Chapter 538: Surprise attack to destroy the country
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Looking at the not-so-tall walls of Yishu Nabula City, as well as the panicked defenders at the head of the city, Wei Sheng couldn't help laughing, didn't he spend so much effort before just for this day?
It turned out that Wei Sheng had already obtained detailed maps of the interior of the Zhenla Kingdom, which were mapped and mapped by scouts disguised as merchants of the Xia Kingdom for decades, and their level of detail was even a hundred times more detailed than the maps of the Zhenla Kingdom itself, which was enough to find enough loopholes for the actions of the Xia army led by Wei Sheng in the interior of Zhenla.
After studying the map, Wei Sheng found that there was not only a big river (Mekong River) running through the interior of the Chenla country, but also a large lake next to this big river, which was of course the famous Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia in later generations, and dozens of miles northwest of the lake was the city of Yishana Bura, the capital of the Chenla country.
After seeing this, Wei Sheng's eyes suddenly lit up, although the waters of this big river and this big lake are not as wide as the sea, but who is comparable to the water army of the Xia Kingdom on the inland river? So he decided to put the waterway to good use.
In the Sui Dynasty 1,500 years ago, the area of the Tonle Sap Lake, surrounded by dense forests, was very large, and its water area was 20,000 square kilometers.
Wei Sheng, with the assistance of the Second Fleet's General Fubo's water mouse, Yu Hao's department, took advantage of the opportunity that Zhenla's main eyes were all focused on the southern Zhou Qiang's department, and soon entered the wide Mekong estuary.
They then went up the Mekong River into the Tonle Sap Lake, because the army moved quickly, its main movements were at night, and the Mekong River was extremely wide, so the army deployed on the west bank of the river did not find their whereabouts.
Soon Wei Sheng and others successfully reached the northwest shore of Tonle Sap Lake, but encountered some trouble when landing, because it was winter, and with the retreat of the lake in summer, the grass beach formed after the retreat of Hu Water was covered with all kinds of poisonous snakes and poisonous insects.
At the beginning, after paying the price of dozens of casualties because of carelessness, the Xia army finally opened up a road that people could walk on, which ran through the entire tidal flat with a width of more than ten miles.
However, after all, the city of Isena Buluo is the capital of Zhenla, and in ancient times, the location of the capital of a country must be the most densely populated.
When the Xia army advanced dozens of miles and was only less than twenty miles away from the city, it was finally discovered by the nearby Zhenla soldiers, but the Xia army immediately launched a rapid march, and soon arrived at the city of Yishana Buluo, surrounded the small city, and it was impossible for the king of Bavabanan to escape.
Faced with the sudden siege of tens of thousands of Xia troops, the king of Bavabanan was very surprised at first, but after all, he was the ruthless character who led the Zhenla Kingdom to eliminate the suzerainty of Funan, and after experiencing the initial panic, he quickly regained his original role as a leader.
While the Xia army was preparing for the siege outside the city, the king of Bababalan, while organizing the only 10,000 city guards in the city to arrange the city defense to prepare for battle, urgently sent dozens of envoys to the various armies of Chenla closest to the national capital to ask for help.
Because the number of city guards was too small, he personally mobilized the people in the city to fight in the city, and under his inspiration, a large number of people in the city took the initiative to come with weapons to help defend the city, and in just a few hours, he mobilized five or six thousand people to fight young.
However, the biggest contribution is still the private army of the various nobles in the city, when the king of Baba Banan was anxious, the nobles of the entire city of Ishamphora actually mobilized more than 5,000 private soldiers to present to the king, and the king of Baba Banan estimated that the private soldiers still left in the families of these ministers should not be less than this number.
This speculation made the king of Baba Banan grateful, but also his heart was cold, after all, there was still an armed force hidden in his own capital, and these armed forces were more than the army he left in the national capital.
If one day these ministers are unhappy with themselves and want to unite to attack them, won't they even have the ability to resist? It's not impossible for something like this to happen, and it's uncomfortable to think about it.
Of course, the biggest problem he faces now is how to resist the attack of the Xia people, and for the private soldiers of these ministers, he still has to wait until the Xia army in front of him is repulsed, and now he doesn't use so much energy.
The king of Bavabanan thought very well, the city of Izana Buluo was less than five hundred miles away from the army of Chenla stationed on the southernmost coast, and the defenders from other places were only seven or eight hundred miles away from him, as long as he held on to the fortified city for more than ten days, there would naturally be more than 100,000 troops to come to the rescue at that time.
The city wall is not only exquisite, but also very strong, and there is a large amount of food storage in the city, which can hold on for more than a month in the face of enemy attacks. 139 Chinese
However, the king of Bababalanan was too confident after all, and although he had seen the Xia army use gunpowder weapons to defeat his elephant army, he had never seen the Xia army use gunpowder packs to defeat his elephant army, but he had never seen the Xia army use gunpowder packs to conquer Goguryeo's cities one after another, and those cities were many times stronger than his temple-style cities.
