After a rapid march all the way, Ao Lie led the Youzhou army to Yongnu County at the junction of Yuyang and Youbeiping.

This dispatch is the largest number of troops in Ao Lie's department since his debut. In addition to the elite of the two battalions of Ao Lie's bloody and tiger ben, there were more than 10,000 Youbeiping soldiers to follow the battle; In addition, there are three thousand sailors such as Ganning's Qilin Battalion, which are stuck like nails outside the fat city; More than 10,000 Youbeiping sergeants commanded by Zhao Yun contained Zhang Ju in Yuyang; In addition, there are more than 60,000 soldiers and horses under Liu Yu's subordinates, and the total number is close to 80,000. This is not the final number, with Ao Lie's strong return, the local Taishou will inevitably send men and horses to support Ao Lie. Except for Gongsun Du, who was about to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and Gongsun Zhan, who was besieged in Feiru, several other reinforcements from Taishou should already be on the way. The total number of reinforcements from these places is at least 350,000, which makes Ao Lie command 100,000 people to fight for the first time in his life.

Blocking Ao Lie's northward advance, there are three large counties, in order of Yongnu, Luxian and Anle, Zhang Ju has set up heavy troops in these three counties, in order to block Liu Yu's footsteps. However, now there are some deviations, Liu Yu was injured by an arrow and needs to recuperate, Ao Lie has sent someone to escort Liu Yu back to Jicheng to recuperate, and the power of Liu Yu's troops and horses naturally fell into the hands of Ao Lie, which Zhang Ju did not expect.

Although Liu Yu has a straightforward temperament, he is sometimes not ruthless enough; Although Ao Lie treats people kindly, he never shows mercy to the rebels, except for not killing prisoners, Ao Lie has always been merciless to the rebels. In Ao Lie's words, since we dare to ignore the laws of the Han Dynasty and rebel, we must be mentally prepared to bear all the consequences.

Looking at the Yongnu city wall in front of him, Ao Lie sighed, he didn't want to kill more, but sometimes, he really couldn't help it, in order to maintain the unity of the country, in order to let more Li people live a stable life, Ao Lie had to be ruthless and give a heavy blow to the rebels.

"Pass on the order of the marquis, and immediately attack the city. After the city is broken, those who surrender will be taken into custody, and those who resist will be killed! Ao Lie gave the order to attack.

Tai Shi Ci and Ma Chao respectively led a team of cavalry to run out of the big array, and after running dozens of steps, they suddenly separated, Tai Shi Ci to the left, Ma Chao to the right, and ran horizontally. They were to act as the left and right flanks to protect the Chinese army. Because there were very few elite infantry under Ao Lie, Jia Xu offered a plan to let the cavalry act as a flank and escort the infantry army. This is an unconventional tactic, generally speaking, the infantry guards the cavalry, and Jia Xu's tactic is the opposite. No way, although the cost of training cavalry is higher than that of infantry, but in the end, cavalry is only suitable for raids, not sieges. Ao Lie and Jia Xu are very clear about the principle of making the best use of their talents, so they let the cavalry do the two wings, vacate the middle road, and let the infantry attack the city.

Woowoo woo –

Knock Knock Knock –

The sound of trumpets and war drums sounded successively, which was the tradition of the Han army when fighting, and the horn represented the assembly and preparation of the whole army; The beating of the drum represents the initiation of an attack.

After the three-way drum was beaten, the 10,000 infantry under Ao Lie's subordinates, under the leadership of Pang De, had lined up in a neat line, in front of them were sergeants holding ladders, and beside them, there was also the protection of sword and shield hands; Later were the assault squads, each with their swords in their mouths and round shields in both hands, ready to climb the ladder to attack the city after it had been erected; At the end of the pack were the infantry of the brigade, mixed with some wrestlers who were carrying rams together.

After the first echelon, there were five thousand archers led by Ma Dai, each of whom carried two quiver bags on his back, which contained a full hundred sharp arrows. These archers will follow the 10,000 infantry army in front of them, and use sharp arrows to suppress the Yongnu city wall and cover the siege of the city in front of Paoze.

After the archer queue, there was a team of catapults and arrow towers led by Shi Lian, with a total of ten catapults and five arrow towers. Next to each catapult stood twenty sergeants, who were to later shoot boulders at the walls of Yongnu to suppress and kill; At the same time, on the top platform of the arrow tower, there are also fifty crossbowmen with crossbows standing, who will be condescending to take advantage of the high place to cover the head of the Yongnu city.

The Youzhou Army's stone throwers and arrow towers have a great advantage over other local armies, because Ao Lie once used the knowledge of later generations to improve these commonly used siege equipment. Later, Ao Lie went to Wancheng, Ao Lie's two masters and uncles were not idle, after Wang Ao and Tong Yuan lost the object of training, they were bored, and they were actually interested in these large-scale siege equipment, and on the basis of Ao Lie's theory, they were improved again. Let these two big killers have more power.

After seeing that everything was ready, Ao Lie gently spit out two words: "Siege!" "The long years of killing have honed Ao Lie a lot more calmly, and the style of a general is undoubtedly revealed, and he is not moved at all in the face of the upcoming killing.

With Ao Lie's order, the various echelons began to move, and Pound commanded the 10,000 people of the first echelon to take the lead in attacking; Ma Dai followed, and the five thousand archers under his command were all ready to shoot their arrows, but when they entered the range, they shot the sharp arrows in their hands; Shi Lian, who was the most behind, shouted: "Launch!" After receiving the order, the 200 sergeants guarding the ten stone throwing machines immediately picked up a boulder weighing dozens of pounds and put it in the cannon tip of the stone throwing machine, and then pulled the rope on the winch together, and under the action of the lever principle, threw the boulder loaded in the cannon tip towards the Yongnu city wall.

