Echeng city head.

Zhang Xi looked at Wei Yan, who was already fully clothed, and admonished, "The general will go to the southeast corner of the city to set up a wall, and form a corner with Echeng, and support each other, don't be careless!" ”

Wei Yan's attitude towards Zhang Xi himself was still the same dead face and unhappy look, but when he treated Zhang Xi's military order, he finally obeyed the order, and said, "The last general obeys the order!" ”

After speaking, he ignored Zhang Xi, turned around and left, commanding the 1,000 soldiers who had just been assigned to him yesterday to camp ten miles southeast of Echeng.

Kou Feng was very unhappy about this.

One is that he is unhappy with Wei Yan's attitude towards Zhang Xi, but he is jealous that Wei Yan can lead the troops alone, and he needs to guard Zhang Xi's side.

"Brother, this person is just a guard, but he is so arrogant and rude, why does my brother still entrust his military power to him?!" Kou Feng complained to Zhang Xi indignantly.

Zhang Xi was also very unhappy about Wei Yan's attitude, but he couldn't help it.

There are only two generals who can be used at hand, one is Wei Yan, and the other is Kou Feng Compared with Kou Feng, Zhang Xi still thinks that Wei Yan has more ability to be independent.

As for Kou Feng?

"Gongzhong doesn't need to say much, go and sort out military affairs, arrange to defend the city, and Wei Yan will go out of the city, it's just a response, how can it be compared to the weight of Gongzhong guarding the city?!"

Zhang Xi coaxed this Erha to speak.

Kou Erha was relatively simple and coaxing, and as soon as he heard Zhang Xi say this, he immediately ran to sort out the 1,000 soldiers under Zhang Xi and began to arrange to defend the city.

And Zhang Xi, he was thinking about how to defend this city.

Conventional preparation of materials for defending the city, with Kou Feng's help, it should not be a big problem, some rolling stones and sasswood, Zhang Xi also began to collect and prepare in the city.

But Zhang Xi was always a little uneasy, this was his first time defending the city, and he always felt as if there was something unsafe.

No way, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, in that book, attacking the city is the same as drinking cold water, and it is not good what trick the enemy uses to "deceive" and what is even more unfortunate is that Zhang Xi's opponent is still Zhou Yu, a commander with an intelligence value of 97.

Don't worry too much about pretending to be reinforcements, defrauding the city gate and the like, as long as you are careful, have a few more eyes, and no one will open the door, so it shouldn't be a big problem.

Zhang Xi's main concern was that in the regular defense of the city, he did not know the method of defending the city, and he would not crack the enemy's siege strategy, which led to the loss of the city.

Therefore, Zhang Xi began to recall the methods of the besieging side to break the enemy in history.

As far as Zhang Xi knows, the conventional siege method is that the ants are attached to the siege of the city, that is, the tactic of crowds, constantly attacking the city wall, striving to capture the city.

This kind of siege is very practical, but it is not very efficient, and it is difficult for the opponent to attack the city as long as there are enough soldiers to defend the wall.

Again, Huang Zu's management of Jiangxia is really in place, Echeng is the garrison of Jiangxia Navy, Huang Zu is also very attentive to the defense of Echeng, and he also built an urn city in Echeng.

In other words, if Jiangdong uses the method of attacking the city with ants, Zhang Xi is confident that Jiangdong will carry a big heel.

But Zhang Xi felt that Zhou Yu couldn't be so stupid.

The level of land warfare in the Jiangdong Army is not good, but Zhou Yu is not a partial talent who can only fight water battles, people are all-powerful on land and water, it is impossible not to understand land warfare, let alone use low-level means such as ant-attached siege.

Therefore, Zhang Xi felt that he had to consider Zhou Yu using other ways to attack the city.

For example, with siege engines.

The more common siege machines are hook ladders and ladders.

The hook ladder is an ordinary ladder, but there is an iron hook at one end, which can hook the city wall, and then the soldiers climb up, which really can't be pushed down with a hand.

The ladder is more complicated, it is an upgraded version of the hook ladder, and it is more troublesome to manufacture, a bit like a scaffold with wheels, and a ladder is placed diagonally on the scaffolding.

During the attack, the soldiers hid under the ladder and pushed the ladder close to the city wall, and once the ladder was close to the city wall, they hooked the city wall with the hook on the ladder, and the soldier climbed up diagonally along the ladder with much higher efficiency than the hook ladder.

To deal with the hook ladder, you can also use the gravity of the rolling stone and the wood to kill the enemy, but you can't help the ladder, people come up from the back of the ladder, and you have to throw the stone out if you smash people.

In this era, the only way to deal with the ladder was to guard the exit of the ladder while sending troops out of the city to burn it, which is why Zhang Xi wanted to send Wei Yan to lead the troops outside.

As for what kind of car, rush the car. These siege engines are cumbersome to build, and can be destroyed from the outside.

In addition to siege equipment, commonly used special siege methods include digging tunnels.

Although Zhang Xi felt that Zhou Yu was unlikely to use such a time-consuming and laborious method, after all, Zhou Yu didn't know when reinforcements would come from Xiling. But for the sake of safety, Zhang Xi buried large vats under the four city walls, and specially sent people to listen to the sound of digging tunnels.

In addition to these conventional means of defending the city, Zhang Xi also began to wonder if there were any special defensive methods.

The first is to find a way to defend the city with conventional equipment.

In this era, equipment is also a very important thing to defend the city, such as crashing.

The crash is a simple version of the rush, but not for storming the gates, but for dealing with ladders.

Not in this era, it will not exist until nearly a thousand years later.

The principle is also very simple, that is, two ropes are tied to the two ends of the crashing wood, and then an iron sheet is wrapped on the hitting wood, and the pendulum principle is used to smash the approaching ladder and smash the front end of the ladder, so that the enemy cannot climb up.

