On August 19, when Xiang Mo, the defender of Fuli Fortress, once again repelled the attack of the Qi and Lu coalition forces personally led by King Lu Xi of Qi, he spread out a map of the surrounding area on the table in the military conference hall of the fortress.
Organize your thoughts.
He received the message asking for help from Sun Shuke, the garrison of Zhi County, today. At that time, he was commanding the attack of the Qilu Allied Forces and had no time to think about anything else. Only now did he have time to think about the whole thing carefully.
No wonder King Qi, who had been holding back his troops a while ago, suddenly and abnormally launched a fierce attack on me, Fuli Sai, in the past two days. He attacked twelve hours a day, and he had to attack for nearly eight hours. It turned out that he wanted to hold me back, Fuli Sai.
Create opportunities for other Wei allies on the west route...
Xiang Mo felt palpitated when he recalled the fierce attack by the Qilu Allied Forces on his Fulisai in the past two days.
The catapult developed by the craftsmen of the Lu State, that kind of war weapon called the Sky Stone Chariot, was really terrifying, with a striking distance of nearly three miles.
A boulder as big as a millstone roared and flew three miles and hit the hearts of the Chu soldiers at Fuli Fortress. Even though there were hundreds of thousands of Chu soldiers at Fuli Fortress, they were not completely sure of guarding the pass.
Fortunately, this kind of sky stone chariot requires special polished stone bullets, and the Lu craftsmen who marched with the Qilu Allied Forces also need a certain amount of time to polish these stone bullets. Otherwise, Xiang Mo would even doubt his Fuli.
Could it be that the fortress had already been destroyed by such stone bombs and completely submerged?
If it were just that kind of special catapult, Xiang Mo wouldn't be so afraid. The problem is that Qi King Lu Xi's army also had a variety of other war weapons made by Lu craftsmen.
For example, the Dragon Backbone Ballista, this giant ballistae, has a range of about four hundred feet, and within a "close range" of nearly two hundred feet, this kind of ballistae fires a weapon that is roughly the size of a human arm.
The iron pillars can actually penetrate directly into the solid stone wall of Fuli Sai.
And if it hits Chu soldiers, not even the whole body can be left behind.
At least Xiang Mo has seen his own soldiers torn to pieces by the huge iron arrows of that dragon-backed ballista more than once.
But the most terrifying thing is the Lu State's crossbow box, which was famous all over the world decades ago. It is a true murderous war weapon. Once upon a time, the Qi and Lu Allied Forces relied on this war weapon to massacre the Chu State.
Hundreds of thousands of peasant soldiers were unable to dispose of the corpses in time, and a plague broke out, which made the war between King Lu Xi of Qi and the state of Chu come to nothing.
Compared with the rumors of the past, the Lu State machine crossbow box that appeared in the Qilu Allied Forces this time has been significantly improved in terms of range, power and accuracy compared to the past.
If it weren't for the fact that the power of this kind of war weapon could not penetrate the solid defense of Fulisai, I'm afraid Xiang Mo would really be in despair.
But having said that, Xiang Mo still has full confidence in guarding Fuli Sai, because in his opinion, the cost of the terrifying Lu war weapons on the opposite side is also huge, even for the financially powerful Qi State.
It cannot be done continuously.
After all, Qi is not a country rich in iron ore.
And once the iron ore in the Qi State is exhausted, even if they have the terrible war weapons developed by the craftsmen of the Lu State, they will not be able to defeat Fu Lisai. What will happen to the Chu State?
Therefore, the strategic intention summarized during this period at the end of Xiang Dynasty was to "guide" the Qilu Allied Forces to consume the bullets and missiles of war weapons at Fulisai.
It has to be said that in just these two days, Fulisai harvested many huge iron crossbow arrows from the Qilu Allied Forces. The weight was actually heavier than the finished iron tools produced by the Chu State, which they were not good at smelting iron ore, in months or even a year.
Want more.
If the Chu State was not good at smelting bronze instead of iron, otherwise, just smelting these huge iron crossbow arrows would allow the Chu State to add a batch of new iron equipment and armors.
However, what Xiang Mo didn't expect was that when he was "in a good situation" on the battlefield in front of Fuli Sai, Qi's ally Wei and the three Wei armies who came to help in the battle had actually captured Xiangcheng and almost bypassed him.
Fu Lisai's back.
This is not good news.
Although Fulisai was specially designed to defend against the Qilu Allied Forces, and the defense facilities of the entire pass were impregnable, the problem was that if an enemy army got around to the back of Fulisei, they would cooperate with Qi King Lu Xi on the main battlefield to attack Fulisei.
Attacked from both sides, even Fu Li Fortress will probably fall.
After thinking about it, Xiang Mo ordered his bodyguard to summon four generals with 5,000 men: Zuo Liang, Shen Tukang, Hou Yu, and Si Bai Changhe.
Note: Five thousand generals are almost military attachés at the level of general and deputy general, but their status is different. In most cases, the number of generals and deputy generals in an army has a specified number. In the ranking of generals and deputy generals, there are quotas
When it is full, Chu State
Many generals can only become generals with 5,000 men. Except for the increase in the number of troops in their hands and the slight rise in status, there is no essential difference between them and generals with 3,000 men. However, if the generals and lieutenants unfortunately die in battle, these 5,000 men will
There's a chance to take over.
"General."
After a while, Zuo Liang, Shen Tukang, Hou Yu, and Si Bei Changhe, four or five thousand generals, came to the military meeting hall and saluted Xiang Mo with clasped fists.
Therefore, Xiang Mo showed the letter from Sun Shuke, the guard of Qi County, to the four generals and said to them: "According to the letter asking for help from Sun Shuke just received, this Wei army has as many as 80,000 people, and Qi County may not be able to resist it...
