The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 78

[Chapter 78 On the Siege]

Light and seven years in January

Wang Fang’s army marched to Yizhou County, Yizhou County heard Wang Fang’s fierce name, and raised the county to surrender, and did not dare to resist at all.

The army then went to Yongchang County.

All the counties and counties in the east of Yongchang County were surrendered. Only the barbarian chiefs in the west of the county gathered together to form a barbarian coalition, with a mighty force of more than 100,000 people, who fought against Wang Fang’s army in the wild.

The enemy army was in chaos, and when it came into contact with Wang Fang’s army, it collapsed immediately, and was then covered up and chased for hundreds of miles.

So far, all the prefectures and counties in Yongchang have been determined.

At the same time, Li Zhen also led his army to capture Xinggu County and pacified the eastern counties in the south of Yizhou.

After Zhao Ping captured Yinping County, he moved to Hanzhong County and settled in the five northern counties of Yizhou.

At this time, Zhong Yu also led his army to confront the army of the five counties in eastern Yizhou under the city of Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou City is 20 meters high, and it is considered a majestic city in the whole of Yizhou.

At this time, Jiangzhou City gathered soldiers and horses from Fuling County, Basi County, and Berkshire County, a total of 20,000 people.

Although these people are not too few, it is still not enough to see the army wearing blue and red armor that can’t be seen under the city wall for several kilometers.

At the very least, those soldiers weren’t scared and didn’t know very well, but at this time they were above the city wall and looking at the three county governors below.

But his face was pale, his lips were trembling, and he couldn’t speak clearly.

The three county guards were also very frightened in their hearts, and almost wanted to seize the city and fled.

However, their respective family members were under the imperial court. As imperial officials, they abandoned their own jurisdiction and fled back, which would be the end of their entire family, and they would end up in exile for 3,000 miles.

So I can only cheer up Qiang, build up my courage, and hold the army here to see if I can survive until the arrival of the imperial army. At that time, I will be able to save my life.

“Hoohoho!”

Beneath the city, those troops kept sending loud horns, neat and solemn, infectious and warm-blooded.

People can’t help but feel excited when they hear it, and they can’t wait to go to the battlefield to fight with the enemy happily.

“Bang bang bang!”

The sound of the snare drums sounded, and the phalanxes advanced toward the city wall. The soldiers walked slowly and solemnly, neatly and neatly, stepping on the ground, and the thick military boots stepped on the ground, causing the earth to resonate.

The swords and shields above both hands rang from time to time, making a thumping sound.

The soldiers shouted one or two slogans from time to time to reduce their fear of facing war.

He stopped at a distance of 300 meters from the city wall, prepared his armor, and listened to the orders from the Zhongyu command station behind.

The creaking sound came, and when I looked back, it turned out that hundreds of his catapults had been pushed from the rear camp. The wooden catapults more than ten meters high were made of metal joints and were very sturdy. Mi, in ancient siege warfare, can be said to be powerful, just like artillery in the age of hot weapons.

Looking at the center of the battlefield, there are indeed tens of thousands of bowmen lined up in two square formations.

The shooting area just covered the previous section of the city wall, and at this time, those bowmen were checking the long-range weapons in their hands, preparing to face the next long-range strike.

Sitting on the high platform, Zhong Yu looked at the battlefield, woo woo, all of Yang Yang were human heads, and every thousand people had a flag with a pattern of red, flaming and blue birds. The entire battlefield is more than ten miles in radius.

Seeing that the soldiers were almost ready, Zhong Yu raised his hand and waved the order to the commander beside him:

“Crossbow array, ten rounds of covering attack!”

“Crossbow array, ten rounds of coverage attack!” After receiving the order, the messenger said loudly to the flag bearer beside him.

As the messenger’s voice fell, he waved the flag in his hand and conveyed the order to the general of the crossbow formation step by step.

“Raise the crossbow and aim at the position of the city wall.”

With an order, all 1,000 crossbowmen raised their crossbows and aimed at the enemy in the direction of the city wall, ready to shoot at any time.

“put!”

shhhhhh!

Hearing the general’s order, he gently pulled the wrench in his hand, and a wave of arrows shot towards the city wall.

What followed was wave after wave of arrow rain, with an average of one wave every three seconds, covering a very large frequency.

Tens of thousands of crossbow troops, every thousand people shoot one wave, 10,000 people are ten waves.

A round is 30 seconds, and the first batch of crossbow soldiers are loaded with crossbow arrows, so the uninterrupted attack is carried out, so that the defenders above the city cannot lift their heads, and can only hide on the corners of the wall. Looking for cover, shivering.

He said that it took a long time. In fact, after ten rounds, 100 waves of crossbow arrows were shot, and it only took him five minutes, but in these five minutes, for the defenders above the city, it was like living a year. torment.

Batch after batch of crossbow arrows came, and they were shot through as soon as they emerged. There was no interval. This group of new recruits who had not experienced war for a long time was immediately blinded. The bottom line of defense in my heart has been completely destroyed. rout.

I believe that they will be afraid for a while when they see sharp and sharp things in the future, and psychological shadows will appear.

Let’s not talk about these mentalities for the time being, let’s talk about the casualties on the city wall at this time. The densely packed defenders are only sparse at this time.

Those terrified cowards hiding in the corner.

Of the 20,000 people, he was only left in his early 10,000s, and the casualty rate was as high as half. Many troops suffered a direct psychological breakdown and wanted to abandon the army and flee.

If it weren’t for this city, it was surrounded by Zhong Yu’s army all around, and there was nowhere to escape. Maybe someone really opened the city gate or climbed the city wall and escaped.

After ten rounds of crossbow arrows, Zhong Yu asked them to withdraw and retreated to the rear for recuperation.

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The long-term high-frequency shooting of the com crossbow will reduce the service life of the crossbow, so the high-frequency use of just five minutes has reached the limit of the crossbow, and it must be cooled down for a period of time before it can continue to be used.

Next is the role of the group of cannon fodder, filling the moat and attacking the city wall, isn’t it the role that you want them to come with the army?

However, before that, let your hundreds of catapults open the eyes of those barbarians!

The earliest record of the catapult appeared when the famous Qin general Li Xin led a 200,000-strong army to attack Chu, but was attacked by the Chu general Xiang Yan with thousands of catapults at the same time, causing the Qin army to collapse and Li Xin to be defeated. He was banished by the King of Qin and sent to Longxi County to guard the frontier, and he never returned to the central court.

Afterwards, although there were records of catapults in the imperial court, they were rarely used. Now, the great Han dominates the world, and major battles are fought against the barbarians on all sides. The barbarian civilization is backward, and there are no cities and no catapults.

Therefore, Cao Cao’s men, the improved version of the catapult invented by Liu Ye, caused Yuan Shao’s army to be in chaos in the Battle of Guandu, thus giving Cao Cao some chances to win, not to mention in this small Yizhou Frontier barbarians, I’m afraid they don’t even have a concept of what a catapult is!

Since the city defenders have no long-range attack capability, and there is no cavalry that has a powerful assault capability, they can sneak out of the city to attack those catapults.

So the catapult was still confidently advancing to a hundred meters in front of the city, then stopped, and constantly adjusted the sight to prepare for the next very precise strike.

The commanding captains of these catapults intend to give a good lesson to the barbarians who have no experience, so that they can see what meteorites are falling from the sky, and the stones are like rain.

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