"What? Before you even touched the city wall, you have already lost more than 5,000 people? What do you eat? ”

In the Chinese military tent, Tao Qian's face turned purple with anger, his beard trembled, and he slammed the ear cup full of wine in his hand to Cao Bao's feet, if it wasn't for the Cao brothers' face, he really wanted to smash the ear cup on Cao Bao's face. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Shame, shame! I was going to move to Xiapi City for the night, but you were defeated! Tao Qian pointed to the silent generals in front of him, and spat far away, "How many troops can a small Jiujiang have?" How many crossbows can there be? I think you're all making excuses for your incompetence! ”

"Calm the king's anger! I don't think what General Cao said is all lies. At this time, a scribe walked up to Tao Qian and said softly.

Tao Qian was angry, and when he heard someone refute, he was about to squirt a mouthful of spittle, but when he turned his head to look, he found that it was Wang Lang. Wang Lang is a celebrity, has a good personal relationship with Tao Qian, and is nominally Tao Qian's subordinate official, but in fact he is a friend. Tao Qian forcibly suppressed his anger and said lightly: "How can you see it? ”

Wang Lang beckoned, and a soldier walked over with a broken shield.

Wang Lang pointed to an inch-wide hole in the big shield and said, "Envoy, please see, such a thick big shield was directly pierced by Liu Miaojun's crossbow arrows, you can imagine how strong the crossbow arrows are!" ”

Tao Qian frowned, and at this time he gradually calmed down and realized the meaning of Wang Lang's words.

"What is this? Not like a rhubarb crossbow? In Tao Qian's concept, only the rhubarb crossbow has such great destructive power.

"This crossbow bolt is much smaller than the rhubarb crossbow, but its penetration power is not bad at all." Cao Bao saw that Tao Qian was no longer crazy, and stepped forward to explain, "The last general has seen before the battle, Liu Miaojun is a single crossbow shooting, it can be seen that this is a brand-new crossbow machine, far smaller than the big yellow crossbow, easy to operate. ”

Tao Qian glared at Cao Bao angrily, "You ordered someone to find a few crossbow arrows, and then tell me in detail about the siege." ”

Cao Bao smiled and recounted the process of the battle in detail.

"It seems that we underestimated Liu Miao'er." After Tao Qian listened, he sighed.

Just now Tao Qian scolded Cao Bao and other generals, Cao Hong was inconvenient to speak, and now he saw that Tao Qian was completely calm, so he stepped forward and said:

"Yes, my lord. Now it seems that Liu Miao Xiao'er dared to forcibly occupy Xiapi because of this, and Zang Ba may also be planted under this thing. The lord should deal with it as soon as possible. ”

Tao Qian's face was solemn, and he sighed: "We still have to strengthen the collection of Liu Miao's military intelligence, Mi Zizhong's intelligence is not accurate enough!" ”

When Mi Zhu heard this, he was full of slander in his heart, this Tao Qian himself couldn't detect the enemy's intelligence, but blamed him. However, he did not make an excuse, but followed Tao Qian and said: "My family can only find out some irrelevant gossip, and they are really not good at important military intelligence. ”

Cao Hong suggested: "Why don't you contact the big clans in Xiapi City?" I heard that Liu Miao has always had a suppressive attitude towards the powerful clan, and if he can get in touch, he may be able to have an unexpected gain. ”

Tao Qian nodded and praised, "Oh? That's a good idea, who can get in touch with the big clans in the city? ”

Tao Qian spoke, but set his eyes on Mi Zhu, here, maybe only Mi Zhu, a big businessman, has this ability,

Mi Zhu smiled helplessly and said: "I don't have a deep friendship with the Xiapi family, so I can only send letters on behalf of the lord." ”

"Who does Zizhong think is the most suitable person to contact?"

