Of course, Zhang Lu didn't think that this qiē was really a coincidence, only because Wang Xu came from the later generations, and he saw and looked at things from different heights and angles, so he made this preparation, and the biggest purpose was only to prevent trouble. Unexpectedly, he would hit the right one and beat Zhang Lu's entire plan to a mess. If another person were to take command, and he didn't know his control over the believers, he might really be defeated after a fierce battle, and it can be said that he was really unlucky.

But if that's if, it's a pity that there is no if......

The half-moon period was in the blink of an eye, and all parts of Hanzhong were under control, and Wang Xu finally arranged his troops and launched a frontal attack on Nanzheng.

Seeing the army busily assembled, the entourage will be extremely excited. Many people have never experienced such a large-scale siege battle, and its shock is certainly extraordinary. The dense soldiers stretched as far as the eye could see, as if they could cover the sky and the sun, and they discharged various queues, divided into countless phalanxes and slowly marched towards Nanzheng. Tall siege ladders, siege towers, arrow towers, hook ladders, giant crossbows, rams, giant hook ropes and other siege equipment, there are too many to count, just a glance at the momentum is suffocating.

"I don't know which general the lord intends to send to attack the city first today?" Seeing that the morale of the army was also full of confidence, he asked calmly.

"Siege?" Wang Xu raised his eyebrows, the corners of his mouth showed the iconic arc, and said with a wicked smile: "Who said I want to attack the city now?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the military general Wenchen was stunned and puzzled.

Wang Xu didn't answer, but asked out loud: "Wen Liang, if the stone bombardment of Nanzheng is carried out, how long will the stones and trebuchets currently stored in my Jingzhou Mansion Treasury be enough to support it?" ”

After thinking about it for a while, Gong Qiu replied: "If it is four hours a day." That lasts five days! If it's an intermittent attack. It can last for half a month! ”

"Then smash it for five days." Wang Xu made a decisive decision. Then he added with a smile: "Then use wood to ignite instead of stone, bomb for another ten days, and make a decision after half a month!" ”

"Hiss......" Zhong Wenwu instantly gasped, and was frightened by Wang Xu's astonishing words, which was even more fierce than the original attack on Jiangzhou.

"My lord, is this inappropriate? In this way, all the stone stock will be exhausted, and the trebuchet will probably lose most of it! The public enemy said hesitantly admonished.

Wang Xu was unmoved, waved his hand firmly and smiled: "It's okay!" This time the attack on Nanzheng. was already ready to pay a price, what is the loss of materials. At least the materials can be rebuilt when they are gone, but when people die, there will never be this person. Instead of letting the soldiers sacrifice their lives to create a breakthrough, it is better to pile up materials first, and if there is a breakthrough, even if there is not, then then find a way to do it then. I don't plan to pile it up with my life. ”

Hearing this, the civil and military forces were silent for a long time, but it was not easy to answer again. They all nodded in agreement.

As the Jingzhou army approached Nanzheng, Zhang Lu hurried to the city. Seeing the dense Jingzhou army and the countless siege equipment, my heart suddenly felt cold and worried. But in reality, he did not usher in the fierce battle he imagined, but instead endless stones, and huge trees wrapped in fire oil and burning.

Dozens of huge trebuchets launched an intensive bombardment of the eastern city wall of Nanzheng, and the burning giant trees and stones were continuously tilted to the head of the city of Nanzheng. The military generals of Hanzhong had never seen such a method of warfare, and they were dumbfounded by such a consumption of materials. But they soon understood the power of such an attack, and the burning giant trees smashed on the walls, causing great casualties and psychological pressure on the defenders, and could set the attic at the head of the city, as well as the various wooden buildings that were next to it.

Of course, they did not dare to let the fire burn, and if the fire was not suppressed, it would burn badly. Therefore, countless soldiers and believers can only be sent to extinguish the flames, but the Jingzhou army outside the city seems to be endless, just extinguishing here, there is a fire again, and the firefighters are also facing great danger at any time, whether they are smashed or burned, there are huge casualties.

