"Report! The prefect, Zhou Mu, and Sun Cejun have arrived ten miles outside the city." The scouts have sent the latest information.
"Has the 'Flying Yaksha' been installed?" Bai Tu asked the captain in charge.
"It has been installed!" said the captain.
"Master Lu, let's go to the city tower together and have a look?" Bai Tu asked Lu Kang.
"Let's go together!" Lu Kang felt a little unsure. He had seen the strength of Sun Ce's army before, and it was not on the same level as Liu Xun's army.
But now that the matter has come to this, Lu Kang will not say anything depressing.
When I came to the city tower, I saw that every ten steps or so, there was a city defense device similar to the "Spike Fang". It was just a hanging heavy object. It was not a "Spike Plank", but a piece of wood.
Steel-thorned wood!
If you look carefully, you will find that these steel thorns are not directly on the log piles, but are spirally wrapped around the log piles with belts with steel thorns...
Like Bai Tu's wolf fang, it can also be moved and hangs the iconic "fairy gourd".
This is exactly what Baitu brings!
The wood piles are stored in Shu City itself, which are huge, thick and long round wooden piles. When the enemy attacks the city, they can be thrown down to knock down the enemies attached to the ants, and they can also attack the opponent's siege equipment when convenient.
There is another kind of "Yaksha Leap". Bai Tu doesn't know if anyone has used it now, but it is not common. It is to tie iron ropes on both sides of the wood, and the iron ropes are connected to the winch, so that the rolled wood can be retracted.
The defensive equipment that came back.
However, compared to the Wolf Fang Beat, it is easier to cut the rope, and it is much heavier than the Wolf Fang Beat. Usually, the winch is not to pull up the wood, but to cut the rope after it is cut.
Previously, he ordered the wood to roll under the city to attack the enemy at the foot of the city!
However, with Bai Tu's "Fairy Gourd", the Yaksha Lei can be retracted and opened more freely, and he named it "Flying Yaksha".
Compared with the Wolf Fang, the Feitian Yaksha is more convenient to carry - the craftsmen have put a lot of effort into fixing the wood plate. As long as the diameter and length are within a certain range, the wood can be installed on it.
Just wrap it with thorn tape, you don't need to bring your own wood.
As there is only the "fairy gourd" and the stand, it is naturally much easier to transport and carry.
When Bai Tu and Lu Kang arrived at the city tower, they found that Sun Ce had arrived with a large force of troops. Taishi Ci looked at it and whispered to Bai Tu: "There are about eight thousand people, but judging from the array, most of them are old soldiers.
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Bai Tu nodded when he heard this, thinking that although the Chinese army led by Zhou Yu had about 20,000 soldiers, they were all soldiers trained by Yuan Shu in Huainan.
The armies under Yuan Shu's command can be roughly divided into three grades. The strongest is the Nanyang Army founded by Yuan Shu. They were all troops recruited and trained in Nanyang with the help of the Yuan family forces before the Eighteenth Route Princes attacked Dong.
If it is still established now, it can be called a soldier capable of fighting a hundred battles.
Next is the Danyang Army. That is, when Yuan Shu controlled Jiangdong before, he used the population of Danyang to train soldiers. Although the army took a short time to form, due to the characteristics of the Danyang soldiers, they were not easy to deal with.
Finally, there is the Huainan Army. After Yuan Shu killed the previous Yangzhou Shepherd Chen Wen and occupied the Huainan area, the soldiers he trained here...
Among the three, the Huainan army had the largest number. When recruiting troops in Jiangdong, although the major families favored Yuan Shu, they did not let him collect wool. Even if there was an overdraft, it was controlled within the range that could be recovered in two or three years.
In Huainan, Yuan Shu could be said to have imposed excessive taxes and overdrafted his manpower year after year, which is why the army expanded so quickly.
The cost was that the people of Huainan dared to be angry with Yuan Shu but did not dare to speak out - if the people did not support him, the training efficiency of the recruited troops would be lower, and morale would generally be low.
Of course, these three levels are only rough divisions.
The central army led by Zhou Yu to suppress the formation were all Huainan soldiers, and Sun Ce's 8,000 former troops were mostly old soldiers from Jiangdong, presumably his father Sun Jian. The last family fortune left behind was based on Sun Jian's military strength in his hometown of Wu.
The soldiers trained by the two counties, as well as Changsha who served as the prefect.
Although many other sources of troops have been added over the years, just like Lu Bu also expanded Bingzhou Cavalry in Xuzhou, as long as the establishment is still there and the proportion of supplementary troops is controlled within a certain range, the elite level of the army will not be reduced too much -
—Veterans can also inspire new recruits.
"As Mr. Lu expected, this Sun Ce was indeed very aggressive and came to invade the city without stopping." Bai Tu couldn't help but marveled as he watched Sun Ce fighting all the way with no intention of resting and setting up camp.
"Not only is Sun Ce a young tiger, but the Jiangdong soldiers under his command are also strong soldiers, and cannot be compared to the troops of Liu Xun and his like." Lu Kang still vividly remembered the strength of Sun Ce's troops.
Of course, just relying on a few thousand elite troops is useless. The reason why Zhou Yu has always expected Yuan Shu's support is not only to avoid being hostile to Yuan Shu after leaving directly, but also because Yuan Shu can assist in sending troops.
And for example, the 20,000 Huainan soldiers, the grassroots captains, and uncles are all Yuan Shu's people. If Zhou Yu wants to take them away, even if they don't mutiny on the spot, they will easily cause chaos later.
I saw Sun Ce's army stopped just a stone's throw outside the city. Then he rode out of the formation alone and yelled majestically below the city: "Sun Ce from Wu County is here. Who dares to go out of the city to fight with me!"
Sun Ce was now wearing an orange waistcoat, a battle skirt, and no battle armor. He was just riding a "war horse" and carrying a huge anchor-shaped weapon, riding alone under the city to call for battle.
"Sun Ce! Your father was the general of the Han Dynasty and the governor of Changsha. Now that you have rebelled against the Yuan thieves, are you worthy of your father's spirit in heaven?" Lu Kang shouted from the city.
"Hahaha, Mr. Lu Kang, my father's spirit in heaven will watch me support the Han Dynasty and shine on the lintel. You are a thief, but you don't know which court recommended you." Sun Ce said with a smile.
"Fight if you want. We, the soldiers and the people of Shucheng, are united and will not surrender to the bandits!" Lu Kang shouted.
Failure to fight when the formation is called normally will lower the morale of one's own side. However, for Lu Kang, there is no such worry. The buff of "military and civilian unity" will make the resilience of the defenders very scary.
"Lord! I'll break him first! If I can capture him alive, I'll save a lot of trouble." Tai Shici asked for his order.
Bai Tu thought about it for a moment, and although he didn't think that Taishi Ci could really defeat Sun Ce, from the perspective of the romance, the strength of the two at this time should be almost the same, and a tie would be better than having Sun Ce show off his power and go back.
"Okay, but... Sun Ce is known for his bravery. Ziyi must be careful and don't be obsessed with fighting." Bai Tu warned.
"No!" Tai Shici accepted the order.
Then I saw Taishi Ci displaying his military talisman, transforming into a white armor, jumping down from the tower and saying: "Taishici of Donglai is here, children of Wu County, please don't be arrogant!"
"Hmm? Taishi Ci? I seem to have heard somewhere... Forget it! Finally, a courageous person has appeared, and I will give you three moves!" Sun Ce became slightly more interested.