The next day, hundreds of cowhide war drums surrounding three sides of the city wall let out deafening roars, and Zhang Ji's first wave of siege began. Hundreds of drummers took turns to rest, and the drums continued all night long. The beating of the giant drums shocked the soul.
It excites the attackers and frightens the defenders. When the drum beat started, even the dust on the ground shook and turned into a visible golden dust wave in the autumn wind. Under the dust waves, soldiers like dust
Start approaching Lishi City Wall.
Zhang Ji's siege arrangement was very strange. The siege on the first day was actually a three-sided feint attack. Although most of the city was temporarily recruited strong men, since Chen Chong was defending the city, he did not expect to break the city in one day, but wanted to test it first.
Find out Chen Chong's layout in various places in the city, especially the location of the original two thousand soldiers, and then attack by force.
Lishi City has been a county administration for many years. In the past four years, it has been repaired by Chen Chong and Yang Hui. It has reached a height of five feet. It is also divided into the outer city and the inner city. There are also trenches and moats in front of the outer wall. Therefore, Zhang Jixian arranged to fill in the trenches. Sergeant Bai Bo will dig them.
The excavated soil was packed in carts or sacks and carried on the backs of horses and donkeys. People and horses took turns rushing in, dumping all the soil into the deep ditch, as if it was overwhelming mountains and seas.
It didn't take long for the trench to be filled up. Then the Liang people began to fill the city with earth and push away mountains of earth. Arrows rained down on the city, so Zhang Jijun escorted him with a row of shields and continued to bulldoze without taking a break. Those who were shot fell down.
On the ground, there were people who braved arrows at first to drag him back. Later, more and more people died, and he could no longer care about it. Zhang Ji simply ordered that the corpses be buried together in the mountain of earth, and the earth continued to pour on top. At night,
, the sound of the war drums did not diminish at all, and the pine and cypress torches under the city were like stars in the sky. This continued for two days, and the mountains on three sides were filled with two feet, reaching a height that can be occupied by ants.
But Zhang Ji stopped there. In the early morning, he asked the sergeants who were filling in the soil on three sides to see which side encountered the strongest resistance. They all replied that the guards on the city did not shoot long-range arrows.
After ten steps, they all aimed at the same target, but couldn't tell the difference. This greatly disappointed Zhang Ji. He discussed the reason with Han Siam and Yang Feng, and Han Siam said: "When Chen Chong uses his troops, he usually leaves the strongest one in preparation.
Unexpected, we will only use it when there is an emergency. The general is feinting on three sides today, and I am afraid that Chen Chong is also pretending to defend on three sides and has not used his full strength."
This gave Zhang Ji a big headache, so he had no choice but to give up taking tricks and concentrate his troops on the south side, and fill up the ground from one place to attack the city the next day. So Chen Chong accordingly concentrated his troops on the south side, and arranged the remaining troops on the east and west sides.
The strong men below went up, first erected a tall building with wood, and then tied the two adjacent tall buildings together, built a wooden platform, increased the height layer by layer, and then arranged crossbowmen on it.
The vanguard who climbed the city had been attacking for half a day, but suddenly they felt that the arrow rain on the wall was decreasing, so they seized the opportunity to climb up the city wall. Unexpectedly, after they boarded the city, they discovered that the inner side of the outer city wall had been transformed into a gentle slope.
The wall can accommodate nearly two thousand people. They waited for about three hundred people to climb up the wall. Crossbow arrows suddenly fired from the north and south sides, suppressing the soldiers who were following the city climbing so that they could not lift their heads, while the guards on the slope swarmed up and fought with the first soldiers.
The attackers fought together and were quickly outnumbered. The corpses of those who died in battle were thrown off the city wall, causing a lot of panic.
After attacking for three consecutive days, Zhang Ji achieved nothing, which made him quite annoyed. He had already sent a message to Xu Rong, boasting to Haikou: "Ji breaks the stone like a blade splitting a bamboo knot. It will definitely succeed!"
