It only took Tang Yi two hours to scale the city wall, which Sun Jian had not expected.
The so-called attack on the city means that the troops led by Tang Yi have definitely stood on the city and started to fight with the opponent at close range.
This is the case in siege warfare. Once the attackers get to the top of the city, the defenders must find a way to defeat the soldiers who have already attacked as soon as possible. Only in this way can they free up their energy to deal with the soldiers who follow up the city.
In a city defense battle, the defenders often have to prepare an extra group of soldiers on standby. These people do not need to do anything. They only need to keep an eye on the city wall to see if any enemy troops have come up, and then attack them as quickly as possible. These people were culled cleanly.
Otherwise, once the chaos on the city tower begins, the attackers who find the opportunity will use this opportunity to increase their efforts to climb the city. After the pressure on the soldiers climbing the city is reduced, they will become more fearless and fearless of death. Climb the wall.
This is the principle of one waxing and waning.
For the attacker, it is the same reason, so Tang Yi will immediately report to the Chinese army and ask other parties to increase the intensity of the siege. Only in this way can the defenders be overwhelmed and even lose sight of one thing. Share the pressure of her soldiers who have climbed onto the tower.
This is more flowering.
But it is obvious that although Tang Yi has achieved the tactical goal of storming the city wall ordered by Sun Jian in just two hours, Sun Jian was not satisfied with the time.
Because it's too fast.
In Sun Jian's original mind, if the little-known general guarding the city was not stupid, then with the enemy's strength known so far, it would be impossible to simply let the enemy attack the city wall like this.
Because everyone, whether it was the vanguard camp or the loyal army commander Taichung, knew that once the number of defenders on the city of Sishui Pass exceeded 10,000, the cost of attacking Sishui Pass would already be calculated ten times.
This was also the biggest reason why Yuan Shao hated Sun Jian so much that he had to add 50,000 additional soldiers to support him.
Sun Jian did not expect that the result that he originally wanted to accelerate the consumption of the remaining power of the princes and choose to allow the siege armies to exercise power at an advantage would actually give him such a surprise or an unexpected result.
Just as the two veterans Huang Gai and Cheng Pu analyzed before, if Sun Jian chooses to attack the city desperately, the number of siege ladders will be doubled, and the defenders on the city wall will naturally be difficult to deal with, because no matter how wide the city wall is, it will In such a large place, once the number of soldiers attacking the city exceeds the limit that the defenders can handle, it is only a matter of time before the army captures Sishui Pass.
Sun Jian knew about this matter, and several veteran generals also knew about it now, but it happened that Tang Yi, who was leading the right wing of the vanguard army, didn't know about it.
The supervisory troops sent by Sun Jian have not yet reported, as to why Tang Yiyi was able to suffer so many casualties within an hour in an environment that was extremely unfavorable for the deployment of attack formations, and why she was still able to attack under those conditions. Going up the city wall is still a mystery to Sun Jian now.
The problem before Sun Jian now is to either order other armies to increase their siege efforts, relieve the pressure on Tang Yi's troops, seize the hard-won victory obtained by Tang Yi, or even take advantage of the situation to directly capture Si. Shuiguan. Either he ignored Tang Yi's request for help, which would lead to one of two consequences. Either Tang Yi finally got to the top of the city and would soon be repulsed by the soldiers guarding the city, or both sides fell into anxiety and were struggling to pay their dues. After making even greater sacrifices, Tang Yiyi finally gained a foothold on the city wall, but this possibility is obviously slim.
Sun Jian hesitated.
Fortunately, his hesitation did not last long.
It seemed that he had made a difficult decision. The soldier who delivered the order felt that his lord suddenly became much more relaxed, and he finally showed the happy expression that should be shown when hearing the good news.
"Instruct the four generals Sun Ce, Han Dang, Zu Mao, and Cheng Pu to attack the city with all their strength to reduce the siege pressure on General Tang's troops. Before three quarters of noon, they must climb the wall of Sishui Pass. Anyone who disobeys the order will be dealt with according to the military law!"
"Here!"
"Command to Huang Gai, the female dolls around him have created such good opportunities for him. If he can't seize them again, don't go back to Jiangdong!"
"Here!"
At this time in history, Sun Jian was still an extremely brave warrior, and at least he did not have the ambition to seal the territory and split the land.
It was after this alliance to attack Dong that due to the overt and covert intrigues among the various princes, the former general's soldiers were unable to meet even the most basic supplies of food and grass. His Sun family suffered the most deaths and fought the hardest. Desperately, in the eyes of Yuan Shu and others, it was still just a joke. After countless such things, he really gave up on these people.
As for taking the jade seal of the country, and even having the idea of enclosing the territories, that was all later.
Therefore, Sun Jian's choice at this time is in line with his strong character as a loyal minister and even a fierce general.
