Lord of the Desert

Chapter 351
"One hour later, one hundred and seventeen dead and 390 wounded."

Yi Hong reported the number of battle losses of the right army.

"Many of the arrows coming down from the city were soaked in feces!"

When he said this, his face was livid.

The Yum Army does not have sufficient medicines. In addition to those killed on the spot, a large proportion of the wounded soldiers will also be disabled and die.

In fact, due to the inability to deal with wound infections, the number of dead in Dahua's wars was often greater than the number of wounded.

There was nothing Hong Fan could do about this.

He did not understand how to prepare antibiotics, and simple operations such as boiling and disinfection were already known to the Chinese from experience.

"According to the statements of several of the leading troops, the total number of people hit by arrows in the city does not exceed 50, and the casualties are probably only one-tenth of ours."

Yi Hong continued.

"I'm not afraid of fighting, it's really not worth it..."

When the words fell in Hong Fan's ears, they sounded about three parts sad and seven parts angry.

It seems to mean something.

"go on."

Xu Yuntao glanced lightly, his face expressionless.

Yihong had no choice but to suppress his mood.

When he was in the Tianfeng Army, he was Xu Yuntao's confidant, and his obedience to the latter was ingrained into his instinct.

"Xu Shuai, the precise statistics of earth moving have not been released yet, but we can roughly estimate it."

Yi Hong used his fingers to draw on Hong Fan's new siege sand table.

"It takes half an hour for the auxiliary soldiers to walk back and forth from the rear to the front. Considering the final sprint, they can only carry twenty kilograms of sand at a time."

"I successively replaced three teams of 24 people, promising that each person would only need to make four trips back and forth. From this, it can be seen that the total amount of earth transported is about [-] kilograms."

24 kilograms sounds like a big number.

But after conversion, it is actually only 120 tons, almost 48 cubic meters, which is equivalent to filling a four-meter-wide city.

This does not include the waste of loose soil carried away by the water flow - the moat is not a source of water, and there are stone valves at the culverts to adjust the runoff of the water system.

There was silence in the camp for a moment.

Everyone here is old in the military, and they know at a glance that if we follow the current method, filling a 60-meter-wide attack area will require dozens of times the current casualties.

At least thousands of lives and many more injuries.

Just to complete the preparations for the siege.

This price is really unacceptable.

"Shuai Xu, why don't you let Brother Gu protect me?"

Hong Fan took the initiative to ask.

Xu Yuntao thought for a moment and shook his head.

"The trench is shallow and narrow, so it's enough to tear down the east wall to make up for the west wall."

"But the amount of earthwork on the scale of the moat must be transported from the rear to make up for it. Otherwise, even if you create a steep slope with water, heavy equipment may not be able to pass it."

As he spoke, he pressed his fingers on the Chenghao River channel on the sand table, leaving an obvious slope.

After all, the sand world cannot create matter out of thin air.

"And the river is too close to the city. Seeing you two staying for a long time, 'Tiemuzi' will definitely try his best to gather elites and go to the city to surround and kill them."

"You can't take that risk."

Xu Yuntao made a decision.

"Tiemuzi" is Li Xiqi's nickname in the Tianfeng Army - although he also practices "Xiaoyao Yin", his martial arts style is very different from that of his peers, and he is famous for his fierce attacks and killings.

Hong Fan was convinced.

In the past few days, he had participated in all military meetings, carefully considered every decision made by Xu Yuntao, and gradually gained insights.

In the Dahua War, warriors were used with extreme caution.

Because it is strong, fast, and precious, once a local area is seized and more enemies are attacked, a battle of annihilation will be formed, which can quickly change the situation.

As Xu Yuntao himself said - no matter how many mortal soldiers there are, they will only be the flesh and blood of the army; warriors above the Penetration realm are the bones.

Precisely for this reason, he would rather let the mortal soldiers pay with their lives than take risks with Hong Fan and Gu Yixin.

Everyone discussed again and gradually came to a decision.

"Our army's manpower is precious and we cannot follow the old path of the Tianfeng Army."

