180 - Straw Man
When the trebuchet stopped roaring, Yao Yu pushed away Lu Bi, who was raising his shield to protect him, and once again took out his loudspeaker and sneered at Sima Bi: "Isn't it, Your Highness the Prince, this is gone? You can't do that either. Give me some strength, the county kids are more energetic than you."
Sima Bi was mad, he was desperate at all, and he didn't need any siege equipment, so he directly ordered his subordinates to attack.
Yao Yu was waiting for this opportunity, and there were many rolling wood and stones in the city, and arrows were hot oil.
When the soldiers of Sima Bi rushed in desperate terms, their behavior was no different from sending them to death.
So much so that in one afternoon, the consumption of arrows in the city alone exceeded 30,000, not to mention the rolling wood and stones.
In the end, the soldiers defending the city were so tired that they couldn't lift their arms.
Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Sima Bi could only give the order to retreat.
After all, if the soldiers are sent to death like this, I am afraid that it will arouse dissatisfaction in the army.
When night fell, Sima Bi sent a patrol, on the one hand, to guard against Yao Yu's possible sneak attack, but on the other hand, he was afraid that Yao Yu would break through.
He had already made a decision, no matter what, he would suffocate Yao Yu to death in Runan City.
Although he and Yao Yu don't have any deep hatred, Yao Yu's mouth is too cheap, you defend the city, and you can defend the city, and what is it?
Sima Bi couldn't swallow this breath at all.
Let's not talk about how to be vigilant outside the city, Yao Yu gathered everyone in the city to count the losses of today's day.
There were not many casualties, mainly because when Sima Bi set up the building cart, the suppression of the archers and the range of the trebuchet attacked, so that the defenders of the city suffered more than 100 casualties.
The rest of the time, the people of Simavi did not even get a step closer to the city wall.
"Aside from the consumption of arrows, there is basically no damage. It's just that with the consumption of 30,000 arrows on this day, I'm worried that the inventory of Runan City will not be able to keep up."
Jiang Wen glanced at his subordinates' reports and smiled bitterly.
Everyone next to him also lowered their heads and remained silent, but it was Lu Bi who asked honestly, "Why don't we go out of the city at night and pick up the arrows consumed during the day?"
Chen Zhong, who was sitting next to Lu Bi, turned red, and dragged Lu Bi and said, "You don't say anything embarrassing. Don't embarrass the adults."
Lu Bi was dissatisfied, and shouted, "What, I'm telling the truth, it's a pity that so many arrows don't come back."
When he shouted like this, Chen Zhong was even more embarrassed.
It was Yao Yu who interrupted Lu Bi's words: "The starting point is good, but it can't be used."
Lu Bi was puzzled: "Why? Those arrows are thrown and thrown, and how nice it is to pick them up and use them again."
Yao Yu asked Lu Bi rhetorically, "Who is there outside the city?"
"Enemies."
"And what else is there among the enemy besides the infantry?"
Lu Bi blinked: "Cavalry, the cavalry of the Xianbei barbarians."
"Yes, I bet you, when our men look down and pick up arrows, those humble barbarians will kill them. When the time comes, will we bow our heads and pick up arrows, or will we fight these Xianbei barbarians? For the sake of these inconsequential arrows, you can't let the soldiers face the hooves of the Xianbei barbarians, right?"
Lu Bi sighed: "Then what should I do, if the arrows run out, I won't be able to suppress them."
Yao Yu snorted: "That's right, since ancient times, the role of arrows on the side of defending the city cannot be ignored. But it's not just a matter of picking up arrows."
"Borrowed arrows, of course."
"Ah, what do you mean?"
Yao Yugang wanted to explain, but when the words came to his lips, he couldn't help it.
He smiled and said to Jiang Wen, "Anyway, when you get to the son, you will know."
Seeing Yao Yu's appearance of selling guanzi, Jiang Wen didn't know what was going on even if he was curious.
No, he could only order to go down and let his subordinates start to prepare for the straw man according to Yao Yu's request.
Long story short.
Soon, when the time came, Jiang Wen and his son Jiang Jun came to Yao Yu with a thousand straw men tied up and asked what to do next.
Yao Yu took these straw men to the city wall, pointed to the Sima Pi camp in the distance, and asked Jiang Wen, "Jiang Taishou, guess what are Sima Bi's people doing now?"
"Then you don't need to ask, this son will be on the third watch, and he will definitely have to rest."
Yao Yule was afraid of beating his belly: "That's right, you said, let's stay up until now, can we let them rest well?" No, so later you gather all the drums in the city and give them a boost."
After that, Yao Yu asked people to tie each straw figure to a rope and put it on the city wall, and just wait for the drum to sound, and then put the straw man down.
Compared to the moment when Jiang Wen gathered the big drums in the city on the head of the city and let the drummers smash them against the war drums.
Yao Yu immediately raised his hands and asked all the soldiers on the city wall to shout the slogan of capturing Sima Bi alive with all their might.
At the same time, he made the straw man fall slowly.
There is a saying that the ancient people rested early, after all, they had no leisure and entertainment activities, so they lay down early to rest.
It was past eleven o'clock at night, and at this point, many people had already woken up.
Just like now, tens of thousands of people in Sima Bi's department were sleeping sweetly, and suddenly they heard the earth-shattering shouts and drums from the direction of Runan City, and they woke up instantly.
Many soldiers took up arms in a panic and assembled.
Sima Bi, who was woken up, scolded and called Sun Chang to ask what was going on.
Sun Chang walked into the tent, and arched his hand at Sima Bi with an ugly face: "Your Highness, the patrol has come to report that about a thousand people have been hung down with ropes in all directions in Runan City, ready to attack the camp."
Sima Bi was suddenly tired, and scolded: "Damn Yao Yu, isn't he tired? It's been a day, and he doesn't rest, and he doesn't let us rest properly. Damn, damn it."
Sun Chang snorted and asked Sima Bi hesitantly, "Your Highness, do we need to prepare in formation?"
"What kind of formation, do you still have the strength? Mobilize archers from the Chinese army to stop them. Let the others go back and rest. We'll talk about it tomorrow at dawn!"
After that, Sima Bi rolled up the quilt, lay back and fell asleep.
Seeing this, Sun Chang snorted, and did not dare to disturb Sima Bi again, so he immediately mobilized 3,000 crossbowmen and threw arrows in the direction of Runan City to block the 'dead soldiers' hanging down under the city wall.