Chapter 537

In this northern expedition commanded by Li Tan, the scale of the Han army will not be more than before. It can even be said that compared with the previous military strength, it is very small.

Under the northern shogunate system, there will only be six armies. Although the rest, whether County soldiers or servants, will participate, county soldiers and servants are only one kind of support forces. 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. They have crossed Pingtao into the vast grassland and are near the middle reaches of Wenshui. That place is just between Jinyang and Zhongyang. It takes about the same time to attack any target. In addition, it is conducive to intercepting Shi Xuan headquarters that may 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. Li Tan asked them to take Fenshui as a barrier, as long as Fu Hong's headquarters could be prevented from crossing Fenshui to the south.

Although the war in Yangyi started again, it was really difficult to fight in ice and snow.

The first cavalry army rushed to the north of Yangyi. They aimed to cut off the mutual dependence between Yangyi and Jinyang. They had intercepted Shijie Zhao army from Jinyang to Yangyi for many times. After achieving certain results, Jinyang seemed to stop reinforcements to Yangyi in order to avoid losses.

The third and fifth infantry armies surrounded Yangyi together with the county soldiers transferred from the rear. At the beginning, only a few small-scale charge tests were conducted to find out how many defensive instruments or means there were in Yangyi city defense. After that, soldiers were no longer sent to try to attack the city wall. Instead, they put down a dense number of riprap carts, crossbow carts and bed crossbows for long-range attack.

In sunny weather, the sun doesn't shine. The toothy sound is frequently issued with the soldiers operating the equipment. Various passwords are yelled and shouted in batches. Every command of "release" is one thing that is brought to the city of Yangyi by the power of the equipment.

"Continue to blast, the city wall has cracked, and it won't last long!" Si Hongzhuang was also idle. The troops didn't rush the city. They just bombarded the city endlessly with long-range attack equipment, so they asked for a temporary position to command the riprap truck: "try to be accurate. Which one took the lead in crashing down the city wall and remember the first merit!"

There are two kinds of riprap carts in the Han army. One is produced by the system, and the other is made by the craftsmen of the army. However, in terms of style, they are almost the same. The difference is that the riprap carts made by craftsmen have winch, but the riprap carts produced by the system do not.

It was the first time that Si Hongzhuang was close enough to the riprap truck. Now he was wondering why the riprap truck operated by the forbidden guards had no winch, but why was the launch speed similar to that installed with winch?

Yangyi is surrounded by long-range attack equipment on each side. A few days ago, the Yangyi garrison also opened the city gate and poured out soldiers, which seems to destroy the Han Army's equipment, but they are facing the Han Army's arrow array. Several repeated charges are falling hundreds of steps away from the Han Army's equipment. The Yangyi garrison recognizes the reality and no longer makes fearless casualties.

The city wall of Yangyi is actually strange. The lower two Zhang or so looks gray and dirty, and the upper half Zhang or so is relatively new. Obviously, it has been urgently raised.

At this moment, the women's walls and arrow buttresses of the Yangyi city wall were smashed into a bad shape. The following were full of irregular stones, and the walls were filled with crossbows and arrows fired by bed crossbows.

Facing the endless long-range attacks of the Han Army, the Yangyi garrison didn't dare to put too many people on the wall. It just arranged some watchmen to hide behind the women's wall. If they were unlucky, they would be hit by stones with people and women's wall. They must be dead and no doubt didn't run away.

The guards of Yangyi city did not dare to put troops on the city wall, but they were afraid that the Han army would go directly to the city. As long as the troops were arranged at the back of the city wall, the result was that the crowded defenders trembled when they watched the stones and crossbows falling over the city wall, and there were not a few defenders who were scared to pee directly.

Within the city, within fifty steps of the city wall, there were all kinds of palace weapons fired by the Han Army outside the city. Many buildings were also destroyed and destroyed into ruins.

The firing of stones and bed crossbows has not stopped outside the city. Sometimes when the Han army is interested, it will be covered with several waves of strong crossbows. It can be said that within 50 steps near the city wall, it may be smashed into meat and mud by stones or nailed to the ground by bed crossbows at any time. No one knows when the strong crossbow troops of the Han army will launch, so it is not so safe beyond 50 steps. The safe distance is at least 170 steps away from the city wall.

