On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 508 Boulder Bombardment

Since Qu Tutong did not want to waste arrows on civilians, the filling work of the moat went very smoothly.

On the city tower, Sang Xianhe, the general of Huyalang, said with concern:

"Qutu Gong didn't want to hurt the people and let them fill the river. But if Cui Shu drives the people to attack the city, don't we have to sit back and wait for death?"

Qu Tutong patiently explained to him:

"Cui Ni is a man who is violent and greedy, and tortures the people outside the Great Wall. He has no scruples, but he can maintain the bottom line at home.

"Spelling untrained civilians to attack the city is tantamount to forcing them to die. I hope he can commit such atrocities so that the world can see the ugliness beneath his hypocrisy."

Letting the civilians fill in the moat and forcing them to attack the city are two different concepts. Qu Tutong was certain that Cui Che would not dare to do this.

Sang Xianhe was stunned when he heard this, so he stopped persuading and watched helplessly as the people outside the city filled up the moat in just one day.

At dusk, the civilians of the Eastern Sui Dynasty who had completed the landfill task returned to the camp one after another under the protection of the soldiers in formation. Looking at their leaving figures, especially the elites of the Eastern Sui Dynasty among them, Qu Tutong sighed:

"This is all due to me, the Great Sui Dynasty Tiger Ben. I should have subdued the barbarians from all directions, but now I am obeying the orders of the national traitor and helping him to do the wrong thing."

Sang Xianhe echoed:

"If Xiaoguo's army was here, why would the general not dare to go out of the city and fight Cui Ni to the death?"

Qu Tutong glanced at him and said nothing.

The next day, what worried Qu Tutong the most happened. Cui Che did not choose to attack the city with ants, but instead piled mountains of earth outside the city. These tasks were still done by civilians.

Qu Tutong frowned. He was not worried about Cui Che using mountains of earth to attack the city. At worst, he could learn from Wei Xiaokuan's method of defending Yubi City and tie long logs on the tower to make it taller. Could Cui Che still be able to pile mountains of earth into the sky?

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What really made Qu Tutong uneasy was the signal Cui Che sent: he was not in a hurry.

One hundred thousand Xiaoguo troops from Kansai were taken to the south. Yu Wenshu and Gao Jiong could only compete with Cui Che's elite troops with their old and weak strength, so they chose the method of fortifying the wall and clearing the country in order to buy time or wait for Cui Che to run out of food and grass.

Retreat the troops, or wait for him to return to the Central Plains to reinforce the Central Plains and then reorganize the troops.

But this time Cui Che was leisurely piling up mountains of earth outside Feng Yi City, perhaps also secretly digging tunnels. This fully demonstrated that he was fully prepared for this battle and was not afraid of the Western Sui Dynasty fighting him.

As a precaution, Qu Tutong dug a long ditch and stationed troops to cut off the tunnel of the Eastern Sui army.

In fact, Cui Che cannot conquer one city at a time, but Feng Yijun can be used as a bridgehead, hoarding supplies, and ensuring a retreat.

At the same time, capturing Feng Yi could also frighten Kansai, so he chose to capture this city.

When we get to the back, if we encounter a fortified city, we should separate our troops and besiege it, so as to take Daxing directly.

However, Cui Che did not send anyone to dig the tunnel. Although there were 100,000 civilians accompanying the army this time to carry out engineering work, and there were 200,000 civilians behind him to transport supplies for him, and there was no shortage of labor under his command, Cui Che pinned all his hopes on it.

On top of the mountain.

Watching the mountains of earth pile up higher and higher, slowly surpassing the city wall, Qu Tutong also began to tie up long logs and raise the height of the city tower.

Seeing the peasants of the Eastern Sui Dynasty working hard to transport soil and finally getting a little taller, but I only needed to tie a few long logs to be a little higher than the opponent, so I had a confident way:

"Cui Ni's move is just in vain."

Sang Xianhe also echoed:

"Gao Huan has old things in mind, but he actually chose to build a mountain of earth. This move is beyond stupid."

However, Qu Tutong and Sang Xianhe soon stopped laughing. After half a month of siege, Cui Che finally showed his fangs.

His earthen mountain was not used for archers to shoot arrows, but for people to build catapults on it.

Thanks to the hard work of hundreds of thousands of people, the mountains were piled high and strong enough to place catapults on them.

For this reason, Cui Che also specially measured the distance to ensure that Tushan was outside the striking range of the catapults on the defender's city wall.

The earth mountain was much higher than the city wall, so the catapults of the Eastern Sui Army had a farther range.

Qu Tutong tied the tower with long logs and raised the height of the tower. Although the height of the tower was not inferior to that of the earth mountain, it was just a high platform built with long logs tied together and was not enough to withstand the weight of the catapult and the potential energy generated during its operation.

Therefore, ever since the trebuchet on the hill outside the city was high enough to smash huge rocks against the city wall and even throw them into the city, Feng Yi's defender's nightmare began.

Countless rocks are falling from overhead every day, and boulders are also impacting the walls. However, Tushan is outside our range and can only be beaten passively.

On top of the mountain, Cui Che held a telescope and leaned over to look at Feng Yi County, which was baptized by boulders. He looked at the panicked defenders and people in the city and praised Xu Shiji:

"Xu Lang's plan is very clever. If we continue to bombard him for a few more days, the morale of the defenders will definitely collapse. I am afraid that the city wall will not be able to support it."

This method was proposed by Xu Shiji. Cui Che originally planned to use the same old method, preparing a two-pronged approach of earth mountains and tunnels. However, Xu Shiji suggested using earth mountains to command a commanding position and use catapults to cause damage to the defenders in the city. This immediately attracted Cui Che's approval and gave up.

Dig tunnels and then use all your strength to build mountains of earth.

Xu Shiji modestly said after hearing this:

"The king has made many preparations for this battle, but the defenders dare not go out of the city to fight and harass the mountains. The subordinates are only worried about not having enough stones."

Cui Che waved his hand and said:

"The existing stones in the camp alone are enough for him to drink a pot of Qu Tutong. If there are really less, civilians can also be sent to the mountains to mine. The enemy dare not leave the city and there is no external aid. I don't believe this Feng Yi County

How long can it last?"

Of course, stones don't have eyes and will inevitably hurt civilians, but Cui Che can't care so much at this time. Even in the civilized society of later generations, civilians will still be affected by wars, let alone ancient sieges.

It is better for the civilians in the city to be hit by rubble than for the soldiers under your command to attack the city with their own flesh and blood.

In fact, as long as a suitable bunker is found, the casualties caused by the rubble are limited. After all, the boulders are heavier and can only hit the city wall at most. However, the rubble is blocked by a bunker, so its lethality is really limited.

But the mental pressure caused by being bombarded by Eastern Sui catapults every day was even more unbearable.

Since the Eastern Sui Dynasty began to attack the city, the morale of Feng Yi's defenders had fallen to the bottom.

Just being beaten without being able to fight back. Huge boulders are bombarding the city wall every day, and gravel is whizzing past your head. Who can bear this for a long time?

After being bombarded for five days, Qu Tutong and Sang Xianhe no longer had the calmness they had before. Sang Xianhe found Qu Tutong and said urgently:

"Mr. Qu Tu, we can't go on like this and continue to let Cui Ni bombard us. If the soldiers can withstand it, the city wall will be destroyed by him sooner or later."

Chapter 4 brought, gone tonight

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