Volume 6 Calculations] Chapter 318 Yuan Shao touched a nose of ash-

Seeing that Yan Liang and Wen Chou had safely withdrawn from the battle circle, Yuan Shao immediately ordered the first group of siege troops to move closer to Huguan and prepare to launch a siege battle. Zhao Yun didn't wait for Yan Liang and Wen Chou to go away, he had already turned over and retreated towards the Huguan. Now that the fighting generals have ended, the next thing is a very cruel offensive and defensive battle, even if the generals with high force are unable to fight the siege of Yuan's army by themselves, so it is normal for Zhao Yun to retreat. The kind of scene where a military general kills all sides in the enemy group, fighting from morning to night without being scathed, is pure nonsense.

As soon as Zhao Yun entered the pass, the soldier in charge of the M-N of the Take-off and Landing City quickly lowered the gate of the big iron M-N weighing more than 10,000 catties in Huguan. In order to enhance the defense capability of Huguan and Keiguan, Zhao Xingke used 50,000 people and spent two full years to rebuild Huguan.

At that time, Zhao Xing made such a big move to rebuild the second pass, firstly, he wanted to find something to do for the displaced people who poured into Bingzhou, and secondly, he was also planning for the future. This super-thick and overweight large iron M-n was successfully cast after three furnaces of molten steel from Shangdang Steel Mill.

Just to transport this iron M-N to Huguan, Zhao Xing wasted a lot of thoughts. He first had people build a wide road from Huguan to Crouching Tiger, and then ordered people to cut down many giant trees with a diameter of more than two feet, and then use the method of rolling and panning to transport the iron M-N to Huguan. In order to place the iron M-N between the M-N brakes, Zhao Xing designed a lot of fixed pulleys and movable pulleys, which solved some problems in engineering mechanics.

Today's Huguan, compared with the old Huguan built by the Han Dynasty, is not only twice as high as the main city wall, but also twice as thick as the city wall extending in the direction of Bingzhou. In this way, not only can more defenders be placed on the top of the city, but large ballista carts and catapults can be placed, and an extended ear fort can be built on the side close to the state, which can be used to deal with the rushing vehicles that try to get close to the city M-nd-ng to carry out sabotage operations.

The outermost layer of the Huguan city wall was built entirely of huā granite barriers, with a thickness of at least three feet, and the gaps between the stone slabs were all made of plaster, and the smearing was smooth and neat, and from a distance it was a complete whole, without any gaps at all. The cost of building a city is naturally huge, but the benefits are obvious. No catapult or other siege equipment can damage the main body of the wall, and even after hundreds of years, Xiongguan can still take on defensive tasks.

It is naturally impossible to hide such a major event as rebuilding Huguan from Yuan Shao in Jizhou. As for the suffocating height of the kettle, it can be estimated by personal visual inspection. Since Yuan Shao is here to attack the city, he may not bring many other things, but the super-long ladder specially made by M-N is definitely very well prepared.

With Yuan Shao's order, the vanguard of five thousand siege troops rushed towards Huguan with a shout. The six soldiers running at the front carried a ladder, and as soon as they reached the base of the wall, they would immediately erect the ladder to provide support for the soldiers who were responsible for attacking the fortifications behind.

Zhao Yun, who had already re-walked to the head of the city, looked coldly at the soldiers of the Yuan army who were rushing in like ch-o water, and said to Cao X-ng beside him: "Don't use the chu-ng crossbow for the time being, when the Yuan army approaches, order the longbow regiment to carry out indiscriminate sh-attacks, and for the few enemy troops who have climbed the ladder, use hand crossbows, and be sure to leave this first group of siege troops under the city." ”

The reason why Zhao Yun gave such an order was that he didn't want to prematurely storm his own strength, and only used the method of intensive sh-attack to repel Yuan's tentative x-ng attack. The battle for guarding the pass has just begun, and the really difficult days are still to come.

"The battalions of the Longbow Regiment obey the order! Put the besieging enemy closer to carry out indiscriminate sh-, be sure to ensure that no one is allowed to climb the top of the city, and the enemy soldiers who have climbed the ladder can use one-handed crossbows to carry out sh-hit!" Cao X-ng walked from one end to the other, loudly conveying Zhao Yun's order as he walked. Just the nearly 100-zhang long wall of Huguan, it really takes some time to run from one side to the other.