At the same time, the attack of the boulder is more powerful, as long as it is smashed, the strong wall is also smashed into a pit, if it hits the place where the soldiers are hiding, it is a piece of death. And over time, because the walls were affected by the high heat of the flames, the destructive power of boulders falling on the walls or buildings increased exponentially.

Zhang Lu was so angry that his face turned pale, his lips trembled, and he pointed in the direction of the Jingzhou camp outside the city and scolded: "Shameless, shameless!" This Wang Ziyang is really doing everything! ”

Although Han Chinese Wu has long heard that Jingzhou's siege equipment is powerful, and even is improving its own technology, only when it is really faced can it understand what that kind of overwhelming bombardment is like, and only then can it know how hateful and helpless it is. Of course, what shocked them even more was the consumption of money and food represented by this qiē, those trebuchets, stones, and giant trees were all polished by people, these people had to eat and drink, and every time they smashed out was "money". How many soldiers can be fed by these manpower and material resources, how many weapons and armor can be built, and how many skilled craftsmen are needed to research and manufacture such siege equipment that far exceeds the conventional power and accuracy, this is a large expense.

After all, they are different from Wang Xu in concept, in their thoughts, these are all strange and obscene skills, sideways, with such manpower and material resources, it is better to form a powerful army and build more weapons and armor, that is the right way. But Wang Xu is different, he has always firmly believed that even in the war of this era, the combat effectiveness of technology is as important as people, so a large part of the economic development over the years has been used to enrich materials and develop technology. Perhaps this kind of consumption is more than training soldiers, but these materials are dead, but people are alive, and they can replace living things with dead things to form combat effectiveness, so why sacrifice more precious people's lives.

Reducing the number of casualties can enable the people to create more wealth, which is a virtuous circle, and blindly using human lives to pile up, in the war at this time, the cost may be relatively low, and the combat effectiveness is even stronger, but the population is getting smaller and smaller, and the strength is getting weaker and weaker.

For example, if you want to use human lives to bring such a big loss to Zhang Lu, you may need to fill in the lives of 10,000 soldiers, and you can use these materials to smash them, then you can kill 10,000 people less, and the army does not need to add 10,000 more people from the people, and these 10,000 people can continue to cultivate or produce, and they can also hold major events at home to pass on the ancestry.

Then the lost materiel will be quickly replaced. And the population will slowly change from 10,000 to 20,000. Or even thirty thousand. Even if the construction of these materials is far more than enough to feed these 10,000 soldiers. But in reality, in the long run, there is no comparison. The long-term division of the Three Kingdoms in history was enough to bring the population thousands of miles to no one to cultivate, and no one to cultivate the land. Therefore, Wang Xu has always been inclined to suppress the expansion of the army and strive to develop all the material interests obtained from the economy. Most of them are used for redevelopment and the advancement and replenishment of technical materials......

Because of the smashing cover of trebuchets, the towering arrow towers and arrow towers were quickly pushed to the front of the formation, the left, right and front of these arrow towers and arrow towers were covered with cooked cowhide, and the soldiers could be climbed from the rear, and the crossbowmen stood at the top not only to get the cover of the cover, but also to make the condescending advantage of the crossbowmen in the city disappear, and the dense arrow rain poured down on the city, and from time to time several rounds of rockets were fired, making the fire more vigorous, so that the defenders of Zhang Lu were exhausted.

Zhang Lu is also a strong party. Hanzhong is rich, and there are certainly a lot of equipment to defend the city. But in the face of Jingzhou's siege equipment, it was a little ineffective. The Giant Crossbow is powerful and can damage catapults or turrets, but the number is too small. Moreover, the equipment of Jingzhou is based on the concept of siege equipment in later generations, and strives to create a strong defense against the equipment of this era, and its lethality is weakened to the minimum.

