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Volume 1: The First Battle with the Yellow Turbans Chapter 24: Soldiers Point at Wancheng

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    The army was still on its way to Wancheng. At this time, Liu Bei took advantage of the rare time during the march to study military books. Although he was a special soldier in his previous life, what he was good at was special operations, not the warfare that was emphasized in the cold weapon era.  Array strategy.  In ancient times, in addition to relying on the bravery of soldiers, cold weapon warfare also relied on the role of battle formations. Appropriate battle formations can always enable one to defeat the enemy.  Especially the coordination of multiple arms requires the matching of various battle formations.  Liu Bei, who was not good at fighting, had to spare no time to read more military books and strategies. When he didn't understand something, he would ask Huang Zhong or generals Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song for advice. Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song were worthy of being famous generals.  Liu Bei benefited a lot from the well-researched methods of battle formation.  Nanyang belongs to Jingzhou. It was originally a prosperous place, but now it has been ravaged by the Yellow Turbans. It is desolate for hundreds of miles and there is no rooster for thousands of miles.  Along the way, in addition to seeing piles of corpses, there were groups of looting Yellow Turban soldiers. Most of these people were looting everywhere under the guise of Yellow Turbans. Liu Bei was very angry about this and ordered the soldiers to kill all these people they encountered.  .  NND, if it is true that the Yellow Turbans might be able to let you live, but you are just some ruffians, taking advantage of the situation, Liu Bei will always kill these sneaky people without mercy.  The army was marching neatly on the way south. No one was making any noise among the troops, only the neat pace was marching.  After five days of rushing, the army arrived at Wancheng.  Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song rode forward with Liu Bei on their horses, and carefully observed Wancheng's defenses within a stone's throw of Wancheng.  I saw that Wancheng had been reinforced by the Yellow Turban bandit soldiers and had reached a height of five feet. On the city wall, stones and rolling logs were neatly stacked together, and piles were displayed on the top of the city.  The Yellow Turban soldiers all drew their bows and faced the three of them as if they were faced with a powerful enemy. Behind the archers, their swords and shields were driven into the wall, and their halberds were like a forest. They were all ready for battle.  "It seems that Zhang Mancheng is determined to be a coward and defend the city." Zhu Jun looked at the yellow scarf soldiers on the city wall and said to the two people around him.  "I'm afraid they are like this. We now know very little about the situation of soldiers, horses, food and grass in the city." Huangfu Song also said with a look of displeasure.  "Why are the two generals sighing so much! If he wants to defend the city, let him defend it. When we go back and build the siege equipment, we can attack the city again." Liu Bei said lightly.  "It makes Xuande laugh, but this city is majestic and has a moat, so it's not that easy to fight." Zhu Jun smiled and shook his head.  "It may not be difficult to fight. Zhang Mancheng doesn't know military skills. If I were to defend the city, I would build one or two earthen forts outside the city, which would be the horns of the city. By then, they would be able to block a hundred thousand troops." Huangfu Song  Pointing to two local roads outside the city.  "You are indeed a famous general. If you can do this, then the difficulty of attacking the city will be increased several times." Liu Bei couldn't help but sigh after hearing this.  "Perhaps we can provoke them to go out of the city to fight first." Liu Bei thought of the two armies fighting in front of the battle in the film and television dramas, and felt his blood boiling.  What a joke, brother, if I pick out any of the fierce generals in my hand now and stamp my feet, it will make the princes in the future tremble.  "It's just those tricks that come and go in siege. I will supervise the construction of siege equipment later. Xuande might as well tease them first." Huangfu Song said with a smile after hearing this.  "Okay then." Liu Bei responded.  After saying that, the three of them rode back to the camp. The soldiers had already set up the camp, and Zhu Jun and Huangfu Song personally supervised the construction of siege equipment.  Liu Bei had nothing to do, so he wanted to really tease the yellow scarf soldiers in the city. He ordered 500 cavalry and 3,000 infantry, and took Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong back to the city to start shouting.  "Listen up to the rebels in the city. If you are wise, please come out and surrender to your grandfather! Otherwise, the city will be destroyed and no one will be left alive." The one who can say this is Mr. Zhang Fei and Zhang Sanye, one of the only three among the three.  Fei's voice was high.  At that moment, Zhang Fei started shouting and cursing under the city like a scoundrel, hoping to provoke the Yellow Turbans in the city to come out of the city and have a fight.  "Report! Commander, the officers and soldiers outside the city are yelling at me and asking me to wait out of the city to fight." A soldier ran into Zhang Mancheng's commander's house and reported.  "What? Scolding? What are you scolding?" Zhang Mancheng asked sharply after hearing this.  "I dare not say anything." "To tell the truth, I will forgive you!" Zhang Mancheng glared.  "No! A black-faced man outside the city scolded the Marshal's eighteenth generation ancestor again." The soldiers all fell out one after another.  "Asshole! You've gone too far!" Zhang Mancheng smashed the wine bowl on the table to pieces.  "Get out of the city No! Shoot them to death with random arrows." Zhang Man originally wanted to go out and fight, but he quickly changed his words.  Damn, I was almost fooled!  Zhang Mancheng againHe passed a wine bowl to a glass of wine and poured it directly into his mouth.  "No!" The soldier hurriedly ran out to convey the commander's order.  After a while, the archers at the top of the city fired thousands of arrows at Zhang Fei, who was still yelling. However, the range of the arrows was not enough, and they would hit Liu Bei and others.  "Third brother, take a rest, let's go back to the camp!" Seeing that the provocation method didn't work, Liu Bei had to lead his troops back to the camp.  