…Xiang Mo specifically allows you to lead 10,000 troops each, and a total of 40,000 troops to support Qi County, and not allow the Wei army to capture Qi County.”
Hearing this, Zuo Liang frowned and asked, "General, did Wei conquer Xiangcheng so quickly?"
Xiang Mo nodded, then pointed to the letter and said: "According to what Sun Shuke said, the Wei army seemed to have defeated Mengshan's Doulian in just one day and night.
, Nanmen Huai...Sun Shuke suspected
, it was the Nanmen clan who saw that the battle situation was not good and took the initiative to surrender to the Wei army... Therefore, Xiang hopes that one of you will go to Qixian to see what happened. If the Nanmen clan really betrayed me, Da Chu, and took refuge
Wei Guo killed them."
"Yes!" Zuo Liang, Shen Tukang, Hou Yu, and Si Bei Changhe clasped their fists and accepted the order.
Seeing this, Xiang Mo warned again: "Qixian and Qixian are important cities that strictly guard this section of the Huihe River. They must not fall into the hands of the Wei army, otherwise our Fu Li Fortress will become in danger..."
Zuo Liang, Shen Tukang, Hou Yu, Si Bai Changhe nodded.
At this time, Shen Tukang frowned and said: "Having said that, general, Qixian is better off, but Zhi County is the fiefdom of Lord Juyang. According to the general, Lord Juyang also has more than 100,000 troops.
Why can’t we defend Zhi County?”
Xiang Mo sneered slightly when he heard the words: For example, Juyang Lord Xiong Li, doesn’t he understand those princes and nobles of the Xiong clan? I’m afraid in the eyes of those people, the safety of King Du Shoying of Chu is probably not the same.
Not as important as their fiefdoms.
Xiang Mo has no doubt that the Juyang Lord Xiong Li must have ordered hundreds of thousands of troops under his command to defend Juyang to protect his wealth. As for Sun Shuke of Qi County, in a sense, I am afraid that he was also "abandoned"
of generals.
This country...hey.
Xiang Mo sighed secretly, feeling inexplicable about where his country of Chu would go in the future.
"Just take the order!" He said with a straight face, obviously not wanting to explain the whereabouts of Ju Yang Lord Xiong Li's hundreds of thousands of troops.
Seeing the displeasure on Xiang Mo's face, Zuo Liang, Shen Tukang, Hou Yu and Si Bei Changhe, four generals with 5,000 men, did not dare to say anything more. After leading the troops, they left the military meeting hall.
About an hour later, 40,000 Chu troops left Fulisai. Three of the 10,000-man troops headed for Zhi County, while the 5,000-man army led by Si Bai Changhe headed straight for Qi County.
It didn't take long for this strange arrangement to be discovered by some Qingya people who were staring at Fulisai. The latter sent people to remind Wu Ji, the general of the Shang Navy who was still fighting hard in Qixian County, and quickly sent people to
People reported back to Zhao Hongrun.
It has to be said that the Qingya people are generally very fast. As long as they don't encounter a small cavalry army like Huan Hu, otherwise, their speed will definitely be faster than the target of surveillance.
No, the 40,000 Chu troops had only traveled less than fifteen miles after leaving Fuli Fortress, but the Green Crows had already sent the news to Wu Ji and Zhao Hongrun respectively.
Let’s not talk about Wu Ji’s reaction after learning the news, let’s talk about Zhao Hongrun.
To be fair, Zhao Hongrun was not surprised that the 30,000 Fu soldiers from Chu came to support Zhi County.
After all, Sun Shuke from Qi County is quite capable. Yesterday, the Yanling army tried hard to attack the city and paid a heavy price, but they had no chance to conquer Qi County. This shows that Sun Shuke is indeed an outstanding general.
But even so, this is the end of Zhi County.
"The city gate has been breached!!"
"Whoa whoa!!"
In the distance, from the north gate of Zhi County, the excited shouts of Yanling’s soldiers came.
As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards. Yesterday, Zhao Hongrun personally promised the Yanling Army: As long as Zhi County is conquered, those Chu nobles in the city who have been rich and unkind in the past will be rewarded.
The army seized his family wealth and let the entire Yanling army share it.
After that, the newly promoted general Zou Xin also intended to spread the wealth of the wealthy Wan family in Zhi County among the army, which made all the soldiers in the Yanling Army excited. Both their morale and fighting spirit were off the charts.
Relatively speaking, the morale of the defenders in Zhi County was generally low after yesterday's brutal siege battle. So today, Yan Mo only commanded two rounds of strong attacks to break through the north gate of Zhi County. Not only did he successfully defeat Zhi County,
The defenders suppressed the city and took the opportunity to open the north gate.
The city gate was breached, which meant that Zhi County's obstruction to the Wei army had ended.
What General Xu Yin said is true. The outcome of the siege really depends on the morale of the two armies the next day...
Zhao Hongrun sighed while watching the Yanling soldiers and generals in the distance excitedly entering the city.
"How many Fuli Saichu troops are coming to Zhi County?"
He turned around and asked the green crows who were kneeling on the ground beside him.
"Visually estimated to be about thirty thousand." A member of the Blue Crows said in a deep voice.
"Okay! I know this. You can go down and have a rest."
Zhao Hongrun said a few words of comfort, then turned to Zongwei Mu Qing and said, "Mu Qing, call Yan Mo over to discuss ambushing the invading Fu Li Sai Chu army."
"Yes!" Mu Qing clasped his fists and left.
A moment later, the Yanling Army's military flag was erected on the city tower in Zhi County, announcing that the city had fallen into the hands of the Wei Army. (To be continued.)