A well-fortified city can accomplish its strategic objectives without attacking it, so there is no need to run into a head.
Jincheng is not only a complete fortification, it is simply a hedgehog-like city fortress, no matter from what angle you can see the consolidated fortifications, and there are many long-range city defense weapons.
"Since it is a military town of Liangguo, it is really expected."
After Xie An arrived, of course, he wanted to check the defensive arrangement of Jincheng with his own eyes: "There is a bed crossbow every thirty steps, and a catapult is arranged at eighty steps, and these are placed on the bright side. ” The height of the city wall is four zhang, and the higher the height, the longer the range of long-range weapons, and there is a mile of defense outside the city, and Jincheng should take into account the range of strikes when arranging the defense chain.
"There are at least four military forts of different sizes outside the main city, which are located within five miles of the main city."
Zhong Xing raised his hand and gestured at the fortress that was included in the large military camp: "When we came, they took the initiative to abandon and destroy that fortress. ” Regarding the matter of the fortress, Xie An hadn't seen it yet, so he said, "Go over and take a look." ” A single city is not enough to defend, and it is impossible to withdraw all the troops into the city when defending the city, otherwise it will become a turtle in an urn, and there should be a garrison outside the main city, which can be harassed when the enemy is attacking the city, and can also attract the enemy to attack the main city when creating an opportunity to strike at the enemy.
The military fort that Zhang's Liang army voluntarily abandoned, it was actually just a frame, and none of the places that could be destroyed were intact, most of the walls and load-bearing columns collapsed, and some information could only be identified by looking at the foundation.
"We've made some discoveries."
Zhong Xing took Xie An to an indoor open space that looked like it had been renovated: "This should be the original tunnel." ” There is not much water under the surface of Xiliang, and the stone content in most of the soil is not too high, so it is indeed not difficult to dig a tunnel or something.
"Then there are still underground passages between the various military forts and the main city," Xie An frowned, and said, "There are tunnels, and they can get reinforcements and supplies at any time." ” As for attacking and using the tunnels dug by the enemy to attack the main city, no one in their right mind would do that.
The enemy dared to dig the tunnel in advance, and the inside must have been fully prepared, and they wanted to take advantage of the psychological preparation of having corpses to fill the tunnel, even if they attacked enough distance, flooding the other end would not only lead to the abandonment of all achievements, but also the death of a large number of people.
The tunnel offensive itself needs to be unprepared, and once discovered, it is self-defeating.
Even if you enter the city through the tunnel, the enemy army will definitely set up an ambush in advance, and as soon as you go up from the tunnel, you may face the encirclement of the arranged arrow array and regiments, and no number of lives will be enough to die.
"I still have to fight" Xie An presided over the siege battle for the first time, pondered for a while, and said: "The enemy's military fort is not like the main city" Zhong Xing is instantaneous.
The only thing that came before was the striker, and it would not carry large siege equipment, and the main force came to mean that the large siege equipment should also arrive, and to deal with those military forts that would not have many even if there were city defense equipment, it was completely possible to use their own long-range siege equipment to submerge.
The main general is conscious, selects the target of attack, and as soon as the order is reached, his subordinates should be busy.
Zhang Chong, who regarded the castle tower as his headquarters, would observe the movements of the Han army outside the city when he had time.
After the arrival of the Han army, they only entered the military camp, and moderately expanded the camp outward, and some necessary obstacles such as rejecting horses were also increased, and then a small force was sent out, probably carrying water from the surroundings, and it had come and gone many times.
In ancient times, the first element of building a city was the water source, and only areas with sufficient water sources were suitable for building a city, otherwise it would be a big trouble for residents to use water alone.
Jincheng is located on the edge of the Yellow River, originally opened a river to lead to the moat, and built a canal to divert water into the city, these water conveyance channels are actually fortifications and a large number of troops to defend.
Before Xie An led the main force to arrive, Zhong Xing had already tried to build a bridge over the Yellow River, and Zhang's Liang army would naturally come out to attack and harass, and the two sides fought more than a dozen times, but there were not many casualties between each other.
"Lord, look over there" Huang Yan raised his hand and pointed somewhere: "Those are catapults" Zhang Chong had actually discovered the movement of the Han army's camp a long time ago, and he was not surprised to see a large number of stone-throwing carts pulled out by people and animals.
He heard how the Han army attacked the cities of Shiqian Zhao State, and they repeatedly used an astonishing number of long-range attack equipment, and the battle of Dingxiang used the most long-range attack equipment, and it was repeatedly bombarded for nearly three months.
