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After lunch, Li Cun ordered the whole army to rest and prepare for a night battle.

Many people have some misconceptions about sieges, thinking that it will be easier to siege cities during the day.

Actually, this is a mistake.

In siege warfare, although the ability of both the besieging and defending sides will be weakened at night, relatively speaking, the defending side will be weakened more.

You know, many people in this era have night blindness, which leads to very limited visibility at night.

Therefore, the dark night can greatly reduce the pressure of the defender's long-range attack.

In addition, the dark night can hide whether the besieging side is actually attacking or feintifying, as well as the movement of the besieging side and the number of besieging people.

In addition, a siege in the dark of night can cause stress and even fear on the defenders, especially for those who are not experienced in defending the city.

This is why Li Cun chose to attack these Zhuangzi at night, just because, the most suitable time to siege the city is the dark night, and the best time to defend the city is the bright day.

In the early afternoon, suddenly a Zhuangzi opened the door and surrendered.

Li Cun ordered that the people in the village should not be offended in autumn.

However, Li Cun still "asked" the other party to do him a small favor, that is, to ask them to persuade the other six people in the Zhuangzi to surrender.

Because their whole family stood in front of the village and came forward to speak, they were really persuaded to surrender a Zhuangzi.

As for the remaining five Zhuangzi, either they didn't believe that Li Cunzhen would let them go, or they were reluctant to save a huge amount of family property, or they felt that they could defend themselves against the attack of the Tiger Ben Army, in short, they were ready to fight to the end.

Seeing this, Li Cun ordered no more nonsense with the remaining five stubborn Zhuangzi, and directly sent people to escort the people from the two Zhuangzi who surrendered intact to Qingxi County, and at the same time ordered people to bury the pot and prepare for the attack.

In the process, Li Cun popularized siege techniques to the officers.

"The army is plotting, the army is attacking the city, but the two armies are fighting, and the siege of the city must be inevitable, and the army must not be afraid of it."

"Those who fortify the city, not one or two years can be built, it takes thirty or fifty years to be successful, and after completion, it is still necessary to continue to strengthen and improve and repair the damage, from this point of view, this Wuzhuang is still far from the fortified city, so you must first find the defensive weaknesses of this Wuzhuang, such as Fanjiazhuang, he Zhuang is high in the east and low in the west, and the west side is still built according to the mountain, which seems to be solid, but I weakly send people to this mountain, choose a suitable place, and then hit it with a catapult, and its village will be broken."

"The city is guarded by ten men. If there is not enough manpower, no matter how strong the city is, it will be like paper paste. The elite of these five villages has already been annihilated by me in Linjiadian, and its defenders will be insufficient, so you can attack it from three sides, and leave it all the way to force it to abandon the village and flee. ”

"Defenders, ordnance, grain and grass need to be sufficient, if our army storms, the consumption of wood, rolling stones, arrows and so on is huge, in the case of wood, rolling stones, the daily consumption of thousands, arrows are tens of thousands, this five villages are ordinary Zhuangzi, and not a military city, how can there be more ordnance, so if I really attack, this five villages will be broken."

"There is no city that must be saved, there is no city that must be defended, no matter how strong the city, if there is no reinforcements, it is only time to be broken, the rest of the seven villages of the lifeless society have been owned by me, and the officers and soldiers dare not come out, this five villages must have no reinforcements, how can they defend, therefore, they are seeking their own death."

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The soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army who originally thought that it would be difficult to attack these five Zhuangzi, after listening to Li Cun's analysis and teaching, they immediately felt that these five Zhuangzi might not be as difficult to fight as they imagined, right?

Li Cun knew that it was useless to say that it was useless.

Therefore, Li Cun asked the soldiers, which of the five Zhuangzi do you think is the most difficult to beat?

As a result, almost everyone said that the most difficult Zhuangzi to fight was Qianjiazhuang, which had a four-bed crossbow.

Li Cun said, okay, then let's hit Qianjiazhuang first.

Li Cun asked again, which of you wants to try to lead troops to fight this Qianjiazhuang?

Although everyone felt that attacking these five Zhuangzi was not as difficult as they had imagined before, they still did not dare to fight, especially when they remembered that the four bed crossbows had shot seventy or eighty people at once.

At this time, Zhao Han'er suddenly came out of the queue and said loudly: "The last general is willing to lead the headquarters to attack this village!" ”

Zhao Han'er got a reward second only to Niu Meng, which caused a lot of criticism, and some people even felt that Zhao Han'er was not as good as the second pole, and the second pole killed a coach by himself, Zhao Han'er was purely lucky.

Zhao Han'er listened to these words in his ears and remembered them in his heart, he kept holding back, waiting for an opportunity to prove himself.

Now, this opportunity has finally arrived.

Li Cun called Zhao Han'er aside, explained Zhao Han'er alone for a while, and then asked Zhao Han'er to prepare for the siege......

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As night fell, the war drums beat in the Tiger Ben army.

Then, in the east, west, and south directions, there was a ladder and a chariot at the same time, and under the cover of the wooden mantle, they advanced towards Qianjiazhuang, leaving only the north side unattacked.

