Chapter 250 Guan Suo VS Zhuge Ke

Guan Suo's hesitation caused the war to enter a phase of stalemate. After Zhuge Ke sent someone to find out the truth~ phase, he began to launch a tentative attack on Chibi City step by step, and at this time, Guan Suo had also pacified the chaos in the city, and drove the captives to build the collapsed city wall intact.

The next battle became very boring, Zhuge Ke tried his best to attack the city outside the city, full of tricks, what to attack the west, what lured the enemy to go deeper, what to show the enemy to be weak, etc., almost used the thirty-six tricks, but unfortunately although Guan Suo was young, he was very steady, and he was unmoved by all the "flaws" and baits that Zhuge Ke deliberately exposed, but he just stayed quietly in the city and guarded the city.

A small Chibi City, the reason why Zhuge Ke has not been able to attack it for a long time is not that Zhuge Ke is not resourceful enough, nor is it that Guan Suo is outstandingly intelligent, but that Zhuge Ke did not understand the purpose of Guan Suo.

Zhuge Ke believes that Guan Suo is here to attack the Xiakou Water Army camp, and wants to put the Dongwu Navy camp in a pot, so that the Dongwu Navy loses the rear and has to retreat. But in fact, Guan Suo didn't plan to capture Xiakou at all, and it didn't even matter if he could hit Xiakou or not.

The task given to him by Liu Hou was to make a feint in the direction of Xiakou in order to attract a part of the Eastern Wu naval army, and as for how much to attract, there was no hard task. Now seeing that the Dongwu naval army has been attracted to 20,000 people, Guan Suo thinks that he has completed half of the task, and as long as he drags the 20,000 horses in Chibi City for a period of time, even if he completes all the tasks, he can return to the court.

Based on this guiding ideology, Guan Suo didn't want to continue to move forward at all, didn't rush in, and didn't want to go out of the city to pursue, and finally found a small city, so stick here. Anyway, there is no shortage of food here, and there is no shortage of weapons and equipment, so it will not be a problem to defend it for a year and a half.

As mentioned earlier, Chibi Town was originally the logistics supply base of the Soochow Naval Army, and Zhou Yu used it to hoard food and weapons, train troops, and repair ships. It was only later that the naval battalion of the Eastern Wu was changed to Xiakou, and the status of Chibi declined, but it was still the logistics transit station of the Eastern Wu Naval Army.

The 200,000 sailors went on the expedition, and the food consumed every day was a very terrifying number, and some ordnance was damaged and consumed, and it had to be replaced in time. If you have to go to Xiakou to replenish, it will be too far and too wasteful of time, so Lu Xun will use Chibi as a transit station, after all, Chibi is three hundred miles closer to the front line than Xiakou.

Grain ships continued to transport logistical materials to Chibi for temporary storage, while the navy's logistical supply ships continued to transport the materials needed by the front-line troops from Chibi. This kind of segmented transportation would have been a very good choice, which could not only improve the efficiency of transportation, but also prevent the front-line troops from being able to get supplies in time because the transportation routes were too long.

This was originally a common method of warfare in ancient times, and in the rear of the army, there was always a need for a town to temporarily hoard food. Problems in this town can easily lead to the defeat of a large-scale war, the most famous example being the battle of Guandu, where Cao Cao burned Yuan Shao's black nest where he hoarded grain, and finally won the war.

It is precisely because Chibi Town is so important that Lu Xun put 5,000 garrisons to garrison here, otherwise an ordinary town needs so many people, and it would be good to have 500 people. However, the people of Dongwu did not expect that although Guan Suo's troops were not firearms troops in the real sense, they also had a lot of reserves of gun~ powder and thunderbolts, and they captured this important town in just one night.

The food and ordnance hoarded here by Dongwu are all cheaper for the Shu army, and the food here is enough to supply 200,000 troops for a month, which is enough for 20,000 people to eat for ten months, plus the food they brought themselves, they have no problem guarding here for a year.

Because it is a military town, there are not many people in the city, only a few thousand, and the people also have surplus food at home, plus more than 2,000 prisoners, only about 10,000 people, and the food in the city is enough for everyone to eat for ten or eight months.

The armament to defend the city was also sufficient, and the Eastern Wu army hoarded a large number of bows and arrows and bed crossbows because it was a naval army. After all, fighting on a ship, there is a lot of time to attack with long-range firepower before jumping gang-to-hand combat, and these long-range firepower is bows and arrows, bed crossbows, and even stone throwers.

Now these rich ordnance reserves are also cheaper for the Shu army. Guan Suo saw the mountain of material reserves in the city that he decided to defend Chibi City. After all, their task is only to attract firepower, where to attract is not to attract, it is rare to have such a good place for them to hold onto, where will Guan Suo run around.

In addition to the fact that the city walls are a little shorter and a little thinner, Chibi City meets the conditions of Guan Suo's mind about holding the position. And the city wall is too short and too thin, Guan Suo doesn't care, because the firearms of Eastern Wu are still in the experimental stage, and they will not be used flexibly, so there is no need to worry that they will blow up the city wall like the Shu army.

Although the walls are too low, the enemy is easy to climb up, but now there are enough crossbow arrows in the city, and there are enough long-range firepower to suppress it, and if it is really not possible, you can throw thunderbolts to help defend the city, which is enough to make up for the low city walls.

In fact, the most critical objective condition is that the Eastern Wu army only has 20,000 horses. Zhuge Ke was too confident, originally Lu Xun asked him to transfer 20,000 to 30,000 horses, but he didn't say how many soldiers and horses he would bring with him when he died, even if he was cheeky to transfer 40,000 people, I believe Lu Xun would not blame him.

It's only to blame Zhuge Ke for being too conceited, he thinks that the other party is just a hairy boy, with a force of 20,000 people, he was born in a famous family, and he received ~ elite education since he was a child, how can he be compared to a wild seed who has been living in the folk since he was a child? Since the other party only has 20,000 horses, then I can defeat him with 20,000 people. He just wants the world to see that the younger generation of Dongwu is stronger than that of Shu.

As a result, he was sad, also because he didn't expect Guan Suo to take Chibi City so quickly, he originally thought that Chibi City was still in the hands of Dongwu, and he would fight with Guan Suo and defeat him in a dignified manner. As a result, it has now become a defending city, a besieging city, but any siege of a city, without several times the number of troops, wants to capture it is wishful thinking.

Of course, this refers to the situation that under normal circumstances, the morale, the level of soldiers, and the level of generals on both sides are similar. Now that the two sides are equal in strength, how can this city be captured? Zhuge Ke originally wanted to use a plan, but Guan Suo also had a few military cadets around him, and he saw through his plan.

These military cadets are graduates of the "Dahan Longteng Academy" run by Liu Hou, who were assigned to the Guansuo Army after graduating from the Military Research Institute.

These people are familiar with all kinds of siege tactics, and they have long taken precautions against Zhuge Ke's tricks, resulting in Zhuge Ke's arrangements frequently failing. In this way, the two sides were in a stalemate for a period of time, and the various siege measures taken by Zhuge Ke were not only ineffective, but his troops suffered heavy losses.

I want to lure the Shu army out of the city and then encircle and annihilate it, who knows that Guan Suo is a turtle again, and the turtle is shrinking in the city and refuses to come out, even if Zhuge Ke pretends to retreat, Guan Suo still refuses to come out in Chibi City, and Zhuge Ke is so angry that he smokes. In the end, Zhuge Ke had no choice but to send people back to Xiakou and ask Lu Xun to send more reinforcements to attack Chibi.