The ancients of the Han Dynasty were still quite weak in siege!

Even until the end of the Tang Dynasty, gunpowder was used on a large scale before the war, siege was a heavy and protracted chore. If you defend the city with confidence and determination and stand for one stop, it would be a complete disaster for the siege. Just like the Battle of Suiyang in the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun relied on cannibalism to resist the fierce attack of the 170,000 troops of Anshi rebel Yin Ziqi for more than half a year, and even killed many people, effectively protecting the Huaiyang lifeline on which the Tang Dynasty relied on to survive.

Another example is Suiyang. During the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion, more than 200,000 rebels in Wu and Chu attacked Suiyang. King Xiao of Liang cried and asked Emperor Wen of Han for help every day. However, Suiyang was still standing for half a year. Zhou Yafu cut off the food route from the Wu and Chu rebels to the south, and beat hundreds of thousands of rebels in the vassal states in one breath.

Compared with these two wars, Cao's attack on Pengcheng was very smooth.

The military strategy says: there are 12 types of siege, including siege, hook, ladder, archer, ***, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder, thunder

Seeing the front line's blood boiling, Wang Hou led Cao Hongjie and his grain-protecting captain Zhao Yun to rush in. On the earth mountain excavated by the civilians who arrived earlier, Cao Cao also brought Cao Hongjie back from Wang Hou with him, and inspected the battlefield back and forth with the earth telescope embedded in the wooden tube. He obviously was quite satisfied with this siege battle.

"The Prime Minister, the officials sent grain to Pengcheng, and the wheat was lost due to the capsized ship, and the wheat was brought to the wheat..."

"Tuqiu, come and take a look! This is the siege technique. Arrow hills destroy the will of the enemy, empty the enemy's walls, and then attack them with strong warriors and strong ants. No one in the world will not be destroyed!"

"In the future, you will also block one side for your true nature and break the city and get a village. You must study hard!"

After interrupting Wang Hou's report, Cao Cao showed off his flaunts. If someone else listened to this show, he would have been flattering. The admiration was like the flowing water of the Yangtze River, surging endlessly, and like the flooding of the Yellow River, it was out of control! But as thousands of people rushed up the ladder, the few people above took the poles and fell a large area. Several stones were thrown to death on this skill, Wang Hou still couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, and he reported it back with difficulty.

"The Prime Minister is amazing, the lower minister, that one is not enough..."

This was also the last day of the siege. It took seventeen days. The soldiers and strong men dispatched a total of 80,000 soldiers. The Cao army finally "gloriously" captured Pengcheng, which had more than 700 "army" of Lu Bu. In addition, Cao Cao plundered and massacred more than 900 local clans in Xuzhou twice, as the main defensive force.

However, as long as the word "Pengcheng" is added to this battle, it will be enough to be brilliant.

On the streets of Pengcheng, which had been destroyed after several wars, Xiahou Dun and Li Dian, who entered the city first, rode on the horse and was smugly thinking about their stomachs. Although the soldiers behind were exhausted and scarred, their expressions were still full of pride.

At the moment when the city was broken, Cao Cao was the first to be invited into the city from the earthen mountain. At the yamen, under the custody of Cao's army, the local elders of Huang, Deng, Ren, Zheng and other major clans were urged to kneel down on the ground in dejected manner and kneel down to face him tremblingly. In their fearful eyes, the majestic President Cao appeared in front of them with full energy.

In the future, Cao Cao had a rare beginning to be kind and benevolent. He was there to say that he was just on behalf of the heavens and fight against the thieves. What crime did you commit when you fight stubbornly? But I was generous and how to pardon you. I immediately issued an order to rectify military discipline, not allowing soldiers to rob the people.

However, in the face of the dilapidated market and the vast number of people in Pengcheng, it is really unknown how effective the belated benevolence is.

This has nothing to do with Wang Hou for the time being. Now he only cares about how to keep his head. After 17 days of struggling in Sishui, he consumed 150,000 stones of grain and moved outside Pengcheng City. However, there was no safety in the city outside the city. The soldiers who were sieging the city began to draw trophys. For the sake of his own head, Wang Hou worked tirelessly to urge the civilians under his command to grit their teeth and pile up these heavy grains to resist the official warehouses that entered the city.

