Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 589 The Unusualness of Shouchun City

Yuan Shu was obviously planning to personally guard Shouchun City this time, so it was no wonder that Yuan Shu sent an envoy to Zhu Wei.

Since Yuan Shu wants to defend Shouchun City, he naturally hopes to have more chances of winning. It seems that he sent an envoy to Lu Bu, which may be true, or maybe he has really persuaded Lu Bu, so that he will be more confident Confidence stays in Shouchun City.

But no matter what, in the original history when Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei attacked Shouchun, Yuan Shu left four generals and [-] soldiers and horses to defend the city. Now, although Zhu Wei has been added to attack Shouchun, Yuan Shu's However, Yuan Shu himself led an army of [-] to [-] to defend the city.

As Zhu Wei's army also formally sent troops from Hefei to Shouchun, the situation of the four coalition forces besieging Shouchun was also achieved, but the battle situation in Shouchun City was indeed somewhat unpredictable.

This Shouchun City is indeed an unusual big city.

Shouchun City was the final capital of the Chu State during the Warring States Period. It was originally the last royal city built by the Chu State in order to continue the national fortune. Yanxiadu, the capital of Yan Kingdom, is the second largest city in the world.

As mentioned above, Shouchun is geographically surrounded by natural barriers such as Bagong Mountain and surrounded by four rivers. Specifically, Shouchun City itself is a place adjacent to Feishui River in the north, Dongjin Ferry in the east, and Dongjin Ferry in the west. Chengxi Lake, south to Shilitou, covers an area of ​​about 25 square kilometers of huge city.

Among them, the south and north walls are six or seven miles long, and the east and west walls are about four miles long. The city walls are six or seven stories high, and the bottom of the city walls is about four or fifty steps wide. , the defensive city above the city wall is also nearly [-] to [-] steps wide, which allows Yuan Shu's soldiers to deploy various defensive methods on it.

Therefore, although Shouchun City seems to be located in a low-lying place, it also looks like a giant, lying on the plain formed between the Jianghuai waters.

Although the city wall of Shouchun City is mainly constructed of rammed earth, it is filled with glutinous rice juice and stones as the base, so the city wall is also extremely strong and cannot be easily destroyed.

At the same time, although the huge Shouchun City has four gates in the east, south, west, and north, outside the walls of the four gates, there are also urns like military fortresses.

The height of this urn city wall is about two meters lower than the main wall of Shouchun, but it is also three or four stories high and five or six steps wide. Besides the south gate, there are three gates in the east, north and west The gates are not on the same straight line as the main city gate. The west gate opens to the north, the north gate opens to the west, and the east gate is parallel to the main gate by about four steps.

In this way, if the foreign enemy wants to attack the gate of the urn, they have to attack from the side close to the main city wall, and will naturally be assisted by the defenders on the main wall. At the same time, even after the enemy breaks through the urn, they still need to change direction to attack the gate. The defenders can take advantage of the mechanism to beat the dogs and destroy the enemies in the urn.

The most important thing is that this kind of urn city is constructed outside the city wall, so that the Shouchun city wall can have a concave-convex structure, so that the defenders on the city wall can have more attack surfaces to attack the attacking enemy.

It has to be said that Yuan Shu re-fortified Shouchun City, the capital of ancient Chu, to form a Jianghuai city that is easier to defend and harder to attack.

The huge city can accommodate more than [-] troops and nearly [-] people under Yuan Shu's account, so Yuan Shu has enough troops to defend the city, and can recruit tens of thousands of young people to use when necessary.

The strong city wall and the external urn can also greatly improve the defense of the city, not to mention the moat at least [-] steps wide outside the city wall.

The turbulent water of this moat connects Feishui and Huaihe Rivers, giving Shouchun City a natural protection. It is even more difficult to bury passages on such a moat.

Even if the four coalition forces of Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei are now besieging Shouchun City, it is still not an easy task to break through the city.

Relatively speaking, Zhu Wei's main attack on the South Gate is easier than the other three gates. After all, the gate of the Wengcheng outside the South Gate and the gate of the Inner City are on the same line. Facing the inner main city gate.

But this Shouchun City is more difficult to attack than the Xiangyang City that Zhu Wei faced before, and when Zhu Wei attacked Xiangyang City, he also entered through the water gate, not really by force, but now this Shouchun City is only I'm afraid there is no possibility of trickery.

This Shouchun City does have two small water gates on the north gate, but the north gate is Cao Cao's attack area, so naturally Zhu Wei cannot use it. Besides, the water gate of Shouchun City is not an official city gate, but a small one connecting the inside and outside of the city. It's nothing more than a waterway, and Yuan Shu can easily construct the defense of the urn in it.

Just as Zhu Wei and Cao Cao roughly agreed before, now Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei camped about two or three miles away from the square gate of Shouchun City, and then they each contracted a city gate to attack. But the main thing is that they are fighting on their own, and there is not much meaning of joining forces.

However, after Zhu Wei's army set up camp outside the south gate of Shouchun, Lu Bu and Liu Bei soon sent envoys to Zhu Wei, but they came to Zhu Wei for help.

Compared with Cao Cao and Zhu Wei, Lu Bu and Liu Bei's forces are weak after all, and they don't have any equipment to attack the city. If they attack the city, they can only rely on the temporary ladder frame to attack the city. .

But the current situation is that before they failed to fill up Shouchun's moat, they didn't even have a chance to get close to Shouchun's city wall.

Therefore, Lu Bu and Liu Bei both asked Zhu Wei to borrow siege equipment. Obviously, they had heard that Zhu Wei had cave carts that could safely fill the moat, as well as thunderbolt trebuchets for siege. They wanted to ask Zhu Wei to borrow special equipment such as the siege tower and so on.

Of course, Lu Bu relied on his old connection with Zhu Wei, and the two sides were considered allies, so he sent Chen Deng as an envoy in an upright manner to directly ask Zhu Wei for siege equipment.

On the other hand, Liu Bei was more polite, he only said that he borrowed it, and was willing to give some things in exchange as a thank you.

After all, Liu Bei and Zhu Wei didn't have much connection. Before that, Zhu Wei targeted Xuzhou, but he just made friends with Lu Bu, but he didn't offer any olive branch to Liu Bei.

Apparently Zhu Wei looked down upon Liu Bei, who was now relying on Cao Cao to garrison troops in Xiaopei, Xuzhou.

Liu Bei knew about his own affairs before, so even though he knew that Zhu Wei and Lu Bu had trades in food and war horses, he just looked enviously, but he didn't intend to take the initiative to build a relationship.

But this time Liu Bei took the initiative to send someone, and the envoy was Liu Bei's brother-in-law Mi Zhu, but Zhu Wei suspected that Liu Bei was looking for him to ask for siege equipment this time regardless of face, and it was very likely that Cao Cao was behind it. mean.

After all, judging from the relationship between the four alliances today, the relationship between Lu Bu and Zhu Wei is relatively close, and the relationship between Liu Bei and Cao Cao is relatively close. In this way, Liu Bei should seek Cao Cao's help to request support for siege equipment, not It's time to find Zhu Wei, who has nothing to do with it.

But now Liu Bei took the initiative to find Zhu Wei, and found Zhu Wei who had nothing to do with him, which is a bit unusual...

(End of this chapter)