In fact, there is nothing special about the offensive and defensive battles in cities, and the methods are just for example, such as caves, irrigation, ant attachment, etc. Anyone who has learned to fight is basically familiar with it.

As usual, the siege of Cangzhou City was still a classic siege of three quarries, namely, attacking the South City, East City, and West City, and opening up the North City to urge them to escape.

Because the Xia army came too fast, the Cang people didn't have time to make complete preparations, and they left many flaws.

The biggest flaw is the house attached to the capital.

Cangzhou is a big city with many household registrations, convenient sea and river transportation. It is connected to Youzhou in the north, Weibo in the south, and Chengde in the west, and has developed commerce. It also has salt benefits, so the wealth is abundant, and a large number of people gathered in Cangzhou, which has led to a large number of houses attached to it.

The martial artists in Cangzhou also know the dangers of the houses attached to the capital, so they cleaned them from time to time, but in the long run, there is no way to clean up the houses that have not been newly built, so there is nothing we can do about it.

In fact, this situation is very common, not only Cangzhou.

Some places are strictly managed and are not allowed to build houses with a bond, while others are very loose, and the houses are almost a circle around the city. The most famous one is Chang'an, which has many houses with a large population. If someone attacks, with the thin and low walls of Chang'an, they will climb up the roof.

This was the case in the siege of Cangzhou City.

The miscellaneous soldiers cleaned up some of the houses attached to the capital to facilitate the entry and exit of the siege equipment. The remaining houses were basically not demolished. The soldiers climbed up, boarded ladders, climbed up, and fought with the thieves. There were even archers hiding under the house and shooting at the top of the city. The guards were so angry that they cursed, poured tinder oil from the top of the city, and set fire to the fire.

The battle was going on so fiercely, with all kinds of miscellaneous cards coming one after another, surging up, holding arrows, gold juice, scalded water, fire, and falling rocks, fighting desperately with the thieves.

Zang Dubao, the Eastern Road recruiting envoy, also visited the front line to watch the battle.

Three thousand Jiangling soldiers collapsed again and were chased by the enemy troops who left the city, with heavy casualties. Zhao Kuangming and his personal soldiers came to a counterattack, barely curbing the enemy's offensive. Then he couldn't hold on and returned with his head disheveled and blew away.

Zang Dubao glanced at Zhao Kuangming, then looked at the only thousand soldiers left, and smiled coldly.

He didn't like many of these thousand remaining soldiers.

To be fair, the Jiangling soldiers were the Xiangyang soldiers, and the Xiangyang soldiers initially took the Cai bandits as the backbone, and were incorporated into a large number of local natives in Caihua, and were trained strictly, but they were not that bad.

To put it bluntly, the governor of Jingnan, Zhao Kuangning, was sloppy and did not contribute his elite soldiers.

"General Zhao has worked hard to fight bravely, let's go and rest." Zang Dubao nodded and asked Zhao Kuangming to go to the back formation to reorganize the defeated troops.

"As for the order." Zhao Kuangming did not dare to disobey and limped down.

He was shot in his thigh. Although it was not very serious, it hurt so much. He could run back like this. I have to say that he had a strong desire to survive.

After the Jiangling soldiers lost their combat effectiveness, thousands of Tutuan Township men from Huaihai Road shouted together and began another wave of attacks.

Zhao Kuangming spat a mouthful of bloody saliva and sat down dejectedly.

This was a wounded military camp, filled with painful groans. Zhao Kuangming was upset when he heard this. With the help of his personal soldiers, he got up and went back to the tent, asking the medical officer not to take care of the wounded soldiers and come to treat him quickly.

The medical officer came soon and together with his assistant, he sawed the arrow shaft for Zhao Kuangming, took out the arrow, and then wrapped it in the wound.

Zhao Kuangming frowned throughout the whole process, without screaming in pain.

"Envoy, Zhuge Tai is here." The relatives came over and reported.

"Let him come here." Zhao Kuangming said with a listless expression.

"Envoy Zhao." Zhuge Tai walked in and bowed and said.

"Zhuge Envoy." Zhao Kuangming stood up with difficulty and returned the gift.

Both of them were governors. Zhuge Tai was governor of Bazhou, and Zhao Kuangming was governor of Kuizhou - only a remote leader. However, his brother Zhao Kuangning had just killed Ximen Daozhao and captured Kuixia and the states, and soon he was in charge.

"There are not many people under Zhuge Jun, right?" Zhao Kuangming sat back and grinned, but found that he was laughing even worse than crying.

"The four thousand soldiers in Bazhou have been reorganized several times, but now there are only two thousand left." Zhuge Tai said.

"Our troops have 3,000 people, and there are more than a thousand left." Zhao Kuangming said.

Of course, he did not say that the 3,000 people were mostly recruited, and most of them had not been in the army for more than two years, and there were very few veterans.

The soldiers of Bazhou were different from them. They should have brought most of the capital with them, and even recruited a large number of barbarians to join the army. As for why they did this, he could imagine that it was nothing more than worrying that the court would not allow them to return to Bazhou, so he recruited more troops to make the capital stronger.

The army is the lifeblood, and Zhao Kuangming is also a warrior, and he understands all this very well.

"It's not easy." Zhuge Tai laughed and said nothing again.

Zhao Kuangming glanced at him and said, "If you have something to do, just say it. We have fought together, and we are not outsiders."

"Then I'll say it." Zhuge Tai made up his mind, cleared his throat, and said, "Shangshu Du from the Ministry of War came from Taishan Palace and asked whether the soldiers of our army would go to Liaodong. Yi Ding gave him 150 acres of land, which was the military soldiers of the former Tang Dynasty. After thinking about it, there was no other way, so he thought about it and agreed."

