Chapter 443 Under the heavy reward, there must be a brave man
No one knew where Xiang Yan heard the news, so he searched in Qu Yuan's old mansion and finally found the original drawing of the trebuchet.
So, Xiang Yan quickly ordered his men to build it secretly, preparing to use it when necessary. Finally, when the Qin army crossed the river, Xiang Yan used this weapon. Hundreds of trebuchets suddenly launched at the same time, and countless sharp stones were fired.
Like dark clouds, they hit the Qin army.
This battle seriously damaged the morale of the Qin army. In addition, Changping Jun stabbed the Qin army in the back, causing the 200,000 Qin army to be completely defeated. General Li Xin led the remaining army to escape.
That's right, he just escaped. Li Xin in this era did not commit suicide because of his defeat.
Later, Wang Jian, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, who was also his disciple, led an army of 600,000 and carried a trebuchet modified so that it could be launched five hundred steps away, thus wiping out the effective forces of the Chu State.
Finally, the state of Chu was captured.
This shows the power of the catapult at that time.
However, the power of the trebuchet has never been about killing. After all, at this time, force is king, and the trebuchet has no accuracy. In fact, there are not many people who can really hit it.
The greatest use of catapults is to suppress the morale of the enemy troops to assist our own soldiers in siege operations.
Take the Battle of Bianjing in which the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Northern Song Dynasty. Overnight, the Jin Kingdom set up more than 5,000 catapults and launched simultaneous attacks outside the 50-mile-long city wall of Bianjing.
The Jin army fired so many stone bombs that no more stones could be found in the suburbs of Bianjing.
When attacking the city, the moat was first filled up, and then tens of thousands of artillery fire were fired, and then a large number of powerful crossbows were used to defeat the deployment of the defending troops in one fell swoop. Then giant siege vehicles that were as high as the city wall and could accommodate 80 people were dispatched to attack the city.
Start a battle on the city.
You can just imagine that the spectacular launch scene at that time was simply not inferior to the firepower preparations on the scale of modern warfare!
For today's soldiers, what a torture this is, especially when someone is hit by a stone and covered in blood, it makes people feel horrified when they see it.
As for the Han army, because Liu Huiniang was an expert in manufacturing advanced weapons, they also manufactured some trebuchets during this period. Although the number was not very large, less than twenty, but because it was for the defense of the city,
, has the advantage of being condescending.
However, even Liu Huiniang, who was extremely clever and skillful, did not expect that the Yellow Turban Army's trebuchet could actually be thrown three hundred steps away, while the Han Army's trebuchet could only survive within two hundred steps.
Therefore, the Han army's trebuchet troops not only failed to cause a certain coverage attack on the Yellow Turban Army's trebuchet troops, but instead exposed their own trebuchets, causing a lot of losses.
In addition, the Yellow Turbans had a numerical advantage, so several trebuchets of the Han army were destroyed. Even if the Han army had the advantage of geographical convenience, it could not change the overall situation.
Li Guo, who was commanding the army, saw that his own trebuchet troops had destroyed many Han army trebuchets, and immediately started the second step of the plan.
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"The siege troops are ready, kill!"
Following Li Guo's order, Yellow Turban General Yuan Zongdi commanded 10,000 Yellow Turban troops and began to rush ladder trucks, simple ladders, rams, battering rams and other siege weapons towards the city walls and gates one by one.
Behind these siege troops, there were Jinglan troops ready to move, waiting for the right opportunity to immediately launch an attack.
Li Zicheng's attack on Wuyan City was no longer a day or two. In the past few days, Li Zicheng only led ordinary Yellow Turban troops to participate in the siege.
Those soldiers turned out to be just ordinary Yellow Turban believers. Even if they joined the Yellow Turbans, they had not received many days of training, so their combat effectiveness was naturally a question mark.
However, now that the military situation was urgent, Li Zicheng did not have time to train them properly, so he decided to let them participate in the siege and continue to grow through the baptism of war.
Such a result can be imagined. In just a few days, the Yellow Turban Army lost seven to eight thousand soldiers. However, their deaths were not without any meaning.
Even with Liu Guang's commanding ability, there were still more than a thousand casualties. Of course, what excited Li Zicheng the most was that the moat under Wuyan City was filled in early with the corpses of fallen soldiers.
