It seems that the explosives can't be made, but the method of siege in the cave can be used. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Shen also knew that he had cut a little bit at the beginning, and unlike in the field battle, this kind of tough battle had to be patient and relied on the mutual cooperation of small units.

At that moment, he organized people to build pontoon bridges and make siege equipment.

Before the equipment was made, some troops had already dug tunnels and were ready to dig into the city in one go. Then let the armor soldiers who had already been ambushed inside jump out, open the city gate, and enlarge the army into the city.

However, it was not easy. The tunnel was discovered by the enemy as soon as it was halfway dug. The Sizhou army was digging here, Kong Yanzhou was digging there, and finally, everyone met underground. The inside was too narrow, and after stabbing each other a few times with spears, the Kong family army retreated.

At this moment, suddenly, a stream of water came out from the other side of the tunnel, instantly filling the entire underground space. The poor Sizhou soldiers who entered the tunnel didn't have time to escape at all, so they were drowned alive.

In just one night, more than 30 soldiers were lost, and all of them were elite veterans, so angry that the officers couldn't stop wiping their tears.

Wang Shen was strange in his heart, he was digging a tunnel, and it was not a secret. In order to prevent being discovered by the enemy, the construction is usually started at night, and it is far from the city wall, so how can it be exposed?

Later, when a prisoner was caught, it was only through interrogation that Kong Yanzhou had buried dozens of large urns behind the city wall, and used the acoustic principle of the amplifier of later generations to send people to monitor day and night. As soon as you hear that something is wrong, gather people and horses to dig in opposite directions.

Qichun City is high and there is a river next to it, so the groundwater is abundant. The thief didn't know how to find the water vein and lead it to the tunnel.

In this way, the siege of the cave can no longer be carried out, and it can only be fought hard.

The siege of the city is the most brutal battle in the cold weapon war, especially for the attacker, it is simply filled with human lives!

When it came to sending so many Pao Ze brothers to death, Wang Shen couldn't make up his mind no matter how hard his heart was.

There is also an evil fire in his chest: damn Kong Yanzhou, obviously he is invincible, why don't he break through and escape. Lao Tzu still understands the truth of the siege of three and one people, and he will definitely let your remnants out of the city, and then chase and kill them. But the annoying thief wants to defend it, and I don't know what he is waiting for?

Probably seeing the hesitation in Wang Shen's heart, Chen Da suggested: "You might as well conquer the young and strong Qi and Huang prefectures, and issue weapons to drive them to fight in the front." ”

Wang Shen felt a chill in his heart, and shouted: "How is it possible, I don't know how many people will die in this battle, how can a certain person be able to kill the people as a defense envoy of Huangzhou, are you trying to make the people regard me as an enemy, and I can't gain a foothold here?" ”

Chen Da: "The Lord is benevolent and righteous, and we are respectful." Since you can't bear to drive the people to the battle first, the captives of Kong Yanzhou's army who were captured by our army can be used, so let them fight themselves. ”

He also said: "If the lord is worried about their riots, he can transfer officers from the old army to control them, and enforce strict punishment and strict laws." ”

Hearing him say this, Wang Shen was greatly moved. In the last decisive battle, he captured more than 10,000 horses of Kong Yanzhou. Later, after screening, four or five thousand were selected to be incorporated into the armies with healthy soldiers. The rest of the nearly 6,000 men and horses were all sent to the local area to be used as auxiliaries.

That's a lot of human resources!

At that moment, Wang Shen ordered that all these horses be transferred, and each of them was issued with a simple short knife. When there were no more weapons, they were filled with sharpened sticks.

At the same time, after many days of preparation, dozens of siege equipment such as ladders, catapults, rushing carts, and goose carts were also manufactured.

At dawn the next day, ten catapults roared and fired boulders at the city wall across the river, causing smoke and dust to fall into chaos. On the slightly trembling city wall, the people who were driven up the wall by Kong Yanzhou shouted loudly and squeezed around, and people were constantly beaten into meat sauce, and the power was very amazing.

In the roar of catapults, the ladder and the rushing car staggered and drove up the pontoon bridge, and little by little they approached the Qichun City Gate.

Behind were the captive soldiers who were as black as ants and screaming and pressing up, Chen Da stood on the bank of the river with a knife and shouted: "Rush up, rush up, kill all the thieves!" Fear not former, military law engaged. The envoy said that those who bravely kill the enemy will be rewarded! ”

"Here you go, here you go!" The people of the Judge Advocate General's Office had already lined up a row of bamboo baskets by the river, and when they saw a soldier coming up, they grabbed a handful of copper coins and stuffed them into his arms: "Be a soldier and eat food, eat food and be a soldier, straight lady thief, don't you want money?" ”

Seeing the money, the eyes of the captive soldiers were red.

A fierce battle for the assault and defense of the city began.

But at this time, the catapults in the city also began to return fire. Unlike the previous time, where there were only a few planes, the artillery stones thrown this time were extremely dense, and the scores were extraordinarily accurate.

The whole sky was a whistling millstone, and when it fell, the entire surface of the river was covered with splashing water.

The captives screamed and fell one by one.

A cannon stone hit the rushing car, and the sawdust flew in the air, and the axle mounted underneath broke. The thick, long log came horizontally, swept the four soldiers down in one go, and pressed them directly into the water.

The river is now only a foot deep. It was this shallow current that drowned dozens of people.

"Why is it so powerful...... Could it be that the enemy's point of impact has already been measured, and there are masters in the city! Wang Shen gasped.

