Feng Chu's advice to Liu Bei was good, and Zhang Xiu, who was also far away in Wancheng, was also slowly being fooled by Feng Chu. He became lonely and talkative. It was his idea to subdue Cao, which also caused Aunt Zhang Xiu to be talked about life ideals by Lao Cao. Xu would not talk about some things even if he could see them!
Just when Liu Paopao and Feng Chu were preparing to fight in high spirits and look forward to a better future, good news came! Guan Yu lost Shouchun! In one day, all the city defenses in the entire Shouchun City were completely lost!
"Second brother, how is it possible!" Liu Paopao was stunned. His second son, Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang, were not just waiting for someone. Guan Yu also has a one-shot knife dragging skill that can kill people who are stronger than Guan Yu! Although Guan Yu is very strong in martial arts, he is not much higher than Zhang Fei, but Guan Yu is handsome in Liu Paopao's mind. Guan Yu can stand alone, which has always been Liu Paopao's Let Guan Yu be the main general, and it can be seen that Guan Yu was even the head of Jingzhou on the original trajectory. Although Jingzhou was carelessly lost in the end, it is undeniable that Guan Yu is very strong in commanding the army!
Generals are not scary, but they are educated! No matter how strong a person is, as Xiang Yu said, he is only an enemy of a thousand people, and a person who really knows how to command an army is the real enemy of ten thousand people, and Guan Yu, who has always held the spring and autumn and studied the art of war, is such a person Enemy of all people. .
Guan Yu has 10,000 soldiers under his command, and these 10,000 soldiers are all elite Qingzhou soldiers. In addition, there is an important town such as Shouchun, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. No matter how hard you fight, you can't lose it in a day Bar! You must know that in Wancheng, which is also an important town, Shu Wang Liu Mang resisted the attack of Sun Ce's 100,000 troops abruptly. And now the attacking side is Lu Bu's army, how many troops can Lu Bu send to attack Shouchun! Ten thousand? Twenty thousand
"General Guan, where are you now!" Pang Tong frowned. Even if Pang Tong had 30,000 soldiers under his command, he would not be able to destroy the city in one day. Pang Tong had already counted all the troops under Liu Mang's command. After entering, there are more than 10,000 sailors, 3,000 city management troops, and 3,000 black chess troops. Pang Tong has also considered Hefei's recruitment order, and he can add 10,000 soldiers at most, which is only 30,000. !
Even if 30,000 people attack an important town guarded by 10,000 elites, they should last for ten days and a half months! Even a pig can protect it, what do you want in Shouchun, military rations, ordnance, and even Pang Tong, in order to let Guan Yu hold back Lu Bujun, nailed it like a nail to Shouchun, and almost all the arrows in the army The capital was assigned to Guan Yu to defend the city! But now the city is lost!
"The second general is on his way back to the army. The 10,000-strong army did not bring much food and grass, so the speed is very slow!" The orderly explained to Pang Tong and Liu Paopao panting.
"10,000 troops?!" Guan Yu brought 10,000 people in total, and now he still has 10,000 people? What does this mean? It shows that Guan Yu's city was not destroyed at all, but the city he gave up. Otherwise, how could there be 10,000 troops!
"Nonsense, nonsense! Why did this second brother become like this!" Liu Paopao was a little angry. If he was worried about Guan Yu's safety because of the destruction of Shouchun City before, he was really upset now. The best strategy is to nail Shouchun firmly, and use Shouchun as a bridgehead to prepare for the next sweep of Yangzhou. This is also the preliminary preparation to prevent Lu Bujun from defending along the Yingshang Huai River!
But now Guan Yu gave up Shouchun without fighting at all. What was he thinking? Pang Tong didn't say anything, and he didn't understand what Guan Yu was thinking! Although he was valued by Liu Bei, he was also worshiped as a military adviser, and even Liu Bei respected him very much and called himself Mr.! But Pang Tong knew that compared with Guan Yu, he was still an outsider after all, so he couldn't say that Guan Yu was bad!
Fortunately, when both of them were lost in thought in the hall, there was a sound from outside the hall, "Second General, wait, wait!" The guard hurried forward to stop the visitor, but was pushed aside by the visitor The leader was a red-faced general in a green robe, with a black beard that stretched to his chest, and a big knife in his hand.
"Second brother?" Liu Paopao and Feng Chu, who were sitting at the table, hurriedly stood up, and the person who came was none other than Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang they were discussing just now!
"Brother!" Guan Yu knelt down as soon as he saw Liu Pao running. In front of Liu Paopao.
"The last general will not live up to the entrustment of the lord, and I ask the lord to punish him!" Several generals standing behind Guan Yu saw that the lord general Guan Yu knelt down. They had no reason to stand, so they also knelt on the ground one by one and faced Liu ran. Run to ask for punishment.