Xu Yuntao made up his mind.

"Let's use a stupid way to build a wooden corridor from the rear to the front." "Slower, slower, anyway, Young Master Hong has already earned two days for us..."

In the afternoon, the sun just reached the zenith.

Tang Shengwang pressed his hand on the city head and saw twenty single-shooting artillery carts coming out of the enemy's formation.

This is the latest rush production result of the craftsmanship camp.

Two hardwoods are erected on the four-wheel platform as the frame, with a groove cut out at the upper end, and a tough wood is placed horizontally as the axis.

It looks like a "door" shape.

After that, a long "tip" is fixed vertically to the center of the wooden shaft as a lever, and the core structure of the gun carriage is formed.

When in use, force is applied to the short head on the front side to accelerate the rotation of the long head on the back side, and the object is thrown into a cannon.

Tang Shengwang had seen many artillery carriages, but they were all driven by human cables.

At this time, the ones used by the Yum Victory Army were equipped with counterweights and hair-locking devices - this was the creation of Guzhou Longsu Shi.

The rain has not yet arrived, but the wind has already filled the building.

There was a commotion on the city wall.

First, the officers shouted to their subordinates to seek shelter in the female wall, and then the low hum of a crossbow being discharged came from the turret.

The car formation was pressed forward to a hundred and twenty paces away, and piles were driven to secure it.

After several school shootings, the commander of Lianshan Camp suddenly shouted: "Let go!"

The sound broke through the wind and hit the city head.

Tang Shengwang didn't move a step, and the shuttle flew beside him, blasting a sealed jar the size of a human head into the air.

The star shuttle flew back with a brown blade and a smell of shit.

The man named Tang's face darkened.

More things hit the city.

In addition to the heated and sealed clay pots, there were also caltrops, stones, and a few thunderbolts picked up yesterday.

The bombardment lasted for half an hour.

Seeing that there were few people on the city, Xu Yuntao sent the first team.

The shield car in front opens the way, and the crossbowmen on the left and right cover it.

A hundred steps away from the city, the first frame of the wooden corridor was quickly completed.

It is three meters wide from left to right and two and a half meters high. The top is covered with thick wooden boards coated with mud.

The wooden beams slowly grew forward, getting closer to the city wall.

Li Xiqi ordered the arrows to be fired, but nine out of ten arrows hit and were destroyed. Occasionally, a stubborn flame left behind was extinguished immediately.

sunset, moonrise.

The army of Yum Victory illuminated the city with stars, moon and torches, and kept building fortifications.

The defenders no longer waste arrows.

By Xu Shizheng (eight o'clock in the evening), the wooden corridor was received at the bottom of the city.

The heavily armored troops first ascended the camp and crossed the city via a simple plank bridge to sweep behind the sheep and horse wall.

Casualties are inevitable.

But at least the auxiliary soldiers can constantly move earth and have a basic working space.

One place was filled in, and the wooden corridor expanded to both sides.

After that, the defenders thought of many ways.

Heavy arrows were pierced, tung oil was sprinkled on them, and stones were thrown.

But the fire was not serious, and the roof was broken off, and it could only be replaced in an instant.

In the early hours of the morning, Tang Shengwang and Li Xiqi personally led more than [-] warriors of the Penetrating and Harmonious realms to the city to destroy it.

Unexpectedly, Xu Yuntao had already prepared. He ordered Qiu Yuankui and Guyi Xinzuo's soldiers to dress up and guard the corridor in advance. In turn, they killed several people, making Tang Shengwang break into a cold sweat.

Three days later, it was the tenth day of September.

The front end of the wooden corridor has been destroyed and rebuilt several times.

However, Bai Shengjun finally found a piece of flat ground in Duanli City with controllable casualties.

Same day and night.

Dragons, tigers and thunder roared on Duanli City for the second time.

Duan Tiannan, who had recovered [-]% from his injury, took action again. This time, Tang Shaoyou was even more disadvantaged and had to deal with it a little reluctantly.

(End of this chapter)