On the second day of May, I still looked up the building shortly after the completion of the city, but this time I moved from the southwest corner of the city to the southeast corner.

Liu Bei took Li Su and personally observed the tight defense of Li Juejun in Chang'an City, and by the way, he looked at the feint effect of today. The two of them agreed that the conditions for the formal general attack were ripe.

At the foot of Wanglou, several beacon towers have been set up in the past few days according to actual combat needs, which will burn different materials and form different colors and quantities of smoke.

This thing was not there when Li Su left, and it was not what he personally explained. It was a sudden invention of Zhuge Liang's sudden idea during the actual combat process.

The reason is that when the feint attack was first started, the enemy troops in the interior were more convenient to dispatch, and the opportunity for a certain section of the city wall to be empty may be fleeting. As long as the attacking party does not attack this section of the city wall within a few minutes, the enemy will find that it is blocked.

Later, Zhuge Liang discovered that it was mainly Liu Bei's army's messenger that sent a certain army to the attack, which was too slow, so he created such a beacon tower.

According to the mathematical principles taught by Li Su, he used a "binary" idea to number the siege troops in each wall section. For example, when he saw the smoke from the beacon tower was three "red and red" of the same color, it was the first wall section near the north of the East City, and "black and black" was the eighth wall section. Three smoke bytes represent eight kinds of information.

In this way, the officers in each position remember to represent their own colors. When they see the smoke of the corresponding color combination, they will organize an attack instantly. It is much faster than the messenger running more than ten miles along the walls of Chang'an City to send orders. The defenders in the city will naturally become increasingly caught off guard and are struggling to block the leaks.

When Li Su came back, she saw the slutty operation that Zhuge Liang invented, and she almost fell off her chin.

A Liang said that "it is not stuck in the world, and all plants, trees, bamboo and stones can be used as swords." Oh no, it should be said that "all plants, trees, bamboo and stones can be used as numbers."

Material carriers can no longer restrict Zhuge Liang from applying mathematical tools to adapt to random applications. Even if you burn a few piles of wolf smoke, you can practice the engineering practice of binary information carriers.

He is worthy of being the IQ of Li Su's most popular student, and he can learn from everything he can learn from.

Another feint attack ended. Liu Bei put down his telescope and said proudly: "After a few days of bloody battle, Li Juejun was exhausted. He used to raise the city guards, which was known as more than 40,000 people, but now he has consumed less than 35,000, and he has barely left for more than 30,000.

Judging from its banner and military formation, most of the soldiers did not get a rest, and even the cavalry abandoned the horse and prepared to prepare. Our army plus Duan Wei's troops, a total of more than 100,000 people were surrounded by 30,000 people, and they could take turns to rest. The civilians were temporarily suspicious, and the soldiers of Li Jie could hardly bear the energy of their soldiers."

Li Su was not surprised by the progress because he always thought that the general direction of the strategy he set was already very good, and it should be easy to be able to mobilize the enemy, so isn't all this the right advantage now?

However, after following Liu Bei for a long time to understand the battle situation, he realized how much valuable specific work the other generals had done in the process of implementing his plan.

These few days of feint attack were really not wasted - the difficulties that Zhuge Liang overcomes are not neglected for the time being. Just talking about Liu Bei and Guan Yu did not have a God's perspective, even if Li Ru was trapped at the beginning and persuaded Li Jue to fall into the trap together, Liu Bei didn't know.

Only by observing the real dispatch reaction of the enemy through actual combat can Liu Bei's army confirm that they were trapped, which will take several days of bloody battle tests.

Secondly, even if the enemy is trapped, they will definitely be lucky at the beginning and will not really mobilize all the reserve teams and run away from the start. They have to find out that "if they don't do that, they will have a lot of loopholes and there will be a risk of losing." They are forced to mobilize.

This process is a matter of a few words, but it is actually caused by the casualties and battles of thousands of people.

War is a place where the country is in life and death. You must observe it. There is no way to draw a simple way of thinking on the map to ensure smooth execution.

The planners and executors of this battle are almost the same as those of the soldiers who fought bloody battles.

...

After going down the viewing building, Liu Bei took Li Su and inspected a siege camp in the northwest of the city, where the real main force that was about to be used to attack Beihengmen was ambushed.

The reason why the troops attacking the North Gate were not stationed directly in the camp outside the North Gate was to paralyze the enemy and make the enemy feel that there were not many soldiers in the North Gate, at least there were no heavy siege equipment.