"Second brother, second brother! It's good for people to come back, and there will be people when they come back!" Liu Paopao is worthy of being a person who can aspire to the world in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. He has thoroughly studied the psychology of using people with one hand. After losing the battle, his subordinates would be very angry even if they didn't say anything, but Liu Paopao didn't ask why Shouchun was lost at the beginning! Instead, he cared about Guan Yu's safety from the very beginning, and this caring was well used!
"Get up, get up, let the big brother take a good look!" Taoyuan's three friends, Liu Paopao is the most motherly, but this kind of mother is the one that can make tough guys like Guan Yu and Zhang Fei feel a kind of tenderness, Because it's a concern that doesn't exist among other brothers.
"Brother!" The more Liu Paopao cared, the more Guan Yu felt bitter and ashamed.
"Second General, what about the birthday?!" Liu Bei didn't speak, so naturally Pang Tong came to be the person to inquire. Liu Bei also interjected to say that Mr. Yunchang should let Yun Chang rest for a while before talking about it. The journey was very exhausting. ! Although Liu Bei said so, his gaze was fixed on Guan Yu. He wanted to know what was going on with Shouchun more than anyone else.
"Brother! Let Guan Yu talk first!" Guan Yu stood up with the support of Liu Paopao. His army was brought back by Guan Yu's deputy general. Guan Yu wanted to discuss things with his elder brother first, so he left early. The large troops rode back to Runan first.
"Brother, it's not that Yu is willing to abandon Shouchun this time, but that the city of Shouchun really can't be defended!" Guan Yu's mouth was full of bitterness. Since Guan Yu followed his elder brother Liu Bei, he has fought no less than a hundred battles The Yellow Turban Rebellion, the 18th princes crusade against Dong Zhuo, Guan Yu Guan Yunchang is not there. The reason why Guan Yu is called a martial artist is because Guan Yu not only knows martial arts but also knows how to fight! So when he learned that Liu Mang, the king of Shu in Hefei, had sent troops to Shouchun to attack Shouchun, Guan Yu was not worried at all. Guan Yu even disdained Liu Mang, the king of Shu, and Guan Yu has been trying to get to know Liu Mang. He also met Liu Mang when he was in Kaiyang City. He vomited blood from anger, but Guan Yu had a great impression of Liu Mang!
After that, Lu Bujun left Xuzhou, and the battle at the foot of Bagong Mountain and in Wancheng pushed Liu Mang to the fore. It can be said that His Royal Highness King Shu is also a man of knowledge! But so what! With Shouchun here, don't think about breaking through Shouchun City without an army of 50,000!
Guarding the city is nothing more than preparing military supplies, falling wood, rolling stones and boiling oil! There are 30,000 shi of food and grass in Shouchun City, which is enough for 10,000 troops to use for a year, arrows! There are 200,000 arrows in the city, all of which were dispatched by military advisor Pang Tong to Liu Bei! Falling wood and rolling stones are even more impossible to count! With the ordnance and supplies, the rest is the troops! Guan Yu's Qingzhou soldiers are also elite!
These were adapted from the former Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army. Even if they encountered Lao Cao's Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, they dared to charge back, so their combat effectiveness was amazing. Just as Guan Yu was always preparing and waiting for the arrival of His Highness the King of Shu, Liu The reckless vanguard has arrived!
As soon as the vanguard set up a battle outside the city, Guan Yu laughed. Did the King of Shu exaggerate! Never fought a war before! How many people did Liu Mang bring? It made people laugh when I said it, so I brought soldiers and horses from the two battalions of the Urban Management Army and the Black Chess Army. Even if the Urban Management Army and the Black Chess Army have expanded their troops, the total number is only 10,000 people. You use 10,000 people to attack Another city defended by 10,000 troops? This is a joke!
At first, Guan Yu thought it was a scam, because there should be 30,000 people under Liu Wei's command, and now only 10,000 people have gone, but the information from the scouts is that Liu Wei's subordinate Gan Ning has 12,000 water The army went directly to Lujiang County! Now Guan Yu is really relieved, this king of Shu is definitely a person who does not know military affairs, I am afraid that the battles he fought before were all helped by those generals under Lu Bu's army, and his name was finally brought on!
Guan Yu has seen too many things that are not worthy of the name among those gentry!
Liu Mang has only 10,000 people under his command, and the black chess army is still a heavy armored pawn. The heavy armor on his body is not the alloy armor worn by the urban management soldiers, but real iron products. Those heavy armors weigh more than a hundred catties. Wearing these crawlers Isn't it a joke to go up the ladder and climb the city wall! What kind of ladder can hold it!
So Guan Yu calmly prepared to watch Liu Mangjun's joke, but he couldn't laugh anymore after a while! Because Liu Mang's trilogy stopped at a distance of 500 steps from the city wall, this distance happened to be beyond the reach of arrows thrown from the city wall!
