No wonder Guan Yu was shocked, he knew that building a brick and stone city would cost a lot of people's power.

Qu Shuai built three platforms in the northwest corner of Yecheng, which was intended to be a city of bricks and stones. But because of the persuasion of a group of scribes, including Cai Yong and Zhuge Jue, they said that spring ploughing was imminent, and they should cherish the people's strength, so they reluctantly built one.

This is still Qu Shuai made a brick cellar for burning bricks, which greatly increased the speed of burning bricks, and it is still the same.

Where did the people in this city get the money and manpower to build such a fortified city?

In fact, Guan Yu didn't know that the bricks and stones of this fortified city were all remnants of a city, and they all came from the old Xiangguo City that was destroyed by Dong Zhuo.

But no matter how this city was built, now Guan Yu has a headache.

At first, he wondered why the Han army of Xiangguo did not stand outside the city. Because the usual military common sense is that the defense of the city must cooperate with the defense line of the outlying strongholds, so as to achieve the purpose of integrating attack and defense.

But when Guan Yu inspected this small city of Xiangguo, he understood. Just because people really don't need it, it's enough for this city to defend it.

On the periphery of Xiangguo Castle are various obstacles, such as iron thistles, rejected horses, and deer trees. There should have been a moat, but maybe because the city was newly built, it hadn't had time to divert water yet, otherwise it wouldn't be far away? If the water leads to a water source, it will be even more difficult to fight.

Although there is no water, there is still a man-deep trench outside the castle, and the inside of the trench is covered with sharpened wooden thorns.

It is conceivable that these wooden thorn trenches and arrows in the city were lost, and just after walking this road, how many lives the Taishan army had to lose.

And the only way through the dead zone was a narrow drawbridge over the city. But now, the drawbridge had long been hoisted high, mocking all enemies indifferently.

Then there are the numerous battlements in the city, each of which provides a shooting position for the shooter. Inside and outside the battlements, some wooden piles, soil bags, and curtains were also erected to resist loss.

Even this frustration took into account the situation of the night battle, and there were torches hanging behind the pheasants. As long as these torches are lit at night, they can illuminate the area under the castle and be used exclusively to prevent night attacks.

In fact, Guan Yu didn't know what kind of help the other party had received. The shape of the city and the rules of garrison were all learned by Fu Zhu from his friends.

And the trial is one of the best defenders of the city in this era. In another plane, it relied on Yecheng to block Cao Cao's army for several months, and finally broke the city out of Neiying.

Therefore, Guan Yu met a strong opponent.

Guan Yu took the soldiers around again, and saw a few Han soldiers pointing fingers at him, and his heart may be frustrated with a group of people.

Originally, Guan Yu still had the heart to persuade him to surrender a few words under the city, but when he saw the power of this city, he also extinguished this idea.

Back in the military tent, Guan Yu was still thinking.

Because of the height problem, when he watched the city before, Guan Yu couldn't see the situation behind the city wall.

But judging from Guan Yu's experience, there must be an urn city in this city.

Why?

For the strength of the enemy he saw at the gate was about the same as in other places. The weakest point of the city is the city wall, which will either be knocked open by a car or easily opened by traitors.

Therefore, even if there is a hanging gate as insurance, then the frustration should also place enough troops at the city gate, not to mention that there is only one city gate in this city, so it should be paid more attention.

But not now? That can only show that there is an urn city in the opposite city.

And that's the hard part.

That is to say, even if the Taishan Army Cave opens the gate and rushes into the city, it will encounter the enemy soldiers on both sides of the road covered by arrows. Even if you rush through the arrow and lose the cover, you will risk dying to the end of the road, and you will be blocked by the wall of Weng City.

Thinking of this, Guan Yu made a decision.

He commanded the generals:

"The whole army set up camp and ordered the Zhao Di rebel army, which followed the army all the way, to pile up a mountain of earth in the south of the city, which was higher than the city wall. Then the craftsman battalion builds equipment, repairs the car, and punches the car. Then let the master craftsman build three nest cars, twenty trench bridge cars, ten stone machines, and 100 ladders. During this time the whole army besieged but did not attack."

This is the method after Guan Yu Guancheng

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This city cannot be attacked suddenly, but can only be surrounded first. But Guan Yu never thought that he could break the city just by relying on the siege.

The ancient siege of the city has been there for several years. For example, when the Zhi clan besieged Taiyuan City, it was not down for many years. And everything that can be encircled is nothing more than three types of situations.

One is that the people in the city are lost, and there are no reinforcements outside, so there should be an internal city by itself. There is also a lack of food and finally a lack of water.

In terms of water shortage, Xiangguo City seems to be short of water. After all, the water of the moat is also the main source of water in the city at this time, but now that the moat of Xiangguo is empty, doesn't it mean that there will be a shortage of water in the city?

