Chapter 337: Siege
Regarding Wang Ben's analysis of the siege, Yingcheng didn't even have to think about whether it was correct.
In fact, Wang Ben's siege experience is too rich, so rich that even if he opens history, there are few famous generals who can compare.
"Do as General Wang instructs!"
Yingcheng quickly ordered to go down, and the task of preparing torches and building a camp naturally fell on the head of the guard.
At this moment.
In addition to the guards, the Yongcheng Army, the Huben Battalion, the Lieutenant's Mansion Soldiers, and the 6783 Garrison Battalions, a total of 80,000 soldiers and horses.
With his order, the whole army without any reservations pressed up.
At dusk.
The sun was lifted on the top of the mountain by the Qinling Mountains in the distance, and the soft north wind slowly blew the wilted weeds that had been trampled.
"Order, the Yongcheng army retreats, and the tiger camp presses up!"
At this time, Wang Ben was no longer polite, and quickly became the commander-in-chief, and began to strictly arrange the siege matters.
And the first to start the siege was the cavalry of the Tiger Ben battalion.
Although the Tiger Camp has experienced a long journey and cannot fight for a long time, it can still be done by fighting for a while.
The 30,000 cavalry of the mighty Tiger Battalion galloped densely on the field and rushed towards Liyi City.
Ride and shoot!
In the first round, Wang Ben staged an overwhelming riding shot.
I saw the cavalry of the Tiger Camp shooting towards the city in the charge.
One by one, the arrows were shot at the city wall, and a large number of them suddenly fell on the city wall.
On the contrary, it was the Tiger Ben Battalion, and there were not even casualties.
"I don't have any experience defending the city at all, and it's a mess."
Yingcheng looked at this scene and was particularly happy.
A traitor's counterattack is better than nothing, and there is no decent counterattack at all.
Compared with the two, the obvious gap is beyond words.
Crush!
The Tiger Ben camp opened the formation, round after round, and the arrow feathers never stopped, and they really built a curtain outside the city and at the head of the city.
But on the other hand, the counterattack of the convict army was a mess, there was no salvo, and it either fell in front of the cavalry or behind, and could not cause damage to the charging cavalry at all.
This can no longer be described as a gap.
It is a complete crushing.
And.
Because from a distance, he could see the movement above the city.
Seem.
There are traitors who are organizing to pick up the arrows that the tiger camp shoots at the city wall, and then let the archers shoot them, and even some archers, because they have no arrows in their hands, also start to pick up arrow feathers to fight back.
This is complete nonsense.
However, after three rounds, the traitors without any protection did not dare to pick them up.
The rebels are in disarray.
The reason for this.
Liyi City is not a military city, there is no armament in it, except for the government soldiers in the county government, the reserves of ordnance are seriously insufficient.
This part of the ordnance is enough to supply a 5,000 Qin army soldiers to defend the city, but if you want to supply a 100,000 traitors to defend the city, it is seriously insufficient.
After Yingtian had already ordered the Yongcheng army to attack once, there was an extreme shortage of arrow feathers.
Meantime.
The combat effectiveness of the prisoner army is not strong, the prisoners in Lishan or other places are all leftovers, and the strong ones, who were once used as soldiers, have been picked up to form death squads, prisoner troops, etc., and the rest are these coolies.
Archers are not what anyone wants to be, and the archers in the army are fed with arrow feathers, and not everyone who gets a bow and arrow can shoot accurately.
"The shield array followed, and the archers followed, advancing steadily!"
"Catapult ready, smash!"
Despite this, Wang Ben still saw that the Tiger Ben camp was almost charged, and he saw the opportunity to order again.
"Cavalry can't attack a city, even the most fierce cavalry can only watch in the face of the city wall, but
The reason why the cavalry was used in the first round was to take the lead and consume the enemy's arrows, causing great casualties to the enemy defending the city, so that they did not dare to attack easily."
"In this way, when the cavalry begins to leave, the foot soldiers can advance steadily within fifty paces of the city."
"Under the city walls, let alone fifty steps, even if you push one step safely, you can minimize casualties."
"As the main general, you must be clear about the purpose of this siege, whether it is to break the city or increase the enemy's casualties, if it is to break the city, then everything must revolve around the soldiers approaching the city wall to arrange the attack method and order."
