Chapter 256: Eight Ways to Siege

Zhongjing City is the political, military, economic and cultural center of Liao.

It is the largest one in the five capitals of Liao, 4,200 meters long from east to west, 3,500 meters long from north to south, the Tuotuo River surrounds the city, builds a moat, and also provides drinking water for the city.

The outer city wall of Zhongjing City is as high as 6 meters, all of which are rammed earth plates, the top is 15 meters wide, and the outer wall of the city wall is repaired with a horse face every 90 meters to defend it.

There are also inner cities and imperial cities in it, one ring after another, and the entire Zhongjing can accommodate about 200,000 people.

The above is the information that Qin Guan found with his mobile phone.

Hehe.

Of course, there are not so many people in Zhongjing City now, and 30,000 people were transferred out to Luming Mountain, which were completely annihilated by Qin Guan, and Yelu Hongji took away another 20,000 Imperial Forest Army, and now there are only about 1230,000 people here.

After Qin Guan occupied Yuzhou City without bloodshed, he immediately counted the supplies and prepared for the next big battle.

After the statistics were counted, Xiong Da came to report,

"Young master, now our food is very sufficient, enough for the army to eat for three months, and thousands of cattle and sheep are used as meat, but the snow is frozen, and we can't find any vegetables and vegetables, but we have got a lot of wild leek flower sauce."

"When we set out from Xiongzhou, we were 40,000 soldiers and more than 10,000 logistics troops, all of whom were our Xiongzhou soldiers, and we also lost nearly 2,000 soldiers in these major battles, and later replenished some from the logistics troops, and now we still maintain 40,000 soldiers."

"Armor, swords, guns, bows and arrows are complete, all equipped with mounts, they are extravagant, all of them are one person, two horses or even three horses, if those border troops and forbidden troops in the country see the estimated envy to death."

"All kinds of materials are also sufficient, and there are more than 40,000 catties of explosives."

Explosives are a good thing, and now the entire Northern Route Army knows that explosives are an absolute weapon of attack, so the firearms battalion is also strictly controlled.

Speaking of this, Xiong Da paused and said, "Young Master, those guns are all used by the personal guards, and none of them are damaged, but a few machine guns have changed their barrels." However, it is the consumption of bullets that is too high. ”

Qin Guan asked, "How much is left?" ”

"There are still more than 20,000 rounds of heavy machine gun ammunition and about 250,000 rounds of light machine gun ammunition." Xiong replied.

Hearing this number, Qin Guan was also very helpless, to be honest, he was already using these bullets very sparingly.

It can be said that if you can, try not to use it.

20,000 rounds of heavy machine gun bullets, not to mention the gold-swallowing behemoth of 6,000 rounds a minute like Metal Storm, is the Russian-style heavy machine gun that Qin Guan is using now, six or seven hundred rounds a minute, and 20,000 rounds of two heavy machine guns are fired, which is only a matter of ten minutes.

As for universal bullets, well, to feed 10 universal machine guns, almost a hundred rifles.

These more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition are estimated to be the amount of ammunition consumed by a US military brigade for several days of training.

Qin nodded his head, indicating that he understood.

Qin Guan knew that they regarded those firearms as treasures, and the guards were all personally used and guarded, not allowing others to touch them, and now Qin Guan's personal guards have expanded to five hundred, all of whom have received gun training, but there are only about a hundred people who can get guns.

Qin Guan had already freed up most of the weapons in the space, and the bullets had also been taken out and handed over to the guards to manage, and now his space was empty.

Qin Guan now only has a few pistols, two sniper rifles, two shotguns, two boxes of RPG bazookas, and the two AK47 rifles that he is left to play with, as well as some matching bullets.

Qin Guan already had a plan in his heart, and ordered: "Yuzhou City is very close to Dading Mansion, stay as a base, and we also have a place to rest." ”

"Okay, young master." Bear Boulevard.

"There are no outsiders left in Yuzhou City, the Han people directly let them leave, and as for those Liao troops who surrendered, including those from Yuzhou, they all rushed to the front line."

Now Qin Guan has a lot of troops in his hands, and he has collected nearly 10,000 people in Yelushi, and more than 20,000 people in Lumingshan, plus the Liao people in Yuzhou, and now he has 50,000 or 60,000 Liao prisoners of war and slaves in his hands.

Early the next morning, Qin Guan took an army of 40,000 and drove 50,000 or 60,000 Liao slave soldiers to Zhongjing.

Looking at this team of 100,000 people from a distance, it is really full of momentum.

Qin Guan didn't know that at this time, the emperor of Liao had already fled with the only remaining 20,000 imperial forest troops.

Dading City was very empty, and those officials had no choice, so each family transferred manpower and reorganized a defensive team of about 20,000 people.

Facing Zhongjing City, Qin Guan asked Han Yuqing: "Such a big city, how do you think we should attack him." ”

Han Yuqing said: "Xianggong, the siege of the city is nothing more than siege and storming, and the means are divided into fire attack, water attack, soil attack, plague, noise, tunnel warfare, spy infiltration and other methods. ”

Qin nodded in agreement.

To besiege the city is to send heavy troops to surround it, cut off your food and water, starve you for three or five months, one or two years, and then open the door and surrender by yourself. Being besieged by the enemy army is terrible, food is decreasing day by day, physical strength is weakening day by day, and in addition to serious psychological pressure, there have been many incidents in the history of war in which people eat human flesh because of being besieged.

Fire attack is to use bows and arrows and catapults to throw fire into the enemy's city, which can cause heavy damage to the enemy.

As the name suggests, water attack is to use water as a substitute for soldiers to attack the enemy. The main forms of water attack include "damming and flooding the city", "breaking the embankment and rushing the enemy", "cutting the water to trap the enemy", and so on. The ancient city wall is mostly rammed, and watering with water has naturally become a shortcut to attacking the city, first put water to soak you for two or three days, and if I don't move you, the city wall will crumble into mud.

Soil attack is to directly use soil to fill in the moat and build a road, Qin Guan has the impression that the Mongols used this method when attacking a certain city. 100,000 cavalry each carried a bag of sand and threw it under the enemy's city wall, and in just a few days they could build a dirt mountain, and then the army directly entered the city along the earth mountain, slaughtering all the way, mighty and domineering.

Plague is a trick that uses catapults to throw rotting cattle, sheep and even human corpses, as well as dung into enemy cities, so as to spread diseases and plagues, so that the enemy has no backhand, which is a very disgusting and perverted trick!

In the wild, it can also pollute water sources, etc.

Tunnel warfare is easy to understand, digging tunnels directly into the interior of the city, and then attacking and breaking it, which can also be combined with water attack.

Noise is also a disgusting trick, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of soldiers stand in front of your house banging gongs and drums and scolding, day and night non-stop making noise, a day or two is fine, ten days and half a month you will have a mental breakdown.

The infiltration of spies can be imagined as a Trojan horse scheme, and a group of special forces are mixed in, which is very troublesome. Even use spies to create messages in the city and create chaos, anyway, it won't make you feel better.

In fact, ancient warfare already had a very comprehensive system, and those famous generals would use their hard power and mental tactics to the extreme, so as to win the war.

Sun Tzu's Art of War said, the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the city is attacked; The siege of the city is a last resort. Therefore, it is the most stupid way to attack the city unless it is absolutely necessary.

To put it simply, use your brain.