Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty Chapter 609: A huge ship
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In the early morning in Youzhou City, the air is very fresh, the green grass leaves still have dewdrops that haven't dispersed last night, and the sky is covered with a faint white mist. The sun has not risen, but the sky is already bright and the sky is blue.
I don't know where there are occasional chuckles of sparrows.
Guo Shao walked through the artillery formation with his entourage, and had to feel that the Dragon Xiao Cannon made of bronze is very beautiful, much better than the cast iron! After the body of Huang Cancan is polished and smooth, it is well made and looks very new.
The rows of gun muzzles were slanted to the sky. When Guo Shao looked back, he could see rows of huge black hole muzzles.
The battle is very powerful! They are still just stone-blasting mortars, and their actual effect cannot be bombed like a howitzer that can destroy everything in the impression. Their power is very limited; but Guo Shao knows that if used properly, these gadgets have a great effect on siege!
"Ye! Yee..." Suddenly there was a scream of a rooster, and Guo Shao looked at the sound, suddenly startled.
It turned out that a few soldiers killed a rooster and dripped blood on the barrel of a gun. The generals around him hurriedly said: "That gun is the first to fire, everyone is lucky."
Guo Shao left the artillery formation after patrolling. He didn't need to intervene in all specific tactics.
After a long time, there was a thunderbolt on the ground, and the ground shuddered slightly, and the roar of thunderous cannons tore through the silence of the sky. Thick white smoke rose into the air.
The neighing of horses and the noise of people increased, and the birds in the distance flew away desperately in shock.
After one shot, it stopped for a while, and then the sound of the cannon on the campsite stopped and stopped as if it were chaotic. The wall of the castle tower in the distance was not affected much, but Zhou Jun's side was filled with gunpowder and noisy.
Guo Shao didn't say anything, and of course he didn't blame...The gun was designed by himself, of course he understood. The accuracy of this mortar is really limited, mainly because the casting technology and measuring tools are very rough; how can it hit the target? That's right, try it in one go! Test the elevation angle and charge, and because the size of the gun is not completely standard, the shooting parameters of each gun are also slightly different. Rao is so still unable to be completely accurate, and probably can hit the target.
The artillery array fought for more than half an hour, then stopped again.
The previous world was like a pool of clear water, blue sky, green ground, and fresh air with moist white mist; now, it seems like a basin of sewage has been poured into the world!
The sky above Zhou Jun's camp was misty, as if dusty, and gun smoke and fog mixed together. People come and go in the camp, messy and busy.
At this moment, a team of horses slowly rushed to the fortifications ahead, without stopping, and then filled the wood and earth camp, slowly moving forward.
The sound of the cannon for more than half an hour didn't cause much damage to the city wall. Most of it didn't hit. It was just a test shot. Now the cannon sound stopped and it didn't sound again. Instead, they are riding crowds.
Single shelling can't test the opponent's defense strength, this horse soldier is a temptation; moreover, with soldiers and horses approaching to lure the defenders to the city, the first round of salvo can unexpectedly expand the results!
Guo Shao and the ministers watched the scene. The inside and outside of the camp looked a little messy, but he could feel the order in the chaos, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner as planned.
The light riding team entered the front line like a dash, first straightened up, then jogged, and then rushed towards the wall.
The horse team was hardly attacked from a distance, and successfully reached the moat, quickly turned round and round. The horse team shot many arrows from the side door and threw them on the wall. The moat of Youzhou City is not wide, and you can shoot up to the top of the city by riding a horse along the river.
Guo Shao was hundreds of steps away, unable to see the counterattack from the city clearly. But depending on the situation of the Zhou army, the defending army hardly made a strong counterattack.
"Huh!" Wang Pu's mouth made a sound, and there was no more.
The others didn't react much, they just watched, and after tossing for more than half an hour, the fighting rhythm was not fierce, and everyone seemed to be a little lazy.
Guo Shaodao and Wang Pu seem to have the same instinct: the start is strange.
He smelled something unusual.
Of course, cavalry cannot attack the city. After all, horses cannot carry people across the moat, let alone climb the three-foot-high wall on foot. But in common sense, it would be attacked by the defenders close to the city, after all, the distance was only twenty or thirty steps.
Why don't the defenders fight back from a distance? It is very likely that there are not many people on the wall...
The horses of the Zhou army in the distance circled around outside the city wall and rode a shot, and then the head of the army gradually turned back, as if a stream of horses rushed to the wall and returned back.
Wang Pu said solemnly: "The situation seems to be different from what we expected."
Guo Shao did not act rashly. Zhou's army is too large, and its deployment is relatively complicated, just like a huge ship, its steering will be very slow...can't change its strategy just because of a little accident.
The horse team ran very fast. After a while, they planted a row of triangle-shaped flags fifty steps outside the city wall, and then swarmed back.
