Ji Han Da Sima

Chapter 87 City Defense
An excellent city defense line requires a combination of different lines of defense.Let’s not talk about the famous city of Xiangyang, let’s just talk about Jiangling’s city defense, which also forms a chain-shaped city defense system.

Before Guan Yu built the South City, the Ji-Nan City in the North City was surrounded by water on three sides and surrounded by a moat outside. The city wall was more than seven meters high and contained an urn city.There is also the small city of Yingcheng to the east, and Wancheng to the southwest, forming a supporting defense system.

A large part of the reason why Cao Ren was able to exert the power of heaven and man was that Jiangling's city defense system was too difficult to crack. Of course, it cannot be denied that Cao Ren could defend it.

When Guan Yu led the military in Jingzhou, he built Nancheng in the south of the Yangtze River, imitating Xiangfan's city system.At this point, Jiangling's danger and difficulty increased to a higher level. It can be said that the city is second only to Xiangfan City in danger, so Zhu Ran was able to resist for half a year.

If Guan Yu hadn't produced excellent teammates like Mi Fang and Fu Shiren, Lu Meng would have taken the lead in conquering Jiangling City.

It can be said that an excellent city defense system is inseparable from the city's own facilities and surrounding geographical conditions.But an excellent offensive and defensive battle requires reliable teammates.

In Zhao Yun's understanding, Pengze City is an ordinary county town. Although it is built on the mountain, it lacks high-end city defense facilities such as moats and urns, making it difficult to imitate high-end cities in defense.

For example, the way of fighting in the Wengcheng is to leave the gates of the Wengcheng open and allow the enemy to break through. Then when the enemy enters the Wengcheng, the door inside is blocked, and the enemy will be surrounded and shot.

Today, there is no defense system for Wengcheng. Once the east gate, which is most vulnerable to attack, is breached, the enemy will march straight in. How can we not block it!

Regarding Zhao Yun's doubts, Huo Jun smiled slightly and explained calmly: "For those who defend the city, the gates are more expensive than too few, and they are more expensive to open than to close!"

Riding his horse and walking slowly, Huo Jun held the white whip and said: "Anyone who defends the city should not close the city gates because there are few soldiers and dare not fight the enemy. When observing the enemy's situation, if he knows the slightest flaw, he will send troops to attack it." During the day, the cavalry disturbed the formation, and at night, they cut down the camp. They were unable to rest day and night, so they naturally did not dare to set up a stronghold near the city. The wall was used as a barrier and as a containment measure, and they were often used to attack the laborers with ease..."

Perhaps due to the bonus of the iron wall buff, Huo Jun seemed to have a mastery of city defense skills.After he self-study the cases of siege warfare in past dynasties, he also formed his own understanding of defensive warfare.

Offensive and defensive warfare is actually a form of war. Just like field warfare, you must have the initiative in war. Unless it is a last resort, you must never defend. You must defend while attacking.It prevents the enemy from resting boldly, causing a lot of damage to the enemy and improving one's own morale.

If Zhang 800 defeats Sun 10, how can it really be true that [-] people attack an army formation of [-]?Rather, Zhang Liao has extremely keen battlefield awareness. When the enemy's foothold is not stable and the deployment has not been adjusted in place, he relies on his own bravery to repeatedly charge and kill the superior enemy forces.

Therefore, if you want to take the initiative on the battlefield, you must first ensure that the sergeants can enter and exit the city gate easily, so how can they be isolated at home?Now Huo Jun has led troops to come for reinforcements. With the advantage of Haoshan's commanding heights and brave generals like Zhao Yun at his disposal, why wouldn't he dare to compete with Sun Quan.

Even if Zhou Yu comes, Huo Jun is not afraid!

Zhao Yun followed Huo Jun on horseback, listening to Huo Jun's core thoughts on offensive and defensive battles, and his admiration grew in his heart.Without the accumulation of large-scale experience, this kind of ideological essence cannot form a systematic thought at all.At Huo Jun's current age, he must have never experienced a lot of offensive and defensive battles.How he can possess it is nothing more than relying on his own talent and research on wars of the past dynasties.

With this in mind, Zhao Yun had no objection to Huo Jun restraining himself and presiding over Peng Ze's battle.If you want to reach the admiration stage, it depends on what kind of results Huo Jun can lead him to achieve.

"Does Huo Jingbei intend to leave the city to attack the enemy?" Zhao Yun asked.

"Exactly!"

Huo Jun nodded slightly and said: "The eldest son and General Zuo are attacking Sun Ben and Sun Fu. I don't know when they will be defeated. People in the city are complicated today. The general has gathered thousands of soldiers and horses, and there are civilians in the city. We have just arrived in this city. If benevolence and righteousness are not shown, if the military strength is not compromised, people may not feel at ease."

One of the reasons why Huo Jun was not prepared to defend the city was that the people in the city were not attached to it.It had only been one or two months since Zhao Yun captured Pengze City, but the people had not yet returned.Not to mention that he also recruited [-] soldiers and surrendered [-] Jiangdong soldiers. These people were uncertain factors in the city.