However, there are endless troubles coming here!

The ruins of the ancient Roman Empire in later generations are quite complete. The ruins of the Roman city are left in front of people and have become world-renowned cultural heritage. However, China claims to be a 5,000-year-old ancient country, and has cemeteries. The oldest one left behind is the city palaces around the Song Dynasty. The Tang city of only one dynasty has been ruined, not to mention the Qin Pass, which has a longer history.

However, it is no wonder that the devastating wars in ancient times were too destructive to the buildings of these civil structures! Pengcheng was built in the Spring and Autumn Period and Song Dynasty, and was once the capital of Xiang Yu at the end of the Qin Dynasty. However, to date, not to mention the remains left by Xiang Yu, the Guancang pavilions and other buildings that were only built during the Eastern Han Dynasty collapsed, leaving only a shaky rubble ruin, lying on the edge of the military camp in the east of the city.

"What should I do if the transshipment officer?"

The head of the civil servant who drove the ox cart and carried the load was stunned. They gathered like headless flies and asked Wang Hou for orders. Not to mention them, even Wang Hou himself was stunned.

Although it is the end of September and October, it is almost November to convert it into the Gregorian calendar. The plum rain season in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has long passed, but the air is still wet, cold, wet and cold. This has already allowed Wang Hou to experience the difference between the cold physical attacks in the north and the cold magic attacks in the south. In this weather, the military rations that have just been transported from the river are still at risk of rotten and moldy!

After a few seconds of stunned , Wang Hou waved helplessly and ordered.

"Food is temporarily suspended from entering the city! Come, go and notify the Yin lieutenant and recruit 3,000 people from the civilians. First, repair the official warehouse area, and at least take out the warehouse pit! Then stock up all the grain! Cover with straw!"

"Little one obeys the order!"

Although the official warehouse was almost destroyed, it was very scientific for the ancients to build granaries. The location here must be the driest place in Pengcheng. Even if there is no ground building, it is better than just piled outside the city and facing the river fog in Sishui. Anyway, Pengcheng had to be built for two or three days. Sharpening the knife will not stop chopping wood. Wang Hou gave the order helplessly.

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It is still very pleasant to be an official. Just a little bit of a word, the people below will do everything. The city captured at around 1:00 in the afternoon. At night, at least the area of ​​the military camp in the north has restored order. Thousands of people are busy in the messy ruins of the Guanjian, lifting the collapsed pillars. What kind of rotten straw roofs are already rotten under the warehouse, and they don’t even know how a few pieces of food died inside. The rotten old bodies that are so worried that they are disgusting that they are cleaned up. This kind of rag is piled at the door, and only one neatly arranged large grain hoarding pits left are quite pleasant.

Now Wang Hou has begun to change the diet at the end of the Han Dynasty. He is next to the Guancang construction site. The heavy millstones are pulled and rotated by someone. The flour that has just been sifted with dustpan is immediately sifted with water. On the other side, on the newly built earthen stove, the layers of cages are emitting heat. The steamed buns have just been steamed directly to the military camp according to Cao Cao's orders, and the newly cooked pork and beef are rewarded with the soldiers.

As for generals, they always have privileges. In the farmhouse near the city, the eggs that the old farmer "provided" were broken in baskets, and the egg whites and egg yolks were mixed into the noodles. Dozens of women rubbed the noodles with black slaps while picking their noses. Finally, they were stuffed into some straight barrels with eyes, squeezed hard with stones, and strips of salty noodles were put out.

When they threw it into the old hen soup that the old peasants in Pengcheng "willful" were offered, they rolled in a few rolls, and put the meat in the bucket. Even Mr. Cao was holding a big bowl and ate it. As for Xiahou Dun, Cao Ren and other generals, they even snot all over and opened it. They didn't bother to blow it, and they pulled it back in a flash, and then stuffed noodles into their mouths.

There is no way to go, marching and fighting, the food is too monotonous, and even eating a hot meal is enjoyable, let alone the golden noodles cooked in the fragrant old hen soup.

