Sweep the World

　　 "Prepare-release!"

Stones and bed crossbows are thrown or projected through the kinetic energy of the equipment. After a short leap, they either slam heavily on the city wall, or the arrowhead penetrates the human body, penetrates the city wall, or sinks into the ground.

This is a big scene. The warships on the Yangtze River are attacking, and the equipment troops on the 6th ground are also attacking. Jiangdu is surrounded on all sides, but the waterways on the south and 6 places on the east are the main attacks of the double arrows. The west and north sides are used as feints.

The entire river is completely surrounded, and the surrounding woods have been cut down. The wood will be used as materials for equipment such as siege ladders, shield carts, crash carts, etc., and some relatively straight wood will be selected as the crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow. .

Too many siege equipment was moving, causing no stones or crossbow arrows to stop in midair. Such an offensive has been going on all morning, and it will continue in the afternoon, but the Han army has not sent any soldiers. Engage in contact warfare.

Xie An was allowed to enter the battlefield to watch as an observer. He only took four people with him, two of them were entourages, and the other two were guards.

After watching it all morning, Xie An had to fall over for the Han army’s siege methods, all because the Han army had too many siege equipment. The Shijie garrison in Jiangdu shot several waves of arrows at the beginning. It was simply suppressed from behind, and there was no more counterattack.

"Why not throw in the troops to siege the city?"

"It's not time."

"The so-called timing?"

"Comprehensively suppressed more time, resulting in the enemy's morale reduced to a minimum."

At least one hundred catapults and nearly three hundred crossbows were all concentrated in the east offensive, and this was only a six-sided offensive by the Han army.

On the Yangtze River, nearly seventy ships lined up in two long queues. They took turns to spread their crossbows across the river in the south. When they fired repeatedly, they would always make a loud breaking sound. Because of the elevation angle, only a small part of the crossbow arrows hit the city wall, and most of them flew directly into the city. At the beginning, there were bursts of screams and crying, but there was no movement after the whole morning.

What is wealth? Xie An sees the Han army's offensive as the best manifestation.

Stones are not difficult to find by the river, but the arrows of the bed crossbow need to be made even if they can be made from local materials. Besides, the arrowheads also need to be built.

In just one morning, the bed crossbows shot by the Han army definitely exceeded 5,000 shots, and the attacked city walls on both sides of Jiangdu were densely packed, not to mention the crossbow arrows shot into the city.

The defenders of the stone jade are no longer visible above the city. The Han army’s stone dumplings and bed crossbows are still shooting endlessly. There is really no other way except to explain that they are fighting psychological warfare, but this kind of cost is huge. Psychological warfare is estimated to be able to support the Han army. If it is replaced by any other country or force, who would do it?

Xie An couldn't guess whether the Han army was using such a siege method, or whether it was deliberately showing it to them.

Yes, it was them. Xie An was close to observe. On the south bank of the Yangtze River, there were a large number of Jin army soldiers who were also watching. The difference was that the distance to the other bank was relatively long.

A blast of war drums was struck, and Xie An saw that there were soldiers from the squadron in the Han army's main formation. From his point of view, he could recognize that they were a large number of crossbowmen, but behind them were rushing carts and siege ladders, followed by light soldiers in the same line.

The so-called light soldiers are the general term for unarmed soldiers from the pre-Qin period to the present day, but there are still more detailed distinctions, such as light infantry in the true sense, but there are also death squads. If the light soldiers are equipped with flying claws... The tool of the iron hook and the noose is Xiaoguo, also known as the Dangdang Soldier.

Xiaoguo is a word of praise for those brave enough to fight and die. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, only true sharp men could get this title. In the Sui Dynasty of the Yang family, they became the general name of volunteer soldiers who brought their own dry food.

"Flying Claws?" Xie An said startledly: "Are you going to formally attack the city?"

Flying claws are actually leaping soldiers, specially used to "do not take the usual path" to carry out climbing attacks on city walls. Looking at the flying claws carried on the shoulders of the jumpers, it can be seen that the claws have three iron hooks. The front end of the linking iron hook is a kind of hemp rope and the iron chain entangled into a twist-shaped noose, and the back is all made of hemp rope. To make up. This is of course to prevent flying claws from being chopped off by the defenders on the city wall, but only a force with sufficient productivity and financial resources can do it, and the rest will not take this effort at all.

