Chapter Ninety-Three: The Siege

Wei Wuji saw that what he did was ineffective, waved his hand and ordered, and let them come down. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wei Wuji until mid-August, under the county of Dunbinghuai, pinched his fingers and counted, and now it has been more than 20 days.

Now Wei Wuji's troops are sufficient, and tens of thousands of young men have been recruited from Hanoi, and they are fighting in formation, and the white blades are connected, which may not work, but under the cover of the guards' bows and crossbows. It is possible to fill up the river with earth, or even dig a hole and dig a city.

Wei Wuji's siege equipment was also well stocked, some of which were transported from Baimajin, and most of them were trebuchets.

Although these trebuchets are also counterweights, because of the defects in the process and other aspects, they naturally can't return the cannon, throwing hundreds of catties of boulders hundreds of steps away, and even half of this data is not there, but in this way, it is also the top siege weapon of this era.

Under the city of Huaixian, the guards built siege equipment, mostly cloud ladders. Although the sum of the two items is not much, it is enough to deal with a small town.

After the last battle, the guards had been resting for a while, about ten days. In the past ten days, I have paid attention to the fact that the veterans have recovered from the shadow of the last battle, and you have allowed the recruits to recover from the shock of the first battle. Morale is restored, enough for a fight.

The three elders failed to persuade him to surrender, it seemed that it had no effect at all, Wei Wuji didn't care at all, he waved the flag, and the guards in front immediately got the order, and the neatly arranged military formation suddenly opened a few gaps. Thousands of strong men poured in from the gap.

They are of different shapes, some hold weapons and some do not hold weapons, the most conspicuous is two rows of strong men, holding huge shields of equal height, standing on both sides respectively, naturally some people put the huge shield on their heads, from the city, can only see the strict as if a long dragon of wood, straight to the moat.

The strong men who were recruited were in this corridor of giant shields, carrying bags of soil, running quickly, throwing the soil into the river, and taking the sacks back. Fill the soil again, and repeat it. The moat shrank to the naked eye, as if some monster was biting down on it.

Wei Wuji made Hanoi his foundation. Naturally, it is impossible to really use the children of Hanoi as cannon fodder. Because of its geographical location, Dongjun can be said to be in the middle of the world, bordering Yan and Zhao in the north, Qi in the east, and Wei Chu in the south. Wei Wuji is not very insecure, but the situation in Hanoi is much stronger than that of Dong County.

Although it is also the land of the Central Plains, there is Taihang in the north and a big river in the south. There are only a few dangerous passes to defend in the west, and a large river in the south, so you only need to guard a few crossings. There is no danger to defend in the east, but Wei Wuji's current disaster is in the west, not in the east.

Therefore, as soon as Wei Wuji came to Hanoi, he wanted to swallow Hanoi into his stomach to make up for the lack of Dong County.

In this way, Wei Wuji naturally wants to give preferential treatment to the children of Hanoi. If it weren't for Chen Ping's strategy, even if the troops were under Huai County, Wei Wuji would not easily recruit Hanoi soldiers.

However, the children of Hanoi deserve to be the children of the Three Rivers.

The so-called children of Mikawa are naturally not the scum of the Tokugawa family in Japan. It was the main force of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to attack the Xiongnu in the north, that is, the children of Hexi, Henan, and Hanoi.

Even if there was no repair, naturally there were village parties who restrained each other, cooperated with each other, and in terms of discipline, there were already some troops who had fought in battle, and it was impossible to see that they were just newly recruited peasants.

Wei Wuji had to be honest, in terms of the source of troops, Hanoi was better than Dong Jun.

However, the city will not watch the moat being filled, and for a while, the crossbow machine collapsed, and the crossbow arrows seemed to shoot down with eyes.

These river reclamation soldiers only need to pay the slightest attention to the cracks. There will be dozens of arrows that will shoot the people behind the shields to death.

The guards naturally can't sit idly by, without Wei Wuji's order, the guards have already stepped forward a few steps, countless soldiers with crossbow arrows, lined up in a horizontal column, the first shot, after the first row, the second row makes up, after the second row shoots, the third row makes up, the entire crossbow arrow horizontal array has as many as seven or eight rows, and the arrows are shot at the city head in waves, most of them are shot on the female wall of the city wall.

