It is true that the main force of the Yingyang Guards led by Yunzheng met the enemy for the first time forty miles northeast of Jingcheng County, but in fact the enemy was just a food requisition team, with a total of a hundred people. They were ordered to
The number of rebels who had collected enough food for them to feed themselves for three months from six or seven surrounding villages now totaled about 250,000 to 256,000. Among them, more than 30,000 were originally rebels from the troops of the Goryeo imperial court.
The supply of 30,000 troops enjoys priority, while the rest of the army needs to go out to "recruit food" on their own. As for the food collection, if there are obstacles, it goes without saying that burning, killing and looting are commonplace.
When Yun Zheng was leading his troops on the march, the forward scout horse suddenly came to report that they had found a grain transport team with about a hundred people. Yun Zheng sent the scout horse team to surround them, and then fired a series of hand crossbows at them.
The Goryeo rebels, who had never seen such weapons, killed and injured more than 60 people at that time, and the remaining people surrendered in dismay.
After interrogation, Yun Zheng finally figured out the nearby location, and also knew the current predicament of the rebels. Except for the 30,000 most elite troops under his command, the rest of the army had to "raise their own" food and pay. No wonder he walked all the way.
Come on, can you find the bodies of people on the roadside? It seems that these people either refused to hand over the food and were killed, or they starved to death after handing over the food. However, Yun Zheng has always been very hard-hearted, and these people who starved to death
In his opinion, he belongs to a "non-my kind", and if he dies, he will die. He has no nonsense international humanitarian ideas at all. To expect him to have any compassion and kindness towards these Korean people would be too disrespectful to Marshal Yun.
Becoming a Bodhisattva
Yunzheng summoned the generals, and without even setting up a military tent, he held an impromptu pre-war meeting on the roadside: "Jingcheng County claims to have assembled an army of 150,000 people, which sounds like a lot, but these 150,000 people
But there are 120,000 people like the food requisition team just now. I think you all know very well what the capability of such a bandit army is. I won’t go into details. Let’s talk about the deployment of troops first. The bandit army has a total of 150,000 people. It can be determined.
There are 30,000 main elites who must stay in the city all the time, while the remaining 120,000 people are said to take turns to go out to collect food. We assume that they only take one-third of the 120,000 people out each time, so that is 40,000.
If there are still about 110,000 troops in the city, our goal is to defeat these 110,000 people and seize the Mirror City."
When Yun Zheng said this, he glanced at Yun Yi and the four commanders, and continued: "Four of our twelve cannons have been left in Japan, and now there are eight more with the army. Although these eight Thor cannons are only from the Wuhan Institute of Technology,
The first batch of trial-installed products, but the power is obvious to all. If these eight cannons are used to attack our Yanjing City, of course they will not be effective, but if they are used to attack this small town in Goryeo, I think the power should be enough." Everyone stood for a while
laughing out loud
Yunzheng turned his head: "Feiyang, do you still have enough gunpowder?"
Yun Yi nodded and said: "Back to you, Marshal, we have enough gunpowder. We originally prepared gunpowder for high-intensity operations, but in the end, we won in Japan without even using the Thor Cannon, so the total consumption of gunpowder was just to scare the little emperor."
Use up a little bit from time to time”
Yun Zheng nodded with satisfaction: "Everyone, we have obtained the same powerful weapon, and now we are about to create a brand new method of warfare. What we are going to capture today is just a Goryeo city, which is not as powerful as the giant fortified city of our Wei Dynasty.
It is worth mentioning that technical experts from the Academy of Sciences and the Military Research Institute will continue to improve. I believe that one day, artillery will change warfare, and city walls will no longer be a reliable fortification..."
----------------------------------------After a period of mobilization, the Yingyang Guards continued their journey.
Speeding up the march, they headed straight for Mirror City. Ying Yangwei's marching speed in this era could almost be described as miraculous. A mere forty miles away was nothing to them. In just over two hours, Yun Zheng had already
After defeating and annihilating more than a dozen grain transport teams along the way, the not-so-tall city wall of Mirror City can be seen in the distance.
When the Yingyang Guards appeared, the defenders on the Mirror City were stunned for a moment. The troops of the Goryeo court were not so red. There were at least ten or twenty thousand troops in front of them. They lined up neatly and marched in an orderly manner.
It looks like a standard regular army, but this military uniform is really...
Surprised, the Korean rebel watchmen immediately reported the situation. Although the city gate guards did not know which army was dressed in this way, they knew after thinking about it that it could not be friendly troops. Since it was not friendly troops, it was only enemy troops.
Come on, no matter whether it is the imperial army, the Jurchen army or the Liao army, they are all enemies. Be prepared for battle. Even if only 20,000 people dare to attack Jingcheng County, you are not afraid of people's jokes. Jingcheng County is...
There are 150,000 troops!
Before the widespread use of gunpowder weapons, that is, thermal weapons, siege warfare was the most brutal battle. Both warring parties tried their best to avoid siege, but tried to annihilate the enemy in the wild as quickly as possible. When fighting a siege, they also tried their best to lure the enemy out of the city and annihilate them.
