Maybe this sentence is a bit clueless for others, but for Wang Rong, this sentence is not a volley. When he first took over as Wu Chang, Pei Zongyan had already told him some battle conditions.

Although the right division and rear division of the Anton Army are ranked low, it does not mean that the soldiers cannot fight. General Qin Ke is more than thirty-five years old, born in the Dayong royal family, is the youngest brother of the current Dayong Emperor Qin Heng, since he was a child, he likes to dance with guns and sticks, is a tyrant in the palace, and later worships a famous teacher to learn martial arts, worships a famous general to learn the art of war, from a small soldier to today's partial general, he has been a soldier in the Andong Army for fifteen years, and there is no one under his command.

It has been two weeks since Qin Ke came to Xincheng, and he has fought with the Xincheng defenders several times, winning and losing. But after hearing that the front and left divisions had broken through the Yique Pass, he intensified his attack on the Xincheng defenders. He mobilized the entire cavalry of the two divisions, and then asked the army to retreat, so that the Xincheng defenders thought that he had given up and was ready to run away.

And the new Cheng guard general was also very cooperative, and personally led his troops out of the city to pursue, but in the valley in front of Luhun Pass, he collided head-on with the Anton army that had ended the retreat and set up a formation. Both armies knew that they had no way to retreat, so the battle entered a white-hot battle from the beginning, and it was the cavalry led by Qin Ke himself who decided the victory.

The death of the new guard general, the consequences are serious, the most serious is that the new general is replaced by Wei Hua, who was born in the Guards and Military Division, this is the royal family of Yu, but he is a distant branch and is not taken seriously, he is nearly forty years old, and he is also the deputy commander of the infantry of the Guards and Guards Division. Now he was ordered to organize more than 2,000 soldiers of the remaining guards in Xincheng as a reserve, and recruited nearly 30,000 Xincheng young and strong county soldiers to become the main force defending the city.

Qin Ke had a headache for Wei Hua to become the new general, maybe Yuguo didn't pay attention to Wei Hua, but he couldn't ignore it. This Wei Hua himself led the troops very few times, and the chances were very small. But the chance of him leading the troops alone to win is 100%, whether it is Yi or Yong, he can win, and one victory was won from Qin Ke.

Wang Rong is also scratching his head about Pei Zongyan's question, according to his thoughts, the next thing is the new siege battle. In this era of warfare, the most dangerous thing in the field is to fight with the enemy as the first row of soldiers in the battle formation, Wang Rong was fortunate to experience it on the first day of crossing, the experience is super strong, and the experience result is super bad.

And the thing that is more dangerous than the field as the first row of soldiers in the battle formation is the siege of the city. Since ancient times, siege warfare has been the most dangerous and cruel thing: in the battle of Shibao City in the Tang and Tubo War, the Tang army suffered tens of thousands of casualties before capturing more than 400 Tubo soldiers; During the Anshi Rebellion, Zhang Xun, the deputy envoy of Henan Jiedu in the Tang Dynasty, and Xu Yuan, the Taishou of Suiyang, led the army and the people to stick to Suiyang, and held out for ten months, with more than 400 battles before and after, with less than 10,000 people, repeatedly defeated the thieves, none of them lost, and killed and injured more than 100,000 thieves; In the battle of Song and Liao, the Liao army broke into the territory of the Northern Song Dynasty, and the Liao general Xiao Tzu Rin was shot by the Song army with a crossbow under the city of Shanzhou; During the Mongol invasion of the Song Dynasty, Meng Ke Khan personally led an army of 40,000 to besiege the Diaoyu City of Hezhou, and the Song army guards Wang Jian and Zhang Jue led 10,000 troops, holding the city for half a year, repeatedly thwarting the fierce attacks of the Mongolian army, and even Meng Ke Khan died in the army. In the following 20 years, Diaoyu City resisted the attack of the Mongol army, and after more than 200 battles, the Mongol army that swept across the Eurasian continent was trapped in the Diaoyu City of Hezhou for 36 years.

These well-known examples of battles all illustrate the bloody siege warfare, and as a soldier of the former Shi, Wang Rong first needs to go to the city to fight. The 120 foot soldiers of the entire right division are 1,200 men, plus the 1,200 men of the rear division, they are the vanguard of the siege. They are the most elite soldiers, and they are also the group of soldiers who have suffered the most damage.

Wang Rong thought back to a lot of battle examples, and also thought about it for a long time, Pei Zongyan waited slowly. Wang Rong shook his head with a wry smile, and he said helplessly: "Shi Chang, this siege can be said to be extremely dangerous, we are not even satisfied with the editor, how to let these people survive is a test for us." ”

The great man said: no investigation, no voice. has not actually seen the new city defense, and Wang Rong has no way to say that he is ugly. Pei Zongyan was not disappointed by Wang Rong's words, he just had no one to talk to. He nodded, and let Wang Rong go back.

