Chapter 19 Section 2 The new army besieged the city and the Han army defended against the enemy

Wang Xun and Wang Yi led the new army to besiege Kunyang City, but they were firmly resisted by the Han army from the very beginning.Yan You, a general of the new army, had suffered a lot in fighting with the Han army. He suggested to Wang Xun and Wang Yi, "Kunyang City is small and strong, and it is not easy to take it down at once. At present, Liu Xuan is besieging Wancheng, and there is the main force." On the battlefield, if we dispatch the main force to rescue Wancheng, Liu Xuan will definitely flee. The Han army in Wancheng is defeated by us, and Kunyang can be destroyed without attack.” Disregarding the Han army in Kunyang City, Wang Yi said to Yan You: "I used to surround Zhai Yi who rebelled against the imperial court. I only defeated him, but failed to capture him alive. He escaped and committed suicide. Others often blame me. Today, we command an army of one million, if we can’t even capture a small Kunyang city, what is the prestige?” He also crazily shouted: “I must wash Kunyang with blood. , marching on the bloodstains, singing and dancing to celebrate the victory, how happy it would be!"

Wang Yi and Wang Xun rejected Yan You's suggestion, and decided to break through Kunyang first, and then enter Wancheng.The total strength of the new army was 420,000, and it surrounded a small city of Kunyang with dozens of floors.They set up hundreds of camps outside Kunyang City, and the flags and flags covered the fields, the dust covered the sky, and the sound of beating drums and shouting was heard dozens of miles away.While Wang Xun and Wang Yi ordered the soldiers to dig tunnels to attack the city, they rammed the city gate violently with their carts.The Han army resisted tenaciously, but the new army failed to break through the city.Wang Yi also ordered the soldiers to roll out a building car more than ten feet high and approach the city wall.The soldiers on the building car were condescending, shooting arrows and stones at the city.Arrows and stones from the new army rained down on the city.People in the city were not allowed to go out for a walk, and when ordinary people wanted to draw water from the well, they had to carry a door panel to block the arrow stone.Wang Xun and Wang Yi were even more complacent, thinking that breaking Kunyang would be a matter of time, and they just waited for the news of breaking the city, and didn't pay attention to other things.