Chapter 708 Fighting wits and courage, the art of war shows its edge
This method of digging up the earth to make cloth bags was used as a contingency when attacking the city walls, and if there were no suitable engineering equipment, the cloth clothes and earth were used to make the appearance of wrapping.
This improvised method of using dirt as a stepping stone can be stacked up to a high place, and the trench can be quickly filled in this way.
This Chu Liancheng has been in the Xiliang Army for many years, and he knows all kinds of battles well in attack, killing, and defense, so he naturally knows this method. When Wang Ying saw the other party behaving like this, she knew what the enemy was going to do next.
The Xiliang soldiers in the back took off their yellow cloth robes and turbans, revealing neat and uniform armor, it turned out that these people were not yellow turbans, but rebels who came out of nowhere.
This kind of revealing his true identity, if this military camp is attacked by it, I am afraid that no one will be left alive, and all the people will be killed and killed.
Just now, I saw that these Yellow Turban Army were quite orderly in their actions, revealing strange flavors everywhere. Now it seems that he is not mistaken, the true identity of these people is the rebellion of the officials and soldiers of the imperial court.
Since the other party is a regular army, coupled with these thieves on the snake and scorpion mountain, the combat effectiveness can be said to be extremely strong.
Now this method of digging is the method often used in military formations. It seems that the person who led the troops on the other side was a battle-hardened general, and it was not a rabble of chaotic people at all.
And these brothers of their own are a little old and weak, if the other party rushes to the city wall through the method of digging the earth, then the face-to-face fight does not know whether these old and weak soldiers of their own can have the courage to face it.
This kind of killing blood that is close at hand These people have not experienced it for many years, will they be frightened by this tragic scene and collapse into an army, there is really no bottom in their hearts.
In fact, not only Wang Ying could see that the other party was going to use the excavation method to attack, but most of the soldiers in this military camp were old soldiers, and they had also been trained on the battlefield when they were young. The other party's actions immediately understood the intention.
It seems that the next step is to see if this trench and earth wall can block these people, just now a burst of random arrows is convenient to flee in the wilderness, it can be seen that its morale is not very high, and now this kind of tactics really has to rush to the front with all the vigor, and the random arrows on the head are like rain to fill in this trench.
Therefore, this method of warfare requires great courage to be realized.
And this time the thieves' queue was arranged in an orderly manner, which was completely different from the swarm of swarms just now, which shows that there are also people who know the art of war among these thieves. The excitement in the hearts of these veterans calmed down, knowing that the battle below would be even more tragic.
Chu Liancheng deeply knows that there must not be the slightest delay on the battlefield, once the battle drags on for too long, the exhaustion of the body and the pain on the body will greatly affect a person's physical energy, and the fighting spirit will become depressed.
Now we have to take advantage of the means of killing chickens and monkeys just now, and let these cannon fodder play their greatest role. As long as the obstacle of this trench and earthen wall is removed, and with the strength of the good men under his hands and the bravery of the Xiliang army, it is not difficult to take this military camp.
Chu Liancheng also had a detailed observation of the arrows shot down by the earthen wall just now, and these people began to fire their bows and arrows after about a hundred steps. Moreover, the speed of those who saw the flight was not fast, and began to use the technique of projectile from a hundred paces away.
It can be seen that the number of stones in those longbows is not large, and the physical strength of the archers is definitely not particularly strong. The news that the rabble that they have co-opted say that the barracks are full of old, weak and disabled soldiers should be true.
If this is the case, in the face-to-face battle in the battle, the physical strength of those old and weak soldiers will soon weaken, and after letting these cannon fodder impact for a while, their elites will step on the corpses of those cannon fodder and rush onto the earthen wall.
The two strong men in the opposite barracks were very strong, but Chu Liancheng thought that he could still resist the enemy.
In addition, there are as many as a dozen people under his command who are proficient in strength, as long as those old and weak soldiers are killed, and the strength and ability on their side are bullied by more and less, the other party will be defeated even if he is strong.
