I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 183, big stick in hand, convincing people with virtue
Yanmen County, Yuanping County!
Since Yanmen Pass was breached by Xu Wei, Yuanping County has become the bridgehead for the Han to defend against Xu Wei.Lu Bu led 5000 soldiers and stationed here.

Ever since Dong Zhuo became the prefect of Taiyuan County, even though he publicly applauded Xu Wei, the two sides have continued to buy and sell, and even Dong Zhuo can buy important military supplies such as swords, armor, and horse armor in Mayi.

But Dong Zhuo did not take less precautions behind the scenes.

Lv Bu and others fortified the entire Yuanping County in order to defend against Xu Wei. Dong Zhuo was extremely supportive, asking money for money, things for things, and manpower for manpower. It can be said that they did not treat Lu Bu as an outsider at all, which made Lu Bu very grateful , Swear to the death to guard the entire Bingzhou for Dong Zhuo!

Therefore, the current Yuanping County has completely changed. Not only the city wall has been heightened and reinforced, but the moat has also been dug wide. Yuanping County is no longer lost to a fortress like a big man.

At this time, Lu Bu was looking at the [-] Tengjia Army not far away, which was the vanguard of Lei Gong, but when Lu Bu looked at this army, his heart began to shiver, and everywhere he looked was the cold light of swords , Huoshuo cold armor.

"Lei Gong's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and the 3 vanguards are all elite armored soldiers." Lu Bu couldn't believe the facts he saw. When did the iron armor of the big man become so worthless? Have you got all your armor?
The thing that made him sad the most was that his battalion of 5000 soldiers only had less than a few dozen pieces of iron armor, which were worn by him, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and other officers above the village chief.

And his immediate boss, Dong Zhuo, has more iron armor, but there is only one armored army of one thousand people!And he also knows that this thousand-man armored army and even the iron armor in his hand were obtained from Lei Gong

Seeing the iron armor, Lu Bu knew that he would definitely not be able to defeat Lei Gong. He asked Zhang Liao Dao beside him, "Has the news of Lei Gong's invasion been sent to General Dong? When will the reinforcements arrive?"

Zhang Liao said with a wry smile: "It's delivered. General Dong said that he wants to strengthen Jinyang's defense. There are no troops to support us. Let us find a way to defend ourselves. The only request General Dong has for us is to let us defend for 10 days. As long as we defend 10 days will count as a great achievement for us!"

"It's not a difficult time to guard for 10 days. If the army below is not Lei Gong's army, I would even dare to issue a military order, but it happens that the army below is Lei Gong's army!" Gao Shun said helplessly: "Even now we have not figured out the What's the matter with Lei Gong's thunder method? Now I dug three trenches outside the city wall to prevent Lei Gong from getting close to the city wall and destroying the city wall with thunder method. But this can only be delayed for a while. Sooner or later, the fortifications below will be completely destroyed by Lei Gong's subordinates Clear, we have no way to prevent Lei Gong from approaching the city wall."

Lu Bu slapped the bricks of the city wall angrily. How could they not be close to the city wall in the siege battle? If they were so powerful, they would not be forced to retreat by Lei Gong.

Gao Shun thought for a while and said, "I think the only thing that can stop Lei Gong's thunder method is the moat of Yuanping County. I carefully recalled the process of Lei Gong's thunder method several times, and found that Lei Gong's thunder method should be performed close to the city wall, but Now I have dug the moat of Yuanping County all the way under the foundation of the city wall, Lei Gong has no way to get close to the city wall, and it is difficult to use Lei Fa!"

Gao Shun's words brought a glimmer of hope to Lu Bu: "That means we can hold on for 10 days!"

Gao Shun thought for a while and said: "If Lei Gong has no other means, it is not difficult to hold on for 10 days!"

As soon as Gao Shun said this, he also felt aggrieved. He was also a general in Bingzhou, but now facing Lei Gong, he dared to say that he could hold on for 10 days. What kind of thing is this!
The vanguard commander of the 3 army is Wang Yong.

After he came to Yuanping County, he set up camp first, and built a camp like a hedgehog according to Xu Wei's camp plan.

This is what Xu Wei told the generals of the Tengjia Army over and over again. No matter what enemy they face, they must count defeat before they win, have a camp that allows them to remain invincible, and learn to be tough. Fight dumb!
Just kidding, the generals under him are not even third-rate, so what else can they do!
And this surprised Lu Bu and others who were guarding Yuanping County. The first three days passed like this!
On the fourth day, the camp was completed. Wang Yong led the army to Yuanping County. He looked at the hedgehog-like Yuanping County and said with a smile: "The guards on the opposite side are still our old friends. Let's say hello to them first. Order the bow and crossbow battalion to shoot me 10 arrows, let's say hello to Lu Bu, an old friend!"

