Chapter 580 Military Discipline
The chariot covered with rawhide was moving slowly towards the foot of Shanggui City.
The chariot has four wheels and no bottom. The ten soldiers in the cart all have swords hanging around their waists. They have their feet on the ground and push the cart with both hands.
The car soon entered the range of the crossbow arrows, and the sound of "Peng Peng" began to be heard. This was the sound of arrow feathers hitting the carriage. The soldiers standing at the front could clearly see the arrow feathers falling continuously. Get to the ground ahead.
The further forward, the greater the strength of the arrow fletching.
There was a "pop" sound, and less than thirty steps away from the city, an arrow finally shot through the carriage, grazed the face of a soldier, and spattered a line of blood.
The soldier's body suddenly tensed up, his eyes looking straight at the arrow, which just missed piercing his head.
Behind the Cuanran cart, there was also a wooden curtain cart. On the cart equipped with wheels, a large wooden board was propped up. The soldiers lowered their heads, hid behind the wooden plank, and pushed the cart straight to the bottom of the city.
The most simple thing is the shield held up by a soldier with one hand, and he shouts to charge the city.
Even so, they were still lucky. More soldiers rushed up directly pushing the ladders, and their bodies were directly exposed to the killing range of the enemy's crossbows on the city.
The sound of densely broke the air, and the densely shot down, there was a momentum of covering the sky, coupled with the effect of gravity, it flashed from time to time, and it fell on the top of the Han army like the baptism of heavy rain.
The Han soldiers rushed forward, and many of them had blood splatters on their bodies from time to time. After still having the inertia to rush forward for a few steps, they fell softly to the ground because they lost the support of their strength.
Even after rushing to the city, the simple ladder still couldn't give the soldiers much protection.
Not only did the number of feather arrows not decrease, but there were also wooden and rolling stones falling from the top of the city.
The soldier who was halfway up the climb screamed miserably after being hit, and turned over and fell down, leaving a **** mess.
The very few team members who could bravely go up had just crossed the parapet wall when several spears were fired at them. Before he could see clearly what was on the wall, he was lifted high into the air, with blood dripping from his body in mid-air. Blood mist.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
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While the soldiers were following the ladder ants, the city ramming vehicle finally found an opportunity and crashed directly into the city gate. The bumper made of huge logs hit the city gate again and again, causing countless dust to fly.
It is a pity that the back of the thick city gate has long been blocked with roof beams, stones, logs and other materials.
Even though the stones and wood piled up behind the gate kept rolling down, the city gate still stood there with no sign of being opened.
Instead, stones suddenly fell down, and some of the soldiers pushing the cart screamed and fell to the ground.
Since ancient times, sieges have always been based on people taking and filling piles.
The Han army under the city was not completely powerless to fight back. Someone rolled out a huge oar shield and stood not far from the city. The archers relied on the protection of the oar shield and began to launch their bows.
For a time, there was a hail of arrows.
Cao's soldiers who were standing at the top of the city shooting arrows were unprepared. Dozens of people had arrow feathers inserted into their foreheads, heads, chests, etc., red and white, and dirt flowed across them. They made "uh-uh" sounds and fell down. On top of the city wall.
What's worse, it fell directly over and fell outside the city.
Most of the arrows shot up from the city walls hit the city wall, were bounced off, or were directly inserted into the wall.
After a while, many places on the city wall were filled with arrows, like a forest of arrows.
Wu Yi stood on a small hillside, frowning tightly as he watched the soldiers continue to fall and replenish themselves, suffering heavy casualties and still no progress.
This Shanggu City is indeed a fortified city that Emperor Guangwu sent tens of thousands of troops to attack but failed to capture for several months.
The tributaries of the Wei River were diverted as moats. Now that spring has begun, it is the time when the ice in the source of the Wei River melts, and the river water is sufficient.
Coupled with the fact that Linwei County was supporting the rear, the defenders in the city had no worries at all and were determined to hold on.
