In the next two days, Guzang was very deserted and bleak, and there was no one else on the street except for the soldiers of the state pastoral government who were patrolling the security, but outside Guzang City, it was a hot scene.
After Hao Zhao took over Guzang's city defense, he didn't waste time in these few days.
Gu Zang two days ago, and Gu Zang two days later look like two completely different cities.
Two days ago, Guzang only had a shallow moat, a wooden suspension bridge, and a city wall of a thickness of several zhang, as well as two huge city gates, such a defense, in Liangzhou, is considered a solid city, Qianghu has no ladders, no ants attached to the "siege equipment", it is impossible to enter the city, so there is no need to build a moat city several zhang deep and several zhang high.
But the walls were tall and strong, and the moats were wide and deep, making it difficult for the city to be breached.
Whether it is ancient history books or biographies, there is often a word to describe the defense measures of a city, called: deep ditch and high fortress But at this time, Gu Zang obviously did not reach this level, so Hao Zhao dug the moat three or four meters deep, dug four or five meters wide, and then installed dark thorns and sharpened bamboo tubes under the moat, if Qiang Hu wanted to cross this moat, it was impossible without paying a price.
Hao Zhao is good at defense, so his defense doesn't stop there.
For example, in the city wall, there are still many fortifications, such as at the original city gate, at this time Hao Zhao was strengthening the defense and made an urn city.
The so-called urn city is to strengthen the defense of the castle or pass, and outside the city gate, there are also semi-circular or square gate guards built "inside the city gate", for example, you can lure the enemy into the first city gate, and then close or still block the city gate with huge stones, you can "catch turtles in the urn" to the enemy.
This is the largest amount of work, so even with the use of a large number of slaves, from morning to night, it has not been done well until now.
For example, on the four gates of the city, there are four arrow towers, in which ten archers can be accommodated to attack in turn, and because the arrow towers only expose the holes for archery, it is difficult for enemy archers to shoot in.
In addition to the arrow tower, there are also horse-faced pheasant moats, etc., all of which have been cast one by one, plus reinforced suspension bridges and deepened trenches, and those who come to attack this city do not want to touch the original Guzang city wall if they do not use a lot of effort.
Moreover, this is just a defense on the surface, in the shadows, there are horse pens, dark ditch traps and other things, to ensure that the incoming enemy has a good drink.
And if the enemy wants to capture Guzang regardless of life and death, the piles of rolling stones and wood oil piled up inside the city walls will become their second nightmare, not to mention that at the last moment, this thing is not a joke.
Hao Zhao looked at Gu Zang's fortifications, his face did not relax his vigilance, although the fortifications in front of him can be said to be impregnable, but there is no city in the world that cannot be captured, so as long as there is time, Hao Zhao still orders the servants to strengthen Gu Zang's defense little by little, and does not turn Gu Zang into a steel city, Hao Zhao will not let go easily.
And Cao Chong, who was in the Guzang City Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, naturally knew about the changes in Guzang City.
Some people also came to Cao Chong to report relevant matters.
When Cao Chong saw these reports, he knew that Hao Zhao was indeed a general who would defend the city, ordinary generals often defended with the original fortifications, but Hao Zhao was different, he would make relevant adjustments to the opposite lineup, such as the rejection of horses, which was specially prepared for the Qianghu cavalry.
Of course, Guzang's city defense only attracted Cao Chong for a moment, and at this time, Cao Chong's full attention was no longer on the defense of Guzang City, but on the small city of Guzang in the north.
Cao Chong knew that the war there was getting more and more anxious.
The day before, Hugh slaughtered the city in an emergency, and tens of thousands of Xianbei people outside the city were about to attack the city, at the most critical moment, Jiuquan Taishou Linghu Gang and Zero Mixed Beigong Fu and others led the troops to encircle and suppress the Xianbei people, the Xianbei people were not the opponents of the Han army, not to mention the number of Han troops far exceeding them.
Among these people who are eager for merit, those Xianbei people who are alive and kicking are not people at all, but walking feats one by one, so they are especially excited when they kill.
On this day, 30,000 Xianbei people were basically slaughtered, and the blood of Xianbei people spread from the city of Hugh Tu to the grassland, and then flowed into the capital wilderness, and the entire grassland outside the city of Hubei Tu became the color of blood.
After a day of fighting, the people of Dunhuang County in Jiuquan County were naturally tired, and they went to rest in the slaughter city, while the Xianbei people from afar did not dare to move forward.
