Four Hundred and Three: The Second Jiazhou Offensive and Defensive Battle (2)

"It's coming!" Zhou Yizhi stood on the stone wall and looked at the Han family's army that was slowly pressing over, although Jiazhou was very peaceful in the past two days, but Zhou Yizhi's heart was not very stable, the Han family must have a conspiracy if they didn't attack, and after the arrival of the reinforcements, the Han family began to move, but what was so special about the reinforcements?

"What is it from the other side?" Xiao Yuan, who was standing next to him, asked, "I thought it would be cavalry or infantry pressing in, but it doesn't seem to be." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Dozens of huge wooden carts came from the opposite side, like siege engines, but they weren't, because they were loaded with an iron shield instead of a mallet in front, and these wooden carts were pressing towards the stone wall of Jiazhou, not fast, but orderly.

Zhou Yizhi had a hunch that this was definitely not a good thing, and then said to the herald next to him, "Let the bronze cannon shoot at these things, and you must not let this thing get close to the stone wall!"

After a while after the order was given, the sound of artillery on the castle rang out, and they fell around the wooden cart of the Han family, but it did not have much impact on the wooden cart, and the wooden cart began to move forward after the cannon.

"Isn't the bronze cannon effective against these things?" Xiao Yuan said, "Is this thing specifically for anti-artillery?"

“…… It is possible that during the first Jiazhou offensive and defensive battle, the Han family suffered the loss of the ballista on the castle, so this time when attacking Jiazhou, he must have thought of this, so he built this heavy iron shield to resist the artillery. ”

"Isn't our artillery useless?"

"Not necessarily, it seems that this iron shield was designed to protect against weapons such as ballistas or catapults, and the other party probably didn't expect that we would replace them with artillery, and this thing must be the first time to test, so that artillery can concentrate on attacking these iron shields, and it will definitely be destroyed. Zhou Yizhi then conveyed his order.

Although the bronze artillery on the castle was powerful, the interval was also large, and when the cannon fire was fired again, the Han family's wooden cart advanced a certain distance.

"Three times...... It takes three shots to break an iron shield. Zhou Yizhi found that this thing was difficult to knock out, and the accuracy of the bulky bronze cannon was also very poor, could it be that he hit the iron shield three times in a row.

"Jiazhou She, let me ask how the situation is?" Gongye Qingliu asked as he walked up the stone wall.

"It's not good, you immediately go to the Eight Bridges to rebuild the old stone wall in case the outer stone wall is broken. Zhou Yizhi said.

"No!?This is the first time the other party attacks!"

"I'm not an alarmist!

The so-called old stone wall is the outer stone wall before the expansion of Jiazhou, although the stone wall was demolished after the expansion, but the foundation is still there, in order to be able to immediately build a defensive stone wall.

"I see. Gongye Qingliu immediately walked down the stone wall and went to the Jiazhou Department to gather people.

After entering the range of the stonewall's bow and arrows, the wooden cart did not continue to move forward, but threw out many canisters one after another, and after the canisters smashed to the ground and shattered, a puff of smoke filled the area in front of the stonewall.

"Smoke bombs!?" The white smoke directly obscured all the artillery and bows on the stone wall, making these defenses directly useless.

"The situation is not good! The wind is coming towards Jiazhou!" Xiao Yuan reminded.

"The bow and arrow retreat, the pikemen will step forward directly, and if anyone dares to climb the stone wall and stab it directly!"

"Yes!" said the archers, who had already retreated, and the pikemen stepped forward to prepare.

There are two kinds of spears in the Zhou family: one is the traditional diamond-shaped spear head, which can directly pierce ordinary armor, and the other is modified by Ge, which is specially made for the siege ladder that can be pushed to the enemy's stone wall, and one out of ten people has this kind of spear.

Just after the stone wall was ready, but there was a strange smoke floating from the opposite side, not only the smell was very choking, but also directly made people's eyes unable to open, and some of the serious ones were in tears.

"I see, do you smoke it...... Xiao Yuan covered his nose and said, "Directly make us lose our combat power." ”

"I won't lose this method for the second time!" The reason why Zhou Yizhi didn't defend Yecheng was because the other party was burning firewood and grass in front of the city gate, and attacked while Yecheng's garrison was choking on smoke, so that Yecheng fell.

As he spoke, a group of people brought buckets of water, then soaked the prepared white towel in water, covered their mouths and noses and tied them to their faces, and then smeared water with their hands and wiped them next to their eyes, in turn to prevent the invasion of fireworks.

As soon as the stone wall was prepared, the sound of the Han family's charge had already been heard, and the Han family's attack began.

"Steady!" Even standing on the stone wall, Zhou Yizhi could feel that the ground was trembling, it was really menacing.

The sound grew closer and closer, and finally reached the foot of the stone wall, and then one by one the siege ladders and flying hooks hung on the stone wall.

"Baking branding!" Zhou Yiyi ordered, a row of soldiers behind the pikemen held the baking one by one, ignited it and threw it under the stone wall, Jiazhou's baking also has a special waterproof design, one side of the baking will be extinguished after being thrown into the moat and will not work.

The roasting after the explosion caused a burst of screams and falling water, and the soldiers of the Han family who rushed up were also picked down by the sharp-eyed pikemen under the wall.

