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Chapter 237 Building Car
"Khan, this is Liucheng!" Tudiji told Li Chongjiu.

Li Chongjiu looked at the city of Liucheng and narrowed his eyes. This is an important town in the northeast.In the Han Dynasty, Liucheng had become the governor of the west of Liaoxi County. When Cao Cao conquered Wuhuan, with Tian Chou as his guide, he went out from Lulong, marched along the Daling River Valley, and defeated Tadun at Bailang Mountain. More than ten thousand, drink horse Liao water.After Cao Cao defeated Wuhuan, he was full of spirits, and after returning with his army, he composed the famous poem of facing Jieshi to the east and looking at the sea.

And Murong Hao of Murong Xianbei also established Longcheng north of Liucheng, and created Dayan as the capital.Later, the Yan Kingdom was attacked by the Northern Wei Dynasty, and Feng Hong, the leader of the country, could not resist, so he defected to the Longevity King of Goguryeo.When the reinforcements sent by King Changshou came to meet Feng Hong, they took advantage of the fire and ransacked Dragon City, and set fire to it before leaving.Therefore, the former capital of the Yan Kingdom, Longcheng, now only remains in ruins.

But now that the soldiers are approaching Liucheng, Li Chongjiu doesn't express so many worries about the ancients.Although the army in the city was divided in half by himself, there were still [-] defenders in Liucheng.As for the Wubao, there are at least a thousand Sui defenders in the garrisons, and now Li Chongjiu's rations are only ten days, and if he can't capture Liucheng within ten days, he can only retreat when he runs out of food.

Li Chongjiu was in the middle of the army on the hill in the east of the city, overlooking Liucheng from here.

"Yinghefu, Tudiji, you two lead the cavalry, together with Dingling, monitor Wubao. The Sui army in the fort will surround it in the fort. If the enemy does not fight, they will not attack. , if they leave the garrison, they must be blocked, and they must not be allowed to approach Liucheng."

"Promise." With the forehead resting, Ji Diji immediately agreed.

"Etuo, Wu Gunai, and Zhao Que'er, each of you lead 2000 troops to surround Liucheng from east to west and south. Set up two fences to defend the inside and outside. Wang Mahan, you lead [-] cavalry to lie in ambush in the woods in the north of the city and monitor the north of the city. .”

"No." The four generals took orders together.

This siege of three and one missing is a traditional tactic of siege, the intention is to give the defenders a way out, so that the defenders will not have the idea of ​​fighting to the death.

Although there are only [-] defenders, the city of Liucheng is solid and built on the White Wolf Water, so there are ditches surrounded by water, which greatly increases the difficulty of attacking the city.Li Chongjiu looked into the distance, Liucheng was five feet high, the red flag of the Sui Dynasty was still flying above the city, and the soldiers were still uniformly wearing the yellow war robes of the Sui army, standing with spears.As for the three-bolt crossbow on the tower, the huge iron arrow is chilling, and I heard from Tudiji that there are catapults for defending the city behind the city.Li Chongjiu couldn't help but think of the story of Wang Xuba, who attacked Zhuo County but was crushed to death by flying stones when he was invincible.

Wen Yanbo said from the side: "It will take only ten days for our army to capture Liucheng, and Luo Yi's army from Beiping County will be counted to go north to rescue the siege. I guess it will only take five to six days at most. It will be captured within five days if it is full. In this city, our army has little chance of winning."

Li Chongjiu looked at Wen Yanbo and asked, "What's Sima's opinion?"

Wen Yanbo pinched his beard and said in a deep voice: "There is a saying in the art of war that attacking the heart is the top priority, and attacking the city is the bottom. It has been a while since I have come to serve under the king's tent with a lowly position, but I haven't achieved an inch of merit, but let me try it for now!"

Li Chongjiu said happily at the moment: "With Lao Wen Sima, it would be a great achievement if he could take down this city without bloodshed!"
Wen Yanbo smiled slightly, got on his horse immediately, dressed in a Confucian shirt, rode the horse to the city without haste.But Li Chongjiu was worried that Wen Yanbo might make a mistake, so he immediately ordered Yu Chigong to accompany him as a guard.

Seeing Wen Yanbo coming to the city, he bowed slightly towards the top of the city and said: "I'm Xiashanggu Sima Wen Yanbo, please answer the question with Governor Deng."

Not long after, a general in armor stood on the edge of the battlements, cupped his fists and said, "So it's Brother Wen, why don't you play with knives and pens, and come here to be a lobbyist?"

Wen Yanbo grinned and said: "I haven't seen you for many years, why should you run on me?"

The general sneered, and said: "Old man? I, the prefect Luo, have never had any grudges with Champion Hou. Champion Marquis came here for no reason, and you helped the evildoer. It seems that today is the day we cut our robes and judge justice."

Hearing a pop, Wen Yanbo took the dagger and pierced the corner of the sleeve robe first.

The general sneered and said, "What are you doing?"

Wen Yanbo sighed, and said: "The robe can be cut lightly, but the righteousness cannot be broken. I came to the city not for my lord, but also for my old friend. The eunuch sees my plan as the eunuch. Divide up the troops and guard the outside of the city, but The city is empty, but there are only seven hundred soldiers. Now that I have over ten thousand troops gathered under the city, it is easy to break the city. I am not here for military exploits, but for the lives of old friends, and even more for the safety of the people in the city."

The general trembled when he heard this, and said angrily: "You dare to disturb our army's morale, come and shoot arrows!"

After saying that, the defenders at the top of the city raised their bows one after another, and Yuchi Gong, who was beside Wen Yanbo, pulled up his horse and took Wen Yanbo to his horse.At this time, arrows rained down from behind him, Yu Chigong pulled the bamboo-jointed steel whip while pulling the arrows, and at the same time pulling the horse away.It's just that Wen Yanbo's steed that was left on the spot was unfortunately hit by more than a dozen arrows and fell down on the spot.

Back in front of Li Chongjiu's banner in Tushan, Wen Yanbo and Yu Chigong were both unscathed.Wen Yanbo said to Li Chongjiu: "I have tried my best in a humble position. Although I can't say I surrendered to the defender, it is enough to shake the morale of the army." , I am quite satisfied at the moment.

That night, Li Chongjiu camped and rested outside the city, and the enemy had no plans to attack the camp, so they passed the night peacefully.

On the next day, the drums of war sounded.More than 30 iron-plated vertical vehicles specially designed to block arrows, which have been secretly produced for ten days, have all been pushed out.Both the vertical car and the city wall are five feet high, which can accommodate more than a dozen archers, and the top is covered with a two-foot iron shield to prevent enemy arrows.

The moment the iron plate vertical car appeared, it caused a commotion among the defenders at the top of the city. Obviously, they did not expect that the other party would build so many siege equipment silently.There are ten big men behind each car, moving from the northeast corner of the city to Liucheng.The city pool in the northeast corner is a pointed shape, protruding outside the city. More than 30 iron-plate vertical vehicles slowly advanced, and behind the iron-plate vertical vehicles, a black mass of human heads appeared.These people are old or young, each carrying a bag of earth on their shoulders, and staring at the moat.

Looking away from the moat, looking at the majestic city wall, Ke Mulun swallowed a mouthful of saliva. He didn't expect that his first battle in Liaoxi County was not to fight the enemy, but to fill the river with a bag of earth on his back.This incident made his best fighting and equestrian skills completely useless, but he could only shake his head when he saw that his good brother, Qi Ashu, who was the deputy, was also in the team.Behind him were thousands of people from the Xi tribe, and carts that looked like tombstones in his eyes slowly pushed under the city.

"Kill!" A command sounded, and Ke Mulun, together with the people around him, took steps and ran forward.And the sound of the bowstring crumbling above his head rang out, Ke Mulun didn't have the time to look up, his eyes just stared in front of him.

The bows and arrows of one's own side should be able to suppress the bows and arrows of the other side's city very well. Like Ke Mulun, everyone is so looking forward to thinking about it, thinking that they have more courage to run.But while running, Ke Mulun could still see his brothers on the left and right, and fell down from time to time.

Ke Mulun felt that he was running fast, almost comparable to a galloping horse on the prairie. Suddenly, his eyes went blank, and the white moat appeared in front of him.Before Ke Mulun could feel any emotion, he bent over and threw the package behind him into the river.A large splash of water was splashed from the soil bag, and Ke Mulun was wet all over.

Ke Mulun swept it away, and his soil bag sank into the river, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.At that moment, Ke Mulun let go of his feet and ran back, and Qi Ashu also completed the task.The two ran desperately back to the starting point, fell to the ground, gasping for breath, their hearts almost jumped out.

The red flag was waving on the top of the city in the distance. It seemed that archers were constantly being dispatched from the top of the city to reinforce the tight top of the city.The sound of bowstrings and crashes in the ears was still incessant, and more than thirty buildings leaned towards the enemy's city and rained arrows.
And at this moment, a loud bang was heard in the city!
Ke Mulun raised his head, only to see a huge boulder passing across the sky.At the place where the huge boulder fell, everyone on all sides uttered a cry to avoid it, but the building car couldn't move.As a result, he was hit by this boulder.The building car made a terrifying distorted sound, and collapsed forward with a bang.The sawdust on the building car flew around, and the archers above shouted and fell from the top of the building car.

Ke Mulun's eyes were full of surprise, and he asked Qi Ashu, "This is the trebuchet you mentioned, and it can throw a huge boulder so far!"

Qi Ashu nodded heavily, and saw that the opponent had moved two trebuchets to the top of the wall and started throwing stones at his side.At this time, the second batch of Han soldiers who filled the river had already been organized.

At this moment, in the southwest corner of the city, across a moat, Ugunai organized Mohe soldiers, each carrying a bag of earth, to build a mound of earth on the other side of the moat.Numerous Mohe big men held huge logs, soil bags, and braved the arrows shot from the wall behind the moat, as well as huge stones, and continued to increase and widen the earth mountain.The Mohe fighters ran bravely, and bags of soil were thrown on the ground.
The speed of a mountain of earth is almost visible to the naked eye, and it is gradually increasing. This is only an instant, and the mountain of earth has piled up and is almost as high as the top of the city.

On the other side, a Wubao more than ten miles away from Liucheng received a signal that Liucheng was in danger. A group of [-] Sui troops went out to reinforce the city.In the tall and dark woods in Liaodong, arrows shot out from the darkness.

The soldiers of the Sui army fought with the Dinglingmohe people in the woods, and each side dropped a few corpses. The Sui army didn't know how many enemy troops were still in the four directions, so they had to return to Wubao.

PS: Originally there were three updates today, but there are too many things, um, how about changing it to two updates a day for three days, so that there can be one more update.Ask for all kinds of tickets!

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