Chapter 859: King, How Can You Fight This?
Since the two countries announced the split, the 20,000 troops of the Qi army's vanguard Zhai Huang immediately went out of the pass with lightning speed under the order of Lu Di, and soon successfully took the four Yi cities of Zhao State, and then continued to advance westward along the foothills of Taiyue Mountain to Yangyi, on the way, he unexpectedly fell into the plan set up by the Zhao army Gongzhong Company, and after a battle with the Zhao army, Zhai Huang suffered heavy losses and had to ask for help from the army.
Zhao Jun won this great victory, the whole country was boiling, and many people began to believe in the proverb: "White deer out, big Zhao Xing".
Lu Di was quite surprised to learn the news, Zhai Huang is the first prime minister of Xingwei, although Gongzhonglian is also a famous prime minister of Xingzhao, but after all, Gongzhonglian is only a teenager now, and compared with Zhai Huang, who has rich combat experience, he has no advantage at all. So to a certain extent, Lu Di didn't believe that Zhai Huang couldn't beat this Gongzhong Lian.
Lu Di thought about it again, it must have been Zhai Huang's reckless pursuit of merit and his contempt for the young Gongzhong Company, which led to the defeat.
So the old Cheng was ordered to be a serious Bu Shang to go to the rescue for the five battalions of the general of Zhengxi, with a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses, and he himself took the last more than 200,000 soldiers and horses to attack Yuci.
The army of Lu Di is the main army, and it carries more siege equipment, unlike Zhai Huang's army, which is almost all sleigh army, running in the snow, light and fast, so the speed of the more than 200,000 troops marching in the winter of Layue is very slow.
It wasn't until the arrival of spring that the snow showed signs of melting, and the army came to Yuci, and after coming to Yuci, Lu Di was shocked by the scene in front of him, of course, it was not only him, but also his army of more than 200,000 people.
The Yuci City in front of you is no longer a city, but a majestic ice city!
"King, how do you attack this?" Xiong Yiyi was dumbfounded.
It is also that the ice city cannot be compared with the ordinary city, this kind of city is too slippery, the army can't climb the city at all, and the most hateful thing is the city gate, the city gate has obviously been blocked by the other party, and it can't be opened with a car that crashes the door.
Lu Di was also helpless, just like Ma Chao, the Shenwei Heavenly General in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, faced Cao Cao's ice city, he could only grit his teeth and be helpless.
Lu Di looked around at the generals and confidants, hoping that they could make suggestions.
Zhong Wenwu shook his head, and couldn't think of a good idea for a while, so Lu Di had no choice but to let the army temporarily camp outside the city to make long-term plans.
Duanmu Ci came up with an idea but it was too bad, as a gentleman, he disdained to do it, and he didn't want Lu Di to do it, so he pretended not to know.
Just when Lu Di didn't know how to take Yuci, Lu Heng, Sun Chi, Bai Longlegs, and Bu Shang respectively came with news.
LĂź Heng had already captured the northern frontier of Zhao State, and was confronting the Donghu and Linhu people, preventing the other party from going south to rescue Zhao.
Bu Shang has relieved the siege of Yangyi, rescued Zhai Huang, and Bu Shang set up a plan for grain and grass, successfully exterminated the Zhao army that came to attack and burn grain and grass, and captured the opponent's main general, Fanwu alive. Fanwu was persuaded by the merchants and surrendered to the Qi army.
Sun Chi had already taken Pingzhou, and all the two halves of the Fen River Valley, the richest part of the Zhao State, and all the parts in the south were taken by the Qi army.
The northern part was fully taken over by the 50,000 army of Bai Long-legged, and the richest land in Zhao State has become the territory of Qi people.
Now Sun Chi's 30,000 army and Bai Chang's 50,000 army are heading north, intending to join forces with the Bu Shang Department to encircle and attack the second largest city of Zhao State.
Looking at the triumphant songs of his subordinates all the way, Lu Di was both happy and a little anxious, although these people are courtiers, but to some extent, they are the same as themselves, they are the main generals of the army, everyone can make such a great feat, what about themselves? After the comparison, there will be a gap, which makes people feel that they are inferior to these courtiers to some extent, which Lu Di can't accept. From this point of view, Lu Di is inevitably selfish.
Lu Di asked the soldiers to go out of the city camp every day to call for battle, but the other party hung up a war exemption card, which made Lu Di very annoyed. But annoyance didn't help.
On this day, Dongmen Wuze offered a plan: "King, since Yuci can't be attacked, why not attack Jinyang with a partial division and take the capital of Zhao Renguo, so that once Zhao Guoguo is forced, no matter how strong Yuci's ice city is, it will not help."
Lu Di was moved and hesitant about this suggestion, he only had an army of 230,000 in his hands, and if he sent fewer people, Jinyang couldn't take it, and if he sent too much, the army left in Yuci was in danger of being swallowed up by the Zhao army.
Besides, Yuci is the gateway to Jinyang, if Yuci is not taken, and the whole army attacks Jinyang, it is inevitable that there will be the possibility of being attacked from front to back, which is not done by a wise man like him.
"No matter, use a stone-throwing cart for Lone and throw snowballs into the city"
Lu Diqian's donkey skills are poor, and he can only come up with this deflated idea.
It's not that he doesn't want to throw stones, but now he is three feet of ice and three inches of snow, and it is too troublesome and laborious to carry stones from the mountains in the distance, so he can only use local materials and use snowballs to attack the city and extinguish the fire.
After Lu Di's royal order was issued, Duanmu Ci watched tens of thousands of stone-throwing carts being pushed out, and he was frightened, and said in his heart, Did his king think of that plan? If it was really that plan, the people in this Yuci City would really be finished! No, if it's really that strategy, even if you fight hard, you have to advise the king and cancel the siege plan.
Duanmu Ci thought about it, looking at it, his brows became more and more wrinkled.
Tens of thousands of stone-throwing trucks were pushed out and bombarded Yuci City, the visual scene was invincible!
Because the snowballs are too light, they affect the throwing distance, so most of the snowballs are a mixture of ice and snow, and the lethality of that guy falling in Yuci City is actually not weaker than that of a boulder.
In the face of the fierce bombardment of the Qi army, the Zhao army still hung up the battle card and closed the city.
Lu Di was angry and screamed, completely losing the self-cultivation of an old man who had gone through countless storms.
The snowball had already smashed into Yuci City, which was almost calf deep, but the other party still did not go out of the city to fight back, as if he was laughing at Lu Di's incompetence in combat methods.
The breath exhaled by the cold wind and frozen people from the northwest can freeze immediately, Lu Di roasted the fire in his royal tent, thinking about things, and recently he received war reports from all over the country: the capital of the second largest city of Zhao is broken, and his own three armies are rushing in the direction of Yuci, which is a happy thing; The headache is that Lin Hu and Donghu seem to have formed an alliance and stepped up the attack on Lu Heng's troops in northern Xinjiang, and Lu Heng is now in a tight army.
Now as long as he solves the matter of Yuci, he can send reinforcements to support Lu Heng, but the key is that he is facing the dilemma of Yuci and cannot send reinforcements at all.
Lu Di was a little annoyed at this time, annoyed that Sun Wu was making trouble with him, and he had to go into seclusion after the battle of Guan Cai, otherwise with Sun Wu's ability, he would have already helped him break the city.
It's useless to complain right now, it's most true to find a way.
"It's so cold!" Xiong Yiyi's grumbling voice came from outside the tent.