It was not uncommon for it to take years to attack a city in the Cold Weapon Age, but it would be strange if it could be conquered in a few months in the face of a fortified city.
Generally, the strongest fortresses are mostly dismantled from the inside, so there is a saying that the heart is above and the city is on the bottom.
After all, no matter how strong a fortress is, it is garrisoned by people, and no matter how good a fortification is, what is the use of not resisting a resolute person In the face of the strong city, if you don't attack, you choose to bypass and attack the weak area, or even directly ignore the strong city and drive straight in.
Xie An really didn't want to lose too many troops in the attack on the fortified city of Jincheng, not simply because he thought that it would appear incompetent, or because it was really unnecessary.
But he couldn't do nothing about Jincheng, but instead pretended to have the appearance that he had to conquer Jincheng to show the Zhang Liang army on the north bank of the Yellow River.
There is nothing to say, the Han army gathered the long-range attack equipment, and chose to strike the east of Jincheng first, and every day and night, you can see the stone bullets fired by the stone throwing vehicle and the crossbow arrows fired by the bed crossbow flying in the sky, and then landing heavily on the outer fortifications of Jincheng, making all kinds of sounds.
"The sharpness of the big man's equipment is really beyond imagination."
Zhang Tianxi is young, not as calm as Zhang Zuo, and said with fear and jealousy: "If you bombard like this every day, even the thick city wall will be smashed." ” The distance was so far that it was only a blur to the naked eye, and Zhang Tianxi could not see the extent of the damage to the fortifications, but he could see that the defenders had not launched a useful counterattack at all.
When the Han army began to bombard the fortifications outside the city with long-range attack equipment, Zhang Chong did not sit idly by, he chose to send defenders out of the tunnel to try to destroy the siege equipment of the Han army, but the tunnel attack of Zhang's Liang army did not achieve any results at all.
Most of the tunnels inside the Golden City that connect to the outside are on the Acropolis.
The Acropolis has long been destroyed by the Han army, and most of the tunnels have long been platooned out, and some of them have been destroyed and a little bit is deliberately left, and soldiers are sent to garrison them.
It can be said that unless it is an entrance and exit of the tunnel that the Han army did not find, otherwise the Zhang Liang army can come out of the tunnel, in fact, the Han army deliberately let them out.
No matter what kind of thoughts or goals the Zhang Liang army had before leaving the tunnel, the next moment or not long after they left the tunnel, they faced a dense rain of arrows, and a few people who were lucky enough not to die would be alive It seems that the appearance of the Han army, if they do not resist again, they will be captured, and if they are stubborn, they will be killed immediately.
Only a very small number of Zhang's Liang troops went out safely from the tunnel entrances and exits that were not discovered in advance, but their safety could not last long, and they would be discovered by the Han army sooner or slower, and then they would face a siege with fewer enemies and more enemies.
It should be said that the tunnel offensive of Zhang's Liang army still caused some trouble to the Han army, but it was only trouble, the small scale of Zhang's Liang army, the Han army that had been guarded for a long time, was definitely not a surprise small-scale sneak attack that could change the final result of the war, just to add corpses to this war.
Although Zhang Chong was disappointed, he did not lose confidence in the city, he first asked Sofu to organize a counterattack, but then he broke in hundreds of people without success, and then ordered the defenders of the fortifications to withdraw to the city.
The long-range attack of the Han army is really too sharp, the strong crossbow arrow array with a range of about 450 steps continues to cover, the crossbow with a slightly closer range comes from time to time in a wave, and each salvo of the stone-throwing vehicle is even more powerful, unable to counterattack and destroy, it can't always let people stay where they are and wait for death.
Zhang Chong had another idea in retreating to the fortified defenders, he wanted to attract the Han army to charge, as long as the Han army dared to charge, the defenders above the city head could launch a long-range counterattack against the Han army charging up.
What made the defenders of Jincheng more depressed was that regardless of whether there were defenders in the fortifications outside the city, the Han army only carried out endless long-range bombardment, and there was a posture of completely leveling the fortifications with stone bullets, anyway, they did not send troops to try to reach Dengcheng.
Xie An's calmness and calmness made Zhang Chong feel extremely jealous in his heart.
In fact, the defenders of the city are not afraid of the onslaught of the enemy, especially a well-fortified city, and are not afraid of being attacked, but instead hope that the enemy will come to hit the head and break the bloodshed.