"What benefits does Du Rang give you? Come and be a lobbyist?" Zhao Kuangming asked in surprise.

The place in Liaodong is wilderness and there are many natives. What's the point of going there? But he is not a stupid person. He quickly thinks from the perspective of Zhuge Tai. If he doesn't agree, his soldiers will be wiped out. What else will he have at that time? The phoenix with hair peeled off is not as good as a chicken, so he may have to go home to retire.

The court must have promised him a lot of benefits!

"The court wants to establish Gaizhou in Liaodong." Zhuge Tai said directly without hiding it.

Zhao Kuangming thought it was true, but he still sarcastically said: "Gaizhou is the Gaimu City of the former Tang Dynasty? What else is there except horse manure and weeds? What are you doing there?"

"I don't go to Gaizhou. Even if I want to go, the court is afraid that I'm not at ease." Zhuge Tai shook his head and smiled bitterly.

Zhao Kuangming was silent.

Zhuge Tai was bribed by the official position in the Central Plains, and then persuaded his soldiers to go to Liaodong to be the government soldiers. From the standpoint of these soldiers, after a series of cruel and bloody siege battles, I am afraid that they will be scared? Not to mention letting them become government soldiers in the wilderness, they may be happy even if they withdraw from the military.

People just don’t cry until they see the coffin. They were tortured by the Xia people to this point, and finally surrendered and were willing to accept some conditions that they didn’t want to listen to before. It’s cheap!

I immediately thought, why aren't they the same? They are just each other. The better thing about them than the Bazhou soldiers is that there is a retreat path of Jingnan Town, and the others are the same.

"No need to persuade me, my men and my men are going back to Jiangling." Zhao Kuangming said: "Actually why do you have to? One Ding has 150 acres of land, which sounds good, but it needs the Sanhunting Department to farm for you. Can you really find it?"

I have become a military soldier, right? Is it a set of armor and equipment necessary? This is responsible for my life. Whether it is iron armor, leather armor, rattan armor, paper armor or cloth armor, at least one is needed. Considering that it is cold in Liaodong, a set of armor and floss may also be needed - it appeared in the Western Han Dynasty, with iron sheets sewn on the outside of the cloth to protect it and reed floss inside to keep warm.

There are also a number of weapons to grow. Those who have no money use spears, and those who have money use step spears. It is best to buy a long-handled armor-breaking weapon, such as a long axe.

Among short weapons, horizontal swords are inevitable, and armor-breaking and blunt weapons such as iron maces must also be purchased.

There are also step bows, small round shields, arrow pouches, and arrows. If you need to get on a horse and shoot, you must also prepare a horn bow.

Weapons to deal with enemy cavalry have been emphasized since the Tang Dynasty. Do hooks, sickles, and spears need to be fired?

These things cost a lot of money.

The output of 150 acres of land is indeed enough to support these equipment and training, but the question is where the organization is? I have become a soldier, so I can’t go to work on the ground by myself, right? I have to work hard when I’m busy with farming. I have to practice martial arts and participate in group training at other times, so I don’t have that much time.

"There are so many people in the Bohai Sea, and the ground is full of groups. What are you worried about?" Zhuge Tai seemed to have already thought about it and said directly.

"This..." Zhao Kuangming was speechless.

Crazy, crazy! The Daxia court was full of cruel people from top to bottom, but no good people were there.

"Envoy Zhao, think about it again." Seeing Zhao Kuangming silent for a long time, Zhuge Tai quietly left and returned to the front.

Du Rangneng, the Minister of War, sat on Hu's bed, and spoke with Zang Dubao, but his mind was not on the battlefield at all. It seemed that in their opinion, it was good to break Cangzhou now, but it didn't matter if it couldn't be defeated for the moment.

Zhuge Tai looked forward with his eyes fixedly.

The Tutuan Township men from Huaihai Road attacked and retreated uncontrollably.

In fact, these people are of pretty good quality.

After Zhu Xuan, Zhu Jin and Shi Pu's main force were eliminated by Zhu Quanzhong, they relied on recruiting these newcomers to support themselves. In Zhuge Tai's view, they were better than the heroes of Luoyang Township who had attacked the city yesterday afternoon.

Of course, Luoyang Township Warriors will also make progress. After seeing the blood several times, they will not talk about combat power, but they will become much more energetic. In the past, they only saw a honest man who didn’t have much temper when he pointed at the nose and scolded him. Now they have developed a ruthless and rebellious temperament, and they may not be able to control him when they go back.

"What did Zhao Kuangming say?" Zang Dubao turned his head to look at Zhuge Tai and asked.

While speaking, he waved his hand, and soon a kiss led his men forward, capturing the dozens of people who ran the fastest, raising their swords and killing them on the spot.

"I will go back to the capital, and I will persuade you for a long time, but Zhao Kuangming refused." Zhuge Tai said.

"Good boy, I still want to go back to Jingnan to be the governor." Zang Dubao smiled and said, "I'll let him attack the city tomorrow."

Du Rang could smile without saying a word.

Zhuge Tai felt a little chilled. These horned awks are also cruel people, and they don’t persuade them. If they do, they won’t treat them as human beings? Fortunately, I jumped into the ship in time.

"Dongdongdongdongdong..." The war drum sounded again, and this time it was Tianxiong's army that took place.

Thousands of people lined up in a formation and followed the siege equipment and launched a tide of attacks.

"Report!" A scout dismounted from afar and rushed all the way.

The personal soldiers stopped him, and after they found out that they were in good condition, they were led over.

"There were more than a thousand cavalrymen in Jin's army west of the Lutai Army," the scout reported.

"Finally come!" Zang Dubao slapped his thigh, stood up excitedly, and said, "Tell Wang Jian and the orders to search for the enemy and find out where they came from. The rest of the troops--"
Chapter completed!