309. Don't let them dig the city
"Where is Huang Zhong, where is Huang Zhong, come out and fight!"
Seeing that Wei Yan led his troops back to the city of Youxian County, Pang Yan did not chase after him on horseback, let alone take advantage of the situation to attack the city, but shouted loudly under the city again, wanting to find Huang Zhong to come out and fight.
"Hmph, General Huang is not in the city, otherwise how can you be arrogant, if you want to fight, you will attack the city, what nonsense are you talking about, come to someone, he dares to step forward, and shoot him with arrows!"
Liu Pan listened to Pang Yan's shout, and also responded loudly on the city gate tower, but he really didn't dare to send people to fight Pang Yan alone, but just ordered the soldiers on the city wall to draw bows and arrows to aim at Pang Yan.
And Liu Pan's soldiers on the city wall looked at Pang Yan who was shouting like a black god in front of the city gate, playing with Wei Yan's helmet, and they couldn't help but feel a little afraid in their hearts.
The guards behind the arrow stack, holding the bow and arrow in their hands, but when they looked at Pang Yan from afar, they were a little panicked in their hearts, and they would subconsciously look away a little.
Later, in the command center of Zhu Weijun, Wang Yuyan stood on a mobile platform, saw the movement in front of the gate of Youxian County from a distance, and issued the first phase of the siege order.
"Knock...... Knock Knock...... Boom...... Knock knock ......"
The military order drum sounded at the war drum military platform located in the command center of the army, and then the command flag was also waved in the air, so Ling Cao took the Xionglu battalion with 4,000 crossbowmen, escorted a thousand auxiliary soldiers and pushed twenty cave house carts, and rushed towards the front of the city wall of Youxian County.
As they approached the city wall of Youxian, Ling Cao and his four thousand crossbowmen merged into the three thousand sword and shield armies led by Pang Yan, and together they set up a formation in the direction of the city gate of Youxian, and they would protect the cave houses and carts that filled the moat, and would not be destroyed by the soldiers and horses killed in the city.
This is actually the real siege method, Zhu Wei attacked the city several times before, and let a few cave houses slowly fill the moat, the main purpose is to delay time.
But now that it is a real siege, of course it needs efficiency, how can tens of thousands of troops wait for the cave house car to slowly fill the moat.
Therefore, more than 20 cave house trucks transported landfill materials back and forth at the same time, and put bamboo rafts and earth and stones into the moat of Youxian County, and soon a road could be filled in on the moat of Youxian County.
This time to attack Youxian, Wang Yuyan naturally also brought black powder.
Therefore, when the cave house car fills the moat, it can dig the city wall directly close to the rammed earth city wall in Youxian County, and then bury black powder to blow up the city wall.
A small county town of the size of Yiyou County, just using rammed earth and some broken stones to form a city wall no more than ten steps thick, it can't stop the explosive power of black powder at all, and it should be able to blast a gap in the city wall.
Since Zhu Wei developed black powder, he has changed a lot of military tactics, especially in the siege battle, it is not necessary to climb the wall, in the face of a small county like Youxian, it is completely possible to directly blow up or collapse the city wall, or directly blow up the city gate to kill it.
Now that the reinforcements from Changsha Han Xuan and other Jingnan counties have not yet arrived, Wang Yuyan does not have to besiege the city to send reinforcements, she can try to attack the city first and see what the result is.
In this way, Wang Yuyan can return to the army to deal with the possible reinforcements from the four counties of Jingnan after capturing Youxian, after all, the news here cannot be transmitted to other places immediately, and Changsha Han Xuan and other Taishou may not know the battle situation in Youxian.
Military tactics are inherently random and changeable, and it is impossible to rigidly refuse to change according to the predetermined strategy, unless it is a change that will affect the outcome of the entire battle situation, then it is naturally necessary to give up the small family and take care of the overall situation.
However, now the strategic guidelines of the four counties of Jingnan were originally designed with Wang Yuyan as the main body, and Wang Yuyan naturally knows how to adjust her military strategy according to the actual combat situation, which will not affect the overall situation, but will be more conducive to realizing the strategic goals of the four counties of Jingnan this time.
Otherwise, it is obvious that you can quickly capture Youxian, but you just don't fight, you must divide your troops to deal with the reinforcements of the four counties of Jingnan, what if the four counties are too defensive to come to the rescue, and at the same time, what if Liu Pan and Huang Zhong noticed the abnormality and sent troops to take the initiative to counterattack?
After the division of troops, Wang Yuyan will definitely not have many troops left here to besiege Youxian, maybe they will be counterattacked by Liu Pan and Huang Zhong to break through the camp, and then chase and kill another army commanded by Wang Yuyan, and the reinforcements from the four counties of Jingnan are flanked on both sides, so that Wang Yuyan can't advance or retreat, and carelessly loses Jingzhou.
Therefore, military strategy is to wait for an opportunity to move and change according to the trend.
Today, Wang Yuyan led a large army to attack Youxian, just to test the combat strength of Youxian and see if Youxian could block Wang Yuyan's thunderous blow this time.
If you go down to the county in the first battle, then the battle will be better fought later.
After about half an hour, more than 20 cave houses on Zhu Wei's side had already filled in the moat of Youxian County with enough passages for the cave houses to get close to the city wall.
So four or five cave carts crossed the moat along the passage and went directly to the rammed earth city wall made of yellow clay and gravel in Youxian, and the soldiers inside dug up the city wall with shovels and hoes.
This movement inevitably made Liu Pan and Liu Pan's soldiers on the gate tower of Youxian County panic, they really had never seen this kind of siege method.
When the cave house car filled the moat, they had no way to stop it, the bows and arrows and rockets shot down on the city wall had no effect at all, and there were Pang Yan with four thousand crossbowmen and three thousand sword and shield men in front of the city wall to guard them, thinking of the strength shown by Fang Cai Pang Yan, no one dared to go out of the city to destroy these cave house cars.
So Liu Pan could only watch Zhu Wei's cave house cars fill in the passage on the moat in Youxian County, but now he couldn't bear it anymore when he saw these cave house cars sticking to the city wall and starting to dig the city.
"Quick, stone, burn with oil! They must not be allowed to dig through the walls! ”
Liu Pan hurriedly commanded the guards on the city wall, trying to destroy the cave house cars below, and now he can finally use the method of defending the city to destroy these cave house cars.
"No!" "No! ”
The two marquis obeyed the order and went down to command their men on the city wall, and began to throw stones and oil cans and torches on the cave carts, and these soldiers who defended the city finally began to play their role.
"Whoa... Bang...", "Bang...... Whew......"
For a time, a rock the size of a millstone was transported by the soldiers defending the city, and it was smashed into the cave house car under the city wall, and a jar of fire oil was also thrown down, and as the tank smashed the fire oil and dispersed, the torches dropped on it also immediately ignited the fire oil, and a puff of flames burned here.
Although the cave house car can block arrows, although the top structure also has a certain unloading force design, but in the face of such an attack, it is still a little unable to support, the roof of a cave house car was smashed by rocks, and then with the fire oil leaked in, soon smoke from the inside to the outside.
The auxiliaries hiding in the cave house car hurriedly pushed the cave house cart back and retreated, but they were also veterans who had been trained to see blood, so they didn't panic because of this, but just kept pushing the cave house cart and fled beyond the range of the bow and arrow on the city wall, and then escaped from the cave house car......
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