For a few days, Zhang Yue ate and lived in the craftsman camp, personally supervising the work, but there were too many new hands, and he could indeed build thirty planes a day, but there were nearly half of the defective products, many of which could not be installed because of the wrong interface, or barely installed, but crooked. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There is also a wooden wheel covered with raw cowhide that sits at the bottom, the spokes are not strong enough, and it is easy to break, and there is a problem, it is difficult to turn without dead ends, and if you want to turn, you can only turn in a large circle. If you move sideways, you can only move back and forth.

Of course, it would be much easier to have no wooden wheels, but in that case, at least fifty soldiers would be needed to operate a trebuchet, which would be too wasteful. And the troops are still a little insufficient, and they can't afford to be extravagant at all.

Only trebuchets are not enough, and there are at least five or six rushing cars that hit the city gate, which also requires a large wooden wheel with a base bracket, and a rod of iron-clad pointed head to hit the mallet, which is necessary for siege. There are also ladders and goose carts, which have not been built for a while, and wooden ladders are simpler.

On May 21, the sky was about to dawn, and the soldiers of the Zhou army left the camp with breakfast. Wang Jing led his headquarters of 4,500 Fengxiang troops to line up outside the north gate, while Zhang Yue led his headquarters of 6,000 people to form a formation outside the east gate, and attacked from both city walls at the same time. The two armies were each equipped with 60 trebuchets and 3 chariots, which was enough for the siege.

This time it was a tough battle, Zhang Yue didn't dare to slack off, with his own soldiers plus the three battalions of Hao Tianying's horse army as the middle army, and then the second army under Li Chuyun, Luo Yanhuan's three armies had a total of nine battalions, changing tactics for the first time, not fighting with a separate army, that move was five battalions, and it must be a front and back, left, center and right, too stiff. Instead, it is a modern mode of operation, with battalions as units for flexible deployment.

In midnight, the sun had just jumped out of the horizon and the battle had officially begun. Zhang Yue first transferred a battalion of the three armies to deploy the trebuchet to 250 steps outside the east gate, which was the effective killing distance.

Then a battalion was also used to rush the cart, with 200 people pushing the cart forward, 200 shieldmen covering, and 100 crossbow blockers shooting accurately to ensure that the rushing cart could hit the door smoothly. Behind them were two hundred soldiers carrying sixty large wooden ladders, like a long snake swinging horizontally behind a trebuchet. Behind each team of ladder men, there were fifty sword and shield men, ready to follow up and ascend the city.

The commanders of the battalions will deploy their troops in place according to the order, and then return to the team, the whole army formation is silent, 6,000 troops wear helmets and armor, and spread out horizontally like a steel jungle, and the morning wind blows the flags and hunts.

Zhang Yue left the Chinese army with a horse, trotted a horse one hundred and fifty steps away under the city wall, and walked back and forth twice, observing the weakness of the Shu army's defense, but this distance is far away, it is difficult to see anything, only the thickness of the Shu army's strength, as well as the equipment situation, and deeper problems such as morale and tactics can only be known after fighting.

Of course, the ability of Wang Huan and Wang Wandi, the assassin of Fengzhou, is not very good, otherwise, there is absolutely no reason to defend the city. Zhang Yue looked at it and roared a few times before returning to the battle, and it was necessary to give a pre-war lecture. The soldiers of the Forbidden Army immediately responded, roaring like a tsunami.

Zhang Yue was very satisfied, and trotted back to the Chinese army from the gap between the military formations, and shouted the order: "Trebuchet launch!" ”

The trebuchet is still a new class, and it must be manually ordered. Yang Xuanli, the head of the pro-soldiers, immediately sent a team leader and ran to the front with a small triangular red flag and shouted. The commander in charge of dispatching the trebuchet waved a red flag in his hand, and his subordinates began to shout orders.

