Talking about yesterday's siege, the Yellow Turbans did not release anyone in Wengcheng and directly sold Wengcheng. Li Mengxi made fun of the Yellow Turbans.

Guan Yu silently listened to Li Mengxi's eloquent remarks. After Li Mengxi finished speaking, Guan Yu said unequivocally, "Xi'er, this cannot be generalized. Our army is strong and capable of deploying elite soldiers and brave generals to surround Wengcheng and transform the gates of the city.

A small space is a place for strangulation.

However, since the Yellow Turban soldiers are weak and have no desire to fight bravely, there is nothing wrong with the Yellow Turbans abandoning Wengcheng and retreating directly to defend the city gate. On the contrary, if the Yellow Turbans want to surround Wengcheng and our soldiers rush out from the city gate, the weak Yellow Turban soldiers will not be able to resist and will collapse at the first contact.

When the time comes, our army will follow and pursue us. The gates of Wengcheng have not yet been closed, but I have already arrived to kill them. Isn’t this the loss of Wengcheng?"

"As the saying goes, soldiers have no permanent momentum, and water has no permanent movement.

As for whether to encircle the Wengcheng or not, it should be based on local conditions, the time of the day, and more importantly, the soldiers should be based on the people's conditions. Don't be rigid."

After Guan Yu finished speaking, Li Mengxi fell into deep thought.

Li Mengxi understood the profound meaning of Guan Yu's words.

Of course, the city gate opening is an excellent place to strangle the enemy's strength.

But in fact, for the Yellow Turbans, it was the wisest choice for the Yellow Turbans to give up the close fight at the city gate and retreat directly to Wengcheng.

Because the Yellow Turbans could not resist and retreat calmly, they could easily be defeated by an attack. When the Yellow Turbans were defeated and fled in droves, the gates of the Wengcheng might not even be closed in time, and the Wengcheng gates would be lost.

Guan Yu said that troops are unpredictable and should be used in accordance with local conditions, the time, and more importantly, people's conditions. Li Mengxi deeply believed this.

Encircling Wengcheng can be done by elite soldiers of the rebel army, but it does not mean that the weak Yellow Turban Army can do it. This is called adapting measures to military conditions.

If you put yourself in their shoes, if one day the enemy camp comes to attack the city, then the rebels may be in the same situation as today's Yellow Turbans. The risk of besieging the Wengcheng is slightly higher, and if you are not careful, you will be killed.

Based on this calculation, if there is no soldier in Wengcheng, and the gate of Wengcheng is directly closed, it is a safe and sound strategy.

In contrast, besieging the city gate is risky anyway.

As for closing the gate of the urn city and placing a bunch of dead soldiers inside the urn city, this method can also be used. However, the dead soldiers are used as a final means to use death to gain life and use small gain when life and death is at stake.

To die.

There are a group of brave soldiers who are not afraid of death. It is not good to save the day to break the formation and kill the generals, and to lure the enemy deep into the city. They have to waste it in the urn city.

Dead soldiers are used to break formations and kill generals, which can save a defeat, lure the enemy to go deeper, or they can be small and broad, trapping an elite enemy force.

In the Wengcheng, the enemy has breached the city gate, and enemy troops will arrive continuously. However, the number of dead soldiers surrounding the Wengcheng is limited, and they will be destroyed sooner or later. A group of dead soldiers left in the Wengcheng can play a big role.

Its function is to kill three times more enemies than itself and block the enemy for half an hour, or even a moment or two.

Comparing the two, we can see that people who take death lightly can be used to besiege Wengcheng, but it is not worth it, not at all.

Li Mengxi frowned and thought for a long time. Is there really nothing the Yellow Turban can do to encircle the Wengcheng? Could it be that if one day they fall into the enemy's camp and break through our city gate, and our soldiers are not very good at fighting, our army really will not be able to use the opening of the city gate.

The geographical advantage strangles and traps the camp?

After a while, Li Mengxi looked up at Guan Yu and said, "How about using a door-blocking knife cart?"

Guan Yu thought for a moment and shook his head, "What is the purpose of encircling Wengcheng? To strangulate. To block the road with gates, swords and carts, and to separate ourselves and the enemy, how to strangle is to lose the original intention."

"Oh..." Li Mengxi snorted, scratched his head, and frowned slightly.

Strictly speaking, the Semen Knife Cart is just a movable wall and has no lethality. The Semen Knife Cart has the word "knife" in its name, and it does have a blade or a spear tip. However, pushing the knife cart around

If you hit someone, you can't kill two people.

Let’s take the enemy’s shield bearer as an example. The enemy’s shield bearer holds the shield in front of him. The shield-carrying sword can push the enemy back step by step, but the tip of the sword on the sword cart can’t really kill people efficiently.

The swords and carts surrounded the city gate. Just as Guan Yu said, the enemy and we are separated. At this time, the plan to use the geographical advantage to strangle the enemy failed.

