Chapter 27

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Guo Huai asked for the order to attack the city, Gao Gan originally wanted to give a few words of encouragement first, and then agreed, but when he raised his head and looked, he saw that Guo Huai's face was flushed, his eyebrows were erect, and his eyes were staring, as if he was going crazy. This state can't go to the battlefield, the opposite side is not directly the enemy, there is a city wall, it is not just a desperate fight to win. Gao Gan is also a veteran general who has fought an old war, and he knows very well that the front-line generals are likely to be the enemy's plan because of their anger and end in a miserable defeat.

After all, what he was facing was Xun, who was known for his resourcefulness, and there was a precedent of inexplicably defeating Guo Yi's 2,000 cavalry, and Gao Gan would never dare to hold it up.

Young people are young people after all, even if Guo Boji is young and old, and his thinking is meticulous, he still can't hold his breath when he encounters such a thing as his father being killed. Gao Gan couldn't help but sigh secretly, first encouraged a few words, and then said: "Qing's intentions, a certain knows well." However, the city of Qi County is high and dense, it is difficult to go down with a drum, the Yanmen army is temporarily resting, I will taste the enemy first, and when the fierce battle is fought, I will do a blow - Qing Qi will not lose my hope. ”

Guo Huai grimaced, panting, and reluctantly retreated, but his heart was greatly relieved - if you send me to take the lead, it will be bad.

Gao Gan's order was to send Shang Yao to the infantry from Dingxiang to attack first, and Wang Rou led the Taiyuan army to follow, arranging Guo Huai on the flank of the second formation, waiting for the general attack order, and at the same time sending Wuhuan and Xiongnu to guerrilla shelter on both flanks of the formation. The battle started before noon, Guo Huai climbed the tower to look, but saw that the city was heavily defended, arrows rained down, and the Dingxiang army lost hundreds of soldiers and horses, before finally building a bridge and crossing the trench and approaching the wall - Shang Yao was really willing to work hard.

I saw thousands of soldiers of Dingxiang's army flocking to the wall and erecting a long ladder, but they couldn't see the rolling logs and stones thrown on the city. Guo Huaizheng felt strange, and suddenly saw that the soldiers in the city seemed to be holding up a few bottles. Start pouring some kind of liquid down the city - is it pouring boiling water? This is the usual method used when defending the city, but the problem is that the amount is too small...... And why didn't you see the beaten Dingxiang soldiers screaming and falling and rolling?

was wondering, and suddenly several rockets were shot from the city, in an instant. The city will be in flames!

In the original history, thirty years later, at the end of the second year of Cao Wei Taihe, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Shu Han Dynasty, broke out and surrounded Chencang City. The Shu army was no less than 50,000, while the defenders of Chencang were only 1,000, but they defeated the enemy soldiers besieging the city many times. The two sides fought fiercely day and night for more than 20 days, because Cao Wei's reinforcements were coming, Zhuge Liang had no choice but to retreat.

The so-called "two out of Qishan" in the romance ended gloomily, and the battle of Chencang also left a record of relevant "rockets" for the first time in Chinese history.

Of course. This so-called "rocket" is nothing more than tying strips of cloth to the cluster of arrows, coating rosin, grease and other ignitions, and shooting ordinary arrows after ignition - the guard general Hao Zhao used this to break the ladder of the Shu army. But in fact, this kind of rocket has been put into actual combat in the late Han Dynasty, when Shi Xun followed Cao Cao to attack Shouchun, he had seen Yuan Jun use it at the city gate. This rocket is used to ignite. It is best to shoot directly at the enemy's granary, which is of little use to defend the city - Yuan Jun first laid out the fire in front of the city gate, and then used rockets to ignite them, and then he was in a hurry to use rockets to burn down the drawbridge without rosin and other things, and the result was a shameful failure.