One of the gang commanders happened to be in charge of two trebuchets while also loading stone bullets. The team is the actual commander, each team of twenty, one is forty, and the rest of the troops are standby, and are responsible for adjusting the elevation angle, moving the position, and carrying the stone projectile to the front of the formation.

The long row of men raised the sledgehammer and slammed it, and the whirring sound became one, and the stone bullets flew into the air like raindrops, gradually turning into small black dots, and falling towards the city. Some hit the battlements of the city wall, and some hit the watchtower at the head of the city, and bounced three or four times when they hit the city bricks on the ground. Some directly hit the soldiers at the head of the city, and immediately blood splattered everywhere, and miserable howls erupted.

A tentative wave of projectiles made the Shu army panic, and some soldiers ran directly, but they were immediately cut off by Fengzhou Thorn Wang Wandi with the supervision team, Wang Huan also personally commanded and dispatched in the city, and he could still suppress the bullets, but he also lacked experience in dealing with the attack of trebuchets.

The only thing Wang Huan has to rely on is that the troops are sufficient, and there are 5,000 mighty troops under his command, plus 2,000 people temporarily recruited in the past few days, which is more than enough to defend the city.

The trebuchet launched wave after wave, and the ten-pound stone bullet roared with huge force, and the momentum was amazing, many battlements were knocked down, and the wall revealed a large gap. The soldiers screamed in fright and scurried for hiding. The Minfu was even worse, completely hiding behind him, and a long row shrunk at the foot of the battlements, shivering.

An hour later, thousands of stone bullets were all fired, causing at most five or six hundred casualties to the Shu army, but it completely broke the courage and determination of the Shu army to resolutely defend the city.

With the sound of a "bang" drum from the Chinese army, two rows of sword and shield men escorted the hundred-legged centipede-like rushing cart forward. Then two drums sounded, and the ladder hand also stepped forward, not fast at first, but solid and powerful. The soldiers who were ready to enter the city also followed the ladder man, rolling forward like a tidal wave. The Chinese army also moved forward to three or four hundred paces, which was convenient for close observation and command.

The closer to the city gate, the faster the car runs, the speed of the flight crashes into it, the city gate makes a loud bang, the dust swishs down, the wall head Shu army is frightened and screams again and again, holding high the rolling wood and stones obtained by demolishing the houses in the city and smacking down, but there is a shield behind the driver under the wall, and the injury is limited.

The top of the car is a slope from side to side like a roof ridge, and is covered with a layer of raw cowhide, and the surface is also coated with grease, and the masonry is slid away when it falls on it, and it is not broken in one or two strokes. Inside the eight-wide rushing car, there were two rows of soldiers holding on to the ramshells hanging from the top to hit the city gate back and forth, and the banging sound was non-stop.

On the top of the city gate, hundreds of soldiers are dealing with the rushing car, the soldiers on both sides are holding hooks and forks, as soon as they see the wooden ladder on the city, they immediately pull to the side, or support outward, this is the basic tactic of defending the city, the soldiers of the Shu army lose their courage, and the effect is greatly reduced, one by one they yelled in fear, it is difficult to form a joint force, and they can barely push off a part of the ladder.

The soldiers of the Zhou army were in order, and it was common for the ladder to fall, and the soldiers behind immediately stepped forward to help them up and put them up again.

At the same time, the trebuchet outside the north city gate also stopped projectile, and more than 4,000 Fengxiang troops pressed all at once, and the car hit the city gate, and 60 wooden ladders were set up in rows, which shared more than 2,000 troops of the Shu army at the head of the city. In addition to the damaged wooden ladder, the rest are falling and riding in waves, one after another, but each one has a certain number of casualties, so that the Shu army has always been contained in place.

Half of the mighty army of Fengzhou Prefecture is tooth soldiers, and their combat power and fighting spirit are a little stronger than the vegetable soldiers guarding the village in the north, plus Wang Wandi strictly supervised the formation, and after cutting off three or four hundred heads, the soldiers did not dare to run, so they had to defend to the death.

