The siege began
"Beat the drum, give the order to go down and fill the city and river quickly, and those who retreat hesitate to kill!" Seeing the power of Gan Ning's two arrows, Zhang Yan was also secretly awe-inspiring in his heart, this is a loss of Qinghe City, which is high and deep, if he changes to a small city and he is closer, Gan Xingba's arrow will not shoot on himself? Goodbye to the soldiers who rushed forward, his footsteps paused and his heart was angry, can I, tens of thousands of horses, still be frightened by you, Liu Langsheng, Gan Xingba, and others?
Zhang Yan ordered the drum and trumpet to be dense again, and the law enforcement team also went up, and the soldiers with sandbags under the double pressure had to rush forward again, and at the same time secretly prayed in their hearts that Gan Ning would not take a fancy to him, and Xingba was true to his word, and another cold light hit! The moat of Qinghe City is only a hundred steps away from the city gate, which is the distance at which the bow and crossbow can exert the most power, two hundred steps away, Ganning's arrow has been so powerful, and the distance is even more powerful, and it actually penetrated the chest and abdomen of the first soldier and then shot the next soldier, and the two were strung together and fell to the ground, and the left and right comrades couldn't help but avoid it.
"Shoot the arrows!" Seeing that Captain Gan had made another meritorious service, Zheng Meng's tongue burst into a spring thunder and shouted, and the five hundred archers at the head of the city began to attack the Yellow Turban Army by the moat! Although they do not have the power of Gan Ning, these archers are also accurate in archery, condescending and the distance is appropriate, and suddenly a piece of yellow turban soldiers fell to the ground and wailed, these five hundred archers are also selected by Lang Sheng in the army, and the archery skills can be called excellent.
Zhang Yan frowned slightly when he saw this, he had not fought siege battles, and the losses of attacking a Xiongcheng like Qinghe were also expected, but generally speaking, the city was raining arrows at this time, but Liu Yi did not, no matter how desperately the Yellow Turban soldiers threw sandbags into the river, the frequency of arrows on the city was not chaotic at all. Although it is not possible to talk about the lethality of ten thousand arrows, it is not low at all, it is this kind of calmness that makes him a little surprised, judging from Liu Yi's past combat examples, he must still have a backhand.
Gan Ning shot down a Yellow Turban Military Academy commanding in the formation with another arrow, Liu Yi glanced at Qi Jun with inquiry in his eyes, and the latter bowed slightly. Previously, Lang Sheng said that it was almost impossible to stop the enemy from filling the moat, so there was no need to spend too many arrows in order to delay that time, but to use the terrain to carry out precision strikes to increase the consumption of the enemy army! Qi Jun and others also put forward their own opinions on this, and finally unified it was to borrow the initial formation to test it first.
As far as the current battle situation is concerned, the Qi army admits that Xiao Yi's words are reasonable, although there are only 500 archers in the White Tiger Battalion, but the damage caused by everyone's increase in the hit rate is not less than that of 10,000 arrows, and the more calm the rhythm of the Han army, the more panicked the enemy will be, which can be seen from their actions, so it is better to save arrows, which is the best policy.
At this time, Gan Ning's target is all the officers of the other party, if it is a flat confrontation with the yellow turban, you can also form a shield formation to guard against the bow and crossbow of the Han army, but condescending is invincible, not only Gan Ning, but also among the archers, such as Wang Fang, Zhao Ming, Li Jun and several other archers are also taking officers to open the knife, this tactic has been clear before the war, and the middle and lower level officers are the backbone of the front line.
Although Zhang Yan's strict orders and the deterrence of the law enforcement team, some of the Yellow Turban soldiers collapsed under the extremely accurate blows of the Han army, and they were killed by their own arrows in front of the battle, which was also a great blow to the morale of the Yellow Turbans. Looking at the scene in front of him, Liu Yi was more and more looking forward to the legendary stone cart, if this thing could be erected on top of the city tower, then the attack on the enemy army within the distance of the moat would be fatal, and the casualties would be further increased.
The battle is still going on, a large number of corpses of Yellow Turban soldiers have fallen next to the moat for half an hour, and there are many wounded soldiers wailing on the ground, Zhang 18 has been counting for Gan Ning, during this time Xingba has shot and killed 23 enemy soldiers, all of them are an arrow through the heart and no body, it can be said that as long as he is targeted, the Yellow Turban officers and soldiers will definitely die! In the past, every time he fought in battle, Captain Gan was the first soldier, and in this battle to defend the city, Gan Ning's 100 shots greatly improved the morale of the Han army.
Zhang Yan's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, he had been fully prepared before the battle, and the huge casualties in the attack on Jiancheng were expected, but at this time he found out that the strength of the Qinghe defenders was not only the surprise attack of the cavalry, but also the defense of the city, and they were still strong! But for now, he can only persevere, the price has been paid, and today he has to fill this moat no matter what. Another half an hour passed, and with nearly half of the two teams of soldiers suffering casualties, they finally achieved their goal, and there were already two broken streams in the river.
"Pass on my military order, start the siege of the city, and push the Chongche Jinglang up." Try his best to control his breathing so that the soldiers next to him don't notice him let out a long sigh of relief Zhang Yan ordered again, and his palms were already sweating when he spoke. However, the moat was finally cut off, paving the way for attacking the city walls, and in addition to using ladders to climb the attack towers, siege equipment was also indispensable.
The so-called rushing car is a cart equipped with wooden rollers, on which a thick log is hung with a wooden frame and an iron lock, the top is sharpened, and the iron lock is pulled by a dozen or dozens of soldiers when attacking, and the weight of the log itself and the huge inertia are used to hit the city gate or the city wall, of course, in the face of a male city with a wall thickness of three to four zhang such as Qinghe, the main target of attack will be the city gate. As for the well block, it is a high wooden frame made in the shape of a tic-tac-toe, and the attacker's crossbowmen can climb on it to attack the head of the city, so that the siege soldiers will not be blindly beaten passively, and in the words of later generations, it is the fire cover of the cold weapon era.
With Zhang Yan's order, the Yellow Turban soldiers at the front of the Caipin Zi formation moved the phalanx, they began to rush to the moat quickly, and then rushed straight to the city wall along the road that was filled out by sandbags, and the siege equipment will not be put into the battlefield immediately before the infantry has effectively launched an impact on the city, otherwise they will be easily destroyed by the defenders with the help of a condescending advantage, you must know that it is extremely difficult to build a siege equipment, especially a rushing car, When the infantry and the defenders begin to fight, the latter's defenses will also be pinned, and the subsequent Yellow Turban soldiers will need to further fill in the moat to facilitate the passage of large equipment.
In his opinion, Zhang Yan's attack is still very methodical, and the defense of the city is also a process of learning offensive methods for him, and Zheng Meng does not have to worry about the defense of the city head for a while, and now what he has to wait for is the moment when the enemy's large equipment comes to Jinan City.