Chapter 247: The Remnant City

Looking at the devastated Chishui City, An Bangyan empathized with the great sadness of Luxury Chongming.

The battlements of the east wall were all gone, and the entire wall became almost an unobstructed earthen rampart. Oh well, it's not even as good as an earthen rampart, and in many places it has even been cut out with a big gap at the top and a narrow at the bottom! The generals are seasoned experts and know very well what this means: the advantage of defense comes mainly from the battlements, under its cover, there is no need to worry about the firepower of the attackers, the defenders can be perfectly protected from the chest down, and if the battlements are lost, this advantage is lost. Don't say that there are not too many defenders standing on the base - there are no wall buttresses to block, and if the people in the front row are not even, they will be squeezed down by their own people behind them and fall to their deaths, and the battle is together, if the north and south sections want to support each other, no one can jump over even if the interval is more than how wide it is, and they can only go down from one side to make a big circle along the inner wall and then climb up from the other side, and lose the shelter of the wall battlements, and the attackers outside the wall are self-aware of this, and they can immediately organize and launch a new attack in the weak place with only a few steps across!

Under the wall, the horizontal and vertical wall bricks and stone slabs are scattered all over the ground, and many of them have been broken into two or three pieces, and under a rough visual inspection, less than half of them can be used. Looking at it like this, if you want to recover even a little, even if Sun Jie can't fight during this period, it will take more than two months...... The problem is that the military rations can barely be eaten for a month, and for the rest of the month, everyone only drinks the cold water of the Chishui River, can they survive?

In order to fight Sun Jie with An Bangyan as soon as possible, Yu Chongming left only 2,000 wounded, sick and old people in Chishui. These days, let alone repair the walls, even the ruined walls in the city that have been demolished to a mess have not been repaired much, at best, they are barely adding a roof to most of the remnants of the walls that see light on all sides. Seventy or eighty percent of the houses are no different from the ruins that can enter the rain and can enter the long worms, rats and anything, and the best buildings now are precisely the original most dilapidated, Luo Ganxiang is not even willing to waste firewood and a few earthen houses, the leaders such as the father and son of the king of luxury and Elder An have to condescend to make do with their teeth and live separately, as for the tens of thousands of subordinates, they can only huddle in groups of three or five huddled among the ruins and shiver to endure the bitter rain sprinkled by the unbeautiful heaven.

Xuan Chongming, An Bangyan and several generals crowded around the brazier in a small earthen hut with a gloomy face: this rain is too inopportune!

Normally, rain is a great benefit to the defending side. First of all, the physical security: no matter how good the camp tent is, it is not as good as the house, and it is of course much more comfortable and warm to stay in the house than to huddle in a broken tent; There are drainage ditches on both sides of the streets in the rainy southern city, and when camping in the wilderness, you can only dig a few drainage ditches outside the camp to avoid being flooded by the sudden rainstorm, the whole camp will be muddy and difficult, and the firefighters will of course be miserable when cooking in the rain, but what is more troublesome is going to the toilet, unless you drown in the tent, everyone will be drenched in soup. In the era when they didn't understand personal hygiene and had no antibiotics, they had to give away their lives if they didn't say that they could give up their lives if they didn't know how to eat chaff and vegetables. The second is safety: there is almost no fighting on rainy days, which is the practice in this era. Even the crossbow arrows can't fly far in the rain, not to mention the bow when you change it, let alone the bowstring, the bow blade rises and shrinks when it rains, and the whole bow will be scrapped! The defending side still has stones to smash downward, while the attackers have no means to suppress the attack at the head of the city, so they can only be beaten to death while climbing the ladder! The third is combat readiness. The defenders can take the opportunity to send and replenish various equipment and materials to the city, and the attackers can only watch with their eyes, even if they force the auxiliaries to build some siege equipment, they may wait for the sun to come out and shine, and they will fall apart if they can't push a few steps to show you! This is not alarmist, why did ancient buildings and furniture use mortise and tenon structures? The wisdom of the working people can be proud, but this is not the main reason - the real fundamental reason is that in the era when there were no stamping machines and forging presses, and completely relied on hand hammers, nails were very expensive, and you couldn't afford to use them! Otherwise, who is patient to plan, sharpen, saw, file, and then chisel and grind for most of the day to install a stool leg? The siege equipment is a disposable, the wood will swell when soaked in water, shrink when it is dried, bump a few times on the potholed road, and the tenon will not be scattered to you?

But this rain here and now is not a good thing for the two of them. The original east wall and the current earthen barrier always affect everyone's nerves: will the adobe without the protection of wall bricks absorb enough rainwater and be suddenly crushed by its own weight? This is a big life-saving problem - although the rammed earth is very hard and not very permeable, didn't that damn Luo rebel dog force a few big holes! Even if it doesn't collapse, no matter how hard the rammed earth is, it will become slippery mud when it rains, and when the rain stops, if Sun Jie comes to attack, he will slip under his feet when he walks empty, how to fight back, how to defend?

"How about going to Lin Zhou? I heard that he was beaten down by Luo Ganxiang, so he only burned Jiufeng Tower and left. Naturally, there will be a lot of damage after fighting, but no matter how broken it is, it is better than here, right? It was Ahn Bangyan who spoke.