But in fact, Liu Bei prepared some semi-finished parts of the counterweight catapult truck that could be quickly assembled within a few hours. On the day of the general attack, he could go to the construction site to put it in the dark after night, and then start fire preparations at dawn.

The use of counterweight catapults was of course strictly confidential before, so Li Ju and Li Ru still think that these things must be made and used on the spot and cannot be built and driven over.

In the siege preparation camp, Li Su saw the new patchwork equipment that the siege generals had figured out in the past few days, and were prepared according to local conditions in order to attack the North Gate of Chang'an.

It was actually a dozen war elephants, but the car and crossbow behind it were removed, saving a portion of the load on the bamboo armor. However, heavy hard trees were tied to the elephant, and heavy cast iron for heavy city hammers were added to the tip of the tree.

Obviously, this is because human pushing the siege hammer is slow, which is not conducive to surprise attacks. In addition, it is difficult to completely repair the north gate of Chang'an City. This temporary city-breaking hammer with "low attack power but relatively fast reaction" was selected, and an elephant charge hit the door and fence.

In addition, based on Gao Shun's experience of the first failure to attack the North Gate, Li Juejun should have dug trenches behind Beihengmen and piled up earth walls, with multiple fortifications sluggish layers. For this kind of fortification with "large amounts, many levels, but insufficient single-layer defense" it is very advantageous to go up elephants. The trapped pit of the horse cannot trap elephants, and the rammed earth wall is easily knocked out of the gap by the elephants.

Even if the elephant dies in a pit full of deer antlers and horses, with the huge size of the elephant, it is estimated that hundreds of deer antlers and horses can be lost before death, and the corpse can also fill the pits. The barrier-breaking effect of a dead elephant is calculated based on the tonnage, at least twenty war horses are killed. This exchange ratio is absolutely cost-effective, and it is just enough to use the remaining elephants in the army to take advantage of the remaining elephants.

Moreover, as mentioned earlier, the gates and suspension bridges at the North Gate were not repaired under the surveillance of troops outside the city. Some river sections near the North Gate suspension bridge were also filled and destroyed during the tentative attack of Gaoshun that day, so there was no problem of collapse caused by troops swarming.

All preparations seem to be based on previous lessons of failure.

"It's almost done. In these two days, you can launch another dawn offensive at any time. It depends on the information. When the enemy is the most tired, we will take action." Li Su also nodded and expressed his affirmation of the preparations and encouraged Liu Bei to make up his mind.

Seeing that the most trusted strategists under Liu Bei supported his official general attack, he thought that a stone had fallen into the ground. He treated him with wine in Beiying that night and cooked wine with Li Su. If the time was good enough, he would announce his attack at any time.

On the other hand, after Li Su came back from Liu Xie, Liu Bei did not seize the opportunity to talk about politics with him privately, so he took advantage of the dead of night to ask Li Su's opinion on Liu Xie and formally determined the attitude of the camp towards the emperor in the next one or two years.

Of course, Li Su said everything, and frankly explained his views on the emperor. He even took out a book called "Cai Li Gong's Questions" and selected key paragraphs for Liu Bei to read at night. He personally explained the principles to him, hoping that Liu Bei would also adhere to the attitude of "not to chaotic the world" and consistently.

Although Liu Bei has had some ambitions in recent years, the Han Dynasty is the priority, and he only occasionally floats around. When it is late at night, people's emotions are relatively calm and they are prone to think about problems rationally. In addition, he always knew that Li Su knew the destiny, so he agreed without hesitation.

Liu Bei was also afraid that Li Su would think too much, so he got up and took the wine pot and patted Li Su on the shoulder with his other hand: "Boya, don't worry about being alone... Don't worry about being greedy for wealth and forgetting your true heart. You are here to support the Han Dynasty, but do your best and leave your destiny.

Over the past few years, people with power have emerged one after another. He Jin, Dong Zhuo, and Li Jue, when they were strong, how arrogant, how can they be? How can they be with the will of heaven? If you say you want to follow the will of heaven, we will follow the will of heaven.

Do your own business to 99% and make all preparations. The last part of destiny will be taken as soon as possible. If destiny is in the Lone, the Lone should take the order. Even if destiny does not come for the whole life, it is still a little short of all personnel and affairs. So what if the Lone is the Lone will be a Duke of Zhou for the rest of his life?”

After hearing these words, Li Su felt a sudden slap in his heart.

He suddenly realized that Cao Cao's "if fate is lonely" did not seem to have to be the emperor as the world interpreted.

