Three Kingdoms: The Guan Family's Rebellious Son, Long Blessing Jing Xiang

Chapter 476: With the city as my bones, even if there are tens of thousands of people, I will still hold it down!
Hao Zhao, the famous bone-suppressing general;
This famous general who guarded Hexi for more than ten years in history and lived and died with Hexi;

This famous general led Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition and stormed the Chencang City he was guarding with tens of thousands of troops. With dozens of times the strength advantage, he attacked day and night for more than [-] days without being able to break the city. In the end, the prime minister was forced to retreat;

In this turbulent battlefield at the end of the Han Dynasty, in this era where heroes gathered together, he was only mentioned a few times in history books, but he left a deep impression on people. He was a famous general who interpreted the word "guard" to the extreme.

It is hard to imagine that when he was young, he was just a member of the Jiangxia Army, an unremarkable soldier under Jiangxia Tiebi Wenpin.

But by chance, this treasure was discovered by Guan Lin.

Because he is Hao Zhao...

Guan Lin resisted the tremendous pressure from the four major families in Jingzhou: "Pang, Ma, Xiang, and Xi" and forced him to marry the girl of his dreams, the daughter of Xi Zhen, the daughter of the Xi family.

This pair of beauties are fulfilled!
I heard that the girl is now...pregnant, and young Hao Zhao is about to become a father!

After getting married, Hao Zhao's heart was completely settled.

He first assisted Mi Fang in improving and reconstructing the drawings of Jiangling City's new city and new walls, and then was appointed by Guan Lin to rush to Changsha City and serve as the captain in charge of military power, leading the entire city construction of Changsha City.

Because Han Xuan, Gong Zhi and others helped with favors;
Because of the financial support of the Jiaozhou scholar family, the construction of the new city in Changsha progressed very quickly.

In Changsha City today, it has been more than a month since the construction of the new city was completed.

But... in the entire new city, except for the 1000 and [-] sergeants under Hao Zhao, few people know the real situation...

Not to mention others, even Liao Li, the prefect of Changsha here, knew very little about it.

All I know is that this new city and new wall are extremely expensive to build!
嗏

It does not matter.

Because Hao Zhao was here, and because Hao Zhao personally supervised the construction of the new city and the new wall in Changsha, he had absolute confidence in the city and the wall.

...

"Clang clang clang-"

The warning bell has rung, and suddenly... the whole old city of Changsha is boiling, and there is noisy everywhere.

Uneasy and hasty people ran around in the city.

The militiamen who had been temporarily gathered went up to the tower one after another.

There are towers in the old city and towers in the new city…

Even though winter has passed, without exception, these militiamen exhaled white breath. Facing the surging Soochow army, they were extremely nervous.

Similarly, the officials of Changsha City, big and small, also went up to the city tower. They looked down from the city tower... At first glance, everyone seemed to have stopped breathing.

tens of thousands…

To be precise, there must be tens of thousands of soldiers from Soochow, who have already landed in great numbers and appeared on the line where water and land meet.

At the intersection of the waterways, countless small, fuzzy black spots appeared, but then, the black spots grew bigger and bigger...

Han Xuan and Gong Zhi also boarded the tower immediately.

Gong Zhi was startled and gasped for air, while Han Xuan seemed calmer. He chirped and whispered softly, "Sure enough, Guan Shiro was right again this time..."

what…

——"Forget it...is it right?" 』

Consolidation's heart pounded, and he was a little confused for a moment. According to his inherent thoughts and experience, if he was right, shouldn't he... send troops to support in advance?

Why on the contrary... let Soochow's army attack!

Ah no, an march of this scale is no longer a surprise attack, it is an honest and open breach of the alliance, a backstabbing without any scruples——

"Han...Mr. Han? According to what you said...since Mr. Yun Qi is right, then...then he should have left some tips, right?"

As he consolidated his words, Han Xuan nodded gently, his tone meticulous.

"Indeed, Yun Qi left something behind."

"What?" Jiancheng was almost anxious to death, and his cheeks looked a little ferocious due to nervousness.

However, Han Xuan slowly moved his eyes to the center of the city and looked at the young man wearing heavy armor, holding a heavy sword on the ground, and with piercing eyes.

