Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 386 The Second Giant Deer War

Fortunately, Xiang Kang didn't let Li Shiqi take the risk of going to the Western Chu army camp again, because when the Han army envoy came to the Western Chu army camp with a letter to persuade him to surrender, he happened to run into the last Xiang family child who left Xiang Kang's side— — Crown.

The Xiang family's children also obviously supported Xiang Yu, who treated them better. After the messenger of the Han army was brought before Zhou Yin, he just presented Xiang Kang's autographed letter persuading him to surrender. After reading it, Xiang Guan, who happened to be right next to him, was already furious. He snatched the letter from Zhou Yin and tore it into pieces, and ordered the guards in the tent to push the Han army messenger out of the tent and behead him. Zhou Yin, the commander-in-chief of the Northern Front Army Corps, refused to give any face to his cousin Xiang Kang.

Knowing that Xiang Yu's unruly temper is because he trusts his relatives more, Zhou Yin certainly didn't dare to get angry. He could only persuade Xiang Guan not to be impulsive in a low voice, saying that the two countries will fight each other and the West Chu army will probably continue to fight with each other in the future. The Han army had envoys coming and going, so they couldn't do things too badly, so Xiang Guan changed his mind and ordered the envoys of the Western Chu army to beat the Han army envoys out of the camp with random sticks.

During this period, Xiang Guan also pointed at the messenger of the Han army angrily and roared: "Go back and tell the traitor Xiang Kang to stop playing these tricks, and come and fight us upright if you have the ability! If you dare to bribe us to persuade him to surrender, don't Blame us for being ruthless!"

The messenger of the Han army scrambled away, and Zhou Yin, who hadn't read the letter, kept silent. He knew in his heart that if he could go back or join Xiang Yu, Xiang Guan would definitely tell Xiang Yu about the situation, and he had to worry about a I have been secretly worrying about the problem for a long time-I have fought this battle like this, and I was defeated in Sishui, and I was ambushed in the Julu Jieying Camp. After getting away and going back, Xiang Yu would definitely not spare himself lightly.

"There is only one last hope. Persevere until our king personally leads the army to reverse the situation, and then help the king defeat the traitors and win a big victory. Only by doing this can the king not hold me accountable too much. , otherwise, I would lose my job at the least, and I might not even be able to keep my head if it is serious." This is Zhou Yin's conclusion.

It is precisely because of this that Zhou Yin's heart immediately rose to his throat when he received the scout report from the two major corps of the Han army in the early morning of the next day. He was afraid that the Han army would come and beat the dog in the water. He attacked the army's camp and pushed himself into a desperate situation.But it’s okay, the scouts quickly sent a scout report, saying that including the Zhou Shu Corps of the Han Army closest to the Western Chu Army Camp, they were all heading east. It was obvious that they were planning to attack the East Gate of Julu or the Qi Army Camp. , Zhou Yin let out a long sigh of relief, and secretly said:
"There is still hope. As long as it doesn't come to attack me first, as long as Zhao's army and Qi's army can buy me time, I still have the hope of turning defeat into victory."

Contrary to the extremely fortunate Zhou Yin, after receiving the scout report of the movement of the Han army, Tian Bu, the commander of the Qi army, secretly complained, because the Han army was marching eastward, and no matter whether it came to attack the Qi army camp or not, the Qi army must Assuming the important task of guarding the camp or rescuing the East Gate of Julu, Tianbe had no choice but to quickly organize the army to prepare for the battle. Zhao Guo's army was able to block the Han army's siege army alone, so as not to force itself to risk sending troops to fight in the field.

Human nature is selfish, and Zhao's army is of course the same. From top to bottom, they hope that the Han army will send troops to the east to attack the Qi army camp stationed on the only highland in Julu. Don't come to trouble your own army first. .

While waiting anxiously, when it was nearly half of the time, the two major corps of the Han Army, which joined forces to the north, finally showed their fangs. Among them, the Uncle Zhou Corps of the Han Army, which sent [-] troops, was outside the east gate of Julu. Line up the siege formation, and line up the counterweight trebuchets built before the city. Xiang Kang's flag also appeared in Zhou Shu's army formation, and the Han army's Zheng Bu Corps, which sent [-] troops, was displayed in Zhou Shu's army. At the right rear of the regiment, facing the Qi army camp, they lined up, directly showing the posture of attacking the city and fighting for aid.

