Chapter 360: Siege, Siege
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When the horn of the siege sounded, Ling Xuanyi's coalition army launched a fierce offensive under the command of the generals.
When the rain of arrows shot in three rows in a row, Ling Han's army defending on the city tower was instantly killed and wounded. Many soldiers who were shot by arrows fell to the top of the city in a panic, and many were killed instead of being shot.
"Shoot the arrow!" The general orderly commanded the archers' preparation movements after the round of rapid shooting. When the three rows of strong archers loaded the arrows again, they threw another round of arrows, bringing a rain of arrows to Ling Hanjun on the city tower.
In just a few rounds of shooting, the wounded and dead on the city tower have already been left lying down.
For a while, the soldiers on the city tower did not dare to stretch out their heads that were suppressed by Ling Xuanyi's archers outside the city.
"Set up a ladder, the archers scatter and suppress, so that the enemy on the head of the city cannot stretch out their heads, and the general can't do anything to suppress them on the city!" Jiang Huan saw that the city was being shot by continuous archers in turn, and the suppressed ones could not effectively counterattack, so he took the opportunity to hurriedly let the infantry start preparing to set up a ladder.
As long as the ladder can be erected in a short time, then you can start kicking the city to seize the city walls. As long as you can control the arrow towers on the city wall, you can hope to start storming the city gate and breaking through the city defenses.
So the infantrymen were in a group of a dozen people, carrying the ladders placed on the ground, and they took up their shields and rushed towards the city wall. The strong archers in the rear began to shoot scattered, suppressing the city's defenses as much as possible, and striving for better opportunities for the infantry to break through.
Just as the infantry began to rush forward and prepare to set up a ladder under the city, there was a sudden 'squeak' sound from the rear. When Jiang Huan turned his head to look behind him and saw that more than a dozen large wooden arrow towers more than ten meters high had been built, he was overjoyed.
This wooden arrow tower was made by Xi Ningyu who hurried to draw drawings overnight before, and asked craftsmen to make them on the way when he was marching towards the imperial capital.
After setting it up at this moment, Jiang Huan knew that with these arrow towers, he could let the archers kick up, and more effectively suppress the local archers on the city wall from the arrow towers.
"You, lead people to step up the arrow tower separately, and shoot the enemy's archers from a high place according to the method taught by my four sisters, you must kill a lot of casualties, and ensure that the infantry below can minimize casualties!" Jiang Huan immediately ordered a few people with good archery skills under his command to go up with some archers.
Each arrow tower can accommodate more than a dozen archers, and Jiang Huan's team attacking the West Gate carried a total of fourteen such arrow towers, so he could get more than a hundred archers at once, which was not a small threat to the enemy soldiers on the city wall.
When the infantry approached the city walls, they began to raise ladders with shields on their heads. And the enemy soldiers on the city tower also risked their lives and began to show their heads to counterattack, rolling wood and reel stones, which instantly caused heavy losses to the infantry under the city.
"Shoot for General Ben, shoot all those bunnies who are on the rise!" Jiang Huan saw that nearly a hundred soldiers were stoned to death and injured in an instant, and he suddenly became angry, and directly commanded the archers on the arrow tower to start a counterattack.
"Whoosh!" "Search and swish!"
The continuous point shooting made the soldiers on the wall of the imperial capital fall like dumplings. Those who did not fall off the city wall were also shot and suffered heavy casualties.
As soon as Ling Xuanyi made a move here, he surrounded the three gates of the imperial capital and began to attack at the same time. Moreover, the offensive was very fierce, which was unexpected by the soldiers on Ling Han's side, who still had a dependency mentality in the city.
In addition, the commanding generals on the city wall were only able to react after being beaten for a long time, and after carrying this round of strong attacks, the generals in the city who gradually adapted to it began to make some corresponding defensive tactics.
"Hold it up for me, use your shield to raise the arrows on the head of the city, quick, go, don't stand up and go, bend down and run for me!" The general instructed the soldiers to change their defenses while reminding them to be there
Those who don't have a long heart on the city tower should be shot to death by standing up straight and being shot as a live target!
With shields blocking some of the weak points that were easily hit by the archers on the wooden towers outside, effective defensive strikes began to be organized on the walls.
"Use the thunder stone, use the wooden cannon to blast me down the city!" The defenders on the imperial city were in a hurry with the previous round of offensives, and seeing that the rolling wood thunder stone had little effect, they directly let people start attacking with wooden cannons.
The wooden cannon is a sharp weapon used in the defense of the Western Qin State, and its lethality is very large, and the only deficiency is that it can attack at a short distance.
But at this time, it was used for defense, but it brought great lethality to the siege soldiers on Jiang Huan's side.
A single attack by a wooden cannon is enough to cover a range of one zhang, which is equivalent to attacking no less than ten people at the same time. Even if you have a shield, it is very difficult to resist, and if you miss it, it will affect the surrounding soldiers.
In less than a cup of tea, the soldiers under the city suffered a great rate of casualties.
"! If you go on like this, you won't be able to storm the city wall, and many people will die in vain! Jiang Huan looked at the soldiers who were constantly dying, his heart ached, and he began to be anxious.
