Chapter 60 Psychological Tactics

"General, Sun Gao is in Poyang City, not in Shuizhai." In the evening, after stationing the camp 20 miles east of Poyang City, the sent scouts came back to report.

"In this case, we should break Poyang City as soon as possible. If Sun Hao can be captured alive, the big deal will be settled!" Zhao Feng said to Pang Tong. Pang Tong nodded and thought for a moment. Pang Tong suddenly smiled: "General, if everything goes well, you may not be able to take Jiangdong before the New Year."

"Why did Shi Yuan say this?" Zhao Feng felt that Pang Tong was a little overwhelmed by Shengli again, for fear that he would make the old problem of underestimity of the enemy again.

As if to guess what Zhao Feng was worried about, Pang Tong smiled and said, "According to what I have seen and heard in Xindu County, the Sun family has occupied Jiangdong again, and the people's hearts have not been attached. Among its garrison, many of the sergeants we recruited in the past were reorganized. Such an army is self-righteous. Once a war begins, it is easy for the army to be unstable. In the battle to defend the city, I am most afraid of people's instability. After we take Poyang, Wu Jun and the guard army must be afraid. If we can take it down, we may not be able to fight quickly.

"It's good to be fast, but it's better to be safer." Zhao Feng has always been more inclined to take a stable route. Seeing that Pang Tong felt too good, he quickly said something. Pang Tong nodded repeatedly and agreed not to mention it. At present, Zhao Feng ordered the army to rest for a night, and then attacked the city again.

While Zhao Feng's army was sleeping soundly, Sun Gao in Poyang City couldn't sleep all night. Alas!" After a long sigh, Sun Gao put on a coat and walked out of his room to breathe in the yard. Looking at the half-circular moon in the sky, Sun Zhuo was very at a loss as to whether he could see the moon tomorrow.

Zhao Feng's army came, without any cover-up, and came to Poyang City with great fanfare. It was clear that they were bullying you for your lack of troops. Sun Gao also knows his own affairs. There are only thousands of defenders under his command, half of which are county soldiers who have just been recruited. They have been trained for less than three months. Relying on them to resist Zhao Feng's tens of thousands of soldiers, Sun Gao can figure out with his toes, and the result will be.

In fact, at this point, Sun Zhuo had a vague premonition in his heart. He felt that Sun's betrayal this time was probably not pleasing. However, now it is also a bow without turning back. From the moment I hijacked Zhang Zhao, it means that I can't stay out of the matter like Sun Fu. I can only connect the fate of the whole Sun family with my own fate.

"Husband, it's very cold. Be careful not to freeze!" A cloak was draped on the back of Sun Zhuo, who was in a trance. Sun Zhuo turned around and saw that it was his newlywed wife Xu. Looking at his beautiful wife in front of him, Sun Jiao's irritable mood also eased slightly. The couple are very in love after marriage. Unfortunately, now that they are in great trouble, I'm afraid they can't be a couple for a year.

No matter how melancholy Sun Gao is, this night will eventually pass. The next morning, Zhao Feng's army was ready to attack the city carelessly outside the city. Nearly 200 of the latest catapults are placed 400 steps away from the Poyang City Wall. However, strangely, the soldiers in charge of the throwing machine did not fill the stone bomb, but shoveled the soil on the spot and stuffed it.

"Your Excellency, what are they doing?" A captain beside Sun Hao asked in surprise. The catapult is no longer a secret that no one knows. Everyone knows that Liu Bei has a catapult and Cao Wei has a Thunderbolt. However, I have never seen anyone put dirt in the catapult to throw it. After all, even if the soil is thrown on the head of the city, it will make the enemy ashamed at best, and it is not easy to break the head.

"I don't know, but Zhao Botao is good at using soldiers. We still need to be careful." Sun Hao also has no point, so he has to take one step at a time. I don't know if it's lucky or unlucky, Zhao Feng didn't let him wait too long. Two hundred catapults threw out the rammed earth. The target was not the garrison at the head of the city, but at the moat under the city.

The sound of "pop" sounded continuously, and 200 pieces of soil were thrown into the river, and then the next round began. However, in two or three rounds, Sun Gao understood what Zhao Feng wanted to do: "Does he want a thre to fill the moat?" Sun Hao was really angry and laughed back. Although the speed of doing so will be slower, the defenders can't interfere with their behavior, so unless something happens to them, the siege troops will not cause any casualties during the whole process of filling the river.

"General, you are amazing!" Pang Tong was also surprised to see Zhao Feng using such means. I'm ashamed. It's better to kill fewer people in the war. Zhao Feng said with a smile. Zhao Feng really can't accept that tens of thousands of people will die if they fill a moat.

"But I think the general should not just reduce casualties, right?" Pang Tong is a little meaningful.

"I knew I couldn't hide it from you. That's right. I really have other intentions." Zhao Feng had no need to deny it, and said with a smile.

"What's the general's intention?" Gao Lan beside him couldn't help but wonder when he heard this. Zhao Feng pointed to the defenses at a loss on the head of the city and said to Gao Lan, "General Gao, you see, most of these defenders are new recruits. I filled the river with so much fanfare, but they had no way to fight back at all. They could only watch us fill the river. In this way, it will be a great blow to their morale. Once the morale of these recruits is not enough, their combat effectiveness will not be feared!"

