When Yuan Fu, the governor of Yanzhou, led his subordinates in a hurry back to the city wall, there was no trace of Zuo Sima Feng Song at all. ∵八∵八∵Read ∵ book, ↗▲o
Under the guidance of a petty official who cried hoarsely, Yuan Fu and the others saw the traces of Feng Song.
Under the bombardment of a hundred-pound stone bullet, Feng Song was directly hit, and the powerful momentum pushed him directly from the city wall to the bottom of the city wall.
When Yuan Fu directed everyone to remove the stone bullets, he found Feng Song, who had half of his body smashed. The bloody and bloody condition made everyone know that there was no hope of rescuing Feng Song.
Yuan Fu's vision went dark, and he was so anxious that he almost fainted on the spot. Fortunately, the subordinates around him had quick eyesight and quick hands, and supported him.
Several subordinates quickly tried to persuade Yuan Fu.
"Mr. Yuan, my condolences!"
"Master Fu, please be careful!"
Unexpectedly, after hearing these words, Yuan Fu suddenly threw away everyone's arms and said angrily.
"What a shame! Feng Weizhong died, but he made me miserable!"
Yuan Fu couldn't help complaining in his heart. With the Qingzhou Army helping him drive away Wang Mishile and other Hu bandits, he could continue to be his governor of Yanzhou. However, when Feng Song arrived at Juancheng with orders from Taifu Sima Yue, he asked him to When we secretly plotted against Liu Yu together, we never thought that things would develop to such an unmanageable point.
Of course, Yuan Fu did not have the ability to disobey Sima Yue, who was in power, but this did not hinder that when things developed into the current embarrassing situation, Yuan Fu blamed everything on Sima Yue and Feng Song. The constant regret in his heart made him think that he had the ability to refuse Sima Yue's order.
But now it's too late.
Before that, Yuan Fu was still secretly thinking that if nothing could be done, he would push Zuo Sima Feng Song out and give Liu Yu an explanation.
After all, Taifu Zuo Sima's power was much greater than that of Yanzhou's governor. Liu Yu and the others should be able to accept this statement.
But now Feng Song has been smashed into half a corpse. In such a state, even if Yuan Fu puts all the blame on Feng Song, as long as Liu Yu and the others are not stupid, they will see Feng Song being smashed to death. Song, it was easy to know that Yuan Fu was trying to shirk responsibility. It was definitely very difficult to confuse the Qingzhou Army that had risen.
However, Yanzhou Governor Yuan Fu did not know that under the current situation, even if Feng Song did not die and took all the blame, it would be impossible for the Qingzhou Army to give up the siege at this time.
If avenging the more than 20 dead Qingzhou Army guards was previously a matter for a few generals from the Donglai Army such as Liu Yu, then now the capture of Juancheng has become the common expectation of the entire Qingzhou Army.
As for the purpose, it has actually changed from revenge to a desire to loot wealth after breaking the city.
Because, after a day of trebuchet bombardment, several crumbling flaws have appeared in the entire Juancheng wall. As long as the bombardment continues, the city can be broken into.
At that time, the wealth in Juancheng can be freely taken by the Qingzhou Army.
Greedy Yu Wang, when the city wall became as thin as a cicada's wings, had completely occupied the hearts of all Qingzhou Army soldiers. ∵八∵八∵Read ∵ book, ↗▲o
Liu Yu was certainly aware of these changes. The difficult mode of siege warfare, which originally required a large number of lives, was about to become a simple mode of sitting quietly and watching trebuchets throwing stone bombs, and then breaking through to enter.
Juancheng, like a strong man with gold in his arms, exposed his weak true colors under the three punches and two kicks of the Qingzhou Army.
As for the source of all this, it is naturally the fifteen counterweight trebuchets made by Liu Yu.
Although the craftsmanship of these fifteen trebuchets was rough, the important copper central axis was not very standard, and the stone projectiles projected were not polished, their appearance changed the mode of siege warfare.
The battle mode that originally required the siege party to use the cover of equipment and a large number of infantry to attack and compete for the city wall was changed.
Although there were human trebuchets and torque trebuchets in the past, human trebuchets were limited by the joint efforts of many people. It was difficult to achieve perfect unified force, and the actual power was much worse. Although the torque trebuchet can theoretically increase its power, in practice, it is difficult to make it large and strong enough, so its power is also limited.
However, when it got dark, the Qingzhou Army's trebuchets also stopped attacking.
