Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 473 The Good Defender Hides Under the Nine Grounds

As the former capital of Lujiang County, it was not easy to open the city gate of Shu County, and it was just an outer city gate.

If you want to enter the main city, you must first pass through the Wengcheng.

After passing the Wengcheng, and then passing the inner city gate, this is truly entering the hinterland of the city.

However, even though it was late at night outside the gate of the city, the light was weak. After all, there were speckles of moonlight and little fires, which were somewhat bright after all. After entering the Wengcheng, Sun Cejun, who was pretending to be a successful or defeated soldier, found that it was pitch black, and there was no light at all. It can be regarded as completely darkened as soon as his eyes are darkened, he can't adapt to it, and a little flustered in the team immediately.

Fortunately, the captain who took the lead knew the importance and knew that no time should be wasted at this time, so he simply relied on his intuition and courage to slash and shout at the front. He kept running towards the inside without stopping.

As if the momentum was like a broken bamboo, they rushed out of the Wengcheng almost without encountering any resistance. The captain was confident, and became more and more convinced that the other party had indeed fallen into his major general's trick this time. Just as he was ecstatic, he heard the sound of horseshoes , It was deafening, but at a glance, it was the hundreds of people by the suspension bridge who also rushed in. The two torrents merged in a symphonic manner, and immediately rushed to the direction of the inner city with all their strength.

The hundreds of people who were killed later carried torches. The captain looked around and saw many soldiers wearing Xuzhou armor lying on the ground. There are two strange points, one is that the faces of these fallen soldiers are all wearing masks, and the other is that although the surrounding area is also stained with blood, it always feels too little.

The more the captain looked, the more he felt that something was wrong. He immediately rode forward and stepped on a nearby corpse. The result was limp and weak, not like a human body at all. Suddenly, he felt a thump in his heart, and immediately picked up a corpse with a long spear. The mask, after a closer look, immediately exclaimed: "Not good!"

Where is this Xuzhou soldier?
Obviously some dummies made of turf!

Knowing that something was wrong, the captain immediately reined in the horse's head, and was about to call his subordinates to retreat, but before he could say anything, he heard the screams of killing, human voices and horseshoes behind him, but the last group of troops had already left. come.

More than a thousand people are all cavalry, holding the bridle and controlling the reins, scrambling to be the first to rush into the urn city, crowding forward and backward, completely blocking the way of retreat while yelling, let alone retreating immediately, there are some who are slightly behind and are crowded , under such a situation, I'm afraid I can't even turn around.

"It's been tricked, retreat quickly!"

The captain shouted repeatedly, but only the soldiers in front heard them. They wanted to run back, but the Sun Cejun behind them didn't know what was going on, and they still rushed forward happily. Unknowingly, the high places on both sides have faintly lit up with fire.

The next moment, the city walls on both sides of the Wengcheng were bursting with flames, as if suddenly turning from night to day.

When Sun Cejun was surprised, he heard someone laughing loudly, first the generals, then the soldiers, fell silent wave after wave.

More than a thousand people looked up and saw two or three people standing against the wind on the top of the urn wall. The one in the middle, dressed in green clothes with long sleeves and covering his head with a square scarf, was dressed as a scribe. It was Zhou Hui, the Lord of Shu County.

"The sun thief is a reckless man, brave but not scheming, and he tried to deceive my city with mere tricks?"

Looking down at Sun Cejun condescendingly, but seeing that everyone looked terrified and dumbfounded, Zhou Hui became more and more complacent. He pointed his halberd and said, "Do you treat me like a three-year-old child? You underestimate others!"

Immediately asked the left and right: "Where is my Jiangdong Tiger Ben?!"

As soon as the words fell, in the rustling sound, countless soldiers rushed out from the north and south ends of the city wall at the same time. Everyone held bows and arrows, and stood one by one on the crenels on the wall of the urn. After a while, they stood in a circle around Sun Cejun. In a rough book, there are thousands of them.

Following Zhou Hui's order, everyone unleashed their bows and arrows, aiming firmly at the enemies in the city.

Sun Cejun turned his head and ran towards the city gate, but it was too late, and the city gate was closed at this time.

More than a thousand Sun Ce troops, mostly cavalry, galloped on horseback.Either look up to lose color, or look down for shelter.There are brave ones brandishing spears and shouting and cursing, and some timid ones trembling in both hands until they fall down from their horses.The general who led the army and the captain who entered the urn city all closed their eyes, looked miserable, and thought: "My life is over."

After waiting for a while, they heard that horses and guns were thrown in disorder in the city, but Zhou Hui did not see arrows.

Looking up, Zhou Hui sighed and said: "When you enter my nest, life and death are just a matter of thought, but you are also a man from Jiangdong, and you have kept your own law and order in the past. If you make trouble today, I guess you are ignorant , was bewitched by the grandson thief, if you want to pull yourself out and return, abandon the dark and turn to the bright, you can dismount and disarm, and those who surrender will not be killed!"

