Chapter 550: What is Local Advantage?
But it won't work if you don't fight back, if you don't fight back, of course the Qingyang soldiers will approach the city wall and pile up dirt bags and rush up the city wall.
For this reason, the bandit defenders were in chaos.
It turns out that this is called local advantage? The bandits felt that they had taught a good lesson in the art of war.
Some of the cowardly ones have already jumped from behind the wall and slipped away.
There were also soldiers from a distance who jumped from the wall with all their might, trying to outflank the Qingyang soldiers from both sides, but after these people jumped down, they had no cover, and they were even fatally shot by the Qingyang soldiers behind the arc-shaped earthen wall, and a large number of people died in more than ten seconds.
The all-steel armor-piercing arrow, at close range, was enough to shoot half a foot into an ordinary shield, which showed that its terrifying degree was definitely no less than a bullet.
Not to mention, it is easy to get injured after all, because the ground below is not flat, and the wall of two meters and five is not high, and it is not low to say low, and although the battlements are low, they are also three meters.
Even if you hang down the city wall, plus the difference between the mountains and rocks, you have to wear armor and jump about one meter and a half height with a weight, and don't want to stand firmly.
There may be a rope ladder in the sentry tower in the distance, but the sentry tower is more than a kilometer away on one side, and the other side is also 200 meters away, so it is not so fast to work, or even if it can transport troops here quickly, if there are only two or three rope ladders, the people are also extremely slow, because the soldiers who come down are fully armed, and their mobility is much weaker.
But Qingyang Bing's movements are relatively fast.
After being completely suppressed under the attack of 200 bandits and 1,500 people, the Qingyang soldiers began to pile up dirt bags under the city wall.
In this position, the difference between the sentry tower where Yingtang and them stayed was only three hundred meters.
It didn't take long for six hundred earthen bags to pile up under the city walls.
It is 3 meters high and requires about 10 layers of earth bags to reach the battlements.
If you pile up 10 meters wide, you need 100 bags, and then reduce them to 90, 80, and then 10.
This would require 570 earthen bags.
For this reason, while the heavy armor was still shooting, the Qingyang soldiers only mobilized 600 people to take turns to pile up dirt bags, and easily piled up a ten-meter-wide dirt slope.
This dirt slope is big enough for anyone to climb the walls.
Moreover, when a hundred heavily armored samurai shot and suppressed the twenty or so bandits remaining on the city wall, and the bandit soldiers could not raise their heads, no one was injured during the mound.
Then three large bamboo planks were laid on the soil slope formed by the soil bags.
The bamboo board, after being split in half by bamboo, is made of green leather surfaces tied to each other, that is, it is composed of two layers of bamboo pieces, and the outside of the second layer is the inside of the bamboo and the bamboo joints, and the friction is excellent.
Once placed on the dirt bag, it is like nailing to it, and the genben will not slip off.
The guards on both sides of the city wall who wanted to come to the rescue couldn't come at all, and at the two ends of this section of the city wall, there were 300 Qingyang light warriors at each end with 100 heavy armor warriors shooting, and the firepower was very powerful.
After completely suppressing the bandits, those heavy armored soldiers even climbed on the dirt bags to shoot, and the height plus the distance was almost at the same level as the opponent, and the battlements were scattered, and the little advantage gained by relying on the Great Wall almost turned to 0.
And the Qingyang soldiers have outrageous crossbow arrows, which are all provided by Zhao Li to the Black Suppression Hall, but the crossbow arrows of the bandit soldiers are not many.
Why?
Because any army that has to stay on the wall for a few days can't afford to bring too many crossbows and arrows for the sake of supplies, stay on the wall for a few days, and sleep at night.
They need water, food, sleeping bags.
Otherwise, logistics troops will be needed to transport the supplies to the edge of the Great Wall, but with the help of the other side of the city wall to facilitate the distribution and delivery, it will take a lot of time, or it will make the Wei people think that these guys are going to be unfavorable to the Wei State.
If the Wei people sent troops to attack, it is no wonder.
Or, just put enough supplies on the wall as early as possible.
But the Great Wall is not in the defense circle of the big city, and there are often no sentinels in peacetime, let alone supplies.
For this, when trying to use it in ambushes, these bandits, of course, were not well supplied.
After the earthen slope to attack the city wall was erected, Yingtang and Li Si on the sentry tower in the distance saw those warriors who were crawling low to support this section of the city wall, and suddenly their faces were like ghosts, and they turned around and fled desperately.
Even the twenty or so surviving defenders near the dirt slope shouted and jumped behind the city walls.
Because there were five hundred Qingyang cavalry murderous appeared in front of the woods.
And at this moment, is it difficult for cavalry to go up the city wall?
It's not difficult at all!
However, just when the bandits were panicking, the first to go up to the city wall was not a knight, but a hundred heavily armored infantry.
These heavy infantry took the large shield carried by the light infantry behind them, and the two-section spliced steel pipe Changge, and strode towards the city wall.
Thirty meters, very close, running slowly, it only takes about ten seconds to go up the city wall.
After the heavy infantry went up, they divided into two teams, each with fifty men each, and went to the two ends of the city wall.
Formation, five people per row, divided into ten rows. The front row is topped with a shield, and the back nine rows are crowned with large shields.
Then six hundred light infantry followed, and they carried sacks, and when they reached the head of the city, they threw them into the ground below the wall, and on the other side of the wall they made a slope of earth.
Each light infantry who had finished throwing the bags would be divided into two teams to keep up with the hoplites, who would either help the samurai in front of them change their crossbows, shoot from behind, or help the samurai in front of them push and charge to support the front.
In order.
The fleeing defenders did not know that it was not the cavalry that rushed behind them.
Within a hundred meters, all the bandits were turning around and running towards the distant city wall, leading the bandits farther away to follow.
The bandits in the distance, then to this side, after the collision on both sides, the ancient battlements of the Great Wall have collapsed a lot, plus many places due to disrepair, the battlements have collapsed early, there are more than 100 warriors who fell off the city wall, these people are not hanging the wall to jump down, they basically lose their ability to fight when they fall, and even fall to death.
In addition, there are also people who have been trampled to death, such as the stampede that occurred in those busy areas.
It's just that, after all, there were more soldiers coming from afar, and under the collision between the two, the remaining nearly 100 or so defenders who fled into the distance were merciless, or fell from the city due to the collision, or turned forward and became a member of the vanguard army, and even were killed directly after disrespecting the order to turn around.
For example, the section near the watchtower where Yingtang is located, is like this, Li Si was furious, and he had already issued a message of 'Kill those who dare to retreat!' '.
You must know that the sentry tower is only three hundred meters away from the dirt slope piled up by the Qingyang soldiers, and Yingtang and Li Si can't help but be frightened.
They knew that the Qingyang soldiers were undertrained, but compared to it, this temporarily integrated rabble was even more undertrained.