This breakfast was eaten really early, Yin Shi finished breakfast, all the soldiers and horses were ready to pull out, Zhao Junsheng gave an order, the vanguard of a thousand cavalry took the lead in setting off to cross the river on ice, followed by the main force of the army, and finally the logistics baggage, siege equipment accessories.

All the horses were wrapped with pieces of coarse cloth to wrap the horses' hooves, and the horses with coarse cloth wrapped in the hooves would not slip and fall when walking on the ice.

"Son, come to Grandpa's side and ride the same horse with Grandpa!" Zhao Junsheng said and put his son Zhao Dong on the back of his horse, and he turned over on the horse himself, let his son lean in his arms, and then wrapped his cloak to block the cold wind.

Hua Mulan saw Zhao Junsheng hugging her son over, she was really relaxed here, taking the child all day long, don't look at it seems to be very relaxed, but in fact, she is half tired to death.

There was no defense of the Southern Korean army on the other side of the river, Zhao Junsheng brought 80,000 horses this time, and the Southern Korean army could not defend the south bank of the Yellow River even if there were more, and the generals of the Southern Korean army obviously knew this, so they did not arrange a defensive line on the bank of the river, and gathered their troops to defend the city.

After 80,000 horses crossed the river on the ice, it was already dawn, and at some point, his son Zhao Dong had fallen asleep again in Zhao Junsheng's arms, and everyone was covered with a thick layer of snowflakes on their heads and bodies.

The sky was still snowing, and it didn't seem to be stopping.

A messenger ran over to report to Zhao Junsheng: "King Qiyu, General Chang has come to report to the villain, five miles ahead is Linyi City, the gate of Linyi is closed, and Liu Songjun on the city wall has begun to guard and carry materials to defend the city!" General Chang asked if he wanted to attack the city? ”

Zhao Junsheng raised his hand and said: "Of course we have to attack the city, otherwise a small county garrison will copy the back road of my 60,000 horses, won't people laugh out of the big teeth?" Go and tell Chang Kun to let him block the four gates of Linyi, and not let Liu Songjun's messengers go out of the city to report the news! ”

"Yes!"

Since the beginning of history, the lower reaches of the Yellow River have undergone numerous diversions for various reasons, and the largest diversion was in the third year of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty (11 AD), and there have been countless small diversions in the following hundreds of years.

At this time, Linyi City was still on the south bank of the Yellow River, and Zhu'a County, not far to the southwest, was also on the south bank of the Yellow River.

Zhao Junsheng said to Mulan: "Do you know Miheng? ”

"Miyo Heng?" Hua Mulan thought for a while and asked, "Is it the madness of the Later Han Jian'an period?" ”

"Yes, he is from Linyi! It's not wrong to say that he is crazy, but although this person's political wisdom and emotional intelligence are too low, he is really literary and eloquent, and he has a very good set of official documents in terms of writing. Kong Rong and Yang Xiu, who were good friends with him, were called eldest by him, and the other was called Xiaoer by him, they were not angry, and it was estimated that only people who appreciated him could stand him, Cao Cao couldn't stand him, but his reputation was big, and he couldn't kill him, so he sent him to plague Liu Biao, Liu Biao liked him very much at first, but he scolded him a few times and couldn't stand it, and sent him to Jiangxia Taishou Huang Zu, he went to Huang Zu and just started to do a good job, Huang Zu had him, and the official documents were completely relieved to be handed over to him to deal with, Later, Mi Heng offended Huang Zu by making insulting remarks, Huang Zu was a quick temper, and killed him in a fit of rage, and he was only twenty-six years old when he died, which is a pity! ”

Hua Mulan has a different opinion on Mi Heng, and said: "I don't think Mi Heng can't be a man, he can't get used to the darkness of officialdom, and he has a temper that will come out, no matter how high or low the other party's official position is, so he will repeatedly offend people!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Although it seems to make some sense for you to say this, I still don't agree, for example, Xun Yu didn't offend him, Xun Yu worked hard under Cao Cao, just because he was handsome, he said that Xun Yu could use that face to mourn, and when he saw Zhao Rong's big belly, he scolded Zhao Rong for managing the kitchen!" ”

Hua Mulan retorted: "Don't you think that Mi Heng's scolding is not indiscriminate? He scolded people for something else, just like he scolded Xun Yu for being able to mourn with that handsome face, alluding to the fake compassion of the cat crying mouse, in his opinion, Xun Yu is a person who is very deep in the city, although Xun Yu follows Cao Cao to do things, he has the Han family in his heart; Let's talk about Zhao Rong, he said that Zhao Rong can manage the kitchen, not that Zhao Rong only has the ability to manage the cook, but secretly scolded Zhao Rong for being greedy and stealing food, and he didn't know how much money he was secretly greedy! ”

Zhao Junsheng was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Listening to you say this, it seems to make some sense, but it is precisely because he is so open-mouthed, although it is sarcastic, and the person who is scolded is not a fool, how can he not hear his words?" That's why he offended people because of that mouth! ”

Far away, Zhao Junsheng saw the city wall of Linyi City in the distance, and he turned his head to the herald and ordered: "Send someone to call Gao Xu!" ”

"No!"

