369. A kind of high-rise car
To be honest, there is an easy way to stop the cave house car from leaning against the city wall, and that is to create a barrier in front of the city wall.
In order to clear these obstacles, men had to be sent out, but these people were not protected by the cave houses, and they would be attacked by the defenders of the city walls, and their fallen corpses would once again become new obstacles.
But if the obstacles are not removed, these cave houses will not be able to get close to the city wall, and the city wall will be damaged.
So now, although Zhu Wei's house cave cars have filled a moat in front of the city wall of Yicheng, they have no way to continue to dig the rammed earth city wall at the city wall of Yicheng.
Fortunately, Zhu Wei didn't plan to use gunpowder to blow up the city wall of Yicheng this time, after all, this city wall is too thick, even if he uses black powder crockpots, he may not be able to blow it up.
Besides, Liu Biao has a lot of troops in Yicheng, the county seat, even if Zhu Wei blows up the city wall and storms Yicheng, Liu Biao's army still has a certain advantage, so this time Zhu Wei is ready to use other methods to attack the city.
With the change of the sound of Zhu Weizhong's army's medium trumpet drums, the cave house cars in front of them retreated one after another, and then more than a dozen bamboo and wood construction carts that were as tall as buildings were pushed forward from within Zhu Weijun's formation.
In front of the high-rise cart, it seems to be spliced into a high wall with thick wood, and behind it, like a scaffolding, a platform is erected on the top, which can be climbed to the top of the platform, directly with the city wall, or even half a body higher than the city wall.
In this way, they are pushed to the front of Yicheng, as if more than a dozen arrow towers have been built in front of the city wall of Yicheng.
Of course, these high-rise carts are not very stable now, after all, they are mobile platforms with bamboo and wood frames, and as the carts below move, the upper high platform frame is in danger of capsizing.
Therefore, soon there were auxiliary soldiers who brought a long bamboo pole with hooks, which were hooked and hung on the bracket on the top of the cart, which could not only play a supporting role on the rear side of the cart, but also pull the trend of the cart overturning forward, so that the cart could be pushed more steadily and stand firmly in front of Yicheng.
At this time, Tai Shici and Chen Ying took the remaining 10,000 troops of the Shenjian Battalion, and arrived in Yicheng with these high-rise carts, and gathered the 5,000 troops that were originally in front of Baolong, and became the siege force sent by Zhu Wei.
When these high-rise carts stabilized, Tai Shici personally took a lot of archers and climbed up to the arrow platform on the high-rise cart, which was already level with the city wall of Yicheng, and even a few points higher.
The archers standing at the top of these high-rise carts could hide behind some narrow shooting gaps made of wooden planks and directly attack Liu Biao's guards on the city wall.
Seeing that the high-rise carts in front of him were almost ready, Zhu Wei's army had a lot of auxiliaries on his side, carrying a lot of siege ladders for Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion and sending them over.
"Knock knock...... Knock knock ......"
The drums and trumpets of the siege sounded, Tai Shi Ci launched the first round of siege of Yicheng with 15,000 soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion, almost all the soldiers of the Divine Arrow Battalion used the moving wall barrier composed of more than a dozen high-rise carts as a barrier, pushing the high-rise carts to gradually approach the direction of Yicheng, and soon entered the range of bows and arrows on both sides.
"Whoosh ......"
Tai Shici, who also climbed to the arrow platform of the high-rise cart, commanded the archers on the arrow platform to take the lead in attacking the city wall of Yicheng, and almost all the feather arrows were shot at the target.
Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion was originally expanded on the basis of 5,000 archers and 1,000 crossbowmen, and now the Divine Arrow Battalion still maintains the base of 5,000 archers and 5,000 crossbowmen, and only then has 10,000 sword and shield soldiers been added.
Now the Divine Arrow Battalion is about 2,000 archers, 2,000 crossbowmen and 1,000 sword and shield soldiers left on the side of the Turtle and Snake Gorge, so there are still 3,000 archers and 3,000 crossbowmen on Tai Shici's side that can be used for long-range attacks.
And Tai Shici's archery skills were originally one of the best among the famous generals of the Three Kingdoms, plus a meteor archer Ma Zhong, the archers trained by the two of them are naturally regarded as elite archers in this year, and they are definitely more accurate than the archery skills of ordinary archers.
At this time, on the arrow tower of more than a dozen high-rise carts, at least a thousand archers could stand, and so many archers almost simultaneously shot feather arrows at the defenders of the city who had no barrier to dodge on the city wall.
After a round of feather arrows, the defenders on the city wall had already overturned hundreds of people, and the remaining guards either leaned behind the arrow battlements of the city wall in panic, or looked for large shields and small shields to protect themselves.
This is the first time they have encountered such a situation, and generally speaking, it is not the case that the defenders should slaughter the besiegers.
But now these more than a dozen towers standing in front of the city wall, what are the towers and platforms that are higher than the city walls, why can the enemy soldiers stand on such a high platform and shoot arrows at their side through the gaps between some wooden boards, but they can't see each other's figures very much.
They really didn't expect that they, as the defenders of the city, would be attacked by the besiegers in such a way.
Although the basic officers of the defenders on the city wall, such as the marquis and the tun chief, shouted to their soldiers not to panic, let these soldiers use arrow stacks and shields to dodge arrows, so that the situation on the city wall gradually stabilized.
However, the archers who were defending the city were unable to make an effective counterattack against the enemy archers on the towers, because they could hardly see the enemy archers.
These archery holes constructed at the platform of the arrow tower at the upper end of the high-rise cart are not the structure of the arrow stacks on the city wall, but the gaps between the wooden walls made of wooden blocks that can be used for archery.
These gaps, which were almost fist-wide, were enough for the archers of the Divine Arrow Battalion to see the position of the defenders on the walls, enough for feathered arrows to shoot out of the gaps, enough for them to slaughter the defenders on the walls.
But it is too demanding to let the archers of Liu Biao's defenders on the city wall accurately shoot feather arrows into these gaps and hurt the archers of the Divine Arrow Battalion.
This is almost a hundred steps away, and the arrow hits the target red heart.
This is impossible for the vast majority of archers, who are already skilled in archery if they are able to shoot arrows at the target every time.
Therefore, most of the feather arrows that the defenders of Yicheng Liu Biao counterattacked in the past were nailed to the shield of the high-rise carts, but they could not pose much threat to the archers of the Divine Arrow Battalion who were hiding behind.
The result of this is that the archers of the Divine Arrow Battalion on Zhu Wei's side can use the high-rise carts to suppress the defenders of Liu Biao on the city wall for a certain block, but the defenders on the city wall have little threat to the archers of the Divine Arrow Battalion on Zhu Wei's side.
Although the defenders can also shoot rockets and ignite the arrow-blocking planks hanging from the high-rise carts, before burning and burning the arrow-blocking planks, it is enough for the archers of the Divine Arrow Battalion who are hiding behind to shoot several rounds of feathered arrows......