Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 84 Offense and Defense
"Beat the drum and attack the city." Zhang Jiao said angrily.

Chi You was not only his adopted son, but he also trained Chi You as the future leader of the Yellow Turban.

In Zhang Jiao's view, Chi You is not only the most powerful in the world, but also good at commanding troops, and even handling the government affairs of the Yellow Turban.

But now that Chi You was shot in the back by an enemy general, how could Zhang Jiao not be angry.Therefore, the siege was ordered directly.

However, Zhang Jiao deserved to be Zhang Jiao, and he was naturally not a mediocre person who could develop the Yellow Turban to the level it is today, so he quickly calmed down his restless mood.

Almost [-]% of the Yellow Turban Army came from poor people, and they still had some bravery, but the professional level of commanding troops was far worse than that of the Han Army.

However, this is the situation in the original history. Now because of the existence of several balances, there are top generals in the Yellow Turban Army, although the number is very small.Among them, the most famous two are Zhang Dingbian and Chi You, Zhang Jiao's adopted sons.

However, now that Zhang Ding is facing Huangfusong in Yanzhou in the Central Plains, it is naturally impossible to come over immediately to help Zhang Jiao lead the army to attack the city, so Zhang Jiao can only let Chi You, who has just come to Zhang Jiao's side after dressing up, continue to work hard.

The current Yellow Turban is not the same as the Yellow Turban in the original history. The siege equipment is only a few simple ladders. There are two high-ranking generals, Chi You and Zhang Dingbian, and Li Zicheng, a temporary hero. Naturally, it is impossible not to pay attention to the siege Construction and storage of equipment.

As early as the beginning of the Yellow Turban Uprising, Zhang Jiao took the opportunity to rob some government craftsmen under the advice of several people, and also harassed the folk craftsmen, and specially made ordnance for the Yellow Turbans in a secret place.

Although due to the problem of time and the large number of Yellow Turbans, the armored equipment of the Yellow Turban Army is still far inferior to that of the Han Army, and only the hundreds of thousands of elites specially trained by Zhang Jiao have soldiers and armored weapons.However, Zhang Jiao has a lot of siege equipment, and the Yellow Turban also looted some of the state government when it broke through.

However, the Yellow Turban's siege was quite well prepared, with rushing cars and ladders, and even a large number of well rails and catapults were slowly pushed forward in the distance.

Chi You raised his head and looked at the fortified city in front of him, killing intent flashed in his heart, and he said loudly, "The catapult troops are ready for the first wave of attack."

In an instant, more than a hundred catapults moved forward slowly under the protection of [-] yellow scarves, and did not start throwing stone bullets until they entered a sufficient attack distance.In an instant, under the control of thousands of yellow scarf soldiers, thousands of stone bullets flew towards Yecheng.

Many people think that the catapult was invented by Liu Ye during the Battle of Guandu.Actually otherwise, the catapult was not invented by Liu Ye at all, Liu Ye just made some improvements to the catapult.

In fact, catapults have been used as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and the original catapult structure is very simple, a huge lever, the long end is a stone loaded in a leather case or a wooden basket, and dozens of ropes are tied to the short end , When the order was issued, dozens of people pulled the rope at the same time, using the principle of leverage to throw the stone.One shot can shoot dozens of kilograms of flying stones at one time.The quality is different, and it can be fired at a distance of hundreds of meters, which can be called a cannon in the era of leading weapons.

The first large-scale use of catapults in the history of Chinese warfare should be the battle of Qin General Li Xin's attack on Chu during the Warring States Period.At that time, the Chu army secretly prepared a large number of catapults. When the Qin army was crossing the river, they suddenly launched them at the same time. Countless sharp stones fell on the Qin army like dark clouds. The 20 Qin army was completely defeated, and Li Xin himself was defeated and committed suicide.Later, Wang Jian, one of the four famous generals in the Warring States Period, led an army of 60 to conquer Chu, which shows the power of the catapult at that time.

In fact, even though the Yellow Turban has more than a hundred catapults, which can fire thousands of stone bullets at a time, the lethality of the catapults is extremely limited.After all, with the current level of technology, how accurate the catapult can be, and how many people can it hit when it hits the Han army.

But the real use of the catapult is to suppress the morale of the enemy to assist one's own siege operations.Think about it, if there are stones flying towards you in the sky above the battlefield, although the chance of hitting yourself is very small, it is not scary.Especially the blood dripping when someone was hit, how could the surrounding soldiers not be afraid after seeing it.

However, fortunately, the big Han side also has some catapults. Although there are only less than [-] catapults, with the advantage of condescending, it also caused a lot of losses to the catapult troops of the Yellow Turban Army.

It's a pity, after all, the advantage in the number of Yellow Turbans is too obvious, and the Han army can't change the overall situation even if the Han army has a convenient location.

After seeing the initial achievements of the catapult troop, Chi You also started the second action.

I saw that following Chi You's order, tens of thousands of yellow scarves began to lift the ladders, push the carts and rushed towards the city wall and gate one by one.Later, the Jinglan troops of the Yellow Turban Army were ready to move and ready to go.

In the past few days, the casualties of those ordinary Yellow Turban troops were not meaningless.In addition to the loss of a lot of vitality in Yecheng, the moat under Yecheng was naturally filled up early, but it was convenient for the attack of the Yellow Turban army today.

"Decree, when the Yellow Turban Moth thief approaches, roll wood and thunder stones nearby, and throw bows and arrows far away."

Facing the attack of the Yellow Turban Army, Lu Zhi still did not change his face, calmly issuing orders one after another.

The siege battle is always the cruelest. When the Yellow Turbans approached, countless rolling trees and thunder stones hit their heads, and the archers of the Han Army on the city even fired ten thousand arrows. For a while, countless Yellow Turban soldiers let out painful roars. sound, or the unwilling sound of a bad horn.

But after the ladder was erected, the yellow scarf soldiers climbing on the ladder were even worse. There are still many ways to deal with the ladder in the siege battle.

Some officers and soldiers of the Han Dynasty forcibly pushed down the ladder with their poles in their hands, but the Yellow Turban Army who was on it suffered disaster, and it was a trivial matter to be wiped into a puddle of meat.

Some big Han officers and soldiers poured a pot of fire oil on the ladder, and then shot it with a rocket, so the unlucky soldiers would even be burned to death.

Of course, the worst is the Yellow Turban soldiers who were poured in the golden juice, and the golden juice is boiled feces and urine, which is called "golden juice".Gold juice was commonly used in ancient city defense. It can not only scald the enemy, but also has dirty feces and rotten wounds, making it difficult to heal.

If the morale of the Yellow Turban doused by the golden juice did not die on the spot, it would definitely not be luck, it would only be despair.Because, once it is poured with golden juice, not only will it have to bear the pain of scalding all the time, but also the wounds infected by golden juice are almost difficult to heal with ancient medical conditions.

(End of this chapter)