However, Sun Jian did not know at this time that the order he issued at this time would have such a profound impact on the subsequent battle situation.
On the wall of Sishui Pass, the deputy general guarding the city was a little anxious.
He couldn't imagine why the soldiers under the city could be so brave and fearless of death. They were really using their lives to make up for the disadvantage caused by the terrain.
The position he was standing on now was on the north side of the city wall. He had just led his own troops to repel a wave of attacks that climbed up the city wall.
If he hadn't reacted in time, once the enemy troops on the city wall reached a large scale, the entire defensive front would have been torn open by the opponent with a terrible wound.
Now a tense situation has formed on the city wall. Enemy troops are constantly climbing up the city wall, and then they chop down people they see. Although those people are quickly hacked to death by the defenders who have been waiting for them, they can no longer form a gathering situation. But the soldiers guarding the city here have limited energy, and it is difficult to stop the opponent's climb.
Damn it! How did those people come over from the mountain wall! ?
That's right, those who initially stormed the city wall did not climb up using ladders, but appeared on the city wall inexplicably from the steep mountain wall beside the city wall.
At first, these people caused the city defenders to panic, and they had to relax the defense on the ladder due to carelessness, which almost caused a serious disaster.
Fortunately, I came in time.
This incident made him slightly scared.
Even now, there are still soldiers coming up to the city from these two directions on the other side of the mountain wall and under the city wall. Fortunately, they have their own personal guards, so those people can no longer achieve anything.
"Second the order, the three squads of the city defenders will be changed to two squads. Except for those who have just been replaced and rested, everyone must be on standby to prevent the enemy from increasing the intensity of their attack." He ordered his men.
He knew that the opponent's general would not miss this hard-won opportunity and increase the intensity of the attack on other roads to reduce the siege pressure here, but he was not too worried.
On the one hand, as a general who defends the city, he has sufficient plans for what may happen. On the other hand, there are too few conspiracies and tricks that the two sides can play. The opponent's military strength is so openly displayed in front of him, and any plan of the opponent's plan will be ignored. There is no way to escape from his own eyes. He is very confident in guarding Sishui Pass. What's more, he has a back-up plan that is unknown to the opponent.
How could he not cherish such an opportunity to become famous without being suppressed by Hua Xiong?
She was standing in front of the gate of the main camp of the Tangyi Division, watching expressionlessly as the siege troops climbed onto the tower like ants, and then either disappeared in an instant, or quickly turned into corpses and were killed on the tower. The defenders threw it down and hit the soldiers who were following up to attack the city below, making a muffled sound.
On the right side of the mountain wall, there are more rock climbing soldiers, and half of them will fall down during the climb, or fall directly to death or lose their hands and feet.
The remaining half, like the soldiers climbing the city on the ladder, were repeatedly killed and thrown away by the defenders after scaling the city wall.
This scene was so tragic that it can only be described as hell on earth.
However, Tang Yi just looked at him without even moving his eyebrows.
The soldiers under his command had been almost exhausted before. Tang Yi didn't care which of those soldiers belonged to Liu Bei and which belonged to Gongsun Zan. Again, that was Qi Zhen and the others' issue that they should consider, not his own.
Perhaps no one on the Zhongjun command could have imagined that almost all of the losses and casualties suffered by the Youzhou and Nanyang soldiers came from Tang Yiyi.
The supplement of 10,000 yuan this time seems to be from Yuan Shao?
Tang Yi raised the corners of her lips, wondering if she had smiled. She didn't say anything more and signaled that everything would remain as usual.
She said she wanted to climb the city wall, so she did it, and asked for support from the Pioneer Army camp to share the pressure, and she also did it. As for the outcome, it had nothing to do with her.
"kill!"
The loud shouting of death reached Tang Yi's ears, making her heart tremble.
The cry to kill was not coming from the soldiers in her unit, but from the next door.
Next door are Huang Zhong's soldiers and horses.
She turned her head and looked at the soldiers on the left who suddenly increased their siege efforts, and finally the corners of her mouth raised involuntarily.
Not being trusted by others doesn't cause any disturbance in her heart, but being helped and recognized by others is always a happy thing.
At this time, Sun Jian's military orders had not yet reached Huang Gai's army.
As soon as Tang Yi stormed the city wall, he sent a soldier to Huang Zhong and Sun Jian to report the battle situation here.
Because Huang Gai, the old general, was closest to him.
Obviously, to share the pressure, instead of waiting for orders from the camp, it would be better to ask for help faster.
When the reporting soldiers came to Huang Gai's army to report the situation, the old general's hearty laughter almost drowned out the shouts of killing on the front line.
"What a girl! If you pass the order, all the soldiers will attack the city with all their strength. Even if the lord turns around and punishes you, it doesn't matter. Even if we can't defeat Sishui Pass, I, Huang Gai, have to help!"
