Aspiring to the Ten Kingdoms

Chapter 247 Siege
On the day of preparing to attack the city, Luo Youdu's first consideration was not how to attack, but to prepare the camp well in advance.

Luo Youdu now has a certain amount of experience in leading troops to fight, and he knows that a good attack may not necessarily win, and there are too many situations that affect the battle situation.

Just like Zhao Kuangyin in the Battle of Huainan, thousands of troops fought against the enemy.Many times the lone army went deep into the city of Yangzhou, beating Nan Tang without any temper.

In the end, Guo Tingwei touched his ass, took Chuzhou, and suffered a small loss.

But as long as the defense is in place and a favorable position is occupied, it is easy for the opponent to be overwhelmed.

This is especially true for an opponent like Khitan who is good at maneuvering field battles and capturing fighter opportunities.

Luo Youdu worried that he would neglect the protection of the camp when he attacked the city, so he made arrangements first.

Chang Side, the commander of the Imperial Battalion, had the strictest military discipline. Luo Youdu arranged for him to lead the Tianwei Army to defend the camp, and let Dang Jin and Zhang Qiong each lead a cavalry to attack with the left and right small villages.

Anyway, the siege has nothing to do with their cavalry.

Everyone in Khitan is good at horseback riding and archery, and they don't care about their riders at all, they use them as pawns.

Luo Youdu is precious here, and he is not willing to let them lose in the siege battle.

After arranging all this in detail, Luo Youdu came outside the front camp to plan the siege.

Luo Youdu personally commanded the offensive and defensive battles of Shuzhou, and he is well aware of the tragedy of the siege.

This is still fighting a small Shuzhou. If you really want to fight those famous fortified cities in history, you can't break your mouth full of good teeth?

Luo Youdu turned around and viciously updated his knowledge about siege warfare.

As far as siege is concerned, there has been no good way since ancient times.

Otherwise, there would be no such thing as siege.

Either you need someone to force you, or you use all kinds of siege equipment to force you.

Luo Youdu has always cherished the lives of his soldiers, he just happened to be fighting Khitan, so he couldn't be in a hurry, so he kept dragging the battle, just to build more siege equipment.

When catapults, bed crossbows, ladders, siege carts, wooden curtain carts and other siege equipment were pushed onto the battlefield, Shi Fang and Xiao Hunian, who were watching from the tower, felt their scalps tingling for a while.

They are at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, and the only thing they can rely on is that the city of Youzhou is high and strong, and the towers are equipped with a large number of defense equipment.

But looking at the opponent's posture, it is obvious that they don't want to spend it with them, but plan to end the battle on the same day.

Shi Fang looked at the surrounding soldiers and saw that Zhou's soldiers were so powerful that they were all frightened, and said loudly: "Don't panic, the city of Youzhou is dangerous and solid, and our catapult lathe crossbow is condescending, and they will never come back for safekeeping."

"Zhang Dutou, push three more catapults over."

They don't have many troops, and they can only win by killing the enemy mechanically.

In this regard, you must not be stingy.

everything's ready.

Luo Youdu waved his hand violently and said, "Drum!"

The deafening drums rang out.

The exciting drumbeat opened the prelude to the siege battle.

Luo Youdu waved his hand, and the first thing to move was the wooden curtain carts, and sixteen wooden curtain carts were slowly pushed onto the battlefield.

The wooden mantle cart is the simplest of all siege equipment, but it is a defensive siege equipment that best embodies the wisdom of the ancients.

It is a simple wooden board with four wheels, a long tall pole in the center, and a huge screen hanging from bamboo poles.

The screen can be made of wood, leather, or even a cloth tent.

It's a very simple thing, but it can defend against the flying stones of the catapult and the crossbow bolts of the crossbow.

The high-hanging wooden mantle can swing back and forth.

When the flying stone hits the curtain cloth, it is like a person hitting cotton. The wooden curtain will unload the strength of the boulder with natural soft force, and then roll to the ground.

The main function of this kind of wooden curtain cart is to cover the siege soldiers close to the city wall. The soldiers hide behind the wooden curtain cart and cannot be reached by arrows and stones.

But this time Luo Youdu did not hide soldiers behind the wooden curtain cart, but six catapult carts.

After the catapult came the ladder, the catapult and the soldiers.

The catapults of Dazhou and the catapults of Youzhou City are only different in details.

When it comes to the range, power and precision, Dazhou's catapult is slightly better, there is no doubt about it.

But this slight victory is not enough to make up for the disadvantage brought by Youzhou's high wall.

Zhou Bing must be at a disadvantage in the confrontation of the catapult.

But with the wooden curtain cart, this disadvantage can be recovered to the greatest extent.

Shi Fang saw that the other party was actually protecting the catapult cart with a wooden curtain cart, with a faint smile on his face, and said, "It's a good idea to protect each other with a wooden curtain cart, but can the wooden curtain cart really serve as the city wall of Youzhou?"

Seeing that the opponent had faintly entered the range, Shi Fang roared: "Hit me!"

There was a hint of sternness on his face, the continuous teasing and the long-term accumulated sense of powerlessness made his mentality a little unbalanced.

These three words are more like catharsis.

Following his roar, dozens of huge flying stones roared and smashed towards Zhou Bing under the tower.

Without exception, all of them went wrong, and the nearest one was more than ten steps away from Zhou Jun's catapult.

It's okay for this catapult to attack ant-attached enemies, but when it comes to attacking a single target, the hit rate is really gratifying.

