At the same time as the battle of the west city wall began, outside the south city wall, Zhao Kuangyin also mobilized his troops to launch an offensive, as usual, he first launched remotely with a trebuchet installed on the top of the earthen platform, and after sweeping the female wall battlements on the outside of the city head, he sent out archers to shoot in array on both sides of the city gate, and pushed the chariot slowly close to the city gate with two thousand sword and shield hands. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

There are two kinds of rushing cars, divided into four-wheeled type and six-wheeled type, the four-wheeled type is simple in structure, only the bottom of the wheel sits to support the wooden frame, hangs a ramshell about three zhang long, often needs a large number of troops to cover and assist from the side, because this kind of inability to cover the enemy's attack, it is easy to break down and become an obstacle, and it will generally be dispatched to hit the door when the victory comes.

The six-wheeled punch has a certain defensive force, the hammer is four zhang long, the wooden frame supported is one zhang wide, and a long wooden house is built with raw cowhide covered with wooden planks, and the top is a pointed slope to both sides, which is convenient for the boulder to be unloaded when it hits. The cabin can accommodate 50 to 100 soldiers, and once the cart is pushed into position, some of the soldiers can stay inside to operate the hammer, and the other part can come down to assist in the battle.

The car was quickly pushed to the city gate and fixed in place, and the iron-clad mallet head that stretched out of the wooden house hit the city gate with a "bang", and on both sides of the ramshell in the wooden house, the two rows pulled the ramshell together, so that it kept hitting the door back and forth.

Because the car was too long, there was a long section of the outside exposed outside the city gate hole, and the boulders falling from the city made a muffled sound from the cowhide roof, and the cabins also trembled for a while, but at this time, the crossbowmen behind the side kept throwing arrows at the city head, making the boulders thrown by the enemy intermittently.

At the same time, on the earthen platform far from the city gate, the trebuchet stopped, but dozens of bed crossbows were fired in unison, and a wave of dense three-foot-long arrows flew away, piercing the city wall with a loud thud, dust everywhere, and brick chips splashed.

After several rounds of firing in a row, the city wall looks like a thatch growing from a distance, and the top and bottom are staggered to form a layer, and when the ladder is dispatched later, the soldiers can continue to climb with huge arrows once they are in danger.

The bed crossbow is also a heavy crossbow, also called a winch crossbow, and the big bow in the power part has two to four bows, of course, the tension of the bow arm is also different, but the principle is the same. The upper winding requires a twisted shaft, and five to ten people operate one with a small apparent pull, and fifty to one hundred people with more than three bows.

The arrows used are hardwood as rods, and the iron pieces are feathers, that is, short spears with feathered tails, called "one gun and three sword arrows", and the penetrating power is quite strong, and now the siege is used to "step arrows", the arrow shaft is flat, and a single arrow can be fired up to three hundred and fifty steps. You can also put soft pockets on the crossbow string and bow arm, each pocket can hold ten arrows, and when fired, it presents a swarm of bees, the scene is very spectacular, and the range of this "jackdaw arrow" is 300 steps. To ensure range and penetration, it is common to have one arrow in one pocket and ten arrows in a crossbow.

At present, there are not many heavy crossbows equipped by the forbidden army, and the whole army is less than 500, and there are a little more horn bow crossbows and wooden single crossbows, probably only about 1,000 units, because these equipment usually need to be maintained, and the scrap rate is very high after the first war, plus the consumables such as arrows, which are very expensive.

When the car was still hitting the door, after the seven-round heavy crossbow was launched, the heavy trebuchet was calibrated and fired again, and the huge stone bullets flew into the air with a roar, drawing a beautiful arc and falling to the city head, and some fell on the city head horse road and jumped, causing a series of damage and killing, but most of the stone bullets smacked the low wall on the inner side of the city head, so that both sides of the horse road were unobstructed, and once the soldier formation was crowded, it was easy to fall down the city wall.

At the same time, the Chinese army ordered the flag to wave, and the infantry formation that was waiting behind the front army soil platform was clustered around a squatting tall ladder to advance forward, approaching more than ten steps under the city wall like a wave, and more than 100 sword and shield hands pulled the rope that went down from the pulley circle, so that the other two ladders dragged upside down on the wooden roof of the ladder slope turned up, and were raised high and obliquely to the head of the city.

The ladder is also divided into light and heavy, light is a small one, the bottom of the four-wheeled wooden house accommodates a little less soldiers, the top of the ladder is two sections, the operation is more convenient, the same periphery and important parts have raw cattle and thick wooden planks protection. But the heavy is a wide base supported by six wheels, and a hundred soldiers can be squeezed into the wooden house, and the bottom section of the ladder on the top is obliquely upward, about one zhang wide and four zhang long, and the other two sections of the fold are gradually narrowed and shortened, and the longest one is seven zhang, because it needs to be tilted at a certain angle when building the city wall, and the bottom section can be adjusted so that it is just on the head of the city.

The whole city wall except for the open space two or three hundred steps wide behind the city gate, the whole line has a cloud ladder turned up, the tail end of the big iron hook in turn on the city head, firmly hooked, then the base of the wooden house on both sides of the carriage open, the soldiers inside shouted, along the outside of the ladder upside down, with three people in a horizontal row holding the big shield upward. The formation at the bottom is dense and conducive to defense, but by the second section of the ladder is reduced to two people in a row, and at the same time, the load of the ladder is reduced to fly upward.

When the trebuchet strikes intensively, the Liao army at the head of the city will be far away from the city to dodge, or enter the city tower, corner tower, watchtower, at this time only a few heavy ones are still firing, and the stone bullets that fall are much less, the soldiers of the Liao army brigade rushed out, holding iron owl horns, fork rods, hook rods and other long weapons to pry the ladder iron hook, and with heavy axes, sledgehammers to beat the city bricks, break the power point of the ladder big iron hook, fork rods, hook rods can be used together, you can overturn the ladder full of Zhou soldiers.

Or pull to the side, because there are more soldiers on the ladder, the top of the ladder is too heavy, and it is easy to fall to one side if it can't bear the force, so that the base is overturned together, but more often the middle section is broken at once.

The broken ladder had to be pulled away for urgent repairs and to make room for it, which was very laborious and time-consuming, and the ladder behind continued to step forward to fill the position, so that the offensive was endless. The battle on the entire wall was extremely fierce, and from time to time the ladder was pulled down and overturned, and the soldiers on the ladder fell in groups, and the casualties continued to increase.

"Herald! Order the front team to retreat for a short rest, add ten ladders and attack again! Seeing that the cloud ladder at the head of the city had overturned fifty or sixty percent, and the remaining small part was difficult to work on, Zhao Kuangyin's face was as black as the bottom of a pot, and he had to order a pause.

"My lord! It was not yet noon, and more than 20 ladders were damaged in a round of offensive, and if they were added, there would be no equipment available by the afternoon! Seeing that the offensive was unfavorable, Zhao Pu frowned and persuaded.

"How can you not be effective in the first offensive? Send someone to see how the battle is going on at the Western Wall Wall. Zhao Kuangyin said with a calm face.

"They have internal responses on their side, and they will definitely do their best to storm in the morning, and it may slow down if they have to cooperate with the city in the afternoon, so we can cooperate here and contain some of the defenders!" Seeing that Zhao Kuangyin's face was not very good-looking, Zhao Pu didn't want to say more, so he turned his head and commanded the guards: "Zhao Anye!" Go to the Qingjin Gate to see the battle situation and report back quickly! ”