Maybe Cao Cao was used to the rise and fall, and to the prosperity of the people, and finally lost his knowledge behind him, so he was afraid and did not dare to force him if he was not in place.

That is a kind of life attitude of "99% effort plus 1% luck/inspiration". If 1% doesn't come, then wait. If you really don't force it, it's not a saying.

However, Cao Cao was talking about "King Wen of Zhou", which was preparing to change his son to become King Wu.

Even if Liu Bei was so moved, he could only say "Duke Zhou". Duke Zhou assisted King Cheng, all the uncles of the royal family assisted the nephews. Moreover, Duke Zhou assisted King Cheng, at least he had a good end. Unlike other powerful ministers who were once very powerful, he was later suspicious of being liquidated by the young emperor when he became an adult.

Therefore, even if Liu Bei wants to retire successfully, his fate will definitely be much better than Cao Cao in history. He has a way out and has not been forced into the chain of suspicion that he is difficult to get out of the tiger.

Everything is thanks to Duke Zhou and King Cheng for their mutual success.

In this world, there are people who are truly willing to leave their will, and Liu and Cao even count it.

"Who determines the rise and fall? Is there any basis for the rise and fall? Is there any plan to judge the past? I just want to be heroic and show my selves a great painting. I am so open-minded that I am not able to understand the king in advance. I am ashamed, ashamed." Li Su was silent for a long time before sighing.

Liu Bei was stunned and picked up the warm wine pot and poured it a little, shouting happily: "Happy! Gu Xian is not good at writing, but Boya's words about Yuefu are easy to understand, and they are filled with heroic spirit. Gu likes it very much.

Come, drink the remaining half pot, and you and my monarch and ministers agree that the destiny is not the same as the orphan. At least, I will accompany you to carry forward the Qianqiuwei theory of "the first advocate must condemn" so that those who are kings in future generations, even those who want to cause trouble, will be afraid of it and consider it before doing things.

If you can really learn from the principles of those who are the king of the future generations, even if there are changes in dynasties, there will be less wars. What's the matter if you are alone or not? Isn't it more brilliant than being the king and famous in history! But how happy is it to keep a heroic spirit in the world!"

Li Su was not good at drinking, but Liu Bei said that he had to drink tons of tons. This was fine. At least the suspicion of the king and his ministers was completely open, and Liu Bei would no longer doubt whether Li Su was loyal to Liu Xie. Anyway, Liu Bei was too open-minded and completely believed that what Li Su knew was destiny and would not harm him.

Being a god is not as good as being an emperor.

...

Tonight is not the day to decide to attack in general, and I want to wait for the opportunity to ensure that I hit it with one blow.

However, it is basically a state of preparation for war "as long as the enemy finds loopholes, you can attack at any time."

But, let alone, opportunities always favor those who are prepared.

It seems that God has appreciated Li Su and Liu Bei's open-minded attitude of "I only do myself well, do my best, but do my best to do my best." God's will gave them a particularly excellent opportunity tonight.

After the fourth update in the second half of the night, Li Su drank a full half pot of wine because of her heart-to-heart talk with Liu Bei, and was hungover in the military tent and slept harder.

As a result, he was suddenly awakened by a violent tremor.

Li Su was stunned for several minutes. Liu Bei had already poured cold water on his face and put on his armor. Then he came to help Li Su get up and shouted at Li Su in surprise: "Boya! Isn't this an earthquake again!"

In 194, there were three earthquakes in Guanzhong. This time it was the biggest in May. There were minor earthquakes and aftershocks in the first lunar month and October. This was the case. Liu Bei was not surprised because of the Chencang earthquake that Li Su helped him fake on the 27th day of the first lunar month. Now he was not surprised when he encountered a real earthquake, and he felt it was a bit natural.

After a while, Li Su recovered and quickly put on his robe and picked up the folding fan, grabbed the door and left the tent. The two of them said to themselves: "Look at whether the defense of Chang'an City is damaged! Are the defenders in chaos!"

Guan Yu and Zhang Fei's reaction was faster than them. They were already mobilizing the preparatory siege troops outside the North Gate. After a few minutes, the situation was confirmed.

"The already broken Beiheng Gate was crushed! Some of the city towers were trapped in the door opening and collapsed directly to the ground! Strike the city!"

Tens of thousands of soldiers were originally lying out during the day and night to adjust their biological clocks. Every day, they required that the sky just darkened, they would go to bed in the afternoon and wake up in the middle of the night, so they were in good spirits. When they heard that the city gate was damaged, they immediately burst into violent cheers and then organized a full-scale attack.

