Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 81

The ancients of the Han Dynasty were still quite weak in siege warfare!
Even until the end of the Tang Dynasty, when gunpowder was used on a large scale before the war, the siege of the city was a protracted chore with heavy casualties. A complete disaster, just like the Battle of Suiyang in the Anshi Rebellion. Thousands of people in Zhang Xun District relied on cannibalism to resist the violent attack of Anshi rebel general Yin Ziqi's 17 troops for more than half a year, and even killed many people. Effectively protected the Huaiyang lifeline that Datang relied on for survival.

Another example is Suiyang. During the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, the rebels from Wu and Chu attacked Suiyang with 10,000+ rebels. King Liang Xiao cried and asked Han Wendi for help every day, but he fought for more than half a year. Suiyang stood still, but Zhou Yafu's tens of thousands of people cut off the food road from the south of the rebels from Wu and Chu, and beat hundreds of thousands of rebels from the vassal state to pieces in one breath.

Compared with these two wars, Cao Jun's attack on Pengcheng was extremely smooth step by step.

There is a saying in the art of war: There are twelve types of siege: front, hook, ladder, mound, water, hole, sudden, moth, Xuan chariot, 轒辒车, hollow, and rushing. The equipment in the city was too busy to carry and use it. Cao Cao used all the methods of facing the hook, the ladder, and the sky. He dug the earth mountain in the west of Pengcheng, lined up [-] archers, and shot overwhelmingly. The tunnel was dug in the southeast, and a large piece collapsed. When Wang Hou arrived, looking through the binoculars, thousands of Cao Jun on the city wall were climbing up with hooks and ladders. At the gap, Xiahou Dun and Li Dian personally led the team, and The guarding Pengcheng clan's soldiers fought in a group, and gradually defeated the opponent.

Seeing the blood of fighting at the front line, Wang Hou led Cao Hongjie and Zhao Yun, his food guard captain, to rush inward together. On the earth mountain dug out by the peasants who arrived earlier, Cao Cao also took Cao Hongjie from Wang Hou's hand. When he got back, the soil telescope embedded in the wooden barrel was inspecting the battlefield back and forth. Obviously, he was quite satisfied with this siege battle.

"Prime Minister, the next official transported grain to Pengcheng, among which eight hundred stones of wheat were lost due to a capsized ship, and when it arrived at Mai..."

"Tuqiu, come and see! This is the art of siege. The arrow hill destroys the will of the enemy, breaks through the wall of the enemy, and then attacks it with the ants of the brave and strong. There is no one who can't break the city!"

"In the future, you will also stand alone for the truth and break the city, but you must study hard!"

Interrupting Wang Hou's report, Cao Cao was showing off arrogantly. If other people listened to this showing off, they would have already been flattering. The admiration is like the flow of the Yangtze River. It's out of control!But seeing thousands of people rushing up the ladder in a daze, and the few people on the top fell off a large piece when they picked up the pole, and several of them were stoned to death by the top, the corner of Wang Hou's mouth still couldn't help it. I stopped smoking and reported back when it was difficult.

"The prime minister is wonderful, my minister, that, it's not as good as..."

This is also the last day of the siege. It took seventeen days, and a total of 700 soldiers and strong men were dispatched. Cao Jun finally "brilliantly" broke through the city with more than [-] Lü Bu's "army". Cao Cao plundered and massacred Pengcheng, where more than [-] soldiers from local clans in Xuzhou were the main defensive force.

However, as long as the word "Ba Pengcheng" is added to this battle, it will be brilliant enough.

On the streets of Pengcheng, which had already been destroyed by several wars, Xiahoudun and Li Dian, who entered the city first, rode on horseback triumphantly, worrying about their stomachs. Although the sergeants behind were also exhausted and scarred, their expressions were still full of pride.

Cao Cao was the first to be invited into the city from the earth hill at the moment the city was broken. At the gate of the Yamen, under the supervision of Cao Jun, he was captured. Kneeling down on the ground, tremblingly kneeling to meet them, in their fearful eyes, the majestic Mr. Cao appeared in front of them full of vigor.

In the future, when he is going to rule Xuzhou, it is rare for Cao Cao to start benevolence to buy people's hearts. There, he plausibly says that he is a righteous party to beg for thieves on behalf of the heavens. What crimes have you committed by stubbornly resisting? He also issued an order to rectify military discipline, and soldiers were not allowed to plunder the people.

It's just that in the face of Pengcheng, where the market is dilapidated and the people are ten households and nine empty, it is really unknown how effective this belated benevolence will be.

