Chapter 496: Ceding land in exchange for foreign aid
After listening to Wang Run's construction, Wang Oath and the generals were suddenly a little surprised, now, there are not many people and horses under their command, and if the soldiers are divided into two ways, the strength will be even weaker.
"General Wang, our army is already running out, why do we have to divide our troops into two ways?" One of the generals was puzzled by this, apparently he had not yet understood Wang Run's good intentions.
Wang Run sighed and said softly: "Ningzhou is a long way away, and it is controlled by the Jin general Deng Yue, our army is afraid that it will be difficult to gain a foothold, the terrain of Qiqi County is complex, and it is at the junction of the five states, there are few people in the remote area, but it is a good place to hide temporarily, but the population there is too small, and it is difficult for our army to expand, even if it is another twenty years, our army will not have the strength to confront the Jin army, but will be gradually wiped out by the Jin army, so it is not a long-term solution to gain a foothold in Qiqi County, if there is a force into the territory of Tuyuhun and lobby the Tuyuhun Great Khan, Give enough benefits, I believe that they will definitely form an alliance with us, with Tuyuhun this powerful ally attacking from the west, the pressure on the Jin army must be very great, and a part of our army will definitely be able to defeat the Jin army from Qiqi County to the back of the Jin army, so as to recover the entire Yizhou. ”
After listening to Wang Run's explanation, the generals understood their good intentions, so they expressed their support and said that they would obey the order, whether they were allowed to go to Qiqi County or Tuyuhun, they would gladly accept it.
Seeing that Wang Run's analysis was reasonable, Wang Wei nodded with satisfaction, and decided to personally lead a small number of men and horses to go to the territory of Tuyuhun with Fan Ben, who he had single-handedly supported, to lobby Tuyuhun Khan, and let his son lead most of the troops into Qiqi County together with Wang Run. In order to temporarily preserve his strength, he was ready to attack the Jin army on both sides with the Tuyuhun army.
After some careful deliberation, Wang Run and others finally finalized the specific plan of dividing the troops into two routes, and began to study how to lobby the Tuyuhun Khan, after all, Tuyuhun is a powerful country in the northwest, it is impossible to obey their orders, if you want Tuyuhun to help you conquer Yizhou, you must give extremely generous benefits, and this benefit must make Tuyuhun Khan difficult to refuse.
Ordinary gold and silver treasures, silk and satin. It will definitely be difficult for Tuyuhun Khan to look at it. Only the fertile land and large grasslands in Shuzhong can make it feel excited.
But how much land is appropriate to give to Tuyuhun, Wang Wei and others have different opinions, and the land is less. Tuyuhun Khan is definitely not eye-catching. Giving too much. They were a little reluctant, after all, the land in Shu was left by their ancestors. If a large area of land were ceded to Tuyuhun, they would naturally feel very uncomfortable.
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Just when Wang Wei and others were discussing in the secret room to cede the land of Shuzhong to Tuyuhun in exchange for their help in attacking the Jin army, the 3,000 men and horses of Chen Ting's command of the Jin army had arrived at the city of Chengdu and were ready to attack the city.
The rebel soldiers standing on the city wall, seeing that the Jin army was pressed by the black, and they also brought so many large siege equipment, they were suddenly frightened and their legs were weak, after all, at this time, their military spirit had long been weakened, so to speak, they completely lost the courage to resist the Jin army, but under the strong orders of the generals, they had to stand up and fight.
The rebels are ready to defend, the Jin army is also ready to attack, and a battle to attack and defend the city is about to begin.
In the Jin army under the city, all the soldiers were recruits who went to the battlefield for the first time, so they all looked a little nervous, after all, many of them had not killed anyone yet, including their main general Chen Ting.
At this moment, Chen Ting's heart is a little nervous, although he is a famous general in Shuzhong, he has been familiar with military books since he was a child and has practiced a good martial arts, but after all, it is the first time to go to the battlefield, and he has no actual combat experience in leading the army to attack the city, and Hua'an and other generals are looking at their own table in the back, once the table is not good, it will greatly damage the glory of their family, therefore, Chen Ting made up his mind that he must fight this battle well, so that the generals of the Jin army can see their strength.
"Father, the soldiers are ready to attack the city." Chen Poyu reminded loudly.
Chen Ting frowned and looked at the city wall in front of him, constantly pressed the tension in his heart, paused, and said loudly: "The thunderbolt car will be launched immediately, and the siege vehicle will move forward and attack." ”
"Huhuhuhu......" With Chen Ting's loud order, two hundred thunderbolts immediately fired thunderbolts at the city wall of Chengdu.
At the same time, a large number of soldiers pushed various large siege equipment and slowly pressed towards the city wall. Shieldmen are protected around the siege troops.
Chen Ting's style of play is quite sharp, and he orders the siege soldiers to attack forward without waiting for the thunderbolt to finish the attack, which really requires courage, after all, the accuracy of the thunderbolt is not very good, once the shooting deviation is too large, it is very likely to smash and injure the soldiers who are besieging the city.
