Chapter 412: Rest assured, everything is under control!
Today, Zhiyao did something she always thought she would not do, which was to order the cavalry to attack the city.
To be honest, watching some TV series can make people extremely confused, and they really don’t understand why there are so many scenes of galloping cavalry in a city attack and defense battle.
The cavalry could not scale the walls, there was no doubt about that.
Because the defenders stand on the city wall and have a high combat advantage, the range of their bows and arrows is definitely much farther than those standing on the ground. This is common sense.
So, what is the purpose of the cavalry rushing to the city? They cannot climb, and they will definitely be covered by the defenders' archers. They use war horses to speed up the arrival of the city. Which family is so rich, or does it send cavalry up for free?
In fact, for one reason, the director thought that the audience was stupid. As a result, the director himself became a fool and thought that the scene of the cavalry charging into the city would look good.
A section of the city wall collapsed, and the length of the collapse at the back increased to seven or eight meters. This was the reason why Zhiyao sent out cavalry to charge.
There were only a hundred or so cavalry who initiated the charge. Their mission was to rush in and then disrupt the Wei defenders, in order to create more opportunities for the ensuing Pao Ze.
At the same time, with the beating of war drums, the Zhi family launched an attack on the four walls of "Wei" city.
The main direction of attack is of course the east, and the rest depends on the development of the war. Once the Wei family makes a major oversight, the north, south, and west can also become the direction for the Zhi family to break through.
This is the fact. Whether it is a main attack or a feint attack, there is no absolute change. It is just an idea for arranging troops at the beginning. If the battle situation changes, it is another matter.
There are twenty-eight siege towers, twelve of which are used on the east battlefield, and the rest are arranged on the other three walls.
The cavalry who rushed towards the gap were met with a hail of arrows as soon as they entered, which was actually what Zhiyao had expected.
How could the Wei family not place archers near the gap? If they really didn't, they didn't deserve to let Zhiyao personally lead the attack.
The first dozen or so Chi cavalrymen who rushed in were shot into hedgehogs, including their men and their horses.
It took time to draw the bow, and then the twenty or so Zhi cavalrymen rushed in. They attracted the attention of the Wei archers. Although they also fell under the rain of arrows, they created an opportunity for Pao Ze behind.
From Zhiyao's perspective, he couldn't see the situation inside the city. He could only see about a hundred cavalry rushing in in five waves. After about a hundred breaths, the infantry followed and rushed in through the gap in a swarm.
"There is archery, but the density is not enough." Zhiyao knew that the sacrifice of the cavalry created value.
The fact is also the case. The archers placed by the Wei family at the gap will definitely give priority to attacking the enemy troops approaching them, and will not take care of those rushing in from the gap. This creates an overwhelming time difference, and then the expected collapse occurs.
Already.
Due to the terrain restrictions, the Wei family could only deploy a limited number of troops near the gap. Moreover, time was too short and it was not allowed to mobilize more troops, not to mention that the Zhi family was already launching an siege on all sides.
"We can capture the city wall today, but it is too early to conquer the city," Sun Wu said.
What the Zhi family wants to do is to remove the Wei family from Jin State, and they will definitely encounter the strongest resistance from the Wei family.
The now organized army will be more resilient than after the "military state ownership". As long as the nobles do not collapse, the soldiers will follow to the end.
Don't mention that they are now defending Sangzi, their combat awareness will definitely be stronger.
Therefore, even if the Zhishi captures the city wall or gate, it does not mean that the soldiers guarding the city will give up resistance. It does not mean that the ordinary Wei people inside will have to fight against the Zhishi soldiers.
It is equivalent to saying that if the city wall of "Wei" city is lost, then the entire city will become a battlefield, and the Wei people will still have the advantage of familiar terrain, and it is unknown how many Zhishi soldiers will be swallowed up.
Zhiyao glanced at Sun Wu and said, "Zhiye!"
Even if you have predicted it in advance, you should always give it a try. Maybe there will be some surprises. If you can't capture it, just try another method.
"Perhaps the best way is to siege for a long time? But I don't have that much time to spend here, and so many of the family's troops should not be dragged here." Zhiyao knew this well.
So many siege equipment that had been inconvenient to display before were dispatched, and nearly 80,000 people were mobilized. Although there were only about 30,000 soldiers actually responsible for the siege, non-combat attrition occurred all the time.
The subsequent development of the battle confirmed that Zhiyao and Sun Wu's guesses were correct.
No matter whose order it came from, after the Wei family confirmed that they could not prevent the siege tower from approaching, they resisted symbolically for a while. The defenders on the city wall were withdrawn, and the pursuing Zhi family soldiers were in the alleys of the city.
, buildings, courtyard fences, and other places encountered resistance from the Wei people.
"The sixty to seventy thousand people in the city are all my enemies!" Although Sun Wu had expected it, he still frowned.
Zhiyao had just gone to deal with the incoming Wei troops outside the city.
According to intelligence, the Wei family's armed forces in the "Wei" area are about 130,000 to 40,000, which probably proves that the Wei family's garrison in the city is about 70,000, which means that there are almost the same number of Wei troops outside the city.
The Wei troops outside the city were not concentrated in one place. They were scattered in various places, either in the mountains or in the forests. They rarely appeared in the wilderness and attacked Zhishi's troops or camps mysteriously.
