Sweep the World

In the Northern Expedition commanded by Li Tan this time, the size of the Han army will not be larger than before, and it can even be said that compared with the previous force, it is already very small.

There will only be six armies under the Zhengbei Shogunate system. Although the rest will participate, whether they are county soldiers or servants, the county soldiers and the servants are only one type of support force. The command of the latter two is in the center. Instead of conquering the northern shogunate.

Qian Jiantong led the Yulin Army, the Third Cavalry Army, and the Fourth Cavalry Army to the north through Jiuze. They had already crossed Pingtao and entered the vast grassland area, near Wenshui River. That place happened to be between Jinyang and Zhongyang. It took almost the same time to attack any target, and it was good for intercepting the Shixuan headquarters who might escape.

Li Tan mobilized the First Cavalry Army, the Third Infantry Army, and the Fifth Infantry Army to Jicheng, and has begun an offensive against Yangyi. The 2nd Cavalry Army was left in the direction of Zhongyang, and Li Tan asked them to use Fenshui as a barrier, as long as they prevented Fuhong's troops from crossing Fenshui and heading south.

Although the war in Yangyi was reopened, it was really not easy to fight in the snow and ice.

The First Cavalry Army rushed to the north of Yangyi. They aimed to cut off the mutual dependence between Yangyi and Jinyang. They had intercepted the Shijie Zhao army from Jinyang to Yangyi many times, and obtained certain results. , Jinyang seems to have no more reinforcements to Yangyi in order to avoid losses.

The Third and Fifth Infantry Corps, together with the county soldiers transferred from the rear, surrounded Yangyi. At the beginning, only a few small-scale assault trials were conducted to find out how many defensive equipment or methods Yangyi city defense has, and no more soldiers were sent to try to attack the city wall. It was a dense pile of stone dumping carts and ballistas. The bed crossbow makes a long-range strike.

In sunny weather, the sun does not expose people to the sun. The sour voices are frequently emitted as the soldiers operate the equipment. Various passwords are shouted and shouted in batches. Each "release" command is the same thing. The city of Yangyi was acquired by the power of equipment.

"Keep on booming, the city wall has cracked, and it won't last long!" Si Hongzhuang was also idle. The troops didn't rush the city, but they bombed endlessly with long-range attack equipment, and asked for a temporary position to command the drappers. : "Try to hit it as accurately as possible. Which one is the first to crash the city wall, remember the first work!"

There are two kinds of stone dump trucks of the Han army, one is produced by the system, and the other is made by the craftsmen of the army, but they are actually similar in style. The difference is that the stone dumper built by the craftsman has a winch, and the system The dump truck produced does not have one.

It was the first time that Si Hongzhuang approached a stone dumper at a sufficient distance. He was a little strange now. He couldn't understand why the stone dumper operated by the Imperial Guard did not have a winch, but why the launch speed was similar to that with a winch installed?

Yangyi was surrounded on all sides, and each side was attacked by long-range attack equipment. A few days ago, the Yangyi defenders would open the gates and gush out soldiers that seemed to destroy the Han army’s equipment, but they were facing the Han army's arrow formation that was waiting for it. After several repeated assaults, they fell behind a hundred paces away from the equipment of the Han army.

The city walls of Yangyi looked a little strange. The lower two feet or so looked gray and dirty, while the upper half-zhang or so looked relatively new, and it was obviously increased urgently.

At this moment, the city wall of Yangyi, the female wall and arrow stacks of the city wall were smashed into disarray. The bottom was full of various irregularly shaped stones, and the wall was filled with crossbows. Crossbow arrows.

Faced with the endless long-range attacks of the Han army, the defenders of Yangyi did not dare to place too many people on the wall. They only arranged some watchmen to hide behind the female wall for warning. The female wall was hit by a stone, so she must die and undoubtedly did not run away.

The city wall did not dare to place troops, but the Yangyi city guard was afraid that the Han army would directly ascend the city. As long as the troops were placed behind the city wall, the defenders were crowded into a group watching the stones and crossbow arrows that continued to cross the city wall and hit the city. There were not a few defenders who shivered and peeed straight out of fright.

Inside the city, within fifty steps of the city wall, various palace weapons shot in by the Han army outside the city were full of weapons. Pieces of buildings were also smashed into ruins.

The outside of the city has never stopped firing stones and bed crossbows. Sometimes the Han army will use strong crossbows to cover it in a few waves. The bed crossbow was shot to the ground. No one knows when the Han army's strong crossbow troops will fire, so it is not so safe beyond fifty steps. The safe distance is at least one hundred and seventy steps away from the city wall.

"It's too arrogant..." Xu Guang's anger has been smashed in the past few days: "Is there a message from the prince?"

Du Guang replied frowningly: "The route was cut off by the Han army. I haven't heard from Jinyang for two days."

Regardless of the Xu and Du surnames, in fact, as the two guards of the Yangyi city, Xu Guang is a genuine Jie and Du Guang is a Qiang. They had already begun to emerge in Shile’s generation. When Shihu was in power, they were depressed for a period of time. Only when Shihu took refuge in Shi Xuan was it exciting, but they have not been able to get better. Now, what is even more unfortunate is that they have become Yangyi’s principal and deputy. City guard.

"It's been two days..." Xu Guang had a very bad feeling, and he didn't hide it: "I'm afraid we will be given up."

"When the prince ordered the gate to be blocked except for the north side, he had already noticed it." Du Guang said with a wry smile: "Don't say, that's because we are really not good at defending the city like the Han people."

Are Han people good at defending the city? The Western Han and Eastern Han dynasties, that is, the early Western Han dynasty, were on the defensive. In the middle and late Western Han dynasties and the Eastern Han dynasty, they were always offensive. By the time that Liu Yan established the Han country, no matter it was in the late period or after the rise, it seemed that there was no defensive battle in the Central Plains. It has always been offensive, just relying on the "Liaodong Great Wall" on the Liaodong Peninsula. "Fought a defensive battle in the early stage of the war with Murong Yanguo.

It is a hypothesis that the Hu people were good at defending the city in the Central Plains. In fact, it was based on the impression of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The Hu people of the following races easily defeated the Western Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains. In fact, very frequently, the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty used water nets to resist the invasion of Shijie Zhao army.

The Han people were good at defending the city. That was after the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In fact, even in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they used offensive instead of defensive. The real passive beating began in the Northern Song Dynasty. The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty defended is that they were too short of horses to fight against the Hu people in the wilderness, not because they were willing to keep defending.

Therefore, it is nonsense to say that the Han people are good at defensive and not good at offensive.

"Han people are good at defending cities, and they are also good at attacking cities." Du Guang made a listening posture. In fact, the city lord's mansion is in the center of the city. You can't hear the movement of the stone being smashed down. Of course, you can't hear the crossbow or the crossbow. He said: "Listen to the sound of heavy objects falling all the time, the howls of soldiers..."

"If you persuade a certain to surrender to the Han army, it is impossible!" Xu Guang stared at Du Guang's neck with a cold gaze, and said: "The Han army shot crossbow arrows, some tied with a letter of persuasion to surrender, don't think that certain does not know you. Someone secretly ordered people to watch it."

Du Guang looked at Xu Guang with open eyes and still smiled bitterly: "But it's not just a certain who has seen it, but a lot of people have seen it. It is necessary to understand the temptation for a certain to watch it."

Shi Jie Zhao Guo now no longer reuses people with the blood of the Han family in his veins, and he has strict control over the families of various officials. Shihu takes the families of Baiguans anytime and anywhere, and then it happens that something unexpected happens. The thing, that is, the wife and daughter of Baiguan were attracted by Shihu and summoned directly to the bed, and occasionally they would be killed for food after the bed.

Shihu still has some sensibility. Few of the wives and daughters he played with were also Hu-captives. As a result, more non- Hu-captive wives and daughters fell blood mold.

To be clear, Shi Jie Zhao Kingdom was once the actual ruler of the Central Plains. After the mountains and rivers broke the Shenzhou and Lu Shen, the Jin people who took refuge in Shi Jie really didn’t want too much, especially those so-called big Confucians, so there was a "Confucian traitor." The words "Widows keep their promises without hesitation".

Of course, whether it was the Pre-Qin, Ang, the Western and Eastern Han, or even the Three Kingdoms, Western Jin, Eastern Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and even the Northern Song and Southern Song, they never actually required widows to observe festivals. Remarrying, it can even be said that the aforementioned dynasties still encouraged widows to remarry.

Some dynasties imposed fines on widows who no longer choose to marry. After all, the important center is not an idiot. You must know the importance of population. In order to achieve population growth, there are clear laws on how old men and women must get married. .

Widows must observe festivals after Zhu Cheng Neo-Confucianism became the mainstream, that is, from the Ming and Qing dynasties, in order to encourage the government to send the chastity archway with great fanfare.

Xu Guang and Du Guang are no different from the others who are still officials in Shijie Zhao Kingdom. Their family members are all hostages in Dingxiang.

People who can be cruel to let their parents, wives and children die, in fact, really can’t call themselves humans anymore. Du Guang doesn’t think he is so cruel, even if he is really abandoned by Shi Xuan, even if Yangyi will fall, he thought The thing is to persevere until death, in exchange for the life of the family with his own death.

"Since the route has been cut..., even if the route has not been cut, it is difficult to expect reinforcements to relieve the siege..." Du Guang looked at Xu Guang deeply and said every word, "Block the North Gate as well."

The two of them ventured to the east, west, south, and north to check the besieged Han army on several occasions, just like those generals of the former Shijie Zhao army, because of the Han army’s battle robes, auxiliary soldiers, and county soldiers. The same, only some armbands and collar badges are different, and those differences are too far and can’t be seen clearly, they don’t know what constitutes the besieged Han army, they don’t know that the number of soldiers is less than 60,000, and the rest is the north. The soldiers of counties and counties in various places only judged that the number of Han troops would not be less than 130,000.

There are 70,000 defenders in Yangyi city. According to the conclusion that the siege army needs at least three times the number of defenders, Xu Guang and Du Guang should actually have full confidence in defending the city, but things have never been finalized. There are cases where a dozen times the strength of the troops can’t be attacked for a long time, and there are also cases where a dozen people have succeeded in stealing the city. Wars have never been taken for granted.

As Yangyi’s chief and deputy city guards, Xu Guang and Du Guang’s pessimistic attitude is obvious. The Han army has not officially rushed into the city but only used long-range attack equipment. In just eight days, there were about four thousand defenders. The casualties of the army have been bombarded endlessly, which has also led to a low morale of the army.

For Xu Guang and Du Guang, the number of Jie soldiers in Yangyi city was less than 3,000, and the combined number of Qiang and Di soldiers was only 20,000, and the rest were slave soldiers of Zahu and Jin. Only the three thousand Jie tribes that are absolutely reliable, the slightly unreliable 20,000 Qiang and Di, and the rest are all unreliable, and there are many, many disadvantages. For two of them, it should be a grasp of grass.

"Han army has always surrounded the city in siege." Xu Guang sighed before continuing: "They no longer respect their own traditions. It is useless to leave the North Gate. Let's block it."

There are many traditions in China. The most prominent one in the military is the siege. After evolution, more weird traditions have emerged. For example, when building a city wall, it is necessary to leave a weakness, which is called too scared. Perfection leads to God's punishment.

Originating from the confidence in their own strength, the Han army will never do anything to siege the city. As long as the city is besieged by the Han army, unless the enemy can hold it, or if it can’t hold it, it has enough breakthrough ability. Breaking through, or it would be an end to be wiped out.

"Blocked!" Du Guang gritted his teeth, but couldn't help but smiled bitterly: "Yangyi is the destination, but I don't know how long it can last."

Maybe there is a crow's mouth in the world saying that. Du Guanggang said he would die in Yangyi. After a huge roar, a series of noises came from afar.

The sudden movement made Xu Guang stunned~www.wuxiamtl.com~ The reaction came and jumped up quickly: "The city wall was bombed!"

That's right, a city wall was blasted down by the Han army. At this moment, Si Hongzhuang was looking at the smoke and dust in front of him, and he grinned and smirked constantly.

The one who gave the last blow to the collapsed city wall was that Si Hongzhuang dropped the gusset fiercely and let the stones blast past him. He didn't expect that he would come up with such a masterpiece, so he went silly.

The collapsed city wall should have a width of about ten feet, because the city wall is a rammed earth structure, after it collapsed, thick smoke and dust spread. I don’t know how many people were crushed and how many people should be injured. There is no lack of groans in the noise.

The news of the collapse of the Yangyi city wall soon reached Zhong Xing, who was in charge of the siege, but he had a calm expression on his face, and said to the generals who wanted to try: "No hurry, no hurry at all. It’s not enough to just blow up a gap."

There is already the first gap, and it won’t be too long before the second gap is blown away. In fact, Zhong Xing is really not in a hurry. The army blasted no morale, and then went to harvest the ripe fruit.