The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

Thanks to the nourishment of the two great rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigerus, the Arminian plain, which is in arid areas, has become an oasis, a granary for Central and Western Asia, and a richest area of ​​the Seljuk Empire.

It created countless lords of all sizes. The Song army felt that they had launched a counterattack against these Seljuk lords who were surrounded by like flies.

The lords' territory is often a town formed with a tall castle as the center. The nobles constantly broke out in wars to compete for land, food, livestock, and population. The intensive war led to the nobles' construction of castles to guard their territory.

The function is to serve as a base for professional soldiers, especially knights, and control the surrounding rural areas. When the central power controlled by the Seljuk Empire declined due to various reasons, in addition to its military defensive use, it also has

Politically expanding territorial and controlling local use.

For those little lords who ruled within a radius of only a few dozen miles and had a population of thousands, the Song Dynasty Expeditionary Force disdained to waste military power to attack, although these people were the most arduous. Because Ma Wei knew the principle of killing snakes, those little lords were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who were the ones who

We are just vassals of the great nobles. A group of cannon fodders who cannot make the decision. Not only will they not be able to achieve a shock effect when beating them, they also gain very little. It is better to pick up all the big ones once, which is a military and material harvest.

On a moonlit night, the Song Dynasty Expeditionary Force, who was marching along the main road, suddenly turned east, and rushed twenty miles at a rapid march and suddenly appeared on the territory of Grand Duke Feichia, quickly occupying the small town outside the castle, under the city of Chenbing

The defenders in the city heard the movement but did not come out. By dawn, the Song army had already completed the encirclement and looked at the dark crowd and dared not come out again.

The one who was chosen by Ma Wei was a hereditary grand duke named Feichia. It is said that his ancestors were princes of a certain sultan. He was granted the title of here when he became an adult. At first, the territory was not large, but only a radius of hundreds of miles. However, with the rule of the central government of the empire,

The weak power and the princes rose one after another. The descendants of the Grand Duke of Feichia recruited and raised the "Guram" cavalry with the financial resources accumulated by the family for a hundred years. At this time, they had more than 2,000 knights. They were eliminated and conquered through war.

Many small lords around controlled the area hundreds of miles east of the Tigerus River, and their forces reached the outskirts of Baghdad.

Ma Wei found a few prisoners who knew the truth and asked carefully for a long time, and led several generals around the castle. Now he looked at it with a telescope for a long time, but he looked at it with a smacking teeth. He felt a little embarrassed.

I regret that there were too many people today. I scared the enemy back in a flash. I would have known that I would have lured the people in the castle out and destroyed them. I would have avoided some dogs biting hedgehogs in the castle that are now guarding heavily.

The embarrassment of having nowhere to talk...

Ma Wei understands that whether it is to build a city or a castle, one principle must be followed, which is to be able to defend long-term and effective with very few troops. Having a strong defense can allow the defender to defend without relying on the advantage of sufficient supply until the city is siege.

The person was removed by the army that came to rescue, or the attacker was forced to evacuate when the ammunition was exhausted, the disease caused by severe damage to the vitality. The castle in front of him seemed to be completely in line with this principle.

The castle is built on a small high hill. It covers an area of ​​about five or six hectares and is built around the walls, but it is not the square shape commonly seen in the Central Plains, but is surrounded by a round shape. The wall is about four meters high, with a stool and a marble

.You can vaguely see soldiers wearing iron armor behind. There are arrow towers three or four meters high above the city wall in four corners of the city wall, and there are corridors connected to them. There are shooting holes on the exterior wall of the corridor. There are digging outside the wall.

A moat that is not enough to cross is water inside.

The high city walls cannot cover the majesty of the main building in the city. This cylindrical 15 meter tall is the most solid place in the entire fort. According to the prisoners of Ma Wei's visit, the walls of the main fort are as thick as one meter.

Made of stones, there is an observation room and a shooting room, as well as an arsenal, a grain warehouse, a well, and a secret room. It is like a maze, and the city lord's family lives there. Of course, it also contains treasures and gold coins collected by his family from all generations.

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"Deputy coach, why do you play? The weather will get hotter and hotter later!" Li Quan asked, wiping the sweat from his face.

"It's not easy to fight. The fortress builder doesn't know how to figure it out. One city can build a city gate, not even a back door. If you want to use a three-in-one circumference, you can't use it. It's clear that you are just a stance to defend to the end.

!” Ma Wei said with a wry smile.

"Well, this city gate looks like the only weak place, but it is not easy to capture it!" Li Quanshen said with consent.

The city gate is arranged between two arrow towers. If you rush to the bottom of the city and enter the shooting dead corner, the city gate is just a wooden city gate wrapped in the upper layer of iron. If blasting is used, it will not be difficult to explode. But their city gate is

The structure is also different from that of the Central Plains. It is a gatehouse with internal space that can defend the strong stronghold of the castle. When the enemy breaks through to the city gate, the defenders can reach the city gate through a tunnel.