Gao Xu was notified to hit the horse and ran over from behind and hugged his fists and said, "Wang, are you looking for me?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Seventy miles away from the southwest of Linyi City is Zhu'a County, you take 3,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry to speed up and bypass Linyi City to attack Zhu'a County first, the snow should not be too deep today, and you should be able to arrive before dark, and tomorrow morning, this king will enter Zhu'a City for breakfast!" ”

Gao Xu clenched his fists and agreed: "Obey!" ”

The impact of snow on the march of the infantry is not small, in the case of the snow on the ground is not deep, the snow has little impact on the march of the cavalry, the Northern Wei Dynasty is not short of horses, Zhao Junsheng as the largest warlord is naturally not short of horses, even the infantry can ride horses to hurry, which can undoubtedly maintain the normal speed of the march.

In normal weather, cavalry does not necessarily march faster than infantry, but riding a horse allows the infantry to maintain the most physical strength and energy, which is the benefit of horsebacking.

When he first arrived, the army arrived at the city of Linyi, Zhao Junsheng stopped at a mile away, which was about the closest distance from the safety of the city wall, the various departments of the army began to send a formation behind him, the canopy above his head shielded him from some flying snow, behind him Daxu and countless banners in the army were soaked in snow and unfolded under the cold wind, and at low temperatures I don't know when it has been frozen, the soldiers carrying the banner are very difficult.

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and asked, "How long will it take for the siege equipment to arrive?" ”

Cui Hao replied, "It's already here." The people of the baggage team unloaded the wheels of the wagon and changed it directly into a sleigh, and they went faster than the carriage in this snow, and followed closely behind the army! ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "That's okay." Captain, send a general with a mouth to persuade them to surrender, give them half an hour to think about it, if they don't accept the door and accept the surrender, our army will attack the city! ”

"Yes!" The lieutenant agreed, he is now the general of the Whirlwind Army, and quickly sent a general with two cavalry to the field to persuade him to surrender.

The reply of the defenders of the Southern Dynasty was a rain of arrows, and the general and the two cavalrymen who persuaded them to surrender were forced to flee back in embarrassment, and the persuasion failed!

The attitude of the defenders showed that they would not surrender, and Zhao Junsheng did not waste any time, and directly ordered the baggage troops to transport the parts of the siege equipment over for assembly and prepare for the siege.

The weather was cold, and it was not a good feeling for the soldiers to stand outside the city and suffer from the cold wind.

Zhao Junsheng's attitude towards attacking the city garrisoned by the Southern Dynasty army was to go all out, and he would never despise it, the defensive ability of the Southern Dynasty army in terms of the city was by no means comparable to that of the Northern Wei army, so he neither lined up the large army too far in front nor too far away.

The distance of five hundred meters, this is the maximum range that trebuchets and bed crossbows can shoot in this era, there are a few bed crossbows on the city wall, Zhao Junsheng does not dare to get too close, although the power of this thing has not yet developed to the peak, but in this era it can be called the long-range weapon with the longest range.

It can be used both for siege and fortification.

There was no trebuchet on the city wall, and Zhao Junsheng was a little relieved, but he didn't think that the Southern Dynasty couldn't build a trebuchet, and the city wall of a county town was afraid that it couldn't put a big guy like a trebuchet.

Whether it is a trebuchet or a bed crossbow, Zhao Junsheng has it, since he wants to fight with the Southern Dynasty army, he must take out the most powerful weapons to fight them, especially the siege war, what the Southern Dynasty army has, he must also have, otherwise he will suffer a loss when attacking the city.

Hua Mulan rode a horse beside Zhao Junsheng, observed the situation on the city wall and said to Zhao Junsheng: "On the surface, the defenders of this county town should not exceed three thousand, but in fact, I don't know how many people there are in the city!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "The black-clothed guards have already found out, Linyi has 1,000 defenders, and Zhuacheng has 1,000 defenders. Behind them is Sima Chuzhi's Qizhou Prefecture Zhili City, Tan Daoji will definitely not deploy too many soldiers and horses in the north of Licheng, otherwise he will have to worry that Sima Chuzhi will cut off his back road! ”

Coming to siege the city in a hurry, the trebuchet has no ammunition and cannot be used for the time being, and long-range deterrence and support can only be done with bed crossbows.

A crossbow with beds was pulled by a mule and placed side by side, and a cart of parts for a well-railing and siege ladder was pulled over and began to be assembled.

The weather was cold, but the soldiers were sweating and hot.

Under the action of gears and pulley sets, the manpower required to operate the bed crossbow is greatly reduced, and the speed of loading and operation is greatly accelerated, while the siege ladder and well fence are still being assembled.

Because of the weather, people are easy to freeze when they stand still for a long time, so Zhao Junsheng decided not to wait and opened the situation with a bed crossbow first.

Under Zhao Junsheng's order, a treadmill arrow was placed in the groove of the bed crossbow.

"Shoot—" The commander of the bed crossbow gave the order, and one of the standard-bearers waved the command flag vigorously.

"Bang Bang Bang ······" The hammer hand of each bed crossbow swung the hammer and smashed it down, and one bed crossbow fired a tread arrow. This kind of pedal arrow is nailed to the city wall in rows, deep and firm, and its function is to serve as a climbing pedal for the besieging soldiers.

After several rounds of bed crossbows were fired, there were already many dense pedal arrows nailed to the outer wall of the city wall, which allowed the besieging side to have several times the number of troops invested in the siege in the same unit of time, which was much more dense than simply using cloud ladders to invest troops, and the threat to the defenders of the city wall increased exponentially.