Chapter One Hundred and Thirty Six: Wuning's Battle (Part 2)
"The crossbowman is on standby!
Under the roar of the team commanders, the anti-rebellion army in Wuning City started to move. The team with the identity of Chen Zhao took the lead and took the lead to pick up the strong bow and ready to go. The new recruits around them all followed suit, and they all did this.
Zeng Erpeng blinked twice, and the rolling of sweat beads made him feel a little uncomfortable, so his movements were a little deformed. Before the team commander's next order was met, he shot the arrow out without control.
The crooked arrows fell to the ground before they even reached the Song army's formation.
It seems so funny to be stuck alone on the ground.
"Don't be nervous, put another one on it."
Listening to Chen Zhao's words in his ears, Zeng Erpeng raised his breath and re-drawn the arrow. He didn't care about his blushing face during this moment.
The Song army marched very fast, and soon the shield array in the front row advanced 120 steps to Wuning City, which was considered to be in the range.
But the team commander still did not give the order.
Ninety or eighty steps, the team commanders turned a blind eye to each other.
But the Song army was getting closer and closer and made the new recruits on the city more nervous.
It was not until the Song army's industrial city car and ladder car were pushed closer one after another that the commanders on the city commanded the officials.
"put!"
The recruits waited for this order for too long, and the heartstrings that had been tense were feeling relieved at this moment, and they all let go of the bowstrings in their hands.
In an instant, the arrows were poured down.
Even though the Song army, who were pushing the siege equipment, were protected by the comrades beside them, they were unfortunately trapped in the body and fell to the ground with a scream of pain.
Two rounds of arrows were raining, and almost killed all the Song army soldiers who were pushing the cart.
"Shield!"
The team commander issued an order again. The recruits behind the clasp picked up the shield placed beside them, squatted down and raised the shield over their heads. Before long, a rain of arrows came down.
"Ding, Ding."
The sound of arrows shooting on the steel shield rang one after another, but because the recruits were hiding under the shield wall early, they could not achieve any results.
The arrow rain from the Song army followed by wave after wave. This was the long-range suppression of the Song army, with the purpose of allowing its own siege vehicles to advance quickly.
When the siege equipment was about twenty steps closer to the city wall, thick wooden boards began to cross the moat, the Song army's archers had to stop attacking, and they would accidentally hurt their friendly troops.
"Tug the shield and pour the turmeric oil!"
The shield hands in front of him spread left and right, and the team commander stood up and set off to give orders.
The soldiers of the anti-rebellion army who had been hiding under the shield wall acted according to the order, threw down their shields, picked up cans filled with tinder oil on the ground and threw them down the city tower. On the ground, on the Song army's siege tools, on the armor of the unlucky Song army soldiers, and then there were fire pieces that were lit with fluorescent lights.
Fires suddenly popped up down the city gate.
The Song army on the body was on fire and could jump into the moat to put out the fire, but the huge siege equipment could not. Amid the shouts of a group of officials of the Song army, some Song army had to bite the bullet and unload the armor and put it in water to put it in to put out the fire.
Fortunately, the siege tools used were all rough wood, and the burning of the leather surface for a moment could not shake the wood heart inside. They could only burn the surface and then extinguish it.
The siege car and the ladder car finally approached the city wall, and the height was similar to the city tower in Wuning City, and the distance between the two was less than one meter.
At the top of the ladder truck is a square platform, about six feet long, enough to stand seven or eight people.
Teams of Song Jun began to climb from behind the ladder truck. When they reached the highest point, they opened the railing. Several people worked together to lift a thick and heavy iron wooden board, and then pushed it out and hit the Wuning City Tower with a bang.
A simple corridor appeared in the sky, connecting Wuning City and Song Jun ladder trucks.
The soldiers of the Song army were able to step on this thick iron plank and climb directly to the city tower of Wuning City.
This is the advancement of military technology.
The era when the siege party was killed and injured more people than the defending party was already the old story yesterday. The so-called siege that the city must not be five times more likely to be attacked is also a record of the Spring and Autumn War Art.
The times themselves are progressive.
