Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 474 Sui Chengzi's Name
As the siege side, building highlands is an extremely important and necessary means.

Because it has two purposes, it first occupies the commanding heights.

For example, when Wang Zheng and a group of rogues attacked Linzi, why did Xu He, commander of the Yellow Turban Canal, spend the corpses and lives of countless refugees to build a wall first, in order to change the predicament of the following overcomers.

Because the defenders occupying a good location can rely on the height of the city to be condescending, and use bows, crossbows, and even trebuchets to attack the attacking side from a high place. , There is guilt, so that a three-dimensional defense network can be formed.

Faced with such a situation, before capturing the top of the city, the attackers almost had no choice but to be beaten and unable to fight back.
Therefore, in the era of cold weapons, the first thing many siege soldiers had to do when they approached the city was to build watchtowers, earthen castles, slopes and other high grounds in order to alleviate this disadvantage and even suppress the city.

The second is for reconnaissance. Only when you climb high can you look far and overlook the enemy, so that you can know the enemy's movements well.

On this day, when Wang Zheng reappeared on the top of the city, he found that within a short period of time, the enemy camp had removed several tall watchtowers with arrows.

Of course, this is also the case in Shu County. Zhou Hui had already built many watchtowers at the four corners of the city wall and in the city as early as Sun Ce's troops came to the city, and even as early as Wang Zheng came to Shu County.
When Sun Ce arrived, he sent soldiers with good eyesight to watch every day.When Wang Xiong and Huang Zhong left the city, these soldiers discovered the two shallow and narrow crossings that Sun Cejun deliberately withdrew.

But this time, it was the soldiers of the watchtower who once again discovered the location where Sun Cejun dug the tunnel.

According to their report, Zhou Hui, Tao Ze, Wei Yan and other soldiers divided into three groups, while digging long moats in the city as a passive defense to prevent Sun Ce's army from tunneling into the city; Authentic digging speed.At the same time, they also began to dig anti-tunnels outside the city, making an active attack to prevent Sun Cejun from collapsing the city wall.

During the excavation process, the direction of anti-tunnel extension is corrected at any time through the method of "urn listening".Sun Cejun's main camp is more than ten miles away from the city, and is separated by a moat. The amount of construction is huge, and both sides can be said to have entered a state of day and night.

In order to confuse the defenders, while digging the tunnel, Sun Ce continued to supervise the accumulation of earth and mountains every day.

Zhou Hui followed suit and patrolled the city every day. From time to time, he organized a group of soldiers with loud voices and shouted outside the city, showing a triumphant attitude after successive victories.

After Wang Zheng went to the city that day, he also discovered other changes when he inspected the enemy camp.

In addition to accumulating earth mountains and digging tunnels, the enemy's encirclement has obviously tightened!
Before Wang Xiong and Huang Zhong broke through the siege, Sun Ce's army had turned a blind eye to the defenses on the east, west, and north sides, but now they have completely cut off the water and land, which can be described as an ambush on all sides, and a net of heaven and earth.Unless the people in the city grow wings, it will be difficult to escape.

The more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Wang Zheng felt something was wrong in his heart, and said to Zhou Hui: "Sun Ce besieged my city, why did you relax first and then tighten? I'm afraid there is something mysterious inside."

Hearing this, Zhou Hui turned his eyes away from Qiao Hou who was beside Wang Zheng, smiled and said, "Sun thief is a mediocre man, brave but foolhardy, but we have seen through his tricks several times. The bones are now loose and then tightened, because of this, I am afraid that they will attack with all their strength in an attempt to break through the city."

Hearing this, the others thought it was true, and Tao Ze on the side was even more in agreement: "Summer is about to turn into autumn, and the weather is getting colder. Sun Bandit will definitely not be able to last long. As long as we hold off a few waves of offensives, Maybe my city is trapped, and the solution is not far away."