When I was far away from a hundred steps, a sudden roar of shaking mountains rang through the world. Guo Shao turned his head to see, a row of white smoke rose above the camp, and big stone bullets flew into the sky.
The stone bullets hadn't landed on the city wall. After a short while, the "boom boom boom..." cannon roared again.
The earth and rocks splashed at the head of Youzhou City, and you can see the collapse of the female wall from a distance.
The guns from far and near on the Zhoujun camp fired one after another, and the scene was very shocking. The muzzle seemed to be jetting fire|flame together, and the smoke billowed. The sparse arrow tower observation post between the artillery arrays seemed to be erected from the clouds.
The deafening sound of cannons continued, and the shelling was frantically, showing no signs of stopping.
Outside the first fortification, a piece of wheelbarrow has spread forward amidst the gunfire. Countless soldiers pushed the soil close to the moat like a flood.
The real siege has just begun, and the Zhou Jun’s siege was rough filling the river frontally!
When the crowd forward approached the pennant placed before, the artillery on the artillery array stopped one after another, everything was in order and coordinated with each other.
The crowd who fills the river only need to take the opportunity to advance twenty or thirty steps to reach the moat and pour the soil in. The moat is not a river of living water. The water flow is very slow and almost static. It is very easy to fill the river. It is just a matter of the quantity of soil and rock!
Unexpectedly, at this moment, suddenly there was a black shadow on the city wall, and the stone flew out like a hailstone. Zhou Jun’s engineers were very dense, and suddenly screamed everywhere. From time to time, the wheelbarrow was dumped and the soldiers fell.
As soon as this situation appeared, the minister and military commander whom the Chinese army looked over suddenly started talking in a low voice.
Wang Pudao: "Youzhou city defense has been prepared for a long time, it seems to be specifically for our artillery! The opponent's defense weapon is not on the wall, but inside the city. Our previous bombardment was mainly aimed at the wall and failed to effectively destroy it. Their equipment."
A military commander said: "Our artillery hits far, and we bomb the equipment in the city again."
Wang Pu frowned and said: "We can't see the city, how do you know where they are? Besides, if the enemy keeps moving, we have no way of knowing."
Everyone paid attention to Guo Shao.
Guo Shao said nothing, stood on the horse with his sword, and looked at the situation ahead.
He still has no intention to change his tactics...One is to consider the first wave of siege. If he is immediately beaten back, it will affect morale. The opponent used a catapult to hit a man and a horse, and the damage was not as good as that of a mortar gun. The proportion of damage caused by the Zhou army engineers was not high, and it was far from being defeated. Fighting will kill you! Even if there are casualties, you cannot act rashly.
Secondly, he did not think of a countermeasure. Even if you withdraw, how to attack again? It is also not a good choice to stop the siege at the beginning.
At this time, Guo Shao felt as if 10,000 animals rushed past, and he was very blocked, but he was still acting calmly. The tactics that I personally made, I have to carry it out if I am frustrated.
He had to re-examine the "barbarians" in Liao.
Both artillery and tactics are new things in this era, but those people don't seem to be so ignorant and slow. They can adapt and understand the new war mode so quickly.
It can be guessed that Xiao Siwen and other Khitan people understood Guo Shao's siege technique through the tactical details of the Battle of Jinyang, and it seemed that they really understood the tactical logic.
Guo Shao carefully looked at the rocks that kept flying out of the sky. It was a parabola... In fact, by drawing the model diagram, you can roughly calculate the position of the opponent's boulder. However, the Liao Army still has a simple way to deal with it.
Guo Shao can immediately think of two methods: One, as Wang Pu said, keep moving positions, Zhou Jun cannot know when they move outside the city. Second, move the catapult close to the city wall. The trajectory of Zhou Jun's artillery shells is still a parabola, with angle restrictions; there is an area inside the city wall that is a dead angle.
At this moment, a military commander asked: "How should we respond?"
Obviously there is no perfect method, but no matter how bad the method is, one must be taken out immediately, at least to let the soldiers know what they should do!
Guo Shao immediately said: "Pass the order, all the artillery in the artillery camp immediately increase the elevation angle, let the artillery shells go into the city."
Wang Pu answered with his fists, and immediately asked the military officials to arrange the soldiers to pass the military orders.
Guo Shao pointed to the front again and said: "When the first batch of people who fill the river returns and the artillery array begins to shell, order the engineers to reorganize the formation. The two people should be separated by at least one metre and continue with sparse deployment. Fill the river."
"Comply with the purpose."
After a long time, the crowds in the distance gradually receded from the moat. A few hundred steps away, Zhou Jun paid the price. The ground outside the moat was a mess, many wheelbarrows were damaged and left there, and there were still many dead bodies on the ground. More people were brought back injured.
The Liao army deployed a large number of catapults in the city, and it seemed that they were very well prepared. Maybe they don't know when the Zhou army will attack Youzhou, but they have already guessed to guard against Zhou's Northern Expedition.
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