Chapter 52 Siege
"Roar—" The drum sound was still at the first pass, and the Wei soldiers three hundred steps away from the west city were lifted on wooden boats and ladders and rushed straight under the city. Many people held torches high, and the flames shook while running, and the flames either reflected the spears or the faces. Many county soldiers wanted to take a closer look, "Swish swish swish swish swish...' A rain of arrows hit, and all the people outside the Qu Dai were caught in arrows, and screamed for a while. The arrow rain was so dense that the entire Qu Dai was shot into a hornet's nest.
The county on the city was hit by an arrow. If the county soldiers in the Chaiban under the city did not raise their shields to resist, most of them would be hit by arrows, and the queues were scattered. When the soldiers were yelling at each hundred steps, they asked everyone to defend Chaiban to death, a pile of fireballs suddenly flew over the other side of the city. Just like the fire bombs before the Chu army, the fire bombs in Wei were also filled with grease in wine jars, but this kind of fire bomb was less than twenty Chu jin (5KG), and the wall was extremely thin.
The city was about four feet wide (about 9.2 meters), and most of the fire bombs thrown fell on the edge of the city, and a few were thrown into the city. The turbulent oil splashed everywhere, and the fireworks immediately burned. Because it was the west wind, the fireworks were fumbling under the city. The city was only two feet away from the city. The county soldiers in the Chaiban were immediately so frightened that they could not stand and could only retreat to the place without fire.
On the other side of the city, all the Wei soldiers who threw fire bombs were tall. They rushed to the edge of the city and threw fire bombs. After dropping, they ran to both sides, and then returned to three hundred steps away to get the bombs and then dropped them. There were arrows shot from Jingbirds flying over the city, but there were all Wei soldiers under the city. Two or three of them might be killed by one arrow, but countless people were still running with fire bombs.
"Retreat! Retreat the city!" The army led Chen Gan to be responsible for the Xicheng. Seeing that nearly half of Chai Fan was on fire, he knew that the city could not be defended, he had no choice but to order the county soldiers in Chai Fan to withdraw back to the city. In the sound of gold, more than two thousand county soldiers hurried to the three city gates, and everyone retreated into the city through the protection of the city, braved the enemy's arrow rain.
"Be careful!" The city exclaimed, and the short soldiers beside him pushed their heads out of the Qu Dai. Zhang looked at Chen Gan pushed him and staggered. He said that at that time, several rockets were tightly inserted into his leather helmet and shot on the Qu Dai who was blocking the arrow above the female wall.
The quda was made of bamboo curtains and immediately started to burn as soon as it caught fire. At this time, the qudada was on the Chaifan City under the city, and the fire was shining up and down, and the city was extremely bright. Fortunately, Chen Ying was a thirty-mile city with a city head exceeding two feet wide. Although the county soldiers on the city could not retreat to the city, they could only squat down, hold their shields, and back against the inner walls. What was the enemy doing under the city? Only the tower at the corner of the city and the urn at the Xizhongmen gate could see one or two.
"Report——!" The Sima Mansion in the city, all the generals who had not been updated were raised, including the generals of the sanitation sanitation. Military newspapers were heard one after another, less than half a quarter of an hour apart.
"What's the matter?" Chen Chai was wearing military uniform and armored. He pressed his sword in his hand and shouted loudly when he heard the sound.
"The Wei army carried countless boats and wanted to cross the city." The military officers came from the corner tower, sweating profusely.
"Making boats? This time I really want to attack the city..." The crowd whispered to each other. Before, both Qin and Wei armies had attacked the city. They did not use boats to build floating bridges to cross the city to protect the city, but instead ordered soldiers to carry soil to fill the city. In fact, there was no surprise to build floating bridges to attack the city. The floating bridges had existed very early. The "make boats to be beams" mentioned in the Book of Songs is a floating bridge. If the city is wide enough, it is not uncommon to use it to attack the city.
"Let's explore again!" Chen Qin's face was calm and waited for the military officer to retreat, and then asked his left and right: "How about the soldiers?"
"General Gongshu said that he could not watch the enemy at the top of the city and could not fire artillery..." The catapult and Jing crossbow were Chen Ying's outer defense line. What was hateful was that the Wei army chose to attack the city at night, and he was afraid that he could not see the target artillery.
"Miao!" Chen Bei shouted angrily and threw a feathered edict. "There are enemies outside the city. Please order the general Gongshu to fire artillery. Those who violate the military law will be dealt with."
"Yi!" The left and right picked up the feather edict and ran out.
"Why didn't the Qin army move?" The sanitation garrison was an inner city. Even so, Yang Wei felt that it was a bit strange that the Wei army suddenly attacked the city. This time the Wei army was just a foil, why did the Qin army move before the Wei army move?
"Report——! The Wei army burned all the people of Jing and Chai Fan, and they had already completed their boats and attacked the city immediately." The Qin army's shogunate news was one step ahead of the city, and Xin Wu learned that the Wei army was about to attack the city.
"Good!" Xin Wu was very happy. He thought the Wei army was weak, but after Xiangbang Ziji entered the camp, he killed more than ten troops and led them. The Wei army suddenly became bold. "Beat the drum, we need to help the Wei people attack the city."
"The general has an order, beat the drum!" The military order was sent outside the tent. The drum outside the tent immediately sounded, and the sound of the drum spread throughout the camp. Two hundred thousand Qin soldiers shouted "Long live, long live, long live, long live, long live," which shocked ten miles.
