Chapter 412 : Jiejiao! Soldiers approaching the city!
"By the way, when do you think Jie Jiao's army will arrive?"
"I don't know, but in the past two days, the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army have left Luocheng one after another and divided their forces to build camps. It seems that the Jiejiao people should be arriving soon."
"I heard that Jie Jiao's army numbers one million people? Our three armies add up to less than 50,000 people. How can we fight this?"
"That's the Jiejiao people bragging... I happened to hear the soldiers from the Lun tribe who went to inquire about this matter say that Jiejiao's army is at most 300,000, and only 60,000 to 70,000 of them can be called an army.
The others are just slaves who don't even have weapons and equipment. Calculated this way, the difference in military strength between us and the Jiejiao people is actually not that big."
"Huh? Ah Wu, do you still understand the Sheng language?"
"Of course, hahaha..."
"Ah Hui, don't listen to this kid's nonsense. How can he understand the language of the Yi people? It's just the Di people from the Lun tribe who understand the language of Wei."
"Damn it, Abao, you..."
On a certain section of the west wall of Luocheng City, three recruits belonging to the Shangshui Army, Li Hui, Le Bao, and Yang Wu, were talking quietly while doing their work.
Maybe the three of them made too much noise and attracted the attention of a merchant general with a thousand soldiers who was patrolling the city wall with two soldiers.
I saw the Thousand Soldiers of Shang Shui Army staring, speaking in the Wei dialect with a clear Chu accent, and shouted loudly: "Hey, those three boys over there! Shut up and hurry up.
live!"
"Oops, it's Ran Teng, a thousand-man general." Yang Wu opened his eyes wide.
The three young men from Shangshui County shrank their heads and did not dare to chat anymore. Their submissive appearance aroused laughter from many veterans of the Shangshui Army nearby.
"What a joke!" Ran Teng, the Qianren general, glanced around with his eyes wide open, and cursed angrily: "Hurry up and reinforce the parapet wall for me. The Jie people are all sharp archers. If we don't hurry up now, what will happen to us?"
Then the opponent will shoot you to death with one arrow!"
The so-called female wall refers to a wall with a spying hole in the city wall, that is, a wall stack with concave and convex circulation. Its function is that when the soldiers stand in the recess and spy on the enemy outside the city from the city wall, the protrusions on both sides
The built-up wall stacks can maximize protection and are especially effective for bows and arrows.
In the past hundred years, the walls of the newly built cities of the Wei State were all built with parapets. This effective defensive measure was widely spread in all the Central Plains countries. But unfortunately, this Luo wall built by the Wei State in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China
The city's walls originally did not have this function.
Therefore, from the past few days, the Dangshan Army and the Shangshui Army began to build more walls in Luocheng. The soldiers of the two armies cut down trees from outside the city, then split the logs into wooden boards, and then nailed them into pieces one foot wide.
The half-foot-high thick plate was fixed on the city wall of Luocheng. On the one hand, it increased the height of the wall and made it more difficult for the enemy to climb the wall. On the other hand, it served as a bunker to block the enemy's flying arrows.
In order to prevent the enemy from burning down these wooden walls with rockets, the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army left a gap about one person wide between each wooden board. In this way, even if a section of the wooden board was burned, it would not be implicated.
Other planks.
There is no way. After all, Luocheng is an ancient city built by the Wei State hundreds of years ago. Its defensive performance cannot be compared with the Wei State cities built in the past hundred years. Who would dare to imagine that the walls of Luocheng are only a little over two feet high.
?
What does the height of just over two feet mean?
This means that the enemy does not need siege equipment such as ladders or chariots at all. Soldiers setting up human ladders alone are enough to climb the city wall.
Because of this, the Shang Shui Army could only use wooden planks to heighten the wall in disguise, even though they all knew that the enemy could burn most of the wall made of wood with just a wave of rockets.
Just when Ran Teng, the thousand-man general, was scolding the soldiers of the Shang Shui Army, there was a sound of footsteps in the distance. Everyone glanced subconsciously and realized that the person who came turned out to be the general in charge of their Shang Shui Army, Wu.
avoid.
"General." The soldiers nearby saluted.
Wu Ji waved his hand, and then, after taking a look at the progress of the work on this section of the city wall, he frowned and said to the thousand generals: "Speed up! The Jiejiao people should arrive in Luocheng today and tomorrow."
"Yes." Ran Teng clasped his fists and accepted the order.
From the side, the soldier Yang Wu stared at Wu Ji, who was wearing general armor, with wide eyes and a look of surprise on his face. He kept pushing his companions around him and whispered: "It's General Wu Ji, General Wu Ji."
As if he heard something, Wu Ji turned to look at Yang Wu, smiled slightly, and then continued walking towards the city wall in front.
Seeing this, Yang Wu murmured longingly: "General Wu Ji smiled at me, haha, General Wu Ji smiled at me..."
After saying that, he saw that his companion did not respond, so he turned around in confusion, and saw his companion Li Hui looking out of the city in shock.
"What's the matter, Hui?"
Seeing the look of astonishment on his companion's face, Yang Wu followed his gaze and looked far outside the city. He was shocked to see that the hillside in the distance was empty just now, but now hundreds of people had appeared.
Riders wearing all kinds of sheepskin coats.
Then, just in the blink of an eye, countless similar knights appeared one after another on the hillside at the end of the sight, all of which were equipped with a standard Jie tribe cavalry with one knight driving three war horses.
