As he was talking, the sound of drums outside the city suddenly became louder, and then Zhao Jun shouted that the killing general was coming up.
Yang Ting and others were right. This Zhao army with 20,000 troops was indeed an elite division.
Especially among them was a group of Northland soldiers numbering 5,000 people.
The so-called northern soldiers are soldiers who have been stationed in northern Xinjiang for a long time and followed Li Mu to fight against the Huns.
Li Mu originally confronted Wang Jian's Qin army at Jingxing (located in today's Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province).
After knowing that Yang Duanhe in the south had broken through the Zhao Great Wall and was approaching Handan, he left two of his subordinates to continue the defense, while he led 10,000 men and horses to rush to Handan at night.
Among them, 5,000 people were led by school captain Wang Bai to assist Xuchang in outflanking the rear and regaining the Great Wall.
Wang Bai was so eager to make great achievements that he immediately asked Xuchang for a battle as soon as he arrived at the Great Wall.
"General!"
"The last general is willing to lead the northern troops to break the city!"
"If we can't capture the city gate and welcome the army into the city, the general will come to see you!"
By the way, although Xuchang is not as cunning and cunning as Pang Nuan, he is still a battle-hardened veteran.
He observed the Great Wall carefully.
I saw the flags of the Qin army on the Great Wall were in disarray and in disarray.
I thought to myself, thinking that the Qin army was not well prepared.
If Wang Bai, an elite soldier who has fought many battles, is used to give the Qin army a head-on blow.
The Qin army was probably caught off guard and collapsed.
Immediately, Wang Baizhi agreed to send the five thousand northern soldiers up.
So the first batch of more than 3,000 Zhao troops went up with siege ladders, crash carts and other siege equipment.
The focus of the attack was the gap in the Great Wall that the Qin army failed to fill.
The attacks in other places were only to disperse the Qin army's troops and firepower.
For a moment, the sound of killing was loud, stones, bullets, and arrows were flying everywhere, and the Qin and Zhao armies fought back and forth like bulls in the gap.
But because the Qin army had been prepared long ago, they even set up arrow towers and deployed crossbowmen around the gap.
Therefore, Zhao Jun was often killed after just a few steps into the gap.
The battle situation fell into a stalemate for a while.
On the other side, Shen Bing was still making gestures under Liu Xu's anxious eyes, and occasionally used the long bamboo in his hand to take a look at the gap.
After finishing, Shen Bing waved the flag and shouted to the catapult in the rear:
"Go forward, go forward!"
"Hey, yes! Yes! Let's go, let's go..."
"Straighten the angle!"
"One here, one here...point the cannon tips in a straight line!"
At this time LiuXu finally figured out the point.
"Do you want to use a trebuchet to respond to the enemy?"
"But……"
Liu Xu looked worriedly at the direction of the gap. The enemy and we were fighting hand to hand there, with swords and shields indistinguishable from each other.
In this case, the trebuchet usually fails to function.
This is partly because the accuracy of the trebuchet is low, and the flying stone bullets can easily injure one's own people.
On the other hand, because the gap is only about ten steps wide, it is difficult for the trebuchet to accurately shoot the stone bullet through the gap.
And if the stone bullet cannot be shot through the gap, it will inevitably hit the city wall and accidentally damage one's own side.
Looking at Liu Ting's doubtful eyes, Shen Bing explained while giving instructions:
"Do you know what the biggest advantage of the new trebuchet is?"
"It's just that its accuracy is much higher than the old trebuchet."
"In addition, its trajectory can also be calculated..."
Liu Ting stared at Shen Bing in disbelief with her eyes widened.
"Trajectory? Calculation?"
"You mean you can calculate the impact point of the stone bullet?"
"This...this is impossible!"
Shen Bing replied:
"It's really impossible to calculate the precise landing point."
"But it's not difficult to figure it out."
"In addition, I arranged these trebuchets in a fan shape to target the gap."
"When the stone bullets they shoot pass through the gap, they will form a fan-shaped coverage on the other side!"