"The Qin people are here, the Qin people are here." The soldiers on the county side of the city changed their expression when they heard the sound, but the right Sima Chen Bu shouted excitedly. Just like in the previous Xicheng, there were fires everywhere under the north city, one after another, and fire bombs hit Chai Fan on the inside of the city protection pond, and arrows were suppressed by the top of the city. In the shouting, you could even hear the Qin army's launch orders from time to time. After each "shoot", the arrow rain poured in. This should be the Qin army's crossbow, which could shoot more than a hundred steps away.
"Shoot the arrow!" Arrows were fired outside the city, and arrows were also fired inside the city. Three-quarters of the archers in the city had already been on the verge of the bow. After the military order, the archers shot out sharp arrows in their hands. This was a blind shot, because the arrows were about to fly over the city wall more than nine meters high and only fell within fifty steps outside the city.
When every wave of arrow rain fell, Qin stroked a silence of a whine from outside the city, and the fire bullets in their hands also fell to the ground, and a ball of fire suddenly rose up. If they were unlucky and the oil splashed on their bodies, they would scream loudly, or rush for more than a dozen steps before falling to the ground, or jump into the city protection, and be stabbed to death by the spikes in the water.
"Let it go!" The catapults lined up, and Gongshuji, who was expelled by Chen Buyu, had to order the catapult to fire. This time they were all using stone bullets. This was also a blind shot. With a 'knock' sound, the boom flew up, and a 100-kilogram stone bullet was thrown out. The 'bang' hit a hundred steps away from the city. The sound of the stone bullet landing on the ground may be heard, but there is no way to know how many enemies it killed when it landed on the ground.
The north of the city was the focus of defense, but Chai Fan, whom he loved under the city, was still ignited by the fire bombs, and the county soldiers in Chai Fan also retreated into the city like the west city. For a moment, the city was covered with firelights, and these firelights shone on their own people, and the enemy could not see them at all, and could not see them clearly.
"Report—!" Another loud shout. The visitor said without waiting for Chen Zhuo to ask: "The Qin people pushed forward the pass and wanted to cross the city."
"Report——!" This time the two of them came. "Reported to Sima, the Wei army is setting up a ladder, and the ants are attached to the city..."
"Don't worry about the Wei people!" Like Chen Bu, Chen could not understand that the Wei army was just an assist, and the real main attack was the Qin army in the north. "Speedly transfer 5,000 people to the North City, and never let the Qin people climb the city."
Chen Ying was thirty miles long, one mile and three hundred steps, and the whole city was 9,000 steps. The way to defend the city was to have 50 steps and forty people in the city, and twenty people in the city supported it, and the whole city was only more than ten thousand. But Jucheng was captured by the Qi people in this way. Chengyang was stationed at the top of the city according to this standard at the beginning, and almost rushed up by the Qin army. Chen Bu’s experience was that two people must be equipped with each step in the city. To be safe, it would be better to have three people per step. The Qin army’s real ants came and could drive them down the top of the city.
"Sima has ordered to quickly dispatch 5,000 people to the north of the city. Never let the Qin people climb the city." The soldiers held up their feathered edicts and shouted while running to the north of the city. The drums outside the city shouted, the flames ignited from the canal at the entrance of the city, and the scattered rockets shot into the city... The soldiers and civilians in the city had already woken up at this moment. When they heard the soldiers shouting "...The Qin people climbed the city," they were a little scared. "The five thousand county soldiers running seemed to step into their hearts.
"Speed! Speed!!" After hundreds of steps down the North City, the right general Li Xin in the chariot shouted to encourage the Qin soldiers regardless of the stone bullets and the crossbow.
Unlike the Wei army, the Qin army did not use boat building as a floating bridge, but built a pass. The pass was folded, about two or five feet long, and placed on the car. When pushed to the edge of the city protection, the two or five feet above the bridge was unfolded and it became a bridge about five feet long. This bridge spanned the city protection and reached the still burning Chai Fan.
The siege were all old soldiers, and they cooperated with each other in a very tacit understanding. As soon as the pass was opened, the ladder behind pushed the bridge. The ladder was not just a ladder, but a car. The ladder on the car also folded like the pass. Before crossing the bridge, the ladder had already been unfolded. When crossing the bridge, the iron hook at the front end of the ladder touched the city wall, rubbed on the rammed earth, making a "swoosh swish swish swish swish" sound.
The sound was very small, but even if the county soldiers in the city had never experienced this sound personally, they had heard the old soldiers or the chief soldiers say it. They were so scared that they shouted: "The Qin army has climbed the city! The Qin army has climbed the city!"
The Qin army did not start to climb the city. According to the angle calculated in advance, the ladder trucks of Chen Ying, which was four or eight feet high in the city wall, had to rush to a position about one meter away from the base of the wall, so that the ladder could cross the city. The iron hook was tightly hung on the female wall, and the defenders had already buried countless wooden stakes one meter away from the base of the wall, with the purpose of making the enemy ladder trucks unable to get close to it.
"The Qin army has climbed the city..." The county soldiers squatting and avoiding arrows could no longer remain indifferent. They threw the rock-rolling wood downwards, but could only land on the Qin soldiers' shield under the city. Under the shield, the Qin soldiers were wielding a giant axe and cutting off the wooden stakes so that the ladder truck could push to the established position.
"Shoot! Shoot!" Zhang Bijun Army formation outside the city, and the army led their troops to order loudly. The Chu army on the top of the city must suppress it with all their might. In the darkness, a rain of arrows flew out. The county soldiers who were throwing the rocks and rolling wood were exposed if they were careless and exposed, they would be shot into a hedgehog. Even if the newly added five thousand county soldiers held their shields, they must bow their bodies and move forward.
"Come!Come!Come!Come!" After cutting off the wooden stake, the ladder truck finally landed. The rear treasury immediately ordered his subordinates to climb the city. Everyone who climbed the city raised their shields and climbed the ladder step by step.
Chapter completed!