Ji Han Grand Commander

Chapter 280 274. Siege
Jianye City was the capital chosen by Sun Quan after the founding of the Wu Kingdom. It was naturally majestic. The city wall was about 70 to 80 feet high, which is about 10 meters high, and looked about the same as a six-story building in the future.

At the same time, Jianye also has a deep moat and suspension bridges at all four gates, which makes it look easy to defend but difficult to attack.

As the center of the Eastern Wu, Jianye City was naturally not short of people. The retainers and servants of the princes and nobles were also contributed by them to help defend the city. Together with the soldiers brought back by Bu Zhi after his defeat, the number of Wu troops in Jianye City was as high as 40,000, almost equal to the defenders of Chaisang City.

This is the situation when Sun Quan did not force the people to come up to defend the city. If he drove more people up, the number would probably exceed 50,000.

However, the situation is not completely desperate now. Dongwu still has Wujun and Kuaijijun as a fallback, so no one has the idea of ​​fighting to the death.

In addition, Jianye City is still rich in supplies, and even if the Han army wants to attack the city by force, it will suffer huge casualties. Therefore, the Eastern Wu decided to drag it out with the Han army until the Han army can no longer hold on and has to retreat.

"Your Majesty, the Han army has a method that is almost magical to break into the city. Although Jianye City is high, what if..."

Bu Zhi had a relatively good understanding of the Han army and knew their methods. He was worried that if the Han army directly used unknown means to destroy the walls of Jianye, wouldn't Soochow be completely finished?
"General Bu, you should not talk about strange things. If the Han army really knows magic, why don't they use magic to capture us at their camp? Why do they need to confront us here? I'm afraid those are just rumors, or some tricks of the sorcerers. Don't take them seriously."

It has to be said that seeing is believing. Although Bu Zhi had seen the Han army's simple grenades, the civil and military officials in Jianye City had never seen them, so it was still a bit difficult to make them believe Bu Zhi's words.

Therefore, other civil officials such as Gu Yong also agreed with Yu Fan's decision to stop Bu Zhi. Everyone felt that Bu Zhi was making a fuss out of nothing.

Bu Zhi thought about it and thought that the wall of Jianye city was 20 to 20 feet high and 30 to 40 feet thick. It did not seem like it could be destroyed easily, so he could only retreat to the side in disappointment.

However, the group of civil servants in Dongwu really guessed it. Many of the gunpowder weapons that Feng Xi had brought with the army had become humid due to the rainy season for many days, and their effectiveness was greatly weakened or even completely disappeared. So Feng Xi asked Jiangling to pay attention to the storage method when transporting the weapons, and at the same time asked them to speed up the supply.

Before that, Feng Xi had no intention of just sitting there doing nothing, and he still had to carry out some normal attack procedures on Jianye City.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

Early the next morning, the Wu army on the city wall saw many soldiers coming out of the Han army camp and pushing out several strange wooden frames. They quickly rang the bell next to them to signal others that the Han army should take action.

The Wu army general in charge of the west gate is Wei Wen, who is the general who will visit Taiwan in the future. However, there is still a span of nearly ten years between his visit to Taiwan in the original timeline, and he is just an ordinary general.

Wei Wen climbed up onto the city wall and saw the furtive movements of the Han army below. They were just fiddling with the wooden racks outside an arrow's range, and it was impossible to tell what they were doing.

Not long after, the Han soldiers assembled the wooden racks into things with levers, and Wei Wen suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Oh no! It's Wei's Thunderbolt Chariot!"

Wei Wen shouted loudly. In this era, because of the Battle of Guandu, people usually called catapults "thunder chariots". Only the Han army called them catapults according to their original name.

"Be careful to dodge! Get close to the parapet, the Shu army's thunder chariots can launch huge rocks!"

Wei Wen was very familiar with the function of the catapult, and he immediately told the soldiers not to gather together, but to spread out and lie down against the parapet to avoid damage from flying stones to the greatest extent.

However, the Han army did not seem to be very interested in using catapults to bombard the city walls. Instead, they placed cloth bags on the catapults and then pulled the catapults one by one. These cloth bags drew an arc in the air, and then most of them fell straight into the moat, and of course some fell on the surrounding open space.

However, the Han army did not take it seriously and just threw bags filled with soil into the moat one by one.

"The Han army is going to fill up the moat..."

Wei Wen understood what the other party meant, but several soldiers nearby had already tried. Even the most powerful bows and crossbows could not hit the other party. The other party only needed to fill up the moat slowly.

"No, this needs to be reported."

Wei Wen knew that he could not let the Han army do this. In addition to the moat, it was also a blow to the morale of the Wu army.

The Han army's move was to give the Wu army a warning. "Look, we filled up your moat, and you can't do anything, right?"

Wei Wen immediately ordered his soldiers to inform Bu Zhi and Grand Commander Zhuge Jin of what had happened outside the city and asked them to think of a solution.

"what?!"

When Bu Zhi heard that the Han army was acting in this way, he did not delay and immediately went to the west gate under the protection of a team of guards. As soon as he climbed onto the city wall, he saw that Zhuge Jin had arrived before him.

"Grand Governor."

Although Zhuge Jin was now under suspicion, courtesy still had to be shown. Even Bu Zhi had to accept Zhuge Jin's jurisdiction in name, so a hasty bow was considered a greeting.

"General Bu, it's not a good idea to just watch the Han army fill up the moat. Why don't we send a group of troops out of the city to harass them?"

Zhuge Jin also looked at the Han army under the city with concern, as if they were strolling leisurely. After thinking about it, he finally put forward his own opinion.

"This……"

Bu Zhi's mind flashed through his mind. No matter what, the Han army only needed to slowly fill the moat, and then use their "immortal magic" to slowly bombard the city wall. Although Jianye was a strong city, who could guarantee that the city wall of Jianye would be infallible?
"Since you are the Grand Commander, I will follow your decision."

However, it was impossible for Bu Zhi to volunteer. Instead, he changed the topic and attributed the matter to Zhuge Jin's idea. In this way, even if there was a failure, it had nothing to do with him, Bu Zhi.

"In that case, please, Zishan, muster 3,000 elite soldiers, gather their horses, and have them charge out of the west gate. Bring plenty of flammable objects to destroy the Han army's siege weapons."

Although Zhuge Jin was aware of Bu Zhi's intention to distance himself from the incident, he had no time to worry about it as the country was in crisis. He hastily assembled an elite cavalry, which was the last cavalry the Wu army could muster, and prepared to remove the Han army's siege weapons.

(End of this chapter)