The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 425

"Report~~~The former general, the Chang'an flying pigeon sent by Huayin city to pass the letter."

"Oh? Let me see, oh, good!"

"Ex-general, what's the good news?"

"Everyone, on the eighth day of October, Da Sima led an army to raid Jinyang City. He fell into the city in the first battle and captured the Jin thief Prince Taiyuan alive. Moreover, because General Zuo (Zhao Yi) sneaked into the city in advance and guarded the grain depot, our army still I got 30 shi of grain in Jinyang City!"

Due to the limited load of homing pigeons, many things can only be said briefly.In fact, the battle situation that day, at least on Zhao Yi's side, was far less relaxed than what Zhang Zun said: After the Han army attacked the city, Sima Yong immediately realized that Jinyang could not hold it, and then he did not organize troops to grab the city wall at all. , but concentrated the main force in the city to burn the grain depot.Zhao Yi led more than [-] men and Sima Yong's [-] men fought for more than half an hour, and the casualty rate of both sides exceeded [-]%.Fortunately, Guan Yi entered the city very quickly, otherwise Zhao Yi might have died in Jinyang City.

"Oh! Congratulations to Da Sima! Congratulations to General Zuo!"

"Hahahaha~~ It's a pity that my elder brother issued a strict order not to drink alcohol during the confrontation between the enemy, otherwise I will drink up that burning knife tonight."

"Former general, don't be like this. Da Sima's military law is strict. If you violate it, I'm afraid it will damage the brotherhood."

"Hehe, change it, don't be nervous, I don't mean to drink. However, since my brother has taken Jinyang, the Jin thieves are likely to mobilize heavy troops to Bingzhou again. In order to share the pressure for him, I can't say It will come true."

"Really? Former general, you mean you were just joking around a few days ago?"

"Not really, but to prepare for the attack that will start today. Well, let's put it another way, what are the casualties of our army in the past few months?"

"Accumulated losses of nearly 2000 people before and after."

"This is all a sacrifice that had to be made to win Tongguan."

"You? Do you really want to win Tongguan?"

"Of course. Change it, I am far behind you in terms of maneuvering and changing. But you have too many things to do all day long, which is no match for me. The only thing I have thought about for more than three years is how to break Tongguan. So, think about it After a long time, there will naturally be a way.”

"Oh? Alright, I'll just wait and see!"

This day was October 25th, and it had been five months since Zhang Zun led his army to attack Tongguan.

On the morning of this day, Ji Hanfang once again launched ten trebuchets that had just been laid in the direction of Tongguan.

"Hahaha~~ The Shu thief is coming to kill you again! Come on, push a little closer, Grandpa will kill you with one shot in a while."

Because of the height difference, Ji Han's trebuchet was at a disadvantage in terms of range.So after a few months of fighting, Ji Han lost almost ten trebuchets every day.Fortunately, the Qinling Mountains is nearby, and there are many towering trees.Otherwise, Zhang Zun wouldn't even be able to make a trebuchet.

But on this day, the trebuchet troops of the Han army stopped when they were still a certain distance from the maximum range of the trebuchets at the Tongguan Tower.

"Come on! Get closer! Why don't you leave? It doesn't matter if Grandpa can't hit you, but your stone bullets can't reach the city wall! Hahaha~~~"

"Hmph~!" It was Zhang Zun himself who led the team of trebuchets that day.After lining up outside the opponent's maximum shooting range, under Zhang Zun's instructions, Ji Han's soldiers tore open bags of cloth and poured out countless powders from the bags.Then other guard soldiers brought river sand and water from the nearby bank of the Yellow River, and quickly stirred these three things together.

After these three things were fully mixed into a paste, Zhang Zun gave an order, and the soldiers put the pastey, unset cement into super-large and ultra-thin clay pots, and then put them into the trebuchet in the cannon.

"Captain, join the army! Frontline Shu thieves are attacking the city again."

"Oh." After unhurriedly placing a piece on the chessboard, Malone raised his eyebrows: "What? Is there any difference today?"

Before the messenger who reported the letter had time to speak, Wang Tao laughed: "Could it be that the Shu thieves really have ants attached to attack the city?"

"If you go back to join the army, there is no such thing. It's just that the things projected by the Shu thieves today are a bit strange."