At this time, a golden-armored warrior came out from the urban management army, followed by a veteran in armor. This was Liu Wei and his proud assistant Huang Zhong. What did Liu Wei do before the army? Of course it was a persuasion! Liu Mang was very rude, he told Guan Yu and his Qingzhou soldiers in the city to give them half an hour to consider, either withdraw the army now or leave or wait to be beaten away by himself.
Liu Mang's words really made Guan Yu happy. If he doesn't understand military affairs, he won't say anything. Now he dares to speak wild words! Guan Yu had already made up his mind, after waiting for less than 10,000 people to be exhausted from attacking the city, he would pull out a part to fight outside this Shouchun, and he wanted to teach His Royal Highness the King of Shu a good lesson! Wars weren't fought like that. Guan Yu very politely told Liu Mang his answer with a five-stone giant bow that was full of Xuan.
"I'm not flattering!" Liu Mang looked at the red-faced Guan Gong on the city wall with a look of sullenness on his face. The reason why he shouted so politely was because Guan Gong was highly regarded both in the late Han Dynasty and in history! This person is loyal and has high martial arts skills, so he is worshiped and praised by everyone. Those who have no business worship Guan Gong's unparalleled loyalty, and those who have business worship Guan Erye's priesthood of the Martial God of Wealth!
Liu Mang and Guan Yu are polite, if Guan Yu doesn't want it, then forget it! Let's speak with facts! A group of people came from behind the city management army and the black chess army. These people are not soldiers but a lot of craftsmen. Some of them are transporting food and some are taking care of their families! These people are the people who will settle in Shouchun in the future. Liu Mang brought them all at once, because he is determined to win this Shouchun, and it depends on the first battle!
There are piles of good things in the things that these craftsmen help to transport, that is a derivative version of the bed crossbow, the ballista!
To say that the ballista is a bit genteel, but to put it bluntly, it is a catapult. This catapult is not the kind of ordinary catapult that uses dozens of people to forcibly use manpower. The weight is also small and the distance is not far!
And the one in Liu Mang's hands now uses gears, the principle of leverage and mechanisms, and even has metal springs inside.
In the original trebuchets, a group of people relied on manpower to slam down the side that threw the stone, but they threw the stone onto the city wall by relying on these manpower! This kind of trebuchet is sometimes powerful and sometimes weak, and can only throw a hundred steps, and the weight of the heavy object must not exceed a hundred catties, and the accuracy is still very poor. If you want to shoot people, it depends entirely on your character. Well, nature has a great harvest, and bad character, that is infinite deviation!
Now with gears it's different. Just shake the handle at the bottom of the trebuchet, and press down the roller and the gear bowstring arm deeply. As long as the arm can hold it, even half a ton of boulders can be thrown out, and his shooting range is also greatly increased. Yes, within 300 steps, you can throw a half-ton boulder, within 500 steps you can throw a 300-jin boulder, and at 700 steps you can throw a 100-jin stone. Get ready for a pounding of stones!
There are more than 10,000 craftsmen, together with the families and relatives of these craftsmen and the people who migrated with them, there are nearly 50,000 people. There are many people and great strength, and big stones are piled up in front of the ballista!
At Liu Mang's order, the ballista began to roar, and all the huge stones weighing hundreds of catties were put in the basket by the ballista and smashed into Shouchun City. Liu Mang's month in Hefei made the craftsmen say Made at night, there are a total of 50 ballistas here, and the bombardment of 50 boulders on the Shouchun City Wall within one breath. Those are all big stones weighing three hundred catties. Throwing it in mid-air, falling according to gravity, no matter it is heavy armor or giant shield, it will be torn apart when it falls on a person! Some of those who were hit directly died even more miserably, being smashed into meatloaf! Stop talking about people! Even the city wall was very uncomfortable, boulders fell on it, and the bricks on the wall of Shouchun City were splashed, forming big pits one by one!
"What is this!" Guan Yu was really confused! Five hundred steps away, with this kind of attack, a huge boulder suddenly drew a parabola from mid-air and fell in the direction of Guan Erye.
"Be careful, general!" The guard on the side rushed towards Second Master Guan and pushed him out, and the guard was smashed into meatloaf by falling rocks, and there was no way out. Such a scene happened in Every side of the wall.
"Tabuche? How is it possible, how is it possible!" It's not that Erye Guan has never seen a catapult. When the eighteenth princes attacked Hulao Pass, some princes took out a catapult and prepared to attack Hulao Pass, but that kind of thing can only be used. Throw a hundred catties of stones, and the distance is only more than a hundred cloth! And now the things under this city! There are five hundred steps, and those stones are definitely not the volume of a hundred catties of stones! What the hell are these! (To be continued.)