Chapter 394: Tang Baichuan
In the 33rd year of Yuanzhang, at three o'clock on the 17th day of the first month, Wangju led 100,000 elite troops and 50,000 garrisons to the outside of Jeju City.
Tang Baichuan dispatched troops, first commanded the forbidden army to command Wu Tianyou, the Wangzhou army to control Li Shun, and the deputy capital of Wangzhou to control Wei Wenpeng, each leading 20,000 troops, and besieged Jeju with the army on all sides, making it difficult for everyone in Jeju to fly.
The military horses moved, the ground was full of dust, and after the arrangements were in place, Tang Baichuan was not in a hurry to attack the city, so he ordered the soldiers to camp on the spot.
The battalions cut down trees and erected fences, built barracks and dug toilet pits, and were busy until more than half of noon, burying pots and making meals.
After Tang Baichuan had a full meal, he ordered Sun Ziming to be the vanguard of the Fuzhou army, leading a thousand light cavalry and eight nest cars, which were higher than the city wall and placed 100 steps away from the trench to investigate the enemy's situation.
On the 18th day of the first month, the first nest car was built, and Tang Baichuan led the forbidden army to command Zheng Lin to climb the nest car board house.
The board house is nine feet high and four feet square, which could have accommodated two people, but Tang Baichuan is also nine feet high, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and when he enters, he has to bend his waist and occupy most of the position, Zheng Lin had to stick to the board wall and stand aggrieved.
The soldier pulled up the carriage and raised the board house to the top, and Tang Baichuan put his eyes on the lookout hole to spy on the reality of the Mo family's army.
There are three steps on the city tower, the iron armor is bright, the bows and arrows are complete, and there are several catapults, all of which are commonly used, and there is nothing else special.
He didn't dare to take it lightly - the Mo family could come to this point, and it should not be underestimated.
Now that there is only Mo Lingfeng left in the Mo family, she can still drive Jin Yu out of Yimachang, which shows that she has a fierce temperament.
"Which one is Mo Leaf?" He changed the lookout hole, looked carefully, and only after a while did he say "oops", "I forgot, Mo Lingfeng is a female general."
When Mo Lingfeng was just starting out, he often talked about the name of "female general", and when she gradually became powerful and held military power to compete with the heavenly family, he gradually forgot that she was a woman, and even forgot her age, only knowing that Mo Lingfeng was a strong general.
There were three archers on the tower who were women, and at a glance they knew that they were not Mo Lingfeng.
He was a little disappointed, stretched out a small flag from the lookout hole, and was about to signal the soldiers to pull the pulley and put down the board house, when he suddenly heard a "boom" sound, as if a sharp blade was coming through the air, and it was too late to withdraw, a wooden arrow shot straight over, and the flag was in the middle of it.
With a "click", the small flag broke, Tang Baichuan's hand was painful, and when he let go of his hand, the flag immediately took off his hand, but the wooden arrow continued to move forward, piercing the raw cowhide covered outside the board house before stopping.
There was an undisguised sneer from the top of the city, and a young soldier put his hands to his lips and shouted, "Do you dare to come to battle with you such useless people?"
The soldiers below were shocked, hurriedly pulled the pulley, lowered the board house, Wangzhou these several military horses are under control, all are brave warriors, always arrogant, one of them rushed out of the barracks, towards the city tower screaming: "The traitor begs for death! Sooner or later, you will be in a different place!"
The nest car board house fell, the soldier opened the door panel, Tang Baichuan bent over, his face was pale, and jumped out of the nest car, Zheng Lin then got out and jumped down.
Tang Baichuan stretched out his hand to stop the crowd from scolding, ordered the soldiers to move the nest car back fifty steps, and asked, "Where is that arrow?"
The guards around him hurriedly presented wooden arrows, and Tang Baichuan took a closer look at the tail feathers, which were wind feather arrows made by the owl feathers, which were not easy to skew in the wind.
Zheng Lin spoke up, "Our 300,000 arrows are made of goose and goose feathers, and they are not as good as them."
Tang Baichuan shook his head: "Not necessarily, Gaoping Village is windy, goose and goose feathers are easy to be crooked in the wind, and owl feathers are slightly better, if they are really good, they should use horned eagle feathers."
