You ask Liu Bei why he wanted to kill Liu Pi. Apart from one reason, Liu Pi offended Zhang Xiu, there are other reasons. One of them is that one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. It's very big, many yellow scarf bandits in Yuzhou are urging Liu Pi to come back and take Yuzhou back. Even if Liu Pi doesn't want to, his subordinates may force him to do so, just like Cai Mao and Zhang Yun dedicated to Jingzhou back then, Cao Cao knows no matter what Liu Biao's youngest son had no possibility of rebellion at all, but in order to prevent problems before they happened, he sealed Liu Cong as a governor of Qingzhou and disappeared. And Liu Bei was even more vicious, treating Liu Biao's eldest son Liu Qi, relying on Liu Qi's reputation to get the support of Jingzhou, and made Liu Qi the governor of Jingzhou, but Liu Qi also died the next year!
The second reason why Liu Bei killed Liu Pi was the issue of military power. If Liu Pi handed over his military power as soon as he welcomed Liu Bei into Yuzhou, then nothing would happen. Liu Bei could even give Liu Pi a civilian job and a prefect. As for Liu Pi, he is greedy for power and is unwilling to teach the military power in his hands. If you don’t teach, it’s nothing as long as you are obedient. But this time Liu Pi’s privately dispatching the army really touched Liu Bei’s bottom line. You can lie to Liu Bei and send out an army to ambush the Xiliang iron cavalry, maybe you can ambush him Liu Bei. You must know that when Liu Bei went to ambush the wolf cavalry in Bingzhou this time, there were not many soldiers and horses around him, only a personal guard battalion. If you think badly, then Liu Bei will be finished.
How could Liu Bei keep such a disobedient subordinate? This time Liu Pi happened to come across an idea, which gave Liu Bei an excuse to kill Liu Bei. Ambush allies to take credit. Shoot black guns at friendly troops. This reason kills Liu Pi, no one will say much, because the most feared thing on the battlefield is this kind of person who has achieved military exploits and attacked his own robe, and the most generals will not tolerate it.
The possible rebellion of Liu Pi's subordinates was also considered by Liu Bei. The Liao Hua in front of him was Liu Bei's means. come up.
Liao Hua's commander, Liu Bei, saw it. He dared to use 5,000 troops to ambush 2,000 heavy armored cavalry, and almost wiped out the two thousand heavy armored cavalry. This shows that this person is a good general. Thanks Dade. Liu Bei knew that this person would not betray him, and he was directly made the chief general of the army from a general of 5,000 people. He was grateful for this kind of kindness.
After a long talk all night long, Zhang Xiu and Liu Bei became good friends again. Pang Tong also made a plan in the night, that is, to follow the plan. This plan by Xu Shu is nothing more than to make Zhang Xiujun and Liu Bei's army turned against each other. If it was the best fight, it would be considered a failure. The two armies may also part ways, and Zhang Xiu and Liu Bei made such an illusion. Let Zhang Xiu's army pull out the battalion first, pretending to withdraw troops, and then surprise Shouchun, which caught the Shouchun defenders by surprise and directly took down the Shouchun city gate.
Almost, almost, this strategy succeeded. Fortunately, Xu Shu still had a mobile force in his hands, which was Zhao Yun's 200 white horse Congyi. Only by relying on these 200 white horse Congyi did he discover that the Xiliang iron cavalry who made a surprise attack also Successfully relying on the white horse's sniper attack slowed down the speed of Xiliang cavalry, which allowed Shouchun to close the city gate and put down the suspension bridge, but the industrial area could not be kept. Xu Shu could only endure the pain and put the entire industrial area Burned to ashes.
"Military commander, let me ask Baima Congyi to go up to the city wall to help defend the city!" Zhao Yun watched Xu Shu fight hard. After all, Xu Shu's garrison troops were all second-line troops, while Liu Bei's siege army was first-line troops. , and Xu Shu only had 10,000 people in his hands, while the enemy army at the foot of the mountain was tens of thousands of horses. If it weren't for the city wall of Shouchun, it might have been finished.
"No, General Zilong, you and your white horses will go down to rest, I need to use you in more useful places!" Xu Shu will not let the cavalry guard the city, he has not yet reached that point, so It is temporarily impossible to use heavy armored cavalry, but Xu Shu can do other things with this heavy armored cavalry. "By the way, General Zilong, go down and ask the people to help me burn the golden water! It may be used later!"
