Chapter 8: The First Siege

"So, you mean that we will help you attract the attention of the enemy, and Yang Lang and more than 200 scouts will open the city gates for us in the city...... Can you trust him? Zhu Jun looked at Zhu Cheng in front of him with a little headache. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Just after dawn, when he was having a headache about how to attack the city, Zhu Cheng found him and told him his plan. This plan largely came from Yang Lang's investigation of Weishi County, but Zhu Jun was skeptical.

According to his understanding, Yang Lang practiced martial arts in the Ministry of Culture before he was ten years old, but after the age of ten, he knew that he would not be able to have a career in this life, so he began to practice martial arts. According to him, Xi Wen and Wu are all dealt with, no matter how strong the Yang family is, can they cheat on military exploits?

In fact, the situation in the court is very bad now, the family controls the army and the court, and even General He is their puppet, and it is too simple to suppress someone. In other words, Yang Lang is destined to have no success in his life, and now that his nephew has promoted him to a military marquis, it is already a foul to some extent, and he doesn't know how to explain to the Yang family in the future.

Well, Yang Lang's identity aside, this guy has only been practicing martial arts for ten years, and he can't even get in touch with the knowledge of the art of war, and no one has specially taught him the skills of infiltration and reconnaissance, how does he know this?

Judging from his life experience, Zhu Jun was skeptical of the information provided by Yang Lang! As for why he eliminated Yang Lang so much, in the final analysis, it was because he had already learned that Yang Lang had recognized Zhu as the lord, and as Zhu Cheng's uncle, it was necessary for him to know what Yang Lang's purpose was, so he naturally had to investigate from his background and experience.

In the final analysis, if it weren't for Zhu Jun's concern or value for Zhu Cheng, I am afraid that he would not be so nosy.

"He is my subordinate, and he is not suspicious of people, and the last general is willing to make a military order!" Zhu Cheng solemnly reported that now he is not talking to Zhu Jun as a nephew, but asking his superiors for instructions as a soldier.

Zhu Jun did not have a way to open the city gate immediately, a pure siege is a terrible thing, the enemy occupies the city wall, condescendingly can even demolish the houses in the county town as a city defense equipment, and they also have an advantage in numbers. If you really have to fight, you often have to sacrifice thousands or even casualties of soldiers before you can capture it.

No one thought that such a large county seat as Weishi County would be captured by the Yellow Turban Thieves, originally in the early stage of this kind of rebellion, unless it was a small city, the city wall was only three or four meters high and relatively weak, and the city defenders would be captured when there were less than 100 soldiers. He was also planning to use this small city to train his soldiers in siege skills.

Conversely, it is impractical to directly use a large city like Weishi County to train siege warfare from the beginning. Besides, most of his subordinates are new soldiers, and morale is difficult to guarantee, the casualty rate is more than 30%, just afraid that it will be unstable, and more than 40% He is almost certain that most of the soldiers will start to flee.

Since ancient times, the civil strife in China has been like this, unless it is to resist the invasion of foreign enemies, the soldiers will shed the last drop of blood. On the contrary, it is a civil war, and it is all their own people who fight back and forth, and it is the same for whoever is a soldier, in the final analysis, it is the result that the military soul has not yet been condensed, and the soldiers have no faith at all.

"One percent of the troops, this is my bottom line, more than one percent of the troops, the Wei County will only besiege but not attack, waiting for them to break themselves, or come out to fight with us!" Zhu Jun sighed and stretched out a finger.

Encircling without attacking and provoking the enemy to fight a field battle are two methods that are not a way to besiege a city. The former can only be carried out if the enemy does not have much food, but the latter must have a man of good eloquence to be effective against a grumpy thief.

But even if you succeed, you still have to fight with the other side in the end, no matter what, it is better to control casualties in a field battle than a siege war!

The attrition of 10% of the troops was within the acceptable range of Zhu Jun, but it also meant the death of more than 2,500 people. In modern times, such casualties can almost take commanders to court-martials, but in this day and age such casualties are not surprising.

"Since my nephew's army is the vanguard army, then the main force of the siege should also be served by my nephew's department!" Zhu Cheng said solemnly.

"Good guts! Ben promised! Zhu Jun took a deep breath, and then burst into a shout.

It's not that he is angry, but admires Zhu Cheng's decisiveness and courage. You must know that in this siege battle, if you win, you will naturally be promoted and make a fortune, and if you lose, even if you don't say it, even if you are your nephew, you have to be dealt with by military law!

By daybreak, the logistics troops had already brought the ladders and carts, and even a thick wooden shield to defend against enemy arrows. This thing is also a siege machine, mainly to cover the arrival of friendly troops under the city and defend against enemy arrows. However, the defense of the stone and logs is slightly poor, so it can only cover the friendly forces near the city walls.

This can be said to be Zhu Cheng's first time participating in a siege battle, and the earlier street battle in Bishui Town was not even a battle to defend the city. Looking at the more than six-meter-high city wall, it was as insurmountable as a moat in his eyes at this moment.

The enemy army was obviously aware of the movement of the officers and troops, and looking at the formation of the officers and troops surrounding three and missing one, as well as Zhu Chengbu, who was already ready to attack in front, he immediately concentrated the superior forces, and even pulled the soldiers with some shooting skills to the city wall.

Originally, they didn't have bows and arrows in their hands, but after breaking through Weishi County, they found more than 500 in the arsenal. Although most of them are a bit old, they are still able to shoot.

