Chapter 116: Siege
Above the head of Xiangping City, Zhang Chun stared sleepily, he looked at the trebuchet pushed out by the Han soldiers, and a puzzle appeared on his face.
Zhang Chun knew in his heart that those trebuchets were the support of these Han troops, and they were also the siege weapons that these Han troops had made before.
It's just that he couldn't understand how such an ugly thing made of wood could send out such a big stone, how it could hit so far, and he felt that he couldn't resist it.
Looking at the trebuchet pushed out by Gongsun Xu, Zhang Chun's somewhat lost face slowly turned into perseverance.
He swore in his heart that he made up his mind, I must not let these things decide the outcome of this time, I must defend Xiangping City, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu comes, Lao Tzu will fight with him to the end.
The Han army outside the city is only 10,000 people, he has never seen what kind of battle, if he wants his good head, then exchange his life, and fill that life!
He has no way out, he can only fight to the end, he Zhang Chun can be regarded as a famous general on the side of Youzhou, and it is unknown who will have the last laugh in the end.
Under Xiangping City, Gongsun continued to look at Xiangping City, which was waiting for him, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He put on a posture of attacking the city on three sides, and even divided the trebuchets into three groups, preparing to carry out a covering destruction attack on the head of Xiangping City.
Seeing that all the soldiers had reached the established position in good spirits, Gongsun Xu shouted loudly: "Order, all the war drums are beaten, and the trebuchet will begin to attack the city."
The rest of the soldiers put on a siege posture, and the soldiers who officially attacked the city moved forward to exercise the formation of the siege, and returned immediately after walking fifty meters, and did not enter the attack area of the archers on the Xiangping side. ”
This was the first day, and the main thing was to exert his deterrent power on the soldiers of Xiangping City, and the trebuchet swept the soldiers on the city walls and the tools to defend the city.
First beat the momentum of the soldiers defending the city, so that a kind of idea rose in their hearts that Xiangping City could not be defended at all.
Gongsun Xu even thought in his heart that he would have to act according to such a situation in the next few days, and when the soldiers on the other side of Xiangping City were already frightened and no longer had any fighting spirit, that would be when he officially began to attack the city.
Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju on their side, the more they put on a fight to the death, the more they let their soldiers climb the city wall, the more beneficial it will be for the future trend, and he is afraid that Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju will not do this!
Zhang Chun saw that the soldiers of the Han army were about to attack the city, and he immediately ordered to go down, and all the soldiers on the three walls were in place, strictly guarding the place he had arranged, and there must be no slackness.
Even at the north gate where the Han army did not put soldiers, Zhang Chun ordered the reserve soldiers in charge of firefighting to keep an eye on it, and not to be careless.
Not long after Zhang Chun finished arranging, the trebuchets of the Han army began to exert their might, and the Han soldiers even put on the appearance of imminent siege.
Gongsun Xu did not have any certainty about the direct siege of the city, and at this time, what he wanted to do was to first weaken the strength of Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju's regular army, rather than directly attack the city and fight with Zhang Chunqiu Liju's men.
Xiangping is a strong city, and there are a large number of people living in Xiangping, if Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju are really ready to fight him, then the people in this city will even be his enemies.
The first thing he wanted to do was not to attack the city directly, but to weaken the military strength of Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju's regular army.
The more than 100 fine works that Gongsun Xu sent into Xiangping City before attacking Xiangping, they are not decorations, as long as Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju show their defeat, then they can play a decisive role in Xiangping City.
Zhang Chun immediately stood on the tower of the city gate to supervise the battle, and ordered the soldiers on the city wall to prepare to defend the city.
After the trebuchet was officially activated, a dense rain of stones began to pour down on the head of Xiangping City.
The huge stone falling on the body of the defenders of the city can directly slap several soldiers of the city with the meat sauce of the city, even if it touches or touches a little, it will also directly seriously injure or kill the soldiers defending the city.
Those boulders don't just hit and die, they will hit the oil pot used to defend the city, they will hit the ground above the city wall, and just the small stones that fly up on the ground already have considerable power.
Although these things are not as good as the guns of later generations, and they cannot be compared with the shells of later generations, the damage brought by these boulders to the soldiers defending the city is not something that ordinary siege equipment can achieve.
Zhang Chun's soldiers cried and cried under the blows of several rounds of stone rain from trebuchets, and even some soldiers hid behind the battlements, but they did not escape the catastrophe.
If these huge stones were only for a while, they would still be able to hold on, but when this kind of huge stone appeared, after some intervals, a new round of blows began.
There are new changes to this kind of blow, and the stones may have been far away from them before, but after this period of adjustment, the landing points of these stones have changed, and they can directly hit their side.
Zhang Chun listened to the drumbeat of the Han army's imminent siege and saw that the soldiers of the Han army began to rush out of the large array, and he immediately gave the order for all the soldiers to stand in the established position.
Not to mention that it is raining stones in the sky now, even if the sky is stabbing at this time, he also wants to let the soldiers defending the city occupy the established position, so as not to let the Han soldiers easily attack the city.
The Han soldiers had a very strong ability in siege warfare, once those Han soldiers were allowed to reach the city wall with siege ladders, coupled with the covering blows of arrows and trebuchets, the Han army would succeed if they didn't get a good picture.
In the enemy's first attack on the city, he must easily repel them, only in this way can he calm the hearts of the soldiers defending the city.
Now that the enemy army is attacking the city on three sides, he must fight with a hundred and twenty spirits to deal with these Han soldiers and deal them with a painful blow.
However, what made Zhang Chun puzzled was that after the Han soldiers had been beating drums and cheering for a while, they had not yet reached the range of the archers of their defending soldiers, so they retreated in disgrace.
The more Zhang Chun looked, the more he felt that there was a conspiracy on the Han army's side, and the more certain he was that he must not have any slack at this time.
The soldiers on the three walls were stationed on the walls, and their casualties gradually increased, and many soldiers had fled in fear.
They didn't care if there was a team behind them, they only had one thought in their hearts, they really couldn't withstand the demon law on the Han army's side, and now they had to withdraw to have any hope of survival.