All the catapults that had just been set up started to fire, but instead of smashing the broken Beihengmen and the city tower, they suppressed the city walls on both sides.

The elephants with siege hammers tied to their bodies were all driven toward the collapsed gap.

A total of 20,000 to 30,000 vanguard infantry flocked to the elephants, or set up cloud ladders to spread out to the wings to ensure that more troops could attract the enemy and enter the city to unfold.

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Don’t think that God is cheating on Li Su, because this is a historical fact. "Book of the Later Han Dynasty. The Chronicle of Emperor Xian" records that in the winter of the first year of Xingping (194), several city gates (floor markets) in Chang'an were destroyed. The reason is probably the aftershocks of the earthquake. It can be seen that the major earthquakes and many aftershocks this year did indeed damage many buildings in Chang'an City.

"The Legend of Xian" also clearly wrote that in this matter, Chunyu Jia, who had just become a superior, was dismissed from his post due to disasters and dismissals. Then, because of the previous earthquake at the beginning of the year, Zhao Wen, who was descended from Situ to Jingzhao Yin, actually came back to become Situ. The so-called "resonance between heaven and man, and the disaster was exempted from the three masters" was like a joke, which was like taking turns to go up and down. Every time an earthquake came into power, the substitute became the substitute, and the substitute went up and became the power, which showed Dong Zhongshu's ridiculous style.

According to the records of the Later Han Dynasty, the north city gate of Chang'an City is indeed not among the earthquakes. But the problem is that the city defense of Chang'an City is different from the same period in history. Beihengmen and Beigongmen were both severely damaged by Wei Jie and Ju Jun before breaking through. It was originally a state of blood-stainedness, so it is not surprising that another earthquake would be completely damaged.

Of course, the so-called collapse cannot be completely destroyed. After all, even if it is completely destroyed, the amount of earthwork of hundreds of thousands of stones of the Guangcheng Tower collapsed, forming a slope and burying the door holes, and it is still not easy for the troops to rush in.

Therefore, the fierce fighting level of the siege battle did not decrease at all due to the damage to the city defense, and both sides still swear to fill their lives in the death.

Not long after, the other three troops, which were supposed to be feinting during the day, also successively launched the offensive, trying to delay all Li Jue's army from returning to the defense of the North City as much as possible.

The commander of the siege infantry unit was not just Gao Shun's level, but Zhang Fei was replaced by Zhang Fei as the commander-in-chief in the front. As soon as the vanguard entered the city, before he could gain a foothold, Zhang Fei followed him in and led the way, and only the elephant rushed forward than Zhang Fei.

After all, this is not a feint attack but a general attack. It not only needs to be put into the trap camp and the barbarians, but also requires all the troops to cooperate. At least the top confidant generals of Guan Yu Zhangfei's level can suppress such a large-scale army.

Elephants died outside the palace walls and in the pits, but before their death, Cai Pingle had dozens of pits, collapsed dozens of rammed earth wall gaps, dozens of wooden fences, and even destroyed two walls near the Beigongmen, and also lost thousands of sharp obstacles such as deer antlers and horses.

Zhang Fei led thousands of infantry into Weiyang Palace from Beigong Gate and fought with Li Jue's personal guards. The sound of killing was shocking. The broken limbs and broken arms flew across the sky, and blood gushed like a spring to dye the fish pond in Weiyang Palace red.

Zhang Fei was smart, and while attacking, the soldiers shouted wildly: "Emperor Gaozu was furious again and caused disasters! The heavenly punished Li Ni! The heavenly soldiers fell to the earthquake to help the royal army attack the city!"

Not to mention, this method of boosting morale is very effective, especially the vast majority of the Han soldiers. On the Chencang battlefield three and a half months ago, they heard about Liu Bei's miracle of manipulating the earthquake against the will of heaven and change his fate. Now the earthquake has damaged the fortifications guarding the city. Without the injection of chicken blood, the confidence soars?

Even Li Jue's soldiers were all outlaws who were not afraid of death. They just wanted to have fun in time before they died, but it did not mean that they were not afraid of ghosts and gods. Such a crazy morale blow naturally caused everyone to tremble.

Even if you have good martial arts skills, you have to give it a big discount at this moment. Some rebel soldiers feel their muscles sore and numb when holding the sword in the ring. They can't exert any energy, or they are weak when fighting with Han soldiers and are directly killed by one knife.
To be continued...