Chapter 1894: The Challenge of Yanjing Offensive and Defensive Battle (5)
Chapter 1894: Challenge of Yanjing Attack and Defense Battle (5)
After hearing what happened to Sun Lingming, Xue Rengui and Lu Bu realized that the Han army had a way to restrain the powerful general.
Among the Qin army, in terms of physical strength alone, Sun Lingming is definitely second only to Li Cunxiao. But even Sun Lingming, who possesses the indestructible power of the Vajra, cannot climb the tower under Li Ling's crossbow stone tactics, not to mention that his physical strength is not as good as Sun Lingming's.
where are they.
Now there are more than 400 catapults, 3,000 crossbows, and tens of thousands of powerful crossbows in Yanjing City. There are so many defensive equipment. If the three of them were to be attacked, they would not even be able to climb the tower.
"Brother Su, your self-created crossbow stone fighting method has now become a sharp weapon for the enemy. Is this considered self-inflicted?" Xue Rengui said with a look of resentment.
Once Su Dingfang's crossbow stone strategy came out, no matter how powerful the generals were, their role in siege warfare was greatly reduced.
Logically speaking, this is a good thing, but you must know that the Qin Army is the country with the most powerful generals. Among the 72 powerful generals on the general list, more than half are Qin Army generals.
Therefore, Su Dingfang's self-created crossbow stone method not only failed to hit the enemy first, but instead put shackles on his own generals, and the Qin army became the country that was most affected.
After hearing Xue Rengui's complaints, Su Dingfang also smiled bitterly.
He didn't think that much, he just wanted to kill Yuan Shoucheng, the great master, as soon as possible. How could he know that the crossbow stone technique would spread so quickly and be used by the enemy against his own people.
The tactics he created himself were copied by his opponents and used against him, but he couldn't do anything about it.
At this time, Su Dingfang was naturally in an extremely uncomfortable mood, as disgusting as stepping on dog poop just after going out.
"Yanjing City is already easy to defend but difficult to attack. The enemy forces are still united and it is too difficult to break through by force." Su Dingfang said solemnly.
"Then what should we do? Do we want to besiege and not attack, which will consume the food and grass in the city?" Lu Bu asked.
"This is a good thing to note. Once the food and grass in the city are exhausted, Yanjing will be captured without a single soldier." Sun Lingming said with a smile.
"What a fart, do you know how long our army will need to besiege the city if we want to use up all the food and grass in Yanjing City?" Xue Rengui said angrily.
"How long?" Sun Lingming asked in confusion.
"Seventy percent of the aristocratic families in Youzhou are in Yanjing City, and Liu Che's daily grain distribution system has taken away all the food and grass from the aristocratic families. Now the food in Yanjing City can last for at least a year if you save some food.
For a long time." Su Dingfang said calmly.
"What? A year?"
Lu Bu and Sun Lingming exclaimed at the same time.
Besieging a city and depleting the local food and grass supply is indeed a good way to defeat the enemy without fighting, but it is also a burden on one's own food and grass consumption.
Yanjing can defend Yanjing for a year, but the Qin army cannot besiege the city for a year, because the Qin army's goal before starting the war is to destroy the Northern Han Dynasty before winter.
The Qin Army's five armies attacked Youzhou, and in less than a month, the Northern Han Dynasty was reduced to only six cities, and the temperature became colder and colder.
There is not much time left for the Qin army. To besiege the city of Yanjing for a year? This is something that Qin Hao will never allow.
"Then we can only attack by force." Lu Bu said helplessly.
"Don't worry, go and challenge first. If the Han army dares to go to war, take the opportunity to kill the generals to lower the morale of the Han army, and it will be easier to attack the city." Su Dingfang said.
"Then if the Han army does not fight, will it be a coward?" Sun Lingming asked.
A strange look flashed in Su Dingfang's eyes, and he smiled lightly and said, "The commander will have other methods by then."
Lu Bu and Sun Lingming stood up together, clasped their fists and asked for battle: "The last general is asking for orders to fight."
"No."
Su Dingfang shook his head and said, "You can't."
"Why?"
"The strength of these two generals is too strong. If any one of you two goes to challenge, the Han army will not fight. It is better for me and General Xue Li to challenge."
Lu Bu and Sun Lingming were both stunned, and then looked helpless. How could it be that being too strong was not good enough?
"Brother Xue, let's go and follow me to meet Xue Gang." Su Dingfang said.
"good."
Su Dingfang ordered five thousand cavalry, and together with Xue Rengui, they led a challenge outside the north gate of Yanjing.
Yanjing City is three feet high and the walls are one foot and five feet thick, which means it is ten meters high and six meters thick. With such a height and thickness, in this era, it was definitely the second largest city after Luoyang.
On the north gate wall, a catapult is placed every thirty meters, a crossbow is placed every twenty meters, and there are countless archers and crossbowmen.
Su Dingfang made a simple visual inspection and found that the number of catapults at the north gate exceeded one hundred.
If the other gates were also arranged in this way, then the number of catapults in Yanjing City would be more than four hundred, which is not consistent with the number described in the intelligence.
Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui looked at each other and saw a hint of solemnity in each other's eyes, which meant that catapults could be built in Yanjing City.
Although he didn't know how many raw materials there were in the city and how many more aircraft could be built, the fact that the city was self-sufficient was enough to make Su Dingfang be more vigilant.
Since the Han army can build catapults, can they build other defensive equipment?
Su Dingfang took out a long breath, suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and said calmly: "Go and challenge."
"good."
Xue Rengui rode his horse to the city gate, pointed his halberd at the city tower, and shouted: "Rebels, who dares to fight with me?"
There was an immediate commotion on the tower, but it soon fell silent again, with no movement at all.
Xue Rengui shouted a few more times, but there was still no movement. Seeing this, Su Dingfang decisively galloped out and challenged himself as a general. Unexpectedly, the Han army still did not dare to fight.
"Father, Su Dingfang is the commander-in-chief of the 70,000-strong Qin army. Once he is killed, the morale of the Qin army will be greatly reduced. Father, let me go to fight."
Xue Kui couldn't bear it anymore and took the initiative to challenge Xue Gang, but Xue Gang sneered and said: "Idiot, this is Su Dingfang's plan, he put himself in danger just to lure you out.
Pass the order, hang up the no-fight card, and no one can go to fight. Anyone who disobeys the order will be killed."
"promise."
Su Dingfang saw that the Han army not only did not leave the station, but also hung up the no-war card. Knowing that ordinary challenges would not attract the Han army, he immediately said: "Find a hundred people with loud voices to criticize the war, and give Xue Gang to me."
Scold him."
"promise."
Soon, a hundred knights mounted their horses at the gate of the city and began to curse at the top of their lungs.
They not only scolded Xue Gang, but also scolded Liu Che, and their scoldings were extremely vulgar, which made Xue Kui furious.
Xue Gang's face didn't look good either. He didn't care about being humiliated, but the Qin army under the city even humiliated Liu Che. He would die if he humiliated me.