After confirming this situation, Zhao's army, which had suffered heavy losses from the elite troops, was of course secretly complaining, while the Western Chu army, who stayed out of the matter, quietly laughed, and Tian Bu, who was in command of Qi's army, frowned deeply, and had to pray secretly: "Gong Gong, You must fight hard, and don't lose your strength too quickly, forcing me to take a risk and send troops."

On Zhao Jun's side, it's useless to complain secretly. Zhao Xiang Zhang Er and Zhao Jun's coach Gan Gong can only go to the main battlefield of the East Gate together, and go to the front line to boost morale. Back then, they led Zhao's army to carry 40 Zhang Er of the Wan Qin Army seized the time to deliver an impassioned speech on the city wall, "Boys, there is no need to be afraid of those Han thieves outside the city! Think about how many times the 40 Tyrant Qin troops fought in the Great Deer War. For months, there is nothing we can do against our Julu City, not to mention the tens of thousands of Han thieves? As long as we work together and fight bravely, we will be able to keep Julu, our Zhao country, and persist It’s time for the King of Western Chu to raise troops to rescue the giant deer for the second time!”

Not to mention, because the Zhao army did withstand the onslaught of the Qin army last time, under the personal encouragement of Zhang Er, the soldiers of the Zhao army who had a lot of experience in defending the city really raised a lot of morale. Gearing up to give a lesson and color to the Han army who is attacking from the front.However, at this moment, a group of soldiers with white flags came out of the Han army formation, surrounded by a prison car and came directly to the foot of Julu City. When Zhang Er looked at the situation on the prison car curiously, his heart beat faster. Secretly said: "Could it be Ao'er?"

The one on the prison car was indeed Zhang Er's precious son Zhang Ao. Looking at his father standing in the city from afar, Zhang Ao couldn't help but burst into tears, but he clenched his teeth with a bit of backbone, and never called out to him. Zhang Er was ashamed, and he also shook and damaged the morale of Zhao Jun.

However, the Han army did not force Zhang Ao to shout anything. After Zhang Ao escorted him to the side of the moat, a Han army envoy with a loud voice crossed the stone bridge over the moat with a white flag in his hand, and came to the vicinity of Julu City and shouted loudly: "Soldiers of the Zhao army in the city, you can see clearly that Zhang Ao, the son of Zhang Er, Xiangguo, is here. We didn't kill him, nor did we abuse him!"

"Also, don't worry, our Han army is not a bandit army from Western Chu, and we won't be so despicable as to take hostages and threaten you to do something! We just want to tell your Xiangguo Zhang Er, as long as he leads you to put down your weapons and surrender, our Han King will immediately Give him back his son, make him Marquis of Quyang, and give him food for thousands of households! If he persists in his obsession, he will covet the prince granted to him by Xiang Yu, the puppet king of Western Chu, and insist on building a seal for him with your dead bodies. Wang Gaotan, after we break through Julu City, not only will we not spare him, but we will even execute his son!"

"So, soldiers of the State of Zhao, you must understand that Zhang Er is not using you to fight for the State of Zhao, but to fight for his throne! Now we, the King of Han, have given Zhang Er and his son a chance to live. If Zhang Er Still greedy, insisting on staining his crown with your blood, why do you give your life to him? As long as you put down your weapons and surrender, we will never kill, and let you go home immediately, so that you can reunite with your family!"

It was only after the envoy of the Han army saw Tu Qiongdao and yelled these words that Zhang Er came back to his senses, and realized that the Han army was here to separate himself from the soldiers of the Zhao army, and to weaken the fighting spirit of the soldiers of the Zhao army, and suddenly became furious. Angry, he shouted: "Shoot the arrow! Shoot this envoy to death!"

"Enxiang, you can't shoot arrows! Otherwise, what will your young master do?!"

Wei Wuzhi, his confidant and aide, quickly reminded Zhang Er that he realized that if he shot an arrow to kill the envoy, the Han army would definitely take revenge on his precious son, so he had no choice but to withdraw the order quickly.But fortunately, after the envoy of the Han army finished shouting, he did not delay too much, and quickly turned around and left, shouting as he walked, "Tell your Xiangguo Zhanger, the King of Han has given him the opportunity! If he is still obsessed with it, don't let him go!" Blame us for being rude to him! You also think about it, is it worth it to fight for the throne of the usurper Zhang Er?"

