I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 412 No one is pure fool
On the 18th day when Zhiyao led his army to "Wei" city, Zhi's attack on "Wei" city officially started.

The reason why it is said to be an attack and to be formal is that the main reason is that there are some minor disturbances in the front, and the second is that it does not pose a threat to the "Wei" city.

Fourteen catapults were concentrated in the north of the city. They were lined up, loaded and thrown repeatedly, and the catapults were thrown at the "Wei" city one after another, causing various movements.

The soldiers who operated the catapult were covered in sweat under the cold weather.

Some of them are responsible for carrying stone bombs, some are responsible for resetting the machine, and of course there are people who specialize in loading bombs.

Amidst the roaring sound, the stone bullets either fell on the city wall, or hit the aisle above the city wall, or even crossed the city wall and smashed into the city.

This is the second appearance of the catapult, and the first one is in the place of "Anyi".

To tell the truth, Zhishi's use of catapults to attack "Anyi" was just an actual combat experiment. It would be more appropriate to have a preliminary understanding of the actual combat power of catapults and then plan how to use them next.

Smash down the city wall?The Catapult was created with this in mind, and later as a deterrent siege tool.The reason is that the accurate hit rate of the catapult is very worrying. It is impossible to hit the same place every time. It is good luck to hit the same place more than twice in a hundred times.

Since it is impossible to hit the same place repeatedly, don't think that the rammed-earth city wall is too fragile. It really cannot be smashed down by a stone bullet. It will take a long process to smash the city wall down with a catapult.

The strength of the rammed earth city wall is beyond the imagination of many people, and the strict construction is even stronger than the masonry city wall.

Let's put it this way, archaeologists of later generations can still find rammed-earth city walls of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods in many places. It is rare to find a section of masonry wall, and it is hardly presentable.

Maybe the masonry was stolen by nearby residents, which made the masonry walls look fragile?At least that's how some people interpret it.

As for the seemingly complete Great Wall?Who said the entire section of the Great Wall is complete!Those sections of the Great Wall that look complete are actually restored and used as scenic spots later on, and they are not so completely preserved. A certain brick may have a bottle cap mixed on it, or it may be printed in a certain brick factory.

There's nothing interesting about using a catapult to smash a city, and it's kind of boring.

Everyone in the Wei family who was being attacked didn't think so. They saw that "monster" for the first time, and they were guessing what it was for before, and when they knew it, they were only left with fear and fear.

This time, Zhi Shi did not immediately use the specially made round stone bombs, but actually collected suitable stones from the surrounding area, and then threw them to attack the "Wei" city.

Those collected range from 130 to [-] catties. In fact, [-] to [-] catties can also be thrown out, but the greater the weight, the shorter the range.

Zhishi's catapult can reach a range of 450 meters by throwing one hundred and five catties. It really can't be said that the range is short.

Why are there only fourteen catapults?Because Zhiyao concentrated most of the craftsmen to make siege towers.

Of course, the Zhi family also stores siege equipment, but winter is really not a good season for combat. If people walk too much, the road will become muddy, not to mention the difficulty of transporting siege equipment with exaggerated weight.

So, it is true that Zhi's army has arrived on the outskirts of "Wei" city, but a large number of siege equipment has fallen behind.

The catapults were constantly throwing stone bombs, and a large number of Zhishi soldiers stood still in formation.

Their existence was not for the purpose of attacking the city, but purely to protect the catapults from damage, and occasionally made a gesture of charging to attack the city, luring Wei's defenders to go up to the city wall and be smashed.

What has to be said is that at the beginning, when Wei saw that the infantry of the Zhi family were about to charge, he did send the soldiers up to the city wall to prepare for defense. Later, the Zhi family's troops made more fake moves, and the Wei family no longer fell for it. Send a small number of soldiers to the city wall.

So fine.

Really!

Some commanders of the Wei family may feel that they are very wise, they were not fooled by the Zhi family, and the needless casualties were reduced, and they were full of pride.

Waiting for the time when Zhi's siege troops really launch an attack, those Wei's officers who were so proud before will be so annoyed.

Of course, Zhiyao is not in a hurry to launch a rush to the city, and games like "Wolf is coming" can be played for a while longer.

It is conceivable how oppressive the atmosphere inside the Wei family is, and it is very likely that they are mentally prepared for a bloody battle. In this state, they definitely have the courage and blood to fight the invaders.

There is a saying in the art of war that "one time, again, three times, three times exhausted, the other exhausted and the other exhausted, so we restrained it", which can be used in field battles or sieges.

Knowing that the morale of the enemy army is high, or that they have the will to die, if they choose this opportunity to attack, even if they win in the end, their own casualties will definitely be great.

Therefore, without Sun Wu saying much, Zhiyao is quite willing to play with Wei's mentality.

Waiting for the catapults behind to be transported up, not only the east side of "Wei" city can be smashed, but also catapults can be arranged in other directions.

