I am not in the position of Zen [Three Kingdoms]

Lu Bu raised his eyebrows, and Jun's face was full of doubts: "Bu Man?"

Under Guo Jia's order, the strong soldiers brought up several huge curtains sewn together with many pieces of cloth and some thick wooden strips.

The siege vehicles used by the Huns today are large four-story vehicles.The upper three floors are loaded with soldiers shooting and throwing stones, and the bottom floor is for dozens of people to push behind at the same time.The cart was built high enough to exceed ten meters, and each floor was covered by waist-high thick wooden planks.Compared with unprotected siege ladders, siege vehicles not only improve the defense of soldiers, but also significantly increase the damage to the defenders on the high city wall and the damage to the city wall, and the combat effectiveness is also stronger.

However, the siege vehicle is huge and inconvenient to transport, and it requires the joint efforts of multiple people to move it. For the Huns who are accustomed to light cavalry attacks, this weapon is not commonly used.Moreover, Bingzhou is no more densely populated than the Central Plains, and the distance between cities is too far, so the Huns can only transfer three siege vehicles.

The Huns wanted to rely on siege vehicles to quickly break through a part of the city wall, invade the city quickly, and wipe out all the Han troops by virtue of their numerical superiority. They took advantage of the victory in this battle to reverse their disadvantaged position in the Bingzhou War and captured Lu Bu. The head is a strong blow to the confidence of the Han army.

Lu Bu suddenly realized: "That's how it is." It stands to reason that as long as this huge curtain is hung in front of the city wall, the Huns will fall into the blind spot of sight and can effectively cover themselves.But if the arrow completely penetrated the veil, the soldiers behind would still be injured.Although letting Guo Jia do it, Lu Bu ordered the archers to stand by.He supported Fang Tian's painted halberd and asked, "Can this soft cloth really resist throwing stones and arrows?"

Guo Jia pressed his feather fan against his graceful chin, and said with a smile: "The north wind is howling recently, this cloth curtain can get twice the result with half the effort by using softness to overcome rigidity, just watch it, general."

Soldiers used thick and long wooden sticks to hang the curtain in front of the city wall, and the wind bulged the curtain to block the front of the siege vehicles.Suddenly, the Xiongnu's siege engine seemed to be a wild horse covering its eyes, unable to use its strength.

The Han army was in the direction against the Huns.The arrows and stones thrown by the siege vehicles encountered the soft curtain blown up by the strong wind, and most of their strength was removed, and the arrows with insufficient strength slid down the first layer of curtain.Only part of the powerful arrows and stones broke through the first layer of cloth, but the rest of the force was dispelled by the second layer of cloth.

Siege engines are bulky and inconvenient to turn around.The Han army standing on the high part of the city wall's archery tower could immediately grasp the direction of rotation of the siege vehicle and signal the soldiers to adjust the position of the curtain accordingly.

Seeing this, Xu Bu Gu Shanyu sneered and said: "A small trick, do you think this can withstand our chariot? Come, prepare for the fire!"

King Zuo Xian hurriedly sent down an order to collect flammable branches.

Standing on the high city wall, Lu Bu saw a dozen or so horsemen galloping out from the tail of the Xiongnu: "The Xiongnu stopped for a while, what did they send these dozen of people for?"

Guo Jia said firmly: "[-]% of them want to collect firewood and burn the curtain."

Lu Bu said in a deep voice: "The curtain is flammable. Once it burns, it will be troublesome. It is too late to put out the fire. If the rockets attack, we have to give up."

"It doesn't matter, it's within my expectations." Guo Jia waved his lupine calmly: "Let's raise the curtain so that people on the ground cannot shoot, and then order people to fetch long hooks and sickles. "

Sure enough, half an hour later, more than a dozen riders went and returned.The Xiongnu cut down poplar trees, tied flammable dry branches on the long trunks, and poured sesame oil on them, intending to burn the curtains.For a moment, the smell of fried food filled the city wall, and the soldiers on both sides couldn't help sniffing, feeling the gluttons in their stomachs about to move.

Under Guo Jia's order, the Han army quickly raised the curtain, and when the trunk of the Populus euphratica used by the Huns got close, they used a sharp long hook to hook it, and used a wooden stick tied with a sickle to break the trunk of the Populus euphratica.King Zuo Xian and his subordinates struggled for a while, but they still couldn't light the curtain with fire.

A Hun thought of using a rocket, stood on a siege engine, tied a twig lit with grease to the arrow and shot it.After the Huns shot more than a dozen arrows in a row, the cloth curtain finally burned.

Guo Jia waved his fan and asked the soldiers to adjust the direction of the first layer of curtain amid the cheers of the Huns.When the cloth curtain ignited a raging fire, Lu Bu gave an order: "Let go!"

The burning veil went straight to the Huns' siege vehicles along the direction of the wind. The wooden siege vehicles were easy to burn, and there was no water in them to fight the fire, so one of them burned down in a short while.

The Huns' siege vehicle tactics were greatly constrained, but ordinary sieges were no match for the Han army.The Han army has excellent weapons, arrows like rain, and powerful thunderbolts. Their siege ladder was blown up by the Han army as soon as they went up.At sunset, King Zuo Xian had no choice but to ring the gong to withdraw his troops, but returned without success.