"Too arrogant..." Xu Guang's anger has been smashed in the past few days: "is there a message from the prince?"

Du Guang replied sadly, "the route was cut off by the Han army. I haven't heard from Jinyang for two days."

Although there are surnames Xu and Du, in fact, as the chief and deputy city guards of Yangyi, Xu Guang is a genuine Jie and Du Guang is a Qiang. They began to emerge in shile's generation. When Shi Hu was in power, they were depressed for a period of time. They were excited to take refuge in Shi Xuan, but they were not up or down. Now they are even more unlucky to become the chief and deputy city guards of Yangyi.

"Two days..." Xu Guang had a very bad feeling and didn't hide: "I'm afraid we will be given up."

"When the prince ordered to block the gate except the north, someone already found out." Du Guang smiled bitterly and said, "no, that's because we are really not as good at guarding the city as the Han people."

Are the Han people good at guarding the city? The Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the early Western Han Dynasty, were on the defensive. The middle and late Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty had always been on the offensive, and most of the wars were on the defensive instead of on the offensive. In the Han state established by Liu Yan, no matter in the late period or after its rise, it seems that there has been no serious war of guarding the city in the Central Plains. It has always been an offensive, that is, it just fought a defensive war in the early stage of the war with Murong Yan state by relying on the "Liaodong Great Wall" on the Liaodong Peninsula.

It is a hypothesis that the Hu people are good at guarding the city in the Central Plains Dynasty. In fact, it is based on the impression of the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. The Hu people of the following nationalities easily defeated the Western Jin Dynasty in the Central Plains. Shijie Zhao continued to attack the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In fact, it was very frequent to conquer the city. The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty used the water network to resist the invasion of Shijie Zhao army.

Han people were good at guarding cities, which was after the northern and Southern Dynasties. Moreover, even in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, most of them were attacked instead of guarding. The real passive attack began in the Northern Song Dynasty. The reason why the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty defended was that they were too short of horses to fight with the Hu people in the wilderness, not that the two Song dynasties were willing to defend all the time.

So now in 447 ad, the Han people are good at defending but not attacking. That's nonsense.

"The Han people are good at guarding the city and attacking the city." Du Guang made a posture of listening attentively. In fact, the city master's house is in the center of the city. He can't hear the falling of stones. Of course, he can't hear the sound of bed crossbow or powerful crossbow. He said, "listen to the sound of heavy objects landing and the wailing of soldiers all the time..."

"It is impossible to persuade someone to surrender to the Han Army!" Xu Guang stared at Du Guang's neck with Sen Leng's eyes and said, "the Han Army shot crossbows and arrows. Some were tied with persuasion books. Don't think someone doesn't know where you secretly ordered people to watch."

Du Guang looked at Xu Guang with magnanimous eyes and still smiled bitterly: "but it's not just someone who has seen it. Many people have seen it. Someone needs to understand how big the temptation is to watch it."

Shi Jie and Zhao no longer use people with Han family blood in their veins. They also have strict control over the family members of various officials. Shi Hu takes the family members of all officials anytime and anywhere, and then something unexpected happens, that is, the wives and daughters of all officials are attracted to Shi Hu, and they are directly summoned to serve the bed. After serving the bed, they are occasionally killed and eaten.

Shi Hu still has some sense. Few of the wives and daughters he plays with are also Hu Lu. As a result, more non Hu Lu wives and daughters have fallen into blood mold.

To be clear, Shijie Zhao used to be the actual ruler of the Central Plains. After the mountains and rivers were broken and the land of China sank, Jin people who took refuge in Shijie really don't want too many, especially those so-called great Confucianism. Therefore, there is such a sentence as "Confucianism betrays the country and vies with each other, and widows keep their integrity".

Of course, no matter in the pre Qin Dynasty, the Angang Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, 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 countries, or even the northern and Southern Song Dynasty, in fact, widows have never been required to observe festivals and never marry again. It can even be said that the above dynasties encouraged widows to remarry.

In some dynasties, widows who no longer choose to marry will be fined. After all, the important center is not fools. They must know the importance of population. In order to achieve the purpose of population growth, there are clear legal provisions on how old men are and how old women must get married.

