It's not that the ancients weren't smart, it's because the endless siege strategies of later generations were summed up from countless such siege battles, and they were forced by the lessons of blood and life.

In the entire Eastern Zhou and Western Zhou Dynasty, in fact, there were countless large and small wars, all of which were so-called dignified battles. In the perception of the ancients, only a dignified battle is the most reasonable. Therefore, in the Eastern and Western Zhou Dynasty, there is almost no historical record of siege warfare.

And the most recorded are the final withdrawal of troops in the months of siege, or the surrender of the enemy in the months of siege.

But Zhao Xing is here, for the great cause of the reunification of the motherland, attacking the city and pulling out the ground will be the norm, Zhao Xing needs to use the lives of the Linhu people to test the siege tactics he saw in the later forums, and accumulate experience for his future siege and uprooting.

Using other people's lives and accumulating his own experience, Zhao Xing has no sense of shame, because he is now Lin Hu's helper, and he has this power.

Looking at the enemy's arrow clusters with a table in front of him, Zhao Xing had to feel that the Qin people were at the forefront of the manufacturing industry. These clusters of arrows are exactly the same, which is what the standard represents. Their crossbows are the best in the world, because they have adopted a standardized system that makes their crossbows more precise and efficient, and they can swap parts with each other, so that their losses are minimized. At this point, Zhao Xing is ready to implement it in his own production workshop. And this time, Zhao Xing had secretly decided that he must capture a large number of craftsmen of the Qin State for his own use, after all, those people are all skilled workers on the assembly line that have been carefully trained, which is a huge wealth.

"There are thousands of ways to attack the enemy's city, so why should we have to use such a damaging method? So starting tomorrow, I will ask the carpenters in the barracks to build this siege vehicle according to my drawings. ”

Because of the advent of paper, the name drawing began to appear in this era. Of course, there is no need for future generations to argue about the era of the idiom of talking on paper.

This is a kind of arrow tower as high as the city wall, with four huge wheels below, which can allow soldiers to push him to someone else's city, and then the archers standing on it can rely on the same height as the enemy, or a higher angle, to shoot condescendingly, suppress the enemy's crossbow arrows, and provide cover for the siege soldiers.

"Then order the soldiers, carry the earth with their horses, pile up a ramp to charge in front of the wall of others, and then give full play to the advantage of our cavalry, and gallop up on horseback, so that it will be over?"

Such a simple method is simply unheard of for the veteran Yin Qi in front of him, the scheming Xu Jie, and Qin Mo. But when everyone imagines it, they immediately understand the key to this, and they all rejoice.

Qin Mo and Yin Qi admired the five-body throw: "I have long heard that when Mr. was in Handan, he came up with a unique method of building utensils for various manufacturing families, which is magical, it is really hard to beat, and when I see it today, it is really extraordinary." ”

Zhao Xing was already accustomed to the inexplicable golden finger of the traverser, so he shook his hand modestly without care: "It's just a small skill of carving insects, not enough to worry about." But in general, war is the one that stimulates people's imagination the most and promotes the development of science and technology. You don't understand technology, it doesn't matter. The important thing is that war can open people's minds and come up with a lot of things that they don't normally think of, and that's enough. You don't know what the brain hole is? Forget it, ignore the details. ”

Everyone is accustomed to Zhao Xing's imaginative way of thinking, and he really ignores many details. If everyone cares about Zhao Xing's details, it will make people crazy.

Zhao Xing truce for ten days, mobilized all the craftsmen, with the help of the soldiers, built hundreds of siege arrow towers, on the 11th day, these huge and novel siege equipment, appeared in front of Yicheng.

When it comes to real bow and arrow competitions, there is no one in the world who has been able to surpass the Hu people for the time being, and those condor shooters are the most terrible snipers of this era.

As soon as these 100 arrow towers appeared in front of the enemy's city, the archery competition between the two sides began. The Lin Hu people relied on skillful skills, while the Qin people relied on their sophisticated equipment, and the two sides were inseparable from each other. However, this is already a huge improvement for the Linhu people, because they are no longer passively beaten, but reciprocal and reciprocal.

And just when the Qin people were trying their best to deal with these arrow towers, countless war horses carrying dirt rushed to the city, piling bags of soil under the city. With the passage of time slowly, half a month after Zhao Xing arrived at the front line, under the walls of Yicheng, there were ten gentle slopes, which were enough for war horses to gallop on them.

The Qin generals defending the city also felt a huge crisis, and they continued to mobilize soldiers to defend the top of this slope, but this happened to fall into Zhao Xing's arms, more and more arrow towers were built, densely gathered on the opposite side of these slopes, and the Qin troops gathered on the city wall were shot day and night, so that the casualties of the Qin people defending the city continued to increase.

Panting and crawling to a distant arrow tower, looking at the opposite city, looking at the rows of houses in the city, Zhao Xing instructed a few people around him: "The old general sent an order, when the city is broken for a while, you must restrain the soldiers, don't kill them, and tell them that as long as they occupy this city, the seizures inside, according to your rules, will be distributed to them as spoils." And the spoils of war will also include the people here, and I will buy the people and craftsmen here at a fair price, and only those who live are worth it, and they don't count when they die. ”

Yin Qi and Qin Mo bowed: "Huh." The reason why everyone answers this way is because everyone already knows that this is no longer an ambition, but a natural result - Yicheng will definitely fall today.

The army of 100,000 people, who had already been ready to go, had already covered the vast land in front of Yicheng, black and oppressive, with no end in sight. And Yicheng, which has a small number of defenders, has become thin in nearly 10 days of fighting each other.

With the waving of Yin Qiling's flag, just below the arrow tower, hundreds of soldiers holding horns sounded the horn of attack together, responding to a wolf's howl of killing, ten Lin Hu cavalry, desperately along the ramp, rushed to the head of Yicheng.

A fierce battle for the head of the city began in the morning and officially began.

Ten horse roads, ten torrents, the hooves of the Hu people's war horses rushed to the walls of Yicheng in a blink of an eye, and unequal slashing and killing the Qin army.

In the face of the enemy cavalry rushing up like a tide, the Qin people showed their strength and firm confidence in serving the country, and the military song of "Fighting the old Qin, going to the national disaster together, not shedding blood, and vowing not to stop the war" was sung in the city, from early morning to evening, from the original thick and majestic, slowly becoming thin and sparse.

When the last Qin man fell on the head of the city, the song turned into a heavenly sound, and only lingered in the air.

The city of righteousness is broken. The Great Wall of Hetao was broken, and Lin Hu was actually torn open by Zhao Xing, and the fat chest of Hetao was exposed under the iron hooves of hundreds of thousands of Hu people.