Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 386 Youzhou Tuqi is unique in the world, Jizhou is unparalleled

"The northern barbarians from the east are attacking again! Reinforce!"

"Array, array! Drive them down!"

"Captain, I don't have many logs here."

"The watchtower of the Jizhou Army is pushed over, it is full of archers, watch out for thieves to shoot arrows!"

On Fenggao City, there was an echo of fighting and shouting one after another. Facing the large-scale attack of the Jizhou Army, the Taishan soldiers defending the city began to fight hard.

Those who carried arrows up, rolled wood and rocks, those who were injured were carried down to the top of the city for medical treatment, and the replacement troops mobilized soldiers to and fro, making the whole city busy.

This is already the third day after the enemy has completed the moat and launched a formal siege.

Compared with the tentative attack two days ago, Yuan Tan's army undoubtedly invested a lot of money today. First, it used a large number of stone catapults to strike violently at the top of the city. As long as it can be hit, it will leave obvious marks on the city wall every time, causing a heavy blow to the overall defense of the city.

Half a day later, as many as [-] troops attacked Fenggao from two city walls at the same time.

As the capital of Taishan County, Fenggao's defense system is naturally extremely tight.

When Wang Zheng's army went northward, even though the deployment had been made in advance, not to mention the whole army of the heavenly army, it even used the third-tier cavalry. In the end, the battle was still tragic, and even Wu Sheng was hit by an arrow. Survived.

As a result, Wang Zheng was completely angered, and made a decision that could be called a dark history. After he woke up, he was extremely annoyed, but it was useless. Not to mention the ten rooms and nine empty houses in the city, the eyes of the remaining people looking at the Heavenly Army , It made Wang Zheng shudder and frightened even more.

With the hearts of the people so far, all difficulties will become easier in the short term. After Fenggao was positioned as the wing of the Quartet Army, Wang Zheng thought twice and chose to relocate all the aborigines in Fenggao. He also chose to move in some refugees from Qingzhou at the same time, including those who flowed into Xuzhou during this period. The refugees, and many of their family members after joining the army, were arranged by Wang Zheng to Fenggao.

Because of this, even though the Jizhou army was approaching the city at this time with nearly [-] soldiers, Chang Xi still didn't panic too much, and didn't ask Wang Zheng for help in the letter. full confidence.

2 people is quite a lot, but it is not so easy to break through the defense of this fortified city!
Even in Chang Xi's view, this is a rare opportunity to make meritorious deeds.

As a general, protecting the environment and safety of the people is the hard work of the duty. Naturally, it is not as majestic as opening up the territory and expanding the territory. With all the famous weapons, the general defense of the city is naturally not a big achievement, but if the strength gap between the offensive and defensive sides is too large , the longer you persist, and even repel the enemy, isn't that considered a credit?

In today's Fenggao, there are actually [-] defenders, which is not too far behind the [-] Jizhou Army.

It must be known that although the law of war says that ten rules surround it, in real reality, once the attacking side has a five-fold superiority in numbers, they will have a certain degree of confidence in breaking the city.

But now the gap between the enemy and us is only four to one.

But the problem is, the enemy is one of the most powerful troops in the world!
And not long ago, Linzi, the fifth capital of the Han Dynasty, had just been quickly conquered!

Therefore, Chang Xi has every reason to believe that facing such a powerful enemy, once he can support Wang Zheng to solve Beihai and come to help him, he will definitely get a lot of points in his heart.

only.
After today, Chang Xi's confidence began to waver.

Without him.

Because he finally saw the famous Jizhou Qiangnu!
In the winter of the second year of Chuping (191), Gongsun Zan stationed troops in Panhe, and Yuan Shao fought at Jieqiao. Relying on the famous Baima Yicong and [-] infantry, the former had always had the absolute upper hand and firmly suppressed Yuan Shao until the end. In the decisive battle, Yuan Shao ordered Qu Yi to lead [-] elite soldiers to be the first to ascend to the dead, and induced Gongsun Zan to take the initiative to attack, and waited for the critical moment when his thousands of horses galloped and trampled.
Seeing that the crossbows were fired at once, thousands of arrows were like locusts, and it was like a punishment from heaven. In an instant, they dealt a devastating blow to Baima Yicong.

After this battle, Baima Yicong completely disappeared, and Gongsun Zan no longer had the prestige of Marquis Ji.

Chang Xi also knew about this, but Ben didn't care much about it.

After all, Fenggao's city wall is eight meters high, so what about a strong bow and crossbow?
It is not very useful.

Only now did he know that the so-called "Jizhou Strong Crossbow" has another meaning besides praising Yuan Shao's excellent archers who can shoot hard bows enough to form an army alone!
That is the opponent's trebuchet, and even the siege equipment such as the bed crossbow, which are also different from other princes in the world, but they are more powerful and have a longer range!
It turns out that the real meaning of "Fushimi Youzhou Tuqi and Jizhou Qiangnu are the best soldiers in the world" means that the former's guerrilla ability is unique in the world, and the latter's long-range attack is unparalleled!