The messenger sent down Wang Yong's order immediately.

The 2 soldiers of the Fourth Battalion, according to Wang Yong's order, came to Yuanping County a hundred steps away, and then lined up in three rows. The soldiers picked up their crossbow arrows and aimed at Yuanping County at a 45-degree angle!

"put!"

"Shhhhhh!"

2 crossbow arrows shot at the city wall of Yuanping County like a torrential rain.

When Lu Bu and the others saw this formation, they immediately yelled, "Everyone raise your shields to defend!"

Gao Shun had also prepared for it a long time ago. He had experienced the power of thunderbolt arrows in the last battle. This time, he prepared a large number of giant shields like wooden boards in Yuanping County.

He saw Lei Gong's men preparing to shoot the city wall with crossbow bolts.He ordered the soldiers to hold their shields high in groups of two.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The crossbow shot the shield with a booming sound.

No matter how large the defense area of ​​this shield is, many soldiers were still shot, and the arrows were the soldiers howling on the city wall!
Lu Bu was furious: "Counterattack, the army counterattack!"

After speaking, he used his own bow and arrow to shoot an arrow at the bottom!
"Dang!" But it didn't have much effect. The soldiers were all 100 steps away. Lu Bu's bow and arrow were no longer powerful, and the soldiers were wearing iron armor, so naturally they couldn't shoot through them even more!
Of course, with Lu Bu's counterattack, the Han army on the city wall also began to counterattack with bows and arrows!

Thousands of long arrows shot down from the city wall at once!

Of course, most of them are not very powerful, but there are still a few unlucky ones who were injured.

Seeing that Lu Bu dared to fight back, Wang Yong sneered and said, "The suppressing effect won't work. Keep shooting until Lu Bu and the others dare not fight back!"

"put!"

"Shhhhhh!"

Following Wang Yong's order, the Bow and Crossbow Battalion moved in a team of 5000 people and kept shooting at the city wall. After one battalion finished shooting, the next battalion continued to shoot. The Han army will definitely be shot out of hedgehogs by crossbow arrows!
Gao Shun shouted: "Our bows and arrows are not as powerful as Lei Gong's crossbow arrows, our soldiers are not as many as Lei Gong's, and our arrows are not as many as Lei Gong's. Now Lei Gong's men have shot 7 to 8 arrows, and we have not seen their arrows decrease. The frequency, but we have already shot one-third of the long arrows, and if we continue to shoot like this, it will not be conducive to the defense behind us!"

This is the talking room!
"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Another round of crossbow arrows was shot, and hundreds of unlucky soldiers were shot on the city wall. If they defended with all their strength, they would not have suffered so many casualties, but because they had to fight back, thousands of soldiers Injured by Lei Gong's crossbow arrows.

No matter how dissatisfied Lu Bu was, he could only stop and fight back, and then watched Wang Yue's crossbow arrow battalion show off its might in Yuanping County!
In this way, Wang Yong shot 5 rounds in a row, and 10 long arrows filled the city wall of Yuanping County!That's enough.

After seeing the soldiers in Yuanping County being suppressed by the crossbow arrows, he continued to send orders: "The crossbow arrow battalion suppresses the Han army on the city wall, and the rest of the people clear the fortifications around Yuanping County and fill the trenches in front of Yuanping County!"

Following Wang Yue's order, the soldiers of the Nujian Battalion continued to shoot crossbow arrows into Yuanping County, suppressing Lu Bu and others, and soon the Jumas around Yuanping County were demolished by soldiers, and the trenches were filled by soldiers. In less than two days, the entire Yuanping County There is only a giant moat 5 feet wide left!
"This Lu Bu is still a little bit capable. He actually created such a wide moat, and there is no place to stand under the moat!" Wang Yue said helplessly.

Generally, the moat will leave some land, which is to prevent the moat from eroding the city wall. Of course, this also gives the attackers a foothold. As long as the pontoon bridge is built, the soldiers can attack the city with ladders.

But now Yuanping County is like building a wharf, directly building the city wall in the water, just like a wharf. It is useless for Wang Yue to build a pontoon now, and it is impossible to put the ladder on the pontoon!
Wang Yong could only find Zhu Gui, the captain of the engineering battalion, and asked him what he could do?
After looking around Yuanping County, Zhu Gui said: "We only need to build a canal on the upper reaches of the Hutuo River, so that the Hutuo River can bypass Yuanping County, so that no matter how wide the moat built by Lu Bu is, we can easily fill it up as long as there is no water! And the amount of this project is not large, it can be completed in 3-5 days at most!"

Wang Yong said unwillingly: "It will take another 3-5 days!"