Whew-

Ten boulders roared into the air, soared into the sky in mid-air, and after reaching the peak point, under the action of inertia, they smashed into the head of Yongnu's city with an arc.

In the face of a big killer like a catapult, manpower is almost irresistible. Six of the ten boulders smashed on the head of Yongnu City, and after each boulder hit the ground, it immediately killed seven or eight rebels, and then rolled forward more than a dozen steps away with inertia, crushing all the rebels on the rolling route into meat cakes; Three of them smashed into the bunkers on the wall because of the lack of angles, and after smashing the wall out of a large hole, they fell down the city with a roar, and then smashed heavily on the ground, serving as a stepping stone for the approaching Pound Division; In addition, a huge boulder flew over the city wall with a roar because of its excessive force, and plunged headlong into the houses of the people in the city, smashing down the homes of a very innocent people.

After the first round of boulder projectiles was completed, Shi Jian urged the sergeant to quickly fill the boulders, and took advantage of the gap between Pang De's troops and the city to throw a second round of boulders. It caused a lot of casualties to the city of Yongnu. However, because it is very inconvenient to fill the boulder, and it takes time and distance for the sergeants to pull the winch, after two rounds of projectiles, the catapult is useless, because Pang De has already led the men and horses to the city of Yongnu and began to attack the city, if he continues to throw, it will cause damage to his robe.

Shi Jian shook his head helplessly, and muttered in a low voice: "This Pang Lingming, the movement is really fast." However, the stone thrower has lost its effect, and Shi Lian can also use the Arrow Tower Team to strike at the head of the city. So, Shi Jian beckoned the sergeant to push the arrow tower to move forward slowly, these five arrow towers after Ao Lie and Wang Ao Tongyuan's improvement, the whole arrow tower is pyramid-shaped, every three zhang high there is a platform, a total of three layers, up to nine zhang. The platform on each floor can stand crossbowmen to shoot, the top can stand 50 people without being crowded, the middle layer can stand more than 100 people, and the bottom level can hold more than 200 people. Wheels are also added to the bottom of the tower, which can make the tower move slowly, which is much more advanced than the previous tower that cannot move.

After entering the firing range, Shi Lian ordered the soldiers on the arrow tower to scatter. Because the city wall of Yongnu is five zhang high, the lowest layer of the arrow tower can not play a role, and there are no standers, only on the platform six zhang high in the middle and the platform nine zhang high at the top, there are 100 and 50 crossbowmen standing respectively. More than 700 crossbowmen on the five arrow towers began to carpet cover and strafe the head of Yongnu City at the same time, they occupied a condescending advantage, and waves of arrow rain relentlessly tilted down, so that the rebels at the head of Yongnu City suffered a large number of casualties, and the screams were endless. At the same time, it also suppressed the rebels and made them dare not raise their heads, which won a precious opportunity for the sergeants under Pound's department.

Pang De observed the battlefield and saw that the arrow tower commanded by Shi Lian was powerful, and immediately found a fighter plane, and hurriedly commanded his subordinates to climb along the ladder, intending to climb the city wall in one go. After urging for a while, Pang De felt that the time was almost up, and there were enough warriors to climb up, so he pulled out the war knife on his waist and bit it in his mouth, tore off the cloak behind him, and climbed the ladder himself, towards the head of Yongnu City.

Like a chain reaction, when Ma Dai saw Pound's movements, he immediately ordered his five thousand archers to be divided into two parts, and some of them continued to shoot at the head of the city to maintain the suppression of the rebels in the city; The other part of the people gathered around Ma Dai to provide fire support to Pound and his subordinates, once they showed their heads and wanted to overturn the ladder or throw the wooden thunder stone to the city, they would usher in the accurate shooting of the archers led by Ma Dai, and strive to kill with one arrow and eliminate the danger of Pound's siege.

Looking at the layered siege of his subordinates, Ao Lie nodded with relief. For a long time, Ao Lie has a serious suspicion of the Eastern Han Dynasty's combat methods, especially the battle of the fortified positions, compared with the combat methods of later generations, the Eastern Han Dynasty's combat methods are simply filled with human lives, so Ao Lie's improvement of the stone thrower and arrow tower, in the training deliberately asked the sergeants to cooperate in combat, deliberately cultivated the military soul of the army, and even the subtlety of drinking and eating have strict requirements for the soldiers, all of which are for one purpose, so that their subordinates can survive as much as possible on the battlefield.

With such a purpose, it is not only Ao Lie's peaceful heart that is imprinted with the mark of the afterlife. What's more, every time the soldiers who survive the baptism of war will get a certain growth, once or twice may not be obvious, but after ten times, dozens or even hundreds of times, these soldiers who have survived the war will become quite elite and quite terrifying. No matter how dull people are, after hundreds of practices, they will also find a set of rules that are applicable on the battlefield, and they will know how to kill the enemy with the least effort; You will know how to strike from the most advantageous angle, inflict fatal damage on your enemies, and more. Now it seems that his goal has been preliminarily achieved.

However, there are also things that make Ao Lie dissatisfied. It is the modification of weapons of mass destruction. Although the power of the trebuchet is huge, it has drawbacks such as slow reloading, long firing intervals, etc., as well as the slow movement speed of the arrow tower, which is difficult to form mobility on the battlefield by manpower alone.

Although Ao Lie knew where these drawbacks were, he couldn't think of a way to improve them even after racking his brains, after all, although Ao Lie had the knowledge of his previous life, he was just an ordinary college student, an ancient martial arts cultivator, not a mechanic, and he had no way to answer something more profound. But for now, the two big guys, the stone thrower and the arrow tower, are enough for the time being. Due to the limitations of the background of the times, it is impossible for more advanced large-scale siege equipment to appear in the entire Youzhou.