What is a strong army?

Three generations ago, not to mention for the time being, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the world has been in turmoil, and in order to maintain their rule, countries have begun to build cities on a large scale. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info there were only a few people in China at that time, but there were hundreds of large and small cities.

In the era of cold weapons, within the scope of China, what can be called a strong army is the kind of army that can conquer cities. The reason why a famous player is a famous general is to be able to do this. One of the reasons why Wu became famous all over the world was to expand the territory for the Wei State for thousands of miles and take a Xihe County from the Qin State; Le Yi became famous all over the world because he captured the seventy-two cities of Qi in one go......

Why has Great Qin's military prestige been passed down for thousands of years?

Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law in the era of Qin Xiaogong, strict military laws have been formulated, and since then, the army of Qin has become stronger, and for more than 100 years, in terms of war, fewer defeats and more victories, and gradually developed from a small border country to the strongest in the world, even if the six countries of Kwantung joined forces, they could not stop the trend of Qin unifying the world. Turning over the history, Bai Qi fought for decades, each time he "pulled out the city and beheaded xx people", and even killed 400,000 troops of Zhao in one fell swoop in order to compete for the seventeen cities of Shangdang County. Wang Jian and his son attacked and destroyed the five countries of Kwantung, and the cities destroyed were even more unknown...... In contrast, Meng Tian built the Great Wall, but the Xiongnu guarded the northern frontier, and his reputation fell.

Before the age of firearms, the mainstream of the strong army in Chinese history has always been the infantry army, including sword and shield soldiers, pikemen, crossbow soldiers, etc., which is for the needs of siege. Cavalry may be strong for a while, and it can play a strong role in field battles, but it cannot be used to siege cities. No matter how powerful the cavalry is, it can only run rampant for a while, playing prestige outside the city, and there are few successful cases if you want to break through the city with cavalry. Even if it is as powerful as Mongolia, the cavalry gallops across the grassland, and no one is invincible in the grassland, but when attacking the Southern Song Dynasty, it was frequently blocked, and it broke a great sweat in Sichuan, and it stopped in Xiangyang for more than ten years......

Anyway, in the matter of siege, the main thing is to look at the infantry, and the cavalry can only watch the excitement outside, patrol around, block the army coming out of the city, and delay the arrival of foreign reinforcements, so that the besieging army can prepare in advance.

The strong army in the Three Kingdoms era, why the camp was respected by later generations is because of the evaluation in Wang Cang's "Heroes" - every attack, there is no one who destroys. This sentence not only refers to the strength of the trapped camp in a head-to-head duel, but also includes its invincibility in attacking cities and grabbing land. After Lu Bu went to Chang'an, he defected to other princes everywhere, and finally was able to occupy a state for a few years, and he contributed a lot to the camp.

Except for this army, there is no special branch of the army in the Three Kingdoms that has such a demeanor.

Of course, Liu Feng does not have such a strong army, he does not even have a special army, and there are only about 100,000 elites, and only 80,000 here. Qu'a City looks dilapidated, but Liu Feng attacked it for a few days, losing more than 100,000 soldiers, and still did not break the city wall, but the siege equipment was damaged a lot.

"Gongda, why don't you just blast through the city wall, but consume it like this?" Liu Feng looked at the troops besieging the city and asked Xun Yu puzzled.

He did not participate in the command and handed over all the power to Xun You. originally thought that Xun You would attack directly after breaking through the city wall, but later found out that it was not what he thought. The catapult smashed wildly for seven or eight days, and just when it was about to succeed, Xun You stopped his actions and began to throw in rushing cars, siege vehicles, and even sent people to attack the city with ladders from time to time.

"Lord, don't say anything else, since you moved into Huiji County, has the lord carried out a large-scale siege battle?" Xun You asked.

"I don't think so." Liu Feng thought for a while and said honestly, "Didn't I think that after the unification of Jiangdong, we would conduct a siege when we were going to conquer the city!" ”

He said it well, when he was begging Dong, he played soy sauce, and when he attacked Danyang, he hit a few relatively small counties, and even Zulang didn't stay, and the battle against Wu Jing ended after just a big battle, and when he took advantage of the situation to fight back, Wu Jing had already taken the initiative to evacuate, and several counties in the north of Danyang were picked up for nothing...... Until now, this was the first fortified city he had encountered.

