Chapter 237: The Floor Car
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"Khan, this is Liucheng!" Tudi Ji said to Li Chongjiu.
Li Chongjiu looked at the city of Liucheng, his eyes narrowed, this is an important town in the northeast. In the Han Dynasty, Liucheng has become the western governor of Liaoxi County, when Cao Cao conquered Wuhuan, with Tian Chou as a guide, from Lulong out of the fortress, marched along the valley of the Daling River, defeated the Badun in the White Wolf Mountain, descended more than 200,000 people, and drank the water of Ma Liao. Cao Cao broke the Wuhuan, was high-spirited, and led the army back to make the famous poem of the east of the Jieshi to watch the sea.
And Murong Xianbei's Murong Hao also established Dragon City north of Liucheng, and created Dayan as the capital. Later, the Yan Kingdom was attacked by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the lord Feng Hong could not resist it, so he defected to the King of Goguryeo Changshou. When the reinforcements sent by the King of Longevity met Feng Hong, they took advantage of the fire to loot the Dragon City, and set a fire before leaving. Therefore, the former capital of Yan Kingdom, Dragon City, is now only a ruin.
However, now that the troops are approaching Liucheng, Li Chongjiu does not have so many feelings of concern from the ancients. Although the army in the city was divided by himself, there were still 700 defenders in Liucheng. As for the various dock forts, among the forts, there are at least 1,000 defenders of the Sui army, and now Li Chongjiu's military rations are only ten days, and he can't capture Liucheng within ten days, so he can only retreat from the army.
Li Chongjiu's Chinese army was deployed on the hill east of the city, overlooking Liucheng here.
"Ying Hefu, Tudiji, the two of you lead all the cavalry, together with Ding Lingren, to monitor the dock fort, the Sui army in the fort, surround it in the fort, if the enemy army does not fight, besiege but not attack, if they break away from the fort, they must be intercepted, not let them get close to Liucheng."
"No." Forehead, suddenly, the moment should be promised.
"Eto, Wugunai, Zhao Que'er, each of you will lead two thousand men and horses to surround Liucheng on three sides. Set up two fences to defend inside and outside. Wang Mahan, you led a thousand cavalry, ambushed in the woods north of the city, and watched the north of the city. ”
"No." The four generals were ordered together.
This siege is the traditional tactics of siege, and the intention is to give the defenders a way to live, so that the defenders do not have the idea of desperately resisting.
Although there were only 700 defenders, the city of Liucheng was strong and built on the white wolf water, so it was surrounded by water as a ditch, which greatly increased the difficulty of attacking the city. Li Chongjiu looked into the distance, Liucheng was five zhang high, the red flag of the Great Sui was still fluttering on the head of the city, and the soldiers were still uniformly wearing the yellow uniforms of the Sui army, standing with their arms. As for the three-arrow ballista on top of the castle tower, the huge iron arrows are chilling, and there is a trebuchet behind the castle that is dedicated to defending the city. Li Chongjiu couldn't help but think of the deeds of attacking Zhuojun but stoning to death by flying stones when Wang Suba.
Wen Yanbo said on the side: "To capture Liucheng, our army only has ten days, and if you count Luo Yi's army from Beiping County to the north to relieve the siege, I guess it will only be five to six days at most." The city was captured within five days, and our army had little chance of victory. ”
Li Chongjiu looked at Wen Yanbo at the moment and asked, "What is Sima's opinion?" ”
Wen Yanbo pinched his beard and said in a deep voice: "The art of war has clouds to attack the heart as the top, the city as the bottom, and the humble position to make the king's account work, it has been a period of time, and I have not made an inch, but let me try it!" ”
Li Chongjiu said happily at the moment: "With such a Laowen Sima, if you can talk about this city without blood, it is really a great achievement!" ”
Wen Yanbo smiled slightly, got on the horse immediately, dressed in a Confucian shirt, and rode his horse to the city unhurriedly. And Li Chongjiu was worried that Wen Yanbo would lose, so he immediately ordered Wei Chi Gong to ride left and right as a guard.
I saw Wen Yanbo come to the city, and said with a slight salute to the head of the city: "In the lower upper valley Sima Wen Yanbo, please also ask Deng Taishou to answer." ”
Soon, a general in armor in the city stood on the edge of the battlements and hugged his fists and said: "It turned out to be Brother Wen, why didn't Your Excellency play with a knife and pen and come here to be a lobbyist?" ”
Wen Yanbo pinched his beard and smiled, and said: "I haven't seen the old man for many years, so why bother to run down." ”
The general sneered and said, "Old man? I, Luo Taishou and the champion Hou, have never had grievances, the champion Hou marched to fight for no reason, you helped to abuse, it seems that today is the day when we cut off our robes and break our righteousness. ”
Hearing a pop, Wen Yanbo took the dagger and stabbed the corner of his robe first.
The general sneered and said, "What are you doing here? ”
Wen Yanbo sighed and said: "The robe can be cut lightly, but the righteousness is difficult to break, why am I here to come to the city for my lord, but also for my old friends." At present, I am too guarded, dividing the troops and guarding the outside of the city, and the city is empty, but there are only 700 soldiers. At present, I have more than 10,000 troops gathered under the city, and it is easy to break the city, I am not here for military merits, but for the lives of old friends, but also for the safety of the people in the city. ””
The general trembled when he heard this, and said angrily: "If you dare to disturb the hearts of our army, someone will release arrows!" ”
After saying that, the defenders at the head of the city raised their bows one after another, and Wei Chi Gong next to Wen Yanbo stepped forward when he saw it, and took Wen Yanbo to his horse. At this time, the arrows behind him rained down, and Wei Chigong drew a bamboo steel whip while pulling the arrows, and then turned the horse and left. It's just that Wen Yanbo's war horse left in place was unfortunately hit by more than a dozen arrows and died on the spot.
