Chapter 279

After hearing this, Huangfu Chaobo shook his head, lowered his head and fell into meditation. It was not impossible to repair it overnight. However, as Zhou Cang said, there are too many other catapults. Today there are more than ten, and tomorrow it is estimated that there will be more. In addition, it is not difficult for him to collect stone bullets outside. Therefore, it is not necessary to attack for more than one day, and when he is trapped in the town, all kinds of materials will be used less and less. All of a sudden, Huangfu Chaobo thought of a sentence: "the best defense is attack!" Then, with a flash of light in his mind, he said to Dianwei, "evil, what if we suddenly go out of town and make a surprise attack?"

Dian Wei thought about it, shook his head again and said, "young master, if you want to break the battle, it's not like going out of the city to attack. That's why the last general wants to keep our elite troops as strong as possible. However, this time is at the end of the day. The enemy has five hundred iron cavalry in Xiliang, and I have only five hundred cavalry. The siege is only two days, and the enemy's infantry are not yet exhausted. At this time, the attack will not succeed, and we have to wait another day or two. "

Everyone was silent when they heard that. Indeed, they did not have an advantage in terms of military strength. At this time, the morale of the enemy was also high. If they boldly attacked, it was estimated that there would be no good result. Moreover, the wall will be broken by the other side's catapult tomorrow, and the morale of the enemy will be even higher.

For a time, everyone in the tower fell into meditation again.

For a long time, Zhou Cang suddenly said: "general Dian, since we can't prevent the enemy from attacking the town, and although we can't build stone walls in the town, we can build earth walls, and then add trenches. When the city wall is broken, we will plan to put the enemy soldiers into the city and surround them. I believe that if we only block the enemy for one day, it will bring down their morale. In this way, we can't stop them There's a chance to get out of the city. "

"That's right," Dian Wei clapped his hands and stood up and said, "since we can't stop the other party from breaking the city, we can build a wall similar to an urn in the city. First dig the earth for a trench, and then build the earth behind the trench for a wall. It doesn't need to be too high. The breast wall is enough. After the city is broken, we can put the soldiers into the town. In this way, we can throw the other party's stones When they enter the town, they are surrounded by this parapet. If they enter, there will be a trench parapet in front of them. If they retreat, the generals outside the town will not allow them lightly. At that time, they only need to place bow and crossbow soldiers behind the parapet to annihilate all the soldiers who enter the town, or even force them to surrender most of them. In this way, as long as our department uses the parapet trench to block for a period of time, Dong Zhuo's army will be defeated at the expense of his troops and his morale will be greatly reduced. At that time, we would see the plane again. If possible, we could concentrate our cavalry to come out from the east gate, defeat the soldiers led by the Lord of the east gate, and then drive them to the enemy's formation. In this way, the enemy's formation would be in chaos

With the narration of Dian Wei, everyone was very bright. After he finished, everyone felt that this matter had great potential. So you and I supplemented the plan completely, and then confirmed it again and again. Finally, Huangfu Chaobo decided to do it according to Dian Wei's idea. Huangfu Chaobo's decision finally relieved the Taohua Island owners. What they were most afraid of now was that Huangfu Chaobo didn't want to defend, and then led his own people to run directly. Although he had promised that he would make up for it, no one would easily give up a territory he had painstakingly established. Seeing that Huangfu Chaobo had agreed, the owner of Taohua Island immediately asked his deputy mayor to gather all the residents of the town to dig trenches and build breast walls at night. Taohua Island town is a relatively old town. Although it has not been upgraded to the middle Town, it is not because of the shortage of population, but because of the limitation of the drawings and other conditions. The population of the whole town has reached more than 9500, which is the result of their deliberate control. If other conditions meet the requirements, the owner of Taohua Island believes that it will only take a few days for his population to reach the goal Meet the upgrade requirements. So when the town decided to fully cooperate with Dianwei's plan, thousands of labors started at the same time. It took only half a night, according to Dianwei's requirements, to dig a trench with a depth of one person and a width of about ten feet behind the gap of the town's wall, and the soil inside the trench directly built a wall with a height of one person behind the trench However, it is impossible to resist the siege equipment such as catapults, lathes and crossbows, but it is an insurmountable natural moat for the soldiers who attack the city.

After everything is ready, we will wait for tomorrow's siege to see if Li Guang is as Dianwei's generals expected.

There was nothing to say for a night. On the third day of the defensive battle, as soon as it was light, a curl of cooking smoke rose in Dong Zhuo's camp. Then, less than half an hour later, the battle drums in the camp sounded again. Soon afterwards, I saw a group of soldiers coming out of the camp towards Taohuadao town.

As Dian Wei and others expected, today's war is more troublesome than yesterday's. This time, there are 20 catapults pushed out of the camp, of which 16 are all placed in the direction of Ximen, and only two in the other two aspects. However, although the number of equipment has been increased in the town these two days, the craftsman level of the changshe army is too low, and the speed is too low Second, all kinds of raw materials in the town have been almost consumed, so the quantity can't be compared with that of Dong Zhuojun.

Today's war began in the stone bomb attack of the catapult. With the sound of "buzzing", more than a dozen stone bombs flew towards the town wall, and the attack direction of these stone bombs was exactly where the cracks appeared yesterday. After a few days of fighting, Dong Zhuojun's taxi drivers became more and more accurate in operating the catapult. In the first round, several stone bombs fell on the town wall. In the subsequent rounds of attacks, more and more stone bombs fell on the target.Seeing this, all the people of Dian Wei have determined that Dong Zhuo Jun's attack direction today is indeed that section of the city wall. Everyone is relieved. In this way, everything is not in vain. Now we just wait for the moment when the town wall is collapsed by the catapult. Of course, when Dong Zhuo's catapult bombarded the city wall, the city began to make preparations for the city's destruction. Several well laps just made last night were placed behind the parapet. Most of the crossbow soldiers were transferred behind the parapet to make preparations. All the horses had been fed and placed in the administrative Hall of the town center. Only when the time came, the cavalry would withdraw When you come, you can leave the town from the east gate according to the plan after a little rest in the executive hall.