Return to the Three Kingdoms with the Empire System

Chapter 185 Fighting Yang Zhai Again
The reason why Yuan Shu withdrew his troops was not only because the army had trouble attacking the city, but also because of the news sent back by Zhang Xun.After Zhang Xun was defeated, he did not dare to say that the army failed because of poisoning. He only said that the imperial reinforcements suddenly came out from behind and the Yangzhou soldiers were defeated and they retreated.

Hearing what Zhang Xun said, coupled with the sudden appearance of reinforcements above Yangzhai City, Yuan Shu did not doubt Zhang Xun's words. He only thought that the imperial army was getting serious and suddenly attacked and killed the five thousand soldiers in the camp west of the city. horse.In order to avoid attacks in the south and north of the city, Yuan Shu could only retreat first and gather the army in one place.

When Yuan Shu was besieging the city, Yuan Shu suddenly ordered Jin to withdraw his troops and gathered the army in one place, which made the army quite resentful and at the same time hurt their morale.Especially Lejiu's army attacking the south of the city. They had already established themselves on the city wall, but they were suddenly ordered to withdraw their troops.

Different from Yuan Shu's army, Yangzhai's city guards and common people were smiling all over their faces at this time.Reinforcements are coming, how can they not be happy?If they didn't believe that the imperial court would send reinforcements before, they believed it now. Didn't they see that all the Taiwei were in Yangdi City?

After night, Ye Mo sat alone in the study of the Yangzhai County Government, carefully looking at the topographic map near Yangzhai.Ye Mo had this habit in his previous life. As a liberal arts student who is quite good at geography, Ye Mo's secret is to read the map. Later, he developed the habit of looking at the map first whenever he went to a place.

At this time, Huang Cong came over after dealing with the affairs on the city wall.Huang Cong was released from death row by Ye Mo. Now that Ye Mo came to Yangzhai City, Huang Cong naturally wanted to come to think about Ye Mo's report after he was free.What's more, Ye Mo is a Taiwei, Huang Cong should also report the specific situation of Yangdi City to Ye Mo.

"Your Majesty, I'm asking Huang Cong to see you." Standing outside the study, Huang Cong said in a low voice.

Ye Mo was in the study room, even though he was looking at the map, but he would not reach the state of concentrating and ignoring external things, not to mention it was already night.Yangdi City has imposed a curfew order since Huang Cong arrived, and the people also understand that the situation is critical, and they will not run out at night.

After Ye Mo heard Huang Cong's words, he glanced at the door and said, "Come in." After speaking, Ye Mo lowered his head and began to study the map on the desk.

After Huang Cong came in, he saw Ye Mo still looking at the map, so he asked, "Your Majesty is injured, you should rest earlier."

Seeing that Huang Cong was concerned about his injury, Ye Mo raised his hand and said, "The doctor has already dealt with it. It's just a flesh injury, not a bone." When Ye Mo felt the pain in his arm, he Putting his hand down, he asked Huang Cong, "General Huang came late at night, what's the matter?"

Hearing Ye Mo's question, Huang Cong remembered the main purpose of his visit, and said, "My lord, according to the reports from the spies, the enemy troops in the south and north of the city have withdrawn, and they will be with Yuan Shu's main force. What a trick."

After hearing Huang Cong's words, Ye Mo thought about it for a while, then smiled and said, "General Huang is too worried. It's just that Yuan Shu is worried that our division of troops will be broken by us and we will suffer losses. Although there are many advisers and generals around Yuan Shu, , but they can’t work together, it’s normal to make this decision.”

In fact, as Ye Mo said, when Yuan Shu was about to withdraw his troops, Yan Xiang expressed his opposition. Yan Xiang believed that the imperial court's reinforcements must not be many, and Zhang Xun's defeat was due to lack of vigilance.But Yang Hong insisted that what Zhang Xun said was the truth, and the imperial court sent countless reinforcements, which made Zhang Xun fail.

Yang Hong once got Zhang Xun's favor because he said good things for Zhang Xun. How can Zhang Xun fall down because of a failure before he sees the benefits at this time?Therefore, Yang Hong insisted on speaking good words for Zhang Xun, and hoped that Zhang Xun would stand up and help him if the advisers and literati broke out.

Although what Yan Xiang said was true, but in this way, the strength of Yuan Shu's Yangzhou soldiers was said to be too weak. How could Yuan Shu be happy when he heard it?On the contrary, Yang Hong's words, it seems that Zhang Xun's subordinates failed because they were outnumbered, and they retreated so many people, which shows that even in the face of a large number of enemies, their Yangzhou soldiers are still determined to die.In this way, Yuan Shu naturally believed in Yang Hong, so he withdrew his troops and gathered the army in one place.