Siege cannot be avoided, and the attacker often has to pay a huge price to capture the city.
Yun Zheng had seen a simulated ancient siege battle in the science and education column before. The corpses of the attacking soldiers were piled up to the height of the city wall. Even if he traveled to this world, during the Tang Dynasty, when history had changed, An Lushan rebelled.
, the soldiers marched south, Suiyang governor Zhang Xun led an overwhelmingly inferior number of soldiers to guard Suiyang. Anlu Mountain's hundreds of thousands of troops were unable to pass for several months. In the end, the city ran out of food, and even the flesh of the dead began to be used as food.
The city was forced to fall, but this battle after all bought the Tang Dynasty several months to deploy troops and generals to exterminate the rebellion, and also saved the vast Jiangnan region from war. The small and small city, with thousands of defenders, actually stared at it.
Hundreds of thousands of troops held the army for such a long time, which shows how fierce and cruel the fighting situation was at that time.
In ancient times, sieges mainly relied on soldiers to climb the city using ladders and ropes. The result was heavy casualties and extremely cruel. The soldiers not only had to work hard to climb the city wall tens of meters high, but also faced the locust-like bows and arrows and stones on the wall.
It's a soldier's nightmare
Yunzheng had always thought before that if there were better siege weapons, it would definitely make siege warfare easier, our casualties would be greatly reduced, and the battle time would also be shortened! But before the emergence of artillery, there was really no
What kind of good weapon can effectively deal with solid city walls made him determined to develop artillery.
In fact, even the thunder cannon that Yunzheng is carrying now is not powerful enough in his opinion. It may be useful to attack some ordinary cities, but a giant city like Yanjing City that has been reinforced for two hundred years, with such
Shooting powerful artillery would probably just scratch the itch, so he also thought of an alternative method.
Yunzheng imagined a way to siege the city. In an era before artillery appeared, dealing with solid city walls and locust-like bows and arrows was a nightmare for the siege party. However, at least in the Three Kingdoms era at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty,
There are already catapults, but the stones thrown by the catapults are not very lethal due to their size and weight, and the destructive power to the city wall is not very great, so it is difficult to popularize the project. It still mainly relies on ladders and ropes, allowing soldiers to risk their lives.
Yunzheng's conjecture about climbing the city with huge casualties is that since there was no gunpowder in the era, stones would not explode and could only rely on kinetic energy to destroy the city wall. Due to the limitations of the volume and weight of the stone, it would be difficult to deal with a very strong city wall.
destruction, why can't we put something else in?
He felt that in ancient times, fire was the most destructive and shocking thing. Why not put flammable substances on the walls and inside the city? There should have been such things as kerosene in ancient times, and even
Lamp oil, cooking oil, or higher alcohol will also work. Put it in a large urn, light it with hay, etc., and then drop it into the enemy's wall or city. Once the urn falls to the ground and is broken, it will burn a large area.
At the same time, hundreds of such large jars filled with strong alcohol or oil were dropped on the enemy's city wall. The flames on the city would definitely rise to the sky. The soldiers on the city wall would be almost burned, let alone fighting. If they were dropped inside the city, they would be burned.
The houses in the city are all flammable. With this wind, they can quickly burn all over the city, with flames reaching into the sky. It will definitely greatly affect the morale of the defenders and even cause huge chaos. The attackers can seize the opportunity to attack quickly.
The city can then break through the impregnable city at a very small cost.
However, according to Yunzheng's understanding, there were catapults during the Three Kingdoms period, but they were all catapults. They were effective against small and flimsy buildings, but they were not powerful enough to deal with city walls. If you can use catapults, they are easy to obtain.
Oil or high-purity wine will be more effective. A strategy often used in ancient times was fire attack. Fire may not kill many enemy troops, but it can cause huge confusion for the enemy. In the Battle of Chibi, Soochow used 30,000 troops to fight Cao Cao's three
An army of 400,000 people achieved the goal of defeating many with less just because they used fire attacks!
He felt that fire was the best weapon before the emergence of powerful gunpowder weapons! Zhuge Liang also used the strategy of burning the city, but instead of burning the fire on the city wall, he asked the soldiers to pile a large amount of dry firewood under the city.
, and then set fire to the city, which will greatly reduce the effect. Although it is extremely hot and smoky above the city, after all, there is a distance between the city and the city, so the effect will not be very good. If the fire is directly burned to the enemy's city wall
Above, the effect will be better. After all, no matter how brave the soldiers are, they can't stand in the fire and shoot arrows or throw stones below to block the enemy attacking the city!
Of course, the side defending the city can also be prepared, and there will often be a special "fire brigade". But Yun Zheng feels that to deal with things like sulfur, straw, etc., maybe water can be thrown out, but fires like oil and alcohol cannot be extinguished by water.
It's impossible to extinguish
Sometimes a war often involves hundreds of thousands of soldiers and consumes staggering amounts of supplies. In a battle in the Western Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu defeated 700,000 imperial troops. It took a month to move all the supplies left behind the city. The last torch was
The rest that could not be moved were all burned, which shows the consumption of the war and the huge amount of hoarded supplies. Oil and wine may be rare things to ordinary people, but for hundreds of thousands of troops and the strength of the whole country,
It's not something that's hard to get.
