The night before the day of siege, Liu Cheng summoned the kings of various countries in the Western Regions to discuss the deployment of the siege.
Inside and outside the tent, the lights are brightly lit, there are many sentries, and the security is tight.
Liu Cheng took the relevant generals and officials to inspect the defense and security posts of various military camps and then returned to the tent.
At this time, the kings of various countries had already arrived.
When they saw Liu Cheng coming back, they all stood up and saluted according to their respective etiquette postures: "I have seen you." general" Liu Cheng walked to the main seat of the tooth tent and faced the kings.
He pressed his hands and asked everyone to sit down.
Then he lifted up his cloak and golden sword and sat on the horse.
He said: "I have called you here today to discuss with you the attack on the city tomorrow."
According to the deployment of the war, the general plans to launch an attack on the city from all four walls at the same time.
He will never give King Shule and King Yutian a chance to escape.
He must also attack Shule City in one go and capture it within one day.
The war cannot be postponed until tomorrow."
Liu Cheng's words caused these kings to talk one after another.
The intensity of the siege was too great.
Isn't it a bit fanciful to capture Shule City in just one day?
More than 20 years ago, the attack lasted for more than two months.
They couldn't capture it.
Ban Chao defended it here for more than a year.
King Qiuci stood up and saluted: "General, your request is too harsh.
The walls of Shule City are high and thick, and there are more than 15,000 people guarding the city.
It is impossible to break through it in one day."
"The city is high and the walls are thick."
Liu Cheng was surprised, and then said: "You haven't seen a truly tall and solid city wall, right?
Go to all the places in the Han Dynasty and see which county has a city wall that is not taller and thicker than the city wall of Shule City.
Now we have a total of 50,000 or 60,000 troops, and we have weapons for siege. , as long as the soldiers from all over the world are willing to serve and use their lives, it is not difficult to capture it in one day.
If it cannot be captured in one day, it must be captured in three days at most.
If you want to capture it in more than three days, more people will die.
You guys Do you want long-term pain or short-term pain?
Do you want fewer deaths or more deaths?"
The kings of various countries were silenced by Liu Cheng's words and closed their mouths one by one.
King Qiuci turned into a shrunken turtle.
Liu Cheng looked at the expressions of the kings, patted the table and said: "It's decided that King Qiuci, your army will attack from the north gate; King Yanqi's army will attack from the west gate; King Cheshi's army will attack from the south gate.
The Khotanian army attacked from the east gate.
As a reserve force, the Shanshan Army is always ready to rush to each gate to strengthen the offensive.
Our siege equipment will cooperate with your siege.
Once the battle begins, the attacking armies outside the four walls must use their full strength.
You can divide the army into several groups.
Each echelon attacks for two quarters of an hour.
The attacks are connected one after another without stopping.
After the second echelon starts attacking, the first echelon can slowly withdraw to rest, so that our army can rest while the enemy The army cannot rest, and they will not be able to defend it as time goes by.
I would like to emphasize again that no matter who it is, they must order the siege with all their strength.
If I find that someone is not working hard, I will not tolerate it.
Listen.
Do you understand?"
The kings of various countries looked stern, and quickly saluted and agreed: "I obey."
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Early the next morning, soldiers and horses from various countries in the Western Regions were still eating.
The siege equipment built by the Han army had been transported outside the four walls of Shule City.
The soldiers and craftsmen operating the siege equipment were assembling trebuchets behind the military formation.
A large number of The stone bullets were transported by carriage, and the siege ladders, well railings, and ballistae were assembled one by one by craftsmen.
There is no moat outside Shule City, but it is built next to the river.
There are diversion canals to introduce the river water into the city.
The river is on its east side, so the terrain outside the city near the river is lower, compared with the siege operations on the other three sides.
It was much more difficult, and the Khotanese army was responsible for the attack on this side.
Considering that the Khotan army had just surrendered and was certainly not very willing to fight, Liu Cheng ordered several hundred people from the Shanshan army to form a supervising team.
Anyone who refused to advance after hearing the order, retreated or escaped without permission during the battle would be killed.
The time to attack was almost here.
Liu Cheng thought over and over again and told Zhang Xiu: "Give me my order.
The trebuchets and manhole rails will not be used for the time being.
I ordered the trebuchets and manhole rails when they can be used before they can be used.
Others People are not allowed to make decisions on their own.”
"Yes, General" Liu Cheng's decision puzzled the generals and officials.
Liu Ye asked: "General, if there were no trebuchets to deter soldiers and manholes to transport soldiers onto the city wall to fight, the intensity of the attack would be greatly reduced."
Liu Chengdao: "Of course I know, but don't you think it's unrealistic for the soldiers from all countries to fight against the Shule Army on the first day?
They don't know that my general's military laws are strict, and they will definitely not fight against Shule with all their strength.
The army is fighting for its life.
In this way, sending out manholes and trebuchets is a waste.
Once there are losses, where can we find the wood to build them?
And once the defenders adapt to the attack characteristics and power of these siege weapons, their role will be It will be greatly discounted” The generals and officials thought about Liu Cheng's words and felt that it made more sense.
