The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 460 The Old Man's Undead ([-])

"Boom boom boom~~"

On the seventh day of April, at Chenshi, ten miles north of Yingtao City.

Bursts of deep thunder sounded on the ground, and 4 knights and more than [-] horses appeared on the horizon.After two days and one night of high-intensity running, Jiang Weijun arrived at Yingtao County.

"Report to the general, our scouts sent information. The four gates of Yingtao City are closed, but there are not many defenders on the city wall. There is no large area of ​​horseshoe marks in the south of the city."

"Good! It seems that we are one step ahead of Chen Xiuyuan. Send an order to send an additional scout team and continue to go south. I will always know if the Jin army from the south is here and where it is."

"Here!"

"Order again, the whole army will change horses and fetch soil."

"Here!"

After arranging these, Jiang Weiwu, who was 71 years old this year, lifted the reins and rushed towards Yingtao County alone.

"General? General!"

When he ran like this, Zhao Tong, Ma Jie and other generals around him and their personal guards could only follow closely.Fortunately, Ji Han's low-level officers are always the best in the Three Kingdoms' armies. The generals will go to watch the city, and the rest of the middle and low-level officers will still carry out the order Jiang Wei just issued in an orderly manner.

Ten miles is not too long for a galloping horse.Soon, the low and dilapidated city walls of Yingtao City appeared in the eyes of Jiang Wei and others.

Yes, it is low and shabby: Jiexiu in Bingzhou is a small inland city, but there are many foreigners in Bingzhou.So even if the foundation of the city wall is weak, it is still complete.As for the place of Yingtao, since the Yellow Turban Rebellion was put down, this place has never suffered any military disasters (during the battle between Cao and Yuan, the Jizhou battlefield was limited to the vicinity of Yecheng).In addition, here is the traditional Han absolute advantage settlement area.Therefore, the city wall here is only about one foot two (less than three meters). Not to mention, the city walls in many places have been eroded and collapsed to varying degrees without rest.And not only is the city wall difficult to see, but the moat under the city wall has long stagnated into a stinky ditch.

"The Great Han General Jiang Wei is here, who is in charge in the city? Come out and answer!"

After a while, a figure wearing a low-level official uniform of the Jin Kingdom stood out on the city wall: "Gao Jian, the magistrate of Xiayingtao County, met the great general of the Han Kingdom."

"Magistrate Gao can hear the approaching thunder? There is an army of [-] coming soon, why don't you surrender early to save the people of the county? If not, your county will be reduced to ashes in an instant."

Gao Jian, who was standing on the tower, was already sweating on his forehead and his lips were dry. After trembling for a long time, he finally uttered a complete sentence: "The general, Rong Zhi, is in Chenliuyu County, his ancestral home, so he dare not directly open the city." Surrender. Please follow Gao Liu's example. If reinforcements do not arrive after a hundred days, you must surrender."

The Gao family of Yu County in Chenliu County was also a great family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.Its representative figure is Yuan Shao's son-in-law, a high-ranking governor of Bingzhou.But in the end, he chose the wrong allegiance object, so he gradually disappeared.

But the family is still regarded as a second-rate family in the local area, with a big family and a big business.So Gao Jian did not dare to surrender easily.

"So that's how it is." During the short conversation between the two, the cavalry of the Han army from behind had arrived one after another.Jiang Wei smiled lightly: "I'm going to attack the city, Gao Xianzun, please just sit and watch."

Following Jiang Wei's order, [-] cavalrymen of the Han army mobilized their horses and rushed towards the city wall of Yingtao.

As a military marquis running in the front shouted "Get up!", more than five hundred cavalrymen in a cavalry front line closest to the city wall moved their unsheathed sabers from the bottom to the top. Swipe!A bag of soil hanging from the handle of the saber suddenly took advantage of the situation, and after drawing a parabola in midair, it landed heavily at the foot of the low city wall of Yingtao City.

"It's actually a method of siege by accumulating earth and forming mountains?!" After all, Gao Jian still has some knowledge about being a child of an aristocratic family.

But what's the use of seeing through?Yingtao, a small inland city, usually does not have any standing troops stationed there.Now there are only fifty county soldiers in the entire county—that is just a manifestation of the local people taking turns to serve corvee.It's not a big problem for these guys to maintain law and order at ordinary times, but what about their ability to fight?That is infinitely close to zero.

In less than half an hour, after the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Han army went back and forth more than a dozen times, a section of the city wall on our side was about to be filled up by the rapidly increasing mounds.Gao Jian said with a heartbeat: "The general stops! Please surrender!"

"Good! Open the city gate immediately, and our army will definitely not commit any crime!"

Soon, the city gate opened.At the moment before entering the city, Zhao Tong finally couldn't hold back: "General, we are all cavalry, and we are not good at defending the city at all. And even if the infantry came, such a city would not be able to defend against the [-] Chinese troops of the Jin army." Not to mention the fact that we came in such a hurry that there was not enough food and grass for the army.”

"Hehehe, Bozhi, where are you thinking? Why did you want to guard this city?"

"Ah? What does the general mean?"

Jiang Wei smiled at Zhao Tong, flicked the reins lightly and entered Yingtao City.

"You are the county magistrate Gao?"

"Don't dare, I'll offer advice in the form of an official. The general's name is the official's name."

"Well, advice, how many mouths does your Yingtao County have?"

"General Rong Rong said that there are [-] households in this county with more than [-] people. The permanent population in the county is more than [-]. In addition, this county is an important traffic route and there are many merchants coming and going. Therefore, this At that time, there were about [-] people in the county."

"Very good." Jiang Wei turned around and said to Xi Long who had followed him for many years: "You have heard it all, hurry up and organize the people here, and knock down at least one side of the city wall for me!"

"Here!"

"Ah? General, it turns out that you never thought of sticking to the city?"

"Of course. As Bo Zhi said, our army's strength is less than half of the opponent's, and there are too many cavalry. In addition, they arrived too quickly and the soldiers were short of food. Therefore, we must not stick to such a small city with dilapidated walls. But the Jin army is different. They There are a full 10 people. If the whole army enters the city, no matter how low the city wall is, it will be enough to hold on. At that time, our army will be passive everywhere. Therefore, the only thing we can do is to tear down the city wall here, so that Chen Xiuyuan went to camp in the wild. In this way, our army can give full play to the superiority of the cavalry, and constantly harass the opponent to find opportunities for combat."

"So that's how it is, the general will be taught."

The Han army began to attack the city at Chenshi, and entered the city before the time came, and then quickly started the work of destroying the city wall.

Just after noon, the south wall of Yingtao City was the first to be knocked down.At the end of the hour, the city wall on the east side was also knocked down.

"Report~~General, news from the southern scouts that the Jin army brigade is less than twenty miles away from here."

"Hehehe, it's late. An order was issued to withdraw the entire army from the city, and then line up in the east of the city!"

(End of this chapter)