The envoys of the Han army and the generals of the Han army quickly escorted Zhang Ao back, and the generals of the Zhao army on the city wall hurried away, yelling just to distinguish Zhang Er, insisting that the words of the envoy of the Han army were just slandering Zhang Ao. Instigated, Zhang Er has absolutely no ambition to usurp the throne, and asked the soldiers of the Zhao army to fight for the compatriots in Julu City.However, there is no way, the words of the Han army envoy still left traces in the hearts of Zhao Jun soldiers, and many Zhao Jun soldiers were shaken. Fight? Is he really greedy for the throne?"

At this time, the counterweight trebuchet of the Han army was also ready to throw stones. Seeing from a distance that the Han army soldiers had loaded the boulders on the trebuchet, Ben Hao, a general of the Zhao army who was guarding the east gate, hurriedly asked Zhang Er and Gan. The public and others said: "Xiangguo, General, the Han bandits are about to throw stones, it is too dangerous to stay in the city, please go back quickly, leave this place to the last general!"

Knowing that Ben Hao also had good intentions, Zhang Er and Gan Gong could only nod quickly, and then Gan Gong hurriedly reminded: "Ben Hao, remember Chen Ze's lesson, don't enter the tower, even though our tower has been destroyed. It has been reinforced, but no one knows whether it can hold the ghost trebuchet of the traitors! So don't venture into the tower, wait until you find out the situation!"

Isn't it just that Julu's east gate tower has been reinforced?In fact, having learned the lessons of the Handan War, Zhao's army not only reinforced the four gate towers of Julu with a large amount of solid wood, but also seized the time to try their best to repair and strengthen the city wall of Julu. Instead of being filled with sand and tamped down, and by means of dealing with old-fashioned trebuchets, oranges were erected in many key positions, stretched with raw cowhide for bulletproof, and the roofs of houses in the city were covered with silt to resist possible throwing by the Han army. The original incendiary bombs, tried every means to resist the terrible catapults of the Han army. ——Of course, whether this will work or not will only be known through actual combat tests.

Closer to home, not long after Zhang Er, Gong Gong and others hurried down the city, with the waving of the flag, the ready-to-go slingers of the Han army immediately started together, struggling to cut off the rope tied to the throwing ladle with their axes. Under the tugging, the boulder in the ladle immediately flew into the air, whizzing and spinning, and flew towards the city wall of Julu East Gate in the distance. The target was no surprise, and it really hit the giant boulder, which is very important in the city defense battle. Ludongmen Tower.

It made Ben Hao and other Zhao soldiers dumbfounded, and also made the Han Army Uncle Zhou's corps, which was using the counterweight trebuchet for the first time, ecstatic. Although the Julu Tower has been fully reinforced, the number of pillars supporting the girder has doubled , but just now two huge boulders hit the Wengcheng Tower at the East Gate of Julu. After breaking through the roof and entering the tower, the girders of the tower that Zhao Jun soldiers had tried their best to reinforce were still broken, and the roof collapsed with a loud noise, and countless people were buried alive in the tower. Zhao Jun's crossbowmen and a large amount of supplies for defending the city.Immediately afterwards, when more boulders hit the city tower one after another, the originally tall and majestic Julu city tower turned into ruins amidst bursts of loud noises, completely losing its important functions of hiding soldiers, covering and hoarding military supplies.

Seeing this scene, Uncle Zhou and others who used the counterweight trebuchet for the first time were of course ecstatic, and finally understood why Zheng Bu insisted on attacking Julu City first. Thunderous cheers.But Zhao Qi's army was dumbfounded, and they all screamed, "God! So powerful!"

Immediately afterwards, before the Han army threw the second round of stone bombs, Qi general Yu Ling's fellow soldiers immediately grabbed Yu Ling's hand, and said in a deep voice: "General, the Han army's catapults are far more powerful than those of the Han army." We imagined that Julu City would be difficult to defend for a long time. First, we should immediately send people to contact Zhao’s army and ask them to block the inner and outer passages of the Julu East Gate with sandbags and rocks to buy time. Second, we The army of..."

While the soldiers from the same country were still teaching Yu Ling face-to-face, the second round of boulders from the Han army had already been thrown again, and the target was the second tower behind the Julu East Gate Urn City. With accumulated experience and a certain amount of luck, even though the distance is relatively far, the Han army's trebuchets still only used two rounds of throwing stones to completely collapse the inner tower of the East Gate of Julu, killing and injuring others at the same time. Many soldiers of the Zhao army who could not escape in time dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Zhao army.

The test of the Han army's catapults is just the beginning. Whether the Han army can break through Julu City as soon as possible depends on whether the Han army's catapults can smash down the huge giants that have been fully reinforced by Zhao Jun's soldiers like they did on the Handan and Puyang battlefields. The deer city wall opened a gap that was easier to climb for the Han army's ants and soldiers.

