Chapter 76: The Qin Army's First Siege Battle

On the second day, the Qin army began to attack the city of Saluo head-on, the sky was just dawning, all kinds of siege ordnance of the Qin army were already in place, densely lined up one mile away from the city, just waiting for Qin Feng's order, they would attack the city with all their might. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

The art of war: the siege of the division must be que, since ancient times, the siege of the city, must besiege three sides, leaving one of them missing, so that the defenders of the city have an escape channel. Otherwise, the siege will be on all sides, and the defenders of the city will fight desperately when they see that there is no way out, so that if they want to break through the city, the price and casualties will be extremely heavy.

The Qin army attacked the city the same way, 60,000 troops surrounded the east, west and south of the city, with 20,000 troops in each direction, equipped with cloud towers, cloud ladders, nest cars, catapults, wooden ox attack vehicles, pointed wooden donkeys and other siege equipment countless people.

Only the northern city wall did not have the Qin army, which was reserved for the escape of the city of Salo. The military prince Wang Yanbo and the lord of the city of Tobulo, Sai Jianbuluo, each led 5,000 troops and horses to guard the Qin army's grain and grass camp, and another 20,000 cavalry remained in the Chinese army in order to gallop to the aid of all parties.

Qin Feng stood on the hillside, looking at the city of Kansaro in the distance, on the wall of the city, the lord of the country Bi Liuli and the military advisor Hong Chou also looked at the Qin army outside the city. If yesterday's battle was the first time the two sides fought, then today's offensive and defensive battle is the best place to test the combat strength of both sides.

I saw Qin Feng give an order, and the colorful flags of the heralds behind him waved again and again, and the rumbling drums of the Qin army also sounded. After the 60,000 Qin troops received the order, under the cover of the fire of catapults and crossbows, they began to slowly advance towards the city of Kansaro.

At present, the Qin army has more than 300 catapults, and each city wall is set up with 100 planes, and with Qin Feng's order, these catapults will project stones weighing up to 100 catties towards the city of Kasaro.

These stones were covered with flammable materials soaked in fire oil, and wherever they were struck in the city of Kanzaro, there were bursts of fire. The nearby Sergeant of Kanzaro City was either stoned to death or burned to death by fire, and the impact was not insignificant.

However, Hong Chou, the military commander of the city of Kasaro, had already prepared, and at intervals on the city wall, there were large urns filled with water in all the key places in the city. Once the fire broke out, the prepared soldiers of Kanzaro City picked up their fire extinguishing appliances and began to extinguish the fire. Therefore, although the Qin army's catapult was amazingly powerful, the damage to the city of Saluo was not great.

And under the city wall, the Qin army before the military formation, also formed several bow and crossbow arrow arrays, the Qin army currently has a total of more than 10,000 crossbows, more than 10,000 crossbowmen are half lying on the ground according to the order, and the back loader is loaded with arrows, the crossbowmen step on the bow, pull the waist with their arms, pull the bowstring with the strength of their whole body, and give an order with the commander: "One!" Two! Put "! More than 10,000 crossbowmen fired their arrows in unison.

"Whoosh! Sou! Whoosh"! The sergeants on the walls of Kanzaro fell to the ground with arrows in an instant.

Although the Qin army shot at an elevation angle, the range and shooting effect were not as good as before, but the Qin army's foot crossbow had a range of up to 200 zhang, which was far from the Tianzhu people's bow and arrow with a range of only tens of zhang. Catapults continued to throw boulders wrapped in fire oil, and in an instant, the walls of Kanzaro burst into flames, and everywhere people were burned or killed by arrows.

At this time, the sergeant of Kasaro City was completely in a situation of being passively beaten. The Qin army's foot crossbow has a range of up to 200 zhang, and the range of the bows and arrows they use is only 50 zhang away.

If the Qin army had countless arrows, the soldiers of this siege battle would not need to be used, and only the crossbows would continue to fire arrows, and the soldiers of Kansaro City would not be able to support it for a few days. You go down to the city to hide, the Qin army is bound to take advantage of the weakness, you go to the city to defend against the enemy, the Qin army can shoot you, but you can't shoot the Qin army, can this city still be defended?

