As the former capital of Lujiang County, it is not easy to open the city gate of Shu County, and it is just an outer city gate.
If you want to enter the main city, you must first pass through Wengcheng.
After passing the Wengcheng and then passing the inner city gate, you can truly enter the hinterland of the city.
However, although the light outside the city gate was weak in the middle of the night, there were spots of moonlight and firelight, which finally gave it some light. When entering the urn city, Sun Cejun, who was pretending to be a defeated soldier, found that it was pitch black, with not even a hint of light. At the end of the day, his eyesight completely went dark, and he couldn't adapt to it, and panic immediately arose in the team.
Fortunately, the captain who took the lead knew the importance and knew that he could not waste any time at this time. He simply relied on his intuition and courage and went straight to the front to chop and shout. The soldiers behind him immediately imitated one by one, and they also used swords and guns at the same time. His feet kept running towards the inside.
As if the momentum was overwhelming, they rushed out of the barbican city without encountering any resistance. The captain was convinced, and became more and more convinced that the other party had indeed fallen into his major general's plan this time. Just as he was ecstatic, he heard the fierce sound of horse hoofbeats. , deafening, and at first glance, hundreds of people from the suspension bridge rushed in. The two torrents merged, and they immediately gathered strength and rushed towards the inner city with all their strength.
The hundreds of people killed later carried torches. The captain looked around and saw many soldiers wearing Xuzhou armor lying on the ground. It was expected that they were the colleagues who had previously tricked the city gate into opening, but now he discovered There are two things that are strange. First, the faces of these fallen soldiers are covered with masks. Second, although there are bloodstains around them, it always feels like there is too little.
The more the captain looked at it, the more he felt something was wrong. He immediately rode forward and chose a nearby corpse to step on. The result was that it was limp and powerless, not like a human body at all. Suddenly, there was a thump in his heart, and he immediately picked up a corpse with a spear. After taking a closer look at the mask, he immediately exclaimed: "Not good!"
Where are the Xuzhou soldiers here?
It's obviously a dummy made of turf!
Knowing that something was not going well, the captain immediately reined in the horse's head and waited for his subordinates to retreat. Unfortunately, before he could say anything, he heard loud killing cries, human voices and the sound of horse hooves coming from behind him. However, the last group of people had already arrived. come.
More than a thousand people were all cavalry, holding up their bridles and controlling their reins, rushing to rush into the Wengcheng. They were crowded in front and behind, shouting and yelling, completely blocking the retreat. Let alone retreat immediately, there were some who were slightly behind and suffered from the crowd. , in such a situation, I'm afraid I can't even turn around.
"You've fallen into the trap, retreat quickly!"
The captain shouted repeatedly, but only the soldiers in front heard it. They wanted to run back, but the Sun Cejun behind them didn't know the situation and still pushed forward happily. The two sides collided with each other and became a mess. group, but no one noticed. Unconsciously, there were faint flames on the high places on both sides.
The next moment, the walls on both sides of the Wengcheng burst into flames, as if suddenly night came to day.
When Sun Cejun was surprised, he heard someone laughing loudly. First, the generals, and then the soldiers, fell silent one after another.
More than a thousand people looked up and saw two or three people standing against the wind on top of the wall of the urn city. The one in the middle, with long sleeves in blue and a square scarf covering his head, dressed as a scribe, was Zhou Hui, the king of Shu County.
"Thief Sun is a reckless man who is brave and has no plans. He actually tries to deceive my city with a mere trick?"
Looking down at Sun Cejun from a high position, but seeing that everyone looked frightened and dumbfounded, Zhou Hui became more and more proud. He scolded with his halberd finger: "Do you treat me like a three-year-old child? You are looking down on me!"
Immediately he shouted and asked: "Where is my Jiangdong tiger?"
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of rustling, and countless soldiers poured out from the north and south of the city wall at the same time. Everyone held a bow and an arrow, and stood one by one at the crenellations on the urn city wall. Soon, they were standing in a circle around Sun Cejun.
, a rough book, the number is thousands.
Following Zhou Hui's order, everyone fired their bows and arrows, aiming firmly at the enemies in the city.
Sun Cejun turned around and ran towards the city gate, but unfortunately it was too late. The city gate was also closed at this time. It can be said that there is no way to the sky and no way to the earth.
There were more than a thousand Sun Ce troops, mostly cavalry, galloping on horseback. Some looked up and lost sight, or lowered their heads to seek cover. Some brave ones brandished their spears and shouted curses, while some were timid, their legs trembling, and even fell off their horses. Others
The general who led the army and the captain who first entered the urn city closed their eyes, looked miserable, and thought: "My life is at stake."
After waiting for a long time, I heard that horses were firing in the city, but Zhou Hui was not seen firing arrows.
Looking up, he saw Zhou Hui sighing and saying: "When you come into my house, life and death are just a matter of a thought. It's just that you are also a man from Jiangdong. In the past, you also kept your peace. Today, you are making trouble. I guess you are ignorant."
, I have just been bewitched by the Sun thief. If you want to pull yourself out and return, abandon the darkness and surrender to the light, you can dismount and disarm, and those who surrender will not be killed!"
Hearing this, Sun Ce's army below the city was in a commotion, but it soon calmed down. The vanguards who could be selected by Sun Ce to join the deceitful city were either elites or dead soldiers. Although death was imminent, it was inevitable that they would be timid, but they had to
It is basically impossible for them to surrender under the supervision of General Pao Ze.
Zhou Hui asked three times, but no one paid any attention. Many Sun Ce soldiers armed with bows and arrows instead opened their bows and arrows and shot towards the top of the city. They were really brave and not afraid of death.
"Stubborn."
Zhou Hui sneered, stopped talking nonsense, waved his hand and shouted: "Let it go!"
The next moment, bows and arrows were seen raining down like locusts.
However, this wave of arrows rained down, but it did not cause many casualties.
The general had just experienced a situation, and was secretly laughing at the enemy's poor archery skills, when he heard the captain next to him suddenly scream: "General, no, the traitor is trying to set fire!"
The general was shocked and looked around, only to realize that there was a lot of firewood and grease piled up in the corners of the city wall, and the first wave of arrows from the archers on the gun heads was not directed at them, but fired at them with rockets.
These are flammable places!
But in the blink of an eye, all the firewood and other things were ignited, and the flames shot into the sky and the smoke filled the air.
While the fire was raging, people could only hear people screaming and horses neighing, and the city was transformed into a pot of porridge.
Some were burned to death, but many more were trampled to death by frightened horses.
Many of them were wearing two layers of heavy armor. They were burned by the fire and could not take off their clothes. They screamed in agony. Often they could not even scream for a few times before being annihilated and ignored. Most of them were burned to death. They looked like they were dead.
It was all terrible to see. Black smoke billowed into the sky.
But above this tragic scene in the human world, Zhou Hui laughed heartily, his laughter swaying the night sky, looking extremely proud.
...
Soon after, Wei Yan also came to the wall of Weng City.
Just now, he had chosen the most suitable time to close the city gates again and pull up the suspension bridge to prevent Sun Ce from taking the opportunity to mobilize his main force and attack the city in a large scale.
As soon as he arrived, he smelled a strong aroma of barbecue. Wei Yan sniffed, looked down and frowned slightly. Even though he was fierce by nature, after all, he had only been in the army for a short time, and he would not have seen such human tragedies.
I felt a little worried, but when I saw Zhou Hui on the side, he was very excited. He was immersed in the joy of victory, but he quickly put away the unbearable feeling.
"Young Master," Wei Yan walked closer and looked around, but saw that not only Wang Zheng, but also some of the generals of the Heavenly Army could not see him. He couldn't help but asked in surprise: "Where is Wang Zhoumu?"
Zhou Hui glanced at him and said with a smile: "Chang Wen, you are wrong to ask this question. Wang Zheng only has a thousand troops in the city, how can he be willing to use them at will?"
Indeed, Wei Yan nodded and asked: "Then he and his troops have not arrived at the front line. How can he be sure to tell the young master that this must be Sun Tie's plan? How do you know that the people under the city are not Huang Zhong? Those people
How did you get the general's flag armor?"
Zhou Hui smiled and said: "When you were summoned, Wang Zhengzheng and I were discussing matters in the study. After understanding the whole story, we concluded that this person was not Huang Zhong!"
"Oh?" Wei Yan asked in surprise: "Why?"
"Wang Zheng said, Huang Zhong is a tiger warrior. Even if he is trapped by the enemy, fails to break out, and is defeated back to the city, how can he act like a woman and beg you to open the city gate again and again?"
"Also, where is Wang Xiong? They only said that he was seriously injured and died. This is even more impossible. If Wang Xiong, the deputy general, is seriously injured and dying, then the Xuzhou Army will definitely suffer heavy losses."
Zhou Hui said: ‘But Wang Zheng said it was absolutely impossible.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Wei Yan immediately asked: "Wait a minute, young master, how did Wang Zhoumu know that the Xuzhou Army leaving the city would never suffer heavy losses?"
this...
After being reminded by Wei Yan, Zhou Hui just discovered the unreasonableness of this section. He frowned and thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "This is indeed a bit strange. Could it be that he has sentries all over the four states and can change the situation outside the city at any time?"
Did you tell him?"
"In this case, why didn't you tell us as soon as possible?"
Wei Yan said coldly: "Also, what is the channel for spreading the news silently into the city?"
"Young Master, although we are fighting side by side now, we must not take this person lightly."
Zhou Hui's heart moved when he heard this, his face was cloudy and uncertain for a while, and then he said in a deep voice: "Yes, that's all. How this news got into the city, we must find out clearly!"
In Zhou Hui's opinion, Wang Zheng had a channel that could hide his eyes and ears from him, the lord of Shu County. This was the biggest problem, and he could not just sit back and ignore it.
"Chang Wen, I will leave this matter to you. You must dig out this rat who is colluding with outsiders!"
"Here."
Wei Yan cupped his hands in response, thought for a while and then said: "In addition, Wang Zhoumu sent Wang Xiong to lead his army out of the city. It was only decided yesterday. It was only then that we were informed that Huang Zhong had broken out from Linhu and was ambushing us.
