On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 508 Boulder Bombardment
Because Qu Tutong didn't want to waste arrows on civilian husbands, the landfilling of the moat went very smoothly.

On the tower, Huya Lang general Sang Xianhe said worriedly:

"Qu Tugong didn't want to hurt the people and let them fill up the river, but if Cui Ni drives the people to attack the city, don't we have to sit and wait for death?"

Qu Tutong patiently explained to him:
"Cui Ni is a tyrannical and greedy person who abuses the people outside the Great Wall and has no scruples, but inside the country, he can hold the bottom line.

"Forcing untrained civilians to attack the city is tantamount to forcing them to die. I hope he can do this atrocity, so that the world can see the ugliness of his hypocrisy."

Asking the peasants to fill up the moat and forcing them to attack the city are two different concepts, Qu Tutong was sure that Cui Che would not dare to do this.

Sang Xianhe was stunned when he heard the words, so he stopped persuading and watched the people outside the city fill up the moat in just one day.

At dusk, under the protection of the soldiers of the Eastern Sui Dynasty, the civilian husbands of the Eastern Sui Dynasty who had completed the landfilling task retreated back to the camp one after another. Looking at their leaving backs, especially the elite of the Eastern Sui Dynasty among them, Qu Tutong sighed:

"This is my Great Sui Huben. I was supposed to subdue the barbarians everywhere, but now I am obeying the orders of the national thief and helping him to pervert."

Sang Xianhe echoed:

"If the Xiaoguo army was here, why would the last general not dare to go out of the city and fight Cui Ni to the death?"

Qu Tutong glanced at him and said nothing.

The next day, what worried Qu Tutong the most happened. Cui Che did not choose ants to attack the city, but piled up mountains outside the city. These tasks were still done by the peasants.

Qu Tutong had a frowning face, he was not worried about Cui Che attacking the city with earth hills, at worst, he followed Wei Xiaokuan's method of defending Yubi City and tied long logs on the towers to make the towers taller. Could it be that Cui Che could still pile earth mountains into the sky go.

What really disturbed Qu Tutong was the signal Cui Che sent: he was not in a hurry.

The [-] Xiaoguo army in Kansai was taken to the south. Yu Wenshu and Gao Jiong could only fight against Cui Che's elite soldiers with the old and the weak, so they chose the method of fortifying the wall and clearing the field, in order to delay time, or wait for Cui Che to run out of food and grass Retreat, or wait for him to return to the Central Plains and retreat.

But this time, Cui Che was leisurely outside Feng Yi City, piling up mountains of earth, perhaps digging tunnels in secret, which fully showed that he had already been fully prepared for this battle, and he was not afraid of Xi Sui's exhaustion.

Just in case, Qu Tutong dug a long ditch and stationed troops to cut off the tunnels of the Eastern Sui Army.

In fact, it is impossible for Cui Che to gnaw at one city after another, but Feng Yi County can be used as a bridgehead, which can be used to hoard supplies and ensure a way out.

At the same time, capturing Feng Yi can also deter Kansai, so he chose to capture this city.

When we got to the back, when we encountered the defended city, we were still besieged by soldiers and took Daxing directly.

However, Cui Che did not send anyone to dig the tunnel. Although there are 20 civilians who can carry out engineering work with the army this time, and there are [-] civilians behind him who will transfer supplies for him. There is no shortage of labor under his command, but Cui Che pins all his hopes on On top of the earth hill.

Seeing the mound of earth piled higher and higher, slowly surpassing the city wall, Qu Tutong also began to tie up the long logs and raise the tower.

Seeing that the peasants of the Eastern Sui Dynasty worked hard to transport the soil, it was hard to raise the height a little bit, and as long as he tied a few long logs, he could be a bit taller than the opponent, Qu Tu said confidently:

"Cui Ni's move is nothing but futile."

Sang Xianhe also echoed:
"Gao Huan's past is in front of him, but he still chooses to build a mountain of earth. This move is stupid."

But soon, Qu Tutong and Sang Xianhe couldn't laugh anymore, and after half a month of siege, Cui Che finally showed his fangs.

His earth mountain was not used for archers to shoot arrows, but to send people to build catapults on it.

Thanks to the hard work of [-] people, the mounds of earth are high and firm enough to place catapults on top.

For this reason, Cui Che also specially measured the distance to ensure that Tushan was outside the range of the catapults on the defenders' wall.

However, the earth mountain is much higher than the city wall, so the catapults of the Eastern Sui Army can strike farther.

Qu Tutong tied long logs to heighten the tower, which made the tower not inferior to the earth mountain, but it was only a high platform built by bundling long logs, which was not enough to bear the weight of the catapult and the potential energy generated when it was in operation.

Therefore, since the trebuchet on the earth hill outside the city was high enough to throw huge boulders against the city wall, and even into the city, the nightmare of Feng Yi's defenders began.

Every day, countless stones fall from the top of the head, and the huge stones are also causing impact on the wall. However, the earth mountain is outside the range of our own side, so we can only be beaten passively.

On the dirt hill, Cui Che held a binoculars and leaned over to look at Feng Yi County, which had been baptized by huge stones. Looking at the panicked defenders and people in the city, he praised Xu Shiji:
"Xu Lang's plan is very clever. If he bombards him for a few more days, the morale of the defenders will definitely drop. I'm afraid the city wall won't be able to support it."

This method was proposed by Xu Shiji. Cui Che originally planned to use the old method, planning to use the earth mountain and the tunnel at the same time, but Xu Shiji suggested using the earth mountain to commandeer and use the catapult to inflict damage on the defenders in the city. Cui Che immediately agreed and gave up. Dig the tunnel, and turn to pile up the earth mountain with all your strength.

Xu Shiji said modestly when he heard the words:
"It's still the king who has made a lot of preparations for this battle, but the defenders dare not go out of the city to fight and harass the earth hills. The officials are only worried about not having enough stones."

Cui Che waved his hand and said:
"The existing stones in the camp alone are enough for him to drink a pot of Qu Tutong. If there is less, he can also send civilians into the mountains to mine. The enemy dare not go out of the city, and there is no foreign aid. I don't believe that Feng Yixian How long can it last?"

Of course, stones don't have eyes, so it's inevitable that they will hurt civilians, but Cui Che doesn't care about that much now. Even in the civilized society of later generations, civilians will still be affected by wars, let alone ancient siege warfare.

It is better for the civilians in the city to be hit by gravel than for the soldiers under their command to storm the city with their flesh and blood.

In fact, as long as a suitable cover is found, the casualties caused by the rubble are limited. After all, the boulder is heavier, and at most it can only bombard the city wall, and the rubble is covered by a bunker, so its lethality is really limited.

But the mental pressure caused by being bombarded by catapults in the Eastern Sui Dynasty every day is even more unbearable.

Since the Eastern Sui Dynasty began to smash the city, the morale of Feng Yi's defenders has fallen to the bottom.

Just being beaten, you can't fight back. Every day there are huge boulders bombarding the city wall, and gravel whizzing past your head. After a long time, who can bear it.

After being bombarded for five days in a row, Qu Tutong and Sang Xianhe no longer had the composure they had before. Sang Xianhe found Qu Tutong and said urgently:
"Gong Qu Tu, you can't go on like this anymore. If you continue to let Cui Ni bombard you, if the soldiers can bear it, the city wall will be destroyed by him sooner or later."

　Chapter 4 Brought, Gone Tonight

　　
　
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