Seeing this, Qian Dahai, the owner of Qianjiazhuang, immediately commanded the Zhuang Ke and Jiading who guarded the village to divide two bed crossbows to go to the east and west directions, and here at the south main gate, only two bed crossbows were left.

The long-range range of the bed crossbow can reach 500 steps, which is the farthest and most powerful weapon in this era, and can be described as the overlord of the crossbow, and its deterrent power is almost equal to that of the nuclear weapons of later generations.

It is no wonder that the people in Qianjiazhuang dare to rely on four bed crossbows to stick to Qianjiazhuang.

The arrows fired by the bed crossbow are made of wood as the rod, the iron spear head is used as the arrowhead, and the iron piece feather is used as the tail wing, which is known as "one shot and three sword arrows" (in fact, to put it bluntly, the arrows fired by the bed crossbow are short spears), and its destructive power is huge.

During the Battle of Lanyuan, the Song army used this kind of arrow to shoot the Liao army's chief general Tart Lan from a distance of 500 paces, which contributed to the Song-Liao peace conference.

However, this kind of sharp arrow can shoot one at a time, and if you want to load the arrow after shooting, you have to use the winch to slowly pull the bed crossbow apart, and then you can put the second arrow and then shoot.

This process, all down, less than five minutes, that is not to be thought about.

In this dark night, what is the use of an arrow, not to mention that it misses nine times out of ten, even if it can hit one or two people?

In addition, dozens of arrows are released at a time on the bowstring, and at the same time, they emit a storm like a storm, which is called "jackdaw arrows".

Yesterday, Qian Jiazhuang relied on four bed crossbows to fire jackdaw arrows in a salvo, which caused so many casualties to the unobstructed Tiger Ben soldiers.

Today, the people in Qianjiazhuang obviously want to repeat the old tricks.

It's a pity that today is not yesterday, because Li exists here today.

In short, the jackdaw arrows fired from the four bed crossbows like a storm were almost all blocked by the wooden curtain, and the wooden curtain could not stop it, nor could it break through the defenses of the ladder and the chariot.

Three ladders and three carts were quickly advanced to the front of the village under the cover of wooden curtains.

At this time, Li Cun gave an order, and the four stone throwers immediately fired a salvo!

In an instant, four boulders flew towards Qianjiazhuang!

The stone throwing machine is also called the stone truck, its structure is very simple, it is to make a transverse axis on a wooden frame, and intersperse a long rod between the shaft and the transverse axis, one end of the rod is tied with a leather hole containing stones, and the other end is tied with dozens or more than 100 ropes.

When using it, put the stone into the leather hole, and when the order is given, everyone pulls the rope together, and the leather stone is thrown out as if it were flying.

During the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao used a stone thrower to break through Yuan Shao's camp and won a great victory.

During the Han and Tang dynasties, the use of stone throwers in combat gradually increased.

Nowadays, the stone thrower is getting bigger and bigger.

The stone throwing machine that Li Cun commanded his military subordinates to make overnight already needed hundreds of people to pull the rope to throw the boulder, and each stone could even kill several people, which was definitely a sharp weapon for siege.

I don't know if Zhao Han'er is really a lucky general, one of the four boulders thrown out for the first time happened to fall on the wall, killing five people in one fell swoop.

This undoubtedly gave a great shock to the people in Qianjiazhuang, and some people were so frightened that "Ah Ye" screamed strangely, and immediately ran away.

I have to say that Qian Dahai is still a little decisive.

Seeing that things were not good, Qian Dahai decisively hacked to death two people who dared to escape, and his sons did the same, so they barely stabilized the battle situation.

But it's useless.

Because the ladder, which resembles the fire trucks of later generations, has been leaned against the wall.

Immediately afterward, a soldier of the Tiger Ben Army got out of the cart and climbed up the ladder.

Seeing this, Qian Dahai hurriedly ordered someone to shoot arrows down, throw rolling wood and thunder stones, and pour gold juice down.

At the same time, Li Cun ordered the stone thrower to continue to fire cannons to cover the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army attacking Qianjiazhuang, while he himself took off his coat and walked to the war drums, and then personally cheered for the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army who were besieging the city.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Inspired by the rhythmic war drums, a group of soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army climbed up the ladder one after another.

Finally, after the catapult hit the people on the wall again, the keepers of the village were so frightened that they immediately took refuge in all directions, and took the opportunity to climb the wall alone.

The person who climbed the wall slashed to death a Zhuang guest in front of him, and said loudly: "I am Zhao Han, the general under the account of Li Cun, the general of the Tiger Ben, and the others who insert the bid and sell the head, come and die quickly!" ”

After finishing speaking, Zhao Han'er, who had two arrows stuck in his body and a lot of gold juice, brandished a cold steel knife and killed the crowd as if he was dying.

I don't know if Zhao Han'er's bravery deterred the enemy, and the people of the dozens of money houses on the wall saw Zhao Han'er killing single-handedly, and they were so frightened that they all retreated.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, another Tiger Ben soldier rushed to the wall.

Then more and more soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army rushed to the wall......

Not long after, the door of Qianjiazhuang was opened from the inside, and Zhao Han'er's people rushed into Qianjiazhuang like a tide......

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