Chapter 617: Siege Weapons
Half an hour ago, the sun was still shining. The blazing sun makes people sweat profusely, and they want to immerse themselves in water to escape the heat. Unexpectedly, after only a short while, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, and the sky gradually became gloomy.
The wind rises, although it still carries a trace of heat, but it still makes the people on the road feel a lot more comfortable, and experienced people know that it will not be long before the body will be blown by a pleasant cool breeze.
Heaven is beautiful!
It seems that in order to echo the sudden weather, Cheng Gongying's face also sank.
His troops were harassed by a group of old and weak soldiers all the way, and they were led all the way here, and the remnants of the soldiers killed by Han Sui's army along the way were no less than 5,000 people. It can be seen that those troops who "attacked" came from different territories, and it was obvious that so many old, weak, sick and disabled people could not be put together by a few or dozens of territories.
"Those Inhuman Lords, it's funny that they think they can resist taxes in this way! Inhumans are not willing to obediently fulfill their obligations. Delusional use of violent resistance, it seems that it is not possible to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger without a big killing. ”
Cheng Gongying looked at the city more than 1,000 meters away, and it was undeniable that this city built on the valley was the second-level city with the most fortifications and the most effective defense system that Cheng Gongying had ever seen. With the valley at its back, the city had much less to defend when attacked, which allowed the defenders to concentrate their forces; In addition, the majestic plank road system also made Cheng Gongying breathtaking.
Those annoying old and weak remnants just now, after leading Han Suijun to the outside of Longfei City, immediately scattered without looking back, how could Cheng Gongying not understand the mystery.
Long Fei's defense system is indeed very strong, he could have turned around and left with his troops, and chose to attack other players' territories, and the resistance he encountered would be much less. However, in Cheng Gongying's opinion, although such a practice can make some progress, it cannot completely destroy the will to resist of the Jincheng County Lord player.
Cheng Gongying sneered.
"Longfei City should be the place chosen by those strangers to fight, and it is clear that they want to figure out the Guò city defense to hold back the army...... The lord is right, just with the fortifications in front of the valley, this Longfei City is indeed not easy to gnaw, but it just takes a little more effort! ”
Get ready to attack!
Han Sui's general, Cheng Gongying, made such a decision.
Didn't the players in Liangzhou hope that Long Fei would hold back Han Suijun's footsteps? Cheng Gongying doesn't believe in this evil, he wants to use his absolute strength to break through Long Feicheng in the shortest possible time, so that players know that the reason why Han Suijun can dominate Liangzhou is definitely not lucky!
Han Suijun began to prepare. Thousands of soldiers, carefully pushing those instruments to the front. The reason why Cheng Gongying dared to attack Longfei City, the biggest reliance was on these siege equipment, he didn't hold it up, he knew that many players must be paying attention to this battle, this battle must not only win, but also win beautifully!
From the very beginning, Cheng Gongying made up his mind to use these advanced siege equipment to break through the defense line of Longfei City. Cheng Gongying firmly believes that Han Sui's army is by no means comparable to the troops of the lord player, not to mention, they have powerful siege equipment!
Siege equipment was pushed to the front line, and a thousand-man team was ready to go.
The wind is even stronger.
clouds, pressed overhead.
Inside and outside Longfei City, except for the "squeak" sound of the siege equipment advancing and the neat footsteps of the troops when they moved, no other sound could be heard, and the air was almost stagnant!
This stagnation did not last long, and with the sudden sound of war drums, Han Suijun, who was standing five hundred meters away from the city wall, shouted in unison, and immediately launched an attack after shouting. As soon as it moves, it is like a storm crashing on the shore, and the momentum is terrifying!
More than 100 siege machines are being pushed forward!
Five thousand-men, under the cover of shields and siege equipment, rushed desperately towards the city walls!
