Late Tang

What a tough nut to crack.

Why did the Qin army maintain such a dense rain of arrows under the attack of two hundred catapults?The Qin army on the city didn't seem to be suppressed at all, and the strangest thing is that there are some reasons why the Qin army's Longwu Thunderbolt and Fierce Fire General didn't fight back with artillery. But according to common sense, in such a fierce siege battle, Qin Juncheng The attack of the flying thunder cannon above the head seems to be more effective.The Feilei Cannon is a smaller version of the General Cannon. It can throw a [-]-jin bomb pack a hundred steps away.

But this kind of flying thunder cannon is small and flexible, only a steel cylinder of twenty or thirty catties, so it can be carried around casually.Moreover, the loading and firing is fast, and it has the ability to continuously fire. It can project at least [-] explosive packets in an hour. If the Qin army lined up their flying thunder cannons, the fierce firepower can instantly clear all the siege. soldiers and horses.

But in fact, although Qin Jun has been using Feilei cannons to assist in defending the city, according to his observations, the number of Qin Jun's Feilei cannons that keep attacking at the same time does not exceed ten.It seems that the Qin army set a limit, no more than ten flying thunder cannons can shoot at most.

According to the hardships he had suffered in the past few days, he was relatively clear about the Qin army's equipment in the city.This kind of flying thunder cannon is actually the best weapon against the ants attached to the city. It kills a large area at once, especially when it is loaded with the kind of shotgun, the gunpowder inside is mixed with iron nails to break the tiles, and its power is extremely fierce. The direct kills of shells are not many, but the disabling effect is very impressive.On such a battlefield, a wounded soldier is sometimes equivalent to a dead man.

But the heavy crossbows on their walls are definitely the most effective weapons to destroy their catapults.Their two hundred catapults are all small catapults, and their range is actually far lower than that of the Qin army.Although Yelu Shilu built a short wall shield array in front of the catapult array, and immediately moved after being bombarded for a while.But every time he shoots, the position is still exposed, and in order to maintain the artillery formation, Yelu Shilu had to set up another infantry shield in front of his three artillery formations that often change positions.

If the Qin army on the city fought back with their cannons and heavy crossbows, and focused on bombarding their artillery formations, the coalition forces would suffer heavy losses.But why did the Qin army only occasionally bombard with a few giant cannons, but never used their catapults and ballistas?

Could it be that the Qin army is deliberately preserving its strength, or that they have giant cannons, flying thunder cannons, and eight-ox crossbows, but they don't have enough ordinary catapults and heavy crossbows?

Yelu Shilu's eyes narrowed.

"There's something strange here!" Yelu Shilu turned his head and said to Yelu Fugu.

Deputy Marshal Yelu Fenggu only nodded, but did not speak.Seeing this, Yelu Shilu frowned even tighter. Gu Guzhi's meaning was very clear, and he had doubts just like him.

"I heard that the Qin army was very good at building cities. They built a large number of castles in Liaodong, most of which were prismatic and multi-faceted walls, so that the defenders could defend more enemies with fewer numbers, and let the attacking party suffer at the same time. The multi-faceted attack and the undulating walls of the ridges make their fire coverage completely without dead ends. It is said that they can completely attack with one defense seven times, and persist in resisting the enemy's strong attack for at least seven months." Yelu Shilu thoughtfully Tell me some information collected these days, "It is said that the city of the Qin people will deliberately incline at some angles."

"why?"

Yelu Shilu beckoned, and took a shield from the guard behind him. It was a steel shield, a standard Qin army knight shield, round and not big, with a tiger head pattern on it. The most important thing was that the shield was not It is not flat, but protrudes outward in a conical shape, and it is not conical, but divided into eighteen uneven surfaces.

"Have you seen this shield? The [-] sides of the shield, and the tapered shape, are not only good-looking. In fact, the biggest advantage of this shield is the ability to resist arrows. I tried it, and the arrows hit the On this kind of shield, it is very likely that because of the inclination angle and facets on the shield surface, most of the force can be relieved, causing the arrow to slide away. Even if our strongest warrior pulls the best bow and hits With this kind of shield, there is at most only half of the possibility of being nailed into the shield. The surface of the Qin people's city is designed at an inclined angle, which has the same function as this shield, but it is specially designed to prevent stone bombardment from catapults. I heard that the Qin army The mausoleum-shaped city wall in Liaodong has sloped walls and city walls. This Datong city wall is correct, and there is no mausoleum-shaped city wall, but I guess they may have transformed the city face into a sloped angle. After all, this is not the case. Difficult. When defending the city, as long as their soldiers stick to the battlements, our stone bullets will pose little threat to them. After all, it is not bad if three of ten stone bullets can be thrown into the city, and if their city If the surface really has a certain slope, then the effect of these three stone bombs will be even less."