Even today, the Jizhou army used a trebuchet that Chang Xi had never seen before. Not only did the throwing distance be astonishingly close to a hundred steps, but the boulder that could be thrown weighed a hundred catties.

But there is a sharp rock cannon flying, and when it hits the ground, it can smash a deep ditch, seven feet into the ground. (The return cannon that captured Xiangyang in the Yuan Dynasty was 250 paces, and the huge stone that could be thrown was 150 catties)
This huge impact has been able to cause dangerous damage to the solid city wall.

Although this unprecedented trebuchet was obviously developed by Yuan Jun not long ago, and it has various shortcomings, such as extremely slow rate of fire, huge manpower consumption, and extremely low accuracy, but its power is beyond doubt, and it only takes less than a day. Kung Fu, Fenggao's southern city wall was a little bit unsustainable first
This made Chang Xi's heart tremble. I'm afraid this bloody battle may not be as easy to defend as he imagined.

Naturally, Chang Xi didn't know that war was the best catalyst for the development of science and technology. As the feudal lords struggled for hegemony intensified, in the next few years, the history of weapons in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which had been stagnant for nearly a hundred years, would undergo earth-shaking changes.

Just like the Battle of Guandu in the fifth year of Jian'an, it was precisely because Yuan Shao's army's long-range ability was too powerful that Cao Cao fled back in embarrassment in the first battle, and retreated to the city. Suppressed, Cao Jun didn't even dare to show his head, and finally he was under pressure (aggrieved) to generate power. Cao Cao followed the strategy of the counselor Liu Ye, and also developed a new type of artillery vehicle. It is the famous thunderbolt car!
Predicting that Yuan Jun's deployment of this secret weapon would pose a great threat to Fenggao City's defenses, Chang Xi began to regret for the first time that he had been too big and had never asked Wang Zheng for help in his letters.

Hey.
I just hope Zhou Mu can solve Beihai as soon as possible.

While cutting down a Jizhou soldier with one blow, Chang Xi couldn't help looking around, keeping an eye on the changes in the battlefield situation, thinking to himself.

The current situation is not too bad.

When filling the river a few days ago, Yuan Jun drove the people who had been coerced from Ying County in front. Regarding such things, Chang Xi did not hesitate, and directly ordered to shoot. Unexpectedly, even though there were not many locals among them, they were forced to fight against unarmed civilians, which made the proud Tianjun angry. In addition, the Tianjun also spent a lot of money in the battle of Wen Chou that day. There are old grievances, and the accumulation of two times of anger makes the soldiers extremely high in fighting spirit.

A large number of rolling logs and rocks prepared in advance also brought a lot of damage to the Jizhou soldiers under the city.Although these Jizhou troops were also quite brave and climbed up the city wall with the blows on their heads, they faced a more tenacious counterattack.

Under such circumstances, even though the moat has been filled, the powerful trebuchets are constantly hitting the Fenggao city wall, but in the short term, they cannot break through the defense of the heavenly army at all.

Some of the Jizhou army rushed to the top of the city by chance, but they would be easily killed by the soldiers of the heavenly army who were not inferior in individual combat power and were more superior in number. Some people were even forced to retreat directly from the top of the city. Jump up and down!
Although Chang Xi had underestimated the Jizhou army's offensive capabilities, Yuan Tan didn't know that the army he was facing was already one of the strongest in the world in terms of hand-to-hand combat ability.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Tan and Guo Tu, who were watching the battle in the camp, looked a little unswerving. The combat effectiveness of the Tian Army far surpassed Tian Kai's Qingzhou Army, which really surprised them. It may be very difficult to fall into Fenggao.

But now that he has taken this step, Yuan Tan can't give up easily, but he is patient and continues to add troops without saying a word.

Of course, in addition to the ordinary siege, the generals are also trying other methods.

On the one hand, the army forced a large number of local laborers from Mount Tai, including people from Ying County and nearby villages and towns in Fenggao, to pile up earth hills outside the moat of Fenggao City in order to provide a platform for their own archers. Although it takes far more manpower and time than the latter, it has an advantage, that is, it is not afraid of the attack of the defensive weapons. Once the base is built, the infantry archers of the Jizhou Army will greatly increase the lethality of the defenders at the top of the city. Weapons such as bed crossbows can be moved up.

On the other hand, the army of Jizhou was also secretly arranging people to dig tunnels. This tactic was originally Yuan Shao's favorite method when attacking the city.

Many Jizhou military officers expressed doubts about the success of this point, precisely because Chang Xi on the opposite side was a thief, but his knowledge and experience were different from those of ordinary generals. guard against.

However, since there are enough soldiers and idleness is idleness, no one objects to this attempt. What if it succeeds?
Apart from these two methods, what Yuan Shao can count on is only the internal support in the city.

After attacking Linzi, Yuan Tan naturally wanted to repeat the old tricks. Before the three armies dispatched, he dispatched Neiying to connect the families in Fenggao. Down.

