The Great Wei Empire in the Warring States Period

The Wei army was divided into three teams and launched a fierce attack on the four city gates. The Song army on the city wall was not afraid of the Wei army. Somehow, these Song soldiers had no fear of the Wei army and no intention of defending. Wei Shen of the rear army was very confused when he saw this scene. His army was about to rush to the city wall, why didn't the Song army shoot arrows, and the drawbridge of the moat was not pulled up.

There must be something wrong when things are abnormal. When the Wei army's ladders were set up on the city wall, the Song army on the city wall poured out jars of strong liquor, and the aroma of the liquor quickly filled the city wall. At this time, the Wei army was not fascinated by the aroma of the liquor, but showed terrified eyes. A centurion reacted and shouted in panic: "Run!"

Hundreds of torches were thrown down from the city wall. In the blink of an eye, a raging fire had already ignited under the city. The Wei army that attacked the city was burned alive by the raging fire and cried to the sky. The ladders on the city were also burned to ashes.

Ah~~ The Wei army behind saw the raging fire and showed a cowardly retreat. The brave and combative Wei army did not dare to step forward in this scene. There was no retreat in the army. The Wei army that attacked the city retreated one after another. Wei Shen saw the Wei army that was burned horribly by the fire, and his heart was already in pain. You know, there are at least more than a thousand people. They died before they even fought with the enemy. More than 1,000 people were lost just after the account was handed in. You know, Wei Shen only plays with others when others have not played with him.

After calming down one side, Wei Shen said unwillingly: "Retreat!"

On the city wall, the Song army saw that the Wei army had already sounded the retreat, and cheered one after another. They didn't expect that these Wei soldiers would run away directly when they saw the fire. At this time, on the tower, a county magistrate in official uniform was respectfully bowing to a man in white clothes who was about 50 years old and said: "Thank you, Mr. Xu Zi, I didn't expect that the Wei army would actually retreat! Without Mr. Xu Zi's strategy, we really couldn't hold on."

The man called Mr. Xu Zi smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, county magistrate, with me here, the Wei army can't capture Waihuang. Although we blocked the first offensive of the Wei army, there will be a second and third time. Now they are still camped outside my city, so we have to hold on until the reinforcements come."

The county magistrate respectfully Asked: "Excuse me, Mr. Xu Zi, what should we do next?"

Xu Zi looked at the terrain outside the city and said: "Now the enemy has retreated 30 miles to set up camp, so we should take this opportunity to build fortifications outside the city. You order people to insert wood about half a person's height within three steps outside the city gate. The wood should be sharpened and each piece of wood should be inserted deep into the ground. Insert as much as possible, so that you can break the enemy's intensive attack."

The county magistrate hurriedly ordered the people beside him and said: "Why don't you do it according to Mr. Xu Zi's words!"

Xu Zi said again: "You go and prepare straw and sulfur. If the enemy is about to attack the city, we will use sulfur to fumigate the enemy."

"Okay, I will personally lead people to prepare."

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Inside the camp

After reading the battle report brought by his personal soldiers, Wei Shen's face changed and his heart was broken. The generals around him were silent. Wei Shen looked up at the generals around him and asked: "Everyone, how should our army attack tomorrow?"

A general suggested: "General, we can use the well siege! Order the archers to be on the well siege, attack the enemy from a high position, and cover the army's siege."

Wei Shen thought about it, and then looked at the military advisor Ni Liang beside him and said: "Military advisor, how do you think we should attack the city?"

Ni Liang thought for a while and said: "Order the army to surround only three sides, leaving one side unsieged. If our army surrounds the four sides, the enemy will only fight to the death. If we leave a way out for the enemy, the enemy's resistance will be reduced a lot. Tomorrow, divide the army into five teams, four teams will attack the south gate fiercely, focus the enemy's attention on the south gate, and then order one team to take the opportunity to attack the north gate."

