In the Han Dynasty, the power of the stone cart was not very strong, at least it was a bit whimsical to smash the city wall with dozens of kilograms of stones. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe city wall of Huangxian County is not very high, but it is also the seat of Donglai County, unless it is a counterweight stone cart, it is completely impossible to smash the tower city wall with stone eggs alone.

However, the biggest role of the stone cart in this era is not to smash the tower wall, but to strike at the personnel, and then affect the morale of the enemy. Not everyone can face dozens of falling stones without changing their faces, and not everyone can still muster up the courage to fight when they see their companions around them being smashed into minced flesh in the blink of an eye.

It is undeniable that there are indeed many warriors in these years, and there are many warriors who can be called heroes. But in the end, the most people in this world are ordinary people, those ordinary people who can bleed and cry, who will hurt and fear death.

By the time Yan Shao threw most of the stones he had brought into the city, the morale of the defenders on the city wall was about to collapse.

"Siege!" Looking at the heavy casualties on the city wall, Yan Shao pulled out his sword and shouted.

The soldiers who had already been ready to go stepped on the neat array, carrying the ladders that had been prepared long ago, and rushed towards the opposite city wall. The soldiers who rushed to the front were mostly equipped with shields and crossbows, and the soldiers in the back were carrying bags of sand―――――― Huang County was also the seat of Donglai County, even if it was not very prosperous under Cai Qi's governance, there was a relatively spacious moat placed there, and it was not easy to enter the city without solving this moat...

As I said before, the stone cart looks powerful, but in fact, it is not a big threat to the soldiers defending the city, and the real threat is the ladder. No matter how powerful and numerous the stone trucks are, and they can fill the entire city with stones, you still need soldiers to capture the city, and the stones will not help you take the city, and it is the people who decide the outcome in the end.

In such an era of relatively backward engineering technology, the ladder has become the most mainstream method. Of course, there is also the well, which can easily suppress the defenders on the city walls, but the disadvantages of this thing are also obvious, the movement speed is too slow.

This time, Yan Shao was lightly armed, and did not carry this kind of siege equipment that seriously slowed down the speed, and if the thing was built temporarily, the efficiency was too low, and in the end, there were only two siege methods: the ladder and the stone cart...

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Looking at the infantry army rushing up like a wave below, the generals in charge of defending the city did not know how they were the real most fatal. In addition, in order to avoid accidentally injuring his own people, the stone carts behind him had been suspended at this time, and the generals immediately gave orders.

It's just that in the previous war, the regular army of Donglai County was almost wiped out, and the archer is also a technical class, which does not mean that you can use it if you are given a bow. There are too few archers on the city wall, and the accuracy is also very problematic, and the scattered arrows can't help the infantry outside at all.

In the end, some sergeants even straightened their waists. Anyway, these arrows don't pose a threat at all, so why bend over so tiredly? Even if there are arrows shooting, they are all veterans of the rest of the battle, and it is impossible for sporadic arrows to dodge.

I saw that the infantry below was like an industrious bee, throwing the bags on their backs into the moat one by one, and in a short time, a small half of the moat had been filled. There were more sergeants rushing up with bags of sand on their backs. Their goal was not to fill the river completely, but to make a few passages in the moat. This will allow you to climb the ladder.

From the siege to the present, only sporadic casualties have been paid. The generals who were so anxious to defend the city were sweating on their heads, but there was nothing they could do. Cai Qi, who was watching the battle accompanied by a scribe, although he didn't understand military affairs, he also knew that if the moat was filled, Huangxian would be one less barrier.

"Can't you think of a way!" Looking at the few generals who seemed to have nothing to do, Cai Qi said angrily.

The generals looked at each other and were silent, what could they do.