Outside the city, how could Sun Ce predict this? Did he arrange this fake Huang Zhong in advance?"
"There are also Sun Ce's troops outside Linhu City. How could Huang Zhong's breakthrough be hidden from Sun Ce?"
Zhou Hui said: "Moreover, going to the northwest this time and recapturing Long Shu requires a general. The only person Wang Zheng can use at this time is Huang Zhong. If Huang Zhong doesn't come out, Wang Zheng will go out personally. What's the difficulty?"
"
"It's not surprising that Thief Sun can predict things in advance."
"So that's it." Wei Yan looked at the city again and suddenly said with emotion: "More than a thousand troops, no one surrendered. Sun Bofu got people here, he is indeed a hero."
Upon hearing this, Zhou Hui's face flashed with displeasure, and it disappeared in a flash.
What's going on with you, my slave? I won a great victory in this battle and almost completely wiped out the enemy without any damage, but I didn't get a single word of praise from you. Instead, you gave a lot of praise to a defeated general?
Finally, thinking that Wei Yan's martial arts skills were amazing and that he was a rare talent, he suppressed his dissatisfaction, forced out a smile and said, "Let's go, Wen Chang, let's go drink and celebrate."
...
The next day, at Wei Yan's suggestion, Tao Ze cut off the heads of all Sun Ce's troops and hung them on the city walls as a threat. This not only greatly boosted the morale of the defenders, but also aroused Sun Ce's anger.
There was no other way, facing this situation, just to boost morale, he had no choice but to be angry and express his anger.
Starting from noon that day, Sun Cejun obviously accelerated the speed of building mountains of earth. On the surface, he naturally wanted to speed up the capture of the moat, but secretly he ordered people to dig tunnels in the camp.
Unfortunately, like the flooding method, hole attack is also a siege tactic that Wang Zheng has always paid close attention to.
When he attacked Guangling City that day, he was able to win by surprise in a very short period of time because of this tactic. He even recruited Leqi, who was good at this, to the Xuzhou Army, and even assigned hundreds of people from the craftsman camp to study this book.
Of course, he would not be unprepared for this. After discovering the changes in Tushan, Wang Zheng immediately called Le to ask for advice.
Leqi gave two methods.
One countermeasure was to dig trenches inside the city.
Based on the level of land surveying in the Han Dynasty, the dug tunnels could only allow a small number of elite troops to pass. Wang Zheng had already known this, and Sun Ce's purpose of using cave attacks was also to solve the problems of the city gates and suspension bridges from the inside, so according to Le
The only way to dig it out is to dig the trench to a certain depth. If you dig the tunnel halfway, you will be unable to move forward, and you will definitely be discovered by the guarding soldiers.
Another strategy is to dig a well close to the wall in the direction Sun Ce may have dug a tunnel, one well every three steps, or one well every five steps. Place a new pottery jar at the bottom of the well, and cover it with thin cowhide to make your hearing sharper.
People crouched in the vat and listened.
This method is called "Weng Listening". As long as the enemy digs a tunnel, they will definitely be able to hear it.
In this way, after detecting the specific direction of Sun Cejun's tunnel digging, he dug a tunnel in the opposite direction from inside the city to meet it, so as to intercept the enemy's tunnel; at the same time, he built a cave dwelling outside the tunnel, installed a blower, and installed pipes.
, lead their exhaust pipes into the tunnel and lay them forward as the tunnel extends.
After the enemy's tunnel is dug, the cave dwellings are burned to release smoke. When the smoke leaks into the narrow tunnel through the exhaust duct, you can imagine what the scene will be like. Although there is no fire, it is actually smoke.
.In order to prevent the enemy from cutting off and blocking the exhaust ducts, and at the same time to save our soldiers from the suffering of smoke, connecting boards are often placed in the anti-tunnel.
The height and width of the connecting board are consistent with the tunnel, which is used to block smoke. There are small holes in the board to facilitate spear thrusts. If the enemy blocks the ventilation duct in front, the defender can use the blocking of the connecting board to move the rear
The ventilation duct was released and the guide plate was immediately moved back.
Finally, after some discussion between Wang Zheng and Zhou Hui, the latter decided that these methods could be used by the common people in the city and the aristocratic families to use them at the same time.
Wang Zheng naturally agreed to it and was happy to see it succeed. Anyway, with the current military strength in the city, it would be a matter of time to requisition the people's strength, not to mention that it was not him who wanted to offend anyone.
In just a few days, the two youngest princes and young heroes in the world have already shown their skills in and outside Shu City.
First, Wang Zheng took advantage of his unstable footing to break out of the city, and then Sun Ce first tried to flood the three armies, and then defrauded the city. After a series of battles of wits and courage, the troops suddenly stopped for several days.
However, with the intensive preparations by the three parties, the battlefield has quietly evolved from above-ground competition to underground confrontation.
The Art of War says that those who are good at attacking move above the Nine Heavens, and those who are good at defending hide under the Nine Earths.
But I don’t know who will have the upper hand this third time?