Li Chongjin and Guo Shao summoned more than 20 generals in the front military camp.
Because Guo Shao is now taking over the recruitment of Shouzhou envoys and needs to work here, he is more careful when introducing military generals.
There are too many people and only say it once. Most of Guo Shao can't remember his name and appearance, but he only pays attention to their positions in his heart, so as to understand what army is outside Shouzhou City.
These people are completely different from the familiar imperial guards' military positions. The military names are all kinds of. Guo Shao listened silently for a while. When he heard that he brought his own military equipment, he realized that they were the village soldiers of Song, Hao, Chen, Ying, Xu, Su, Xu, Cai and other prefectures, and some were the soldiers of local towns and festivals, including defense envoys and governors.
The village soldiers were pretty good, at least they had military names; some were real civilians. There were seven households and one army was sent out, and the civilians who were directly recruited were brought to the battle formation after a little organization.
The soldiers directly under the Imperial Guard were not the front-line troops of the Zhou Dynasty, but the soldiers who were stationed in the areas near Kaifeng Prefecture. Most of the people who were eliminated when rectifying the Imperial Guard were involved in the army in front of the Palace.
Now they usually do not have half a cent of military expenses when they farm, so they gathered together to send it to the front line after they fought against Huainan.
Guo Shao originally thought that although the military affairs he was arranged were a tough bone, his troops would rise sharply. After all, there were so many soldiers outside Shouzhou City... After all, the only elite soldier he could use had not changed at all: the first and second army of the left wing of the Hujie Army.
This is the man he led from Tokyo.
There is also a regular army with nearly 20,000 people outside Shouzhou City: the right wing of the Hujie Army.
But the general who commanded this army was Li Jixun.The person Guo Shao met when Xiao Erlang of Xiangxun's family was one year old, the eldest brother-level figure of the Ten Brothers of Yishe, and is now the commander-in-chief of the Infantry Division of the Personal Guards.
Guo Shao didn't think he could command him.Li Jixun's troops remained motionless, as if they would not attack the city, but were stationed here to wait for an opportunity to attack or prepare to attack reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The situation was very bad, and Guo Shao was worried and frightened.He didn't sleep well that night. He got up in the middle of the night and walked around to inspect the fortifications outside the city, but he couldn't see clearly, so he could only check the teams on duty at night.
It's already mid-July and it's a little cold at night.
From time to time, there was a bonfire, and the brothers on duty gathered around the bonfire to cook the fire.
There was a place where the soldiers got lotus roots from somewhere, sprinkled with salt and roasted on the fire, as if they were eating barbecue.
The camp stopped at night, but the occasional moan of wounded soldiers in the air affected the quiet atmosphere.
……
The next morning, Guo Shao had just put on his ring-lock armor and walked out of the village house. He saw that there were already many people outside the trenches and fences in the distance. Many people were repairing the large equipment such as catapults, and some people were lined up, pushing out the ladder, as if they were going to attack the city.
Li Chuyun, Luo Yanhuan and others came first, and then more than 20 generals walked towards this side. Seeing Guo Shao looking outside the door, everyone didn't enter the main hall and gathered around to follow him.
Want to attack the city wall again?Guo Shao asked.
A general said: Several more moats have been filled, and the above arranged that we will continue to fill the river and attack the city later.General Guo, do we still have to follow the previous orders?
Who issued the order?Guo Shao asked again.
The general led the way: Huainan capital deployed General Li.
Guo Shao then stopped talking. He had just arrived in Shouzhou and most of these people didn't know each other. Since it was Li Chongjin's previous military order, he asked the generals to follow the previous arrangements.
As long as it didn't rain, it seemed that it was siegeing the city every day, and it was already regular and it was not a matter of the eve of the war. So Guo Shao didn't talk nonsense and immediately ordered the disbandment of each person to perform his duties.
At this moment, a group of people gathered outside the fence of the village, and Guo Shao ordered Luo Mengzi to put them in.
The leader was an old man with a gray hair all over his face. Guo Shao looked familiar and soon remembered that he was the gang of soldiers who pleaded for them yesterday. The old man said something, so he had an impression.
The old man also had a thin man next to him. Both of them had narrow faces, so maybe they were relatives.
