Zhurou

Chapter 203 Goose Cart
After finishing her speech, she didn't wait for everyone's response, she still remembered to salute before leaving on her own.

But the people in the palace looked at each other in blank dismay. Originally, the many arguments were just paving the way for the division of labor for the city guards. Who would have thought that they would not be able to use them, but they were arranged so arbitrarily by Zhao Mingzhi. Due to the identity of the other party, there was no room for bargaining, so they all had to go and see. Lu Xianzhang standing in front.

The latter didn't have the slightest intention of helping out, but turned around and looked at the crowd, saying: "Since your Highness has already been assigned properly, what is there to argue about?"

It has come to this point, and life is about to be risked at any time. Naturally, when everyone talks, they will not advance and retreat.

"You don't need to participate in politics and go to the front line, Your Highness just..." One person said this, suddenly paused, took this sentence, and returned to the previous sentence, "I don't know the difficulty of defending the city, the two people in front of the south gate They were smashed to pieces by the Di people every time, even though they have taken a break recently, they still can't hold up to great use, if the Di soldiers mainly attack from the south..."

The person opened his mouth, and others hurriedly followed.

"Why is it that only the south gate is difficult to guard? Since you are so dissatisfied, why not guard the north gate with me?"

Another person also said: "Why don't you trade the east gate with me? There is His Highness in the south who went to build it with Pei Jiedu in person. In the next few days, he hastily called on craftsmen. How much can it be used? Which part of the east gate has not been destroyed?" People have bombarded it, but no one has repaired it seriously, and it's Di Bing who came..."

"It's inconvenient to march on the east facing the terrain. The north gate doesn't even have a slope, but it's just a little more detour. Once Di Bing comes from the north..."

Although everyone could not disobey orders, they all complained.

In particular, the troops in the city were originally insufficient, and the people only decided to guard the city gates, but where the walls are strong, where the trenches are wide and the water is deep, where it faces the main road, and where the road is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is all different.

In addition, the distribution of troops is another problem. Everyone feels that the city gate guarded by their own family is more difficult and should lead more guards, so they gathered around Lu Xianzhang to ask for an explanation.

The latter is difficult to distinguish, and he almost tried his best to appease this group of people.

Because it was difficult to measure, Lu Xianzhang simply divided all the troops into five, and received another one for himself. If there was any danger, he had to lead his own troops to make up for it.

In this way, I thought I could deal with it, but who knows that even if the troops are divided equally, everyone can quarrel for a long time no matter what the division is - naturally they all want the elite, and secondly use soldiers who have fought in battle, and no one wants to use them. New recruits.

It should be known that on the battlefield, there are dangers everywhere, even those who have been trained and go to battle for the first time, and those who cannot draw their bows, it is common to shoot arrows into their own formations.

When it's like this, as long as there is a choice, who wants that kind of recruits?
At this time, what they are selling is just their mouths. If they can quarrel what they want, it will be all right, so the generals will naturally gather around them.

But before there was a satisfactory arrangement there, another news came from the east. Sure enough, Di Bing, who did not know which one, had led a team of elite forwards, and they had already arrived thirty miles away, looking for a place to set up camp. You can reach the city.

Naturally, the city responded in a hurry, making noise while making corresponding preparations for defending the city, and Lu Xianzhang even hurriedly sent another team of scouts to find out the situation.

Before the preparations were made, the sentries had not returned, and there was another news from the front, but it was the original frontline soldiers who had fled back. They only said that they had seen most of the Di soldiers along the road, and it was hard to count. .

Not waiting for the ministers in Beijing to discern the authenticity, the first wave of Di soldiers captured villages, towns and counties all the way, and they had already appeared more than ten miles away from the east gate, and began to fortify the walls and clear the fields, without even taking a rest, they took the siege posture that night .

This is just the beginning.

In the early morning of the next day, they mobilized their troops with great difficulty under panic, and the east gate defenders who had finally repelled Di Bing's attack were about to take a breath when they saw two more troops approaching in the distance. After he could rest for a while, he began to get nervous again.

Di Bing fought for a while and rested for a while. Although the strength of the troops was more than doubled compared with the previous night, the pressure of the offensive did not double. In the afternoon, the guards were tense all night long, seeing that they would have to rotate in the next hour. Only then did the spirit begin to relax a little. He never thought that more and more troops were added to the city, and there were climbing frames and other items delivered one by one, which were placed in the distance below the city, so that the people in the city could see clearly, although there was nothing they could do.

With such a posture, it doesn't look like they are just passing by and attacking at will, but they are planning to attack the city seriously, and the defenders are naturally more panicked for a while.

But this kind of situation doesn't only happen at the east gate, there are di soldiers appearing in almost every gate in the southeast, northwest, and so on. After repeated attempts to attack the city, the defenders will be able to repel them even if they return, but it is useless , can neither do more damage to the enemy, nor do any containment, and waste a lot of arrows in vain, and watch the siege objects pile up under the city, and the Di soldiers gather more and more, as if it is endless.

But in just seven or eight days, the mentality of the defenders in the city was disturbed and exhausted, and because of the bad news of enemy reinforcements every day-the news didn't even need to be reported by anyone, it could be seen with the naked eye In the distance, the flags of the Di soldiers were waving, day by day, even every other time, there would be more siege weapons displayed under the city than before, which naturally made everyone more panicky.

Once the capital is besieged, it will be difficult to send news from outside the city. It is like an isolated island. Seeing that the outside is closing in day by day, the people inside have neither supplies nor rush to help. All that is left is despair.

That desperation finally reached its peak on the ninth day—the sun was shining brightly in the sky, it was noon, and at this time, the sight of the city was unobstructed, there was neither morning fog nor rain, and even the wind was only slightly Blowing, it was clearly far away, but there was a slight vibration from the ground.

Hearing the sound, a guard on the city wall stretched his neck to look, squinted his eyes, and waited to see everything in the distance. After all, he was a new recruit with little experience and was really curious, so he couldn't help but whispered The person next to him muttered, "What is that?"

The soldier on the side had fought several times with the Di people in Hejian. Although he was young, he had experienced the defense of the city and escaped a few rounds. He might not be considered very elite on the battlefield, but his eyesight was enough. Exclaimed: "Goose cart!"

His voice was full of horror, he screamed, he couldn't hold the spear firmly in his hand, and hurried to find Shangguan.

The goose cart was extremely tall, and when viewed from a distance, it looked like a tall building. It looked like a cart but not a cart. It had a shovel in front and wheels. It was being pushed hard by tens of hundreds of people behind it. Every step it pushed made a rumbling sound.

Naturally, not only one person on the city wall recognized the goose cart, but one passed on the goose cart, and many people had already whispered to each other.

(End of this chapter)