The Three Kingdoms: Summoned generals at the beginning, shocking Cao Cao

Chapter 296 Breaking the city with gunpowder and suppressing it with numbers

"Silimar City is very strong. Seeing that winter is coming, we just need to defend the city. When winter comes, the Easterners have no good way except to retreat."

The white robe prophet said.

Everyone thinks this suggestion is very reasonable.

Winter here in Persia is very unbearable.

There are very few trees around here. If the army is stationed outside, not only will there be no houses to keep out the cold, but there will also be no wood for making siege weapons.

There is a lot of food in Xilimar City, enough for the white-robed prophets to eat more than the first half of the year.

Therefore, the Persian rebels all agreed with this suggestion.

The Han army led by Liu Bian moved forward while sweeping away all the small-scale rebel strongholds around them.

It took two more days to reach the city of Silimare.

As soon as they came to the city, they immediately discovered that the rebels in the city had no plans to fight.

"Your Majesty, these rebels seem to be scared out of their wits." Zhuge Dan said.

He has been promoted by Liu Bian to the position of supervisor of the Habayashi Army.

"Haha, I think this is a rebel conspiracy. They think winter is coming and they want to freeze us to death with snow." Liu Bian said disdainfully.

really.

The Han army repeatedly approached the city wall to challenge, but the rebels defending the city were not interested.

Even, these rebels did not have any angry reaction.

Obviously they are determined to stick to it.

"Your Majesty, at the end of the day, the city is considered solid, but it's a pity that we didn't bring cannons, so we can't blow down the city walls." Zhuge Dan regretted.

"Without artillery, that's not a problem. I still have a way to break through the city wall!" Liu Bian said loudly.

When Zhuge Dan heard it, he immediately became interested and asked quickly.

"Your Majesty, what can I do?"

"Use gunpowder! As long as you have gunpowder, even if you don't have artillery, you can still blow down the city wall." Liu Bian said.

"Your Majesty, is it really possible?" Zhuge Dan couldn't believe it.

How much gunpowder is needed to blow down a city wall?

"I'll teach you right now, watch it carefully, study hard!" Liu Bian said with a smile.

Subsequently, he called out the engineering team in the army.

These engineers in the Han army originally belonged to General Faqiu Zhonglang under Cao Cao, specializing in some dirty work of tomb robbery.

After Cao Cao was wiped out, Liu Bian immediately adapted such a force with special abilities into an engineer soldier.

"Hu Yiba, dig a tunnel directly under the wall of the rebel army, it can be done in a few days!" Liu Bian asked an engineer leader.

This engineer was a tomb robber, and his name was Hu Yiba.

"Your Majesty, the soil here is quite soft and hard. At most two days, you can dig a robbery hole, oh no, it's a tunnel." Hu Yiba said loudly.

The tunnel Liu Bian requested was not that big at all, it only needed to be the size of two boxes of gunpowder.

"Okay, then I will give you the best manpower to quickly dig the tunnel." Liu Bian said.

"Obey, Your Majesty!" Hu Yiba immediately went to prepare.

Zhuge Dan looked at the tunnel drawing drawn by Liu Bian, feeling a little uneasy.

"Your Majesty, this tunnel is not very big. Is it really effective?" Zhuge Dan asked.

For sieges, as long as tunnels are dug, they are all called acupoint attacks.

The method of acupoint attack is basically divided into two.

One is to dig a tunnel to reach the bottom of the city wall, and then dig a huge cavity underneath. This cavity is supported by a large amount of wood. It only needs to set fire to burn the wood, and the city wall above will collapse due to its own weight.

Of course, the success rate depends on God's will.

After all, some soldiers have a bad sense of direction, and it is possible that they got the wrong direction after playing for a long time.

The second point attack method is to dig a long tunnel directly into the city.

Using this tunnel, you can send people to sneak attack.

However, this troop transport tunnel is also extremely easy to be discovered by the defenders.

Once the defenders found the tunnel exit, they would use extremely cruel means to kill the exposed enemies one by one.

No matter what kind of acupoint attack method, it takes a long time to dig.

After all, a tunnel that is almost half a person's height is not that easy to dig.

But Liu Bian's request to Hu Yiba was very simple.

It only needs to be the size of a robbery hole.

When you get to the bottom of the city wall, just dig a little bigger and put gunpowder on it.

The engineering team led by Hu Yiba immediately began digging tunnels in selected places outside the city.

Their series of actions were quickly seen by the rebels in the city of Silimar.

The rebel soldiers immediately reported to the white-robed prophet Kedel in time.

Ke Deer immediately led Zalandin and other rebel generals to the city wall to check.

"Dig a tunnel?"

Seeing the actions of the Han army, the white-robed prophet Ke Deer not only didn't worry, but laughed instead.

"Prophet, the enemy is going to dig a tunnel, shouldn't you be worried?" Zalandin was a little puzzled.

The rest of the rebel generals were also a little puzzled.

The white-robed prophet Kedel was originally from a military aristocratic family of the Parthian Empire. He once served as a general of the Parthian Empire. He has rich experience in various sieges and defenses, which is not comparable to Persian bandits like Zalandin.

Sure enough, Kodel immediately started teaching on the spot.

"Do you think it's that easy to dig a tunnel?"

"Eastern people want to think about digging tunnels. No matter how small the tunnel is, it will take ten days to dig it into the city!"

"If you want to dig down the city wall, it will take at least a month. After such a long time, winter may have come."

Hearing Kedel's words, Zalandin and the others became even more worried.

Prophet, you talked about it for a long time, but you didn't say how to restrain the Easterners from digging tunnels.

"Prophet, what should we do?" Zalandin asked.

"Don't worry about it for now. When they dig more than half, we will dig a deep trench under the city wall and fill it with dung so that they can't get close."

Kodel's experience is indeed a veteran, not only talking about how to restrain, but also making the enemy waste their efforts.

Zalandin and the others cheered when they heard the words.

Not only did he praise the wisdom of the white-robed prophet, he also laughed at the stupidity of the Orientals outside the city.

Since they are willing to dig tunnels, they will be flooded and drowned when the time comes.

Therefore, these Persian rebels not only did not counteract the digging of tunnels by the Han army outside the city, but they all lay on the city wall and looked lively.

The white-robed prophets already have a way to deal with it, and now they like to see the Orientals wasting their efforts in vain.

Even, on the second day, a large number of Persian rebels did nothing, all gathered on this section of the city wall, and began to watch the Han army outside the city digging tunnels in full swing.

The white-robed prophet Kedel has a vicious vision, and he has already judged the progress of the tunnel just by the soil transported by the Easterners.

However, he made a huge mistake.

In Kedel’s impression of the tunnel, at least one can be walked.

However, the tunnels of Hu Yiba and other tomb robbers are completely reduced by half!
(End of this chapter)