Chapter 747 The fatal flaw in Handan City! Whose general would fight a siege like this?
Meng Tian relaxed a little and said without hesitation: "Little Beicheng cannot fall easily, but Great Beicheng is just the residence of the head of Guizhou. If the war situation requires the sacrifice of Great Beicheng, then Great Beicheng can definitely..."
< br>But midway through the words, Meng Tian was stunned.
Facing Ying Chengyu's meaningful gaze, Meng Tian's eyes lit up: "Handan City guards are recruited from all over the country, but if the Zhao State recruits a large number of troops and recruits young people, most of the Zhao army will be From Dabeicheng!"
"Once Dabeicheng falls, half of the families of Zhao army officers and soldiers will fall into the hands of our army."
"The morale of the army will be in chaos!"
"And Dabeicheng is where Handan City forges and repairs weapons. If Dabeicheng falls, Handan City will never be able to fight for a long time!"
Xiaobeicheng Carrying the families of courtiers and dignitaries.
Dabeicheng also carries the families of the soldiers.
In times of peace, the families of soldiers were not even worthy enough to carry shoes for the families of powerful men.
But when war comes, the weapons in the hands of the soldiers are no duller than the weapons in the hands of the powerful!
How could the soldiers willingly sit back and watch the Qin army slaughter their families!
Su Jiao's eyes also lit up: "Eastern King City cannot fall."
"Eastern King City is where Handan's granary and arsenal are located."
"Although When the war comes, the weapons in the arsenal must have been distributed, but the food in the granary cannot be transported in a day or two.”
"If the East King City falls, the supply of Handan City will be cut off!"
"Your Majesty is right. It seems that all the four cities of Handan City can fall except the West King City. But in fact, except for the West King City, Except for this, none of the four cities in Handan can fall!"
"The four adjacent cities seem to give Handan City more retreat space and tactical support."
"But. It also gave Handan City three more constraints that had to be saved!”
Many truths are not complicated, all that is missing is the finger to poke through the window paper.
When Ying Chengyu exposed the seemingly ferocious illusion of Handan City, all the Qin generals suddenly realized.
It turns out that the city defense system of the four adjacent cities in Handan City is just a cloth tiger!
The strength of Handan City that troubles enemy generals the most is also the most fatal weakness of Handan City!
The fear of Handan City in the hearts of the Qin generals quietly turned into eagerness to try!
Meng Tian suddenly said: "However, Zhao Guo may not necessarily recruit a large number of strong men from Great North City for this battle."
"After all, our army is outnumbered!"
Ying Chengyu said calmly: "I will help the Zhao monarchs and ministers make such a decision!"
"Pass this order to me!"
“Abandon the attack on all other gates of Handan City!”
“Duwei Xifeng’s troops went to the north to ambush in the hills, and Duwei Renxiao’s troops went to the south to ambush in the mountains and forests, intercept and kill them Zhao Guo’s reinforcements”
"The rest of the troops immediately pulled out their camps and followed me across the river to the north."
"After resting for a night, concentrate our forces to attack Xiaobeicheng!"
All the generals raised their hands: "Wei!"
A group of captains quickly rushed to various troops to implement Ying Chengyu's order.
Ying Chengyu turned back to look at the waiter and said solemnly: "I have to send a message to Handan City from Paoze."
The candidate suddenly handed over his hand: "I am willing to die for Lord Chang'an!"
Large swaths of torches lit up the sky on the west side of Handan City.
Ying Chengyu unabashedly uprooted all the camps and led his army across the Zhu River by boat to attack towards the north gate of Xiaobeicheng.
When the sun jumped above the horizon again, the two captive armies followed the rising sun and charged towards the moat on the north side of Xiaobei City!
At the same time, the north gate of Xiaobeicheng.
Looking at the motivated captive soldiers outside the city, Guo Kai, Zhao Yan, Sima Shang and other ministers and generals could not help but frown.
Sima Shang said solemnly: "The Qin army has given up all attacks on the other cities. Even the soldiers and horses are not even left behind. Only the scouts are still scouting around in order to quickly learn about us. "Whether the army will send troops or not?"
"The Qin army has moved almost all its troops to the north of Xiaobeicheng!"
Zhao Ji's eyes were filled with confusion: "The attack on Xiwang City has been given up. , but instead attack Xiaobeicheng with all his strength?"
"Even if Xiaobeicheng falls in this battle, it will not matter."
"What do you want, Lord Qin Chang'an!"
Although Xiaobei City and Xiwang City share a section of the city wall, the wall horse path of Xiaobei City is not connected to Xiwang City, and there is also a height gap. If you want to go to Xiaobei City, You can only go to the West King City through the city gate.
If an enemy army wants to take Xiaobei City first, and then rush through the wall of Xiaobei City directly to the wall of Xiwang City, what they will face will be a forest of spears stabbed down from the wall of Xiwang City!
In Zhao Yan's opinion, Ying Chengyu should not make such a low-level mistake.
Guo Kai said in a deep voice: "Qin Chang'an Lord will never do anything useless."
"I don't know why Qin Chang'an Lord concentrated his troops to attack Xiaobeicheng."
"But, think about your family members and your family assets!"
Hearing this, I was stunned. The hearts of all the generals and courtiers were tense.
Their family members and all the money they have saved in their lives are all in their home in Xiaobeicheng.
The entire bloodline of some people even lives in Xiaobei City.
The survival of Xiaobeicheng may not be important to Handan City, but it is crucial to them!
All the generals and courtiers, regardless of their positions, all said the same thing:
"There is absolutely no room for failure in Xiaobeicheng!"
