In the Wuchang City of Yingzhou, this city that was repeatedly tossed by the Zhou army in the end, it failed to escape from the opponent's clutch and fell again. Judging from the current situation, the Zhou army did not plan to leave when it came.

The general, the governor of Bazhou, and the Duke of Zhu, Yuwen Wen, are now patrolling the city top of Wuchang. He came back a little late. The large gap in the east wall had just been filled.

I saved up a year of gunpowder and used half of it when attacking Wuchang. The tunnel was dug into the base of the city wall, and piled several coffins filled with gunpowder through the tunnel under the base of the city wall, and then ignited the fire to "release the coffin and make a fortune."

In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Qing Dynasty, the Taiping Army, which lacked artillery, used this method to attack the city. It was extremely sharp, provided that the level of digging tunnels was high.

The tunnel-digging team trained by Yuwen Wen was very powerful and successfully broke the Wuchang East City Wall. Chen Jun used a catapult to smash the Zhou army with a catapult, but he did not expect that there would be a big killing weapon, so it was natural for Zhou army to break the city in three days.

Hao Dadan, who stayed in Wuchang, followed Yuwen Wen and introduced the relevant situation: "Eunuch, the city wall has been repaired, and six new forts have been built outside the city to protect the city. Chen Jun is coming to attack, but he will have to collapse his teeth."

"It will be too late to wait until the enemy sieges the city. There are no reinforcements outside. How long can the defenders' fighting spirit last?" Yuwen Wen looked outside the city and said, "But Wuchang is different. There is a side facing the river. As long as the navy is there, reinforcements cannot be stopped."

"The envoy is right, this is how Yan Ji holds on."

"It was supported by Bazhou. Now that we want to support Wuchang, do you have confidence?"

"have!"

The generals replied that most of them were generals of the Hulin Army, and there were generals of the palace who were about to change their defense.

"It's not enough to be mindful, but there must be deeper trenches and moats!"

Originally, the Wuchang defenders of Chen State dug trenches and moats, but the Zhou army dug deeper the tunnels. Now that they have changed their offensive and defensive positions, the original trenches and moats have been deepened.

Chen Jun widened the walls of Wuchang when he built the new Wuchang city. This was a countermeasure against the catapult. The actual effect was very good. When Zhou Jun attacked Wuchang this time, he used the catapult to throw stones and smash the walls. He could no longer collapse the city walls like he had attacked Xiangyang.

He could only smash a ramp, but the Zhou army could use this to climb to the top of the city, but it would have to be filled with people. If it weren't for the thunder that used this time and the huge power to blow up the city wall, the casualties of the Zhou army would not be small under the attack.

Yuwen Wen walked around the city wall and asked the generals to be busy with their own affairs. He then went to the wharf in the north of the city to check the construction progress.

The natural port of Wuchang is Fankou, which is more suitable for boat mooring. Just like Bakou is in Xiyang, it is just based on the need to assist in the defense of Wuchang, and build a new wharf in the north of the city so that reinforcements on the north bank can directly take the boat to cross south for reinforcements when the enemy besieged the city.

The water flow here is relatively turbulent, and the construction requires a lot of stone. Not only that, repairing the city defense in Wuchang is also expensive, but in order to defend Wuchang, Yuwen Wen could only grit his teeth and hold on.

According to the plan discussed with everyone before, they shouldn't have occupied Wuchang so quickly. They had to repeatedly bleed Chen Jun like they did the previous year, and torture him for another year or two before taking action. In this way, Chen Jun's counterattack would be much smaller.

But now the form is different. Chen State captured Huainan Prefectures and County and concentrated its troops to maintain this hard-earned territory. Correspondingly, the support for Yingzhou is much smaller. The Huangzhou Army of Zhou State has defeated the Jiangzhou Navy of Chen State, and the Chen army will no longer be able to launch a large-scale reinforcement of Yingzhou.

While you are sick, you will be killed. When the war broke out, Yuwen Wen was not in Bazhou. This time he used the troops. The result was the discussion between the governor Shi Renchong, the Sima Yang Ji of the Prefecture, and the Hulin Army, the generals of the government soldiers. Yuwen Wen felt that this was good.

His weak officers' regiment can finally make his own decisions based on the actual situation!

"When will Sima Yang withdraw?"

