Hou could only hope for Han Hu.
In the face of the strong pressure from the king, Han Hu also had to take it, hey, he still had to attack Luoyang.
stood up, but listened to Gongsun Qi smile and said, "A certain also knows a little about military affairs, if the old general just says and listens to it, perhaps, a certain can also consult the old general." ”
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In the early morning of the next day, when the summer was rising, a black and oppressive piece of Korean army appeared to the east of Luoyang, approaching Dingdingmen.
I haven't seen it for more than ten days, is the South Korean army going to attack again? On the Dingding Gate, Zhou Bian, who had already been rewarded by the spies, held the female wall with his hand and looked at it on tiptoe. And these more than ten days, although the heavy rain stopped, although the Korean army has not appeared under the city of Luoyang, but Zhou Bian has never dared to relax, since the last time the Korean army almost succeeded in the night attack, the royal family has also strengthened the night patrol, not only repeatedly emphasized, Zhou Bian also specially transferred people from the guards to set up a night patrol team, night spot check on the four city walls for night sentinels, this check really found a lot of problems, so under a severe punishment, Luoyang's night, is almost invulnerable.
However, I don't know what tricks the South Korean army will play this time, the past few times the South Korean army has attacked, each time it will have something different, the first time is a direct attack, the second time is a simultaneous attack in three ways with equipment, and the third time is a night attack, so what will happen this time? While waiting, Zhou Bian was also slightly nervous.
Unexpectedly, this time the Han army didn't play any tricks, and a large array of 30,000 people pounced directly, and before the people approached, the rain of arrows poured down on the city first. The formation quickly separated, with 5,000 crossbowmen firing from distance, 10,000 archers suppressing the walls at close range, and finally fifteen thousand men wielding swords and shields to kill the walls. Among them, hundreds of ladders were carried by the soldiers to move towards the city wall, like centipedes, crawling with teeth and claws, and like huge arrows sliding in the sea of black-clothed soldiers, wanting to smash heavily on the head of Luoyang City.
Soon, the forward of the Han army crashed into the city of Luoyang, and the ladders were erected, like a beast stretching out its claws.
However, the Luoyang city wall is extremely strong, not only the strength of the city wall, but more importantly, the tenacity of the Luoyang soldiers, and a more solid Great Wall of flesh and blood has been built. Under the impact of the Korean army, the royal soldiers at the head of the city did not panic, and quickly took a series of measures, using the top of the long fork to walk the ladder, pouring gold soup along the ladder, throwing arrows, and using various means to actively resist the attack of the Korean army.
There was no warm-up at all, and as soon as it came up, the siege battle entered a white-hot one, and the lives were constantly harvested up and down the city wall, and the Korean army slapped on Luoyang City like waves in waves, but it was scattered wave after wave.
It's really a resolute attack, Zhou Bian on the flat door kept wiping the sweat on his forehead, listening to the noisy shouts and wails outside the hall, Zhou Bian's heart couldn't help but get nervous again, this is not as good as the night attack ten days ago, and the royal family did not dare to be careless when it was hard during the day. And this day is also much hotter than some time ago, hey, I don't know how long the Korean army will fight.
Half an hour later, seeing that the siege was weak, Han Hu, the old general in the rear of the army, waved his hand, and another team of 10,000 people pressed up.
The pressure on the royal family's side has increased dramatically, but how can Zhou Bian not have countermeasures, with a wave of his hand, another 2,000 people have entered the battle, you have follow-up troops, how can I not have them?
The battlefield quickly fell into a stalemate again, but for the defending side, the advantage of occupying the walls was too great, so this balance was extremely beneficial to the royal family, as they only needed to keep the enemy army out of the city, and it was clear that it was not difficult to achieve this.
Then the difficulty is the side of the South Korean army, which has invested 40,000 people, but it can still only hover on the front line of the women's wall, and cannot break through a single step.
In the large array of the Korean army in the rear, including Gongsun Qi, who was watching the battle, a bunch of people frowned, compared to the previous times, Zhou Murmur's response to the siege seemed to be more and more handy, and the defense was without loopholes, like an iron bucket.