Although Li Zicheng was saddened by the casualties, he also knew that a general could achieve great results and his bones would be withered, and he would not be able to command an army. As long as he could capture Wuyan City, these losses would be acceptable.
Take today's battle as an example. The filling of the moat directly facilitated the Yellow Turban army's attack.
"Give me the order. Once the Yellow Turban Moth Thieves are one hundred and fifty steps closer to the salt-free city, immediately let the trebuchet troops attack. When they are close to a hundred steps, let the crossbowmen attack. If you are close by, prepare rolling logs and thunder stones to attack."
Facing the Yellow Turban Army's attack, Liu Guang's face remained calm and composed, and he immediately issued one order after another.
Siege warfare is always the most brutal.
When the Yellow Turban Army approached the city wall, still about 150 steps away, the trebuchets on the city wall immediately began to show their power, and the Yellow Turban Army raised their shields to defend themselves, relying on their numerical advantage to barely block it.
But when the Yellow Turban Army climbed the city wall, the Han archers on the wall who had been preparing for a long time fired thousands of arrows, killing many Yellow Turban Army soldiers in an instant.
It can be said that the Yellow Turban Army lost nearly a thousand people before they could prepare ladder trucks and other siege weapons. For a time, countless Yellow Turban soldiers roared in pain or wailed unwillingly.
However, the sacrifice of the Yellow Turban Army was not in vain. After suffering a certain number of casualties, the Yellow Turban Army, led by Yuan Zongdi and other generals, finally reached the city wall. After the ladder truck was set up, they immediately launched an attack.
city.
Ladder trucks are not cheap at all, so Li Zicheng only has a few of them, so most of them use simple ladders to attack.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Naturally, the Han army had a way to deal with this kind of ladder, which was to push the pole specifically for the simple ladder. Under the push of the pole-pushing soldiers, the simple ladder
Pushed directly.
The Yellow Turbans who were climbing up were suddenly hit by disaster. Even if they wanted to run down, they had no chance, so they were pushed down by the pushing pole while screaming, turning into puddles of flesh.
In addition to these, they used rolling wood and rocks in close combat to hit the Yellow Turban Army hard.
As for the ladder truck, the Han army was not helpless. They immediately prepared kerosene and poured it on the ladder truck. Then the archers lit rockets and fired at the ladder truck.
In an instant, the ladder truck caught fire, and some unlucky Yellow Turban soldiers were burned alive on the ladder. There was a strange smell of meat in the air.
But even so, the Yellow Turban Army still did not fear. Under the personal attack of Yuan Zongdi and other generals, the morale of the Yellow Turban Army soared, and they attacked the city wall one after another.
"Go down with the order and prepare the golden juice." Liu Guang immediately ordered his men to convey his orders to various ministries.
[Ding dong, since there are more than four thunder generals on the city wall, the effect 3 of the combo skill 'Thunder Generals to Destroy Demons' is activated to destroy bandits. When fighting against peasant rebels or bandits, if one of the thunder generals is among them,
If a member of the army serves as the general, his command value will be increased by two points. If a person other than a thunder general serves as the commander, his command value will be increased by one point;
The current leader of the Han army is Liu Guang, who is one of the generals of the Lei Department. Therefore, Liu Guang's commander is 2, and his basic commander is 93 (2). The current commander has been raised to 95;
When Liu Guang was first born, he only had 91 basic commander points, but in these years, he has been fighting on the battlefield with generals such as Guo Wei, Wang Lin, and Chai Rong.
Under this strong pressure, Liu Guang's ability doubled and improved. Of course, this is also because his ability was originally at a medium level, so it has risen so fast in these years.
No wonder that with Liu Guang's strength, he can actually fight with Guo Wei. I'm afraid this is the confidence Lei Jiang Dangmo gave him. After all, the increase in command by two points is already quite big.
As for his charming attributes, it is probably the blessing of his clan status from the Han Dynasty that has reached such a level.
Liu Guang originally didn't want to take out the golden juice, which was inconsistent with Confucian views, but seeing that the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was not affected at all, but was getting higher and higher, Liu Guang had to take out the thing.
In the original history, gold juice was only used on the battlefield in the Tang Dynasty, but in this era, as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, Geng Gong, the nephew of General Jianwei Geng Yan, used this thing in the battle to defend Shule City.
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However, precisely because of this, Geng Gong left a handle in the hands of his political opponents. The cavalry general Ma Fang used this handle to unite some Confucian scholars to impeach Geng Gong because he did not get along with Geng Gong. Geng Gong was convicted and dismissed from office.