When they walked to Guo Shao, the old soldier knelt down and said, "My eldest son is Dutou. We have discussed it. We will all die anyway. We will die on the battlefield to avoid being looked down upon by other brothers in the army!"Today, I would like to fight. General Guo asked us to go ahead to attack the city and ask for fun!
Guo Shao turned around and saw a group of military generals who had just left watching curiously not far away. He pondered for a moment and said: You go find your generals and go to the front to attack the city... Those who survived will be exempted from the crime of escaping at the battle yesterday.
The father and son said: We will take the order!
After saying that, Guo Shao took the reins from his personal soldiers, turned over the horse, and took Yang Biao and other Hujie generals to the front.
The group ran around the city twice to see the terrain. This was a big city, riding horses around the city twice, and the sun had already risen from the horizon.
The catapults on all sides had already started, and huge stones roared towards the city wall two or three hundred steps away. The Zhou soldiers under the city wall rushed over, and arrows were fired from up and down. The ladder was pushed closer to the city wall like a huge wooden tank by groups of people.
No matter how spectacular the scenes in the wilderness are or how powerful the equipment is, their power is still limited.
The stones of the catapult can smash the city walls into pieces, but they still can't smash the thick brick-covered earth walls after more than a month of hard work.
Bow, arrow, crossbow, arrow, stone, fireball are just preludes, and in the end they return to the siege method that Guo Shao often witnessed: climbing the wall without brains.Of course there is a more vivid term called Ant Sutra.
I saw a cloud ladder being pushed to the wall, with carriages and two rows of wooden wheels below. The folded ladder was then unfolded and then fell to the top of the city. With a snap, the ladder was just put on, and immediately a crazy shout was heard, and the Zhou soldiers rushed up.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a wooden barrel on the top of the city suddenly poured a piece of black oil down, and then a few torches were thrown out. The black oil hit the fire when it blasted, and a raging fire ignited up and down the ladder.
The screams of Zhou soldiers were so hard to bear. People fell down from the ladder, some did not die on the ground and rolled in pain. Some people splashed with water, but it was difficult to destroy them.
Many people couldn't stand it and jumped into the moat directly.
The black smoke rolled in the air, and the smell of burning asphalt was mixed with the smell of burning hair.
Guo Shao just stood a few hundred steps away and looked at him, and his scalp was numb. What is the difference between this and dying?!Where did the oil dug out in the Southern Tang Kingdom? This thing can be used like this.
This scene filled Guo Shao's heart with shadow. He felt that fighting in the battle formation was not terrifying, and siege was a nightmare.
There were also catapults in the city, which seemed to be behind the city wall. Guo Shao couldn't see it, but he could see some people standing on the top of the city, looking back and shouting, as if they were observing the direction.
Soon, a burning clay pot flew out of the city. The clay pot fell into a crowd like a ball of fire, and it broke with a clang, and oil and fire lights splashed everywhere. The crowd dispersed, and the people on fire rolled around on the ground.
A ladder ahead was getting more and more fierce. The fire could not be extinguished. The carriage and people around had turned around and ran away. But as soon as they ran across the moat, they saw a general riding a horse rushing towards him with a team of cavalry, chopping him head-on, shouting loudly.
Then the rioters gathered into the crowd of people with a ladder behind.
Smoke rolled up and down the city walls, and Shouzhou City was soon shrouded in black smoke and fire.
The Zhou army continued to shoot, and after a series of crossbows, the ladders were put on the city wall again, and some more simple ladders were put on the four sides, and people climbed up like ants.
A general shouted from behind: The first one to climb the city wall will receive a reward!Enjoy wealth and glory for a lifetime!
The shadow of wealth and prosperity was not seen, and the first time I saw a bucket of oil poured down!
Several people fell down on fire and the wooden ladder instantly ignited a fire... This oil is really useful to the Southern Tang army, and it can be ignited in one go, otherwise it would not be easy to burn the ladder.
But this wave of Zhou soldiers was extremely brave, and some people rushed up the burning ladder regardless of their death!
It's a complete way to die together.
Guo Shao could see clearly that the first soldier who rushed up had his hands and feet burned, and the screams were heard to defeat Bu Wai. He hugged a Tang soldier and jumped straight from the top of the city... What's the use of the first soldier who rushed up? Anyway, he was dead.