"I can't go." Yu Chongming didn't look up, and pointed to the brazier in front of him, "Lin Zhou's 'seven mountains, one water and two fields', in a good year, the field can only raise six or seven thousand old and young at most." The terrain is like this brazier, there are mountains on all sides, the place is not big, but there are more than 400 mountains and several big ditches around, as long as the four sides are surrounded by a large army, there is no need to fight, everyone has to be trapped and die inside. ”

Lin Zhou is the birthplace of luxury, and the environment and geography are of course much more familiar than others, and he is telling the truth. But there is another reason why he says this. An Bangyan raised troops and almost turned Guiyang into a dead city, causing so much trouble to the Ming Kingdom, and now he can only go one way to the dark. However, there is another bloodline in the An family: An Wei. An Wei has never torn his face with Ming Guo, although he secretly has to help, but on the surface he still stays out of the matter, everyone knows that even if An Bangyan is completely wiped out in the end, in order to maintain the place, Ming Guo will always leave An Wei to appease the Shuixi Miao, An family will not be extinct, and the bloodline will always continue; Gulin is the old nest of the luxury family, and everyone there can trace back to the same ancestor and is a luxury family. Luo Ganxiang easily took down Lin Zhou, and the real reason was that Yu Chongming sent people to pass the word: no resistance! Therefore, Luo rebel dog could only burn down the old mansion and go away, and he was not caught by him to kill the luxury family. Extravagant Chongming knew that he killed the governor and occupied Chongqing to capture Chengdu, and the Lou Zi he stabbed was no smaller than An Bangyan, and his future was already closely tied to the An brothers. Then no matter what, you have to leave some people for the luxury family, if the rebels are introduced into the village, everyone will not be able to escape from the involvement, and the Ming Kingdom will not be happy to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, in that case, there will really be no face to go underground to see the ancestors.

"Go to Wufeng Mountain! There are 28 villages such as Hongyan, Tiantai and Hongtuchuan, which are enough to accommodate 100,000 troops. The terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, only twenty miles away from Yongning, needless to say that Yongning can be beaten, even if it loses, it can always stand on its feet. Hao Yin said decisively.

Yu Chongming said "um" and agreed.

An Bangyan answered: "Brother Amin, is the leader of the twenty-eight villages reliable? Will it be bought by Hangou? ”

Yu Chongming shook his head: "No." Although Wufeng Mountain is close to Yongning, these villages are in the deep mountains, and they will not come out easily, and the Han people will not go into the mountains to find them. Those leaders have been cared for by luxury families for generations, and the salt they eat is all from Lin Zhou, and they will inform me of the news of Luo Rebellion Dog from time to time. The leader of Jinsha told me that Luo Rebel Dog was boiling red water, and when my brother arrived, he ran away first, and the letter that ran back to Yongning was sent by Hongyan Village. The last time I fought Yongning, I didn't want to involve them, so I didn't contact them, and as a result, I suffered a big loss from artillery. If you send someone into the mountain early to ask, you won't lose so many warriors in vain......" The more Yu Chongming spoke, the lower his voice became, obviously being reminded of sad memories.

Fei hurriedly interjected: "Ah Yin said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it must be true." However, I'm afraid that there won't be much grain in the mountains, and if Yongning can't attack it for a long time, Sun Hangou will block our back road again, and it will be trapped in the mountains, and it will not be easy to do. ”

Before Yu Chongming could speak, An Xiaoliang had already jumped up: "What can't be attacked for a long time, if you can't attack, you will die!" Wusa is lost, Lin Zhou is lost, Yongning is lost, Bijie is lost, Shuixi is lost, and Zhijin Laozhai is also lost! Chishui took it back, but everyone opened their eyes and looked, can this be called a city? Isn't it just three walls surrounded by ruins? If we can't snatch Yongning back, we will all die and pull it down, what food do we want! ”

Hao Yin shouted: "Brother Xiaoliang is right! If you can't get Yongning back, it's better to die! Abba, the child and Brother Xiaoliang are the front team, if you can't beat Yongning, you will die in the city, and you won't come back to see you! ”

An Bangyan was about to persuade a few words, but he heard Yu Chongming say: "Don't make fools. Yongning will definitely fight, this is our only chance. But it's hard to say whether you can succeed in one blow, and you can't fight out tens of thousands of warriors in a daze as soon as you come up! Don't worry too much about the grain, I have distributed some of the grain that the Ayan brothers transported to Chishui, the Wufeng Mountains are sparsely populated, and I can't eat a lot, plus what we bring now, it must be enough to eat for two months. The mountains are not as good as the official road, and Sun Jie has to fight mountain by mountain when he comes, and he can't be fast. Yongning's palm-sized city, Luo rebel dog is at most three or four thousand people, our troops are ten times that of him, fight for a few days, test more places, always find the weak point of the defense, and then concentrate all the forces to strike a thunderous blow, and when Sun Jie drills out of the ravine, we have already entered the city! As he spoke, his eyes suddenly became sharp, "Defeat Yongning, let's not defend it, go straight to Luzhou Wei, and then go to Luzhou!" Then, go north to Chengdu Mansion along the water! The elite of the Sichuan soldiers are all following Sun Jie behind our butts, I want to see who can stop us from arresting the King of Shu this time! ”

"Good!" An Bangyan praised loudly, "The war is all up to Brother Amin." Without further ado, I think it will rain for a few more days, and Sun Jie won't be out of the mountain for a while, so let's leave tomorrow morning. ”