Five Hundred and Eight: Attacking Fengyi County (16)

The city wall today is not as hard as iron as everyone thinks, nor is it built with regular boulders. It uses materials such as stone, yellow mud, glutinous rice, glutinous rice juice, and lime. Cheng'an County is just a small and remote county in the north. How hard can the city wall be?

It is no problem to block ordinary attacks, but it is a bit stretched to face the trebuchet improved by Jiang Pengji.

She still dispatched a giant trebuchet. In theory, even the city wall of Shangjing City can be smashed into a deep hole, not to mention the city wall of Cheng'an County. The city wall is strong, but the power of the "outer envoy" is beyond imagination.

Even the demolition team is not so brutal!

Except for Jiang Pengji, Zhang Ping and the audience in the live broadcast room, no one knows that it is so powerful.

[Today's fifth update]: Damn, the host's catapult always reminds me of the Xiangyang cannon used by the Mongols when they attacked Xiangyang City. It is also a counterweight catapult... It is said to be extremely powerful and can smash a deep pit more than two meters deep on the ground...

[This is the first update]: Hey, isn't the prototype of the host's catapult the Xiangyang cannon?

[One Leaf Becomes a Boat]: I'm not sure. I watched the live broadcasts of those days. The host modified it based on the existing ones. Anyway, liberal arts students can't understand such complicated design drawings. I only know that the host and Zhang Ping of the Mohist School talked about it for a long time...

Jiang Nongqin calmly commanded the catapult to launch five rounds. The city wall had become riddled with holes, and the Qingyi Army on the wall suffered heavy casualties. They lacked enough bows and arrows, and lost the powerful terrain of the commanding heights, so they could not effectively resist the charge later.

Jiang Pengji ordered the catapult to stop throwing, and issued several military orders in succession. Dozens of lifting ladders were pushed out from the military formation.

The ladders of this era were just relatively strong and long ladders, and they did not have the function of protecting the vanguard soldiers of the siege.

You should know that in a siege, the losses of the attackers are often greater than those of the defenders.

Because the attackers want to get close to the city wall, they must put themselves in the attack range of the defenders. The other side has a geographical advantage. The attackers often have to use the lives of soldiers to pile up the ladders, and then forcibly attack the city wall or break the city gate. The casualty rate is naturally very high.

Of course, if the attackers choose to dig a tunnel and sneak into the city, it is another matter.

She was just thinking of breaking the city violently, so she was too lazy to let people be voles to dig tunnels.

When Jiang Pengji made the ladder, she referred to the existing data and documents in this world, and made her ladder on this basis.

There are round hardwood rollers under the lifting ladder, which can be used as solid tires to facilitate the movement of the entire ladder.

As for why she wanted to create a lifting function?

She had two considerations.

First, the target of the cloud ladder is too large, which is easy to arouse the vigilance of the enemy scouts and reveal the secrets of their own armaments. If the cloud ladder can be folded, the possibility of exposure is greatly reduced. The defenders may think that she has not prepared siege equipment and may be careless.

Second, the height of the city wall is not the same throughout the era. Some city walls are majestic and spectacular, such as the former Shangjing City, and some city walls are just earth piles higher than the earth wall. The lifting cloud ladder can adjust the height according to the situation of the city wall.

In addition to these details, the biggest breakthrough is the structure of the base of the cloud ladder, which can hide people.

When the soldiers push the cloud ladder, they can hide inside or under the cloud ladder. They can use heavy shields to resist the attack on the city wall. With a shelter, even if the enemy shoots with arrows, the soldiers pushing the cloud ladder can still successfully put the cloud ladder on the city wall.

The blue-clothed soldiers on the city wall have been cleared, and the successors have not had time to replenish them, so the danger of climbing the city at this moment is the smallest.

She issued a military order, and the horn with different rhythms sounded again.

The infantrymen of the vanguard camp, full of fighting spirit, rushed up the ladders first, jumping faster than monkeys.

Which man doesn't want to make achievements?

Especially when they saw that the female camp was more agile than them, if the male soldiers didn't do their best, how could they save their face?

It was too late for the Qingyi Army to send people to support them. They only saw the soldiers in leather armor draw their swords and chop people.

There was a melee on the city wall, and more and more soldiers climbed up the city wall with the help of ladders, gradually gaining the advantage in numbers.

Although the Qingyi Army was leaderless, there were still many small leaders.

Now it was too late to escape. They had to work hard to defend the city gate and keep the enemy out as much as possible, so that they had a chance of survival.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that in a short period of time, the number of troops that could be brought up by dozens of ladders was always limited. As long as they could defend the city gate and concentrate their forces to deal with the people on the city wall, the Qingyi Army might not be unable to defend Cheng'an County... Well, they thought it was a beautiful idea.

Dozens of soldiers carried a log that three people could hold together, ready to knock open the tightly closed city gate.

"One... two... three!"

"One... two... three!"

"One... two... three!"

The soldiers silently recited numbers, and when they counted to three, they all pushed together.

The catapult had hit the city wall before, which had also affected the city gate to some extent. After the soldiers hit it together for more than ten times, the city gate broke open, revealing more than a hundred blue-clothed soldiers and various obstacles behind the gate. The soldiers of both sides fought at the city gate, and the sound of fighting continued.

Blood splattered, and broken limbs and corpses were scattered all over the ground.

The blood that flowed out gathered into a gurgling stream, like a winding red snake.

In the battle at the city gate, the blue-clothed army was completely defeated and could not form an effective defense or attack at all.

The soldiers attacked the city gate, and dozens of peculiarly shaped roller chariots came into use.

Those chariots looked very simple. When the coverings hanging on them were lifted, the true appearance of the chariots was revealed.

Twenty-one spears of seven or eight feet long were inserted in the front of the chariot, with extremely sharp tips and sharp short blades on both sides.

Seeing this, the soldiers retreated and ordered their comrades in the rear to push the chariots to the front of the team and rush into the city.

This kind of chariot is specially used for alley battles after breaking the city. It is like a hedgehog with sharp thorns standing up, and it is difficult for the enemy to approach.

The Qingyi Army was leaderless, and those small leaders didn't even have time to escape. How could they go to the battlefield to organize them to resist effectively?

The soldiers on Jiang Pengji's side first broke the high wall outside, and pushed all the way to the inner city like cutting vegetables and tofu, leaving a bloody road along the way. The Qingyi Army ran away when they saw people, and even squeezed into one place and trampled, with fear and despair on their faces.

Compared to the Qingyi Army who had not had enough food for several days, Jiang Pengji did not treat her own army harshly.

Not to mention how good the food was, at least no one would be forced to tighten their belts and go to the battlefield hungry.

Meng Hun had not seen blood for a long time. When the city was broken, he led his men to rush forward.

Li Yun was not to be outdone. He rode into the gate of Cheng'an County on horseback. Relying on his advantage of flexibility, he killed many Qingyi Army soldiers who could not escape in time. He waved his silver spear countless times, blasting out dazzling blood flowers, which dyed the white horse under his crotch into a "red horse".

Jiang Pengji was ready to move, but there were two pairs of eyes staring at her, as if she dared to kill them, they would die for her to see.

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