In the past, Zhiyao used this method of warfare to disgust the enemy. Several times, the princes could not bear the disturbance and had to retreat, only to be ambushed somewhere by Zhi's army.
Now it was Zhishi's turn to be disgusted by this method of warfare.
It's not that it's impossible to counterattack, it's just that it's difficult to eliminate the elusive enemy in one go.
No one from Weiss or the Wei family would be that stupid to gather the scattered troops and give the Zhi family a chance to annihilate them.
In the following days, Zhishi's siege troops continued to fight bloody battles with the Wei people in the city. Zhiyao tried again and again to lure the Wei army in the wilderness, but succeeded in ambushing and annihilating more than ten thousand people. As a result, the Wei army in the wilderness could not
If it appears again in a large scale, there will only be a small team of more than ten or dozens of people to do the sabotage.
During this period of time, Zhiyao was still doing another thing, ordering the auxiliary soldiers to dig trenches outside the "Wei" city and make a large number of fences.
What does Zhiyao want to do?
Since a hard fight would pay a heavy price, Zhiyao wanted to build a blockade outside the city and simply trap the Wei people in "Wei" City to death.
Digging trenches in winter is really a thankless task. As a result, halfway through digging, Zhiyao asked the auxiliary soldiers to make traps, and at the same time, they made horses and deer antlers.
To be honest, making iron wire is too expensive, otherwise Zhiyao would have wanted to wrap the "Wei" city layer by layer with layers of barbed wire and other fortifications.
"The city of Han will be destroyed." Zhiyao handed the newly obtained information to Sun Wu and said, "You need to lead the army there."
Sun Wucai did not think that Zhiyao separated his troops to rescue the Han family, and asked: "Has the Han family surrendered?"
Not this one.
After the situation turned bad, Han Geng asked his own troops outside the city to support him and led more than 2,000 cavalry in the city to break through.
To be honest, although the Han family trained the cavalry secretly, the Zhi family had already learned the news.
The reason why Han Geng chose to break out of the encirclement was because he believed that the Zhi family would win. There was actually no other explanation.
In that case, unless there was something wrong in his mind, how could Han Geng sign a city alliance with the Wei family and work with the Wei family to deal with the Zhi family?
After breaking out of the city, Han Geng did not rush to "Wei" land. His choice was to send people to Zhiyao to report and create an opportunity to completely annihilate the Wei army in "Han" land.
Therefore, if you use your speaking skills well, you can still win the war after losing the battle. It is clear that the city cannot hold it and will fall... maybe it is also destined to fall. It turns out to be a fighter opportunity for Zhiyao to encircle and annihilate the "Han" Wei army.
If Zhiyao hadn't paid close attention to the battle situation in "Han" throughout the whole process, he might have been bluffed.
Even though Han Geng used words, Zhi Yao still got to know Han Geng again and gained a new appreciation that she didn't have before.
Of course, gaining Zhiyao's appreciation is not necessarily a good thing. Maybe it will make Han Geng's fate miserable?
Under the premise of uncertainty, Zhiyao would definitely not lead the army to "Han" personally, and appointed Cheng Shuo as the supporting general. Sun Wu remained as his deputy, and also mobilized the Hu family's troops, with a combined force of about 70,000.
support.
To put it in a very unpleasant way, even if there is only one in 10,000 possibility that the Han family and the Wei family are deceiving him, the weight of annihilating the "Han" Wei army is still not enough for Zhiyao to take the risk.
Zhiyao, who stayed outside the "Wei" city, was very likely to enter the moment of dealing with civil affairs. Unless something uncontrollable happened in the military, most things would be left to others to handle.
It must be said that this approach is correct, and it also proves that the Zhi family indeed has the internal conditions to turn their family into a country.
A country cannot be conquered only by Zhiyao. Otherwise, when the Zhi family turns the family into a country, will Zhiyao have to conquer it personally every time?
Speaking of turning her family into a country, Zhiyao has already accelerated her attack on Emperor Zhou and repeatedly spent huge sums of money on him. At the same time, she has not forgotten to bribe ministers who can speak well. Recently, Emperor Zhou has relaxed his attitude towards giving Zhi a marquis status.
Spending money or something? Zhiyao really doesn't care that much, especially how much the Zhou royal family eats, and they must return it to the Zhi family with interest in the future.
In addition, Zhiyao did not forget to pay attention to other countries, and among them, the movement over Chen State was a bit big.
It was not that the Chen State took the opportunity to invade the Zhishi; they invaded the Qi State and the Ju State, plundering resources and people, and sent them one by one to the Korean Peninsula via fleet.
According to reliable information, Chen Junqi is no longer in Donglai, and Chu Junheng has also disappeared from public view for a long time.
"Gou Jian was really unwilling to be lonely. He thought that I had no time to take care of Wu State, so he killed Wu Junxi and captured the cities of Wu State." Zhiyao guessed that Yue State must have formed an alliance with Chu State?
If Chu and Yue form an alliance, will Lu be missing?
Some news sent from the Song State also showed that the Lu State and the Yue State were relatively close, especially after Gou Jian promised to donate three cities to the Lu State, there was too much interaction between them.
Zhiyao turned to look at the besieged "Wei" city and frowned...
I'm in a hurry, I posted it first and then corrected it. Please forgive me for any typos!