When the sun rose on the second day, Yuan Shu's army gathered in front of Yangdi City again.Although there were many casualties in the previous siege, Yuan Shu's army still has more than 2 people. If it weren't for the fact that the 5000 men under Zhang Xun were brought down by Niu Wa, Yuan Shu's army would have more people, even at this time. Zhai.

In Yangdi City, although there were [-] two-handed swordsmen brought by Ye Mo, after yesterday's battle, more than [-] people were lost.And the original defenders in Yangzhai City also suffered heavy losses. Now there are only more than [-] of the thousand imperial guards, and there are only more than [-] people among the people.As for the people in Yangdi City who wanted to contribute to the defense, considering that they had never been on the battlefield before, Huang Cong only asked them to help carry defensive equipment such as arrows in the city.

On the east wall of Yangzhai City, several cauldrons had already been set up, and a big fire was ignited under the pans.Huang Cong made this according to Ye Mo's instructions. These cauldrons already existed, but Huang Cong never used them because there was not enough oil in the city.What is being heated in the cauldron is not oil, but golden juice.

What is golden juice?To put it bluntly, it's shit.After the manure is heated and poured on the human skin, it will cause the human skin to be scalded, and then the bad and disgusting things in the manure will enter the human skin, causing the human body to be infected by germs, and then this The era is almost hopeless.

If Yuan Shu's army had been well prepared, such as with a trebuchet, Ye Mo would not have done this.But Yuan Shu was too confident, and trebuchets were really hard to get. Generally, there would be some stocks in dangerous cities, and it would be useless if they were not well preserved.

When Yuan Shu's army attacked, everyone on the city wall picked up the arrows soaked in the cauldron one after another. Of course, only the arrows were soaked.This is another poisonous trick. The arrowhead is soaked in gold juice, and after being injected into the human body, the effect is similar to that of being splashed with hot dung.At that time, even if he was not shot to death by a bow and arrow, he would still die after being infected.

Yuan Shu rode on his tall horse, looked at the cauldron set up on the city wall of Yangzhai, and smelled the smell of dung in the air, and laughed immediately.Of course, the reason why Yuan Shu laughed was not because he smelled something he liked, but because Yang Zhai's defenders couldn't even get together a few pots of oil, so they could only boil dung.In Yuan Shu's perception, the cauldrons on the city wall were used for cooking oil. After heating the oil, pouring it down would not only scald the siege soldiers, but also set fire to the enemy's siege equipment.

Yuan Shu was full of excitement, but Yan Xiang and Yuan Huan beside him were not as optimistic as Yuan Shu.The Great Han has existed for more than 600 years, and the peace has been too long. Many siege equipment that were commonly used in the past are now lost.Boiling golden juice to defend the city, the two of them always felt that they had seen a model somewhere, but they just couldn't remember it all at once.

"Kill me!" Yuan Shu sat on the horse, drew out his saber, and swung it forward.Accompanied by the sound of war drums, another infantry came out with a ladder, and soldiers with large shields stood guard beside them.After that, a team of archers followed.After the archers, it was Yuan Shu's army that was about to attack the city.

Seeing the enemy approaching carrying the ladder, Huang Cong ordered the army to shoot arrows after reaching the shooting range.Even with the protection of large shields, many soldiers fell to the ground from arrows.But these people are already used to this kind of procedure, even if people keep getting hit by arrows, they keep walking forward, knowing to lean the ladder on the city wall of Yangdi.

After the ladder was put up, the surviving soldiers began to climb up to Yangdi City. They wanted to be the first to climb up Yangdi City to get rewards and promotions.While these soldiers were climbing towards Yangdi City, rocks and rolling logs kept falling from the city to smash these soldiers down.

Seeing this situation, the archers sent by Yuan Shu began to throw arrows towards the city wall.Huang Cong looked at Yuan Shu's army attacking the city in the same old way, smiled disdainfully, and shouted: "Get up the plank!"

All of a sudden, huge wooden planks appeared on the city wall. These were made by Huang Cong following Ye Mo's orders. They could not only be used to resist the arrows shot by the enemy, but also have other uses.As for these wooden boards, they are numbered and removed from each house.The two door panels are put together, and then wrapped with two layers of cloth, it can well resist the arrows thrown by the enemy.

After Yuan Shu's army stopped throwing arrows, Huang Cong led the soldiers defending the city to get out from under the planks and continue to attack the enemy troops on the ladder.When Yuan Shu's army began to attack the city, Huang Cong gave an order: "Pour golden juice!"

then.Pots of dung poured down from the city wall, and those Yangzhou soldiers who were splashed all over their bodies suddenly howled like ghosts and wolves. Slices of flesh.

After seeing this situation, Yuan Shu became even more furious, saying, "Beat the drum, kill me!"

(End of this chapter)