Chapter Forty-Nine: Gunpowder Is Not the Only Tool for Breaking Cities

In the battle of crossing the river, the Tang army beheaded more than 30,000.

When the whole army began to cheer, Yun Chu began to check his army in addition to cheering.

The news from Wen Rou's side is not optimistic at all, just this battle, Yun Chu's department has reduced its staff by 321 people.

The losses this time are almost the sum of the losses of the large and small wars that the Yunchu Department has experienced since entering Liaodong.

In other words, the 3,200 government soldiers who followed Yun Chu to Liaodong were reduced by one percent.

The battle losses of the bad people in Wannian County are not counted, because these people actually belong to Yun Chu's own soldiers, and the casualties are Yun Chu's personal affairs, and they have nothing to do with the country.

Only the three brothers of the Wang family were in a good mood, because their slave soldiers built a bridge for the soldiers of Yun Chu this time, and they died more than 800 times, but they completed the task perfectly, which gave them more say in front of Yun Chu.

They know that the general they are following now cares extremely about the life and death of his soldiers, so the status of slave soldiers will become more and more important on the road of conquest in the future.

This can be seen from the attitude of Yun Chubu towards the slave soldiers.

In the Yunchu army, whether it is a government soldier, a slave soldier, or a general, their meals are the same.

The Yunchu Division also gave each slave soldier a blanket, and also allowed the slaves to have their own property, and most importantly, in the Yunchu Army, the wounded slave soldiers received the same treatment as the government soldiers, and they were not thrown out because they were injured.

Therefore, there were rumors among the slave soldiers that after the war, the general would take all these slave soldiers to Chang'an as domestic slaves.

These words were almost known to everyone among the slaves, but only the three Wang brothers and their subordinates did not know.

In the Yun Chu Army, any rumors that appear are related to Brother Rumors, so this is a strategy of gentleness.

It's a pity that Yang Jing was taken away by Jin Yuanru, otherwise, there would be a bigger fish in the gentle fishing net.

However, it doesn't matter, the three brothers of the Wang family are entangled with Yang Jing's business, and this Yang Jing will definitely come back.

As usual, those who are missing arms and legs will be recorded in the book of fallen soldiers, and then changed their name to become the brother of the deceased, appearing in the Yunchu army in the name of Minfu.

Now, Yun Chu has gone from opposing and not accepting this set of practices to acquiescing later, until now he is directly hands-on and has become very proficient.

"Your name was Yang Cheng before, and you will be called Yang Shoucheng in the future, this is the name of a person I knew before, I heard that this guy slept a lot in the first part of the workshop, and he was very blessed, so, that's it."

"Congratulations, you don't have to go to the army, you have to live with donkeys in the future, let's say okay first, do you want a male donkey or a female donkey?"

"What? You want a big fucking green mule? See clearly, you have a broken hand, and when the thing in your crotch is gone, I will change you to a big green mule, otherwise, you can do it yourself, can you change it?"

Yun Chu laughed all the way out of the tent of the wounded soldiers, he smiled very reluctantly, mainly because there were a few very seriously injured, hoping that he, the general, could give them a ride with his own hands.

Yun Chu asked people to bring the strongest anti-poison, and poured it into their mouths with Wen Wen, and after some of them were poured in, they flowed out from other places...... In the end, they all died of drunkenness.

The smell of alcohol enveloped the entire tent of the wounded soldiers, and many of the wounded soldiers barely straightened up and looked at the general and Changshi pouring wine into the mouths of those comrades, but no one spoke, and many young wounded soldiers began to cry.

A few veterans muttered on the side: "What are you crying about, this is the life of the soldiers, and it's not bad to be able to drink a bowl of the best spirits when you leave."

Yun Chu threw a piece of licorice into his mouth, chewed it slowly, and Wen Rou also took out a piece of licorice from his sleeve and chewed it in his mouth, neither of them had any interest in talking.

With so many people killed, the whole army was cheering, and the Yunchu army was no exception, and those soldiers who were enthusiastic because they were victorious stood in front of Jili City, constantly waving their weapons to vent their joy of victory to the Goguryeo people at the head of the city.

The battle of crossing the river was over, and it was a big victory beyond Gao Kan's expectations, however, Jili Mountain City still stood in front of him, and it did not change its height and danger because of the last big victory.

Jili City is a mountain city, and the only drawback is that the clearing in the middle of the valley is too vast for the Biliu River to become their moat.

In fact, no general would have built a city with a river that often overflowed as a moat.

There is no way to predict that the flood will carry the walls away.

The Jili City built by the mountain is steep, high and dangerous, standing on the bank of the Biliu River rolling eastward, choking the north bank of the Yellow River, and echoing the stone city that has just burned down at the beginning of Yunchu in the south.

Like a giant pincer, the Chishan City, Wobao Mountain City, Gaoli City, etc. on both sides of the upper reaches of the Biliu River are less than 100 miles, and the northeast is connected with Niangniang City and Phoenix City to form a complete defense system, forming a castle that has both offense and defense, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Jili City can also block the Tang Dynasty Navy's attack route along the Biliu River Valley from the sea.

