The Sui army siege can be described as experienced in a hundred battles, and very methodical, the first is to use long-range weapons to suppress the other party, the use of heavy trebuchets is a way, to build more than the city wall of the earth mountain, occupy a high place is also a way, the two schemes have their own advantages, the use of heavy trebuchets is convenient and fast, and not limited by the site, dozens of can be launched at the same time, and the construction of the earth mountain is not only time-consuming and laborious, and the top of the mountain can only be placed a few trebuchets, the strike effect is not good. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, the construction of dirt mountains has a huge advantage, that is, it can bring a heavy blow to the morale of the enemy army, and looking up at the boulders flying from the top of the mountain every day, the huge pressure can destroy the enemy's will to fight.

Zhang Xuan once beat Meng Qi Ghost in Donghai County and Dongping County, he knew Meng Qi Ghost very well, and through a few months of all-round observation, he found that the other side of Meng Qi Ghost was fierce and cruel, but he was as timid as a mouse, and his psychological endurance was probably not as good as that of an ordinary soldier, so Zhang Xuan decided to use a two-pronged approach to destroy Meng Qi Ghost's will to resist with huge siege pressure.

That night, along the north side of the moat, a wooden wall of 500 paces long was erected, the wooden wall was two feet high, very wide, and covered with a layer of earth, enough to resist the bow and arrow fire and rocket attacks at the head of the city, and just behind the wooden wall, 50,000 troops acted together, using wooden carts to carry baskets of earth to the wooden wall, and the foundation of the earth mountain was formed the next day.

The thieves at the head of the city were afraid all night, they could not see the situation on the other side, the long wooden wall concealed the movements of the Sui army, in the north of the Sui army camp, a circle of torches lit up a large open space like day, hundreds of craftsmen were busy building heavy trebuchets, all the heavy trebuchet parts were transported by large ships, as long as they were simply assembled into battle.

Jang Hyun was inspecting the assembly of the trebuchet under the escort of dozens of personal soldiers, accompanied by the steward of the craftsman, "How many trebuchets are there?" Jang Hyun asked.

"Back to Your Highness, a total of fifty trebuchets have been shipped this time, and they can all be installed tonight!"

Jang Hyun nodded, and then came to a trebuchet that had been installed, and he looked up at the trebuchet that was almost as high as the city wall, standing in front of him like a giant.

"How powerful is this trebuchet?" Jang Hyun patted the thick wood and asked.

The steward stepped forward and said with a smile: "If you shoot from the bottom of the city, you can throw a hundred-pound boulder two hundred and fifty steps away, and if it is installed at the head of the city, the range can reach three hundred and fifty steps, and with the power of the winch, it only needs fifty people to operate." ”

"Is there a wooden wheel underneath?" Jang Hyun found that there were no wooden wheels underneath.

"There are wooden wheels, which will be installed immediately, and they need to be dragged to the battlefield by a strong ox."

At this time, Zhang Xuan turned back to Luo Shixin, who accompanied him to inspect, and said, "Don't wait for the dirt and mountains to be piled up, tomorrow fifty trebuchets will start first." ”

"Obey the order!"

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At dawn, you can see the situation behind the wooden wall from the castle tower, and the foundation of a hill covering an area of 100 acres and a foot high has been rammed, and the surrounding area is fixed with huge bluestones, which makes the defenders stunned.

Not long after, Meng Qi ghost also heard the news and hurried over, he was also stunned by the scene in front of him, only to see countless Sui soldiers flowing endlessly, piling up a cart of dirt on the dirt mountain, he immediately understood the intention of the Sui army, and immediately panicked and confused, but he didn't know what to do, originally they were condescending, but now it has become the Sui army condescending, how to defend this city?

"General, what are we going to do?" A lieutenant next to him asked.

"There is no need to be afraid of this, the Sui army is just bluffing."

Meng Qi turned back to all the soldiers and said, "Do you understand? Bravado. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he only heard 'Boom! There was a loud bang, and the soldiers in the direction of Xicheng shouted, followed by loud noises one after another.

Meng Qi Ghost was startled and yelled, "What's going on? ”

The generals looked at each other, and no one knew what was going on. At this time, a soldier rushed forward and shouted in fear: "General, the Sui army trebuchet has launched a siege!" ”

Meng Qi's heart trembled, he walked quickly towards Xicheng without saying a word, his heart was extremely nervous, followed by a large group of generals, all of whose faces were full of uneasiness.