But don't forget, Xiangguo is far from the south? The water is not far away, and if they dig wells, there must be water veins underground.

And there is no shortage of food in the city.

Guan Yu knew that when Lu Zhi retreated from Handan last year, he emptied the corn in the Juqiao warehouse. Now that Lu Zhi has arranged the frustration in Xiangguo, how can he not leave food?

So it looks like it, that is, when the people in the city are unstable and they can't stand it, they want to sacrifice the city for wealth.

But you can't count on this in the end, on the contrary, Guan Yu's biggest reliance on breaking the city is the new siege equipment built by Qu Shuai and the masters of the craftsman battalion.

There are three types of sharp weapons.

The first one is the well cart.

This is an improvement on the original nest car. The original nest car has been invented since the Spring and Autumn Period, but it will be used to command the observation array, or it will be lost in the city.

But now the carp of the craftsman battalion of the Taishan Army not only has the first two functions, but also can be directly attached to the city wall with a hanging ladder, and the armor in the well cart can directly rush to the head of the city.

The cart was several feet tall and had four wheels underneath that could be propelled to the city walls. Then the nest car was wrapped in cowhide for fire prevention, and the car could accommodate dozens of people.

It can be said that as long as there is a well cart hanging on the city wall, the Taishan army below will continue to attack the city.

In addition to the well cart, the second weapon is the redistribution of stone machine.

Previously, when the main force of Lu Zhi's Han army was besieging the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans of the Lieren, he made a stone machine from the old paper, and the Yellow Turban soldiers were shocked to think that it was the anger of heaven.

Later, when the priest told Zhang Chong about this, from the description of these stone machines, Zhang Chong knew that this was a very simple machine that relied on manpower to pull and use the principle of lever to fire stone projectiles.

After Zhang Chong researched with several masters, he built a new stone machine that uses gravity as the power to launch stone projectiles. That is, add redistribution to the end, and then cut the rope when firing, and you can pull the boulder at the front end to launch it.

This improvement has increased the power and range of the stone generator by several times.

Finally, there's a little thing, but it works, and that's the trench truck.

This was specially used by Guan Yu to deal with the trenches of Xiangguo. This trench bridge car is actually a copy of the nest car, which is also equipped with wheels and then hangs ladders.

Wait for the soldiers to push the trench cart outside the trench and directly turn over the ladder to set up the trench.

It can be said that Guan Yu planned to send stone bullets from afar, and then attack from the head of the city and the city at the same time.

Guan Yu doesn't believe it, this Xiangguo can stop it.

Once Guan Yu decided to besiege Xiangguo, he acted quickly.

First, two barriers were built north of Xiangguo to control the communication line supporting Xiangguo in the north. These two barriers, Guan Yu ordered the two generals Zhang Tai and Zhang Heizi of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban System, and they each led 500 Qingzhou Yellow Turban Lux soldiers to guard the two walls.

Then the Taishan army built a barrier at two high points in the east and west of the city, one for the Jitou Mountain and the other for the Xingtai Pavilion, blocking the escape route in the east-west direction of the city.

Because of the high terrain of Jitou Mountain, Guan Yu arranged the camp and the handsome tent here as the commander-in-chief of the siege of Xiangguo City.

And the Xingtai Pavilion in the east, because it was necessary to defend against the possible reinforcements of the giant deer in the east, Guan Yu arranged Li Damu, one of the main generals under his command, here.

Li Damu's five elite battalion heads, 2,000 troops, were all arranged in the east. It is responsible for stopping the enemy coming to help from the east, and is also responsible for suppressing () Xiangguo Castle from the east.

As for the south of the Xiangguo City Gate, which is also the direction in which Guan Yu intends to attack, Guan Yu ordered Dian Wei, the most courageous in the whole army, to lead three elite battalion leaders and 5,000 Qingzhou soldiers to arrange a defensive line here.

On the wall of the camp in the south, watchtowers and shelters were arranged, and some people leveled the dirt road between the camp and Xiangguo City, so as to open up the road for the siege equipment behind.

This time, Guan Yu also learned the lesson of his previous experience in Xiangshui.

In order to protect the rear grain routes, and to provide manpower and material support for the front line of Xiangguo. Guan Yu also distributed village officials to the settlements in the vast land between the three rivers and established grassroots organizations belonging to the Taishan Army.

These villagers were basically selected by the Taishan army from the native people of Zhao who defected. On the one hand, Guan Yu gave them grass-roots positions, and on the other hand, he asked them to publicize the policies of the Taishan Army in their hometowns.

Whoever defects to the Taishan Army, who supplies and loses for the Taishan Army, divides the fields into the fields.