Only through unstoppable adjustments can there be a chance to hit the target.

Shi Fang continued to order: "Reassess the attack position and install the cannon stone!"

He didn't expect to be able to hit it with one blow at all.

What Youzhou City lacked was soldiers, strategic materials such as cannon stones, which were piled up like mountains in the warehouse, and he didn't mind spending a few worthless cannon stones in order to increase the hit rate.

Under the tower, Zhou Bing's catapult was already in place.

The soldiers of the Zhou army had already been ordered to directly install artillery stones and launch an attack on the Khitan soldiers on the tower.

It was almost the same as the Khitan soldiers' catapults, and the hit rate of Zhou Jun's catapults was also extremely average.

This is the Achilles' heel of the catapult, but no matter how bad the hit rate is, there are walls to cover it.

The cannon stone hit the city wall and split in four.Compared with hitting the ground and rolling a few times, or directly making a pit mark, it is undoubtedly more deterrent.

With the support of the cannon stones coming and going, the attacking Zhou army is about to enter the effective range of the bed crossbow.

Shi Fang ordered people to make all preparations. Compared with the catapult, the bed crossbow is the real weapon for defending the city.

The power may not be comparable to the catapult, but the accuracy is not comparable to the catapult.

A bed crossbow can fire ten arrows, and fifteen are 150 arrows.

Each crossbow bolt is made of iron and is a full meter long.

Not to mention human flesh and blood, even a city wall can be shot through.

Luo Youdu estimated the distance, and said to himself: "It's almost the effective range of the bed crossbow!"

Khitan's bed crossbow originated from the Central Plains, and the only advantage is that Luo Youdu knows its effects like the palm of his hand.

"Send the order, Kang meets again, let him attack!"

A strange smile appeared on Luo Youdu's face, and he gave the order to attack.

The orderly waved the order flag.

An army of more than a thousand people came out more and more.

Instead of rushing towards the tower in the west section of the south of the city head-on, they rushed towards the tower in the east section.

Extremely fast!

Seeing this, Shi Fang was astonished.

What does it mean?
Is this an attempt to attack the eastern tower?

Is it possible to fly over?
The west section of the city tower is filled with a moat, but the east section is not.

Did Zhou Jun grow wings this week?

trick?

"He must know that he is about to enter the range of the bed crossbow, and he did it on purpose to distract me."

Shi Fang's thoughts turned, and he felt that the high probability was the case, so he ignored it immediately, but stared at the siege troops in front of him, and said silently in his heart: "Come closer, come closer!"

Although he comforted himself for a while, Shi Fang couldn't help but flicked to the left out of the corner of his eye.

The next move of Zhou Jun on the left left him dumbfounded and at a loss.

The Zhou soldiers who broke away from the attacking team added two folding trench bridges and six flying ladders out of thin air. They pushed the folding trench bridges and carried the flying ladders on their backs, and rushed towards the moat.

Folding moat bridge is a siege equipment specially developed for moats, and it is a convenient bridge with high mobility for siege troops.

Generally, the moat bridge is enough to cope, but for a strong city like Youzhou City, the moat is extremely wide, and the folding moat bridge is needed to reach it.

At this moment, Zhou Bing on the opposite side had already approached the moat and began to erect the folding trench bridge.

There are only a dozen people guarding over there, and there are no defensive weapons. How can this be stopped?

"Quick, hurry up and support!" Shi Fang couldn't care less about why the folding moat bridge would appear out of thin air, and was so anxious that he was sweating profusely and shouted hastily.

Xiao Hunian didn't want to compete with Shi Fang for the command, so he closed his eyes and rested under the battlements.

Shi Fang is a scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken. When it comes to the critical moment of fighting, she has to step up.

Shi Fang, who had been commanding Ruoding, suddenly became flustered. Xiao Hunian just checked the situation and saw that Zhou Bing was about to erect the folding moat bridge under the tower in the east section in the distance. I will go to rescue and directly send reinforcements to support."

As she spoke, she rushed directly towards the eastern city wall.

When Luo Youdu saw that Kang Zaiyu led the Xuanwei army to build the folding trench bridge in the time of tea, he couldn't help admiring, this experienced hand is not comparable to a novice.

This siege is all about time, every minute and every second.

As for the folding trench bridge and the flying ladder, of course they were not conjured up, let alone given by God, they were prepared by Luo Youdu last night.

The two thousand soldiers last night were not just lighting torches to fool people.

Using the cover of the fire, they transported the two folding trench bridges and flying ladders more than two hundred steps away from the moat.

The flying ladder is simple, just place it on the ground and throw a layer of sand on it to cover it tightly.

Two hundred paces away, I couldn't see clearly at all.

Folding the trench is a bit troublesome. Luo Youdu asked someone to cover it with a tent and then with sand.

From a distance, it is just a small mound.

During the day, they were all attracted by the moat that had been filled in the west section of the city wall. Where would they pay attention to a small mound of earth?

As long as the soldiers of the Xuanwei Army opened the tent, they could obtain folding trench bridges and flying ladders to attack the city.

"shoot!"

The rhythm of the west section of the city wall was messed up, and finally the crossbow arrows were fired.

The terrifying crossbow arrows shot out chasingly, and Shi Fang heard the screams from the tower, but there was no joy in his heart.

Because of the moat that was filled under the western section of the city wall, he transferred all the catapults and bed crossbows from the east of the city.

Not only was there no one there, there was no hot oil other than stones and lumber...

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