Chapter 1414 About the previous attack and defense
Chapter 1414 About the previous offense and defense
After burning incense, everyone finished lunch in Fan Xingwang's Chinese army tent.
While chatting, Chai Yan suddenly asked: "General Fan, can you tell us how the Pitz people attacked the pass before?"
Fan Xingwang said: "As long as Taoist Master wants to listen, Fan will naturally be willing to tell..."
Then, Fan Xingwang said: "Last time, the Pitz people came with great force, and they gathered 20,000 troops outside overnight, preparing to conquer the pass in one go, but they thought of this matter too simply...
."
Taking advantage of the pause, Chai Yan couldn't help but add: "The height of the north side of Qingyuan Pass reaches twenty feet, and the stone wall is too smooth to climb with bare hands. It will not be easy for them to break through it in one go."
"What the Taoist Master said is true." Fan Xingwang replied and continued: "At the beginning, the people of Piz used the most common method, which was to climb the wall to attack the city, but they soon discovered that
It had no effect. Any Pitzer who climbed up was either shot dead by our soldiers with bows and arrows, or they were unable to climb and fell and died. In short, on the first day, the Pitzer made no progress.
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Jimo Qiao listened carefully and couldn't help but ask: "General Fan, what happened next? Did the people of Piz think of any good ideas?"
"Yes." Fan Xingwang nodded and said seriously: "Before evening on the first day, the Pitz people withdrew their troops and stopped attacking. We were very happy to win. But what we didn't expect was that early the next morning, we
Then I discovered that there was a mountain of dirt that was as tall as two people below the pass..."
"Tushan? Where did it come from?" Jimo Qiao looked questioning.
Fan Xingwang replied: "It was built secretly by the Piz people after dark."
"Why are they building mountains of earth?" Jimo Qiao still didn't understand.
Chai Yan said: "Don't you understand this? The Qingyuan Pass is too high for the Pitz people to attack effectively, so they want to build a higher ground to reduce the distance to attack the pass so that their siege equipment can be put to use."
"What the Taoist said is absolutely right." Fan Xingwang nodded and said, "The Piz people brought some siege vehicles, but because the pass was too high, their vehicles could not be used, so they thought of building a mountain of earth first, and then
attack."
After Jimo Qiao understood it, he said: "Then you can't let them build mountains of earth so easily. You have to stop them."
"Miss Mo Yu, of course we tried our best to stop it..." Fan Xingwang said.
Then, Fan Xingwang looked at Pang Zhenbei and said: "At that time, General Pang led his men to throw stones from the pass defense city, trying to kill the soldiers of the Piz Kingdom on Laitu Mountain, but they had little effect, although some were killed.
A few Pittsmen, but the stones thrown down helped the enemy to build up the height of the mountain."
Jimo Qiao hurriedly said: "You can use bows and arrows!"
Pang Zhenbei immediately answered: "Miss Mo Yu, bows and arrows are useless. When the Piz people built the mountain, they all used shields to protect their heads, and they also had wooden chariots and fenyun chariots as cover.
Feathered arrows cannot cause them any harm at all, and shooting too many arrows is just a waste of arrows."
"Ah?" Jimo Qiao was surprised and asked hurriedly: "Then what should we do? Are you just going to watch the Pitz people come up?"
Fan Xingwang said: "Later we burned boiling oil, and whenever someone filled in the mountain, we ordered people to pour it on."
Jimo Qiao suddenly said excitedly: "This is a good method. The boiling oil will definitely burn them to death!"
Fan Xingwang said: "Yes, boiling oil is indeed effective. It immediately slowed down the progress of the Pitz people's erection of earth mountains, but then it stopped working. Firstly, the Pitz people were on guard, and secondly, our oil reserves were also low.
If there is too much water, if you continue to water it, your own people will have nothing to eat. In the end, I had to give up..."
Jimo Qiao also understood this, so he sighed helplessly with a frown.
Fan Xingwang continued: "A few days later, the mountains under the pass became higher and higher. When the siege ladder trucks were almost able to reach the battlements of the city defense, the Pitz people began to launch a fierce offensive..."
Pang Zhenbei continued: "The battle situation at that time was extremely tragic. General Fan led our soldiers of the Luna Army to fight hard to kill the enemy and defend the pass. In the end, at the cost of losing more than a hundred brothers, more than a thousand Pitz troops were taken away.
The dog's life can be said to have greatly dampened their spirit."
"What happened next?" Jimo Qiao asked.
Pang Zhenbei said: "Ten days later, the weather suddenly changed, and suddenly it rained heavily. As soon as it rained for a long time, the mountains they built were washed away, so the Pitz people, who had been unable to attack for a long time, wanted to retreat.
It didn’t take long for them to withdraw their troops and leave.”
"So that's it. If only the heavy rain had come earlier and washed away their mountains earlier, the Moon God Army wouldn't have had to die so many people." Jimo Qiao said with emotion.
These words made Fan Xingwang and Pang Zhenbei nod.
Chai Yan asked: "Just now we saw that the terrain under the pass has returned to flatness. Did General Fan send people down to clean it up later?"
"Yes." Fan Xingwang said: "After confirming that the Pitz people were evacuated, we used ropes to lower people from above every day and cleared away the earth and rocks bit by bit. It took more than a month to restore the previous state.
Look."
Pang Zhenbei added angrily: "Just to clean up those damn rocks, several of our brothers accidentally fell to death. Thinking about it, it's really unjust..."
At this point, everyone couldn't help but make a sound of regret.
After a pause, Chai Yan asked: "By the way, General Fan, I just walked around the pass defense city. It seems that there are not many defensive equipment. Could it be that all the defense tools used at that time were bows, arrows, stones, and manpower defense?"
?”
Fan Xingwang replied: "Taoist Master, we also have some defensive equipment, but you have also seen that the terrain of the pass defense city is too high, the road up is not easy to walk, and some places of the defense city passage are too narrow, so
A car that can deal with the ladder cannot go up at all, so we can only rely on bows and arrows, stones, rolling logs, and finally manpower to defend it."
Chai Yan thought for a while and said: "General Fan, in Pindao's opinion, we should start construction as soon as possible to build a slope road that can go directly up to the pass to Fangcheng, so that the collision vehicles that can deal with the ladder can go up to Fangcheng, and this
If the road is repaired, it will increase the speed at which soldiers and supplies can go up, so that we can defend the pass more effectively and prevent the Pitz people from succeeding."
After hearing this, Fan Xingwang nodded seriously and said: "The Taoist priest is right, but building such a slope road requires a huge amount of work. I'm afraid the manpower will be stretched..."
Chai Yan thought about it and asked: "General Fan, do you think you can try this? Let the recruits be responsible for building this road first. Just give them some martial arts holy water to drink to improve their strength and endurance in a short time. If you want to come to work,
The efficiency should be improved a lot.”
"Uh..." Fan Xingwang hesitated, frowning and thinking.
Pang Zhenbei said: "General Fan, I think this method is feasible. As long as the soldiers drink the martial arts holy water and their strength is doubled, it won't take long to fill up the deep ditch on the south side of the pass. Then a climbing path will be paved.
The road to Fangcheng is not difficult."
Fan Xingwang looked at Pang Zhenbei and thought for a moment, then nodded and said: "Well, you can indeed give it a try."
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