"The city of 'Wei' is not Xiangyang. It won't collapse after being hit for decades." Zhiyao actually didn't know whether Xiangyang had collapsed under the attack of Huihui artillery.

Looking at the east wall of the "Wei" city, which was repeatedly hit, many female walls have been flattened, and some sections of the city wall have dents or cracks.And this is just fourteen catapults attacking for half a month, which proves that when the Wei family built the city wall of "Wei", the requirements don't seem to be so strict?

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the Wei family built the "Wei" city about 140 years ago. At that time, the Wei family was not a very powerful family. "City, the quality of the city must not be the best.

Even if the Wei family wants to use the best and strictest method to build the city, it needs to consider the limitations brought by the times. There are no different tools to build the city, and various standards are different.

At that time, there was no need to resist the catapults hitting the city wall, and the quality required for city building would drop a bit.

To put it bluntly, the quality requirements of each era are different. For example, in the era of the appearance of bronze cannons, there will definitely be a need to resist solid projectiles when building city walls.

"Maybe we can attack the city?" Sun Wu asked.

The main reason was that someone from the Han family came and informed the Wei family that they were storming the "Han" city. The Han family lost control of a large section of the city wall for a while, and took back control of the city wall section after suffering a lot of casualties.

In addition, Han Geng has recently been forced to order the city gates to be blocked. The fear is that if the city gates are captured by the Wei family, the city gates will almost be declared broken.

It's not that the Han family is weak..., it's not true, the Han family's combat power is relatively weak, even weaker than the Wei family, not to mention that now is the stage when the Wei family needs to fight with their lives, it seems that the Han family looks weaker.

If Han Gu hadn't lied, the Wei family had lost more than [-] troops in "Han" city, and the Han family had lost [-] troops.

There were more than 16 men and women under the Wei family who went to attack the "Han" city, including auxiliary soldiers. There were a large number of young and strong men who were temporarily armed, and there was also a heavy infantry of the Wei family.

How come there are so many, and there are women?Zhiyao understands Wei Si's layout, and it is very important to attack the "Han" city. Once the Han family cannot be forced to surrender, and the Wei family's old nest "Wei" land falls again, those Wei people will immediately start fleeing and become the Wei family to continue to exist. The guarantee is also the main force to carry out revenge one day.

On the other hand, the Wei family was still migrating, and a large number of young and strong men and women were moving to the mountainous area north of "Shaoliang".

what are they doing?
What the Han family and the Fox family were afraid of was that the Wei family would be completely finished, and that the Zhi family would attack them next, and they certainly didn't want the Wei family to be completely finished.

But when Zhiyao knew it, she couldn't push too hard, so she could only send cavalry to intercept it, and it counted as much as it could stop.

Everyone has their own positions and needs. Once Zhiyao pushes them too hard, the situation will change again.

Therefore, no one is an absolute fool, each has its own various preparations.

Zhiyao was about to speak when she heard bursts of cheers outside the tent.

Not long after, someone came to report that the east wall of "Wei" city had collapsed.

This..., reasonable and unexpected!
The reliable rammed earth city wall is really not that fragile. Zhiyao went out to look around and saw a lot of wood in the collapsed city wall. It is conceivable that there are straws mixed in, so it is no wonder that it collapsed when a stone bomb hit it up.

When Weiss understands the situation, he will definitely hate the person who cut corners more than 100 years ago, right?

Zhiyao ordered all the catapults to continue smashing against the collapsed city wall, and ordered to be ready to charge at any time.

The thrown stone bullets fall repeatedly, and enough stone bullets will fall densely to make the probability of repeated hits higher.

To be honest, Zhiyao made a wrong judgment before, thinking that the rammed earth city wall was very strong, and the use of the catapult was more to create a psychological deterrent to the Wei family, and there was really no requirement to smash the city wall down.

It's different now!

Zhiyao actually saw the city wall being smashed down, which shows that it can really be smashed down.

Even if there is a siege tower, the premise is that you can launch an attack from the gap without having to fight the city-climbing battle. It must be the priority to choose the gap to avoid a large number of casualties in the city-climbing battle.

It can be seen that many Wei Renshe desperately carried things to block the collapsed city wall, so that the scene of falling stone bombs was very bloody.

"Shoot gravel." Zhiyao just went to inspect the troops that were about to launch a siege battle, came to the catapult troops, and gave a new order.

Of course, it's not a small thing like pebbles. Even gravel is the size of an adult's fist.

Launching gravel would have been used to attack those Wei people who wanted to block the gap before starting the city climbing battle, and it was quite appropriate.

Poor hit rate?Under enough rocks, the area of ​​distribution is large enough, what more accurate hit rate is needed!

The distance is far enough that the screams cannot reach Zhiyao's ears, but after a salvo, there is no one who can stand at the gap in the city wall.

"Attack."

The sound of horseshoes sounded first, and then the infantry who had been waiting for a long time shouted "Attack! Attack! Attack!", and then launched a charge...

(End of this chapter)