The Most Romantic of the Three Kingdoms - Vol 10 Chapter 297

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Yu Jin knelt down on the seat, frowned and said, “It’s been two days since the attack, and the defenders have only retreated into the city, with their camp outside the city as their horns, and they only have to stand firm. It seems that even if they attack again, I’m afraid that within a short period of time. It is also difficult to capture this city. But I don’t know if the captain can have a good plan?”

Compared with Wen Pin, who has been leading troops abroad since he was cast under Xun Zhen’s tent, Yu Jin’s time since he was cast under Xun Zhen’s tent is not too short, but his experience in the army and battles is definitely As Xun Zhen said, it is not as good as Wen Ping, and even though Wen Ping and Wen Ping have only fought side by side for two days, Yu Jin has also gotten to know more about Wen Ping through these two days of sieging the city. He can be said to be both intelligent and brave. Although he is young, he should not be underestimated. Therefore, he can follow Xun Zhen’s order, treat Wenpin with humility, and ask him for advice first.

Wen Pin said: “I thought that the morale of the bandit army is now low, and the main force of our army is close at hand, which will put more pressure on them. Lu Yang should be easy to pull out, because you and I joined forces and attacked for two days, but now I see it. In addition, the morale of the bandit army has been mobilized by Yang Hong, and it is still worthy of a battle. If he continues to attack hard, Lu Yang is indeed difficult to conquer. In my opinion, it is better to use strategies to win.”

During the two-day siege, Wen Pin and Yu Jin were both watching the battle nearby, and the two of them could see clearly that the reason why the guards in Luyang County, including Ji Ling, were able to fight in the “military heart has long been chaotic, Xun Zhen’s main force”. The biggest reason for being able to resist stubbornly despite being near Kunyang again is because of Yang Hong. Yang Hong, as the chief historian of Yuan Shu’s military mansion, did not go under the city wall during the two days of defending the city, and he personally took arrows and stones to motivate the soldiers. Therefore, Ji Ling and other defenders’ morale was able to not fall and resist stubbornly. to date.

“To win by strategy? Zhongye, how to win? You and I also used a trick to lure the enemy yesterday, but it didn’t work.”

When they attacked the city yesterday, according to Wenpin’s suggestion, the two of them used a trick to lure the enemy.

That is: after sieging the city for a while, pretend to retreat, hoping to lure the defenders out of the city, and then defeat them.

But Yang Hong was a resourceful man, and saw through this tactic, so the defenders in the city were not fooled. Wenpin’s strategy was not feasible yesterday.

Wen Pin said: “Last night I thought about it, and after just over two days of attacking the city, I suddenly stopped retreating. This is indeed a bit of a fraud. It is not surprising that the guards saw through and refused to be fooled. Although this strategy has not been successful , but you and I have another strategy available.”

“He Ce also?”

Wen Pin said: “Since feigning withdrawal can’t attract the defenders, then you and I will attack their camp outside the city tomorrow. I don’t believe that the defenders in the city will be able to sit back and watch their camp outside the city be attacked? As long as they send aid, you and I will Then the ambush army rises up. The reason why they can resist stubbornly is because of the city wall. Without the city wall, our army will definitely be able to annihilate them in the field.

To lure the defenders out of the city, there are only two ways.

One is to feign defeat and lure him to chase, and the other is to attack where he must be saved.

The first method of feigning defeat has already been used, and it does not work. If you want to lure the enemy out of the city, you can try to use it only by attacking the place where it will be rescued.

So for the defenders in Luyang City, where is their inevitable rescue? Their strongholds outside the city were their salvation. There is a saying that defending the city first defends the wilderness, so whenever defending the city, the defender usually sets up one or more defensive positions outside the city to support each other with the city. This is Yang Hong’s offer to Yuan Shu to defend Wan County. In the policy period, the meaning of “horn” mentioned in the policy, there is also such a “horn” outside the city of Luyang, which is the camp outside the city that Yu Jin and Wenpin have mentioned several times.

This out-of-city camp is located in the west of Luyang County, not far from Luyang County, only a few miles away.

When Wen Pin and Yu Jin attacked the city for two days, this camp outside the city played a significant role in assisting Yang Hong, Ji Ling and others in the city to defend the city. They sent troops twice to harass Wen Pin and Yu Jin. The weak flank made Wenpin and Yu Jin unable to go all out to attack Luyang County. Now if you want to lead the defenders out of the city and instead focus on attacking the camp outside the city, it is indeed an option.