It’s Hao Zhao——

Ji Ji was startled and asked quickly: "What Mr. Han means is that the master plan left by Mr. Yunqi is...that he is Hao Zhao? But...but he only has more than 1000 people. Soochow's soldiers and horses...must have...must have... "

As he spoke, he glanced outside the city with his firm peripheral vision. The Soochow soldiers and horses were already forming formations, building ladders, and were about to attack the city at any moment...

Having commanded the army for many years, he could determine with a quick glance that the number of troops dispatched for the raid in Soochow this time was only a lot more than the figure of [-]!
This special one... I have to fight fifty of them!

call!
When Gong Zhi said this, Han Xuan suddenly felt a little nervous, but in just a moment, the nervousness quickly disappeared...

He still said calmly, "Yun Qi said that Hao Zhao alone can withstand a hundred thousand defenders!"

Over here... Han Xuan and Gong Zhi are still talking.

Over there, Liao Li, the prefect of Changsha, was confused by such a situation. He led a thousand mixed soldiers composed of militiamen and government officials to the city tower. Then he took three steps and two steps at a time, and quickly ran to Hao Zhao in front of.

He ran like this.

Everyone looked at Hao Zhao in unison.

This young general who was valued by the Fourth Young Master Guan had no expression on his face, neither joy nor sorrow.

His face looked the same when he first arrived in Changsha and when he was building a new city in Changsha. It is still the same now.

Serious, calm, strict, unsmiling——

These... made many officials dislike this young general. They felt that he was difficult to get along with and that he was pretending to be aloof. But now... he still has this expression, and it is still the new city built under his strict requirements. At this time , inexplicably made people up and down feel certain.

Mount Tai collapsed in front without changing its color.

Facing fifty times the enemy force without changing his expression, such courage is rare in the world. It is really extraordinary!
Hao Zhao's indifferent attitude also relieved everyone's worries. After all... when the city was first built, he asked Guan Lin, "Changsha, Jiangling? Why did you build this new city?"

At that time, Guan Lin did not answer directly, but asked: "Why do you ask that?"

Hao Zhao's answer is: "Business has commercial methods, preventing water conservancy has methods to prevent water conservancy, using less to fight more has to use less to fight more..."

Before Hao Zhao could finish his words, Guan Lin spoke directly, "To prevent Soochow with fewer enemies and more enemies... This is the main purpose. For this purpose, all other purposes can be compromised!"

At that time... Hao Zhao also questioned, why should we guard against Soochow when it was clearly an alliance between Sun and Liu?

But now... when Soochow's army came to the city, he finally realized... Mr. Yunqi stood tall and could see far!
Because of this, from the moment Hao Zhao built the "New City", he regarded "enemies with fewer enemies" and "preventing Soochow" as his only two purposes.

It can be said that the construction of the entire city is completed around these two purposes, and he has been preparing for this for half a year.

This is also the biggest reason why he is always calm and composed and has extraordinary courage.

Emotions...are contagious.

Hao Zhao's indifferent attitude also relieved everyone's worries. After all... building new cities, building new walls, and the "four-in-one" defense system are to prevent Soochow's surprise attacks.

Now, a surprise attack has come. It can only be said that it was... expected!And Hao Zhao is so calm, thinking about it, he is confident that he can defeat the enemy!

——"What a...talent!" 』

——"The descendants are to be feared!" 』

Liao Li groaned twice in his heart. He looked at Hao Zhao cautiously, and then asked the officials and soldiers in the city what they were thinking.

"Hao Duwei, now? What should we do?"

Hao Zhao pondered for a moment and said: "Everyone performs his duties, steps by step, and defends the city——"

The voice he spoke was calm, without any emotion.

But all of a sudden, everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Liao Li couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "General Hao has the air of a general at such a young age!"

The soldiers then reacted and shouted loudly. "Hao Duwei ordered everyone to perform their duties, step by step, and defend the city—defend the city—"

The chaos stopped instantly.

Suddenly, everyone felt at ease.

To know…

If it weren't for the new city and the new wall built by Hao Zhao, then even the three Changsha cities tied together would not be Soochow's opponent. But now, no matter...the effectiveness of the new city and the new wall, at least...everyone's heart There is some more hope.

At this time, support their hope of persevering!