Within a few days, Jidang personally took Chen Chong's head and joined forces with Jianwei in Anyi." As a result, he could not make any progress, which would definitely affect the success or failure of the imperial court's entire conquest plan. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and send another message to Xu Rong, saying
: "Chen Chong's defense of Lishi is unpredictable, just like Chen Cang's huge defense, it is not a matter of speed!"
After the letter was sent, Zhang Ji left the camp and continued to look at Li Shi. He thought about Chen Chong's previous great victories against the imperial court. He could not help but gritted his teeth and said to Zhang Xiu: "Even if Chen Chong has the power to reach the sky, I will go through the mountains and clouds to capture him."
Head!"
At this time, a Sima from the former army suddenly came to report that the defenders in the city had begun to write letters to the shooters below the city, which had caused a huge wave in the army. He asked the general to read them. Zhang Ji was quite surprised and hurriedly took the handwritten letters.
It turned out that Chen Chong had captured Bai Bojun alive on the city wall, and had already learned the reasons claimed by Han Siam and Yang Feng. He immediately refuted the reasons for the two people's rebellion in handwriting one by one, claiming that the documents used by Yang and Han were all forgeries.
For this reason, he specially printed his official seal on paper and asked Bai Bojun to go back to Yang Feng and Han Xian to confront each other one by one. Don't be deceived by traitors.
Zhang Ji was covered in cold sweat. He immediately realized that something was wrong and immediately led his troops to find Han Xian and Yang Feng. Still far away, he saw that Han Xian's camp had been surrounded by soldiers, and Yang Feng
Here, I was having a heated argument with them. Many people said: "If the Dragon Head hadn't deceived us, why would we have fought? Do you want us to be treacherous people?"
Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Han Xian immediately confused and said: "In troubled times, we are begging for survival. If we ask for survival, we are just conforming to the current situation. The 400,000-strong army of the princes cannot be defeated. But now that the princes have dispersed, the imperial army has
If we keep moving forward, even Guo Shuai, who is so good at fighting, can only die on the spot. We are the first to die. If we want to survive, how can we not do it anyway? What's more, I, Han Siam, are often risking bows and arrows. How can I be a person who is afraid of death? I just want to survive.
Ear!"
Yang Feng on the side also advised: "Now that Lishi can be broken with a finger, and Meiji has submitted to the imperial court, why should we go against the general trend?"
Everyone fell silent after hearing this. At this time, Zhang Ji broke in, looked around at everyone and said: "The imperial army has been stationed in Yuanyang to take care of your children. What else is there to worry about? Go back to the camp quickly!" With this final word, everyone was convinced.
Everyone who heard about it was angry and had to disperse.
After everyone had dispersed, the sky became dark, and the strong winds shuttled back and forth in the loess. Zhang Ji felt a little cold. Only then did he realize that autumn had indeed arrived. He looked back at Han Siam and Yang Feng, both of whom looked at each other indifferently.
Yan. As people who have fought for a long time, they all know the consequences of this turmoil. After today, it is difficult to expect the White Wave Army to fight hard.
Another four days passed, and there was still no progress in the attack on the city. Instead, a letter came from Xu Rong from Hedong. He did not urge Zhang Ji to attack the city, but first told him to unite the army and not treat Bai Bo's people lightly. Xu Rong emphasized,
The most urgent task is to persuade the kings of Meiji to submit. As long as the Southern Huns switch sides, this battle will be won. But if you want to attack the city of Chen Chong, it is difficult to attack by force, so it is better to attack skillfully. He specially sent a sharp archer, which can be of great use.<
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But the sharp archer came two days late. It turned out that he did not come alone, but more than a dozen heavy-armored knights, including a young man in white cloth.