But the wooden cannon still continued to bring heavy damage to the coalition army, and he didn't care about whether Jiang Huan was distressed or not, with the continuous bombardment, the soldiers under the city failed to successfully kick the city to attack the city wall after all.
The first round of siege was beaten down like this, Jiang Huan began to rearrange the formation, preparing to take a short rest, and then leave to start a new round of siege operations.
"How many people were killed, you know?" Seeing the deputy general shaking his head, Jiang Huan was not annoyed, after all, no one had the time to count at this time. But he still needed an approximate number, so he turned to the lieutenant next to him and said, "Go check it, just the approximate number!" ”
"Yes!" The adjutant hurriedly turned around and left.
Jiang Huan's attack on this side was not smooth, and Ling Xuanyi's main attack on the east gate also encountered very great resistance.
"In the past, I used this thing to deal with Beiyan, but I didn't expect to encounter it ourselves this time, so we know the power of this thing. I really don't know how Beiyan used to resist the attack of this thing and attack our city defense of Western Qin!? Ling Xuanyi looked at the wooden cannons on the wall of the imperial capital with some helplessness, and faintly had a headache.
This thing is really painful, and if you attack once, as long as you pierce the shield in the soldier's hand, it will be a piece of dead people. Since the siege began, more than 1,000 people have died under the wooden cannons in less than an hour......
Ling Xuanyi was a little speechless, so he could only suppress this unhappiness first. "Order, then focus the attack on the city gate, so that the infantry attacking the city wall don't need to be too desperate, just make a posture that still wants to attack, attract the attention of the enemy on the city wall, and then cover the city hammer and take the city gate directly!"
Since the resistance of the city wall is too great and it can't go up for a while, let's change the place as the main direction of attack first. You can't really hang a tree, otherwise you won't be able to beat 10,000 people in a day, and I'm afraid that in less than half a month, the soldiers of this coalition army will die!
After letting the soldiers rest for a while, Ling Xuanyi saw that the north gate had just stopped the offensive, so he immediately ordered the east gate to start attacking the city.
In this way, the defenders of the city will be exhausted back and forth. I can't see anything at the moment, but once it takes a little longer, I can use some more physical strength of the defenders in the city.
Don't underestimate these subtle things, sometimes it is often the advantages of these small places that gradually expand that affect the situation of a battle!
When Ling Xuanyi's east gate began to intensify the siege of the city again, the defenders in the city did draw a small part of their troops and rushed to the east gate to assist in the defense to prevent any crisis situation from causing a shortage of troops.
At the end of the day, the three-door relay race was like a sunset, and it can be said that there was no achievement except for the corpses of the soldiers who died in the war all over the ground.
Ling Xuanyi and the others, who were pulled down from the front of the formation, had just returned to the barracks tent. "Let's take a rest first, let's discuss it after dinner, today must have suffered from the wooden cannon, don't be discouraged, the puppet emperor in the city should be more anxious than us!"
Ling Xuanyi looked at the several generals with a little unswerving expressions, knowing that there must be some morale damage today, so he hurriedly spoke to relieve him.
"Yes, this is the first day of siege, both of us are still in the tentative stage, don't worry!" Jiang Huan also hurriedly opened his mouth and echoed and said, although he was also a little depressed in his heart, but he couldn't show it in front of so many people at this time.
With the words of Ling Xuanyi and Jiang Huan, the leaders of the two leaders, were relieved, and the generals, who were already a little depressed, regained their spirits.
After hurriedly eating, Ling Xuanyi discussed with the generals in the camp tent.
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"What's the matter, the siege of the city didn't go well today, Ling Xuanyi and they are discussing in the big tent at this moment?" Xi Ningyu saw Qingqiong walk in, but she didn't see Ling Xuanyi, and she had been sending back information from before the battle to show her today, so she guessed Ling Xuanyi's behavior at this moment.
Qingqiong nodded, and said a little about the generals just now, or the soldiers returned to the camp with a somewhat depressed look.
Xi Ningyu heard Qingqiong mention that the morale of the soldiers was a little low because of this, and she had some thoughts in her heart. If the siege has not been smooth and morale continues to be low, then it will definitely be a complete defeat.
This must not happen, and it is imperative that the confidence and morale of the soldiers be restored as soon as possible, and that such sentiments must not be allowed to spread among the soldiers. "Qingqiong, you and Qingcai go to the Huotou Army to explain, add more food to the soldiers at night, and the two of you will go to the medical tent to get some commonly used trauma medicine and cotton cloth, and after the soldiers have eaten, you two will go with me to see those injuries!"
Xi Ningyu is not commanding before the battle now, but he can do some other things to help Ling Xuanyi.
"Huh? Miss, you're going—but it's not good, those blood-stained places, and the bones of some people are exposed, don't scare you! As soon as Qingqiong heard that Xi Ningyu was going to see a doctor for the soldiers, she suddenly became a little anxious, and hurriedly dragged Xi Ningyu to dissuade her.
"Huh! Qingqiong, have you forgotten that Miss I am also a doctor! Xi Ningyu glared, twisted Qingqiong's face and said angrily.
"Yes, yes, miss, I know that you are also a doctor, and your medical skills are better than those military doctors. However, those places are too filthy and bloody, so let's not go, Miss, okay? ”