At the beginning of the charge, their degree was not fast, and as the distance from the city wall became closer, the degree of Han Sui's army gradually increased. When they were two hundred paces away, they finally reached the extreme. Only in this way will they be able to use the shortest possible time to get through the death zone formed by the arrows of the defenders!
The arrow tower of Longfei City is the first to be powerful.
When the siege troops of Han Sui's army were still a few steps away from the maximum range of the arrow tower, dozens of arrow towers had already fired at the same time, and there were not many bows and arrows shot in vain, they were all well-trained archers, and most of the archers of the Fengxiang army had received the guidance of "advance quantity".
If it was a sports war, it would not be so easy to judge the amount in advance, but now the Fengxiang Army is defending the city, guarding the familiar special territory. Chen Gong, who has always been strict and meticulous, has never relaxed his requirements for armaments, and these archers, everyone knows how to shoot the enemy faster when facing a battle to defend the city!
The results of the offensive and defensive simulation battles again and again were waved out.
Screams, muffled snorts, keep ringing!
Blood flowers, blooming and withering quickly!
The range bonus of the Arrow Tower is better than that of the first-tier stone wall, and after the Arrow Tower, the defenders on the wall also have a use. Zhou Tai led a thousand soldiers of the Shanzi Battalion to stand at the head of the city, everyone opened their bows and arrows, and the cold light on the arrows contrasted with Zhou Tai's cold arrogance, but in Zhou Tai's eyes, there was irrepressible excitement and fanaticism.
"Shoot him!"
With Zhou Tai's roar, a thousand and one arrows poured down, attacking towards Han Sui's army about one hundred and fifty paces, like a flock of crows coming from all over the world, screaming and rushing down.
After this round, more than 200 soldiers of the Han Sui Army lost their lives. If it weren't for Han Suijun's well-equipped and well-trained guns, shields and weapons to help many people block the catastrophe, their losses would definitely increase a lot.
Cheng Gongying frowned. In siege battles, the defenders have a large range advantage, and the besieging side must pay a certain price if they want to get close to the city walls. However, the archery skills of the defenders of Long Fei City were too accurate, and the loss of soldiers was twice as high as Cheng Gongying expected!
Taking advantage of the fact that the defenders at the head of the city had finished shooting one round and the second round of arrows had not yet fallen, Han Sui's army quickly advanced to a distance of one hundred and thirty-five steps from the city wall, and from this moment on, they began to encounter crossbow arrows with even more penetrating and lethal power. Han Suijun finally stepped into the range of the first dead soldiers!
The plank road on the mountain wall on both sides of the Babao Valley is the battlefield of the first to climb the dead, and it is a pity that the plank road is not like the arrow tower or the city wall, and the plank road does not have the function of increasing the range; In addition, the position of the plank road is slightly behind, more than ten meters behind the city wall, which also makes the first to board the dead can only be the latest to strike.
The Xiandeng Dead Warrior was equipped with the most advanced three-stone rhubarb crossbow, this level of rhubarb crossbow, no one sold it in the market at all, only Fengxiang City and Huoyun City had it, and a total of only 3,000 sets were made. The three-stone rhubarb crossbow had a range of one hundred and fifty paces, and if it weren't for the fact that the position of the first dead soldiers was a little behind, they could have shot at the same time as the defenders on the city wall.
As the distance between Han Sui's army and the city wall continued to close, more and more soldiers who could enter the battle were able to enter the battle, and under the attack of crossbow arrows, the casualties of Han Sui's siege troops rose rapidly!
"It's a good thing I didn't send long-range troops up to shoot at them."
In the case of superior forces, it is more common to send a large number of ranged troops to suppress the defending archers at the head of the city. But this method is not suitable for dealing with Long Fei City, a large number of arrow towers, and the defenders on the plank road, which means that Long Fei City's long-range attack ability is extremely strong, and Cheng Gongying does not dare to take that risk.
