Chapter 294

"Prepare - release!"

Stones and bed crossbows are thrown or projected through the kinetic energy brought by instruments. After a short leap for a period of time, they either hit the city wall heavily, or arrowheads penetrate the human body, insert the city wall and sink into the ground.

This is a big scene. The warships on the Yangtze River waterway are attacking, and the equipment troops on the land are also attacking. The river capital is surrounded on all sides, but the waterway in the South and the land in the East are the main attack of the double arrow, and the feint in the West and North.

The whole river is completely surrounded, and the surrounding woods have been cut down. The wood will become the materials of siege ladders, knife shield vehicles, collision vehicles... And other equipment. Some relatively straight wood will also be selected as the crossbow of bed crossbow.

Too many siege instruments are being launched, resulting in no stone or crossbow in mid air. Such an offensive has lasted all morning and will continue in the afternoon. However, the Han Army has not sent soldiers for contact warfare.

As an observer, Xie an was allowed to enter the battlefield and watch nearby. He only took four people, two of them were attendants and the other two were guards.

Watching it one morning, Xie an had to fall for the way the Han army attacked the city. It was all because the Han Army had too many siege equipment. At the beginning, the Shijie garrison in Jiangdu shot several waves of arrows. Later, it was simply suppressed so that he couldn't lift his head, and there was no counterattack.

"Why not throw in troops to attack the city?"

"It's not time."

"What is the so-called timing?"

"The overall suppression of more time has led to the lowest morale of the enemy."

At least 100 stone catapults and nearly 300 bed crossbows were concentrated in the eastern offensive, which was only the land offensive of the Han army.

On the Yangtze River waterway, there are nearly 70 ships lined up in two long queues. They take turns to diffuse the bed crossbow to the Jiangdu in the south, and they always make a loud sound when shooting repeatedly. Because of the elevation angle, only a few of the crossbows and arrows shot hit the city wall, and more of them flew directly into the city. At the beginning, there were bursts of screams and howls, but there was no movement in the past morning.

What is wealth? Xie an's view of the Han Army's attack is the best embodiment.

It's not difficult to find stones at the riverside, but the arrows of the bed crossbow need to be made even if they can be made from local materials. Then, the arrows also need to be made. No matter how cheap the arrows of a bed crossbow are, they can't be much cheaper.

In just one morning, the Han army fired more than 5000 bed crossbows, and the walls of Jiangdu were densely inserted, not to mention the crossbows shot into the city.

The garrison of Shijie can no longer be seen above the city. The stone throwing cart and bed crossbow of the Han Army are still shooting endlessly. There is really no other explanation except that it is psychological warfare. However, it is estimated that the Han army can support this expensive psychological warfare. Who would do it in any other country or force?

Xie an could not guess whether the Han Army had been attacking the city in this way or was deliberately doing it for them.

Yes, it's them. Xie an is close to observe. There are a large number of Jin soldiers on the South Bank of the Yangtze River. The difference is that the distance across the river is far.

A war drum was sounded. Xie an saw that a large group of soldiers were marching forward in this array of the Han army. From his point of view, he could recognize that it was a large number of bow and crossbow men, followed by city cars and siege ladders, and then the same light soldiers marching forward.

The so-called light soldiers are the general name of soldiers without armor from the ancient Pre-Qin Dynasty to the present, but there are still more detailed distinctions. For example, light infantry in the real sense, but there are also death squads. If the light soldiers are equipped with flying claws... They are tools with iron hooks and rope sleeves, that is Xiaoguo, also known as jumping soldiers.

Xiaoguo is a praise for those who fought bravely and dared to die. In the northern and Southern Dynasties, only real sharp men could get this title. However, in the Sui Dynasty of the Yang family, they became a general name for volunteers with their own dry food.

"Flying claws?" Xie'an said in a daze, "we're going to attack the city formally?"

Flying claws are actually jumping soldiers, which are specially used to "take an unusual road" to carry out climbing attacks on the city wall. Looking at the flying claws carried on the shoulders of the jumpers, we can see that the claws have three iron hooks. The front end of the connecting iron hook is a kind of rope sleeve wrapped into a twist shape with hemp rope and iron chain, and the back is all composed of hemp rope. Of course, this is to prevent the flying claw from being cut off by the garrison on the city wall, but it will only be carried out by forces with sufficient productivity and financial resources. The rest will not take this effort at all.