It's a pity that although the Qin army's foot crossbows have an extremely long range and are quite amazing, these foot crossbows and arrows are also expensive. Let the Qin army shoot non-stop, I am afraid that this battle will not last for three or five days, and the Qin army will die of poverty and starvation!

Hong Chou, who was standing on the city wall, saw these arrows shot from outside the city, and lost his mind a little, these Qin army arrow arrays are more than 100 zhang away from here! Whether it is the land of the Central Plains or the country of Tianzhu, I have never seen a bow and crossbow with such a long range!

Could they really be the legendary First Emperor's Legion hundreds of years ago? Legend has it that the First Emperor's legion is a strong bow and crossbow, the best in the world, and every time it is matched, it must first release arrows to deter the enemy. Who could have had such a powerful crossbow legion if it weren't for them? Only the legendary invincible army will have such momentum!

At this time, Hong Chou already believed that the Qin army under the city was definitely the First Emperor's army hundreds of years ago, although this idea sounded extremely ridiculous, but the facts were in front of him, so he had to believe it!

In addition, the soldiers of the Qin army who were slowly advancing were more than 200 zhang at the beginning, except for the thistles and horse repelling rifles and antler wood arranged by the enemy, only catapults caused a lot of trouble to the advance of the Qin army. Fortunately, the Qin army was formed into a military formation of hundreds of people, and they were quite separated from each other, and these huge stones flying from the city of Kazaro did not have much practical effect except for their amazing power.

When the Qin army advanced to 50 zhang, the overwhelming rain of arrows began to pour out from the city of Kansaro, although the range and power of the bows and arrows used by the Tianzhu people could not be compared with the Qin army, but after condescending to occupy the terrain advantage, the power of these arrow rains should not be underestimated, and I saw that the arrows in the Qin army under the city abounded.

Fortunately, the archers in Kansaro City were suppressed by the rain of long-range arrows of the Qin army's crossbowmen, and the number of archers and the number of feathered arrows shot were also greatly reduced, so that the casualties of arrows in the Qin army's array under the city were also invisibly much less.

In addition, the shield defense of each of the Qin army's military formations is quite tight, and even if someone falls to the ground with an arrow, the people next to him will quickly fill the gap. And those Qin soldiers who were shot by arrows, as long as they were not shot in the vital places, they all yelled at the city wall: "Thief, your mother"! Then he slashed the feathered arrows with his sword and continued to advance towards the city of Kanzaro.

At this time, the Qin army attacking from three sides had already advanced to the foot of the city of Kansaro, and the bow and crossbow phalanx in the rear no longer released arrows, otherwise it would not be shooting the enemy army, but the enemy and the enemy. After all, the arrows shot out of the city did not recognize which ones were the Qin army and which ones were the soldiers of the city of Kasaro.

After the Qin army approached the city wall, they first destroyed the antler wood, then moved away from the horse repellent, and then erected a moat bridge, and all kinds of siege ordnance began to approach the city wall. This action is simple to say, the Qin army that carried out these specific tasks, almost more than half of the casualties were hit by arrows.

After the Qin army approached the city wall, they set up cloud ladders, cloud towers and nest cars, and the Qin troops in the army array behind them also rushed towards the cloud ladder, one by one, like ants, climbing along the cloud ladder.

And the soldiers of the city on the city wall, seeing that the Qin army intended to enter the city, smashed down with rolling wooden stones, and these rolling wooden stones tumbled down, and those who were hit by the Qin army fell down one after another, carrying the soldiers behind them, and also fell down the ladder.

In addition to these rolling wood and stones, there are countless branch-like weapons stretched out from the city wall, several soldiers of Kasaro City held this thing, and slammed it against the ladder, and the ladder was pushed up, not only the ladder, but also the Qin soldiers on the ladder, were pushed to the ground, fell down the city wall and died, and the people who were knocked down by the ladder were smashed to death, under the city wall, gradually covered the ground.

Worse still, the soldiers of the city of Kasaro poured fire oil down the ladder and set it on fire. Under such various tactics, for a while, the three city walls in the east, west and south fell into a tug-of-war.