Back in front of Li Chongjiu Daxu in Tushan, Wen Yanbo and Wei Chigong were both unharmed. Wen Yanbo said to Li Chongjiu: "I have done my best to humble my position, although I can't say that I am demoting a general, but it is enough to shake the morale of the army." Li Chongjiu nodded, he didn't plan to say that Deng Wei would be subdued in a few words, but now the plan to attack the heart has been achieved, and he is quite satisfied at the moment.
That night, Li Chongjiu camped outside the city to rest, and the enemy had no intention of attacking the camp, so he spent the night without incident.
The next day, the drums of war were beating. More than 30 iron-plated vertical carts that had been secretly preparing arrows for 10 days had been pushed out. The vertical cart is five zhang high along with the city wall, and can accommodate more than ten archers on it, and the top is covered by a two-zhang iron shield to prevent enemy arrows.
The moment the iron plate vertical car appeared, it caused a commotion among the defenders at the head of the city, obviously they did not expect that the other party would build so many siege equipment silently. Behind each car was pushed by ten big men, moving from the northeast corner of the city towards Liucheng. The castle in the northeast corner is a pointed shape that protrudes from the outside of the city. More than 30 iron plate vertical cars slowly advanced, and behind the iron plate vertical cars, a black press appeared on the head. These people, old and young, each carrying dirt bags on their shoulders, had their eyes fixed on the moat.
Looking back from the moat and looking at the majestic city wall, Ke Mulun swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he didn't expect that the first battle he entered in Liaoxi County was not to fight with the enemy, but to fill the river with a dirt bag on his back. This matter made his best martial arts and equestrian skills have no place for bravery, but looking at his good brother on the side, as a deputy beggar Shu, he can only shake his head. Behind him were thousands of Xi people, and one by one the carts in the shape of tombstones in their eyes were slowly advancing under the city.
"Kill!" A shout sounded, and Ke Mulun, together with the people around him, took a step forward and ran forward. The sound of the bowstring crumbling overhead, Ke Mulun didn't have the time to raise his head at all, his eyes just stared at him.
Your own bow and arrow should be able to suppress the bow and arrow of the opponent's city head very well, and everyone, like Ke Mulun, is so looking forward to it, thinking that they have more courage to run. However, during the run, Kemulan could still see his brother left and right, and from time to time he was hit by an arrow and fell.
Ke Mulun felt that he was running fast, almost as fast as a galloping horse on the grassland, and suddenly saw a white moat in front of him. Ke Mulun didn't have time to have any affection, so he immediately bent down and threw the package behind him into the river. The dirt bag splashed a large splash, wetting Ke Mulun's body.
Ke Mulun swept it, and his dirt bag sank into the river, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. At that moment, Ke Mulun spread his feet and ran back, and the beggar also completed the task. The two of them ran back to where they started, fell to the ground, gasping for breath, and their hearts almost jumped out.
Red flags were waving in the distance, and it seemed that archers were constantly being brought in to reinforce the tight city. The sound of bowstrings crumbling next to the ears still stopped, and more than 30 building carts were tilting towards the enemy's city and rained arrows.
And at this time, I suddenly heard a bang in the city!
Komulan looked up and saw a boulder streak across the sky. Where the boulder fell, everyone on all sides shouted and avoided it, but the car couldn't move. As a result, he was hit by this boulder. The building car made a terrifying crooked sound and collapsed forward with a thud. Sawdust flew everywhere on the cart, and the archers above shouted and fell from the top of the cart.
Ke Mulun's eyes were full of surprise, and he asked the beggar on the side: "This is the trebuchet of the Han people you said, and it can throw a boulder so far!" ”
Qi Ashu nodded heavily, only to see that the other party had carried two trebuchets to the city and began to throw stones at him. At this time, the second batch of Han soldiers who filled the river had been organized.
And at this moment, in the southwest corner of the city, across a moat, Ugunai organized the soldiers of the Spirit, and everyone carried a dirt bag on their backs, and built an earthen mountain on the other side of the moat. Countless men with huge logs, dirt bags, arrows shot from the city wall behind a moat, and huge boulders, constantly increasing the height and widening of this earth mountain. The warriors ran valiantly, sacks of dirt were thrown to the ground.
The speed at which a mountain of dirt was almost visible to the naked eye was gradually increasing, and it was only in an instant, and the mountain was already as high as the head of the city.
On the other side, a dock fort more than ten miles away from Liucheng received a signal that Liucheng was in danger, and a group of 100 Sui troops went out of the city to reinforce, but it was less than a mile out of the city, and it was ambushed by an unknown number of Ding Ling and Yan warriors. In the tall and gloomy woods of Liaodong, arrows are shot from the darkness.
The soldiers of the Sui army fought with the Ding Lingjing people in the woods, and each side left a few corpses, and the Sui army did not know how many enemy troops there were in the four directions, so they could only return to the dock fort.