"Well, the general understands!" Zhao Yun nodded and went down the city wall. The golden water is not water made of gold, but made of rice paddies, arsenic and some poisonous mist. This thing is the most important thing. The most important thing is to use it on arrows. Such arrows are simply a simple version of biochemical weapons. As long as they hit people, if they are not properly treated, they may die, because there are many bacteria on Yonetako. , Once it enters the human body, it may form an infection. Xu Shulai didn't want to use this, but he was so forced that he had no choice but to do so.
"Taking this Shouchun, Lu Bu's army will be finished in Yangzhou!" Liu Bei looked at this important town and thought in his heart, as long as he takes this place, Liu Bei will be able to occupy the two states of Henan and Yangzhou, and after the disaster, he will join Sun Ce Wancheng Zhang Xiu in Jiangdong If Lu Bu is destroyed again, there will be no one in the entire Central Plains who can stop Liu Bei. Just wait for the end of the battle between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao. No matter who wins, Liu Bei will be able to occupy the Central Plains and march into Xuzhou, Yanzhou, and Qingzhou. At that time, it will be true With the career of king and hegemony.
"Soldiers, raise your spirits, pick up your weapons, see if you see the front, that is Shouchun, that is the place where Yuan Shu's second child dreamed of being an emperor, as long as we win there, we will win, my lord There will definitely be rewards based on merit and deeds, and when the time comes to get promoted and get rich and marry a wife, you must know that there are millions of people in this birthday! There are hundreds of thousands of young ladies, and it is not a problem for one person to get two or three!" This kind of morale boosting method is only the Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army. This is the first time Liao Hua has encouraged his subordinates when he became the general. They used to be the Yellow Turban Army. Liao Hua said that this is very polite. At least marry someone. , the original Yellow Turban army broke the city, they burned, killed, looted and tortured directly, those women were ruined, how could they marry back home! But Liu Bei has a good reputation. He came here this time to make the people decide. If he burns, kills and loots, his reputation will really be ruined!
"Take Shouchun, get promoted and get rich!" Liao Hua shouted loudly and led his subordinates to attack the city wall.
"Soldiers, we only have this Shouchun City. If Shouchun City is destroyed, then we will have nothing. Imagine your parents in the city, imagine your children and wives in the city, once the city is broken, you can imagine what they will do What kind of treatment you have encountered is definitely ruined. Don’t have illusions about the troops under the city. Let me tell you that they are from Yuzhou. You don’t know what Yuzhou was like before! They are a bunch of yellow scarves. But it’s just a change of appearance, don’t you know the cruelty of the Yellow Turbans?” Xu Shu naturally used the Yellow Turbans to write the article, and if he wanted to make the morale of these new garrison troops high, he had to let them know the importance of defending the soil .
"Death to me, save the whole family!" Xu Shu yelled, and the garrison soldiers on the city also began to cheer up. Those who drew bows, those who pulled bows, and those who carried fallen rocks and logs were also busy.
"Let the arrows, let the arrows!" Under Xu Shu's order, the garrison soldiers shot the bows and arrows in their hands towards the enemies below like rain. There is a moat outside Shouchun, which is not the small ditch outside Gwangju City. This is a moat with a width of more than ten meters and a depth of at least seven or eight meters. Moreover, it still draws running water. There are suspension bridges on the moat. , so the first wave of Liu Beijun was used to fill up the moat. Every Yuzhou soldier held one or two bags, which were filled with soil, and threw these soil bags into the moat. To fill them up, in order to fill up these moats quickly, each of them put their weapons aside and carried them laboriously. People came and ran fast, and they went back and forth and those sandbags were also very heavy. This made the speed even worse. Once you run slowly, you will become an arrow target. With just a few back and forth, the moat is less than one-tenth filled, and the Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army in Liao Hua's hands has lost thousands of people. If this continues, the moat will be filled and his Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army will be gone. This is not what Liao Hua wants. He just became the chief general of the Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army.
So Liao Hua stood in front of Liu Bei very pitifully. Liu Bei also knew that the loss of the Yuzhou Army was a bit big. The Qingzhou Army is still the Yuzhou Yellow Turban Army, and what happened to the two is still the same.
The city of Shouchun was built very well by that daydreamer Yuan Shu. The city walls are all convex. The advantage of this is that most of his arrows can cover the moat. And Liu Mang also added some things on top of it, such as the extended archery stand, which made the coverage of the arrows wider, so the Qingzhou Army was shot back in the same result when they played.
Zhang Feizhan was really angry on the edge of the moat, because such a river cannot be crossed, and it is difficult to attack Shouchun, but he can only watch his subordinate Erlang being shot to death by the archers without the power to fight back. It is not that Liu Bei has never thought about it Use archers to fight back, but if they are at a high place and you are at a low place, how much strength will your arrows have even if they fly up the city wall? And when someone else's arrow is thrown under the acceleration of gravity, you will die and injure a lot.
