The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 277 Central Line and Eastern Line ([-])
Lu Kang entered Xiangyang City, and at the same time achieved great success that Soochow could not achieve for decades, he also completely lost his mobility.As a result, the fronts of Jin and Wu in Jingzhou became quiet instead: the Wu army was unable to advance northward, and the Jin army was unable to attack the city.Everyone can only stand in a stalemate here, waiting for the results of the two fronts.

At this time, the battlefield on the Eastern Front had already become a Shura hell.

"Bang Dang!" As the sledgehammer hit the counterweight rod fiercely, the cannon of the trebuchet jumped up quickly holding a huge stone bullet, and the huge inertia urged the stone bullet to draw a bright line in the sky. The tail belt, and then fell heavily on the roof of a house in the city.The wooden house, which had collapsed half of the roof, creaked sadly, and suddenly turned into a piece of rubble.

"Clang!" The officer's command knife was quickly unsheathed, and then pressed forward fiercely. Countless soldiers of the Wu army in brown and yellow battle robes, holding ladders, pushing towers and battering rams, once again sprinted towards the tall city wall of Hefei Fortress. .

"Brothers, Wu Gou is coming up again, the trebuchet is launched! The archers are ready!"

"Hey~~~!"

Hefei Fortress was really beaten badly.

As a price for Soochow sending troops, the Shu Han exported the technology of the winch trebuchet to Soochow.There are also skilled craftsmen in Soochow, so let's take a look.Not only was a small winch trebuchet made immediately, but it was installed on the ship.He also combined the principle of the pulley and the lever by analogy, and made a counterweight trebuchet by himself.Therefore, in this year's Hefei battle, Soochow's trebuchets completely overwhelmed Jin's trebuchets.

But Jin also kept learning in the war.For example, less than half a month after the completion of Guan Zifeng's bastion in Mei County, the relevant drawings were sent to Luoyang.After that, Luoyang was immediately handed over to the Jingyang Corps.Yangzhou immediately organized civilian husbands to improve the city of Hefei.Although due to limited time, there was only time to build bastions at each city gate for protection.But even so, it caused great trouble to Soochow's attack.

The attack method of one side is improved, and the defense mode of the other side is improved.In addition, one side insists on taking this place, and one side must defend this place in order to survive.The brutality of the war immediately escalated rapidly.

Wu Jun besieged Hefei City Fortress in March, and the outermost layer of the city wall of Hefei, which was originally triple-walled, could hardly be seen.Among the broken walls and ruins everywhere, stone bombs of different sizes were densely piled up.Although the second layer of the city wall is complete at this time, the original height of the 15-meter-high city wall is now at most 13 meters. corpse.

It is different from the defense system of Mei County and An Guo City, where the enemy has no hope of breaking the city at all, and the commander does not want to fight the second time after fighting once.Although the Hefei Fortress is strong, it has not had time to build a complete bastion, so it seems to have hope of breaking the city.So Ding Feng completely ignored the weeping blood pleas of various families, and kept urging the various ministries to take turns to attack.After two months, the death toll of the Wu army has exceeded 3000.The Jin army in Hefei City also killed more than [-] people.

Not only that, because the war was too tragic, the casualties were too high.And the duration of the siege is too long.Neither side had time to deal with the corpses under the city, and it was summer again.As a result, in addition to the accumulation of corpses, it also attracted a large number of mosquitoes and flies to breed here.

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Amidst a burst of feeble shouts, Wu Jun soldiers approached the city wall again.Some soldiers began to clean up the broken bricks and broken tiles and scattered stone bullets on the way forward, trying to clear a way for the slow-moving siege towers and battering rams behind.Some soldiers bit their lips tightly, and together with other comrades, charged with the long ladder with all their might.

"Baji", a pale, thin, and empty-eyed Wu soldier stepped on the reddish-brown mud with his right foot, splashed an inexplicable liquid, and then his body slipped and fell.

His face fell into the mud, and a section of pink small intestine, which was stained with a lot of mud, suddenly appeared in his sight.But his expression didn't change at all. Instead, he stretched out a hand and pressed heavily on this small intestine. With a push, he got up quickly and continued to run towards the city wall.

After he continued to run a few steps forward, a black tide suddenly appeared out of thin air, accompanied by a huge buzzing sound that enveloped him.But this didn't slow down his pace. Countless mosquitoes and flies who were feasting on carrion meat also showed helplessness in the face of such a numb and determined fighter.Had to suspend eating and flew into the air.

However, his progress came to an end, because at this time, countless feathered arrows had already fallen from the sky above the city.Although he instinctively raised the large shield in his hand to cover it, it was obvious that such a move was futile.Soon, he heard bursts of puffing sounds, and then, with a hint of relief, he fell into the reddish-brown mud forever.

As he fell, the buzzing sound was loud again, and the black tide in the midair suddenly surged down.Then they spread them all over his body, quickly covering his body until he could no longer be seen...

It was the fifteenth day of the seventh month in AD 268.It has been three months since Ding Feng led an army of 15 to surround and attack Hefei City.

In March, in view of the fact that the Shu Han has reached its initial strategic goal: take Longxi and Liangzhou.Therefore, I was deeply afraid that the Shu Han would withdraw its troops at any time, so Ding Feng, who would march southward in a large scale in the Luoyang Central Army of the Jin State, drove the Wu army to launch a powerful attack on the fortress of Hefei in turn without intermittent.