At present, we have been attacking for nearly ten days before filling up the moat and reaching the bottom of the city wall, but we have already lost more than 4,000 soldiers.
Watching the soldiers charge three times, the ladder gradually being destroyed, and morale beginning to decline, Wu Yi knew that this was the end of the day.
With the sound of gold ringing, the soldiers retreated like a tide.
The city resounded with cheers.
After a while, the auxiliary soldiers of the Han army came over with empty hands, no weapons, and no armor. They began to silently clean up the corpses under the city, and at the same time removed the wailing wounded soldiers.
None of the guards on the city raised their bows and shot arrows, they just watched with vigilance.
After the Han army's auxiliary troops were cleared, there was still a small pile of corpses piled underneath that had not been removed. This was the unlucky man of Cao's army who had knocked them down from the city.
So hanging baskets began to be hung from the city, and Cao Jun sent men to carry back the bodies of his colleagues.
From Wuxiang City in Longxi County in the west, to Jicheng in Tianshui County, then to Shanggui City, and then to Linwei City in Nan'an, they are all built next to the Weishui River.
At the same time, on the same river, similar situations were happening in Wuxiang City and Jicheng City.
Cao Wei's soldiers relied on the city and caused considerable losses to the Han army.
They all know that if the delay is longer, the court's reinforcements will be closer to a day's journey, which will be more beneficial to them.
One day after Feng Yong left, Ma Su also set out with the target at the street pavilion. The two armies were connected end to end, like a long snake.
This is Feng Yong's first real attack. The previous time, dealing with the slave and semi-slave barbarians could only be regarded as a warm-up.
On the other side of Longshan, Zhang He led the same long snake-like team and was advancing rapidly.
The two teams are likely to collide at a certain location and create huge sparks.
From the north of Jicheng to Longshan, there is a place that must be passed, and that is Lueyang, the east gate of Longyou.
Lueyang is located in Pingchuan and has fertile land. Before Ma Chao invaded Liangzhou, it was a prosperous place.
Later, Ma Chao separatized Longyou, and the gate of Longyou became a place of war. Xiahou Yuan passed through this place several times when he went to Longyou. As a result, Lueyang gradually declined.
Later, Cao Cao moved the people of Hanzhong to Yecheng, Luoyang and other places, and Longyou's vitality was seriously damaged.
In addition, Cao Wei did not have many troops in Longyou. In order to prevent something similar to Ma Chao from happening again, Cao Wei consciously destroyed some of the strategic places in Longyou that blocked the advance from Guanzhong.
Jieting and Lueyang are both included in this list.
After nearly ten years of recuperation in Lueyang City, there are still not many people living there, and there are not even any soldiers guarding the city.
When the people in the city heard that the Han army was coming, they all came out to meet the king's army with great fear.
Zhao Guangzong stepped forward and saw that there were only one or two hundred people standing in front of the dilapidated city gate of Lueyang. Most of them were in rags, and the one standing in the middle was only slightly cleaner and tidier.
“I see there are a lot of fields in Lueyang, why are there only so many of you in the city?”
Zhao Guang got off his horse and asked.
"Back to the general, in Lueyang, the court... no, it's that Cao thief, and there is no county government. In fact, most of these farms were sent by people with big surnames from Qingshui and Jicheng to open up wasteland."
“When I heard that Master Wang was coming, I had already fled back, leaving us and others with nowhere to go to welcome Master Wang.”
The old man in the middle had a humble smile on his face, but he couldn't hide his body that was shaking slightly because of fear.
Zhao Guang glanced at the things in the hands of those in front, which were just some food and water.
He nodded immediately, got on his horse again, and ordered, "In that case, you must return to the city and are not allowed to go out at will. Only after the army has passed can you come out on your own."
“Thank you, general! Thank you, general!”
