Imperial Power Of Han Dynasty

Jia Xu took a step forward and said with a serious expression: "Report to the lord. According to statistics, our army died and injured more than 2,000 soldiers today, of which more than 1,200 were killed and more than 900 seriously injured."

Rao was already mentally prepared, but Liu Ye couldn't help but his brows sank, and the number of soldiers killed and injured was too much. However, more than two thousand soldiers were killed and injured in one day. If this continues, wouldn't it take less than a month to catch all of these 40,000 soldiers.

Guo Jia shook his head: "Our army can't attack the city like this, otherwise Yecheng hasn't been taken down yet, I'm afraid that our sergeant is dead and injured."

Liu Ye nodded, then turned his head suddenly, and curiously asked Guan Hai, "Zifu, how did you attack the city when you were in the Yellow Turban Army?"

When the Yellow Turban thieves first came up, they swept across the eight states and attacked many strong cities. Maybe the Yellow Turban army had some unique siege skills.

Guan Hai touched his head: "General, when talking about our method of siege, it is nothing more than ant-attached siege, basement siege, authentic siege..."

The so-called ant-attached siege is simply to save a **** road with human lives. Human lives are like ants. Once they encounter a strong city, they are generally difficult to attack in the face of arrows falling like rain.

On the other hand, the siege by the siege is when the siege party digs the soil in front of the city wall, and the soil becomes higher and higher, gradually forming a ladder on the city wall.

However, these two methods are generally applied to small and medium-sized cities, and they are incapable of facing big cities. In particular, Yecheng is a rare and strong city in the world. The city wall alone is three to five feet high. If you want to pile up soil to reach Yecheng, you don't know how high an earth wall you need to build.

The tunnel siege is also one of the common methods of siege. Gongsun Zan retreated to Youzhou and stood firm on Yijing, built heavy fortifications, and determined to stick to it. The tens of thousands of people around the Jizhou army were helpless. In the end, Yuan Shao adopted Tian Feng's suggestion and determined to attack the city.

Yuan Shao has a unit called the "Digger Army". This unit is not an elite division like the Xianden dead men and Euphorbia men, but a special force that is used to dig tunnels.

Yijing City is very strong, so Yuan Shao ordered the Diggers to dig tunnels under Yijing City and use wooden sticks to support the gaps. Gongsun Jun didn’t know it. A few months later, the entire underground of Yijing City was actually hollowed out, but because It was supported by wooden sticks so no clue was found.

Digzi retired from military service. Before he left, he set a fire under Yijing City. The flames burned down the wooden sticks. Without support, Yijing City fell quickly, and the surrounding city walls collapsed in an instant. As a regiment, the Jizhou army took advantage of the situation to cover up and win the battle.

"If not, our army attacked the city with tunnels?" Guo Jia suggested: "Yecheng is an important town in Hebei. I am eagerly afraid that it will be difficult to conquer. You can give it a try."

"Wenhe, what do you think?"

Jia Xu said slowly: "You can try."

Seeing Jia Xu's tone, Liu Ye still didn't understand that using tunnels to attack cities would not work for a while, but it was just a helpless method under difficulties.

"Fine." Liu Ye said solemnly: "From tomorrow, don't attack the city anymore. It will only hurt the soldiers."

"What does the general mean?"

"From tomorrow, only besieged, not attacked!" Liu Ye said slowly.

"Only besieged but not attacked?" Guo Jia and Jia Xu were thoughtful.

"That's right." Liu Ye explained: "Yecheng is strong, and a strong attack will only cost the lives of the soldiers. Taking human lives to attack the city is not done by the wise. Anyway, Yecheng is surrounded by our army, so don't worry about it for a while. Besides, our army transports grain and grass from the waterway. There is no need to worry about the shortage of grain and grass. It just needs to wait patiently, and there will naturally be war opportunities."

Since ancient times, siege wars have not been uncommon for many years. In the battle between Qin and Zhao and Changping, Lian Po led the Zhao army and confronted the Qin army for three years. Wang Jian’s battle against Qin was stationed on the border of Chu State for one year, Yecheng, etc. Don't worry for a few months.

In fact, it is nothing to station, the key is the consumption of food. As the saying goes, transporting grain for a thousand miles, the civilians are hungry. If you transport food by land, you will have to travel a thousand miles for a month. If a civilians carry a month's worth of food, they will just eat up.

The Liangzhou Army did not have to worry about this problem, because Gao Chong had already led the navy to occupy the Yellow River and was able to transport military rations from Luoyang down the river to Hebei. The water transport was fast, and secondly, there was no need to levy civilians. Convenient. It was precisely because of the navy who transported grain that Liu Ye dared to make up his mind to besiege Yecheng for a long time.

Guo Jia was worried and said, "But Cao Cao and Liu Biao were both ordered by Yuan Shao to besiege Nanyang and Yanzhou. If the general stays in Yecheng for a long time, what if there are changes in the rear?"

Liu Ye laughed and believed in himself: "Don't worry, Junyi and Wen Ze are both unique generals. With them, Nanyang and Yanzhou are as stable as Mount Tai."

"The Jingzhou Army was negligent in the battle formation, and Junyi's Nanyang County was a long-standing battle formation, with direct assistance from Fa Xiao. Even if it could not defeat the Jingzhou Army, it would be no problem to stabilize the situation."

Among the 13 prefectures of the Eastern Han Dynasty, following the Yellow Turban Rebellion and the group of heroes against Dong Du, they were mobilized, but Jingzhou and Yizhou seemed to be out of the matter. Liu Biao and Liu Yan did not participate in the crusade against Dong Zhuo as the chief officials of the frontiers, and the troops under their command naturally showed their fighting strength Weak, otherwise Liu Biao would not be beaten by Sun Jian.

And Zhang Jai is a veritable general or even a handsome talent, no matter who Jingzhou uses as a general, he is not an opponent of Zhang Jai. In the original historical trajectory, Fazheng was opponents with Zhangja in the First Battle of Dingjun Mountain. Fazheng had a strange plan to assist Lao Huang Zhong to kill Xia Houyuan. , Persevere until Cao Cao leads his army.

Now that the two people who were enemies of each other cooperated, I believed that the ingenious change of the jaw and the conspiracy of the law would have unexpected effects.

Liu Ye's eyes were deep and said: "As for Cao Cao, hehe, Cao Mengde is in the world, I'm afraid he won't be willing to send troops and food for Yuan Shao."

Guo Jia nodded approvingly: "Yes, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are in harmony with each other. They were playmates when they were young, but Cao Cao is absolutely unwilling to become Yuan Shao's subordinates. Even attacking Yanzhou is a feign attack, and Wen is a general. It is more than enough to defend Yanzhou."

Now Liu Ye sits in the Guanzhong Sanqin area as the rear area, with sufficient food and grass, and a large number of soldiers. It is also worthwhile to open up two and a half battlefields.

"In that case, start the siege from tomorrow, remember-only siege, not attack."

In the city of Ye, the atmosphere was also solemn, and Yuan Shao had a calm face.