Although these trebuchets can still continue attacking at night when there is no vision, these hastily produced trebuchets still exposed their shortcomings in quality.
Of the fifteen counterweight trebuchets, after being used for a day, only three could continue to fire at night, and the rest had various types of damage to varying degrees and had to be repaired.
Moreover, the Qingzhou army also lacked suitable stone bullets, and many craftsmen were mobilized to make and polish the stone bullets overnight.
"General, with this kind of stone cannon, there is no city that cannot be captured." Several generals of the Qingzhou Army said to Liu Yu with excitement after discussing the power of the counterweight trebuchet.
"The defense of a city still depends on morale and command. With this kind of trebuchet, it does not mean that you are invincible."
Liu Jian saw that everyone was very interested and thought he would take this opportunity to teach.
"If we are defending the city and the enemy has this kind of trebuchet, how do you think we can fight back to prevent the city from falling?"
As soon as these words came out, the Qingzhou Army generals present all thought seriously.
After all, they had witnessed the production process of these counterweight trebuchets from beginning to end. Although they had some vague concepts about the key structure of this cleverly conceived trebuchet, everyone could understand the general construction method. Well, as long as there are craftsmen with sufficient skills, it is not very difficult to copy this kind of trebuchet.
Therefore, no one can guarantee that one day, the enemies of the Qingzhou Army will also copy this powerful trebuchet, and then smash the huge rocks in the sky on the head of the Qingzhou Army.
Zhao Kun thought for a moment and said directly, "If the enemy has this kind of stone cannon, then I will send an elite team out of the city to attack and destroy it. After all, although these stone cannons are powerful, they are also big and bulky. There was no way to move.”
Zhao Kun's words were approved by some generals, but some people immediately raised objections.
"This method is difficult to work. For such an important siege tool, the enemy must send elite troops and strong generals to defend it tightly. How can it be so easy for you to sneak attack and destroy it?"
When Zhao Kun heard the rebuttal, he immediately retorted, "How can the elite soldiers and generals in my hands be worse than the enemy? As long as those stone cannons don't run away, I will definitely kill them and destroy them all."
"Haha, if the defenders were capable, why would they be defending the city? They could just rush out and kill all the enemies surrounding the city."
Soon, the two men fell into a debate on another issue: whether the defenders were capable of fighting in the field.
Liu Yu was already used to this kind of frequent digressions. Although these generals were now somewhat proficient in writing, their way of thinking still lacked speculative logic.
At this time, Dong Ping said, "If I defend the city, I can not only try to sneak out of the city to attack and destroy it, but I can also build a trebuchet inside the city to bombard and counterattack."
When Liu Yu heard this, he knew that this was also a common counterattack method in later generations. When counterweight trebuchets became popular and the countries in the West were fighting, as long as the defenders could make trebuchets and there was a large enough area in the city, they would often They would all make trebuchets and attack the siege party from within the city.
However, the space inside the castles of the European and European countries at that time was often small and it was impossible to deploy this kind of trebuchet, so this counterattack method could not be applied.
Finally, after everyone's discussion, various methods were proposed. In addition to out-of-city attacks and sabotage and trebuchet fan gong, other methods such as crossbow attacks, double-sided walls, etc. were also proposed.
However, in the end, everyone agreed that the most effective method was to counterattack out of the city and counterattack with trebuchets. After all, blindly being trapped is very passive.
Liu Yu finally told everyone that if the defenders only guard the city and cannot find opportunities to sneak out of the city to attack the attackers, the final result will often be extremely detrimental to the defenders.
As a case, Liu Yu told everyone the story of Zhang Xun guarding Suiyang in the Tang Dynasty. However, the background of the story was casually fooled by him. During the Ji and Zhou Kingdoms, there was a general who resisted the attack of the Rong rebels.
Fortunately, these Qingzhou Army generals are all uneducated.
After everyone listened to Liu Yu's story, they all clicked their tongues in admiration when they learned that there was once a general who would rather eat human flesh to defend the city than surrender.
In particular, Zhang Xun's record of repeatedly going out of the city to attack the rebels with an extremely inferior force, thereby saving the crisis several times, impressed these people even more.
"I don't know, what happened to General Zhang in the end?" Li Feng, who had become a big fan of Zhang Xun, asked.
