Chapter 1966: Siege
When Tegu Zhe was still halfway through, Tushi Khan couldn't wait to launch a new round of attacks on Wuping Fucheng.
Turish Khan used thousands of craftsmen, day and night, to hurry up and make siege weapons, without a special designer, the siege weapons are naturally very simple, but enough to form a huge threat to the city.
A large number of strong men were held hostage by the barbarian cavalry, cutting down trees day and night, and in order to have enough stones, half of them were sent to the nearby stone mountains to be mined.
The Heavenly Palace was originally built near the Stone Mountain, although the Heavenly Palace was burned by a fire, but there were a large number of boulders left, in addition, near the Heavenly Palace, a huge stone mountain has also become a mining place, a large number of stones are transported every day, and a large number of strong men fall every day.
Although there was a threat from the Northwest Army, in order to continue to supply, Tushi Khan still sent soldiers and horses to collect grain and grass.
Before the annihilation of the entire army of Jochitai, all the tribes were scrambling to collect grain and grass, and being able to draw a long lot of money to collect grain and grass was enough to make the barbarians excited for a while, but the annihilation of thousands of soldiers and horses still gave a great deterrent to the barbarian tribes psychologically.
The food supply for the barbarians was somewhat insufficient, and it was naturally impossible for Thurish Khan to distribute food from it to tens of thousands of captives, except for the thousands of craftsmen who could still receive a thin ration enough to survive every day, most of the captives had no food to feed their hunger, and they were so hungry that they could only gulp the snow to alleviate their hunger.
Nevertheless, under the super labor, every day there were countless exhausted captives who fell, for which the barbarians dug several large pits nearby, but some people fell, whether dead or alive, as long as they could not get up again, they dragged people to the pits, and in just a few days, several pits were full of corpses, fortunately in winter, the corpses did not stink, nor spread the plague.
Although Tushi Khan issued an order that each squad should make at least five siege weapons per day, it is easy to make ladders, but it is not easy to make siege vehicles and stone-throwing vehicles, and it is already the limit for a team to make three siege vehicles or stone-throwing vehicles per day.
After five days, I rushed to work day and night, but I also made more than 50 stone-throwing vehicles, more than 10 siege vehicles, and more than 10 siege vehicles, and more were ladders to climb the city.
The production of ladders is much simpler, but after a few days, more than 200 ladders have been made.
Tushi Khan was in a hurry, seeing that many siege weapons were made, he couldn't wait any longer, and at dusk that day, he finally mobilized his troops and horses and launched a powerful offensive.
In order to disperse the forces defending the city, Tushi Khan did not insist on attacking only one city gate this time, but divided tens of thousands of soldiers and horses into three, from the east, west, and north to launch an offensive against Wuping Fucheng, due to the limited number of catapults, Tushi Khan felt that if the catapults were dispersed, its attack effectiveness would be greatly reduced, so although the ladders were divided into three parts, and the two soldiers and horses on the east and west sides were given a lot of ladders, and even a small number of siege vehicles were allocated, but the catapults were still concentrated in the north, and it was still the direction of the main attack in the north city.
Before attacking the city, Tursh Khan was the first stone-throwing cart to be made, then let his soldiers test, at the beginning, it was always difficult to master the trick, either missed, or the strength was too weak or too heavy, never able to hit the target just right, Turish Khan specially transferred a group of elite barbarian soldiers, day and night to practice the use of the stone throwing car, a few days, although not to talk about the operation of the skillful, but also generally able to control, the deviation will not be too large.
At dusk, the sound of the bull's horn charge echoed in a low voice between heaven and earth, and the barbarians began to attack the city of Wuping Mansion from three sides, because there were siege weapons in hand, in the eyes of most of the barbarian soldiers, this siege can be said to be nine out of ten, even if the defenders in the city are strong, wait until dawn tomorrow, the "Qin" flag at the head of the city of Wuping Mansion must have fallen.
The roar of the mountains and the tsunami of a tsunami rang out from the east and west, and the earth shook and the mountains shook.
Riding on his horse, Tushi Khan stared coldly at the magnificent fortified city in the distance, which had buried countless barbarian soldiers, his face was cold, but his heart was quite excited, and he couldn't wait to rush into the city and slaughter.
He'd been waiting for a long time, but this time he was confident.