Although the offensive has not yet been launched, Chu Liancheng has considered all the details of the battle in detail and detail, which is a habit that has been cultivated on the battlefield for many years. It is necessary to think of countermeasures in advance for possible changes, so that we can be in danger in the ever-changing battlefield.
Seeing that the cannon fodder team was already lined up, there were as many as forty of these thieves' ten-person squads. There were four or five bulging cloth bags on each person's body, and as long as they rushed to the front of the trench, ten squads gathered together to make four or five hundred huge bags of dirt.
These were enough to fill in the trenches, and would be stacked at the bottom of the earthen walls, when a skilled person could climb to the top of the earthen wall by taking a ladder or even stepping on the wall after a quick run.
The bags of dirt on these cannon fodder bodies were extremely heavy, and there was no way to reach the trench as quickly as they had just charged. Therefore, you will inevitably be shot by random arrows on the way. However, if you line them up in a row, the area where you can be shot by arrows will be reduced.
The cloth bags filled with dirt on the body will also be turned into shields to block arrows, and the casualties should not be too large.
He had already ordered that as long as someone was mortally wounded, the person next to him must take off the cloth bag on his body and take it with him. In fact, there is no need to tell them themselves, in order to save their lives, these people will also take down the cloth bags of their comrades who were hit by arrows and use them to defend themselves against arrows.
Now that the queue has been neatly completed, Chu Liancheng raised his right hand high and looked coldly at the military camp opposite. The arm that did not fall for a long time made the atmosphere of the whole battlefield more solemn, and the hearts of the soldiers on both sides seemed to be lifted into the air by this raised arm.
Suddenly, Chu Liancheng's arm waved downward, and the dozens of queues began to jog forward, not moving quickly. Some of the soldiers in the barracks who couldn't hold their breath wanted to draw their bows and shoot arrows, but Wang Ying raised his hand to stop this behavior.
Wang Ying knew the skills of these old soldiers under his hands, and he could only barely throw arrows in two hundred steps, even if it was a blessing, let alone any accurate strength.
The queues in front of them were full of cloth bags, and the people at the front had more shields to protect themselves this time, if they started shooting indiscriminately now, not to mention killing and injuring a few thieves, there would be problems with physical fitness alone.
If you start shooting arrows non-stop now, I am afraid that after these thieves arrive, it will be extremely difficult to pull the longbow in your hand, and the arrows will not be accurate.
So these thieves rushed forward, and not even a single arrow was shot in the direction of the barracks. Those snake and scorpion thieves who were used as cannon fodder were originally extremely slow to move because they were carrying too heavy a weight on their bodies. Extremely afraid of the opponent's bow and arrows.
But he had already run to the distance of 100 paces just now, and the other party still didn't shoot an arrow, and his heart was full of ecstasy. It seems that the opponent's number of arrows is limited, maybe there are not many arrows left in the indiscriminate shooting just now.
This time, it may be possible to fill the trench with these cloth bags smoothly and rush up the earthen wall.
That Wang Ying coldly watched as these queues marched in unison into the trench of the barracks, her face calm as usual, and her body stood solemnly in the wind like a javelin.
Those thieves are getting closer and closer, and although the old soldiers on the wall have all experienced the battle formation, they can't help but feel apprehensive in their hearts. But looking at the calm and relaxed expression on his face, all the soldiers settled down.
The queues were getting closer and closer, from 100 to 50 steps, from 50 to 30 steps. Wang Yingsheng, who had not moved at all, suddenly made a move, raised his right hand high and shouted.
"Lead!"
This is the command of the archers in the army when they fire a volley, and it is for everyone to shoot their bows. At this time, those thieves were only twenty or so strides away from the trench, and the expressions on their faces could be seen clearly.
Although there are a lot of cloth bags on me, it is extremely easy to get accurate from such a close distance.
Wang Ying's two tiger eyes suddenly radiated fine light.
Shout.
"Put!"