Mi Han

Chapter 94 Three days have passed

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, three days have passed.

In the past three days, Lu Meng, who surrounded the police, has not been idle.

He ordered the tens of thousands of civilians he brought with him to build camps and build various siege equipment during these three days.

This time when Lu Meng attacked Jingzhou, the total number of soldiers in his hands, plus the civilian husbands he carried, totaled nearly 20.

This is thanks to the convenience of transporting grain and grass by the Yangtze River waterway.

Otherwise, just relying on Jiangdong alone, the number of civilians needed to transport the daily consumption of [-] troops will reach tens of thousands.

And this huge logistical pressure is enough to pull Jiangdong into the abyss of war.

The Yangtze River is really the mother river of Jiangdong.

In order to win Jingzhou without fail this time, Sun Quan exhausted all the national strength of Jiangdong to support Lu Meng in this all-powerful battle.

The battle of public security is like the battle of Changping in the Warring States period.

With all the power of the country, if Sun Quan can successfully win the police and then sweep Jingzhou, then his strength will be qualitatively improved.

But if his army of [-] was under the city of Gong'an, it would be like the entire Zhao army was wiped out in the Battle of Changping.

Not to mention how Sun Quan will resist the attacks of Cao Cao and Liu Bei from now on, I am afraid that Sun Quan will not even be able to handle the Shanyue barbarians in Jiangdong.

In order to win Jingzhou, Sun Quan finally showed the spirit of shooting the tiger himself, and used all his courage to make a big gamble.

And Sun Quan's various contributions put pressure on Lu Meng on the front line all the time.

Although this kind of pressure is invisible, it will gradually make Lu Meng breathless as time goes by.

Just like all kings throughout the ages, when Sun Quan put all his hopes and Jiangdong's future on Lv Meng, Sun Quan also urgently hoped that Lv Meng would make some achievements to show him.

Perhaps it wasn't that Sun Quan didn't trust Lu Meng, but that those Jiangdong families who had put their all into this battle, who were worried about their hometown, needed to make some achievements as soon as possible on the front line of Lu Meng, so that they could feel at ease.

Sun Tzu's Art of War has a saying: To build sculls, sculls, and equipment, it will be completed in three months, and it will be three months after the distance.

Among them, those who are far away from the gate, jump up and build up high soil, and move forward to attach themselves to the city.

Whether it is repairing sculls or distance gates, they are commonly used siege methods in this era, but at the same time they are time-consuming siege methods.

But thanks to the presence of the Yangtze River, the mother river of Jiangdong, Lu Meng can continuously transport Jiangdong's siege equipment to the front line through the power of water transportation.

This is also the real reason why Lu Menghui ordered the [-] Jiangdong army to wait for three days.

Just yesterday, many large siege equipment had been transported to the barracks that Lu Meng had just built.

Looking at the many large siege equipment that Sun Quan brought for him, Lu Meng was full of confidence.

Therefore, this morning, Lu Meng officially issued an order to attack the city.

Because the east of the city was used as the main direction for the Jiangdong army to break the city, Lumont used the morning as the time to attack the city.

In this way, when the sun rises in the east, the Jingzhou defenders facing the Jiangdong army will undoubtedly defend the city with their faces facing the sun, which will greatly affect their sight.

Lu Meng and several lieutenants in the army stood on the set up nest car, observing the scene in the public security city from a high position.

The nest car is a kind of vehicle used by ancient generals to observe the enemy's situation.

The high-hanging watchtower on the car is like a bird's nest, so it is called the nest car.

There are wheels on the bottom of the nest cart, which can be pushed.

Two long pillars are erected on the cart with strong wood, and a pulley shaft (pull wheel) is set on the top of the pillars, and a small wooden house is tied to the pulley with ropes.

There are 12 lookout holes on all sides of the plank house, and the outside is covered with raw cowhide to prevent the enemy from being damaged by arrows and stones.

Several people can be accommodated in the house, and it can be elevated several feet by a potter's wheel. When attacking the city, you can observe the situation of the enemy soldiers in the city.
But now at Lu Meng's height, it is just convenient for him to look directly at the figure of Mi Yang on the city wall.