In fact, they are not too worried about the soldiers and horses of the North Sea who have hedged up, even if the moat is filled, it is not so easy to capture the city. When defending the city, the most feared thing is to be besieged, because in this way, it is equivalent to having no source of food, and can only sit and eat the empty mountain, and one day the food is gone, basically there is no hope at all, on the other hand, it is only a fierce attack to the point that it is not particularly worth worrying about.

There are many cities in history that were not captured, but that the people who defended them were about to starve to death, and this is the reason.

But...

Glancing at the shivering sergeant next to him, the generals sighed.

Lack of morale, this is the most fatal, plus the combat effectiveness is not as good as the Beihai soldiers and horses below. Those soldiers and horses borrowed from the family have different intentions one by one, and it is impossible to fight to the death, and the result this time is really a little different...

At the very least, they really don't see any hope.

Sacks of sand were thrown into the moat, which was essentially a pool of stagnant water. Besides, even a living river is useless. At first, when the sandbag was thrown in, it suddenly sank to the bottom, and it seemed that there was no hope of being filled.

But you can't stand the bags and throw them down, even if you throw ten bags down, you still can't see a shadow, what about a hundred bags?

You must know that there are thousands of sergeants in charge of filling the river this time, and this is not at the level of the Yangtze River and the Yellow River.

Maybe not very spacious, not very stable, but just a few ladders or something would be enough.

For the soldiers besieging the city, not getting the following order was the biggest order, and the soldiers carrying the ladder braved the rain of arrows and thrown stones to erect the ladder on the city wall―――――― and the casualties were much greater than before.

Unlike before, there are not many archers in the garrison, and archers are considered a skilled job, even if you pull more labor, it is impossible to train hundreds or thousands of archers in an instant. What's more, Donglai County is not a wealthy county, and there are not so many reserves of bows and arrows at all, so the scattered arrow rain is not a threat at all.

But when the besieging soldiers and horses came to the city, everything was different.

There is no need to say more about the problem of archers, you know, even if a person on the city wall throws a stone casually, it can cause a large number of casualties.

Before, Yan Shao let the stone truck throw so many stones up, some of them have dozens of catties, which are not very easy to move, and some are only about ten catties, which is very easy to solve. Throw it down from the city wall, and it won't take long to solve a large area. Coupled with the rolling wood and other sharp weapons to defend the city, I saw that the ladders that were erected fell under the city wall one after another, and some even overturned more than a dozen sergeants on the ladder, and also overwhelmed the large number of sergeants standing under the ladder.

Looking at the appearance of the ladder when it fell, Yan Shao could even imagine the appearance of the soldiers on the ladder when they screamed. However, looking at the scene in front of him, Yan Shao's expression did not move at all, as if nothing had happened in front of him, just staring at the battle situation.

Patches of soldiers were smashed from the ladder by rolling logs and stones, and the screams could be faintly heard even from Yan Shao, who was far behind. Such a tragic scene, even the hard-hearted people would be moved by compassion, but Yan Shao and the others just watched.

This is siege warfare, one of the most tragic wars of all kinds, and it is also the most balanced way of battle formation between the offensive and defensive sides in the war. The defending side will be greatly strengthened due to factors such as geographical advantages, while the besieging side will be weakened a lot due to the existence of moats and walls.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Cai Qi's soldiers and horses were annihilated a lot under Beihai City before, the casualties when filling the moat before would not be a small number. Now it's just a matter of putting the postponement up...

However, in the end, except for a small number of regular troops, the rest of these people who were called to defend the city were only a rabble after all, and they did not know how to defend the city at all. In addition, there are also a lot of archers under the city wall, who are suppressing the people on the city wall with bows and arrows. At first, it may not be much, but as soldiers begin to climb the walls, the situation begins to deteriorate...

This time, Yan Shao brought out all the subordinates who had followed Yan Shao's southern expedition to the north for many years, and they all rolled out of the sea of blood in the mountain of corpses. can be called elite, even if it competes with the Xiliang border army, it will not fall into the disadvantage.

