Domination of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 10 The Great War outside the Great Wall (3)

Due to heavy snow blocking the road, Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun's army was a day later than originally planned, which also gave Gongsun Xu enough time to prepare for the battle.The school was still falling, and the temperature was very low. Many soldiers in the rebel camp had frostbite, and some seriously injured soldiers even froze to death.In order not to affect the army, Qiu Liju sent someone to deal with them secretly.But Qiu Liju himself knew that paper could not contain the fire, and someone would definitely spread the word over time.

So this war must end as soon as possible.Gongsun Zan was in a coma, and as the most feared person of the Xianbei people, he could no longer handle affairs, so Qiu Liju was very excited.As long as you take down this army, and then lead the army to plunder Youzhou, your tribe will grow quickly. The eastern part of Xianbei is already within your range. As long as you take down the central part of Xianbei, then you will be the overlord of the grassland. The Huns will also become their own vassals.

Occupying the playground outside the Great Wall will have the capital to challenge the Han Dynasty.This is also the reason why Qiu Liju supported Zhang Chun's rebellion. With Zhang Chun, a young bird, messing up the muddy water, he could just fish in the muddy water.It was precisely because of such a great temptation that Qiu Liju dared to go against the norm and send troops at the most unlikely season. This time he caught the Han Dynasty by surprise.The emperor of the Han Dynasty did not understand military affairs, so it was a foolish move to ask Gongsun Zan to send troops when he was angry. In addition, Gongsun Zan was also in a hurry to end the war, so he was calculated by himself.

I have the tribe as my backing and Zhang Chun as my shield. Moreover, Gongsun Kang of Liaodong also intends to form an alliance with me, and even sent troops to help me in private.This time Gongsun Zan will definitely lose.Tomorrow the whole army will capture Gongsun Zan's camp.

The next day, the sky was still snowing, so it was not suitable to send troops, but Qiu Liju couldn't wait. Although his younger brother said that the opponent had a lot of strong generals, the test of fighting is not about personal bravery, but also about strength. Now the opponent is trapped and far away. Back home, morale must be low, and the main general is injured. As long as he intensifies his attack, the opponent's entire army is likely to be defeated.

At dawn, Qiu Liju ordered to kill sheep and cattle, reward the three armies, and captured the camp of the Han army after they were full.Gongsun Xu guessed that the rebels would attack today, because it was found out yesterday that Qiu Liju led the army to come.

And now the total number of people seems to be no less than 20, so they must have borrowed troops from somewhere.This made Gongsunxu unable to figure it out, so he didn't bother to think about it. Early in the morning, Gongsunxu ordered to cook, and everyone had meat and soup.

Hundreds of thousands of sheep have been slaughtered. If you don’t eat them now, why don’t you wait until next year to rot?Everyone is full, no one is panicked or afraid, they can do whatever they want after eating, no one is scared by the 20 troops outside, because there is a city wall blocking the view, most people are I don't know what's going on outside.

When Qiu Liju led the army to the camp of the Han army, he was stunned. He thought it was a well-defended camp, but now he saw a city wall seven or eight feet high. An ice city, obviously, this is Gongsun Xu's strategy, a pirated version of Cao Cao's method when he conquered Xiliang, boiling water to irrigate the city, the sand in the river cannot be piled up into a city wall, but with water and this cold weather It is much easier to make a city wall.

The city wall is very high, and it can reflect light in broad daylight.Qiu Liju didn't expect that there would be a siege battle. He didn't bring any heavy weapons, and he couldn't find them. There were only some ladders in Zhang Chun's camp, and Zhang Chun had just sent someone to transport them.Now riding a tiger is hard to get off, but the arrow is on the string and has to be launched.

There was no other way, Qiu Liju ordered the first [-]-man team to attack the city. Although Chief Wan was extremely unwilling, he still carried out the order.Ten thousand cavalry came towards the city wall, and when they were seventy steps away from the city wall, they all bowed their bows and set up arrows. Due to the snow, they had to enter the range near the table to make the bows and arrows effective.

However, this also increased his own danger. Gongsun Xu watched all this from the city wall. He knew that the first wave of attack was meant to be a test, but since he started attacking himself, he had to fight back. Ten thousand young men trained by soldiers and Xu Rong.This is what Gongsun Xu can arrange. Gongsun Xu intends to train the more than [-] young men to claim his own power. Good soldiers are not trained, they are all beaten. Today is just the first group of people to see the blood. Feel the atmosphere of the battlefield.However, after being slaves in the grassland for so many years, these young adults are also used to seeing life and death, and only after being rescued did they begin to have new hope for life.

Now, under the leadership of Xu Rong, they began to throw clods to fight back, and the three thousand soldiers were responsible for shooting back.Most of the bows and arrows shot by the Xianbei cavalry below the city fell on the city wall. There is no way, the bows and arrows have no strength, and the city wall is too high.

