March 30, 268 AD. After spending nearly two months and paying the heavy price of more than 6,000 killed and more than 8,000 wounded, the besieging Jin army finally cleaned up the barrier walls outside the two cities of Yixian and Anguo, and prepared for the attack of the large army in formation.

So on the 30th, the Jin army went out in unison and began to launch a comprehensive attack on the eastern, northern, and western walls of the county seat of Yixian (the southern city of Yixian is close to the Wei River, and to attack this wall, you must first enter the Wei River with a naval army. However, the width of the Wei River is not enough, and the whole process is within the effective killing range of the bows and arrows of the two cities, and it is suicide to attack the southern city of Yixian and the northern city of Anguo City).

"Hey! Hey! Ooh! "Whew! Hey! Ooh! ”

The Jin army was not only busy tearing down the barrier walls for the past two months, they also built a very large number of tall trebuchets and siege towers in the rear. At this moment, after the obstacles ahead were basically cleared, these big guys finally came in handy.

In this attack, the Jin army invested a total of 70,000 troops in Sanmen in Yixian County. All of a sudden, there were many people, waving flags. The sound of war drums clashing and intertwining in mid-air, even made the soldiers walking in the middle of it feel that the ground shook for a while.

"General Qiyu, the enemy's trebuchet has entered the range of our trebuchet!"

At this moment, on the tower of the north gate of Yixian County, the guard of Shu Hanfang is the son of the general Jiang Wei, Jiang Su, who is only eighteen years old. After receiving the report from the soldiers under his command, he smiled slightly: "It's finally here." Order, eighty trebuchets on the north wall, salvo! ”

"No!"

With Jiang Su's order, eighty bright fireballs suddenly and uniformly appeared in the mid-air above the head of Yixian County, and when these fireballs moved forward in the air, they pulled out eighty black smoke bands. In an instant, the eighty huge fireballs fell heavily on the ground two hundred and seventy to three hundred paces north of the city wall, causing the ground to throw a large amount of dust and a huge terrifying sound.

"In the first salvo, one enemy trebuchet was destroyed, and thirty-five fell into the crowd. Nearly 23 bullets were missed. The rest of the stone bullets are very far off. ”

"According to the results of the last round of shooting, adjust the counterweight weight and adjust the firing angle!"

"No!"

"It's all there, the second round of salvos, put!"

"Huh~~~!"

Soon, the soldiers of Shu Han quickly completed the second round of trebuchet launches. The results of this round were much better than the previous round. When the eighty stone bullets landed again, Jiang Su on the city tower clearly saw that the other party's tall trebuchet was directly hit by seven planes. And the remaining more than 70 stone bullets also fell into the dense crowd, inflicting great damage on the opposing soldiers.

"Why is the other party's trebuchet so long?" Seeing that the originally orderly formation of this side began to gradually disperse due to the accurate strikes of a large number of stone bullets, the former enemy commander of the northern line of the Jin army, Zhan Qing, was also helpless: "Order the front army to run, use cloud ladders, and ants to attack the city!" ”

The use of ladder ants to siege a city was one of the least technical methods of siege warfare in ancient times. But it's one of the most effective.

On this day, there were 20,000 soldiers under his command. And what about Jiang Su's side on the city tower? There were only 3,000 of them.

Although most of the seventy trebuchets under the city were operated by soldiers and civilians, after excluding a certain number of full-time archers, there were only more than 2,000 tiger infantry actually used for fighting. That's why Guan Yicai said that what he hates the most is this kind of ant siege with no technical content.

"Major General Qiqi, the enemy infantry is carrying a ladder to attack our city wall, and it has entered the range of our bows and arrows."

"Archer, shoot!"

Countless bows and arrows were shot down from the walls, but they only slowed down the advance of the boundless crowd for a moment.

Although countless comrades were hit by bows and arrows, the white-robed and black-armored Jin soldiers were still desperately running forward. On the one hand, it is true that in the past two months, I have had enough of the cement piles set up by Shu Han outside the city. On the other hand, the rows of guards sent by Sima Wang in the rear are all supervising the battle with huge axes!

It's close! Finally close to the long-awaited wall. But how is this wall a little different?

