Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 677 Tactics for Attacking Jiangzhou City
In ancient siege wars, if there were no special means to break the city, they could only rely on the means of forcibly attacking the city, and the time was often not fast.

The army's siege battle is likely to gradually become a waste of time due to the unfavorable battle ahead, that is, the siege soldiers in front seem to be busy attacking the city, but in fact they are exhausted with only thunder and no rain.

Therefore, if the front loses during the siege, it is necessary to adjust the morale of the battle. Otherwise, no matter how much the rear is mobilized, there is no way to make the frontline siege soldiers do any special moves. They will only find ways to spend time to survive .

At the same time, in normal siege warfare, even if the attack starts in the morning and continues until night, there is actually a lot of time that is not spent on the siege.

For example, if you send troops to attack a city, it will usually take more than half an hour for the army to start from the camp where they are stationed and reach the city they need to attack. Unless you build a camp close to the city, it is very likely that the defenders in the city will Launched a counter-surprise attack, which in turn caused chaos in the camp.

Therefore, the army often camped a certain distance away from the city. It was almost nine o'clock in the morning when the troops were dispatched.

During the next siege process, the siege soldiers rushed to the front of the city to form a siege formation, and then assigned one by one siege teams to attack, which would also consume time. If the soldiers deliberately kill the time, one afternoon Time passed quickly.

When the sun goes down, it is basically time to withdraw the troops and return to the camp. There are very few people who attack the city day and night, so there is not much time really spent on the siege.

The more well-trained and elite an army is, the less time-consuming it is, and the more time-consuming it is if it is a mob.

At the same time, the defensive strength of the city to be attacked and the strength of the defenders will also have a great impact on the siege battle. For example, in the history of Chencang City, the Wei army guard Hao Zhao led more than 1000 Wei troops, and they resisted Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition. Zhuge Liang had no choice but to withdraw his troops because he had insufficient food and grass.

Among them, Wei general Hao Zhao's ability to defend the city will not be mentioned, and the special terrain of Chencang City is also the reason why the Shu army cannot take advantage of the number of people to attack the city.

The terrain of Chencang City built by Hao Zhao is very dangerous. It is a prominent highland, with steep walls on the west, east and south sides. In addition, the city wall is five or six feet high, so it can become a fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. city.

Of course, another reason why the Chencang defensive battle failed to break through the city may be that Zhuge Liang didn't put too much effort into sending troops to the Northern Expedition this time, so he only prepared one month's rations.

According to the analysis of later generations, Zhuge Liang’s hasty organization of the Northern Expedition this time was actually in response to Soochow’s request. When the Northern Wei Dynasty conquered Soochow, it helped contain the Northern Wei Guanzhong army, so that the Northern Wei Dynasty could not mobilize the Guanzhong army to join the war against Wu.

That's why Zhuge Liang didn't launch a full army attack on the small city of Chencang, but just used various siege equipment, as if playing a siege drill, although it was a bit regretful that he failed to capture Chencang and retreated in the end, but Zhuge Liang It can also be regarded as achieving a strategic goal.

But I have to say that if the siege cannot be won by surprise, it is indeed not easy to conquer.

Pang Xi, the defender of Jiangzhou City, already has more than 3 Shu troops to defend the city. In addition, the terrain of Jiangzhou City has also increased the difficulty of attacking the city. Naturally, it is not so easy to be captured. up.

However, Gan Ning and Zu Lang did not want to let their regular army be wasted easily on this kind of ants-attached siege battlefield. They just sent those barbarian warriors who lacked training and were like mobs to attack the city, which further slowed down the speed of the siege .

It is not easy to climb up the city wall with the method of ants attacking the city, not to mention breaking the city gate after climbing the city wall to enlarge the army to enter the city, it is even more difficult to achieve.

Originally, if the trained soldiers of Gan Ning and Zu Lang's army were used to attack the city, it might still be a bit threatening, but now it is replaced by those barbarian warriors who lack training, the efficiency of the attack is simply half the effort.

So the war was delayed like this, and it was still in a stalemate for a while.

However, this is just a strategy. In fact, Gan Ning, Zu Lang, and Pang Tong have already set up a tactic of besieging and not attacking in this battle of Jiangzhou City. They are preparing to exhaust the food and grass of Pang Xi's army in Jiangzhou City. And the victor took Jiangzhou lightly.

The more than 3 Shu army brought by Pang Xi this time can be regarded as the main force under Liu Zhang's tent in Yizhou. If this Shu army can be captured and Jiangzhou City captured, it will open the door to Chengdu City.

The next step is to enter the Chengdu Plain, and the soldiers will point directly at Liu Zhang's lair in Chengdu without encountering too steep mountainous terrain.

So now, more than 3 barbarian fighters are being recruited to attack Jiangzhou City. On the one hand, it consumes the number of barbarian fighters.

Originally, Zhu Wei was a little apprehensive about the number of these barbarian warriors, but now he could use up some of them, and the battlefield is also the best place to train troops, so maybe these barbarian warriors can learn how to cooperate in battle formations.

In addition, driving the barbarian soldiers to attack the city in this way can also give Pang Xi a false impression, so that he will not discover the tactics of Zhu Wei's army in the first place, and by the time he really finds out that the situation is wrong, it will be too late.

Compared with Gan Ning and Zu Lang who conquered Yizhou this time, if they can go to Jiangzhou without a fight, they can get the [-] elite Shu troops in Jiangzhou city out of thin air, and eventually they can increase their own troops and consume more troops. What they got was the barbarians, and what they got was the Han army. This deal is not a loss no matter what.

Anyway, behind the army of Gan Ning and Zu Lang, there are sufficient supplies of food, grass and materials provided by the four counties in Jingnan and Yuzhang County, and the [-] barbarian soldiers don't have to feed them too well. It was definitely as expensive as Pang Xi in Jiangzhou City.

For this reason, Gan Ning dispatched warships as early as possible to send Zulang's Yueshan battalion troops around Jiangzhou City, blocked the roads leading to other places from Jiangzhou City, and blocked Pang Xi's escape route. .

After all, Jiangzhou City is a waterway transit city facing the river. It was originally developed by relying on waterway commercial transportation. It does not have much land and grain production. Naturally, it is impossible to produce food self-sufficiently under such a state of war. up.

Pang Xi succeeded in attacking Jiangzhou City before, so Pang Xi's army did not bring much food from Chengdu.

According to Pang Tong's calculations, Pang Xi's [-] troops would only have two or three months of food in Jiangzhou City at most, so it was estimated that they would be able to take Jiangzhou City by the beginning of next year.

The land roads around Jiangzhou City have already been blocked by Zu Lang's Yueshan Camp, and the waterways have been blocked by Gan Ning's Jiangjiao Camp. Pang Xi trapped in Jiangzhou City is a turtle in an urn.

Such a tactic can also bring about a strategic impact, that is, the war in Yizhou has reached a stalemate, making everyone in the world think that Zhu Wei's military focus is still limited to Yizhou, which can also make Cao Cao and Yuan Shao more relaxed some.

Therefore, Zhu Wei also agreed with the siege tactics of Gan Ning and Zu Lang's army in Jiangzhou City after discussing with his military advisers and advisers...

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