When Sun Jian was conquering Jiangxia, the defenders were on the bank shooting arrows into the river. Sun Jian ordered the warship to receive arrows on one side, but the arrows on one side of the warship were so powerful that the ship tilted. Later, Sun Jian ordered the ship to turn around and continue to receive arrows on the other side.
The balance was righted. This may be the source of the later fabricated story about straw boats borrowing arrows.
Think about it, a small arrow can actually deflect a large ship carrying thousands of people. How many arrows are needed? Hundreds of thousands of arrows are often needed. This shows how huge the consumption of war is. A little oil
It's nothing with wine.
The burning water of oil and wine is difficult to extinguish. If hundreds or thousands of these large urns are dropped on the enemy's city, the effect will be spectacular. Today's sieges use rockets, but the lethality and scattering of rockets
The area is not big at all, so it can only deal with one point, but if it cannot deal with one side, the effect will be greatly reduced.
If the jars containing oil and wine are broken, what will be the effect of lighting a fire? Anyone with common sense should know that a large area on the ground will be on fire at once, and it is not easy to put it out.
A type of bomb often used in American wars in later generations was napalm. It was also based on this principle. It was not filled with explosives, but solidified gasoline. Once it hit the ground and exploded, it would burn a large area covering hundreds of square meters.
There is a sea of fire inside, and all living things will be burned to death. The lethality is amazing
In ancient times, using a large vat to load oil or wine, could it be used to make the original incendiary bombs? Although the effect is much worse, the principle is the same! Besides, the real function of fire attack is not to kill the enemy, but to injure the enemy.
If the enemy is in chaos in the middle, it can create opportunities for the attackers. When the enemies on the top of the city are in chaos and command fails, the attackers and defenders can seize the opportunity and use other methods to seize the siege, whether it is to use ladders to climb the city, or
No matter if you hit the enemy's city gate, the losses and resistance you suffer will be minimized!
In his "Infantry War Order", Cao Cao once said that if you are not prepared when attacking a city, but let the soldiers use ropes and ladders to attack the city, then it is the biggest crime against the soldiers. In fact, Yun Zheng
I feel that there is no truly impenetrable fortress in the world. As long as adequate preparations are made before the attack and more good methods are adopted, the attacker's losses will be greatly reduced! His siege method is of course just an idea, but he
I feel that if there is a chance to test it during the siege, at least there will be no harm. If it can be successfully captured, of course it would be best. If not, can't we think of other ways? We just lost hundreds of jars of wine and oil.
It's better than spending the lives of thousands of soldiers to blindly attack the city.
------------------------------------- Just after noon, Ying Yangwei arrived at Mirror City
On the city tower, the rebel generals have also rushed to the top of the city tower to check the situation.
"The characters above are actually Chinese characters... These people are wearing red shirts. Could they be the Wei army?" A rebel general murmured to himself. He was originally a general of the imperial court. After all, he had seen it before because he was dissatisfied with Qing Dasheng and surrendered to the enemy.
People in the world immediately become suspicious when they see the red banner with Chinese characters.
"Mr. Park, didn't you have a good rest last night? Wei Jun? Are you talking about the Wei Jun of the Celestial Dynasty? Haha, they are far away in Haixi, how could they suddenly appear here?" The general curled his lips and laughed.
The one next to him reminded him: "The Northern Army of the Wei Dynasty that defeated the two generals of Sui Yi and Suo Yi is no longer in the west of Haihai, but in the east of our Haidong."
The general waved his hand: "Even that person named Xu is in North Pyongan Province, far away from our North Hamgyong Province. How could he suddenly appear here? Are the people between us and them all dead?
No one dared to persuade them any more, and one person suddenly said: "General, please look, the enemy troops below the city seem to be planning to attack the city!"
Everyone was surprised. Twenty thousand people were planning to attack the city?
The general laughed loudly: "Is the leader of the army downstairs a fool? I have 120,000 troops in the city, and he only has 20,000 weak soldiers. It's rare that I don't attack him, but he actually turns around and wants to attack me.
?You really don’t know how to live or die! Jin Jiajue, you lead the three men under your command out of the city to fight. You must defeat the enemy in one fell swoop and let them know how powerful they are!"
Jin Jiajue was slightly uneasy. Although the number of enemy troops under the city was small, their momentum was amazing. Not only the momentum, but also their discipline made people feel inexplicably frightened. The entire team was strict and orderly, and the people standing in line were the standard.
Standing in a standard position, some people behind are busy with something, and it looks like they are preparing something.
After seeing that those people behind were just pushing out eight-door cars that were not particularly big, Jin Jiajue felt a little relieved. He thought that their siege equipment was so scarce. Even if they were really a strong army, I could still run back if I couldn't win.
When the time comes, what can they do to themselves relying on the fortified city?
When the general saw that Jin Jiajue didn't react for a long time after his words came out, he couldn't help but feel angry and cursed: "Why, Jin Jiajue, don't you have the guts to go to war?"
