Chapter 151: Soldiers Approaching Shizhou City

Some people will think it is strange, can a woman, with great strength and big size, be one of the top ten heroes of the Central Plains? Of course not.

Wang Caiyun is 21 years old this year, two years younger than Pei Baoman.

Pei Baoman was only seven years old when he first arrived at the Xiaodao Temple in Fangshan County to be a little Taoist priest, and Wang Caiyun was still a five-year-old girl with a runny nose at that time. Two children of the same age are neighbors, so it is natural to play together. Sometimes Pei Baoman was lazy and was beaten by the white-bearded old Taoist, so he hid in the old Wang's house next door to find Xiao Caiyun to complain and eat a meal by the way, Xiao Caiyun was idle and had nothing to do, so he ran to the Taoist temple to practice with Pei Baoman.

It doesn't matter if the white-bearded man is old, seeing that the little girl has a very high level of understanding, teaching one child is teaching, and teaching two children is also teaching, so he let Xiao Caiyun learn martial arts together.

When Pei Baoman was fourteen years old and Wang Caiyun was twelve years old, the white-bearded old Taoist died, Pei Baoman lived alone in the Taoist temple, and Wang Caiyun helped clean up the house and take care of the daily housework.

Otherwise, you want to be a bachelor who is too lazy to die, if there is no woman to help him, wouldn't Xiaodaoguan become the largest garbage dump in Fangshan County?

Wouldn't this lonely man and widow stay together, bound by morality, and unable to do that kind of unacceptable thing, to be carried away by all kinds of hormones? Then I had no choice but to practice against each other, beating each other with an iron rod, and using joint practice to vent my inexhaustible strength and energy.

The two are tired of being together all day long, if Pei Baoman completes the day's homework and ponders after reading the scriptures, he will either go to Uncle Wang's house to help Wang Caiyun strike iron, or go to the mountains to fight and practice with Wang Caiyun. As a girl, although Wang Caiyun is absent-minded about learning martial arts, in the long youth years that accompanied Pei Baoman, she slowly became a good person.

Now that the two of them have finally achieved a positive result, they are married to Ruyi Langjun, Wang Caiyun is also very obedient, her husband said to kill, then kill!

The two of them were both dressed in heavy armor, and each of them had a new God of War chariot that General Zhao had given them, and they rushed to the front side by side, and they were enthusiastic to serve the new secretary Han Kuangsi as pawns.

When the 4,000 Zhenwu army arrived in Shizhou, it was almost noon. The gates of the whole city were closed, and they were ready to fight.

Although Shizhou City is not the main road, but it extends in all directions, the geographical location is very important, there are roads in the southeast, northwest and four directions, the east leads to Fenzhou, is the gateway to protect Taiyuan and Luoyang. The south leads to Xizhou, which can lead directly to Chang'an. If you go west, you can also reach Suizhou, which is the Dingyan Army, and if you go north, you will reach Lanzhou, which is the territory of the Zhenwu Army.

The Tang army originally had 5,000 garrisons in Shizhou, and Shizhou was originally under the jurisdiction of Zhang Jingda, the envoy of Jianxiong Jiedu. Zhang Jingda was transferred to Daizhou in the north for deployment, and later went to Taiyuan to encircle and suppress Shi Jingjiao. After Zhang Jingda's death, the imperial court did not arrange a new Jianxiong Festival envoy in place for the time being, which made the Shizhou army actually uncommanded and forgotten by the imperial court.

Taiyuan lifted the siege, and after the Jin army went south to capture Fenzhou, they sent people to persuade Shizhou to surrender.

The Shizhou army originally had a variety of inextricable relationships with Shi Jingjiao, and after seeing you, the Tang court ignored me, and this Shizhou was lonely in the mountains and helpless, so he simply attached himself to the Jin army.

However, I didn't expect that no one would pay attention to it when the thirteenth was not relied on, and as soon as he took refuge in the Jin army, Zhenwu, who was still nominally the Tang army, recruited Zhao Ping from all sides, but he came to find trouble. This is also normal, your big boss Zhang Jingda is dead, you just wait quietly for the new boss to come to power, but you take refuge in the rebel Shi Jingjiao, then I have no choice but to come to recruit you.

Han Kuangsi led the army to Shizhou City, and did not besiege the city, but arranged a camp at the north gate, and then sent someone to shoot an arrow into a notice to enter, demanding that the door be opened and surrendered.

After about half an hour, a civilian official sat in a basket and hung himself from the city to negotiate with Zhenwujun.

This civil official's surname is Zhang, and he is a practitioner in Shizhou City, and when he saw that Han Kuangsi, who led the troops, was also a scholar, he felt a little more settled.

Han Kuangsi was wearing brand-new armor, with the demeanor of a Confucian general, but he was also polite, and invited Zhang Zhi to sit down and drink tea.

"Dare to ask what the Zhenwu Army is here?"

"I heard that Shizhou City is attached to the rebel Shi Jingjiao, and Han was ordered by Zhenwu to ask General Zhao from all sides to take back the city for the imperial court."

"Shizhou is a small city, today the King of Jin will come to beg, tomorrow the Zhenwu army will come to beg, it is really unbearable."

Han Kuangsi smiled, this one is also bold, and he dares to bargain alone.

"Then it's not a matter for Ben to consider, you still have half an hour to think, and when half an hour comes, our army will begin to attack the city."