If the fight continues like this, even if the moat is filled up, he will have to lose an army among the Yellow Turban Army of Yuzhou and the Yellow Turban Army of Qingzhou. In addition to attacking the city wall, the casualties may be even heavier. The light rod commander.
"Mr. Xuande, let me do it!" Seeing Liu Bei's difficulty, Zhang Xiu smiled at Liu Bei and took over the burden.
"General Zhang Xiu? How will your subordinates fill up the moat?!" Zhang Xiu's subordinates are all heavy armored cavalry. Once dismounted, the heavy armor on their bodies weighs nearly a hundred catties. It is impossible to run, and with sandbags, It may be enough to walk back and forth, but how to fill the moat!
"Don't worry! Mr. Xuande, Xiu naturally has a clever plan!" Zhang Xiu smiled at Liu Bei. He is Liu Bei's favorite. After taking Liu Bei for so long, it's time to do something, and Liu Bei can't take Shouchun, he Zhang Xiu is also unlucky. Once Lv Bu's army has a respite, he may have to pay a higher price. If he helps Liu Bei win Shouchun as soon as possible, this Shouchun City is the camp of Liu Mang's army. I heard that this Lu Bu transported most of the resources and materials in Lujiang to this Shouchun. If the attack is taken down, the money and food will be less!
"Hu Che'er, come and show yourself to Duke Xuande!" Zhang Xiu shouted loudly to his lieutenant general and trusted confidant Hu Che'er.
"Yes! My lord! Brothers. It's time for you to play. Come, come. Show the friendly army that we are not just for nothing~" Hu Cheer's loud voice did not take into account other people's feelings at all. Before Liu Beijun was There have always been complaints, thinking that the army in front of this post is just living for nothing, and they just don’t work for the army food and money. You see, we are the ones who do the siege of the city, we are the one who take the city and transport the food and grass, and we still do the defense against the enemy’s counterattack. Yes, what did the Xiliang cavalry do? Just looking at guns. Do you think Liu Beijun can balance it
"Qiang barbarian!" Zhang Fei cursed directly, but fortunately his voice was not loud enough to be heard by Hu Che'er, otherwise the two would cross-eyed again.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Zhang Xiu's Xiliang iron cavalry finally started to move, and Hu Che'er led a total of ten thousand Xiliang iron cavalry to slowly leave the camp on horseback.
"Huh?! General Zhang Xiu, who are you?!" Liu Bei was a little confused, because none of these Xiliang iron cavalry got off their horses, but put a bag of sandbags on their horses.
"Mr. Xuande just looked at it. Xiu can still lie to Mr. Xuande!" Zhang Xiu was a little proud. This was a housekeeper of their Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Don't use heavy cavalry to attack the city, that's because of heavy weight It is too bad for the armored cavalry to attack the city. A cavalry has to be trained for a long time, but it is different in Xiliang, where there are many ethnic minorities. There are also a lot of Han people, and there are even more war horses. Basically, which one outside the Great Wall can't ride and shoot, so most of them are cavalry troops, and there are few infantry, but there are also battles for hegemony and cities to attack. They have their own siege methods, and they also have their own methods to break him when dealing with this kind of moat.
"Boom, boom, boom!" After everyone had sandbags, Hu Che'er waved his hammers, and the entire Xiliang iron cavalry started to move. This huge steel monster began to show its terror that was different from ordinary people. In the place, the roar of cavalry running made Xu Shu feel the vibration even standing on the city wall.
Ten thousand cavalry rushed towards the city guard, Xu Shu frowned, what is this for? Don't die? Want to use cavalry to storm the city wall? Or do you want to cross the moat with cavalry? This is more than ten meters long, what kind of war horse can pick it up? Still really overwhelmed, and ready to jump into the river together, Xu Shu felt a little uneasy in his heart.
How could Hu Che'er's Xiliang iron cavalry commit suicide by jumping into the river? They were all still thinking about when they would open the gate of Shouchun and let them grab a full meal! How could he commit suicide so easily
The vanguard of the Xiliang iron cavalry is only three hundred steps away from the moat! Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps, thirty steps, the speed of the cavalry is very fast, the distance of thirty steps is extremely short, and these heavy cavalry are about to rush into the river.
Among the cavalry, Hu Che'er yelled, "Flanks, change formation, and maneuver!" The cavalry of the Xiliang iron cavalry seemed to have spirits, and the horses in their hands were part of their bodies, and they were about to rush forward. The Xiliang iron cavalry who entered the moat suddenly changed direction. Under the leadership of the forward, the entire Xiliang iron cavalry brigade charged directly at the river bank, and then turned around along the river bank. At the moment they made a detour, sandbags were thrown into the river one after another. In the moat, 10,000 Xiliang iron cavalry are 10,000 sandbags, filling a lot of the moat at once.