However, the purpose of the guards was not to kill the enemy, but to suppress the crossbow arrows at the head of the city, so that others could fill the river with peace of mind.

The moat had already been cut off upstream, and bags of dirt were thrown in for a while, and several passages were filled in in just one morning.

lest the dirt be unreal, and you won't be able to pass heavy objects. Logs are also filled into the river. On the top floor, from a distance, it looks like a wooden bridge made of logs.

Wei Wuji didn't expect the progress to be so fast, and he had to say that there was strength in numbers. There are also Hanoi soldiers who are particularly adaptable to the battlefield.

Just because you have a shield to resist it doesn't mean that the crossbow bolts are not powerful at all.

The shield is just a dead thing, and there is a foolproof plan in the battle array, so every team that fills the earth is not unscathed, and from time to time someone falls to the ground, and the arrows behind him tremble.

Don't talk about them, even the guards who shoot at the head of the city, it's not the case, from time to time a few people are taken away by crossbow arrows, but the Qin soldiers at the head of the city are not comfortable, and from time to time a few corpses fall from the head of the city. When you die, you will have to break your bones and tendons.

When facing death, although the Hanoi soldiers were surprised, sad and scared, they still firmly remembered their tasks, and their movements were not deformed.

Originally, he ordered the river to be filled today, but he didn't think about doing anything else, but when he saw that the Hanoi soldiers had completed the task ahead of schedule, he immediately said: "Try the trebuchet today." ”

Immediately someone said, "Yes." "In a short time, there are dozens of trebuchets pushed out from the rear of the guards, these trebuchets compared to the Puyang City, because of the simple trebuchets can not be said to be the same day at all, only to see a trebuchet is several zhang high, especially the long lever, even higher than the Huaixian city wall.

When you move, you don't just have to use animal power. Fortunately, the man put the log under the trebuchet and rolled forward little by little, so that all the cavalry of Yang Leopard became infantry, whether it was war horses or pack horses. Mules and horses, or donkeys, even oxen, all of them, four or five large animals pulling, dozens of soldiers pushing, and a whole number of soldiers guarding outside.

It is not far from the guard camp and Huaixian County, but even so, it has been pushed for several hours. By the time the trebuchet was set up, the sun was also a little westerly.

Dozens of people operated the trebuchet, and they fiddled with it for a while before it was ready.

When all the trebuchets were ready, a heavy drum sounded, deafening. Dozens of soldiers slashed down and cut off one of the trebuchets' ropes, and the counterweight on the trebuchet slammed into the ground, whipping up a cloud of sand. But no one paid attention to them, for all eyes fell on the stones thrown by the trebuchet.

Several dozens of pounds of stones, drawing an elegant arc in the sky, crossed the Hanoi soldiers who were filling the river, and also crossed the crossbowmen of the guards who were shooting at the head of the city, and even passed over a surprised soldier at the head of the city, and fell heavily into the city, smashing into a place that everyone could not see.

Even so, everyone sighed, and their confidence in the siege rose by several percentage points at once.

And the stones thrown by dozens of trebuchets are actually not accurate at all, the stones thrown together, the arcs drawn are different, and the landing points are different, some of them fell into the city just now, and some of them did not fall on the city wall at all, but fell in the moat, and fortunately, in the moat, although there is not much water, but there is definitely a lot of sludge. Once a stone is thrown into it, it will not jump out.

This is the majority of the stones fell into the city wall, and a few smashed on the head of the city, and suddenly opened a few blood alleys at the head of the city, and a few of them also smashed on the city wall, making the entire city wall tremble.

But this is not to say that there is no problem with this trebuchet, it is like a few stone bullets that have fallen into the moat, and if they were any closer, they would have opened a few bloody alleys among the guards.

Of course, this question can also be said to be a matter of experience, but another question is very different.

After only one shot, these trebuchets all had major or minor problems, and even one of them was no longer usable and had to be overhauled.