Wang Rong returned to his tent, the front was empty, and there was a faint sound of snoring from behind. The military discipline in the barracks is very strict, if there is no training, the non-commissioned officers are not able to move around the camp at will, once the patrol encounters the idle soldiers, they will directly take them down, and then Yu Hou or Du Yu Hou will lead people to interrogate.

Wang Rong sat on a low stool in front of him, thinking about how he would survive the brutal siege. In this era, siege warfare and city defense warfare, the style of combat equipment is still relatively large, the most common strong bow and hard crossbow must be a lot, rolling wood and stone are necessary for every city to defend the city, these things are very well prepared, the woods outside the city, the houses in the city are the raw material production of rolling wood and stone.

The Jamon Knife Carriage is a defensive device used to block a city when the city gate is breached. It was a sturdy-built two-wheeled vehicle, with a body almost the same width as the city gate, usually between three and four feet; There are three or four layers of wooden frame in front of the car, dozens of steel knives are installed on the knife wall, and the car body has a long wheel; When used, push the cart to the gap of the city gate and plug the city gate, which can not only kill and injure the enemy, but also block the enemy's arrows and stones. This makes it difficult for the besieging side to climb and forms a barrier to activity.

The ram bars on the city wall can be said to be a nightmare for the soldiers who climbed the city. This is a tool used to hit a ladder. The bottom is equipped with four wheels, the top is equipped with a wooden frame, a log striker bar is hung in the middle of the wooden frame, and the head of the striker is wrapped with pig iron to increase the impact force, the appearance is similar to the battering ram or siege car used by the siege party, when the ladder of the siege party is close to the city wall, push the striker rod, knock the siege party soldiers and people with the ladder down, so that it is destroyed or knocked down.

There will also be people on the city wall who use hooks and rods to unexpectedly hook the soldiers who climb the city to the head of the city, so as to avoid the pain of climbing, and then chop them into meat and send them to reincarnation.

There is also a common fork pole, also known as the "Resist Fork Pole", which is used to resist siege soldiers using flying ladders to climb the city, and can be used to kill siege soldiers who climb the city. When the siege ladder is close to the city wall, the defender uses the horizontal blade at the front of the pole to resist the ladder and knock it down, or when the siege soldier climbs halfway up the wall, use the fork rod to push down the ladder and chop hard, and use the horizontal blade in front of the pole to break the enemy's arm.

There are also weapons used to defend the city at the vicious point, such as the flying hook, also known as the "iron owl's foot", which is shaped like an anchor and has four sharp claw hooks, which are tied with iron chains and then connected to the ropes. When the besieging soldiers are under the city wall and ready to climb the ladder, they can be thrown out to hook and kill the enemy.

The Yaksha, also known as "staying in a guest", is an advanced version of the rolling log. This kind of weapon is made of wet elm wood with a diameter of one foot and a length of more than one zhang as a roller, and the "reverse whisker nail" is closely nailed around it, and the nail head is exposed to the wood surface of five inches, and wheels with a diameter of two feet are installed at both ends of the rolling wood, which are tied to iron cables and connected to the winch. When the besieging soldiers gather under the walls, they throw them into the crowd and twist the winch, which can crush the enemy.

Ground Listening is a reconnaissance tool that listens to the enemy's digging tunnels. When the defenders of the city found that the besiegers were digging tunnels and attacking from underground, they immediately placed a special thin cylinder in a deep well at the foot of the inner wall of the city, and the mouth of the cylinder was covered with a thin layer of cowhide, so that the hearing people could lie on the cylinder and listen to the enemy's movements.

If the conditions for the defenders are met, and there are trebuchets, this thing is generally used by the siege troops, and it is also very threatening if it is used to defend the city. And the city is very unfriendly to the soldiers of the city is a kind of defensive equipment is the wolf tooth pat, this thing is a kind of hanging at the front end of the city wall, inlaid with iron nails, hanging iron rings at the upper end, after wearing the rope, you can swing around outside the city wall to sweep the soldiers who climb the city, it can be said to be a kind of infinite recycling of rolling wood stones.

There were also a lot of equipment for the siege side, and because there was a wide moat outside the city in this era, there was a flying bridge, also called a "moat bridge". This is a device that allows siege soldiers to pass through the moat outside the city. It is also made by using two long logs as a base, nailing wooden planks to the top, and attaching two wooden wheels underneath to facilitate transportation. If the ditch outside the city is wide, the two flybridges will be connected with a hinge to become a folding flybridge. When carrying, the front section is folded and placed on the bridge bed of the rear section, and the front section is put down and placed on the opposite bank of the trench when used, so that a simple trench bridge is formed.

The ancient city walls are generally more than five meters, and the highest can reach more than three zhang, that is, more than ten meters, such a towering city wall is impossible to climb up by manpower alone, so the ancestors invented ladders. In the beginning, the walls were low, so simple ladders would do. Later, there was a tall ladder, this kind of ladder is generally composed of three parts: wheels, ladder body and hook, it was as early as the Xia Shang Zhou, and it was named "hook aid" at that time.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Luban improved it, so that the ladder body could be tilted up and down, and it was carried and leaned on the city wall by manpower. There is a hook at the top of the ladder, which is used to hook the edge of the city. Wheels are installed under the ladder and can be moved. Later wars accelerated the improvement of the ladder, the ladder base frame is made of wood as a bed, the lower six wheels, the ladder body is fixed on the chassis at a certain angle, and a movable auxiliary ladder is added outside the main ladder, and a pair of rollers are installed at the top. When ascending the city, the ladder can move freely up and down along the city walls, and there is no longer a need for people to carry it on their shoulders.