"It doesn't matter."
Zhang Chong must stabilize the morale of the army: "There is a mile of fortifications left outside the city, and the enemy's equipment cannot reach it, and even if it does, it will be attacked by our army's bed crossbows and catapults, and they will not be able to gain a firm foothold." ” Huang Yan originally said that the Han army was going to attack the military fort with the momentum of the horns, but he didn't say more after listening to Zhang Chong's words, so as not to confuse the army's mind.
What makes Zhang Chong more concerned is that the Han army's stone-throwing car seems to be different from the appearance of Zhang's Liang army, it seems that the Han army's stone-throwing car is larger, and the structure seems to be a lot more complicated, so let's see how far the range is.
Of course, Zhang's Liangguo has the technology to make catapults, and the style is actually no different from that of the Jin army, and the range can reach up to one hundred and sixty steps, but there is no need to mention the accuracy or anything.
The catapults of Zhang's Liang army could throw stones one hundred and sixty steps on flat ground, and the range of twenty or thirty steps could be increased from the four-zhang high city wall.
According to the unit of measurement, in ancient times, one mile was taken as 300 steps, and one step was summarized as 1.5 meters, so one mile was 450 meters.
Some dynasties have clearly announced that one mile is three hundred meters in modern times.
The range of the catapults placed on the top of the city is actually still within the range of its own fortifications, and it can only be played by waiting for some of the fortifications outside the city to be captured.
The bed crossbow placed on it is different.
The style of Zhang's Liangjun's bed crossbow is still the same as that of the Jin army, and the difference will only be in the selection of bowstrings, such as the lack of enough cow tendons in the Jin army, that is, the quality of the bed crossbow bowstring is poor, so that the range of the Jin army's bed crossbow can only reach about 200 steps, but Zhang's Liangjun's bed crossbow can shoot up to 250 steps because of the excellent quality of the bowstring.
The bed crossbow at the head of the city had a range of 250 paces, and with the increase in range due to its height, the result of their experiments was that it could shoot beyond their own fortifications, providing long-range support to the defenders outside the city when the enemy attacked.
"Be careful" The shouting was sent by the Han soldiers, who pushed the stone-throwing cart to the nearest military fort to the barracks, and when they were about two hundred paces, the military fort issued a long-range attack.
"Dodge the Bolts" As soon as the words fell, the crossbow arrows shot by the military fort also lost their kinetic energy and fell, and strange sounds began to appear, accompanied by the muffled snort and screams of the arrows.
"Shield, hurry up and organize a shield array" The military fort does not only fire a wave of crossbow arrows, but shoots a wave every once in a while, and the distance is clearly from the strong crossbow, and there are quite a few of them.
Of course, Zhang's Liang army must have a strong crossbow, which is also one of the characteristics of the Chinese army, as long as it is the main force, it must be matched with a strong crossbow, the difference is more and less.
Zhang's Liang army's strong crossbow is still a continuation of the style of the first Han, and the strong crossbow of the first Han is an improvement on the former Qin army, and the Qin army obtained technology from the Warring States Korea.
It can be said that the emergence of self-strengthening crossbows, the army armed by the Chinese civilization is basically equipped with strong crossbows, and the strange thing is that by the time of the Northern Song Dynasty, the strong crossbow technology of the Chinese civilization was worse than that of the Western Xia, which led to the Northern Song Dynasty cracking the Western Xia's divine arm crossbow and obtaining a treasure.
And the technique of the Western Xia Divine Arm Crossbow is actually derived from Li Tang's legacy.
The range of the crossbow is the key, which also depends on the long-range penetration, the range of the Han army's strong crossbow can reach 450 steps, and the range of the divine arm crossbow is more than 340 steps, but the divine arm crossbow can still enter the elm half an arrow after shooting more than 240 steps, which shows that the divine arm crossbow still has amazing penetrating power at a range of more than 370 meters, which is not possible with the strong crossbow of the Han army.
"The crossbowmen are dead."
"It's already coming, the big guy is hiding again."
"What the" It should be said that the Han army was a little arrogant, they still had many temptations before approaching two hundred steps, and they did not succeed in seducing the Zhang Liang army of the military fort to launch crossbow arrows, waiting for the Han army to advance the catapult to a distance, and when they just stopped to prepare for launching, it was a burst of head-splitting shots.
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"Wind, wind, wind, wind, wind, A battle horn sounded in his ears, followed by a huge clanging of bowstrings, and a "large net" of dense crossbow arrows rose from the ground level, which made a sharp sound of breaking through the air and then covered the military fort in the distance.
