Great Wei Nengchen

As for Xiao Yi, in terms of military exploits, he is the greatest, and in terms of killing the enemy, he is the most, but there is really no way to give more rewards. At the age of 20, he became a governor and a marquis. If there are more rewards, it is not love, but on the contrary It hurt him!

However, Cao Cao also said in private that if Xiao Yi likes it, he can choose one or two more of his daughters as concubines, or choose some beautiful women from the Cao and Xiahou clans as concubines. Yi repeatedly shook his head, although he likes beautiful women, he will never be indiscriminate, those bone-scraping steel knives should not be too much!

412. Chapter 412 A Fortified City Is Hard to Break

It rained heavily for ten days in a row, and the Huainan area was completely turned into a country of floods. The big rivers, small rivers, ponds and depressions, and even the plains were full of water. Only those highlands were exposed on the water like isolated islands. It is Zi heavy vehicles, even people can't even think about walking. I really don't know how the ancestors of the Han family conquered this land and transformed it into a land that is anointed by the world!

The rain has been falling, so Cao Jun can only continue to wait in the camp of 'Sanfeng Mountain', wait for the rain to stop, wait for the sunrise, wait for the water vapor to evaporate, and the ground will become dry again, so that the horseshoes of the cavalry can gallop freely. When Yitong led the vanguard and advanced to the city of Shouchun, it was already more than 20 days later!

Shouchun City, originally the administrative seat of Yangzhou, is the largest city in the southeast. It is divided into inner and outer layers. The outer city has a circumference of 25 miles and a height of more than four feet. It has nine gates, six of which are connected to land and three are close to Huai River. , can communicate with Huainan counties through waterways, which is extremely convenient!

The inner city is also called the Imperial City. It is two miles long and wide, and has four gates, which are named after "spring, summer, autumn and winter". Inside is Yuan Shu's "pseudo-imperial palace". Diva, compared to the Northern and Southern Second Palaces of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, it is even worse!

If Shouchun City is said to be a big golden egg made of the people's fat and cream of countless Huainan people, then the inner city is the most delicious egg yolk!

"Hiss! Hiss!..."

Outside Shouchun City, looking at the huge city in front of him, Xiao Yi, who is as knowledgeable as Xiao Yi, couldn't help but gasp. He had seen city walls, but he had never seen such a tall and strong city wall, like Chang'an, Luoyang, and Xudu. They are all made of huge stones and loess rammed, but the Shouchun City in front of us is covered with a thick layer of green bricks outside the rammed earth, which is indestructible!

Brick wrapping the city wall is definitely an incredible big project in this era. In addition to the huge amount of money and food, a large number of craftsmen have to use human sea tactics to burn kilns and make bricks day and night in order to supply them. Such a great deal is unique among the princes in the world!

In fact, the reason why Yuan Shu expended so much manpower and material resources to cover the city wall with blue bricks was due to two considerations. First, he wanted to gain face among the princes of the world and let the world know that he was Yuan Gonglu. Prestige; secondly, this is also to fight against the rainy weather in Huainan. After ten days and a half months of heavy rain, the city wall built with loess rammed after soaking for a long time is very easy to collapse, and the bricks are also for the consideration of city defense, just like wearing clothes for Shouchun City. Put on a layer of iron armor, let's see who can break it!

As soldiers approached the city, Yuan Shu's ruler and ministers naturally refused to stand still. In the past 20 days or so, they took advantage of the waterways extending in all directions in Shouchun City to mobilize soldiers, horses, food and grass from various counties in Huainan, and forced a large number of men to join the army. Let go!

At the same time, manpower was also sent to search for the defeated soldiers who had fled from the battlefield. After all, only a few died in the battle of Sanfeng Mountain. Apart from being captured, many of the rest scattered around while taking advantage of the chaos. These people heard that Yuan Shu was still there, and they all gathered together again. In this way, after all kinds of hard work, in the end, Shouchun City miraculously put together a [-] army, enough to compete with Cao Jun outside the city again!

But this time, Yuan Shu will never make the mistake of last time again, he decided - stick to it!

"Woo! Woo! Woo!..." The army formation is like a mountain, and the horns are endless!

"Siege the city!" Although he knew that this bone was a bit difficult to crack, Xiao Yi still gave the order to attack. He believed that no matter how strong the city defense was, there would be weaknesses. If you don't try, how can you find it out?

