Chapter three hundred and eighty fourth unusual taste
Liu Ling's letter, a few words, almost made Pei Zhan's lungs explode.
It stands to reason that Liu Ling is in Huazhou at this time, which is no less than a thousand miles away from Jizhou. The Ding'an Army's siege of Jizhou is a lively fight, so there is no need for Liu Ling to write a letter to provoke Pei Zhan. If Pei Zhan is provoked, Pei Zhan will abandon Jizhou.
If he ignored it and sent his 400,000 troops back south, maybe Liu Ling would have to avoid it for the time being? In fact, this is not the case. Although Liu Ling and Pei Zhan have never met, Liu Ling has read the detailed information about Pei Zhan no less than three times.
Already.
Although there will inevitably be deviations when analyzing a person's character literally, Liu Ling can still guess Pei Zhan's psychology with some confidence. Pei Zhan has been besieging Jizhou for nearly three months, not to mention how much money has been spent
In terms of money and food, tens of thousands of soldiers have been killed in the battle. If Pei Zhan does not recover this huge loss, he will not give up. Furthermore, if Jizhou is leveled, the north will be leveled. If the German army is destroyed, the north will be settled.
Zhan Zhan had already seen the dawn of victory, so how could he be willing to give up the great victory he was about to achieve and lead his army back south?
Of course, this is based on the stability of the rear. Now the Han army is in chaos behind the Ding'an Army, and the Ding'an Army's rear is unstable. Pei Zhan is an excellent commander. It is not difficult to see from the Han army's attack route.
The Han army wants to isolate Kaifeng. Weizhou and Huazhou north of the Dahe River have been occupied by the Han army. The area controlled by the Han army cannot be more than 200 miles south of Kaifeng. If the Han army waits for the Han army to come from the Qing Dynasty and Hebei
When the circle came back, Kaifeng was besieged on all sides. Since Pei Zhan could determine the intentions of the Han army, how could he stay in the north with peace of mind?
Compared with Kaifeng and Jizhou, the former is undoubtedly much more important. As the capital of the Great Zhou Dynasty, Kaifeng's important position is unquestionable. Whoever occupies Kaifeng has obtained the legitimacy of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Yue Yue, who leads the army and guards on the left and right,
Le and Mihuang were watching eagerly from one side, always ready to take Pei Zhan's position. As long as these two people occupied Kaifeng, Pei Zhan would no longer have his biggest support.
Of course, if Liu Ling's Han army occupied Kaifeng, public opinion would declare that the Great Zhou Dynasty had been destroyed.
This was something Pei Zhan would not allow. Liu Ling concluded that although Pei Zhan wanted Jizhou, he wanted to keep Kaifeng even more. He wrote this letter not to stimulate Pei Zhan to return south as soon as possible, but to stimulate Pei Zhan to attack fiercely.
Jizhou!
Stirred by Liu Ling's letter, Pei Zhan must capture Jizhou. This is the pride and integrity of a soldier. If he is frightened by Liu Ling's letter and runs back, then Pei Zhan will lose face.
Where to put it? Pei Zhan was so angry that he ordered the army to attack Jizhou. He divided his troops into 100,000 troops and led General Qu Sheng to return to Kaifeng to aid Kaifeng. He personally went into battle to supervise the battle and tried to conquer Jizhou as soon as possible.
Dividing the troops is the outcome Liu Ling wants.
Four hundred thousand people would choke if they swallowed it in one bite.
Pei Zhan personally stood in front of the formation to supervise the battle, and sent general Jiang Yongsheng to lead 50,000 troops to attack Jizhou City in turns. Stone-trebuchets, siege hammers, and even arrow towers more than ten meters high, and almost all available engineering equipment were used.
It is worth mentioning that this arrow tower was Pang Zhun’s idea. The so-called arrow tower is a movable arrow tower more than ten meters high. Dozens of archers can stand on the arrow tower. In this way, standing
The archers on the arrow towers can shoot at the German archers defending the city without falling behind. A dozen arrow towers can suppress the soldiers defending the city to a certain extent.