Zhang Xun's ending was not a good one. Not only was he exhausted and killed by his captors, but he was also questioned about the correctness of his decision to eat human flesh rather than surrender. Even in modern society, historical historiography has already praised Zhang Xun. Some people still question Zhang Xun.
However, Liu Yu did not intend to tell the truth about this. In that case, it would also hurt the enthusiasm of these new Zhang Xun fans.
"This general is a hero. Heroes always get glory and awards. He became the great general at that time. Not only did he become a prince with a feudal land thousands of miles away, but he also became a person admired by people all over the world because of his achievements in resisting the Rong and Hulu. hero."
After hearing this ending, all the Qingzhou Army generals became happy one by one. This was the ending they expected.
"Feng Tang Yi Lao, Li Guang is difficult to seal" are not acceptable to them.
Just when everyone was getting excited about the heated discussion, noisy and chaotic shouts suddenly came from the dark night outside, and then they remembered the shouts of killing and the warning sound of the Conch, a special weapon of the Qingzhou Army.
This is a warning of enemy attack!
Liu Yu immediately arranged for the generals to perform their respective duties and control their respective camps to prevent chaos in the army or even the bombing of the camp due to unknown enemy attacks.
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Yanzhou, Juancheng, in the governor's office of Yanzhou.
When the soldiers who took advantage of the darkness to conduct a sneak attack and sabotage the city returned, they brought back the news that the attack failed.
Yuan Fu, the governor of Yanzhou, begged the powerful forces of Juancheng everywhere to let them carefully select the elite soldiers. In the dark night, they had just touched the outside of the Qingzhou Army's camp when they were discovered by Qingzhou's secret sentry.
Then, the Qingzhou military camp remembered the sound of the warning horn. After hurriedly launching some rockets, these warriors who went out to attack the city threw away the grease, sulfur and other fire starters they carried, and then ran back to Juancheng City. .
Of course, when these generals who led the escape returned to Juancheng, they told Yanzhou Governor Yuan Fu a different story. They took advantage of the night to kill the Qingzhou Army sentries, entered the camp and set fires everywhere, but it was dark. They couldn't find their location, couldn't find the stone cannons, and were eventually discovered by the Qingzhou Army. They had no choice but to fight desperately. After killing and injuring more than a thousand people from the Qingzhou Army, everyone finally retreated back intact.
The governor of Yanzhou was not a pedantic fool who didn't know how to fight. He didn't believe a single word of this bullshit statement about killing more than a thousand people and leaving himself unscathed.
However, these soldiers who went out to attack the city were all powerful private soldiers in Juancheng, not soldiers under the governor of Yanzhou. They were all troops seconded by Yuan Fu. Even if he was full of anger and wanted to fool his troops, If Qu beheaded all of them, he could only think about it.
After all, these people are the private property of Juancheng's tycoons, and he must not touch them. Moreover, these tycoons always dare to go out of the city to attack, unlike his own generals, who all fell ill when they heard that they were going to leave the city to attack the Qingzhou Army at night. They fell ill and begged for mercy, but in the end they only found less than ten soldiers who dared to leave the city.
After Gou Xi and Sima Yue's recruitment and selection, the only troops left for Yanzhou Governor Yuan Fu are this kind of troops. If there is a conflict with the powerful Juancheng forces, Yuan Fu feels that he may not be able to sustain it for even a quarter of an hour.
In the end, Yuan Fu could only pinch his nose, pay a reward to these powerful tribes, and then send them out.
Yuan Fu lamented in his heart that he originally had one ten thousandth chance of using the night attack to create chaos and seriously injure the Qingzhou Army, but now it seemed that it was useless. Judging from the current situation of the Juancheng city wall, if the Qingzhou Army's stone cannons continue to bombard it, they may not be able to sustain it even at noon tomorrow. There will be at least three damaged gaps. With the morale and strength of the defenders now, it will take 20,000 Qingzhou troops to repel them. I don’t know what the hope is for the army’s attack? !
Just when Yuan Fu was suffering from pain, his heart was filled with despair, and he didn't know how to face tomorrow, someone suddenly reported outside the door, saying that someone from Juancheng's powerful Li family had sent someone with a clever plan to defeat the Qingzhou soldiers. He wanted to face him. Report to the governor Yuan.
When Yuan Fu heard that someone was actually sent by the Li family, one of the biggest powerful men in Juancheng, he immediately felt a glimmer of hope and immediately sent someone to invite him. After sorting things out, he went to the front yard to receive him in person. 11
