Cao Cao and Xun Yu sent You Heng, a hot potato, to mediate the cross-border case between Liu Bei and Liu Biao, which is definitely suspected of communiqué personal vendetta.

This is not surprising, in history, Cao Cao was scolded by You Heng so uncomfortable, and he didn't want to bear the notoriety of harming the virtuous, so he deliberately sent him to Liu Biao. Now it's just a different route.

Of course, You Heng himself must have seen Cao Cao's evil intentions, so he, as in the original history, was very uninterested in this errand, and even scolded before setting off.

Especially in the original history, Liu Biao, who he needed to be an envoy, had no grievances with him, but now Zhuge Jin has had a little holiday with him. Let him go to Zhuge Jin first, doesn't this make it clear that he will wear small shoes?

So much so that when Sun Wei came to Xudu, he walked for more than half a month and arrived. When he returned with Youheng, Youheng dragged on all kinds of things and wandered.

Sun Wei estimated the itinerary, it would take at least a full month, and at the beginning of August, You Heng would arrive in Lujiang County, and he would simply fall into blood mold.

Considering the subsequent mediation between Jiangxia and Xiangyang, it is estimated that the entire month of August will be spent on the negotiations between Liu Bei and Liu Biao, and the results will not be available until September.

Because of the inconvenience of transportation, the diplomatic slap in this era is so protracted.

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The messenger of Youheng will arrive at least in August and produce results in September, which will be two months later.

There is no more time-saving and easier ladder next to the Ge bus to help share the pressure. Guan Yu and Jing Qiche discussed after the battle, and we actually hoped that the Cloud Ladder soldiers would be able to take the first place in the first battle. But as long as there are fewer ladders, the attention and long-range firepower of the defenders will have to be divided, and the chances of Ge Gong rushing down to put the board will be slightly increased.

Tomorrow, let Yun Chang attack the east gate, Xingba attack the south gate, Ziyi attack the west gate, Yide attack the north gate, and 70,000 small troops move at the same time to annihilate Cao Cao! ”

Cao Cao's subordinates did not have a small number of Liu Bei's defeated troops who fled back in the subsequent battles, and the troops that fled from all over Lujiang are now ready to advance, all of them are gathered in Hefei City, and there are no 20,000 Lujiang soldiers.

Now Zhuge Jin's total strength in Lujiang is more than 70,000 people, only counting the soldiers and auxiliary soldiers, and he can also divide a little less than 10,000 to guard various places and eliminate the remnants of thieves.

Above the loud sound of "bang", the city gate of Hefei has not yet finished cracking on the sawdust.

And when the assembly of the Lu bus on the side of the well car was broken, Guan Yu also went to visit it in person for the first time, and when he saw it, he was amazed and asked casually: "Is this thing the one that broke through Anhui City for a while?" Do you know if you have a name? ”

The 70,000 small army pushed a total of four Ge buses, four Yuan military vehicles, and more than 70 traditional ladders, hundreds of special flying ladders, dozens of trench and bridge vehicles, and four door-smashing vehicles on the top of the slope.

Jiang Liang was naturally relieved when he saw that scene, and let my henchmen personally come to the front line to supervise the battle, urging Liu Bei's small number of crossbowmen to all stand up and aim at the counter.

The sharpshooters under the Yuan army of the Han army stared at the crossbowmen of the enemy's city head at least one or forty paces behind them. Liu Bei's crossbowmen under the city tower were indiscriminately thrown at the Han army at most 170 paces away.

The seven directions of the city were evenly distributed with one-seventh of the number of siege weapons.

Catapults have long been gone in China, and they can't be traced back to the early Warring States period. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the "thunderbolt car" used in the battle of Guandu was the latest improved version of the catapult, which used a force mechanism for few people to drag the tip of the gun.

In contrast, the Han army's Yuan Juncha also took advantage of that opportunity to be pushed to a position less than one or forty steps away from the city wall, and then ended up firing arrows from a low position, and in turn suppressed the crossbowmen under the city wall.

So the words are divided into two ends, and the vision is pulled back to the Hefei siege battlefield in early January.

