Chapter 565 (1/2)

Jia Xu stepped forward and said solemnly: ”report to the Lord, according to statistics, our army has killed and wounded more than 2000 soldiers today, of whom 1200 were killed and 900 seriously injured.”

Although Liu Ye has already made some psychological preparations, Liu Ye can't help but sink his brow, and there are too many casualties. However, more than 2000 soldiers were killed and injured in one day. If this goes on, it will not take a month to catch all these 40000 soldiers.

Guo Jia shook her head: ”our army can't attack the city like this, or Yecheng hasn't been taken down. I'm afraid our soldiers have been killed and wounded.”

Liu Ye nodded, and suddenly turned to Guan Hai and said, ”Zifu, when you were in the Yellow turban army, how did you attack the city?”

When the Yellow turban bandits first started, they swept across eight prefectures and attacked many fortified cities. Maybe the Yellow turban army had some unique attack skills.

Guan Hai felt his head: ”general, if we want to talk about our way to attack the city, it's nothing more than ants attacking the city, building soil to attack the city, and tunnel attacking the city...”

the so-called ”ant attached attack” simply means using human life to save a blood path. Human life is like an ant. Once we encounter a strong city, it is generally difficult to attack the arrow that falls like rain.

In front of the city wall, the soil gets higher and higher, and gradually forms a ladder, which is built on the wall. The soldiers of the siege side are stepping on the earth barrier to attack the city.

However, these two methods are generally applied to small and medium-sized cities, which are difficult to overcome in the face of large cities. In particular, Yecheng is one of the few strong cities in the world. The city wall is only three or five feet high. If you want to pile soil to Yecheng, you don't know how high the wall needs to be built.

In those years, Gongsun Zan retreated to Youzhou and defended Yijing. He built numerous barracks and was determined to stick to it. Around the Jizhou army tens of thousands of people, but also helpless, finally Yuan Shao is to take Tian Feng's proposal, determined to attack the city.

Yuan Shao had a unit called ”chuozi army”. This unit was not an elite division like those who had been killed first or halberds, but a force with special functions, which was used to dig tunnels.

The city was very strong, so Yuan Shao ordered the diggers to dig tunnels under the city and use wooden sticks to support the gap. Gongsun Jun did not know where to go. A few months later, the underground of the city had actually been hollowed out, but there was no clue because there was a wooden stick supporting it.

Before leaving, a fire was put down in the Yijing city. Without support, the Yijing city quickly fell, and the surrounding city walls collapsed in an instant. The Youzhou army was in a mess, and the Jizhou army took advantage of the situation to hide and kill, and won a complete victory.

”No, our army attacked the city with tunnels?” Guo Jia suggested: ”Yecheng is an important town in Hebei Province. If you are eager to attack Yecheng, you are afraid that it will be difficult to capture it. It is difficult to capture the city with ants attached to it or to attack the city with base soil. This tunnel attack can be tried.”

”Wenhe, what do you say?”

Jia Xu said slowly, ”you can have a try.”

Seeing Jia Xu's tone, Liu Ye didn't understand it. He was afraid that it would not work for a while to attack the city with tunnels. It was just a helpless method under difficulties.

”That's it.” Liu Ye said in a deep voice: ”don't attack the city in a big way from tomorrow. It's just a matter of damaging the soldiers.”