At the head of the city, Chen Gong paid close attention to the situation on the battlefield, and the defense system of Long Fei City was facing a severe test. The long-range attack cluster formed by the arrow tower, the city wall, and the plank road has already made Han Sui's army suffer, and before it has rushed to the city wall fifty steps away, Han Sui's army has lost nearly 1,000 people.
However, Chen Gong's heart became more and more uneasy.
"Han Suijun gave up sending long-range troops to suppress our archers from the very beginning, this vision and courage are commendable, Long Fei is not afraid of long-range shooting at all. The generals of the other side still have not given up the attack, and they must have nothing to fear, what is his reliance? ”
Chen Gong's gaze turned to the more than 100 siege machines that were pushed forward by Han Sui's soldiers. Most of those siege machines were huge, and Chen Gong had already seen more than a dozen giant machines, several zhang tall and more than ten zhang long.
Such siege equipment can already be called a chariot, just a block, which already makes people's hearts tremble!
Fifty paces, the chariot marched, slow and stubborn.
The target of the defenders on the city wall has long been transferred to these siege equipment, although it is not known how these weapons are used and what their effects are, but everyone has smelled the danger from these weapons.
The fire arrows were in vain, and the instruments were covered with a layer of raw cowhide, and the outside was coated with a thick layer of mud.
Thirty steps, getting closer!
When Han Sui's army approached the city wall twenty paces, the soldiers of the Shanzi battalion led by Zhou Tai on the city wall gave up their bows and arrows, and the time for hand-to-hand combat was approaching. Long Fei only has this city wall, which is about five hundred meters wide, and cannot accommodate more warriors, and about a thousand warriors can better wield their combat power.
The warriors gasped, many of them were on the battlefield for the first time, and the huge siege equipment brought them great pressure.
Ten steps!
The soldiers of Han Sui's army who rushed to the front were desperately reduced, and outside the city wall, a trench about three meters wide had already been dug out, and under normal circumstances, the besieging side could only fill in the moat with earth and stones, so that it would be more convenient to take a ladder to climb the city and fight with the defenders in close combat.
Cheng Gongying's eyes narrowed, Long Fei's long-range attack power was very powerful, causing him to lose more than a thousand elite fighters, which was a big loss. But Cheng Gongying believes. As long as you can storm the city wall, the outcome of the battle is doomed.
Han Suijun did not fill in the trenches!
In the surprised gaze of the Fengxiang soldiers, the siege equipment began to show its power!
"Two long logs, nailed to the top and wooden wheels underneath", this is the flybridge, also known as the moat bridge. The biggest function of this siege equipment is to ensure that the siege troops pass through the moat or moat, and if the trench or moat is wide, the two flying bridges can also be connected with a rotating shaft to make it a folding flying bridge.
The flying bridge appeared in ancient Chinese warfare very early, and it was recorded in the "Liutao": "The flying bridge of the ditch is one gate, one zhang five feet wide, and more than two feet wide." ”
The wisdom of the ancients is amazing.
With the help of Feiqiao, Han Sui's siege troops quickly cleared the moat, so that the trenches dug by Long Feicheng with a lot of manpower and time were almost completely useless. The moat now only limited the offensive route of the besieging forces, and Han Sui's army could only advance through the route where the Guò Flying Bridge was located.
Next up is the ladder.
The ladder used by Han Suijun looked no different from an ordinary ladder, and it was also carried forward by multiple soldiers. However, after the ladder was in place, Han Suijun did not immediately lean towards the city wall, but under the cover of the shield hand, endured the attack of the defenders' arrows and waited silently!
On the battlefield where every second counts, what are they waiting for?
The answer was not long in coming!
One by one, the huge wooden wheel frames, under the vigorous push of Han Sui's soldiers, approached the city wall. These individual wooden wheel frames themselves do not have much effect, but when they are combined with the ladder, a new type of ladder with high technical content appears in front of everyone: the underframe is made of wood as a bed, with six wheels under it, and the ladder body is fixed on the chassis at a certain angle, and in addition to the main ladder, this kind of ladder also has a movable auxiliary ladder, and the top is equipped with a pair of rollers.
