Shannan County was established by Qin State. After King Wulie of Qin defeated the Huns on the grassland and wiped out the Xiongnu royal court in one fell swoop, the Huns on the grassland became a mess. In order to concentrate their efforts to manage the Central Plains, the Qin people at that time were unwilling to entangle with the Huns on the vast grassland, so they established Shannan County, where a unit was stationed to monitor the grassland. On the one hand, they prevented the remaining Huns from tampering with the northern part of Qin State again, and on the other hand, they also meant to prevent the Huns from becoming bigger again.

The Qin people's strategic abandonment of the grassland is of course extremely wrong now, because it gave Gao Yuan, who was in Jishi City at that time, the best opportunity to embezzle and encroach on the Huns. As a result, Gao Yuan took several years to integrate the Huns into the East End Army that year, causing the strength of the East End Army to suddenly increase and firmly control the grassland.

Later, in order to compete for Shannan County, many conflicts broke out between Gao Yuan and the Qin people, and Shannan County changed hands several times. Both sides lost a lot of their generals and troops here. Finally, after Li Xin and Wang Xiao invaded that year, the Qin army entered the country again. This time, the Qin people stationed heavy troops here and strengthened the city walls. The Han army was already so strong that it was hard to shake. Although the Qin people occupied Shannan County, they could no longer pose a great threat to the Han Dynasty, and the Han army did not send troops to fight again.

However, when the Han Dynasty calmed down all the countries on this continent except Qin and pointed at Qin again, Shannan County became the focus of the competition.

Taking down Shannan County opened the gate to the northern part of Qin, and the Han army could launch an attack on Qin from both north and south. When the importance of Shannan County was once again highlighted, the Qin people found that they did not have enough strength to reinforce Shannan County.

When Wang Changyong left the pass, he took half of the troops in Shannan County and left forever. Now more than 10,000 people have to defend Shannan County, which has to be said to be a very heavy task.

In recent years, with the strong rise of the Han Dynasty, Qin State has repeatedly failed on the battlefield. The county town of Shannan County has been strengthened and increased again and again. Every time the Qin people defeated, Shannan County will undergo a large-scale upgrade and renovation. The current Shannan County is no longer the same as when Lu Chao was guarding here.

From the initial adobe mud wall to the blue brick wall, to the exterior wall rebuilt with steel and cement, the exterior wall has been rebuilt with a thick and solid shell for Shannan County City. Even the Han army's artillery only hits shallow pits on it, and cannot penetrate it. The thick city wall was collapsed.

However, the walls are strong enough, and the buildings on the city walls are not as reliable as this. The shells fell on the city walls, destroyed the city towers above, collapsed the hidden soldiers' caves, overturned a number of crossbows, ignited countless wooden trees, and drove away piles of stones that were originally intended to be used to smash the enemy when the Han army sieges the city walls. There were a lot of fires and wailing sounds.

This is the first time that Fan Zhang, the governor of Shannan County, has been attacked by so many artillery. If his personal soldiers had not been quick to do anything, the highest commander of Shannan County would have been buried along with the collapsed city towers during the first wave of bombing, thus becoming the fastest-dead defensive commander in history.

After several rounds of bombing, the officers and soldiers of Shannan County, who were nervous, found that there was no following. The Han army did not let their infantry launch an attack at this moment, and it seemed that they were not ready to attack the city.

This made Fan Zhang feel relieved. After the artillery fire stopped, he began to organize people to clean up the messy city. Most of the defense facilities on the city wall were destroyed. There were broken walls everywhere, and the injured soldiers were lying in the ruins and screaming. In the ruins, the bodies of soldiers who died in this round of artillery attacks could be seen everywhere.

The only thing that made Fan Zhang happy was that the main city wall of Shannan County City was still standing proudly under the attack of artillery fire and did not suffer much damage.

Outside the city, Helanxiong was summoning the commander of his engineer troops and the commander of the artillery battalion.

"Commander, based on the bombardment of the cannon smith just now, we can judge that the outer body of the main wall of Shannan County City is a whole cast with steel and cement structure. It is extremely strong. With our current artillery, it cannot cause too much damage to it. It is even more unlikely to use engineers to destroy the wall. It cannot be dug at all, and it also has to destroy the wall with the counterattack of the enemy on the city. This is completely unworthy of the loss."

"So what can the engineer do for me?" Helanxiong asked with a frown.

"Commander, we can only build larger and stronger siege tower vehicles, ladders and other things for you. If you take down Shannanjun City, you may have to rely on infantry in the end." The engineer commander said embarrassedly: "We can provide the infantry with enough siege tower vehicles. This place is close to Mount Holland, and the wood is inexhaustible and inexhaustible. We can continuously build siege equipment."