He ate more vegetarian than scalpers and did more than scalpers. He was talking about our time travel model Wang Hou, who had to reward the soldiers when the city was broken. He found another big job for him, organizing the civilians to kill pigs and girls, wash vegetables and cook until seven or eight o'clock in the evening. He then took the opportunity to take a break and have some food.

He also picked out a bowl of chicken soup from the chicken soup shipped to the Central Army. With the convenience of his authority, he took out a big chicken leg from the pot and inserted the chopsticks into the bowl. It was like a starving ghost who stuffed noodles into his mouth.

But before he could swallow the chicken, he was scared again with a bang behind his back, and he coughed and sprayed all the noodles as soon as he ate it. He threw the bowl aside and turned his head. However, several civilians surrounded a large wood and watched the fortune silly make the adults angry.

"What are you doing!!!"

"Back..., the transport envoy, there is not enough firewood in the kitchen, the young ones..., the young ones went to Guancang to get a few pieces of wood, and came back to criticize them as firewood, so that the transport envoy would be fertilized and the young ones deserved to die!"

Along the way, Wang Hou, who was a good-tempered man, was also cried by these Gu people who had never seen the world. His temper became irritable and cruel. He jumped and cursed people every few days. Several of the men were so scared that they trembled and explained with a sad face.

"firewood?"

He was stunned and his eyes fell on the big wood, but Wang Hou was so painful that his face was sucked. In the "On the Qin Dynasty" written by Jia Yi, the tripod, jade, gold nuggets and beads, made the spoiler play the most vividly. The pillar beams that built the official warehouse were made of the best Huangshan cypress wood. Don't think that wood was cheap in ancient times. Such a good tree, even if it was thrown in the ruins for several years, was still not corroded at all. It was worth almost a bucket of grain, and it almost made these uneducated people burn as firewood!

"Bring it back! Pick up broken wood and straw to burn it! I will stock up all the high-quality and complete beams and wood for me to cut off another corner, and I will slaughter your butts! Get out of here!"

The senior official level was to crush people to death, not to mention the officials and the civilians at the bottom of the class. As Wang Hou's shouting, these civilians were mourning again, and hey, hey, hey, hey, carried the big wood back.

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After all, the military situation was like fire. After seventeen days of siege, Cao's army only rested for three days. Then Cao Cao organized it and continued to move south along the Sishui River to attack Lu Bu's old nest Xiapi City, so as to end the arduous war in the cold winter as soon as possible.

Following the army, Wang Hou's logistics team also carried the things in and set off, but this time, in addition to a bucket of food, piles of rags appeared on the grain ship.

First of all, the beams and wood removed from the collapsed official house were bundled down, and then the iron sticks used in the house were piled in bundles in a corner of the grain ship. With some tiles, large stones, and various construction waste, Wang Hou seemed to really treat himself as a waste purchase station. These hollow grain buckets can be filled as much as they can.

This was a struggle, let alone the civil servants under his command complained, even the civil servants who followed Cao Cao were shaking their heads. Following Cao Cao, Wang Hou's archenemy Yang Xiu deliberately frowned and sighed deeply.

"In Xudu, every household collects night fragrance. When I come to Pengcheng, I'm really fussy. Wang Lingguan is really..., he is really thrifty!"

These words are very ironic! When marching and fighting, no kilogram of transport is precious. This Hongnong talent obviously mocked Wang Hou for being stupid and messy.

Cao Cao also frowned and opened his mouth to speak, but after he hesitating for a few seconds, he was swallowed back by him.

Xu Dushou Yexiang once became a laughing stock of the upper class scholars, but Cao Cao saw it. Five thousand acres of land, and nearly 40,000 stones of grain were harvested! An average of eight stones per acre is four times the yield of land on this era! As soon as this happened, the manure nearby was worth it. The Xun family and Zhong family of the Xiahou family also began to stock up on manure and waited to go down the field next year. Although this time, Wang Hou did not know what Wang Hou had to do to get a pile of broken wood, Cao Cao decided to believe him!

In the various sarcasms and silences of Cao Cao, Wang Hou picked up a lot of rags, but he still traveled with him for five days and arrived at his destination...

On October 11, in the heavy snow in Huaibei, Cao's army fought to the city of Xiapi again, just like a computer game.
Chapter completed!