When everyone was less than twenty steps away from the western battlement wall, the soldiers in front suddenly shouted and fell to the ground. I saw a boulder weighing more than 100 catties smashed on the battlements, and suddenly the gravel flew wildly, the boulder bounced upward, whistling past the head of Meng Qigui, just smashed into the crowd of generals behind, only to hear a scream, seven or eight generals were hit by the rolling boulder, two Lang will be smashed into meatloaf, and the boulder fell into the city together, and the other five generals were killed or injured, fell to the ground and groaned in pain.

Everyone's faces were frightened and pale, and together with Meng Qi, they rushed to the city wall, and only after a moment did they slowly raise their heads, looking down at the city from the battlement, only to see more than two hundred steps away, fifty or sixty heavy trebuchets lined up, just like fifty giant gods standing on the field, manipulated by the soldiers of the Sui army, the long pole was thrown, and the boulder was constantly smashed towards the city, all the soldiers were suppressed so that they could not raise their heads, and hundreds of soldiers had died tragically under the blow of the boulder.

Meng Qigui was frightened for a while, and his eyes trembled, he didn't want to come to defend Wuxi City, but he was forced by his brother Meng Haigong, and in the face of such a powerful Sui army, his confidence began to collapse little by little.

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50,000 troops piled up day and night, in just five days, Wuxi city under the erection of a mountain of eight zhang high, nearly three times higher than the three-zhang high city wall, so that the soldiers at the head of the city feel frightened, but really let Wuxi city defense suffer heavy damage, is the Sui army's fifty trebuchets bombardment for five consecutive days, the west city wall is about to collapse, the city head has been unable to stay people, most of the Xicheng defenders have withdrawn to the city, the morale of the thief army is extremely low.

At this time, 2,000 Sui crossbowmen on the mountain began to shoot arrows at the head of the northern city, and the dense rain of arrows pressed the thieves and soldiers on the head of the city to death, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties, and even the shield could not block the sharp and heavy arrows shot overhead, and the soldiers rushed to the city one after another.

The conditions for attacking Wuxi County are finally ripe, at noon, Zhang Xuan issued an order to attack the city, the routine of attacking Wuxi City is exactly the same as attacking Hefei City, more than a dozen thousand stone warships sailed into the moat, moored in the north city and the west city wall respectively, the Sui soldiers quickly built a pontoon bridge, 20,000 Sui soldiers rushed on the pontoon bridge, with the help of a big ship to the city, at this time, the Sui army's trebuchets and bows stopped attacking, the west city and the north city head has no defenders, 20,000 Sui soldiers rushed to the city head without any resistance, Kill the city.

At this moment, the only way to escape from the southern city gate opened, and countless thieves and soldiers rushed out of the city frantically, throwing off their armor and running into the wilderness without their lives, but they did not know that just a mile away, 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry had already laid a net in the wilderness.

At this time, the main general Zhang Xuan issued a killing order, "There is no forgiveness for killing!" ”

Zhang Xuan wants to use the heads of Meng Haigong's soldiers to completely buy the hearts of the people in Jiangnan, the war horses are galloping, the war knives are flashing, 10,000 cavalry are killing like a sea tide, ruthlessly killing every thief soldier, no matter how they kneel and beg for mercy, they still can't escape death, the corpses are everywhere in the wilderness, and the blood stains the land red, just like the soldiers escaped the pursuit of the cavalry, they can't escape the killing of the infantry on the periphery, this is a massacre without suspense, nearly 50,000 Meng Haigong's soldiers were almost slaughtered.

At this time, a group of soldiers escorted a man in women's clothes to Zhang Xuan, "Dashuai, this person is Meng Qigui, he was wearing women's clothes and wanted to blend into the city, and was denounced by their own people!" ”

Meng Qigui knelt on the ground, kowtowing desperately and begging for mercy, Zhang Xuan glanced at him coldly, "Killing you is too dirty with my knife, strip him naked, and hand him over to the people in the city to deal with!" ”

An hour later, the ghost was bitten clean by tens of thousands of extremely angry people, and even his bones were trampled into pieces by the angry crowd.

Zhang Xuan immediately ordered to make the corpse of 50,000 thieves into a Jingguan, seal the soil as a mound, and deter the Meng Haigong thief army, but also to buy the hearts of the people in Jiangnan. (To be continued.) )