Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 798

With the luxuriant water sources around Jinyang City and the land of the basin valley plain, it is absolutely possible for criminals such as yellow scarves and bandits who once hid in Montenegro to start a new life in Jinyang.

It can be said that when Jiang Wan went to Montenegro to meet Zhang Yan in person, Zhang Yan was moved by such a description of the prospect, and the military order sent by Zhu Wei in person also gave Zhang Yan a formal promise, so Zhang Yan naturally Just pay attention to Jinyang City.

Although Zhang Yan was worried that the Black Mountain Army he brought would be used as cannon fodder at the beginning, but now it seems that he is too careless, so what else can he think, let's work hard to show his value by attacking the city.

Zhang Yan knew very well that only by showing his worth on Zhu Wei's side, could he better protect the population from Montenegro to live well in Jinyang.

In addition, Zhang Yan didn't know exactly what Zhu Weijun's combat effectiveness was, so he didn't know whether Wei Yan was attacking the city with all his strength. Anyway, with the assistance of various siege equipment provided by Zhu Weijun, Zhang Yan's Black Mountain Army soldiers With better weapons and equipment, Zhang Yan can be said to have exhausted all his strength and launched an offensive against Jinyang City.

The combined forces of Wei Yan and Zhang Yan in Jinyang City have no less than [-] troops.

Even though Wei Yan's Jingnan Battalion restrained their efforts to attack the city, Zhang Yan had [-] Black Mountain troops attacking the city fiercely for their future homeland, so the battle in Jinyang City was relatively smooth.

Coupled with the assistance of siege equipment such as thunderbolt catapults, mobile arrow towers, cave carts, siege ladders, etc. that Zhu Weijun made, Gao Gan really couldn't resist in Jinyang City.

It's just that it will take some time to completely capture Jinyang City. Even if Wei Yan is concerned about the battle situation in Luoyang, there is nothing he can do.

Of course, Zhu Weijun's counterattack against Yuan Shaojun in Luoyang cannot be achieved in a short time.

Now is the time of midsummer. Since ancient times, soldiers have not been raised in summer and winter. It is also because the weather will cause a lot of unnecessary damage to the war. Especially in summer, heatstroke, infectious diseases, etc. are hidden troubles in war.

It can be said that after Yuan Shao captured Zhu Weijun Village on the north bank of the Yellow River, he temporarily slowed down his offensive because of the weather.

Of course, this is not absolute. Before Cao Cao intended to attack Guangcheng Pass and Dagu Pass, he wanted to take advantage of the brighter summer nights to mobilize troops and horses to fight in the scorching heat of August.

But now even if Zhu Wei wanted to launch a counterattack against Yuan Shao, he had to take the weather into consideration.

To be honest, Zhu Wei's nearly [-] troops gathered here in Luoyang, and they encountered many incidents of heat stroke every day. Fortunately, Zhu Wei paid more attention to medical workers earlier, so he brought a lot of them when he came to Luoyang. Medical workers, this makes Zhu Wei's army relatively stable.

At the same time, Zhu Wei also thought of the method of using saltpeter to make ice. Anyway, Zhu Wei had already started to use gunpowder as military supplies, so saltpeter, which was gradually researched as a raw material for configuring gunpowder, naturally prepared a lot as military supplies.

Now in order to prevent heatstroke, Zhu Weijun's military camp can also use the method of making ice with saltpeter, and make a lot of ice cubes for the soldiers to cool down.

In addition, the summer of this year is not affected by various greenhouse effects like later generations. The high temperature is 37, 34 degrees, or even above 31 degrees. Generally, the highest temperature is [-] or [-] degrees. [-]. Two degrees, so the army can still bear it at ordinary times.

But in such weather, if you want to start a big war, it will be a bit troublesome.

Fighting during the day is definitely not possible. Soldiers on both sides are fighting under the sun. It is estimated that more than half of them will faint without fighting. After all, standing under the sun by one person is completely different from tens of thousands of people standing under the sun.

It would be unrealistic to play at night.

Although the sky is not completely dark at night in summer, you can only see the distance of tens of meters around you clearly, and it is still pitch black in the distance. Any army is a big problem.

Unless you sent troops to sneak attack, you should stay in the camp with peace of mind. It won't be too late for everyone to fight after the summer.

It can be said that the siege battles like Jinyang in Bingzhou and Liangfu in Xuzhou can still be fought at night in summer. Anyway, the siege at night will not have much impact, but if there are dozens of people like Zhu Wei and Yuan Shao Wan Dajun's head-to-head confrontation, let's save it.

In this way, Zhu Wei did not plan to send troops in the summer, but mobilized troops around to prepare for the next battle.

It just so happened that the recruitment of the Huns from the Southern Huns also took time. Zhang Liao led his troops to Shangdang County and needed a temporary summer break to recuperate, and then harassed Yuan Shaojun’s logistics supply line. Zhuge Liang and Pang Yan were still stationed at Yanjin Ferry to bluff. Ci and Huang Zhong also need to make some preparations for the funeral in Taishan County before they can turn to Yanzhou to march.

Therefore, although Zhu Wei was preparing for a major counterattack, in fact, he still made various military mobilizations and did not really launch a war.

The current situation can be regarded as the darkness and calm before dawn, and it is only waiting for the weather to cool down and autumn to come before the real outbreak of war.

Of course, Yuan Shao, who was located on the north bank of the Yellow River during this period of time, also devoted himself to avoiding the summer heat.

Yuan Shaojun did not have the many means of Zhu Wei's side to escape the heat, so he could only rely on his body to resist the heat. Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the barracks on the north bank of the Yellow River. Even if they were not training during the day, the soldiers on duty every day were still There are often patients with heat stroke.

Although Yuan Shao also mobilized medical workers, it was impossible to treat ordinary soldiers very well, so Yuan Shao's army inevitably suffered some non-combat losses.

At the same time, because the battle was not going well, the morale of the soldiers in Yuan Shao's army was not very high. There were unavoidable rumors in the army that they were here to help Cao Cao fight Zhu Wei. Now that Cao Cao has retreated, why are they still fighting here? .

This rumor was not spread secretly by Zhu Wei's school office, but an intention conveyed by Yuan Shao when he wanted to withdraw his troops earlier. It was only later that Yuan Shao was persuaded by military advisers such as Ju Shou and Tian Feng, but ordinary The soldiers don't think about long-term things, they just think that they should retreat and go home to escape the summer heat now.

Faced with such a situation, Yuan Shao could only warn the generals to appease the morale of the army. To be honest, Yuan Shao himself hesitated.

Yuan Shao also felt hot. Originally in Yecheng, Yuan Shao naturally had ice cubes in his cellar to escape the heat, but now he is in the frontline army, and he doesn't know how to make ice with saltpeter, even if he wants to transport ice from Yecheng In the past, it was also difficult to ensure that it was safely delivered to Yuan Shao's big tent on the front line, and most of them melted halfway.

With such a scorching weather, coupled with the turmoil in the army's morale, even if Yuan Shao knew that if he retreated, it would be difficult for him to have a stalemate with Zhu Wei in the future, and he might lose the overall situation of the world's hegemony.

But Yuan Shao still had some plans in mind to return to Ye City, and at the same time, there were counselors who thought about Yuan Shao's thoughts and gave some reasons for Yuan Shao's withdrawal...

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