Chapter 122 An epic siege

Duke Dao coughed a few times, turned his head and did not answer Shou Meng's words. Shi Yi quickly explained from the side: "Mr. Wu, you and me may have different systems. Although Zhao Wuzi is a minister of the king, he is a lord with fiefs and a family of hundreds of generations of Jin. For such a person, our king has no right to give it to him or give it to him... Of course, if Mr. Wu is really eager to seek talent, we can consider giving another group of people. Those people, the king has the right to give it to him (referring to a servant)."

The king of Wu State Shou Meng said disappointed and stopped talking.

At this time, under the city of Fengyang, the siege was in full swing.

The attack on the siege was proposed by Fan Yi and Zhongxing clan, and the main force of the siege was also the responsibility of these two families. During the battle, Fan Yi also made his fortune. The three major warriors in his family took action together, braved the airtight rain of arrows and hit the city gates hard. Under their courage, the rumbling impacts continued, coupled with the sound of bows and arrows, the dying shouts of soldiers, the severely injured struggles, the shouts of shouts, and the collisions of weapons, forming a noisy symphony.

This siege battle was also the earliest siege battle recorded in history in China, because in this battle, the father of Confucius was involved, and in addition, the father of Qin Jinfu, the 72 disciples of Confucius, Qin Pizi.

The people of Lu had to fight to the death. The people of Jin were so eager to suppress the southern countries because they wanted to take back and help Lu and help them deal with the oppression of Qi. So the people of Lu went crazy and they took out all the power they had under the box.

If there was no Zhao Wu in history, then after this alliance, the Jin people also planned to conquer Biyang to reward Song because of the contributions of Song.

Now that Zhao Wu has come, the people of Jin not only want to reward Song, but also have rewarded the two countries greatly because of the surrender and obedience of Chen and Zheng.

In addition, there is Xu Guo. Xu Guo, who seems to be suffering from a loss, now has a stable living environment and no longer has to worry about it day and night.

The repeated rewards made "staying with the boss and having meat to eat" a consensus among the princes of various countries. Therefore, facing the powerful oppression of Qi, the people of Lu could not deal with it alone, so they could only rely on the boss to support it - they had to fight desperately.

In addition to the Jin army, the first coalition troops arrived were also from Lu. The Lu army ran all the way and first arrived at the North Gate of Biyang. At this time, the person responsible for attacking the Fan family was the general of the Fan family, Chi Wan. The Fan family had four major generals: Lin Hu, Pei Bao, Shoun, and Chi Wan. But these four generals were not "scholars", but were servants, and were the kind of persons with flesh shields and shields. Among them, Lin Hu had given them to Zhao Wu, so there were only three major generals left in the Fan family.

Chibi is also an alien. It is hard to tell which ethnic group he comes from. Because Chibi's hair is a little red and is even ugly than Linhu, he named it after a wild beast.

Speaking of which, Chi Bi really wanted to break through this city gate. At that time, the four major generals of Fan were ranked side by side. Although Lin Hu was strong and powerful, he became the leader of the four major generals because of Lin Hu's strong figure and great strength, when Lin Hu was given to Zhao Wu, the other three generals laughed at Lin Hu's bad luck. The Zhao family was a well-known poor nobleman in the country at that time, and did not even have a small position as a noble. In comparison, the Shi family at that time had a great career and a prosperous branch. It was obvious that Lin Hu followed Zhao Wu and had a much greater future.

However, things in the world are unpredictable - what makes the other three people so depressed that they vomited blood is that the Zhao family first abolished the servant system. Lin Hu, as a gift from Fan, became the first beneficiaries. When he arrived at the Zhao family, Lin Hu turned into a free citizen and immediately became a chariot again. Now everyone has become a nobleman. Then, Lin Hu showed his power and took many servants to walk across the streets of the capital in a chariot. When he saw the remaining three generals of the Fan family, he was disdainful to say hello.

As a nobleman, of course, he cannot say hello to his servants at will, let alone treat them as friends.