“Mainly attack the camp outside the city of thieves?”

Wen Pin said, “That’s right, what does the commander think?”

Yu Jin had no other countermeasures, so he listened to Wenpin’s suggestion and said, “You can try this strategy of your lord!”

…

The next day, the two led their troops out of the camp, and Yu Jin led troops to stay in the city, and Wen Ping personally led more than a thousand troops to attack the outer camp of the defenders in the west of the city; Then they attacked from front and back, and it was necessary to wipe them out.

Luyang was only three or four miles away from the camp outside the city. The scene of Wen Ping leading troops to attack the camp outside the city was naturally seen by the soldiers on the top of the city.

After hearing the report, Ji Ling and Yang Hong hurried to the head of Xicheng, and the two looked at each other.

Seeing the camp outside the city a few miles to the west, the war was already raging. Dressed in red uniforms, the soldiers from the Xun Zhenbu, who looked like clusters of flames from afar, were besieging the western and southern sides of the camp at the same time. Although due to the distance, it is difficult to see the specific battle situation, but it is conceivable that at this moment in the camp outside the city, there must be arrows like rain from the enemy and the enemy. Ya, pushing a cart full of earth bags and charging forward, in an attempt to fill in the trenches outside the camp first, and then launch a strong attack on the camp wall.

Ji Ling is in her forties, with a burly stature, now fully clothed and wearing heavy black armor, she looks even more majestic.

Feng, but after seeing this scene, his face suddenly showed a worried look, and he said to Yang Hong: “If the thief army chose to attack the camp outside my city as long history expected! What should we do now? My city There are less than 1,000 troops in the outer camp. If the thieves attack with all their strength, it will be difficult to break the defense, and if they fall, the Luyang City will be difficult to support! … Long history, in my opinion, it is better to send troops immediately Get out of the city and go to the rescue!”

Yang Hong stroked his beard and stared at it carefully. He looked for a long time at the fighting camp outside the city, and then he looked at the enemy army nearer to the west of the city that was lined up to stop the troops and horses in the city. Er, he opened his mouth and said: “General, please look at the bandit army besieging my camp outside the city, although the attack is very urgent, but at most one or two thousand people are arrayed in the west of the city. The bandit army that seems to be blocking my aid is the largest. Thousands; Wenpin and Yujin have a total of four or five thousand soldiers, where did the rest of their soldiers go?”

“What do you mean by Chang Shi?”

Yang Hong said: “If I expected it right, the rest of their soldiers and horses, except for the camp guards, will definitely be there.” He raised his hand and pointed to the fields and woods near the camp outside the city. Said, “There is an ambush waiting there!”

“Is it fake that the thieves attacked my camp outside the city, or is it real to lure our army to help?”

Yang Hong said: “As I expected, it is like this!”

Ji Ling calmed down, carefully observed the two enemy troops outside the siege city and the west of the city, counted their numbers, agreed with Yang Hong’s inference, and asked, “If that’s the case, then take the long lead. Shi Gaojian, what should our army do now? … Even the bandit army intended to lure our army to help, but you and I can’t just sit back and watch the camp outside the city be attacked and ignore it, right?”

“General, one of the camps outside the city is very strong, and the other is that although there are less than a thousand guards, they are all elite. Just relying on the 2,000 soldiers who came up and down to attack the camp, I expected that the guards in the camp would definitely be able to. Resist. The camp outside the city is not in danger of being lost for the time being, and in my opinion, there is no need for help at the moment.”

The morale of the guards in the city is already low, and it is only thanks to Yang Hong’s encouragement that they can support it until now. If the camp outside the city falls again, it will probably be difficult for the guards below. Ji Ling couldn’t help but worry, he said, “But if you can’t keep it?”

“If the general is really worried, then he can make preparations with both hands. One side is not in a hurry to help, and the other side can transfer his soldiers to the west gate of the city. If there is a critical situation outside the camp, it will not be too late to help.”

Yang Hong was not only a long history, but Yuan Shu sent him to Luyang, and he was in charge of the army, and he had a plan with Yang Hong. Ji Ling was also convinced of him, so he followed Yang Hong’s countermeasures. Watching the battle, while mobilizing troops to gather at the west gate of the city, make a backup deployment.