At the same time, the arrow tower is also equipped with a ladder. Once the arrow tower is pushed close to the city wall, the ladder can be set up on the city wall, and the soldiers on the arrow tower can step on the ladder to attack the city. Although this kind of siege equipment is huge,
It is bulky, but it is much more effective than a ladder. Even if a ladder is set up on the top of the city, it can easily be overthrown by the defending soldiers. If the soldiers attacking the city climb the arrow tower first and then climb to the top of the city, the casualties will be much smaller.
This arrow tower is not Pang Zhun's invention, and it also has certain limitations. Without huge manpower support, it is impossible to build or propel such a huge siege equipment. This limitation does not exist in the Ding'an Army, because the Ding'an Army has many people.
!An army of 400,000 is so powerful.
As the sky dimmed, the Ding'an Army launched a frantic offensive against Jizhou. There were more than a dozen arrow towers, each of which required seven to eight hundred soldiers to push. As the arrow towers gradually approached, the ballistas on the city wall also began to move.
The heavy crossbow started to show its power. The huge crossbow arrows fired by the heavy crossbow were three meters long and more than ten centimeters thick. Its impact power was almost equivalent to that of a cannonball. Of course, it was a cannonball that would not explode. Even so, like this
Although the huge attack power cannot destroy the arrow tower with one or two arrows, if you concentrate your strength on the attack, you can still destroy the arrow tower. You must know that thick and solid city gates can be penetrated by heavy crossbows.
It's just that the city gate is dead and will not move, but the arrow tower is alive. Moreover, the arrow tower is made of logs, and the stress-bearing area is much smaller than that of the city gate. Although the heavy crossbow is amazingly powerful, most of it comes from the arrow tower.
He got through the gap. Seeing that the effect of the attack aimed at the arrow tower was minimal, the German soldiers guarding the city changed their strategy. They aimed their heavy crossbows at the archers on the arrow tower, trying to kill a large number of people on it.
A heavy crossbow arrow can easily pierce five or six soldiers into candied haws. The terrain above the arrow tower is narrow and dozens of archers are already crowded. A heavy crossbow arrow can pierce several soldiers to death and hit the arrow.
Go under the tower.
The Ding'an Army had sufficient troops, so although the archers on the arrow tower suffered heavy casualties, they had enough reserve troops to board the arrow tower to replenish their troops. When the arrow tower approached about 150 steps from the city wall, operations on the city wall
The German soldiers who carried heavy crossbows became the key target of the archers on the arrow tower. For the Ding'an Army, among the long-range weapons, the heavy crossbows did the most damage to them. Because they were bulky, inefficient and difficult to install on the city wall, the defenders
The urban side often rarely uses trebuchets.
The trebuchet is very powerful, looks very shocking, and can give the enemy a big psychological blow. However, it also has one of the biggest disadvantages, which is that it is bulky, heavy, and inconvenient to transport. Zhou Jun now uses
The trebuchets of the Han army are still operated by humans, with short range and low hit rate. This is incomparable with the improved trebuchets used by Liu Ling's Han army. The Han army's trebuchets are medium-gravity projectiles instead of
With manpower, the range can reach more than 500 meters. Moreover, the Han army ejected powerful gunpowder packets, and their lethality to soldiers was far beyond what those large rocks could compare to.
The artillery in the black chess game of Chinese chess is simply called artillery, which is actually a catapult. It was a weapon used to siege cities in ancient times, and could be regarded as a nuclear weapon at that time. The Song Dynasty's military book "Wu Jing Zong Yao" said, "Every artillery is a sharp weapon in the army.
"It is also used by both offensive and defensive divisions." As early as the Zhou Dynasty of our country, trebuchets have been used on the battlefield. The first large-scale application was at the end of the Warring States Period, when Qin general Li Xin led 200,000 Qin troops to attack Chu.
The famous general Xiang Yan secretly assembled catapults and launched a sudden attack when the Qin army was crossing the river. The Qin army was immediately defeated. In the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao also used the so-called thunderbolt chariots to deal with Yuan Shao's bow and arrow troops in the Battle of Guandu (because of the time when they were fired).