Although Zhang Lu has a lot of arrows in reserve, it is not enough to see it in the face of the conventional war of this era, and in the face of a war of attrition like Wang Xu, which is not in direct contact. The shooting between the crossbowmen and the arrow tower in the city tower, Jingzhou can ignore a qiē, as long as he aims and shoots as much as he wants, but as time goes by, Zhang Lu has to start saving money, he has a lot of money to expand the army and raise soldiers, reward his subordinates, and enjoy it himself, how can he think of such a consumption?

After holding each other like this for two days, Nan Zheng was already miserable, and he didn't even come into contact with the enemy's army, but he suffered huge losses. In addition to the death of a large number of soldiers and believers, the consumption of arrows especially frightened Zhang Lu, and gradually began to dare not shoot at Jingzhou, so he could only give up the suppression of the arrow rain at the head of the city and hide behind the cover of the city wall. On the other hand, on the Jingzhou side, as soon as Zhang Lu's crossbowmen withdrew, it was much easier, and the crossbowmen took turns to replace, shooting a few rounds of rockets from time to time, and then firing at the outcropping enemy troops, with ease.

Zhang Lu thought that by removing the crossbowmen, the Jingzhou army should always engage in a white-knuckle siege battle, but in fact, Wang Xu was still unmoved, and instead sent soldiers to push a kind of wheelbarrow to transport soil, and frantically piled it under the higher city wall east of Nanzheng. There were thousands of wheelbarrows pushing like this, and tens of thousands of soldiers carrying shields on their heads, each person carrying a small bag forward, and that was enough, and the moat was completely filled in just one day.

This made the Wenchen generals in Hanzhong dumbfounded, and they were so frightened that they hurriedly asked the crossbowmen to suppress them, but unfortunately, as soon as the crossbowmen appeared, they immediately faced a large number of casualties. Jingzhou's trebuchets are rapidly powerful, and on dozens of giant arrow towers, layers of crossbowmen don't want to shoot, anyway, it's a counter-shooting, everyone has cover, who is afraid of whom! When Zhang Lu couldn't resist the pressure and withdrew the crossbowmen, a large number of soldiers began to carry the earth again.

Zhang Lu's face also changed from iron blue and angry at the beginning, and gradually turned pale and powerless, and finally gave up on stopping this move. If it continues like this, his elite crossbowmen and arrows will be lost, how to fight when the real general attack is carried out? It's just that he still believes that even if Wang Xu breaks through the biggest difficulty of getting close to the city wall, he will have to fight with a white knuckle after all, and it will definitely not be so easy to take his city.

Of course, Wang Xu didn't think that he could take Nanzheng with these advantages, but this qiē was paving the way for a real battle, and when Zhang Lu's advantage in defending the city was eliminated to the greatest extent, it was the time for the two armies to really clash.

After this lasted for eight days, all the stones in Jingzhou were exhausted except for the stones in Jiangzhou and Nanyang, and most of the nearly 1,000 trebuchets that were continuously transported to the front line were also destroyed. Moreover, although the stone was exhausted, there was still wood and oil, and the next few days continued to be smashed like this, the earth continued to be piled up, and the arrow tower was still suppressed.

Because this battle attracted the attention of all parties, all the princes came to investigate nearby. Such a way of seizing the city, which was contrary to tradition, soon reached the ears of the princes of all parties. After thinking about it for a long time, these princes found that there was no solution to this method, and they actually realized the power of technology, and in the future, they began to accept this new war idea, attached importance to the development of armament technology, and even used everything to steal each other's technological achievements......

This is not to be said, when the fifteenth day of Jingzhou's attack on Nanzheng, and it was also the day when Jingzhou's army came to Nanzheng City for exactly a month, the last trebuchet was completely scrapped in a crisp sound of "crunch", bringing a towering earth slope that approached the top of the Nanzheng city wall of only one meter, as well as the dilapidated Nanzheng city defense. At the same time, in half a month, Wang Xu successfully took the lives of more than 6,000 soldiers and believers in Nanzheng at the cost of losing hundreds of people, which also means that the real general offensive is about to begin...... (To be continued......) (To be continued......)

PS: The second watch is here!