Hearing this, Sun Ce's army under the city was in a commotion, but it calmed down after a while. The vanguards who can be selected by Sun Ce into the fraud city are either elite or dead soldiers. Although death is imminent, it is inevitable that there will be timidity. It is basically impossible for them to surrender under the supervision of Pao Ze and the general.

Zhou Hui asked three times, but no one paid any attention.Many Sun Cejun with bows and arrows instead opened their bows and arrows, and shot towards the top of the city.Really fearless.

"Stubborn."

Zhou Hui sneered for a while, stopped talking nonsense, and immediately waved and shouted: "Let go!"

The next moment, I saw bows and arrows like locusts, and arrows raining down.

But this wave of arrow rain did not cause many casualties.

The general just had a little bit of trouble, and when he was secretly laughing at the enemy's poor archery skills, he heard the captain next to him suddenly scream: "General, it's not good, the thief is trying to set fire!"

The general was shocked and looked around, only to find that there was a lot of firewood and grease accumulated in the corner of the city wall, and the first wave of arrows rained by the archers on the guns was not aimed at them, but shot at them with rockets. These flammable places!

But in a blink of an eye, all the firewood and grass were ignited, and the flames shot up into the sky immediately, and the smoke filled the air.

While the flames were raging, people could only hear people screaming, and the city immediately turned into a pot of porridge.

Some were burned to death, but more were trampled to death by startled horses.

Many of them were wearing two layers of heavy armor, they were scorching hot and refused to take it off, screaming in pain.Often, after calling out a few times, they would disappear, and most likely they would be scalded to death.The death conditions are appalling.Black smoke billowed straight into the sky.

But on top of this tragic scene in the world, Zhou Hui laughed out loud, his laughter shook the night sky, and he looked extremely proud.

Not long after, Wei Yan also came to the wall of the urn.

It was just that he chose the most suitable time to make people close the gates of the city again and pull up the suspension bridge, in case Sun Ce took the opportunity to gather the main force and attack the city aggressively.

Just arrived and smelled a strong smell of barbecue, Wei Yan sniffled his nose, looked down and frowned slightly, Rao he is fierce by nature, after all, he has not been in the army for a long time, and it is not uncommon to see such human tragedies Feeling sad, but seeing Zhou Hui at the side, he was very excited, immersed in the joy of victory, but quickly restrained that trace of unbearable.

"Young Master," Wei Yan approached, looked around, but saw that not only Wang Zheng, but even some generals of the Heavenly Army hadn't seen it, he couldn't help asking in surprise, "Where's Wang Zhoumu?"

Zhou Hui glanced at him, and said with a smile: "Master Wen, you are asking the wrong question. Wang Zheng has only 1000 troops in the city now, so how can he be willing to use it at will?"

It's true, Wei Yan nodded, and asked again: "Then he and his troops have not reached the front line, how can they tell the young master that this must be a trick by the grandson? How do you know that the people under the city are not Huang Zhong? How did you get the flag armor?"

Zhou Hui laughed and said: "At that time, when you were summoned, Wang Zhengzheng and I were discussing matters in the study. After knowing the whole story, we asserted that this person is not Huang Zhong!"

"Oh?" Wei Yan asked in surprise, "Why?"

"Wang Zheng said, Huang Zhong is a tiger warrior. Even if he is surrounded by the enemy, fails to break through, and is defeated and returns to the city, how can he act like a woman and beg you to open the city gate over and over again?"

"Again, where is Wang Xiong? The other generation only said that he was seriously injured and died. This is even more impossible. If the lieutenant general Wang Xiong is seriously injured and dying, the Xuzhou army must suffer heavy losses."

Zhou Hui said: "But Wang Zheng said it was absolutely impossible." "

As soon as the words fell, Wei Yan immediately asked: "Wait, young master, how did Wang Zhoumu know that the Xuzhou army who left the city will never suffer heavy losses?"

This.
After being reminded by Wei Yan, Zhou Hui just discovered the unreasonableness of this section, frowned and thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "This is indeed a bit weird, could it be that he has sentry cavalry all over the four states, and can change the situation outside the city at any time?" informed him?"

"In that case, why didn't you tell us immediately?"

Wei Yan said in a cold voice: "Also, what is the channel through which the news spreads silently into the city?"

"Young master, although we are fighting side by side now, we should not take this person lightly."

Zhou Hui's heart was moved when he heard the words, his face was cloudy for a while, and then he said in a deep voice: "That's right, nothing else matters, how this news got into the city, we must find out!"

In Zhou Hui's mind, Wang Zheng has a channel that can hide his ears from him, the lord of Shu County. This is the biggest problem, and he must not just sit idly by.

