Have you ever seen the scene of the ground suddenly sinking It was a kind of ground shaking, very abruptly, as if the ground had been gnawed, and then it shook again, a big shaking The scene that appeared in front of nearly 3,000 Han soldiers was that the ground first fell, a corner of the dock fort was suspended, and then the whole dock fort was trembling, and the dust was shaking in the strange sound, and after the bang, the dust was so thick that it completely obscured the vision.
For the people in the dock fort, they heard a strange noise first, and their feet trembled.
Most of them were slammed to the ground by an invisible hand when there was a loud bang.
Some were lucky enough to get back up, while others in the collapsed area were buried in the second tremor, mixed with dirt and wood.
The collapsed area was actually small, but it collapsed with part of the dock fort.
"That's a good trick" Shen Zhong was admiring, he could see that the Han Department actually didn't have much experience in attacking cities, but for more than ten days, he had almost watched Liu Yan change his tricks in attacking the fortifications.
He thought that he had seen through Liu Yan, and Liu Yan was very resistant to the indoor fortification that would cause a large number of casualties, and used a lot of methods that he had heard, used, and unseen Laughing at it, there is also the existence of Captain Jin, or although it is a hole digging and a tunnel, it actually requires very professional technical work, and it also needs a group of laborers who are not distressed when they die.
In addition, it must be noted that there must be other professionals who know how to dig tunnels without touching the golden captain, otherwise it is one thing to dig in by digging a hole or not, and it is even more important to dig crookedly, and even digging into it will be like the Han Department, which is played by the defenders of the dock fort.
It is precisely because of this that there are few successful examples of digging tunnels in the history of warfare.
The dust was slowly dissipating, and from the periphery, a large dock fort was crooked to one side, and the collapsed area could see the broken parts, the bottom floor was of course buried with mud and various debris, and the upper part was divided into rooms, the number of rooms was slightly larger, and you could also see that there were compartments in the walls.
"There is a cellar in the dock fort itself, will it cause a second landslide?"
Liu Yan asked a middle-aged man who looked pale, emaciated and cowering.
The middle-aged man was the temporary team leader of the twenty or so golden captains, and he said cowardly: "If you go back to the master, you can't think about it." ” Liu Yan had to ask clearly, if he didn't send troops to attack, and as a result, Wubao collapsed again, how many elites should be buried and lost in this way, which not only seemed ridiculous, but also very stupid.
Captain Touching Jin tried very hard to explain, but there were some things that were clear in his head, and he just couldn't explain them clearly in words.
He said that when he was excited, there was only one sentence left: "The villain guarantees with his life that he will not collapse again." ” What Liu Yan wants is such a guarantee, because no one will take his life seriously.
The tribal armament was not suitable for such a battlefield, and the weapons of the spearmen were not suitable for this kind of indoor warfare, so Liu Yan ordered the sword and shield soldiers composed of four families to attack.
Li Tan, who was in charge of leading the first wave of attacks, shouted to the soldiers: "The king has an order: behead a person and reward one pound of salt or twenty pounds of wheat, give a hundred times the pension for the dead in battle, take care of the disabled by the tribe, and give grace to the wounded."
The soldiers of each family who were selected for the first wave of attack immediately cheered loudly.
When soldiers fight, the most feared thing is that there is no reward for meritorious service, there is no pension for the death of the war, and they are crippled or injured and abandoned, their weapons and armor are equipped by the Han Department, and the reward issued by Liu Yan is absolutely generous, how can there be no reason not to boost morale Li Tan held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, shouted: "Kill", and then trotted first.
Behind him were fifty men with shields in one hand and swords in the other, all of whom held their shields high to prevent arrows from above, and tried to bend their waists.
The Dock Fort did not shoot arrows, and the men in charge of the first wave of attacks quickly arrived at the base of the wall that looked sloping, except for the debris under their feet.
