After a day's delay, it took a day, and on the morning of the third day, the Xiaoguo Army surrounded Liao Tunnel City.
Zhang Qian and Zhang Yu also traveled with the army for two days, and their guards also accompanied them. However, the rapid march along the way made them miserable, and they secretly lamented the strong marching ability of the Xiaoguo Army.
After the siege, Zhao Xun did not order an immediate attack on the city, but waited outside the city for two days. Two days later, 80,000 Mohe people who had been forcibly recruited rushed to the gate of Liaotun City.
"Let them dig trenches outside the four cities, from the north gate to the outside of the city gate. If one person is lazy, kill ten people; if ten people are lazy, kill a hundred people. As long as the trenches are dug, these 80,000 people will die, and it is no big deal.
Of course, or better." Zhao Xun said lightly.
These 80,000 Mohe people were common people from several cities around Liaotuncheng. After the fall of Liaotuncheng, these Mohe people also dedicated the city to the Liaodong Army. However, with the defeat outside Changhe City, the seven to eight thousand Liaodong Army who fled back
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After Guo Jun spread his miraculous skills, the Liaodong Army immediately shrank and abandoned the three surrounding small cities. Zhao Xun immediately sent people to restore the rule of the three cities, and these Sumo Mohe people were naturally taken into custody by Zhao Xun.
Bao Muyang and Zhang Meng tensed up and bowed: "I accept your orders!"
Zhang Qian and Zhang Yu took a cold breath. Zhao Xun didn't care about the lives and deaths of tens of thousands of people at all, which made them feel their hearts skip a beat.
Seeing the expressions of the two men, Zhao Xun smiled and said: "These people surrendered to me when our army was strong. When the Liaodong army was strong, they immediately repeated it. I want them to know that many things cannot be done.
. Alas, there are still too few Han people in these places, otherwise why would they have been repeatedly oppressed by the Mohe people."
"I guess this is the reason why the general moved the people into the Three Prefectures of the East."
"Of course, only when there are more people can we have the basis for rule. Those who are not from our race will have different minds. Except for the Han people, other races cannot be trusted. At least in times of danger, they are just outsiders."
"I gave them the opportunity, but they didn't know how to cherish it. I didn't want to kill, it was them who insisted on going here..." Zhao Xun said lightly.
Guarding Liaotuncheng was Anguo general Yilou Weiyang. The Yilou family was a powerful person of another clan. The four clans united the country. If their clan did not gain the power of the king, they would naturally serve in other positions. The new political system of Liaodong Kingdom mostly followed the example of Yan.
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The general of the country is higher than the four generals on the left and right. He was originally the commander-in-chief of the southern expedition. Because He Lou Yanzhao was from the royal family, he also participated in it. It was the left general He Lou Yanzhao who was responsible for chasing the remnants of Xiaoguo Army. As a result...
After hearing about the defeat of He Lou Yanzhao, Yilou Weiyang was shocked. The reason why they marched south to attack the Xiaoguo Army was because they heard that Zhao Xun's troops were besieged by the Sumo Mohe tribe, and they thought that Zhao Xun's defeat was imminent, so they came to take advantage.
Who would have thought that not only was Zhao Xun intact, but he also invented a new weapon.
After listening to what the soldiers said, Yilou Weiyang already guessed that Zhao Xun must have invented a new weapon to defeat the Sumo Mohe tribe. So after discussing with the right general Yang Qi, he immediately sent people to negotiate a peace, and at the same time,
The information is sent back to the country.
As expected, Yilou Weiyang was worried. Zhao Xun refused to negotiate peace at all, even if they were willing to compensate. What should we do? Retreat? Of course, that is not possible. Let’s not talk about the responsibility for the retreat. Even if the army retreats, Zhao Xun will not give up.
Chase.
After Zhao Xun's army besieged the city, Yilou Weiyang paid very careful attention to Zhao Xun's every move, and at the same time, he sent troops to the north to ask for help.
However, Zhao Xun had cut off the connection between Liao Tun City and the outside world. The soldiers of the Xiaoguo Army shot all the messengers sent by Liao Tun City to ask for help on the way.
Seeing this, Yilou Weiyang had no choice but to send another envoy to negotiate peace. His purpose was to wait for the domestic solution to the matter. Without military orders, he could not escape at will. Now all ethnic groups have joined together to establish a country, and each other wants to take advantage of it.
If he takes the opponent's position and runs away without a military order, then his position will definitely go to the other clan. If he dies in battle, his position will naturally remain in the clan and will be taken over by his own clan.
"Messengers? Tell them to get lost. I am not a vegetable seller here! Tell them that if any messengers come again, they will be killed without mercy!" Hearing that the messengers were coming again, Zhao Wen did not see them and drove them away. Instead, he vigorously ordered the 70,000 to 80,000 messengers.
The Mohe people dug trenches and sealed the four gates.
Not all of these Mohe people were lazy, and as a result, thousands of them were killed. Others no longer dared to be clever. They only regretted in their hearts. If they had known it would be like this, they should not have captured the city and dedicated it to the Liaodong Army.
Seeing Zhao Xun's attitude, Yilou Weiyang made up his mind to have a good meeting with Zhao Xun. Liao Tunnel City is an important border defense city and is extremely difficult to attack. There are 30,000 Liaodong Kingdom and 20,000 Mohe troops in the city, as well as 50,000 Mohe troops.
He was young and strong. He was not afraid of the 50,000 Liaodong troops attacking the city outside the city.
"General! They seem to be digging a tunnel!"
The city guarding officer passed the information on the Xiaoguo Army outside the city.
Yilou Weiyang rushed to Beicheng and looked far into the distance. Sure enough, under the early morning sunshine, many Mohe people were working hard in front of the north, constantly pushing up shovelfuls of soil. Their figures turned out to be very tall. Later,
It gradually shrank into the earth. The soil around it was piled higher and higher.
Sure enough, Zhao Xun's people were digging trenches, but they saw trenches one after another, starting from seventy or eighty feet away, extending all the way to the outside of the north gate, like countless ropes, tightly entangling Tongcheng.
There was news from the other four gates that the Xiaoguo Army sent Mohe people to dig trenches. Different from the north gate, the other three gates were dug horizontally, wide and deep.
To the north, about thirty feet away, there were large piles of dirt. Behind the piles, there were still many people working.
"This doesn't look like a tunnel. Want to pass through the city? It's impossible."
Yilou Weiyang frowned and said, but just in case, he still ordered his soldiers to dig tunnels in the city to cut off all the Xiaoguo Army's entrance into the city. At the same time, he dug multiple wells in the city to scout the location of the Xiaoguo Army's tunnels.
Destroy the Xiaoguo Army's tunnels at any time.
"Come on, attack me and talk about their background!" Yilou Weiyang said coldly.
"Chirp chirp chirp!"
The large crossbow machine originally belonging to the Xiaoguo Army on the top of the city was roaring continuously, firing crossbow arrows one after another.
The long crossbow arrows, with a harsh sound of breaking through the air, were shot hard on the ground fifty or sixty feet away, and then they made no sound at all. The soft earth quickly buried them, leaving only a short
Arrow shafts. Often a hand quietly stretches out from behind the mound to pull up the crossbow arrows, and then collect them and give them to one's own crossbow unit for recycling.
"Trebuchet!" Ilou Weiyang shouted in a muffled voice.
The trebuchet on the city head simultaneously threw out dense stone bullets, hoping to smash the enemy into pieces.
The rotating stone bullets kept flying in the sky, and the black shadows became larger and larger. Finally, they all fell into the soft soil, splashing a thin layer of dust. Similarly, after a while, behind the mound,
A pair of hands will also appear, digging out the stone bullets from the loose soil, patting the soil above, and sending them to one's own trebuchet troops for recycling.
This kind of trench is not afraid of straight-line attacks at all. You can hide in it. Except for those who are particularly unlucky, the chance of being hurt is very small. Only a few arrowheads hit the trench, but the winding trench firmly blocks the arrowheads.
, the arrowheads can only be nailed to the wall. As for
Not one of the ten stone bullets could hit the trench. Occasionally, if they landed in the trench, they would just hit the soil. The Mohe people who dug the trench easily collected them under the orders of Sergeant Xiaoguo.
Get up and hand it over to your long-range troops for use.
