Chapter 371: Instrument Drawings
The siege equipment such as ladders and rushing cars were used by Yang Rui in the battle of Guangzong, the plot of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and it was not surprising that his troops were able to create these things again at this time.
After discovering this situation, Yang Rui naturally would not let him succeed, and after continuing to patrol around Heyang City, Yang Rui turned back and headed towards the bank of the Yellow River.
In the entire Heyang City, only this forest near the southwest side is making siege equipment, thinking that Dong Zhuo's troops have gathered the relevant craftsmen on this side, Yang Rui returned to the camp to bring the more than 3,500 iron guards who had just been transported, and they were ready to destroy these weapons in one go, and it was best to control the relevant craftsmen as well!
Because it was at night, and Dong Zhuo's troops did not expect that there were other Yang Rui's troops outside Heyang City, they were a little negligent, and when Yang Rui came with troops in the middle of the night, it didn't take much effort to destroy all the siege equipment that Dong Zhuo's troops had worked overtime to make a siege machine.
"Kill!"
At this time, Dong Zhuo's camp naturally also noticed Yang Rui's sneak attack, and at first there was a panic, and later he relied on the strength of the crowd to stabilize his position, and Yang Rui's more than 3,500 iron guards and close guards were killed for a while, as the soldiers of Dong Zhuo's camp in the inner layer continued to replenish the outer layer, Yang Rui's pressure also increased.
At the same time, Yang Rui was also worried that the other party's lord would come, and Yang Rui was not his opponent for the time being, so Yang Rui led the guards to retreat in time after rushing and killing for a while. Although the whole process is not long, and it is only half an hour before and after, the effective damage caused is not low. The merit points and points earned alone exceeded 200,000 points. It can be seen that the number of people killed is quite large.
In addition, Yang Rui also obtained a lot of skill books, equipment and other items. Yang Rui did not count the other items carefully, but Yang Rui deliberately kept two drawings in mind.
"Ladder Fabrication Drawings (Elementary): Drawings for the manufacture of primary ladders. Requirements: Carpenters above the special level can use this drawing, and they can break away from the restrictions of the carpenter shop and make it on the spot in the battlefield environment.
"Punch Fabrication Drawings (Primary): Drawings for the manufacture of primary punch lathes. Requirements: Carpenters above the special level can use this drawing, and they can break away from the restrictions of the carpenter shop and make it on the spot in the battlefield environment.
Don't look at these two drawings as just elementary drawings, and the conditions for learning to use them are not too high, but Yang Rui knows their rarity. Unless it's in the hands of the Emperor or a large NPC force that can get a similar drawing, it's hard to get this kind of thing elsewhere!
Killing relevant manufacturing personnel like Yang Rui and obtaining drawings is only because the other party has already mastered the drawing skills before, and the source of these personnel or drawings should be the royal family, Dong Zhuo was previously located in the northwest, and it was difficult to obtain such items out of thin air.
With Jiao Wen, a high-level carpenter, after these two drawings are in Yang Rui's hands, it means that Yang Rui will immediately have relevant physical objects, whether it is a ladder or a rushing car, although they are both primary grades, they are still a weapon for siege. I don't know how much stronger it is than ordinary wooden collisions, wooden ladders and the like!
At the same time, if it is combined with the Iron Guard, a class that is extremely good at city wall warfare, the difficulty of Yang Rui's siege will definitely drop a lot in the future! Yang Rui decided that as long as he was free. He found Jiao Wen and asked him to make some ladders and rush out to meet the needs of the next siege.
Since the attack on the siege equipment, Yang Rui has carried out attacks and killings in various places on the periphery of Dong Zhuo's troops in Heyang City, constantly accumulating merit points and points, as well as equipment, skill books and other items. Especially in terms of point value, Yang Rui currently has a deficit of millions of points for resurrected soldiers, and he needs to accelerate the accumulation.
Since the besieging army has lost the relevant personnel, it is no longer possible to manufacture siege equipment, and the siege can only use ordinary wooden ladders during the day, so the efficiency will naturally not be improved, and the threat to Heyang City is not great.
After four or five days in a row, Dong Zhuo's troops besieging the city repeatedly attacked the city without making any contributions, but the number of soldiers they lost exceeded 100,000, and the average daily loss was 20,000 or 30,000! Among them, the number of Dong Zhuo's troops killed by Yang Rui on the periphery was not a few.
Dong Zhuo's general, who led the team, also seemed to sense that something was wrong, so he waited for the opportunity to send a fast horse to prepare a report to Dong Zhuo in the Luoyang Imperial City, but the letter was intercepted by Yang Rui's fleet and handed over to Yang Rui.
In the four or five days that Yang Rui was attacking and killing everywhere on the periphery, his fleet was not idle, and he had already cleaned up a large area of the Yellow River around Mengjin, so he was able to stop the letters of Dong Zhuo's subordinates.
The current situation is that although Dong Zhuo's troops have crossed to the north bank of the Yellow River with great effort, in the absence of corresponding ships, it may not be so easy to retreat to the south bank of the Yellow River!