Looking at the young general standing with his sword in the city wall, Lu Meng was filled with complicated emotions in his heart.

If this heroic and decisive Mi Yang was born in his Jiangdong, then he, Lu Meng, would definitely train him vigorously so that he could serve Sun Quan on his own as soon as possible.

But now Mi Yang's orchid and jade tree grows in the courtyard of the Han Dynasty, so he, general Wu, will naturally not be able to make him thrive.

Just like treating Guan Yu.

Lu Meng himself admired Guan Yu quite a lot, but the two sides have different positions, and there will be a day when they will become enemies.

The nest car standing high in the enemy's barracks also attracted the attention of Mi Yang on the city wall.

Mi Yang couldn't see how many people were in the nest cart because it was blocked by the wooden house of the nest cart.

But he knew that Lu Meng must be among them.

But at this time, Mi Yang didn't have time to take care of Lu Meng in the nest car. When Lu Meng gave the order to attack the city, the horn of attack in the Jiangdong army had already sounded.

The north wind blows the drums of battle.

With the sound of hundreds of high-pitched drums, hundreds of huge vehicles were slowly pushed out of the Jiangdong army formation.

轒輼 is a large chariot used for siege in ancient wars.

It is a four-wheeled cart made of a row of large logs. The top is covered with raw cowhide, and the bottom can accommodate ten people. They transport soil to fill the moat. They cannot be damaged by wood and rocks. They are also called wooden donkeys.

Under the cover of 轒輼, the Jiangdong soldiers hiding in it kept approaching the Juma outside the moat of the Public Security City.

Long before the arrival of Lv Meng's army, Mi Yang, who had arrived at the Public Security Bureau nearly a month earlier, had wantonly renovated the fortifications in the Public Security City.

One of the fortifications he valued the most was the construction of a large number of antlers to resist horses outside the four walls of the Public Security City.

There are few cavalry in Jiangdong, and Mi Yang built these antlers to resist horses not to guard against cavalry.

His purpose was to use the large number of antlers outside the moat to slow down the enemy's movement when the Jiangdong army sent soldiers to fill the moat and build a pontoon bridge on the moat.

In this way, if the Jiangdong army wants to successfully fill up the moat outside the public security city, it is necessary to clean up these antlers and refuse horses first.

But under the city guarded by soldiers, it is not so easy to clean up the antlers outside the moat safely and quickly.

Sure enough, when Jiangdong's soldiers hid behind the 轒輼 and pushed the 轒輼 to the outside of the public security moat, their actions were blocked by the large number of antlers and horses.

In order to remove this large number of antlers and horses, the Jiangdong soldiers hiding in and behind the camp had to show up.

And when they appeared, Mi Yang, who had been observing the movements of the Jiangdong soldiers, immediately ordered the Jingzhou soldiers on the city wall to shoot arrows.

Under Mi Yang's order, arrows rained down on the city wall of the Public Security City.

Mi Yang ordered the arrows to be released, but his main purpose was not to kill and injure those advancing Jiangdong soldiers, but his main purpose was to destroy those soldiers.

He ordered Jingzhou soldiers to release rockets!

The outside of the 轒輼 is wrapped with raw cowhide, and wrapping it with raw cowhide is a major means of defending against enemy fire attacks in this era.

But this does not mean that the inside of the 轒輼 is also protected by rawhide.

When the ointment-coated rocket turned into the scythe of death and fell on the Jiangdong soldiers who were the pioneers.

Those Jiangdong soldiers who wore cloth armor and were not protected by raw cowhide were mostly surrounded by flames.

Water and fire are ruthless, and when these two things fall on one's body, they can also cause a person's panic most.

Seeing that a raging fire started to rise on his body, anyone's first reaction was to want to extinguish the fire on his body.

And those Jiangdong soldiers were afraid of the rockets on the city wall, so most of the hundreds of Jiangdong soldiers chose to hide in the cave to put out the fire.

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