"What? As soon as your vanguard army arrived, you defeated me for a while? You're that idiot, and you even folded yourself in... What's the use of you?" Zhang Xun said angrily in the commander's tent.
Li Feng and Liang Gang, who had their arms bandaged, both lowered their heads in shame.
"Three thousand cavalry, elite cavalry...how did they turn into a bunch of losers in your hands?" Zhang Xun cursed angrily.
Li Feng and Liang Gang were also a little unconvinced, and did not believe that Zhang Xun could do better. However, the handle was in his hands at this time, and they did not dare to refute. Otherwise, if they were killed to sacrifice the flag, where would they be able to reason with?
"Except for a small number of old Bingzhou soldiers in Qu'a City, the others should be newly trained soldiers. How can a head-on confrontation cause you so much damage?" Zhang Xun asked with a somewhat critical look after he had finished scolding.
Liang Gang heard this and immediately said: "General! That's not the case. We were mainly caught off guard by Lu Bu's Bingzhou Cavalry..."
Facing Zhang Xun's warning look, Liang Gang quickly continued to explain: "General, this is not an excuse... I have observed the defenders in Qu'a City. They are indeed just new soldiers. Even when they were shooting arrows from a high position, they used very good angles."
Poor, the rate of fire is also terrible!"
"Oh? So, the only ones worthy of a fight are those thousand Bingzhou Cavalry?" Zhang Xun's eyes lit up when he heard this.
At this time, Zhang Xun's "80,000-strong army" had arrived. Of course... it was actually just over 20,000, and they were camped three miles away from Qu'acheng.
After all, with such a huge gap in strength, Zhang Xun could not see the opponent having any chance of winning without betting on a night attack.
And when he learned that there were indeed recruits in Qu'a City, Zhang Xun felt even more relieved - his goal was to capture Qu'a faster!
After the Chinese army was in position, they rested outside the city for one night. Early the next morning, Zhang Xun built a high platform outside the city, personally called the formation and directed the siege.
"Well? What are those curtains on the city tower blocking?" Zhang Xun asked, looking at the stacks of mysterious objects covered with gray cloth on the city wall.
"This... I didn't notice it before, maybe it was a bluff?" Liang Gang said in surprise.
It's no wonder that he didn't pay attention. When he saw Zhang Xun's Chinese army arriving, Bai Tucai ordered people to install the defensive equipment overnight - standardized and classified production, making assembly and transportation very convenient.
Zhang Xun gave Liang Gang a dissatisfied look, and then sent him to lead the cavalry. On the high platform, he directed the flag bearers and drummers.
On the battlefield, it is the officers who are leading groups of troops, watching the flags and listening to the drums, to understand the commander-in-chief's orders, and then convey them to the lower-level officers below.
Zhang Xun, who is on the command stage, has changed drastically in his imagination, as if he has become a famous general and commander. He has the feeling that he can defeat powerful enemies with just a few clicks while sitting firmly in the military tent!
The confrontation between the two armies is not a group fight. It is not feasible to expect a swarm of swarms to rush forward and beat the master to death with random punches, especially now that the concept of military formation has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Even if you are attacking a city, you cannot attack it in a swarm - Zhang Xun has also read the art of war!
"It's the Yanyue Formation." Chen Gong said on the tower.
At this time, Bai Tu also came to the city to supervise the battle. Tai Shici and other guards were standing by. Chen Gong was in the guards and saw someone he looked familiar... but he didn't say much or think about anything. He just watched.
Follow the changes in Zhang Xun's military formation below.
I saw Zhang Xun's military formation. Each team tended to form a line. When it moved, it seemed to be pulled by an invisible whirlpool, operating clockwise. The main body of the six-team army formation approached in the shape of a crescent, or a slanting moon.
, the military front on the west right wing was stronger, and it seemed that they wanted to use the west side of the tower as a breakthrough.
The part close to the city gate happens to be the depression of the crescent moon. It seems that the defense is weak, and the commander-in-chief's command platform is also here, but in fact it is the most dangerous part of the Yanyue Formation.
Perhaps Zhang Xun was still hoping that Lu Bu could lead his troops to charge so that he could perform the Tengu Moon Eclipse Style - this was the military formation change he was most familiar with.
However, Lu Bu obviously had no intention of letting him get what he wanted, and Qu Acheng was determined to defend...
The right-wing army on the west side was close to the city wall in a blink of an eye. After raising its shield and being shot twice by the defenders on the city, the third column of military formations below also entered the shooting range. Under the cover of the first and second columns, it began to move from bottom to top.
Shoot the arrow!
Zhang Xun was excited as he watched from the high platform. The opponent's defenders were really new recruits. With such a huge advantage as the city wall, they actually couldn't gain an absolute advantage in the exchange of fire?
In the blink of an eye, the leading column on the right wing has arrived at the west side of the city wall. The soldiers holding shields spread out to some "holes", and only heard "swish, swish, swish" - dozens of flying claws and flying hooks, accompanied by the sound of breaking through the air, were being fired.
Elite soldiers and strong men were thrown onto the tower and hooked on the wall.
Then groups of soldiers began to climb up the rope...
"You are really being underestimated. You don't even build siege equipment, but you just want to attack by attacking on the city wall?" Chen Gong said with a mixture of helplessness and disdain.
Basic ladders have been around since the Warring States Period. Usually during sieges, the attackers would cut down wood and use local materials to build siege equipment.
Generally, only when the advantage is huge, or when the defenders have no morale and low fighting spirit, they will use such a primitive ant attack - purely climbing the wall with ropes!
However, to a certain extent, Zhang Xun's judgment is correct.
Due to the number of people and poor training in bows and arrows, the defenders were directly suppressed from a distance. Even in comparison, the hundreds of old soldiers in Qu'a were more effective. They were able to pull off the flying hook and pour tung oil to burn the rope.
, are all lower than the speed at which the opponent can throw the hook again!
At the beginning, Bai Tu still didn't quite understand why the people who defended the city from a high position were attacked. Wouldn't it be too easy to knock them down halfway?
However, when he was really there, Bai Tu realized that it was not that simple.
The battle between two armies is a competition of large numbers. It is similar to a single-person battle, but also completely different!
When the defender's troops are weak, as is the case with the Qu'a defenders now, and they are suppressed and have no time to stop the advance troops below from coming up, although they can still continue to kill the enemy troops who are climbing up, overall,
Said that the other party kept climbing far away, reaching new heights, getting closer and closer to the tower!
Especially on the other half of the east left wing, the weaker "Crescent Moon" has also attacked the other side of the city wall, further weakening the defenders. In less than half an hour, there are already "people" who are about to climb up, but they are just about to climb up.
The people who came up were constantly being replaced. If one died, someone else would immediately come up to replace him.
Although the attacking side is also damaged at this time, it has always been at an advantage, so its morale is high. This is what is most needed when fighting with ants. Otherwise, once they become timid, no one will dare to climb up. Even if they just hesitate for a while, they will be defeated.
Previous results have been swallowed up, so morale and team supervision are very important.
Seeing that the enemy was about to come up, Bai Tu and Chen Gong looked at each other and nodded. Chen Gong sent an order: "City defense equipment team, start! Sweep the enemy troops indiscriminately!"
Zhang Xun, who was making a concave shape to make himself look calmer and fit the temperament of a famous general and marshal, suddenly saw that the big guys on the tower who were originally covered with curtains now revealed their true faces...