The gatehouse. There are also multiple layers of gate doors in the middle or both ends of the tunnel. The rolling mechanical action can lift or drop the gate above the gatehouse for solid protection. The gate itself is a heavy wooden or iron fence.

The defenders hid on both sides of the gate and shot or stabbed, killing the invaders, making it difficult for the enemy brigade to break into the city.

"That's obviously a pit, which leads people to jump down!" Wang Gang said sneered, "Look at this terrain, we need to use upward attack to shoot in a charge, and the enemy is hiding on the arrow tower and the city wall, and putting it downwards.

Arrows can allow the city guards to defend the city gate from all sides. There is also the bridge that can be poured with golden soup and hot water to kill our soldiers. Moreover, the city is open and we will be completely exposed when we hit.

In the open area, huge casualties will be paid!”

"Deputy Commander, we should still make long-term plans to prepare siege equipment, or dig trenches to force the city to attack before launching an attack. We cannot attack forcefully. We are just a few people who can't afford to lose!" Li Quan agreed.

"There are only two thousand people in the city. What if we attack from all directions to attract and disperse the enemy and then take the opportunity to break the city? Besides, they are also humans. If they are guns, they will die. If the casualties are too great, they will not be able to be supplemented. If they are still injured, they will not be able to be supplemented.

It won't take long!" Sun Bin, the commander of the First Infantry Brigade of the Expeditionary Force, intervened.

"You think that shitty man is a fool. He has already prepared to take all the young and strong people into the castle. Didn't you see that the town we occupied are only old, young, women and children? He is afraid that these people will waste it.

The food stored in the fort was kept away from the fort and allowed them to fend for themselves. They were already ready to persevere for a long time. If you want to waste them to death, can you afford it?" Li Quan's opponent thought of this.

The idea of ​​"Tian" was very angry and scolded loudly.

"What's wrong? I just encountered some difficulties and was timid. The Baghdad city ahead is stronger than this. Seeing that you are like this, we should not go forward and just get on the boat and go home!" Ma Wei looked at several people.

He said with a stern face with a lot of difficulties.

"Deputy Commander, we don't mean that..." Wang Gang saw that he was annoyed and wanted to explain a few words.

"Qiao Laoer, put the cannon on and bombard me the noisy things in the city!" At this time, Ma Wei turned his face and saw the enemy troops in the city pointing and laughing at them, although he couldn't understand.

Something was certainly not good. He shouted to Qiao Shijun, the commander of the artillery brigade of the Expeditionary Army, who was standing not far away.

"Why, my navy commander can't command you horse and infantry?" But after waiting for a while, Qiao Shijun seemed to have not heard it, and was still moving. Ma Wei said angrily to the group of people.

"Qiao Laoer, come here quickly. Can you hear the deputy coach call you again?" Li Quan shouted loudly when he heard that the matter was going to be broken.

"Deputy Commander, you are so harsh. Our navy and infantry and cavalry are both from the same school, so there is no difference between inside and outside. On the public, you are the deputy commander of the Expeditionary Army, how dare we disobey orders? On the private sector, the second

We have been your subordinates for ten years, and we dare not disobey it! It must be that Qiao Laoer was distracted again. I didn’t hear it. Don’t be angry, I will teach him a lesson now." Wang Gang quickly explained.

"Deputy Commander, what are your instructions?" Qiao Shijun rushed over after hearing Li Quan's shouting and asked as if nothing had happened.

"The war is coming, if you don't prepare for the war quickly, why are you stunned?" Ma Wei was so angry here, but this kid looked cute, which made him feel very funny and asked in a low voice. Actually, Qiao Lao Er said that

It's not an outsider, it's quite close to you. His father was Qiao Kun, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He met everyone when he was in Xiangyi. When he went to the northwest, he went there with the determination to repay the kindness of the king with his death. Otherwise,

He wouldn't have given his son such a name. He should call him uncles by seniority. How can he expose his anger on a "child"?

"Oh, Deputy Commander, I'm thinking about how to use artillery to cover the infantry into the city!" Qiao Shijun replied. He was incorporated into artillery after he joined the Kruel Army in the northwest. This kid is very smart, willing to endure hardships, and has a good gun attack.

With his own efforts, he was promoted step by step to the commander of the artillery team of the Leopard Wing Army. Considering that the Expeditionary Force had naval guns to provide firepower, he did not send other artillery soldiers, but only the artillery teams of the brigade and the artillery teams directly under the army

The group was combined and a temporary artillery brigade was formed, led by Qiao Shijun.

"Do you have an idea?" Finally, I met someone who did the "serious business". Ma Wei asked hurriedly after hearing this.

"Report to the deputy commander, I have some ideas, but I still need to be improved!" Qiao Shijun said with a smile.

"Okay, let's talk to us, and you can help you find out a little bit..." Ma Wei said after hearing this, but before Qiao Lao Er could speak, he heard an alarm sound. Everyone looked up at the city and saw the castle

The city gate was wide open, the suspension bridge was lowered, and a team of cavalry rushed out of the fort...