There may not be much to be done under the walls, after all, they don't have wings, and they can't fly up the walls, even if the people above them seem to them to be just soft eggs.

But as long as they climb the walls...

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With a shield in his hand and a rain of stones and arrows falling from above, he finally climbed the city wall, and the sergeant at the head did not wait for the defenders behind the battlements to do anything, and had already climbed up very neatly. Before he landed, the shield in his hand had been thrown directly to the left side of his body, and the ring knife in his hand was slashed to the right side―――――― he was the first to board, which means that there are no allies on the city wall at all, so naturally there is no need to worry about the shield being thrown out and hitting his own people, even if it does, it will definitely not be his own people!

Just as the sergeant thought, the shield was thrown out and hit all the defenders on the city wall, plus his strength was not small, but he was smashed down several times. This sergeant is also a veteran of a hundred battles, after I don't know how many battles, he is also a brave and unusual man, even if he goes up to the city wall alone, he is not afraid, but rushes forward with a ring knife, regardless of the fact that he has only one person, and there are a bunch of people around him.

On the contrary, the defenders he faced were taken aback by his momentum, and retreated again and again, even if there were so many who met him, they were not opponents―――――― of course, he was not taken down immediately, this old pawn's martial arts are really good, but if it is calculated according to the force value, that is, about 60, it is already good among ordinary people, but it is not particularly strong, otherwise it will not be thrown up like cannon fodder3...

It may be a bit unpleasant to say this, but in siege warfare, the first to come up is usually cannon fodder.

The so-called thousands of troops are easy to obtain, but one will be hard to find. This is of course a wise saying, but the soldiers of the iron-beaten camp and the flowing water are difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice. No matter how brave a famous general is, if he doesn't have enough troops in his hands, it's useless, and everyone knows how rare an elite soldier is...

In addition, siege warfare is different from field warfare, before climbing the city wall, even the most elite soldiers will have a sense of powerlessness in the face of the rain of stones and arrows thrown from the city wall, and even rolling logs and golden soup.

Heavy casualties are almost inevitable, and generally speaking, before attacking a city, it is almost inevitable to use ordinary troops to consume the opponent's morale, arrows, and other defense equipment.

That is, Yan Shao's army is an exception, there are only 6,000 soldiers and horses in Beihai, and Yan Shao takes a pure elite route. It can be said that these soldiers and horses, except for the soldiers who dare to be first and the armor soldiers around Yan Shao, can only be regarded as the most ordinary soldiers and horses, and these soldiers who can be called elite under other princes have become ordinary cannon fodder here in Yan Shao.

However, even if it is cannon fodder, it is definitely not comparable to these defenders of Donglai County.

After being frightened back a few steps, the surrounding defenders also seemed to reflect that there was only one person on the other side, but they were more than ten times the other party, there was no need to be so cowardly, and they quickly forced forward one by one. But in the face of these soldiers, even if the old pawn's martial arts were not particularly outstanding, at least not at the level of Sun Guan, he was still very flexible and trembling with these people, until the second pawn turned over from the ladder, and by the way, he also threw out a shield, smashing down a lot of people...

One by one, the old pawns climbed up the ladder, and although there were not many of them, they were like hammers striking nails, and each blow played a decisive role.

The defenders on the city wall are not the opponents of Yan Shao's soldiers and horses at all, not when one comes up, and even more so when ten come up, not to mention that there are no less than 100 soldiers on the city wall now. Even if the defenders on the city wall have two or three thousand, they can't stop the Beihai soldiers from climbing the city wall.

"Could it be that the soldiers and horses of the North Sea are so strong!"

Seeing that there were more and more Beihai soldiers who were killed and wounded, the scribes who had been accompanying Cai Qi couldn't help but become anxious, don't look at the only few Beihai soldiers and horses who have climbed the city wall. Even he could see that this was just the beginning, and that it would not be long before more soldiers would climb the walls, and by that time the situation would be irreversible.