Chapter 246: Crisis Comes
What to do? Faced with Wei Gui's inquiry, Wang Xiansong had nothing to say, he knew very well that the purpose of Wang Xiansong's inquiry was to let the family go up, to be honest, the intensity of this battle made him never expect that a battle destined to win would be fought like this.
The siege is like this, it seems that the siege war is extremely cruel, if at the beginning, it suffers huge casualties, it often becomes a protracted war, in a short period of time, a thousand casualties, this is a bit too big, if you force the order, under the premise of bearing 2000 casualties, still attack this defense, that is chaos, the people below will mutiny.
Wang Xiansong doesn't understand strategy, but he knows the people's hearts, and he can't even grasp the people's hearts, no matter how strong the army is, it will become a plate of scattered sand.
"Do you want someone to try it!" Wang Xiansong tried to put forward his own opinion.
"Employing people? With whom? Wei Gui didn't get the answer he wanted, but he got a plausible answer, but as soon as Wang Xiansong explained, he understood.
The group training is not only the people of Miaojiazhuang, Miaojiazhuang can not support such a large scale of group training, so as long as there are people around, there must be parents and friends, this is actually a method of attacking the city, when the Liao people were in the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the reason why the momentum was like a bamboo, was to drive the people to attack the city.
But this is the stupidest method, and it is particularly cruel, Wei Gui didn't expect that as a forbidden army in the Northern Song Dynasty, he was actually forced to use this method.
What Wang Xiansong said is also reasonable, under the premise of knowing that 1,000 to 2,000 people will be killed or wounded, how can they drive the siege, they are no longer the Great Song Dynasty forbidden army, they are rebels, and the surrounding army may be killed at any time, what can they do?
Today's ladders are damaged on a large scale, and there are less than 20 that come back intact, which need to be repaired and rebuilt, 70 ladders, or a little less, according to a 2-meter one, a 300-meter circumference of the fortress, 150 can be laid.
Knowing the strength of the castle's defense, it is definitely only seen in my life, and the biggest weakness is probably the personnel, the number of 800 people is certain, at most one or two hundred more.
In other words, the maximum number of people defending the city is about 1,000, even if there is a master like Sun Ji, they saturate the attack, and then with the help of the people to attack the city, they should be able to take it down.
It has been under the city of Miaojiazhuang, delayed for so long, and has produced huge casualties, during the day's operation, he used 100 people, to get back the corpse equipment, not only got the 3,000 weapons discarded by the forbidden army, but also got more than 900 damaged infantry armor.
After a simple adjustment and matching, 850 sets of splicing were finally completed, and his strength did not decrease much on the heavy armor infantry, which is also the main force of the siege, and the siege will also let them go in the future.
From this point on, the credit for sending 100 people to go is huge, but another problem that I didn't grasp was that there was quite a lot of fluctuation.
Before attacking Miaojiazhuang, they were under half orders and half temptations, Miaojiazhuang was nothing before, just an ordinary small village, but after the steamed bun and soap business, Miaojiazhuang began to become a commercial star in the entire Baozhou.
Steamed buns and steamed buns occupy most of the market in Baozhou, they don't know how much profit there is, but they can compare it with other things, such as the price of noodles or the price of meat, so that they don't calculate the cost of foaming agent, don't consider anything else, and savagely pull the profit system down to the extent they think.
Even Wang Xiansong didn't expect that after such a calculation, the daily income would reach an astronomical amount, just steamed buns and steamed buns, which exceeded 2,000 yuan.
Money can't solve all problems, but money is quite tempting for the soldiers who have rebelled and embarked on the thief ship, more than a month, maybe Miaojiazhuang will accumulate tens of thousands of wealth, even if every soldier goes to divide, he can divide a few, not to mention the soap business.
Compared with steamed buns, the high price of soap, especially soap, is more likely to produce the expectation of Miaojiazhuang's wealth, and under a simple calculation, Miaojiazhuang may have a wealth of more than 100,000 yuan.
In Wanguan, it can already be called a huge Northern Song Dynasty, from the rich merchants of Baozhou and the treasurer of Baozhou, that is, hundreds of thousands of Guan, a small Miaojiazhuang has this number, which is also the focus of the previous propaganda, from the forbidden army to the rebel army, the honor level or something, can no longer attract soldiers, then from the money, it is the best choice. ,
Everyone thought it was easy, they were the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty, and they also had the most peak weapons of the Great Song Dynasty, and all the siege tools were ready, even if they attacked a city of the same level as Baozhou, as long as there were not many defenders in the middle, they could easily take it.
In Miaojiazhuang suffered a huge blow, nearly a thousand dead, before it was just a rumor, now, all the corpses, was placed in the barracks, including more than 20 wailing seriously wounded, they were together with the hundreds of people who were injured before, before you know, the rebels have lost 1,500 people.
