Chapter 921: Sacrifice Catapult
As a real famous general, his thinking on the battlefield is always consistent, and he is not affected by emotions at all.
In the face of the generals' requests for battle, Yang Hu's face sank, and he shouted: "On the battlefield, the most jealous and impetuous, the enemy will scold the battle there, you will be humiliated one by one, and you want to fight, how can you achieve great things with such strength?" Pass the order, and those who dare to speak out to fight will be killed! ”
Don't look at Yanghu's usual face and kindness, but he starts his temper, not angry but mighty, the generals are silent, don't dare to speak, obey orders, and no one dares to raise the matter of war.
Han Sheng shouted and scolded under the city for a long time, and no one paid attention to him, only thinking that the Bingzhou army in the city was cowardly and did not dare to fight, and became more and more wanton and rampant.
Originally, he was far away from the city, trying to keep it away from a stone's throw away, beware of the cold arrow sneak attack on the city, and after scolding for a while, he saw that the Bingzhou army in the city did not react at all, and unconsciously leaned forward a lot, and continued to scold the Bingzhou army in the city as a "turtle with a shrunken head".
Seeing that Han Sheng had already stepped into the range of a stone's throw away, Yanghu sneered, and ordered his own soldiers to take his bow and arrow, draw their bows and arrows, and aim at Han Sheng from the battlements of the city wall.
This distance is indeed relatively far, and it is barely within the range of the bow and arrow, and ordinary people dare not try it, and it is indeed too difficult to shoot at such a long distance.
However, Yang Hu has a hand of 100 steps through Yang archery, I saw him aim at Han Sheng's arrow and shoot over, Han Sheng was proudly showing off his might there, only to hear the sound of the bowstring, before he could react, a cold arrow was already shooting at the beginning, impartial, just hit the red tassel on his helmet, and the red tassel was broken with an arrow.
Han Sheng was so frightened that he fell off the horse, and fled backwards with a rolling belt, almost peeing his pants in fright.
Yang Hu's arrow was not aimed at his vital parts, after all, at such a long distance, the arrow was already at the end of the crossbow, and Han Sheng was wearing a heavy armor, even if he shot at the vital part, it might not be able to hurt him.
So Yanghu's arrow aimed at the red tassel above his head, and although it was unharmed, it was enough to scare him.
The city suddenly erupted in a burst of cheers, Yanghu's archery skills are too exquisite, such a distance can shoot down the enemy general's red tassels, even if it is Yang Yuji Li Guang, it is nothing more than that, it is really a marksman!
This is completely an arrow to boost morale, Han Sheng previously shouted and scolded under the city, and his words were filthy, which had already aroused the anger of the soldiers of the Bingzhou army, but Yanghu ordered not to fight, which made the soldiers of the Bingzhou army extremely aggrieved.
Han Sheng fled back to his own camp with the happiness of the rest of his life, and came to see Chen Qian to explain the refusal of the state army to fight.
In fact, there is no need for Han Sheng to describe it, Chen Qian in the battle also saw it clearly, but it seems reasonable that the state army does not fight, if it is really a reckless man who can provoke a battle with just a few words, it is not extremely easy to deal with.
Therefore, Chen Qian had already expected this result, waved his hand and ordered Han Sheng to step back, and said to Sima Shi: "Eldest prince, it seems that this Yanghu is definitely not something that can be provoked by words, and we still have to act according to the plan." ”
Although Chen Qian was a pioneer officer of Zhengyin, he did not dare to act arbitrarily, and he had to discuss everything with Sima Shi before making a decision.
At that moment, Sima Shi nodded, before sending out the troops, they had discussed several contingency plans, but if they couldn't make a plan at this time, of course they had to make other arrangements.
Chen Qian gave an order, and hundreds of catapults were pushed to the front, lined up, ready to attack Jiexiu City.
Sima Jun's catapult, basically still used the thunderbolt used by Cao Cao during the battle of Guandu, for decades, has not done much change, this kind of manpower pulled catapult, each less than dozens of people, more than hundreds of people, bulky and unbearable.
In fact, the use of catapults is a more troublesome thing, dozens or hundreds of people to operate the catapults, it is conceivable that the operation is quite cumbersome, just the arrangement and preparation will take a long time, and then you have to load the stone bullets, aim, launch, a whole set of processes down, it is indeed time-consuming and laborious.
However, the attack effect of the catapult is quite obvious, whether the huge stone projectile is smashed on the city wall or the city, it has a considerable deterrent ability to the city wall and the defenders, so this attack and the state, Sima Jun still prepared a lot of such heavy weapons.
When Sun Li led the pioneer battalion to march, he marched lightly, which attracted heavy equipment that was not carried, and this time the structure of the pioneer battalion was readjusted, and Sima Yi equipped the pioneer battalion with these equipment, hoping to use it in the siege operation.
After the catapult was launched, the scene was very lively, hundreds of catapults needed at least a few thousand people to operate, and now in order to prevent the city from launching a surprise attack and destroying these catapults, Chen Qian also arranged thousands of pikemen to line up in formation to protect the front of the catapult array.
Since catapults have a longer range than bows and arrows, catapults are usually placed at a distance of one stone's throw to prevent enemies from attacking with bows and arrows and disrupting the operation of catapults.
Another factor that needs to be guarded against is the surprise attack of the enemy army in the city, because the catapult is hugely destructive, it has always been regarded as a great threat to the defense of the city, so under normal circumstances, the defending side will often send death squads out of the city to destroy the enemy's catapult.
Chen Qian knew this very well, so in front of the catapult array, he specially arranged a spear array composed of pikemen, so that he could effectively protect the catapult from being destroyed, the spear array could not only effectively block the enemy's infantry, but also have the effect of intercepting the cavalry.
There was a hot scene on the Sima army's position, Yanghu naturally saw it in his eyes, Sima Jun sacrificed such a siege weapon as a catapult, but it was not surprising to him at all, Sima Jun has such a weapon, why not use it?
Although the city walls of Jiexiu City have been upgraded, Yanghu is not sure whether he can block the huge stone attack, but how to destroy the enemy's catapult, Yanghu is fully prepared.