Xu Bu Gu Shanyu, who was sitting in the township personally, was very angry: "This Lv Bu actually stays behind closed doors. It's not the fault of a real man! It's freezing cold today, and the transportation of food and grass is inconvenient. How can we afford it!" He turned his head and scolded Zuo Xian Wang: "Our military strength is more than twice that of the Han army. You trash, you can't even take down the city!"

King Zuoxian cautiously replied: "It's really the Han army's thunderbolt that is too difficult to deal with, but Shan Yu don't worry, I have a plan, Bao Zhun restrains this thunderbolt."

At this time, Lu Bu was asking Guo Jia: "The Xiongnu returned without success, will they continue to attack tomorrow? There are still many boulders prepared in the city. Tomorrow, we can use the curtain to block the opponent's sight and take the opportunity to smash the opponent's siege engine." .”

Guo Jia thought about it for a while, and replied: "There are only eleven types of siege, such as landing, hook, ladder, mound, water, and cave, plus the siege vehicles that have emerged in recent years. These are the methods anyway. The Xiongnu have tried half of them. The method, the next step, is either to dig the upstream river to attack the city, or to attack the city at night and through tunnels."

"It's freezing cold today, and the thick layer of ice has frozen. If the Xiongnu want to attack with water, at least they have to wait until the beginning of spring." Lu Bu thought for a while following Guo Jia's train of thought: "As for the night attack, Gao Shun had already considered it. At night, he would hang oil lamps on the outer city wall for illumination, and place iron hooks and caltrops where the light could not reach, and hang them on the city wall with fishing nets after sunset to prevent the Huns from climbing at night."

"General Gao is indeed strict. The remaining one is to prevent the Xiongnu from attacking the city through the tunnel at night."

Lu Bu nodded: "I ordered people to step up patrols at night, and send a small team to patrol the city wall for a week every hour."

In the next two days, the Huns did not attack the city again during the day.Guo Jia concluded: "It must be that the opponent has already made a move in a place we haven't discovered."

Lu Bu also felt something was wrong: "Gao Shun is careful, let him go and see for himself at night."

In the evening, Gao Shun fell from the city wall along the rope and led a small team to patrol around the wall. Sure enough, he heard a strange noise on the northeast side of the city.There were quite a number of Huns, so he quickly held his breath, stepped lightly, and waited in ambush for a while, only to see that the Huns dug ten tunnels at the same time.Taking advantage of the fact that the other party hadn't found him, he quickly and the team quietly retreated the same way, and went back to report to Lu Bu.

When Lu Bu heard this, he was quite surprised: "It turned out to be the northeast side, and there are mountains behind the northeast side. That piece of land is very solid, and there are many rocks in it, so it was excavated from here."

Gao Shun said: "I'm afraid it's because of the terrain here that they were ignored during patrolling. My lord, please let me lead a thousand troops to drive them away."

"If we go out of the city, the Xiongnu will be alerted immediately. If the number is small, the Xiongnu will make dumplings. If the number is large, we will have a decisive battle with the Xiongnu. This is inconsistent with the delay policy we set at the beginning." Lu Bu shook his head and asked Guo Jia : "Sir, what's the way to deal with it?"

Guo Jia, who was woken up in the middle of the night, rubbed his eyes, yawned, and answered the irrelevant question: "I heard that the emperor rewarded the army with a lot of oil and iron pans to improve the food in the army?"

"Yes," Lu Bu replied, "It's a very good treatment for the soldiers to eat oil." The soldiers who came to defend the city this time fought to the death, so he took most of the oil rewarded. up.In addition, considering that the siege can be dealt with by pouring hot oil from the city wall, only one-tenth of the oil was eaten, and most of it was kept for emergencies.

"Oil is extremely flammable, so I simply ordered people to stand near the exit of the tunnel, prepare ample firewood and oil, and light a big fire, so that when they rush in, they will directly pour oil on them, ignite the fire, and burn them directly "Guo Jia suggested: "Order someone to put a catapult on the city wall here to prevent the continuous influx of the Huns and slow down their pace of attacking the tunnel."

Gao Shun added: "My lord, we still have to prepare stones and remove some bricks from the empty houses. After repelling their attack, we will fill up the dug tunnels."

Lu Bu nodded: "Just follow what you said." He was already a little irritable, and it was against his nature not to play.But only he has enough bait to lure the enemy, and he can't find other people to come to Ningyuan County instead.

"The time for the opponent's attack should be during the nights of the last two days." Lu Bu said, "Everyone should recharge their batteries during the day and arrange soldiers to take turns resting near the city wall during the day, so that even if they need to temporarily recruit people during the day, there is still time."

The author has something to say: The setting of the siege vehicle is based on the appearance of the Linchong Lv public vehicle in history.

The method of defending the city is borrowed from the defensive and offensive battles of Wei Xiaokuan and Gao Huan during the Northern and Southern Dynasties in history. Of course, there are relatively large changes on this basis, adding our own settings.

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