War is fought by people, one side of the casualties are too serious will inevitably hit the morale of the army, will create an opportunity for the other side to take advantage of, many times the defending army is to seize the enemy's heavy casualties after the demoralization is low before counterattacking, often can be a battle and collapse the enemy army, and even can fight a huge defeat battle.
"The Han army has few soldiers, and most of them are cavalry, Xie An does not launch a near-arrival to the city, but only uses long-range attack equipment to continuously bombard" Zhang Chong was watching the number of more than 100 stone-throwing vehicles continue to ride and shoot, and said with a deep frown: "There is no shortage of stones near the left. ” The grassland will lack stones, and stones can be seen everywhere in the rest of the area, and the stone throwing vehicle is not actually picky about what to throw, even if there is no stone projectile, it can also throw other heavy objects.
Any fortification has a bottom line to withstand attack, no matter how strong the fortification is constantly bombarded by heavy objects, it will collapse, only after ten days of bombardment, there is no better offensive outside the city east of Jincheng.
After the Han army destroyed the fortifications outside the east of Jincheng, the long-range attack equipment was pulled to the south of the city, and then it was bombarded endlessly, and another bombardment of more than ten days destroyed the fortifications again, and was transferred to the west of the city again "For more than a month, the Han army only launched four small-scale approaches to the test" Zhang Chong has been suffering from mental torture for more than a month, and he has become extremely thin and emaciated: "What do they want to do?"
More than a month has passed, and the Han army is not only fond of destroying the fortifications outside Jincheng, but also has a strong interest in the canal connecting Jincheng to the Yellow River, and completed the cutting of the canal yesterday.
In the past month or so, Zhang Chong couldn't bear it many times, and sent troops out of the city several times to try to sabotage the Han army's stone-throwing trucks, and was repeatedly forced back by arrows that were as dense as raindrops, and Zhang's Liang army, who went to stop the destruction of the aqueduct, also received the same treatment.
"Yes" Yi Tui made that worried, and subconsciously said: "What do they want to do?"
Yi Tui has been waiting, waiting, waiting for Xie An to send someone to contact, waiting for the initiation of a response, but he has not waited for anything.
Being a traitor is actually not so easy to do, especially under the premise that it may have been discovered, Yi Yi has long found out that Zhang Chong is vigilant about himself, so scared that he doesn't dare to act rashly, and he is also in fear all the time, afraid that someone will suddenly rush over to kill or tie him up.
Yi Chong has not taken the initiative to approach Zhang Chong for a long time, and he will be fully prepared when he has to see him.
Today he was summoned to discuss the matter, and before he came, he went through many inquiries, such as whether Zhang Chong invited himself alone, and if he didn't invite himself alone, he invited some people, and found that many people who had secret communication with the Han army were also invited, so he could be regarded as coming.
"Gentlemen."
Zhang Zheng's sudden shouting shocked many people: "The Han army has no intention of attacking, so it can be seen that there are other plans. ” Everyone could see that Xie An had no intention of attacking, otherwise except for the fortifications outside the city in the north, the remaining three fortifications would have been destroyed, and only four small-scale temptations would be launched.
"Jincheng is a strong city, and Ben Taishou is not worried about the loss of Jincheng.
The importance of the golden city is that it is the eastern barrier of the country, and it is to defend against the invading enemy army.
Zhang Chong was originally sitting on his knees, but he had already stood up and walked around: "The climate change, the water of the great river has changed, forcing the Han army to be unable to cross the river, but there is always a time when the river will ease again." ” Zhang Chong has been thinking about it recently, and he is guessing as much as possible about Xie An's thoughts, and after thinking about it, he feels that the possibility of Xie An surrounding Jincheng and then driving straight into it is infinitely high.
There are too many examples of the Han army throwing a certain city aside for a long drive, all of which shows that Xie An is also very likely to do so, and Zhang Chong got the information that he came back after a lot of losses and painstaking spying, saying that he found that a large number of Han troops appeared in Guanzhong, and it must be that the Han State increased its troops to the Jincheng battlefield.
The army of the Han State was divided into hierarchies.
The standing army is a field corps, and each standing army has its own military flag, which can be easily identified from the flag.
And the standing army is the main battle army of the Han State, and they are responsible for every battle.
In addition to the standing army, the Han State also had a very large number of county soldiers, but the county soldiers were actually used as auxiliary troops of the main battle corps most of the time, such as stationing and defending the positions needed by the main battle corps, or maintaining the stability of the logistics line, and also carrying out some theater clearance tasks, but rarely participated in the main attack on the frontal battlefield.