Fortunately, the generals of the Zhao army still despaired. When the Han army's trebuchets began to smash the boulders as much as possible towards the city wall of Julu, and after pieces of boulders fell from the sky hit the city wall, they were still left behind on the city wall after the Zhao army tried their best to repair it. In the pits that were several feet deep, the Zhao army officers and soldiers carefully arranged raw cowhide shields, which were as fragile as paper in front of the huge stones of the Han army. The soldiers of the Zhao army behind the shield were smashed to pieces alive and died a miserable death.

The boulders thrown by the trebuchets of the Han army kept falling, like a giant fist of a god, smashing huge deep pits one after another on the Julu city wall, and the Julu city wall seemed to be trembling. The collapse gradually revealed gaps of different sizes. The soldiers of Zhao Jun yelled and screamed on the city wall, running to avoid rocks, panicking as if the end had come, and the guards of Zhao Jun's east gate headed by Ben Hao were all pale and dreaming. No one thought that the trebuchets of the Han army could have such terrifying power.

At the same time, the long shieldmen of the Han army have also established temporary fortifications in the distance from the east gate of Julu, protecting the crossbowmen and preparing to release arrows. Then, under the double cover of catapults and crossbows, countless Han soldiers The soldiers of the army began to charge forward with sandbags on their shoulders, rushed to the side of the moat and threw sandbags to fill up the moat. The workers sharpened their knives and chopped firewood to open up a road across the river for the Han army's next ants to attack the city, so that the Han army could quickly invest in the front. A sufficient number of siege troops.

During this period, of course, Ben Hao and others mustered up their courage, risking being smashed into meat sauce at any time, and commanding the soldiers of the Zhao army to rush to the side of the arrow pile to stop them with arrows. Unfortunately, because the power of the Han army's catapults was too Terrifying, the effect of the arrows released by the generals of the Zhao army is greatly reduced. Not to mention that it effectively prevents the soldiers of the Han army from filling the river, it is even difficult to form a dense rain of arrows to cover the soldiers of the Han army filling the river. Sandbags were thrown, and two solid roads were gradually piled up in the moat on both sides of the bridge.

On the side of the Zheng Bu corps of the Han army, since the catapults of the Han army started throwing stones to attack the city, the generals of the Han army headed by Zheng Bu kept a close eye on the camp of the Qi army in the north. What surprised Zheng Bu and others was that the Han army Only half an hour had passed since the army started throwing stones. The central gate of the south camp of the Qi army, which had been closed before, was suddenly opened. Hou gave the order to attack, and Tao Xi, who had been tormented by the Qi army before, was even more ecstatic. He rushed to the front line with red eyes, and took the lead to meet the Qi army's soldiers who came out of the camp.

It is a pity that the cunning of the Qi army is far beyond the imagination of the Han army. Just when Tao Xi led the army to rush in, the Qi army immediately turned around and fled back to the camp. Near the barracks, the Qi army on the base immediately fired arrows at random. While covering their comrades back to the camp, they also took the opportunity to shoot and wound some Han soldiers.

Seeing such a situation in the distance, Zheng Bu, who had repeatedly suffered heavy losses from the Qi army, was of course furious and hated the Qi army even more, but Li Zuoche next to him sneered and said with a sneer: "Want to play tricks? One of the ten falsehoods suddenly appeared, and it caught us by surprise, which is a good idea!"

"Then what should we do? It's impossible for us to be tricked by Qi thief all the time, right?" Zheng Bu asked angrily.

"Of course it's a plan to lure Qi's bandit army into a big attack, and avenge our previous revenge." Li Zuoche smiled, and then he lingered in Zheng Bu's ear, and muttered in a low voice...

At the same time, farther away, in the banner formation of the Han army on the hill, they saw the Qi army leaving the camp and returning, luring Zheng Bu to send troops to pursue them. Uncle Zhou, Zhang Liang and Chen Ping also said in unison: "The strategy of exhausting troops ! First repeatedly played with our intercepting army, and then suddenly came out of the ten false ones, killing us by surprise."

"We don't need to worry about it." Xiang Kang yawned, and said lazily: "If Zheng Bu and Li Zuoche can't even deal with such trivial skills, they will not be worthy of leading the army alone in the future."

　The Mid-Autumn Festival is here. I sincerely wish all my friends a happy Mid-Autumn Festival and a happy family. Thank you again for your enthusiastic support over the years.

　　
　
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