"Okay, just do as the military advisor said!" Wei Shen ordered.

The next morning, the Wei army launched a fierce attack. With siege equipment such as siege towers, ladders, nest carts, and crossbows, the Wei army completely disregarded life and death and desperately climbed the city. Arrows flew like locusts across the ground, and even their own people were not taken care of within the range. Flying stones hit the city wall and stirred up countless gravel and dust.

The Song army on the city wall resisted very easily. It turned out that there were hundreds of wooden stakes inserted within 300 steps of the city gate. These stakes blocked the attack of the ladders and soldiers. There were almost no ladders on the entire city wall.

Wei Shen saw this scene from behind and gave an order: "Organize 500 death squads and tell them to charge forward and clear those obstacles! Whether dead or alive, they will be rewarded with 100 gold coins!"

The generous reward inspired the Wei army to move forward. Under the baptism of arrows, the Wei army still carried axes and chopped down the wooden stakes that blocked their way one by one.

On the tower, the county magistrate saw such a bloody siege, and his stomach had already turned upside down. The county magistrate asked: "Mr. Xu Zi, what should we do next?"

Xu Zi remained silent, just staring at the pace of the Wei army, and suddenly shouted, "Not good, the Wei army's siege is just to attract our attention. I think the real attack direction of the Wei army should be the north gate. You quickly order the clan to prepare straw and sulfur, all of which are placed at the north gate, and prepare ten large vats, pour fierce oil and saltpeter into the vats, go!"

The county magistrate asked in confusion: "Sir, why do you think the Wei army The real offensive is at the North Gate?"

Xu Zi explained anxiously: "Because this group of soldiers attacking the city are not armored soldiers. Normally, the ones who attack the city in front are going to die, and then the armored soldiers will lead a group of infantry to attack. However, these Wei troops do not have armored soldiers in front, and the Wei army's attack direction is the Wolf Gate. If the Wei army wants to take the opportunity to attack the East Gate or the West Gate, our army will quickly support them. If they attack at the North Gate, it will take longer for our army to support them. Therefore, the real offensive of the Wei army is at the North Gate! If we don't go quickly, we will all die here!"

"Okay, I will immediately order the soldiers to go forward.Go and make arrangements." The county magistrate said, sweating profusely.

As Xu Zi expected, the real attack direction of the Wei army was indeed at the north gate. Due to the timely and advance arrangements of the Song army, the Wei army could only retreat and flee.

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In the camp, Wei Shen looked at the battle report in his hand and threw it on the ground in anger. Ni Liang advised: "Don't worry, Your Highness, our army can still use battering rams to attack the city. Order the soldiers to dig tunnels secretly to break the city."

"Okay, that's it! ”

As a result, the Wei army used battering rams to attack the city, and the Song army used claws to overturn the battering rams. The Wei army used tunnels to break the city, and the Song army used tunnels to break the tunnels to break the Wei army's tunnel siege method. In the next few days, the Wei army launched fierce attacks again and again, and the Song army drove the Wei army to the city again and again. Now the Wei army is completely at a disadvantage. Waihuang City has become a threshold that the Wei army cannot cross, and it has also become a nail in the hearts of the Wei army generals. If they don't break Waihuang City, they can't cross it to attack Ningling.

Due to the repeated failures of the siege, the Wei army actually stopped for a few days, and the Song army in the city also had a rare rest.

In the current government of Waihuang County, a group of officials were toasting each other. After all, the Wei army had not attacked in the past few days, and it was time to relax. The county magistrate sitting in the first seat raised his glass and toasted Xu Zi respectfully, saying: "Thanks to Mr. Xu Zi, we have defended the city. ”

Xu Zi smiled and responded: "This is not my credit, but the credit of you and the soldiers."