He threw away the arrow: "It's not easy to attack the city, don't fall for it, build fortifications first!"
The Yongzhen army, which surrounded Jeju, began to prepare wooden curtains, ladders, and crashing cars unhurriedly, and the city of Jeju, which was cut off from water and food, was well organized and had no intention of panicking.
There were not many people in the city, only one or two hundred old, weak, sick and disabled, Mo Lingfeng ordered the three state officials to strictly control the people, prevent espionage curfews, distribute food according to people, and Cheng Taishan led the troops to guard the wells in the city to ensure the water source.
On the twentieth day of the first month, Tang Baichuan still did not attack the city.
At the end of the day, the sky was overcast and cold, and the spring rain was coming, and the middle tent was set up in the burned swallow pavilion, and a long table was placed inside, which was spread on it
A map of Jeju Castle and beyond, with a set of square tables, two chairs, and a paved couch.
A charcoal fire was lit under the square table, Wu Jin was reading the yellow book at the table, he had already compared the appearance of the people in the city outside, confirmed that it was correct, and then took it back to take a closer look.
Mo Lingfeng came in quietly, first stood in front of the long table and looked at the parchment map, and after reading it, he walked to Wu Jin and sat down, Wu Jin didn't notice it, until he finished reading the last page and recorded the three names on the paper, and then put down his pen and looked up.
He looked at Mo Leaf and smiled, "When did you come in?"
Mo Lingfeng took the bamboo paper, handed it to the soldiers, and asked him to send it to the prefect's yamen: "Just came."
She dried her hands: "What kind of person do you say Tang Baichuan is?"
Wu Jin put away the pen, ink, paper, and inkstone on the table: "Chong Tao provoked several times, and the generals over there were clearly fierce people who poured salt into the fire, but they could only swallow their anger, it can be seen that Tang Baichuan's methods are clever, and he can make these people surrender in a short period of time, and in the face of provocations, he is silent, for three days, he does not move at all, compared to the ferocity of Jin Yu, people like him cannot be prevented."
Mo Lingfeng nodded, got up and took the sheepskin map, and spread it on the table: "Static braking, it is beneficial to them, our grain and grass can only be supplied for two months."
Wu Jin thought for a while: "The new empire is tight, the food and grass of more than 100,000 troops is not trivial, with my understanding of the court, I will do my best to support it for three months at most, it is impossible for the new emperor to let him be besieged all the time, there must be a limited period, he will not be quiet forever."
"We're in a hurry, and he's in a hurry," Mo Lingfeng stretched out his hand to the moat, "The moat is dry, and we have to beware of digging tunnels outside the city to enter the city, so that we can meet the inside and outside with surprise soldiers."
Wu Jin stretched out his head to look at the map carefully, and suddenly there was a sharp knock in his ears.
Mo Leaf turned his head and asked, "What's the matter?"
Nomad Qing pushed the door in, with a solemn expression: "General, the archers see that the fortifications outside the city have been completed."
As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier came rushing and shouted, "General, they are filling the trenches with trench trucks!"
Nomad Qing was stunned for a moment, but he didn't expect the slow and orderly army outside the city to suddenly be so fast.
Mo Lingfeng stood up, his eyes sharpened in an instant: "Who is defending the enemy?"
The soldier said, "Seed capital rule."
Mo Yefeng reached out and took the hood and put it on, raised his feet and left, and at the same time turned back and said, "I'll go and see, you wait for me here."
When the words fell, she had already taken a few steps out of the middle tent, and before she went up to the city tower, she heard the sound of wheels "rumbling", and she took three steps and two steps up to the city tower, and when she looked down, she saw dozens of trench filling trucks "booming" towards the trench, with shields on three sides of the cars, containing soldiers and dirt bags.
"Magnifying Stone," she was about to command, when she suddenly grabbed Nomad Qing's hand waving the military flag, "Wait, there's an enemy attack."
A group of about four or five hundred enemy troops, covered with green shirts, with soft armor exposed inside, and light bows and knives, all lightly armed, pushed catapults, aimed at the west side of the city wall a hundred paces, and pushed a ladder behind them, ready to be set up at any time.
If a boulder is dropped, it will immediately become a siege tool.