Widows must be chaste after Zhu Cheng's Neo Confucianism became the mainstream, that is, from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, in order to encourage them to send chastity archways by the government.

Xu Guang and Du Guang are no different from the rest who are still officials in the state of Shijie Zhao. Their families are all hostages in Dingxiang.

People who can be cruel to let their parents, wives and children die are actually really not human. Du Guang doesn't think he is so cruel. Even if he is really abandoned by Shi Xuan, even if Yangyi will fall, he wants to stick to his death and exchange his death for the life of his family.

"Since the route has been cut off... Even if the route has not been cut off, it is difficult to expect reinforcements to break the Siege..." Du Guang looked deeply at Xu Guang and said word by word: "block the north gate."

On several occasions, they ventured to the East, West, South and north to check the Han Army in the besieged city, just like the generals and schools of Shijie Zhao army before, because the war soldiers, auxiliary soldiers and county soldiers in the Han Army are different in some armbands and collars, and the differences are too far away and they can't see clearly. They don't know what the Han Army in the besieged city is made of, I don't know that the number of soldiers is less than 60000. The rest are soldiers from counties and counties in the north. I only judge that the number of Han troops will not be less than 130000.

There are 70000 garrisons in Yangyi city. According to the conclusion that the siege army needs at least three times more garrisons, Xu Guang and Du Guang should be full of confidence in guarding the city, but things have never been decided. So, there are examples of more than ten times the force can't attack for a long time, and there are also examples of more than ten people stealing the city successfully. The war has never taken for granted.

As the chief and deputy city guards of Yangyi, it is obvious that Xu Guang and Du Guang are pessimistic. The Han Army has not officially rushed to the city, but only uses long-range attack equipment. In just eight days, the defenders have suffered about 4000 casualties, which has been bombarded endlessly, leading to low morale.

For Xu Guang and Du Guang, the number of Jie soldiers in Yangyi city is less than 3000, the number of Qiang and di soldiers is only 20000, and the rest are slave soldiers from zahu and Jin. Only the absolutely reliable three thousand Capricorn, the slightly unreliable twenty thousand Qiang and Di, the rest are unreliable, and there are many, many disadvantages. What a grass grip it should be for them.

"The Han Army has always been surrounded by death." Xu Guang sighed and continued, "they no longer respect their traditions. It's no use leaving the north gate. Block it."

There are many Chinese traditions. The most prominent one in the military is the Wai San que. It has evolved into more strange traditions. For example, when building the city wall, we must leave a weakness, which is called fear that too perfection will lead to God's punishment.

Because of their self-confidence in their own strength, the Han army will never attack the city to surround the three que one. As long as the city is surrounded by the Han Army, unless the enemy can hold it or can't hold it and have enough breakthrough ability to break through, it will be wiped out.

"Blocked!" Du Guang bit his teeth, but he couldn't help but smile bitterly: "dying in the war is the destination of Yangyi, but he doesn't know how long he can persist."

Maybe there is a crow's mouth in the world. Du Guanggang said he would die in Yangyi. After a huge roar, a series of noise came from afar.

Xu Guang was stunned by the sudden news. He reacted and jumped up: "the city wall has been blown down!"

Yes, the city wall was blown down by the Han army. At this moment, Si Hongzhuang looked at the smoke ahead. He grinned and giggled.

The last blow to the collapsed city wall was that Si Hongzhuang ruthlessly dropped the gusset plate and let the stones blow over. He didn't expect that he would make such a masterpiece, so he just went foolishly.

The collapsed city wall should have a width of about one foot, because the city wall is a rammed earth structure. After the collapse, thick smoke and dust sprang up. I don't know how many people were crushed or injured. There will be no lack of groans in the bursts of noise.

The news of the collapse of the city wall of Yangyi soon reached Zhong Xing, who presided over the siege. He was calm and said to a group of generals and schools who wanted to try: "it's not urgent, it's not urgent at all. It's just a gap. It's not enough."

There is already the first gap. It won't be long before the second gap is opened. In fact, Zhong Xing is really not in a hurry. Even if there are more gaps, he plans to continue to blow until he blows the enemy out of morale with long-range attack, and then harvest mature fruits.