In the past, the Han State still had a servant army and a slave army, but after four years from Yuan Shuo, the military structure of the slave army was abolished, and the slaves were scattered in various places as labor; The servant army did not exist in the Han mainland after the fourth year of Yuan Shuo, and was concentrated in the eastern battlefield of the Murong Yan Kingdom in Liaodong.
What Zhang Chong knew was that the Han army that came up with reinforcements had three standing infantry corps and 80,000 county soldiers.
In this way, after some calculation, Xie An had two cavalry corps, four infantry corps and 110,000 county soldiers on hand, with a total strength of 200,000.
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Most people in Zhang's Liangguo will forget that there is a Han army on the side of Rouran Mountain in the grassland, even those who remember it don't seem to think that the Han army in Rouran Mountain is much of a threat, Zhang Chong knows what those people are thinking, it is nothing more than that the Han army in Rouran Mountain will be transferred to the battlefield of Murong Yanguo, and the reason why they will think this is only because it was Liu Yan who personally conquered Murong Yanguo.
"Ben Taishou has a resolution."
Zhang Chong stood still and said viciously: "Take the initiative to attack" In fact, Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi may have that idea, but that is not the main reason why they gathered the troops of the country to the north bank of the Yellow River in Jincheng, in fact, the two brothers were very conflicted in their hearts, and felt that they could not compete with the Han State with the strength of Zhang's Liang State, so they planned to take the initiative to have a battle, and if they won the battle, they continued to survive, and if they couldn't win, they couldn't win.
For Zhang's Liangguo, only if the east is won can there be a future, if the east can't bear it, even if it is firmly nailed to Guzang, it is useless, then even if the Han army in Rouran Mountain will really launch an offensive from behind, what is the difference, it is better to fight with all your strength and try to fight for a future.
Zhang Zuo had already sent people to cross the river at the risk of death, and some of the fish caught in the net had entered Jincheng, and the plan to pour the whole country's troops to come to Zhang Chong was revealed.
Zhang Chong's change of mood or loss of control was actually related to learning of Zhang Zuo's intentions, and he felt that it was too irrational to meet and fight a decisive battle with the Han army on the Yellow River, and what he should do was to move in the direction of the Western Regions.
From Xiliang to the Western Regions, there are Gobi everywhere along the way, and some parts are even deserts, and the Gobi and the desert are the barriers of Zhang's Liang Kingdom, and they can completely use the terrain to entangle with the Han army, and wait for the follow-up of the war between the Han State and Murong Yanguo.
After making all the preparations, Zhang Chong thought that the whole country of Zhang's Liangguo should pray that the Han army would run into a wall on Murong Yan's side, once the Han and Murong Yan Kingdom entered a long-term stalemate, then Zhang's Liangguo might be able to launch a counteroffensive, and at worst, it would be able to keep the Western Regions, and then continue to seek expansion to the west, but it would not necessarily be destroyed.
Zhang Chong had already sent people to cross the river at the risk of death, and it didn't matter to him whether Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi accepted the suggestion or not, and he didn't even want to hold Jincheng anymore.
"Taishou" Sofu stood up, full of incomprehension and asked: "Take the initiative" "Yes, take the initiative to attack" Zhang Chong said categorically: "With the will to die, either the enemy dies or I die, and the battle is won or lost."
No one could figure out what Zhang Chong was thinking, they were basically looking at Zhang Chong with stunned expressions.
The existence of Jincheng is no longer a barrier of the country, but has become a burden Zhang Chong ignored the stunned group of people, returned to his position and knelt down again, thinking: The general and the leader of the army, and even everyone, they will still be lucky when Jincheng is not lost.
This kind of luck will bury the country Yi Yi was rolling his eyes, and he caught Zhang Chong's eyes staring at him, and for a moment his heart was so weak that he could barely breathe.
Zhang Chong didn't just stare at Yi Di alone, but everyone he knew who had a secret relationship with the Han army would stare at him for a while.
Just when Yi Yi was thinking about whether to jump up and escape, Zhang Chong had a new move.
Zhang Chong read many names, and called more than ten people in a circle, Yi Tui was one of them, and finally said: "The rest of the people retreat." ” The people who were named, one of them were all frightened, and before they could finish hesitating to do something, the rest had already withdrawn.
Fortunately, the doors and windows were not immediately closed, and a large number of samurai rushed in, and there were no large numbers of sword and axe hands pouring out of the back hall, otherwise those who were left behind would have been ready to fight for their lives.
"Don't be nervous."
Zhang Chong had been sitting in his place, glanced around with a smile, and said slowly: "Everyone, I want to give you a fortune." ”: