Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 76 Too bullying

In the early morning of the fourth day after arriving at Qusi, after more than two days of hasty preparations, the Young Marshal finally went out of the camp under the personal leadership of Xiang Kang, carrying the improvised flying ladders, crash cars and pontoon bridges to attack the city Weapons came out of the city, and came to the east gate of Qulu aggressively. On the basis of the total force of only [-] people, more than [-] people were dispatched in one breath to participate in the siege battle. Consider the posture that the city is bound to win.

Seeing the actions of the Young Commander from a distance on the city wall, he has been nervous for several days. Of course, the alarm gong sounded again and again on the city. The guards guarding the east gate hurriedly entered their respective positions to prepare for battle. The reserve team was in a mess. During this period, the generals roared and the soldiers shouted, panicking like a group of ants whose nest was attacked.Residents in the city were in a state of panic. Adults yelled at their children and rushed to close their doors and courtyards. Many domestic dogs were alarmed and barked wildly, which added to the panic atmosphere in the city.

Hearing the alarm, Bao Wen, the right lieutenant in charge of the reserve team in the city, was the first to arrive at the hall of the county temple to wait for orders, and Lu Fang, a close friend of Wang Zhao who was in charge of the garrison in the city, was the last to arrive at the scene. He shouted in a panic in front of several colleagues: "Master County, something is wrong, the rebels have come to attack the city, thousands of people, with countless siege weapons, the thieves are huge, in this battle we It's time to fight! It's time to fight!"

"Thousands of people?" Bao Wen was stunned, and couldn't help asking: "Lieutenant Lu Zuo, how many soldiers and horses did the rebels come to? Didn't the scout we came back three days ago report that the rebels had a total of only one army?" A force in the early [-]s? How can you send thousands of people to attack the city?"

"This..." Lu Fang was at a loss for words, his fair face was still blushing, and then he stomped his feet and said, "Oh, Captain Bao You, what time is this, what are you talking about with me? It's my slip of the tongue Can you do it? Anyway, the thieves are coming, and there are still a lot of troops, so we have to fight this battle."

"How many troops did the rebels have?" Bowen asked.

"I don't know." Lu Fang answered very bluntly, and said, "I didn't send scouts out of the city, so I couldn't find out how many enemies came. Anyway, there are a lot of them, definitely more than our soldiers in the city."

"waste!"

Bao Wen snorted and cursed coldly in his heart, but Wang Zhao, who was sitting high in the hall, was not in the mood to care about the unknown report from his confidants, but just wiped the sweat from his face and said: "Everyone, the thieves are coming fiercely, what should we do in this battle?" Hit? Do you have any ideas?"

No one answered, including Lu Fa, who usually talked the most, kept his mouth shut and didn't dare to say anything. It was only after Wang Zhao repeated the question again that Bao Wen, who couldn't stand it anymore, stood up and cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry about the magistrate, the thieves Although the incoming force is huge, the city is strong and easy to defend but difficult to attack. We only need to defend the city to the death, relying on the location to attack the siege soldiers head-on, and then deploy troops to the city in time to strengthen the defense and block the attack of the thieves. City, it’s definitely not a difficult task.”

"That's good, that's good." Wang Zhao wiped his sweat again and again, hoping that Bao Wen's prophecy would come true so that the defenders could survive this catastrophe. Then Wang Zhao hurriedly asked Bao Wen: "Lieutenant Bao You , then what should we do next?"

"Of course, the county lord is invited to visit the east gate city in person to investigate the enemy's situation, and then according to the rebellion's troop deployment and main attack direction, dispatch troops according to local conditions and concentrate the troops to resist the rebel's attack."

Although he has never been to the battlefield, Bao Wen made quite correct suggestions based on the military knowledge he learned in the classroom. Wang Zhao, who had returned his military training to the teacher in the classroom, nodded repeatedly, and hurriedly said: : "Okay, then everyone, just follow me to the east gate city to investigate the enemy's situation, and then we will discuss how to retreat from the enemy."

According to Wang Zhao's instructions, Bao Wen, Lu Fang and several qualified county officials hurriedly followed Wang Zhao out, all the way straight to the east gate of Qulu.As a result, because of the relatively close distance, when Wang Zhao and Bao Wen climbed the east gate wall, the young commander had just arrived at the foot of the east gate of Qulu, and before they had time to line up, Bao Wen and the others quickly opened their eyes wide and observed carefully. The array layout of the young commander's army is used to judge the main attack direction and siege tactics of the young commander's army.

The army in his hand was just a group of mobs at heart. Of course, Xiang Kang, who was commanding a regular siege for the first time, could not arrange any particularly complicated and exquisite siege tactics. Based on the understanding of city warfare, he arranged a simple siege tactic corresponding to the real and the false. He led the main force to attack the east gate, and ordered Xiang Sheng to lead more than [-] people to detour to the south gate of Qulu to launch an auxiliary attack. While dispersing the enemy's defenders, He also deliberately gave up the west gate to leave an escape route for the defenders, so as to shake and scatter the enemy's determination to resist.

In addition, one is because Xiang Kang himself lacks experience, and the other is for the convenience of attacking. The young commander also lined up the siege weapons brought by the army in front of the formation, showing the attack of his own army early on. City cards.But when he saw the deployment of the young commander's army and the few siege weapons the young commander had, Bao Wen, who had some military talent, quickly came to a conclusion and hurriedly said to Wang Zhao: " County Honor, judging from the current situation, the main attack direction of the rebels is to take the east gate, and the south gate is only auxiliary, but it has to be defended. Therefore, the officials suggest that our army should concentrate the main force on the east gate. In addition, arrange a rear army for the south gate just in case, so we should be able to deal with the thieves."

"Also." Bowen added: "Judging from the siege weapons of the thieves, their main target should be our city gate. They want to build a pontoon bridge to open the road directly below the city, and then use the flying ladder to attack us." The city pulls away our troops, and finally decides the victory with the siege vehicles. The officials suggested that we should replenish the troops on the city tower and prepare more torches and boulders, so as to restrain the thieves' siege vehicles."

Wang Zhao nodded in a hurry, and after hesitating for a while, Wang Zhao, who knew how much he had, said simply: "Lieutenant Bao You, you are proficient in military affairs, and you come to send troops to form an army. I will do whatever you want to arrange the army." arrange."

Bowen was not polite either, and after agreeing, he immediately used his brains and tried to figure out how to use the limited force of less than a thousand people in the city.However, at this moment, Lu Fang who was next to him suddenly pointed at the flag formation of the Young Commander's Army and shouted in a panic: "Look, the county lord, the thieves have sent people out, and they seem to want to answer us."

Hearing this, Bao Wen turned his head quickly, and saw a man running out of the young commander's army, holding a small white flag, and was rushing towards the east gate of Qulu, and shouted from a distance: " Don’t shoot the arrows! Don’t shoot the arrows! I’m here to deliver the documents! The two countries are fighting each other, and if you don’t kill them, please don’t shoot them!”

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there had long been an unwritten rule of not beheading envoys—that’s why lobbyists and liars like Zhang Yi were so rampant. This will see the advance envoys contacted by the Young Marshal Army before launching an attack on the city, Wang Zhao, Bao Wen and others Of course, I don't think it's strange. In order to find out the purpose of the young commander's envoy, Wang Zhao also ordered the prohibition of shooting arrows early on, allowing the young commander's envoy to cross the moat and come directly to the east gate of the city.

At this time, an accident happened, and the envoy of the Young Marshal Army did not ask to meet Wang Zhao, the county magistrate of Qulu, but shouted loudly from the city: "Xu Shu, the envoy of the Young Marshal Army of Great Chu, asks to see Bao Wen, the right lieutenant of Daqin Qulu." Bao Youwei, Bao Wen, Bao Youwei, please come out and answer."

All the surprised eyes in the city focused on Bao Wen's face, and Bao Wen was even more puzzled. He never thought that Xiang Kang sent an envoy to answer him.Surprised, Bo Wen didn't think too much, and immediately poked his head out of the city, and said loudly in doubt: "I am Bo Wen, what do you want from me?"

"I have seen Bao Youwei." Bao Wen, who has gradually become a diplomatic swindler dedicated to the Young Marshal Army, bowed his hands politely, then took out a letter written in silk cloth, and said, "Bao Youwei, here is a letter from my family. Young Marshal Xiang asked the envoy to hand it over to you, please ask someone to put down a hanging basket and ask the envoy to hand over the letter to you."

"You don't have to be so troublesome. Just say what the letter said." Bowen said loudly.

"Forgive me, Captain Bao. It's inconvenient to read this letter aloud. Please put down the hanging basket." Xu Shu shook his head, and was ready to put down the letter and run away at any time—in any case, with Qin Jun's curiosity, nine Cheng Jiuhui will send people down to the city to fetch the letter and go up to read it.

Qin Jun's curiosity was stronger than Xiang Kang and Xu Shu's expected. Before Bao Wen could figure out whether he should accept the letter, Wang Zhao ordered someone to put down a hanging basket. Xu Shu was overjoyed when he saw it. He hurriedly put the letter into the basket, picked a stone from the ground to hold it down in order not to be blown away by the wind, then cupped his hands, turned around and left immediately.

The matter was not over yet, after hastily crossing the moat, Xu Shu suddenly turned around again, and said loudly to Bao Wen: "Lieutenant Bao You, it's time to do something, we don't have much time for Young Commander Xiang, if you don't do it quickly, wait until we fight!" Once you enter Qulu City, it will be too late for you to do anything!"

After all, Xu Shu, who still loves his own life, ran away, but Bo Wen heard something wrong from Xu Shu's weird words, so he hurried forward, snatched the basket before everyone else, and took out the letter from the basket After unfolding and watching, Bao Wen was completely dumbfounded after only seeing the general content—the letter was written in a handwriting similar to that of Bao Wen, and the content was that Bao Wen told Xiang Kang that Wang Zhaolan was abusive and could not tell right from wrong. He sent his good friend Duan Zixing to prison for questioning based on only a fake book; he also said that he was worried that sooner or later he would end up in the same end as Duan Zixing, and he had hated Wang Zhao deeply for a long time. Kang surrendered, but he was worried that after killing Wang Zhao, he would not be able to convince the crowd and would be harmed by Wang Zhao's subordinates, so he asked Xiang Kang to be prepared, as soon as he saw the fire in Qulu City, he would immediately send troops to attack the city to support him Offer the city to surrender!And at the end of the letter, of course, it looks very much like Bowen's own signature!
"Lieutenant Bao You, what is written on it? Let me take a look too."

At this time, Wang Zhao came up suspiciously, trying to read the letter with Bao Wen, but Bao Wen was taken aback, folded the letter subconsciously, and held it tightly in his hand. Of course, Wang Zhao was even more suspicious when he saw it. Quickly asked: "Lieutenant Bao You, what was written in the letter? Why didn't you let me read it?"

"What should I do?" Sweat quickly seeped out of Bao Wen's forehead, and he wanted to hand the letter to Wang Zhao, explaining that this was Xiang Kang's shameless divorce, but considering the lessons learned from his friend Duan Zixing, Bao Wen didn't have the guts ——The taste of prison rice is not good.But don't hand over the letter, and Bao Wen has no way to explain to Wang Zhao and others, so in a hurry, Bao Wen really doesn't know what to do.

"Lieutenant Bao You, what did you write in the letter?" Wang Zhao asked again, and then said, "Also, what should you do if you sweat so much?"

There was nothing to do, trembling, Bo Wen could only slowly stretch out his hand to hand in the letter, and then slowly let go, but at this moment, a gust of wind blew the letter in Bo Wen's hand into the air and fell down the city.Bao Wen was even more surprised when he saw it, but Wang Zhao on the opposite side became suspicious, and immediately shouted: "Send someone down to the city to pick up the letter!"

According to Wang Zhao's order, a defender soon put down a soldier with a rope and went to the city to pick up letters. Going down to the city quietly, Wang Zhao's fellow countrymen found out and immediately yelled to stop him. Bao Wen immediately ran away. Wang Zhao turned his head and saw that he was furious, and hurriedly shouted: "Quick, send someone to stop him!"

Several relatives rushed down to the city to chase Bao Wen, and at the same time the letter that had fallen down the city had already been picked up by the Qin soldiers in the lower city, and when the letter was sent back to the city and handed over to Wang Zhao, Wang Zhao just After briefly reading the contents of the letter, of course, he immediately became furious and roared, "Bowen, how dare you do that! Quickly, send people into the city to capture Bowen back to me! If you dare to resist, you will be shot!"

When a team of officials rushed into the city to arrest Bo Wen, the young generals also made moves. According to the siege tactics left by the ancestors of the old Xiang family, first two hundred young generals marched out with long shields and crossbow arrows. , Holding the shield against the rain of arrows hastily cast by the defenders, he trotted to the edge of the moat, formed a temporary fortification with a long shield, covered the crossbowmen of the young marshals and fired arrows behind the shield, suppressing the enemy defenders on the city.Then more than a hundred young marshals and soldiers came forward with pontoon bridges, planks and ropes, and went to the moat to build a temporary pontoon bridge.During this period, the two sides continued to shoot at each other with crossbow arrows, and soldiers from both sides were constantly killed or injured by arrows. However, because both sides were rookies and broilers, the frequency of this was not high.

Still rookies and mobs, under the obstruction and destruction of the enemy's crossbow arrows, the engineers of the Young Marshal Army were clumsy, and even dropped a pontoon bridge into the moat and was washed away by the river. If it was not set up properly, seven or eight people were shot to death and injured by the crossbow arrows of the Qin army. The soldiers of the young commander kept dodging left and right in order to avoid the arrows, which seriously delayed the progress of the project.

Fortunately, everyone is a rookie. The guards of the Qin army in the city were all temporarily recruited by the Taolu County Temple. They have only received the most basic military training. The hit rate is naturally not as high as that, and the crossbowmen of the young commander are constantly harassing the city with arrows. Occasionally, a blind cat will shoot the defenders on the city like a dead mouse, so the crossbow hit rate of the Qin army defenders Of course it is lower, so no matter what, they can't shoot away the young commander's engineers who are desperately building the bridge. They can only watch helplessly as the young commander's engineers pull up the pontoon bridge one by one, and gradually open it directly to the city. path of.

Finally, the five pontoon bridges were successfully built one after another, and the engineers and soldiers of the Young Marshal Army, who could get a heavy reward of hardware, cheered and ran back to the main formation. The teams went out, one of them carried ten flying ladders, and the other centurion pushed a crash car, and the flying ladder team strode forward one after the other, and continued to accelerate as they advanced. Rush towards the wall of the east gate of Qulu.

At the same time, drums were beating loudly at the South Gate, and the Young Marshal's Army Xiang Department, who was in charge of the auxiliary attack task, also launched an attack on the South Gate of Qulu at the same time.

At the same time, at the critical moment to test the young commander's ability to fortify the fortress, a thin cloud of smoke suddenly rose from the city, and then the smoke quickly thickened and turned black. At the same time as the fire rising, there were more Smoke appeared one after another.Seeing this scene, the defenders were of course in an uproar. While the morale of the army was shaken, the morale was also directly affected. The generals and soldiers of the young marshal cheered like thunder, and everyone in the flying echelon team and the crashing convoy walked fast and shouted excitedly The sound resounded throughout the entire battlefield...

"Kill! Kill! Whoever enters the city will receive a reward of [-]!"

Roaring excitedly, the morale of the young generals who were already very high was even more high. The young generals who were carrying the portable ladder took the lead and rushed across the moat on the pontoon bridge with their shields in hand. The flying ladder was lifted over the moat, and he couldn't wait to put the flying ladder on the top of the city. Without saying a word, he rushed towards the city with his weapon in his mouth.And the Young Marshal's crashing convoy also performed well, pushing the cumbersome crashing car is also very fast, just as the Young Marshal's flying ladder got on the top of the city, the Young Marshal's crashing car has already rushed On the moat bridge!
At this time, the flames in the city of Qusi became more and more obvious, and the noise in the city could be clearly heard even from the city wall. Affected by this, the defenders of Qusi, who did not have a good general to command, were inevitably in a panic. It is said that the technique of shooting arrows is even worse, even hitting stones is not accurate.The soldiers of the Young Marshal had high morale, stepping on the flying ladder and charging up. Soon, several soldiers rushed to the top of the flying ladder, brandishing their swords and fighting the defenders in the city.During the hard work, there were even two warriors from the Young Marshal Army who fell down the ladder after being hit by a stone, and then climbed up again with blood on their faces, and their spirits were extremely high.

Facing the stones that fell like hail and raindrops, the ramming car of the Young Marshal Army also gradually pushed to the city gate. The smashing and hitting also creaked the city gate, and dust clusters fell.And no matter how much the defenders on the city threw stones and torches, they couldn't stop the high-moralized young generals from trying to slam into the door.

The ladder team was still the first to create miracles. During the fierce battle, a warrior of the Young Marshal Army saw the opportunity and suddenly jumped from the top of the ladder to the top of the city wall. Fighting to get injured, he managed to cut down on someone who was trying to jump up and push himself down the city. A soldier of the Qin army, followed by a young commander biting his weapon, also jumped to the city wall and swung a knife to help his companions guard the gap, covering more companions to take the opportunity to go to the city.Although the soldiers of the Qin army tried their best to stop them, but their morale was not high, and their individual quality did not take any advantage. They couldn't beat these two young commanders who were already red-eyed. They could only look at the young commander in horror. The soldiers of the army continued to rush up the city wall from this gap, and gradually seized a position at the head of the city.

"Whoa! Good!"

The cheers rose again, and another warrior from the Young Marshal rushed to the top of the city wall from another ladder, and successfully cut down a nearby Qin army flag.The officers and men of the young commander in the distance outside the city cheered and cheered loudly, but Xiang Kang sighed and murmured: "The enemy is too rookie, and there are still people in the city who set fire to meet them. It is hard not to win this battle. In this company In an era when "36 Strategies" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" didn't exist, I always took the lead with out-of-the-box divisive schemes and fake books to lower the difficulty of siege. Isn't it too bullying? It's hard for my army to win a tough battle like this The training of vicious battles is not conducive to the growth of my army?"

After muttering that doing so would not be conducive to the growth of his own army, Xiang Kang did not hesitate, and immediately threw in two more centurions to step up the offensive, and shouted: "Tell the whole army, take down Qulu City, the people in the county library Half of the money and food will be used to reward the whole army, everyone will have a share!"

(End of this chapter)