Chapter 270: The Prologue to the Decisive Battle (3)
"Former general, this is the latest order sent by Da Sima via the flying rope."
"Oh, my brother is really a wretch, Lao Tzu was beaten here for half a month before he gave the order to come. Well, I'll see. ”
Guan Yi's orders were simple, just two. 1. Put the enemy up and fight. 2. Pay attention to tunnel sneak attacks.
The year is 268 AD, and Guan Yi's body is only thirty-five years old, which is nearly half smaller than Shi Bao. As for the actual military experience, it is even less than one-tenth of the stone bud.
But as a time-traveler, especially from the 21st century, in that era of information explosion. Guan Yi's military knowledge is actually more than a hundred times richer than Shi Bao. So compared with the two, maybe Guan Yi is still very far away from Shibao in terms of command, but when it comes to defending the city, Guan Yi is really not afraid of Shibud or anything.
Because, the attack and defense of the city in the ancient war came and went just a few tricks: ant siege, trebuchet bombardment of the city wall, tunnel siege, long-term siege, collusion and so on.
With the fortress, the trebuchet is an era ahead of the other party, and the city is full of national soldiers, and there are abundant reserves of grain and grass. Therefore, the only thing Shibud can do is to attack the city through tunnels.
And how to defend against a tunnel siege? All the city walls in ancient China had large vats buried at the base of the walls, and this is one of them.
Second, the deeper the tunnel is dug, the more water vapor in the soil will spread to the surface. In the morning, when the sun first rises in the sky, the water vapor that spreads from the bottom to the top will form a neat band of water vapor above the tunnel - this is to tell the defenders that this is where I dig the tunnel.
What Zhang Zun needs to do is to concentrate the trebuchet firepower and carry out a focused bombardment towards the place where this water vapor belt is located.
Moreover, Anguo City has an urn city, and it is not good, so it is necessary to dig a tunnel between the two city walls.
So, in addition to guarding against the tunnels, why did Guan Yi still ask Zhang Zun to take some risks and put the Jin army on the city to fight?
This is, of course, because there are too many Jin troops. If you don't need to consume as much as possible in the defense of the city, even if Jiang Wei's main force arrives in the future, it will be very difficult to break the siege.
"Report ~~ Former general, the Jin army outside the city is massively assembled. It looks like a big siege! ”
"Huh! Well done! Drumming and the whole army ascended to the city. Today we don't play trebuchets, put them up and fight! ”
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The drums of "knock, knock, knock......" became more and more intensive, and the atmosphere of the Jin army camp became more and more intense. As the former enemy commander of this operation, Zhou Zhi, pulled out his sword and pressed forward fiercely, tens of thousands of Jin soldiers let out an overwhelming cry and swarmed towards the walls of Anguo City!
"Hey! Shibud old thief, this is trying to fight with your master! "Looking at the dense crowd under the city, the army of the Jin State that could no longer distinguish the queue. Zhang Zun tugged at his beard: Hmph, although my brother asked me to put the enemy up to kill more, but in such a dense crowd, I would be so sorry for Shi Zhongrong if I didn't fire a few shots.
"It's all there, herald! All trebuchets in the west and south cities fired two rounds of salvos. In the third round, Xicheng only let 30% of the trebuchets fire, and Nancheng was 50%! ”
"Whoa!"
"Boom, boom, boom~~~" carried a huge potential energy and smashed the stone projectile in the dense crowd, causing great casualties to the Jin soldiers. Basically, a single stone bullet takes away seven or eight lives. But this loss is nothing compared to the tens of thousands of Jin troops. Two rounds of trebuchets fired a salvo, and more than a hundred stone bullets, but it was just a dense black crowd of Jin troops, and some red flowers bloomed in it.
"Hey! The third round of stone bullets turned out to be so many fewer than the first two rounds. It seems that we have almost consumed the opponent's stone bullets in the past half a month! ”
Although this side paid hundreds of casualties before it could get close to the city wall, Zhou Zhi, the former enemy commander of the Jin army today, was very excited when he saw such a scene: "Order! Push out the siege towers! ”
"Whoa!"
With Zhou Zhi's order, hundreds of siege towers with a height of more than ten battles built by the craftsmen of the Jin army in the past half a year were slowly pushed into the battlefield.
"Hey! Ooh! Hey! Ooh! "Huge towers, more than twenty meters high from the ground to the top, weigh up to several tons. The diameter of the wooden wheel at the bottom alone has reached two meters. Under each tower, hundreds of soldiers are working at the same time to propel it forward. I have to say that this is already the most efficient and powerful siege weapon in this era.
"Hey! This Jin thief is really bloody. I didn't push these things out to death for some time. Command, archers, to shoot as best they can at enemy troops approaching the walls with ladders. The Lancers and Mandarin Ducks are each looking for their teammates to return. Prepare for hand-to-hand combat! ”
"Huh~~~~!"
