The tentative siege achieved great results, not only destroying a large number of catapults in the city in the first battle, but also fully exploring the troops and resources in the city. [Ran^Text^Library] [ ] On each wall of Sharu City, 100,000 horses were arranged to defend it, and needless to say, there must be more reserve troops in the city. It's really a bit difficult to forcibly attack the city and take Sharu City. Especially in this tentative attack, the Beichen Army only fought for more than an hour, and lost more than 20,000 people, which made Xiao Chen very unbearable.

There are more than 20,000 people in an hour, so if you fight for more than ten hours, won't there be 200,000 soldiers and horses? Of course, this calculation is wrong. At the same time as the loss of the Beichen army, the defenders in the city also suffered casualties, and the defense will gradually weaken. However, if the Beichen Army really attacked for ten hours, it was itself that suffered in the end. Therefore, Xiao Chen had no choice but to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops, temporarily besiege Shalu City, and look for an opportunity to attack the city again.

During the period when they were not attacking the city, Xiao Chen and the others were not all idle and had nothing to do. Every day, Xiao Chen would pull a large group of people and hide in the big tent, discussing how to take Shalu City with the least loss. It's just that for nearly half a month, everyone has thought of all the methods they can think of, but there is still no good result. Strategies such as luring the enemy and digging tunnels have no effect at all after they are calculated.

The army of Shalu is hiding in the city, unable to survive or die, and there is nothing they can do on their side. You must know that in cold weapon warfare, siege warfare is the most difficult to fight. In Chinese history, the city was besieged for half a year, and there were many years a year, and some were even able to besiege the city for more than ten years. What do you think you can do, especially if people are stuck in the capital? As the capital, not only is the defense extremely high, but there are definitely not a few materials hoarded in the city, which is the real problem. As long as there were enough supplies in Sharu City, the Beichen army could only give up the long-term siege and start a tragic siege if they wanted to take it. But this was not the result Xiao Chen wanted, the casualties were too great, and they were not at all something that Beichen Kingdom could afford.

There is no good way, and the army can only temporarily besiege the country of Sharu. As for the assault, Xiao Chen didn't think about it at all, there were enough supplies in Shalu City. Now that the Beichen army is going to attack the city, it can only consume some of the enemy's materials, and the pay is really not proportional to the gain.

The first priority of besieging a city is to cut off as much as possible all water from outside the city to the city. Because, without water, no life can live. And the Beichen Army also completed this order very quickly, and the army of millions dug countless deep pits in one day, all of which were tens of meters deep. These things can completely snatch more than half of the groundwater that the enemy can claim, but it still doesn't seem to be enough. After all, there are too many groundwater things, not to mention millions of Beichen troops, even if tens of millions come, it is impossible to eat them all. In addition, Xiao Chen thought that the Beichen Army would be able to take Shalu City sooner or later, so it was better not to destroy the groundwater resources as much as possible.

At this point, the plan to cut off the water was completely over. Subsequently, the generals under them came up with a plan, that is, to cut off the enemy from obtaining dry firewood. This made Xiao Chen's eyes light up, it is winter now, and dry firewood is almost a necessity for every household. Without enough dry firewood, it is easy to freeze to death in the winter. Even if you don't freeze to death, it's still okay to freeze and lose your combat effectiveness. In addition, the temperature has dropped suddenly in the past few days, and without dry firewood, it is impossible to survive. Therefore, Xiao Chen took this strategy very happily.

In the winter of January, it was very cold. If it had been last month, it would have been possible to see what the sun was like, but now it is cloudy every day. Finally, a little sunlight appeared, and it was just a ray of sunlight that had penetrated through the thick clouds. Xiao Chen knew that this was the coldest time of the year and was coming. In the cold winter, it is the coldest only in the wax moon, and now it is just a prelude.

The Beichen Army soon cut down some of the woods outside the city, leaving the entire Sharu City surrounded by empty eyes. These firewood are also very useful, and the millions of troops of the Beichen Army need tens of thousands of catties of dry firewood every day. The woods around Sharu City were cut down, and the dry firewood obtained was only enough for the Beichen army for three or four months. For three or four months, Xiao Chen believed that almost all the people in the city had frozen to death at that time.