Some people suffered huge casualties, and a few people climbed up the city wall from the simple ladder, but when they saw swords and guns dancing, they might be chopped into meat paste.
Such a brave soldier who did not care about death died meaninglessly?
Guo Shao finally couldn't help but yelled, and didn't care about Li Chongjin's orders, saying: Send someone to order the troops in front and stop siege immediately!
After a while, a group of generals rushed to Guo Shao one after another to confirm their order to withdraw.
Then amid the shouts of people, countless people under the city wall slowly retreated like a tide. From a distance, it seemed that the sea water had receded.
We will not attack Shouzhou anymore?A few days ago, General Li ordered us to attack at all costs... A general looked at Guo Shao with some disbelief.
Guo Shao ignored it. He paid attention to the bravest man just now, pointed at the place with a horse whip, and sent his personal soldiers to call them over to meet.Soon, a group of people came with some half-dead people.
The one who walked in front was the old man who asked for a fight in the morning. Guo Shao suddenly realized that it was those people!
These deserters who wanted to escape from Shouzhou yesterday became fearless today, and it is really difficult to determine the ability of human beings.
The wounded soldiers who were carrying them back could not bear to look at them. Their skin was burned on a large area, and their bodies were pitch black. Their skinless red flesh was exposed on the black body. They shouted in pain on the shelf.
It seems like someone who was blown by a bomb, not the scars of cold weapons war.
The old man who had talked to Guo Shao was wiping his tears and kept talking to the injured person lying beside him. The man was covered in black clothes and was no longer as a human.Maybe it was the son of the old man?
Guo Shao asked: What's your name?
The old soldier choked and said, "Qin Shitou."
Guo Shao said: All those who survived are innocent.You are now changing the number, attached to the left wing of the Army Hu Jie Army, the number is Xiaying. Qin Dashi, you are the head of the capital.
Guo Shao felt uncomfortable and looked back at the generals and said: They were all raised by their mothers. If they fought like this, the villagers who returned to Tokyo asked me if I wanted a husband or son. What would I say?
Because Guo Shao is now taking over the recruitment of Shouzhou envoys and needs to work here, he is more careful when introducing military generals.
There are too many people and only say it once. Most of Guo Shao can't remember his name and appearance, but he only pays attention to their positions in his heart, so as to understand what army is outside Shouzhou City.
These people are completely different from the familiar imperial guards' military positions. The military names are all kinds of. Guo Shao listened silently for a while. When he heard that he brought his own military equipment, he realized that they were the village soldiers of Song, Hao, Chen, Ying, Xu, Su, Xu, Cai and other prefectures, and some were the soldiers of local towns and festivals, including defense envoys and governors.
The village soldiers were pretty good, at least they had military names; some were real civilians. There were seven households and one army was sent out, and the civilians who were directly recruited were brought to the battle formation after a little organization.
The soldiers directly under the Imperial Guard were not the front-line troops of the Zhou Dynasty, but the soldiers who were stationed in the areas near Kaifeng Prefecture. Most of the people who were eliminated when rectifying the Imperial Guard were involved in the army in front of the Palace.
Now they usually do not have half a cent of military expenses when they farm, so they gathered together to send it to the front line after they fought against Huainan.
Guo Shao originally thought that although the military affairs he was arranged were a tough bone, his troops would rise sharply. After all, there were so many soldiers outside Shouzhou City... After all, the only elite soldier he could use had not changed at all: the first and second army of the left wing of the Hujie Army.
This is the man he led from Tokyo.
There is also a regular army with nearly 20,000 people outside Shouzhou City: the right wing of the Hujie Army.
But the general who commanded this army was Li Jixun.The person Guo Shao met when Xiao Erlang of Xiangxun's family was one year old, the eldest brother-level figure of the Ten Brothers of Yishe, and is now the commander-in-chief of the Infantry Division of the Personal Guards.
Guo Shao didn't think he could command him.Li Jixun's troops remained motionless, as if they would not attack the city, but were stationed here to wait for an opportunity to attack or prepare to attack reinforcements from the Southern Tang Dynasty.