Han Suijun's siege troops were obviously very skilled in the assembly work, and the assembly was completed in less than two minutes, although hundreds of people were shot and killed on the spot during this time, but the ladder was erected!
It was not until this time that the use of this ladder was completely displayed in front of everyone: because there were two main and secondary ladders, the ladder could move freely up and down along the city wall when ascending the city, and no longer needed to be carried on the shoulders of people; In addition, because the main ladder adopts a fixed device, the ladder procedure is simplified, when attacking the city, only the main ladder needs to be parked under the city, and then the auxiliary ladder is erected on the main ladder, you can "sleep on the city", reducing the danger and difficulty of erecting the ladder during the battle!
Another advantage of the ladder is that because the ladder does not make contact with the edge of the city prematurely before ascending the city, the defenders cannot talk about the destruction of the siege equipment at all, and the huge iron hook at the top of the secondary ladder can make the ladder firmly hook the edge of the city after leaning against the city wall.
This is a powerful siege weapon, which completely subverts Ah Niu's understanding of the "ladder", and the ladder used by the Yellow Turban Army in the Battle of Luoyang is like a child's toy!
Such a powerful siege weapon allowed Han Sui's army to reach the city wall faster, easier, and safer, and the moment the ladder was erected, these soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles did not hesitate to climb the ladder!
At the same time, more than a thousand archers from the siege troops under the city who had not yet had time to go to the city, under the rejection of swords and shields and siege equipment, fearlessly opened their bows and arrows and shot at the defenders on the city walls, and they had to share the pressure of the climbing troops!
The return fire of the archers of Han Sui's army was not terrible, but it was the troops who ascended the city that were terrible.
The unprecedented ladder makes the Fengxiang army's experience in defending the city accumulated in the previous battles useless at all, this kind of ladder cannot be pushed down, and it has undergone strict fire prevention treatment, even if it is placed there and destroyed by the defenders, I am afraid it is not three or five minutes to see the results.
Of course, Han Suijun will not give the defenders too much time!
There were only more than sixty cloud ladders brought out by Cheng Gongying, which was not enough to cover the entire city wall of Longfei City, and Han Suijun, who had rich combat experience, concentrated the attack force on the right side of the city wall. This can reduce the number of hits they will be facing, and the soldiers on the left plank road will not be able to attack the soldiers who have landed in the city.
More than 60 ladders were placed in a centralized manner, and the defenders were weakened to the greatest extent with the advantage of fighting more and less with the advantage of the city, and a soldier swarmed up and fought hand-to-hand with the soldiers of the Shanzi battalion at the head of the city!
The troops of the princes' forces were already higher in level than the lord's player troops, and Han Sui's troops were even more experienced in battle, and their combat effectiveness was by no means something that the vast majority of the Liangzhou Shanzi battalion that had never fought could resist. The reason why Cheng Gongying is so confident, in addition to the siege equipment, is these elite soldiers!
He firmly believed that as long as the siege equipment was close to the city wall, Long Fei would definitely be defeated!
However, what Cheng Gongying did not expect was that the defenders of Long Feicheng did not collapse at the touch of a button as he expected, the great enemy was at present, the strong enemy was pressing, and the defenders woke up from the shock brought by the siege equipment so quickly.
Zhou Tai was unstoppable, a narrow and heavy Pu knife, as if he had life in his hands, a centurion of Han Sui's army had just jumped off the city wall and cut down a soldier of the Shanzi battalion, and before he had time to be proud, Zhou Tai, who had already been flying over, cut off half of his head with a knife, and his body was ruthlessly kicked off the city wall.
None of the soldiers of Han Sui's army who climbed the city wall could survive a round under his men!
