This time in the Northern Expedition commanded by Li Tan, the scale of the Han army will not be more than before, and it can even be said that the previous strength is very small.
There will only be six armies under the establishment of the Northern Shogunate, and although the rest will participate, whether it is a county soldier or a servant army, the county soldiers and the servant army are only one kind of support troops, and the command of the latter two is in the center, not in the Northern Shogunate.
Qian Jiantong led the Yulin Army, the Third Cavalry Army, and the Fourth Cavalry Army to the north through Jiuze, and they had already crossed Pingtao into the vast grassland area, near the upper reaches of Wenshui.
That place happened to be in the middle of Jinyang and Zhongyang, and it took about the same amount of time to attack any target, and it was conducive to intercepting Shi Xuan's headquarters that might escape.
Li Tan transferred the First Cavalry Army, the Third Infantry Army, and the Fifth Infantry Army to Jicheng and began to attack Yangyi.
The Second Cavalry Army was left in the direction of Zhongyang, and Li Tan asked them to use Fenshui as a barrier, as long as they prevented Fu Hong's troops from crossing Fenshui and moving south.
Although it is said that the battle in Yangyi has started again, it is really difficult to engage in ice and snow.
The First Cavalry Army broke through to the north side of Yangyi, they were to cut off the mutual dependence of Yangyi and Jinyang as the combat goal, and had repeatedly intercepted the Shiqi Zhao army from Jinyang to Yangyi, and after achieving certain results, Jinyang seemed to be no longer reinforcing Yangyi in order to avoid losses.
The 3rd and 5th Infantry Corps, together with the county soldiers who had been transferred from the rear, surrounded Yangyi.
At the beginning, it was only a few small-scale charging tests to find out how many defensive equipment or means there were in Yangyi City Defense, and no longer sent soldiers to try to attack the city wall, but set up dense stone-throwing carts, crossbow cars, and bed crossbows for long-range strikes.
Under the sunny weather, the sun is not shining, and the tooth-sour sound is frequently issued with the soldiers operating the equipment, and all kinds of passwords are shouted and shouted in batches, and every "put" command is that something is brought to the city of Yangyi by the power of the instrument.
"Keep bombing, the city wall has cracked, and it won't last long" Si Hongzhuang is also idle, the troops don't rush to the city, but just bombard endlessly with long-range attack equipment, so he asked for a temporary position to command the stone throwing vehicle: "Try to be as accurate as possible, which one is the first to collapse the city wall, and the first credit will be credited."
There are two kinds of stone-throwing vehicles of the Han army, one is produced by the system, and the other is built by the craftsmen of the army, but they are actually similar in style, and the difference is that the stone-throwing car built by the craftsman has a winch, while the stone-throwing car produced by the system does not.
It was the first time that Si Hongzhuang had approached the catapult at a sufficient distance, and he was a little strange now, he couldn't understand why the catapult operated by the Praetorian Guards did not have a winch, but why the launch speed was similar to that of the one with the winch Yangyi is surrounded on all sides, each side has long-range attack equipment to strike, a few days ago the Yangyi defenders will open the city gate and pour out soldiers who seem to destroy the Han army's equipment, but they are facing the Han army's arrow array, several repeated charges are down to the Han army equipment 100 steps away, Yangyi defenders recognize the reality and no longer do fearless casualties.
The city wall of Yangyi actually looks a little strange, the two zhang below look gray and dirty, and the upper half zhang or so looks relatively new, obviously it has been urgently heightened.
At this moment, the Yangyi city wall, the female wall and arrow stacks of the city wall were smashed into shape, and the bottom was full of stones of various irregular shapes, and the walls were full of crossbow arrows fired by bed crossbows at a glance.
In the face of the endless long-range attacks of the Han army, the defenders of Yangyi did not dare to put too many people on the city wall, but only arranged some lookouts to hide behind the female wall to be on guard.
The city wall did not dare to put down the troops, but the Yangyi city guard was afraid that the Han army would directly enter the city, as long as the troops were arranged behind the city wall, the result was that the defenders who were huddled together looked at the stones and crossbow arrows that kept crossing the city wall and smashed into the city, and there were not a few defenders who were so frightened that they urinated directly.
Inside the city, within 50 steps of the city wall, there were all kinds of palace weapons fired by the Han army outside the city, and the buildings were also smashed and smashed into ruins.