Shi Xun didn't want to set up something to ignite the fire under the city of Qi County, because it was not clear which section of the city wall the enemy would choose to attack, and it was useless to put less, and the gain outweighed the loss if there was too much - this was not a deception under Shouchun City to lure the enemy, and it was guessed that Cao Cao would definitely go through the city gate. When discussing the strategy of defending the city with the generals, Xiahoulan said. If the enemy soldiers go up the ladder, they can scratch the hook to overthrow it, and if they build a car ladder or crash the car, the most conventional way is to set it on fire: "I don't know if the rosin, animal fat and other things that cause fire in the city are complete?" ”

Yeshun heard this. Suddenly, he grinned: "Why rosin and animal fat?" "He built an oil mill in Anyi, and even if he went on an expedition to Taiyuan, he carried dozens of cans of vegetable oil with him for stir-frying—as the commander-in-chief, this little privilege is still there—isn't that thing better than rosin or something?

Sure enough, as soon as it was used, it was immediately fired, and countless Dingxiang soldiers were on fire, screaming and jumping around. Shang Yao was impatient, so he had to order the whole team to retreat, but the city threw a rain of arrows and shot over more than 100 people.

This scene, the high-ranking cadres who were looking forward to the Chinese army naturally saw it, and immediately ordered: "Mingjin!" However, the sound of "clanging" had just sounded, and suddenly the sound of horses' hooves was heard surging from the east and west sides of the city, and Cao Xing led two thousand cavalry of the Lu family to come out of the side gate and kill directly on the flank of the Dingxiang army.

Gao Gan hurriedly gave another order: "Let the second army come forward, respond to the Dingxiang army, and then make Hu cavalry fight against the enemy's cavalry." The herald galloped to the Yanmen army, and Guo Huai couldn't help but pat his thigh: "It's the right time!" ”

The battle unfolded in the line of sight of Shi Xun, and although he had given Sima Yi all the power to defend the palace, as the supreme commander, it was naturally impossible to stay away from the city walls and hide in a safe place in the city - the commander's presence on the front line would greatly boost the morale of the combatants, and he knew this basic principle. It is a helmet through the armor, standing in the tower, holding on to the railing, looking out - this year is not afraid of cannon bombardment, planes laying eggs, although the siege party seems to have erected a few trebuchets in the distance, but the number is small, and the accuracy is ridiculously poor, the chance of being hit by a stone on the tower is not higher than the chance of stumbling on the left leg and falling on the right leg in the city.

Looking at those vague shadows from afar—if it weren't for the subordinates pointing out that it was "Zhen", that is, the so-called trebuchet in later generations, even Xun's eyesight might not be able to recognize it—it was Xun's mind that couldn't help but fly out of the sky. Under normal circumstances, the battle starts from long-range coverage, and in this year, either arrows are released or stones are thrown, but this time the Yuan army came to attack, although they set up a trebuchet, but they did not throw stones at the first time. Therefore, Zhang Ji proposed that this initial attack should be tentative in nature, and the senior cadres would not devote all their strength, and his own side should also respond with passive defense, and reserve the strength until the opponent launched a general attack. However, Sima Yi said: "I am not a person who wants to defend for a long time, since I am about to retreat, why should I not fight?" "Insist that as long as the state army attacks the city, all the forces will be thrown out immediately, and the opponent will be caught off guard.

Jixun has no talent for combat and lacks experience, and in his previous life, he talked about it on the Internet. There are all kinds of strange ideas, but when I cross over, I really face thousands of troops, and I feel that my mind is blank, but I can't think of any tricks. But he faced the plan proposed by his subordinates. However, he was able to soberly analyze and judge it, so he immediately agreed with Sima Yi's suggestion: "Since Zhongda has been appointed, Zhongda can be self-determined." ”

Seeing that the oil was sprinkled on the city wall, and then the rockets were also fired, although the tragic situation of the Bingzhou army could not be seen, and the screams of the enemy troops could not be discerned from the noise coming from all directions. But the billowing smoke speaks volumes. According to the original plan, it was time for Cao Xing's cavalry to go out from the gates on both sides. Shixun couldn't help but cast his gaze into the distance again, and the trebuchets appeared in his field of vision again.

