Seeing the raging fire on the city gate, the people in the 19th Regiment were a little stunned.
I and others are here to test fire, but when the attack reaches this level, it is almost possible to launch infantry to attack the city.
Because Jining is a small town, the city gate building is only thirty square meters in size. But after being lit, it still burned like a torch.
It should be because this is a grassland, and there are only pine trees in the nearby mountains. This city gate building is built with pine wood. Pine wood has a lot of grease, and it is dry in winter, so it is particularly easy to catch fire. After being hit by a fireball, a raging fire broke out immediately.
In the third round of shooting, twelve fireballs were thrown into the city. At this time, the city was full of fire. The people in the city were awake and shouting and putting out fires everywhere.
A large number of Mongolians climbed onto the city wall, thinking that the Ming army was taking advantage of the darkness to attack the city.
Liu Sansi sighed that it was a pity. If he had brought out all 3,600 people from a regiment, he could attack the city at this time. Unfortunately, he only brought a few hundred people to prevent the Mongols from coming out. With this small number of people, it would be far to attack the city.
Far from enough.
Zhao Dazhuang looked at Jining City in the distance carelessly, as if a pot was boiling. The flames in the city illuminated the city walls as if they were illuminated backboards.
"Ryudanzuo, the test firing is over perfectly, we can go back." As he said that, he yawned. He was so sleepy in the middle of the night. It was time to go back to sleep.
This is Yang Fan's rule. As long as you finish your work, you can go back to sleep.
Liu Sansi looked back three times at the burning Jining City that lit up half the sky. He felt very sorry for it. If he had known it earlier, ugh!
As if facing a formidable enemy, the Mongols guarded the city wall until dawn, but did not see the Ming army attacking the city. They were all exhausted. They were about to withdraw and rest. Suddenly, in the morning light, a loud military bugle sounded, and then,
Then I heard the sound of war drums.
Lord Ibili was seriously injured. One leg was shattered, his head was fractured, and several ribs were broken. Now he can only receive medical treatment at the back. Captain Aoden is temporarily in charge of the defense.
"What are these Ming troops doing? They made a surprise attack last night and disrupted the whole city. They retreated instead. They left us hanging on the wall for half the night, and now they are attacking again. These cunning Southern barbarians."
Captain Geer cursed angrily.
Aoden and Bridge could only smile bitterly at each other. Who knows what they were thinking.
By this time, it was already dawn, and a large number of Ming troops were lining up in the distance, and then walking towards the city wall.
After the Mongols calmed down the chaos last night, they put out the fire, and then used the method of demolishing the houses in the city to obtain building materials to plug up the gaps in the city wall. Although it was very crude, it didn't look very strong. At least it was restored.
It's about to start.
Bridge was still laughing at these Ming army generals. They were idiots. The cows and horses refused to take the grass from their mouths, but instead climbed over the mountains to eat the sand. There is no need for such a good opportunity. We have repaired the city, and there is no chance for us to fight again.
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However, it is getting bright now. It is a sunny day and the visibility is very high.
When they saw the military town coming from the opposite side, each of them opened their mouths in surprise.
Thirteen huge trebuchets were pushed over by the soldiers. These trebuchets were actually all made of steel. There was a lack of steel on the grassland, so they were almost drooling with envy for such a lavish means. This steel was enough for the entire country.
The Jining City defenders each made a set of fine steel armor.
Ten other carts were also pushed over. These carts are a full five feet tall, more than a foot higher than the city wall. This would be a big problem if you shoot arrows from above. And if the carts are pushed under the city wall, you can
Climb the city directly. There are stairs up and down each floor of the building car. A large number of soldiers can use the building car to put down the springboard and climb directly to the city.
The top of the building cart is more than one foot higher than the city wall, and crossbowmen are arranged on it to shoot at the defenders on the city wall. The springboard is set up on the crenels, and a large number of soldiers jump down, and dozens of people can be sent up to the city wall in an instant. This is a
A very tricky siege weapon.
To deal with this kind of weapon, fire attack is generally used. Because the siege weapons of this era are all made of wood, they are very flammable. The defenders fire rockets from a distance and set the building on fire in advance.
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Because such a tall building cart requires many people to push it, or many oxen to pull it. The speed is very slow. There is enough time to burn it. Or after getting close, use trebuchets and catapults to destroy it.
It's a pity that the Mongols don't know how to make catapults and trebuchets, they only have rockets. But they can see very clearly that these carts are also made of steel.
Yang Fan was born in a construction site and is most familiar with building materials. He uses a construction truck built with steel pipe scaffolding. This thing is very strong. Just put the wheels on the bottom. In order to prevent arrows, you can use iron wire to cover the steel plate. It can be done quickly.
.It saves a lot of time. And it can be easily disassembled and transported.
The Mongols were dumbfounded. They had no means of counterattack against this kind of steel truck.
They watched helplessly as the army formed a formation three hundred meters away. The trebuchets and carts were in front of the formation. They could accept the commander's order to start an attack at any time.
What made them even more angry was that a hundred meters away from the four city walls, many Ming soldiers began to use scaffolding steel pipes to intensively build watchtowers. These watchtowers were six feet high. The arrows fired by them seemed to have no effect on them.
Effect. Many people are covered with arrows and are still building the watchtower in an orderly manner.
Yang Fan began to educate the rookie officers in martial arts.
"If we want to attack a city, we must first cut off its connection with the outside world. This is called battlefield interception. We must completely cut off communication between the inside and outside. Otherwise, the outside will transport food and reinforcements, and then cooperate with the inside and outside, and attack from inside and outside. You...
Naturally, the city cannot be attacked. Therefore, siege the city first. This is a basic operation."
Seeing that these rookies were listening attentively and still taking notes, Yang Fan nodded with satisfaction. They will be the grassroots officers in the Beijing Camp from now on. I hope they can grow up as soon as possible.
"There are many types of siege tactics, but the lowest-cost method is just to station all the troops and horses around the city wall to prevent the enemies inside the city from coming out and the enemies outside the city from entering. However, if you want to completely surround the city, then
It is a very complex and huge project that needs to be completed!”
“The first thing to do is to dig a trench around the outside of the city wall to surround the entire city, and then place inverted spikes and other objects on both sides of the trench to prevent people in the city from climbing over.
If you want to be stronger, you can simply build another wall outside the siege trench and directly surround the entire city. So before attacking the city, the first thing to do is to carry out civil engineering!"
Having said this, Yang Fan looked at those merchant groups and the civilian men sent by Donglin with ill intentions. They would soon have work to do.
"Of course, in addition to trapping the enemy to death and making them desperate, another method we can adopt is to "encircle three walls and one". That is, do not surround one side of the city wall. Leave an escape route for the enemy, so that
It can often make the enemy take chances and not be able to defend the city with all his strength!"
The young martial arts students were all listening to Yang Fan's lectures in front of the battle with fascination. There were not many opportunities like this. They chewed them up and fed them to them. They could watch them live on the battlefield and the fight would start soon. This was possible.
The opportunity to learn the entire siege process in its entirety.
