Chapter 132: If you want to be promoted, you have to be able to do it

The next day, Ehuan organized his men and horses to continue playing the outing-like shooting game with the defenders on the city wall, but after shooting arrows at the city wall for a while, Ehuan realized that something was wrong.

It turned out that the defenders on the city wall today were all shrunk up, refusing to lean out and shoot at the Shu army, leaving only a small number of scouts to look outside the city from time to time to determine the latest movements of the Shu army.

In this case, the rain of arrows of the vine armor soldiers naturally could not achieve any results. E Huan looked at it, it can't go on like this. Oh, of course, their mission was just a feint, and it wasn't impossible to go on like this, but personally, it wasn't fun.

Is he the kind of person who is willing to be plain, oh, no, it is too literary to describe him in this way, it should be said that he is the kind of person who has no wind and three feet of waves.

In some local dialects, he is just a-stirring stick, he likes to make waves everywhere, likes to be lively, and is definitely not willing to be lonely. When he saw it, it was so quiet on the city wall, no! I have to find something to do for Wei Jun, I have to have some fun, and I have to be lively.

So, he let the rattan armor soldiers who were still shooting arrows withdraw, and asked the craftsmen to step up the construction of ladders for the siege. In fact, the ladder was made yesterday, but because there are not many craftsmen with the army, the number of those built is still too small.

At mid-afternoon (thirteen o'clock), ten ladders were finally built, and with a wave of his hand, all of them were carried out.

The siege battle in the afternoon entered the quasi-substantive stage, and the reason why it is said to be quasi-substantial is because: the Shu army dispatched a cloud ladder, and saw that the two sides were about to meet each other in short arms, but these rattan armor soldiers still refused to charge with their death force, and all of them looked like they were desperate for life and safety first, and they seemed to be very greedy for life and afraid of death.

Here's how it works: every ten people carry a ladder, five on the left and five on the left, like a colony of ants, and they work together to carry their beloved food to the nest.

There is a large iron hook at the end of the ladder, which is enough to hook the city wall on the battlement, after hooking the city wall, it is difficult for the defenders on the city wall to push it away, you need to lift it up first, let the iron hook lift the whole away from the city wall, so that it is possible to push the ladder down.

If there are several people climbing on the ladder at this time, who has the strength to lift several people up at the same time?

Since you can't push the ladder away, let's cut it off with a knife, but the iron hook at the end of the ladder of the Shu army is made of solid steel with the thickness of an arm, and it is very difficult to cut them without divine weapons such as the Heavenly Sword and the Dragon Slayer Knife.

Therefore, the Wei army had no way to take this seemingly simple ladder, what could be done was to smash the wooden rolling stones down these ladders, or pour vegetable oil and then ignite the fire, burning the wooden or bamboo part down the iron hook.

However, the rattan armor soldiers were very afraid of death, and after the ladder was erected, they were not in a hurry to climb up at all, but jumped under the ladder to dodge the wooden rolling stones that fell from the city wall, and they always made the appearance that they wanted to climb up, but they did not get close to these ladders substantially, so the wooden rolling stones that rolled down the ladder were always a little bit close to hitting them.

At this time, E Huan arranged for the vine armor soldiers who shot arrows in the back, aiming at the Wei troops on the city wall who leaned out and smashed the wooden rolling stones. After yesterday's day of practice, these people's archery skills have improved a lot, and their accuracy has increased greatly, and in addition, the Wei army concentrated on the battlements on the top of the ten ladders to smash things, and the target range has narrowed a lot, and the archers are concentrated on these ten battlements.

In this way, the hit rate is a little bit higher than yesterday, and often three or four defenders will be killed in a round of arrows. The vine armor soldiers who archery still played in five teams in turn, leaving themselves enough time to rest, but this time they only had 800 people in each team.

The other two hundred people were separated and took turns running under the ladder as if they wanted to climb up, when in fact they were just dodging the rolling stones like a samba dance below, amusing the Wei army.

The number of casualties of the Wei army rose sharply, but what made the defenders on the city wall of Zhangling County and the frustration was that they had to continue to lean out and smash things.

Under the urging of the red-eyed Zhangling County Order, the defenders were urged, or coerced, to send them to death in waves, as soon as they leaned out, a rain of arrows flew over, and some even raised the stone to the top of their heads, and were shot dead before they could throw it.

Whether he will die or not depends on luck, but as the rattan armor soldiers' archery skills become more and more proficient, the luck of the Wei army is getting worse and worse.

At the end of this day, the casualties of the Shu army broke through double digits, reaching more than a dozen people, and they were mainly killed by the rolling stones on the city wall because they couldn't dodge. There is a saying that "many people will eventually meet tigers in the mountains", these rattan armor soldiers teased the Wei army on the city wall below, and there were always people who accidentally dodged and were stoned to death.

But the Wei army's casualties soared to nearly four hundred. If it weren't for the fact that the Wei army learned to be clever in the end, poured a few barrels of vegetable oil along each ladder, and then set a fire to burn all the ladders, the game would have continued to be played, and their casualties would have increased.