The offensive on the left and right sides has begun, and on the north side of the city, Tushi Khan is not in a hurry to let his cavalry rush over, but dozens of catapults are lined up, behind the stone carts, there are more than a dozen siege vehicles have been waiting for the barbarian cavalry, and many soldiers carry ladders, until Tushi Khan gives an order, they will swarm out.
The catapults finally began to attack.
When dozens of catapults started together, and dozens of huge stones roared towards the heavy city like meteorites outside the sky, Tushi Khan admired the Central Plains people in his heart.
The whistling boulders drew a graceful arc in the air, and smashed down towards the city, although half of the boulders had not yet reached the edge of the city, and several boulders had crossed the city and smashed into the city, but many of them still hit the city wall fiercely, and a few fell on the city.
The boulder smashed into the city wall, and immediately smashed out of the pit.
The stone-throwing cart did not stop, and immediately after the throwing, someone carried a boulder to fill the stone-throwing cart, and it took four or five people to lift a boulder.
While the barbarians in the northern city used stone-throwing carts to carry out a frantic attack on the city, the barbarians on the east and west sides had already launched a fierce attack on the city.
The barbarians are now much smarter, many teams cover, between the impacts, arrows rain, the defenders of the city head can not raise their heads, full of self-confidence of the barbarian soldiers of the elite soldiers, can ride and shoot, in the rain of arrows, from time to time there are soldiers in the head of the city arrows planted from the head of the city.
Although there were archers at the head of the castle who fought back, the force of the counterattack was unusually weak.
The real elite soldiers guarding the city of Wupingfu are less than 3,000 people, and the northern city is the focus of the enemy's attack, half of the guards are arranged at the head of the northern city, and Dingwu has long thought that the barbarian soldiers will divide their troops to attack the city from other city gates, so the remaining half of the guards are distributed in other city gates.
Although tens of thousands of strong men were recruited in the city, and these strong men were also distributed to the city gates, and the shortage of troops was densely covered, but the real soldiers, except for the north gate, were only a few hundred people.
These guards are the main force defending the city, the enemy rushed over, tens of thousands, and they are all good at riding, the opponent layer after layer of arrows like heavy rain poured down, hundreds of soldiers at the head of the city shot arrows to fight back, it is indeed difficult to form a fatal wound to the enemy.
Under the weak strength of the enemy, it is easy to rush to the city, obviously tasting the sweetness of the arrow to suppress the opponent, the arrow rain of the barbarian soldier continues, the barbarian soldier carrying the ladder found a gap, under the cover of the cavalry, has also shouted and rushed to the city, although most of the barbarian soldiers do not know how to operate the stone throwing vehicle, but how to use the ladder, but no one needs to teach, dozens of ladders have been erected on the city wall, shouting and killing, the barbarian soldiers rushed to climb the ladder, to the city head to kill.
Seeing that his companions had begun to climb the ladder, in order to avoid shooting their own people, the arrows of the barbarian archers suddenly slowed down, and at this time, they heard the sound of drums in the city, and the rumbling drums went straight to the sky, and in the midst of the drums, countless heads appeared at the head of the city, and then countless people were seen holding large and small stones, and smashing down from the city.
The barbarians let the defenders see the sharpness of the rain of arrows, and at this time the defenders also began to let the barbarians know the ruthlessness of the stones, the defenders obviously stored enough stones at the head of the city, and the falling stones rained down, crowded under the dense barbarian soldiers under the city, under the falling stones, screaming again and again, there were many people and horses, and they wanted to dodge for a while but they couldn't dodge.
At this time, the barbarians only hoped that their companions on the ladder would be able to quickly climb to the top of the city, as long as they could suppress the enemies at the head of the city so that they could not throw stones, and the people behind them would be able to climb the top of the city one after another.
The barbarian soldiers, who were still some distance away from the city wall, watched the defenders of the city fall with stones, and they all bent their bows and arrows, found the target to shoot, and cooperated with their companions to climb the city.
Suddenly, many barbarian soldiers saw that many people at the head of the city had lifted wooden barrels and poured them down according to the ladders erected on the city walls, and the liquid spilled from the wooden barrels was not only poured on the ladders, but also poured on the barbarian soldiers who had ascended the city.
