Chapter 231 Hanging Sheep and Drumming

After another whole day of brutal siege, as the sun slowly set, Han Sui had no choice but to send an order to withdraw his troops.

The siege battle has lasted for three full days. The city wall is covered with arrows, which are covered with traces of knives and axes. The guards are picking up the arrows shot by the enemy from the top of the city, and at the same time they will The bodies of the soldiers who died in battle were dragged down.

After three full days of siege, Han Sui's army lost nearly 10,000 soldiers, while Liu Ye's army also lost more than 5,000 casualties. Generally speaking, the proportion is not so high. On the siege side, the most famous one is the battle of Chencang, in which Hao Zhao resisted the 20-day siege of Zhuge Liang's 100,000 army with 3,000 soldiers.

Chencang is an important town in Kansai, well-defended, while Xiangwu City is just a small county town, especially as the supplies for defending the city such as rolling logs and rocks are exhausted, Liu Ye's army can only engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy except for bows and arrows, resulting in casualties huge.

However, Liu Ye personally supervised the battle, and the recruits in the army rushed up to fight fiercely with the enemy in turn. The soldiers in the army have gone through the test of blood and fire, which is a good thing.

After dark.

An army slowly approached Han Sui's army in the dark.

"Have you notified the general?"

"Don't worry, Captain Yu, it's been done, what should I do next?"

Yu Jin smiled slightly: "Beat the drum!"

Guan Hai was taken aback: "We soldiers, isn't this hitting a rock with an egg?"

"Beating drums doesn't have to be a battle." The corner of Yu Jin's mouth raised an upward arc.

All of a sudden, the booming sound of war drums rang out, waking Han Sui up from his dream.

"Who will play the drums?"

"father in law!"

Yan Xing rushed into the account, and Han Sui hurriedly asked, "Did Liu Ye go out of the city to attack at night?"

Yan Xing shook his head: "It seems that a support soldier from Liu Ye's army has come outside the city and is beating drums to fight."

Han Sui nodded: "You speed up five thousand cavalry to resist, so I ordered the soldiers in the army."

Yan Xing was ordered to go, and led five thousand cavalry to rush out of the camp, only to see a tent in front of him, and immediately led the army to rush in without saying a word, and rushed towards the sounding drum, but couldn't help being stunned.

There were only a dozen battle drums lined up in the tent, and a dozen captured sheep were hanging upside down on the drums, their hooves wobbled non-stop due to panic, and the hooves of the sheep knocked on the drums, making rumbling noises. sound.

"Hanging sheep playing drums?"

Yan Xing was taken aback for a moment, and suddenly felt like he was being tricked.

"General!"

Yu Jin was slightly excited and walked forward.

"Wen Ze, thank you for your hard work. If Wen Ze hadn't led the army to pacify the kingdom first and then break Zhang Heng, I'm afraid Han Sui's army would have already swept into Tianshui County."

Liu Ye laughed, stepped forward and took Yu Jin's hand, he couldn't help being a little thankful, if not for Yu Jin's quick reaction, the situation would have been quite bad.

"General, a certain subordinate has gathered 15,000 soldiers and is at the disposal of the general."

Liu Ye nodded: "Now you and I have gathered nearly 40,000 armies. Although we are still at a disadvantage compared with the enemy army, we still have the strength to fight."

Pang De on the side came up and said: "It has long been heard that Huangfu's chariots defeated the 100,000 yellow scarf bandits in Changshe with a fire attack, but now that it is getting late autumn, how about our army also attack the enemy with fire? "

Zhang Jai shook his head: "Changsha is full of weeds, Huangfu's chariot and fire attack plan was successful. Han Sui's old thief is old in battle. When he set up camp, he cut down all the weeds and trees near the general's camp. The fire attack plan is probably not good. Hard to work."

"There are tens of thousands of troops stationed in the Meiyang camp. Why don't our army invite Zhang Cheqi to cooperate with our army in the battle? How about the two armies attacking Han Sui's army?"

Ma Teng suggested that although Zhang Wen's expedition to the west ended in failure, there are still tens of thousands of Han troops stationed in Meiyang. If they can join forces with Liu Ye, their strength will even be higher than that of Han Sui.

"Zhang Cheqi has long been frightened by the rebels. It is impossible to send troops. There are only a few people in the court who dare to send troops to suppress the rebellion."

Yu Jin sighed and said, "It would be great if Huangfu Cheqi took charge of the Northwest War again."

"kindness?"

Hearing these words, Liu Ye stroked his chin lightly with his fingers, and suddenly smiled.

"If Han Suijun threatens Sanfu again, the imperial court will most likely let Huangfu's chariots fight again."

"What does the general mean?"

Han Sui led his army to fight Liu Ye at the foot of Xiangwu City. Both armies suffered losses. Liu Ye sent someone to inform Yu Jin to lead his troops northward. Break out of the city.

After the two armies joined forces, the strength reached more than 40,000, but Liu Ye continued to retreat south, and did not withdraw to Ji County, because this would lead the war to Tianshui County.

But Liu Ye led the army all the way to fight and retreat, and finally retreated all the way into Fufeng County, and the 40,000 troops retreated into Chencang City in one go.

In the original historical trajectory, Chencang City was first besieged by the king's army, and later by Zhuge Liang of the Northern Expedition with an army of 100,000, while Hao Zhao quickly became famous by virtue of the battle of Chencang City.

After Liu Ye's army withdrew into Chencang City, Han Suijun realized that Liu Ye had become bigger and stronger. If Liu Ye could not be eliminated in one go, then his rule in Liangzhou would not be sustainable, so Han Sui immediately followed Liu Ye's army and chased him. Chen Cangcheng.

The walls of Chencang City were tall and deep, and Han Sui's offensive was defeated one by one in front of Liu Ye's army. However, Han Sui was determined to fight Liu Ye this time, so he kept guarding under Chencang City, and the two armies fought from time to time.

The reason why Han Suijun chased and beat Liu Ye was actually because he was bewitched by Liu Ye. Liu Ye used Sun Bin's strategy of reducing cooking stoves to reduce by half the number of cooking stoves along the way, and at the same time ordered Fu Xie, who was stationed in Tianshui, to Ji County raised the banner of Yu Jin, which gave Han Sui the illusion that Yu Jin had not joined forces with Liu Ye.

Han Sui thought Liu Ye's army was only 20,000 people in Xiangwu City. If he knew that Liu Ye's army already had 40,000 people, he would have withdrawn his troops long ago.

After a long battle without success, if he retreats suddenly, it will inevitably have a negative impact on the soldiers in the army. Therefore, Han Sui gritted his teeth and stormed Chen Cangcheng for more than a month, and refused to withdraw his troops.

In fact, Han Sui has fallen into a kind of gambler's mentality. The more casualties, the more capital invested, so Han Sui was very unwilling to get back the capital he had already invested. More and more Qiang and Hu soldiers died in city battles, but the siege battles were basically ineffective.

At the same time, the Qiang and Hu soldiers in the army can be said to be full of complaints, and they are eager to return.

Han Sui was in camp.

"Father-in-law, the fighting spirit of the soldiers in the army has faded. Why don't our army turn back to Jincheng and make another plan?"

Han Sui sighed, tens of thousands of people were killed and injured, if they retreated, wouldn't it be for nothing?