"General, we can't attack anymore. If we continue like this, our arrows and stone bullets will be wasted, which will cause very little damage to the Xiaoguo army. More importantly, most of the trench diggers are Mohe people, and there are only a handful of Xiaoguo soldiers.
." Right General Yang Qi frowned and suggested.
Yilou Weiyang also saw it and immediately stopped insisting. He just ordered archers to be closely monitored on the city wall. In fact, the Xiaoguo Army did not make any big moves. They continued to dig trenches, even at night.
Stop it. Anyway, the Mohe people will continue to dig, and it will be in vain if they don’t use it.
The Liaodong Army in the city was very cautious, because the defeat of the Sumo Mohe tribe and He Lou Yanzhao told them that the Xiaoguo Army was definitely not someone to be trifled with. Although they didn't know why the Xiaoguo Army only dug tunnels, they were extra vigilant. However,
, the Xiaoguo Army did nothing indeed. They just kept digging trenches and extending them inch by inch to the front of the city wall of Liao Tunnel City.
After three days of digging, the trench was less than twenty feet away from the north, but the water well used by the Liaodong Army for testing in the city had not changed, indicating that the Xiaoguo Army had not really dug a tunnel, which reassured Yilou Weiyang.
At the same time, I also had an inexplicable worry.
"If we are not digging tunnels, then what is the use of digging these trenches?"
The more unknown something is, the easier it is for people to panic. The Xiaoguo Army's aimless actions now make Yilou Weiyang and Yang Qi secretly worried. There is no reply to the domestic information, which makes the two of them even more worried.
Cast a shadow.
Instinctively, they felt that Zhao Xun was more than capable and would not do anything in vain, otherwise he would not refuse to accept their peace proposal. However, they could not figure out what Zhao Xun wanted to do.
It was late at night again, and Yi Lou Weiyang and Yang Qi received a report that the Xiaoguo Army outside the city was making moves. They immediately rushed to the tower of the north gate to watch. Sure enough, in the darkness, the two of them saw that the Xiaoguo Army seemed to be moving.
They were making a big move, they seemed to be passing something in the trench, and they could even be seen transporting large crossbows and trebuchets.
Ilou Weiyang immediately ordered a counterattack. The crossbows and trebuchets kept roaring, but Xiaoguo's army relied on the cover of the winding trenches and seemed to be busy unaffected. After dawn, the two men suddenly discovered that Xiaoguo's army was outside the North City.
The Guo army has gathered more than 70 large crossbow machines and more than 30 trebuchets.
"They're going to move these into the trenches?"
"It seems so!"
"Crossbow, launch, stop them!" Yilou Weiyang said coldly.
"Chirp chirp chirp!"
The Liaodong Army's crossbows on the tower kept firing, trying to block the enemy's trenches, but they were unable to do anything.
Later, the archers were ordered to release arrows, but after the arrows were shot at such a long distance, their lethality was no longer great. Occasionally, there were one or two sharp archers who could aim at the ditch and release arrows, killing targets passing through the area one by one.
But it’s still a drop in the bucket.
"General, we can't attack the Xiaoguo Army like this!" Yang Qi said bitterly.
Yilou Weiyang said worriedly: "How could I not know this? But it is obvious that the Xiaoguo Army has a conspiracy, we cannot remain indifferent!"
Yang Qi was also distressed. Yilou Weiyang was right. Zhao Xun must have done more than just digging trenches. If he really wanted to reduce casualties by digging trenches, it would be a good way. However,
No matter how long the trenches dug by the Xiaoguo army were to attack the city, they still had to climb the city wall.
So, what exactly is this going to do? Both of them thought hard, but they couldn't guess what Zhao Xun meant. For this reason, the two of them could only step up their defenses. As long as they guarded the city wall, what did they have to fear? This Liao Tunnel City
But it is not that easy to break through a fortified city.
It's not that they didn't think about the Zhentian Lei thing, it's just that they didn't expect it to have any effect on siege. His understanding of the Xiaoguo Army's new thundering weapon was that it was tied to the war horse and suddenly broke apart.
When you open it, some weapons will be ejected from it. In their opinion, this thing has no great effect. If He Lou Yanzhao hadn't coveted the heavy armor of the Xiaoguo Army, how could he have been attacked so easily?