With the information obtained by Deng Ai by "tasting the enemy" in advance, Wei Yan knew that the main force of Goguryeo was not near Marudu Mountain, the country was empty, and he would be cowardly - otherwise he would not have withdrawn the domestic defenders, nor would he close the water village, and he would not dare to cross the river to attack the south bank - the pawn was shoddy, so he could move forward with one drum and use the strong boat and crossbow to destroy Hao Xu's water village in an instant.

Immediately, Xiahoulan commanded the land division to land surgingly, and almost without losing a single soldier, he entered the completely undefended domestic city. The people of Goguryeo who had not yet fled were all captured, plus the sailors who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, totaling more than 4,000 people. Xiahoulan immediately ordered to tear down all the earth walls, and then set a fire to burn the houses in the city to the ground.

Of course, before that, it is necessary to plunder the troops first, not only to reward their merits, but also to supplement the food and grass materials needed by the army. It turned out that the largest number of coins and silk silks were found from the ruins of the water village......

Deng Ai had already led his 300 brave men, abandoned the camp on the south bank, crossed the Mazi River in a small boat, came to join the army, and then met with the main general to pay the order. Wei Yan smiled: "Straight soil chicken tile dog ears." That is, there is no precursor, and it is not difficult for me to break this. ”

Deng Ai smiled faintly, neither justifying nor resentful, Wei Wensheng looked a little embarrassed, and quickly changed his words: "This joke is ear." Then he stretched out four fingers and said that you risked your life to strike first, which made the time for the domestic city to call the police a full four days earlier, that is to say, if Cao Zhen was not repelled by the main force of Goguryeo, then he would have four more days to continue to advance, and he could seize more land and loot more supplies - maybe he could really knock down the city of Susheng bones.

"The meritorious service is indispensable, I should play the Ming court, in order to invite Xun Lu."

But then the conversation changed. And he said, "Pity." and make the thieves abandon their land. And the cage this pill capital mountain also ......, "I heard that there were less than 1,000 defenders in the city in the country, even if they don't withdraw, I can still capture this city in the blink of an eye." If we eat these 1,000 people first, the enemy guarding the mountain castle of Marudu will be even weaker, and maybe we will be able to take advantage of the victory and attack the mountain.

Deng Ai bowed down and reported: "Ai and Ai climbed high on the south bank to see, and the mountain city was very strong, that is, five hundred guards guarded. It is not possible to go down during the day, and it is also the one who can go down. ”

Wei Yan waved his hand and said that the south bank is too far away, so we might as well get closer and observe together, and then consider whether to attack the city.

Horses brought from people - of course, it is difficult to carry horses on sea boats, including Xiahoulan, the big guys all come with legs, and this is still a few horses that have only been collected from Goguryeo Water Village and domestic cities, and it is not possible to go into battle, but there is no problem with traveling.

So Wei Yan was in front, and Xiahoulan, Deng Ai, and Shi Bao were behind. The four horsemen marched through the domestic city that was being dug up and plundered, all the way to the north. Go straight down to Mt. Maruto. In fact, according to the assignment of Shi Xun, the main general of this road should be Xiahou Lan - because the Lu Division is the main force of the battle, and Wei Yan's original plan was only to assist in transporting troops and guarding the two sides of the strait - but Xiahou Lan has always been humble and cautious, and the Shui Shi has just won the battle, and the Lu Division has captured the city, as if it is food that comes from the mouth, he is naturally not strong enough, so Wei Wensheng is arbitrary.

As for Wei Yan, he has always been proud, if you want to say that under the Son of Heaven, he can only afford two people, one is the Tai Lieutenant who showed himself is Xun, and the other is the late boss Tai Shici who treats him like a son. Thinking that Tai Shici died that year, Wei Yan pondered that I should lead his army on his behalf, but who would have thought that the imperial court would order him to be transferred to the East China Sea Division. So Wei Yan hurriedly wrote to Shi Xun, saying that it was okay to transfer me out of Huainan and go to lead the water army, but I didn't want anyone to press on my head anymore, I had to be the leader. Shi Xun immediately promised, that is, he made a proposal to Cao Cao, fulfilling his dream.

The East China Sea Division is a very unique existence, theoretically led by the Son of Heaven, and even the military department is not very involved. Therefore, Wei Wensheng is used to being a boss these years, if he goes all the way with Cao Zhen, maybe he will respect the other party's clan identity, and he will be more restrained, and now he follows Xiahou Lan...... Who's that? On what basis will you command me?

He instinctively regarded himself as the main general, not only to manage the water war, but also to intervene in the land war.

Let's say that the four generals traveled all the way, and soon arrived at the foot of Marudu Mountain, each looked up, and then looked at each other, except for Deng Ai, who had long been mentally prepared, the other three people had the same reaction - this is sick, right?

Of course, everyone knows this truth, but the problem is so big in China, there is basically no such a huge mountain city. Most of China's cities are used to control the land, most of them are built on flat ground, occasionally leaning against high mountains, and there is no reason to cover them halfway up the mountain or even on the top of the mountain. The mountainside, the top of the mountain, or there is a village, the scale is absolutely impossible to be like the mountain city of Marudu, and the surrounding area is more than ten miles wide.

Similar to this structure, it is called a castle in Europe, and a mountain castle in Korea and Japan. But the problem is that even if the European castles, Korean and Rishan Castles, although they have the word "city" in their names, they are actually fortresses and cannot be placed too many defenders and unarmed personnel. But looking at the scale of the mountain castle of Maruto, it can be shoehorned into tens of thousands of people - is there such a city? What's the point?