"Can't you build a siege plank car?"

The engineer commander shook his head: "Commander, Shannan County City is now too high and has a large angle, so it is difficult for the cavalry to launch a charge on it. Even if it is built, it is leaning against the wall, and the defenders are very easy to defend. They can use the large steep angle to cause a large amount of damage to our cavalry."

"I, I understand, go down, as you say, build more siege towers for our soldiers. Remember, the stronger you build, the less casualties our soldiers will be, and this is the meaning of your engineers."

"I will do my best!" The engineer commander bowed and retreated.

Helanxiong's eyes turned to the artillery commander: "Can the artillery really blow up this damn city wall?"

"Yes." The artillery commander nodded and said, "The outer wall of the entire Shannan County City is a whole. The steel and concrete structure gives it a strong resistance to destruction. The Qin people were willing to spend a lot of money and actually built the entire wall into a whole. It was thick enough that solid bullets would not cause too much damage to him. Commander, I suggest that the next main task of the artillery is to cause damage to the Qin army defending the city and provide artillery fire cover for infantry siege."

"From now on, artillery soldiers can attack the county town anytime and anywhere, with the purpose of destroying and killing." Helanxiong stood up and paced back and forth in the tent, "killing the enemy, destroying the enemy's defense facilities, and destroying the enemy's courage and will to the greatest extent. They feel irresistible."

"I will understand."

"Don't care about the loss of artillery shells. Now the entire Han Dynasty is still fighting, our family is left. The rest are being repaired. Logistics supplies will be provided, but you are afraid that you will not be able to consume them." Helanxiong smiled and said, "This is also a good opportunity for you to practice your artillery. The artillery in our Third Military Region is not as good as the First and Second Military Regions, and there are fewer practical opportunities. In this battle, let your artillery train well and make them show their skills next year."

"Yes!" The artillery commander was happy. For him, there was no better news than this. The artillery's artillery was shot accurately. If you just say not to practice, it was completely fake. A good gunner, an experienced gunner was completely fed with artillery shells. The Third Military Region is not the main combat zone, and there are not many opportunities for artillery live-fire exercises. Now, using war instead of training, there are no worries about ammunition, but there is a unique opportunity.

The artillery commander left happily. Helanjie walked in quickly. "Commander, the turtle shell of Shannan County City is really hard."

"It's hard enough. Since we can't break the turtle shell, we can only cut our heads directly." Helanxiong smiled and said, "Ajie, lead your troops to build a snow platform for me. You should be very clear about the distance, right?"

"Snow platform? Skiing on the high platform?" Helanjie was stunned for a moment, and suddenly understood. "Are you going to fly over?"

"Climbing on the ground and flying on the sky, I don't believe that Shannan County City is really solid." Helanxiong sneered. "The characteristics of our Third Military Region must be fought."

The sound of cannons rumbled and rang out from time to time every day. The Qin army on the city tower had no sense of security or relatively safe time because the artillery below had no rules at all. The sporadic artillery never stopped, and occasionally there would be a salvo of hundreds of artillery guns. Some of the defensive facilities that had just been built were destroyed again and again in such artillery guns. What's even more terrible is that the soldiers on the city wall found that the other party's artillery was getting more and more accurate. At the beginning, the sporadic artillery guns were often shot out, and they did not have much lethality except for the sound. However, three days passed, and the Qin army, who had been bombed many times, discovered that the sporadic artillery guns began to become scary.

This made Qin soldiers die of sorrows. They tried hard to carry sand cannons one by one onto the city wall. As soon as they were built, several shells flew over and were blown up. If one was not good, they would have to take several lives. Since that was the case, it would be a big deal! The soldiers were unwilling to show up on the city wall again. They would rather stay under the city. Anyway, the Han army did not intend to rush up to attack the city, and no one would want to climb onto the city wall to die in vain.

What made Fan Zhang even more anxious was that there were more and more Han army siege tower cars outside the city. In three days, there were more than a hundred such siege tower cars. The height of these siege tower cars was level with the city wall. Once they were allowed to lean on the city wall, the consequences would be unimaginable. What made him even more puzzled was that the Han army used snow to build high platforms outside the city, and they saw that the high platforms were getting taller day by day and far exceeded the height of the city wall. A long ramp was built behind these high platforms. Because the Han army continued to shell the night and night, there was not enough counterattack measures on the city, and they even watched the snow platforms being built little by little to a place that was only more than 100 meters away from the city wall.

If this continues, the Han army will not need to fight, and the Qin army will collapse under such pressure.
Chapter completed!