The content of the letter sent by Dong Zhuo's subordinates was asking for help, and the letter detailed the current predicament faced by Dong Zhuo's subordinates in Heyang City, hoping that Dong Zhuo could send his subordinates to help in the war again, so as to recover Liu Zhuo's mother and son who were in Heyang City.
Through the payment of the letter, Yang Rui also learned the identity of the leading generals of Dong Zhuo's subordinates in Hebei, this person is the general under Dong Zhuo - Li Dao, and there are three other generals who still can't determine their identities, Yang Rui only saw the corresponding handsome flags during the day, which are "Zhang", "Dong", and "Duan" handsome flags!
Combined with the situation of the generals under Dong Zhuo, although Yang Rui has some guesses, he can't completely determine the identities of the remaining three, but one thing Yang Rui is very sure of, Dong Zhuo must take the matter of recovering the young emperor Liu Wei and the Empress Dowager He very seriously, otherwise he would not have sent so many generals to chase Yang Rui when the war was frequent.
One thing that was also revealed in the letter was that due to the heavy losses caused by the siege of the city for several days, Li Dao decided to wait for the arrival of Dong Zhuo's reinforcements, and then launch a siege war together, in order to take Heyang City in one go with absolute superiority!
After learning this news, Yang Rui decided to take the opportunity to send a fleet downstream again to pick up the last group of more than 2,000 guards and guards, so as not to cause any trouble downstream. At this time, Ding Yuan had already led his troops to the vicinity of Dongjun to deal with the Black Mountain Army, and the remaining Yang Rui soldiers were only commanded by some junior and intermediate generals, and Yang Rui was of course a little uneasy.
Yang Rui ordered the fleet to set off first, and before leaving, Yang Rui paid attention to it again, Dong Zhuo's camp really just surrounded Heyang City in situ and stopped all siege behaviors, so Yang Rui led the fleet to the downstream to transfer troops with confidence.
Of course, even if Dong Zhuo's camp does not stop the siege, Yang Rui will have no problem leaving for two days, and there will not be much danger in Heyang City in a short period of time, which has been proved by the siege in the previous few days.
And Yang Rui's only worry is the problem of grain and grass in the city, when Yang Rui transferred troops several times before, he used a boat to transport some grain, but when he rescued the young emperor Liu Wei, a lot of grain was shelved in Juling Villa, and most of the food in Heyang City was carried by soldiers and later plundered in Hanoi County, and it could last for one or twenty days when it was full.
Therefore, Yang Rui also needs to increase the intensity of peripheral attacks, and he is in a hurry to transfer troops for this reason, one more soldier will have more attack power, and the sooner the downstream soldiers are transferred, the more they can play their role.
It is worth mentioning that in the past four or five days, the traceable * Dragon Soul has actually lost the medium-sized city that was captured before, Gong County, and the strength of Dong Zhuo's camp can be seen!
However, the reason for the loss of Gong County does not stop there, the geographical location of Gong County and the strength of the Dragon Soul defenders are also very important aspects, and these cannot completely hide the edge of Dong Zhuo's troops!
In fact, what Yang Rui didn't know was that one of the biggest reasons why the dragon soul lost Gong County again was that it suffered from Dong Zhuojun's siege equipment, compared to the Heyang County occupied by Yang Rui, Gong County's location was not surrounded by such a natural danger as the Yellow River, and Dong Zhuo's troops could directly transport the siege equipment in Luoyang City without having to make it on the spot.
In fact, Dong Zhuo's camp did the same, and for this reason, the dragon soul did not hesitate to sacrifice many players, and tried his best to kill some siege equipment such as ladders and rushing cars, trying to see if he could get the relevant drawings.
However, it is a pity that the purpose of tracing the dragon soul was not achieved, and the siege equipment he attacked did not burst out of the relevant drawings, and the drawings obtained by Yang Rui were not actually blown by the equipment itself, but by the craftsmen who mastered the relevant skills.
However, it was said that Yang Rui went to the east of the Tiger Prison Pass downstream, and within two days, he brought all the remaining guards to the upper reaches, and after joining forces with the previous more than 3,000 peripheral soldiers, Yang Rui led these soldiers to attack and kill everywhere again.
The number of this group of Iron Guard attendants has exceeded 5,000, and although they still can't compete head-on with Dong Zhuo's troops, they can already cause a lot of trouble to the other party. Dong Zhuo's two or three hundred thousand troops are divided into about seventy or eighty thousand guards in each direction, and if they are evenly dispersed to each section of the city wall, in fact, the density of his soldiers is not very large.
It wasn't until Yang Rui attacked and killed the other party a few times that Dong Zhuo's troops seemed to have realized that it was impossible to contain Yang Rui's troops who were moving behind him when the troops were scattered and besieged the city, so Dong Zhuo's troops besieging the city began to concentrate their troops on a point line to prevent them from falling behind when they were attacked by Yang Rui.
And after Dong Zhuo's troops were adjusted in this way, there were already some gaps in the originally impenetrable siege. (To be continued......)