Between starving to death and being killed, they choose to come back to death slowly.
After all, people can still live, and there are still a lot of dead companions, and they can't fight against the 60,000 well-equipped Han Chinese army, this is not to live, this is naked to find death.
The tragedy of yesterday is still vivid in the minds of these Xianbei people.
And today, in the city, Jiuquan Taishou Linghu Gang and Zero Mixed Beigong Fu and others really did not hold back, they rushed out of the city with a roar, to harvest the Xianbei people who wandered in the grassland, not only out of the scope of Liangzhou, but also out of dozens of miles.
Those Xianbei people were really robbed in just a few days, first by the Qianghu people, and now by the Han people, there were originally more than 100,000 people, but now, I am afraid there are less than 10,000 left.
And these 10,000 people are still being consumed.
Although the Han army is on the side of th, it is not easy.
First of all, rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry, not to mention that these Xianbei people are not rabbits, they are warriors, and there was a time when Hexi Xianbei also had glorious days, but now it has declined.
In addition, the coalition army was too aggressive, too deep, and the casualties were slowly appearing, and the numbers were getting bigger and bigger, so after going deep for dozens of miles, Jiuquan was too vigilant to order Fox Gang to mix Beigong Fu Although these people were greedy for merit, they didn't want to lose too much of their belongings here, so they retreated directly, but there were many more ears of Xianbei people in their hands.
The two ears of the Xianbei people are the proof of military merits, and a pair of ears proves that it is a meritorious feat to kill a person.
Cao Chong watched the sunset slowly fall, and thought to himself, if Miss Zhibai really had something to do with Cao Pi, when she didn't have Xiànzhi her actions, King Xiqiang should also know that I was using troops in Hugh Slaughter City.
Here, Cao Chong chose empathy.
If he was the king of Xiqiang, what would he do when he heard the news?
After thinking about it, Cao Chong found that he only had two choices.
First of all, they will definitely not sit still, the Xianbei people were pushed up by the King of Xiqiang, which was originally a bait and a cannon fodder that consumed the Han army.
In this case, King Xiqiang will not wait for all the Xianbei people to die and let the Han army recover before attacking, and he will definitely not give the Han army the slightest respite.
If this is the case, Cao Chong feels that the King of Xiqiang has two choices at most.
One is to encircle and suppress the soldiers and wipe out all the troops in the city.
As long as all the battleable divisions in Liangzhou are eliminated, then the three counties of Wuwei, Dunhuang and Jiuquan will be ravaged like a woman tuogung.
This is the first choice that Cao Chong thinks the king of Xiqiang will have, and the second choice is to bypass the small city of Xiutu, lead all the army, and come to Guzang, at this time, all the big people in the three counties of Liangzhou gathered in the city of Guzang, as long as Guzang is defeated, then the coalition army will inevitably fall apart, and the three counties of Liangzhou that do not cooperate with each other will undoubtedly be much easier to deal with than the three counties of Liangzhou that are united by the king of Xiqiang.
However, which choice King Xiqiang would choose, Cao Chong was not sure in his heart.
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Because until now, Cao Chong had never seen his opponent, and he couldn't know himself and his opponent, so naturally he couldn't predict his next move.
However, this did not prevent Cao Chong from secretly plotting on his own.
First of all, I think that the king of Xiqiang will go to encircle and suppress the Han army in the city of Xiu Tu, if this is the case, it is naturally the situation that Cao Chong is willing to see, attacking Xiu Tu, the king of Xiqiang will greatly weaken the power of the family of Dunhuang County in Jiuquan County, and secondly, it will greatly lose the vitality of the king of Xiqiang, and the army that Cao Chong holds in his hand can naturally be used as a strange soldier, as a sharp blade, to give the king of Xiqiang an unforgettable lesson.
And if the king of Xiqiang abandons Hutu City and goes straight to Guzang, then it will not be good news for Cao Chong.
First of all, the king of Xiqiang went straight to Guzang, then, the 60,000 allied troops in the city of Hutu could form a joint encirclement and wipe out the main force of the king of Xiqiang outside the city of Guzang.
After all, if Hao Zhao guards the city, Cao Chong is still relatively relieved, it is difficult to say for a long time, but there is no problem at all to keep it for ten days.
If the king of Xiqiang attacked Guzang to achieve the goal, the most important thing is to capture Guzang in a short time, according to common sense, more than 100,000 people attacked a Guzang with less than 10,000 people to defend the city, and the city could be broken in a day or two.
