Three Kingdoms Eschatology

Three ramp carts and two building carts were dragged under the city wall by elephants.With the booming sound, the suspension bridge was built on the top of the city wall.Zhu Luo's soldiers rushed up to the top of the city along the slope car, and Zhu Luo's soldiers in the building car rushed over the flying ladder suspension bridge and rushed to the top of the city.

The defenders at the top of the city, including the trapped camp, also gathered at these five points, gathered their swords and guns, and blocked Zhu Luo's army.Soldiers from both sides fought together in these five places.As the weapons clashed, people kept falling.

During the melee, more than a dozen soldiers trapped in the camp rushed forward and threw clay pots at these ramp cars and building cars.With the sound of the earthen jar breaking, the liquid in the jar splashed everywhere, and many of them even splashed on the Zhuluo soldiers.

All these were clearly seen by Rahal, who was supervising the battle before the battle. He secretly sneered that Liang Jun was repeating his old tricks. He had known that the opponent had a powerful ability to burn strong alcohol, and he had found a way to break it.

Alcohol is soluble in water and will be diluted by water.So any item that is sufficiently damp can inhibit the burning of alcohol.Before the general attack, Rahal ordered people to wet the siege equipment with water and lay wet straw on it.Those Zhuluo soldiers who attacked the city also deliberately wet their clothes with water.So those "shochu" are difficult to ignite, and even if ignited, it is difficult to spread the fire.

Earlier, at the scene of the raid on Zhu Luo's barracks, Zhu Luo's army found a half-clay pot that still had the "shochu" and was not completely broken.Rahal ordered people to experiment with this, and determined that it could be suppressed by damp items.

But what happened next left Rahal dumbfounded.A few torches were thrown into the Zhu crowd, and almost in the blink of an eye, the flames rose into the sky on the wet straw.Those Zhu Luo soldiers who were splashed with unknown liquid also turned into burning men in an instant.

The Liang troops in the front line formed a dense gun forest with spears and spears, and blocked the chaotic group of Zhu Luo soldiers.Several "burning men" screamed and rushed forward desperately. They bumped into the sharp spears and died on the spot.

The fire quickly engulfed the five flying ladder suspension bridges, blocking the attack channel of Zhu Luobing.The shrill screaming and howling in the sea of ​​flames disappeared after a dozen or so breaths.

At this time, more than a dozen soldiers of the Liang army were still throwing earthen pots and torches at the siege equipment.Instead of alcohol, these crocks contained naphtha.Liang Guo has just begun to try to collect oil and refine naphtha in Beidi County.The first batch of trial-produced naphtha was all given to the Chengdu defenders.

The five siege equipment had ignited into the sky, and smoke billowed out.The Zhuluo soldiers on the slope cart had already fled away, and some of them fell from several heights in a panic and broke their limbs.The worst thing was Zhu Luobing in the building car, only a small part escaped, most of them were burned alive in the building car body.

Rahal's face was distorted, the corners of his mouth twitched twice, and he ordered reluctantly: "Retract the troops. Stop the siege!"

After a while, following the military order, Zhu Luo's soldiers left hundreds of corpses and several siege equipment that were burnt into wreckage, and retreated in a panic.After a long while, people from Kalabola and Zhu Luomin came to the city to collect the corpses with white flags.

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In the big tent of General Zhu Luo's army, Rahal, Dikar and the commanders of Zhu Luo's legions all sat together with dark faces.Faced with the tenacious resistance of the defenders in Chengdu, Rahal's wish to quickly capture Chengdu was obviously impossible to realize, so he had to call all the generals to discuss new countermeasures.

At this time, a soldier entered the account and reported that the horse scouts sent out found a small city in the northwest of Chengdu, where Liang Guo's heavy troops were hoarded.

"How many troops are there? Can you find out?" Rahal asked in a bad mood.

"Report to the general. It was a three-person scout team from our army who discovered this situation. When they were about to investigate further, they were unfortunately discovered by the other party's scouts. In the end, only one of them ran back to report the situation, and the other two were killed in battle. Therefore, they did not find out the specific strength of the small city, they only knew that there were a large number of troops stationed there."

Rahal ordered the interpreter and guide to be called.After asking, I found out that this small town should be Du'an County.

"Tell me, what does it mean that Feng Yu hoarded a large number of troops in this small city near Chengdu?" Rahal asked everyone in the account.No one answered immediately, and the big tent suddenly fell into a strange silence.

In the end, it was Dikal who responded first: "Brother, in my opinion. They hoarded heavy troops in Du'an and deployed elites in Chengdu. They wanted to take advantage of the frustration of our army's main force to attack Chengdu and when the morale was low, they would use heavy troops against us. Raid. Try to break our army with this."

