In the early morning of September 23, the Western Qin army set up a military formation after breakfast, and advanced to Shuergaz City, and the defenders of the city did not dare to slack off after getting the news, and even the main general Zierz personally boarded the city wall to prepare to command the city defense, and a large number of city defense ordnance and materials have been moved to the city wall, ready to meet the siege of the Western Qin army at any time. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the morning in Shulgaz City, there was a hint of majesty, and the flag of the Great Food Nation at the head of the city fluttered gently, but the air was already filled with the smell of nervousness, and no one could feel the coolness of the breeze, and many people were already sweating with nervousness.

On the occasion of the coming of the war, the garrison of Shulgaz City, Zilz, took his generals and officials to inspect the city defense situation on the city wall, Zilz was rigorous by nature, and began to reorganize the armament and strengthen the city defense after he led the troops to Shulgaz City, although it was forced to be interrupted because of the sudden arrival of the Western Qin army, but the order in the city was orderly, although the people were nervous because of the coming of the war, but they did not panic, all of which was the credit of Zilz.

Zierz has an elder brother named Ziade, Ziyad is the general of the Great Food Army who defeated Gao Xianzhi in the Battle of Hengluos, Zierz heard his brother talk about the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Army and the Western Qin Army, and knows a lot about Zhao Ziliang, so although he is not weaker than the Western Qin Army in terms of troops, he still decided to stick to the city and go out of the city to fight with the Western Qin Army, he is really not sure, he is even more jealous of Zhao Ziliang's ability to command the battle.

Zilz encouraged and comforted the soldiers of the Great Food Army defending the city while making his rounds: "Brothers, don't be afraid, now we are the defenders of the city, they are the siege party, they want to capture the Shulgaz City we are defending must pay several times more than us, and they have very few infantry, most of them are cavalry, cavalry has no role in the siege war, it is impossible to capture Shulgaz City with a small number of infantry!" ”

Many soldiers exchanged their heads and discussed, "Hearing the general say this, I feel a little more at ease in my heart."

"Yes, we can definitely kill a large number of Western Qin soldiers by using the strong city wall!"

As he walked, Childs asked the grain and grass officer beside him in a low voice, "How long can we eat our grain?" ”

The grain and grass officer replied: "If you collect all the grain in the city and distribute it, you can eat it for half a month, but if you don't ration it, you can only eat it for ten days at most." General, the Western Qin army came too quickly, we haven't had time to collect enough grain and grass and garrison ordnance and materials, these grains are still brought from Kerman, as far as I know, the food outside the city has almost been collected by the Western Qin army, even if they don't have logistical supply support, they can definitely survive longer than us! The people we sent to break through should have arrived at Kerman long ago, and if the caliph had sent reinforcements after receiving the letter asking for help, they should have arrived a long time ago, but until now we still haven't waited for reinforcements, there are two possibilities, one is that the reinforcements were blocked by the Western Qin army, and the other is that the caliph never thought of sending reinforcements at all, no matter what the situation is, we can only rely on ourselves! ”

Zilz listened to the words of the grain and grass officer and did not make a sound for a while, and when he returned to the city gate, he said to the generals under his command: "We have 30,000 people, enough troops to defend the city, but we have two defects: the first is that the grain and grass are not enough, and the second is that the materials to defend the city are insufficient, these two shortcomings are likely to become our fatal flaws, in order to solve the problem of insufficient food and materials to defend the city, I have been thinking about it for a few days, once the Western Qin army starts to attack the city, we will hold on for a few days, and wait until the Western Qin army relaxes its vigilance, and we send troops out of the city to attack the Western Qin army." , to see if we can defeat the Western Qin army and seize grain, grass and other supplies, if we can win, of course, it is the best, if we can't win, we can not only weaken the Western Qin's forces, but also relieve our food pressure by sacrificing some people! When the Western Qin army attacked the city, we should pay attention to collecting arrows, stone bullets, crossbow arrows, etc. shot by the Western Qin army to minimize the consumption of materials for defending the city, and alleviate the shortage of materials for defending the city through this method! ”

The generals all agreed: "Yes, General! ”

There is a cloud in the art of war: "Ten will surround it, five will attack it, and if it is doubled, it will be fought, and the enemy will be able to divide it, and if it is less, it can be escaped, and if it is not, it can be avoided??????"

However, in fact, many of Zhao Ziliang's behaviors when he commanded the troops to fight were contrary to the principles of the art of war, he believed that the art of war is dead, people are alive, and the marching and fighting should indeed abide by the principles of the art of war, but it should also act according to the actual situation. For example, this time, Zhao Ziliang can now use the army to count the servant army and count less than 70,000 people, and the combat effectiveness of the servant army is not on the same level as the Western Qin army, even if the number of troops is twice that of the big food army in the city, according to the principles of the art of war, it can only be used for field battles, not siege warfare, if you want to siege the city, you need at least five times the troops, the reason why he dares to besiege the city and siege the city is to rely on the strong combat effectiveness and high-speed mobility of the cavalry of the Western Qin army, he is not afraid of the big food army in the city to break through, he also wishes for the other party to break through, He is not worried about the other party's sneak attack out of the city, and he also wishes that the other party will go out of the city to fight with him.

Zhao Ziliang did not expect them to be able to break through the city by letting the servant army take on the main siege task, his hole card was a powerful siege machine with attack and destructive power, the wall of Shuergaz City was only two zhang high, and the city wall was also made of soil cultivation, although such a wall was a solid wall, but it was much weaker than a rammed earth wall with stone and masonry.