At this time, Wei Guanwei Boyu, the new commander of the Yangzhou Army of the Jin State, was not in Hefei City Fortress.It's not that he is timid and unwilling to be in a dangerous place, but that he really didn't catch up.

The Jin court received a report on April [-] that Soochow was about to invade, and then issued an order to Wei Guan who was in Youzhou.By the time he arrived in Shouchun, it was already early May.The city of Hefei further south has been completely surrounded by Ding Feng.He can only use Shouchun as his headquarters to deal with Soochow's attack with difficulty.

On Ding Feng's side, there are 15 Wu troops.Among them, the three armies of No Difficulty, Jiefan and Wrapping the Tent came out together, with a total of 2 people.Of the remaining 13 people, there are 9 national soldiers in the Wu Empire.There are 4 private soldiers of the Jiangdong family in total.

On Weiguan's side, the Jin State Yangzhou Corps has 8 people.Basically, he is a veteran, and his combat effectiveness is not bad.In addition, Xuzhou supported 2 people, but these 2 people were still farmers working in the fields last month, so combat effectiveness cannot be expected at all.In the end, there were 21 Chinese troops supported by the Luoyang court gnashing their teeth.The ten thousand Chinese troops are all cavalry.The commander is Uncle Meng Guan, who is only [-] years old.

It is different from the 15 army hedgehogs of Soochow gathered under the city of Hefei.The 11 people in Wei Guan's hands are scattered a bit.

Shouchun is the most important town of the Jin State in Huainan, with a garrison of [-] troops (including [-] recruits supported by Xuzhou).

Sixty miles south of Shouchun is Chengde County.Next to this county is a huge lake (Shaopi Lake) and a gentle river (the famous Feishui in later generations).This is the assembly department of the Yangzhou Navy of the Jin State.Of course, since the Jin State did not even touch the Yangtze River in Yangzhou at this time, the scale of the Yangzhou navy is extremely small. There are only [-] to [-] warships and more than [-] people. combat capability.

Chengde walked a hundred miles to the south, and it was Hefei City Fortress.There are also [-] troops stationed here.

More than twenty miles east of Hefei is Junqiu County.There are also [-] Jin troops stationed here, and the commander of this army is Huan Hao.

Eighty miles west of Hefei is Lu'an County.Ten thousand Luoyang cavalry led by Meng Guan were temporarily stationed here.

To put it simply, Jin's strategy in Yangzhou is very clear: use Hefei as a millstone to wear down the vigor and flesh and blood of Wu Jun.When the Wu army is exhausted, the Jin army from the east, west, and north will encircle and start a decisive battle against the Wu army.

This is the method Cao Wei has been using for decades in the face of Soochow's invasion of Hefei.Of course, the state of Jin also followed this path.

The method is correct, but for the soldiers and generals trapped in the Hefei Fortress.Every minute and every second here is suffering.

At this time, Jiang Ban and Jiao Yi were the defenders of the Jin Kingdom guarding the fortress of Hefei.

These two were originally Zhuge Dan's subordinates.When Guan Qiujian launched the Second Shouchun Rebellion, they followed Zhuge Dan to make up for Guan Qiujian.Jiang Ban also beheaded Liu Zan, a famous Soochow general who came to support Wu Qiujian in this battle.Later, Guanqiu Jian was destroyed, Zhuge Dan took charge of Yangzhou and launched the Shouchun Three Rebellions.These two persuaded Zhuge Dan: Now the family members of these soldiers in Shouchun are all in the north, and Sun Chen of Soochow has no ability or ambition at all.is unreliable.So Minggong, if you want to succeed, your only hope is to take the initiative to attack the north while your morale is still a little bit.Survive in death, if you can win a game or two, maybe there is still something to do.

As a result, Zhuge Dan didn't dare to take the initiative to attack at all. Instead, he suspected that the two of them wanted to turn against each other (the pressure was too great, and suspicion would naturally occur, which is human nature), and wanted to kill them.So the two were forced to turn over the Shouchun city wall and surrender to Sima Zhao.

After all, these two are veteran generals, and they still have abilities.And Sima Zhao is someone who can tolerate even Wenyang, so how could he not tolerate them.So I happily accepted their surrender.After that, the two continued to stay in Huainan.Before Wei Guan went south to take over the command, Langya King Sima Ni placed the two of them on the front line of Yangzhou as the guards of Hefei City Fortress.

The reason why he dared to do this was, of course, that he was not afraid of these two surrendering to Soochow: as a big clan in Kuaiji, the Liu family now has a good say in the Soochow court.And Zhuge Dan's youngest son, Zhuge Liang, will be the famous general of Soochow.They dare to surrender Soochow?Apart from the annihilation of the three clans who remained in Jin, they themselves could not survive.

Because they didn't dare to surrender, even though they were beaten badly, the two of them had to try their best to appease and encourage the defenders, and defend with all their strength.But no matter how hard the two of them tried, the army of Wu outside the city was five times larger than them.So they have no idea of ​​counterattack at all except for defending against the city.

And as the siege time got longer, more and more mosquitoes were nourished by a large number of corpses.Inevitably, the soldiers in the city were more or less infected with various diseases.Although the number of deaths in Hefei was only over 3000, there were nearly [-] soldiers who fell down due to malaria and could not go into battle!
Of course, Ding Fengjun outside the city would also be harassed by mosquitoes, but he was stationed outside the city.The density of troop distribution is much lower than that in the city.Therefore, Ding Feng's attrition due to the disease has only more than 3000 people.

If this continues, the soldiers in Hefei will either die in battle or die of illness!

(End of this chapter)