Chapter 359: Destroying the City (2)
At this time, the rebel ironclad soldiers pushed the boxcar to the city gate, and the stone cannon cart and bed crossbow quickly adjusted their direction and concentrated their forces to attack the horizontal platform and the city tower above the city gate, with a very strong momentum and great casualties. The tipping platform encountered three boulders in a row, and more than 40 giant crossbow arrows jointly resisted the bombardment, and finally it was bombarded.
When the rebels attacked the south gate, the Baihe defenders set out in the rain of arrows and flying stones.
"Serve the pan!"
The oil pot has already been boiling, and it is holding the top of the rebel boxcar under the city, and under the order of Bai He, the two soldiers who stick to the oil pot pull the copper chain that passes through the wheel above the oil pot, and the copper chain has been connected to the copper ring on the bottom of the pot on the outside of the copper pot.
Under the tugging of the two of them, the oil pan quickly tilted outward, and the hot oil puffed down the city wall with a pop, and poured on the top of the boxcar under the city.
The boiling oil penetrated the iron armor of the rebels through the cracks of the shed, and the heat of hundreds of degrees poured on the flesh and blood, and the flesh was dripping with blood, and the heart-rending screams were heard one after another, and the scene was beyond the horror.
The boxcar is not a universal chariot, it is not an invulnerable tank, the rebels rushed to the front of the ironclad soldiers into pieces to the end of the pain and wail, in the struggle by their own brothers, their own robes cruelly thrown out of the cover of the boxcar, let it struggle and roll on the ground, and finally became a live target of the Xian army.
War is cruel, and the moment you fall from your wounds, no one can save you, and all that awaits you is death and despair.
The rebels continued to attack the gate at the cost of casualties, and Bai He ordered people to set it on fire, as a result, a fire burned under the city gate, and dozens of rebels who were digging up the soil were like jumping chickens on fire, struggling frantically in wailing, and the scene was miserable beyond words.
At this time, a fire under the mound blocked the way forward, and before the rebels could adjust, hundreds of porcelain jars fell from the sky, and then smashed the boxcar and ignited a raging fire. The rebels who could not flee were burned to death, screaming and dying in agony as they struggled.
The first half of the entire 60-pace-long boxcar road was engulfed in flames, and the rebels hiding in it were not as good as the hundreds of people who fled.
The fire spread rapidly, and the troop transport road built by the boxcar was quickly engulfed in the fire, and even if the rebels frantically vented the arrows and boulders, it was difficult to save the lives of the tragic deaths.
Seeing this scene, the old tendons on Tie Qing's face behind the mask twitched, and he forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and ordered in a deep voice:
"Tell the front army, siege the city!"
"No!"
The words fell, a long horn sounded suddenly, the majestic war drums were deafening, the siege camp drove the horses, dragged the huge tower cart, pushed the ladder car, the car, shouted the killing sound like a tide to the south gate, Bailiyan (Wei Xian) at this moment suddenly raised his throat, the atmosphere was unprecedentedly tense.
"Pass my generals, and the battalions will enter the battle positions!"
"No!" The herald soldier said, ran on the city wall and shouted: "General Wei has an order, all battalions enter the battle position, and each battalion enters the battle position!" ”
At the same time, Bai Liyan waved the long flag beside the letter flag bearer, and the generals of the battalions above and below the city saw the yellow flag waving and swaying, and quickly urged the soldiers to walk out of the field fortifications and enter the battle position.
According to the experience of defending the city and attacking the city and fighting on the battlefield in the past and the experience of the previous life, Bailiyan suddenly found that the three-three system does have its own unique points.
Whether it is hand-to-hand combat in the field or defending the city, a group of three is more flexible than a group of two, a group of four, or a group of five, with a group of three back to back, and the field of view covering exactly 360 degrees, while two people back to back are not possible.
In a group of more than three people, there is no difference between the tactics of five people and the tactics of three people. If the three trios are organized into one, and the two captains are arranged into one, the tactics are also more flexible.
You can first use two threesomes to besiege a five-person group, and the last three-person group can drag, transfer, and mobilize the enemy's five-person group to get out of the battlefield with movement warfare, create your own fighters with more victories and fewer fighters, and then counter-annihilate.
Defending the city is a position to be fought for by battlements, Bailiyan is arranged in a group of three people, three people are a reserve group, each group is equipped with a shield swordsman, a spearman, a hook and sickle player, and the long and short weapons alternately cover.
At the same time, a trio of short swordsmen and archers were arranged to throw stones and rolling wooden stones, and if they were killed and wounded, the reserve group was immediately on top, and after the chief formation was disabled, the whole formation was withdrawn, and the Sikong Nan reserve team was on top, and the Sikong Nan reserve team was supplemented from the baggage battalion.
A complete three-level supplementary system has been formed, so that after the entire system is crippled, all the veterans and new recruits will be in the line of fire, and the new ones will all be white, and none of them will ever see blood.
High-intensity white-knuckle warfare defending the city is enough to quickly accumulate courage and experience in a short period of time, even if it is a white ding who has never been on the battlefield, even if he has experienced a day of hand-to-hand combat to defend the city, the experience and courage he has gained are far more considerable than the growth of the field battle.