Many barbarians were puzzled, secretly thinking that there were not enough stones in the city, and the opponent wanted to use cold water to resist, but they didn't think much about it, they saw countless torches suddenly appearing at the head of the city, some people were surprised that the sky was not yet dark, how could the defenders light the torches so early, but saw that the torches at the head of the city were actually thrown down at the ladder, almost in an instant, the ladder was suddenly ignited, and spread rapidly, and those barbarians who were sprinkled with liquid on their bodies were also in a moment, and the whole body was already raging in flames.
The barbarians finally understood that the defenders were not water, but oil, and the torches stuck to the ladder, burning immediately after being stained with oil, and the flames were raging, and countless soldiers who were using the ladder to climb were immediately engulfed by the flames, and in the screams, they fell from mid-air, like fireballs pouring down from the air.
The barbarian soldiers crowded under the city saw the scene above, their eyes were wide open, the fire oil at the head of the city was splashed down, and countless barbarian soldiers were splashed on them, the cold winter was cold, they didn't have time to call the cold, the fire had spread under the city, and in the terrible screams, the defenders at the head of the city seemed to feel that the strength was not enough, and they carried the crossbar from the city head and threw it down, and the crosswood had been stained with fire oil, smashed down, and immediately stoned to death, and the crosswood burned instantly, just a moment, the city was already a sea of fire.
The barbarians who followed behind were terrified when they saw this scene, before they attacked the city, the other party was nothing more than using bows and arrows and falling rocks to deal with it, and the barbarians always thought that the other party only had these two hands.
Now it seems that the Qin army is still too cunning, they have not used such a killing move before, perhaps because their fuel is too scarce, so they waited until today to take it out, and most of the ladders that were finally made have been engulfed by fire at this time, only a few remaining ladders, although the barbarian soldiers are still climbing upwards, but the head of the city is still smashed down with horizontal logs and falling rocks.
They defended the city not only with bows and arrows, but also with stones, wood, and oil, which were not only varied, but also very destructive.
The barbarian soldiers watched their siege weapon ladder burning in the flames, but they were helpless, these ladders took several days to make, and it took a lot of manpower, but in this short time, they were all destroyed, some barbarian soldiers even sighed in their hearts, the ladder was a siege weapon that the Central Plains people came up with, and of course they also figured out how to crack such a weapon.
Although most of the ladders were destroyed, of course, the barbarians were not willing to retreat in this way, although the ladders were destroyed, they still had siege vehicles in their hands.
In fact, when the barbarian army charged, not only were the ladders sent up, but several siege vehicles had also been pushed up.
The siege vehicle was surrounded by sturdy protective gear, and the front end was cut wood, and the wood was wrapped in a layer of iron armor, which was used for ramming.
Although the city gate is wide, but two siege vehicles have occupied the entire city gate, a siege vehicle needs more than a dozen people to push together, at this moment the siege vehicle has been pushed under the city gate, in order to prevent the city head from falling down the boulder, the barbarians have done a strict protection of the soldiers who push the siege vehicle, and there is a circle of barbarians holding shields on the side, each barbarian soldier holds two shields, one side is protected above himself, used to protect himself, and the other side is protected on the top of the head of the cart soldier to protect his companions.
The barbarians did not stop attacking, although most of the ladders were destroyed, but the barbarians still climbed up one after another with the help of the remaining few ladders, in addition, there were more barbarians who still repeated their old tricks, using hooks and locks to climb up, their purpose was very simple, along the entire city wall to attack, their manpower was enough, far beyond the soldiers defending the city, although the soldiers defending the city were condescending, but they had to hold the entire line of defense, but there was a little negligence, they could be found by the barbarians to find a gap and climb to the top of the city.
By using this method of attack, they were able to spread out the strength of the defenders at the head of the city to the greatest extent, so that the pressure on their comrades attacking the city gate would be reduced.
They had used the hook to launch countless attacks before, but each time they had come back with a feather, and this time they didn't think that they could really use the hook to break through the city, but they pinned all their hopes on those siege engines, as long as the siege engines could crash through the city gates, the army swarmed in, and the defenders could no longer do anything.
In the shouting and cheering, the two siege vehicles under the escort of the barbarians slammed into the city gate again and again, the Qin army naturally knew that this was the killing move of the barbarians, although the troops were scattered at the head of the city, defending the entire city wall, but the city gate was crowded with people, of course they would not watch the siege vehicles hit the city gate, so that the barbarians could easily enter.