In fact, the current servant system in Jin State has begun to loosen. When the major nobles saw the role of the rent-in system to promote labor enthusiasm, they gradually began to quietly implement the rent-in system under their own throne. The three generals of the Fan family had long hoped that they could get rid of their servant status - but cannon fodder was different from farmers. Even Zhao family only implemented the abolition policy to the farmer class, and did not touch the slave soldiers and soldiers owned by the warriors. Therefore, although Chi Bi was one of the three generals of the Fan family, he was still a servant status like the other two, and was just a servant soldier who was highly valued.

Before this attack on Yang, Fan Yi had already made a ruthless move. He announced that those who entered the city first would be rewarded with great rewards, and those who were given the rewards would be allowed to make a request. Fan Yi would agree with all requests.

After hearing this, the other three scholars exchanged an understanding look with each other. The request they could think of was nothing more than: return the alchemy book (certificate of slave identity), so that they can become free people from now on.

Because of this thought, Chihun worked very hard... But sometimes, many things cannot be achieved by personal hard work. Chihun is now standing in the gate of the city gate of Biyang City, trying hard to figure out how to break the city, but no matter how hard he tried, he seemed to be unable to think of a trick.

Looking out from the city gate, along the attack route of the Jin army, to where Chihu stood, the corpses of the storm paved a path to death. They silently explained the degree of Chihu's efforts.

The reinforcements of Lu State were led by the famous minister Meng Xianzi. On his left were Liang He, a warrior of Lu State, (his father of Confucius), and the warrior Di Yimi. The Lu army stood at the city, outside the range of the bow and arrow of the Weiyang army, Meng Xianzi stepped forward and looked at the city walls carefully, thinking about something.

When Chi Bi saw reinforcements coming, he was excited and turned over and rushed out of the city gate, returned to the Jin army front, and went to salute Meng Xianzi: "The bitch is a general of the Fan family. Our Fan soldiers have attacked four times and have not succeeded yet. The nobleman's soldiers have arrived. Can they join hands with us to attack again?"

When Meng Xianzi heard the other party’s claim, he knew that the other party was a servant, and frowned and waved his hand like a fly. Lu State is a country that pays attention to etiquette, and his identity prevented him from talking directly with his servants. So, the warrior Liang He (his father of Confucius) replied on his behalf: "No problem, we came here to fight... but I'm a little surprised, why did the Fan family warrior regard servants as their family generals?"

Chibi was speechless and retreated silently.

After a moment of stopping, the coalition forces of Jin and Lu organized troops to launch an attack again.

This time, because the commanders of the Lu army were all nobles, the commander of the coalition was replaced by the Lu army.

Meng Xianzi was not a nobleman in vain. He had fought many years behind the Jin people. He had learned some military skills. He pointed at both sides of the city gate with a spear on the chariot and ordered: "Concentrate all the crossbows in the army, distribute them to the good shooters, collect all the crossbows for crossbows to shoot, and then use shield soldiers as a thorough investigation to cover the crossbows to approach the city wall, and then use crossbows to suppress the soldiers on the city wall, and use infantry elite soldiers to assault the city gate..."

After hearing Meng Xianzi's words, Chi Bi was only admired. He obediently allocated his troops according to Meng Xianzi's assignment - the Jin army attacked.

With that unique arrogance of the overlord country, the Jin army's shield soldiers slowly advanced forward according to the rhythm of the drum. The rhythm of their advancement was four beats. When the first snare drum sounded, the shield soldiers shouted vigorously and placed them on the ground with a shield of more than one person high. When the second snare drum sounded, they took a step, then put their feet together, and at the same time as the fourth snare drum sounded, they then put the shield back on the ground.

It takes four beats to complete all these movements. The stereotyped Jin army advances slowly according to the rhythm of the snare drum. This kind of neat advancement has always been the paranoid pursuit of the Jin people.

The moving shield line was like a shield wall, slowly and stubbornly advancing forward. On the chariot that followed behind, Meng Xianzi praised Liang He, the warrior beside him: "We, Lu, will never catch up with the quality of the soldiers of Jin State? Look at them, the drums sounded, the army was neat and the orders were strict... When will our Lu State allow the people to have this quality?"

Liang He replied: "The overlord's two hundred years of influence and education cannot be caught up in one or two days. The Jin people have fought for more than two hundred years, and every living Jin people are descendants of soldiers. What they are flowing in their blood is bronze! This kind of "bronze blood" has become a part of their culture. Every Jin people grew up soaked in bronze blood since childhood. They are born to be disciplined. They are born to fight and are naturally bloodthirsty.