These have nothing to do with Wang Hou for the time being. Now he only cares about how to keep his head. After seventeen days of tossing in Surabaya, he consumed the remaining 15 shi of food and moved it outside Pengcheng City, but after all, there is no safety outside the city. The soldiers attacking the city began to pull the spoils, while the other side was thinking about his own head, and Wang Hou worked tirelessly to urge the peasants under his command to gnash their teeth and pile up the heavy grain into the official warehouses in the city.

However, another moth appeared here that kept thumping!

The ruins of the ancient Roman Empire in later generations are quite complete. The ruins of the Roman city are left in front of people everywhere, and they have become a civilization and cultural heritage that has attracted worldwide attention. It was only the city palaces around the Song Dynasty, and Tang City, which was only one dynasty before, was already dilapidated, not to mention Qinguan, a city with a longer history.

But it's no wonder that the destructive wars in ancient times were too destructive to the construction of these civil structures!Pengcheng has been built since the Spring and Autumn Period of the Song Dynasty, and was once used as the capital by Xiang Yu at the end of the Qin Dynasty. But now, not to mention the relics left by Xiang Yu, more than half of the official warehouses and pavilions built in the Eastern Han Dynasty have collapsed, leaving only a piece of land. The crumbling rubble and ruins lay beside the military camp in the east of the city.

"Transporter, what should I do?"

The heads of the pavilions driving the ox carts and carrying the burdens were dumbfounded, and gathered like headless flies, asking Wang Hou for orders, not to mention them, even Wang Hou himself was dumbfounded.

Although it is the end of September and almost October, converted into the Gregorian calendar, it is almost November, and the rainy season in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River has long passed, but the air is still wet and cold, which has already made Wang Hou experience the cold weather in the north. The difference between physical attacks and cold magic attacks in the south, in such weather, the military rations just transported from the river are still in danger of rot and mildew!

After being stunned for a few seconds, Wang Hou waved his hands helplessly and ordered.

"Period entry of food into the city first! Congge, go and inform the captain of Yin to recruit 3000 people from the civilian population. First, repair this official warehouse area, at least take out all the warehouse pits! Then hoard all the food in. ! Cover with straw!"

"Little obedience!"

Although the official granary was almost destroyed, the ancients built the granary very scientifically. The location here must be the driest place in Pengcheng. Even if there are no ground buildings, it is better than piled outside the city directly facing the river in Sishui. The fog came just in time, since Pengcheng had just been conquered anyway, it would take two or three days to repair, sharpen the knife and cut firewood by mistake, Wang Hou gave the order helplessly.

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If you want to say that being an official is still very cool, you only need to move your mouth and say a word, and the people below will do everything. The city captured at around [-]:[-] in the afternoon, at least in the northern part of the official military camp, has restored order. Thousands of people were busy in the messy ruins of the official barn, carrying out the collapsed beams, the rotten straw roof, the old grain that had rotted under the barn, and even don't know how a few of them died in it, so rotten and worrying The disgusting old corpses have been cleared out. This kind of rags are piled up at the door, and the only remaining ones are neatly arranged large pits for storing food, which is much more pleasing to the eye.

Now Wang Hou has begun to change his diet at the end of the Han Dynasty. Right next to the construction site of the official warehouse, those heavy millstones were pulled into rotation again by oxen, and the flour that had just been sieved with a dustpan was immediately mixed with water. Get up, on the other side, on the earthen stove that has just been built, the layers of cages are emitting heat, and the big steamed buns that have just been steamed are directly transported to the military camp according to Cao Cao's order, and they are served with the freshly cooked Pork and beef reward the sergeants.

As for the generals, they always have privileges. In the farmhouse near the city, the eggs "presented" by the old farmers were smashed in a basket, and the egg whites and yolks were mixed into the noodles. Dozens of women While picking his nose, he kneaded the noodles with his black palms, and finally they were stuffed into some glaring straight tubes, squeezed hard with a stone, and strips of salty noodles came out.

Throwing it into the old hen soup that was "willingly" offered by the old farmers in Pengcheng, rolled it a few times, and brought the meat in a bucket to mention the Chinese army. Even Mr. Cao ate it with a big bowl. As for Xiahou Dun , Cao Ren and other generals even ate their snotty noses and came out, and they didn't care to blow it, so they pulled it back, and Xilihulu stuffed noodles into their mouths again.