The entire city of Changsha began to become orderly.

They seemed to have practiced countless times in the past. Numerous "auxiliary roads" were filled with stones, and kerosene was also sent to the city walls. Archers were in place on the outer walls of the two new cities, and all officials performed their duties.

Seeing everyone busy, Hao Zhao nodded solemnly.

However, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Liao Li... It seemed that the disparity in strength still made the Changsha governor a little nervous.

As if to cover up this nervousness, after asking Hao Zhao, he never opened his mouth again, let alone gave any orders.

He leaned against the city wall weakly, his eyes dull, as if he was still filled with countless worries about this battle.

In the end, I raised my eyes dullly and looked at the sky with rolling dark clouds. My eyes were confused, confused, worried, and hesitant.

Hao Zhao patted his shoulder as if relieved.

"If Changsha City is lost, neither you nor I will have any bones left. However, Governor Liao, please relax. I built this city. Every brick and tile is like the bones in my body. Although the bandits are numerous, they still regard the city as their foundation." Bones, even if there are tens of thousands of people, I will still suppress them——"

This…

Inexplicably, because of Hao Zhao's words, Liao Li... and those frightened officials suddenly cheered up!

Also burn up!

...

It was early July in the 21st year of Jian'an.

Changsha City.

The bloody setting sun filled the sky, dyeing the city by the river red, and also dyeing the bloody battlefield red.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The drums beat like thunder, and countless Soochow navy troops carried ladders and quickly swarmed towards the tower.

Rows of arrows shot down from the top of the city tower, and denser arrows from the bottom of the city tower continued to shoot towards the top of the city tower. This was the first round of testing between the two sides.

——Arrow Rain Suppression!
One side occupies absolute terrain, but the other side occupies absolute numerical advantage.

The real offensive and defensive battle has begun!

At the Eastern Wu Central Military Department, Lu Meng, Zhu Zhi, Jiang Qin, and Ding Feng all rode horses to supervise the battle.

First, a man from Jiangdong who looked like a businessman was kneeling down to report, "The young man is the captain of the Jiefan camp. He met a farmer who delivered food to the Changsha army outside the city... The young man spent a lot of money to buy the information. According to Daily stoves, daily food consumption, small determination...The garrison of Changsha City does not have 3000 people, this is their bluff, even including the militia, there are no more than [-] at most!"

With this detailed report.Lu Meng laughed and nodded, "This is the land God gave me in Eastern Wu and Jingnan! It is God who wants to kill the Guan family and his son!"

Immediately, Zhu Zhi and Jiang Qin asked for help.

"The end will be invited to fight."

Lu Meng waved his hand gently, indicating that they should focus on the city.

At this moment...the first round of offense and defense is in full swing.

This is a test between the offensive and defensive sides, and it is also the main tone of this offensive and defensive battle.

only…

The battle situation seems not to be optimistic.

At this moment, a soldier quickly reported, "Report - the walls of Changsha City are extremely high, and the outer walls of the city walls are reinforced with baffles, leaving only a narrow window for shooting arrows and throwing stones... Our army raised its crossbows. After being shot, the arrows were unable to penetrate the city... Instead, they were covered by enemy arrows, fallen wood, and stones, and our army suffered heavy losses!"

Following the soldier's report, Lu Meng couldn't help but stare at the towering city wall, frowning slightly, and sighed: "What a high city wall! In order to prevent arrows from shooting upward, Changsha City is even equipped with baffles!"

In fact, Lu Meng wanted to say - this Changsha City is so detailed!
Jiang Qin then said: "Since bows and arrows cannot cause fire suppression...the enemy has few soldiers, it is better to send more ladders and press them forward in a big way, with the old and new cities coming up together. There are only 2000 people in Changsha City, let them focus on one thing and lose the other!"

Jiang Qin's suggestion was exactly what Lu Meng urgently needed. He immediately said: "Then General Jiang Qin will lead the ladder army. If we climb the tower first, then in this battle...General Jiang Qin should be the first to win!"

Jiang Qin gestured with his hands, and then waved behind him, "Every unit prepares ladders and follow me to attack the city -"

As he spoke, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses formed a ladder army, with more than two hundred ladders, all rushing towards Changsha City.

On the other hand, looking at the tower...