"Eunuch, now you are about to plow the spring. When the Xiakou Guards missed the farming season, Yang Sima withdrew."

"I think the people of Chen State have to arrange their own officials again. I wonder what kind of way will this time die?"

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Xiakou City is in the remote suburbs.

Sima Yang Ji of Bazhou used a thousand-mile mirror to observe the Chen army stronghold outside Xiakou City. Both sides had been fighting fiercely around Xiakou for several months. Now the Zhou army finally arrived outside Xiakou City, but was exhausted and unable to truly attack the city.

The strongholds outside Xiakou have not been cleaned up yet and cannot be forced to the city, so we cannot dig tunnels and reach the base of the wall to "make a coffin and make a fortune."

The Zhou army had the advantage in field battles, but if they wanted to attack the city, the troops were insufficient. The state soldiers were 2,000, the Hulin soldiers were 2,000, and the government soldiers were 2,000. The young and strong men who transported grains together seemed to have more soldiers, but the Chen army had more soldiers.

If the Zhou army had not had strong field combat capabilities, they would have been surrounded by now.

"It's not unreasonable that more than 20,000 soldiers are buried in Xiakou City!"

General Liang Dingxing laughed and scolded. The newly trained soldiers performed well. As the general of the soldiers, he was quite happy. He followed the old friends to join the army outside Xiakou City and his previous worries disappeared.

"They can't be defeated, so they dare not take risks. Anyway, they know that our army is unable to attack the city, so they probably want to waste the rainy season, so our army can only retreat."

Don’t analyze Chen Wudi’s brother. The defenders of Chen’s Xiakou are of varying quality and can fight, but they have to be recruited. These people are barely able to defend the city, so they will definitely not be able to go out of the city to fight in the wild.

"Don't wait until it rains. These fields are almost destroyed. When the farming season passes, they will leave. Chen Jun has no harvest this year!"

"Twenty thousand defenders, not even the reinforcements of the navy, consumed 40,000 hu of grain per month, and nearly 500,000 hu a year. In addition, those young and strong men had to eat food to transport food and grass. In the year, there would be no less than 600,000 hu. If they continue to struggle, the Bazhou of Chen State can hold on."

"The Bazhou of Chen State cannot be held up, but the Bazhou of Dazhou can be held up!"

Everyone was discussing military information, and several people walked over in vain. The first one was the general Shi Longsui of Kaifu, and the other generals followed behind were other generals.

"What happened to Chen Guo reinforcements?"

"It's defeated, the crossbowmen shoot first, the ambush rushes out from both sides, and then the cavalry breaks out as soon as they rush."

"In this way, Chen Jun is afraid he will be more and more reluctant to go to the battle."

"It's better if you don't go out to fight, Wuchang has more time to repair the city defense."

"Have the crossbowmen adapted?"

Listening to Yang Ji's question, a thin general stepped forward to answer when he heard this, but his official words were a little stuttering: "Sima, we have no problem."

He claimed that he did not use the "last general", but everyone did not care. This time, the newly trained crossbow soldiers also traveled with him. They belonged to the sequence of state soldiers, but were composed of naturalized mountain people.

The training intensity is the same as that of state soldiers. The crossbow training was specially strengthened. We do not expect to be effective in close combat in the short term, but we just need to use it as a crossbowman to shoot people and horses.

"Very good. Chen Jun has lost his courage, but you should be more careful and be careful of Chen Jun's night attack."

"I will obey the order!"

The commander of the Zhou army who was advancing to Xiakou was Bazhou Sima Yang Ji. If it were common sense, he had no right to command the troops of the palace, and generals such as Shi Wansui, the general of the founding government, did not need to pay attention to this Sima, who was lower in the ranks than him, but in Bazhou, it was an exception.

Their common superiors are the general, the governor of Bazhou, Yuwen Wen of Zhuguo, the general commander of the mansion, the governor of Bazhou, and Yuwen Wen himself commanded the Hulin Army. Therefore, the commander he designated was Yang Ji, so everyone had to obey the order.

"Everyone knows that the envoy Yuwen has returned to Bazhou. Just now, the envoy has sent an order. Everything will be carried out according to the plan we agreed on before. The farmland around Xiakou must be destroyed. If Chen Jun dares to come out, he will be eaten!"
Chapter completed!