Through Yitian: Mingzun Zhang Wuji

Chapter 497 The Fortified Hongdu City
It was already noon when Zhang Wuji arrived outside Hongdu city.

Chen Youliang's siege troops had just been withdrawn for repairs, and the camps were still cooking.

Ancient battles, especially siege battles, would not be fought non-stop in a day like in TV dramas.

In any siege battle, it is basically the main siege force assigned to attack the city with various siege equipment.If you want to attack the city without interruption for a day, you must allocate many echelons to attack in turn.

Although Chen Youliang has a menacing army of 60, if there are a lot of casualties in the siege, it will have a great impact on morale.

Therefore, the siege battle here is basically "zero-knocking brown sugar", coming from time to time while the enemy is not prepared, making the enemy exhausted and greatly consuming all kinds of materials in the city.

In general siege and siege warfare, as long as the arrows in the city are exhausted and the food is exhausted.When the opponent is exhausted and their morale is low, there is a high probability that they will surrender.Even if you don't surrender, the opponent loses morale, so it's easy to defeat the opponent.

But now the battle of Hongdu has just begun, Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be the emperor, and Zhu Wenzheng fought with his life in person, the morale of the defenders in Hongdu is now high.

Although Chen Youliang made the slogan of "the first battle is the decisive battle, the first battle will determine the universe", but the opponent's soldiers are full of fine food and morale, so they are not busy attacking.

And a security force was set up around Hongdu City to guard against Zhu Yuanzhang's rush to rescue.The best time to attack the city is when the opponent has run out of ammunition and food and the will to resist is relaxed.

Zhang Wuji looked at Hongdu City, which had been destroyed by various siege equipment, and the unburied corpses in the moat.There was also blood on the city wall, and he couldn't help sighing.

The Central Plains people have not lacked blood since ancient times, but more often they have the courage to fight privately.Just like Da Song.Although Guozuo of the Song Dynasty was more than 430 years old, there were more than [-] peasant uprisings involved.If the Song and Song Dynasties could use the power of this "private struggle" to resist foreign humiliation, there would surely be no shame of Jingkang and hatred of Yashan.

At noon now, both Zhu Wenzheng's defenders and Chen Youliang's siege troops were resting and eating.Prepare for the second round of attack in the afternoon.

And Zhang Wuji also took out sesame seed cakes and jerky with him.

A mouthful of clear water, a mouthful of sesame seed cakes with meat, very happy to eat.After having enough water and food, Zhang Wuji also found a shady place to quietly wait for the next battle to come.This is not just a war between Zhu Wenzheng and Chen Youliang, but also his war.So he has to recharge his batteries.

Only by appearing in front of everyone when Chen Youliang's army is attacking the city can he show his identity with such a deterrent force.Let the rumor of Mingzun's "death" be broken without attack.

After all, the effect of saying a thousand times is not as good as seeing it with your own eyes.If the two armies do not obey his orders, then he will use his own force to stop them.

But right now Zhang Wuji was a little uncertain.Although it is a taboo for military strategists to be timid before a battle.But Zhang Wuji has never been so arrogant that he thinks that he alone can beat an army of 60.

There is only one chance to use "Shenwei" by oneself to overwhelm everyone.If everyone can calm down this time, then everything will be fine.

If you can't hold it down, then even if you are yourself, you have to reconsider returning to the Western Regions to make a comeback.Or compromise with his father-in-law, King Ruyang, and become a "dog traitor" loyal to "Great Yuan".

After that, he colluded with Meng Yuan and sent his troops south to completely put down the "rebellion" of all parties, and then with the support of Meng Yuan, he became a "child emperor" who occupied half of the south of the Yangtze River.

However, a comeback is not the biggest problem. If he can't deter the three armies this time, then Mingzun's "Godhead" will plummet just like Zhou Tianzi's authority.

The reason why people dare not resist Zhang Wuji is that he has shaped himself into a "god". If he can't resist and let the world know that even a "god" is still a clay sculpture in front of human power, then I'm afraid I can only do it. It is a "Son of Heaven" bestowed by the gods, not a "Human Emperor" bestowed by the gods.

So Zhang Wuji put up all his energy this time.

Even though the heat is unbearable now, he still waited quietly in place, quietly waiting for Chen Youliang's next attack.

In the evening, the sky gradually darkened, and the clouds that floated in covered the scorching sun, sweeping away the heat at noon.

After an afternoon of rest, Chen Youliang's siege force also completed the rest and rotation under the arrangement of his generals, and the "Pioneer Death Squad" for the second round of attack has also been re-formed.

These soldiers who are ready to fight are wearing armor and holding swords and shields.Standing majestically behind the engineer.

And in front of them is the vanguard of the siege equipment.Rows of soldiers carried small ladders to climb the city wall on their shoulders.

On both sides, there are also engineers pushing carts and carrying sleepers.Their wheelbarrows are loaded with nothing else, but all kinds of sand, stones and clods.

This is also essential in the siege.

Although soldiers charged to attack the city, they could cross the moat or trench through the erected bridge ladder and the wooden boards laid on it.

However, the function of the trench is not to prevent human siege, but to prevent siege equipment such as ladders and siege vehicles from approaching the city wall.

In fact, in ancient wars, compared with moats dug by people, trenches actually provided the greatest protection for the city.

Because unless the moat is a natural turbulent river, if it is stagnant water, the opponent can easily build a wide pontoon bridge to allow various siege equipment to cross the river.

But if it is a wide trench, then the opponent can only use civilian engineers and soldiers to fill in the soil and fill the trench of the moat like now.Otherwise, it would be difficult to support the weight of siege equipment with bamboo and wood bridge ladders alone, allowing large siege equipment to approach the city wall.

If the big ladder successfully approached the city wall and was erected on it, and the general defending the city did not pour oil on it and burn it down in time, then the siege battle would be considered as coming to an end.

As long as the big cloud ladder is successfully erected on the city wall, let alone soldiers can easily rush up the city wall, even war horses can sprint up.As long as the city wall is broken, they can only retreat into the city to fight street battles.

But the street fighting in the era of cold weapons has almost no meaning, it is just a desperate struggle, that's all.

But it is not easy to fill the wide trenches.

Because the defenders of the city will not let the peasants approach the moat so easily and let them fill the soil easily.A merciless rain of arrows greeted them.

Therefore, every time the ditch is filled, it is a fierce battle of narrow escapes.But even though it is a fierce battle, we must find a way to fill the gap.

However, Hongdu City was able to be resisted by Zhu Wenzheng with only 2 people against 60 troops for 83 days.It is because the trenches in Hongdu City are deep and wide enough.

As long as large engineering equipment such as large ladders cannot approach.Then it is difficult to climb the city wall and break through his city with a flesh and blood body and a small ladder that can be resisted by a human shoulder.

With the ditch in the moat yet to be filled and cleared, and he still has feathers and arrows, Hongdu City can be said to be impenetrable.

(End of this chapter)