The drappers and bed crossbows did not stop shooting because the Han army was advancing. It was because the offensive troops were still far from the city wall, and there would be no accidental injuries at a proper distance.

It was when the offensive troops approached the Jiangdu city wall about three hundred steps before the drappers and bed crossbows stopped shooting.

"Why don't you attack?" Xie An watched for about half an hour before he couldn't resist and said: "There was no defender on the city wall just now, so you can attack very easily."

"Don't worry." Cheng Shuo said with a smile, "Just look at it and you'll know."

After about a quarter of an hour, a horn sounded on the previously silent Jiangdu city wall, and heads were gradually sticking out behind the battlements and female walls. It was a stone jie. Zhao Jun estimated that he confirmed that the Han army’s stone dumplings and crossbows were not. After firing, the troops were mobilized on the wall to prepare for defense.

A heavy war drum was struck, followed by a dense sound of clappers, and the military formation kept sending out orders, and the next moment was a thousand arrows.

The raindrops of arrows followed wave after wave, and the rushing carts, siege ladders, etc. began to slowly advance, and the jump soldiers rushed out of the formation and began to disperse and charge.

Waiting for the jumper to enter within fifty steps of the city wall, the crossbow that was also advancing while shooting began to move to both sides, and the armor soldiers who followed behind began to speed up the pace of their steps.

There are many types of soldiers that can be called armored soldiers. As long as they wear iron armor, they will be called armored soldiers, but there are many distinctions, such as tower shield soldiers that focus on defense, large swordsmen for steady advancement, and shields. There are short-soldier swordsmen and so on.

The soldiers who joined the charge, the front rows are all tower shield soldiers, and the sword shield soldiers behind them. They will take necessary cover when the assault vehicle starts to hit the city gate, and then come to build a shield to see Can you organize a shield passage connecting the female wall above the city wall?

There were already jumpers entering the city wall. They didn't throw flying claws at the first time. They used the thick crossbow arrows inserted into the city wall to climb vigorously. In an instant, hundreds of figures on the city wall quickly climbed up.

"..." Xie An understands a little bit why he can come: "Do you want to go down in one go?"

That was a textbook siege demonstration, in order to show the powerful siege strength of the Han army!

Cheng Shuo smiled reservedly, without humility at all: "The number of Shijie Zhao troops in Jiangdu should be about 3,000. How long will it take for the Jin army to attack? Our army only needs one day to win!"

There have been jumpers attacking the city wall. Before that, the bow and crossbow troops had raised the elevation angle of their shooting and were throwing fire at the city. A dense scream and howling could be heard in the city.

Only under the premise of close cooperation, the melee soldiers are attacking the city, and the crossbowmen continue to shoot arrows. This may not avoid accidental injury, but it has an absolute advantage in blocking the enemy's charge, and even can kill the enemy by surprise.

Jiang Du had already been conquered by the Jin army not long ago, and that time Xie An came to command the troops to attack. It took them nearly a month to capture Jiangdu, and they suffered close to three thousand casualties, but they killed and captured close to two thousand Shijie Zhao Jun.

When the small ~ imperial ~ court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty ordered Yu Bing to abandon Jiangdu's retreat, Xie An ordered the people to set fire to Jiangdu. He had a good understanding of Jiang. He originally thought that the Han army wanted to learn about Jiangdu's terrain and layout from him, but no one asked at all.

The crash of the city gate collapsed and told Xie An that no one would ask him about Jiang Du, because it was no longer necessary.

"Maybe you don't need a day, but only a morning?" Cheng Shuo has a reason for pride, but he also knows a little, and said: "In fact, there is your credit."

Xie An was silent, he knew what Cheng Shuo was referring to, nothing more than the burning of Jiangdu.

There are already Han troops pouring into the city, and in an instant, the sound of shouting and killing came from the city. It seems that the Han troops in the north and west have also begun to attack. Isn't it a feint attack, but an attack in the real sense?

Xie An didn't know what the people watching on the other side thought. The only thing he thought about now was that the Han army quickly turned their attention to Shijie Zhao Guo, but don't give birth to any thoughts of crossing the river south.

It was almost noon, the city was quiet, and even some soldiers of the Han army began to **** the prisoners of war before walking outside the city.