The city of Sharu is located in the plains, and it is also the capital, and there are certainly not many trees in the city. And now that the woods outside the city have been cut down by the Beichen army, the Sharu army is naturally sad.

The monarch of Shalu was also very distressed, and he was very angry about the Beichen Army's practice of cutting down trees. Is this completely disregarding the natural environment, and actually cutting trees indiscriminately? Hmph, now the king of this evil has begun to cut down the trees in his back garden to keep warm, damn, ruthless enough!

As for the soldiers and civilians at the bottom, they are even more sad. The rich and noble families are a little better, they all have gardens or something at home, and it is not a big problem to find some dry firewood. But the common people couldn't bear it, and in the previous winter, everyone went out to chop some dry firewood to keep warm. But now that it is in the middle of the war, millions of enemies outside the city are besieging the city, where do anyone dare to go out and cut wood. Not to mention that now that the Beichen Army has cut down all the trees, even if the people want to go out and cut down the trees, there is nothing to gain.

Without firewood, the city suddenly fell into a situation of livelihood misery. Countless people have no dry firewood to keep warm. The only dry firewood needed to be used for cooking, otherwise there would be no hot food to eat, and everyone would have died even worse. As for the cold temperature, everyone had to hide under the covers to warm up and fight the cold. The defenders in the city are also in distress now, there is no dry firewood, and everyone is very cold. The thin tents and wooden houses in the barracks could not stop the cold invasion at all. The quilt is also not very thick, and it is cold and cold.

In order not to freeze to death, countless defenders had to take turns guarding the city walls, and the rest began to train. The high-intensity training has raised the combat effectiveness of all the Sharu soldiers to a new level. This is not a good thing for the Beichen Army, but Xiao Chen doesn't care, he has thought about storming the city at all.

Two months passed quickly, and the coldest winter had arrived. At this time, the Sharu* team did not dare to train in the city anymore because it was too cold. Even after a lot of intense training, you still can't get calories. And as time went by, there was not much food and grass in the city, and the army began to control food. As for the dry firewood, it is even more scarce, and many soldiers have already demolished those wooden houses and built small tents.

Some of the people in the city have already froze to death, and the army is already short of food, let alone ordinary people. There is no food, no dry firewood, and many people can no longer bear the cold of winter. Many people slowly stopped breathing and fell into death in their sleep at night. More and more people are freezing to death, which makes the already rotten situation in Saru even worse. Fortunately, there has not been an incident of people freezing to death in the army, otherwise the country of Shalu would not have to fight anymore.

The Beichen Army is still doing well for a while, because of the large amount of firewood, the Beichen Army has given up the thin tents. On the contrary, outside the city of Shalu, a large construction site was opened, and in just a few dozen days, a series of six or seven meters high camps were built. Later, wooden houses were also built in the camp, which made the soldiers of the Beichen Army very happy. These wooden houses were not the airy wooden houses of the Sharu army, and the neat planks were nailed together, and there was no seal blowing in at all. The soldiers slept in it, and that was called a warmth.

As for firewood, although there were not many trees cut around the city before, it doesn't mean that there are no trees elsewhere. The Beichen Army is now hoarding a large number of trees and dry firewood. As long as the wooden camp is sealed with mud and stones, it can be stationed here almost all year round. Moreover, the logistics troops in the rear also transported a lot of quilts and cotton clothes, and these items made the officers and men of the Beichen Army not feel the cold of winter at all.

Seeing that the New Year was coming in more than twenty days, Xiao Chen was now also fantasizing about whether to send troops to attack Shalu City. Now, there must not be much dry wood in the city of Sharu, and a few days ago, many dead bodies were thrown from the city walls. The soldiers of the Beichen Army checked it, and these dead bodies were all frozen to death, as if they were ordinary people. This news made the Beichen army very happy, now that people have frozen to death in the city, it means that there is no dry firewood available in the city, maybe wait a few days, and the army can directly drive into the city to receive the city.