Seeing that Zhao Guang had no intention of plundering, the people were grateful, put down the food and water in their hands, and hurried back to the ruined city to disperse.
After a while, only three people were left standing there motionless.
The leader stepped forward and showed a waist badge. The guard took it and handed it to Zhao Guang.
Zhao Guang looked at it, threw his badge back, and suddenly asked, "Who has never died since ancient times?"
“You must die early or late!”
The visitor answered.
“Go back to the general, everything is normal.”
“Is there any response from the front?”
“I just sent the news two days ago.”
"That's good, go back to the team, go to the back, tell everything you know, and the steward of the knight's office will record the reward for you."
“Thank you, general.”
These three knights pretending to be ordinary people all had happy faces and clasped their fists in salute.
Today's Nanxiang, Hanzhong, is a place that longs for in the minds of knights and knights.
I heard that in the whole world, only there is the true ancient chivalrous style.
Rangers from Shuzhong, Longyou, Liangzhou, Guanzhong, Jingzhou and other places, as long as they know "Zidian Qingshuang Ji" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", they all want to explore Nanxiang.
If a knight does not go to Nanxiang, it is useless to call him a hero.
This sentence has now spread among the rangers in the above mentioned places, and has even been heard by the rangers in the Central Plains.
Before Zhao Guang came to Shouju County two years ago, Feng Yong personally told him that the three places in Jieting, Longkou and Qian County were the top priorities for investigation.
Nanxiang Ranger has extraordinary skills and has traveled for a long time. With Li Yi's mind, how could he miss such a good resource?
These three rangers are just one of the many rangers scattered across the land of Longyou.
Zhao Guang has an extraordinary status, so he doesn’t need to give the knights too much respect, but the steward of the knights’ branch is full of admiration. He bowed his hands and saluted, "Three heroes, thank you for your hard work!"
Just such a sentence made these three people look satisfied on their faces.
Listen up, hero!
Nowadays, there are more and more knights in Nanxiang, but how many of them are qualified to be called heroes?
Coupled with the generous reward, in the words of a certain country bumpkin, it is a dual satisfaction of both material and spiritual means. Is there any reason not to die?
Feng Yong led the army across the border. Although the people of Lueyang were frightened, they were not harassed. Only when the army left did they finally heave a sigh of relief and secretly rejoice.
This great Han master indeed has the demeanor of a royal master.
Unexpectedly, before they could breathe a sigh of relief, another Han army came from the south two days later and camped in the original camp of the departing army.
This time, the people of Lueyang finally had experience and felt that as long as they were obedient, nothing would happen.
It was night, and a few dark figures sneaked out of the camp and headed straight for the gateless city of Lueyang.
After groping for a while, someone asked in a low voice, "Is this the place?"
"That's right, I followed the woman during the day and saw her enter the house. She thought that with ashes on her face, she would not attract attention, but she didn't know that in my eyes, she was as naked as Clothes are no different...hehe!"
Another voice said, and at the same time there was the sound of swallowing saliva.
In the cold night, there was a faint flash of a knife, and with a click, the already flimsy door opened.
After a while, I heard the sound of dogs barking and a woman's exclamation.
“Who are you and what do you want to do?”
The male owner of the room took courage and asked shivering.
“Nothing, I just want to have a chat with this young lady...”
"Ha ha…"
“You...are you soldiers of the Han army?”
It would have been better if the man didn't say this. As soon as he said this, the faces of several soldiers changed.
At that moment, someone looked at the man and said sadly, "What soldier of the Han army? From what you said, it turns out that you are one of Cao's thieves. It seems that we are not in the wrong place this time!"
"That's right. Check carefully to prevent anyone from secretly tipping off the traitor Cao. It seems that we need to check your house carefully."
Once the excuse was found, several people immediately became more courageous. Even if they were in front of the general tomorrow, they would still have an excuse.
“No, no, no, no, some generals, the villain here is not a Cao thief...”