No way, marching and fighting, the food is too monotonous, even eating a hot meal is enjoyable, not to mention the golden yellow noodles cooked in the fragrant old hen soup with even salt and light taste.

The food is more vegetarian than the cattle, and the work is more than the cattle. It is said that our time-traveling model Wang Hou has to reward the soldiers when the city breaks down. He also found a big job for him, organizing civilian husbands to kill pigs and girls, Washing vegetables and cooking until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, he took the opportunity to take a break for a meal.

He also picked out a bowl of chicken noodle soup shipped to the Chinese army, and taking advantage of his authority, he took out a big chicken leg from the pot, and inserted his chopsticks into the bowl, just like a starved ghost reincarnated, xilihulu Just put noodles in his mouth.

But before he could swallow a bite of the chicken, there was a loud bang behind him, which made him cough and spit out all the noodles that he just ate. He threw the bowl aside in frustration and turned his head away, but there were several peasants surrounded by a big log. , watching the transfer foolishly made the adults angry.

"What are you doing again!!!"

"Back..., the transporter, there is not enough firewood in the kitchen, little..., the little ones went to the official warehouse to get some wood, and when they came back, they approved it as firewood and let the transporter fertilize the little ones." You deserve death!"

Along the way, the good-tempered Wang Hou was also stupidly cried by these ancient people who had never seen the world. His temper became irritable and ruthless. explained.

"firewood?"

Startled, his eyes fell on the big log, but Wang Hou's face was twitched in pain. In Jia Yi's "On the Passing of the Qin Dynasty", the jade, gold nuggets, and gravels were interpreted by these prodigal things. The pillars and girders used to build the official warehouse are made of the best Huangshan cypress wood. Don’t think that wood was cheap in ancient times. Even if such a piece of high-quality beam wood has been thrown in the ruins for several years, it is still a little It's not rotten, and it's worth almost a bucket of grain, almost letting these uneducated people burn it as firewood!
"Bring it back! Pick up firewood, pick up pieces of wood and straw, and burn it! All such high-quality and complete beams will be stocked up for me, and then I will chop off a corner, and I will smash your buttocks! Get out!"

Officials crushed people to death, not to mention the officials and their low-level civilians. Amidst Wang Hou's yelling, these civilian husbands were weeping and carrying the big wood back.

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After all, the army was on fire. Seventeen days after the siege, the Cao army only rested for three days, and was immediately organized by Cao Cao. They continued to march south along Surabaya to attack Lu Bu's old nest, Xiapi City, so as to end this cold winter as soon as possible. The tough battle in the twelfth lunar month.

Following the army, Wang Hou's logistics team also started to carry things forward, but this time, in addition to buckets of grain, there were piles of tatters on the grain ship that came down by the way. .

First of all, the beams and wood removed from the collapsed official houses were laid down in bundles, and then the iron rods used in the house were piled up in bundles at the corner of the grain ship. Stones, all kinds of construction waste, Wang Hou seems to really regard himself as a waste collection station, and these heavy guys who are empty grain hoppers can hold as much as they can.

This tossing, not to mention the people under his command complaining endlessly, even the civil servants who followed Cao Cao shook their heads. Following Cao Cao, Wang Hou's deadly enemy, Yang Xiu, frowned on purpose and sighed deeply. with.

"In Xudu, every household collects night incense, and here in Pengcheng, there is a lot of noise. Wang Lingguan is really..., really diligent and thrifty in managing the family!"

These words are full of irony!When marching and fighting, every kilogram transported is precious. This Hongnong talent is obviously satirizing Wang Hou's stupidity of collecting garbage.

Cao Cao frowned after hearing this, and opened his mouth to speak, but after hesitating for a few seconds, he swallowed the words back.

Xu Du Shou Yexiang was once the laughing stock of the upper class scholars, but in the end Cao Cao saw it, and harvested nearly [-] shi of grain from five thousand acres of land!An average of eight stones per mu is four times the yield per mu of Shangtian in this era!As soon as this happened, the manure in the neighborhood was worth a lot. Xiahou’s family and Xun’s family’s Zhong’s family also started hoarding manure, waiting to go to the fields next year. Although I didn’t know what Wang Hou was doing with a pile of broken wood this time, Cao Cao decided to believe him. a handful!
Amid all kinds of sarcasm and Cao Cao's silence, the pile of junk picked up by Wang Hou followed him on a five-day trek to the destination.

On October [-]th, in the heavy snow in Huaibei, Cao Jun once again attacked Xiapi City like a computer game.

Lu Bu's lair!

　I'm so hungry to write...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)