Every advance in the technology of warfare is based on the accumulation of countless dry bones and blood.

The accumulation of a second improvised wall behind the old city wall had not yet been encountered by the main generals of the Wei and Han coalition forces.

The most encountered strategy before was to lure the enemy into the city and then close the city gate urn to catch turtles, such as Confucius's father became famous in the battle was like this, so there is the legend of Confucius's father holding up the city gate.

Since then, nations have learned to be careful when attacking cities and then closing them near their gates.

As for now, this is not a ploy, but an open-faced means, but this kind of open-faced means has never been seen before, that is, the main generals of the Wei-Han coalition army are at a loss.

In later generations, there are clouds, and the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high.

This phrase is very appropriate for the attack and defense of the city.

After the advent of gunpowder and the use of copper cannons, the defenders were in a disadvantageous position.

The old system of city defenses was weakened by gunpowder weapons and trebuchets, and the previous system of defending the city as the greatest advantage was to defend the city walls completely collapsed.

After the fall of some famous cities, the defenders began to consider means such as concave and convex angles, angles, and star-shaped forts, which for a certain period of time put the defenders in an advantageous position and the siege in a disadvantageous position.

After a long period of attack and defense, the besieging side thought of parallel trench excavation tactics to counteract the copper cannons of the city defense, and after the means of civil excavation and the concentrated use of artillery, the besieging side regained the advantage.

After that, it is the era of competition for national strength, the city defense is strong, but all countries can also mobilize ten times or even dozens of times the huge army in the past, leaving a part of the siege to monitor and protect the supply slowly besieged, and the final victory is still a field battle.

This interaction between attack and defense was supposed to evolve with each other hundreds of years after the appearance of gunpowder, and thousands of lives were sacrificed to accumulate experience, but this natural evolution was artificially advanced.

Now the siege methods of Sishang can be regarded as the pinnacle of siege methods in the era of black powder, that is, the parallel trench zigzag trench excavation tactics - this is not used to deal with the old style of city defense, the old style of city defense is equivalent to non-existence after the appearance of gunpowder, and the army that can use the parallel moat zigzag siege is easy to capture the old city defense; On the other hand, an army that can capture the old system of city defense may not be able to capture a new type of city defense like Dangshan.

The siege methods of the Wei and Han coalition forces were still in the early days of the black powder era, and the artillery siege tactics of the city defense in the face of the old cold weapon city wall defense.

The inkers defending the city will use the tactics of concave and convex angles, which makes the siege skills of the Wei and Han coalition forces weaker than the defense skills in the city.

At this point, the Wei and Han coalition forces were also unable to advance or retreat.

The Mo family has a reputation for being good at defending the city, even if I don't know if it is useful to repair another city defense in the back, but since the Mo family is good at defending the city, it has to be defended.

If you are prepared, you don't know what to do.

After removing the existence of artillery, it was extremely difficult to attack the city at this time, for example, the small country of the Yang State could force the Eight-Nation Alliance to attack for several months, and it was difficult to break the city; Another example is that Shangqiu has been besieged by Chu Ming several times, but it is still standing.

After the advent of gunpowder, all kinds of simple guard weapons such as guns and hand cannons fired with gunpowder can also cause great damage to the besiegers, not to mention the gunpowder mines, which pose the greatest threat to the ant-attached siege.

Fortunately, after the gunpowder, there were copper cannons, which could blast through the city walls.

However, Wei Han's artillery was not Sishang's artillery, and Wei Han did not have full-time engineers, and the military system was still the old military system, at least there was a big gap between Si and Si in the use of gunpowder weapons.

The direction of the main attack has been chosen, if it is the offensive ability shown in the battle of Sishang's attack on Dangshan, in the face of the city defense of the old era like Xinzheng, it may be possible to completely collapse the city wall within two days with only artillery and sappers.

Wei Han can't, and it will take at least five or six days or even longer for the concentrated artillery to blast open enough gaps.

It takes at least twenty or thirty zhang to deploy offensive forces, otherwise the gap is too small, and it is easy to be counterattacked when attacking, and the people in the city can quickly block the gap in the city wall with stones and earth.

Now that there is a bomb outside the city, it will be repaired inside the city, and the speed of the bombardment may not be able to catch up with the speed of repair, which is the dilemma of Wei Han.

The most important thing is that for Wei Han, this time the time to carve up Zheng Guo is limited.

It is difficult to determine the attitude of Chu, Qin, and Sishang, if it is really impossible to attack Xinzheng for two or three months, once all countries send troops, it will be in vain.

Now that the city wall of the main attack has been crumbling, and the soldiers have begun to approach filling in the trenches, it is really unacceptable to choose another direction of the main attack at this time.

So knowing that the Mo family was making moves in the city, the Wei and Han coalition forces could only choose to continue to attack.

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Three days later, the sky was clear.

After a few cannon shots, accompanied by an earth-shattering collapse, the city wall of Xinzheng finally revealed a gap of about twenty zhang.

The drums of the Wei and Han alliances were loud, and the selected elite warriors, wearing three layers of leather armor, took the lead in rushing in through the gap.

There were also columns of soldiers behind them, and many Wei and Han soldiers thought that Xinzheng City had already contributed, and as long as the city wall was broken, the fall of the city would be within a day.

The elite soldiers who were the first to cross the city wall did not encounter the expected Zheng Guo warriors who blocked the gap and executed the counterattack.