On the contrary, in the square inch of the city gate, the city gate is narrow and the barbican is wide. The enemy is already at a disadvantage and is in a tight encirclement.

The chariot acts as a shield for the enemy. The enemy forces squeeze in with swords and chariots, which breaks our encirclement advantage.

It seems that the most suitable place for the gate-blocking knife cart is in the city gate opening, rather than being pushed out to block the city gate opening. It is especially not suitable for when our army is gathering in the urn city and wants to strangle the enemy.

Since it was not appropriate to block the door and the carriage, Li Mengxi thought for a while and came up with an idea. He looked at Guan Yu and said, "Then, how about seizing the horses? Separating the horses can block the enemy without separating us. Separating the horses, our army can use our spears and spears."

Can't you kill countless people by gathering thorns?"

After Li Mengxi said this idea, Guan Yu thought for a moment and nodded slightly, "This method is appropriate or inappropriate."

"What is it? Is it appropriate or inappropriate?" Li Mengxi was confused by the ambiguous answer.

Guan Yu said, "If the enemy in the doorway is a man with light armor and no armor, I can kill countless people with my spear and stabs.

However, if the enemy is a heavily armored elite, then instead of fighting closely to the death with heavy swords and axes, he will be killed with spears and stabs. At this time, the enemy can be blocked by his horse and fight closely to the death.

Therefore, someone said that it is not appropriate to strangulate according to the horse." Li Mengxi nodded and understood that it was still necessary to adapt to the situation of the army.

According to the horse blocking the door, it can indeed block the enemy without delaying our army's strangulation. However, depending on the situation, in most cases, the enemy's armored units are not many. Even if they are armored units, their legs and arms are exposed.

At that time, a large group of our troops were able to strangle a large group of people by setting up thorns across the enemy's horses.

However, if heavily armored infantry like foot soldiers surge up, our army will no longer be able to calmly contain the enemy.

Even if it can't kill heavy armored soldiers, it should still be useful to hold horses, Li Mengxi thinks.

If the enemy troops want to get past the garrison horses, they will have to wait ten seconds to block the road. These ten seconds are enough for our troops to withdraw from the barbican city and then close the city gate with a bang.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Take yesterday's siege as an example, if the Yellow Turbans blocked Wengcheng with their horses, the Yellow Turbans might be able to collapse instantly after a little resistance, but there was nothing the rebels could do.

He chased them quickly, but couldn't take advantage of the situation to get out of the Wengcheng, because the horse blocked the road, and passing the horse was much more difficult than jumping over the fence.

Li Mengxi felt that it was feasible to seize the horses, but it would be much safer to encircle the Wengcheng if we had the horses to block the gates. The Wengcheng would not be destroyed if it collapsed.

Later, everyone was talking about other things on the Wengcheng.

Because there is an urn behind the first city gate, the siege team needs to bring a siege ladder. Yesterday's attack on the city was neglected here. The siege team led by Zhang Fei did not bring a ladder.

Li Mengxi understood the oversight, which was that he failed to thoroughly identify the enemy city before the war.

Although before the siege, a semi-finished well fence was used to support a long bamboo pole. When approaching the city to check, you can check thirty steps in front of the city. Thirty steps away, it is far away. The trench guarding the city is just a line. It was not expected that the trench would

It was so deep that the attack on the city wall was greatly frustrated.

Also because the bamboo poles were not high enough, the urn city behind the city gate was shorter than the city wall. It was thirty steps away and the urn city could not be seen. Therefore, they were not fully prepared and surrendered to the offensive.

It seems that siege requires sufficient detailed intelligence support.

For example, this time, the well was not high enough to see the entire trench and the barbican city clearly. If we had sent heavy soldiers to risk the city and go to the trench, they would have used bamboo poles to measure the depth of the trench. If they saw that the trench was too deep, they would have been able to know in advance.

Consider and be prepared to avoid setbacks in wartime.

For the purpose of detailed investigation, the heavy armored soldiers who went to measure the depth of the trench might die a few people, but the few people who died prevented more people from dying during the siege.

Therefore, well lanterns are indispensable for siege.

A semi-finished well with bamboo poles erected can indeed be used to climb high and see far away.

But firstly, the bamboo poles are not high enough, and the height does not fully meet the needs of reconnaissance. Secondly, the bamboo poles in the army are bought by the caravans and used to weave bamboo baskets. In the future, will the army have such a long pole during the march?

A bamboo pole, or two things.

Therefore, if conditions permit, you should still make a high enough well gate. Although the well gate is an auxiliary siege equipment, its importance is even more important than ordinary offensive equipment.

In siege, Li Mengxi learned some experience. Regardless of whether there is a urn behind the city gate, the team that breaks the gate had better carry some siege ladders.

If there is no urn behind the gate, it means the siege ladder has been lost.

If there is an urn city, the ladder will come in handy.

Furthermore, installing a shield on the siege ladder to form a tortoise shell siege ladder can also provide cover and defense.
Chapter completed!