Xie An saw Guo Xiang. He knew and knew that Guo Xiang was the commander of the remnant Xuzhou Army of Shijie Zhao State, but he did not expect to become a prisoner of war of the Han Army.

Even the main general became a prisoner of war. Jiang Du was captured by the Han army and absolutely won. Just like Cheng Shuo said just now, the Han army really didn’t need to spend a day. It was only about three hours before the attack. , And... the casualties don't seem to be large?

Xie An didn’t know one thing because of the position. Before the Han army's 6th Army invaded, the gate of Jiangdu Shuizhai Camp on the other side of the Yangtze River was breached. In fact, it was the Han's navy who entered Jiangdu City first. The 6th army of the Han army marched in.

In a seemingly simple and short-lived city defense battle, the Han army will use all its advantages to the fullest. Any enemy that can't compete with the Han army in long-range attack means, and cannot crack or defend, there will be a battle with the Han army. The problem with headaches is how many people should die in order to make short-handed contact.

[Once the powerful crossbow that has suppressed several eras is widely used, how to crack it? 】Yu Bing’s face is full of frost. The dispatch he watched is different from Xie An. Xie An watched the Han army's 6-sided attack throughout the whole process. He saw the offensive of the Han warships: 【Warship bed crossbow range It can reach two hundred and eighty steps, which is slightly less than the range of a strong crossbow, but... it's useless. 】

The Jin Army also has a bed crossbow. The farthest range is only two hundred and twenty steps. Regardless of the difference of only forty steps, this distance is the existence of the sky for many battlefields. It indicates that every little bit of distance will be pushed further. But I don't know how many people will fall, or will never be able to advance even that little distance.

"Nearly 20,000 armies have more than 5,000 crossbowmen, right?" Zhang Heng was full of cold sweat on his forehead, which was scared by himself when he imagined the battle with the Han army. He didn't wipe the sweat from his forehead, and his face was horrified: "How long do they have to prepare for each battle?"

Talking about so many crossbowmen, the consumption of arrows must be very scary, that is how long should be prepared, how many arrows should be prepared. The simple truth is that under normal circumstances, a battle-level war will consume about 50,000 arrows. That is, under the premise that crossbowmen only account for about 10% of the army, if the proportion is higher, it must be adjusted upwards. For battle-level wars, the number of arrows prepared must not be less than 200,000, and even needs to be constantly supplemented. In the end, three to four hundred thousand arrows, or even more, may be shot out in a battle.

Are three to four hundred thousand arrows a lot? There are really a lot of countries. For countries without some foundation in national power and productivity, three to four hundred thousand arrows may take three to five years to build. For example, it would take at least two years for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to reserve 400,000 arrows, and Shijie Zhao would need at least In five years, the rest of the countries and forces will be longer, and it is still unknown whether this number can be made.

However, the fact is that the former Qin army consumed nearly 800,000 arrows in the attack on the capital of Zhao State, Handan~www.wuxiaspot.com~ How shocking!

Those celebrities who abused the Han army all the way shut up, and some generals with large families behind them had strange heartbeats in their eyes.

The Han army came, and they showed their own strength. It was based on the Han army’s destructive and destructive offensive against Shijie and Zhao. In contrast, if the Jin army was used as the offensive side, the Jin army might gain Victory, but the offensive and defensive battle between Jinjun and Shijie Zhao will be extremely tragic.

At this moment, someone came to report that Xie An was forcibly detained by the Han army.

"..."

At that moment, everyone who heard the news of Xie An's detention was shocked. They did not forget one thing. Huan Wen and Yuan Qiao were representatives of the past, and they were also forcibly detained by the Han army?

While the crowd looked at each other, some people were envious but angry, and even more weird.

Perhaps they are wondering, why Liu Yan loves to detain people so much? It doesn't seem right, it should be someone who loves to detain the past of the Eastern Jin Dynasty? It’s still not right. I went to the Eastern Jin Dynasty for several waves before, but only Huan Wen, Yuan Qiao, and Xie An were detained. Although some of the rest of the aristocratic family hadn’t been grandly entertained, didn’t they come back safely?

[The detained people are all talented people! Liu Yan is eager for talents, and he has reached the point where he will slowly persuade him even if he is forcibly detained. 】

More than one person was thinking that at that moment... (To be continued.) 8