Our Lu State is a country of etiquette. "Knowing etiquette and understanding advance and retreat" is our national culture - our Lu State's culture is "etiquette". If we abandon the etiquette of Lu State, if we want to imitate this 'bronze blood', then, is our Lu State still a Lu State?"

Meng Xianzi laughed: "It's OK! We also have our pride. Keeping our true nature is what we and other ministers should consider!"

Meng Xianzi said it was very passionate, but he forgot that while passing by and advocating interests, he was always oppressed by Qi. Maintaining his current national characteristics also means that Lu must maintain the current cultural tradition of being bullied and tortured, and always follow others to be a younger brother - until his country is destroyed!

At this moment, the sound of the snare drum in Jin State changed. As the sound of the snare drum changed, the first wave of crossbow arrows was shot behind the shield wall of Jin army, but this wave of crossbow arrows failed to shoot on the city wall, and the arrow shaft was inserted far away on the ground far away from the wall.

Meng Xianzi sighed: "Sure enough, Han is the best unit in Jin State. I remember that when Han attacked Zheng State, the test shot of crossbow arrows was just a single shot to save the consumption of crossbow arrows. Fan's experience cannot be learned. Now the test shot of Fan's archers actually shoots out all the arrows in the hands of the crossbow soldiers. This is a waste."

After all, Meng Xianzi didn't understand military affairs. He saw the difference between Fan's crossbowmen and Han's crossbowmen, but he didn't know the reason for the difference. In combat, the army's command relies entirely on the changes of the snare drums. Han's can refine the rhythm of the drum to command "Shan Chexing" for test firing, and can also command a small number of soldiers to test firing. However, Fan's did not refine it to this extent. Their drum sounds are simple and can only issue a "test firing" order, and cannot tell the soldiers the specific test firing method.

As soon as Meng Xianzi finished speaking, the sound of the drums of the Jin army changed again - the second crossbow arrows shot out. This row of crossbow arrows barely pierced the Weiyang city wall.

Immediately, the sound of the drums of the Jin army became delicate, and the shield walls were completely stopped. The rear row gradually caught up and superimposed with the shield walls in the front row... Rows of shields were stacked up layer by layer, forming a turtle array similar to turtle shells.

"It has entered the range of the defender," Liang He reminded: "Fortunately, our crossbow arrows have a long range and are shooting from the city, which is exactly the same as the condescending range of the defender. Therefore, when we enter the range of the defender, the defender also enters our range."

The counterattack of Biyang City also began. They were condescending and continuously shooting arrows downwards. Under the rain of arrows from Biyang defenders, the Jin army calmly changed the formation according to the rhythm of drums, and the overall shield wall formation was transformed into two shield wall formations.

A loud drum sounded, and the Jin army's shield wall suddenly retreated, revealing crossbow soldiers lined up in dense formations. The crossbow soldiers shouted, and then the shouts were rhythmically followed. Every time they shouted, a soldier shot out the crossbow arrows in his hand.

There were waves of shouting on the ground, and waves of crossbow arrows flying in the sky. The two sides were shooting towards each other.

"It's our turn," Meng Xianzi waved his sword. Suddenly, the Lu army's chariots rushed out of the gap exposed by the Jin army. They bumped over the corpses formed on the ground and rushed towards the city gate.

It was successful. Under the suppression of the Jin army's crossbows, the people of Biyang did not counterattack against the Lu army at all. The Lu army rushed to the city... and stopped for a moment, and the city gate of Biyang was broken by the Lu army.

Chi Bi looked excited. He didn't care about continuing to command and immediately urged his left and right to rush into the chariot.

If the world of Jin army outside the city is still sunny, there is hell in Fengyang City.

Chi Jin rushed into the city and found that the people of Biyang were not focused on dealing with the troops outside the city. They devoted their main energy to dealing with the soldiers entering the city - because Biyang City had a urn city.

