Destiny Only Han

Chapter 176 Like God's Help
Dingtao city.

Last night, Longqie stood at the head of Dingtao City, looked west, and saw Jishui, which was dark in the night in the past, seemed to have turned into a bright galaxy.

The places that shone like stars were several fishing ports occupied by the Han army.

And the ships going down the water with the lanterns hanging should be the Han army's transshipment from the west, with continuous supplies.

At this moment, the sky was bright, and he was tossing and turning on the top of the city. The sleepless Long Qie boarded the top of the city again, and he was stunned on the spot.

The verdant field with a width of more than ten miles below the city is now covered in darkness, with soldiers like clouds and long halberds like forests.

The battle flags of the Han army with black characters on a white background fluttered in the wind, and black clouds pressed down on the city to destroy it.

Before Cao Shen launched the siege, Long Qie began to patrol the top of the city, cheering up the bloodless Dingtao soldiers.

Although there are a large number of Han troops outside the city, Dingtao City has a solid city defense, with trenches, suspension bridges, urns, etc., and the archery towers on the top of the city have built a full three floors!

And not only that, the city wall of Dingtao is not composed of a few straight lines to form a square shape, but when the city wall is built, the city wall will deflect every ten or twenty steps. .

What was finally formed was an uneven city wall.

In this way, when the enemy ants attack the city, the enemy army climbing on the ladder will be attacked from two or three sides.

The most important thing is that Dingtao City is not big, but because of the developed commerce, the county can support more county soldiers than other places.

Now in the whole city, there are nearly 2 county soldiers, and more than [-] urban residents have also been registered overnight by Xiang Tuo. According to the standards of men, women, old and weak, they are divided into several teams to take turns to assist in defending the city.

Cao Can, who was standing on the cloud chariot outside the city, was not in a hurry to attack when Long Qie was running to boost morale.

Although the Han army has basically opened up its posture, and the Yunti Lu bus and other things are ready, Cao Shen is still waiting.

What he was waiting for was the large-scale siege equipment that went down the river in Shunji last night, and the military craftsmen assembled it all night.

Gravity trebuchet.

Today, under the continuous improvement of Liu Ying, Pan Gong and others, the trebuchets used in the Han army are already the latest version 3.0.

Compared with the original and modified winches, the trebuchet at this time is equipped with wooden wheels similar to hamster wheels on both sides.

Soldiers who use trebuchets can run the trebuchets by walking on them.

Well, the shape is a bit like the one Saladin used to attack Jerusalem in the Kingdom of Heaven.

Before this kind of large-scale lethal weapon capable of throwing a hundred catties of boulders four hundred steps away was assembled, Cao Shen did not intend to let soldiers attack the city with ants.

Although among the coalition forces, the number of the Han army is less than 10,000, and the remaining [-]+ are all servants of Han Wangxin, Wei Bao and others, but there is a way to avoid death as much as possible, why not do it?

After the giant stone destroys the fortifications such as the archery tower and female wall at the top of the city, it will be easy to take down Dingtao.

Thinking of this, Cao Shen began to order the Chinese military shogunate to sing the golden drum.

Mingjin here does not mean to withdraw troops, but an order to order soldiers to temporarily rest in place.

Beat the drums and move forward, lower the flag and move forward, beat the gold and retreat, and sit when the gold drums are all beaten.

This is a set of military training manuals compiled by Wei Liaozi for the Qin army in the past. Han Xin naturally knew it well when the Qin army swept the world. After he convinced Cao Shen and others in Hanzhong and Guanzhong, he learned the truth in a simple way. He preached and learned a lot for them.

Today's Cao Shen feels stronger than before every day!
He figured, apart from the monster Han Xin, there should be no one in the Han army who is stronger than himself!
While Cao Shen felt good about himself, the trebuchets were assembled one after another, and rivets for reinforcement were hammered into the joint of the two parts one after another.

The key to being able to be so fast lies in the standardized operation specifications formulated by Liu Ying when designing. The size of each component has the same standard, and strives to rotate the same components on any device.

This is not Liu Ying's original creation. When the Qin State was still there, strict legislation was passed to make the parts produced in different regions consistent in size and specification.

However, in the Qin Dynasty, a single craftsman strictly followed certain standards to complete the processing and production of the overall components.

The legendary assembly line production does not exist at all.

Under the name of Wule Gong, what is required is that once a product has a problem, it can be directly traced back to the craftsman who produced the item.

Therefore, under this kind of system, the team production of the assembly line is not feasible.

Well, in fact, the development of human systems meanders forward in constant regression and twists and turns.

What Liu Ying has to do is to straighten the road as much as possible.

Well, from curved to straight...

When the sun was high, the last trebuchet was assembled. The engineer who operated the trebuchet commanded the auxiliary soldiers, and put stones weighing fifty to sixty catties in leather pockets one by one, ready to launch them into the city.