Then, Xu Zi said worriedly: "Mr. County Magistrate, the Wei army is strong. Although we have defeated the Wei army several times in succession, the Wei army is not short of people with high strategies and good fighting skills. Wei Shen, the commander of the Wei army, is not a man who talks about war. I heard that this person is very talented. We should be careful. The Wei army may have a trick if they don't attack the city these days!"

The county magistrate suddenly became serious and said: "Then Mr. Xu Zi, what should we do? What will be the next action of the Wei army?"

"Waihuang City is close to Danshui, so it may be a water attack." Xu Zi guessed.

"Water attack, how can we crack it? Please teach me, Mr. Xu Zi!" The county magistrate said anxiously.

"Outside the deep trench in the city, the ring road is eight feet wide. In order to prevent the enemy from diverting water to flood the city, we must first carefully examine the surrounding terrain. If the terrain in the city is low, we must order the digging of canals in the city to divert water to the low-lying areas, so that the accumulated water can communicate with the groundwater for easy flow. The well wall must be protected with tiles to prevent collapse. If the water outside the city is observed to be more than ten feet, the canal in the city should be dug immediately to drain the water from the ground. This is the way to defend against the enemy's water attack! "Xu Zi said.

After hearing this, the county magistrate quickly responded: "Okay, I will arrange it immediately."

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At night, a Wei army was blocking the water to build a dam. The leading general shouted: "It must be completed tonight. If it is not completed, the whole team will be beheaded tomorrow!"

"Quick! The general has an order. If it is not completed tonight, the whole team will be beheaded tomorrow!"

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Clean meal the next day

Xu Zi stood on the enemy tower to observe the enemy situation on the city tower, and suddenlySeeing that the water volume downstream had dropped a lot compared to the past, the county magistrate was more certain that the Wei army would use water attack. He came over and said, "Mr. Xu Zi, it has been completed according to your requirements. What else should we prepare next?"

"The water is too strong. If we don't dig out the enemy's water storage dam at noon, it may be dangerous!" Xu Zi murmured.

Xu Zi asked again: "Go and prepare some boats, and gather some brave men in the county. Every two boats are connected together as a "lin", and the boats are organized into "ten lin", with a total of thirty people in each lin, everyone is good at archery, and four of every ten people must also carry hoes, and must be good at using this kind of boat as a "luan" to destroy the enemy's dikes. Every twenty boats form a team, select soldiers with high martial arts and strong bodies, thirty people per boat, twenty of whom are equipped with a hoe, wearing armor and leather boots, and the remaining ten people are holding spears. In this way, the enemy's water storage dam can be broken!"

The county magistrate replied: "Okay, I will prepare it!"

On the dam, hundreds of Wei soldiers were guarding the dam. The duty of these Wei soldiers was to guard the dam and prevent the Song army from destroying it.

A Wei army sergeant was wiping the sword in his hand with a cloth, his sword shining coldly, and he said with a smile: "Those Song soldiers are just a bunch of cowards who dare not fight head-on. We can turn them into a group of ducks by noon!"

A soldier responded: "Sergeant, then after we break the city, will the great credit be ours?"

"Of course!" As soon as he finished speaking, a Wei soldier shouted: "Song Army!"

The Wei army reacted and found more than ten ships not far away, with more than twenty Song soldiers on each ship. The Wei army centurion ordered: "Bows and crossbows "Shoot the arrows!"

These Song soldiers were ready to die, and rushed towards the dam in the rain of arrows. Soon, a hole was dug in the dam, and the water attack was broken...

In the camp

Wei Shen stared at the kneeling Wei soldiers who were soaked all over, and tried his best to suppress his anger and said: "Go down..."

Then Wei Shen asked Ni Liang beside him: "Military Advisor, who is helping the Song army with strategies?"

"According to our intelligence, this person is Xu Zi, a hermit in Waihuang, who is proficient in the four schools of Confucianism, Mohism, and Law." Ni Liang said.

Wei Shen looked at Waihuang City in the distance and said: "Don't attack tomorrow, force the enemy to surrender with force!"

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