Unfortunately.
In Wang Zheng's rage, most of the aborigines in Fenggao were killed or injured, and the aristocratic and powerful families were completely wiped out. The only people who could survive were those who saw the opportunity and ran ahead of time. Instigating rebellion or something was purely delusional.

In this way, Yuan Tan can only let those insiders lurk first to see if they can be used at the critical moment. After all, these people are the elite of the Jizhou Army. They are very vigilant about the safety of the city, and have sent a large number of people to patrol, and places such as water sources and granaries are also well-defended, but as the battle progresses, sooner or later there will be insufficient manpower.
At that time, it is time for these lurkers to show their power!
If you can act at night and burn down the granaries in Fenggao City...

The Taishan army, which was already unstable because it became an isolated city, will inevitably fall into chaos. The Jizhou army outside the city can take advantage of the situation to seize this county, and then use it as a basis to capture the entire territory of Taishan County!
With such a three-pronged approach, no matter Yuan Tan or Guo Tu, they are still very confident in capturing Feng Gao before Wang Zheng can occupy Beihai.

However, what the smug Yuan Tan didn't know was that the peer he was secretly competing with not only set out to
When he was secretly planning on Taishan's granary, the other party also focused on Yuan Shaojun's grain path!

Taishan County, Gai County.

This time to rescue Fenggao, Wang Zheng did not choose to take a shortcut, that is, the original route of attacking Mount Tai was from south to north, going to Feiguo, Nanwuyang, and then to Fenggao.

After all, there are not many troops this time, only 3000 troops, if you want to defeat the enemy, you must be surprised!
No matter how foolish and self-confident Yuan Tan is, even if he believes that Wang Zheng has no troops at this time, and it is impossible to rescue Feng Gao, he will definitely keep a basic focus on the trend in Xuzhou. After discussing with Guo Jia, Wang Zheng chose Qingqi Sneaking, first went to Langya, then made some adjustments in Dongguan, and then quietly came to Gai County in the northeast of Taishan County.

A hundred miles away from this city is the only way for Qingzhou to enter Mount Tai, and its throat, Laiwu City, has naturally fallen into Yuan Tan's hands.

According to Wang Zheng's thinking, even if Yuan Jun's food road is not in this city, it must be not far away.

At his request, Mi Fang arranged for the Benming Division to send a large number of personnel, centered on Fenggaocheng and Yuan Tan's camps, to investigate the frontline granaries of the Jizhou Army.Before that, Chang Xi also knew that pure defense is to sit and wait to die, and he also took the initiative to attack when Yuan Jun's foothold was not stable, and a group of small troops sent out tracked and attacked the army when it was transporting food behind the Jizhou Army. food troops.

Naturally, Wang Zheng knew the news, combined with his own investigation and compared the two, the location of Yuan Jun's granary was basically determined now.
It is located in the north of Fenggao and east of Laiwu, a village built by the mountains, named Tuqiu!

It has to be said that Yuan Tan is also aware of the importance of the granary as a lone army that goes deep into the enemy's territory. Therefore, he chose a mountain village instead of the two ready-made cities (Laiwu and Mou County). Not too high, easy to defend but difficult to attack.

If someone wants to attack Yuan Jun's granary, there will be an accident. The defenders of the granary rely on the geographical advantage, and they can persist until their own help!
Just knowing this is of course not enough.

Among the two plans prepared by Wang Zheng, the one with the least loss and the best effect is to try to sneak attack on the granary of the Jizhou Army.Once succeeded, even if there is still a batch of food and grass accompanying the army in the camp of the Jizhou army, it will only be enough for them to evacuate along the way, and they will not be able to maintain the offensive.Because of this, it is necessary to try to figure out the garrison here and the specific way up the mountain, so as to launch a sneak attack here at the right time.

It was with such a heavy responsibility on his back that Wu Yuan, who initially followed Wang Zheng in the uprising, led a group of third-rank yellow turban elite soldiers, disguised as ordinary villagers who had escaped from Feng, and sneaked into the vicinity of Tuqiu Mountain.

It can be seen that Yuan Tan attaches great importance to this place and guards it extremely strictly.Just at the foot of the mountain, there are two hundred troops guarding, almost blocking all the passages up the mountain.

Looking far away on the mountain road up the mountain, there are still a large number of bright and dark whistles tightly sealed.The not-so-high mountain top must be where the granary is located, and there should be a tighter inner defense circle.

While secretly frightened by the defense here, Wu Yuan was worried that he could not go up the mountain, so he could only wander around unwillingly.

When he was having a headache, his face suddenly changed, and it turned out that there was a rustling sound nearby.

Signaling the soldiers who were nervously holding down the weapons in their lapels not to break their camouflage, Wu Yuan followed the prestige.

But after a while, another group of people turned out from the woods not far away.

This.
Looking at this group of men, women and children, and then looking at their strong bodies that could not be concealed by their tattered clothes, Wu Yuan subconsciously almost thought that he had bumped into his colleagues.

But the next moment he reacted, and his face immediately beamed with joy!

The mountain people are also physically strong!

Where are these mountain people who suddenly appeared? Do I need to ask?

(End of this chapter)