Chapter two thousand five hundred and nine combat meeting
When the artillery was first put into use, the enemy, whether it was Tubo, Xixia or the grassland, was shocked by the enemy for the first time, especially ordinary soldiers. They even thought it was a punishment from the gods. At the beginning, as long as the Central Plains army fired artillery, even
If there are enemy soldiers, they will kneel down and kowtow, praying to God for forgiveness.
But as the Central Plains army used artillery more and more frequently, the enemy gradually understood that although they were still afraid of artillery, they were no longer as afraid as they were at the beginning. Now they were afraid of artillery entirely because of the huge power of artillery. They were no longer afraid of it.
At the beginning, I was in a state where I didn't even dare to dodge.
And after this long-term attack, the enemy has actually summed up some experience in defending artillery. Just like the current Mengge Tribe Royal Court, when building defense fortifications a few days ago, the Mengge Tribe built many anti-cannon caves.
After the artillery of the Central Plains Army unleashed its power, the grassland soldiers immediately got into the artillery holes. The power of the artillery of the Central Plains Army was greatly reduced. After a whole morning of shelling, there was not much gain.
Later, the Central Plains army directly bombarded the city wall in the hope of breaking through the wall of the Mengge Royal Court which did not look very thick. The earliest city wall of the Mengge Tribe King's Court was indeed not very thick.
The city walls were very crude, but after Meng Ge obtained the Great Khan of the Grasslands, he began to vigorously build the royal court. After obtaining some information about the artillery in the Central Plains, Meng Ge immediately ordered the city walls to be re-reinforced.
Nowadays, although the city wall of Mengge Tribe's royal court is not as good as some of the city walls in the Central Plains, it is still much stronger than before. It is not that easy for the Central Plains army to use artillery to break through the city wall.
As expected, the power of the artillery was not enough to break through the enemy to the city wall. The Central Plains army tried a wave of attacks, but did not achieve much results and had to give up the attack temporarily.
The defenders of the Mengge Court used to be cavalry and were very good at riding and shooting. Although they lost their horses, they did not lose their shooting skills. The attacking army from the Central Plains faced such bow and arrow shooting and suffered too many casualties.
There is no other way but to stop temporarily.
After several days of trying to attack, they did not achieve very good results. The Central Plains army had to rethink its tactics!
The army commander, Qinglong and others all gathered together, and even Zeng Yi took a detour back to participate in this meeting.
"The attack is blocked, do you have any good ideas?"
Everyone looked at each other, and Qinglong said: "It stands to reason that two countries have been conquered, and the army has rich experience in siege. Why is this happening?"
"The situation is different. The most important thing is that the grassland people summed up the experience of the failures of Tubo and Xixia and prepared countermeasures in advance. Moreover, the defense fortifications were specially arranged according to our offensive tactics, so...
."
"What about changing tactics?"
"It's useless... try it. We have tried all the usual tactics, and the opponent is prepared. But for unfamiliar tactics, let alone the effect. Just tactical cooperation cannot achieve the goal in a short time."
Desirable results!”
"Then what should we do? How about...assassination?"
"Assassination and surrender are all, so don't think too much about it. Meng Ge has many super masters. We all attack. The other side will definitely be prepared in advance. After using assassination against the Khitan tribe, I want to attack Meng Ge."
It is basically impossible to use assassination methods!"
"In fact, according to the current situation, the best option is actually to besieged!"
Hearing the words of a general, everyone was stunned. In fact, siege is always the first choice for attacking a city, especially a city with complete defense facilities. Generally speaking, if you want to capture such a capital city, you need several enemy troops.
, it would take several times the enemy's casualties to capture the city.
A siege does not require too many casualties. It will be much easier to wait until the enemy runs out of ammunition and food before attacking the city. Although a siege will cause few casualties, it will take a long time.
After the war between the Central Plains and the Four Kingdoms began, due to various reasons, the Central Plains had to quickly capture Tubo and Xixia, so the Central Plains army had to abandon siege tactics and adopt various other methods to attack the city.
The continuous success also made Zeng Yi and others a little inflated. They always thought about taking over the Mengge Royal Court in a short time, and did not consider siege tactics at all!
But after being reminded by the general, everyone remembered the first tactic of siege. After thinking for a moment, Zeng Yi said: "Maybe siege can really be done!"
We passed through Tubo and Xixia earlier. The main reason for not adopting siege tactics was that the Central Plains fought on multiple fronts and were simply unable to support such a long-time siege tactic. However, it was different when we arrived at the Mengge Court. The Central Plains had successfully captured Xixia and Xixia.
Tibet, and Persia were held back by the players.
On the grassland, the Khitan tribe was abolished, and now only the war with the Mengge tribe is left. The Central Plains is fully capable and has time to carry out siege tactics.
And now most of the grassland territory has been taken over by the Central Plains. In the entire grassland, there is only the royal court of the Mengge tribe, which is still in the flames of war. No matter how big the royal court is, it is not that big compared to the entire grassland territory. Even the Central Plains Dynasty can
While besieging it, other areas of the grassland were being transformed.
"Yes! A siege is totally possible. You must know that the grassland has just experienced a food crisis. Even if Brother Meng has some reserves in advance, he will not reserve too much. There are so many people in the entire royal court who need to eat, and Brother Meng's food is not enough.
We can't hold on for long, wait until he runs out of food and see if he surrenders!"
After a round of discussion, everyone's minds were opened up. Zeng Yi continued: "In fact, we can also speed up its consumption by feigning a wave of attacks every day, and then use artillery to bombard the Mengge Tribe's Wangting City. In this way, it is said to be a siege.
, in fact it won’t take long!”
Huantian also followed: "Yes, yes, you can try a new type of artillery bomb. According to the news from the Jin Yiwei, the imperial court has researched and eliminated a type of incendiary bomb!"
"What, the incendiary bomb has been researched?" Zeng Yi was greatly surprised.
"Yes, it has just been tested, but the effect is not stable yet."
Incendiary bombs have always been a problem that the Central Plains wants to overcome. After the artillery was developed, research began, but it failed repeatedly. The raw material used in incendiary bombs is kerosene. I originally thought it was simple and thought of replacing the gunpowder in the shells with
Kerosene is enough, but after doing this, the first few rounds are fine, but after a few rounds, the artillery barrel heats up, and often the kerosene begins to burn before the shell is fired, and not only the shell can no longer be used,