Xu Wei has led the army to Yuanping County for such a long time, but he has not broken through such a small county town, which somewhat makes Wang Yong feel ashamed!
After seeing what he was thinking, Zhu Gui said, "This is the county town that Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu have worked so hard to build for a year. Do you still want to break down such a defensive fortress in one battle!"

Wang Yong said: "I have a strong army now, why can't I defeat such unknown people as Lu Bu!"

Zhu Guidao: "What's the use of you telling me, now Lu Bu and the others are sticking to you and not fighting you, you have the ability to send your soldiers to Yuanping County, otherwise you can only use the method of cutting off the waterway!"

Wang Yong took his men around Yuanping County, and found that there was really no good way to cross the moat to attack Yuanping County!He could only helplessly agree with Zhu Gui's method. "Who built this city? After being caught by Lao Tzu, I will let him go to Mayixiu Wharf!"

Zhu Gui on the side smiled and said: "Don't tell me, the Han general who built this city is really a genius. He can actually build the city into an island in the heart of the river without affecting the defensive function. This is at least a master-level craftsman in our Mayi." !"

Then Wang Yong left 2 soldiers to guard against the Han army in Yuanping County rushing out of the city, and the remaining [-] soldiers, led by Zhu Gui, began to dig canals in the upper reaches of Yuanping County, allowing the Hutuo River to bypass Yuanping County!

At the same time, Xu Wei led an army of 7 to slowly march towards Taiyuan County, but his big advance had just entered the range of Yuanping County, and instead of joining Wang Yue, he asked the soldiers to take the first battalion as a unit All the noble families and gentry in the entire Yuanping County are invited to their tents!

"You are all scholars, unlike me, Lei Gong, who has not learned any skills, but can only set off mines, blow up city walls and so on. Such skills are useless!" Xu Wei said vulgarly.

The gentry and powerful gentry present looked embarrassed, and said in their hearts: "If you hadn't got the grenade technique, we would have appeared here so easily!"

The nobles and powerful gentry who came here have already written their suicide notes. They have been neighbors with Xu Wei for two or three years. They naturally know that Lei Gong is a handsome man. sheep.In recent years, the nobles of the Huns and the leaders of the Xianbei were murdered, their families were ruined, and their wives were separated!

If there was any chance of winning, none of them would be invited here by Lei Gong!Instead, Wupu and Lei Gong, who stayed at their home, fought to the death!

"If you had followed my old Lei's approach and directly breached your Wubao, hanged you to death, then distributed your wives and concubines to bachelors, and distributed your property and land to landless refugees!"

Xu Wei's words scared several gentry on the spot and rolled their eyes and fainted, because they knew that Lei Gong really did such a thing, and thought this was their end!
"But I, Lao Lei, have recently learned the words of a sage, and I have learned a bit. The sage also said that we should conquer people with virtue, and I, Lao Lei, also like to conquer people with virtue. How about this? I won't attack your docks because of your face. Fort, you also give my Lao Lei a face. I will leave 10 acres of land for each of you, and the rest of the land will be handed over to me to distribute to other refugees. I will not keep your money, but the food will be enough for you for a year. I will leave the rest to me, and I, Lao Lei, will go to the Central Plains to help the victims, and I think you all know it."

"You are all disciples of the sages. You must know that the sage Confucius said that the old has something to support and the young has something to depend on. Now I am helping you do good deeds and practice the words of Confucius! I think you will not give me Lao Lei this Save face!"

At this moment, Lao Tzu Ten Wan asked: "It's not what the imperial court should do to help the victims of disasters. Why should it take our food and fields! And this matter shouldn't be done by Shuai Qu!"

Even though these people are afraid of Xu Wei, for their land and food, they still want to try their chance to see if Lei Gong is really as he said. of!
Xu Wei said with a smile on his face: "I will show you one thing, and after watching it, you will know how I convince people with reasoning!
Xu Wei took them to a small hill in Yuanping County!A ton of black gunpowder has long been buried under this hill by Xu Wei!

Then Xu Wei waved to his subordinates!

One immediately ignited the black powder fuse!
These powerful and powerful gentry still don't understand what's going on!

Suddenly, there was a loud "Boom!", and the ground shook for a while, and the smoke filled the air. The powerful and powerful gentry all fell to the ground.

When they reacted, they realized that the hill in front of them had disappeared.

Then Xu Wei said to them with a smile on his face: "Which of you is not convinced by my old Lei's virtue!"

"Convincing people with virtue is not what it means!"

But when these gentry saw the disappearing hill, they thought of their own Wubao!It is impossible to resist Lei Gong's Lei Fa, everyone nodded and said: "Lei Gongqu is handsome and virtuous and can bless the common people in the world, so how can we lose our share in helping the victims! Please let us follow the tail!"

(End of this chapter)