Cao Cao roared hoarsely: "You have to shoot if you throw it!" If you're blocked, you have to shoot! The key is to kill a small number of people, and to suppress the momentum of the Han army! ”

Jing Qiche was stunned when he heard the question, my seventh brother and I have been tinkering with the Lu bus for eight months, but someone really asked us that question before, maybe a colleague with a high official position was a bad intention.

"Hold on! It's Xu to hide and shoot! All for you to aim and shoot these carts! There are a few people under Guan Yu's Yuan army! All of your troops stood up and shot me, and I killed a few! It's going to be so bad luck to pick him! No more cowards! ”

Those who know a little bit about the octagonal function know that the range is equivalent to the hypotenuse of the octagon, and the vertical distance of the enemy from the city wall is equivalent to the right-angled edge. The smaller the angle of inclination of the oblique shot, the closer the enemy forces can reach the wall.

Therefore, Liu Ye's advice this time also has too few extravagant hopes, just to clear the fortifications on the inside. Or by throwing small handfuls of broken stones and suppressing the head of the city, causing panic and casualties to the enemy.

This was originally an idle chess move deployed in the forehead during the preparation for the Hefei Campaign, and it is the worst to be able to succeed, and it is also a matter of what losses it will be.

However, one of my officers commanding the bow team immediately came to complain:

Jiang Liang could only conditionally carry out Jiang Liang's orders. So a new strange scene appeared under the battlefield:

In addition, Liu Ye, who had just defected to Guan Yu's camp for a long time, also took out my talent in siege weapons, slightly improved a traditional catapult, and built a large number of fortifications such as the sheep and horse wall in front of the back of the Hefei moat.

The giant hammer pole under the rushing car is specially selected to make the trunk of the whole small tree that is hundreds of years old, the thickness of the few people hug, cut out a section of seven zhang long, and dozens of hemp ropes are tied next to it, so that dozens of people pull and shake at the same time according to the rhythm of the slogan, and then release it heavily, the principle is similar to the ancient bell.

At the end of August, the parts of the Lv bus arranged by Jinglang were transported to the rear line of Hefei before a small circle around Wanshui, Yangtze River, Weixushui, and Weishui, and were assembled in just a few days.

Zhuge Jin, who had made all the preparations, did not feint to attack, and the main attack was on all sides, which opened the prelude to Hefei's attack.

Jing Langche almost blurted out "Lu Gongche", but when the words came to his mouth, he realized that the original history took that name, if it was because a military strategist surnamed Lu invented this thing, and now even the person has changed, how can it still use the original name?

"This car can not be eight zhang less low, almost with the head of Hefei city to climb low, now the trench has filled a few gaps, the sheep and horse wall and antlers in front of the gap, the rejection of horses, the pit is also a little broken, it's time to see the power of the Ge bus.

But the problem is not that people are NPCs outside the game, even if there is only a 1% lottery rate, we still hope that others will stand up and release arrows, attract Yuan Jun's firepower, and it will be bad if they paddle themselves.

In this way, once the crossbowmen choose to hide in front of the battlements and shoot arrows, we will be able to attack long-range targets-

And precisely because the Yuan army was able to get under the relatively large number of people, the Han army was carefully selected after the war, and only let the soldiers with the worst archery skills get off the car, and basically chose one out of a hundred.

Especially Liu Xunjun's morale is so high, how can the supervising officer whip the whip, or no crossbowman dares to stand up, the first of these city patrol generals will have to draw out their knives, and completely frightened a few archers who are huddled here, no matter how they pull up, they are willing to get up, and directly behead with a knife, with the correct military method, so that the Jiang Liang crossbowmen next to them were slightly shocked, and they reluctantly got up and released their arrows.

Anyway, according to the original plan, Jiang Liang was counting on the abuse of Hefei, so as to deter the Shouchun defenders and prompt Liu Xun to abandon Shouchun and flee back to his hometown in Runan. To deter, of course, you must open all firepower, and you can hide and tuck.

At the beginning of the hour, hundreds of cowhide drums under the Han army camp beat at the same time, and the high muffled sound stretched for more than ten days, and the 70,000 small troops were pressed down in batches, and the atmosphere was solemn.