Guo Kai nodded slightly: "The truth is the same. "
"General Sima, do you have any strategy to stop the Qin army?" Sima Shang said solemnly: "If the Qin army spreads its strategy around Handan City, we can rely on the four cities. Attack everywhere and use local superior forces to continuously weaken the Qin army."
"However, now that the Qin army has joined forces north of Xiaobeicheng, the only thing our army can do is to confront the Qin army head-on!"
"In this case, the losses may be Extremely heavy!"
Guo Kai turned around and asked, "Has Dabeicheng Qingzhuang finished reorganizing the army?"
Guo Chang said immediately: "The army will be reorganized by tomorrow at the latest. Handan City can get more than 33,000 troops."
Guo Kai's voice increased in intensity: "Not enough! Far from enough!"
"Qin Chang'an Lord may have few troops, but since Qin Chang'an Lord dares to attack our Handan, it must be because Qin Chang'an Lord has his confidence. ”
“Pass this order!”
“All men above the age of fourteen and below the age of sixty in Dabei City must be armed and join the army.”< br>
“All the female family members either carry heavy supplies of food and grass for our army, or go into the workshops to help the craftsmen forge arrows and repair weapons.”
"The war is about to begin. The truth is that Handan City is not allowed to have idle Cheng Ding!"
Faced with Guo Kai's order, even Zhao Yan did not have the slightest objection.
Guo Chang quickly handed over his hand: "Wei!"
Guo Kai looked at Sima Shang again and said: "There is no need to worry about the battle losses."
"Tomorrow there will be more than 30,000 Dabeicheng youths Zhuang will be under the command of General Sima. ”
"Within three days, all the strong men in Dabeicheng will be dispatched by our army."
"General Sima just let him go and do whatever he wants!"
Even if Guo Kai made it clear that he had high hopes for Sima Shang and entrusted him with important tasks. , Sima Shang still just slightly handed over his hand calmly: "Wei."
Then Sima Shang turned his eyes to the battlefield again, and said in a deep voice:
"Pass this general's order!"
"Captain Feichong, led his crossbowmen to line up in the south of the city moat, and used crossbow arrows to suppress the Qin army!"
"Captain Feili, led his troops to leave the city from the east gate of Dabei City and bypass it. They attacked the Qin army on the east side of the river."
"Captain Ma Fuchao led his troops to leave the city from the south gate of Xiwang City, bypassed the river and attacked the Qin army on the west side."
"Captain Commander. ..."
Sima Shang also has a headache regarding the current battle situation.
When facing an enemy city, all generals will attack various wall sections of multiple walls at the same time, thereby diluting the forces that the defenders can put into each section of the wall and maximizing the siege's strength advantage.
Handan City can also take full advantage of the advantages of multiple cities standing side by side and numerous city gates, and launch surprise attacks on the siege from all directions.
But this battle...
Which general would concentrate his forces to attack only one section of the city wall during a siege!
How could any general dare to lead a weak force to launch a siege against a fortified city?
Handan City has gone through nearly two hundred years of ups and downs, what kind of battle situation has it not seen?
But Handan City has never seen such a battle situation today!
Sima Shang, who had absolutely no response experience, had to simplify Handan City's defensive advantages into a few fixed offensive routes.
The soldiers and horses of both sides, which are famous for their flexibility, launched a clumsy and boring positional offensive and defensive battle.
It was not until four days later that the moat on the north side of Xiaobeicheng was blocked, and more than ten river channels were consolidated into enough land for chariots to run, that the situation of the battle finally changed.
The huge catapult, driven by a large number of Zhao army prisoners, slowly approached the north wall of Xiaobei City.
Captain Wang Pan led the baggage battalion and followed closely behind, constantly giving orders to adjust the position of the catapult.
Following Ying Chengyu’s command, a huge boulder weighing a hundred kilograms was thrown into the sky by a catapult, and suddenly fell towards the city wall!
“Dodge! Dodge quickly!”
“Flying rocks are coming! Shield soldiers are on alert!”
Sima Shang shouted the order, and at the same time he retreated, dragging Guo Kai away from his side.
Just as he took a few steps back, a huge boulder hit the spot where Sima Shang was originally standing.
“Ah!!!”
Several Zhao sergeants were smashed into minced meat, and dozens of Zhao sergeants were injured by splashing stones.
Listening to the screams around him, Guo Kai half-crouched behind a shield, gasping for breath in fear.
Sima Shang looked at the crack that extended from five steps in front of him to his feet, frowned, and said in a deep voice: "The people obey the order, carry the loess, climb the city with the ramming pestle, and repair the city wall as soon as possible!"
Under Sima Shang's order, more than a thousand strong women rushed up to the city wall carrying baskets full of loess. They first scattered the loess finely into the cracks, then placed wooden boards on the cracks, and then smashed them down with ramming pestles.
With the movements of the fitness women, the shocking cracks disappeared without a trace.
Zhao Ji laughed heartily when he saw this: "The catapult built by Lord Qin Chang'an is feared by the whole world."
"Therefore, Chu even tried its best to build Helu City in order to build more cities. Resist flying stones.”
"Today, General Sima just asked the peasant women to tamp the earth to eliminate the flying stones and destroy the city."
"It's a big win!"
However, Sima Shang shook his head: "Flying stones will destroy the city."
The cracks caused by the falling stones are deep. "
" Although the rammed earth can cover the surface, it cannot repair the inside. I don't know how effective it will be. "
" Desire. To defeat the Qin army’s flying stones, our army can only take the initiative to leave the city and remove the Qin army’s catapults!”
Sima Shang looked at the Qin Army's catapult phalanx in the distance, and said solemnly: "Send the order to Captain Ma Fuchao to harass the Qin Army's center and implicate the Qin Army's formation."
"Send the order to Captain Feichong to burn it down. Qin’s catapult!”
(End of this chapter)