Zhao Feng's play is actually a psychological war. Through the steady and lasting blow of the thrower, the defenders are frightened, thus making the subsequent siege more smooth. At least for now, the effect is good.

"That's true!" Huang Zhong also nodded and agreed when he heard the words. Everyone looked up at the defenders on the head of the city, and many people began to whisper and scratched. Although some young officers are trying their best to restrain their subordinates, the effect is not very good, and the confusion on many people's faces is obvious.

Just fill the river so leisurely. In the afternoon, the moat was finally filled with a large section. During this period, except for the sergeants who threw stones and the scouts scattered around in case of emergency, the rest of the people were very leisurely. They sat on the ground in twos and threes and talked, and some people even urinated on the defenders at the head of the city. The disdain can be seen.

"Your Excellency, these guys are really arrogant. They are willing to lead all the way out of the city and destroy all the throwers!" A captain was indignant and finally couldn't help asking Sun Gao to fight.

"Captain Li, don't act rashly. Zhao Botao has been prepared for a long time. If he sent troops, he will be ambushed!" Although Sun Gao was also anxious, he still tried his best to restrain him.

"But let them fill the river so easily, the morale of the defenders is really a problem! General, you see that the enemy is extremely slack now. The humble duty is willing to lead hundreds of dead men out of the city and destroy all the trebumies to defeat the sharpness!" Captain Li was obviously unwilling to watch the other party fill the river and continue to ask for his orders.

"The other party seems to be loose and tight now. Once we rashly leave the city to meet the enemy, we will be immediately surrounded and annihilated. Captain Li, we'd better stick to it!" Sun Gao said in a low voice. Captain Li knew that he had made up his mind and sighed and stopped talking.

"General, do you want to fill the river with the wall over there?" Seeing that this wall was almost filled, Gao Lan seemed to be still not satisfied, so he took the initiative to ask.

"No need, pass the order down and prepare to attack the city!" Zhao Feng suddenly said. Gao Lan was a little surprised when he heard the words, but when he turned his head and looked at the garrison at the head of the city, he was indeed in low morale and had no intention to fight. At present, Gao Lan sent 2,000 elite soldiers and rushed directly to the city with the ladder. The garrison did not expect that the opponent suddenly did not play to fill the river and began to attack the city with real knives and guns. At this time, he was in a hurry and quickly threw down the rolling wood stone and arrow hot oil. However, the strength and accuracy of the arrows shot in a hurry are greatly reduced; the boiling hot oil is now cold. How useful can rolling wood and stone alone be under the premise of long-range fire suppression of the Xuzhou army?

As Zhao Feng expected, this garrison is not even strong outside or middle-aged now. Under the premise that people's hearts are broken and morale has plummeted, so that their combat effectiveness, which was not very helpful, now they have to be discounted again. As a result, Gaolan's attackers and horses only paid hundreds of casualties, and the remaining thousands of people climbed to the top of the city and fought fiercely with the defenders. Then, Gong Du and Liu Pi also led more people to kill the city, and the pressure on the defenders was even greater.

"Dang!" With a sound, Sun Gaoge opened a knife from Liu Pi's chest, but Gao Lan's sweeping leg could not dodge after all. He was kicked to the ground and just remembered that he had been pressed by several people.

"The boy's kung fu is good, better than that Ma Zhong!" Gao Lan nodded. Although Sun Zhuo was captured, he was also unable to laugh or cry when he heard that Gao Lan actually compared his martial arts skills with Ma Zhong's two knives.

The gate opened with a creak, and Zhao Feng immediately led a large army into Poyang City. Liu Bei's army was very strict. In addition, Poyang was also under his previous rule, so there were not many unpleasant things after entering the city. On the contrary, the people saw the Xuzhou army break the city, and some people spontaneously came to work for the army. The heart is like this, Sun Zhongmou will be defeated this time!" Zhao Feng sighed.

"General, that Sun Hao has been captured, and his family has been controlled. What are you going to do?" Gao Lan asked at this time. Before the war, Zhao Feng once told them that it was best to capture Sun Gao alive. Although Gao Lan didn't understand why, he still did what he said.

"Prepare a quiet room for me. I have something to ask this boy." Zhao Feng ordered when he heard the words. Gao Lan nodded and said, "There is no other quiet room. Can it be in Sun Jia's own home?"

"Okay!" Zhao Feng nodded and agreed. Because he did not disturb the residents, Zhao Feng naturally would not requisition the people's house to interrogate Sun Gao, and Suo's surname was also done in his home.

At present, Zhao Feng brought Niu Jin and hundreds of guards to Sun Zhuo's house. Sun Gao's family had been restricted in the room and were not allowed to go out without permission. Zhao Feng sat down in Sun Gao's study. Soon, Sun Gao, who was tied up, was taken to him.

Looking at Sun Gao, who was dying in front of him, Zhao Feng said slowly, "Sun Gao, I have something to ask you, if you can answer it. Even if the Lord wants to kill you, I will give you a good time. If you can't answer, then I won't be polite."

(to be continued)