"Oh?" Malone got up and put on his clothes at the same time as he spoke: "Come to the city!"

After taking a few steps and stepping up the city wall, I watched the Han army throw pottery pots far away. Of course, the pottery pots fell to the ground and were smashed to pieces.But the slimy liquid in the clay pot made Malone frown.

"Captain, join the army. The catapults of the Shu thieves are far away from us, so the pottery pots they threw could not reach the city wall. But the mushy liquid that flowed out after the pottery shattered began to solidify in about a quarter of an hour, and then ..."

"Hey! Cement! Cement! So that's what the name means!"

Ji Han's army has been stationed under the city of Tongguan for more than five months.For five months, Zhang Zun sent ten catapults to send him to death every day.In addition to the shattering of the trebuchet, it is inevitable that there will always be a few unlucky people who were killed by the stone bombs projected by the Jin army. After five months, 2000 people have been lost.Although thousands of stone bullets were smashed back and forth, not only the Jin army laughed unscrupulously at this behavior, but even the Han army with strict military discipline also complained about it.There are actually many soldiers who think that General Zhang is fine and take the lives of our soldiers as a joke.

But today, all of this finally shows: Zhang Lingxing is not a fool!

For more than five months, each trebuchet of the Han army was able to project an average of two stone bombs per day. If it took a little longer, the Jin army's trebuchets with corrected ballistics would crush the Han army's trebuchets.But you can't stand the bombardment long enough.

For more than five months, the Han army first projected round and standard stone bullets, but after more than a month, they were replaced with square ones with sharp water chestnuts.At that time, the Jin army was still laughing at the Han army: I told you not to come to die, you just wanted it, now it's all right?Even the stone bullets were too late to polish.How can such a boxy thing be thrown far in the air?I can't even touch the city walls.

As a result, after more than five months, these more than 3000 stone bombs slowly accumulated under the city of Tongguan, burying the ten-meter-high city wall of Tongguan by as much as five meters.

Malone hadn't considered that too many stone bullets would cause the wall to lose its effect, and whether the enemy would rely on the pile of stone bullets to kill them.But after thinking about it for a while, I no longer have any worries: these stone bullets are piled here randomly, and the gaps between each other are different in size. climb up?At that time, when the stone platform collapses, the people who come up don't need to be killed by the Jin army, they will all be buried alive!

But now, the cement was hit on the stone pestle before it was dry, and most of it continued to flow down along the gaps in the stone pestle.And the small amount of cement that didn't flow to the lower layer of the stone wall, and slowly dried out, reminded Ma Long all the time: "Little boy, your grandpa Zhang was really stupid a while ago?"That is paving the way for today!
"The former general is really a genius! After five months, the enemy's city gate has long been blocked by our stone bullets. Even if Ma Xiaoxing figured out the key to this, he is helpless!"

"Hey hey, change it, isn't my method good? It just takes a lot of time and effort. In the first few months, I was actually laying the foundation!"

"It is indeed an excellent method, but I heard that there are four city walls in front of and behind Tongguan?"

"Hahahaha, don't worry about changing it. There are indeed four city walls in Tongguan. But only the first three are used to defend the direction of Guanzhong, and the last one is for defense in the direction of Luoyang. The distance between the first three city walls is only [-] Zhang. At this distance, the lethality of bows and arrows is close to nothing. However, the catapults are mainly used to attack the city now..."

"So, as long as our army takes down the first city wall, it will be much easier to capture the next two city walls?"

"Of course, this is the stupid method I came up with after guarding Huayin for more than three years. Let's change it and laugh at it."

"Where, in the face of a general like Ma Xiaoxing, being able to actually threaten Tongguan is already amazing! Ling Xing, you are indeed a man with a deep chest, as Da Sima said."

"Hehe, although it will take at least another month for the cement to fill the gaps. Moreover, we only have more than 7000 soldiers here. Even if the cement is filled to the highest point of the Tongguan city wall, we must attack from the bottom up. It can be said , Tongguan has only received threats, but there is still no real danger of falling. However, Ma Xiaoxing may be very calm, but the emperor in Luoyang can't be calm. I heard that we smashed the city wall of Tongguan a few days ago. He just recalled 2 people from Bingzhou. What about this time? Does he dare to send more troops to Bingzhou to attack my elder brother?"

(End of this chapter)