Another boulder flew in, and an arrow cart was pushed right in the middle of the river. There was a shooter standing on it, who couldn't stop shooting his crossbow towards the city wall, and got a lot of results. But at this time, the arrow cart was knocked down by a boulder, and the shooter fell into the water with a scream, never to be seen again.

The people in the cart shouted at the same time, and they all dodged and scattered cleanly.

Fortunately, the Sizhou army prepared a lot of equipment, and in a few moments, one after another long ladders were hooked on the battlements. The red-eyed captives, led by the officers, climbed up with short knives in their mouths.

Seeing that the first soldier was about to climb over the pheasant moat, suddenly, one after another, long bamboo poles swept over, like whips, and swept the soldiers directly.

It turned out that Kong Yanzhou had already installed many thick long bamboo poles on the city wall and bent them in advance. When the attacking soldier climbs up, he puts it on the rope.

In an instant, the black captives on the walls of the city wall were gone. At the base of the wall, there were all wounded people who were groaning loudly with broken tendons.

The officers of the Sizhou Army shouted at the same time: "Climb up, climb up, hurry up!" "After the enemy's bent bamboo pole is released, it takes a while to rewind it, and this opportunity should not be missed.

But at this time, an unimaginable scene appeared. I don't know when, a row of shelves was pushed over the city wall, and if a crane was there, a long cantilever stretched out of the battlement. On the top of the long arms hung a large board full of long nails, and when the captives were halfway up, the nail boards fell with a bang and fell on their heads, nailing out all the brains.

At the same time, the people on the city walls were replaced by archers from regular troops, and feathered arrows were shot down like water.

There were thousands of captives piled up on the walls, so dense that each arrow could easily hit one person.

Wang Shen: "The catapult continues to fire and suppress it." Don't shoot randomly, concentrate on one place to fight! That's it, the castle tower location. ”

In an instant, more than a dozen cannon stones fell on the city tower.

Only one dilapidated mud house was built on the castle tower, and after a burst of gunstones, it finally collapsed tremblingly. A large puff of yellow dust spread out, enveloping the entire heaven and earth.

In an instant, both sides could not see, and even the catapults in the city stopped.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the two building cars finally swayed and leaned against the city wall. The armor sergeant, who had already squatted on it and was shaking and vomiting, was amazed, shouted and waved under the leadership of the officer, brandished his weapon and jumped up the city wall.

"Qichun City can be regarded as broken." Under the banner of the Chinese army, the officers were all happy. The offensive and defensive battle of Qichun has been delayed for so many days, and today it can finally be over.

But the smile on their faces instantly froze.

I saw that in the smoke and dust, the enemy suddenly had a new trick. A row of wheelbarrow-like instruments pushed up, and when they hit, they easily knocked the soldiers who had just climbed into the city out of the city.

"Semen knife cart?" Gu Lie, the veteran of the Western Army, gritted his teeth and creaked.

As a knife cart for the gate, it is a defensive device used to block the city when the city gate is breached. Twenty-four steel knives are mounted on the front knife wall, which can be used to push the cart to the gap in the city gate, which can not only kill and injure the enemy, but also block the enemy's arrows and stones. In this way, it is difficult for the other party to climb and form a barrier to activity. It is a very sturdy two-wheeled vehicle, and because of its small size and flexibility, it was actually carried up to the city wall by the enemy.

It was such a tragic death and wounding, but in less than half an hour, the captives paid more than 500 casualties. If you continue to fight like this, it will only take a few days, and you will be exhausted.

The combat effectiveness of the captive soldiers is naturally not as good as that of the regular army in Sizhou, and they also lack tenacity in their bones. Seeing that the number of dead and wounded was about to exceed one percent, he was immediately afraid. I don't know who started it, everyone shouted, and they lost their armor and retreated like a tide.

The men of the Judge Advocate General's Office were shocked, and they raised their knives and slashed indiscriminately, and finally caught up with the soldiers again.

And so it went on and over several times, and it gradually got dark, and the whole day passed.

Wang Shen can be said to have exhausted all the means and used all the siege equipment, and the Qichun City Tower was also collapsed by him, revealing the yellow rammed earth inside, but he still failed to enter the city.

On this day, the captives left 500 corpses under the walls and in the river, and more than 1,000 wounded. It's good that it's not a field battle, otherwise the troops would have completely collapsed.

"Pull it down, that's it for today, and we haven't suffered much." Wang Shen ordered: "Although he is a prisoner, since he has joined my Sizhou army, he should not be given a penny." Seriously injured and unable to fight, he was sent back to Huanggang for treatment. The enemy is not having a good time, let's work harder tomorrow and must take Qichun. ”

According to the sight of the enemy on the opposite side, at least one or two thousand died under the swords, arrows and artillery stones, and the wounded were incalculable. After all, they were all ordinary people before, and they were driven to the city to fight by Kong Yanzhou, but they were still not as good as the regular troops. Even the captives who couldn't be rotten any longer.

"Yes!"

Immediately, more than a thousand archers advanced a few hundred paces forward, shooting up the rain of arrows in the sky, covering the retreat of the attacking troops step by step.

On the city wall, more than 100 Qichun people who were using poles to turn over long ladders were suddenly shot into hedgehogs.

In the blink of an eye, the shouts and screams gradually subsided. In the setting light, the sandstone walls were covered with shocking black traces, human blood.

Although he spoke easily, Wang Shen couldn't help but be suspicious in his heart. Today, Kong Yanzhou's army's tactics are remarkable, and the equipment for defending the city is also full of tricks, so someone must have pointed it out.

That's where it gets tough.

Should I send the elite first?