While giving the order, Wang Ben did not forget to explain to Yingcheng why he did this.
Yingcheng was also like a beginner, staring at the attack of the Qin army with his eyes.
Indeed, as Wang Ben said.
Under the strong offensive of the cavalry, the traitors on the city walls did not dare to take the lead.
This allowed the footmen, who followed closely behind the cavalry, to steadily approach the walls without being attacked by the arrows.
It wasn't until the cavalry moved quickly to the sides under the walls to vacate the position for the foot soldiers that the rebels on the walls showed their heads and shot arrows sparsely outside the city.
But at this time.
The traitor ushered in a second round of arrow-feathered attacks.
Behind the shield array.
Each battalion had full-time archers to form an attacking phalanx, and in rounds of arrows, they continued to fire at the rebels at the head of the city.
Compared with the traitor's counterattack, every three steps forward of the Qin army soldiers paused, and the arrow feathers fired quickly.
What's even more terrifying is that the catapult is unreasonably separated by a distance of two hundred and fifty steps, crackling against the city wall.
This made the traitors, who didn't even dare to take the lead, and hid under the city walls one by one, and the Qin army approached the city wall unharmed.
"Your Majesty, acting like a traitor is a situation of cowardice, and at this time, the cowardly must be killed by the prison army, and even if there is a rolling stone in front of him, he must rise to the front and fight back." Wang Ben said again: "However, at this time, the entire city wall was silent, and no one dared to fight back, more because the traitors were not armed enough, and the command was chaotic."
"It is easier to defend a city than to attack a city, and in the face of siege arrows, you must have a shield array and cooperate with archers to seize the gap between the siegers' remarks and counterattack."
"Especially from high vantage points, the range of bows and arrows is much longer, and it is most likely to cause large casualties at the distance that the besiegers are close to the city walls."
"If well commanded and armed, it can even make the besiegers reach the city walls and be afraid to enter the city."
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"Kill!"
At this moment, outside the city of Liyi, the shouts of killing were earth-shattering, and the soldiers of the Qin army broke out into a deafening roar.
At a distance of thirty paces, the soldiers of the Qin army completely began the impact of life and death, rushing towards the bottom of the city wall.
And at this time.
The threat of arrow feathers is gone.
But the Qin army besieging the city will usher in a more severe test.
"The catapult is thirty paces backwards, flint, smash!" Wang Ben also ordered again.
At this time, the catapult has been replaced with a projectile, turning the original dozens of pounds of stones into flint, although it is flint, but it is actually a fire oil tank, put the fire oil tank into a cage made of straw mats, and then ignite the cage and smash it into the ...... The head of the city and the inside of the city.
Flint is an extremely brutal form of attack.
The oil tank exploded when it hit the ground, and it was ignited by the burning straw mat cage, and everything could be ignited in an instant when it landed.
And at this time.
One by one, fireballs smashed wildly into the city.
It is unimaginable for these flints to fall into the city, but it must be a sea of fire.
"This law is to isolate the garrison of the city." Wang Ben explained: "Usually there are three sacred objects in the defense of the city, fire oil, rolling wood, and ding juice, which has to be prepared to guard the city, and the fire oil is smashed down when the besiegers climb the city wall, and then the torch is thrown and lit, and there is a sea of fire under the city wall."
"Climbing ladders and other objects are all wooden things, which can be easily ignited, but the real effect is that those who are smashed down from the ladder will be ignited once they hit the ground, and there is no chance of survival."
"And rolling logs are the only way to deal with climbing ladders, if there are enough rolling logs, if you want to climb the city, you need to pay a very heavy price."
"And this juice, which is more of grease, can also be replaced with boiling water."
Wang Ben said in detail, but Yingcheng looked at it from a distance and said in surprise: "It seems that these traitors have not prepared these things."
Wang Ben glanced at Yingtian and said with a smile, "I'm afraid Your Majesty is going to ask General Ying."
Yingcheng looked at Yingtian strangely.
"General Wang deserves to be my undefeated general in the Quartet!" Yingtian listened to Wang Ben's command and explained to the Second Emperor throughout the whole process, and also replied as if he was taught: "Back to Your Majesty, the traitor is not unprepared, but all used on the Yongcheng army."
