Turbulent Times Chapter 1065: Desperate ditch

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This is actually one of the military secrets, but it is a pity that most people can't learn it at all, because it requires a lot of mathematical knowledge, and because it involves calculations, only a small number of people can learn to use it. In fact, this is the application of mature ballistic theory.

Du Haiwa was calculating and shouting the numbers out loud. The commander of the eight catapults on the Wanshi ship next to him skillfully commanded the soldiers to control the catapults and adjusted them according to the distance estimated by Du Haiwa. A soldier with a loud voice told the result calculated by Du Haiwa to the nearby ship. Although the distance to the two sides was different from that of the Wanshi ship, and the error would increase, it was better than blind typing after calculation.

Soon, the second wave of calculated catapult projectiles was ready and launched one after another. A catapult next to Wang Junlin flew out a stone bomb with a roar, and luckily it happened to land on the ground. Among a group of Goguryeo troops running around, Wang Junlin held a pair of binoculars made by Nie Xiaoyu in his hand and saw blood spattering in his hand. He praised Du Haiwa a few words.

Du Haiwa continued to be modest, claiming that it was Sir Siren who taught her well, and the first group of pirates who survived on Snake Island stubbornly always called Nie Xiaoyu the Siren.

After throwing four waves in succession, killing more than two hundred Goguryeo people, all the Goguryeo people ran out of the attack range, but Wang Junlin still ordered to continue throwing shots, but the rhythm was not as fast as before, and the purpose was to To scare the Goguryeo people from approaching the coast.

Yuan Gai Su Wen stood on a small hill, watching with a gloomy expression, the morale of the mountain had dropped a lot, and the more than 10,000 people who started the whole team again, thought that a victory must be won, even a small victory, Otherwise, even if their strength is three times that of the opponent, their morale will soon be worn out.

Yuan Gai Suwen first calmed himself down. The current situation required him to be calm so as to stabilize the people below.

At this time, he saw that each of the more than fifty large ships on the sea put down a small boat, and each of the boats contained a dozen people, and they were quickly approaching their warships on the shore.

"Not good, go back quickly and protect the ship. Our food and ordnance have not been taken down yet." Yuan Gai Suwen shouted loudly, his order was passed down by the people below, and many generals organized soldiers to run back , but with the waves of stone bullets just now, and the stone bullet shooting is still not over now, the Goguryeo soldiers lingered and dared not go forward.

When Yuan Gai Suwen sent his personal soldiers, ordered to kill a group of people, and drove the soldiers forward, it was already too late, and fifty ships full of food and ordnance were pulled away, leaving The next one was lit.

Except for the ones that had already been unloaded before, and the part that was desperately snatched away at this time, less than a quarter of the food and ordnance transported by the Goguryeo people actually landed.

Cui Shengjun said angrily behind his back: "These Sui people don't have the guts to go ashore, they only dare to throw stones from a distance, they are really rats."

Yuan Gai Su Wen took a closer look at the shore and said, "Actually, the damage caused by this catapult is not as good as that of a bow and arrow. It's just that the soldiers below were frightened. If you look closely, they shot so many shots before they were killed. A few people, but two or three hundred people."

Cui Shengjun also poked his head out to look, just in time to see two stone bullets smashed into an open space, one smashed a stone, the other bounced a few times, brought up a few clouds of smoke and dust, then stopped, and left The nearest armored soldiers were dozens of steps away. Although the momentum was astonishing, they did not hit anyone. There were some corpses near the shore, and the number was not many.

He said to Yuan Gai Suwen: "It is true that few people were killed, but once the stone bullet hits, several layers of armor are useless. The corpses will never be found, and no one will be afraid. Now that the boat is burned, we are here There is only a few days of food on the island, so it seems that we must make a quick decision and capture the city on Bailing Island as soon as possible."

"Pass down the order, no need to set up a camp, just take all the food and ordnance to the city, and prepare to attack the city." Yuan Gai Suwen ordered in a deep voice.

However, when the Goguryeo people came to the walled city of Bailing City, they found that not only the size of the walled city and the height of the walls were several times that of the original prison city, but also that surrounding the walled city, people in all directions It's completely changed. There are three trenches around the city wall, the first two are slightly smaller, but the depth and width are less than ten feet.

After two floors, there is the main trench with a depth and width of more than one zhang.

Watching this scene, Yuan Gai Suwen's expression changed, and he thought: "How many lives will it take to get under the main city."

Yuan Gai Su Wen looked at the fortified barrier in front of him and was speechless for a long time. All the generals were by his side, and all of them looked dignified. They never thought that there would be such three trenches outside the small fortress they were going to attack.

Those three moats are not city walls, but they have the same function as city walls. The earth walls are about one foot and five feet high, but the deep trenches below are still seven or eight feet deep, which is equivalent to a city wall of two feet. After the three roads, there is the walled city. There is still a complete defense system there. Although the details inside are still unclear, the defense line in front of them is completely different from their understanding. They have never thought that it is okay to defend the city. Keep it like this.

Yuan Gai Suwen asked Cui Shengjun in a deep voice: "What's the situation at the port?"

"There is also a huge wall at the entrance to the port. There are also several layers of earth walls in front of the wall, one south and one north, guarding the waterway, and the terrain is narrow. Attacking needs to climb over several layers of earth walls, and our army passed by. They will also be attacked by the enemy's sea-throwing rocks."

An infantry general next to him has been upset since the start of the battle, and he sneered at this time: "According to the virtues of the Sui people, especially Wang Junlin, I heard that he was good at using various means on the battlefield in the Sui Dynasty." Killing people, there may be some tricks in those ditches, all I can think of are ghost arrows, barbed wire, horse traps, pickets, ground crossbows, etc. And they also have catapults and long-range crossbows at the top of the city , Open the gap and lay it flat, only a few horse-blocking ditches are tens of steps wide, all within the shooting range of its catapult carts and crossbows, and the shield carts cannot get close, and thousands of people will die when filling the trench.”

Yuan Gai Su Wen's eyes were changing, and the defense line of Bailing Island City in front of him was like a silent monster, which was eroding his strong will. He finally couldn't help cursing: "Wang Junlin is a dog thief, he is really the most sinister person in the world."

Another general said with some fear: "I heard that Wang Junlin once burned tens of thousands of Turkic people to death in the northwest of the Great Sui Dynasty, and a barrel of poison poisoned a whole city of Turkic people. What vicious things are waiting for us..."