Rahal stroked his beard, pondered for a moment before nodding approvingly, and said: "Dikar, you are very progressive. But Feng Yu's thinking is more than that simple, Liang is not just waiting for our army's morale to be frustrated , and are still waiting for the hot summer to pass. Then their elite cavalry can be useful. In winter, our war elephants will be sluggish."

The eyes of all the generals in the tent were terrified, and Dikar said in surprise: "In winter, they can use their elite cavalry and the inland river fleet to frequently attack and harass our army's rear. At that time, our army's mobility will be greatly reduced For the opponent, they can only be passively beaten."

Rahal's expression was solemn, and he said word by word: "That's right, so we have to change our strategy..."

Chapter 215

In July of the fifth year of Jian'an, the Chengdu Plain was still hot.Zhang Ren put his sweaty hand on the handle of the knife, feeling that the handle was hot.

He looked down the city.Outside the city, Zhu Luojun's encirclement of Chengdu City became more and more perfect.In addition to the previous fortifications to prevent Liang Jun from rushing out of the city, another fortification was built on the periphery.

This fortification was not used to encircle Chengdu City, but a fortification to defend against Liang Guo's reinforcements.It is composed of ditches, sand and stone barriers, wooden fence walls and watchtowers.Two lines of defense, one inside and one outside, form a circular defense zone.There are several Chula camps scattered in this area.

Except for the Zhu Luo soldiers in these camps, most of the other Zhu Luo troops had withdrawn one after another in the past half a month.

Zhang Ren didn't know where they were retreating, nor what Zhu Luojun wanted to do.But he wrote all these situations in letters and sent them to Hanzhong Nanzheng in the form of flying pigeons.

A year ago, Nanzheng built a new pigeonhole with pigeons from the Zhuyang Pigeonhouse.In fact, instead of Zhang Ren Feige sending the letter, the scouts outside Chengdu would also report the information to Feng Yu.

At this time, Feng Yu was in Langzhong, Brazil, taking command of the overall situation of the Bashu theater.

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In the lobby of a mansion in Langzhong, all the furniture has been cleaned up, except for a huge sand table in the middle of the lobby.Feng Yu was discussing with his staff and generals around the sand table.

Rahal's reaction really exceeded Feng Yu's expectations.Feng Yuben believes that after Lahal finds that Chengdu is difficult to conquer and Du'an has a heavy army, there is a high probability that some troops will be allocated to attack Du'an.

Du'an is backed by the snowfield of Xishan, and the Minshui River flows out of the snowfield. Liang Jun relied on the terrain to the west of Du'an, and built multiple camps on the edge of the snowfield.Therefore, Zhu Luo's army could not besiege Du'an City like they besieged Chengdu.

Feng Yu only waited for Zhu Luo's large-scale attack to be frustrated, and then launched a counterattack in the cool autumn.And let Jiangzhou's Ganning Navy and Dianqing Army take the opportunity to defeat the enemies who besieged Jiangzhou, and then go back up the river to conquer Bodao and cut off the back of Zhu Luo's army.But unexpectedly, Rahal did not follow Feng Yu's expected action.

On the contrary, in addition to stepping up the construction of fortifications to besiege the city of Chengdu, Rahal withdrew most of his troops from the outskirts of Chengdu and disappeared.

Beside the sand table, Jia Xu, who has always been resourceful, was a little uncertain, and said in an uncertain tone: "Zhu Luofan's army only left six to seven thousand people to besiege Chengdu. When you come to lure our main force to break the siege, ambush our army?"

Before anyone else answered, he denied his own opinion: "Impossible! Chengdu is surrounded by flat plains, not to mention places to attack, even places where soldiers can hide are hard to find. How to ambush our army? "

Feng Yu replied: "It is almost impossible to set up ambushes at the Chengdu Plain. But the opponent can use the siege of Chengdu to lure the main force of our army to come, and then fight our army in the field. Defeat our army. It is possible!"

Zhao Yun wondered, "According to the scouts' investigation, although the main force of the Fan army does not know where it is going, it is definitely not near Chengdu. Even if our main force rescues Chengdu, how can they guarantee that their main force will arrive in Chengdu in time?"

Feng Yu said indifferently: "Because they are very confident in the ring-shaped fort around Chengdu. They believe that with it, thousands of troops can besiege our army in the city and prevent our army from rescuing the defenders in Chengdu. They believe that Before your position is breached by our side, you can use up the food and grass in Chengdu, or wait until your main force arrives."

Jia Xu: "The key to the problem now is that we need to know where the opponent's main force is. Only in this way can we formulate new combat strategies."

At this time, Feng Yu's personal guards came into the hall to report: "My lord, the dozen teams of scouts sent out a while ago have come back, and they have prepared a military report and submitted it to the king."

It turned out that more than half a month ago, Feng Yu sent scouts to investigate the depths of the area occupied by Zhu Luo's army.

It stands to reason that the scope of the scouts' investigation is limited, but the current Liang Guo scouts have the cooperation of the Viking fleet.In the southeastern part of the Central Shu Plain, there is a water system and water network composed of the Minjiang River, Fujiang River, Tuojiang River, and Jialing River, which are tributaries of the Yangtze River.Therefore, two or three Viking ships and more than ten cavalry scouts can form a scout team with a detection range of thousands of miles.

Feng Yu took the military intelligence report, carefully repeated it several times, and said to everyone in the hall with a smile: "Gu's guess is indeed correct. The main force of Zhu Luo's army is actually not far away. They turned the big into the small. Divided into several departments, and guarded them separately. In some cities around Chengdu and along the Minjiang River."

Jia Xu was the first to react: "Zhu Luo Fanbing's move is a coup. It's going to be cool autumn now, and the situation will be more and more beneficial to us. But they have consolidated the supply road and evaded our army. The superiority of the iron cavalry. It forced our army to attack fortified positions, and they have also mastered the initiative, and they can adapt to the situation and gather the fan soldiers in various city strongholds to fight me decisively at any time."

Feng Yu nodded: "That's right. Now Chengdu is a fishhook. Along the Minjiang River, a string of city bases along the Tuojiang River are fishing lines. And we know it's a fishhook, so we have to bite. Unless we abandon the nearby city of Chengdu Four thousand sons."

When the generals and staff heard this, their expressions changed slightly. They thought that Feng Yu would decide to give up the siege of Chengdu.But then, Feng Yu said in an affirmative tone: "However, Siqianerlang who is besieged in the city of Chengdu, we must rescue..."

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Nan'an City, accompanied by gusts of cool wind blowing from the north, the torrential rain poured down.The destroyed buildings in the city have been simply restored and have become the barracks of Zhuluofan soldiers and civilian husbands.On the street, the Choro people and the Kalabola people hid in their houses and sheds to avoid the rain.

In the lobby of the largest mansion in the city, only Rahal and Dikal sat cross-legged and drank tea.Dikal looked at the water curtain outside the house like a waterfall, and sighed a little worriedly: "It's going to be cool in autumn, and I haven't seen any movement from Team Liang."

Rahal put down his teacup, with a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Only by setting a long line can we catch big fish. Even if we fail to catch fish, we will definitely eat those Liang soldiers in Chengdu. No matter how much food is stored in Chengdu, There will always be a day of exhaustion.”

"But if Liang Guo just avoids the war passively and consumes so much, what will my brother plan?"

Rahal sneered and said: "We came here to conquer this place. Since it is the foundation of the world, there is no need to seek a quick solution. Now the competition is who is patient.

If Liang Guo is willing to spend, I will spend with them.Every summer, when it is difficult to move on their heavy horses, we are like eating Chengdu, swallowing each other's city and then digesting it.And we have to continue to move people to Bashu.Feng Yuruo, the king of Liang, knew this.He should be more anxious than me! "

Chapter 216 Autumn Offensive

In the beginning of autumn in the fifth year of Jian'an, Du'an city head.

"The king of Liang is here!" With a shout, the sentry guards at the top of the city immediately stood up straight.Surrounded by a large number of personal guards and aides, Feng Yu boarded the south gate tower of Du'an City.This is the highest point of Duan.

From here, Feng Yu can overlook the Chengdu Plain to the east and the water surface of the Minjiang River upstream of Dujiangyan.

The water surface is dotted with Viking ships, far more than the original two hundred ships.Using the entire summer, Liang Guo gathered thousands of laborers to dig a canal fifty miles long and five wide between the water system of the Jialing River and the Tuojiang River.Thus, the Jialing River, the Fu River, the Tuoshui River and the Min River, the four tributaries of the Yangtze River, are connected upstream.Allow Viking ships to be easily mobilized.

The large field in the north has been opened up as a horse farm, where Liang Jun's war horses are gnawing grass leisurely.They have been resting and recuperating throughout the summer, and all the war horses have been fed with sufficient horse feed to become fat and strong.

A cool wind blows from the northwest, making the people who stop at the top of the city very comfortable.

"The weather is getting cooler, and it's time for us to launch a counterattack against Zhu Luofan's army!" Feng Yu squinted his eyes in the direction of Chengdu in the southeast, and spit out these words.

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In the waterway of the Minjiang River, a large number of Viking ships sailed down the water, almost covering the entire waterway of the Minjiang River.The fleet is not all Viking ships, there are also large bamboo rafts and a small number of walking boats

Walking boats sail hundreds of battles ahead of the fleet, and they are used for enemy reconnaissance.At this time, a sailor on a walking boat shouted loudly: "Attention, slow down the speed of the boat! There is something under the water ahead!"

Soon, the walker sailed in front of the unknown object, and there was a slight muffled bang, and the hull seemed to hit something.The sailor on the boat leaned down, inspected and exclaimed, "Hengjiang iron chains have been set up in the waterway, please inform the rear Shangfeng and the rear fleet!"

As soon as he finished speaking, arrows shot from the shore toward the river, and the sailors on board hurriedly picked up the shields they had prepared long ago to cover them.On both sides of the Minjiang River, that is, at the two ends of the Hengjiang iron chain, there are clearly two small Zhuluo army camps.Arrows are shot from them.

The huge fleet slowly stopped and anchored in the middle of the river.Zhao Yun, who was sitting on a certain ship, had already been informed of this.He is the main general of the Southern Expedition.

Feng Yu ordered him to take the army of the headquarters and the Yanyan Corps to go down the Minjiang River, with the lowest goal, to capture any city along the Minjiang River, and if possible, to recapture Nan'an.

The former goal is easy to understand.It only needs to capture any city along the Minjiang River to provide a supply and rest base for your own cavalry.Therefore, relying on the maneuverability of the cavalry, they blocked Zhu Luo's grain transport team and cut off the grain road from Bodao to Chengdu.

The reason why Feng Yu wanted to capture Nan'an was because the system gave Feng Yu such a task.In addition, after occupying Nan'an, they can cooperate with the Liang army from Jiangzhou to capture Zhu Luo's granary and base camp - Bodao City.

Zhao Yun asked Yan Yan beside him, "Should Wuyang be ahead?"

"That's right, five li further downstream is Wuyang."

"Then trouble Old General Yan, lead the four battalions of infantry soldiers to land here, and advance with me by land and water. When encountering the iron chains blocking the river from Zhu Luo's army, they will capture the barracks guarding the iron chains and cut off the iron chains."

"Zilong why be polite. You are the general of the whole army. You must obey your military orders."

Since Yan Yan met Zhao Yun again, Yan Yan always felt that she couldn't hold her head up in front of Zhao Yun.What's more, now that Zhao Yun is the main general, he obeys Zhao Yun's words even more.

Dozens of Viking ships docked one after another, and a large number of soldiers boarded the banks of the Minjiang River.Yan Yan's legion was adapted from the former Shu army, and it has not yet been included in the system management. The arms are also in accordance with the practice of the original Shu army, but the organization is changed to be the same as that of the Liang State system legion.It also consists of three levels: team, battalion, and legion.

Under the cover of dense arrows like pouring rain, hundreds of Liang soldiers stepped forward and pressed towards the fortress of Zhu Luo army.Although the fortress of the Jurassic Army is small in scale, the base of the wall is built of sand and stone, plus the wooden fence on the upper floor, it is as high as five battles, which is higher than the walls of ordinary cities.All kinds of anti-siege facilities are available on the wall.

However, Yan Yan's soldiers did not attack the fortress by force. When they pressed ten battles outside the fortress, they stopped advancing.A circular shield wall was built in front of the fort with scull shields.

Behind the shield wall, twenty light ballistas were erected.This light ballista can be carried on the shoulders by one person, and can be quickly operated by a team of two.Compared with ordinary ballista and large ballista.The downside is limited range and the inability to make precise ballistic calibration adjustments.

With the muffled sound of the ballista arm hitting the baffle, the "projectiles" were thrown into the Zhu Luo army's fortress with a large-angle parabolic trajectory.

These thrown "projectiles" come in all shapes and sizes.There are stone bombs wrapped in straw and catkins, bundles of firewood, and more of a burning "fireball". is naphtha.

At the same time, many of Yan Yan's soldiers covered themselves with shields, approached the fortress of Zhu Luo army, and piled firewood, straw and other inflammable materials under the corner of the fortress.When the accumulation is almost the same, rockets are shot at the woodpile.

Zhu Luobing on the wall quickly understood the other party's intentions, yelling and panicking.From time to time, someone poured water from the wall with a bucket, but to no avail.These buckets of water are of no use at all, not to mention the naphtha contained in the incendiary bomb is not soluble in water at all.

In a short time, the camps on both sides of the strait, inside and outside the walls, were ablaze.The Zhu Luo soldiers in the fortress are already howling ghosts and wolves...

Liang Jun soldiers rushed into the camp that was almost burned to the ground, but there was no living person inside. After the baby's arm was burned, the iron chain was almost melted, and the Liang Army soldiers cut the iron chain with two sharp axes.

The fleet on the river began to move again, and continued to sail downstream quickly and smoothly.

The Zhu Luo defenders in Wuyang City had already received the news, and while sending fast horses to notify Rahal in Nan'an City, they stepped up preparations for the city defense.Rahal had already warned them that the Han army would definitely come to attack after the cool autumn.Therefore, they have made sufficient preparations for city defense.

The Zhu Luo army stationed in Wuyang has two infantry regiments and an auxiliary regiment.A total of more than [-] people.In addition to the Calaborans and the laborers of Chola, there are a total of over [-] troops.

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Zhao Yun leaned on his silver gun, stood on the slightly shaking Viking ship, and looked into the distance with the awning in his hand.The city wall of Wuyang City has appeared in his sight.

"Pass down our military order, the whole army abandons the ship and lands. After landing, they don't need to set up camp, but directly attack the city. They must conquer Wuyang before dark." Zhao Yun said each word, and the sun had already set in the west.

Chapter 217

Nan'an City.Rahal is watching the performance of the poison dancer in the mansion.During this period of time, he arranged everything properly and waited patiently for Feng Yu's reaction, so he seemed relatively leisurely.

Dikal suddenly rushed into the hall and walked towards Rahal.He said excitedly: "Brother, the Liang army has finally moved. According to the report from the front fort of our Wuyang City defenders, the Liang army has about five to six thousand people, all infantry, and they are coming from the water by boat."

When Rahal heard the news, he sat up straight. He waved his hands to let the dancers back out, and then asked Dikal, "Have they made any moves against Chengdu?"

Dikar immediately responded: "Brother, in Chengdu, Liang Jun didn't make any moves. This army directly bypassed Chengdu and came down along the Minjiang River."

Dikar went on to say: "My brother's expectations are not bad. They must want to cut off our grain road from Bodao to Chengdu, and then they will start to break the siege of Chengdu. It's just strange that this force is less than we expected. and their cavalry did not show up. Are we still on schedule?"

Rahal asked a little emotionally: "What does it mean that the cavalry did not appear? Did they not find their cavalry going south with this fleet, or did it mean that the opponent's cavalry did not dispatch at all?"

Dikar explained seriously: "It means that the fleet of the Han army has no horses, and no cavalry on both sides of the strait was found to accompany the fleet southward."

After pondering for a moment, Rahal said: "It is impossible for them not to use their superior cavalry. I conclude that their elite cavalry must be not far from the Minjiang River, so that they can get supplies from the fleet at any time."

Dikal didn't fully understand Rahal's meaning, so he asked with some doubts: "What does brother mean...?"

Rahal raised his eyebrows and said: "Follow the plan, and quickly spread the military order. Mobilize the troops around Wuyang, including Nan'an City, and quickly march towards Wuyang, relying on Wuyang Jiancheng, to eat this part of the Liang army! "

Dikal still asked suspiciously: "But if it is as expected by my brother, the opponent's cavalry is not far away, they suddenly rushed out and attacked the rear of my army..."

Rahal sneered: "The army formation I have arranged has already responded to this, and our troops are much larger than the opponent's. The long board of the cavalry is mobility. If they come to actively attack our army formation, there will be no This long board. No matter which direction they attack my formation, they will not be able to please. We can even use the terrain to set a trap for their cavalry."

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Under the city of Wuyang, the soldiers of the Liang army approached the city with big shields and arrows like locusts.The strange thing is that after they approached the city, they neither attacked the city nor dug ditches and built fortifications to besiege Wuyang.But looking for something.

"Found another one!" A soldier of the Liang Army exclaimed in surprise.I saw a bamboo branch tied with a red cloth strip out of a small hole he dug out.This is a mark left by Liang Jun when he withdrew.Several soldiers quickly came over, and then dug deeper, and found a thick bamboo tube...

After a while, hundreds of soldiers of the Liang Army organized themselves, and under the cover of their companions' large shields, they worked hard to dig the trenches.They are obviously not building fortifications.

"What are they doing? What kind of tricks are they trying to play?" At the head of the city, a legion commander of the Zhu Luo Army asked in confusion.

"They don't want to lead the river to flood us!" A middle-ranking officer exclaimed.

"How is that possible. Although it is the wet season, the water level of the river is lower than the ground. Even if they divert the water, it will have no effect on the city!"

"I see, they are digging trenches, and they want to rely on the trenches to get close to the city wall."