City defense warfare is undoubtedly the most dominant battlefield for the weak and defending sides, on the contrary, field battles, formation battles, and individual combat battles often fight for skills, experience and physical strength, and factors outside other battlefields also affect the development of the battle, while the field battles of recruits are often useless, but become the object of hunting by veterans.
Because the walls greatly weakened the attacker's combat power, physical strength, and willpower, cold weapon siege was almost the only military project that did not have much to do with experience and killing.
No matter how experienced a veteran is and how good his fighting skills are, as long as he is engaged in the siege, he will be sent to death. The severity of sieges is almost more than 70 or 80 percent of the casualties, and even new recruits often have a higher chance of killing and killing than in field battles.
After all, in hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons, the side besieging the city often suffers the most tragic casualties, and the exchange ratio of one to two is the most basic price, often even reaching a high casualty ratio of one to three and one to four.
The battle line was spread out in the sound of war drums, and the rebels dispatched dozens of tower carts, temporary vehicles, rushing cars, and ladder vehicles, and the infantry troops invested in the attack on the three gates reached 30,000, and the crossbowmen were 26,000, and the south gate was still the target of the rebels' key attacks.
With the help of the bow and crossbow cover, the rebels pushed the ladder car to the city first, the top of the ladder car hung two copper hooks, when the ladder rose to the city wall against the city wall, the copper hook smashed on the female wall, homeopathic to put down the hook on the inside of the female wall, so that it is not easy to be pushed to break by the fork of the defending army, even so, Bailiyan still prepared a large number of ceramic pipes filled with pine oil and alcohol, and strictly ordered the soldiers to concentrate on throwing, giving priority to burning the base of all siege equipment.
When the first wave of rebels attacked the city, the car was pushed to a distance of thirty paces outside the south of the city, and the car was as high as ten zhang, and the drop reached seven zhang, which was equivalent to standing on the first floor and looking up at a six-story residential house.
For arrows, the kinetic energy and potential energy of the arrows are affected by gravity, the higher the height, the lower its lethality, and the lethality is inversely proportional to the height.
This made Bai Liyan realize that it would be extremely difficult to attack the rebel crossbowmen on the platform with their crossbowmen.
At the same time, the rebel siege diverted the attention of the defenders to the greatest extent, at this time, the tower cart was pulled by six horses, and quickly approached under the city wall.
The huge door panel was lowered with a roar, and more than a dozen ironclad heavy infantry jumped out of the tower cart with shields and swords, rushed to the end of the female wall, and jumped down, plunging into the rampant slashing of the Xian army.
The tower cart was like a flood that opened the gates, and the rebels poured out fifty or sixty people one after another, and they continued to rush into the city, killing Su Hong by surprise.
The sound of killing at the head of the city together, the city of Guangxin changed color when it was heard, the public mansion was heavily guarded at this time, two thousand people guarded inside and outside to block the nearby streets, Jiang Rong guarded the inner house, and the heart was seven up and eight down and six gods without a master, Xiao Chunyu on the side was also frightened and colorless:
"Rong Rong, it won't be broken by the rebels."
"No, it's only been a few days, and you can break the city? After all, Guangxin has 80,000 or 90,000 horses, and 100,000 people can not break through the siege in one day. Besides, my eldest brother, Mr. Luo, Mr. Chen, and he Wei Xian, who is an idle person, still doesn't kill thieves and dogs. ”
Although Jiang Rong had a mouth cannon on her mouth, she was in a hurry in her heart, hating to be besieged for more than half a month, the ice cubes had already been broken, and the hot Jiang Rong was sweating profusely, and then she remembered the benefits of Baili Yan.
"By the way, what does Xiao Er's Nizi do? Why didn't Wei Xian let him hide in the mansion. ”
"Recently, I've been busy taking care of the department store, raising money and food for General Wei, and I can't get away."
"Yes, this girl is dead-eyed, and she is really dead to Wei Xian."
As soon as Jiang Rong's words came out, Xiao Chunyu covered her mouth and smiled:
"I heard that Xiao Er was a man disguised as a woman back then, impersonated and joined the army, and almost died in the chaos, but fortunately he met General Wei, so he picked up his life, do you say that people can not die to General Wei."
"Yes, this Nizi has such a play, I really can't see it, tsk......" Jiang Rong sighed in her mouth.
At about seven or eight o'clock in the hour, the sun was setting, and the strength of the rebels increased unabated compared to an hour ago, and at the same time, additional soldiers were sent to dig the corners of the wall under the south gate, intending to dig down the city wall. Baili Yan ordered people to roll wooden stones to fight back, and the fire was expelled, with little effect.
At the same time, the total amount of tactical logic launched by the scattered forces of the rebels is much higher than the amount of logic that the defenders' thinking and vision can capture, not only to deal with the siege of the ladder carts, but also to intercept the attack of the tower carts, and in the distance there are more condescending tower carts and crossbow arrays on the ground overwhelming arrows, and the defenders who can be accommodated in a battle position at the head of the city are so, too many people must not increase the resistance force, but should increase the density, resulting in an increase in casualties on their own side.
When the two armies were fighting, it was dark, and the rebels still showed no signs of stopping, and they were very prepared for night fighting. Moreover, night fighting is more conducive to the rebels digging the corners of the wall, so let it develop, and keep digging all night, and it is likely that the wall will be dug down by tomorrow.