In fact, Liu Bei¡¯s purpose of mobilizing generals was not to kill them, but to send people to sneak into the Yellow Turban thieves entering and leaving the city, and then follow them into the city to prepare for cooperation inside and outside, but it was a pity that the Yellow Turbans did not cooperate.  Liu Bei¡¯s military books are not in vain these days. The plots of sieges in previous history and movies have been summarized into two categories: outsmarting and attacking by force.  A strong attack is very simple. It basically means a strong attack, followed by a multi-faceted strong attack or feint attack based on the actual situation.  There are many ways to outsmart them, and there are countless ways to do it.  For example, with the help of the timely flood strategy, although Wancheng is close to Feishui, it has not received rainfall for many years, and the water volume is insufficient, so it cannot be used now.  The rest, such as digging tunnels, are even more demanding. At least the geology must meet the requirements, otherwise there may be landslides while digging.  In fact, fortified cities are often breached from the inside. Just like the city of Troy in the West, it is still a classic among classics, and the Trojan horse strategy is widely circulated.  This is the main reason why Liu Bei wanted to send people into the city.  Liu Bei, who had no choice but to return to the city, had no choice but to order all his troops to train strictly. As the saying goes, if you sharpen your guns in battle, you will lose your happiness if you are not happy.  What the ministries are practicing now is the battle to capture the city. Liu Bei asked people to pile up and cut a three-foot-high earth wall in the camp, specifically to train the soldiers how to cooperate with each other and cover each other to capture the city.  Unlike the Yellow Turbans who attacked the city, the government army had a wide variety of siege equipment, such as flying bridges, building carts, well gates, crash carts, ladders, etc.  When Liu Bei didn't find the trebuchet at the production site, Liu Bei was dumbfounded.  As a modern person who traveled through time and was a soldier, Liu Bei felt that he was really unqualified. Although he knew the principles of the trebuchet, he could not copy a real trebuchet.  In the past, the trebuchet principle was used to launch homemade bombs on the battlefield. Although the bombs were light, they were very powerful.  But it¡¯s just that it¡¯s not easy to use now. You have to know that the only things that can be thrown are stones, and only the large ones can be lethal.  Do you really want your brother to stir things up?  After asking all the craftsmen in the army, Liu Bei found out that it was not that there was no way to make a trebuchet now. On the contrary, the method had appeared earlier, but now it has been lost.  Liu Ye, where are you?  Liu Bei wanted to know where Liu Ye was at this time, because in history it was this man who dedicated the making method of the trebuchet to Cao Cao and helped him defeat Yuan Shao.  It seems that it is necessary to add a research department to the army. Finally, Liu Bei sighed helplessly.  Fortunately, there are large siege equipment like Jing Lan. When five Jing Lans were pushed onto the battlefield, the defenders of Wancheng panicked. This monster as tall as the city wall made every Yellow Turban  The soldier trembled inwardly.  "Soldiers! Take Wancheng! Charge!" Zhu Jun stood on the high platform, drew the sword forward in his hand, and shouted.  After ten days of siege, and after military craftsmen built a large number of siege equipment, Zhu Jun began to command the soldiers to attack the city.  "Kill!" The officers and soldiers rushed towards Wancheng like tigers emerging from their cages.  The first ones were the sword and shield soldiers holding large shields. After they protected the archers and rushed into the shooting range, the sword and shield soldiers in the front row threw the large shields in their hands on the ground, followed closely by tilting the shields.  It was placed on the large shield in the front row to form a shield wall, blocking the arrows flying from the city.  The archers who set off together hid under their shields, drew their bows and fired deadly arrows at the city. After successfully suppressing the city, Zhu Jun waved his hand again, and many soldiers carrying sandbags rushed forward.  , throwing the sandbags directly into the moat.  ¡°Fire the arrows!¡± Seeing the officers and soldiers filling in the moat, Zhang Mancheng, who was guarding the top of the city, shouted to the archers who were suppressed and could not lift their heads.  Many archers hid behind the battlements and continued to shoot arrows at the officers and soldiers, and they were more or less able to hit the target.  "Build a flying bridge!" Seeing many officers and soldiers falling to the ground after being hit by arrows, Zhu Jun immediately ordered the soldiers to set up a flying bridge.  The flying bridge is a piece of equipment that ensures the siege troops can pass through the moat outside the city. It is also called a "moat bridge".  This kind of flying bridge is simple to make, using two long logs with wooden boards nailed on top.  If the trench is wider, the two flybridges can also be connected with a rotating shaft to form a foldable flybridge.  When transporting, fold one section and place it on the bridge bed at the back, and fold the front section when using it.Put it down and build it on the other side of the river ditch, which is a simple trench bridge.  The officers and soldiers held up their shields with one hand to block the arrows, and rushed towards the moat with the flying bridge in the other hand. When they got close, they worked together to set up the flying bridge, and then joined together to form a shield wall, waiting for the ladder to come up from behind.  A large number of soldiers also rushed towards Wancheng holding shields and ladders, just like centipedes emerging from their holes one after another.  "Roar! Roar! Roar!" Just hearing roars, more than two hundred officers and soldiers pushed Zhejing Lan closer to the city.  There are more than a hundred archers standing on these wells. Once they are within shooting range, they can suppress the city head very well until they get close to the city wall. After lowering the wooden bridge, they can climb the city to fight.  But if you want to climb the city, you have to let the soldiers continue to fill in the moat. Only by filling in the moat and then erecting a flying bridge can you pass. After all, the well is too heavy and the flying bridge alone is not enough to support it.
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