Now, the structure of the ladder has been even more improved. The main ladder of the ladder is divided into two sections, and adopts a folding structure, which is connected by a rotating shaft in the middle, which is borrowed from the folding flybridge. At the same time, the auxiliary ladder also appeared in various forms, making it easier and faster to climb the city to meet the enemy. The bottom of the ladder is designed as a sheltered boxcar on all sides, and the outside is reinforced with raw cowhide, so that when the soldiers push the cart in the shed to approach the enemy wall, they can effectively resist the damage of the enemy's arrows and stones, and effectively ensure the safety of their own soldiers.

The nest car used to observe the enemy is a lookout car with wheels on the bottom of the car that can be pushed. Two long pillars were erected on the cart with solid wood, and a roller shaft was set at the top of the pillar, and a small board house was tied to the roller with ropes. The slab house is three meters high, with twelve lookout holes on all sides, and the outside is covered with raw cowhides to protect the city from arrows and stones. The house can accommodate two people, and it can be raised several feet by roller cart, so that you can observe the enemy soldiers in the city during the siege.

There is also a watchtower car that fixes the watchtower on a high pole. This kind of car is made of solid wood, nearly one meter high, and the top is equipped with a slab, and its content is for one person to watch the enemy's movements. There are wheels at the bottom of the car that can be pushed back and forth, there are pedals on the vertical pole, which can be used by the sentry to climb up and down, the vertical pole is fixed with a thick rope diagonally, and the watchtower itself is equipped with a rotating shaft under it, which can be rotated on all sides to observe. This watchtower car is taller than the nest car and has a wide field of view.

It is an important tool for siege warfare, mainly used to cover the siege soldiers digging city walls and tunnels, and at the same time to provide protection for the soldiers from arrows, arson, wooden skewers and other injuries from the defenders. It is a kind of siege operation vehicle, there are four wheels under the car, and a roof-shaped wooden frame is set on the car, covered with raw cowhide, coated with mud, and the personnel work under its cover, and can also use it to transport soil and fill the ditch. There is also a pointed wooden donkey cart with an equilateral triangle on the roof of the carport, which can effectively avoid the destruction of enemy stone arrows.

In order to cover the besiegers' transportation of earth and transport equipment, the craftsmen of this era invented a combined siege operation vehicle. It is composed of two parts, the front one is called the "head car", seven feet long and wide, seven or eight feet high, and the roof is covered by two layers of leather fences with more than one foot thick hay to prevent the enemy from destroying the guns. There is a hole in the center of the roof for the people in the car to go up and down, and there is a window in front of the roof, and a screen sign is set in front of the window for observation and archery; Leather fences were hung on both sides of the car, and the outside was coated with mud to prevent the enemy from setting fire to it.

The back one is called the "war shed", which is connected to the back of the "head car", and its shape is slightly the same as the head car. In the place behind the battle shed, where the enemy's arrows and stones cannot reach, set up a mechanism, and connect it with the war shed with a large rope to twist the head car and the battle shed. In front of the head car, set up a screen sign, there is an arrow window on it, there are side panels and cover hands on both sides of the shield, and the outer cover is covered with raw cowhide. When using the head car to attack the city, connect the screen card, the head car and the battle shed together, push it to the foot of the city, and then remove the screen card, so that the head car and the city wall are closely connected, and the personnel dig tunnels under the cover of the head car. The war tent was between the head cart and the city wall, and was wrenched to carry earth back and forth.

Linchong Lu bus is the giant siege tower of this era, the tower is several zhang high, dozens of zhang long, the car is divided into five layers, each layer has ladders to go up and down, the car can carry hundreds of soldiers, equipped with bows, arrows, crossbows, guns, halberds, knives and spears and other weapons and equipment to destroy the city wall facilities. During the attack, the besieging soldiers pushed the siege tower to the side of the city wall, the top of the tower was level with the city wall, the soldiers rushed to the city through the overpass to fight the enemy, and the city wall was destroyed with tools such as hitting wood under the tower.

Hook crash car, ancient medium-sized bunker siege operation vehicle. A herringbone wooden house was built on the frame, with a large log as a beam on the top ridge, supported by oblique columns, pointed at the top and wide at the bottom, covered with raw cowhide, and four wooden wheels installed below, in which six to ten soldiers could be sheltered, and all kinds of weapons, tools and striking wood for destroying the city walls and gates. During the siege, the soldiers approached the city wall or city gate under its cover, and carried out siege operations such as digging tunnels, digging the city wall and hitting the city gate, so as to open up a way for the besieging troops to enter the city.