Chapter two hundred and sixty-eight earth suddenly
Jingzhou soldiers carried soil and filled up the trenches day and night. Finally, the moat in the south of Lingxian County, which was about one mile long, five feet wide and more than one foot deep, was completely filled in. On the left and right sides of the moat, two walls were also built.
It is a mountain of earth several feet high, almost as high as the city wall.
At the same time, siege equipment such as rear chariots and wells have begun to take shape, enough to support a large-scale siege operation.
Charging chariots were the main force in this siege, so Kuai Yue ordered his crossbowmen to climb the earth mountain, ascend the well, and shoot at Lingxian City from a long distance to contain Liu Jing's army, so as to minimize the enemy's interference to his own chariot formations.
The rush car is very easy to understand. As the name suggests, it has four wheels at the bottom. The car is made of old wood as the pillars, the front end is sharpened, and the front and top are protected by large pillars. It requires at least ten people to push it.
With bursts of fierce and high-spirited drums, many racing cars started moving at the same time.
Liu Jing was at the top of the three-story tower, looking down at the rush vehicles approaching one after another, and a sneer appeared on his face.
Coming from a later generation, he had always planned to build a brick-clad city wall, but due to various reasons, he never took action.
However, this does not mean that Ling County is not strong. In fact, no one attaches more importance to city defense than Liu Jing. During the process of repairing the city wall of Ling County, he used an iron cone to chisel the wall more than once to test the solidity of the wall. The result surprised him
Very satisfied. He believed that the Lingxian city wall would be safe even under the impact of a car.
Under the protection of the wells, many rams braved the rain of arrows, drove through the "flat" trenches, and arrived at the foot of Lingxian City. The rams could either hit the city gates or directly hit the city walls. Relatively speaking, it was still the same as before.
Most of them.
However, there is a small semicircular city outside the city gate of Lingxian County, which is the same height as the city wall. It tightly surrounds the city gate of Lingxian County. This is the urn city. This means that if you want to hit the city gate, you must first break through the urn city outside.
Just fine.
Only one or two rams tried to destroy Wengcheng, and most of the others cooperated with each other to launch ferocious impacts on the city walls in the same area.
"Boom..."
The first ram rushed straight into the city wall, making a thunderous sound.
The Jingzhou sergeant couldn't help but look around and found that the effect of the impact was not ideal. Except for a few liters of soil falling, there was no damage.
"Dong...dong...dong..."
After that, the car hit the city wall of Lingxian one after another. Unfortunately, the result was no different, it just caused more soil to fall off the city wall.
Although the city wall of Lingxian County was strong and not afraid of being hit by a car, there were no absolutes in the world. Of course, Liu Jingjun on the city couldn't just sit back and watch. Soon, they launched a fierce counterattack.
"put……"
Liu Jing's soldiers organized themselves into units and threw boulders several feet square from the Lingxian city. They smashed the carriages, frames, wheels, etc., and they were all broken if they were hit by the boulders.
While the boulder destroyed the chariot, it also exposed the Jingzhou soldiers behind the chariot. Liu Jingjun would not let go of such an opportunity, and the bow and crossbow strikes followed.
The Jingzhou soldiers hurriedly fought back, but unfortunately they failed to hit any of them. First of all, they were not soldiers specialized in bows and crossbows. Secondly, when they attacked the enemy from their backs, they naturally suffered more losses. Of course, they lost to Liu Jingjun.
The boulder is not a disposable consumable. There is a hole in the middle and a thick rope is tied to it. Regardless of whether the ram is hit or not, the boulder can be retrieved by the soldiers of Liu Jingjun on the city pulling the rope.
If the Jingzhou soldiers carefully observe, they will find that these huge stones are very common stone mills in daily life.
"put……"
The stone mill was thrown out again, and with the sound of hunting, it hit one after another.
This time, with some mental preparation, the Jingzhou sergeant reacted quickly and hurriedly waved his sword and halberd in an attempt to cut the rope.
However, most of them did not succeed, and only a few succeeded. Firstly, Liu Jingjun had the initiative, and he could vote when he wanted, and withdraw when he wanted. Secondly, when faced with the stone mill falling like the top of Mount Tai, most Jingzhou soldiers would shrink back.
If you retreat, you will lose the best opportunity to take action.
As time passed bit by bit, Kuai Yue's face became more and more ugly. How long had it been? Dozens of rams had been scrapped by 60 to 70%. What made him even more helpless was that the Lingxian city wall looked like
"unscathed".
Judging from the current results, trying to capture Lingxian County by rushing cars is tantamount to fantasy.
As for the Jinglan and Tushan, they are not of much use. Liu Jing built a large number of towers and oars on the city wall, almost three steps per floor, and five steps per oar. The number is far beyond what Jinglan can match. There is also a tower above the city gate.
The three-layered tower is high enough to maintain an advantage over Jinglan and Tushan.
In the end, the wells also followed the footsteps of the car rushers, or were hit by trebuchets, causing them to fall apart and collapse, or they were intensively attacked by rockets, causing the fire to spread.
Kuai Yue's eyes were full of disappointment. Attacking vehicles, wells, and mountains and other siege methods can only serve as harassment at best. Now he can only place his hope on the ground. If this method does not work, then he can only
Able to attack with ants.
"I hope it won't come to this point..." Kuai Yue thought to himself. However, his intuition told him that this step was inevitable.
Excavation of tunnels was definitely not a matter of one or two days. In order to avoid attracting Liu Jingjun's attention as much as possible, in the following days, Kuai Yue continued to increase the intensity of the siege, and was no longer limited to rushing cars, wells, and earth mountains, but also used ladders to climb the city.
Engage in battle.
At the same time, Kuai Yue also opened a second battlefield on the west side. The western suburbs of Lingxian County were close to the West Lake mountains and rivers. The terrain was very narrow and it was impossible to gather troops. Therefore, he did not send people to fill in the moat in the west of the city. Instead, he used trench bridges and pontoon bridges to cross the moat.
, the cloud ladder is also a simple light ladder.
Kuai Yue did not expect any breakthrough in the west. As long as he could contain some of Liu Jing's troops, he would be satisfied.
The main battlefield is no longer on the west or south side, but underground.
Just as Jingzhou's military and civilians were working day and night, two tunnels were advancing side by side, trying to penetrate the city from underground, but little did they know that Liu Jing in Lingxian City had already discovered their trick.
This was largely due to Han Guang. He had been in the army for ten years and had always dealt with the war-prone areas of Xiliang and Guanzhong. He had experienced almost countless battles, including sieges and defenses.
Ground thrust is one of the important means of attacking a city. He has tried this method more than once in the past, so he is very wary of it.
The method of preventing the enemy from digging tunnels is recorded in "Mozi": "Order the pottery maker to make poppies, and hold more than forty buckets of them, solidly cover the thin leather, place them in the well, and make the people with ears bend over the poppies to listen, and judge the knowledge.
Where the cave is, dig a hole to meet it." That is, dig a well every thirty feet, place a large bottle in the well, and let a person with good hearing lie on the bottle to monitor whether the enemy is digging a tunnel and even its specific location.
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When Han Guang proposed it, Liu Jing agreed without even thinking about it. After all, he was careful and it turned out that he did the right thing.