"There are a lot of big families in Xiapi City, if you want to succeed, the most suitable person is none other than Chen Qi, Xiapi Chen family is a famous scholar, the head of his family Chen Qi has been a county order, and his son Chen Deng is now the magistrate of Dongyang County, all of whom are resourceful. The lord can write a letter to Chen Jue, or he may have some income. ”

"Okay, I'll write a letter here, promising to pass on the official position and benefits, please ask Zizhong to pass it on your behalf." Tao Qian said, "Now that the siege is unfavorable, I intend to mobilize another 10,000 soldiers and horses from Tanxian County to come here." Xiao Jian, this matter will be handed over to you, in addition to transferring troops, you must also bring all the large siege equipment in the treasury. Xia Pi City, you must take it down! ”

"Whoa!" Xiao Jian immediately took the troop transfer order and left.

"Lord, now that the war is unfavorable, the grain and grass in the camp have to be prepared, and now the grain and grass are not enough for the whole army for five days." The grain officer standing at the end of the generals finally found a chance to report his life.

Hearing this, everyone in the tent looked a little embarrassed. At the beginning, Tao Qian and the others thought that it would be easy to take Xiapi City, so they only brought grain and grass for more than ten days for the 20,000 army, but now they are facing the dilemma that the grain and grass are about to run out.

Tao Qian rubbed his eyebrows and said, "Zizhong, the matter of supervising the transportation of grain and grass has to be handed over to you, and you don't need to raise too much, within ten days, you will definitely be able to enter Picheng." ”

Mi Zhu wanted to speak and stopped, but finally left.

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Five days later, Tao Qian's army was finally ready and decided to attack the city again.

This time, he invested 20,000 people at one time, leaving only 5,000 as reserves, and Tao Qian personally supervised the battle.

In order to be able to take the city in one fell swoop, Tao Qian took out almost all the family resources, rushing cars, wells, bed crossbows, cloud ladders, as long as the siege equipment already in the Xuzhou treasury was transported.

Chongche is a kind of movable large siege tower, as high as several zhang, even higher than the city wall, is a siege weapon for both attack and defense. There are three to five layers of space inside the cart to hide soldiers, and soldiers can dodge arrows from the head of the city in the car, and they can also use crossbow arrows to attack the head of the city.

It is also a kind of climbing siege equipment, known as a mobile arrow tower, and the height of the well can also exceed the city wall, and the soldiers are in it to shoot arrows at the head of the city, without worrying about being suppressed due to the height difference.

Tao Qianjun took dozens of rushing vehicles as the front drive. In order to defend against the heavy crossbows at the head of the city, thicker baffles were added to the front of these carts, and each cart was equipped with a crossbowman and even a bed crossbow.

The rush was followed by the engineers responsible for erecting passages over the moat, followed by the main siege force mixed with wells and ladders.

Tao Qian looked at the heavily armed army with satisfaction and gave Cao Bao the order to siege the city.

The drums of war rumbled and shook the earth.

The besieging army slowly moved forward, slowly accumulating indescribable coercion.

Three hundred, two hundred and fifty, two hundred and twenty steps from the city......

The head of the city finally began to shoot arrows, and it was the Yuanrong crossbow that Tao Qian had seen before. The bolts were still strong, but they were all blocked by the tall and sturdy rushing cart, and they didn't do any damage.

There were soldiers cheering in front of them, and gradually spread to the rear of the formation.

"Lord, block it, the crossbow arrows in the city are useless!" Cao Bao excitedly reported the good news to Tao Qian.

"Good!" Tao Qian was also overjoyed, "My army of more than 20,000 crushed his thousands of miscellaneous soldiers, and I can be regarded as worthy of Liu Miao." If the generals in the city know each other, it's time to abandon the city and flee! ”

"Lord, you can't let them escape, let Liu Miao know the fate of offending my Xuzhou army!" After Cao Bao finished speaking, he waved his hand and ordered: "Speed up, prepare the crossbow, and let the grandchildren in the city also taste the taste of crossbow arrows!" ”

However, he was answered by the exclamations of the guards around him.

Cao Bao felt inappropriate, and when he looked back, he saw that there were many large or long black shadows in the sky in front of the military formation, and the black shadows were all rushing across the sky with a whistling sound.

"What's that?" Tao Qian obviously saw it too, and let out an exclamation.

"This is—" Cao Bao's heart sank, he couldn't hide his shock, and he couldn't help but shout, "Thunderbolt!" Rhubarb! How do they have such a thing? ”

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