As Zhang Zun consciously reduced the use of trebuchets, the Jin soldiers, especially the siege towers, approached the walls of Anguo City like never before.
"Teams A, B, and C go upstairs, and Team D continues to advance!"
"Wow!" With the order of the leaders of each tower of the Jin army, the original cart soldiers with hundreds of people behind each tower were divided into two parts, and most of them began to enter the tower from the bottom, and then began to climb up. A small group of soldiers continued to push the tower in the direction of the city wall.
"Bang dang~~~" With a dull crashing sound, a siege tower successfully clinged to the city wall.
"Zhuge Repeater, aim for the exit of the tower!"
Zhang Zun, who was in command in Nancheng, had just issued this order, when he heard another "clang", and the thick skin plank of the opposing tower slammed heavily on the battlement wall of his own city, and then the Jin soldiers in white robes and black armor in the tower rushed out in a swarm.
"Whoosh~~~" "Puff Puff~~~~"
The crossbowmen of the Shu Han Zhuge Company, who had just been transferred according to Zhang Zun's order, quickly released a large number of crossbow arrows at the Jin soldiers, and the Jin soldiers who were forced to concentrate on a wooden board were hit by a large number of arrows, and then fell down the city wall with a terrible wail.
"Stop the arrows! Stop firing arrows! There are still a lot of enemy troops that have not yet come out! Stop ......"
The Zhuge Repeater is indeed an ancient machine gun, but as soon as this thing is loosened, ten crossbow arrows will soon be fired. It also takes a considerable amount of time to reload. And it was at such a moment that the follow-up Jin soldiers on the tower rushed out again in a swarm.
Finally, after the battle had been going on for so long, the soldiers of the Jin army stepped on the walls of Anguo City for the first time.
"Good time!" As the first governor of this section of the city wall, Zhang Zun naturally had to take the lead at this time. When he saw a fierce-looking, burly Jin soldier jumping high from the wooden plank linking the tower and the city wall, the broadsword in his hand quickly approaching him. He leaned slightly, narrowly avoiding the other party's blade. The ring-headed knife in his hand quickly slashed, and one thigh left the master's body and flew in the air.
Turning around, he stabbed the Jin soldier who had lost a thigh and fell heavily on the city wall, and completely finished it off. Zhang Zun stood up and shouted: "Spear team, mandarin duck team, form a formation!" Block the exit of the enemy tower! ”
"Huh~~~!"
More and more towers approached the city walls, and more and more Jin soldiers climbed the walls. However, the Shu Han soldiers above the city wall also began to gradually get closer, forming their own formations according to the different types of troops to deal with it.
The squad, which was dominated by the salt workers' gun formation, naturally lined up in three rows, tightly blocking the exit of the tower, and the Jin soldiers had to face the tight spear heads on the wooden planks and could not move quickly, and they had to accept the bow and arrow fire from the side of the fortress. Due to the limited width of the wooden planks, although there are hundreds of soldiers in a tower, there can only be at most four or five soldiers at a time who can directly engage the soldiers of the Mandarin Duck Array. With the effective cooperation of the soldiers of the Mandarin Duck Formation, these soldiers were quickly killed. Then the next four or five soldiers went on to be killed......
"Whoa~~~" After skillfully disemboweling an enemy close to him again, Zhang Zun ignored the plasma and feces on his face: "Trebuchet!" Calculate the shooting angle. Bombard enemy towers! ”
With Zhang Zun's order, the trebuchet of the Han army, which had been silent for a long time, began to roar again.
In the beginning, it was an occasional hit, and then there were multiple hits at the same time. As Shu Han's trebuchet forces adjusted the angles and distances more and more precisely, the Jin army's siege towers were hit and collapsed quickly and massively.
"How's our battering ram force going?"
As a fierce general, Zhou Zhi's favorite is such a huge battlefield picture. But if the red part of the painting was mainly paved with the blood of his own soldiers, then he could not have been happy.
"General Qiyu, the enemy's fortress does have a miraculous effect on defense. Our troops attacking the gates, even if they enter the gates, will still be attacked by bows and arrows and even trebuchets from multiple angles. Now the troops attacking the city gate in the south city have been wiped out, and there is not much left on the west side! ”
"Hey! This Shu thief is really cunning. Deliberately make a look like there are not many stone bullets left to attract our army to the main force. That's it, that's it for today, Mingjin, the whole army retreats! ”
"Whoa!"
"Bell bell bell ~~~~" As the Jin army's retreat signal was issued, Zhang Zun roared again while growing a breath of air: "The trebuchet is launched with all its might!" Bow and arrow fire in full force! ”
"Huh~~~~!"