Zhangling County Ling hadn't closed his eyes for two days and two nights, but he couldn't sleep yet, so he still insisted on writing two letters, which were still sent to the imperial court and Sima Yi respectively. The letter describes today's "fierce" fighting.

The letter said that today the Shu army dispatched a new type of ladder that can not be pushed down, regardless of casualties, the Shu army climbed to the top of the city several times, and led the defenders to resist desperately, and drove the Shu army off the city wall several times, and finally curbed the offensive momentum of the Shu army and kept the city of Zhangling.

In the end, although the city was defended, the defenders also suffered heavy casualties, and in today's one-day battle, the defenders lost more than one percent and nearly two percent, and they were seriously wounded by more than ten knife wounds. At the end of the letter, he asked the other party to send reinforcements to rescue Zhangling.

Of course, those who know the truth know that this county order is blowing nonsense, and it is a typical exaggerated style, but Cao Pi, who is far away in Xudu, does not know the situation, thinking that the front line is really urgent, thinking that this county order is really so heroic, and afterwards he was promoted to an official and transferred to the central office.

There is a saying that if you don't die, you won't die, and the antonym of this sentence is, if you don't do it, you won't succeed. The matter of this prefectural order fully proves the truth that if you want to be promoted, you must be able to "do", and this "do" means "to put on a show" and "to be big" (to exaggerate merit).

Of course, Sima Yi's wisdom is Cao Pi's nth power, and he is not as easy to believe in other people's words as Cao Pi is. He had already received a rescue letter from the Zhangling County Order in Xiangyang, and he saw a lot of things from the false words of the county order in the letter.

He is a person who is good at seeing the essence through phenomena, and with his understanding of the Shu army, he categorically does not believe that the Shu army will not be able to take a small Zhangling City in two days, and there must be something strange in this. I stood at the window and pondered for a long time, and was speechless for a long time. The old servant who had been waiting for him for many years looked at his back and felt that his master was really too deep.

Sima Yi is really deep, he is definitely not a person who pretends to be deep, he is known as an old fox and thinks about the problem very comprehensively, sometimes a problem has to be thought about for a long time, he is very attentive when he thinks, this state of selflessness will always give people a very deep feeling.

After a long time, he finally woke up from his contemplation, and heard him say to himself, "Wow! Liu Chan, Huangkou Xiaoer, just because you want to calculate the old man, you are still too tender. Someone. ”

When the old servant heard Sima Yi's greeting, he hurriedly took two steps forward and arched his hand: "What does the master command?" ”

Sima Yi said: "Pass the order, go down, ...... Leave now, no delay! ”

"No! Master. Then the servant said yes, and then turned and went out to deliver the order.

Of course, this process is not so simple, it is not just a matter of saying two words verbally, but also making documents, stamping a big seal, finding someone to send a letter quickly, etc., there is a set of processes, but these are arranged by the old servant, Sima Yi only needs to move his mouth, and finally stamp a seal.

And on the road from Xiangyang City to Zhangling County, Bu Qi led the ambush team to ambush here for two days. They disguised themselves as various identities, scattered north, and finally met in this place, and then hid in the wild.

It is indeed uncomfortable to sleep in the open and mosquito bites, but fortunately, the Hong army has prepared a lot of equipment for this kind of wild survival.

The tent can't be held up, but the sleeping bag can still be used, and everyone has a cowhide mat to spread it underground, which is clean and keeps out moisture. When a person drills into the sleeping bag, even his head is wrapped, and only one face is exposed, so he doesn't have to worry about the cold air or anything at night.

Some people also wrap their necks and faces with clothes and towels, and only expose their two nostrils to breathe, so that even mosquitoes don't have to be afraid, they can't suck blood against the violent air jets from their nostrils. Of course, there is also a circle of sulfur powder sprinkled around the cowhide mat, which is used to prevent snakes, insects, rats and ants from sneaking up at night.

As for eating, I had to nibble on dry food every day. Because if you make a fire for cooking, I am afraid that there will be fire or smoke, which will expose the traces of the army, so it is forbidden to light fires in the army for the past two days.

They had brought enough dry food before they came, and the special dry food biscuits actually tasted pretty good, and everyone liked to eat them, but the only bad thing was that they had to eat a "cow pill" after eating.

The kind of wax pill specially developed by Hua Tuo to relieve fire and laxative was originally called "Hua Tuo Qingxing Pill", but because after opening the wax pill, there was a black hemp pill inside, just like the color of cow dung, so people in the army used to call it "cow pill".

Although this wax pill has honey added to it, the taste is a little sweet, but it still has a traditional Chinese medicine flavor, so it is not so pleasing.

In addition to the biscuits, this time they also brought a kind of air-dried lamb jerky, of course, meat is more luxurious in this era, and they don't have much supply, each person only has a thumb-sized one every day.