It had been several months since the Taishan army arrived in Hebei, and in fact, their policies and reputation had already spread among the poverty of Zhaodi. Otherwise, when Guan Yu went north, there would not be so many poor people to defect.

So when Guan Yu released such conditions, the poor people in the north of Zhao came to the front line of Xiangguo to receive tasks under the mobilization of their new villagers.

Or logging, or leveling the land, or escorting the baggage, in short, the people of Zhao are satisfied. As for whether the powerful are happy or not, it doesn't matter.

So, Guan Yu decided to fight a long-term siege with Fu Zhu under the city of Xiangguo.

Time is half a month in a hurry, and there is no movement at home and abroad during this period.

But the atmosphere of the war is becoming increasingly tense.

At this time, on the head of Xiangguo City, Fu Zhi was taking a cadre of officials to look down at the head of the city.

In the distance, in the southern camp of the Taishan Army, a group of more than 100 Qianshou people are coming out of the camp, they are holding all kinds of hoes, plows and rakes, singing and dancing along the way, and are returning to their hometown.

Li Ding, who was on the side of the frustration, glanced at it and said to the frustrated professor:

"Now that spring ploughing is imminent, this batch should return to their hometown for spring ploughing. Hey, these Tarzan thieves should not be underestimated. In addition to the war, he still attaches so much importance to spring ploughing production. If you look at these people again, they were bare-handed before they came, and now they are returning with iron farming tools, and it seems that the hearts of the people of Zhao are no longer Han people."

Li Ding's exclamation annoyed the general on the side, he was Su You.

Since the defeat of Su Renting, Su You fled into Xiangguo almost by horse, and he began to hate the Taishan army. He didn't hate whether the Taishan army would divide his land behind, he hated that the two hundred pavilion soldiers he had raised for several years were folded in the hands of his generation.

The troubled times are coming, and the warriors have no soldiers in their hands, so how can they win fame and wealth. It's better to die than to snort.

So Li Ding said a few good words here, Su You was annoyed, and he ridiculed Li Ding:

"General Li watched the thieves under the city like this, it is better to surrender the city."

Li Ding was not used to Su You at all, so he directly pulled out the knife and scolded angrily:

"Good dog, dare you insult me even if you are a lost dog?"

As he spoke, he picked up the knife ring and prepared to build Su Yumen.

"Enough! When I'm dead?"

The one who shouted angrily was none other than Zhao Jun's frustration.

He glared at the two of them with sideways eyes, and finally saw Li Ding and Su You give up the dispute and retreat to one side.

Frustrated, his heart is also very chaotic.

After half a month of siege, although there was no shortage of water millet in the city, this morale was visibly reduced.

He regretted it a little now, he shouldn't have let the Li soldiers, the Jin soldiers, and the Zhao soldiers be placed in the city. Now the morale in the city is down because of these local tycoons.

Since the siege of the city, the Taishan army began to divide the land, began to break the pride, divide the land, and recruit poverty.

The land of the Li, Jin, and Zhao families was also attacked by Taishan thieves. However, the soldiers of the three tribes were all in Xiangguo City, so they could not resist the attack of the Taishan army at all.

Some of the clansmen of the Li, Jin, and Zhao families risked their lives to rush into the city and tell Li Ding, Jin Zhun, and Zhao Rongsan about the matter. At this moment, the three generals couldn't sit still, and they all threatened to go out of the city and return to the soldiers' homes.

The three generals had gone out of the city once before, but they were almost annihilated by the Taishan army, so they could only retreat to the city in embarrassment.

But although this man stayed in the city, his words became more and more strange, and his words were strange and frustrated, and he used words to coax them into the thief ship, and the meaning of the words was to descend.

The biggest reason behind this is because there are no reinforcements.

For half a month, he didn't know how many letters for help he had written, but there was no news. Not to mention these children of wealthy families, even he is worried in his heart.

Yes, Xiangguo is strong and has abundant reserves. But if there are no reinforcements, no matter how strong the city is, it will be broken, and no matter how many reserves there are, it will be exhausted one day.

This is despair and waiting for death.

Frustrated to maintain the coach's composure outside, but when he is in the private room, he will also lament to his son frustrated:

"Entrusted by Lu Shuai for his father, he pacified Zhao Di. But what about now? From the north of Handan and the south of the Bairen, the thieves have been traced for hundreds of miles, and there are hundreds of thousands of thieves. And in the vast land of Zhaodi, only my Xiangguo city is withered, trapped inside and outside, and barely supported. However, the Taishan thieves have taken possession of Zhao Di, entrenched in its soil, and set up officials to govern. How can I spend a city against a country?"

After speaking, seeing that his son was still confused, he couldn't help but caress his cheeks and burst into tears:

"The father should be in danger with the city, but the hoofs are still young, and the father will definitely live yours."

Boxing father's love, exposed in words, only teaches people to sigh.