"Does the lord know that in Jiangdong, in Wu County, there is a city that is more majestic than Qu'a, and a small catapult is of no use to the city wall?" Xun You said, "Even Qu'a City has been bombarded for so long, how long is the lord going to smash the stronger Wu County?" If you don't take this opportunity to train well to siege the city, when will you have a strong army? ”

Liu Feng smacked his tongue, feeling that you are a strong training army, and this is how hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people go to fill it! You know, he has only 2 million people here. It is said that in the Three Kingdoms, Jia Xu is known as a "poisoner", and in order to survive, he instigated the Xiliang army to unite to counterattack Chang'an, and these other strategists are not worse than each other. Although it was only some, Liu Feng was a little distressed about the loss of more than 100,000 people, and Xun You was stunned without blinking.

"Well, I don't mean anything else, it's up to you." Liu Feng didn't say anything anymore, anyway, there are so many people, he can't command them, since he has delegated power, then let it go, and Xun You of the province has a pimple in his heart.

Xun You was not polite, and continued to command the siege, and after a few days, the casualties had reached 300,000, of course, even if the losses of Qu'a's defenders were not so much, they were definitely more than half. At this time, Xun You ordered a general attack.

A handful of well railings were pushed out, dozens of siege vehicles and rushing vehicles were ready, not to mention the ladders, which attacked simultaneously from the west and south sides of Qu'a. Even the Inhumans were prepared, and some even had a hot head and took the initiative to ask to go to the well fence and devote themselves to the battle for the city wall.

The catapults also threw stones from time to time, and the rushing vehicles continued to suppress the city walls, and the siege vehicles and ladders approached forward under the cover of the infantry, and then began to ram and climb, and even the well railings began to move under the operation of the soldiers.

Liu Feng watched from behind, and the roar on the battlefield made him uneasy. Xun You is desperate to defeat Qu A in one fell swoop. He didn't know how Nancheng was, but the soldiers who fell from time to time and fell from the climbing ladder made him worry.

If this continues, even if Qu'a is taken, will there still be enough troops to continue the expedition?

Time gradually passed, and Liu Feng was not far away watching Xun You's command. Xun You's face was also tense until the siege vehicle crashed into a section of the city wall, until the first soldier held the city wall, and a steady stream of soldiers climbed up the ladder, until the first well fence was intact and the soldiers were on the city wall, Xun You finally relaxed.

"Command to go down, hold the gap, continue to break through the wall, and receive the army into the city. Ordered those strangers to enter the city to fight first. Xun You glanced at Liu Feng and commanded.

The gap in the city wall was opened, and the situation got better all of a sudden, and Qu'a's defenders could no longer prevent Liu Feng's army from entering the city, so Xun You sent tens of thousands of elites to guard the gap in the city wall at one time. Gradually, after more than half an hour, the walls of the West City had disappeared from the battle, and the two sides began to fight head-on in the city.

Although Bai Jian is a 77th-order general, this kind of battle is not in the mall in person, and when Xicheng City is broken, it is still fierce over there. When the morale of the defenders of Nancheng dropped and chaos occurred after the news came, he took the opportunity to break through Nancheng as well, and the two sides met in the city and killed together at the county office, which was the place where Xu Gong was staying.

It's a pity that Xu Gong had already run away, and after the city was broken, he knew the result, and in addition to sending a part of his troops and a large number of strangers to meet the enemy, he was ready to evacuate. Fortunately, he had been prepared for this before he came, and although he was a little annoyed by failure, he was not extremely disappointed. If you fail this time, you will get it back next time. Without waiting for Liu Feng's army to break through the Qu'a defenders who were blocking the enemy, he took the people to evacuate first.

The cavalry wandering outside the city was the first to notice it and immediately attacked from behind. Xu Gong was also a ruthless man, leaving 50,000 desperate soldiers and fleeing lightly with the remaining 200,000 people. After the cavalry defeated the broken defenders, it was too late to pursue, the number of cavalry was too small, even if they caught up, they had no backing, and they were afraid of being ambushed. If Liu Feng's army wanted to stabilize the situation in Qu'a, it was impossible for it to leave in large numbers at this time.

Steady and steady has always been Liu Feng's strategy, and this time is no exception, driving away Xu Gong and controlling the whole city, Liu Feng and Xun You led the army and entered Qu'a as victors. (To be continued.) )