After a rapid march all the way, Yuan Qi led the Youzhou army to Yongnu County at the junction of Yuyang and Beiping. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This dispatch is the largest number of troops and horses in Yuan Qi since his debut. In addition to the elite of the two battalions of Tiangui and Digui under Yuan Qi's subordinates, there were more than 10,000 Beiping soldiers who followed the battle; in addition, there were 3,000 naval troops such as Gan Jing's Qilin battalion, which were stuck like nails outside the fat city; more than 10,000 Beiping soldiers under the command of Zhao Hu pinned down Zhang Ju in Yuyang; plus more than 60,000 soldiers and horses under Yuan Ying's subordinates, the total number was nearly 80,000. This is not the final number, with the strong return of Yuan Qi, the local Taishou will inevitably send people to support Yuan Qi. Except for Gongsun Du, who was ready to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and Gongsun Ruyun, who was besieged in Feiru, several other reinforcements should already be on the way. The total number of reinforcements from these places is at least 350,000, which makes Yuan Qi command 100,000 people to fight for the first time in his life.

Blocking Yuan Qi's northward movement, there were three large counties, in turn Yongnu, Luxian and Anle, Zhang Ju stationed heavy troops in these three counties, in order to block the footsteps of Yuan Ying's march. However, now there are some deviations, Yuan Ying was injured by an arrow and needs to recuperate, Yuan Qi has sent someone to escort Yuan Ying back to Jicheng to recuperate, and the power of Yuan Ying's troops and horses fell into the hands of Yuan Qi, which Zhang Ju did not expect.

Although Yuan Ying has a straight temperament, he is sometimes not ruthless enough, and although Yuan Qi treats people kindly, he never shows mercy to the rebels, in addition to not killing prisoners, Yuan Qi has always been ruthless and ruthless to the rebels, and the so-called mercy is not in charge of the army.

Looking at the Yongnu city wall in front of him, Yuan Qi sighed, he didn't want to kill more, but sometimes, he really couldn't help it, and it was difficult to achieve a great cause without killing!

"Pass on the order of the marquis, and immediately attack the city. After the city was broken, those who surrendered were taken into custody, and those who resisted were killed!"

Zuo Ci and Ma Yue respectively led a team of cavalry to run out of the large array, and after running dozens of steps, they suddenly separated, Zuo Ci ran to the left and Ma Yue to the right, and ran horizontally. They were to act as the left and right flanks to protect the Chinese army. Because there were very few elite infantry under Yuan Qi's subordinates, Jia Yuan offered a plan to let the cavalry act as a flank and escort the infantry army. This is an unconventional tactic, generally speaking, the infantry guards the cavalry, and Jia Yuan's tactic is the opposite. No way, although the cost of training cavalry is higher than that of infantry, but in the end, cavalry is only suitable for raids, not sieges. Yuan Qi and Jia Yuan are very clear about the principle of making the best use of their talents, so they let the cavalry do the two wings, vacate the middle all the way, and let the infantry attack the city.

Woo woo woo -

Knock knock knock -

Trumpets and war drums sounded one after the other, with the trumpets representing the whole army rallying and getting ready, and the beating of drums representing the launching of an attack.

After the beating of the three drums, the 10,000 infantry under Yuan Qi's subordinates, under the leadership of Pang De, had already lined up in a neat queue, in front of them were sergeants holding ladders, and beside them, there were also swords and shields; later were the assault teams, each biting their swords with their mouths and holding round shields in both hands, ready to climb the ladders to attack the city after the ladders were erected; and finally the infantry of the brigades, mixed with some wrestlers who carried the rams together.

After the first echelon, there were five thousand archers led by Ma Dai, each of whom carried two quiver bags on his back, which contained a full hundred sharp arrows. These archers will follow the 10,000 infantry army in front of them, and use sharp arrows to suppress the Yongnu city wall and cover the siege of the city in front of Paoze.

After the archer queue, there was a team of catapults and turrets led by Shi Jia, with a total of ten catapults and five turrets. Next to each catapult, there are twenty sergeants, who will later throw boulders at the walls of Yongnu to suppress and kill, and under each tower, there are fifty sergeants who will be responsible for pushing the turrets around, and at the same time, on the top platform of the towers, there are also fifty crossbowmen with crossbows, who will be condescending, taking advantage of the high position, to cover the head of the city.

The Youzhou Army's stone throwers and arrow towers have a great advantage over other local armies, because Yuan Qi once used the knowledge of later generations to improve these commonly used siege equipment. Later, Yuan Qi went to Wancheng, and Yuan Qi's master was not idle, and in his boredom, he became interested in these large-scale siege equipment, and on the basis of Yuan Qi's theory, he improved it again. Let these two big killers have more power.

After seeing that everything was ready, Yuan Qi gently spit out two words: "Siege!"

With Yuan Qi's order, the various echelons began to act, Pang De commanded the first echelon of 10,000 people to take the lead in the attack; Ma Dai followed, and the 5,000 archers under his command were all ready to shoot, and only after entering the firing range, they shot out the sharp arrows in their hands; Shi Jia at the back shouted: "Launch!" After receiving the order, the 200 sergeants guarding the ten stone throwing machines immediately picked up dozens of pounds of boulders and put them in the cannon tip of the stone throwing machine, and then pulled the rope on the winch together, and under the effect of the lever principle, threw the boulder loaded in the cannon tip to the Yongnu city wall.

