Chapter 531 The Youzhou Golden Army Nearly Collapses in Psychological Warfare
The dispute between Yue Fei and Guan Sheng was obviously not the case today.
At the beginning, Yue Fei wanted to cut off the water source in Youzhou.
However, news from within Youzhou shows that there is a lot of water in Youzhou City, and every household has dug deep wells. Simply cutting off the water source will probably not be able to truly cut off the drinking water in the city.
So Guan Sheng proposed to release the highly rotten poison in the diversion canal.
Although the golden man may be prepared, but if people don’t drink water from the water drainage channel, livestock must not drink it? The weather is so hot, the military and civilians in the city must not wash or bathe?
As long as the water resources entering the city are polluted, the city will be in chaos.
At least, it will further aggravate the people's hearts of the military and civilians in the city.
But Yue Fei believes that this move will harm the innocent people in the city.
Yue Fei was the main general, but he refused, and Guan Sheng could do nothing.
Seeing that the two of them had different expressions, Wang Lin frowned and said calmly: "Okay, don't argue anymore. What should I do? Let me think about it again."
In fact, Wang Lin knew that Guan Sheng’s strategy was most in line with the current interests of the Yan army.
You know, hundreds of thousands of troops besieged Youzhou, and the daily food and supplies consumed are not a small amount, and these are all white money.
Moreover, from the standpoint of the Great Yan, the Youzhou people who were ruled by the Liao and Jin people for hundreds of years cannot be regarded as the Han people in the true sense.
Their sense of belonging and identity for the Han dynasty in the Central Plains can be said to be zero.
But Wang Lin was born in a new society, raised under the red flag, and received modern humanistic education. He felt that doing this really lacked basic humanitarianism.
The key is that the weather is hot now, and the method of detoxification is very likely to cause plague in the city. Once it spreads, the Yan army outside the city will probably be unable to escape.
But if you have to forcibly attack the city, more people will die.
In such a big city, the 50,000 powerful Jin army in the city, and the Yan army attacked hard, can the casualties be small?
After Emperor Taizong of Song ascended the throne, he actually attacked the city of Youzhou. At that time, the Song army had the advantage, but the city of Youzhou was solid. At that time, the Liao Kingdom had been governing the local area for a long time, and the soldiers and the people returned to their hearts, and the soldiers and civilians in the city were determined to defend.
In the end, the Song army exhausted its advantages at the city and was defeated by the Liao Kingdom to win.
Outside Jiande Gate of Youzhou, Wang Lin led a team of Jinyi Iron Cavalry to march from west to east. He led his team immediately before the Yan army's camp, behind the wide moat in Youzhou.
In the past two days, he ran around Youzhou City.
If such a strong city is to attack, the troops required to invest very large numbers.
Once the siege war is launched, there will be countless casualties. Without a last resort, Wang Lin is not willing to let the army get unnecessary casualties on the premise that Youzhou has become an isolated city and will sooner or later take it down.
It is the summer grain harvest season now.
At least half of the Dayan army and horses besieged in the siege of the city were busy collecting summer grain in the wilderness of Youzhou.
Yan Qing bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I think that Youzhou City is vast and strong. If we attack for a strong force, our army will suffer heavy casualties.
It is better to order the four camps to attack them with catapults, and immediately cut off the water source of Youzhou, fill the moat, and prepare for the next siege."
"The Jin people's retreat has been cut off, and they have long been in a turtle, and the morale of the army will inevitably float. If our army frequently attacks everywhere, civil unrest will arise in the city."
Wang Lin nodded slightly: "It's feasible. Not only that, Xiao Yi, look over there."
Wang Linyang pointed at the high mountain near Youzhou.
This is a branch of Yanshan Mountain, called Langshan Mountain, and the shade of Youzhou City is built against this mountain.
In the past, Liao nobles built many pavilions, thatched cottages and villas in this mountain, which were the places where the nobles in the city climbed high and went out for spring outings, and were close to the naturalized gate.
Wang Lin took out a drawing from his arms and said, "Xiao Yi, ordered the craftsmen in the army to quickly make stone-towering machinery according to the drawings. If there are unknown places, please ask me... and then ordered thousands of soldiers to climb this mountain to occupy the high point.
Build a stone trough..."
Yan Qing was slightly stunned, then smiled bitterly, "Your Majesty, the catapult is very huge, and it is probably very difficult to transport it to the mountains."
Wang Lin smiled slightly: "My small trench machine can be made into various parts at the foot of the mountain, mortise and tenon structure, and then transported up the mountain to easily assemble it.
Xiao Yi, you see that this mountain is about a mile away from Youzhou. The Khitans at that time should have dug up half of this mountain and included it in the city, leaving only half of the mountain peak to see the scenery.
If dozens of catapults are installed at the height of this mountain, soldiers will be sent to dig the mountain to get the stones, and they will project huge rocks from high to roar down every day, and once a wave is made every day, the Jin people will collapse without fighting."
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Without heavy artillery, a catapult is tantamount to a siege artifact.
The large catapult used in the Yan army is now a catapult that Wang Lin used to improve local technology in Qingzhou. The projection distance is even longer and wheels are added to the bottom, which can move around and use horses as the traction power.
Although this is just an improvement in local details, the value it can generate is immeasurable for ancient wars.
The small catapult he proposed today is a catapult that can be loaded and unloaded with a mortise and tenon structure, and cleverly uses the lever principle.
The advantages are movable, portable, loading and unloading, and have stronger mobility; the disadvantages are that the projection is small and the harm is low.