"Mr. Wen, I will leave this matter to you, and I must dig out this mouse that colludes with outsiders!"

"Here."

Wei Yan clasped his hands in response, thought for a while and said, "Also, it was only yesterday that Wang Zhoumu dispatched Wang Xiong to lead the army out of the city. It was only then that he informed us that Huang Zhong had broken out from Linhu and was lying in ambush. Outside the city, how can Sun Ce be a prophet? Did he arrange this fake Huang Zhong in advance?"

"There is also Sun Ce's army outside Linhu City, how could Huang Zhong escape from Sun Ce's escape?"

Zhou Hui said: "Besides, going to the northwest this time, taking back Longshu is something that cannot be done by a general. The only person Wang Zheng can use at this time is Huang Zhong alone. If Huang Zhong doesn't come out, Wang Zheng is required to go out in person. What's the difficulty? "

"It's not surprising that Sun Thief can predict in advance."

"So that's how it is." Wei Yan glanced at the city again, and suddenly said with emotion: "There are more than a thousand troops, but none of them surrendered. Sun Bofu has won people so far, he is indeed a hero."

Hearing this, Zhou Hui's unhappiness flashed across his face, and it was fleeting.

What's the situation with you slave, I won this battle and wiped out almost without damage, but I didn't get a word of praise from you, but I praised a defeated general?
In the end, thinking of Wei Yan's amazing martial arts skills and a rare talent, he forced himself to suppress his dissatisfaction, squeezed out a smile and said, "Let's go, Wen Chang, and go drink to celebrate."

The next day, under Wei Yan's suggestion, Tao Ze beheaded all the heads of Sun Ce's army and hung them on the top of the city for intimidation. 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, he had no choice but to express his anger and express his anger even for the sake of morale.

From noon on that day, Sun Cejun obviously accelerated the speed of building the earth mountain. On the surface, he was naturally thinking of speeding up the capture of the moat, but in the dark, he was making people dig tunnels in the camp.

It's a pity that like the method of flooding, point attack is also a siege tactic that Wang Zheng has always paid attention to.

When he attacked Guangling City that day, he was able to win by surprise in a short time. He used this trick. He even dug Leqi, who was good at this skill, to the Xuzhou army, and even sent 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 the earth and mountains, Wang Zheng immediately invited Le Qi to ask questions.

And Leqi gave two ways.

One countermeasure was to dig trenches inside the city.

With the level of land exploration in the Han Dynasty, the dug tunnels could only allow a small number of elite troops to pass through. As long as the trench is dug to a certain depth, the tunnel will not be able to go any further when the tunnel is dug halfway, and it will definitely be discovered by the guarding soldiers.

Another countermeasure is to dig wells close to the base of the wall in the direction where Sun Ce might dig the tunnel, one well in three steps, or one well in five steps.Place a new pottery jar at the bottom of the well, and cover it with thin cowhide, so that people with sharp hearing can listen to it.

This method is called "Weng Ting", as long as the enemy digs a tunnel, they will definitely be able to hear and see.

In this way, after detecting the specific location of the tunnel dug by Sun Cejun, even from within the city, tunnels in the opposite direction were also dug to meet them. This must be used to intercept the enemy's tunnels; at the same time, caves were built outside the tunnels, blowers were installed, and pipes were installed. , put their exhaust pipes into the tunnel.And lay forward with the extension of the tunnel.

When the enemy's tunnel is dug through, the cave dwelling is burned to release the smoke. When the smoke leaks into the narrow tunnel through the exhaust pipe, one can imagine what kind of scene it will be.Although there is no fire, it is actually smoky.In order to prevent the enemy from cutting off and blocking the exhaust duct, and at the same time save the soldiers from the smoke, connecting boards are often placed in the anti-tunnel.

The connecting boards are high, low, wide and narrow to match the tunnel, and are used to block smoke.There are small holes on the board, which are convenient for spear stabbing.If the enemy blocks the front ventilation duct, the defender can use the barrier of the connecting board, and then release the rear ventilation duct.Immediately the lead plate retreats.

In the end, after some discussion between Wang Zheng and Zhou Hui, the latter decided that these methods could be used by the civilian husbands in the city and the aristocratic families at the same time.

Wang Zheng has nothing to deny, and he is happy to see it succeed. Anyway, with the current military strength in the city, it will be a matter of time before the people are recruited, let alone he is not going to offend people.

In just a few days, the two youngest princes and young heroes in the world have already shown their skills inside and outside Shu City.

First, Wang Zheng took advantage of his unstable foothold to go out of the city to rush out, and then Sun Ce first tried to flood the entire army, and then used it to defraud the city.

However, with the intensive preparations of the three parties, the battlefield has quietly evolved from an above-ground struggle to an underground confrontation.

The law 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 grounds.

But I don't know who will gain the upper hand this third time?

(End of this chapter)