"They are going to use ladders aggressively!" Gong Zhi exclaimed.

"What are you afraid of?" Han Xuan stroked his beard and raised his eyes to look at Hao Zhao, "Didn't you see that Captain Hao was giving instructions on how to deal with it?"

When Han Xuan said this, Gong Zhi quickly took a few steps closer to Hao Zhao.

Sure enough, Hao Zhao was deploying. He first said, "Hundreds of ladders are not worth mentioning? There are more than a thousand or ten thousand...what can I do?" Then he immediately ordered, "Send the order, all soldiers should not be impatient, and drill as usual." Yes, when the ladder approaches, use fire arrows, fire dragons, and sea of ​​fire to deal with it!"

Following Hao Zhao's instructions...immediately, soldiers were running on the road, loudly conveying the military order.

Soon, the old and new cities moved together. First, "fish oil" was sprinkled from the upper city to the lower city. The fish oil soaked countless ladders, and then...accompanied by a special horn of "woo woo woo -".

"Swish, swish, swish..." From the towers of the old and new cities, the sound of piercing the sky can be heard endlessly...

Under the bright sun, Wu Jun could see clearly... what he shot was a fire arrow!

It's just...the moment I saw it, it was already too late.

The fire arrows did not kill the enemy, but ignited the poured fish oil.

Fish oil stained the ladders... A large number of ladders caught fire in an instant.

The soldiers who were climbing the ladder... only felt a burning sensation all over their bodies, and then... the scorching temperature forced them to let go of the ladder and jump from a high place.

Some ladders fell to the side because the fire was out of control, and other ladders fell together, all infected by the fire.

"what--"

"fire--"

"Jump down quickly, jump down -"

For a time, wailing and screaming could be heard endlessly...

A group of Wu troops rushed to the bottom of the city, but were surprised to find that there were no ladders... All the ladders were burning with fire, and the scorching temperature... They were unable to climb at all, let alone climb the city first from the fire.

They can only passively become targets for the enemy's bows and arrows.

Jiang Qin was also shocked when he saw this scene.

He shouted: "Is this guard crazy? Isn't he afraid that the city will be burned down by this torch?"

Yes…

In the past, the city was never defended like this!

In the past, fire arrows were used to defend the city, but they would never be combined with fish oil. This would injure the enemy a thousand times and cause eight hundred losses, and the city... would also be burned down.

The consequences of burning down the city are more serious than burning the enemy to death.

The same problem... also occurs on the tower.

Liao Li raised his hoarse voice and shouted loudly: "Hao Duwei, are you doing this? The city wall will be burned down——"

In sharp contrast to Liao Li's nervousness and worry, Hao Zhao's calmness was such that he smiled with determination, "The city I built, Hao Zhao, is not afraid of fire!"

Indeed, Hao Zhaozhu's city is really not afraid of fire.

Different from the "rammed earth" usually used to build cities, although Hao Zhao also used "rammed earth", under the guidance of Guan Lin, he mixed the cooked earth with sand, gravel and lime in a certain proportion to become "sanhe earth". ".

This rammed earth craft was originally used in "Tongwan City", the Xia capital of one of the sixteen northern kingdoms during the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It was obtained by Guan Lin in advance and now...

It can basically reach the level of "invulnerability".

certainly…

If it were just like this, it would still not be able to stop the fire.

Because some buildings in later generations can isolate flames, another important reason is admixtures, such as anti-seepage agents, water-reducing agents, accelerating setting agents, retardants, etc. Different admixtures are added according to different building requirements.

But there was no such thing in ancient times, so Guan Lin boldly used glutinous rice juice, tung oil, and Baiyou recorded in "Song Huiyao" as gelling agents... In this way, the city wall was reinforced with strength, toughness, and even anti-seepage.

This completes the second part!
The most important thing is the third part. In ancient times, there were no steel bars that could withstand pressure and tension. Let alone steel bars, it was very difficult to make steel in this era.

As we all know, a building without steel bars has no soul and is a shoddy project.

But there was a way. Guan Lin taught Hao Zhao to use bamboo slices and bamboo silk as reinforcement materials, forming the earliest "reinforced soil".

Of course, these are all theories taught by Professor Guan Lin, just... Hao Zhao is a person who is very good at learning and research. He uses a lot of practice to turn Guan Lin's theory into practice.