Therefore, its strategic position is very important.

Jili City is divided into the front city and the back city. Surrounded by the valley of the back city, it is suitable for the garrison of each valley.

The former castle spans a ridge, making it easy to look out and command battles. The back city and the front city echo each other, complement each other and complement each other.

The city wall in front of Jili Castle is constructed according to the mountain terrain, except for the south and southeast, the other three walls of the west, north and northwest are all built by using steep cliffs, and the cliffs are integrated.

Unlike Stone Town, there are very few trees on the hill here, and most of them are low shrubs. In addition, there is a Great Wall-like wall winding on the top of the mountain, and there is no room for fire attack that can be used in Stone City. Baidu search|7|4|文|学|网|See the latest chapters of the Tang people's dining table.

Li Ji's three-way army, headed by the northernmost Qibi He Li and Xue Rengui, led by himself the Chinese army in the center, and the rear army led by Gao Kan was below, wanting to form a scene of advancing head to head, and wanted Yuangai Suwen to not take care of it all, as long as there was an army to break through the defense line of the Goguryeo people, then the Goguryeo people who were in front of the other two armies had to retreat and continue to give up room for maneuver.

Now, Yun Chu has clearly seen Li Ji's strategic goal, his purpose is to suppress the Goguryeo people on the narrow Korean Peninsula, so that these people will lose room to maneuver.

The decisive battle was bound to take place on the Korean Peninsula, so the gunpowder of the people also needed to be taken by surprise to exert the maximum effect and destroy the Goguryeo people in one fell swoop.

After the joy of victory retreated, there were cries from the barracks next door, and the cries in Master Zhang's barracks were the most miserable.

Because, Master Zhang died in battle, this martial arts county man, Master Zhang, the younger brother of the famous Tang Dynasty general Zhang Jian, died in battle.

When the soldiers snatched Master Zhang's body back, the man had been trampled into a human skin wrapped in armor by the war horse.

The crying in Guo Beifeng's military camp was not small, Guo Beifeng did not die in battle, nor was he seriously injured, but his own soldiers were killed and wounded, and his subordinates also lost more than 30% of the battle.

Gao Kan issued a military order, requiring the whole army to summon the soul of the dead Master Zhang, and also made the Goguryeo people in the city think that this battle, the commander of the Tang Army, was also finished.

Yun Chu understands this matter very well, not to mention Dai Xiao, a general, or Dai Xiao, a Tang soldier who died in battle, he is willing.

It's just that Datang's filial piety cost him fucking sackcloth, and he is going to keep this batch of linen to make leather boot linings for the soldiers, otherwise, when winter really comes, the soldiers wearing single leather boots will freeze their feet.

There is only one pair of cotton shoes prepared by the army for the soldiers, which is not enough at all, and Yun Chu also wants to use the special product of the Northeast to warm up.

On the third day after the battle of crossing the river, the Tang army began a formal siege battle, and this time the Yunchu army was not in the sequence of siege troops.

The Chinese army under the personal command of Gao Kan attacked the city.

In the past two days, the siege vehicles, building cars, and arrow towers that were hastily made were dispatched one after another, and were pushed by the army and slowly forced towards the city.

The result was not good, just when these siege equipment were about to arrive at the city wall under the cover of sliding bed crossbows and bows and arrows, countless boulders suddenly flew out of the city, and the siege vehicles, building cars, and arrow towers that the generals had made with great difficulty smashed to pieces, which was the first time Yun Chu had seen the real use of catapults on the battlefield.

However, the stones thrown by these catapults are not very large, and the largest is only twenty or thirty pounds.

The stones were not thrown far enough, no more than a hundred paces at most, and that's it, or they were thrown down from the city.

This kind of catapult is really not very good, far inferior to the half-orc catapult that Yun Chu saw in the movie, that thing, can throw a stone tower onto the human city wall, and smash the city wall dozens of zhang high is a big hole.

The question is, how is that trebuchet made?

Yun Chu felt that he needed to brainstorm something.

Just when Yun Chu was planning to build a huge catapult that could throw 500 catties of stones into the city, Gao Kan also ordered the manufacture of a catapult.

However, the catapult he built was very small, and he threw more than a dozen pounds of stones, and it had to be smooth pebbles.

For a young man like Yun Chu, who is a scholar in any era, it is almost not difficult for him to save a gravity catapult in a short period of time, so he automatically raised his requirements for himself, and he needs to make a catapult that can throw five hundred pounds of stones onto the city tower.

Yun Chu's perception of this thing is to build a huge wooden shelf, put a strong enough wood on the shelf, one short and the other long, add counterweights on the short side, and then use the long arm to throw stones, because the force exerted by the short arm on the long arm will be magnified.

Therefore, if you want to throw the stone far enough and the stone is heavy enough, you need to consider the length ratio between the short arm and the long arm, as well as the counterweight ratio.

When Gao Kan was throwing more than a dozen pounds of pebbles to the city, he inadvertently saw a huge wooden shelf and a giant tree with a length of more than ten zhang in front of Jili Mountain City.

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