Chapter 657 New Tactics
"Yes, General. Read М"
After receiving the order, the Qi soldiers turned around and left.
In order to prevent the soldiers of King Yan from crossing the river, they built three docks on the south bank.
The three docks were distributed in a triangle.
The dock where he was located was the most forward. If he encountered danger, the other two docks could provide timely help.
The three five-fortresses together had a total of 100,000 people, firmly controlling this area.
Less than 20 miles south of the dock was Dongping City, the county seat of Dongjun County, Qi.
Once this place was lost, Dongping City would be in danger.
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"General, be careful of your feet."
The ferry on the north bank.
While the first batch of soldiers surrounded the dock, Chang Wei followed the second batch of soldiers to board the troop transport ship.
When he arrived at the south bank and got off the boat, Chang Wei's foot slipped and was caught in time by the guards.
The first batch of 15,000 soldiers crossed the river smoothly.
He was in a good mood and joked, "I am so happy that I have forgotten how to walk."
Everyone laughed kindly, and Qin Shan said, "That's right. I also want to step into the fort in front of me, but I feel that this road is too slow."
Guan Tong laughed twice, and then complained, "General, you are too partial to this kid Lu Chang. Last time we attacked Pingyuan City, he took advantage of it. This time he was the first to fight. How come he suddenly became the son of his biological mother and we became the son of his stepmother?"
"What biological mother, stepmother, if you don't have a way with your mouth, I will skin you alive when I go back. You fight the way I arrange on the battlefield, so stop talking nonsense!"
In these two battles, he was more partial to Lu Chang in order to let Lu Chang adapt to commanding firearms troops as soon as possible.
After all, this kid used to wear heavy infantry armor and charge into battle.
I'm afraid he is used to using brute force.
After being scolded by Chang Wei, Guan Tong immediately smiled and said, "General, you are right. Look at this broken mouth of mine, I just don't know how to keep my mouth shut."
Chang Wei was too lazy to pay attention to him. Qi State built three docks here. These three docks are interdependent. If one dock is in trouble, the other two docks will support it.
"You each lead your soldiers to ambush between the other two docks and the first dock. If they dare to leave the city, beat them to a pulp."
"Yes, General." Qin Shan and Guan Tong responded and left.
He continued to stay at the ferry and command the soldiers to cross the river.
Without the threat of the artillery, the troop transport ships kept going back and forth between the two banks.
A large number of Yanzhou soldiers continued to land on the south bank and gathered under the command of Lu Chang and the other three.
At the same time, Gong Ying led twelve warships to patrol the nearby river to prevent the Qi State Navy from attacking.
In one morning, all the 120,000 Yanzhou soldiers stationed in Pingyuan City landed on the south bank of the Jin River.
At this time, Lü Chang had already surrounded the first fort and was waiting for Chang Wei's order to attack.
Qin Shan and Guan Tong followed Chang Wei's order to block the road from the second and third forts to the first fort.
Once the Qi soldiers came out of the city gate, they would attack them.
The Qi soldiers had to withdraw to the fort.
After all the troops, including Zhongli's cavalry, had crossed the river, Chang Wei came to Lü Chang's army.
At this time, he asked, "How is the tunnel digging going?"
He crossed the river safely at the ferry, not to miss the opportunity.
Instead, he asked Lü Chang to adopt a new siege method
to minimize the sacrifice of soldiers in the siege.
"Report to the general, the digging is almost done. Now there is about 50 meters away from the city wall. We need to dig another 10 meters."
Chang Wei nodded.
All the soldiers under Lü Chang's command formed a sparse formation of scattered soldiers, distributed on the battlefield, each looking for obstacles to prevent being attacked by artillery on the top of the fort.
At the same time, thousands of soldiers were digging tunnels with shovels.
He looked forward and could not see the soldiers' bodies. He could only see piles of soil flying out of the tunnels and falling on both sides of the tunnels. The soldiers had dug very deep.
Seeing this, Chang Wei showed a satisfied smile.
At that time, when he ordered three people to form a grenade team, this method of attacking the city came into his mind.
Under the protection of a large number of scattered soldiers behind, the soldiers were ordered to go forward and dig tunnels at a distance of 100 meters from the city wall, and dug to a distance of 40 meters from the city wall.
In this way, the grenadiers can enter the tunnel and throw grenades at the city wall from a distance of 40 meters.
The reason why it is not 50 meters is that it is certainly laborious to throw grenades from the bottom up. If it is too far, it may not be thrown up.
"Boom boom boom..." As the two were talking, the artillery on the wall of the dock roared.
One shell after another flew towards the soldiers who were digging tunnels.
However, this was destined to be futile.
Their shells could not hurt the soldiers in the tunnel at all.
After all, when the sound of the cannon sounded, the soldiers in the tunnel would squat down to avoid the attack of the cannon.
Sure enough, the soldiers digging the tunnel only paused for a while, and then more soil was thrown up from the tunnel.
"What are they doing?" On the wall of the fort, the general of Qi State was sitting uneasy.
The roads for the other two forts to come for help were blocked by the soldiers of King Yan.
Now, he can only fight alone.
Now, he is very sensitive to any actions of the soldiers of Yanzhou.