"Brother Yang, you didn't see it. Thousands of Yuan troops were blocked in that small corner. Before they even got close, they were hit by a hail of rocks falling from the thunder truck. They cried for father and mother, and retreated in embarrassment..."
In Wenyuan's Chinese military tent, all the military generals gathered together to discuss the day's war. They were chatting happily. When they talked about Yuan Jun's embarrassment, bursts of hearty laughter broke out from time to time. Only one or two generals remained silent. .
"The Lord has arrived," the Xuanying guard outside the tent shouted, and everyone fell silent. Wen Yuan strode into the tent with a serious look on his face. He had just finished inspecting the defenses, and was followed by Guo Jia and Zhou Cang.
Wen Yuan walked to the main seat and sat down next to Da Ma Jin Dao, and said in a deep voice: "Everyone, I want to hear your opinions on today's battle."
Seeing Wen Yuan's solemn face, an irresistible pressure spread around him. Everyone present was confused and suddenly became serious, and the atmosphere in the tent seemed a bit dull for a while.
Seeing that the generals were silent, Wen Yuan said: "Fengxiao, please tell me your opinion."
"As ordered," Guo Jia stood up with his hands raised and said to everyone: "My lord, although Yuan's army suffered a small setback in today's battle, it only lost more than a thousand men, far from damaging the foundation. Yuan Shao led his troops to retreat in time, and they will definitely go back. Discuss countermeasures. If we fight again in the future, our army will not be able to win as easily as today."
After finishing his words, the relaxed look on the faces of all the generals disappeared. Guo Jia paused for a moment. He didn't finish his words, and there was more to come.
"My lord and Jia patrolled the camp and found that some soldiers in the army began to develop some arrogant feelings of underestimating the enemy because they had won two battles. This kind of thinking is absolutely forbidden. Have we forgotten so quickly that our army not long ago The one-month siege of Wei County was also in vain, with tens of thousands of casualties. In addition..."
Guo Jia was talking. Although his voice was not loud, it was like thunder in the ears of the generals. The expressions of the generals began to become solemn. Some people were deep in thought, while others were worried about underestimating the enemy just now. Feeling guilty.
On the first day of the defensive battle, the Julu Army easily repelled the Yuan Army's attack. Hundreds of Yuan Army corpses were left in front of the gates of each of the three villages. A small number of them were killed and injured by meteorite vehicles. However, the number of Julu soldiers injured by stray arrows in the walled city was only a few dozen.
Such a result made many soldiers feel relaxed and contented, and there was a faint air of underestimating the enemy in the military camp, as if tens of thousands of Yuan troops were not afraid at all in front of the Julu Army's carefully constructed defense system.
But is it really as simple as the generals imagine? In a war, the defensive side is always passive. The offensive side can attack or besiege. Attacks can also be divided into feint attacks, actual attacks, main attacks and auxiliary attacks. The attacking side can You can completely use flexible tactics to disrupt the defender's steps, or find weak links in the defense to attack with all your strength.
Moreover, the defenders of the city are not without their worries. Today's attacks against Yuan's army mainly relied on the power of the meteorite vehicles. However, the shortcomings of the meteorite vehicles are also very obvious. They are not large in number and have a slow launch frequency. They can only be used in areas where the opponent's array is densely packed. Only in this way can the maximum power be exerted, and Wenyuan set up his camp on a high slope by the river. There is not much stone here, and it cannot be used by the meteorite vehicle to waste it unscrupulously.
These are all things that the soldiers need to be vigilant about, but except for a few generals or two in the army, the rest of them are more or less in the mood of underestimating the enemy.
But is Yuan Shao really that easy to deal with? At this time, Wen Yuan felt the need to beat the generals in time...
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"Lord, if the trenches are uneven, this stronghold will not be broken," Xu You said to Yuan Shao in the Yuan army's camp.
There are many discerning people among Yuan's army. It is obvious that although Yuan's army is two or three times larger than the Julu army in Tucheng, the disadvantage of the terrain means that Yuan's army can only invest three to five thousand siege troops at a time. This makes Yuan's army unable to attack the city again. We are at a relative disadvantage in the battle. If we follow this routine, we are afraid that even if 60,000 people die, we still won't be able to break through the walled city.
"Does Ziyuan have a clever plan?" Yuan Shao was also worried about this matter and asked after hearing this.
Xu You suggested: "My lord, if you can do this... if Zhang Liao cannot look at each other, then the trench will be leveled."
Yuan Shao was overjoyed and said: "Zi Yuan's words are exactly what I want. I will follow Zi Yuan's plan tomorrow."
Early the next morning.
Yuan Jun continued to attack the Yangping Fortress, and tens of thousands of troops and horses approached the majestic fortress aggressively.
"My lord, there seems to be something wrong with Yuan Jun's movements today," the guard opened his jaw at the middle gate of the city and keenly noticed the changes in Yuan Jun's formation.
I saw that the densely packed Yuan Army was divided into several distinct groups. In front of them was still the Yuan Army pushing siege equipment and approaching the village gate. However, this time the Yuan Army did not all rush towards the wall of the village. Thousands of Yuan Army shouted With the chants, hundreds of arrow-blocking vehicles converted from carriages were pushed forward in a line four to five miles wide, rushing forward like a tidal wave of the Qiantang River. The scene was incomparably spectacular.
Behind the arrow-blocking car, surging heads could be seen everywhere, as numerous as countless ants. Each soldier carried a bag on his shoulder, and hey-whispered toward the city wall under the cover of the arrow-blocking car. Close to the ravine outside.
Two hundred steps away, the thunder carts launched another attack, but the formation was not crowded at this time. A wave of boulders hit them, several arrow shield carts were paralyzed on the battlefield by falling rocks, and a dozen sergeants pushing carts were hit by huge rocks. The force of the collision caused him to vomit blood and fly away.
A hundred steps away, Yuan Bing, who was pushing the cart, suddenly accelerated his advance and stopped in front of the ravine. Yuan Bing, who was carrying his bag, found the vent and poured out the water from behind the arrow-blocking cart. The sand and soil were thrown into a trench four to five feet deep.
"They are not here to attack the village gate, this is..." Wen Yuan suddenly understood, frowned slightly, and loudly gave an order: "Yuan Jun is going to fill in the trench, hurry up, release arrows, and aim the meteorite truck to protect Yuan Jun from filling in The trench's arrow-blocking vehicle attacked diagonally,"
The sergeant who controlled the mine vehicle quickly adjusted its position. Baskets of boulders were thrown high into the air by the mine vehicle, whizzing towards them. In a wave of attacks, eight arrow-blocking vehicles were smashed into pieces. Dozens of Yuan soldiers were knocked to the ground by falling rocks that flew diagonally. Rockets also shot into Yuan Jun's formation in pieces. However, compared to the hundreds of arrow-blocking vehicles, these small losses were almost nothing. Ignore it.
With the shield of the arrow-blocking vehicle, the casualties caused by long-range strikes to Yuan's soldiers were very limited. Although Yuan's soldiers were hit by whizzing arrows from time to time, the outermost trench was still filled with bags of sand at a speed visible to the naked eye. .
Not only that, Yuan Bing in front of Sanzuo Village also launched a coordinated attack. Compared with the previous day, the three siege troops of about a thousand people were more fully prepared. They entered the small area in front of the village gate sequentially. There was no crowding at all yesterday, and there was no suppression by falling rocks. This time, the ladder quickly approached the area under the village wall...