The same heavy casualties, the same failure to rush to the moat, less than a thousand of the three thousand people came back alive, but this time there were two black-faced people - Li Mu and Han Chuang.
Han Chuang originally thought that Li Mu had a way to defeat the enemy, but who would have thought that he would rush forward as usual, only replacing the medium-sized shield in his hand with a large-sized one! What's the use? He should be blown up to death.
Blast to death.
"Marshal Li, what do you think we should do next?" Han Chuang asked.
Li Mu said angrily: "I really regret that I didn't kill Ji Jie last night, so I wouldn't have to worry about today! The rainy season is coming soon, and if we can't end the war within a month, the situation will be unfavorable to our side, and there will be a lot of mud.
, the siege and the transportation of grain and grass will be greatly affected, hey!"
Han Chuang thought to himself that there is nothing you can do. I thought I was the only one who had no idea. You are also an ordinary person. If you hadn't saved me last night, I wouldn't have listened to you!
"Go back to camp and attack the city after we figure out a way!" Li Mu said with a dark face.
In fact, he already had an idea, and he showed a very disappointed look. He was doing it to show Ji Jie, making Ji Jie think that he had nothing to do, and used it to cover up his true intention.
After returning to the camp, Li Mu ordered: "Deputy Commander Han, I heard that all of your tunnel warriors have extraordinary abilities. Choose a suitable path for tunnel excavation and start digging tonight. I will send cavalry to run back and forth around every day.
Even if Ji Jie listens to the sound vat in the city, he won't notice anything!"
"Yes!" Han Chuang turned around to arrange the matter.
Li Mu waved his hand, and Sima Shang stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "What other instructions does the marshal have?"
"The purpose of sending cavalry is to cover up the noise caused by digging tunnels. This is not difficult to explain!" Li Mu also whispered: "But I don't rely on tunnels to win. Ji Jie is not a fool. He will definitely think that I will use this trick, even if it happens again.
You can't escape his eyes and ears even if you are careful. Digging tunnels is just a cover. You immediately take five hundred soldiers to the woods in the southeast to cut down trees and make platoons of vehicles. Whether you can take Zhaocheng depends on whether your platoons of vehicles can
Blocked his bomb!"
Sima Shang understood, nodded solemnly, and said: "Marshal, don't worry, the general will fulfill his mission!"
Li Mu spent a lot of time digging tunnels and secretly manufacturing trains.
Needless to say, Ji Jie's attention was completely attracted by the tunnel. He had no idea what Sima Shang was busy with and thought that the coalition forces were completely betting on the tunnel.
"Dig a tunnel? When they dig to the moat, they will know how stupid their idea is!" Ji Jie smiled and said to everyone: "I had already considered this when digging the moat, so on the river bed
There is another underground river arranged below. As long as they dig into the river bed, the water in the underground river will turn the people in the tunnel into fish and turtles!"
Zhao Ling nodded and said: "Your Majesty is really thoughtful!"
Sima Xueran said with some worry: "Li Mu is a famous contemporary general in China. He won't be stupid enough to rely on tunnels to capture the city, right? I have analyzed the battles he has fought in the past ten years. This man is good at using tricks.
It uses ordinary means to confuse the enemy, and then kills them after they are fooled, making it difficult for them to guard against it!"
Ji Jie also thought of this and said to everyone: "What Ran Ran said makes sense. Didn't I almost suffer a big loss last time? Li Mu must not be underestimated. You must not change your mind because of two small wins."
When you are so proud, you must keep your eyes open for me all the time!"
"Got the order!"
For five days in a row, the Zhao and Han coalition forces did not invade Zhaocheng. However, Li Mu sent 20,000 people to ambush the east and west sides of the camp. As a result, Ji Jie did not dare to rashly mobilize troops from Wangcheng and Longcheng to attack the camp.
Two days later, early in the morning, Ji Jie, who had just woken up, received news that the coalition forces gathered outside the city and made preparations to attack the city.
"Haha, I finally lost my temper!" He hurriedly wiped his face twice, without even bothering to put on his armor, and went up to the tower with a spear in hand.
Hongtianlei and Zhentian cannon were piled next to the trebuchet, and the artillery position was well prepared to prevent the enemy from coming back.
Although these things make the enemy unable to fight back, they also have great shortcomings: first, the accuracy is too poor, and they can only hit a general range, but cannot carry out precise strikes; second, gunpowder is extremely susceptible to moisture, and the first two
Several dud bombs appeared this time. If it is a rainy season, the probability of exploding is expected to be extremely small. Even during the flight, the fuse may be destroyed by raindrops.
Fortunately, this kind of thing has not appeared in other countries, and even if it is crude, it is still advanced.
Ji Jie secretly said that after this battle, he must start making improvements, otherwise sooner or later the Seven Congresses will succeed in imitating it, and by then he will have no advantage.
"Look, what is that?"
Someone shouted. Ji Jie looked around and saw many wooden house-shaped objects on the coalition position. He took out his binoculars and looked carefully.
It is about three feet long and one and a half feet wide. It is in the shape of a roof. It is made of logs. There is a layer of mesh made of wattle above the ridge. There are three layers in total. There are six windlass on the side. From a distance, they look like
A cabin on wheels.
This is the row of cars that Li Mu ordered to build. The roof and sides are connected with double layers of logs. Hundreds of kilograms of stones can be thrown on it without any problem. The three layers of wattle netting outside are all made of freshly cut young wattle branches.
Very flexible.
Each platoon can contain dozens of soldiers. There is a small observation hole directly in front. One person stands behind it to control the direction and direct others to push the platoon forward.
The inventor of the platoon cart was Li Mu. Once he led his troops to attack the Xiongnu camp. Unexpectedly, the Huns were superb in their arrow skills and they could not rush past. He had an idea and ordered people to build ten small carts made of freshly felled trees.
Hiding in the car, no matter how the enemy's rockets shot upwards or kerosene poured upwards, they could not hurt the soldiers hiding inside, and they captured the camp in one fell swoop.
This time, the platoon car was used to resist Ji Jie's thunder and sky-shattering cannon. Li Mu specially ordered the platoon car to be made of double-layered logs, and a wattle net was added on the outside for protection.
"Chariots out!" Li Mu gave the order, and Sima Shang got into one of the rows of vehicles, and thirty vehicles advanced at the same time.
"Squeaks ..." The squeezing of the volleyball was fast. Seeing that it had entered the range of the artillery.
Ji Jie waved his hand, and the trebuchet threw out the first round of thunder.
The "big winter melon" hit the vitex net and was ejected. It still exploded when it landed on the ground. However, the row of cars did not move at all and was still moving forward in an orderly manner.
"Grandma, keep bombing!" Ji Jie scolded: "I don't believe this thing can withstand repeated bombings from the thunderous thunder. Give me a hard beating!"