Turbulent Times Chapter 1438: Li Jing’s method
Of course, the defenders in the city can also dig tunnels to counterattack, but digging tunnels does not necessarily have to sneak close to the city. If you want to destroy the city wall, you must first solve the moat. This move makes people feel that they are preparing for a long-term siege.
After the four-sided siege was changed to three-sided siege, the siege equipment in the army on each wall began to concentrate. On the third day, Wang Junlin ordered that the siege equipment be further concentrated, and a large number of siege equipment was concentrated on one wall. However, if more than two hundred ladders are built on the same city wall at the same time, it is enough to cover the city wall, and countless soldiers and ants will attach to it, which will largely offset the geographical advantage of the defenders.
Folding bridges, goose cart holes, wooden oxen, siege carts, wooden mantles, dust trucks... and other siege equipment have also begun to be mobilized slowly, and re-deployed and assembled according to their functions. Such a huge move by the Far Eastern Army Immediately attracted the attention of the defenders in the city, Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu stood on the ten-foot-tall watchtower erected in the camp, his abnormal eyesight allowed him to clearly see groups of soldiers and horses in the city coming like soldiers and ants. Coming and going, seemingly responding to their responses, new deployments are being made. But people on the walls of Boling County couldn't see him clearly.
"Li Jing is worthy of being a military **** who has been famous for thousands of years. He is worthy of being a person in history who destroyed the Turks with his own strength and made Li Shimin extremely afraid. If there was no light rain, the method of breaking the city would have been beyond the ordinary As far as people can imagine, this Boling County is really not easy to break through." Wang Junlin muttered to himself.
On the same day, 10,000 reinforcements from the Clan Allied Forces took advantage of the chaos to rush through the blockade of the Far East Army. While taking out tokens and uttering secret words, they immediately ordered to open the gate of the west city and let them into the city. And one of them was disguised by Shen Guoer.
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As early as receiving the news that Li Jing was rushing to Boling County, Wang Junlin asked Shen Guoer to send a large number of spies and killers to sneak into Boling County.
These days when the Far Eastern Army attacked Boling County, the spies and killers of the Military Intelligence Bureau did not receive Shen Guoer's order, and did not take action without authorization, but they have been lurking all the time, secretly assassinating some people or people in the city of Boling County Preparations for burning the food and grass of the army in Boling County.
As for breaking the city from the inside, who is Li Jing?
There are still some deficiencies, and to force it is just to die, so they never thought about it.
Today, Shen Guoer entered the city and issued an order to the spies and killers of the Military Intelligence Agency. The content of this order was also what they had repeatedly prepared to do these days. It's just that Shen Guoer brought a few things and Nie Xiaoyu was bored and made some small things, such as a burning object that was difficult to extinguish.
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Under Wang Junlin's order, the Far Eastern Army maintained a consistent offensive and defensive pace, coordinated with the pace of operations, and continued to attack the city normally. Except for some adjustments to the tightness of the city defense, there was not much change, let alone These changes will allow the defenders of Boling County to see Wang Junlin's plan.
For more than ten years, Wang Junlin has participated in or led many wars, large and small. Except for field battles, most of them were sieges, which gave him a wealth of experience and experience. Careful calculation is the only way to have such confidence.
The boulders fired by the trebuchet smashed the top of the city of Boling County into ruins, and the defenders took refuge in the Tibetan soldier's cave. It was not until the trebuchet stopped firing that it regained control of the city.
At this time, the Far Eastern Army did not hesitate to consume arrows, and the overwhelming rain of arrows fell on the city wall of Boling County. However, Li Jing, who was in charge of defending the city, is well-known for defending the city. There are many movable square-shaped sheds on the top of the city. These are shelters made of giant wood and cowhide. The cowhide is soft and tough. After the arrow is shot at a parabolic angle, it can no longer pose a threat to the soldiers hidden in the curtain, but the soldiers hidden in it can observe the movement of the army outside the city in time, and then deploy to the meeting point.
This way of fighting consumes arrows and siege equipment very quickly for the attacking side, but the losses of soldiers on the side are greatly reduced.
However, since Wang Junlin wanted to prevent the defenders of Boling County from being suspicious because of the obvious change in the attack rhythm of the Far East Army, which would affect the subsequent plan, the normal siege must continue, but some losses cannot be avoided.
"Let go of the arrows and prepare to attack the city!"
The flag fluttered on the watchtower, rows of crossbows aimed at the city wall, hammers hit the teeth, and short crossbows with thick forearms rushed towards the city wall with a roar that pierced the eardrums. Thick walls, soldiers rushed close
When you are on the city wall, you can use it to climb and climb.
Teams of soldiers stood behind the cowhide veil, pushing the folding bridge with wooden wheels, and the trench filling trucks rushed forward under the cover of arrows. The moat of Boling County City has been widened and excavated. It was deep, but the water flow had been cut off by Wang Junlin sent people upstream, leaving only about a foot of accumulated water in the moat, and a giant pole with a sharpened tip was exposed in the water.
"Crackling..."
Although the cutting shaft and the potter's wheel have been oiled, they still make the sound of toothache when they are turned quickly. The rain of arrows fell onto the water, and then the noose was turned to extend the other half of the folded bridge forward, and put it on the opposite river bank.
Ten trench bridges form a bridge deck with a width of fifteen feet, which has turned the entire moat into a flat ground.
This kind of flying bridge was one of the inventions in Yancheng a year ago, but it was not the work of Nie Xiaoyu, but was invented by a craftsman. According to King's Landing's request, the craftsman who invented this kind of flying bridge was directly rewarded with an official rank of eighth rank.
At that time, this incident caused a small commotion in the Yancheng weapons and equipment production base. For countless years, in all dynasties, no ordinary craftsman has ever been able to obtain an official in this way.
Skilled craftsmen from all walks of life recruited from various places in the Yancheng Weapons and Equipment Production Base began to rack their brains and carry out various inventions, researches and creations as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
So that even without Nie Xiaoyu's suggestions, they invented many good things under the inspiration of some theoretical foundations and some ideas provided by Nie Xiaoyu.
Because of Wang Junlin's personal promotion, the flying bridge produced by Yancheng has been mass-produced and has been equipped with troops.
"Tuk Tuk Tuk..." The arrows at the top of the city were replaced by rockets, and they stopped shooting at people and shot at the bridge deck. However, the researchers at the weaponry production base had already considered these conventional attacks. Most of the surface is covered with iron sheets, and the arrows are hard to hurt. Unless the fire is baked, like the flame on the arrow, it cannot shoot through the bridge deck, and it is difficult to play a role.