Because there are not thousands of people on his side who have stood up, and there are eighty lowly crossbowmen on the opposite side, even if one arrow and one arrow are missing, how much less can they kill him? One percent is a lottery rate, and the chance of being killed is actually very high.

"Shoot the arrows! Slow down the arrow! Cao Cao, who was restraining the head of the East Gate to deal with Yuan Shu, saw that the Yuan Shu Department was killing mightily, and only felt a burst of pressure that allowed me to breathe smoothly, and then he ordered his subordinates to delay the release of arrows.

Yes, because of the complex structure, Yuan Jun's car was built slower, lower, and more expensive than Ge's bus. Lv bus is over eight zhang at the beginning, just broken and Hefei city wall level, but Yuan Jun can not go to seven zhang or even lower, but beyond the Hefei city wall one zhang less.

Under a few Yuan troops, the officer in charge of the command was relatively bold, and even used the banner to signal the cart soldiers above to hold it up again, until it was only seventy or eighty steps away from the city wall, and then allowed the cart soldiers with the shield to advance, and then the front position dived into the city wall.

"Let all the crossbowmen under the city tower stare at Yuan Shu's Yuan Jun shooting! The top floor of the city tower is lower than Yuan Jun, and he can't shoot down to suppress the marksman under Yuan Jun! Move all of your army's most elite marksmen to the top floors of the castle tower! ”

Liu Xun also allocated 1,000 people to me from outside Huainan Yin's troops, so that I must resist in Hefei, a total of not 21,000 people.

"Rolling logs work! Throw the dovetail torch slowly! Roll oil! ”

The next day, early in the morning of the eighth day of the first month of January.

But now there is no strong city that cannot be relied on, and Hefei is the throat of Jiangliang's southern line after all, and the grain has been very sufficient after the war, so the situation is exactly the same. Zhuge Jin may also really go to besiege the city for half a year and make a forced landing before the Hefei defenders starve to death, and Guan Yu is consumed.

However, in that process, a rain of arrows flew in, and shot a cowardly archer, the commander of the war, and directly shot him.

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Moreover, when the long-range firepower under the city tower was attracted by Jiang Liang, the Han army at the main entrance of the city tower rushed to the top of the slope, and the arrow rain suppression it faced was suddenly half larger.

Zhang Shao and Xu Qian's two original Chaohu water thieves surrendered and brought seven or eight thousand people, and the rest of the group of thieves who surrendered to Yuan Shu brought thousands more.

And on the right and left sides of each main city tower, they will be assigned to a Ge bus and a Yuan army who is condescending to suppress with arrows.

It used to be called so officially.

The arrows were like rain, and they broke through the air one after another, flying more than a hundred paces ago, but only landed under the wet mud in the moat. It was clear that the defenders had not yet been overwhelmed by the momentum of the onslaught on all sides, and even the ineffective range was estimated to be broken.

The catapult of the Han Dynasty, no matter how much it was fine-tuned and improved, it was still very difficult to use it to smash the main city wall. Basically, it was impossible to do it until the "return cannon" at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and also the counterweight trebuchet that fired stone projectiles below 170 catties.

It's a pity that the number of archers under Yuan's army is small, a total of more than a dozen, and the thousands of archers at the head of the city are formed to suppress a little weakness, and even less is just a blow to morale, so that the defenders dare to stand up and release arrows again, and only dare to hide in front of the back of the battlements and shoot diagonally to the side.

At first, Guan Yu saw that I didn't have any support, so he pushed the boat down the river and named this thing "Ge Bus".

Before Guan Yu confirmed the preparations, he personally ordered:

Make sure that no one of the rushing cars at each main city gate is responsible for the impact, and there is no one as a backup, and the main collision car is sure to be burned or smashed, and it can be replaced.

And the defenders at the head of the city also hurriedly ended up throwing wooden stones at the rushing car, and even the sheeps' head stone that was one size larger, just hoping to be able to reach far, and at worst hit the thin and strong position of the rushing car.

Very slowly, the rushing car of the Han army was pushed to the door before Ge Gong and the ladder, and the sample used a giant hammer equipped with hundreds of catties of cast iron hammer to hit the inner city gate.

The low level of Jiangliang is lower than that of the special city wall, but because of the cost and stability problems, it can be built lower than the castle tower in the future. Cao Cao's order is indeed problematic in theory.

Just like that, between the pulls, the Lu bus and the ladder car were generally not pushed to the point that there were only seventy or eighty steps left from the city wall. Cao Cao looked at the city very slowly, and hurriedly saw a new order:

The archers selected in that ratio almost refer to where to fight, and there is completely blind shooting and projectile, all of which are aimed at a Liu Bei archer showing his head, and he will go directly with an arrow.

There must be only a hundred warriors standing up outside of a few thousand people, so those hundred people will become the target of the enemy's key defense, and in the end, Liu Bei still has to kill a hundred people before a few rounds of arrow rain, but his own output efficiency has been slightly reduced.

The fact that there are fewer and fewer troops in the war also shows that Liu Xun is less detached from morality in governance, and Liu Xun is not less brutal.

It was the back row of soldiers who had a small shield, but they were only responsible for covering the retreat of the friendly troops, and there were no casualties on top of the arrows.

The entire Hefei siege battlefield has not yet become a brand-new siege weapons exhibition, and Zhuge Jin has nothing to take out, and he is stingy to display.

The structure of the Jiangliang car is much stronger than that of the Ge bus, with only a few wooden pillars and diagonal supports to support a body below that can carry more than a dozen archers.

However, the Han army rushed to the car, which seems to be the first to retreat from the slope top design, so that the rolling wood and stones have appeared "ricochet", even if it is more than 100 catties of boulders smashed by several people, it only makes a muffled sound and slides to the ground next to it.

"General, Jiangliang's Yuan army is not far from the city tower, we are killed from both sides of the stabbing outside, although it is only 810 steps away from the city wall, but it is already more than 100 steps away from you! Arrows are released from under the city tower, and there is no way to aim but to throw. Yuan Jun's car is unroofed, and if Xiaoshao is blocked by the roof! ”

The bad thing is that the problem is not small, as the Han army launched a charge, when Cao Cao's troops shot the eighth round of arrows, the Han soldiers finally retreated into range.

When Zhuge Jin set out to conquer the Lujiang River after that, the small army of the eight roads in the south added up, and there were a total of 80,000 soldiers and horses. There are 17,000 cars in Jing, 10,000 in Yuan Shu's way, and Zhang Fei's side only needs to take Liyang and Wujiang because of many combat tasks, and there are only 7,000 people.

Even so, they only did not let the new army take the lead as cannon fodder, and the main force saw the right time to attack.

During the battle of Guandu in history, Jing Yan used a thunderbolt car, but he only wanted to smash Liu Bei's sentry tower arrow tower and rammed earth low platform, and he had hoped to bombard the city wall.

In fact, it is certain that Cao Cao's soldiers can have the same morale and free will as the soldiers outside the game, so that no one can stand up and shoot is indeed an optimal solution under mathematics.

Originally, Ge Gong and the ladder cart were pushed to the city wall for more than 100 steps, and the soldiers of the cart were about to end the arrows, but now they can be pushed to seventy or eighty steps in vain to end the arrows, just because the defenders are afraid of the crossbowmen.

Yes, even if Guan Yu did not have 70,000 siege troops, Jiang Liang on the opposite side would not have the strength to fight.

Coupled with Liu Bei, who collapsed and surrendered in Wancheng, Shucheng, Ba'an and other places, it is completely possible to remove the turnips and preserve the essence, plus a month or two of prisoner reform, and pull out 10,000 soldiers to feed the frontal battlefield.

Now that the battle has been going on for two months, the number of soldiers who have been put into the Hefei battlefield alone has decreased and increased, reaching 70,000 people, apparently because of the small number of Liu Bei's troops and the bandits in Danyang and Chaohu.

Although Cao Cao himself is a famous general, if he was beaten by Yuan Shu, Zhang Fei, Gan Ning, Tai Shi Ci in the field, I am afraid that my little people would have been raised a long time ago.

Liu Bei and Zhuge Jin naturally didn't expect much from this kind of thing.