Xiahou Lan raised his whip and pointed around: "If there is no country, there will be no pill mountain." "Marudu Mountain Castle itself only has a defensive function, not only does it have no production capacity, but it also has no commercial capacity. In the complex capital system of Goguryeo, the commercial capacity was provided by the domestic city, and the production capacity was provided by the countryside around the domestic city.

"There is no need to storm it, but block the four passages, and the city will be destroyed."

However, despite the reason, considering that a large amount of grain and straw materials must be stored in the mountain city of Marudu, and it must be able to solve the drinking water problem by itself, then it will not be a matter of a day or two to wait for it to "self-resolve". If the main force of the Goguryeo army has been destroyed, then there is no problem, even if we don't leave, just rest here for the winter, sooner or later we will be able to consume the mountain city in front of us. But the army of the palace may be able to rush back one day, and there is really not much time left for us.

Even if the deadline is relaxed and set for ten days, will you be able to capture this Marudu Mountain Castle?

The mountains are steep, the roads are narrow, there are many wooden fences on the road, and there are even earthen ramparts and stone walls, how many lives do you have to fill in to conquer it? If on flat ground, the same defensive structure, the Wei army has many ways to quickly break through - the ancient Chinese are the best at attacking cities, from the Warring States era Gongban invented the cloud ladder, Mozi also wrote the "City Defense", which mentioned no less than dozens of siege strategies.

In particular, Cao Cao also invented the "thunderbolt car", that is, a stone-throwing car that is easy to disassemble and transport, feasible on wheels, and can be rotated and launched at 180 degrees, and then Xun, Zhuge Liang, and Ma Jun have improved it. Wei Yan's big ship was loaded with a lot of important parts of the "thunderbolt car", and the whole army was mobilized to cut down and build, and it didn't take one night to complete six or seven parts. Question: Even if you have wheels, can you push the "thunderbolt" up the hill? If you stand at the bottom of the mountain, where can you hit the highest?

In the face of such a mountain city, it seems that there is no good way but to "attach ants" - that is, it can only attack hard.

The four generals observed for a long time and discussed for a long time, but in the end they were helpless and had to return in a huff. Just halfway back, a small school came to report that the walls of the city in China had been picked up and everything had been looted, so should the city be set on fire now? Before Xia Houlan could answer, Wei Yan preemptively ordered: "Burn!" "Since it is unlikely that we will take the mountain city of Marudu, and we can't stand here, let's just completely destroy the country.

Immediately, I saw the soldiers escorting a large group of Goguryeo, all tied them with ropes, strung them into several rows, and scolded and pushed them down to the river. Deng Ai couldn't help asking: "How do you deal with the generals?" Xiahou Lan replied without changing his face: "I wanted to drive the river bank, throw it in the water, and burn the city, it is better to close the earth kiln and burn it together, so as not to pollute the water source." Wei Yan nodded and said that this is a good idea, so let's do it.

Deng Ai was shocked when he heard this: "If it weren't for the soldiers, it would be the people, thousands of people, such as, how to kill them at one time?" "It's too cruel for you to do this—" Captain Taiyun tasted the clouds, that is, even barbarians and people, the same and the same kind as me, although like beasts, they can also guide, guide, guide and guide to good, and turn into Chinese. Regardless of good or evil today, jade and jade are burned, isn't there a way to do it? Killing prisoners is ominous, please think twice about generals and generals. "The Taiwei only told us to take all the Goguryeo people back captive, but he didn't say that they were all killed.

Wei Yan spread his hands and asked, "We are not Cao Zidan on the North Road, how can we kidnap people?" There are only so many ships, they were originally overloaded with thousands of land divisions, and now the number of losses is less than a hundred, and the rest have to go back by boat, where is there any spare place to ship these barbarians?

Deng Ai argued: "Breaking the enemy's water and water village, the size of the ships obtained, and there are no fewer ......" There are more than a dozen ships captured by the whole ship, and there are three times as many as this, which can be used for repair, why can't you install people?

Wei Yan said with a smile: "Shi Zai counts people's ears, but not things." "We have plundered so much treasure, and we have to ship it back, will it all sink into the river, or leave it to the Goguryeos? Give way to the palace to come back and make a small fortune?

Deng Ai changed color and said: "General, why is he heavy on wealth and light on people?" ”

Wei Yan pursed his lips: "China's wealth is more important than the barbarians!" ”

Xiahou Lan saw that the two of them were a little angry, and hurriedly came over to play a round: "What Shi Zai said is not unreasonable, if they are killed, I am afraid that they will be against the hearts of the barbarians and the enemy, and they will hurt our yin virtues." "Let's choose carefully, pick some scoundrels and kill them, and spare all the poor women and children—" There are not many of them, or they can be brought back by boat. As he spoke, he turned sideways and glanced at Wei Yan.

Over there, Shi Bao also hurriedly ripped Deng Ai away.

After first fooling Deng Ai away, Xia Houlan ordered that the young women, skilled craftsmen, and Chinese among the captives be left behind, and the rest of the more than half, according to the original plan, find a few cellars at random, seal them inside, and then set fire to them——" Although he is a barbarian woman, he can also be matched with the athletes in the army, and it is a pity to kill him. When Wei Yan heard about this, he couldn't help but nod: "It's well arranged, not only to get rid of future troubles, but also to take care of the sergeants, and the style of a famous general in ancient times." In this way, he added a little more to Xiahou Landuo in his mind...... (To be continued......)