No matter how the Mohist school in the Warring States Period was mythical by later generations, the technological level of that period was thousands of years lower than that of the Song Dynasty, just like the Song Dynasty was far behind that of the modern era.
This is an objective fact.
Therefore, when the war developed into the Song Dynasty, although its essence had not changed at all, its development and process were no longer the same as recorded in Sun Tzu's Art of War. Defending the city must mean having an advantage.
In the battle between Yuan Dynasty and Southern Song Dynasty, can it rely on cavalry shooting?
Boyan attacked Changzhou with gunpowder to blew up the city walls, and in a few days he captured Changzhou, a heavy city that was highly anticipated by the Southern Song court, but it had nothing to do with the records of military tactics.
The Song army's siege cars and ladder cars represent the strongest siege weapon of this era, and artillery, a magic weapon with both offense and defense, has not yet been born. The strongest city-defense weapon possessed by the anti-rebel army on the city is just the warriors themselves!
The time for the creation is too short, and the uprising is too hasty, so there is no time to climb the technology tree.
As for the well-known Yun Ladder, the siege equipment, was not eliminated, but the time for appearance needs to be placed at the back.
The task of ladder trucks and siege vehicles is to open a bridgehead, that is, to send a Song army to the city wall first, open up positions, and then to take ladders to the city, and continuously invest in combat units on the top of the city.
When you come up, you carry a simple cloud ladder to climb the city. You can push it down without saying that you have the right hand. As the sharp axe of the city guard, the sharp hammer cannot be arranged.
The "bridge" set up between the ladder truck and the city wall is a solid wood board wrapped in iron. It is extremely thick and sturdy, with endless knife and axe, and turmeric oil cannot be burned. It is indeed a powerful weapon in the era of cold weapons, but it is not without shortcomings.
This is the surface of the iron sheet.
After the soldiers of the anti-rebellion army poured a layer of oil on it, the Song army who had climbed the city slipped under their feet while running, screaming and falling to a height of nearly three meters high.
The easiest way can often achieve miraculous effects.
"War is not as simple as you think, but not as complicated as you think."
The team ordered the officers to start running and shouting, inspiring the morale of the army: "Stabilize the position on the wall, use guns and spears as weapons, and each army works together to push the enemy down the city tower."
No matter how many Song troops were, only a few hundred people were able to launch an siege at the first time. The Song army under the city wall could not fly up besides queuing up the ladder truck.
Therefore, even if the advantages of the defending city are infinitely shortened, they are not to the point where they are completely gone.
Just keep it steady and don't panic.
Luo Yongjie also ran to the front line and personally killed several Song troops who had jumped up to the city tower, stabilizing the morale of the army.
"The Song army is vulnerable, and you will follow the general to kill the enemy and make contributions."
Perhaps it was the running and shouting of the team commanders, or perhaps it was the leading performance of Luo Yongjie, the younger army quickly calmed down and began to organize effective defenses.
Zeng Erpeng held the spear tightly, took a few deep breaths for himself, and looked at a Song army who jumped from the ladder and vigorously pushed out the steel spear in his hand.
"Puff!"
The sharp spear pierced through the armor on Song Jun's body, making a sound of sour flesh and blood.
Due to this severe injury, the Song army died on the spot. With the spear being pulled out, the weak body was loaded from the sky and overwhelmed the comrades who had fallen down and barely got up, causing cruel secondary damage.
"Team leader, I'm killing the enemy!"
Zeng Erpeng, who killed the enemy with his own hands, was very excited, and then was knocked down by Chen Zhao.
In just a short breath, an arrow was nailed to the wall behind Zeng Erpeng, and the feathers at the tail were still trembling.
It turned out that the Song army's archer also boarded the ladder truck and stood on the platform at the roof of the ladder truck and began to shoot at the close range with the anti-rebel army.
With the addition of archers, the Song army that sieges began to gain a little advantage, but the army that defended the city was not a vegetarian. If you had a ladder, I had Zhang Liang's plan.
If you put the archer on the ladder, I will transfer a team of pikes to come.
The distance between the city and the ladder truck is only one meter wide. If you dare to stand still and aim at the arrow, our spearman will stab you in the forehead.
If you have a habit, don’t hide!
Chapter completed!