Riprap carts and bed crossbows did not stop firing because the Han Army had troops to advance. That was because the attacking troops were still far from the city wall. If they were pressed at an appropriate distance, there would be no accidental injury at all.

It was only when the offensive troops approached the Jiangdu City Wall for about 300 steps that the launching of stone throwing vehicles and bed crossbows stopped.

"Why not attack?" Xie an looked at it for about half an hour before he couldn't bear to make a sound: "there was no garrison on the wall just now. It can be attacked very easily."

"Don't worry." Cheng Shuo said with a smile, "you'll see."

After about a quarter of an hour or so, a horn sounded on the originally silent Jiangdu City wall. Gradually, there was a head sticking out behind the battlements and women's walls. It was Shijie. Zhao Jun estimated that he had confirmed that the stone throwing cart and bed crossbow of the Han army were no longer shooting before mobilizing troops to the city wall for defense.

A heavy war drum was sounded, followed by a dense bang. The command kept coming from the military array. The next moment, ten thousand arrows were fired at once.

The arrows like raindrops were wave after wave. The city car and siege ladder began to advance slowly, and the jumping soldiers rushed out of the array and began to disperse and charge.

Waiting for the jumping soldiers to enter the 50 step range of the wall, the bow and crossbow that was also shooting and advancing began to move to both sides, and the armor men who followed up in the rear began to speed up the pace.

In fact, there are many kinds of arms that can be called armour. As long as they wear iron armour, they will be called armour, but there are many differences, such as Tower Shield soldiers who focus on defense, big swordsmen who are used for steady progress, sword shield hands with shield and short soldiers, and so on.

The armour soldiers who join the charge are Tower Shield soldiers in the front rows, followed by knife shield soldiers. They will take necessary cover when the city car starts to hit the city gate, and then build shields to see if they can organize a shield channel connecting the women's wall above the city wall.

There were already some jumping soldiers entering the city wall. They didn't throw flying claws for the first time. They used the thick crossbows and arrows inserted on the city wall to climb. In an instant, hundreds of figures quickly climbed up the city wall.

"..." Xie an understood why he could come: "do you want to go down with a drum?"

It was a textbook siege demonstration to show the strong siege strength of the Han Army!

Cheng Shuo smiled modestly, not modest at all: "the number of Shijie Zhao troops in Jiangdu should be about 3000. How long will it take for Jin troops to attack? Our army can win it in only one day!"

Before that, the bow and crossbow troops raised their shooting elevation and fired at the city. You can hear the dense screams and howls in the city.

Only under the premise of close cooperation, the melee soldiers are attacking the city, and the bow and crossbow soldiers continue to shoot arrows. This may not avoid accidental injury, but it has an absolute advantage in blocking the enemy's attack, and even can kill the enemy by surprise.

Jiangdu had been conquered by the Jin army not long ago, and Xie an came to command the troops to attack. It took them nearly a month to capture Jiangdu and paid nearly 3000 casualties, but they killed and captured nearly 2000 Shijie Zhao army.

When the small ~ court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty ordered Yu Bing to give up the Jiangdu and retreat, Xie an ordered someone to set fire to burn the Jiangdu thoroughly. He had a full understanding of Jiangdu. Originally, he thought that the Han Army wanted to understand the terrain and layout of Jiangdu from him, but no one asked at all.

The roar of the collapse of the city gate told Xie an that no one would ask him about Jiangdu, because it was no longer necessary.

"Maybe not a day, just a morning?" Cheng Shuo had a reason to be proud, but he also knew a little, and said, "in fact, there is your credit."

Xie an was silent. He knew what Cheng Shuo meant. It was nothing more than burning the Jiangdu.

The Han army was already pouring into the city. In an instant, bursts of cries of killing came from the city. It seemed that the Han Army in the north and West also began to attack. It was not a feint, but an attack in the real sense?

Xie an doesn't know what the people watching on the other side think. The only thing he thinks now is that the Han army quickly turns its attention to the state of Zhao in Shijie, but don't have the idea of crossing the river to the south.