Wang Zheng shook his head: "Soldiers are important matters for the country. Although Sun Ce is young, he is a famous general. How could he be so reckless and raise troops out of anger?"

Zhou Hui said: "That's the case. Since he was raised up, he has been fighting again and again. I'm afraid it will be difficult to continue in terms of food and grass?"

Wang Zhengdao: "The county lord has forgotten that Wancheng has already been taken into his hands. This is the capital of Lujiang, and it has been managed by Liu Xun for many years. Regardless of the official warehouse, there must be a lot of private storage. Let alone more, it will not be enough to support him for a month or two. The problem, not to mention that Juchao and Longshu near Wancheng are all captured by him now, even without the grain and grass that Danyang transferred to Xiang'an, the grain copied locally is enough for him to last for a while."

Hearing this, Zhou Hui also frowned: "What Wang Zhoumu said is not without reason, after all, it's still Liu Zitai who is too useless!"

"I didn't expect him to defeat the enemy at first, but I thought that this person has been in business for several years, and nearly ten thousand people under his command have defended the city. At least it should be no problem to persist for a few months, but I didn't expect that he would be easily broken by the grandson. Yue should not be bored, but he didn't expect that in just a few days, almost all of them fell.

What a waste, Wang Zheng silently added the unfinished words for him in his heart.

Wei Yan who was on the side said: "Anyway, the luck of the misfortune is that Shucheng and Hefei are still in our army's hands. As long as these two cities are not lost, it will be tantamount to blocking Sun Ce's path to the north. Did you send two generals, Huang Zhong and Wang Xiong, to defeat Uncle Long and open up the way for the friendly army to advance west?"

"If this is done, we have a fortified city inside and reinforcements outside, plus Yuan Zhoumu's [-] troops in the rear, if the thief is rampant for a while, why should he be afraid?"

When the news of Liu Xun's death in battle and the fall of the northern part of Lujiang River came that day, when everyone else was in panic, Wei Yan was momentarily at a loss.

After all, as Zhou Hui's general, he also knew that Liu Xun was an extremely important part of his young lord's plan. Not to mention the impossibility of major events now, and the danger of his death, it was inevitable that he would be uncertain.

But the most important point of Wei Yan is that although he was born in a humble background, he was not in a poor and weak place because of the Zhou family, so he had the vision of Kunpeng since he was a child, which is an extremely rare point.

The so-called grannies know etiquette, food and clothing know honor and disgrace, that is, in the Han Dynasty, those who often regarded themselves as big men and had little ambition were probably born in rich and noble families who had no worries about food and clothing. There are also thresholds.

With the same ambition, Wei Yan has a more tenacious character than his young master Zhou Hui, so when faced with the same problem, Zhou Hui would complain, but he would choose to face it positively. Yes, it will be more motivated.

In this aspect, Wang Zheng resonated with him quite a bit, and he was delighted to hear the words: "What Wen Chang said is very true!"

"The general heard that during the Warring States period, the famous general Pang Juan of the Wei State was invincible in all battles. He was defeated by Kai, and left his last words: "So he became the name of Shuzi!"

"Sure enough, after that, Sun Bin became famous all over the world with this battle, and even wrote a book to pass it down, and Sun Ce has won consecutive battles this year, shaking Jiangdong and attracting the attention of the world. Such a powerful enemy is not our Pang Juan?"

Looking around at the crowd, Wang Zheng said word by word: "Everyone, the more soldiers and horses this son has, the bigger the momentum, the more suitable it is to sacrifice our sword!"

"Right now in Shu County, such heroes as Yuan Shao of Jizhou, Cao Cao of Yanzhou, Liu Biao of Jingzhou, and so on, are all heroes of the world. Today, let them sit and watch how our Jiangnan heroes turned the tide and helped the building to collapse!"

He has been at the top for a long time, and the changes in the king's government are also obvious. If it is said that in the past, the talent and charm of the system were relied on to attract people's hearts and inspire speeches. Today, he does not need these, and his own bearing and words are enough. Intense and sharp, full of pride.