Fu Gu was just a warrior of the Diela tribe, but he half understood about these civil engineering and other things. Yelu Shilu talked for a long time, but he only understood a little bit.But it would be too extravagant to rely on him to come up with a solution.

"boom!"

A long stack of arrows hit Yelu Abaoji's birch cowhide shield. The shooter was obviously a man of great physical strength. After the arrows were inserted into the shield, the tails of the arrows were still shaking, which made Abaoji's hands sore.At this time, he didn't know who shot the arrow. The soldiers hiding in the chariot covered with thick sand and raw cowhide had already covered the tribal warriors through the past few days with countless lives. The filled trenches, pits, and sharp piles outside the city rushed all the way to the bottom of the city. The soldiers lifted the ladder out of the rush car and leaned against the city wall of Datong.As soon as the ladder was erected, it rose up, and it was directly erected on the female wall of the Wengcheng.

"kill!"

"rush!"

The drums behind him were beating more and more urgently. The officers of Abaoji's guards and the barracks each held a shield, with knives in their mouths, and their eyes were wide open. They jumped on the ladder and climbed up towards Yunzhou City. A group of warriors behind him also followed closely behind, following up one after another.

Yelu Abaoji clenched his fist and punched himself hard on his chest a few times, let out a loud roar, and rushed forward with his shield raised.As soon as he stepped up, the warriors of various tribes in the guard camp behind him also rushed forward, screaming.

At this time, the walls of Yunzhou City are full of rising ladders, rows of black, gray and white leather robes, as well as Suozijia, Tiezajia, and even the half-body armor just stripped from the corpse of the Qin army. , the tribal warriors in steel armor, holding their shields, are like a huge swarm of ants, and they are attaching to the ants of Yunzhou City.

At the same time, the three coalition catapult clusters that had shifted their positions again launched long-range stone bomb coverage and suppression on the city head at the same time.

Under the command of the flag soldiers on the Yunche not far away, the two hundred catapults of the Hu people frantically threw stone bullets at Yunzhou City, risking their position and attracting heavy artillery bombardment from the Qin army. Violent projection.Moreover, Yelu Shilu also gathered as many as 3 barbarians to form a dense bow and arrow phalanx, advancing frantically to within [-] steps below the city, firing upward shots at the top of the city regardless of casualties, and suppressing the top of the city with a rain of arrows.

Tens of thousands of Hu cavalry dismounted and gathered in formation, shooting bows and arrows all over the sky at the Qin army on the top of the city.

Immediately afterwards, hundreds of rush cars, building cars, cloud cars, and arrow tower cars sprung up from behind like mushrooms after rain, moving crazily on the battlefield.Dozens of warriors were carried on each of these various building carts that were taller than Yunzhou City, and there were rows of crossbowmen standing on the tall arrow tower carts. The crossbowmen are all concentrated.

This was a thunderous strike that Yelu Shilu had been planning for a long time. He concentrated his strength to build many chariots, and then suddenly burst out at this moment, intending to use these chariots, equipment and sergeant spirit to break through the defense of Yunzhou City Wall in one fell swoop.

The city of Yunzhou is getting closer.

"Hulu is going to die!" On the tower, General Song Xi spat thick phlegm and cursed.He turned to look at his clan brother Song Jirong and other generals, and said in a deep voice: "Hu Gou doesn't care about casualties, if we want to break through in one fell swoop, we have to bring out real guys."

Song Jirong, the chief general of Yunzhou, used to be the military envoy of Song Wei, the envoy of Ziqing Jiedu. The foster brother of Li Jing, foster father.After Song Wei's death, when Li Jing conquered the Liaodong Peninsula and became the king of Andong County, he joined Li Jing together with Cui Yunqing and others.In the past few years, he has been serving as a military officer in various provinces, and his grade is not low, but he has never had any real power, and he has not been able to enter Li Jing's inner circle.This time Zhang Zimian went west, and he took the initiative to invite Ying.Li Jing agreed to his challenge, but after arriving in Daibei, Zhang Zimian regarded Song Jirong, Song Xi, Chang Bao, Yang Lin, Liu Heng, Han Zhong, Liu Jian, Xu Cheng, and Cui Decheng as Li Jing's bosses. The original generals under the names of Song Wei and Cui Yunqing were sent to defend the city in Yunzhou, and only brought three of Li Jing's disciples southward. Among them, only Song Wen, who had a good relationship with Li Jing, followed southward.

Back then, when Li Jing was just a united soldier, which one of them was not a soldier or a town general?Just like Cui Decheng, who was just a small treasury officer under him at the beginning almost killed Li Jing.But times have changed, and now Li Jing has become the most powerful person in the world, but they are almost standing still.Speaking of which, Li Jing actually treats them well. The generals are now either the defense envoys of a state, or the governors and commanders of a province.But if compared with Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang and other young people, they seem to be nothing.

However, although he was a little disappointed in his heart, no one had any resentment towards Li Jing. At most, he felt that he had no chance. (To be continued.)