As for Xiao Chen's thoughts, they were quickly extinguished by Yue Fei. Now there is no dry firewood in Shalu City, and not to mention resisting for a month on my side, even if it is brought with this big camp for a year or two, it is not a problem. In this case, why bother to be idle and go to the siege again, just go in and receive it when the time comes. Another reason is that winter not only reduces the combat effectiveness of the Sharu* team, but it does not mean that they have no power to resist. You know, during a country's war, all the supplies will be concentrated on the army.

Now the Sharu* team is like this, and only ordinary people in the city are frozen to death, which shows that the country of Shalu has not yet completely failed. And their army must have received the most resources, and now even if they lack firewood, they have not lost their combat effectiveness. Now that the Sharu Kingdom has reached its most difficult time, it is likely that they will demolish the houses of the common people to maintain the army. This had to be guarded against, and once the enemy did so, the battle would certainly not be lost. On the contrary, the Beichen Army now wears a set of cotton clothes and jackets, and its body is wrapped thickly, and the exertion of combat effectiveness has been restricted. Climbing the city wall is even more so, and the combat effectiveness has dropped a lot, which is not a good thing for the Beichen army.

If the city is attacked at this time, the defenders have the ability to counterattack, and the Beichen army will definitely lose a lot. In that case, it would be better to stay in the camp and wait. We only need to wait a little longer, and we will drive directly into the city, and the defenders probably won't have the strength to stop us. There is a way to capture the city without losing troops, so why bother to fight tens of thousands of people to attack the city.

Xiao Chen, who was talking about this call, suddenly realized, and then sent his soldiers to find a few beauties, intending to warm the quilt for himself, but it was just a warm quilt. For the next few days, the Beichen army was always nested in the camp. Moreover, because under Xiao Chen's guidance, the Beichen Army camp adopted an earth-and-stone structure. After mixing a lot of soil with water to make mud, many stones are used to form small stone particles into it. In addition, Xiao Chen also organized his subordinates to invent the template of the beacon version.

Using the formwork, the Beichen military used this mutated concrete to completely turn the wooden camp into an earth and stone camp. Among them, after the formwork was fixed, when pouring the mud and stone slurry, Xiao Chen also inserted a specially built slender iron rod as a steel bar to play a fixed role. After pouring mud and stone slurry, the concrete with iron reinforcements more than five meters thick becomes very strong, which is not much different from the boulders. After that, Xiao Chen ordered someone to use a block of stone with mud and stone slurry to build a thick layer of stone bricks on top of the otherworldly version of iron-reinforced concrete, making the camp more solid.

After that, all the officers and men of the Beichen Army saw the benefits of this iron-reinforced concrete. Because it has a very good wind blocking effect, and the frost resistance effect is also extremely good. Hiding inside the arrow tower with such a result, there is a feeling of warmth. After that, many soldiers began to use concrete to cloak their wooden houses. However, because it is only a house that people live in, it does not need much resistance to blows, so there are no iron bars inserted, just some wooden sticks. Although the sticks are not as strong as the iron bars, they are enough to support a room.

In less than two months, the camp of the Beichen Army has become a military fortress. All the structures have been made concrete, and the outer walls are made of iron and concrete. In addition, Xiao Chen also felt the benefits of this iron-mixed structure, and immediately sent a letter back to China, so that Xun Yu began to use this iron-mixed to strengthen the defense of fortresses in various places.

After living in a warm house, the soldiers of the Beichen Army are even more idle. Because the Chinese New Year was coming soon, and the soldiers of the Beichen Army had time to rush home, Xiao Chen planned to let the soldiers celebrate the New Year outside Shalu City. Now that the Beichen army is not attacking Shalu City, there is nothing important, so Xiao Chen asked everyone to start preparing and strive to have a good year abroad.

Naturally, there were many people who were dressing up the camp, and many people were going out to hunt. After all, they rarely eat wild meat in China. As a result, the wild meat in Salu was almost wiped out in just ten days. Even the black bears hiding in the hole were turned out by the Beichen army, and then shot to death with random arrows.

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