After a long time, Gongsun Qi opened his mouth, "General, in my opinion, the strictness of Luoyang's defense lies in throwing stones, and a few catties of flying stones fall from the sky, and its strength is no less than a hundred catties, and the shield armor is difficult to resist." If you want to break Luoyang, you must first break the stone. ”
Han Hu nodded when he heard this, "That's true, but it's hard to have a way." If you don't attack, there will only be a night attack, flooding and tunnels, the night attack has failed, although it rained in Luoyang a few days ago, but Luoshui is not enough to break down the city wall, and the ground outside Luoyang is wet, and it is difficult to dig the ground, so, I think that to break Luoyang, the only way to attack a door with superior forces. ”
After a while, Gongsun Qi nodded, "I think, it is true, it seems that it is not good to attack Luoyang, and it is true that the general is not to blame, but who would have thought that the Zhou room was so good at guarding." ”
Hearing this, Han Hu turned his head and glanced at Gongsun Qi, and saw that his eyes were looking in the direction of Luoyang with a normal expression, Han Hu turned his head and relaxed a little in his heart. It's too obvious that this Gongsun Qi was sent by Han Hou to investigate the actual situation on the battlefield.
"What Lord Gongsun Qi said is extremely true, who would have thought that Luoyang would be able to create such a powerful catapult, this is the first time that the old man has heard of such a sharp weapon in the world." Han Hu touched the long beard on his chin again, his heart relaxed a little, and even claimed that he had changed from a certain to an old man.
However, Gongsun Qi didn't care about these details, but turned his head and suddenly said, "Isn't it the Mo family?" ”
Hearing this, Han Hu also turned his head, "Now that Mozi is old, I don't know if he is still in the world, in your opinion, there should be children of the Mo family in Luoyang City to help the Zhou family?" ”
Looking at each other, the two of them glanced at each other, and after nodding, Gongsun Qi continued, "Probably so, I didn't think that the Zhou room was still in good shape, and there were such capable people to help." Thinking that Mo Zhai rushed all the way to Chu to save the Song Dynasty, it has been more than 20 years, and the Mo family is now not as obvious as it was at the beginning, and it is rumored that it is divided into three families, but it is still everyone today, slightly lost to Confucianism, but I didn't want to help the Zhou family, and the prestige of the Mo family is so much, regrettably! ”
The two nodded but did not speak again.
At this time, a young voice sounded, "Lord Gongsun Qi, father, the battle of the Zhou room is nothing more than the stone throwing machine, I am also good at it, but the cloud ladder is also, mostly attached to the cloud ladder outside the city wall, with our Korean army has many and excellent soldiers, it can be stronger than the power of the other party's stone throwing." Father, son, please fight! ”
There was a loud sound of nail pieces, and it was Han Jin kneeling down on one knee.
"Okay, the tiger father has no dogs, he can make the drum beat and cheer for the general!" Before Han Hu could speak, Gongsun Qi spoke first.
In fact, Han Hou also wanted his son to behave in front of the prince and his ministers, so he nodded and agreed. Although he didn't say a word, his concerned eyes kept staring at his child until Han Jin left after saluting.
Soon, he ordered 20,000 people under his command, Han Jin raised a big banner with his own hands, and the two large formations rushed towards Luoyang one after the other.
The South Korean army increased its troops by another 20,000, and Zhou Bian on the flat gate could not sit still, so he had to order all the reserves to be thrown in, and some soldiers were transferred from other directions to rest assured.
The arrival of 20,000 men increased the density of the city, so much so that every stone fell from the sky and threw a splash of blood, and the same pressure was added to the city walls, because the density of the ladders also increased a lot. Pingmen was originally guarded by Liu Yun, but Liu Yun was still injured, so Pang Xing took the top first, which made the Korean army attack fiercely, so Zhou Zhan and Tu Meng were added, but it was just enough to bear it.
The war was fierce and brutal, and under the threat of flying stones, soldiers who had not yet approached the walls were smashed beyond recognition, but more soldiers still pounced on the walls. And although Han Jin, who did not personally wield his long sword to kill the city wall, hiding in the chariot behind, was still desperately wielding his halberd, trying to boost morale. The effect is obvious, indeed, as the son of a great general, it is extremely difficult to be able to get so close to the city wall.
Another half an hour has passed, the battle situation is still the same, Han Jin is a little anxious, he can't add more people, there are nearly 50,000 people in a city gate more than two miles away, and he can't attack it, what should he do?
Dodging the flying stones that fell from the air, Han Jin was also a little impatient.
didn't think that at this moment, suddenly the guards around him were a little restless, and at first glance, a small soldier rushed towards him.
I don't know what the little soldier said about moving the guards, but he was soon let in, knelt under the chariot, and held up a piece of cloth. "General, a stone fell on the ground in the city and smashed it, and there was a piece of cloth inside, the villains didn't know it, but they also knew that things were strange, so they presented it to the general, and I hope the general will see it!"