The majesty of the main general aroused the fighting spirit of the soldiers, and a soldier of the famous mountain battalion threw blood in the hand-to-hand combat with the siege troops of Han Sui's army, and their blood would not flow in vain. They followed one after another, not giving an inch, and fought inextricably with the siege troops!
The defenders in the arrow tower and the first dead soldiers on the plank road were not idle, they gave priority to attacking the archers of the Han Sui army under the city walls, and the long-range troops of Long Fei City occupied an absolute advantage in quantity and quality. After Han Sui's army had lost most of its archers and the rest of the archers had to stop counterattacking, it was the turn of the infantry who had landed in the city to accept the wrath.
The soldiers of Han Suijun had just poked their heads out of the city wall, and several arrows had already rushed to nail his body, and some of the soldiers of Han Suijun couldn't even scream, and their eyes had lost their brilliance. The impact and penetration of the rhubarb crossbow are very impressive, and from time to time you can see that the soldiers of the siege force are shot by the crossbow arrows and fall to the sky!
Every time a soldier of the Shanzi Battalion died in battle, it meant that at least four soldiers of the Han Sui Army lost their lives, and the Shanzi Battalion and the Xiandeng Dead each took half of the credit, which was already a great achievement for the soldiers of the Shanzi Battalion.
The fight continues.
Outside the city wall position guarded by Zhou Tai's troops, corpses were everywhere. The cold-faced general, who was able to kill, had already taken off his shirt at some point, his bronzed skin was revealed, and a puddle of blood formed a strange pattern on his body, making Zhou Tai look extremely hideous!
The Shanzi battalion paid the price of more than 400 killed, and Han Sui's army was even worse, plus the losses when approaching the city wall, they had already lost nearly 3,000 elite soldiers. This is a result that Cheng Gongying never expected before the war.
Under the city wall, it was already difficult to see the shooting of Han Sui's archers, and the few remaining archers were also frightened by the fierce firepower of the defenders, "God, what kind of weapons do they use!" ”
Most of the Han Sui troops who fought this time have experienced many bloody battles of life and death, and their combat effectiveness is beyond doubt; The advanced siege equipment also played its due role. But Han Suijun still failed to break through Long Fei as he wished, but paid a heavy price.
The combat effectiveness of the defenders led by Zhou Tai on the city wall is far superior to that of ordinary lord players!
Long Fei's dense fortifications, as well as the powerful lethality of the first deceased, made Han Sui's army have to pay a greater price!
Cheng Gongying sighed, "It's really a hard bone, I haven't met such a difficult opponent for a long time." ”
In order to be able to approach the city wall, Han Sui's army had already paid a heavy price, and Cheng Gongying had no choice but to attack continuously. A large number of siege equipment has been dispatched, especially more than sixty valuable ladders are firmly hooked to the edge of the city, and if the attack is stopped, the ladders and flying bridges will become trophies for the defenders.
The more than ten giant "chariots" with the largest size finally arrived under the city wall slowly, and their huge bodies and heavy weight made them belated. The chariots were quite tall, with roofs as high as the city walls, four rows of holes closed with planks on the front and sides, and raw cowhide all over the chariots.
Within two minutes of the arrival of the chariot, the battle on the city wall had become less fierce, and many soldiers of the Shanzi Battalion looked at these behemoths in great amazement.
Suddenly, the desolate horn sounded in the Chinese army of Han Sui's army!
The holes in front and on both sides suddenly opened, arrows, guns, halberds, knives, and spears shot out like lightning, and more than 20 soldiers of the Shanzi Battalion, who were caught off guard, had not yet come to their senses and were already killed on the spot. At the same time, a bridge about two meters wide was raised on the top of the chariot, driven by the wheel, and a large number of the most elite soldiers of the Han Sui Army rushed out of the roof of the chariot, passed through the guò overpass, and rushed towards the Shanzi battalion! (To be continued)
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