Outside the city, there was no stop firing stones and bed crossbows, and sometimes the Han army would use strong crossbows to cover it in several waves, so it can be said that within fifty steps of the city wall, it could be smashed into flesh by stones at any time, or nailed to the ground by bed crossbows.
No one knew when the Han army's strong crossbow troops would be fired, so it was not so safe to be at least fifty paces away, and the safe distance was at least one hundred and seventy paces back from the city wall.
"It's too arrogant" Xu Guang's anger has been smashed to the ground in the past few days: "There is a message from the prince's side" Du Guang replied with a frown: "The route was cut off by the Han army, and I haven't received news from Jinyang for two days." ” Don't look at the surnames Xu and Du, in fact, as the two people who are the main and deputy city guards of Yangyi, Xu Guang is a genuine Qiang person, and Du Guang is a Qiang person.
They had already begun to emerge in Shi Le's generation, and when Shi Hu was in power, they were depressed for a period of time, and they took refuge in Shi Xuan, but they have not been able to go up or down, and now they are even more unlucky to become the main and deputy city guards of Yangyi.
"It's been two days" Xu Guang had a very bad feeling, and he didn't hide it: "I'm afraid we will be given up." ” "When the prince ordered the city gates except the north to be blocked, so-and-so had already found out."
Du Guang smiled bitterly and said: "Don't say it, that's because we are indeed not as good at defending the city as the Han people." ” Are the Han people good at defending the city in the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the early Western Han Dynasty was on the defensive, and the middle and late Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty have always been on the offensive outside, and the war is mostly offensive instead of defending.
When it came to the Han State established by Liu Yan, whether it was in the late Wei period or after its rise, it seems that there was no battle to defend the city in the Central Plains, and it has always been offensive, only relying on the "Liaodong Great Wall" on the Liaodong Peninsula to fight a defensive war in the early stage of the war with Murong Yanguo.
It is a hypothesis that the Hu people are good at defending the city of the Central Plains Dynasty, in fact, it is based on the impression of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the Hu people of the later ethnic groups easily defeated the Western Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains.
The Han people are good at defending the city, that is after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and even the Sui and Tang dynasties are actually attacking instead of defending, and the real passive beating is from the Northern Song Dynasty.
The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty defended it was that it was too short of horses to fight with the Hu people in the wilderness, not that the two Song Dynasty were willing to defend it all the time.
Therefore, in 447 A.D., it is nonsense to say that the Han people are good at defending and not attacking.
"The Han people are good at defending cities, and they are also good at attacking cities."
Du Guang made a posture of listening, in fact, the city lord's mansion was in the center of the city, and he couldn't hear the movement of the stones being smashed, and of course he couldn't hear the sound of the bed crossbow or the crossbow firing, but he said: "Listen, the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground and the wailing of soldiers all the time."
"If you persuade someone to surrender to the Han army, it's impossible" Xu Guang stared at Du Guang's neck with a cold gaze, and said: "The Han army shot crossbow arrows, some of which were tied to persuasion letters, don't think that you don't know that you have secretly ordered someone to watch it." ” Du Guang looked at Xu Guang with open eyes, and still smiled bitterly: "But it's not just someone who has seen it, there are many people who have seen it."
To watch it, you need to understand how great the temptation is. ” Shi Qi Zhao Guo now no longer reuses the people with the blood of the Han family in their veins, and they also have a tight control over the families of various officials, Shi Hu takes the families of hundreds of officials anytime and anywhere, and then something unexpected happens, that is, the wives and daughters of hundreds of officials are directly summoned by Shi Hu to serve in bed, and they will occasionally be killed and eaten after the bed.
Shi Hu still has some sanity, and the few wives and daughters he plays with are also Hulu, and as a result, more wives and daughters who are not Hulu have fallen into blood mold.
You must clearly know that the Zhao State of Shiqi was once the actual ruler of the Central Plains, and the Jin people who took refuge in Shijiao after the mountains and rivers were broken and Shenzhou was sunk really did not want too much, especially those so-called Confucians, so there was a sentence "Confucian traitors scramble to be the first, and widows keep festivals without hesitation".
Of course, whether it is the pre-Qin, Ang, Western Han and Eastern Han dynasties, or even the Three Kingdoms, the Western Jin Dynasty, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms, and even the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, in fact, there has never been a requirement for widows to observe festivals and never marry again, and it can even be said that the above-mentioned dynasties still encourage widows to remarry.