The counterattack of the strong crossbow troops of the Han army came quickly and suddenly, and the Liang army that formed an arrow array in the military fort was only hurriedly dodged under the notice of the lookout, and the people who could not dodge the crossbow arrows fell when they fell and fell to the arrows.
There are too many crossbow arrows, once the arrows are left in place, the crossbow arrows on the body are dense, and even the ground is about to become a jungle of crossbow arrows.
The long-range suppression that was needed came, and the soldiers around the catapult hurriedly moved, and they left the catapult and ran backwards.
"What's the situation" Sofu was a little confused, he looked out from the lookout of the military fort: "Why did you leave the catapult and run away?"
"Congratulations to the general, congratulations to the general."
The commander of the military fort was blowing anyway: "Kill the enemy army and flee, the enemy offensive has not taken shape, and then it will be dropped" The compliment could not be finished, and the Han army that had run away turned back.
The catapult is a strong crossbow range that enters the military fort, and it is impossible for your own strong crossbow troops to suppress it all the time, so of course some measures must be taken.
Throwing the catapult and running backwards does not mean that the catapult will be discarded, but that it will go back and get some fences, shields, etc. to cover the body, and take advantage of the gap where the crossbow troops on their side are still suppressing, and build around the catapult, which is equivalent to building anti-arrow fortifications on the spot.
"Pile the grass up, pay attention to the support frame, and cover it with thick soil later."
"Know, Know" To put it bluntly, who stipulates that the catapult should be in an unobstructed open space, as long as it does not hinder the loading and firing of the catapult, it can be arranged as it likes.
Suo Fu was a little surprised: "How much experience the Han army should have?"
There was something that surprised Zhang's Liangjun even more, the Han army made simple fortifications on the spot, and when the stone-throwing cart was re-pushed, even the fortifications that had been built could be moved, and they were forced forward for twenty or thirty steps before starting the formation.
"They" Sofu was not only surprised, but also strongly uneasy: "Still building a corridor" The stone throwing vehicle needs stone bullets, which is equivalent to the need for a supply line, which must not be without shelter in the middle, otherwise how many casualties will be killed and injured each time the stone bullets are supplied Yongdao is a kind of good thing, who invented the existence of controversy, it can be determined that it was used in large quantities during the Qin period.
The Yongdao for military purposes is a kind of road with surrounding cover, and its main purpose is to prevent enemy sneak attacks, and the first large-scale use was the Qin army general Zhang Han.
The commander of the fort muttered, "The enemy has stopped firing crossbow arrows. ” Yes, the firing of crossbow bolts stopped, but the catapults began to shoot.
Only three stone-throwing carts fired the first round of stone projectiles, and they fired at a distance of about 180 paces from the military fort, and the action of swinging their arms was completed, and three loud noises were heard at intervals.
Sofu could detect a slam, slam, and triple tremor on the ground, followed by all sorts of noises coming from his ears.
Only one of the three stone bullets actually hit the building of the fort, and the other two smashed into the clearing.
The building was hit, and the stone bullet smashed open the earthen wall with great force, but it did not cause the building to collapse or the entire wall to topple, which shows that Zhang's Liang army put a lot of effort into building the military fort.
"The enemy army must not be allowed to use catapults with impunity."
Sofu looked at the commander of the fort and said categorically: "Organize an attack and destroy the enemy's catapults" The commander of the military fort is unwilling to carry out the military order, and he also understands that no matter how strong the fortifications are repeatedly smashed, they will collapse, whether they are stoned to death during the period, or the military fort is destroyed, anyway, he can't escape the fate of death, and naturally knows that he should fight hard.
Xie An observed with a telescope from a distance, and it seemed that he had seen enough before he withdrew his gaze, and asked the marching commander Shi Yuanqiao: "When will the pontoon bridge across the river be built?"
Yuan Qiao actually arrived at the back of the team, and he first learned about the situation from Zhong Xing, and then took over the baggage troops, and it was under his responsibility to repair the bridge or something.
"If it is near Jincheng, the water flow is relatively turbulent, and it will take about half a month at the earliest."
Yuan Qiao had to suggest: "The surrounding rivers should be surveyed, and the water flow should be selected to be stable, and the shoals should not be spared." ” What Xie An wants is for the army to be able to cross the river, and it is a matter of the long history of the march to be able to find any feasible plan.
"A certain meeting will ask the king for more troops" Xie An was not very sure, and after a long silence, he said again: "Otherwise, you can only take risks." ” Yuan Qiao raised his eyebrows and nodded approvingly
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