This applies to the current situation.
It is obviously impossible to truly destroy Youzhou’s city defense by using the principle of leverage and physical inertia, and can only play a certain harassing role.
There was no way. With Wang Lin's limited knowledge of physics and engineering, he could only invent such things. Even if he gave him time, he could not do it.
It was not that easy to build a tech tree in ancient times.
As summer begins, the weather becomes hotter and hotter.
The hearts of the Jin army in the city are even more floating due to the hot weather.
Almost everyone knows that in Youzhou, they just sit and wait for death.
The Jin people on the city tower can see the lively Yan army outside the city helping local farmers harvest summer grain and sow autumn grain every day. On the official road at the distance, on the more spacious Hebei plain, it is more clearly seen.
There were endless merchants coming and going.
Although Youyan is still holding up the Jin army flag in Youzhou, it is actually already has the surname Yan.
The Jin people were desperate in their hearts, and Youzhou must have been an isolated city.
In various parts of Yanyun, Yan people have begun to send officials to take over the military and political affairs of various states, and at the same time they have begun to immigrate a large number of people to Youyan and cultivate land and reclaim land.
Wanyan Loushi led all the generals, Wanyan Zonghan and Wanyan Zongwang and others in the city to climb to the city tower, and their eyes turned to the flying dragon pattern star at the far end, which was the headquarters where Emperor Wang Lin of the Great Yan.
Wang Lin’s emperor’s headquarters here undoubtedly means that the Yan people have taken over the entire seven states of Youyan.
Wanyan Loushi's complexion was gloomy.
He didn't believe that Wang Lin could kill Wanyan Zongpan's 200,000 troops with his own courage. The only possibility was that Wu Qimai and Wanyan Zongpan and his son jointly sold Youyan and sold his 100,000 troops to Yan State.
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At this point, Pu Luhu's troops mutiny and internal strife, and most of the troops retreated to the Jin Dynasty, which was equivalent to sounding the death knell of the 50,000 people in Wanyan Loushi.
With Wanyan Zongwang's intention, instead of waiting for death, it would be better to abandon the city and lead 50,000 cavalry to fight to the death, and rush out a gap and fight back to the outside of the pass. Maybe there is still a glimmer of life.
But Wanyan Loushi knew very well that they could survive for half a year when they were defending the city because they had sufficient food in the city. In order to ensure the supply of military food, he had ordered the food supply of the people in the city to half.
But if you lead your army to break through, you will be seeking death and seeking death quickly.
In order to prevent mutiny in Youzhou similar to that of Pu Luhu's troops in Jizhou, Wanyan Loushi directly deprived Aguda of his sects of commanding troops.
Nowadays, people like Wanyan Zongwang are actually like banned in Youzhou.
Suddenly, stones suddenly roared in the blue sky like rain, and the Yan army from all directions launched hundreds of catapults at the same time.
Stone attacks are not the first time.
Wanyan Loushi was not panicked and indifferently issued a military order to avoid orderly the entire army.
Although the Jin army soldiers were all avoided the fortress, trenches and stone walls, Wanyan Loushi did not think that the Yan army could destroy Youzhou's city defense with this little throwing stone, but the rocks passing like locusts poured down.
Next, he finally smashed a man in Youzhou City again, wailing on his horse, howling with ghosts and wolves.
Many houses were smashed.
Although there are not many casualties in the city, the harassment and the negative impact it has brought is extremely great.
Yan Jun seemed to be walking his dog to have fun, and came to this wave or two or three waves regularly every day, and then he stopped.
Suddenly, I made a call and took a break after it was over.
The city defense may be attacked by stone bombs on all sides, and in the air, the landing point of the stone-storm that broke through the sky from the dark side of the city was the powerful area in the city and the residence of the Jin general.
Sometimes it was daytime, sometimes at night, sometimes at dawn, the Yan army on Mount Lang used gravel rain as a means of harassment, and there was no rule at all, which made the people of Youzhou panic.
What's even more terrible is that the Yan army began to cut off the water source in the city and landfill the moat.
This made the army and civilians in the city very nervous and almost went crazy, but they didn't know when the Yan army would attack the city.
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Time flies, and soon it is the end of July of the second year of the revival of the Great Yan.
Since the siege of Youzhou in March, the Yan army has not launched a truly siege battle. However, since last month, the battle of raiding that is still unmoved but not regularly launched is full of tricks and excellence.
The sun shines brightly, and the city is like fire.
In Youzhou City, where the water source was cut off, the Jin army and Youzhou people, who were harassed by the rain of throwing stones and harassed their spirits almost collapsed, were all exhausted and manic.
But in the Yan army camp outside the city, there was laughter and joy.
Except for the troops on the rotational war, most Yan troops avoided deeper foothills and shades of the trees.
Suddenly, the sky was covered with clouds and a strong wind blew up. The Youzhou people in the city were ecstatic and rushed out of their residences, rushed to the streets, looking up at the sky with lightning and thunder.
The heavy rain fell instantly.
This is the first rain in Youzhou since the beginning of summer.
In the emperor's headquarters, Wang Lin finished gnawing a piece of iced watermelon, and Wanyan Wulu, who was squatting beside him, bowing his head and gnawing on the pretty face of the watermelon, was filled with an extremely satisfied look.
In the scorching heat, the emperor was able to create ice out of thin air. In Wanyan Wulu's view, it was almost like a miracle.
Seeing the emperor coming out of the tent with his sword, Wanyan Wulu quickly wiped his mouth and chased after him.