Some dynasties would fine widows who did not choose to marry others, after all, the important center was not stupid, and the importance of population was definitely known, and in order to achieve the purpose of population growth, there were clear laws on how old men and women must be married.
Widows must keep festivals after Zhu Cheng's science became the mainstream, that is, from the Ming and Qing dynasties, in order to encourage the government to send chastity arches with great fanfare.
Xu Guang and Du Guang were no different from the rest of the people who were still officials in Shiqi Zhao State, and their families were all hostages in Dingxiang.
People who can be ruthless to let their parents, wives and children die, in fact, they really can't be called human anymore, Du Guang doesn't feel that he is so ruthless, even if he is really abandoned by Shi Xuan, even if Yangyi will be lost, what he wants is to persevere to death, and exchange his death for the life of his family.
"Since the route has been cut off, even if the route is not cut off, it is difficult to expect reinforcements to relieve the siege" Du Guang looked at Xu Guang deeply and said word by word: "Block the north gate too." ” The two of them ventured to the east, west, south, and north to check the besieging Han army several times, just like the generals and colonels of the Shiqi Zhao army before, because the soldiers in the Han army, auxiliary soldiers, and county soldiers are the same as the uniforms, only some armbands and collar badges are different, and those differences are too far away to see clearly, they don't know what the composition of the besieging Han army is, they don't know that the soldiers are only less than 60,000, and the rest are county soldiers from all over the north, and they only judge that the number of Han troops will not be less than 130,000.
There are 70,000 defenders in Yangyi City, according to the conclusion that the besieging army needs to be at least three times more than the defending army, Xu Guang and Du Guang should actually be full of confidence in defending the city, but the matter has never been conclusive, there are more than ten times the number of troops that cannot be captured for a long time, and there are also more than a dozen examples of successful theft of the city, and the war has never been taken for granted.
As the main and deputy city guards of Yangyi, the reason why Xu Guang and Du Guang have a pessimistic attitude is that it is a clear thing, the Han army has not officially stormed the city and only used long-range attack equipment, and the defenders have about 4,000 casualties in just eight days, and they have been bombarded endlessly, which has also led to low morale of the army.
For Xu Guang and Du Guang, the most fatal place is that there are only less than 3,000 Qiang soldiers in Yangyi City, only 20,000 Qiang soldiers and Di soldiers combined, and the rest are slave soldiers of Zahu and Jin.
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It is only the absolutely reliable 3,000 Qiang tribe, the slightly unreliable 20,000 Qiang and Di, and the rest are all unreliable, and there are many, many disadvantages, what a grip it should be for the two of them.
"The Han army has always besieged the city on all sides."
Xu Guang sighed before continuing: "They no longer respect their own traditions, and it is useless to leave the north gate, so block it." ” There are a lot of traditions in China, and the most prominent one in the military should be the encirclement of the three queyi, which has evolved into more strange traditions, such as the need to leave a weakness when building the city wall, and the fear of being too perfect will lead to God's punishment.
As long as the city is surrounded by the Han army, unless the enemy can hold it, or it can't have enough breakthrough ability to break through, or it will be annihilated.
"Blocked" Du Guang gritted his teeth, but he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Dying in battle is the destination, but I don't know how long I can hold on." ” Maybe there is really a crow's mouth in the world, Du Guanggang said that he would die in Yangyi, and after a huge roar, a series of noises came from afar.
The sudden movement made Xu Guang stunned, and he jumped up: "The city wall has been blown down" That's right, there was a city wall that was collapsed by the Han army, and at this moment, Si Hongzhuang looked at the smoke and dust in front of him, and he grinned and kept smirking.
The final blow to the collapsed city wall was Si Hongzhuang's fierce drop of the gusset to let the stones blast through, he didn't expect that he would make such a masterpiece at all, so he just went stupidly.
The collapsed city wall should have a width of about one zhang, because the city wall is a rammed earth structure, and after the collapse, thick smoke and dust have spread, and I don't know how many people have been pressed or how many people should have been injured, and there will be no lack of moans in the noise.
The news of the collapse of the Yangyi city wall soon spread to Zhong Xing, who was in charge of the siege, but he was calm, and said to the generals who were about to try: "Don't worry, don't rush at all, it's just a gap in the bombardment, it's far from enough." ” There is already the first gap, and it won't be too long before the second gap is opened, in fact, Zhong Xing is really not in a hurry at all, even if there are more gaps, he plans to continue to bombard, until the enemy army is bombarded with long-range attacks without any morale, and then go to harvest the ripe fruits
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