Chapter 278: Zhou Cang Offers Suggestions

Huangfu Chaobo listened, shook his head, lowered his head and fell into deep thought. It is not impossible to fix it overnight, but as Zhou Cang said, there are too many catapults on the other side. There are already a dozen of them today, and there will be more tomorrow, plus It is not difficult for him to collect stone bullets outside, so at best, he can attack for one more day, and he is trapped in the town, and the materials will be used less and less. Suddenly, Huangfu Chaobo thought of a sentence "The best defense is to attack!", so a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he said to Dianwei: "Come on, what if we suddenly go out of town and make a surprise attack?"

Dian Wei thought for a while, then shook his head again and said, "My lord, if you want to break this battle, you have to go out of the city to make a surprise attack. This is the reason why the general wants to preserve the strength of our elite troops as much as possible. However, the time has come at this time. The enemy has 500 Xiliang iron cavalry, and I only have 500 cavalry. The siege of the city has only lasted two days, and the enemy infantry has not yet exhausted the veterans. It can be done in two days.”

Everyone was silent when they heard it. It was true. In terms of military strength, they did not have an advantage. At this time, the morale of the enemy is also high. If they attack rashly, it is estimated that there will be no good results. Moreover, the city wall will definitely be breached by the opponent's catapult tomorrow, and the morale of the enemy will rise even more by then.

For a while, everyone in the city tower fell into deep thought again.

After a long time, Zhou Cang suddenly said: "General Dian, since we can't stop the opponent from attacking the town, and although we can't build stone walls in the town, we can build earth as a wall, and then supplement it with ditches. Putting the enemy's infantry into the city and besieging them, I believe that it only takes one day to block the enemy's morale, so we will have a chance to go out of the city and attack."

"That's right," Dian Wei clapped his hands, stood up and said, "My lord, since we can't stop the opponent from breaking the city, then we can build an earthen wall similar to an urn in the city. Build soil behind the trench as a wall. It doesn’t need to be too high. The parapet is enough. After the city is broken, put the infantry into the town. , are surrounded by this parapet, if you enter, there will be a ditch parapet in front of you, if you retreat, the generals outside the city will not accept it lightly. It is even possible to force the surrender of most of the troops. In this way, as long as our troops use the breast wall trenches to block for a period of time, Dong Zhuo's army will surely lose troops and lose morale. At that time, if possible, we can gather cavalry to come from the east gate Go out, defeat the infantry led by the lord of the East Gate Department, and then drive the defeated troops to charge the enemy's formation, so that the enemy's formation will be disrupted..."

Following Dianwei's narration, everyone's eyes were brightened. After he finished speaking, everyone felt that this matter had a lot to do, so you and I completed the plan in one word, and after confirming again and again that it was correct, Huangfu Chaobo finally decided to follow Dianwei's idea. Huangfu Chaobo's decision made Taohua Island Master and the others finally breathe a sigh of relief. What they are most afraid of now is that Huangfu Chaobo doesn't want to defend, and then leads his people to run away. Although he promised himself that he would make up for it, but For a territory that I have worked so hard to build, no one will give up easily unless it is absolutely necessary. Seeing that Huangfu Chaobo had agreed, the owner of Taohua Island immediately asked his deputy mayor to call all the residents of the town to dig trenches and build parapets overnight. Peach Blossom Island Town is a relatively old town. Although it has not been upgraded to Zhongzhen, it is not because of insufficient population, but because it has been restricted by blueprints and other conditions. The population of the entire town has reached more than 9,500. It is still the result of their deliberate control. If other conditions are met, the owner of Taohua Island believes that his population will be able to meet the upgrade requirements in just a few days. So when the town decided to fully cooperate with Dianwei's plan, thousands of laborers started working at the same time, and it only took half a night to dig dozens of steps behind the gap in the town wall according to Dianwei's request. A ditch that was one person deep and one foot wide was built, and the soil in the ditch was built directly behind the ditch to form a one-man-high earth wall.

Although it is just an earthen wall made of mud, it is definitely impossible to resist siege equipment such as catapults, lathes and crossbows, but it is an insurmountable natural moat for the infantry who invaded the city.

After everything is ready, we will wait to see whether Li Guang will be as Dian Wei expected in the siege battle tomorrow.

There was nothing to say all night, and it was the third day of the defensive battle. As soon as it was dawn, smoke rose from the Dong Zhuojun camp, and less than half an hour later, the sound of war drums in the camp rang again. . Not long afterward, groups of soldiers came out of the camp and headed towards Taohuadao Town.

As expected by Dian Wei and others, today's battle was more troublesome than yesterday's. This time, there were twenty catapults rolled out from the camp, and sixteen of them were placed in the direction of the west gate. On the other hand, only two of them were placed, but although the number of equipment in the town has been increased in the past two days, the craftsman level of the Changshe Army is too low, and the speed cannot be increased at all. Second, the various raw materials in the town It has been almost consumed, so the number cannot be compared with the attacking Dong Zhuojun at all.

Today's battle started again in the stone bomb attack of the catapult. With the whistling sound of "buzzing", more than a dozen waves of stone bullets flew towards the town wall, and these stone bullets The direction of attack is exactly where the cracks appeared in the town wall yesterday. After several days of fighting, Dong Zhuojun's soldiers became more and more accurate in operating the catapults. In the first round of throwing stones, several stone bullets landed on that section of the town wall. The bombs all fell on the intended target.

Seeing this situation, everyone in Dianwei has confirmed that Dong Zhuojun's attack direction today is indeed that section of the city wall, and everyone is relieved. In this way, everything is not in vain, and now they just wait for the town wall to be bombarded by catapults moment of collapse. Of course, when Dong Zhuojun's catapults were bombarding the city wall, the city had already begun to make relevant preparations after the city was broken. Move to the back of the parapet to prepare. All the horses have been fed and placed in the administrative hall in the center of the town. When the time comes, after the cavalry withdraws, they can take a rest in the administrative hall and go to the administrative hall according to the plan. East Gate out of town.