Not only Wei Yan, Zhou Hui and others were infected with enthusiasm, but even Qiao Wei, who had been silent since he went to the city, couldn't help but look at the young man in front of him blankly at this time, with a feeling of being for no reason. Feelings suddenly came to mind.

She had never seen such an upright demeanor and heroism in a second man before, whether it was her father, general Qiao Rui, or her father's lord Yuan Shu, or even those celebrities and generals in Jiangdong.

Just at this moment, a soldier trotted up to the top of the city, before the person arrived, the voice came first: "General, authentic"

"How is the authenticity?"

"Dig it!"

Hearing this, Wang Zheng raised his eyebrows and immediately turned around. Zhou Hui also asked immediately, "What did you dig out? But did you meet Sun Bandit?"

Sweat flowed down and touched the soldier's eyes. While rubbing his eyes, he nodded hurriedly: "It was just outside the city. Just after passing the moat, we encountered the tunnel of the thief!"

When Wang Zheng arrived with the crowd, a reserve team of less than 30 soldiers had assembled at the entrance of the tunnel, ready to go. Because of the narrow tunnel, the first batch of soldiers entering was no more than [-] to [-] soldiers.

Seeing Wang Zheng and Zhou Hui coming, several generals took a few steps forward to welcome them. Zhou Hui asked first, "How is the situation in the tunnel?"

The Dubs looked at each other, it was difficult to answer this question.People outside the tunnel, no one is underground, and they can't understand what's going on in the tunnel.

Wang Zheng once had experience in tunnel warfare, but he was used to it. Just to be on the safe side, he immediately ordered the Tianzhu camp to arrange troops to come and arrange the tunnels in case the tunnels were lost, and don't teach Sun Ce's army to take advantage of the situation to rush out.

Tao Ze said: "Our soldiers just went down the tunnel not long ago. The last general just listened to the urn, and the sound of killing was dull. In less than two quarters of an hour, many corpses have been dragged out. Half of them are Sun Cejun."

Half of them are enemies, so the remaining half are soldiers of the defenders?

In other words, Sun Ce also dragged away the other half of the corpse?

Wang Zheng turned his eyes and looked at it, while his thoughts turned sharply. In places like tunnels, there are elites on both sides. In this way, the defenders of Shucheng are actually at a disadvantage, right?

After all, they came prepared and imposed various restrictions, but the result was a one-to-one casualty.

Wei Yan seemed to have thought of this too, pointing to the authentic cave dwelling and asked in a deep voice: "Isn't the firewood and poisonous smoke in the cave already being released? Why are there still so many casualties?"

Du Bo, who was staying behind, said, "I want to tell you, Lieutenant, although we and I emit poisonous smoke, Sun Ce has already prepared for it. The soldiers who entered the tunnel, like our army, all wore some masks, and they seemed to have been soaked in vinegar."

Wei Yan was silent when he heard the words. He knew that vinegar can detoxify, so the damage caused by the poisonous smoke would be greatly weakened.

Wang Zheng just nodded without saying a word, and immediately walked forward, walked to the pottery vat next to the entrance and listened to it. The vat was covered with cowhide, so you could listen to the underground movement.

With the already excellent hearing ability and the added concentration of listening, after a while, I felt a faint killing cry in my ears, followed by the sound of metal and iron intersecting, bang bang, and even the pottery vat made a burst of sound. hum.

While listening, a head popped out of the tunnel, its face covered in mud and blood.Before everyone could see who he was, they just yelled: "The enemy is attacking fiercely, quickly send the rear team into the cave!" Then he went into the tunnel again.

The soldiers waiting outside the cave all entered after hearing the sound in a team of ten.After entering 30 people in a row, it is inconvenient to move around in the tunnel. Entering 30 people at one time is already the limit. After a while, the fighting became more and more intense. Obviously, the defenders did not gain the upper hand after the reinforcements.

Tao Ze felt anxious, and immediately glanced at Wei Yan: "Brother Wei, why not."

Before he could finish speaking, he heard Zhou Hui on the side cut off his words: "Wei Yan is now a captain, with a heavy responsibility on his shoulders."

Tao Ze remained silent and stopped talking, but everyone could hear the unfinished intentions of the two of them.

The battle between the two armies on this terrain can be said to be a true encounter on a narrow road, and the brave wins. Wei Yan has shown his bravery before, and Tao Ze thought of him to charge to break the deadlock.

But Zhou Hui directly refused, apparently because he didn't want Wei Yan to go down and take risks.

At this moment, Wang Zheng laughed, and interjected, "Of course, Brother Wei has the unworthy courage, but apart from him, don't we have any warriors in our city?"

Before he finished speaking, he saw a person from the Tianzhu camp leaping out, and said in a deep voice: "General, I would like to lead the army to the ground and fight to the death with the bandits!"

The voice sounded very deep and sharp, everyone followed the reputation and were startled for a moment, only to find that this person was Qiao Wei.

Wang Zheng was also a little stunned.

In fact, he had just issued an order through the system to let a third-level yellow scarf warrior he was optimistic about take the initiative to ask for orders. To be on the safe side, Wang Zheng even planned to expend experience to upgrade the opponent to fourth-level and increase his combat power after he entered the tunnel. Unexpectedly, Qiao Wei took a step forward.

Regarding this general who has been wearing a mask and helmet since he entered the city, although Wang Zheng only said that he is a captain under his command, most people think that this person's status must be weird and not too low, especially Zhou Hui, see you again today He became even more curious, and most of the attention was paid to her when he was on the top of the city.

But Wang Zheng didn't say anything, although they kept speculating secretly, they couldn't take the liberty to ask each other after all, it's just that identity is identity, and bravery is bravery
Looking at the other party's thin body even though he was wrapped in a fine helmet and iron armor, when many people shook their heads secretly, Wei Yan couldn't help but said:
"Isn't it appropriate for Captain Qiao to go?"

Hearing this, Qiao Hou under the mask immediately became annoyed: "Why is it inappropriate for me to go?

"Are you looking down on people?" Qiao Yu snorted coldly, "I'm too timid to rush to kill you, but you still make such a fuss!"

"I'm timid?"

Wei Yan was furious when he heard the words, Zhou Hui obviously didn't allow him to go down and take risks, so why is he timid?

People in the Han Dynasty valued reputation very much, especially those from Wei Yan's background. Naturally, such falsifications were unbearable, and even the scruples about the king's government were put aside, and the eyes immediately became fierce, full of murderous intent:
"You idiot, how dare you talk nonsense like this, do you think my sword is not good?"

"All right!"

Seeing that the two were speaking viciously at each other, and even more likely to draw their swords, Wang Zheng on the side felt a great headache, so he stopped drinking quickly, stood up and stopped, and first comforted Wei Yan: "Master Wen, don't be as knowledgeable as her."

Then he turned his head and said helplessly: "Captain Qiaoqiao, since that's the case, you can go, the general and all the gentlemen will wait for the good news here."

"Yes!"

Looking at Wei Yan provocatively again, Qiao Hou didn't talk nonsense, and immediately jumped down the tunnel, bent down and got inside.

Zhou Hui who was on the side stepped forward and said, "Wang Zhoumu, this person doesn't look like a warrior, will he really help the situation?"

Wang Zheng glanced at Zhou Hui with a half-smile, and thought to himself that if this thin-skinned monkey in your eyes is better than Wei Yan in terms of martial arts, unless Sun Ce also kisses the tunnel, there is absolutely no reason for it.

It's not easy to say this clearly, but I just said lightly: "Mr. County, come and put your ears on the urn together, close your eyes and listen carefully, and you will know the difference."

(End of this chapter)