Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 715 The Siege Behemoth
"Command, attack the city!"

The horn sounded.

The order was passed down, under the city of Fuyu, the soldiers of all the armies who had just had breakfast began to put on their armor and stand ready to go into battle.

In fact, what Luo Shixin told everyone was the truth. For this battle, the general strategic direction has already been set, and at this time, all armies have also been in place according to the established strategy.

The siege of the city, the interception of the interception, those who are preparing to attack the city, and those who are preparing to attack the city, are in their positions. Therefore, the general Luo Shixin does not need to do too much, as long as he advances according to the strategy set before the war.

After all, up to now, the situation on the battlefield has not been unexpected at all.

Even, much better than expected.

All kinds of siege equipment manufactured in the ordnance workshops in various parts of Liaodong and transported by boats have also been assembled in the barracks.

At this time, siege engines, cloud carts, punching carts, cloud ladders, battering rams, and catapults were launched one after another.

There are watchtower cars as high as eight feet.

With vertical wood as the pole, it is an upgraded version of the nest cart, which is also an upgraded version of the watch cart. It is eight feet high, with a slab on the top, and a square width of five feet. .

Rolling up the flag means there is no enemy, opening the flag means the enemy is coming, stretching the flagpole horizontally means the enemy is approaching, vertical flagpole means the enemy is approaching, raising the flagpole slowly when the enemy retreats, and rolling up the flag when the enemy has retreated.

For the battlefield, especially for large army operations, it is very important to observe the enemy's situation. The more people there are, the more important the command is, and the more difficult it is to command. Take the enemy's movements into your eyes in time to respond at any time.

There are wheels on the bottom of this kind of building car, and there are pedals on the vertical rod, which can be used for sentries to go up and down. The side of the vertical rod is fixed by a thick rope. The nest car is taller and larger, with a wider field of vision.

For the siege side, it can make up for the lack of vision.

There are also leather curtain cars.

This is a kind of equipment with wooden boards on the front and raw leather on the outside, which allows infantry to hide behind the car and approach the city. It can deal with weapons such as bows, arrows and stones of the defenders. This weapon was originally made of grass and trees. Made, usually hung on the city wall.

But now the Zhongwu Army has built a sophisticated offensive version. The leather curtain car is very huge, and dozens of people can be driven behind it, especially the wooden board is so big, the leather outside is not afraid of fire attack, and the car has wheels, so it can be pushed easily.

There is even a horizontal board on the car for people to hide soldiers, and there are some switchable shooting holes on it, which can be pushed back and fired back.

In addition, the Zhongwu Army also brought some pointed wooden donkey carts this time. This kind of cart is an upgraded version of the previous 轒辒车, which is a four-wheeled bottomless wooden cart. Raw cowhide is used to prevent arrows. People push the cart forward in the cart, and they can hide about ten soldiers and get close to the city wall.

The pointed wood donkey was improved by Hou Jing, the general of the universe. This kind of pointed wood donkey has six wheels. It is one foot five feet long and eight feet high. Arrows are more fire-resistant, and they are specially used to push into the city and dig tunnels.

In addition, there are Linchong and Yunti.

According to legend, Linchong was invented by Jiang Taigong, and because he was honored as Lu Gong in Ludi, he was called Lu Gongche.

This kind of chariot is a huge siege chariot. It is several feet high and tens of feet long. The interior of the car is divided into five floors. Weapons such as poisonous arrows, spears, halberds and spears, and even equipment designed to destroy city walls.

When attacking, the people pushed the carts to the foot of the city wall, so that the roof of the carts could be flush with the city wall, and then the soldiers rushed to the city through the overpass to fight with the enemy, and then smashed the city wall with wooden bumps.

This kind of large chariot is generally rare in sieges, because it takes a long time to make and requires strict craftsman skills. On the other hand, it advances slowly and is more restricted by the terrain.

But this kind of behemoth is also very powerful. On the battlefield, it can give the enemy a huge deterrent.

If the siege army in the early stage can fill up the trenches, knock down the sheep and horse walls outside, etc., and pave a way for the Linchong chariot, then its lethality is also extremely strong.

In comparison, ladders are simpler.

But the aerial ladder is not a simple ladder. The aerial ladder is also a kind of chariot with wheels underneath, which can be pushed and driven. Therefore, it is also called an aerial ladder vehicle.It is said that the cloud ladder was invented by Lu Ban. It is actually a kind of ladder car with a chassis and wheels.

The ladder has a frame and is equipped with wheels, which can be pushed forward to reach the bottom of the city, and the ladder is opened, and the soldiers climb the ladder to attack the city.

The aerial ladder of the Zhongwu Army has been improved. There are main ladder and auxiliary ladder. The main ladder is fixed on the chassis at a certain angle. Outside the main ladder, a movable auxiliary ladder is added. It can slide up and down along the city wall.

This design, because of the use of fixed devices, simplifies the ladder erection procedure and shortens the ladder erection time, and the movable upper city ladder design greatly reduces the height of the ladder before reaching the enemy.

In this way, when attacking the city, you only need to stop the main ladder under the city, and then erect the upper ladder on the main ladder, and you can go up the city, thereby reducing the danger and difficulty of building ladders in front of the enemy. But get close to the edge of the city early to avoid being destroyed by the defenders.

Even the craftsmen of the Zhongwu Army made the auxiliary ladders into various forms, including flying ladders, bamboo flying ladders, and creeping flying ladders.These improvements make it easy and fast to ascend the city and meet the enemy.

Compared with the simplest kind of ordinary long ladder, this kind of siege ladder is more practical.

In addition, the craftsmen also specially built many trench bridges for this siege, which are specially used to pass through trenches or moats, which are equivalent to a mobile bridge.

It also has wheels, which are pushed to the edge of the ditch, and then the bridge plate folded on the car is opened and put on the ditch.

This kind of trench bridge can reach a width of one foot and five feet, and if eight trench cars are erected together, it can reach a width of twelve feet, which can be used for sports cars and horses.

Of course, catapults and siege crossbows are indispensable for siege.

The former types are used to get close to the city and climb to the top of the city, while the catapult and siege crossbow are specially used to kill the enemy or smash the city. Together with the battering ram, it is a complete set of siege equipment. That's enough.

When the horn sounded in the camp of the Zhongwu Army.

Watchtower carts with a height of eight feet were raised one by one, and when a huge Linchong cart with a height of several feet and a length of tens of feet appeared, the alarm bell at the head of Fuyu City rang.

Yuan Jiantu hurried to the top of the city.

However, they only saw hundreds of these huge monsters approaching slowly under the city.

"When did they create so many giant siege machines, and how did they create so many monsters overnight?" Yuan Jiantu collapsed.

"Prince, it must have been built by the Sui people in advance, and assembled here." One person is quite knowledgeable.

But Yuan Jiantu doesn't care about this, what he thinks is, facing so many behemoths, especially the Sui army that is several times larger than the defenders in the city, how will he defend?
"Hurry up and send a messenger to the inner city to ask for help, and say that all the main forces of the Sui army are in Fuyu, and let them come to help quickly."

"Commander, the Qingqi of the Sui Army has sealed off the entire Fuyu River, and our messengers cannot escape the hunt when they leave the city."

"We have become a lone army." A general looked at the Sui army slowly approaching below the city and said in despair.

(End of this chapter)