This thing is easy to do, and the operation is also simple, Zhang Xi hurriedly arranged for people to hurry up and make more than a dozen crash car backups.

In addition to the crash, Zhang Xi also specially asked people to find a lot of bamboo poles, and then put Changge's head on the bamboo poles to turn it into an extended version of Changge. This is a long-distance attack on enemy soldiers who climb up the hook ladder and cloud ladder when there is a shortage of rolling stone and wood, and if necessary, it can also be used to push the hook ladder, but it is more laborious, and it requires four or five people to operate at the same time.

Of course, these are the solutions under the existing conditions. If there is fierce fire oil, then there is no need to prepare these city defense equipment at all, just pour the oil, light the fire, and live.

At this time, Zhang Xi regretted it very much, when he came to Jiangxia from Xinye, why didn't he bring some soybean oil over without fierce fire oil, it would be good to have soybean oil, at least there was no need to divide the troops to send Wei Yan out of the city to defend it.

Even if he could, he could dig a ditch in the urn city, and once the enemy broke through the outer city, he would pour oil into the ditch and mix sulfur hay and other things, which would kill and injure some enemies.

Without oil, I had to think of something else.

The gold juice, which is also a liquid, was remembered by Zhang Xi.

The golden juice thing is a bit lacking in morality.

The instantaneous lethality of this thing is actually not large, and falling down will make people burn at most, and it will only temporarily lose its combat effectiveness.

But what it lacks is that it is prone to bacterial infection, and if it is exposed to a warm and humid environment, it can also cause plague.

The bacterial infection has been an incurable disease in these years, and if this causes another plague epidemic, it is fortunately early spring, so it should not cause the plague.

Anyway, as a backup means, Zhang Xi still prepared some.

After spending a day and making some preparations, Zhang Xi ordered all his soldiers to be under martial law and wait for the enemy in Jiangdong to attack.

As for the army in Jiangdong, it is indeed entrenched on the shore now.

The wreckage of the Jiangxia Navy dismantling the water village and floating downstream, it was easily discovered by the Jiangdong Army, and Zhou Yu judged it a little and felt that this was a sign that the Jiangxia Navy Army had retreated overnight.

Therefore, early in the morning, Zhou Yu sent a reconnaissance ship to investigate the movements of the Jiangxia naval army.

As a result, Zhou Yu was rewarded - the Jiangxia naval army did withdraw, but they sunk the ship and intercepted the river, blocking the way of the Yangtze River.

At that time, the hand that made Zhou Yu angry was too ruthless and disgusting.

It's not so bad that there are many shipwrecks and many ships in the river, right?!

For this reason, Zhou Yu personally led the navy to inspect the place where the river was intercepted, and also ordered Ling Tong to lead the navy to explore the road to see if he could find a waterway that was not completely blocked and could be used by the army to pass.

As a result, after Ling Tong ran aground three warships, he reported back to Zhou Yu. The jam is too dead, and the fishing boats may be able to pass, but with the draft of the warships, they can't pass at all.

At that time, Zhou Yu had no choice but to think of other ways.

Zhou Yu's brain was not in vain, he looked at the blocked waterway, and then looked at the city on the shore, and after a little pondering, he understood.

This is the defender of Echeng forcing himself to abandon the waterway march and turn to the land siege.

Zhou Yu was laughed at angrily for a while.

Is this Echeng defender in the water in his brain?!

It's true that he is famous for being the commander of the navy, but it doesn't mean that he can't fight on land, who is this looking down on?!

It seems that he has been staying in Jiangdong all these years, but he has been underestimated.

Zhou Yu was angry, and immediately ordered the whole army to go ashore on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and then set up camp and prepare siege equipment.

Today, he Zhou Lang wants to let Jiang Xia's fools see his land offensive ability.

Of course, Zhou Yu is not so angry that he loses his mind. Although he was also angry, Zhou Yu did not lose his calm, but was more disappointed.

At the end of February, Sun Quan ordered Zhou Yu to be the vanguard and lead 30,000 Jiangdong naval troops to attack Jiangxia, which in itself was to risk the loss of a year's grain harvest to capture Jiangxia and expand the territory.

At the beginning, it was very smooth, and in early March, Zhou Yu captured the two counties of Xia Pheasant and Qichun, and had a springboard to attack the interior of Jiangxia.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Yu continued along the Yangtze River to the north of Jiangxia and came to Exian.

Zhou Yu's original intention was to fight a decisive battle with the Jiangxia Navy in Exian County, if he could completely annihilate the Jiangxia Navy Army, then the rest would be a formality.

Just like Chen's analysis, the Jiangxia counties without the protection of the navy are simply fish and meat on the board, which can be slaughtered by others.

But Zhou Yu himself didn't expect that the battle with the Exian Navy would be so troublesome.

In more than ten days, Zhou Yu set out from Jiangdong and had already occupied two counties in the eastern part of Jiangxia.

In the same more than ten days, Zhou Yu was blocked under the city of Exian and did not move forward half a step.

Of course, in this year's war, it is normal for there to be no progress for more than ten days, sometimes it is normal to attack a place and make no progress for half a year or a year, and Zhou Yu will not be anxious because of this.

But Zhou Yu's march in the early stage was too smooth, which gave Zhou Yu an illusion - if the Jiangxia raid could be ended earlier, after the Jiangdong Army returned to the army, the soldiers and the people might still have time to catch up with the spring ploughing and replant the last season's grain.

But the Exian garrison told him that this should be impossible.

Since he was destined to lose a year's food, Zhou Yu also gave up his luck mentality, let the soldiers go ashore and camp, and at the same time build siege equipment to prepare for the siege.

(End of chapter)