Because of the collapse and tilt of the dock fort, you can enter the original second layer of the dock fort by climbing with your bare hands, Li Tan climbed up with his hands and feet quite quickly, and as soon as he could stand on his feet, he was protected by a shield, and then stretched out his head to observe.
The more obvious thing is that the defenders in the dock fort do not seem to have reacted from the sudden incident, as the first wave of attack, Li Tan and others prepared torches, they only suffered sporadic resistance at the beginning, it is estimated that the defenders who were originally staying in their positions, unlike the targeted arrangements later The passages in the dock fort are complicated, not some twists and turns, but rooms are separated by one room, there are almost no corridors, and each room is messy enough, and there are dumped debris everywhere.
Waiting for the corridor, it looks a little unpleasant.
On the floor of the hallway, there were several torches on the walls and floor, but not many continued to burn.
The long corridor was extremely quiet, and Li Tan, who had stopped at the entrance, waved his hand to the soldiers behind him, and the soldiers immediately lined up in two rows, with shields erected on the left and right.
They are all from a strong background, and they are also armed in the family, who doesn't know what defense facilities the dock fort will have, it is precisely in this way that they will know where there may be an attack, and they only lost one person along the way, but they killed seventeen people.
In the closed environment, the sound of footsteps and the "crackling" of torches and grease, Li Tan and the others, who were halfway forward, roared, but they heard the sound of friction and knew what would happen next, and stabbed the war knife in their hands first at the hole in the wall, and could only scream and snort as if coming from far away.
Sharp weapons were poked out of the wall, and the sound of collisions between the metals, it was a sharp object hitting the shield, but not every stab would be blocked by the shield, Li Tan's team soon suffered casualties, and they had to speed up their pace and rush to the edge of the corridor, pause a little, and act again.
As soon as he walked out of the corridor, he entered a house of about six square meters, Li Tan swung his sharp blade as soon as he stepped in, and when he rushed out, he was already mentally prepared enough, only to hear two crisp sounds, he waved out the war knife in his hand, and he could obviously feel that the war knife was blocked by something, and there was a scream in his ears.
Just as Li Tan's team was struggling to move forward, Gai Nie led about 300 people to fight directly into the patio area from the damaged part.
As they were about to enter, they were unexpectedly fired by arrows, and as soon as they entered, they were met with stubborn resistance, and it was a group of people who almost resisted desperately.
The two sides fought in darkness from this position on the patio, and soon the ground was covered with corpses and wounded.
"Clear an area so that the auxiliaries can bring in firewood and oil" Gai Nie was covered in blood, but was not injured because he was wearing armor: "Once, cover the archers to snipe the enemy troops who are rising, don't enter the room" It's still the same sentence, it's all the same to play the village for self-preservation, what function the dock fort can have, and where it will be the most dangerous, who doesn't know The difficulty of attacking the dock fort lies in the indoor fighting, if they can threaten from the outside, and anyone who knows what will happen indoors, they will not choose to attack the fortress in one room after another.
"Casualties are expected to reach more than five hundred."
Ji Chang didn't feel too worried, and could even be seen to be very satisfied: "Your Majesty, the matter on the other side is to step up preparations."
Liu Yan was not dissatisfied, the casualties expected before the attack would be around 1,000, but now it is only half.
They practiced with the Lou family, at least they had an intuitive understanding of attacking the dock fort.
Although it is certainly not something that can be learned from every attack on Dock Fort, experience is experience, and he knows this better than anyone else.
When the Loujiawu fort collapsed, it was already certain that it fell, and it only took about five hundred casualties to capture a dock fort, and there should really be no dissatisfaction, and it should be clear that the Hu people attacked a dock fort similar to Loujia's, and the casualties of two or three thousand people were still light, so the Hu people never attacked the dock fort easily, even if they had to fight, they were besieged, not chosen to attack.
Of course, that is also the difference between Hu and Han, Shen Zhong said, Ran Min or Li Nong is responsible for commanding the attack on Wubao, the casualties will not be too exaggerated, but the time consumed: