Qiming 1158

Chapter 175 Pass my order, siege the city

How intuitive it is that far cannot quench near thirst, Kong Zheng understands it now.

So intuitive.

Intuitive to the point where he is experiencing.

If you are not a county magistrate, the rebels will attack the city, and the Kong family will be destroyed.

When the county magistrate, when the emperor goes south to quell the rebels, the status of the Duke Yansheng of the Kong clan will not be guaranteed, and the safety of the Kong clan is difficult to say.

Everywhere is a disaster, sooner or later.

However, as Kong Yu said, the rebels will attack the city immediately, and those who do not give any face will attack the city immediately.

Even if he did not dare to kill the people of the Kong clan, it is impossible to guarantee that he would not torture the Kong family in various ways, and the feeling of being a prisoner...

Why didn't he respect the Kong family!

Kong Zheng growled silently in his heart.

After thinking about it, Kong Zheng was in a dilemma, neither wanting to be the county magistrate of this Lao Shizi, nor to be a prisoner.

In the end, he got angry and gritted his teeth.

"Ignore him! Don't give him a reply! I want to see if he, a person who has read books, understands whether he respects the sages! Qufu is the hometown of saints, how dare he use swords here!"

Kong Zheng decided just once.

Kong Yu was shocked.

"Brother, this is no joke! If this angers the traitor, if he really sends troops to attack the city, then..."

"I want to see if he really dares to do this! The place where the saints are buried, how can swords and soldiers be added!"

Kong Zheng's face was red, and he decided to stick to Qufu County, resolutely not yield to the unreasonable demands of the Restoration Army, and maintain his integrity.

Kong Yan was noncommittal about this, always feeling that his brother was gambling, betting on a very unlikely future.

"Brother, think again."

"I've thought about it several times!"

Kong Zheng has made up his mind, and he will never give in until the end.

Therefore, the Kong family did not give any answer to this, but instead mobilized the strong men in the city and the Kong Family Nursing House to go to the city to assist in the defense and strengthen the city defense.

After reporting to the front line, Su Yonglin went to observe it in person. Seeing that the city walls were coming and going, crowds of people, as if carrying supplies to prepare the city defense, he knew that Kong had made a decision and would not compromise with him.

This is a novelty, Kong Shi actually decided to maintain integrity?

Or for an alien emperor?
I mean, do they have this?

Aren't they just willing to follow the victor?

Oh!
Su Yonglin wanted to understand.

He was not yet a winner, at least not in Kong's eyes, so Kong decided not to follow him.

It is also said that when the Kong family decided to follow him, doesn't that prove that he has become the final winner?
It is still too early, even Su Yonglin himself thinks that he is not the winner, there is still a long way to go, and in the process, there is the possibility of failure at any time.

A professional team like Kong’s, which has been following the winners for more than 1000 years, will never be mistaken. They basically follow the final winners. Occasionally, Confucius’ reputation can help them out.

However, although Su Yonglin was familiar with the Confucian classics, he did not have any favorable impression of Confucianism, nor did he feel that they were sacred and had nothing inviolable.

They won't recognize reality without beating them to the point of bruising their noses and faces.

Although I can't kill them now, I can still beat them.

"Pass my order, siege the city."

Su Yonglin gave the order calmly.

Su Haisheng and Han Jinggui looked at Su Yonglin and knew that Su Yonglin was not joking, so they nodded and went to the front line to prepare for command.

Su Yonglin didn't have a lot of experience in large-scale siege operations. The previous successes in sieges were achieved by surprise actions such as raids and sneak attacks, not by the most traditional siege warfare.

Of course, none of the ancient military strategists did not regard siege and attack as the lowest military means. They believed that siege and attack was the last level in the art of warfare, and did not support siege warfare.

The reason is also very simple, because the siege operation is too depleted of the troops of the siege party.

Generally speaking, the strength of the attacking side needs to be six times that of the defending side to be sure of winning, and as long as the defending side has a little bit of fighting will and method of defending the city, it is not unusual for an offensive and defensive battle to drag on for a year or two.

The city wall can eliminate the difference in strength between the siege side and the defender side to the greatest extent.

No matter how many troops the siege side has, the top of the city wall can only accommodate so many people.

It can only be said that the siege, encircling the point to help, using the siege to force the people in the city to exhaust resources and finally break the city as a last resort.

Such siege battles often make the siege party pay a huge price.

Therefore, the ancients said - attacking the heart is the first, attacking the city is the second.

However, the current strategy of attacking his heart could not make Kong shi aware of the environment he was in, so Su Yonglin had to use his fists and hard power to tell Kong shi what is the right way in the world.

It is true that the city wall can largely eliminate the weak force, but the outcome of the siege battle is also affected by many other factors.

For example, the elite level and determination of the attacking party, the elite level and determination of the defending party, and so on.

Like the early Jin army siege battle against Hebei in the battle of Song and Jin, the Song army clearly had a great advantage in numbers, but even if they occupied the city wall, they had no fighting spirit. In the face of the desperate onslaught of the Jin army, the city with a high city wall also had no fighting spirit. was quickly breached.

A city like Qufu County, which is not tall, wide, deep, or a major military town, is equipped with more than a thousand troops of no-name and elite troops. Facing the more than 1 murderous Shengjie army, the outcome can be imagined And know.

Su Yonglin really decided to conquer Qufu County, so he ordered the army not to hold back and attack the city in all directions.

Flying stones smashed, firearms flew, and the Qufu city wall was in a mess.

Not to mention the impact of the huge stones on the city wall, the thunderbolt cannon using the improved granular gunpowder has greatly increased the power, the sound is louder, and the explosion is more powerful. The soldiers of the city were bombed down from the city, causing many casualties.

Since they don't keep their hands, the long-range strike troops will not have any mercy. All kinds of weapons are desperately smashed into the city, and the defending troops on the city can't even lift their heads.

Before the battle, Kong Zheng and Kong Yu went down to the city tower and hid in a safe place. After the siege began, they were frightened on the spot when they saw the vicious attack of the Shengjie army.

Really dare to do it?

And so fierce?

Kong Zheng was so frightened that he didn't move, while Kong Yu looked at Kong Zheng with a pale face.

"Brother, is this what you want? They attacked the city! Really attacked the city!"

Kong Zheng didn't say a word, probably because he was too frightened.

Violent noise and a lot of gunpowder smoke made the quiet town of Qufu no longer quiet, and people living here felt the terror and threat of death after a long absence.

It seems that they haven't felt what it means to be powerful and unscrupulous for so many decades, and it is time to re-understand the fact that strength is the only survival criterion in this world.

Because when a person is killed, he dies, and when a person dies, everything ceases.

Su Yonglin looked at the city of Qufu, which was crumbling under the attack of flying stones and thunderbolts, and ordered the infantry to attack.

The complete infantry formation began to approach the city, accompanied by trench bridges, cloud ladders, watchtower carts, and dust carts. The infantry used the trench bridge to cross the moat, and while advancing, they moved closer to the city with their large shields. , to prepare the ant attached to the city to attack the city.

The crossbowmen on the reinforced watchtower car and the soldiers on the dust car cooperated with each other. While suppressing the crossbowmen on the city with crossbow arrows, they sprayed various powders to obstruct the sight of the defenders and interfere with the breathing of the defenders, making them unable to defend the city smoothly. .

The guards on the city were completely suppressed.

(End of this chapter)