The Lu army that invaded the city of Weiyang was crowded in the narrow area of ​​the city, bearing the stones, wastewater, arrows and screams that fell like raindrops on their heads. In a hurry, the warrior Di Yimi unloaded a huge wheel and covered it with armor to form an oversized shield. He held a "shield" in his left hand and a halberd with his right hand. He was still insisting on commanding a team of soldiers and continuing to shoot against the enemies on the city wall.

At this moment, a creaking sound came from the city gate. A gate slowly descended, forcing the Yang people to put down the Qianjin Gate at the city gate. Chi Yan rushed to the side of the Lu warrior Di Xumi with the big shield in his hand, pointed at the city gate to remind him, and shouted: "Retreat, retreat, if you don't retreat, we will not see the moon tonight."

Liang He also rushed over and shouted loudly: "Things are no longer saved (things cannot be saved), so retreat quickly."

The subordinates of the Lu army's warrior Di Yuemi were the only unit of the Lu army. At this time, the other troops of the Lu people had been disbanded. Di Yuemi was waving the shield made of wheels and commanding the command to resist. He glanced at the left and right and immediately agreed: "Qianjin Gate - Liang He, take care of Qianjin Gate, I will cut off the rear."

Chi Ju was about to compete for his position after the break, but unfortunately, an arrow shot down from the city, hitting Chi Ju's chest.

Chibi turned over and fell to the ground.

Liang He didn't care about being humble anymore. He dragged the red bars with one hand and waved the big shield of the red bars with the other, and rushed towards the city gate.

The Qianjin Gate had been lowered halfway. In desperation, Liang He (Kong Saint's father) used the shield in his hand to support the Qianjin Gate, but the gate above his head was too heavy, and the shield made a deformed squeak. Liang He was anxious. He pulled the red bark with his feet, kicking the Chibi out of the Qianjin Gate first, and then dragged his hands and lifted the Qianjin Gate hard.

He actually raised the thousand-pound gate.

Confucius' father held up the thousand-jin gate and allowed the remnants of Jin and Lu troops to escape from the city...

A month later, Zhao Wu, who was far away in Wei, received information when he inspected the defense situation in Wei, and he felt that the record looked very familiar.

Isn’t this the plot in many novels? Why did the people of Lu record this siege in real history and record it in "Spring and Autumn".

You should know that as a historical record, "Spring and Autumn" is the most rigorous in Chinese history. Such a rigorous historical book actually records a scene similar to a novel.

Zhao Wu thought about it and secretly praised: Perhaps later novels were all copycats of this description of Confucius' father. In fact, I know that in history, there was only one person who really supported the thousand-jin gate, and there was no other person. Of course, only in the Spring and Autumn Period, people could still support the thousand-jin gate, because the thousand-jin gate was simple at this time, but in fact it was not weighed a thousand-jin.

After calming down a little, Zhao Wu thought secretly: This historical record shows at least two problems: First, in the Spring and Autumn Period, a small southern country had an urn city structure, and a thousand-jin gate was found at the gate of the city. In addition, this warrior Di Zimi was also interesting. He actually took off the wheel as a shield.

Fortunately, in this era, wheels and axles are not connected, otherwise, it would be a joke.

After a moment of pause, Zhao Wu turned his eyes to the subsequent text: The Lu people said this, Meng Xianzi was outside the city at that time. When he saw Liang He (his father of Confucius) holding up a thousand-jin gate in his hand, he sighed and said, "The so-called 'powerful as a tiger' in the poem is about such a person, right?"

After the siege, the unwilling people of Lu launched several sieges. The people of Qiyang were quite confident and teased their opponents again. They actually hung a cloth from the city and shouted on the city: "Climb up!"

When the people of Weiyang shouted, Qin Jinfu, the retainer of Meng's family, happened to transport the chariot (a heavy chariot riding by the nobles) to Weiyang. When he heard the people of Weiyang shouting, he rolled up his sleeves and climbed up the cloth. The scene later was similar to a surprise drama:

The first time, when Qin Jinfu was about to climb to the chassis, the man from Qiyang suddenly cut off the cloth. Qin Jinfu fell heavily from the head of the city and fainted. The man from Qiyang was proud of the city and hung the cloth down again.

The second time, Qin Jinfu woke up and climbed again. Seeing that he was about to reach the entrance of the city wall, the people of Qiyang let go of the cloth on the top of the city. Qin Jinfu pulled the cloth several feet long and floated off the city and fell down again.