The situation was very bad, and Guo Shao was worried and frightened.He didn't sleep well that night. He got up in the middle of the night and walked around to inspect the fortifications outside the city, but he couldn't see clearly, so he could only check the teams on duty at night.
It's already mid-July and it's a little cold at night.
From time to time, there was a bonfire, and the brothers on duty gathered around the bonfire to cook the fire.
There was a place where the soldiers got lotus roots from somewhere, sprinkled with salt and roasted on the fire, as if they were eating barbecue.
The camp stopped at night, but the occasional moan of wounded soldiers in the air affected the quiet atmosphere.
……
The next morning, Guo Shao had just put on his ring-lock armor and walked out of the village house. He saw that there were already many people outside the trenches and fences in the distance. Many people were repairing the large equipment such as catapults, and some people were lined up, pushing out the ladder, as if they were going to attack the city.
Li Chuyun, Luo Yanhuan and others came first, and then more than 20 generals walked towards this side. Seeing Guo Shao looking outside the door, everyone didn't enter the main hall and gathered around to follow him.
Want to attack the city wall again?Guo Shao asked.
A general said: Several more moats have been filled, and the above arranged that we will continue to fill the river and attack the city later.General Guo, do we still have to follow the previous orders?
Who issued the order?Guo Shao asked again.
The general led the way: Huainan capital deployed General Li.
Guo Shao then stopped talking. He had just arrived in Shouzhou and most of these people didn't know each other. Since it was Li Chongjin's previous military order, he asked the generals to follow the previous arrangements.
As long as it didn't rain, it seemed that it was siegeing the city every day, and it was already regular and it was not a matter of the eve of the war. So Guo Shao didn't talk nonsense and immediately ordered the disbandment of each person to perform his duties.
At this moment, a group of people gathered outside the fence of the village, and Guo Shao ordered Luo Mengzi to put them in.
The leader was an old man with a gray hair all over his face. Guo Shao looked familiar and soon remembered that he was the gang of soldiers who pleaded for them yesterday. The old man said something, so he had an impression.
The old man also had a thin man next to him. Both of them had narrow faces, so maybe they were relatives.
When they walked to Guo Shao, the old soldier knelt down and said, "My eldest son is Dutou. We have discussed it. We will all die anyway. We will die on the battlefield to avoid being looked down upon by other brothers in the army!"Today, I would like to fight. General Guo asked us to go ahead to attack the city and ask for fun!
Guo Shao turned around and saw a group of military generals who had just left watching curiously not far away. He pondered for a moment and said: You go find your generals and go to the front to attack the city... Those who survived will be exempted from the crime of escaping at the battle yesterday.
The father and son said: We will take the order!
After saying that, Guo Shao took the reins from his personal soldiers, turned over the horse, and took Yang Biao and other Hujie generals to the front.
The group ran around the city twice to see the terrain. This was a big city, riding horses around the city twice, and the sun had already risen from the horizon.
The catapults on all sides had already started, and huge stones roared towards the city wall two or three hundred steps away. The Zhou soldiers under the city wall rushed over, and arrows were fired from up and down. The ladder was pushed closer to the city wall like a huge wooden tank by groups of people.
No matter how spectacular the scenes in the wilderness are or how powerful the equipment is, their power is still limited.
The stones of the catapult can smash the city walls into pieces, but they still can't smash the thick brick-covered earth walls after more than a month of hard work.
Bow, arrow, crossbow, arrow, stone, fireball are just preludes, and in the end they return to the siege method that Guo Shao often witnessed: climbing the wall without brains.Of course there is a more vivid term called Ant Sutra.
I saw a cloud ladder being pushed to the wall, with carriages and two rows of wooden wheels below. The folded ladder was then unfolded and then fell to the top of the city. With a snap, the ladder was just put on, and immediately a crazy shout was heard, and the Zhou soldiers rushed up.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, a wooden barrel on the top of the city suddenly poured a piece of black oil down, and then a few torches were thrown out. The black oil hit the fire when it blasted, and a raging fire ignited up and down the ladder.
The screams of Zhou soldiers were so hard to bear. People fell down from the ladder, some did not die on the ground and rolled in pain. Some people splashed with water, but it was difficult to destroy them.
Many people couldn't stand it and jumped into the moat directly.