However, Chen Ting thought that there was no need to be so worried, because he felt that although the shooting error of the thunderbolt was large, the range of error was only a few zhang, from the city wall of Chengdu to the outer edge of the moat was more than two zhang, and the landing point of the thunderbolt was two or three zhang behind the city wall, so there was a safe distance of four or five zhang, and the probability of the thunderbolt falling on the top of the heads of his own soldiers was very small, even if a few fell occasionally, it would not cause too many casualties, at least it was much smaller than killing and injuring the rebels. And the continuous firing of thunderbolts can make the rebels on the city walls unable to raise their heads.
Sure enough, under the continuous attack of the Jin army's thunderbolts, most of the rebel soldiers defending the city were cats, unwilling to poke their heads out, so as not to be hit by the thunderbolts, and the archers relied on their feelings to release arrows at the Jin army besieging the city, and many arrows missed a lot.
The Jin army's giant siege ladder was getting closer and closer, and when it was less than a zhang away from the moat, it began to open the folded half-section of the ladder, so that the six-zhang long giant ladder stretched out, and suddenly hung above the moat, only one zhang away from the city head.
Dozens of Jin soldiers pushed the ladder forward so that its front could reach the city.
Such sophisticated siege equipment stunned the rebel soldiers, they didn't expect that the siege ladder of the Jin army was actually folded, and not far from the moat, suddenly stretched out the other half, which really surprised them.
At the moment when the top of the ladder touched the city wall, a large number of Jin saber and shield soldiers began to attack upward along the long ladder, and a large number of sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen gathered around the ladder.
The sword and shield men were always ready to attack the city walls, while the crossbowmen continued to fire arrows at the city to cover the attacking sword and shield soldiers.
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The battle is in full swing in the direction of the north gate of Chengdu, and in the secret room of the palace of the king oath in the city, the king oath and many confidants and generals are still discussing the division of the land to Tuyuhun in exchange for Tuyuhun's help, and even argued about it.
"Master, master, North Gate Emergency." Just when Wang Xuan and the others were discussing the division of the land to Tuyuhun, the subordinates of Wang Xuan's mansion shouted outside the secret room.
Wang swore that his subordinates dared to come to the secret room, and he couldn't help but be furious, but when he heard that it was an urgent report from the north gate, he couldn't help but be startled again, and hurriedly ran out of the secret room.
"What's going on in the direction of the north gate, tell me quickly." Wang Wei asked eagerly, at this moment, what he was most worried about was that the Jin army was attacking the city on all fronts, because he was not ready to retreat at this moment, once the Jin army attacked the city, it would completely disrupt his retreat plan.
"Master, just now a military master came to report that the Jin army is attacking the north gate, with nearly 10,000 troops?" The subordinate reported loudly.
"What, the Jin army is attacking the city." Wang Wei was shocked when he heard this, lowered his head and thought for a moment, looked at Wang Run and other generals behind him, and said loudly: "Generals, once the Jin army breaks the city, we can't retreat calmly, we must defend the city, please leave it to you." ”
Wang Run and other generals glanced at each other and said loudly: "Don't worry, Prime Minister, we will go to the north gate immediately, and we will definitely not let the Jin army break through the city." ”
"Okay, let's go quickly, you must block the Jin army." The king swore an oath.
When Wang Run heard the order, he immediately ran out of the Prime Minister's Mansion and galloped towards the north gate on his war horse, while the rest of the generals immediately went to the camp in the city, preparing to deploy troops and horses to support the direction of the north gate to block the sharp attack of the Jin army.
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In the direction of the north gate of Chengdu, Chen Ting's army was fighting fiercely with the rebels defending the city, while the Tie Niu and Li Yi's army in the rear were pressing on both flanks.
Hua An led a group of horses and horses to the vicinity of the north gate, and he wanted to personally observe the combat strength of the rebels and the appearance of Chen Ting's army.
Wang San, Zhang Yu, Xie Siming, and others were by Hua'an's side, analyzing the situation on the battlefield with Hua'an, so as to provide valuable advice to Hua'an.
After observing in the rear for a while, Hua'an was very satisfied with Chen Ting's command level, after all, the army under Chen Ting's command was almost all recruits who had never fought before, especially the two thousand recruits who had just joined the army some time ago, and they had not received decent training.
In fact, Chen Ting's command is very simple, that is, let his long-trained 1,000 soldiers rush to the front, and let the 2,000 soldiers who have just joined the army be placed behind, so that he can use 1,000 long-trained soldiers as the backbone, so as to maintain the siege formation and maximize combat effectiveness.
"Big brother, the rebels rely on the city to defend it, and General Chen's troops are all recruits, and the troops are not very sufficient, so they are obviously at a disadvantage!" Wang San looked in the direction of the city wall and whispered.
Hua'an naturally saw the disadvantages of Chen Ting's troops, according to the current offensive posture of Chen Ting's troops and horses, it was impossible to break through Chengdu, however, with sophisticated siege equipment, it still caused a lot of casualties to the rebels defending the city, at least several times, Chen Ting's troops and horses had already attacked the city, but due to the large number of rebels, the soldiers who attacked the city could not gain a foothold, and finally died or retreated. (To be continued......)