"Old Guard, we're going to use explosives to blow down their walls anyway, why do we have to look at these big trees?" Although it was the coolest dry season of the year in Zhenla, the second stunned man was still hot and sweaty, and he looked at the busy soldiers and asked Wei Sheng puzzled.
Wei Sheng was only wearing a leather armor at this time, and his fish scale soft armor specially for generals couldn't be worn at all in the hot South Seas in all seasons, and he didn't know where to throw it away.
Hearing the stunned question, Wei Sheng smiled and said: "General Liu, this Zhenla Kingdom has robbed almost the entire Funan Kingdom of good things, the Charentra Kingdom that General Cao and General Fang attacked was only a relic of the Funan Kingdom, and there are so many possessions, and now we are attacking the Zhenla Kingdom is not so much?" ”
"What does that have to do with us cutting down trees? Will it not take long to blow up the city wall and attack it? The two stunned still didn't have any experience.
Wei Sheng looked at the second stunned man in front of him and was really depressed, to say that the second stunned person is definitely not suitable to be a general, and his brain is really a little bit unturned, but who calls people's lives good, no matter what, he will be super lucky when he fights.
In addition, the second stunned son rescued Lu Wen, who was closest to His Majesty, with Zhao Yong, and even the other old departments of Wang Ze Changguang Cottage had a very good impression of the second stunned, so although the second stunned man has not been able to go further over the years, his current position is stable.
Thinking of this, Wei Sheng still patiently explained: "Although the explosives are infinitely powerful, after all, everything cannot be relied on it, and the city wall in front of us is also strong, let's paralyze the enemy first, and at the same time dig a tunnel underground, so that we can blow up the city wall smoothly!" ”
"Then why do you have to cut down trees?" The second stunned was still this sentence.
Wei Sheng was angry, and he said helplessly: "I robbed the property and didn't need to transport it?" Let's cut down these trees and build a vehicle! Otherwise, how can these belongings be transported? ”
"Wouldn't it have been said earlier? You have to go around the mountains and rivers! Although Wei Sheng's speech was not good, the second stunned man ran like no one else to see the craftsmen of the army began to break the boards, although the freshly cut wood to make vehicles will soon be twisted and deformed, but the army is not afraid of damage after a few days.
While the Xia army was cutting wood and building equipment, the extremely nervous King Bavabanan didn't even have time to go back to his own dormitory, so he took his son Prince Dosna to patrol the city day and night, not only eating with the soldiers, but also sleeping together, which soon moved all the soldiers and civilians defending the city to repay with death.
Seeing that the Xia army outside the city kept cutting wood and building equipment and did not launch an attack for a long time, the king of Bavabanan was very puzzled, and at the same time he was very uneasy in his heart, he didn't know how to act to fight these Xia troops outside the city.
It is said that with the strength of the Xia army, it is still easy to attack the city of Yishu Nabula, so it is better to conquer the city as soon as possible and withdraw from the Zhenla country, after all, a large number of reinforcements may come here at any time, but these Xia troops are not afraid of reinforcements at all.
Because the city walls of the Nanyang countries have always been very short, that is, the city of Ishana Bura was built by the master of Nantianzhu, so when the Xia army attacked the kingdom of Charentra and the kingdom of Sri Buddha, they rarely used gunpowder to blow up the city walls.
In this way, the king of Bavabanan only knew that the gunpowder of the Xia army could make thunderbolts, rockets and other conventional weapons, but he did not know that these gunpowder had other functions, especially against the strong city walls.
Of course, the king of Bavabanan was also born in a war with his troops, although he didn't know how the Xia army would attack, but he always had a sense of crisis when he led the troops all year round, and he suddenly jumped up trembling before dawn.
It was dawn, and the sky had not yet dawned, and the soldiers on duty at the head of the city were still dutifully watching the enemy outside the city, the brazier under the city wall had not yet been extinguished, and the curling green smoke mixed with the morning mist looked fresh.
When inspecting the city wall, looking at the Xia army outside the city seemed to be still using the felled trees to build siege equipment, the king of Bavabanan looked at the gradually formed several large trebuchets and his heart moved, the Xia army outside the city seemed to be relatively lax, or he simply sent troops out of the city to grab back one or two weapons, and he could use it to fight against the Xia army in the future.
However, at this moment, only a shocking thunder was heard, and a violent explosion sounded almost simultaneously in the east and south of the city, and even the distant Bahavabanan felt a shaking under his feet, and then a column of smoke slowly rose from the dust that rushed to the sky, and then dispersed with the breeze.
At this moment, the king of Bavabanan suddenly turned extremely pale, and he finally understood a new way of using gunpowder by the Xia army, but it was too late.