The key is still those arrows that are a little rusty, they may not know Zhu Cheng but they know that this thing is not sharp, but it is a good scratch, even if it does not die of wound infection, it has to die of tetanus, there is no vaccine in these years!

"Raise your shield!" Zhu Cheng didn't ride a horse at the moment, and it didn't make any sense to ride a horse in the field, the bright iron armor on his body had already proved his identity, so don't expose the target, so as to give the other party a chance to pierce the heart with ten thousand arrows.

The death camp had already begun to raise the wooden shield in their hands, they were originally prisoners, but fortunately they had not done anything bad, and they had not made up their minds to follow the Yellow Turban Thieves in rebellion. Only then was Zhu Cheng co-opted and gave them a chance to mend their ways.

In the past two days, the political commissars who joined them also kept telling them about the evil things that the Yellow Turban Thieves had done, and even enlightened them that even if the Yellow Turban Thieves sat in the world, only a few leaders could enjoy it at that time, and these little soldiers would still go back to their respective homes in the end, and they would not get any benefits.

Now that I think about it carefully, I also think it makes sense, earlier a few leaders and their henchmen were able to eat meat and drink soup, so they could only eat some leftovers and burn cold. Now that I think about it, rebelling with the Yellow Turban Thieves actually has no future at all.

After enlightenment, they slowly strengthened their desire to return to the arms of the Han Dynasty, and now that Zhu Cheng has given the order, they will naturally move forward. According to what they thought in their hearts, one of their own cheap lives should have been lost long ago when they were captured.

Now that they are still kept, they are worth it if they live for a day!

The wooden shield was lifted and began to cover the guards with the ladders and began to advance, and even the ram slowly advanced under their cover. The opponent's bow and arrow were only 500 pairs in the end, and they did not pose a threat at all. If you are lucky, you may be able to shoot in the interval between the shields, and the soldiers under the shields will be injured, but most of them will be stuck in the wooden shields.

"Come with me to the city!" Zhu Cheng shouted, he was on the front line at this moment, and these death battalions would be the first to go to the city, and then they would go to the headquarters army led by him.

With his order, the ladder was quickly erected on the city wall, and the soldiers of the death battalion climbed up desperately.

The follow-up soldiers also took over their wooden shields to protect the safety of their comrades. On the contrary, the enemy army on the city wall has begun to throw down the prepared logs and stones at this moment, even if it is a dozen catties of stones, it can also break people's arms if they are smashed, and if they are unlucky enough to be smashed on the head, they are afraid that people will be gone.

The enemy soldiers on the city wall worked together to try to knock down those ladders, and some succeeded, and many soldiers who had risen to about four or five meters fell down with the ladders.

A few who were lucky enough to climb the city wall, the other party also besieged it, but fortunately, the death camp was a group of people who did not want to die, desperately injured or breathing, and they had to pull a few people to cushion their backs. This ferocious aura also directly shocked the Yellow Turban Thieves above, making their attacks weaker.

As a result, more soldiers began to climb the city walls, even if they did not want to die, to occupy more space for their comrades. Under their cover, on the narrow city walls, they actually let them kill a piece of the world.

Zhu Cheng had already begun to climb the city wall under their cover, and then quickly ran towards the south gate. The city walls were connected by towers, and Zhu Jun's troops attacked Weishi County from the east, while Zhu Cheng's army also launched an attack at the east gate. But the real target is not the East Gate, but the South Gate!

The Han soldiers were not attacking the east gate, but the south and north gates were also being attacked by them. It's just that it's relatively more perfunctory, and it's Zhu Chengbu of the East Gate who is really responsible for the attack. This is Zhu Jun's meaning, to let the east gate attract the attention of the enemy army to the greatest extent.

At the same time, Yang Langbu sneaked into the city through a secret tunnel. This is a tunnel dug by a wealthy family for self-protection, and I don't know if they can use it, but it turned out to be cheaper than Yang Lang.

Everyone has a sense of precariousness these days, especially those big shots. Many families lived near the city gates or walls, in order to dig a tunnel to the outside and escape if necessary.

Among Yang Lang's several stunts, there is actually another one that is to find this kind of hidden tunnel or dark room, which is actually a side skill of tracking learning.

As soon as he found the trick, he naturally found a tunnel near the south gate, which led directly to the outside of the city. At that time, there was still a lot of jungle around Weishi County, and the tunnel exit was there. With the help of the cover of the jungle, Yang Lang took more than 200 scouts he personally trained to infiltrate the city through the tunnels.

At the same time, after leaving the tunnel, they immediately eliminated the Yellow Turban thieves in the courtyard, and at the same time killed them out of the courtyard and ran directly towards the city gate. At this moment, because the army was attracted by the east gate, and at the same time, the soldiers of the north and south gates had already come to the city wall, but there were only more than 500 soldiers on the ground to guard it.

For Yang Lang's troops, these five hundred people are simply not enough, and the sword skills of this group of scouts are the most powerful existence under Zhu Cheng. In addition, they are also making up for archery and horsemanship, according to Zhu Cheng's intention to train them into special forces, for which he is ready to leave only a few or five people in the end!

This group of powerful scouts quickly slaughtered the enemy army, and the opponent barely reacted, and was directly slaughtered. The scouts were unscathed, and they couldn't care about being happy, so they directly opened the city gate, and opened the south gate before more soldiers came over, this was Yang Lang's real plan!

"Kind of interesting! Kill it! Zhu Jun was at the south gate at the moment, smiled when he saw this, and took the lead towards the gate.