816, the second siege
Jia Xu's words suddenly changed everyone's minds, and now they only need to think about how to dissolve the power of the rocks thrown by the rock-throwing truck.
After listening to Jia Xu's words, Lu Su, Xu Shu, Liu Ye, Huang Quan, Sun Quan and others couldn't help but think about it, thinking about the methods that could be used to resolve the stone-throwing car, but they couldn't think of any way for a while.
On the contrary, Zhu Wei's eyes flashed, but he thought of a way to alleviate the power of falling rocks.
This seems to have been used in the Southern Song Dynasty's city defense battles, also because the Mongols used Huihui cannons to throw rocks, which made the Southern Song defenders feel uncomfortable, but the Southern Song defenders still used a fishing net-like method to lay a net on the city wall, so as to buffer the threat of falling rocks.
In fact, when Zhu Wei had just started, he had a sneak attack on Yuzhang City, and then was counterattacked by Zhenrong with his troops, so when defending against Zhenrong's siege, Zhu Wei thought of using net-like means to resist the feather arrows shot up from under the city.
Therefore, Zhu Wei quickly said this idea now, which inevitably made Jia Xu and others around look surprised when they heard this, and then everyone saluted Zhu Wei and said, "The Lord Gongguo is a godsend, and it is difficult for ordinary people to have such an idea!" ”
"That being the case, then our army does not need to change its strategy, just Cao Cao thinks he has a plan, but he will also lose his defense, and then our army will rely on the net to block the falling rocks, and the army will attack it suddenly, so that the defense of Puyang City can be destroyed!"
Jia Xu immediately made a conclusion for this military agreement, but in order to complete the net conceived by Zhu Wei to slow down the damage of falling rocks, he still needs to go back to the camp to find craftsmen to build it, so he will definitely not be able to attack the city today.
In this way, Zhu Wei's army slowly retreated, leaving only a group of soldiers and horses in front of the battle to monitor the movements of Cao's army.
After all, now that there is a mound ramp leading directly to Puyang City, Zhu Weijun can easily kill the head of Puyang City, but Cao Jun can also find an opportunity to counterattack through this ramp, Zhu Wei left this army of soldiers and horses to garrison in front of the formation, so he can naturally find Cao's counterattack at the first time and send a warning signal to the rear camp of Zhu Weijun.
However, Cao Cao obviously didn't have the heart to go out of the city to fight back, with the quality of the army on his side, going out of the city to fight back would only be sent to the door to find death.
In this way, there was nothing to say all night, and there were soon craftsmen in Zhu Weijun's logistics camp who rushed to make several large nets overnight, and the craftsmen especially looked for linen cloth and satin with a certain elasticity, processed into hemp rope and woven into nets, and fixed them with wooden frames, and then had a certain angle of inclination.
This kind of net does not really rely on the net rope to bear the gravity of the falling rock, so even the net can not withstand the bombardment of a few falling rocks, so it is still with the help of the buffer of the net to resolve the falling force of the falling rock, and finally let the falling rock fall down the inclined plane of the falling rock under the action of its own gravity.
Of course, for Zhu Weijun, as long as he can resolve a few rocks thrown by Cao Cao from the city, he will be able to find an opportunity to break through Cao's army's resistance on the city wall.
Once the area of the city wall controlled by Zhu Weijun expanded, then Cao Cao would not be able to threaten the Zhu Weijun who attacked the city wall with a stone-throwing machine, and then Zhu Weijun would be able to find an opportunity to kill the city wall and Cao Jun in the city, destroy those trebuchets, and then enter the city to capture Puyang City.
At the same time, as long as Zhu Weijun can occupy the city wall, he will also have a condescending advantage, and he can also send archers to shoot the Cao army gathered in the city and assist Zhu Weijun to attack the city, which is equivalent to the advantage of Zhu Weijun controlling the city wall.
In this way, around the morning of the next day, Zhu Wei's army approached the east city of Puyang City again.
Thus, the battle against Puyang City began again.
However, this time it was Tai Shici's Divine Arrow Battalion that took on the task of ascending first, and the Divine Arrow Battalion also sent nearly 10,000 soldiers first, forming a siege army of 3,000 people outside the city wall.
Tai Shi Ci and his subordinates also directly entered the first batch of siege army sequences, waiting to kill the head of the city as a sharp breakthrough to the interception of Cao's army.
Although Huang Zhong objected to this, there were really not many generals in Huang Zhong's Huainan camp who could be called famous, plus some of them were still staying in Shouchun City, and now after Chen Ji died, Huang Zhong really had no one else to fight again.
And Tai Shi Ci's Divine Arrow Battalion brought almost all the subordinate generals over, plus Zang Ba's Taishan Army is temporarily attached to the Divine Arrow Battalion, so Tai Shi Ci's side can let five or six generals go into battle together, which is still very meaningful for breaking through the Cao Army's defense line.
In this way, in order to ensure that Zhu Wei's army could capture the outer city wall of Puyang City, the first sequence of siege arranged by Zhu Wei included Tai Shici, Chen Wu, Bao Long, Zang Ba, Sun Guan, and Sun Kang.
This is equivalent to the six generals directly charging forward, and the follow-up Divine Arrow Battalion and other generals of the Taishan Army will also follow, Zhu Wei is bound to win today's battle.
As the war drums rumbled in Zhu Wei's army, Tai Shici, Zang Ba and others soon hid in the shield formation formed by the soldiers and rushed up to the city wall.
At the beginning, it was like yesterday's battle, Cao Jun did not come up to stop it, in fact, there was no way to come up to stop it, Zhu Weijun's thunderbolt catapult and the archers on the mobile arrow tower were also not vegetarian, enough to make Cao Jun dare not appear in the area of the city wall where the mound ramp leads.
In this way, Zhu Weijun quickly rushed to the head of the city along the mound ramp, and then Tai Shici and Zang Ba each led a part of their troops and rushed to both sides.
At this time, Cao Jun also sent troops to intercept it, intending to block Zhu Weijun in a section of the city wall area and continue the previous tactics, but soon they found that Zhu Weijun seemed to have come up with a new thing.
With the appearance of Tai Shici, Zang Ba and other generals, they charged in front with soldiers and horses, and gradually expanded the control area of the city wall.
In this way, the stones thrown up by the catapult placed by Cao Jun in the city can only occasionally jump over the net and smash on the city wall, so although it can still bring some damage to Zhu Weijun, the chance is already very small.
Of course, Cao Jun didn't know what the point of Zhu Weijun had come up with this net at first, and they soon began to throw rocks and arrows.
However, Cao Jun was very surprised to find that the rocks they threw up fell on the net, although the net shook for a while, but it also quickly relieved the gravity brought by the rocks, and finally the rock was buffered by the force, and then slid down the slope of the net structure, and then slid down the inner wall of the city.
At the same time, many of the feather arrows thrown by Cao Jun were also blocked by the net, and they became decorations hanging on the net, and they did not do any harm to Zhu Weijun who rushed up.
On the contrary, it was the archers of Zhu Weijun who quickly appeared on the inside of the city wall, and shot a counterattack of feather arrows at the Cao army that was densely arrayed under the city wall......