Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 310 Don't Let Them Dig the City

"Where is Huang Zhong, where is Huang Zhong, come out and fight!"

Seeing that Wei Yan led his troops back to the city of You County, Pang Yan didn't drive his horses to chase him down, nor did he take advantage of the situation to attack the city.

"Hmph, General Huang is not in the city, otherwise how could you be so arrogant, come to attack the city if you want to fight, and talk nonsense, come, if he dares to step forward, shoot him to death with random arrows!"

Hearing Pang Yan's call, Liu Pan also responded loudly on the city gate, but he really didn't dare to send someone to challenge Pang Yan any more. He just ordered the soldiers on the city wall to draw their bows and set up arrows to aim at them. To Pang Yan.

And Liu Pan's soldiers on the city wall looked at Pang Yan who was clamoring like a black god in front of the city gate, playing with Wei Yan's helmet, and they couldn't help but feel a little fear in their hearts.

The guarding soldiers behind the arrow pile held bows and arrows in their hands, but when they looked at Pang Yan from a distance, they felt a little panic in their hearts, and subconsciously looked away a little bit.

Behind Zhu Weijun's command center, Wang Yuyan stood on a mobile high platform, saw the movement in front of the Youxian city gate from a distance, and issued the first phase of the siege order.

"Boom...boom...boom...boom..."

The sound of the military order drum at the Battle Drum Army Platform located in the command center of the army sounded, and then the command flag was waved in the air, so Ling Cao led [-] crossbowmen from the Xiongba Battalion, guarded by [-] auxiliary soldiers and pushed [-] cave carts, Then he rushed towards the city wall of You County.

As they approached the city wall of You County, Ling Cao led four thousand crossbowmen into the formation of three thousand swordsmen and shields led by Pang Yan, and they formed a formation to face the city gate of You County. It will protect the cavernous carts that fill the moat from being destroyed by soldiers and horses killed in the city.

This is actually the real siege method. Zhu Wei attacked the city several times before, and let a few bridal carts slowly fill up the moat. The main purpose was to delay time.

But now that it is a real siege, of course efficiency is required. How could tens of thousands of troops wait for the cave carts to slowly fill up the moat?

Therefore, more than 20 cave-house vehicles transported landfill materials back and forth at the same time, and threw bamboo rafts, soil and rocks into the moat of You County, and soon a road could be filled in the moat of You County.

When attacking You County this time, Wang Yuyan naturally brought black powder.

So when the cavern carts have filled the moat, they can dig the city wall directly next to the rammed earth city wall in You County, and then bury black powder to blow up the city wall.

For a small county town of the size of You County, the city wall is no more than ten steps thick with rammed earth and some broken stones. It can't stop the explosive power of black powder at all. It should be able to blast a gap in the city wall. .

Since Zhu Wei developed black powder, he has changed a lot of military tactics, especially the siege battle does not necessarily require ants to climb the wall. Facing a small county like You County, it is completely possible to directly explode or explode. Collapse the city wall, or directly blast open the city gate and enter.

Now that the reinforcements from Changsha Hanxuan and the other Jingnan counties have not yet arrived, Wang Yuyan does not have to besiege the city to fight for reinforcements. You can try to attack the city first and see what the result is. If you can take You County in one fell swoop, then naturally no problem.

In this way, Wang Yuyan can return to the army to deal with the possible reinforcements from the four counties in Jingnan after capturing You County. After all, the news here will not spread to other places immediately, and the prefects such as Changsha Han Xuan may not know You County. battle situation.

Military tactics are inherently changing randomly, and it is impossible to rigidly follow the predetermined strategy and refuse to change, unless one change will affect the outcome of the entire battle situation, then naturally it is necessary to give up the overall situation.

But now the strategic policy of the four Jingnan counties was originally designed with Wang Yuyan as the main design. Wang Yuyan naturally knows how to adjust the military strategy according to the actual combat situation. .

Otherwise, it is obvious that you can quickly capture You County, but they just surround it and don't fight. They must divide their troops to deal with the reinforcements from the four counties in Jingnan. What if the prefects of the four counties don't come to rescue them? What should I do if I detect an abnormality and send troops to counterattack?
After the division of troops, Wang Yuyan must have not many troops left here to besiege You County. Maybe Liu Pan and Huang Zhong will counterattack and break through the camp, and then hunt down the other troops commanded by Wang Yuyan and the four Jingnan counties. The coming reinforcements attacked from both sides, making Wang Yuyan unable to advance or retreat, carelessly missing Jingzhou.

Therefore, military strategy is to wait for the opportunity and change according to the trend.

Today Wang Yuyan brought a large army to attack You County, to test You County's fighting strength and see if You County could hold back Wang Yuyan's thunderous blow this time.

If you go down to You County in the first battle, then the subsequent battles will be easier to fight.

About half an hour later, more than 20 cave carts from Zhu Wei's side had already filled the moat in Youxian County enough to allow the cave carts to get close to the city wall.

So four or five cave carts passed the moat along the passage, and directly stuck in front of the rammed-earth city wall made of yellow clay and gravel in Youxian County. stand up.

This movement inevitably made Liu Pan and Liu Pan's soldiers on the gate tower of You County panic. They had never seen such a method of attacking the city.

When the cave carts filled the moat just now, they had no way to stop them. The bows, arrows and rockets shot down from the city wall had no effect at all. In front of the city wall, there were four thousand crossbowmen and three thousand knife shieldmen brought by Pang Yan. Watching, thinking of the strength shown by Pang Yan just now, no one would dare to go out of the city to destroy these bridal carts.

So Liu Pan could only watch Zhu Wei's cave carts bury the passage on the moat of Youxian County, but now seeing these cave carts sticking to the city wall and starting to dig the city, he couldn't stand it anymore.

"Hurry up, smash it with stones and burn it with fire oil! They must not let them dig the city wall!"

Liu Pan hurriedly commanded the guarding soldiers on the city wall, trying to destroy the bridal carts below, and now he can finally use the method of defending the city to destroy these bridal carts.

"No!", "No!"

After hearing the order, the two military marquises went down to direct their troops on the city wall, and began to throw stones on the cave carts, throw down oil tanks and torches, and these soldiers guarding the city finally began to play their role.

"Clatter...boom...", "pat... ho..."

For a while, there were enough rocks the size of millstones to be transported by the soldiers guarding the city, and they were thrown on the cave carts under the city wall, and jars of kerosene were also thrown down. The torch dropped from above also ignited the kerosene immediately, and a plume of flames burned here.

Although this cave car can block arrows, and although the top structure also has a certain force-relieving design, it is still somewhat unable to support such an attack. The roof of a cave car was cracked by rocks, and then with the kerosene It leaked in, and soon smoke rose from the inside to the outside.

The auxiliary soldiers hiding in the cave cart hurriedly pushed back the cave cart, but they were considered veterans who had been trained and seen blood, so they didn’t panic because of this, they just kept pushing the cave cart and fled to the city wall Out of the range of the bow and arrow, he escaped from the cave car...

(End of this chapter)