On the other hand, the opponent's archers had a great advantage. Less than an hour into the battle, the Xianbei cavalry suffered unspeakably. If they leaned too tightly against the city wall, they would be crushed to death by clods of dirt.It's all things that have been frozen by adding water to the soil.If you hit it, you will be seriously injured if you don't die.A little farther away will be taken care of by the bows and arrows on the top of the city. If you are further away, your side will lose the meaning of attacking.

What kind of attack is there if the arrow cannot be shot.Three successive batches of tens of thousands of people went down, leaving behind a total of more than 5000 corpses, and many more were injured.Qiu Liju also felt heartbroken, this is the strength he has accumulated over the years, but he is the most powerful in the coalition army, if he doesn't take the lead and put on a show, there is no way to fight this battle.Zhang Chun's team is not even as good as his own, and Gongsun Kang's team is not under his control.This battle was exhausting.

When the fifth group of [-] troops retreated, Zhang Chun escorted Yunti to come, and Qiu Liju changed the method of attacking the city. He went to a team of [-] people at a time.As long as you can reach the top of the city, you can overwhelm the opponent with the advantage of numbers.This side has stepped up the attack, and it is impossible for Gongsun Xu to let you fight honestly. The young and strong who have been busy all morning went to rest and replaced eight thousand archers and ten thousand civilian husbands. There are [-] civilians, and I have to use all that can be used in the war, and the number of people on this side will be greatly reduced. When I go back to recruit soldiers, most of the [-] civilians will join the army. It is time to let them go to the battlefield to meet them. Blood.

After one day of fighting, none of the rebels climbed up the city wall, leaving a total of [-] corpses, although they returned to the camp with [-] wounded.Qiu Liju now knows that it will not be so easy to end this war.

The opponent is an iron tortoise, so you can't beat him.The only thing I can do now is to trap the opponent, wait for the opponent to run out of supplies, and run out to fight myself when they are too hungry. In addition, Qiu Liju also asked Gongsun Kang for help, and the siege equipment must be obtained. Come on, this battle can't be fought.

I am afraid that the other party will not be able to repair it in one night if I wasted thousands of dollars and damaged the city wall.After today's attack failed, the army's morale was unstable. There were even rumors that the city wall of the Han army was built by Shi Tianshen, and Changshengtian had abandoned the people of Xianbei. All kinds of rumors were not good for him. Qiu Liju asked all the generals to take good care of their subordinates , There can be no more rumors.After killing some rumormongers, the army temporarily stabilized.However, Qiu Liju still felt bad in his heart.

At night, Gongsun Xu sent a group of soldiers down with a rope to collect bows and arrows and weapons on the battlefield. Although they played beautifully during the day, the arrows consumed a lot, and there were more than [-] unarmed young men on their side. , as much as you can collect, as long as it is iron, you have to get it back.

It can be processed in his own barracks. Since coal was used to make fire, the army can hardly use wood. Otherwise, how can such wood come from so much water? This is also what Qiu Liju wondered. There are so many woods to boil water, and the winter is still very long. Could it be that they are not wintering yet?

A month has passed, and Qiu Liju is still thinking about how to defeat the Han army. Although Gongsun Kang has also sent a batch of siege equipment, and although he has attacked more than a dozen times this month, the Han army has the momentum to fight more and more powerful , I have lost nearly 5 people on my side, and this does not include the injured.

The weather is so cold, and there is not enough firewood for the injured. Basically, the most important thing for the injured is to be useless.Every day wounded soldiers die.Qiu Liju is very irritable now, no one can come up with a good suggestion, if he continues to surround himself like this, his food and grass will almost run out, and the army still has a month's food and grass left.

I have to thank the group of people who died, otherwise, the food and grass would not be enough, but fortunately, Gongsun Kang would bring some food, and with the saving from his own tribe, he could keep his army going for two or three months.

I thought that the Han army would run out of food and grass in a month at most. Who knew that the soldiers sent to investigate every day reported that as long as it was the Han army, even civilian husbands were full of greasy faces, and the Han army camp was killing every day. It seems that the army is training, even when they attack the city, there will still be a group of people training on the other side. It seems that the Han army is not worried that the city wall will be breached at all.This further deepened Qiu Liju's fear, and made him start to wonder if he made a mistake in sending troops this time, and he was actually defeated by a child.

In the camp of the Han army, a group of generals were discussing the military situation. Gongsun Xu sat at the chief seat, which was originally Gongsun Zan's seat, but now there is no objection in the camp. Anyway, they are father and son, and Gongsun Xu's prestige is no worse than Gongsun Zan's.

Save the army when it is in danger, and defeat the enemy when it is arrogant.Gongsun Zan woke up a long time ago, but he is still recovering from his injuries, and he doesn't want to be in charge of the whole army yet. After knowing everything, he feels that if his son continues to lead everyone, the flowers in the greenhouse will always be the most vulnerable.