Although the servant army lacked training, but under the command of Zhao Ziliang, there were still squares lined up one by one to approach the city wall, in order to prevent the big cannibals from suddenly opening the city gate and sending cavalry out to charge the formation, Zhao Ziliang still arranged three cavalry battalion phalanxes in front of the servant army to sweep the servant military array, and each cavalry battalion had 1,000 cavalry.

Zierz stood on the city tower and saw it, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Why is there our Great Food Army in the Western Qin Army?" ”

The adjutant general said next to him: "General, there may have been someone who surrendered the Western Qin Army with the army!" ”

"Look, that's General Schneider's banner, isn't he in Kerman?"

Zilz really saw Schneider's banner erected in the middle of the infantry phalanx of the Western Qin army, and he immediately understood, "The caliph sent reinforcements, Schneider should be the main general or deputy general of the reinforcements, he should have been defeated by the Western Qin army halfway, and surrendered after being captured by the Western Qin army!" ”

The adjutant general said at this time: "General, it seems that we are in trouble, the Western Qin army must want to use Schneider's people to attack the city, you see that they are tied with red cloth strips on their arms, which is used to distinguish between friend and foe!" ”

Zilzi saw the big food servants in the Western Qin army array, his face was angry, and he said angrily: "This Western Qin king Zhao Zi is so ruthless and poisonous, he actually let our own people fight our own people, and want to capture Shuergaz City without spending a single soldier, I don't think he can let his conspiracy succeed!" ”

The generals echoed: "Yes, they must not be allowed to succeed in their plot!" ”

Someone asked, "General, I don't know what to do?" ”

When asked what to do, Zilz's face was a little gloomy, and he sighed: "To be honest, I don't have any good way, my brother Ziad has fought with Zhao Ziliang, the king of Western Qin, many times, although he has been defeated repeatedly, but I believe that if he is here, he will definitely have a way to deal with the Western Qin army!" Now, we can only take one step at a time! The Western Qin army was only afraid that it was about to start attacking, so it gave the order to go down and prepare to defend the city and fight! ”

"Yes, General!"

The front of the Western Qin army formation slowly advanced to a distance of one arrow from the city wall when it stopped under Zhao Ziliang's order, and now it is not known whether there is a catapult in the city such a long-range siege weapon, if there is such a weapon in the city, Zhao Ziliang will order the army to retreat to a safe place, but now he has not found it, so he is relieved to boldly let the army array advance to a distance of one stone, this is also to save physical energy for the besieging infantry, once the siege begins, if the army is too far away from the city wall, just running under the city wall will waste a lot of physical strength, In the absence of danger, Zhao Ziliang of course had to save physical strength for the infantry, there were three cavalry battalions in front of the army array, even if the Great Food Army in the city sent cavalry out to rush out, these three cavalry battalions were enough to block them.

Zhao Ziliang, who was riding on horseback, grasped the horsewhip and observed the deployment of the city wall, which was stacked with a large number of arrows, sasswood, rolling stones, boiling oil and boiling water that burned into thick smoke.

After a cup of tea, Zhao Ziliang shouted: "Chen Qing! ”

"Wechen is here!" Chen Qing immediately stepped forward and hugged his fists.

Zhao Ziliang pointed at the opposite Shuergaz City with a horsewhip and said: "This Zilz has deployed the city defense well, but he has piled a lot of materials to defend the city on the city wall at the beginning, and he still lacks some experience!" Go and pull out all our siege equipment, first use a trebuchet to aim at the city wall for half an hour, and use fire oil bombs to let the soldiers of the siege camp shoot accurately, and burn the city defense materials on the city wall! ”

Zilz fought with the Eastern Roman Empire, but at that time the Great Food Country was in an offensive state, and the Eastern Roman Empire was in a defensive state, and the combat experience that Zilz had was basically siege experience, lacking experience in defending cities, and the Eastern and Western combat methods were different, most of the Western fortifications were fortresses, castles and fortresses, and most of the Eastern fortifications were cities and passes. The shape of the fortification structure is different, so the way of defense and attack is also very different.

In addition to the rolling stones and boiling water, the other defensive materials piled up on the wall of Shulgaz are flammable materials, afraid of fire, but Zierz piled up all these things on the city wall, for Zhao Ziliang, who has rich combat experience, this is simply the behavior of an upstart, how can a large number of defensive equipment be piled on the city wall at the beginning, isn't this going to be used as a target by the attacker?

While the Western Qin army was busy pushing out a large number of catapults and setting up projection positions, Zhao Ziliang smiled at the generals around him: "The town of this big food country does not have a moat, which saves us a lot of work and trouble, if there is a moat, we will waste a lot of manpower, material resources and time to fill it!" ”

The generals chimed in: "Yes, it's more troublesome to have a moat!" ”

The first servant army commander Wahid said to Zhao Ziliang: "Your Majesty, not all cities and towns in the Great Food Country do not have moats, most places in the Great Food Country are short of water and drought, even if you dig a few battles deep in the ground, you can't dig out water, only dig down to a depth of more than ten zhang to have groundwater, and the karez here are dug to a depth of more than ten zhang." Since you can't dig water when you dig deep, it doesn't do much to dig a moat, so many towns don't dig moats, and only towns with plenty of water near the river have moats! ”