Because the size and structure of the trebuchet are similar, and the weight of the stone bullet is also similar, so you only need to adjust the counterweight to know where the stone bullet will hit.

Well, I can't figure it out, don't you know how to try it?
Anyway, such a big stone, as long as it is thrown on the enemy's head, it will hurt if it is rubbed, and it will die if it is hit!

Seeing that the trebuchet was ready, the Chinese military shogunate immediately made a loud noise.

Amidst a series of creaking and creaking sounds from the wood, huge stone bombs flew into the air one after another, drawing parabolas and smashing into Dingtao City.

Standing on the cloud cart, Cao Shen could clearly see the dust and sawdust flying across Dingtao City in the distance.

A three-story archery tower was directly hit by stone bullets on the supporting pillars, and immediately fell inwardly. Not only were the defenders on the archery tower either dead or injured, but the broken pieces of wood were extremely lethal at close range. No less than a crossbow arrow.

In an instant, wailing was everywhere on the top of the city, and there were defenders fleeing everywhere with their heads in their arms.

After all, according to their experience, when something like a trebuchet launches an attack, it is an indiscriminate blow. Once the stone bomb is launched into the sky, not only can they not know where the stone bomb fell, but even the soldiers who launched the trebuchet can't Know where the stone bullet will end up!

But what they don't know is that times have changed!
The engineer in charge of commanding the trebuchets outside the city quickly adjusted the standard square bricks filled in the counterweight boxes after seeing the fall of the projectiles projected by the trebuchets filled with different counterweights, trying to make every attack I can hit where I want to hit.

According to Cao Shen's pre-war instructions, the targets of these large siege weapons were the archery towers built on the top of the city and the female wall that could shield the enemy.

The former is a fortress used by the defenders to organize a multi-layered firepower network, while the latter is a barrier used to protect them.

If these two places are destroyed, the defenders' attack methods will be greatly reduced.

Even, when the Han army launched a charge, the morale of the defenders would drop to the bottom and they would surrender without a fight.

After all, the biggest source of morale for the defending side is the city wall in front of them.

In ancient wars, siege warfare was the most tragic. Once the city walls were breached, street fighting almost did not exist.

Above the top of the city in the distance, Long Qi, who was hiding behind the female wall, saw the second round of stone bomb attacks from the Han army in the distance, which basically hit the arrow tower on the top of the city in a neat manner, and was immediately shocked. color, almost sitting on the ground.

This has completely exceeded his imagination!
It should be a coincidence!
He kept comforting himself in his heart. After all, in his many years of military career, he had never seen it before, and no one could do it!

It must be fooled!

He quickly made a judgment in his mind, but he still secretly moved his face to the side of the wall and looked out of the city secretly.

Xiang Tuo and some other generals of the Chu army also had the same movements as him.

So, amidst the screams from the top of the city, the third round of stone bombs flew into the air and hit several crumbling arrow towers on the top of the city.

rumbling...

Dusty, sawdust flying.

In the choking smoke, Long Qi seemed to have forgotten to breathe, staring blankly at the towering tower of the tower a few moments ago.

Today, the place is in a mess, and the archery tower that once brought the defenders, as well as his own infinite belief, is gone.

In a trance, Long Qi only felt that his waist and abdomen were a little wet.

He lowered his head, and what he saw was a palm-sized piece of wood stuck in the gap between the nails.

Under the flying wood chips that had just collapsed from the archery tower, this piece of wood just passed through the nail leaf and pierced into his body.

It's just that he was out of his mind at the time, and didn't realize all this.

Now that he has reacted, he only feels pain in his heart, and the strength in his whole body seems to be continuously draining with the blood flowing out.

He hesitated for a moment, but did not pull out the wood chip, because he knew that if the wood chip was still attached to his body, he would still be able to fight. Once the wood chip was pulled out, he might lose all his combat power in an instant. .

Before leaving, King Xiang entrusted him with the affairs of the country.

Therefore, even if you die in battle at this moment, you will never leave the city wall!
People are here, the city is here!
It's just that Xiang Tuo beside him didn't think so. The Han army attacked like a god, and his desire to fight had been completely extinguished.

At this moment, he just wants to escape, to Pengcheng, or to Kuaiji!

Anyway, Xiang Yu's main force is still there, even if Pengcheng is lost, it's no big deal!
So, under Long Qi's constant struggle, Xiang Tuo still called the military doctor, pulled out the splinters, bandaged the wound, and then led all the cavalry to break out from the exit of the Han army's encirclement.

Although they were chased by the cavalry of the Han army, most of the horses under their crotch were good horses captured from the Great Wall Corps under Julu City.

Therefore, Ding Yi, who led the pursuit team, could only look at Long Qi who was going away, sucking his teeth bitterly.

"Cowardless bastard, I'll kill you next time!"

(End of this chapter)