(sounding like thunder, hence the name), which played a role in promoting the war situation. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Jin army went south to attack Bianjing. Thousands of catapults were assembled under the city overnight, collecting stones and rocks around Tokyo City, and then launched
The attack destroyed the deployment of the defending army. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Mongolia attacked the Song Dynasty. After being blocked in Hezhou, Sichuan, Kublai Khan concentrated his forces to attack Xiangyang. Because Xiangyang city was strong and the moat was wide, Mongolia obtained the so-called "
Back to the artillery, this device does not require manual operation and is very safe. It can fire two to three hundred kilograms of stones and has a long range of up to 500 meters. At that time, the first shot destroyed a corner of the watchtower in Xiangyang City, which greatly improved the morale of the Xiangyang defenders.
After a great defeat, they were forced to surrender in Kaicheng.
The trebuchet improved by Liu Ling was actually based on the so-called return cannon in Arabia.
The Ding'an Army was equipped with trebuchets that required a lot of manpower to operate. Although the accuracy and range were lower, they were better than others. The Ding'an Army besieged Jizhou and built no less than 500 trebuchets before attacking.
Like the rain of stones from the sky, it caused huge damage to the defenders on the Jizhou city wall. Fortunately, the defenders installed the heavy crossbows in the crenels, and the trebuchets did not have a great impact on the heavy crossbows.
When the arrow tower gradually approached the city wall, the Ding'an Army's catapults stopped bombarding. The suffocated Chengdu Army archers began to show off their power, and in conjunction with heavy crossbows, they attacked the attacking soldiers and the soldiers on the arrow tower.
The archers launched a full-scale attack. Dense arrows came and went in mid-air, and many arrows even collided together in mid-air, falling down before they could fly to where they should be.
The arrows were so dense that they covered the sky and the sun. When the soldiers raised their heads, they didn't even feel the glare of the sun.
Within a hundred steps, the Ding'an army attacking the city paid an extremely heavy price. After thousands of casualties, the team finally approached the city wall. One by one, siege ladders were erected, with horizontal swords in their mouths.
The soldiers of the Ding'an Army began to climb up the city wall desperately. The defenders on the city wall used scratching hooks to push the ladder down. The reason why they used this kind of thing to push the ladder was because the ladder was too high and could not be pushed down by hand.
Going down.
At the same time, the powerful wolf fangs were lowered again and again, each time smashing several or even a dozen people into pulp. The boiling dung juice was also poured down pot after pot, destroying Ding'an under the city wall.
The soldiers were so burned that they howled like ghosts. Someone went to help the fallen robe and pulled hard, but a layer of skin came off.
The war was so cruel, and people were bleeding to death at every step.
The young and strong people of Jizhou also climbed to the top of the city to help defend the city. They had no weapons, no bows and arrows, but they could move the stones. The people lifted the stones high, and then fiercely aimed at the soldiers under the city wall.
Smash it down. A heavy stone of dozens of kilograms dropped from a height of more than ten meters can smash a person's head into pieces like a watermelon. However, ordinary people without armor protection are often hit by arrows just after they lift the stone.
Both sides paid a heavy price, but although the Ding'an Army rushed to the city, it was still difficult to get on top of the city. The city gate of Jizhou had been blocked, and no matter how hard the battering ram hit it, it could not open the city gate.
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For a while, there was a deadlock again.
Zhu Sanqi stood in the city gate tower and looked at the tragic scene calmly. His heart no longer had the excitement he had at the beginning of the war. He had experienced such a fierce attack by Zhou Jun in the past two months.
More than once? But he was very sensitive, and he smelled a different smell from this attack. In the past, if the casualties were really huge, the Ding'an Army would withdraw, but this time, those screaming soldiers seemed to
It was as if he was possessed by something, and he was not afraid of death at all. Zhu Sanqi frowned, constantly speculating in his mind about the unusual performance of the Ding'an Army.
Suddenly, he thought of something, something beneficial to Cheng Dejun, and then a smile appeared on his lips.
There must be something wrong with the Ding'an Army's rear, otherwise Pei Zhan wouldn't be so desperate! (To be continued)
