People in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Hu and Han respected together

Chapter 92 Attacking Chencang
Inside the tent!

Li Wenhou sat there, lost in thought, his brows were sometimes furrowed and sometimes relaxed, his expression was sometimes dignified and sometimes joyful.

Finally Li Wenhou exhaled:

"Is there really no choice but to abandon this army and return to Hehuang to start from scratch?"

Li Yao nodded beside him and said:
"If there are tens of thousands of people, we can gradually subdue them as long as we appease the barbarians at the bottom and evade the chiefs at the top..."

"Now there are 10 people. Once we reveal our intentions, I'm afraid they will attack in groups. Internal strife is inevitable..."

"Although my father's loyal servants and private soldiers in the family are all soldiers, it is impossible to suppress so many people at the same time. We must be careful!"

Li Wenhou was persuaded. In fact, from this time, it can be seen that Dianwu is usually very obedient, but at the critical moment, he let Gai Xun go privately, and didn't really take him seriously at all.

Immediately, Li Wenhou frowned again:
"What should we do now? Are we going to retreat directly! We have already entered Guanzhong..."

Li Yao comforted himself with a smile:

"How can we retreat so directly? Although, as my father said, there are too many internal conflicts in the army, and we may not be able to invade Luoyang, but we can fight until we can't..."

"Other chiefs, leaders, lead their clansmen to rob gold, silver, and silk... Then we just rob the people and food, use the food to feed more people, let the people grow more food, and then we can attack them and make them truly surrender..."

"Those gold, silver and satins are only kept temporarily for my father. In the end, they all belong to my father. Even they themselves will kneel at my father's feet in the end!"

Other people's road to hegemony, farming and inventing, recruiting talents, wooing aristocratic families, fostering fame...

Li Yao's road to dominance is to keep drawing cakes for his father...

It's delicious!
Li Wenhou's eyes lit up, a man should be like this, he held Li Yao's hands:

"I have A Yao, I am lucky!"

Then Li Wenhou's eyes showed a cruel look, and his voice became low, but at the same time full of ambition:

"Then use this [-] army to grab enough people and food for me. As for the gold, silver and satin they are grabbing now, I want them to spit them all out in the future!"

Li Yao was really very happy to see his father so energetic. Who could really understand the desire for his father to become a dragon.

At this time Li Wenhou said again:
"Ayao, don't go back tonight, tell me about the one who bestowed the surname, and the military reform!"

Li Yao smiled and nodded in agreement:

"no problem!"

Giving a surname is a very important matter. Using this as a link to form the concept of "we", Di Qiang from different tribes can forget the past and unite as a group.

The reform of the army is equally important, and the leadership of his father and son must be determined, otherwise it will be like this rebel army, although it is powerful on the surface, it is chaotic inside.

The father and son slept together on the same bed, chatting until the dead of night, and then fell asleep separately.

On the second day, instead of attacking the city, the army fell down trees and made siege equipment. At the same time, they sent thousands of fine cavalry to show off their power outside the city, deterring the defenders in the city and hitting the morale of the city at the same time.

What Li Yao said:

"Gai Xun fought hard and was captured, Zuo Chang abandoned the city and fled, the emperor of the Han Dynasty was incompetent, loyal ministers and good generals died!"

This is a heart-breaking statement. You are defending the city desperately in front, but the emperor is behind you with a knife. No matter who is so cruel, it is difficult for anyone to really accept it.

But at the top of the city, both Zhang Wen and Yuan Pang looked very ugly, the former suddenly said:
"Pass my military order, as soon as those rebels come, shoot arrows to disperse them immediately, don't let them talk nonsense..."

Having said that, Zhang Wen looked at Yuan Pang and said:
"This is a strategy of the rebels. They want us to open the city and surrender. You must not believe what they say!"

Yuan Pang nodded immediately when he heard the words, his voice was very firm:
"That's right. When the country is in danger, report to the king and go to the peace of the people. This is where my generation can use it!"

Although the two of them were loyal to the emperor and patriotic on the surface, they frequently looked at the top of the city tower, and the head of Gai Xun still hanging on it still revealed their true inner thoughts.

Being an official in the same dynasty and a minister in the same palace, Gai Xun's death is not half decent now, which makes them all feel a little bit sad.

Although the other county soldiers and strong men didn't feel it too deeply, but under the constant subtle influence, they also lost a little respect for the emperor.

After five days like this, the rebel army finally assembled again, and for the first time they attacked the city, they decided to attack Ximen.

Li Wenhou and Beigong Boyu, the two of them stood among the ten thousand armies, Li Wenhou gave an order:
"The front team is attacking the city, cut down the horse first!"

This order was passed on, and soon there were thousands of Han, Qiang, Di... mixed soldiers, two or three people holding a wide wooden plank, with axes and axes, began to approach the city wall quickly.

Zhang Wen also immediately ordered:

"Fire the arrows quickly and shoot them!"

call out!call out!call out!
The defenders at the top of the city began to draw their bows and shoot arrows quickly, because they were all condescending, so the arrows they shot were extremely powerful.

However, except for some unlucky people, arrows shot in their legs, and the rest of the people had wooden boards to block them, so the reduction in personnel was not serious. These soldiers rushed to Juma quickly under the rain of arrows, and then picked up axes in their hands, and began to chop at Juma.

It must have been thoughtful to arrange these rejecting horses at the beginning. Part of the rejecting horses were buried in the soil, so it was impossible to push them down directly.

The people at the top of the city kept firing arrows, and soon the boards were filled with arrows. Although the casualties of soldiers were increasing, the three rows of repelling horses were also cut down one by one.

The rejected horses that were cut down in the end were all pushed into the ditch, and the soldiers retreated quickly, leaving behind hundreds of corpses of course.

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!"

All the rebels roared excitedly. Although they only cut down three rows of refusal horses, they seemed to have won the victory, and the morale and morale of the army rose even higher.

Beigong Boyu laughed excitedly and said:

"That's all there is to it, the next team will attack and fill that ditch for me!"

Soon there were thousands of soldiers, who also rushed up with wooden planks, but instead of carrying axes, each of them carried a bag of dirt.

They rushed to the front of the ditch under the rain of arrows, poured all the soil into the ditch, and ran back holding the planks.

Then there is a cycle. This process is too time-consuming. It may take a long time to fill the entire Haogou.

As for Zhang Wen and Yuan Pang on the top of the city, they were not too impatient. This Haogou and Juma were all to slow down the progress of the rebels' siege. Even if the rebels cut down Juma, even if the rebels filled the Haogou, when the rebels really started to attack the city, there would be stones, rolling logs, boiling water, and golden juice...

This siege battle is not easy to fight!
(End of this chapter)