"General, our side has suffered heavy losses. "The battle situation came to Jiang Hongyuan from the front.

"Withdraw the troops, the smoke is about to clear, and before that you must evacuate, otherwise you will become a target for bows and arrows and artillery. Jiang Hongyuan didn't think about it, but chose to withdraw the army.

"In that case, we didn't get any benefit today. Han Yongran said.

"Don't worry, we'll come back in the evening. Jiang Hongyuan smiled.

Seeing the retreat of the Han army, Zhou Yizhi breathed a sigh of relief, at least for the time being, Jiazhou is safe.

"Jiazhou has been saved. ”

"But we can't take it lightly, let Gongye step up the construction of the old stone wall, we can't just rely on the outer stone wall to defend the Han family's army, Jiazhou will definitely fall into the flames of war!"

After returning to the barracks, Jiang Hongyuan immediately let the soldiers sleep and rest, Han Xiaotian and Han Yongran knew that Jiang Hongyuan was going to be active at night, and asked how to do it.

"No attack tonight. Jiang Hongyuan gave a reply, but this made Han Xiaotian and the two look at each other.

"Why don't you attack, why step up to let the soldiers rest, isn't this an extra move?" Han Xiaotian was puzzled, "Could it be that Jiazhou will come to attack at night?"

"How could they attack at night?" Jiang Hongyuan said, "Now Jiazhou has no strength to fight back, they can only rely on Jiazhou's fortifications to increase their advantage, so they will not take the initiative to attack." ”

"Then why ......"

"Fiction is real, reality is fiction. Jiang Hongyuan said.

Han Xiaotian and Han Yongran were puzzled by what this passage was going to do.

At night, several teams of Han Jiajun quietly approached Jiazhou, and stopped in several hidden places to prepare, in fact, Jiazhou is not suitable for night attacks, and the lights of thousands of homes make the stone wall of Jiazhou brightly lit, and once they get too close, they will be discovered by the patrol on the stone wall.

"See, Jiazhou at night is the most beautiful. Jiang Hongyuan pointed to the lights of Jiazhou not far away and said.

"Yes, the faintly highest light in the center is the symbol of Jiazhou-Fengyin Tower, right? I heard that Jiazhou is the most beautiful when you look south from Fengyin Tower on a breezy night, and I really want to take a look. Han Yongran said.

"Is the wind chimes accompanied by lights?" asked Han Xiaotian.

"Yes, I have to admire Zhou Yanbo's whimsy. ”

"But there won't be wind chimes tonight, let's start sending the message!" Jiang Hongyuan said.

At night, Jiang Hongyuan's strategy was not to attack Jiazhou, but to attack the defenders of Jiazhou, he was organized into several squads, each squad was equipped with war drums scattered around Jiazhou, and then when waiting for the signal, he beat the war drums vigorously and shook the weapons and shouted. The first impression of the metal sound and shouts to Jiazhou is that the enemy is coming, so as to arouse the vigilance of the defenders of Jiazhou, and when they are panicked and ready to fight, they immediately cut off the sound, so that the purpose of repeating it all night is to let the people guarding Jiazhou keep their nerves tense and not get a good rest, so that they will not have the energy to protect Jiazhou the next day.

"Can you capture Jiazhou tomorrow?" asked Han Xiaotian.

"It doesn't matter if you can capture Jiazhou tomorrow, as long as you don't capture Jiazhou for a day, you can do it at night, attack the city wall during the day, and harass the sound at night, or harass the sound during the day, and attack the city wall at night. ”

"It's 'what is real, what is real.' Han Yongran said.

"Our purpose is twofold: one is to crush the spirit of the people guarding Jiazhou, and the other is to consume the other party's stock of artillery shells and feather arrows.

This trick is very similar to Zhou Yanbo's style. ”

"I'm a person with him!" Jiang Hongyuan raised the corners of his mouth.

I have to say that the effect of Jiang Hongyuan's method is very obvious, Jiazhou's defensive counterattack is obviously getting weaker and weaker day by day, and one day because of the improper operation of a castle bronze cannon, the entire castle has become a ruin, and the defense of the Jiazhou outer road wall has been crumbling.

"If it goes on like this, it's over!" Zhou Yizhi knew that he couldn't distinguish the reality of the other party when he was shrinking in Jiazhou, and when he first judged that it was false, the city sent light cavalry to deal with the group of bluffers, but later, both virtual and real, people came to attack the city and harass, making it difficult to distinguish.

"Anyway, we must hold it!" Xiao Yuan's body was still able to eat, "For the sake of the people in Jiazhou!"

"You're not for the people in Jiazhou, you're for Miss Zhou Yansu, right?"

"You are not the same, you and me, as well as Gongye Qingliu, but they are all raccoon dogs, you are for the immortal lord, he is for eight hundred Xia Qing. ”

After speaking, the two of them looked at each other and laughed, which could more or less ease the tense atmosphere.

……

"Uh......h Ahem!" Inside the Zhou family's mansion, Zhou Yanbo suddenly coughed, and then he was woken up.

Zhou Yansu planned to deliver the decoction again, but found that there was a sound in Zhou Yanbo's room, realized something, pushed the door open, and only saw Zhou Yanbo sitting on the bed.

"Dude!?"

"Is it Yan'er?" Zhou Yanbo said weakly, "It seems that I have slept for a long time." ”