He has devoted himself to the study of gunpowder weapons in the past few years, and has not paid any attention to those traditional cold weapons, but now that he thinks about it, Cao's army will attack Yecheng in the future. Ye is Dayi, Hebei, and the Yuan family has many years of experience, so I am afraid that the defense is much stronger than that of Xu Du. If a large number of trebuchets can be discharged, such as the Jurchen attack on Bianliang, perhaps the siege time can be greatly shortened, and at the same time, the casualties of the own side can be greatly reduced?

Trebuchet ...... In fact, it would be more accurate to say that the manpower stone throwing machine is unique to China. At least in the Warring States period, it has already stepped onto the stage of history. The elastic trebuchet and torsion trebuchet of ancient Greece and Rome are actually more advanced than China's manpower trebuchet in terms of mechanical principle, but at the same time, they have the defects of difficult production, high failure rate and insufficient range, and from the perspective of cost and efficiency, they are at a disadvantage. Therefore, it is impossible for Shixun to "understand" those things, and he hopes to use the knowledge of his previous life to partially improve the original human trebuchet in China.

In the romance, the period of confrontation between officials and crossings. Liu Ye once presented Cao Cao with a "thunderbolt cannon", which is the words of the novelist, and the history books only say that Cao Jun used this thing, but it is not mentioned who knows it. It is estimated that it is a manpower stone throwing machine with better quality, longer range, and easy rotation and pushing. It shouldn't be difficult to find a few craftsmen to study this thing together. The difficult thing is, can we change the manpower to a counterweight, and make it clear in advance that the so-called "return gun" will come out in later generations?

Outside the spirit object, he suddenly saw a great chaos in the camp of Yuan Jun in the distance. Shi Xun stared at it for a long time, but he still couldn't see the reason - it would be nice if it were a telescope! Fortunately, not long after, a sentinel came back to report: "The Yanmen army is on the verge of defection, and the Taiyuan army is in chaos!" ”

Oh, Guo Boji finally made a move, it's time! Shi Xun couldn't help but slap the railing excitedly, and then ordered: "Order Cao Xing to accept the Yanmen army into the city!" As soon as he finished speaking, he suddenly reacted, so he added: "First pass the word Zhongda, and let it decide." ”

Guo Huai defected and attacked the flank of Wang Rou's Taiyuan army, and soon completely disrupted the enemy position. But Guo Boji didn't want to take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle, and he didn't dare to touch the base camp of the senior cadres at all.

With 20,000 troops in the state, the number of the Yanmen army is less than one-seventh, and it is very unrealistic to cooperate with the 2,000 Cao army cavalry killed in the city to defeat Gao Gan in one fell swoop. Unless Gao Gan is crazy and pulls all the soldiers and horses to the city, but the length of the city wall on this side is limited, and too many people can not be lined up, but it is easier to be the target of the defenders in the city. Gao Gan is not crazy, he attacked the city on the first day, and he mainly tried to do it, so the order of the first formation, the second formation and the base camp is clear, Guo Huai takes advantage of his position, he can flank Wang Rou, and he can also assault Shang Yao, but if he wants to attack Gao Gan, he will die.

Therefore, after he disturbed Wang Rou's Taiyuan army in one fell swoop, he did not dare to fight, and soon broke away from contact with the enemy army with the cooperation of Cao Xing, and went around to the east gate of Qi County. The gate opened, and Guo Huai was afraid that Shixun would suspect him of surrendering, so he restrained his troops for a while, and he only led a dozen horsemen to enter the city first.

When he entered the city, he saw a man standing across a horse with a knife on his waist. Cao Xing pointed out: "This is the waiting." Guo Huai hurriedly turned over and dismounted, kneeling down on one knee: "The last general Guo Huai, meet the servant." Shi Xun raised his hand at him: "Why is it too late for Boji to come?" ”

PS: In the future, on the weekend, I try to try to change it as early as possible if I am at home, and it is better to be earlier than late, isn't it?