You said that this wall is as high as ten battles, after all, it gives you too much time to build, we admit it. But how is it that this wall is not a flat wall, but a multi-faceted face with irregular protrusions everywhere?

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Li 13 is a native of Donghai, Xuzhou, and used to be a Tuntian soldier. More than three years ago, because of the defeat at Yang'an Pass, the Chinese army in Luoyang was seriously reduced. As a last resort, a large number of local soldiers were once again recruited into Luoyang. Li 13 is more than eight feet tall, and his one-handed knife skills are also passable. So he was selected to enter the Chinese army.

In the past three years, his life in Luoyang has been quite good: his military salary is more than three times that of before, not to mention, he does not have to bear any taxes. Not only is he exempt from taxes, but his daughter-in-law and children are also exempt from arithmetic and oral endowments. It can be said that the past three years or so have been the most comfortable time in his life for more than 20 years.

Because he cherishes his current life very much, Li 13 works very the training ground of the Chinese army. Three years later, he was already a chief, with nine brothers under his command.

When Li Shisan was full of expectations and wondered if his position could be promoted further, the good news came: Xishu Xiaokou invaded again, and the Luoyang Chinese army needed to enter Guanzhong to fight. For Li Shisan, this is tantamount to an opportunity to be promoted and make a fortune.

As a result, since he came to Chang'an at the end of December last year, three months have passed, and he has not won a single battle. made Li Shisan very depressed for a while.

Today! I'm finally able to play! So as soon as the war started, Li Shisan was very excited. His steps were swift, and he rushed to the front of the army with a few of his soldiers.

In order to pursue greater damage, the Han army in the city greeted the most densely populated places, whether it was stone bullets or bows and arrows. Because of this, Li Thirteen's Division, which rushed to the forefront of the army, was not attacked in any way. Therefore, when his troops came to the city of Yixian, ten people were all bearded and tailed, and none of them were injured.

After coming to the city and nervously scanning the nearby city walls, Li Shisan shouted: "Here, the walls here are straight. Wang Laoshuan, Ma Da face, put up the ladder! ”

"Howler!"

The place where Li Shisan chose to erect the ladder was the oblique side of a protruding fortress, which was particularly smooth compared to the sharp protrusions everywhere on the horizontal city wall. Therefore, Li 13 naturally chose the place to climb the wall.

The same ten-battle long ladder was quickly erected under the joint efforts of several soldiers. But this ladder had just been erected, and before Li 13 could step on it, the entire ladder slid diagonally behind!

"What's going on? Did you run away last night? Can't even hold a ladder? ”

"Not our problem!" The one called Ma Da Face didn't give himself any face: "The problem is above!" ”

"Above?"

"yes, there's something weird about the battlement wall up there, and it can actually slide! The ladder leaned up, and with a little force, the ladder began to slide backwards. As you know, this ladder is ten battles long, and it's already a hassle to manipulate. This top is actually sliding, which is how we can make it stable! ”

Yes, Guan Da Sima was locked up in Yixian County during this time and had nothing to do, so he changed his tricks to strengthen the city defense. He installed steel pulleys on the outside of the battlements of all the city walls......

Because he was idle during this time, and Dong Zhuo laid the foundation of the Yixian city wall very firmly back then. So being idle anyway is idle, so Guan Yi ordered his soldiers to keep raising the city wall. As a result, the city wall of Yixian County is now as high as ten battles! (23.1m)

If the Jin army wants to attack the city, of course, it must build more than ten battle ladders. And such a long ladder, when it was carried, the speed of the relevant soldiers was crawling, and many Jin soldiers were shot to death along the way. And even the soldiers of the Jin army who came to the city felt that it was very difficult to stabilize the ladder after it was difficult to erect it.

The Luoyang Chinese Army has siege warfare training subjects. However, the city wall used for training is generally four or five zhang high, and such a city wall, after the ladder is erected, there is generally no need to send someone to help the ladder. Even if it is needed, it is usually enough for two people. But now, there are no four people who can't support them at all.

Moreover, the shameless Da Sima also added ball pulleys to the battlements of the city wall......

Just as Li Shisan and the others were still looking for a place to set up a ladder, as more and more Jin soldiers crowded under the city wall, the Shu Han archers on the city wall finally ended their long-range diffuse and focused their attention on the city wall.