"Understand?"
Liu Xu was stunned for a moment as he listened, then shook his head like a rattle and replied seriously: "I don't understand!"
Shen Bing waved his hand indifferently:
"You don't need to understand."
"All you need to know is that the trebuchet can seal the gap."
LiuXu is not self-confident, but he also has a bit of excitement and expectation.
"Is this true?"
"Can the trebuchet seal the gap?"
"Don't try to bully me. There is no such thing as joking in the army..."
Shen Bing was speechless for a moment.
This is related to his own wealth and life, so how could Shen Bing be "joking".
Before that, he even tried firing trebuchets with different weights, and then calculated based on the test firing data.
However, Shen Bing was too lazy to explain to Liu Xu any more, and the explanation didn't make sense.
He just waved his hand and said: "You will know after you try it. It will be ready in just one stick of incense!"
At this time, the battlefield situation suddenly changed.
Zhao Jun is indeed an elite soldier who has fought in hundreds of battles. They cooperate with each other and advance step by step:
The shield bearers provided cover in front, the heavy infantry followed closely behind, and behind them were the crossbowmen.
The crossbowmen fired arrows on both sides of the gap to cover the infantry.
The shield bearer held the shield in front and marched slowly in a straight line step by step.
Then he suddenly turned sideways and let the heavy infantry behind him come forward.
These heavy infantrymen were all wearing heavy helmets and holding large axes, heavy hammers and other weapons. They rushed forward and smashed and slashed.
Although the shieldmen of the Qin army fought with shields, these wooden shields and leather shields could not stop the heavy hammers and big axes...
Wooden shields and leather shields used in cold weapon combat are mainly used against light weapons such as bows and arrows, bronze swords, etc.
It is basically ineffective when encountering weapons with inherent weight such as axes and heavy hammers.
The heavy hammer hit hard. Although the shield was not broken, the hand holding the shield was disabled and could only be slaughtered.
The big ax is even more powerful. One blow of the ax can split the shield in half.
So soon the Qin army's formation was broken through by the Zhao army.
Just as the Qin army's shield bearers were about to fill the gap and push back the heavy infantry, the Zhao army's shield bearers blocked them again.
And then the cycle starts over again...
Shen Bing, who was watching the battle from behind, couldn't help but let out a "fuck" when he saw this scene.
Isn't this what modern multi-arms coordinated operations are?
Although it is not like modern sea, land and air coordination, it is a perfect coordination of various infantry.
With such soldiers and tactics, it is no wonder that Li Mu was able to defeat the Huns who were good at riding and shooting in the north.
How could the Qin army withstand such an offensive? After many soldiers fell, they retreated one after another.
Even the crossbowmen on the arrow tower were shot down a lot.
Then Zhao Jun's troops turned around and rushed towards the city gate...
At this critical moment, a group of female soldiers suddenly appeared from Hengli.
It was Yang Ting who led the strong woman into the battle group.
Shen Bing couldn't help but say "uh".
Although I have accepted the reality that there are female soldiers in this era, I still feel a little uncomfortable watching the female soldiers fall one by one in front of Zhao Jun with blood splattered on the spot.
Little did Shen Bing know that he was just not used to it. Yang Ting, who was on the battlefield, was really feeling the pressure of life and death.
Zhao Jun came one after another like a tide, in an endless stream.
Especially the heavy infantrymen wearing heavy helmets, they did not avoid Yang Ting's spear at all.
A heavy hammer hit the handle of the gun, causing Yang Ting's hands to go numb, and the gun almost came out of her hands.
Yang Ting secretly said:
“I’m going to die here on this trip!”
"The Qin army has been defeated in this battle."
"It doesn't matter if I die, but my father is afraid that he will also..."
While it was ringing, suddenly stone bullets flew past overhead, and then a scream came from the other side of the Great Wall.
Even the Zhao army's shield soldiers and heavy infantry were extremely powerful, but they could not withstand the heavy blows from stone bullets.