Bloody battles in the rear, and the same is true in the front!

The bloody battle in Yizhou, at this moment, has already made both sides feel that it is difficult to ride a tiger.

In the era when there were no cannons, the way of siege passed on the precedent. The Liao people have been sinicized for a long time, and naturally they are no exception. A cloud ladder from the Warring States period, with wheels at the bottom, can be moved; The ladder body can be lifted up and down, carried by manpower, and leaned on the city wall; The top of the ladder is equipped with a hook to hook the edge of the city and protect the head of the ladder from being pushed and destroyed by the defenders. When the soldiers push the ladder to the side of the wall and lean on it, the soldier can then climb the ladder and engage the defenders in hand-to-hand combat.

Before the Liao people attacked the city, they also built a lot of such ladders, but because the construction period was too short, the quality was worrying.

If there is enough time, I believe that there will be siege vehicles to cooperate, but unfortunately the number and quality of siege vehicles are far from keeping up with the requirements of the war. Ancient siege vehiclesThe general siege vehicles were wooden and equipped with four or six wheels underneath, some were eight wheels; The main weapon of the siege vehicle is a thick log suspended from a beam with a rope or iron chain inside, and has a metal head at the front end, mostly cone-shaped, called a battering ram.

During the siege, the soldiers in the siege vehicle grabbed the battering ram and moved backwards and slammed into the city gate, relying on inertia and kinetic energy to destroy the city gate. We can see from movies and TV series that the soldiers are shouting neat slogans, pulling battering rams and hitting the city gates.

Although Guo Yaoshi's department was not strong, it was still possible to hold the entrance of the city and not let the other party's already small siege vehicles come to help.

Of course, if none of these can be used, there is another big killer. The Liao people's siege of the city will also be much smoother!

That's the heavy crossbow!

The most representative is the three-bow bed crossbow! Three-bow bed crossbow, also known as "eight-cow crossbow", the arrow is made of hard wood as the shaft, the iron piece is the feather, the size is like a javelin, the range can reach more than 1000 meters, a veritable big killing weapon, in addition to being widely used in field warfare, it can also be used for offensive and defensive warfare between cities.

It's a spectacular thing to fire at close range, nailing straight into the walls. When the salvo was fired, hundreds of "javelins" were driven into the city wall, and the siege soldiers could climb the edge of the city.

It's a pity that the patent has not been in the hands of the Liao, ha, so now the siege of the city, the Liaons do the logistics with the catapult.

Catapults were used in the Spring and Autumn Period, and became an important weapon for attacking and defending cities after the Sui and Tang dynasties. It is a type of ancient chariot. Mounted on the body, bullet stones. Because the sound is like thunder, it is called the thunderbolt car.

The first large-scale use of catapults in the history of Chinese warfare should be Li Xin's attack on Chu, the Chu army secretly prepared a large number of catapults, when the Qin army crossed the river, it was suddenly launched at the same time, countless sharp stones smashed into the Qin army like dark clouds, 200,000 Qin troops were completely defeated, and Li Xin himself committed suicide in defeat. You can see the power of catapults at that time.

Obviously, though, having enough of them takes a terrible scale. At this point, it is impossible for the current Liao army to achieve such a state!

However, while the Liao people used the people as cannon fodder as an attraction, they also used some good hands and dead soldiers to use grappling hooks and go up the city wall. The grappling hook was attached to one end of the rope and thrown onto the wall, so that the soldier could climb the wall, but it was very risky, and when he climbed halfway up, he was discovered by the enemy, and he cut the rope with a knife, and the man fell.

Even if no one finds out, or doesn't miss before going up. After all, this is not the right way, and the manpower that can be on the city wall is also limited, unless all of them are martial arts masters who are one against ten, it is impossible to form a suppressive effect.

For this reason, the dead manpower of the Liao people was greater than the loss of attack.

To say that there was no cannon in the siege, (the Ming Dynasty only developed to the extent that the cannon was numerous and popular. Under the premise that the most suitable method is nothing more than to besiege the city and not storm it.

Surrounded by heavy troops, cut off your food and water, starve you for three or five years (usually a few months), you have to open the door and surrender.

It was terrible to be besieged by enemy troops, with food dwindling day by day and physical strength weakening day by day...... There have been many incidents in the history of warfare in which people were eaten because of the siege.

Of course, it's still an old saying. The Liao people don't have such time to watch Guo Yaoshi, there are wolves in front and tigers in the back, and their hearts are not steady.

Xiao Gan, who felt that he wanted to fight and try it, drove his sons and daughters, and there were more people, who attacked the city wall of Yizhou again and again, plastering all over the wilderness, and they did not hesitate.

It's a pity that even if Guo Yaoshi was hit by an arrow in his left eye, he would go to the city wall with armor to suppress the formation. Yue Fei and the others also helped up and down to the end of benevolence and righteousness, but fortunately, the other party's preparations for attacking the city were not enough.

Both sides suffered heavy casualties, and again and again, the ladders above and below the city wall were cut down, and the soldiers who were attached to the ants to attack the city were driven down, and they only gathered towards this piece of the hedgehog of the shield array. Above and below the city, there are wounded and dead bodies everywhere, and the hell on earth is the same as the underworld, and it has long been turned into a mass grave.

The battle around Yizhou was too tragic.

In the so-called war, no one is spared, and there is not much difference between the people in the city and those outside the city. In order to protect himself, Guo Yaoshi mobilized war materials, which was also full of hegemonism, and at this time, the former reputation of benevolence and virtue was completely ignored, and the first thing was to keep the city.

But all the people of the city, men over ten years old, must come and cooperate in defending the city. The women were all the staff to help, and all the grain and grass in the city were collected for public use, and only those who participated in the war and those who helped the war could share a bowl of food.

However, anyone who secretly conceals food or does not obey orders, regardless of men, women, and children, can be killed on the spot, and the military law will be corrected.

These days, the people who died on the city wall are also countless, and they lack actual combat experience. Most of them were in the unbearable eyes of Yue Fei and others, and if they didn't pay attention to it, they would be stabbed by stray arrows.

As the number of Liao people pouring onto the city wall increased, the people in the city gradually became indifferent. It's really numb from the battle, and some people even want to die in this battle, which can be regarded as the end.

The people can have the despair in front of them, the soldiers can have it, but the generals must not have it.

Pharmacist Guo gasped heavily, and after saying a few words, he couldn't keep up with his breath. After all, the body was too bad, but he was still fighting for the risk of heavy bleeding from the wound, and he couldn't help but open his mouth to shout at the soldiers of the army in the city, and said:

"At this point in this battle, Xiao Gan came in person, and he did not hesitate to use the Khitans to fill the city, and he might admit defeat to Xiao Gan. But the rear must be tight, and there are other changes, maybe the support of the Song army will arrive soon, Ah Rong will come back, Ah Rong will come back, and the Song army will come. Let's hold on for another three days, no, hold on for another day, hold on for another day, and there will be results! ”

Guo Yaoshi was seriously injured but did not lie on the couch, and he would go to the city wall to survive and die with others before the battle. The coach is like this, and he should return as a soldier. People's hearts are flesh and blood, and taking everyone to kill this last one will immediately raise the last bit of morale from the victorious soldiers.

The crowd shouted and shouted words that they couldn't understand, and then glanced at Yue Fei and the others who were also in the battle, and they all nodded heavily. He clenched the steel knife in his hand again.

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