Although it was just a tentative attack, Xiao Yi still invested tens of thousands of troops, formed neat army formations, and slowly moved forward. The first obstacle they had to face was the soldiers outside Shouchun City. moat.

The sixty-step-wide moat directly connects to the Wei River. The water flow is deep and fast. It is only slightly narrowed near the city gate, but it is also forty steps wide. There are sharp drills, huge stones and iron chains under the water, forming There are hidden reefs, and ordinary ships cannot row across them at all.

"Archers, form an array and move forward to suppress the enemy at the top of the city. Auxiliary soldiers, transport me to fill the river!"

Under the banner of the Chinese Army, Xiao Yi gave an order, and groups of archers rushed to the bank of the moat. Longbows, individual crossbows, and rhubarb crossbows shared by three people lined up neatly in three rows, and then the clusters of arrows fell like raindrops. At the same time, tens of thousands of people without armor or weapons, wearing white linen robes, rushed to the battlefield. Everyone carried a sandbag on their shoulders, and rushed to the moat and threw the sandbag into it. Then come back and move on!

That's right, these people are auxiliary soldiers, and more than 20 days ago, they were genuine Yuan Jun. In the battle of Sanfeng Mountain, [-] Yuan Jun were captured. How to treat these people, there was a debate among Cao Jun.

If 10 people stay, they will consume a lot of military rations every day, but if they are released, they are afraid that they will be used by Yuan Shu again. Like Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu back then, he blocked both ends of the valley where the captives were held, and then rolled down the hillside with huge rocks, logs, and fireballs, killing all [-] prisoners of war, and it was over!

This plan was immediately opposed by Xiao Yi. Killing the enemy on the battlefield is justified, but since they have already surrendered and they are all Han blood, why should they do such a murderous thing!

Historically, after the end of the Three Kingdoms era, the number of Han Chinese dropped sharply, from 6000 million at the peak to a wretched 1000 million. In addition to famine and plague, it also had a lot to do with this bad habit of killing prisoners, so We must not set a precedent of "pit prisoners", one more life is one, try to save some vitality for the Han people!

In the end Xiao Yi took all these captives, and after a little modification, he became the best auxiliary soldier on the battlefield.

As for the method of transformation, it is also very simple, just copy the methods of the later celestial dynasties in the liberation war. Yuan Shu has been extorting and extorting violently, poisoning the living, and Huainan people hate him more than a million, so he shouted a few words of bitter hatred Deep slogan, give them another chance for revenge, and a bright future, these auxiliary soldiers will naturally be willing to be used by Xiao Yi!

Facts have proved that these auxiliary soldiers performed well on the battlefield. Not only did they carry sandbags and arrows very diligently, some enthusiastic guys also took the initiative to point out the defense situation of Shouchun City to Cao Jun's archers. It is a dead end again, and has become a very qualified 'leading party! '

"Kill!... Hold on, the 'Emperor Zhong' is here, and those who retreat die!"

At the head of Shouchun City, Yuan Jun was also desperately resisting. In order to defend the city, Yuan Shu also did his best. All the generals were sent to the head of the city. The "four ministers" each guarded a city wall. Yuan Shu was wearing a yellow dragon robe and a brand new The "Sun and Moon Tianzi Banner" was made to patrol back and forth, and the attendants carried large sums of gold and silver treasures. Everywhere they went, they rained money wildly, appointed officials and made wishes, and boosted the morale of the three armies.

Under such encouragement, Yuan Jun also broke out with super courage. Rows of archers stood by the female wall to shoot at Cao Jun. Because they were condescending, they had an advantage.

"Boom! Boom!...Boom!"

The drums were rumbling, arrows were flying like rain, the archers rushed up row by row, and fell down row by row, and even those auxiliary soldiers who were responsible for filling the river were shot and killed, and their bodies fell into the moat, quickly dyed red A large area of ​​river water was washed into the Wei River by the torrent, and even those sandbags were washed away a lot. The progress of filling the river is very slow!

"Damn it, Ming Jin withdrew his troops and asked the two generals in front, Zhang Liao and Yu Jin, to retreat!"

We can't attack any more. Although the soldiers are not afraid of death, Shouchun's city defense is too strong. In just half an hour, thousands of people were killed or injured by his subordinates. If the fight continues, how many lives will be filled inside? ah!

So Xiao Yi resolutely issued the military order to withdraw the troops. Such a fortified city cannot be attacked by force, so it has to be outsmarted!

"Roar... Roar!"

"Children of Cao Jun, come and attack the city if you have the courage!"

"Come on, cowards, I will send you all to the Weishui River to feed the fish and turtles!"

"Fleeing with tail between legs~~"

Seeing Cao Jun receding like a tide, Yuan Jun jumped up and down on the city wall, yelling, that is to encourage his fighting spirit, and at the same time use this method to erase the fear in his heart. After all, the leader of the city is' Ghost Face Xiao Lang', a man who brought them too much, too much death!

"I'm so mad, please order from the governor, I will lead the troops and attack again!"

"Yes, if you don't break Shouchun, you will never withdraw your troops!"

A group of generals such as Zhang Liao, Yu Jin, Dian Wei, etc. all flocked to the banner of the Chinese Army to fight. After the battle of Sanfeng Mountain, Cao Jun was full of arrogance. He was so insulted by the enemy there, let alone a group that was beaten by himself not long ago. The defeated enemy army!

"Shouchun City is high and deep. Attacking by force is not the best strategy. It will only damage the lives of soldiers in vain. Let's withdraw first. I will explain to the prime minister!"

Xiao Yi waved his hand, so he wouldn't foolishly bump his head against a stone just because he was ridiculed by the enemy. As for the momentary defeat, it's nothing, let's see who can have the last laugh!

"Back to camp!"

413. Chapter 413 Lost insanity

Three days later, Cao Jun's brigade arrived. Accompanied by Xiao Yi, Cao Cao patrolled around the periphery of Shouchun City, but he didn't say a word about the failure of the previous siege. Instead, he ordered to reward the wounded soldiers. Are they all warriors?

The city is high, the pool is deep, the water is urgent, the soldiers are heavy, and the food is sufficient. The defense system of Shouchun City is perfect, especially it can be continuously replenished from the counties in Huainan through waterways. Cao Jun is not so much attacking a city. , it is better to say that they are attacking the entire Huainan, the difficulty of which can be imagined!

No matter how difficult it is to attack, it must be attacked, otherwise "sending troops to ask for thieves" will become a joke, and the princes of the world will watch with their eyes wide open!

In the next few days, Cao Cao personally supervised the formation, launched two more attacks, and invested tens of thousands of troops. Without exception, all of them ended in failure. The deep and urgent moat became the biggest obstacle in the attack. , the sandbag used to fill the river was thrown into it, and it was washed away in an instant, no matter how much it was thrown, it could not satisfy its appetite~~

Throwing boulders to fill the river would be heavy enough, but both sides of the Huaihe River are impact plains, not to mention boulders, and even larger cobblestones are rare. If the stones are transported from distant mountains, the workload is comparable to that of Jingwei Filling. The sea is almost there!

When the open attack failed, Cao Jun began to cross secretly again, and the "digger army" came out. After some surveys, more than a dozen secret passages leading to Shouchun City were dug at the same time. It can be piled up into a hill, but digging is not enough. There are too many rivers in Huainan area, and the groundwater is rich. The water will come out after digging too deep, and the soil is loose. As a result, more than a dozen tunnels were flooded and collapsed, and they were drowned. Dozens of soldiers had no choice but to give up on this move!

Frustrated several times, Cao Jun had no choice but to take down the camp, surrounded Shouchun City on three sides, and then slowly figured out a way to deal with this "iron walnut that couldn't be bitten or smashed", and Yuan Jun in the city didn't have the courage to rush out for a decisive battle. Just blindly defending, so this world-renowned battle has come to a stalemate.

Is there really a flawless city defense in this world?

No, cities are born to be conquered. There is no city that will not fall, and no fortress that cannot be broken, but you have not found the key to open it!

One day, two days, three days~~

For several days, Xiao Yi led Xiaobin, Dianwei and others every morning and ran out of the camp on Qingqi, and then circled around Shouchun City, neither challenging nor scolding, just wandering around repeatedly, He also sticks out his thumbs from time to time, closes his eyes in turn, and uses visual differences to measure some data. It is mysterious, and no one knows what he is going to do?

A large ball of yellow clay, several large bowls of washed river sand, plus bamboo slices, bamboo sticks, bamboo sticks, and bamboo knives~ After preparing these tools, Xiao Yi plunged into his big tent and never again came out~~