"But I think your army is only three or four thousand, which is not as large as the number of defenders in Shizhou, why is General Han so confident?"

"It turned out that Guicheng doubted the strength of the Zhenwu army. Well, go back and tell the Shizhou Thorn History and the Lang General of the Shizhou Army that when the time comes, as long as the siege begins, I will take their heads! ”

Driven away Zhang Zhi, Han Kuangsi ordered to start preparing siege equipment.

As a military location, the fortifications of Shizhou City are actually very perfect, the city wall is high and thick, and there is a moat around the perimeter of the city wall. The city gate also looks thick and solid, and if you want to open the city gate, you have to rush the car, even if you open the city gate, there is an urn city inside.

From the perspective of the defenders of Shizhou, if they want to attack the city seriously, unless they fill it with twenty or thirty thousand lives, they don't even think about it. Therefore, when they saw that the three or four thousand Zhenwu troops under the city said that they would attack the city, they naturally would not believe it.

Half an hour passed quickly, and there was no movement in Shizhou City.

This attitude is very clear, that is, it is ready to defend the city.

Then siege the city!

In order to cope with all kinds of siege warfare in the future, the Zhenwu army has long begun to prepare various kinds of siege equipment, and catapults have everything. It's just that considering that Shizhou's city fortifications are very strong, and they need to be put on the defensive immediately after they are defeated, to prevent the Jin army from looting, so when Zhao Ping and Han Kuangsi discussed how to attack the city, they made up their minds from the beginning not to destroy the original fortifications in Shizhou.

Catapults and rushing carts will definitely not be used, and the first to rush out of the Tang army's position are Shan Wu and nine other elite fart cavalry. Ten cavalry archers lined up, patted their horses and ran to a distance of more than 200 meters in front of the city tower, bent their bows and arrows together, and ten long arrows roared, flying far up to the city head in a beautiful parabola, and accurately landed on the eight-bull crossbow on the left corner of the city tower.

Before the Shizhou army defending the city could figure out what was going on, they smelled a pungent smell of fire oil in their noses!

When a smart person like Han Kuangsi goes to war, he naturally won't wave his hand and let the soldiers climb the ladder to pile up people's lives, which is not the demeanor of a famous general at all. Therefore, Zhang Jingda, a handsome man who only has high appearance and low IQ and EQ, is really a model of disaster for the country and the people.

For those who are qualified to become famous generals, the siege of a city sounds terrible, but it is actually the simplest job.

If the two armies are fighting in the field, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and there is no time to collect a lot of battlefield information, and it is more by relying on the experience, intuition, and courage of the generals to find a decisive opportunity in an instant.

But sieges are different.

The defending side is basically static, so it is much more complete and easier for the besieging side to gather intelligence.

It's the same as playing games, why pve is much easier than pvp, because when playing against the computer, those routines of the computer AI, come and go, and if you are familiar with the strategy, it is common to clear the customs at one time, but it is completely different to play against a real person.

Everyone knows that only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one win a hundred battles, but in fact, only a truly intelligent general will do it seriously.

Since Han Kuangsi has determined that the main means of breaking the city is to attack with arrows, then his strengths are those archers with fart logos. In order for the ass archers to be able to suppress the towers more effectively, the arrow tower cart is a necessary siege weapon.

What is the arrow tower car afraid of? One is afraid of the fire attack of the enemy's archers, and the other is afraid of the powerful long-range weapon on the enemy's castle tower, the Eight Bull Crossbow.

There are many ways to improve the fire protection ability of the arrow tower car. How to destroy the enemy's eight-bull crossbow in advance requires intelligence gathering.

The layout drawings of Shizhou City's city defense had long been archived in the Zhenwu Army, and after Han Kuangsi read it, he sent someone to sneak into the city a few days in advance, and saw and confirmed several key layouts, including the location of the three eight-bull crossbows arranged on the city tower.

The arrow that Shan Wu shot up to the city tower in the first round was a special fire oil arrow made by the Zhenwu Army, and the arrow was wrapped around a circle of sheep intestines, and the sheep intestines were filled with fire oil. The shooters identified the position, and outside the range of the enemy's bow and arrow, they shot at the wooden frame of the eight-ox crossbow at a parabolic angle, and the arrows landed, and the sheep's intestines automatically dispersed, so that the entire eight-ox crossbow was instantly sprinkled with fire oil.

Nine of the arrows fired by the ten cavalry archers in the second round were still fire oil arrows entwined in the intestines of sheep, while the arrows shot by Shan Wu's hands were ignited rockets.

Ten arrows shot at the same position on the tower again, and with a bang, a raging fire broke out on the wooden eight-ox crossbow!

The operators on this eight-bull crossbow hurriedly rushed up to put out the fire, but the fart horse archers of the second ten-person group in the Zhenwu army also ran out, and the ten long arrows crossed the air in a parabola, in a dense formation, and accurately shot at the burning eight-bull crossbow, shooting down three Shizhou soldiers on the spot, and the other operators immediately scattered!

In less than a minute, the three only eight-bull crossbows in Shizhou City were set on fire one after another.

At this time, on the position of the Zhenwu Army, eight arrow tower cars were also erected and began to move forward, three of which were on the arrow tower cars, each of which was filled with thirty archers with a fart on their bodies! (To be continued.) )