"Enemy... enemy situation!" Yang Wu shouted subconsciously.
After hearing this, Wu Ji, who had not walked for long, immediately stopped and hurriedly came to the city wall. From the peephole of the wall, he peered at the cavalry at the end of the line of sight. They seemed to be endless, but it was obvious that they were still increasing.
The Jie tribe cavalry.
"They are all cavalry, and they do not follow the slave army...are they Jiejiao's advance sentry?"
Wu Ji frowned.
"General, do you want to blow the siren?" Ran Teng, a general with thousands of people standing by, asked urgently.
Wu Ji calmly looked at the countless Jie clan cavalry at the end of his sight, shook his head and said: "The Jie clan people are used to using slave armies to consume the enemy's physical strength... These Jie Jiao clan slave armies have not yet appeared, and they cannot risk huge losses.
After sacrificing their lives to attack the city, the Shang Shui Army continued their work. However, remember to keep an eye on the Jie people outside the city. It is said that these people are very good at sneak attacks, so don't let them wait for an opportunity to take your life."
After that, he ordered a thousand generals, Ran Teng said: "Blow the flute to warn the whole army that the Jiejiao people have arrived!"
"Yes!" Ran Teng, the general of thousands, nodded, raised the horn in his hand to his mouth, and blew hard.
"Woo——"
A thick and long horn sound sounded.
This kind of warning horn, which represents warning, is usually relatively long, and its purpose is to tell the army sergeants: "The enemy has arrived within the visual range, so you must be more vigilant."
And if the Jiejiao people start to attack the city, then the horn sound will be relatively short to express the meaning of "imminent".
In the city, the soldiers of Shangshui who heard the sound of the trumpet did not panic. Under the leadership of their respective generals of thousands or hundreds of people, they quickly increased their defenses on the city wall.
At the same time, someone quickly reported the matter to Zhao Hongrun, who was playing with mud in the felt tent.
No joke, at this moment, Zhao Hongrun is indeed playing with mud in the felt tent. However, he is not really doing it for fun, but is making a war clay plate to simulate the terrain of Luocheng area with a clay plate. This is far better than
A paper map is more intuitive.
No, when the tribal chiefs in the city heard the horn sound used by the Shang Shui Army as an early warning, and after climbing to the city tower to confirm the matter in person, they rushed to the felt tent where Zhao Hongrun was, and were shocked to find that His Highness Prince Su actually
Inside the felt tent, a clay plate was used to draw the terrain of Luocheng, making the entire battlefield clear at a glance.
"Why, haven't you ever played in mud when you were a child?"
Zhao Hongrun, who was squatting on the ground, raised his head and glanced at the tribal chiefs standing at the entrance of the felt tent, and joked with a smile.
Hearing this, Qi Muke, the leader of the Gray Sheep Tribe, said with a look of disbelief: "That's a child's plaything. How can it be like this with King Su... It's simply unbelievable."
The clan chiefs nodded in agreement, staring dumbly at the lifelike clay plate in the tent.
They saw that the terrain of this mud plate was undulating, with canyons, cliffs, forests, and lakesides. All the layouts were almost exactly the same as the local terrain in their impressions, and in the center, Zhao Hongrun made a city out of mud.
Not surprisingly, it was the Luocheng city under their feet.
"Pour some water here." Zhao Hongrun pointed to a depression in the mud plate.
Seeing this, Zongwei Zhongzhao beside him took a horn cup and poured about half a cup of water, and then a "lake" was formed.
"It's finally finished." Zhao Hongrun stood up and walked to the wooden bucket in the corner to wash his hands. Then, seeing the clan leaders still standing blankly at the tent, he said funnyly: "Everyone, what are you still doing?
? Come in, everyone."
After hearing this, the clan leaders walked into the tent and stood around the clay plate, their eyes still full of incredulity.
"I heard the siren, is it the Shang Shui Army?...Has Jie Jiao's army arrived?"
"Yes." Lu Balong, the leader of the Lun tribe, nodded and said, "However, no trace of the slave army was found, so it should be that an outpost cavalry from Jiejiao has arrived."
"Where?" Zhao Hongrun wiped his hands with a rag and asked casually.
At the same time, Zongwei Mu Qing handed Lu Balong a slender wooden pole.
Looking at the slender wooden pole in his hand, Lu Balong looked at the lifelike clay plate again, and he understood it at once. He held the wooden pole with his right hand and used the other end of the wooden pole to place it on the west side of Luocheng in the clay plate.
He drew a range on top of a piece of earth slope and said: "This is the earth slope to the west of Luocheng."
"Hmm." Zhao Hongrun nodded, and then took two black wood carvings dyed black with ink from a Zongwei, and placed them in a clay plate in a forest in the north of Luodi and a mountain stream in the south of Luodi.
nearby.
Obviously, these two wood carvings represent the Dangshan Army and the Chenggao Army respectively.
After that, Zhao Hongrun took some red wooden sculptures dyed red with sheep blood and placed them in the area pointed by Lu Balong. Then he stood up and looked down at the battlefield.
"The information is still insufficient... we will wait for a while before we talk." Zhao Hongrun said calmly.
Looking at the lifelike clay plate in front of them, for some reason, the tribal chiefs who were a little worried about the Jiejiao people's menacing arrival felt unexpectedly calm at this moment.
Could it be because the King Su in front of him looked down at the entire battlefield in disbelief?