Meanwhile.

Outside Yecheng City.

Zhang He camp.

Zhang He's army of 50,000 Chen soldiers was outside Yecheng City, and now, the siege equipment was almost built.

Ladders, improvised siege vehicles, catapults, crashes

Zhang He sent someone to find the general Shi Tian Feng, and the two discussed how to capture Yecheng next.

After capturing Yecheng, even if they have a foothold, when the time comes, the eldest prince Yuan Tan will come, and there will be a place to preside over the overall situation.

"Strategist, you see that our siege equipment is almost finished."

"Tomorrow morning, I'll be ready to attack the city."

"I still can't decide whether to attack only one side or besiege on all sides." Zhang He asked towards the military advisor Tian Feng.

Now, Yecheng has been surrounded.

The east, west, north and south sides were full of Zhang He's soldiers and horses, and the 50,000 army surrounded Yecheng.

Tian Feng pondered for a moment, and said to Zhang He: "Junyi, the number of siege equipment we have now is not enough. If it is used for one side of the siege, it is barely enough, but if it is besieged on all sides, once these siege equipment is dispersed, I am afraid that it will be difficult to put pressure on all sides. ”

"Cao Mengde's support may arrive at any time, if we delay a few more days to build siege equipment, in case Cao Mengde arrives, we will have lost all our efforts."

"My opinion is to concentrate superior forces and storm the front."

"Since the enemy army is short of troops, then we can put the greatest pressure on them by constantly attacking the front."

"Our army has sufficient strength and can be divided into three waves, which alternate attacks and take turns to trim. And the enemy forces were not enough to defend alternately. ”

"It won't be long before they become tired soldiers, and this Yecheng will be fine."

Tian Feng's suggestion is very correct, although they have a large number of troops, but the siege equipment is not enough.

Without siege equipment, no matter how many troops they had, they could not touch the enemy troops on the city walls.

Therefore, for the sake of today, it is better to fight a wheel war and storm the frontal wall.

Zhang He followed Tian Feng's advice and divided his army of 50,000 into three waves, one of which was 15,000 people, and took turns attacking Yecheng.

One wave is 5,000 people, three waves are 45,000 people, and where did the remaining 5,000 people go?

The remaining 5,000 people were used as scouts by Zhang He, and set up sentry posts around Yecheng, always on guard against the arrival of Cao's reinforcements.

Early the next morning.

Zhang He's army and those siege equipment lined up under the city wall.

The Yuan army was all wearing khaki armor, and standing at the front was the Yuan saber and shield soldiers.

They stood in front of them with round shields in one hand, and pushed siege engines towards the city walls.

Behind the siege vehicle was a large number of Yuan soldiers carrying ladders.

And at the back were the archers and catapults.

"Catapult ready!"

"Load the stones!"

"Smash me on the wall!"

With the order of the herald, Yuan's catapult took the lead in attacking the city wall.

In this era, catapults can be said to be the most powerful long-range weapons.

In an instant, countless boulders smashed towards the walls of Yecheng.

Su Ming was commanding on the city wall at the moment, and he knew that the Yuan army's catapults were attacking to cover the siege vehicles below.

The catapults suppressed the fire so that the siege engines below could reach the city walls.

"Lord, it's time for us to fight back!"

"We're in the city, condescending, and our catapults are shooting farther than them." Tai Shi Ci shouted at Su Ming.

However, Su Ming pressed his hand down, and said in a deep voice: "No counterattack, no catapult without my order." ”

"Everyone should hide under the walls and avoid the boulders."

Zhang He used a catapult to throw stones at the city wall, in fact, this is just a lot of thunder and a little rain.

It looks like a huge momentum, but in reality, the casualties caused are not large.

First of all, in this era, the accuracy of catapults was particularly poor.

Basically, it relies on the cluster effect to smash a large number of stones to death and injure the enemy.

A large number of stones either did not reach the city walls, or they were smashed and smashed into the walls.

Only a very small number of stones fell on the city wall, which was protected by battlements, and they all hid under the battlements, and it was difficult for these stones to hit them.

On the contrary, if Su Ming and the others used catapults to smash them from top to bottom, condescendingly, they could cause great damage to Yuan Jun.

However, Su Ming gave an order not to fight back.

Why didn't Su Ming fight back?

That's because Su Ming's goal was not to kill and injure these Yuan soldiers, but to destroy the Yuan army's siege equipment as soon as possible.

Zhang He's troops were sufficient, and it was harmless for him to stoning his 1,800 soldiers to death with catapults.

Su Ming deeply understands one thing, that is, the key factor in whether Zhang He can capture the city wall is the siege equipment.

After all, people can't put on their wings and fly, after the siege equipment is destroyed, Zhang He has too many troops in his hands, and he can't touch the people on the city wall.

As long as Su Ming can destroy Zhang He's siege equipment, he will have to delay a day or two if he wants to continue to build siege equipment.

The reason why Su Ming didn't let the catapult fight back, condescendingly used the catapult to smash them.

It's because Su Ming is waiting.

What is Su Ming waiting for, waiting for these siege machines to approach, waiting for these siege machines to approach the city wall, so as to concentrate firepower and destroy a large number of these siege machines.

It's just that it's a war now, and there is not so much time for Su Ming to explain.

Therefore, the soldiers on the city wall did not understand why the general did not let us fight back!

However, on the battlefield, military orders fell like a mountain.

Su Ming said that he was not allowed to fight back, so these soldiers on the city wall could only hide behind the battlements.

At this time, there was a sound of "boom, boom" in my ears.

These sounds are the sounds of the siege engines under the city approaching.

"General, we can't fight!" A small school shouted at Su Ming with a solemn face.

Su Ming instructed the little schooler: "Report the location!" ”

"General, the enemy army is three hundred feet away from us!"

"General, the enemy army is two hundred feet away from us!"

"General, the enemy army is a hundred feet away from us!" The Colonel sticks his head out of the city wall, constantly observing the position of the enemy and reporting it at any time.

When he heard a hundred zhang, Su Ming knew that he could do it.

One hundred zhang, that is, three hundred steps.

The enemy's siege equipment is a large object, and even if the accuracy of the catapult is poor, then it should be able to hit at a distance of 300 paces.

"Catapult ready!"

"Three to one, aim and shoot!"

"Give me priority to hit the enemy's siege vehicles, crash these large siege engines!" Su Ming gave the order.

(End of chapter)