Almost at noon, the city was quiet, and even Han soldiers began to escort the prisoners of war outside the city.

Xie an saw Guo Xiang. He knew and knew that Guo Xiang was the commander of the remaining Xuzhou army in Shijie Zhao state, but he didn't expect to become a prisoner of war of the Han army.

Even the generals have become prisoners of war. It has definitely become a fact that Jiangdu was captured by the Han army. As Cheng Shuo said just now, the Han Army really didn't need a day. It took only about three hours to capture it, and... It seems that there are not many casualties?

Xie an didn't know a little because of his position. Before the Han army attacked, the camp gate of Jiangdu Shuizhai on the other side of the Yangtze River waterway had been broken. In fact, it was the Han Army's army who killed the Han army when the Han Army entered Jiangdu City first.

In a seemingly simple and short-term urban defense war, the Han Army gave full play to all its advantages. When any enemy that cannot compete with the Han Army in terms of long-range attack means and can not crack or defend, there will be a headache in fighting with the Han Army, that is, how many people should die before short soldier contact can occur.

[once the powerful crossbows of several times are widely used, how can they be cracked?] Yu Bing's face is full of cold frost. His scheduling is different from that of Xie an. Xie an watches the Han Army's land attack all the way. He sees the Han Army's ship attack: [the range of the warship bed crossbow can reach 280 steps, which is slightly less than that of the powerful crossbow, but... It's useless.]

The Jin army also has a bed crossbow, with a maximum range of only 220 steps. Although the difference is only 60 steps, this distance is a natural moat for many battlefields. It indicates every little distance, but I don't know how many people will fall, or I can never advance even a little distance.

"Nearly 20000 troops have more than 5000 crossbow men, which accounts for too much?" Zhang Heng's forehead was full of cold sweat. He imagined the scene of fighting with the Han Army and was frightened by himself. He didn't wipe the sweat on his forehead, and his face was frightened: "how long do they have to prepare for each war?"

It's about so many crossbow men. The consumption of arrows must be terrible. How long to prepare and how many arrows to prepare. It's a simple truth. Usually, a battle level war will consume about 50000 arrows. That's on the premise that bowmen account for only about 10% of the whole army. If the proportion is higher, it needs to be adjusted upward. For a campaign level war, the prepared arrows must not be less than 200000, or even need to be continuously supplemented. In the end, a campaign may have to shoot 300000 or 400000 arrows, or even more.

Is there a lot of 300000 or 400000 arrows? There are really many countries that do not have some foundation in national strength and productivity. It may take three to five years to build 300000 or 400000 arrows. For example, it takes at least two years to reserve 400000 arrows in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, at least five years in the state of Shijie Zhao, and the rest of the countries and forces take longer, and we don't know whether we can build this number.

However, the fact is that the Qin army used to consume nearly 800000 arrows in the attack on Handan, the capital of the state of Zhao. How shocking!

Those famous men who abused the Han army all the way shut up, and some generals with large families behind them had strange hearts in their eyes.

When the Han army came, they showed their own strength, which was based on the Han Army's destructive attack on the Shijie Zhao army. Compared with it, if the Jin army was allowed to be the offensive side, the Jin army might win, but the offensive and defensive war between the Jin army and the Shijie Zhao army would be unbeatable.

Just then, someone came to report that the Han Army forcibly detained Xie an.

“……”

At that moment, all the people who heard the news of Xie an's detention looked stunned. They didn't forget that Huanwen and Yuan Qiao were representatives of the past, and they were forcibly detained by the Han army?

While everyone looked at each other, some people were envious in their hearts, but angry on their faces, and more strange on their faces.

Perhaps they are wondering why Liu Yan loves detaining people so much? It seems wrong. Should it be people who love detaining the past here in the Eastern Jin Dynasty? It's still wrong. I went to several waves in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but only Huan Wen, Yuan Qiao and Xie an were detained. Although some other aristocratic children were not treated grandly, didn't they come back safely?

[all the detained people are talented people! Liu Yan is eager for talents, but he has reached the point where even if he is forcibly detained, he can slowly persuade others?]

At that moment, more than one person was thinking so