Whew-

Ten boulders roared into the air, soared into the sky in mid-air, and after reaching the apex, under the action of inertia, they smashed into the head of Yongnu's city with an arc.

In the face of a big killer like a catapult, manpower is almost irresistible. Six of the ten boulders smashed on the head of Yongnu City, and after each boulder landed, it immediately killed seven or eight rebels, and then rolled forward more than a dozen steps away with inertia, crushing all the rebels on the rolling route into meatloaf; three of them smashed on the bunker on the city wall because of the lack of angle, and after smashing the city wall out of a big hole, they fell down the city with a roar, and then smashed heavily on the ground, acting as a stepping stone for the upcoming Pound Division; and another boulder flew over the city wall with a roar because of its excessive force, and plunged into the dwellings in the city。

After the first round of boulder projectiles was completed, Shi Jia urged the sergeant to quickly fill the boulders, and took advantage of the gap between Pang De's troops and the city to rush down, and threw a second round of boulders. It caused a lot of casualties to the city of Yongnu. However, because it is very inconvenient to fill the boulder, and it takes time and distance for the sergeants to pull the winch, after two rounds of projectiles, the catapult is useless, because Pang De has already led the men and horses to the city of Yongnu and began to attack the city, if he continues to throw, it will cause damage to his robe.

Shi Jia shook his head helplessly, and muttered in a low voice: "This Pound, the movement is really fast." However, the stone thrower was ineffective, and Shi Jia could also use the arrow tower to strike at the head of the city. So, Shi Jia beckoned the sergeant to push the arrow tower to move forward slowly, these five arrow towers after the improvement of Yuan Qi and Fu Shaozi, the whole arrow tower is pyramid-shaped, every three zhang high there is a platform, a total of three layers, up to nine zhang. The platform on each floor can stand crossbowmen to shoot, the top can stand 50 people without being crowded, the middle layer can stand more than 100 people, and the bottom level can hold more than 200 people. Wheels are also added to the bottom of the tower, which can make the tower move slowly, which is much more advanced than the previous tower that cannot move.

Once in range, Shi Jia ordered the soldiers on the arrow tower to scatter. Because the city wall of Yongnu is five zhang high, the lowest layer of the arrow tower can not play a role, and there are no standers, only on the platform six zhang high in the middle and the platform nine zhang high at the top, there are 100 and 50 crossbowmen standing respectively. More than 700 crossbowmen on the five arrow towers began to carpet cover the head of Yongnu City at the same time, they occupied a condescending advantage, and a rain of arrows slanted down mercilessly, causing a large number of casualties among the rebels at the head of Yongnu City, and the screams were endless. At the same time, it also suppressed the rebels and made them dare not raise their heads, which won a precious opportunity for the sergeants under Pound's department.

Pound observed the battlefield and saw that the arrow tower commanded by Shi Jia was mighty, and immediately commanded his subordinates to climb up the ladder, intending to climb the city wall in one go. After urging for a while, Pang De felt that the time was almost up, and there were enough warriors to climb up, so he pulled out the war knife on his waist and bit it in his mouth, tore off the cloak behind him, and climbed the ladder himself, towards the head of Yongnu City.

Like a chain reaction, when Ma Dai saw Pound's movements, he immediately ordered his five thousand archers to be divided into two parts, one of them continued to shoot at the head of the city to maintain the suppression of the rebels in the city, and the other part of the people gathered around Ma Dai to provide fire support to Pound and his subordinates.

Looking at the close cooperation of his subordinates in the siege of the city, Yuan Qi nodded with satisfaction. Yuan Qi has always had serious doubts about the combat methods of this world, especially the battle of fortifications, compared with the combat methods of later generations, the combat methods of this world are simply filled with human lives, so Yuan Qi improved the stone throwing machine and arrow tower, deliberately asked the sergeants to cooperate in training, deliberately cultivated the military soul of the army, and even had strict requirements for the soldiers to drink and eat, all of which were for one purpose, so that his subordinates could survive as much as possible on the battlefield.

With such a purpose, it is not only the peaceful heart of Yuan Qi that is imprinted with the mark of later generations. What's more, every time the soldiers who survive the baptism of war will get a certain growth, once or twice may not be obvious, but after ten times, dozens or even hundreds of times, these soldiers who have survived the war will become quite elite and quite terrifying. No matter how dull people are, after hundreds of practices, they will also find a set of rules applicable to the battlefield, they will know how to kill the enemy with the least effort, they will know how to strike the knife at the most advantageous angle, inflict fatal damage on the enemy, and so on. Now it seems that his goal has been preliminarily achieved.

However, there are also things that make Yuan Qi dissatisfied. It is the modification of weapons of mass destruction. Although the catapult is powerful, it has the disadvantages of slow reloading, long firing intervals, etc., as well as the slow movement speed of the arrow tower, which is difficult to form mobility on the battlefield by manpower alone, and once an enemy relies on speed to approach the bottom of the arrow tower, then the entire arrow tower will be destroyed.

Although Yuan Qi knew where these drawbacks were, he couldn't think of a way to improve them even after racking his brains, after all, although Yuan Qi had the knowledge of his previous life, he had no way to answer something more profound. But for now, the two big guys, the stone thrower and the arrow tower, are enough for the time being. Due to the limitations of the background of the times, it is unlikely that more advanced large-scale siege equipment will appear in the entire Youzhou.