At this time, Chen Qun cupped his hands and said, "General, it's almost time."
Liu Cheng nodded: "Well, let's go and boost the morale of the Khotan army.
This first siege cannot be too bad.
We must make them a model for other countries to learn from."
When everyone came to the front of the more than 7,000 Khotanese army formation, Liu Cheng rode on horseback and shouted: "The siege is about to begin.
I, the general, and your parents, wives and children at home hope that you can go all out."
Capture this city and see the side Are these Shanshan soldiers?
They will be behind you when the war begins.
Anyone who does not work hard, is afraid of the enemy, or retreats from the battle will be killed by them.
This general has announced the rewards for this battle here.
Kill one enemy.
Reward a sheep, One hundred coins; killing a captain of ten will reward you with an ox and two hundred coins; killing a centurion will reward you with an official promotion, a beautiful woman, ten sheep, and ten thousand coins; killing a captain of thousands will reward you with a promotion, Fifty sheep, ten gold, and two beauties; climb the city wall and chop them down Anyone who knocks down the flag of the city tower will be rewarded with two levels of official promotion, one hundred sheep, ten cows, one hundred gold, and three beauties; if he captures or kills King Shule and the original King of Khotan Anguo, he will be promoted with three levels of official status and two hundred sheep. , twenty cows, a thousand gold, a hundred acres of fertile land, and ten beauties.”
After this heavy reward measure was promulgated and translated, the Khotan soldiers and generals below were obviously breathing rapidly, and their fighting spirit soared.
It seems that the heavy reward must be applicable to brave men everywhere.
"Okay, the incentives have been announced.
Whether you can get it and how much you can get depends on you.
Get ready.
The siege will begin in a quarter of an hour."
After Liu Cheng finished speaking, he led his generals and officials back to the rear of the military formation.
The war supervisory team composed of several hundred Shanshan troops also stood behind the Khotan army with their weapons drawn and eyeing them.
Since they did not have to rush to the front, If you go to fight against the Shule Army, you will of course have to treat these Khotan Army soldiers fiercely.
Time passed minute by minute, and the quarter of an hour was coming in an instant.
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Liu Cheng looked at the hourglass, raised his hand and waved forward: "The time has come, order the attack."
The drums of the "Dong, Dong, Dong" attack sounded, and the Khotanese soldiers had already been informed that they should advance to the beat of the drums.
After the drums sounded, the first wave of Khotanese troops marched under the leadership of a Khotan general.
The drumbeat approaches the city walls.
At first, the time interval between the two drumbeats was very smooth, but as time went by, the drumbeats began to speed up slowly and became more and more urgent.
In order to keep up with the drumbeats, the soldiers of the Khotan army had to work harder.
With quick steps, they changed from walking to running without realizing it, and their running speed was getting faster and faster.
"Killing" the Khotanese soldiers who were threatened by the men behind them rushed towards the city wall crazily, stimulated by the generous rewards.
The first ones were the soldiers carrying the siege camp.
Five or six of them carried a ladder and rushed to the bottom of the city wall at a very fast speed to set up the ladder on the wall.
But what awaited them was a large number of arrows.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Khotan Army who rushed over climbed up the ladder one by one, holding scimitars in their mouths and using their hands and feet.
Rolling stones and thunderwood kept falling down, and the soldiers of the Khotan Army were knocked off the ladder one by one and fell to the ground.
There were screams, and someone fell on the rocks and died on the spot.
The commander of the siege operations on this side is Xu Huang.
He is not familiar with these Khotan soldiers.
These people don't know much about siege warfare.
They probably have never conducted siege drills, but even the Han army rarely Those who conduct siege drills do so not because they don't want to, but because they do not have the conditions to take protective measures.
Once they fall from the ladder, there is a high probability that they will either die or be disabled.
Xu Huang watched as the Shule army on the city wall kept shooting arrows and throwing down logs and rolling stones, which caused a large number of casualties to the attacking Khotan army.
It seemed that he wanted to provide long-range attack support to the Khotan army.
Five hundred archers were immediately selected from the Khotanese army and ran to the place under the city wall to attack the defenders on the city wall with bows and arrows, suppressing them and buying time for the Khotanese soldiers climbing on the ladder.
As a result, the pressure on the Shule Army on the city wall increased greatly.
They could not take into account both long-range and close range.
They called in archers to shoot at the archers below the city, and they did not have enough defensive positions to guard against Khotan who was climbing. military.
The soldiers of the Khotan Army were stimulated by the huge rewards and were not afraid of death.
They fought one after another.
After an hour of fierce fighting, the Shule Army on the city wall was exhausted, and the attacking Khotan Army had already replaced One after another, under this powerful wave-like continuous attack, a loophole appeared in the Shule Army's defense on the city wall.
Finally, the Khotan Army climbed up the city wall and fought with the Shule Army.
More and more Khotan troops climbed up the city wall and engaged the Shule Army in close combat.
The Shule Army wall defenders were shocked and immediately mobilized heavy troops to strengthen the close combat force
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