Rampage through the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 178 Autumn Harvest
The offensive and defensive battle of Pengcheng has been going on for some days.Although Zhang De's siege weapon played a lot of roles in the beginning, the main factor in the war is not weapons, but people!This is especially evident in the era of cold weapons.

After a few days, Chen Deng already had a great understanding of Zhang De's siege techniques.Every time Zhang De attacked the city, he would inevitably use a large number of catapults and ballistas to cover the advancement of soldiers, wells, ladders, etc., so that the soldiers on the city had no time to shoot arrows.But once his soldiers arrived at the city, Zhang De's catapults and ballistas were basically silent because they were afraid of accidentally injuring his own people.

Although the well rails are strong, Chen Deng also found that these well rails will still be broken. Every day when the city is attacked, Chen Deng can see that the well rails are damaged to varying degrees. Most of the brackets are broken, but all the brackets are broken the next day It was as if it was new, not even a single arrow hole could be seen, which puzzled Chen Dengfei.

However, Zhang De's army consumes thousands of parts every day, not only Jinglan vehicles, but also slightly more complicated siege weapons such as ladders, which Zhang De also uses to assemble, so the number of parts consumed every day is very large. But fortunately, the speed at which a carpenter manufactures thousands of parts is much less and easier than the effort required to manufacture a few well rails or ladders from scratch.

The elite soldiers of Danyang are indeed Tao Qian's trump card. In the past few days, Zhang De has seen how powerful the elite soldiers of Danyang are.Originally, in Zhang De's opinion, his Qingzhou soldiers were strong enough, but now Zhang De finally found out that if it comes to starting battles, his Qingzhou soldiers might not be the opponents of Danyang's elite soldiers.Although the Qingzhou soldiers are tall, they are not as agile as the Danyang soldiers, so they will inevitably suffer a bit in infantry. However, Zhang De believes that it is very suitable to train the Qingzhou soldiers to become cavalry.

In the past few days, the two armies have engaged in very fierce battles. After several days of fighting, people on both sides have become red-eyed. Much worse than the previous few days.

But these few days of fighting also made Zhang De discover a problem that he had neglected all along, that is, there are too few medical soldiers under his command!
In fact, the number of medical soldiers under Zhang De is not small. They are standard equipment in this era, but compared with later generations, they are simply too few.There were wounded soldiers in the army, and many of them could not receive immediate medical treatment. For example, the general was fine, but those little soldiers were pitiful.Moreover, Chinese medicine's surgical treatment is worse than Western medicine, and there are no antibiotics in this era, so the soldiers' battle losses are still quite large.

The problem of military doctors cannot be solved in a short time. It takes time to train a military doctor. Zhang De has to solve these problems slowly. The most urgent task right now is to win Pengcheng.

Zhang De looked at Pengcheng in the distance depressedly. Pengcheng could not be attacked for a long time, but Zhang De didn't feel that anxious. After all, in his previous life, he was always late in the strategy of "encircling the city from the countryside". City, so Zhang De is not in a hurry.At this time, Chen Gong looked at the sky and said, "My lord, it's getting late, it's time to withdraw troops!"

Zhang De nodded, and ordered Ming Jin to withdraw.Looking at the retreating troops, Zhang De said, "It's another day! Sir, it's been so many days, Pengcheng is still as firm as a rock!"

Chen Gong nodded and said: "Your Excellency is right. If those Xuzhou aristocratic families are willing to cooperate, we don't need to spend so much effort. But according to my opinion, as long as Pengcheng is taken, going to Picheng will be much easier!"

Zhang De nodded.At this moment, Chen Gong said again: "My lord, even in autumn, the food in Pengcheng County is already cooked!"

Zhang De suddenly understood that the autumn harvest is coming soon, Pengcheng has a vast expanse of fertile land, it would be too wasteful not to harvest it!Now that the Pengcheng army was besieged in the city, the "hard work" of harvesting grain naturally fell on Zhang De's head.And Zhang De also knew that most of the fertile land in Pengcheng was the foundation of the Cao family.

During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Xuzhou was also affected, and many people fled.Cao Bao took advantage of this time to enclose real estate and assigned a lot of unowned land to his family. Later, when the people who fled around Pengcheng returned to their homes, they found that the land had already belonged to Cao Bao.Cao Bao was a wealthy family in Pengcheng. As the saying goes, people don't fight with officials, and they can't fight, so the common people watched Cao Bao occupy their own land, but there was nothing they could do.

So Zhang De immediately ordered that [-] peasants be dispatched from Chengyang and Langya to collect grain.These people were Zang Ba's soldiers back then. When Zang Ba was incorporated, Zhang De only selected [-] strong Qingzhou soldiers, and the rest were sent to Mintun.Most of these farmers are stationed in Chengyang and Langya counties.Now it's time to transfer over to grab the grain.

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Looking at the golden wheat field in the distance, Chen Deng was filled with emotion. Today is another bumper harvest year!
Suddenly, Chen Deng felt that something was wrong, the wheat field in the distance was crowded with people.What is Zhang Dejun doing in the wheat fields?Could it be that Zhang Dejun is rushing to collect food!

Thinking of this, Chen Deng turned his head and glanced at the location of Cao Bao's Mansion in the city. It seems that the Cao family lost a year's harvest this time!However, Chen Deng didn't feel distressed. After all, the Cao family is not a local family in Xuzhou, and in recent years, the Cao family has continued to grow by relying on some shady means. Although it can't threaten the Chen family temporarily, in Chen Deng's view, this is a potential opponent!It's good to hit it, and Chen Deng also believes that only one year's harvest is not enough to overthrow the Cao family.

At this time, the horn of siege came to mind again, and Chen Deng immediately turned his attention to the outside of the city.In the past few days, Zhang De's offensive has become more and more fierce. He originally had [-] soldiers under his command, but since these days, Pengcheng has lost [-] combat power.Although the vast majority of these people did not die, many were injured and did not recover within a month or two.Not only can these people not help much in the city, but they are also holding back.Chen Deng had to arrange people to take care of these wounded soldiers, and these people also consumed a lot of food and grass.

But what worries Chen Deng the most is that after so many days of observation, Zhang De's loss should be similar to his own.This made Chen Deng feel chilled. He approached him as the defensive side, and he had the city wall to rely on. According to the normal situation, he should have lost less.But now that the battle damage has reached one to one, Chen Deng's heart is naturally unbalanced.Chen Deng suddenly felt that facing Zhang Dejun, he seemed helpless.

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As for this book, it has already been put into the sidelines by the editor anyway, so the gluttonous insect is preparing to open a new book. As for this book, the gluttonous insect decided to write it one after another.Recently, I am collecting manuscripts for a new book. It is estimated that within ten days, the new book will be available to everyone, so the update of "Crossing the Three Kingdoms" will be affected.In the future, all new books will be given priority, so the update speed of this book will be slower, but there are not many people who have read it, so there is no need for greedy worms, just keep it if you like it, anyway, it will not be updated It's broken, it's just a little slower...

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