However, Yang Hong’s prediction was correct. As expected, the camp outside the city was besieged for more than a day, but it was still able to defend and was not captured.

In the afternoon, almost evening, Wenpin and Yu Jin saw that there were no reinforcements coming out of the city at all. Knowing that this strategy was declared a failure, the two had no choice but to call Jin to withdraw their troops, and each led their headquarters back to the camp.

…

They returned without success again, returned to the camp, and the two discussed again.

At this time, even Wenpin was helpless.

The two discussed until nightfall, but still had no choice but to write down the battle situation of the past few days in a military report, send cavalry to fly to Lu Yang, and report to Xun Zhen.

The military newspaper sent it away that night.

Yu Jin went back to his tent from the discussion tent. Before entering the tent, he turned his face and looked at Luyang County in the west. His eyes passed over the layers of tents. The county town is dark, like a giant beast.

“The Duke of Ming ordered me to take down Lu Yang as soon as possible, and I also promised Duke Ming that I would be able to take down Lu Yang as soon as possible, but it has been three days since I arrived at Luyang, and the siege has not made any progress! How can I return to Duke Ming? Look at me?” Yu Jin thought with a heavy heart, unconsciously.

The next day, Wen Pin and Yu Jin were preparing to lead the troops out of the camp, and then go to attack the city. The military official Chi who was patrolling outside also reported: “The reinforcements are here!”

“Reinforcement? Who is it?” Wen Pin asked in surprise.

The military official replied, “The reinforcements will be Han Ji, the prime minister of Yingchuan County.”

Wen Pin and Yu Jin glanced at each other, and both could see from the other’s eyes that they were wondering, Han Ji is a civil servant, how could he bring troops to help?

With doubts, the two stopped sending troops and went out to meet them.

After waiting for a long time, I saw a soldier approaching from the north.

Looking at it from the Yuanmen, there are about a thousand soldiers and horses on the road, and the number is not too many, but the one or a dozen things in the team are very eye-catching. These more than a dozen things It is a tall device, like a catapult, but it is much taller than an ordinary catapult. Wen Pin and Yu Jin rode their horses to greet them. As they approached the support army, the two clearly saw that the soldiers in the support army were not wearing military uniforms. They were wearing coarse cloth clothes worn by the common people. .

The doubts in their hearts are stronger.

A man dressed as a civil official with a long beard, a man in his thirties, surrounded by more than ten horsemen, rushed out of the reinforcements and met Wenpin and Yu Jin on the side of the road. This person, both Wenpin and Yujing, recognized him as Hanji, the prime minister of Yingchuan County.

The two sides dismounted and greeted each other.

Han Ji took out a letter, handed it to Wenpin, and said, “This is a car.

A letter written by Qi personally to the two of you. ”

– Wen Pin and Yu Jin were the generals, so Han Ji sent him the letter.

Wen Pin hurriedly caught it, opened it respectfully, and stood on the ground to watch.

Xun Zhen’s letter wrote: “Taishi Ci, Yang Feng and others have attacked Yexian and Jixian counties, and the two counties will be defeated; Huang Gai of General Wei’s department has also attacked Duyang, Wuyin, Biyang and other counties. Nanyang County is an important town in the northern border. The city is stronger than Ye, Ji and other counties. When Yang Hong is reinforced, the two ministers may not be able to pull it out quickly. Dozens of them are obtained, and half of them will be sent to the Qing and Qing to try them out, and they may be able to break their city defenses. It has not rained for a few days and the wind is blowing, and when the Qing and Qing are attacking the city, you might as well try a fire attack.”

There are catapults now, but this drawing presented by Liu Ye is a new type of catapult that he improved based on the current catapult. Han Ji was willing to use his brains in the field of machine building. After serving as the prefect of Yingchuan County, he converted and promoted the smelting equipment that originally required horsepower and manpower blowing into the water drainage system invented by the former Han Du Shi, which improved the efficiency of smelting. With a fourfold improvement, after Xun Zhenyin obtained Liu Ye’s drawings, he entrusted him with the responsibility of supervising the construction. Not long ago, dozens of them were built. Xun Zhen tried it out, and the power was not bad, so she transferred a dozen of them to Wenpin and Yu Jin, and let them use them.

