Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 70
"Report! Prefect, Zhou Mu, Sun Cejun has arrived ten miles outside the city." The scouts have sent the latest information.

"Has the 'Flying Yaksha' been installed?" Bai Tu asked the captain in charge.

"It has been installed!" said the captain.

"Master Lu, let's go to the city tower together and have a look?" Bai Tu asked Lu Kang.

"Let's go together!" Lu Kang was a little uncertain. He had seen the strength of Sun Ce's army before, and it was not at the same level as Liu Xun's army.

But now that the matter is over, Lu Kang won't say anything depressing.

When I came to the city tower, I saw that every ten steps or so, there was a city defense equipment similar to the "Spike Fang". It was just a hanging heavy object. It was not a "Lang Fang Plank", but a piece of wood. Steel-thorned wood!
If you look carefully, you will find that these steel thorns are not directly on the log piles, but around the log piles, spirally wrapped with circles of belts with steel thorns...

Like Bai Tu's wolf fang, it can also be moved and hangs the iconic "fairy gourd".

This is exactly what Baitu brings!
The wood piles are stored in Shu City's own reserves, which are huge, thick and long round wooden piles. When the enemy attacks the city, they can be thrown down to knock down the enemies attached to the ants, and they can also attack the opponent's siege equipment when convenient.

There is another kind of "Yasha beating". Baitu doesn't know if anyone has used it now, but it is not common anyway. It is to tie iron cables on both sides of the lumber, and the iron cables are connected to the winch. The defensive equipment that came back.

However, compared to the Wolf Fang Beat, it is easier to cut the rope, and it is much heavier than the Wolf Fang Beat. Usually, the winch is not to pull up the wood, but to cut the rope after it is cut. Before, he ordered the wood to roll under the city to attack the enemy at the foot of the city!
However, with Bai Tu's "Fairy Gourd", the Yaksha Lei can be retracted and released more freely, and he named it "Flying Yaksha".

Compared with the Wolf Fang, the Feitian Yaksha is more portable - the craftsmen have put a lot of effort into fixing the wood plate. As long as the diameter and length are within a certain range, the wood can be installed on it. Just wrap the thorn tape around it, you don't need to bring your own wood.

As there is only the "fairy gourd" and the bracket, it is much easier to transport naturally.

When Bai Tu and Lu Kang arrived at the city tower, they found that Sun Ce had arrived with a large force of troops. Taishi Ci looked at it and whispered to Bai Tu: "There are about 8000 people, but judging from the array, most of them are old soldiers."

Bai Tu nodded when he heard the words, thinking that although the Chinese army led by Zhou Yu had around 2 soldiers, they were all soldiers trained by Yuan Shu in Huainan.

The armies under Yuan Shu's command can be roughly divided into three grades. The strongest is the Nanyang Army founded by Yuan Shu. They were all troops recruited and trained in Nanyang with the help of the Yuan family forces before the Eighteenth Route Princes attacked Dong. If it is still established now, it can be called a soldier capable of fighting a hundred battles.

The second is the Danyang army, that is, when Yuan Shu controlled Jiangdong before, he used the population of Danyang to train soldiers. Although the army took a short time, it was not easy to deal with because of the characteristics of the Danyang army.

Finally, there is the Huainan Army. After Yuan Shu killed the previous Yangzhou Shepherd Chen Wen and occupied the Huainan area, he trained soldiers here...

Among the three, the Huainan army had the largest number. When recruiting troops in Jiangdong, although the major families favored Yuan Shu, they did not let him collect wool. Even if there was an overdraft, it was controlled within the range that could be recovered in two or three years.

In Huainan, Yuan Shu could be said to have imposed excessive levies and overdrafted manpower year after year, which is why the army expanded so quickly.

The cost was that the people of Huainan dared to be angry with Yuan Shu but did not dare to speak out. If the people did not support him, the training efficiency of the recruited troops would be lower, and morale would generally be low.

Of course, these three levels are only rough divisions.

The central army led by Zhou Yu were all Huainan soldiers, and Sun Ce's [-] former troops were mostly old soldiers from Jiangdong. Presumably they were his father Sun Jian. The last family fortune left behind was based on Sun Jian's military strength in his hometown of Wu. The soldiers trained by the county and Changsha, who served as the prefect, were trained by the two counties.

Although many other sources of troops have been added over the years, just like Lu Bu also expanded Bingzhou Cavalry in Xuzhou, as long as the establishment is still there and the proportion of supplementary troops is controlled within a certain range, the elite level of the army will not be reduced too much - -Veterans can also lead new recruits.

"As Mr. Lu expected, this Sun Ce is really aggressive, and he came to attack the city without stopping." Bai Tu couldn't help but marvel at Sun Ce's attack all the way, and he didn't intend to rest and set up camp.

"Not only is Sun Ce a young tiger, but the Jiangdong soldiers under his command are also very capable soldiers. They cannot be compared to the troops of Liu Xun and others." Lu Kang still remembers the strength of Sun Ce's troops.

Of course, just relying on a few thousand elite troops is useless. The reason why Zhou Yu has always expected Yuan Shu's support is not only to avoid being hostile to Yuan Shu after leaving directly, but also because Yuan Shu can assist in sending troops.

As for the [-] Huainan soldiers, the junior captains and uncles are all Yuan Shu's people. If Zhou Yu wants to take them away, even if they don't mutiny on the spot, they will easily cause chaos later.

I saw Sun Ce's army stopped within a stone's throw outside the city, and then he rode out alone and shouted under the city, "Sun Ce of Wu Jun is here, who dares to go out of the city and fight with me!"

At this time, Sun Ce was wearing an orange waistcoat and war skirt. He was not wearing any battle armor. He was just riding a "war horse" and carrying a huge anchor-shaped weapon, riding alone under the city to call for battle.

"Sun Ce! Your father was the general of the Han Dynasty and the governor of Changsha. Now that you have rebelled against the Yuan thieves, are you worthy of your father's spirit in heaven?" Lu Kang shouted from the city.

"Hahaha, Mr. Lu Kang, my father's spirit in heaven will watch me support the Han Dynasty and shine on the lintel. You are a thief, but you don't know which court recommended you." Sun Ce laughed.

"Fight if you want. We, the soldiers and the people of Shu City, are united and will not surrender to the bandits!" Lu Kang shouted.

Resisting the battle when calling for formation normally will lower the morale of one's own side, but for Lu Kang, there is no such hidden worry. The BUFF of "Military and Civilian Unity" will make the defender's resilience very terrifying.

"Lord! I'll break him first! If I can capture him alive, I'll save a lot of trouble." Tai Shici asked for his orders.

Bai Tu thought about it for a moment, and although he didn't think that Taishi Ci could really defeat Sun Ce, from a historical perspective, the strength of the two at this time should be almost the same, and a tie would be better than having Sun Ce show off his power and go back.

"Okay, but... Sun Ce is known for his bravery. Ziyi must be careful and don't be obsessed with fighting." Bai Tu instructed.

"No!" Tai Shici accepted the order.

Then I saw Taishi Ci displaying his military talisman, transforming into a white armor, jumping down from the tower and saying: "Taishici of Donglai is here, Wujun children, please don't be arrogant!"

"Huh? Tai Shici? I seem to have heard about it somewhere... Forget it! Finally, a brave man came here, and I will let you do three tricks!" Sun Ce became a little interested.

(End of this chapter)