"The last general attacked the city angrily, and the whole army pressed on it, that Zhao Fei panicked, and he used the things to defend the city without restraint at all, without half a penny, as a result, it was only the first wave of attack, and it was estimated that half of the garrison armament he prepared was gone, and then Zhao Fei saw this, and saved again, and the last general attacked again, from time to time."
"Presumably, the reason why General Wang ordered the siege of the city was probably because he saw that the traitors were not well guarded."
Wang Ben nodded and said, "Back to Your Majesty, it is exactly like this, the last general looks at the traitor from afar, uses less rolling stones, and the fire oil is no longer poured down, even the Ding juice falls on the soldiers' bodies and does not burn much, so I feel that this is a good opportunity to attack the city."
"At this time, use flint to intercept the path of its armament, and the city will be destroyed."
"Unless, this Zhao Fei is calculating, deliberately showing signs of insufficient garrison, to induce our army to attack the city in an all-out way, however, this possibility is extremely small, and the chaos that the Yongcheng army exposed when attacking the city because of insufficient armament is not pretended."
"Behold, an hour shall be able to break through the western gates." Yingcheng listened to Wang Ben's explanation, glanced at the siege and said.
"The only thing the rebels rely on is numerical superiority, if the rebels can resist unified, or have the strength to fight, but they can't unite as one, they can put down the rebellion in Liyi tonight." Wang Ben nodded and replied, "Before the victory or defeat is scored, you can't make a rash conclusion."
Yingcheng heard the meaning of this extraneous statement, although Wang Ben did not say it explicitly, but he still turned a corner to persuade him not to be too optimistic, and not to be arrogant before the victory or defeat was divided.
It's so steady.
Although it was the first time for him to participate in the military with Wang Ben, Wang Ben at this time gave him a very stable feeling.
This kind of stability can make him involuntarily feel at ease.
Thousands of troops are easy to obtain
, one will be hard to find.
That's really what that said.
For a general like Wang Ben, who has extremely rich combat experience in commanding large armies, it is really difficult to find a second person in the current world.
It was in Yingcheng's thoughts.
The siege is also advancing rapidly.
The besieging soldiers quickly stood under the city wall and put the ladder on the wall, which was much higher than the city wall, which answered his other question, why the soldiers defending the city could not overthrow the ladder.
Because it can't be pushed over at all, the ladder is 12 meters, leaning on the 8-meter-high city wall, and in the middle part, there is a rope hanging down and being dragged and fixed by the soldiers, and it is erected on the city wall with an extremely stable triangular structure, which is impossible to push away.
If you want to overthrow it, it takes more than a dozen people to overthrow it with great effort, and the soldiers who climbed the twelve-meter ladder can climb the city wall in a few seconds.
At this time, there are only two options, you can't throw a rolling stone to push the ladder, you can't push the ladder if you throw a rolling stone, so to speak, before pushing the ladder, the soldiers can climb the city wall, but the people who defend the city need too many people to overthrow the ladder.
"Kill!"
In the midst of the shouting and killing, I saw that above the city, there were already soldiers of the Qin army on the city wall and fighting with the traitors.
However, it was not one, on the contrary, there were no less than 100 people on the west wall of the entire Liyi City, and the follow-up soldiers flocked to the city wall like ants.
This does not indicate which soldiers are not brave.
However, it was not a joke to ascend to the throne first.
If you want to get the honor of the first to ascend, you must survive, you must capture the flag or kill the general, which is not easy.
The first to ascend is just a intention, more to encourage soldiers to climb the city wall, the courage to kill the enemy, at the same time, can be the first to climb the general, for the king to select the only way to select generals.
"Won, it seems, tonight will be a night of fighting." In the midst of this fierce attack, Wang Ben suddenly exhaled and said, "Please also ask Your Majesty to set up camp outside the city, and wait for tomorrow morning, the final general will hand over the stable Liyi City to Your Majesty."
"Quickly put General Pang down from the city gate and send him to the camp tent to heal his wounds!" Yingcheng also understood, and said in a shocking voice: "Wang Ben listens to the order and is fully responsible for quelling the Liyi rebellion."
"It is said that the warriors of the first place are coming, and I will personally reward them."
"The last will obey!" Wang Ben quickly received the order.