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The horn sounded.
The first to take action in this battle was the Hanoi soldiers led by Yang Duanhe.
Yang Duanhe was stunned for a moment when he heard the news from Shen Bing, and then sighed:
"Shen Bing is truly a man of heaven, and the Chu army has him taking advantage of everything."
With words in his mouth, he no longer hesitated in his hands, and immediately ordered the soldiers to go into battle while wearing it.
Yang Duanhe's Hanoi soldiers had been preparing outside Shouchun City for a long time, and the siege equipment had been prepared long ago. At this time, Yang Duanhe gave the order and within a short time of tea, the Hanoi soldiers launched their offensive against Shouchun City.
The first is Mai Fireball.
This thing is undoubtedly a siege weapon, especially in the dark night...
Just like the previous battle in Ruyin, it is actually not suitable to attack the city with cold weapons at night because the visibility is too low, which further increases the advantage of the defending side.
But it's different with Mai's fireball.
Fireballs were thrown into the city one by one, and some were even thrown onto the city walls.
Not to mention whether the buildings in the city were set alight to cause riots, the light of the fire could illuminate the city wall and put the Chu army on top of the city in the light, while the Qin army attacking the city was in the dark.
To achieve such an effect, the linen fireball was indispensable, so the fireball lasted for a stick of incense before Yang Duanhe beat the drum and ordered the Qin army to attack the city.
The Qin army shouted loudly and rushed towards the city wall with the siege ladder.
This shocked King Chu Chu in the city. He immediately found Zhang Qi and asked in a panic:
"Why did the Qin army attack the city at this time?"
"Is it possible that the Qin army already knows about our army's breakthrough?"
Zhang Qi replied:
"Please be patient, Your Majesty, this is absolutely impossible."
"In the opinion of my subordinates...the Qin army may have suspected that the pontoon bridge was cut off and the water in the river was greatly reduced, so they attacked the city with suspicion."
The King of Chu felt a little at ease after carrying his cud.
Zhang Qi's statement can be considered reasonable.
After all, the Qin army was not stupid. When they discovered that the pontoon bridge was broken, they also guessed that the Chu army would make a move, so it was possible to attack the city first and disrupt the Chu army's plan.
But Xiang Yan, who rushed to the north of Shouchun City on the other hand, was not so optimistic.
From afar, he saw groups of fireballs piercing the dark night sky in the south of the city heading straight for Shouchun, and the number was daunting.
Xiang Yan couldn't help but frowned when she saw this:
"No, the Qin army may have been prepared."
Chang Pingjun asked puzzledly:
"Why did the General say this?"
"It was the South Camp that attacked the city. With such a huge momentum, doesn't it mean that the main force of the Qin army is in the South Camp and not the North Camp?"
Xiang Yan shook her head and replied:
"According to common sense...if Yang Duanhe discovers that the pontoon bridge is broken, he should immediately order someone to build a pontoon bridge or reinforce Beiying."
"But the Qin army did not reinforce but instead attacked the city."
"This proves that they are confident and their siege aims to contain Shouchun so that they cannot use all their forces to break through."
If Shen Bing hears Xiang Yan's words, he will regret that he should not have been so anxious and let Yang Duanhe attack the city.
Chang Pingjun's expression couldn't help but change, and he said:
"The General's intention is that Yang Duanhe..."
Xiang Yan answered firmly:
"It's not Yang Duanhe, but Shen Bing."
Lord Changping felt the same way, because he was also afraid of Shen Bing.
After hesitating for a moment, Lord Changping asked again:
"So for today's plan..."
Xiang Yan sighed again and said:
"Now the arrow is on the string and it has to be fired."
"At this time, it is only a stick of incense time before we meet with the king to break out of the siege."
"If I send another letter to the king at this time... I'm afraid it will be inappropriate."
This is what Xiang Yan said.
In order to attack the Qin army unprepared, Xiang Yan calculated the time very tightly.
At this time, if you use a carrier pigeon to deliver a letter telling the King of Chu that the plan is cancelled... what if the letter fails to be delivered? Or what if it is delivered to the King of Chu later and has already broken through?
Too much uncertainty may cause the King of Chu to go out of the city alone to fight the enemy.
Thinking of this, Xiang Yan could only grit his teeth and order:
"According to the plan, but be careful, the Qin army may be deceitful."
The generals in each department responded and led their own troops to attack.
The war drums sounded soon, followed by stone bullets coming from the darkness...
These stone bullets were brought by the Chu army.
The Chu army has learned the new trebuchet, so it can attack the walled city from a distance.
It's just that the Chu army didn't seem to be very skilled. Most of the stone bullets failed to hit the target, and they didn't know how to make adjustments.
But the Chu army was victorious because they were in the dark, and from time to time they would hit a few linen fireballs... Useful things on the battlefield always spread quickly.
Therefore, war is sometimes uncertain.
Call it bad, the progress of human society is almost always driven by war... In order to defeat enemies and opponents, we desperately develop this and that.
Otherwise, as farmer Xu Ying said, as long as everyone has enough food, there will be no reason for war.
However, this is not the case. Most countries in modern society have solved the problem of food and clothing, but wars still continue.
Li Yan followed Shen Bing's orders. Even if the city wall was hit by stone bullets and there were gaps everywhere and some places fell in rows, he insisted not to fight and only waited patiently for the enemy to come up.
Not long after, the Chu army stopped firing stone bullets, and the Chu army appeared in the darkness one after another with the sound of war drums.
The soldiers of the Chu army did not attack, but moved forward steadily, following the sound of drums step by step.
This is the strategy Xiang Yan decided on early in the morning, a strategy to deal with Lang Zhen.
He knew that it would be useless to attack Langzhen as usual and that he would only suffer heavy losses, even if the Chu army was much larger than the Qin army.
Therefore, the Chu soldiers had to advance steadily.
Once a wolf warrior appears in front of you... use a trebuchet to deal with it.
It is not easy to do this, because this is modern "infantry and artillery coordination."
But to say it is not easy is actually not difficult at all, because modern "infantry and artillery coordination" is mainly concerned about accidental damage. It is difficult to require "infantry and artillery coordination" that does not cause accidental damage. But if there is no requirement or the requirement is very low...then the difficulty becomes a series.
Decreased.
Xiang Yan's requirements are very low.
That is to say, we are not afraid of casualties, even if the stone bullets may injure our own people.
This should be said to be normal in ancient times, because the concept of "human rights" did not yet exist in the minds of those dignitaries or generals.
What they think is: rushing and killing on the battlefield will result in death anyway. Although this method may cause accidental injuries, it can break the formation and kill more enemies, so why not?
Therefore, when the Chu army was advancing towards the walled city step by step, the trebuchets at the rear also followed up and were ready to launch.
As long as the torch is raised and shaken in front, the trebuchet will hit that direction regardless.
This move is cruel enough, and it should be said that it is also effective against the mandarin duck formation set up by Lang Zhen.
No matter what the formation was, it could not stop the random bombardment of stone bullets, and the Chu army could advance step by step under the cover of stone bullets.
The problem is... when the Chu troops walked step by step to the wall, they were shocked to find that what was waiting for them was not a wolf, but the Qin troops with fierce eyes.