This was repeated three times, and the defenders were moved by the courage of perseverance and perseverance. The cloth was no longer hanging from the top of the city of Weiyang. A general of Weiyang lay on the top of the city and shouted to Qin Jinfu under the city, saying sincerely: "Please, your courage makes us admire you, we are convinced, don't crawl again."

Qin Jinfu climbed the wall three times, fell three times, and seized three pieces of cloth. Afterwards, he wrapped the seized cloth around him, wandered around the military camp, showing his contribution to others, and said to everyone: "See you, this is a symbol of my courage. People in Weiyang are afraid of my courage. Whoever you are timid, I have almost overflowed with courage here, and I can sell him some courage (Yu Yongkejia)."

Zhao Wu sighed: "It is obvious that the world has me, and it is different from before. Why do they still lack the means of climbing? They have to let the defenders put down their cloth before climbing the wall - ladder, I have clearly invented the ladder."

Zhao Wu believes that he has changed something, but in fact he has not changed the general direction of history.

The concepts of territory, domain, etc. formed by feudal consciousness were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people in the Spring and Autumn Period. The things invented by the Zhao family belonged to the Zhao family, which belonged to the concept of lordship. A family with a deep malicious intention towards the Zhao family may steal this technology, but the more the family has a good relationship with the Zhao family, the more they are, they are not willing to easily touch things that belonged to the Zhao family. In real history, Zhao, Han and Wei were wearing pairs of pants, but in the end, Han family brought their crossbow and arrow technology, Zhao family, and Wei family, to the Warring States Period.

In the long-term cooperation, the three companies have not had the opportunity to spy on each other's technical strengths, but they each adhere to their own fields and never dare to cross the line - even when the two sides are in a bad mood.

This is feudal consciousness.

When Zhao Wu expressed his feelings, the siege under the city of Yang had lasted for a month, and it was now early May. Seeing that the heavy rainy season was approaching, Xun Yan, who had come to ask for a fight, came to Xun Yu in shame and asked to withdraw his troops, begging: "The rainy season is coming, and if we drag it down, our army may find it difficult to withdraw safely... Well... that, please order the troops."

Xun Ying was furious and threw several cases over, and several cases flew past the two of them. He then yelled: "Didn't you say you want to take down the savage Yang and give it to Xiang Xu? Then do these two things well and talk to me again - I didn't plan to come at first, but you insisted on fighting, and I agreed to you for the sake of the unity of the team.

Now that the king has worked, I have troubled the princes, and the king of Wu has been waiting for your success for a month. I have been implicated by you in a place. You cannot make contributions and want to harm me. At that time, you will definitely say again: It was me, Xun Yu, who ordered the withdrawal of troops, otherwise the city will be captured. I am old, can I still bear such a sin again (referring to the fact that I was captured by Chu when I was young, so I was guilty again)?!

I will give you another seven days. If you can't take down the selves in seven days, I will take down your head first!"

The marshal Xun Ying, who has always spoken gently and elegantly, was furious. It is rare for honest people to lose their temper, but once they lose their temper, it is quite scary... Xun Yan and Shi Yi touched their necks and retreated in shame.

After leaving the marshal's tent, Fan Yi, who had always been smart, suddenly regained his intelligence. His eyes lit up and he shouted: "Ladder-I thought of it. When Zhao Wu got married, I went to congratulate him. I saw two strange tools in Zhaocheng. One was called a ladder by Zhao Wu and the other was called a scaffolding. Both of these are things that can be climbed and climbed. Why didn't I expect it before?"

Xun Yan also slowly remembered: "That's right, I saw that thing in Zhaocheng. I heard that fruit farmers also climbed up to pick fruits with something called the 'herd ladder' - since the 'herd ladder' can pick fruits, they can shoot arrows."

"That's right," Fan Yi stamped his feet in annoyance: "I often hear people say that Zhao Wuzi is relaxed and comfortable in breaking the city. I never thought that he would break the city easily after careful investigation... However, it's not too late now. Isn't Wei Jiang by the monarch? Let's go and inquire, and you'll know."
Chapter completed!