"The first battalion is ready!", "The second battalion is ready!", ...... Looking at the Yuan army approaching under the city, the battalion commanders of the Longbow Regiment began to give orders to prepare for the shrew.

"Ready, let's go!" Seeing that Yuan Jun had already crossed the pre-marked SH-attack distance calibration line under the city, I don't know which battalion commander gave the order to attack first. Then the rain of arrows flew down from the head of Huguan City like locusts, and they all hit Yuan Jun, who was approaching Huguan like ants.

The towering wall can not only give the soldiers a wider field of vision, but also the arrows can reach farther places. Zhao Xing equipped Zhao Yun and Xu Huang with four longbow regiments, with a number of 2,000, and used the English longbow of Qingyi S-almost one person tall (Note 1, not only the sh-strike distance is long, but also the penetrating power is strong, and it is definitely the best equipment for defensive counterattacks.

As a round of arrows fell, the originally turbulent people immediately slowed down their momentum, and a miserable and mournful shout came one after another, and some of the Yuan Jun who were hit by the arrows were killed on the spot, some were still breathing, and some were injured limbs.

Seeing the powerful arrows of the defenders in the back, Yuan Jun raised the wooden shields in their hands to protect the top of their heads and continue to approach the city.

"Ready, let's go!" The vanguard army at the head of the city ignored the protection of the Yuan army under the city, and continued to fire sh-arrows at the approaching Yuan army. Although a wooden shield on his head can block some of the rain of arrows, the flight path of the longbow and arrows is arc, not vertical from top to bottom, so a large number of Yuan troops were still hit by the arrows sh- and fell in a pool of blood.

Finally, some of the brave soldiers of the Yuan army came to Huguan City, and they began to cover their heads with wooden shields, and slowly climbed up the ladder.

"Short crossbowmen prepare!jiāo fork sh-strike, prepare, release!" The battalion commanders at the head of the city continued to give orders, this time replacing them with short crossbowmen who ambushed close-range sh-strikes.

The so-called jiāo fork sh-strike, which means that the short crossbowmen of the first battalion struck the enemy in front of the second or third battalion from an oblique upward, and the advantage of this method was that it was difficult to hit the enemy hiding behind the shield from a vertical sh-strike from the top down.

The disadvantage of the short crossbow is that the sh- is close, but the advantage is that the sh- is fast and the hit is high. Sure enough, under a round of jī Lie's short crossbow sh-, Yuan Jun, who was climbing on the cloud ladder, was all sh-dropped, and even if he didn't sh-die, he was also thrown to death.

It's just half an hour later, and the casualties of the vanguard attacking Huguan have already been half, and Yuan Shao, who has touched a gray nose, hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops. Now that Yuan Shao has a personal experience, the hard bone of Huguan is really not easy to gnaw, and if he doesn't fill in the x-ng lives of thousands of soldiers, I'm afraid it will be difficult to overcome. Even if Yuan Shao had 50,000 jīng soldiers under his command, if he continued to consume it like this, it would not be something he could bear.

The first battle of the petty battle ended, and the defenders of the city repelled the Yuan army with a dense rain of arrows. Except for a very small number of soldiers who were hit by the arrows of the Yuan army's counterattack under the city, and there were more than ten casualties, the Zhenbei Army in the first battle was almost unscathed.

Note 1: The English longbow is generally 5 feet long (about 1.5 meters, roughly eyebrow-length, and some are 1.8-2 meters long, which is longer than the 4-foot bow common in Europe. The back of the bow is bent from a whole piece of wood, and hard materials such as yew (ye), ash (ash), oak (oak) are also available alternatives, but the x-ng can be a little worse. During the Hundred Years' War between England and France in the 1516th century, the longbow was the main weapon of English archers.

The longbow sh-arrow can reach about 300 meters (a very long distance in ancient weapons, that is, it can achieve the effect of a "barrage", when the own soldiers charge ahead, the longbowmen in the rear can still release high parabolic arrows to attack the upper part of the enemy. The weakness of the horses comes from the attack from above, and most of them have no armor, so once they are injured, they will become difficult to control. And even at a limit distance of three hundred meters, conical arrows can penetrate ordinary chain mail.