Spring and Autumn I Am King

"Pull the city!"

Amid the shouts of countless Zhao soldiers, the cumbersome siege vehicle was pushed into the city gate hole at an extremely fast speed.

There is a thick wooden roof on the top of the car, and a thick beam is hung inside with iron chains. The front end of the beam has a metal head, which is shaped like a fierce ram. During a siege, the soldiers in the siege vehicle seized the battering ram and rammed it violently to the city gate, relying on inertia and kinetic energy to destroy the gate or the latch structure behind the gate.

"Boom!"

Afterwards, the battering ram slammed into the city gate of Handan heavily, making a loud noise and tremor that made the guards in the city tremble.

In conjunction with the attack of the siege vehicles, there are also tall rushing vehicles and rushing vehicles. They are siege towers with many wheels installed at the bottom, as high as four layers, and almost as high as the city wall. The bottom layer is the soldiers who push the car forward, and the other three layers are loaded with crossbowmen. They use their height to shoot directly into the city from the car, cover the siege car, and wait for the opportunity to let the soldiers climb the city wall.

In addition, Zhao's army of nearly 20,000 took turns to go into battle and surrounded the southeast corner of Handan. The bow and crossbow pointed at the city wall, suppressing the firepower in the city. Those arrows taken from the arsenal of Chaoge City were used here. .

"Tai Ya has something to say: I will rush with you to attack Chongyong. The most important thing in siege is to use the equipment. Although the catapult has not been calibrated, these things alone are enough to break the unstable Handan."

As the commander-in-chief of the Zhao army, Zhao Wuxi boarded the nest car to command the battle, and observed the battle from a high position. This kind of car is like a bird's nest with a high hanging tower, also known as a building car.

These wooden instruments are all things that existed in the past. Among them, Linchong was used when the Western Zhou attacked Chongbohu, and nest carts were used in the battle of Yanling to observe the enemy's movements. As long as there are blueprints to the public transport class, he can bring the craftsmen to make them. In Zhao Wuxi's eyes. Xiao Gongshu and Mo Xie, who was still in the Taoqiu Iron Workshop, were regarded as "scientists" at the level of Qian Xuesen in his own power. In this era, advanced and mature craftsmanship represents the combat effectiveness of the army. According to Zhao Wuxi's thoughts, at least the Zhao army should be made to the level of the Qin army during the Warring States Period...

It is now mid-September, and the Zhao army has been besieging Handan for nearly ten days. Although the surrounding raw materials are abundant, some machines such as trebuchets have not yet been produced. The reason why they chose to attack on this day was because a civil strife had just broken out in the city: with Zhao Wuxi's propaganda offensive, some people in Handan gradually believed in his promise. He planned to open the door at night to dedicate the city, but was discovered by the guards of the Zhongxing clan. Those "righteous men" in the city of Handan were suppressed and failed to surrender.

Hearing that there was a turmoil in the city, how could Zhao Wuxi miss this opportunity, he immediately assembled the entire army, besieged the southeast corner, and prepared to launch an all-out attack. Now that his attack on the heart has worked, the city is no longer the enemy of the Zhao family. It was the family who waited for the surrendered soldiers to "liberate" in Handan. As for the guards of the Zhongxing clan, they became the stumbling block for the Handan people to return to peace from the guards.

At this moment, I saw that the siege vehicle, the imminent vehicle, and the rushing vehicle were all approaching the city gate and city wall. Zhao Wuxi waved the flag again and asked the Yunti troops to follow up.

To besiege a fortified city like Handan, the key is to invest superior troops on a certain wall. Dozens or hundreds of places were broken at the same time, and so on. The city became a leaky sieve, and the defenders made up for the east wall and leaked the west wall. Can't keep up at all.

In Fan and Gonghe Chaoge, Yun Lai only made his first appearance to try out his sword. Because the number was not enough, it did not show its horror. Zhao Bing was originally good at field battles, but shorter than siege cities, but now after several cooperation, the use of equipment The more skilled they become, the more closely the various arms can cooperate.

Thousands of people pushed the several-foot-high cloud ladder to the wall and rushed up the sloping stairway. Zhao Wuxi, who was watching the battle from a distance, saw the thousands of soldiers clinging to the ladder like ants, trying their best to climb up. From time to time, some people were hit by the enemy's arrows, rocks and boiling water, and they fell from the air screaming, and occasionally brave people rushed. After going to the top of the city and stepping on one of the climbing points, the Zhao soldiers behind them came in.

Zhao Wuxi was not particularly distressed about these unavoidable casualties, because a large part of those people were Bai Di people who surrendered in the battle of the Commonwealth. Driving the attached army as the forerunner is a tried-and-true method from now to future generations.