After Wenpin read it, he gave Xun Zhen’s letter to Yu Jin, and Yu Jin also read it. Both of them were overjoyed.

Wen Pin and Han Ji said, “There is a chariot sent by Lao Jun to **** it. Now that the chariot made by Jun has been supervised, and the strategy of attacking the city pointed out by the Duke of Ming has been added. This Luyang City will no longer be trapped!”

Han Ji was welcomed into the camp, and the soldiers, civilians, and stone chariots brought by Han Ji were also brought into the camp and settled down separately.

Wen Pin, Yu Jin and Han Ji renegotiate the next siege in the account.

Yu Jin said: “Zhongye, Han Jun’s new arrival of the delivery stone chariot today, in my opinion, it is better to take a break from attacking the city for a day today, and then first try the power of the delivery stone chariot. The siege, the soldiers are also a little tired, you can also take this to give the soldiers a rest.”

Wen Pin nodded and said, “Your words are very true, and so do I.”

Yu Jin thought for a while, and then said: “Duke Ming ordered you and I to use a fire attack. You can prepare the things you need for this fire attack today. … But tomorrow, when you attack the city, Zhongye, I don’t know if you think it is true. Mainly attack Luyang County, or still attack the camp outside the city?”

Wen Pin said: “I intend to attack the camp outside the city tomorrow! First, there are many tents and other flammable objects in the camp outside the city. If the fire is attacked, it will be more easily ignited; second, after the camp is removed, the city of Luyang will be attacked again. If there is no foreign aid, we can focus on attacking it with all our strength; three, we can also attack the morale of the defenders in the city by pulling down their camps outside the city.”

Yu Jin and Han Ji agreed.

I tried the power of the stone car that day, and I prepared enough things to ignite.

Early the next morning, Wen Pin, Yu Jin, and Han Ji followed Wen Pin’s suggestion yesterday and led their troops out of the camp to continue their attack on the camp outside the city.

This time the battalion outside the city was attacked, which was very different from the attack on the battalion yesterday.

Yesterday was mainly to lure the defenders in the city to help, the troops invested were not enough, it was just pretending, but today it is a real attack, and more than ten catapults that are more powerful than ordinary catapults are helping. This offensive is launched. , that is, like a huge wave, wave after wave.

Yang Hong and Ji Ling received the urgent report and rushed to Xichengtou to see it.

The first time I saw it, I saw the dozen or so catapults that were taller than ordinary catapults. Looking at them from a distance of several miles, I was still shocked.

You can imagine how the guards in the battalion felt at this moment!

Not to mention that the defending soldiers had not only seen the chariots, but also several chariots originally, Wenpin and Yu Jin, who attacked the battalion. Nearly 20 chariots surrounded the camp outside the city. All of them shot rolling stones into it, and the guards had to endure the continuous smashing of stones; in addition, rockets like locusts were shot in the face, and some stones were wrapped in oilcloth and flew in the air. The flames were soaring and turned into flint—the pressure on the defenders in this battalion at this time would not need to be said.

It didn’t take long for the camp wall to be smashed into two small sections by the stone truck, and flames erupted in the camp, which could be seen everywhere.

On the head of Xicheng, Ji Ling was shocked and said, “Changshi! The fortress is about to be lost, so there is no more help!”

Yang Hong stood upright and was not afraid of danger. He had already thought of a countermeasure and said, “The foreign camp is in crisis, and it is indeed necessary to help. However, the best strategy is not to directly rescue the foreign camp.”

“What do you mean by long history?”

Yang Hong said, “Why don’t I…” He turned his head and looked at the Wenpin and Yujing camps four or five miles east of the city.

Ji Ling followed his gaze and asked in surprise, “What does Chang Shi want?”

“There are thieves troops lined up in the west of the city. If we go out of the west gate to help them, we may fall into a field battle with the thieves. The thieves are stronger than our soldiers. If we attack the military camp, not only will Wenpin and Yujing withdraw their troops to help their camp, but if our army can take advantage of the emptiness in their camp, we will lay down their battalion, and then use their camp as a barrier to block Wenpin and Yujing. At that time, I will choose the best soldiers from the camp outside the city and the soldiers in the city, and after attacking them, it is impossible to defeat them in one fell swoop!”