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In order to be able to cross-shoot the enemy troops who tried to attach themselves to the city and cover the city wall almost perfectly, although the ancient Chinese did not know how to build a fortress, they knew how to build a horse face. The so-called horse face is similar to the shape of the urn city, and a distance shaped platform is built at intervals (usually a stone's throw away) on the flat city wall. In the articles on city defense in "Mozi", it is mentioned that this system is mentioned that if Yecheng is also built with horse noodles, it is a crude counterweight stone-throwing cart developed by Xun, and there is no way to take it.

Although the sturdiness of the earthen wall is not as good as that of the brick wall, it has been repeatedly tamped by craftsmen, and unless the stone bullet happens to hit a key part, it will only fall off the skin of the wall, and it will not collapse at all.

However, fortunately, Yecheng did not have a horse face, but temporarily built some small wooden houses protruding from the city wall, in order to achieve the effect of a horse face that can be cross-fired. For these small wooden houses, Hoon is still completely confident that he will destroy them one by one with a stone-throwing truck.

However, the problem is that the small house is too small, and the accuracy of the stone throwing truck is quite limited, judging from the experience of bombarding the sheep and horse wall just now, Shi Xun estimated that it would take at least 20 stone bullets to smash a small wooden house......

It's not just a matter of moving a stone to get on a trebuchet, but after trial and error, he determined that the more irregular the shape of the stone, the greater the loss of accuracy - I think you know, if you use a stone slab, you may just float in the wind and don't know where to go - it is better to use a rounded stone bullet. However, the stone bullets were heavy and not so easy to carry, so Shixun brought a total of 300 to the front line, and just five rounds of stone throwing were directly thrown away half of them. Those who hit the sheep and horse wall, or climbed over the sheep and horse wall and fell under the root of the city, can still beg Cao Hong's troops to find a way to get it back, and those who fell directly into the city trench will not wait for the battle to be over, it is not to be fished up again.

Therefore, Shixun did not dare to use stone bullets anymore, and if he used it again, he would "go bankrupt". He instructed Guo Huai to replace the gunpowder balls, and then the five catapults aimed at a small wooden house. Concentrated fire.

These gunpowder balls are made of layers of hemp paper wrapped in gunpowder, the process is very simple, he brought a lot of paper and gunpowder this time, and when he runs out, he can still make it temporarily, and it is not a pity to throw more away. Although the old-fashioned black powder basically has no explosive power, it is still very convenient to use it to ignite the target, anyway, there is a wooden house opposite. I don't have to blow you down, how nice it would be to just burn you.

So after Guo Huai was about to stop, the small flag waved, and immediately thirty fiery gunpowder balls flew straight towards Yecheng. Shi Xun observed from a distance, and saw that none of them were hit in the first round, only six or seven smashed on the city wall. There was a flash of fire, and it was extinguished in a short time, most of them fell under the city, and a few flew up to the city, and it is estimated that there will be no results.

Guo Huai was a little angry, loudly scolded those poor soldiers, and readjusted the distance. Then another round was released. This time the effect was good, two of them hit the small wooden house, one was a little out of the way, and it was bounced off, and the other immediately set the small wooden house on fire, and the fire rose to the sky.

Shi Xun secretly squeezed his fist, and said that there was a play. I don't have to burn down all the little wooden houses in the east of your city, I can burn down three or four. It was enough to cover Cao Hong's trenches.

was waiting for the third round of gunpowder ball bombardment, and suddenly heard Zhuge Liang not far away shouting: "Wait! Shi Xun turned his head to look and saw Zhuge Liang holding Guo Huai's hand, preventing him from waving the small flag down. So he urged the horse over, and asked with a cold face, "What's the matter?" ”

Zhuge Liang raised his hand and pointed to the head of the city: "The enemy has a plan to deal with it." It was Xun who looked in the direction he was pointing and stared at him for a long time, and then he got a little-"Huh." The little wooden house has changed color. I listened to Zhuge Liang explain: "I saw that there were guards who covered the mat outside the building, and the mat was not yellow but brown, and it was coated with wet mud, which was difficult to burn again." ”

It's Xun Xin who said that your kid's eyes are good. Hurriedly looked at Guo Huai again, and saw Guo Boji frowning, still looking there, and only turned back after a while, and sighed softly: "What Kong Ming said is true, and it is useless." ”

Shi Xun understood that in the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao had shown the power of throwing fireballs from the catapult (although it was a powder jar used at that time), and Yuan Jun would not be without a way to deal with it. Besides, even if there was no gunpowder, they were afraid that the attackers would use rockets to destroy the wooden houses, so they had already prepared bamboo mats or straw curtains covered with wet mud. I didn't hang it out in advance, probably because the sun was too poisonous, and I was afraid that it wouldn't take long for the mud to dry up, peeling off layer by layer, and I was going to encounter a crisis to take a temporary surprise. Well, the defender reacted quickly, from the time I threw the first round of gunpowder balls to the time he hung out the wet curtain, was there any ten minutes in between? Could it be that Zhengnan is commanding from the tower of Dongcheng City at this moment?

Now that the other party has taken precautions, it is pointless to shoot powder balls again, and it is a waste of resources. In desperation, Shi Xun rode his horse to Cao Hong and told him that the cover of the stone was over, and you could attack. Unexpectedly, Cao Hong replied with a red face: "Let's wait for a while." ”

Cao Hong's first step was to brave the arrows on the city and fill in the moats first, so as to get close to the city walls. Of course, he wouldn't just let the minions rush forward with their shields, and they would have prepared the corresponding siege equipment.

