The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 213 A Feast for Crows ([-])
In late September 266, the rainy season in the Han River Basin was completely over, and the mosquitoes also decreased significantly.Luoyang's five thousand reinforcements have also arrived in Xinye.The Jingzhou Legion of the Jin State finally began to go south to rescue Xiling.

At this time, three months had passed since the Jingzhou Legion of Soochow surrounded Xiling City.

For three months, for the Bu family in Xiling City, there was no pressure on food or anything.But the problem is that always sitting in the city, the morale of the defender actually drops very quickly.

Morale is a very mysterious thing.Many strategy games in later generations have a morale value setting: if you go out to march and fight, the morale value is low, the action will be slow, and the attack and defense will be reduced.If the morale value drops to zero, the army will collapse.

It must be said that this setting makes perfect sense.At least the second master Bu now clearly feels that the current state of his soldiers is far worse than when the incident happened three months ago.

If things go on like this, these generals who used to be submissive and obedient may not have other ideas.

However, on the third day of October, more than 1 Bu family private soldiers in the entire Xiling City, more than 2 Bu family tenant farmers who were forced to go to the city for defense by Bu Chan, and more than 3 old and weak women and children trapped in Xiling City were all collectively beaten. There was a burst of chicken blood!

"Patriarch, now the sound of killing is loud in the fifteen miles north of my Xiling City. It seems that the reinforcements from the Jin Dynasty have arrived. What this subordinate means is that, while the morale of the private soldiers at home is now boosted, it is better to open the city gate and go out to charge. One time!"

"Huh? Bu Ji, do you know what you're talking about? Attacking the city at this time? Let's not talk about those bastards in Jin who deliberately let us sit in this lonely city for three months to consume the strength of Wu Jun. Now they have just Come on, let's rush out? I also want Wu Jun to consume the strength of the Jin army. Only in this way can they understand how valuable it is for us to be able to withstand Wu Jun for three months here!"

"So that's the case, the subordinate understands."

When Bu Chan was still thinking about it, the Jin army who had just arrived outside Xiling City had already begun to attack the crude city wall that had not long been completed in Soochow.

Proposed by Lu Kang and supervised by Lu Shu, the city wall was completed in just three months.Since the city of Xiling, which itself was very large, was to be completely surrounded, the height of the wall was very limited, only a little over one foot ([-] meters).And the strength is even more pitiful: when the wall was built in the rainy season, it was impossible to use the traditional rammed earth wall method.Therefore, this wall is more of a skeleton made of wattle stakes, and mud is poured directly on it.From a distance, the wall looks very crude.

However, for the defenders who have more soldiers than the attackers, this wall is enough.

Because, in July, August and September of this year, there was really a lot of rain in the Xiling area.

Of course, Prince Sima Liang, the King of Runan, will not play in person, so he just sits in Xiangyang far away.The commander-in-chief of this Jin army is General Yang Lie Wang Hun Wang Xuanchong.

"General, beyond the wooden wall, there is a tidal flat that is three miles long. Our army's trebuchets, arrow towers, etc., get stuck in the mud and cannot move forward at all!"

"Stupid! This wooden wall is at least twenty miles long. There are tidal flats here. Wouldn't it be better to change to a drier place?"

"Uh, forgive me, General. The subordinates walked around the tidal flat, except for the previous official road. I didn't find any place suitable for heavy siege equipment. And the section built by Wu Dog near the official road Walls are the tallest and strongest."

"Hmph, without trebuchets and arrow towers, wouldn't you be able to attack the city? Send an order to choose the lowest section of the city wall, set up an infantry formation, and attack!"

"promise!"

Following Wang Hun's strict order, the Jin army quickly completed the formation outside the tidal flat.Then the archers were in front, and the spear and shield soldiers were behind, and they slowly and neatly stepped into the muddy and soft beach outside Xiling City.

"Paji~~" The first archer of the Jin army who stepped into this tidal flat knew that something was wrong after stepping in with his front foot.Sure enough, when he put his back foot in, and then tried to pull his front foot out of the mud in order to move on, his foot didn't obey, and he didn't pull it out for a long time.

It's okay that he stuck there and didn't advance, but the problem is that this is the army.The officer gave an order, and the soldiers behind also had to move forward.Then it was a soldier behind who knocked him down, and then the next soldier knocked down the second soldier.

"Stop! Stop!" Although the Jingzhou Army of the Jin Army was less elite than the Longxi Army back then, they still had some basic common sense.The middle and low-level officers on the front line quickly discovered the problem.

"The whole army stops advancing!" "The whole army suspends! Rest in place!"

"Hehehe, the response is very timely. Unfortunately, I will not give you the opportunity to lay the planks so calmly."

On the other side of the battlefield, Lu Mu, who had just returned from the front line, hid behind a simple wooden wall and saw the movement of the Jin army.Gently pulled his beard: "catapult, start!"

"Hey~~~!!"