At the same time, it is difficult to guarantee that the soldiers under Zhao Yun and Huo Jun will not become timid.Therefore, in order to fight a long-term offensive and defensive war, it is necessary to show prestige in the early stage to make the enemy afraid and make your own people believe that the city can be defended.After all, the most difficult thing about defending a city is not whether the city is strong, but whether the people's hearts are united.

"What Huo Jingbei said should be combined with military principles." Zhao Yun said: "Pengze City is adjacent to Dajiang in the north and Chaisang in the west. The thieves are attacking and sieging it, so they have to use the water as their power. If we don't defeat the thieves first, it will be just like what Join the Army said. , people’s hearts are in confusion.”

Huo Jun pointed to the mountain and said: "The east city is vast. Sun Quan will lead his troops to Pengze and camp outside the east city. At that time, the general can watch his military formation from the top of the mountain. If there is a fighting opportunity, he can attack at the right time. The general will lead The cavalry galloped down the mountain, broke the formation and killed the enemy, then turned and entered the city. The officers and soldiers in the city should raise their troops to respond and support the general." After a pause, Huo Jun pointed to the layout outside the east city and said: "There is no Weng City now. The enemy will know that the city gate is closed. . Immediately order the farmers to be five feet away from the city, and urgently build a gate wall so that the opening and closing of the city gate cannot be seen from outside, making it easier for the army to attack."

"promise!"

Defending a city is all about details, and fighting a war is all about details.Although Zhao Yun is meticulous, he is good at riding and fighting, but there are always flaws.Now that Huo Jun is here, Zhao Yun will be greatly liberated, allowing him to concentrate on fighting.

After patrolling inside and outside the city for a long time, Huo Jun entered the city with some ideas. He immediately took over all the city defense arrangements, summoned the city officials, established a curfew, distributed identity cards, prohibited outsiders from entering the city, and implemented a system of sitting together...

Zhao Yun was not idle either. He led his troops to Mount Hao, built a camp, and became familiar with the cavalry.

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Not far away, an army of about ten thousand people came from the river.On the flagship of the Chinese army, Sun Quan discussed military affairs with his civil and military officials.

"Who is Zhao Yun?" Sun Quan moved his buttocks and asked, "Do you know who this person is?"

Compared with Liu Guanzhang, Zhao Yun's reputation is really weak, and he had almost no impressive achievements in his early years.When he first followed Gongsun Zan, he was not a famous general.Later, he followed Liu Bei in Yecheng and has no military exploits except the Battle of Bowangpo.

Huang Gai pondered for a while and said: "General, Zhao Yun, courtesy name Zilong, is from Hebei. He first followed Gongsun Zan and then Liu Bei to conquer Qingzhou. After Gongsun Zan was defeated, he became a general under Liu Bei. He has been on the battlefield for more than ten years and is quite good at riding. Death."

Sun Quan rubbed his hands and asked: "Liu Bei has been living under someone else's side so far, and Zhao Yun has failed. Why don't we send envoys to the city to persuade Zhao Yun to surrender, so as to prevent Peng Ze from being harmed by the war, and let him show that he is a general and carry out his grand plans."

Obviously, Sun Quan is eyeing Zhao Yun. There are too few generals who are good at cavalry and pawns in the Jiangdong Army, only Han Dang and Tai Shici.Today, Tai Shi Ci is dead, Han Dang is old, and there is basically no successor.If Zhao Yun can come to Jiangdong, it will enhance Jiangdong's military strength in a sense.

Sun Quan was not a man without ambitions. In his eyes, Liu Bei's invasion of Yuzhang was his opportunity.If he can defeat Liu Bei, he will not only greatly increase his prestige, but also annex Liu Bei's soldiers who are good at riding.

As he said this, Sun Quan looked to the side of the civil servant and asked, "I wonder which wise man can help me?"

Qin Song, one of the civil servants, stood up and said, "If the general does not give up, Song is willing to enter the city as an envoy to persuade Zhao Yun to surrender."

Qin Songzi Wenbiao was born in Guangling, Xuzhou.When Sun Ce was in charge of Jiangdong, he, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, Chen Duan and others were the masterminds.Seeing that Zhang Zhao and Zhang Hong were becoming more and more famous, they also wanted to show off and persuade Zhao Yun to surrender, as a way to gain promotion.

"Okay!" Sun Quan saw it was Qin Song and said with a smile: "With Mr. Wenbiao on the mission, he will be successful immediately."

Zhang Hong stroked his beard and said, "My Lord, don't place your hopes solely on persuading people to surrender. Use military force externally to make the enemy feel timid, and then try to persuade them. If Zhao Yun does not surrender, there will be no one left in the siege." To do this, use military force to attack them, break the city and capture the people."

"You should come from the east!" Sun Quan applauded and said, "The east is the son of an orphan!"

After saying that, Sun Quan looked at the crowd and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang is the lonely Xiao He, but he doesn't know the lonely Han Xin'an is there!

PS: I have a manuscript on hand recently, so I won’t keep you waiting.It will be released on the 11th the day after tomorrow, and there will be 7 updates.

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