Zhang Ji was impatient to wait, but when he saw the sharp archer, he immediately said with great joy: "With you here, Chen Chong has nothing to fear!" It turned out that the sharp archer's name was Hu Che'er, originally from Huang Zhongyi.
From his birth, his courage was astonishing, he was a martial arts champion, and he had an old friendship with Zhang Ji. Zhang Ji asked the grand master several times to transfer him to the military department, but the grand master was quite reluctant to let him go. Unexpectedly, they met today!
Hu Che'er was also obviously very happy. Xu Rong made a heavy promise to him. If he could shoot Chen Chong, the grand master would reward him with ten thousand gold and be granted the title of a thousand households. At this time, he was already gearing up. At this time, Zhang Ji said: "And
Wait a moment, I still don’t know how to find a reason for Chen Chong to appear at the top of the city."
Hu Cheer smiled and said: "This is not a difficult matter, Jianwei has already thought of it for you."
At the end of the next day, a few dark clouds floated in the sky, blocking the sunlight and blocking the blood and loess on the battlefield.
The attack on Tushan in the south was temporarily suspended. However, in the open space below Tushan, a group of people came over. The heavily armored knight was behind, and there were several Liang infantry in front, among whom was escorting a young man in white cloth.
The young man was stained and stained, his hair was unkempt, and his hair was tied up with a piece of cloth.
A knight on horseback behind him untied his collar and shouted loudly toward the city: "Please come out and answer the question, Bingzhou Mu, your clan brother is now under the city and wants to talk to you!"
The city was silent for a long time. Suddenly, a man in armor stuck his head out from the wooden building and looked at the crowd below. When the infantry in front saw someone upstairs, he immediately grabbed the prisoner's hair and asked him to raise his head. The prisoner struggled to lift his head.
Looking up, the dazzling sunlight shone on his face, and he closed his eyes in pain.
Before Dongren could speak again, the man on the city suddenly shouted: "Yuan De, why are you here!"
Chen Zhong heard the sound and immediately shouted to the city, but he could only make a sound. It turned out that Xu Rong had already cut off his tongue in order to prevent him from revealing the military situation in Hedong.
When the knight heard this, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Why don't Bingzhou Mu ask me? It happened to inform Longshou that six cities in Hedong have been defeated, and only one city in Jie County is left. During the siege, my brother was captured. Jianwei General Xu Rong gave way first.
I'm here to wait for him to attack the county, and then he will go north to join forces soon. If the leader of the dragon cares about his family and the people of the prefecture and county, he'd better surrender as soon as possible!"
The man shouted loudly: "You are cutting my brother's mouth off. Obviously, everything you said is false! I, Chen Tingjian, am now the head of the Chen clan. As my ancestors are admonishing me, how can I cherish my life for the country? If he falls into your hands, you can kill him with swords and fire.
If you want to persuade me to surrender, you'd better give up!"
When the knight heard this, he was not polite. He immediately pulled out his knife, grabbed Chen Zhong's chin, picked up the handle of the knife and smashed it into his mouth, causing his mouth to bleed immediately. As soon as the knight let go, Chen Zhong spit out his smashed teeth.
It fell to the soil together with the blood. For a while, his face was filled with tears, and he was moaning and screaming.
The knight stopped his hand and continued to shout: "I heard that the Chen family is declining in Longshou's generation. This Chen Zhong has lived with you since he was a child, and is closer to you than father and son. Longshou has no trace.
Is it a relationship between flesh and blood? We are going to cut off his ears and nose now!"
But I saw the man in the city raised his hand and took out a crossbow, and continued to shout to the people: "Don't say more! You should be upright in life! Why do you torture you like this? Why don't you chop him off with a knife! If you don't do it, I will shoot him to death myself! Chen Tingjian
I am here with all the people with lofty ideals. I have long made up my mind to sacrifice this body. I am not afraid of death. Why do I care about the feelings of flesh and blood!"
Just as people were shouting in the city, Hu Cheer finally took action.