Following Lu Mu's order, more than a dozen trebuchets behind the Eastern Wu front line were launched simultaneously, and the huge rolling stone was driven into the air by strong inertia, and then drew a beautiful arc in midair. He fell heavily into the ranks of the Jin army.

A series of shrill screams sounded over the battlefield.The team that was originally neat was all in chaos in an instant.

"Hahaha~~~ Jin thief, you are nothing more than that." As Lu Meng's youngest son, Lu Mu is also 48 years old this year.However, although he is middle-aged, Lu Mu's battlefield experience is actually not that rich - the good thing of increasing the population of their respective manors by fighting the mountains has always been the monopoly of the Jiangdong clan.When is it your turn, Huaisi dogs?And most of the main generals in the middle and late stages of Soochow Wu were drawn from that novice village in Shanyue.

In fact, the volley of stone bombs just now, although the scene looked spectacular, the actual effect was minimal: in ancient China, it was not until the Yuan Dynasty attacked the Southern Song Dynasty in the 13th century that the counterweight trebuchet (the physical principle of lever and pulley) appeared. Integrated use).Prior to this, there were manpower trebuchets (without a counterweight bar, and a large amount of manpower was used to realize the function of the counterweight bar) and lever trebuchets (reduced manpower, but poorer accuracy).But now the Wu army is almost three miles away from the Jin army. If a lever-type trebuchet can be thrown on the head of the Jin army, it is simply a burst of character!Most of the stone bombs actually landed in that tidal flat.

Therefore, Lu Mu, who thought he performed well, was quickly reprimanded by Shi Ji from the rear: What kind of stone bomb?Is it because the Jin thief will not have a shelter to hide from their own bows and arrows when they lay the planks later?Give me a stop and let them lay the planks.After entering the bow and arrow range, I shot arrows desperately - the bow and arrow are so small, even if they miss and fall into the mud, they will not become the opponent's refuge.

As a result, Lu Mu, who was reprimanded, calmed down next.

He stopped here, and the Jin army's movements were not slow.The camp quickly cut down a large number of big trees.Then it was quickly cut into countless wide planks.Then the soldiers of the Jin army quickly began to lay planks on the tidal flats close to their own side.

"Hiss~~~" Although the battlefield experience is not rich, he is almost 50 years old anyway.Seeing the way the Jin army laid the planks, Lu Mu couldn't help but feel a toothache.

"Shouldn't they just lay out a route that can be marched from their position? How did they lay it all over such a long front? Oh? Zuo Da Sima, why did you come to the front line? It doesn't matter at Xiling City Is it?"

"Hmph! Bu Zhongsi, that trash, didn't have the courage to rush out at all. The old man didn't bother to care about him. But you, a little fifty, why are you so naive? The Jin army is not stupid, how could you lay such a narrow road?" Passage? Will you line up later and let you shoot them one by one? The old man came here to remind you: look at the project of the Jin army, and will not launch an attack today. The old man is here to tell you: Don’t do it at night Thinking of going to a night attack, tearing down the enemy's wooden planks and so on. The opponent looks like a well-trained elite, so it is impossible for him to be unprepared for a night attack."

"Uh, the last general really planned it that way. Thank you, Da Sima, for reminding me. The last general obeyed!"

"Well, but your people should also arrange night duty. If the Jin general on the opposite side is smart, he should not send people to steal the camp if the wooden planks on his side are not fully laid and the back road is not smooth. But he will definitely lay them overnight. Wooden plank. You have to pay attention to its progress, once you enter the range of the bow and arrow, regardless of whether you see it or not, just diffuse towards the place where there is sound!"

"No! The last general takes orders."

Nothing to say all night.The time has come to the two quarters of the fourth day of October.

With the help of the morning light, Lu Mu woke up and saw the situation on the battlefield clearly through the thin mist, and couldn't help but take another breath.

On the other side, the Jin army camp.Uncle Huyang, a new generation of beautiful bearded ram with a big beard like Guan Yu's in his prime, is already dressed neatly and majestically sitting on a tall horse.

"Report to General Annan, according to the general's method of throwing wooden boards with a trebuchet, our army worked overnight last night, and completed the laying of wooden boards that are one mile wide and three miles long. Now, our army's passages facing the enemy's wooden wall have all been opened! "

"Good, gentlemen, under the orders of General Yang Lie, today's battle will be under the command of this general. Order now, the whole army will attack!"

"Oh~~~!!!"

　The ancients took one foot, which is called "kui".It is called a "step" after taking one step and then another step.This step is a unit of length in ancient times.So how long?Different eras have different standards. Generally speaking, during the Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms periods, one step was equal to 1.3 meters.

　　Also mention the other commonly used ancient units in this book.Zhang, Zhang in this book refers to 2.31 meters.The so-called ten feet is Zhang, and the seven-foot men in ancient times were calculated according to this ratio, and their height was almost 1.6 meters, which was more in line with the actual situation at that time.

　　Stone, stone is a unit of weight, and the stone in this book is uniformly 27 kilograms.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)