Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 311 Determined to Break the City

This time when Zhu Wei's army attacked You County, the cave carts driven by auxiliary soldiers were the first to be dispatched.

These auxiliary soldiers hidden in the bridal chamber are mostly composed of veterans in their 40s and almost [-]s. Originally, they all had a certain combat effectiveness, but now in order to ensure the elite of Zhu Wei's main force, they were all recruited. Were eliminated and became auxiliary soldiers.

But most of them are also veterans who have been on the battlefield and seen blood, so they can naturally give full play to the psychological advantages of veterans.

Therefore, they were selected as auxiliary soldiers who used cave carts to attack the city. In this way, even if the inside of the cave cart was burned by kerosene and some soldiers were on fire, these veterans could still keep pushing The cave car was withdrawn.

They are well aware of the benefits of doing this. Not only will it allow them to retreat to a safe area, they will not become the target of the archers on the city wall, and it will not let this cave car affect the subsequent siege efficiency of other cave cars. .

It wasn't until they left the dangerous area that some of the soldiers who caught fire in the cave car ran out in a hurry and rolled on the ground to put out the fire, while other soldiers scooped up sand with shovels on the spot after running out of the cave car. Stones and soil were poured on the cave car, trying to extinguish the flames on the roof.

In the Zhu Wei army, the military merits, rewards and punishments are very clear, so if these auxiliary soldiers who use cave carts can dig the city wall, they will naturally be rewarded for their meritorious service. They are all very fighting, and they also think that they can be rewarded for their meritorious service, and they will be allocated fields to become a small landlord.

Anyway, they hid in the bridal cart, and they would not suffer too much damage. Like now, at most only a few soldiers were burned by the fire, but most of them were safe and sound, so their mentality remained very stable.

Of course, these bridal chamber cars are also carefully designed. Even if the top is poured with kerosene and a flame is ignited, it can be quickly extinguished with earth and sand.

In addition, there is already a fire-proof wet soil layer on the top of the cave car, which is not so easy to burn. Now as long as the flame caused by the kerosene is extinguished, the remaining fire will be difficult to sustain.

At the same time, the roof of the cave car is also a drawer-like structure, so for some places where the top of the cave car was smashed by falling rocks, the broken wooden boards can be directly pulled out and replaced with new ones, and then filled with wet soil With one click, the cave car can be restored to its function again.

Unless the wheels of the cave car are smashed or burned, that is the damage that will really affect the continued use of the cave car. However, the wooden eaves guard plate expanded on the top of the cave car also has some damage to the wheels below. Therefore, even if the top of this kind of cave car is damaged, it can often be used repeatedly on the battlefield as long as it is repaired, and it is not so easy to be scrapped.

Now there are more than 20 cave carts, so when one cart in the front retreats, other carts will be put up on the back soon, so that the city wall of You County can be continuously excavated.

Anyway, the auxiliary soldiers hiding in the cave car carried the falling rocks on the city wall and set fire to them, in order to quickly dig a hole at the root of the city wall in Youxian County to place the black powder pot urn.

With black gunpowder among the Zhu Weijun's super-era secret weapons, there is no need for these auxiliary soldiers hiding in cave carts to really dig through the rammed earth city walls of You County, as long as they can dig out a place where black powder can be buried. Space, they have completed the task.

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising in later generations, the Taiping Army often used coffins filled with gunpowder to blow up the city walls. It is said that the Taiping Army blew up the stone city walls of Suzhou and Nanjing in this way.

But now facing the rammed earth city walls at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is no need to hold so much black powder in coffins, just use a few containers like urns to fill them with black powder, and then bury it, leaving a bamboo pole as a fuse to ignite the black powder Just make a hole, and the buried black powder can explode, causing certain damage to the city wall.

Even if a gap cannot be blown up at a time, it is estimated that a slope can be blown up, allowing Zhu Wei's soldiers to fight up the city wall along the slope, and then enter You County.

In this way, under the continuous harassment of falling stones and flames on the city wall of Youxian County, the auxiliary soldiers hiding in the cave car successfully dug four holes for explosions at the root of the city wall of Youxian County, and then transported the black powder cans up. .

While the cave carts were digging the city wall ahead, Wang Yuyan had already started further siege operations, first transporting six torsion thunderbolt guns to the army formation where Pang Yan was.

Soon these torsion thunderbolt guns lined up, throwing a rain of gravel on the city wall to cover the cave carts digging the city below.

It can be said that the siege methods controlled by Zhu Wei's army now have a complete set of procedures, and this time You County has become an experimental product for testing this siege method.

Looking at the situation ahead, Wang Yuyan felt that it might not be a problem to win You County in World War I.

After all, Pang Yan also sent the news of Wei Yan to Wang Yuyan at this moment, so at the critical moment, Wei Yan can be the internal response in You County, and naturally it will be easier for Zhu Wei's army to enter You County.

So Wang Yuyan is determined to break the city in one battle.

At this time, Wang Yuyan was already thinking about how to intercept Liu Pan's deserters if he broke You County, and how to deal with Huang Zhongjun's camp on the hill next to You County.

So Wang Yuyan passed on the military orders one by one, and soon Mu Lan commanded five thousand sword shieldmen and one thousand crossbowmen, and with a mobile wall composed of eight or nine spears, guns and tiger chariots, he went to the mountain where Huang Zhong was. Come from the direction of Qiu Junzhai.

Not long after, Mu Lan formed a line of defense between the army village on the hill where Huang Zhong was located and You County. Obviously, this was to prevent Zhu Wei's army from attacking You County. Huang Zhong led his troops out to rescue You County.

Then Wang Yuyan recalled Ling Cao from the front, replaced Chen, and later helped Pang Yan attack the city. After Ling Cao came back, Wang Yuyan asked him to lead five thousand horse archers behind him to wait for the opportunity to support Mu at any time. Lan's side is facing Huang Zhong who is attacking, and he can follow Wang Yuyan's order to bypass You County to pursue Liu Pan's remnant soldiers.

It can be said that Wang Yuyan mobilized nearly [-] troops from Zhu Wei's side, just waiting for the city wall of You County to be blown up or blown down, and the whole army invaded You County.

Seeing Zhu Wei's army deploying troops with such a purpose, Liu Pan, who was located on the gate tower of Youxian City, also looked solemn. Although he didn't know that Zhu Wei's army was planning to use black powder to blow up the city wall of You County, but Judging from the deployment of Zhu Wei's army, he knew that the real siege battle would soon begin.

However, Wei Yan, who led his troops back to You County, did not return to the city gate. He just sent people to the city wall to secretly observe the situation of Zhu Wei's army attacking the city, and then began to think about what he could do in the city. .

Huang Zhong, who was in the military stronghold on the hill, looked at the situation in You County from a distance, and frowned.

Seeing that Zhu Wei's army on the other side of You County is gradually setting up a battle formation to break the city, there are cave carts digging the city in front, a torsion thunderbolt gun in the back, and spears aimed at supporting You County on their own side. The tiger car wall blocked the road, Huang Zhong felt the danger of the situation, it seemed that Zhu Wei was going to go down to You County for a battle...

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