Wang Jing's side failed to achieve a large-scale landing in the city, and Zhang Yue's side was the same, it was useless for a few dozens of people to enter the city, there was no fierce general to open the way, and it was difficult to gain a foothold under siege.

Of all the cities, the weakest part is the gate. Although the Fengzhou city wall is tall and strong, but the city gate is not made of iron, under the continuous impact of the rushing car, the city gate cracks like a spider web, and the inside is supported by heavy objects such as stones, and the door bolt is difficult to break.

Seeing this, the driver immediately stepped back a distance, and hit the axle instead, and the huge iron hinge finally could not stand the force, and gradually twisted out of the city wall, and finally made a loud noise, and opened with a bang.

The sword and shield bearers who were holding shields on the side, some of them were full of arrows, and they cheered in unison, and rushed towards the city from both sides of the rushing cart, and the rushing riders also jumped down and followed.

"The car rush is really powerful, it's not in vain that I spent a lot of effort!" Zhang Yue muttered a sentence and ordered the Chinese army to advance and attack through the East City Gate. Seeing this, the ladder men on both sides also gave up climbing the ladder to the city, and followed the Chinese army to kill in the city.

Just when Zhang Yue broke through the city gate, Wang Jing also led his troops into the city from the north gate, and the two troops entered at the same time, and soon divided the troops to seize the city gate, and most of them went to the city along the long street, seized the state government, controlled the streets, and recruited stragglers, and the battle ended at noon.

After a hurried lunch, Wang Jing went out to settle the people, and met with the gentry in the city, and put Wang Huan, Zhao Chongpu, Wang Wandi and other Shu generals under house arrest. Zhang Yue was busy counting the treasury, collecting the prisoners of war of the Shu army, and asking the prisoners of origin to be treated differently. As long as it is a native of Qin Feng, it will be incorporated to assist in patrolling the city and reassuring the people, and weapons will not be given for the time being; Those from other places did not have this treatment, and they were kept in strict custody.

In the evening, Wang Jing held a banquet in the hall of the state government to celebrate, all of them were generals in the army, as well as several state officials and local gentry, a few tables of people were seated, the wine and food had not yet come up, and everyone was talking and laughing. At this time, the soldiers patrolling outside the city reported that Zan Jurun came with grain and grass.

Zhang Yue sent Li Chuyun out of the city to greet him, and waited with Wang Jing in the official room of the assassination of the state yahoutang. After a while, Zan Jurun brought it, and the three of them greeted each other for a while, and Wang Jing asked: "Zan Envoy Jun This is the second batch of grain and grass, can the rear walled city be taken over by dividing troops?" ”

"The prince only needs to go south, don't worry about the back road, the DPRK has already ordered the Yongxing army to arrive, and in the near future 10,000 troops will go south to take over the city defense, and ensure the supply and demand of logistics."

"That's good! A certain has received a military report from Xingmin to capture Liuba, but Zhang Jianxiong's department in Qinzhou does not know where it is? Wang Jing was a little worried, Zhang Jianxiong's 5,000 soldiers had to go to Chengzhou to join him, but there was no news so far.

On the 15th, Zhang Jianxiong saw that he was unable to break through Qinling County, so he wanted to detour to Dongcheng to the south, but Han Jixun went out of the city to block it, and the two armies fought a big battle, and Zhang Jianxiong was blocked back. This is the battle report, the prince can take a look at it first. Zan Jurun took out a roll of thin silk from his bosom and handed it to Wang Jing, but handed two other letters to Zhang Yue.

"General Zhang is unstoppable all the way, gratifying, and there is also your letter, from Tokyo!"

Zhang Yue looked at the cover of the letterhead, and the handwriting on it was sloppy, and it looked like Bian Ji; The other letter is handwritten with beautiful and upright handwriting, which is written by his wife Fu Jinqiong. Zhang Yue got up and walked out, and after reading his wife's letter, he suddenly lost his mind for a while, and he actually became a father, and couldn't help but smirk. (To be continued.) )