Deported to his place of origin and died at home.
Because of this, biochemical weapons like golden juice, which violated Confucian values, did not appear on the battlefield. It was not until the Battle of Yanmen Pass that Wang Chong used it again, causing great losses to the Xianbei army.
It can be said that if Wang Chong had not dared to use biochemical weapons such as golden juice for the safety of Yanmen Pass, Yanmen Pass would have been lost from the hands of the Han army a few days ago before Wang Yu's reinforcements arrived.
Unlike Geng Gong of that era, the current Eastern Han Dynasty was already a sick tiger, and there was no punishment at all for Wang Chong who had his back against the towering tree of the Wang family.
Therefore, as soon as this example started, in every city defense battle, the city defenders would use golden juice to deal with the enemy.
As a member of the Han clan, Liu Guang originally didn't want to use this thing. After all, it had a bad reputation. However, under the persuasion of Yun Wei, the father of Yun Tianbiao, he still accepted the suggestion.
Moreover, under the advice of his daughter Liu Huiniang, Liu Guang strengthened the gold juice. He mixed gold water boiled with some metals into boiled feces and urine. Its power was several times greater than ordinary gold juice.
Because the heat of this golden juice is so high that a weak person can be scalded to death directly. Moreover, even if he is lucky enough to survive, he will be infected through the wound. If the medical skills have not reached a certain level, it will not be possible at all.
Treatment.
Besides, even if there are people with outstanding medical skills in the Yellow Turban Army, how many people infected by this infection can be saved by just a few doctors with great medical skills.
Moreover, this thing can ignore the armor defense of the Yellow Turban Army soldiers. After all, this thing is pervasive. Even if some generals are highly skilled in martial arts and can avoid the golden juice, they cannot hide forever.
As long as this golden juice enters the general's armor, it will be burned and corroded slowly.
Under Jin Zhi's attack, even fierce generals such as Yuan Zongdi did not dare to go up easily. They could only command among the rebels and let the Yellow Turban soldiers fight hard.
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Yellow Turban Army Central Military Direction.
Li Zicheng looked at the battle situation at the east gate from a distance without any expression on his face. Although the Yellow Turban army's siege situation so far had not met his requirements, he was not worried at all.
Because the real fierce battle has just begun.
As a party attacking the city, if you don't want to pay a heavy price, it is simply a fantasy to want to capture the last strong city of Dongping Kingdom.
Because throughout the ages, any army that attacks a city may not be able to capture the other side's city, even if it suffers huge casualties, or even achieves corresponding results.
No matter how weak the Han army on the city wall was, there were only about 20,000 to 30,000 troops. Even if their morale was weakened, they were not sticky after all. Li Zicheng did not think that they could take Wuyan City without a single blow.
To put it bluntly, the most indispensable thing among today's Yellow Turban Army is numbers. Every time they suffer heavy losses, they will be replenished on a large scale from the rear.
The current casualties of the Yellow Turban Army are far from reaching the bottom line of casualties in Li Zicheng's heart.
However, what the Yellow Turban Army lacks most now is time. In order to pull out the nail in front of him as soon as possible, Li Zicheng immediately issued an order to encourage the entire army.
"Now hereby give me an order. Anyone who beheads the first-level leader of the Han army will be rewarded with five thousand coins. Anyone who beheads the first-level captain of the Han army will be rewarded with one acre of fertile land. Anyone who beheads the first-level commander of the Han army will be rewarded with two acres of fertile land.
baht money;
"Whoever kills the Han army's first-level uncle will be rewarded with five acres of fertile land and thirty guan of five baht coins. Anyone who kills the Han army's garrison general of the first level will be rewarded with five acres of fertile land and fifty guan of five baht coins. If he kills the Han army's Qu Junhou,
The superior will be rewarded with ten acres of fertile land and three hundred guan of five baht coins. If he is the first to ascend, he will be rewarded with one hundred gold coins, one hundred acres of fertile land, and be promoted to three levels."
As Li Zicheng issued this order, the eyes of all the Yellow Turban Army instantly changed. It was the desire for money and the passion for fertile land.
Even Sun Wanzhan, Ma Jinzhong and other Qu Commanders' eyes moved slightly after hearing this reward. Although they looked down on those small-head rewards, they still had great ideas about being promoted to the third level.