He couldn't stop his son's growth.The road was blocked by heavy snow on the grassland, and the news could not be conveyed. The last battle report received by Liu Yu, the governor of Youzhou, was that Gongsun Zan was seriously injured in an ambush, and 15 rebels surrounded the Han army.It has been almost four months since Gongsun Zan sent troops, and there has been no battle report for more than 40 days. Now Gongsun Zan's entire army is probably wiped out. It is said by the people that no one in the court dares to say it.

This expedition was decided by the emperor himself, no one dared to discuss it, and anyone who dared to discuss it would hit the emperor in the face.Emperor Ling of Han has a bad complexion recently. Although no one mentioned the annihilation of Gongsun Zan in front of him, he felt that someone was laughing at him behind his back. Few of those aristocratic families are good people, but Liu Hong himself is not good either. Attack, the atmosphere in the hall is very mysterious.Every time I go up to the court, it is frightening.

There are many sayings among the people, most of which refer to the annihilation of Gongsun Zan's entire army. When the news comes, some people are happy and others are worried. The Yuan family is the most happy. The internal affairs are okay, but the military is in a mess, otherwise, they would not always insist on appeasing Wuhuan and Xianbei, appeasing every year or making trouble every year.

The wife of Gongsun Zan's family also fell ill. Liu Jun and his wife have been with their daughter to comfort her during this time. The experience in the military camp ended like this, which made me very painful.In Wuji Zhen's Mansion in Zhongshan, Zhen Dao, the third young lady of the Zhen family, has been ill for a month. The members of the Zhen family have tried everything to no avail. Zhen Dao's eldest sister has been with her all the time. Whenever Zhen Dao wakes up, he will ask: " Sister, do you think he will die: "Zhen Jiang, Zhen Dao's sister, didn't know how to answer, so she could only comfort her over and over again.

Gongsun Xu didn't know everything about the Central Plains. During this time, he had been handling military affairs in the army, and asked Xu Rong about military matters from time to time. Now Gongsun Xu found that Xu Rong was really a great talent. Send out to command an army alone.

Now the entire army knows that Xu Rong is one of Gongsun Xu's closest generals, and the rest, such as Zhang Fei, Zhao Yun, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, etc. needless to say.Xu Rong also fully expressed his loyalty to Gongsun Xu.On this day, Gongsun Xu received information, and he finally knew that Qiu Liju's siege equipment was secretly funded by Gongsun Kang. "Gongsun Kang, you are looking for death yourself, but you can't blame me. If you want to blame, blame you for not occupying Liaodong." Gongsun Xu thought in his heart.

After another month and a half, the 2 young men and more than 1 civilians under Gongsun Xu's hands have fully adapted to the battlefield. Now they are qualified soldiers as long as they are given armor and weapons.As for Xu Rong's key training of [-] people, they now have the aura of an elite in the military.

During this period of time, Gongsun Xu did not relax the training of soldiers except to deal with the defense of the city. He selected 10,000 soldiers from 5000+ and handed them over to Zhao Yun. He let them practice riding and shooting as his father trained cavalry. Yan Liangwen and Chou each commanded 1 People and horses, because there are so many horses in the army, everyone has to practice riding, so Yan Liangwenchou's 5000 soldiers are also cavalry. In addition, Gongsun Xu also selected 5000 people to give to Commander Zhang Fei. Practice running with weights.These 3 people were originally selected according to the standard of tall and mighty.After this period of training, everyone is alive and well, practicing hard every day, eating meat every day, can they not be tall and mighty?Now Gongsun Xu's Han army has a total of 10,000 cavalry and [-] infantry, which is more than when he went out. Of course, if all the civilians and young adults are counted, there will be [-]+, but Gongsun Xu plans to take the route of elite soldiers. Now Those people are at most considered heavy soldiers.

After another day of training, Gongsun Xu discussed with Xu Rong, Zhao Yun and Yanliang in the big tent at night how to defeat the rebel army. Gongsun Xu knew that the rebel army could not hold on anymore, and now it was time to fight back.Suddenly someone shouted outside: "Meteor, look quickly." Gongsun Xu walked out of the big tent and saw a meteor falling in the direction of the rebel camp.

"There should be a lot of meteorites falling." Gongsun Xu thought to himself, and then said to the messenger: "Send the order, slaughter a thousand cattle, reward the three armies, and defeat the rebels in three days. God bless our army. This is God's gift." We're sending the signal that it's time to fight."

Xu Rong, Zhao Yun and Yan Liang agreed with the Major General's move. People in ancient times believed in ghosts and gods, especially the nomads on the grasslands. In this case, I will send you the order of ghosts and gods, and let you all go to hell.

(End of this chapter)