"Rong Di is inexhaustible, these people have the worst military discipline, and it's better that they all die!"

Xiang Lu, who was beside Wu Xie, muttered in a low voice when he saw that the two Di people, Zhai Fengtu and Yan Chengyu, were not there.

"It's not good to be dead." Wu Xie squinted and said: "After the capture of Handan, it will depend on their efforts to attack Bairen and Dongyang. There are many Rongdi tribes in that area."

When the cunning rabbit is dead, it won't be too late to tie up the lackey again...

As he said that, Zhao Wuxi let people step up to beat the drums to boost morale. Although the Di people like to repeat themselves, they are still very brave in battle. Xie Chengjun took the Bai Di soldiers to the city and guarded the crenel. He responded to the Zhao soldiers below and went up the ladder. Thanks to the bravery of the Di people, the Zhao soldiers stood firm at the top of the city. .

At the same time, Zhao Bing, who was near the city gate, suddenly raised their weapons and stomped their feet and shouted loudly. There were too many people and the voices were too mixed.

Xiang Lu took a closer look and said with great joy, "General, the city gate is broken!"

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The city gate was broken, and the city wall was lost, and the city of Handan became a shelled tortoise, leaving only a pile of soft meat to be slaughtered. Mu Xia and Tian Ben led people to fight inwards. The Zhongxing clan had not many soldiers left here, and the Handan people had no desire to resist, so the outer city was quickly controlled by Zhao soldiers.

However, the remaining enemies have not yet been cleared away. There are still three small cities with high walls in the east, west and north of Handan City. In this battle, Zhao Wuxi named the leaders to be captured: Mrs. Zhong Xingji of Handan, the new head of the family, Handan Xin, and those sent by the Zhongxing clan to stay in Handan. The doctor, Xun Sheng, and the head of the Handan clan, Shebin, saw that the outer city was lost, so they each took hundreds of people and retreated to the three small cities, still stubbornly resisting.

Zhao Wuxi had the wounded evacuated to a large camp outside the city to rest, leaving thousands of people, including Bai Dibing, outside the city. He brought 10,000 people into the city, and was not in a hurry to besiege the three small cities, but let Handan surrender first. Find the elders with higher prestige in the city and ask them to help appease the people in the city.

"The crime lies with the Handan family, and it has nothing to do with Li Shu in the city!" He made such a solemn promise, fulfilling the letter claimed in the letter that there would be no revenge after the city was destroyed, and at the same time, the soldiers were not allowed to harass and loot.

As a result, the last resistance of the Handan people was gone. They started paddling a few days ago, and they were dismissed as negatively treating the city guards.

As for the life and death of the head of the Handan family...

After the continuous deaths of the two patriarchs, Handan Wu and Handan Ji, they have become numb. During the war, everyone has paid so much for the Handan clan. Almost every household has children who go south. Dead bones by the river.

So, in the case of being isolated and fighting each other, it was night when the Xixiaocheng, where the guests retreated, broke down, but he himself disappeared, or he got into a tunnel or a secret room, Zhao Wuxi let people search everywhere, Be sure to capture the most evil person who instigated Handan to rebel against Zhao.

On the second day, Xun Sheng made a desperate fight~www.readwn.com~ He broke through the guarded Bei Xiaocheng and planned to take hundreds of soldiers out of the city north, but Zhao Wuxi, who deliberately let him out, made the encirclement circle. As soon as they were closed and made a dumpling, most of the soldiers in the army were killed, and Xun Sheng himself was killed on the spot.

In the end, only Dongxiaocheng was left.

The Handan clan has carried out several internal cleanings before, swept away the pro-Zhao forces at the upper level, and now the people who follow the new head of the Handan family are either die loyal to Handan or the mortal enemy of the Zhao clan, so they are the most tenacious until the fourth day. just lost.

The younger sister of Bank Yin, Handan Wu's wife, Handan Ji, hanged herself on the city tower, and the young master of Handan, who Zhao Wuxi knew only by his name but not by his appearance, was like Shebin, and he searched everywhere and couldn't find anything. .

"Exorcism must be done, how can you let him run away!?" Yang Hu viciously reprimanded the soldiers who didn't go to Handan for the first time after the city was broken. The loss of the Young Master of Handan cast a shadow over the Zhao army's lesser-loss victory.

Fortunately, there was a false alarm in the end. After half an hour, under the identification of several Handan officials, the young master of Handan, who was in the crowd, was captured. He was immediately escorted to Zhao Wuxi by the excited Tian Ben...