However, just past the crumbling city wall, there was a burst of cannon fire in the distance.

Several of the leading corporals watched in horror at the white smoke rising from the distance on the opposite side, and several iron pellets flew past them, smashing into the ground and knocking several Koreans to the ground.

"There are cannons!"

A Wei corporal shouted, frightened, and found that the inside of the city wall was not what he imagined at all.

In the open space one hundred and fifty steps forward from the gap, all traces of the original houses were gone, and in an open space, the people in Xinzheng City actually demolished and burned all the houses near the gap within a few days, and there was no cover for the entire one hundred and fifty paces away.

One hundred and fifty steps away, a strange city wall that didn't look tall, but was just over a foot high, was so abruptly exposed in the eyes of Wei Han's soldiers.

It winded more than 300 steps, connecting with the walls that had not collapsed.

The thick earth slopes, the star-like convex mangs, the artillery on the front, and the soldiers guarding the new city wall...... Everything fell into the eyes of Wei Han's pawn, who had just broken into the gap.

Behind him, the drums sounded loudly, and another lieutenant general shouted: "I have already entered the city, don't retreat!" The city wall is broken, and the Zheng people will be frightened, so I will wait for a blow to seek the first success! ”

After encouragement, the elite first batch of Wei Han soldiers who rushed in from the gap hurriedly formed a team in front of the gap.

Because the gap is not flat, but the uneven ground with some collapsed dirt piled up.

It is said that the time to attack the gap first is the most dangerous, and it is likely to encounter the elite of the city who will fight back to the death, so the role of the first people to enter the city is to control the gap and buy time for the follow-up main attack.

They were dressed in three layers of leather armor, and some of them wore iron armor that Wei Han had exchanged for gold, copper, or silver from Si, which was so heavy that it was impossible to directly attack the new improvised city defenses one hundred and fifty paces away.

As elites, they also understand the fate of charging one hundred and fifty steps ahead...... Don't say that you are wearing armor, even if you don't wear armor and run 200 steps to get to the front, you can't fight.

Moreover, Wei and Han are all princes who started with heavy infantry, although the Xihe pawn is a change in the entire military system, and the Wei State cannot implement it all, but the training method of the Xihe pawn is still inherited by the Wei State: fighting in a heavy infantry phalanx, rather than rushing with the chariot in a chaotic manner.

An army without a formation is destined to die in the era of cold weapons.

Coupled with the uneven gaps, the formation of the people who came in was already scattered, and they could only choose to regroup in the open space.

But it takes time for the whole team to be, Zheng Guo is not an artillery, although the number is small, but it is not nothing.

Originally, it was forbidden to build houses within fifty steps of the inner side of the city wall, it was the road to patrol the city, but now the Mo family has demolished or burned all the buildings within one hundred and fifty steps, and the whole team is in a huge open space, where is it so easy?

A few more cannon shots, and the elite soldiers who had just approached the whole squad under the organization of the officers had once again made a gap, and after two bombardments, these people could no longer stand the feeling of being bombarded by artillery as a target, and shouted, "It is better to die on the city than to be stoned to death by iron pellets here!" ”

Immediately, hundreds of people marched into the distance, and the gap behind continued to pour into the follow-up soldiers, and there were Zheng Guo's soldiers farther on both sides of the gap in the city wall, and the two sides were also fighting.

When the first batch of attacking elite soldiers approached about forty or fifty paces to the new city defense, the formation had already dispersed, and there were many gaps in the artillery of the Zheng army defending the city.

Their front is a concave corner, forty or fifty is the distance from the front, and the concave side is also forty or fifty steps away from them.

There was another cannon fire on the new city defense, followed by the drumming of the front, the left and right sides, or crossbow arrows, or hand cannons, or firebolts, all at the same time.

The three sides were sandwiched, so that the front was three times the direction of Wei Han's attack, and almost instantly, the first batch of Wei Han soldiers to attack collapsed.

Leaving behind their comrades who had been shot dead, the rest of the men retreated with a shout, and the gap was at the limit of the defending artillery, and the first round of the breach in the wall failed in such a vague way that a bombardment combined with the scattered soldiers.

Seeing this, the main general of Wei and Han outside the city could only choose Mingjin to withdraw his troops, reorganize his team outside the city, and reconsider the means and methods of attack.

I thought that as soon as the city wall was broken, there would be no fighting spirit in the city, and when the time came, as long as the counterattack of the gap was won, the city would be captured.

Who would have wanted to clench their fists but hit the cotton, and what is even more odious is that there is a sharp wooden wedge hidden in this bag of cotton.

In a hurry, more than 200 elites were sent first, and the main generals of the Wei and Han coalition forces were extremely painful, this elite was different from ordinary soldiers, many of them were the personal relatives of the generals and nobles, and they were not ordinary soldiers.

Taking advantage of the gap in the city wall, the general of the Wei army saw the situation behind the city wall with a telescope, and finally understood after thinking about it.

frowned and said, "Is this so?" It is unprecedented to abandon the main wall instead of building a small wall. Be a real poison trick. The Mohist did not abide by the etiquette and the law of the city defense ...... It's really hard to break. ”

"In this case, wouldn't we have to use soldiers to storm the walls on both sides of the gap, and pile them up with human lives? Originally, the gap was broken as soon as the city was opened, but now the Mo family actually used it the opposite way, using the gap as a ground for grinding meat......"