This kind of "rammed earth" unique to Changsha was created.

It is no exaggeration to say that because of time constraints, even Jiangling City did not use this kind of rammed earth.

However, for Changsha, such a combination of punches... let alone ordinary flames, even the crazy bombardment of the red cannon can withstand it!
"Crackling-"

The sound of flames burning the ladder continued to resound...

Out of worry, Liao Li held up the city wall and looked down at the city tower.

He was shocked to find that the fire... did not seem to be able to burn through the city wall. Except for the thin outer ring of the rammed earth bricks that were burned to a slight black color, the city wall remained as strong as ever.

There is no sense of a fire igniting and being unable to be extinguished.

It was only then that Hao Zhao opened his mouth, "Did you hear it, Prefect Liao? The crackling sound of the flames seems to be tickling our Changsha City!"

Ugh...he's so arrogant!But Liao Li thought he really liked him!

However, Liao Li suddenly felt a little pain in his face, but... it hurt so good, it hurt so good!
Of course, this is too outrageous.

It is said that water and fire are merciless, but who would have thought that there are city walls that are so strong that they are not afraid of water and fire? This is really incredible and unreasonable.

But...the facts are right in front of us;

Under the city tower, there were more than ten thousand Wu soldiers staring at them with big eyes and small eyes as targets.

Until then, Liao Li couldn't help but exclaimed: "It's amazing, it's amazing——"

...

"Report-"

"To shut up!"

This time, Lu Meng could already tell what happened without waiting for the soldiers to report.

——"Fire... fish oil!" 』

——『Use this combination method to deal with ladders?What a solid city...is it impervious to water and fire? 』

Lu Meng couldn't help but ponder in his heart.

But the thought is still thought, how to attack the city next?
Seeing that Jiang Qin's Yunlai Army can no longer continue to attack the city, then...

"The general asked for orders to dig tunnels, draw firepower from the bottom of the cauldron, and attack the city——"

Looking at the "scorching" battlefield, Ding Feng hurriedly took off his shirt and armor. Of course, he took off his armor not to increase his attack power by being "naked", but to fight in "tunnel combat"——

Lu Meng stopped him and said: "Tunnel warfare is good, but it cannot be used on the current battlefield. We cannot afford it. We must break the city today..."

Immediately, Lu Meng commanded: "Where is General Zhu Zhi?"

"The general is here!" Zhu Zhi handed over his hand.

Lu Meng pointed to the four gates in the old and new cities, "Use a ram to break down the gates!"

"Can...fire?" Zhu Zhi opened his mouth subconsciously.

"Don't be afraid!" Lu Meng introduced: "This time, I specially brought the dust truck...it will cover it to ensure that the oil stains will not be spilled on the dust truck."

The so-called dust truck was specially made to prevent the defenders from throwing lime powder. It forced the defenders to retreat and could not prevent our own troops from ascending the city...

Of course, as the name suggests, the dust truck prevents lime powder and fish oil. Although it has some effects, it is not critical.

But Lu Meng couldn't care so much anymore. If the fire started when he rushed the car, he should put it out quickly. Can't the enemy's city wall isolate the flames?
Then...as long as he rushes to the city gate and is covered by the eaves, he will no longer be afraid of the rocket.

"The last commander leads the order..."

Zhu Zhi immediately led his troops to cover the car attack——

It was also due to the fact that Changsha City had too few troops. They needed to prevent the "resurgence" of the unburned ladders from being erected again.

Now, we have to guard against the attack of car rushers...

For a time, the supply of kerosene could not be replenished.

You know, this fire dragon and sea of ​​fire, for Lu Meng, what is burning is a ladder, but for Changsha, what is burning is gold!

The son of a landlord cannot continue to do this!

"General...the enemy has sent troops to attack the city, and the fish oil reserves are no longer enough..."

Following the trembling reports from the soldiers, Hao Zhao at the top of the city did not panic at all. He pointed at the rush vehicles rushing towards the gates of the two cities of Changsha.

"To deal with car rushers, haven't we already prepared secret weapons at the top of the city?"

Hao Zhao, who is calm and composed, is here - to show off his tactics at the drop of a hat!
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(End of this chapter)