Chapter 125: The Battle of Equipment
The Yunze army blocked the way for hundreds of millions of Yellow Turban troops to retreat to Quyang City with hundreds of thousands of troops in four ways, forcing all those Yellow Turban troops to flee to the surrounding mountains and forests, greatly reducing the number of defenders in the city.
If it weren't for the fact that Wenmin had been at the forefront and took the most correct measures in time, after these Yellow Turban troops withdrew to the city and increased the strength of the defenders, their siege would still be very difficult, so the three bigwigs discussed it a little and decided to commend Yun Zejun for acting as a pioneer all the way and opening the way for the army, and also successfully drove away those Yellow Turban Army who tried to return to the city, and gave him a reward of 30 million points for his military exploits.
When the official army surrounded Quyang City again, the Yellow Turban Army in the city no longer dared to go out of the city and call the official army into battle, first of all, their leader Zhang Bao was dead, and the other generals with troops, although they still took care of the overall situation, and there was no struggle for power and profit between them, but after all, there was no unified command of a person who convinced everyone, so it was still difficult to have a more tacit cooperation between the various departments. And now the number of the Yellow Turban Army in the city is about 100 million, due to the annihilation of Zhang Bao's personal guards, the remaining elite of the Yellow Turban Army has not caught up with the Han Army, and now there are almost no soldiers above the Yellow Level in the city.
Considering that the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was now low and had not yet recovered from the news of Zhang Bao's death, Huangfu Song and Zhu Jun Lu Zhi discussed it and decided to immediately organize an attack on the city. Don't give the Yellow Turbans a chance to breathe.
Then Wen Min and all the players saw that these NPCs of the Han army had pushed out a bunch of ballistas and catapults out of nowhere. Rushing carts and other siege equipment, and also sent people to ask them to get some too. On average, every 1,000 players or soldiers will receive a siege machine.
Wenmin still has less than five million combat power, and they have been allocated nearly 5,000 catapults, and Wenmin estimates that if the Han army is also distributed in this way, then the entire battlefield will have at least hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of siege equipment! If so many siege equipment can be used together, Quyang City can be smashed into slag in less than a day!
Of course, that's just if, the siege equipment in the city has a longer range than them, and it will definitely fight back, within the time frame of the battle. It must be a stage where the siege equipment of both sides consumes each other.
Wenmin went to the Han army camp to get 5,000 ballistas, this kind of war of attrition between the equipment of the two sides, the ability of the soldiers almost no longer plays a role, Wenmin does not want his soldiers to be consumed in such a battle, and the range of the ballista is long, and it is easier to aim than the catapult, and the heavy arrows shot can also destroy the enemy's equipment, so he directly abandoned the catapult and the rushing car, and used the ballista to destroy the enemy's equipment.
Facts have proved that Wenmin made the right choice. Due to the long range of the ballistas, they could attack the equipment on the city wall outside the range of the catapults of the defenders, while the ballistae of the defenders could also return fire, but the Yunze army concentrated all the ballistas in one place. Concentrate on destroying the ballista on the ramparts to make the defenders lose the ability to fight back, and then slowly destroy the catapults. However, these catapults have no ability to return fire due to the limitation of their range. After Yun Zejun emptied a section of the city wall, they moved to another place. Continue to do the same, eating away at the enemy little by little.
However, the equipment placed by the Yellow Turban Army on the city wall is limited due to the limited space on the city wall. It is not possible to allow the free transfer of equipment, so it has been in a situation of passive beating.
The nearby Han army and player troops were also deeply inspired after seeing the Wenmin's method, and they all abandoned the catapults and used the ballistas to gather together and destroy the defenders' equipment.
At this time, the Yellow Turban Army in the city was very uncomfortable, at the beginning, when the Yun Ze Army used such shameless tactics, they were not particularly afraid, and even planned to quietly gather the nearby ballistas as soon as possible, ambush in one place, and wait until the Yun Ze Army moved to this area, and then let the arranged ballista troops suddenly launch, and strive to eliminate this cunning enemy in one fell swoop.
Before they could implement this plan, they heard that all the officers and soldiers outside were already using that kind of tactic, and these Yellow Turban generals suddenly had an urge to cry without tears after hearing this, and now they didn't dare to gather these ballistae casually, in case the enemy outside the city broke through from other places while they concentrated the ballista in one place, then they were not far from destruction.
But if they did not concentrate the ballistas, they had no way to deal with such shameless tactics of the enemy: at this time the disadvantage of defending the city was revealed, and the besiegers could have countless chances of defeat, and even if the siege failed, as long as the defenders' troops and materials were consumed, it would be a victory for them; But for the defenders of the city, they have no chance to fail, as long as there is a hole in one place, it may cause the city to fall!
In this kind of equipment attack between the two sides, due to the limited space on the city wall, they are destined not to arrange a lot of equipment on each section of the city wall, but the attacker is different, the space outside the city is that they can arrange several layers or even dozens of layers of equipment at the same time in a certain section of the area, and form an absolute number of suppression of the defender in this area. And they can also move freely at any time, hitting wherever they want, leaving the defenders tired but unable to defend themselves.
Under this tactic, it only took more than two hours for all the Yellow Turban Army's defensive equipment on the city wall to be destroyed. After destroying the defenders' long-range equipment, in order to reduce casualties, the officers and soldiers did not rush to attack, but pulled out all the catapults and began to bombard the city wall, until the city wall was full of holes and crumbling, and the defenders on the city wall were also smashed by the overwhelming stones.
The previous ballista could only shoot directly, and due to the elevation angle, it could not be too dense when arranged, and the two rows of ballistas should be at least a few tens of meters apart, so at most five or six rows would be arranged to the limit; But now the catapult does not have such scruples, the catapult's attack is projectile, there is no elevation angle, so there is not much space between the two catapults, as long as the space is sufficient, it is not a problem to arrange twenty or thirty rows.
And after the catapults attacked for a period of time, at the suggestion of Guo Jia, Huangfu Song ordered all the catapults to be concentrated in front of a city wall, and strive to destroy a city wall as soon as possible, as long as one or even just a section of the city wall can be completely destroyed, then there will be no suspense in this battle.
Sure enough, when all the catapults were gathered together, there were twenty or thirty rows of catapults, and huge stones continued to fall on the heads of the Yellow Turban Army on the city wall. (To be continued......)
PS: This chapter is an addition to this week's reward, thank you for your continued support~!!