The black smoke rolled in the air, and the smell of burning asphalt was mixed with the smell of burning hair.
Guo Shao just stood a few hundred steps away and looked at him, and his scalp was numb. What is the difference between this and dying?!Where did the oil dug out in the Southern Tang Kingdom? This thing can be used like this.
This scene filled Guo Shao's heart with shadow. He felt that fighting in the battle formation was not terrifying, and siege was a nightmare.
There were also catapults in the city, which seemed to be behind the city wall. Guo Shao couldn't see it, but he could see some people standing on the top of the city, looking back and shouting, as if they were observing the direction.
Soon, a burning clay pot flew out of the city. The clay pot fell into a crowd like a ball of fire, and it broke with a clang, and oil and fire lights splashed everywhere. The crowd dispersed, and the people on fire rolled around on the ground.
A ladder ahead was getting more and more fierce. The fire could not be extinguished. The carriage and people around had turned around and ran away. But as soon as they ran across the moat, they saw a general riding a horse rushing towards him with a team of cavalry, chopping him head-on, shouting loudly.
Then the rioters gathered into the crowd of people with a ladder behind.
Smoke rolled up and down the city walls, and Shouzhou City was soon shrouded in black smoke and fire.
The Zhou army continued to shoot, and after a series of crossbows, the ladders were put on the city wall again, and some more simple ladders were put on the four sides, and people climbed up like ants.
A general shouted from behind: The first one to climb the city wall will receive a reward!Enjoy wealth and glory for a lifetime!
The shadow of wealth and prosperity was not seen, and the first time I saw a bucket of oil poured down!
Several people fell down on fire and the wooden ladder instantly ignited a fire... This oil is really useful to the Southern Tang army, and it can be ignited in one go, otherwise it would not be easy to burn the ladder.
But this wave of Zhou soldiers was extremely brave, and some people rushed up the burning ladder regardless of their death!
It's a complete way to die together.
Guo Shao could see clearly that the first soldier who rushed up had his hands and feet burned, and the screams were heard to defeat Bu Wai. He hugged a Tang soldier and jumped straight from the top of the city... What's the use of the first soldier who rushed up? Anyway, he was dead.
Some people suffered huge casualties, and a few people climbed up the city wall from the simple ladder, but when they saw swords and guns dancing, they might be chopped into meat paste.
Such a brave soldier who did not care about death died meaninglessly?
Guo Shao finally couldn't help but yelled, and didn't care about Li Chongjin's orders, saying: Send someone to order the troops in front and stop siege immediately!
After a while, a group of generals rushed to Guo Shao one after another to confirm their order to withdraw.
Then amid the shouts of people, countless people under the city wall slowly retreated like a tide. From a distance, it seemed that the sea water had receded.
We will not attack Shouzhou anymore?A few days ago, General Li ordered us to attack at all costs... A general looked at Guo Shao with some disbelief.
Guo Shao ignored it. He paid attention to the bravest man just now, pointed at the place with a horse whip, and sent his personal soldiers to call them over to meet.Soon, a group of people came with some half-dead people.
The one who walked in front was the old man who asked for a fight in the morning. Guo Shao suddenly realized that it was those people!
These deserters who wanted to escape from Shouzhou yesterday became fearless today, and it is really difficult to determine the ability of human beings.
The wounded soldiers who were carrying them back could not bear to look at them. Their skin was burned on a large area, and their bodies were pitch black. Their skinless red flesh was exposed on the black body. They shouted in pain on the shelf.
It seems like someone who was blown by a bomb, not the scars of cold weapons war.
The old man who had talked to Guo Shao was wiping his tears and kept talking to the injured person lying beside him. The man was covered in black clothes and was no longer as a human.Maybe it was the son of the old man?
Guo Shao asked: What's your name?
The old soldier choked and said, "Qin Shitou."
Guo Shao said: All those who survived are innocent.You are now changing the number, attached to the left wing of the Army Hu Jie Army, the number is Xiaying. Qin Dashi, you are the head of the capital.
Guo Shao felt uncomfortable and looked back at the generals and said: They were all raised by their mothers. If they fought like this, the villagers who returned to Tokyo asked me if I wanted a husband or son. What would I say?