The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 599: The Handan Defenders Reap What They Have Sown [Subscribe*Monthly Tickets]

Yang Duanhe shrank his neck in disappointment, but still looked like he was humbly asking for advice.

Yan Yan still satisfied Yang Duanhe's curiosity and explained the matter again.

"Zhao State..." Yang Duanhe didn't know how to describe it, "It should be destroyed!"

First, replace the generals on the battlefield, force the main general to death, and then assassinate the main general!

Never before in history had such a large army managed to survive without collapse.

"Who said it wasn't?" Yan Yan nodded in agreement.

He admitted that he had contributed to the incident, but that it was not enough to cause the army to collapse so completely.

If it weren't for Zhao's two waves of operations, any capable general could have held back the army.

He was just an inducement; the fundamental problem lay with the State of Zhao.

If it weren't for Zhao's two waves of operations, no matter what Yan Yan did, he would not have allowed the army to disband on the spot.

"If you don't take what heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences!" Yang Duanhe said seriously.

This is God's blessing on the Qin Dynasty.

How could the State of Zhao survive with internal and external troubles?
"Let's not talk about that. I came here just to see how you attack the city!" Yan Yan changed the subject.

There are many differences between the grassland war and the siege battle in the Central Plains.

The grassland wars always end quickly, never dragging on for a year, and always ending before winter.

However, wars in the Central Plains always drag on for several years, and the shortest lasts at least half a year.

In addition to the fact that the city is tall, it is also because the city can store food and grass and engage in protracted wars.

However, cities are usually built in areas that are easy to defend but difficult to attack. Therefore, it would take several days to capture a city, even a small one.

By connecting one city to another, we can slow down the enemy's attack.

Just like Wang Jian now has to fight to the death at Shecheng City, and will be stopped again in Wuan City.

They really can't go faster even if they want to.

It’s different on the grassland. There are no tall cities and not so many people. A battle can be over in just two to three days, or even faster by calculating the hours.

After the fight, just move on, no need to linger.

Therefore, Yan Yan was really curious about how the siege battle was fought.

There is not much to learn in the central army, especially Wang Jian likes to overwhelm others with his superior strength, and there is no technical content at all.

Yang Duanhe was different. He belonged to a small army. To control Handan with a small army required a lot of technical skills.

"Actually, there's nothing much to learn!" Yang Duanhe waved his hand, "All you need to do is use your hands!"

"Huh?" Yan Yan was stunned. So Versailles?
"There's no trick to attacking a city. It's just a matter of who can last longer." Yang Duanhe said with a smile.

Siege warfare is different from field warfare. Field warfare mostly relies on surprise attacks, but siege is a head-on attack, and the one who can hold on is the winner.

"That's something you can learn too!" Yan Yan did not slack off and asked humbly.

There may not be this kind of siege warfare on the grassland now, but what about in the future?
Gaoquesai Military Academy can’t just teach cavalry, right?
Being biased in one subject is not a good thing!
This is a teaching material based on the real cases of a group of famous generals who destroyed a country. If you miss this opportunity, there will never be a next one.

"There's really nothing to see. That is, they go out of the city to repair fortifications during the day, and we go to destroy them at night. Then they rebuild them, and we destroy them again, waiting until the main force of the central army arrives before we start a head-on confrontation." It's not that Yang Duanhe doesn't want to teach, but there's really nothing to teach. Siege warfare and siege warfare don't have much room for maneuver. What matters is the hard power of both sides.

At most, the commander can stabilize the military spirit and boost morale.

Yan Yan still didn't give up.

What Bingzhou lacked was not morale or military spirit. What they lacked were the small and fine details and experience on how to build and deploy fortifications and how to destroy these fortifications.

In the Central Plains, these things can be done with just hands, but for Bingzhou, they really don’t know how to do it.

The grassland war was a direct charge and fight between the cavalry of both sides.

As for defense, it's nothing special.

"Okay! Since you want to see it, I will take you up to have a look!" Yang Duanhe couldn't persuade Yan Yan, so he could only take Yan Yan to Handan City to see how Zhao built fortifications, and then take him to see how to destroy the fortifications at night.

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However, when they quietly approached the city of Handan and were about to see the defenders of Handan come out to deploy their defenses, they were shocked by Yan Yan's scene.

On the land outside Handan city, many Zhao soldiers had fallen into horse pits and traps, and screams were heard everywhere.

"Did you send people to attack them?" Yan Yan looked at Yang Duanhe. Good man, you are still hiding something from me, right?

Yang Duanhe was even more confused. Before the army arrived, he didn't dare to provoke the Handan defenders. Moreover, because he had to welcome Bing Jun, he didn't arrange any military actions in the past two days, nor did he stop the Handan defenders from setting traps and fortifications.

However, the Zhao soldiers who were trapped in horse pits and various traps could not afford to lie.

"Jumping into the trap yourself to test the effectiveness of the trap you set?" Yang Duanhe thought about it for a long time and could only think of this explanation.

But that's not right. Who needs to test traps so realistically, using real people to simulate the state of triggering the trap?

"Damn Yang Duanhe, you didn't come to destroy the trap!" Just when Yang Duanhe was confused, an angry roar came from the scattered Zhao army.

Yang Duanhe recognized the owner of the voice, Zhao Yida, the captain of the engineering battalion of the Handan garrison.

"I seem to know the reason!" Yang Duanhe said hesitantly.

Yan Yan was full of curiosity. As soon as he arrived, he saw such a scene. It must be said that Yang Duanhe was really capable.

"We have been cruising under the city of Handan for some time. During this time, Handan comes out during the day to build fortifications and set traps, while we sleep. At night, we come out to destroy the traps and fortifications, while Handan sleeps."

"Both sides maintained an absolute tacit understanding. Although Handan tried to stop us from sabotaging us at the beginning, the cavalry I brought with me were fast and they couldn't catch up."

“So even though they knew we would come to cause trouble at night, Handan still acquiesced.”

"In short, you fix me and I break, and I break you fix me. We have an inexplicable tacit understanding."

Yang Duanhe explained.

Yan Yan nodded. Both sides had a tacit understanding on construction and destruction. Moreover, fighting at night would not guarantee that Handan could defeat Yang Duanhe.

But what is the situation now?

"Because I knew in advance that Bingjun was coming, I didn't send soldiers out to destroy the defenses and traps built in Handan in the past two days..." Yang Duanhe said with a strange smile.

“……” Yan Yan understood.

The Qin army did not come to destroy the traps in the past two days. As a result, the Zhao State thought that the horse pits, hidden nails and other traps had been destroyed by the Qin army, so it did not take any precautions and fell into the traps it had set.

(End of this chapter)