This is not a simple number, nor is it the so-called calculation of less than one eighth or nineth, this is a real person, looking at the robes, or the soldiers who were alive and kicking before, lying there in silence, this is probably the biggest pressure on them.
The morale of the army was unstable, and even affected the stability of the rebels.
Of course Wei Gui knew that it would be like this, but there was nothing he could do, this was a pit, but he had to swallow the sweet bait, 850 sets of foot armor, 3,000 weapons, this was the famine that was pulled down when he fled in a hurry before, he had to swallow it, as for the impact caused, he could only slowly reduce it.
Eight or nine hundred corpses were burned to ashes, military badges and some relics, they would be put together, and then they would follow, as well as pensions, regardless of whether the money could reach the hands of the surviving people, Wei Gui's way of doing so saved morale, and the rebels began to act step by step.
First of all, it is to arrest people, the group training comes from ten miles and eight towns, because of the loss of 50 elite spies, they do not have a list of group training, and even the monitoring of Miaojiazhuang is not in place, a large number of personnel arrived in Miaojiazhuang, which was ignored by them, and the first batch of people who searched in all directions came back, bringing a result that made Wei Gui a little helpless.
The close relatives of Miaojiazhuang's group training, almost more than 2,000 households, have all been relocated, and they are in Miaojiazhuang.
Although, I can't believe that a small fortress can accommodate 2,000 households, plus Miaojiazhuang itself, about 3,000 households, but on the premise of not having a harvest, they can only believe it.
It seems that the other party has been prepared for a long time, relying on close relatives to shake the morale of the defenders, basically shattered, but it does not affect anything, and soon, the rebels acted separately, and arrested tens of thousands of people in ten miles and eight villages.
In fact, when the rebels first acted, and even when the rebels came to Miaojiazhuang, there were some visionaries who ran away.
This is a rebellion, although it is said that the north has been peaceful for a long time, but a few decades ago, when the alliance of the Yuanyuan, the scene of the Liao rebels entering Hebei, where the old generation is, is still vivid, in the era of war, human life is not as good as dogs, they will not put themselves in danger, and the close relatives of the rebels who came to inquire about the regimental training have cast a shadow on this layer of security.
So the far-sighted people all ran away, there were about 50,000 or 60,000 people around, more than 10,000 people were concentrated in Miaojiazhuang, more than 30,000 people ran away, and there were about 20,000 people left.
Miaojiazhuang is a lot more lively, the people who were brought, the crying, the chaos, and all kinds of evils hidden under the night, the rebels are terrible, and the rebels who have lost control are even more terrible.
Wei Gui's actions were not blocked at all, Sun Ji was also reported for the first time, seeing a large number of people, he frowned, even if it was a regular army, in the face of such a siege, it was very difficult to choose, and in the face of a blind date with the people of the Northern Song Dynasty, the regular army was not easy to start.
This is also the nomadic people, the killer weapon for attacking the cities of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the methods of siege and the tools for attacking the city have no way to work, they can only take the people over and push them to the front line!
In fact, when a large number of people were arrested, there were fluctuations in the fortress, and the first to bear the brunt were these soldiers guarding the city, who were glad that their immediate family members had followed the order and moved to Miaojiazhuang, and now they are in the strong fortress, and the safety is guaranteed.
After the rebels captured the villagers, they also began to fluctuate, after all, although their immediate family members were relocated to Miaojiazhuang, the fortress was too small to accommodate so many people, and in this case, some distant branches or friends did not come.
In a small feudal and isolated village, who is not familiar with whom, who does not know whom, and even relatives and friends of immediate family members are among them.
Turmoil is almost inevitable, in this regard, Sun Ji is like a great enemy, almost with Xue Yu and others, soaked in the group training, telling the explanation, as long as the team training is not chaotic, everything has a chance to recover, as for the 10,000 people inside the fortress, they have no time to take care of it.
In fact, there is no need to scruple, the unique environment of the fortress, coupled with the previous discipline, the fluctuations produced have little impact, at most people fluctuate a little more, they can't affect the defense of the fortress, because, they don't need to go to the front line.
But there is a more practical question, in front of everyone, that is, what will they do if they drive the people to attack the city!
The attack is definitely impossible, with the strength of 500 longbowmen, it may be possible to kill tens of thousands of people in less than half an hour under a wave, but can they do it, on average, each person has to kill 20 people, and it is not on the battlefield, the enemy with real swords and guns, these are all unarmed villagers, some are still natives in their hometowns, and they have often met acquaintances and relatives before the group training.
Even after rigorous training, the most elite army, in the face of such a dilemma, is difficult to solve, not to mention, only more than a month of training, half-finished regimental training, although the rebels did not attack directly, still waiting for the completion of the ladder construction, but the pressure of the mountain, pressed in everyone's hearts, including Sun Ji Xue Yu, within a day or two, are all sad faces, no smile can be seen.