The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 78: On Siege
光和七年 January
Wang Fang's army marched to Yizhou County, and Yizhou County heard about Wang Fang's wicked name and returned to the county, and did not dare to resist at all. The army then went to Yongchang County.
Yongchang County, all counties and counties in the eastern part of the county all fell, only the barbarian chiefs from the west of the county gathered together to form a barbarous coalition, with a mighty force, with more than 100,000 people, fighting against the king’s army.
The enemy army was in chaos, and the king’s army was broken when it touched the king’s army. It was then covered up and killed for hundreds of miles. The barbarians killed and injured more than 100,000 people. So far, all counties and counties in Yongchang have been determined.
At the same time, Li Zhen also led his army to capture Xinggu County and put down the eastern and southern counties of Yizhou. After Zhao Ping captured Yinping County, he moved to Hanzhong County and settled in the five northern counties of Yizhou.
And Zhong Yu also led his army at this time and confronted the army of the five eastern counties of Yizhou under Jiangzhou City.
Jiangzhou City is 20 meters high. In the whole of Yizhou, it can be regarded as a majestic city. At this time, Jiangzhou City had gathered soldiers and horses from Fuling County, Brazil County, and Ba County, totaling 20,000 people.
Although these people are no small number, it is still not enough to see the army in blue-red armor that is invisible under the city wall, and the flags are fluttering for several miles.
At the very least, the soldiers are not scared yet, they are not sure, but at this time they are on the top of the city wall, looking at the three county guards below. But his face was pale, his lips trembled, and he couldn't speak clearly.
These three county guards were also very scared in their hearts, and almost fled to take the city. However, their respective family members were under the court. As the imperial order officer, they abandoned their own jurisdiction, and fled back, that is, the whole family ransacked and lost three thousand miles.
So I can only cheer up Qiang, strengthen my courage, and pull the army to defend here, to see if I can survive the arrival of the imperial army, by then I can be considered to have recovered his life.
"Ho Ho Ho Ho!"
Under the city, those troops kept sending loud horns, neat and solemn, infectious and passionate. After hearing this, people couldn't help but be excited, and they wanted to go to the battlefield and fight with the enemy happily.
"Boom boom boom!"
The sound of the snare drum sounded, and the square arrays were advancing towards the city wall one by one. The soldiers marched slowly and solemnly, neatly and strictly, stepping on the ground, and the thick army boots stepped on the ground, causing the earth to resonate.
The swords and shields on both hands rang from time to time, making a banging sound. The soldiers shouted one or two slogans from time to time to reduce their fear of war.
stopped at a distance of 300 meters from the city wall, prepared for the army armor, and listened to the order from the Zhongyu command platform in the back.
squeaking sound came, and when I looked back, it was originally from the rear camp that he had pushed hundreds of catapults. The wooden catapults more than ten meters high are made of metal joints. They are very sturdy and have a maximum range. He was three hundred meters long. In ancient siege battles, it can be said to be extremely powerful, just like the artillery of the hot weapon era.
Looking at the center of the battlefield again, there are indeed tens of thousands of crossbowmen arranged in two square formations. The shooting area happened to cover the previous section of the city wall, and at this time, those crossbowmen were checking the long-range weapons in their hands, preparing to face the next long-range strike.
Sitting on a high platform, Zhong Yu looked at the battlefield, ooh, all the people in the river are heads, and every thousand people have a flag with the pattern of a red fire blue bird. When you count them down, you find that there are hundreds of people. Faces spread over a dozen miles around the entire battlefield.
Seeing that the soldiers are almost ready, Zhong Yu raised his hand and slammed the order at the commander beside him:
"Crossbow formation, ten rounds of coverage attack!"
"Crossbow formation, ten rounds of coverage attack!" After receiving the order, the messenger said loudly to the bannerman beside him.
As the voice of the messenger fell, he waved the flag in his hand and conveyed the order step by step to the generals of the crossbow formation.
"Raise the crossbow and aim at the direction of the city wall."
at an order, 1,000 crossbowmen all raised their crossbows, aimed at the enemy in the direction of the city wall, and were ready to shoot at any time.
"Let it go!"
咻咻咻! Hearing the general's order, he gently squeezed the wrench in his hand, and a wave of arrows shot towards the city wall.
is followed by waves of arrow rain, with an average of one wave in three seconds, covering a very large frequency.
There are tens of thousands of crossbow troops, every thousand people shoot one wave, 10,000 people are ten waves. One round lasted 30 seconds, and it happened that the first batch of crossbow troops were filled with crossbow arrows, so they carried out uninterrupted attacks, so that the defenders on the top of the city could not lift their heads and could only hide on the corner roots. Looking for shelter, shivering.
said that it took a long time. In fact, after ten rounds, 100 waves of crossbow arrows were shot, it took him only five minutes, but for these five minutes, for the defenders above the city, it’s just Suffering like the days and years.
Batch after batch of crossbow arrows were shot, and they were shot through as soon as their heads came up. There was no interval, and this group of rookies who had not experienced war for a long time was beaten all at once. The defensive bottom line in my heart, Has been completely defeated.
I believe they will be frightened when they see sharp things in the future, and there will be a psychological shadow, just like the shadow of a snake in a cup. Seeing everything feels like what they are afraid of, suspicious.
I won’t talk about these psychology for the time being, let’s talk about the casualties above the city wall at this time. At this time, the densely packed defenders are only sparsely left, and the scared cowards hiding in the corners.
At this time, there are only 20,000 people left in his early 10,000, and the death rate is as high as half. Many troops have a direct psychological breakdown and want to abandon the army and fled.
If it weren't for this city, it would be surrounded by Zhong Yu's army and there would be nowhere to escape. Maybe someone really opened the city gate or escaped through the city wall.
After the ten rounds of crossbow arrows, Zhong Yu asked them to withdraw and retreat to the back to recuperate~IndoMTL.com~ Long-term high-frequency shooting of crossbow arrows will reduce the life of the crossbow arrows, so just five minutes of high-frequency use has been At the limit of the crossbow, it must be cooled and recuperated for a period of time before it can continue to be used.
Next is the role of the group of cannon fodder, filling the moat and attacking the city wall, isn't it the role of asking them to join the army?
But before that, let your hundreds of catapults open your eyes to the group of barbarians!
The catapult, the earliest record appeared when the famous Qin general Li Xin led an army of 200,000 to attack Chu, but he was attacked by the Chu general Xiang Yan with thousands of catapults at the same time, causing the Qin army to collapse and Li Xin. After losing, he was demoted by the King of Qin, sent to Longxi County to guard the frontier, and never returned to the central court.
Although there were records of catapults in the court since then, they were rarely used. Now, the Hans dominate the world, and major battles are fighting against barbarians on all sides. The barbarians are backward, and there are no cities and no catapults. usefulness.
So Cao Cao’s men, Liu Ye, invented an improved version of the Perak’s catapult, but Yuan Shao’s army was in chaos in the battle of Guandu, which gave Cao Cao some chances of victory, let alone this little one. The frontiers of Yizhou are barbarians, I'm afraid they don't even have a concept of what a catapult is!
Because the city defenders do not have long-range attack capabilities, and there is no such powerful assault force as cavalry, they can sneak out of the city to attack those catapults.
So the catapult was confidently advanced to a distance of 100 meters in front of the city, then stopped, constantly adjusted the front sight, and prepared for the next very precise strike.
The commanding lieutenant of these catapults intends to teach the ignorant barbarians a good lesson, so that they can see what a meteorite falls from the sky, and the stone is like rain.