"Shooting arrows, shooting arrows!" Xu Shu was in a hurry. If this went on like this, the moat of Shouchun could withstand filling up several times. Xu Shu wanted to use arrows to drive away these Xiliang cavalry, but it was so easy.
"Hehe!" Hu Che'er looked at Xu Shu on the city wall and smiled disdainfully. Xiliang iron cavalry are heavy armored cavalry, and what they are most afraid of are arrows. Although these arrow rains are dense, they fall on heavy armor. There were not many injuries, only a few unlucky ones fell off the horse after being shot to death, and the cavalry behind them would not stop, so all the Xiliang iron cavalry who fell on the horse were crushed to death by the horse.
"Mr. Xuande, how about me, Xiliang iron cavalry!" Zhang Xiu looked at Liu Bei with pride, and also looked at the generals under Liu Bei's command with pride. If the moat is filled up, I won't bother to hear these warriors say that their Xiliang iron cavalry is free.
"Haha, General Yangwu is really a good method, a good method!" Liu Bei was really overjoyed, let alone Zhang Xiu's method is really useful, a large group of heavy armored cavalry rushed over and turned back, as long as the Just throw the sandbags on the horse, and it will not be a problem to go back and forth to the moat. It only takes a while, and it can catch up with the joint efforts of the Qingzhou Army and the Yuzhou Army just now.
And if Liu Bei sent his Qingzhou Army and Yuzhou Army to fill it, it would be a pile of human lives.
"Ten more rounds at most, and the moat of Shouchun can be completely filled!" Zhang Xiu spoke with great confidence. His uncle, Li Jue, Guo Si and others used this method when they attacked Chang'an. The moat in Chang'an, which is said to be tens of meters deep, was filled within half a day. This is why Zhang Xiu allowed Liu Biao to make an alliance with him instead of direct orders. Jingzhou has many waterways, and the natural city wall will not Too high, once the moat is filled, there is basically no dangerous place.
"It can't go on like this!" Xu Shu looked at the moat in front of him. If this continues like this, how can this Shouchun defend the moat? This is a big danger for Shouchun. When Cao Cao broke Yuan Shu, Shouchun still relied on the four dams. The four dams have not been repaired, so it is impossible to flood Shouchun, and this moat is the biggest obstacle to stop the siege.
Now once the moat is filled, then Xu Shu will have to face Liu Bei's elite army, relying on the 10,000 garrison troops in the city? How could it be impossible to keep it.
"Come and push those things out for me!" Xu Shu gritted his teeth and shouted loudly.
"Military division? Are you going to use that thing now?! But now!" Deng Yi next to him was very puzzled, how long would it take? This was Liu Bei's first day of siege, so he needed to use that thing gone? Isn't that prepared to be the killer's trump card when the city wall is about to fail
"Don't wait until the moat is filled and Shouchun is destroyed!" Xu Shu didn't want to use that thing either, after all, that thing has limited arrows, and using him at a high intensity may cause him to be destroyed as soon as possible I lost it, but now I have to use it.
"Okay, I understand!" Deng Yi went straight down, and with his help, racks of wooden objects were pulled up the city wall.
Twelve towers are lined up on one side of the city wall of Shouchun.
"What's that?!" There was such a big movement on the city wall, it was impossible for Liu Beijun below not to notice it, and they all looked at it strangely.
"The bed crossbow?!" Zhang Xiu came from Xiliang and was located in the frontier, so he naturally knew the bed crossbow.
"Bed crossbow?!" Liu Bei was taken aback. "This is the bed crossbow that has been passed around in Liu Mang's army?!"
"That's right, it's the bed crossbow!" Pang Tong next to him narrowed his eyes, because he was the first person in Liu Bei's army to suffer from the bed crossbow, and that Huainan famous dish is still vivid in his memory.
"So what about the bed crossbow! If you take this thing out, I will be afraid!" Zhang Xiu came from Xiliang and naturally knew that the bed crossbow's deterrent power is stronger than the actual lethality, but it is just a wave of shooting Its function is just to scare those foreigners, but it is useless against Zhang Xiu.
"Rush over, rush over, fill up the moat!" Hu Che'er had the same idea.
The Xiliang iron cavalry was getting closer and closer. Standing on the city wall, Xu Shu could clearly see the expression on the leader's face with the binoculars in his hand.
"Turn on!" Xu Shu also raised his hand! (to be continued..)
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