This expedition, in addition to the stone throwing truck, the task of the temporary preparation of the rest of the siege equipment fell on the shoulders of Liu Ye and Liu Ziyang, who originally planned to spend two to three days to prepare everything, but who thought that Xun proposed to Cao Cao that the attack could start the next day. After Liu Ye came out of the account, while cursing Shixun in his stomach, he also went out of the camp to investigate, thinking that the first step in attacking the city was either to break the sheep and horse wall or fill the moat, and the ladder or something was not used. There was only one thing that had to be made overnight, and that was it.

The so-called recklessness is very simple to do, that is, to find a four-wheeled vehicle, remove the board, set up a high canopy on it, and cover it with raw cowhide, which can be used to remove arrows. The soldiers pushed the cart to the bottom of the city, and they could carry out siege operations similar to filling trenches, digging holes, digging walls, etc. in the car.

It's actually very easy for the defenders to break the ruin, I can't shoot you with an arrow, and you'll always fall apart if I hit you with a stone. But if it were just to cover the soldiers to fill the moats and pick up the sheep and horses, because there was still some distance from the wall, no strong man would be able to throw a stone—unless the stone was the size of a softball, but the small stone and raw cowhide were enough to bounce it away.

After Liu Ye made up his mind, he also started work overnight, rushed to build 30 trucks, and delivered them to Cao Hong early this morning. Originally, after Xun collapsed the sheep and horse wall, he planned to push it out, but he was stopped by Xun and wanted to destroy the small wooden house in the city first. Cao Hong pondered, it's okay - no matter how much he can shoot arrows, after all, the scope of protection is limited, and thirty vehicles are lined up, which is just to ensure the safety of some areas in front of the moat, if the city shoots left and right, the damage of the soldiers will be heavy.

However, he didn't expect much from Shihoon's efforts, and after two rounds, he was quite satisfied that he was able to burn down a small wooden house. It's just that when he saw the city's countermeasures, he suddenly thought - although the raw cowhide is not flammable, the car is made of wood, what if the city shoots rockets? Quickly ordered to spread a layer of wet mud on top of the skull, and then let two soldiers in each car carry buckets, ready to fight the fire at any time.

And so, after a short delay, thirty wagons, followed by six hundred foot soldiers, went straight to the moat. The main target is the small wooden house that Chae-hoon burned out.

Shi Xun immediately looked at it, and his heart was full of emotion. It's not that he hasn't experienced siege warfare, but since he crossed over, most of the time he has been on the side that stayed in the city and was passively beaten - at first? Hancheng defended Goguryeo, and later defended the Yellow Turban in Duchang, and then also defended the Xiongnu in Yanshi, and defended Gaogan in Qixian...... Several times followed Cao Cao on the expedition, although there were siege battles, there were few such big scenes - in Shouchun did not start the siege at all, he fell into the enemy's trick to surrender, in Chang'an he stayed in the west of the city, commanding Ma Teng and others to feint......

This frontal assault on Xiongcheng is the second time in my life that I have seen it!

Yesun felt quite enthusiastic, but unfortunately the horseback was not high enough, and from this point of view, it was rare to have a full view of the battlefield. He dismounted with stirrups, ran a few steps to a stone-throwing cart, and climbed up hand and foot. This is an occasional inspiration when designing a stone throwing car, and since it requires a lot of beams to support the frame, why not make it as easy to go up and down as a ladder? The rock-throwing car is so huge, it is impossible to use it up and dismantle it, in this case, why not use it as a watchtower when it is idle?

Shixun quickly climbed onto the rock-throwing car, but unfortunately, in order to facilitate the swing of the throwing pole, it was impossible to configure railings and handrails at the top of the rack like a real watchtower, so Shixun had to hold on to the edge of the plank with both hands, kneeling on it, and did not dare to stand up at all. But this vision was sufficient, and in the distance, I saw that the crane was pushing closer and closer, and finally approached the moat, and then an arrow shot down from the city.

It is estimated that the defender also saw that the wheel was covered with wet mud, so he did not use a rocket, and the target of the arrow was not the wheel itself, but the foot soldiers who followed it and prepared to fill the trench. A round of arrows falls, when even several people fall from the arrows. On the side, there are naturally archers to assist, but if you shoot from the back, the distance is too far to threaten the city, and it can only be covered by some sword and shield soldiers, and the gap is very large, and there are many loopholes.

Shi Xun couldn't help but think that if he hadn't destroyed the sheep and horse wall first, and didn't take the lead as a guide, it is estimated that under this round of arrows, dozens or hundreds of people would have fallen......

immediately climbed down the stone throwing cart and took care of Guo Huai: "Then the powder ball will cover the city." ”

Guo Huai had just received the order, and he heard Zhuge Liang next to him say: "Liang Shicai asked Boji for advice on the method of calculating stone-throwing, and he has already learned the essentials, please help Boji." "It's Xun Xin who said that you learn quickly, and it seems that you do have a mathematical foundation-" Okay, Qing and the others are each responsible for fifteen corpses, you can go far, rest and close, don't hurt me." ”

If the ball of gunpowder hits the city, it will burst into flames and burn for a while, and even if it does not hurt anyone, it can hinder the archery at the head of the city. It's Xun's meaning, don't be afraid to shoot far away, shoot directly into the city, but don't hit too close and burn your own people.

Guo Huai and Zhuge Liang took the order and left, and there was not much time, just a round of gunpowder balls were played one after another. Sure enough, there was a flash of fire in the city, and the rain was a little sparse. Shi Xun was proud, and suddenly heard someone behind him calling: "Wait for me to fight too!" ”