Of course, there is no problem with thinking like this, but the key is that Cao Chong has Hao Zhao, a small expert in defending the city.
Up to now, Cao Chong is afraid that this Xiqiang King does not have a long-term vision, he is a rough man, he only knows how to attack blindly, and only sees a little benefit in front of him, without taking into account long-term considerations.
If the king of Xiqiang wreaked havoc in the three counties of Liangzhou and did not take action against Xiu Tu or Guzang, Cao Chong's strategy would have to change, and this change would obviously be unfavorable to Cao Chong.
Cao Chong sighed in his heart, hoping that this Xiqiang King was smart enough.
And if he is really a reckless man and doesn't know how to use it, Cao Chong can use another method to deal with him.
However, those who can sit in the position of King Xiqiang can't do it.
For this, Cao Chong still has some confidence in his heart.
At this time, less than fifty miles away from the city of Xiu Tu, there was a huge army marching in an orderly manner, this army knew at first sight that it was Qianghu, whether it was the clothes on their bodies, or the hairstyle on their heads, or the scimitars in their hands, they all showed their identity.
However, there are some differences between this army and the ordinary Qianghu army.
Ordinary Qianghu troops often have no armor on their bodies, and the knives in their hands are not too sharp, and there are no siege equipment such as catapults and ladders, but this army, although it is impossible to have a set of armor per person, but one of the three people will have a set of armor that is not very sophisticated.
This armor system is old, it looks like the armor left from the past, and many armors still have traces of the word "Yuan" or "Dong", which proves that the owner of this armor is loyal to Yuan Shao and Dong Zhuo.
This army was able to obtain tens of thousands of sets of armor, naturally because of Cao Pi.
Using useless armor and old blades in exchange for Qianghu's war horses, by the way, it can also cause some trouble for Cao Chong, Cao Pi naturally thinks it's worth it.
And King Xiqiang was willing to trade with Cao Pi, so he naturally felt that this deal was worth it.
Trade the extra warhorses for the armor blades that the clan needs most, and there is a better deal than this At this time, in the huge horse tent in the center of the army, the red-faced King of Xiqiang was prostrating on a tender woman and galloping on horseback.
This tent is pulled by more than a dozen horses, which shows that the area inside is also huge.
Finally, with a long roar, King Xiqiang stepped forward, and the essence rushed out like a long river, and the beauty under him had already crouched on the wool blanket like mud, but the convulsions from time to time proved that this was a living person.
Far from home, after exterminating Hexi Xianbei, the king of Xiqiang naturally harvested a large amount of booty, which included cattle, sheep and horses, but the most was naturally women.
In the past few days, although no one of the Qianghu warriors has a woman, they can share a woman among two or three people, and what should be enjoyed is naturally enjoyment.
After finishing the matter, the king of Xiqiang quickly put on his clothes, put on the crown unique to Qianghu, and walked out of the horse tent.
Outside the horse tent, there were already people waiting outside, it was none other than the high priest, the great patriarch, and the two sons of the king of Xiqiang.
One is Prince Xiangli, the eldest son, and the other is Prince Tuoba, the beloved son of King Xiqiang.
"My king, the guests from the east sent a message to us, saying that it was information about Liangzhou."
King Xiqiang nodded, and a majestic voice immediately sounded.
"Show the letter to the king."
The high priest naturally did not dare to go against the will of the king of Xiqiang, and hurriedly handed the letter to the king of Xiqiang.
King Xiqiang skillfully opened the bamboo slip and looked at the dense characters inside, but what was a little surprising was that this King of Xiqiang still understood Chinese characters.
After reading the contents of the bamboo slip, King Xiqiang laughed.
"Hahaha, hahaha" The great patriarch was a rough man, and he couldn't hide his thoughts, so when the king of Xiqiang began to laugh, he asked: "My king is so happy, is it the content of this bamboo slip?"
King Xiqiang nodded.
"This guest is in a hurry than us, hahaha" Seeing that King Xiqiang was so happy, the high priest hurriedly stood up and said: "My king, this guest is also a Han Chinese, and he is the brother of the Marquis of Luoyang, and we can't believe the letter he gave us. ” No, King Xiqiang shook his head.
"The high priest is wrong in this sentence, I understand the thoughts of this guest very well, if it is this king, this king will be like him, brothers sometimes want each other to die more than enemies, high priest, don't forget, when this king ascended the throne, he killed my two brothers with his own hands."
Hearing this, the high priest choked and did not dare to continue the topic.
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