The man of the house quickly begged for mercy, but several soldiers looked at the woman in single clothes and refused to listen. They immediately pushed the man away and stepped forward to pull the woman over.
“General…”
"roll!"
“I’ll fight with you!”
Seeing that his mother-in-law was about to fall into the tiger's mouth, the male host's eyes turned red and he wanted to pounce on her with all his strength.
How can he be the opponent of someone who is just unarmed? After a few hits, he was kicked to the ground.
The movement in the house finally disturbed the next door, and a dog barked suddenly.
Some people secretly listened through the crack in the door to listen to the woman's cry for help not far away, while others silently bolted the door.
There were torches flaring outside the city, and a group of soldiers hurried into the city. Following the sound, they came over and kicked open the door.
The people on Zingzhong Shangnao saw the person coming clearly, and quickly called out, "General Liu!"
The soldier who was lying on the woman shuddered, rolled down, grabbed the clothes, and put them on himself in a hurry.
“Tie them all up!”
Liu Yin saw everything in the room, his eyes were about to burst into flames, and he gritted his teeth.
At the same time, he took off his cloak and covered it with the woman.
Not long after Ma Su fell asleep, he was woken up by the guards.
Leading the army on the road is a very tiring task, and coupled with not sleeping well, Ma Su was very angry when he got up. When he heard someone making noise outside the tent, he immediately shouted angrily, "Who is making noise in the camp late at night!"
When the lamps and candles were lit, the generals Liu Yin and Li Sheng were crowded into the tent.
"You two are both generals leading troops. Don't you know the rules of the army? You actually took the lead in making noise at night. Do you really think that I can't practice military law?"
Ma Su was sitting in the tent, and when he saw his subordinates, he became even more angry.
"Going back to the general, General Li was patrolling at night and **** the soldiers who violated the military law. I wanted to report them to the general early tomorrow morning, but I didn't expect that General Li actually came to the general late at night to ask for someone. The general refused to give him, and he wanted to rob him, so Then the general started to quarrel with him."
Liu Yin cupped his fists and saluted.
Li Sheng quickly said with a smile, "Why should General Rauma personally deal with such a trivial matter? You and I can just discuss it in private, and it won't cause a big mistake."
When Ma Su heard this, he frowned and said, "Soldiers who violate military law? What is going on?"
"Back to the general, three soldiers took advantage of the opportunity to change sentries at night and escaped from the camp and entered the city. They wanted to do something inappropriate to the woman, but they were kidnapped by a certain leader."
"What did you say?" Ma Su stood up suddenly and shouted, "How dare any soldier commit adultery?"
The prime minister led his army to Long and ordered Ming Su to be suppressed. He rarely disturbed the people.
In addition, adultery and robbery are a taboo in the army. Anyone who dares to violate this taboo will be killed without mercy.
“General, calm down!” Li Sheng said quickly, “These people are just trying to do bad things and have not made any big mistakes.”
"If I hadn't arrived in time, I might not have been as relaxed as General Li said."
Liu Yin scolded angrily.
"So we have to thank General Liu for this matter!" Li Shengpei said with a smile, "It's just that in my opinion, this matter happened at night, and not many people know about it for the time being. If it can be suppressed, it is best to suppress it."
"If it is publicized in a big way, all the people in Lueyang City will know about it. Wouldn't this make the scandal of one's family exposed in front of others? Therefore, I feel that the immediate priority is to appease that family first and prevent them from causing chaos. Speak out so as not to ruin the army's reputation."
"And now it's time to use troops. In my opinion, it's better to put them on death row and let them charge forward. Firstly, this can be regarded as exercising military law on them. Secondly, it can make them atone for their sins." And work hard to make meritorious deeds.”
“In the past, the King of Chuzhuang set up the Jueying Conference and got the fierce general Tang Qiao. How do you know that today General Ma can’t get the fierce general?”
(End of this chapter)