Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

In the early morning in Youzhou City, the air was very fresh, the dewdrops that had not dispersed last night were still hanging on the green grass leaves, and a faint white mist was enveloped in the sky. The sun has not risen, but the sky is already bright and the sky is blue.

I don't know where there are occasional chuckles of sparrows.

Guo Shao walked through the artillery formation with his entourage, and had to feel that the Long Xiao Cannon made of bronze was very beautiful, much better than the cast iron! After the body of Huang Cancan is polished and smooth, it is well made and looks very new.

Rows of gun muzzles were slanted to the sky. When Guo Shao looked back, he could see rows of huge black hole muzzles.

The battle is very strong! They are still just stone-blasting mortars, and their actual effect cannot be bombed like a howitzer that can destroy everything in the impression. Their power is very limited; but Guo Shao knows that if used properly, these gadgets have a great effect on siege!

"Ye! Yee..." Suddenly there was a scream of a rooster, and Guo Shao was stunned when he looked at it.

It turned out that a few soldiers killed a rooster and dripped blood on the barrel of a gun. The generals around him hurriedly said: "That gun fires first, everyone is auspicious."

Guo Shao left the artillery formation after patrolling, and he didn't need to personally intervene in all specific tactics.

After a long time, there was a thunderbolt on the ground, and the ground shuddered slightly, and the thunderous roar of cannons tore through the silence of the sky. Thick white smoke rose into the air.

The neighing of horses and the noise of people increased, and the birds in the distance flew away desperately in shock.

But after one shot, it stopped for a while, and then the sound of the cannons on the campsite stopped and stopped as if they were chaotic. The wall of the castle tower in the distance was not affected much, but Zhou Jun's side was filled with gunpowder and noisy.

Guo Shao didn't say anything, and of course he didn't blame it... the artillery was designed by himself, of course he understood. The accuracy of this mortar is really limited, mainly because the casting technology and measuring tools are very rough; how can it hit the target? That's right, try it in one go! Test the elevation angle and charge, and because the size of the gun is not completely standard, the shooting parameters of each gun are also slightly different. Rao is so still unable to be completely accurate, and probably can hit the target.

The artillery array fought for more than half an hour, and then stopped again.

The world before was like a pool of clear water, blue sky, green ground, fresh air with moist white mist; but now, the world seems to have been poured into a basin of sewage!

The sky above Zhou Jun's camp was foggy, as if dusty, and gun smoke and fog mixed together. People come and go in the camp, messy and busy.

At this moment, a piece of horse team slowly rushed to the fortifications in front, without stopping, and then filled the Mutu camp, slowly moving forward.

The sound of the cannon for more than half an hour didn't cause much damage to the city wall, most of them missed, just test the cannon, and now the cannon sound stopped and never sounded again. Instead, they are riding crowds.

The bombardment alone can't test the opponent's defense strength, this horse soldier is a temptation; moreover, with the soldiers and horses approaching to lure the defenders to the city, the first round of salvo can unexpectedly expand the results!

Guo Shao and the ministers watched the scene. The inside and outside of the camp looked a little messy, but he could feel the order in the chaos, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner as planned.

The light riding team entered the front line as if rushing into the formation, first rectified, then jogged, and then rushed towards the wall.

The horse team received hardly any distant attack, and successfully reached the moat, quickly turned round and round. The horse team shot many arrows from the side door and threw them on the wall. The moat of Youzhou City is not wide, and you can shoot up to the top of the city by riding a horse along the river.

Guo Shao was hundreds of steps away, unable to see the counterattack in the city clearly. But depending on the situation of the Zhou army, the defending army hardly made a strong counterattack.

"Huh!" Wang Pu's mouth made a sound, and then there was no more.

The other people didn't react much, they just watched, tossing back and forth for more than half an hour, the fighting rhythm is not fierce, and everyone's expressions seem to be a little lazy.

Guo Shaodin and Wang Pu seem to have the same intuition: the start was strange.

He smelled something unusual.

Of course, cavalry cannot attack the city. After all, horses cannot carry people across the moat, let alone climb the three-foot-high wall on foot. But in common sense, it would be attacked by the defenders close to the city, after all, the distance was only twenty or thirty steps.

Why didn't the defenders fight back from a distance? It is very likely that there are not many people on the wall...

In the distance, the horse team of Zhou Jun rode around outside the city wall, and then the head of the army gradually turned back. A stream of horse team seemed to rush to the wall and then flow back.

Wang Pu said solemnly: "The situation seems to be different from what we expected."

Guo Shao did not act rashly. Zhou's army is too large, and its deployment is relatively complicated, just like a huge ship, its steering will be very slow...can't change its strategy just because of a little accident.

The horse team ran very fast. After a while, they planted a row of triangle-shaped flags fifty steps outside the city wall, and then swarmed back.

A hundred steps away, suddenly a roar of shaking and swaying all over the world. Guo Shao turned his head to see, a row of white smoke rose above the camp, and big stone bullets flew into the sky.

The stone bullets hadn't landed on the city wall. After a short while, the "boom boom boom..." artillery roared again, the flames shone, and a row of white smoke rose.

The earth and rocks splashed at the head of Youzhou City, and you could see the collapse of the female wall from a distance.

The volleys of artillery from far and near on the ground of Zhou Jun's camp were very shocking. The muzzle seemed to be spraying fire flames together, and the smoke billowed. The sparse arrow tower observation post between the artillery arrays seemed to be erected from the clouds.

The deafening cannons continued, and the shelling was frantically, showing no sign of stopping.

And outside the first fortification, a piece of wheelbarrow has spread forward amidst the gunfire. Countless soldiers pushed the soil close to the moat like a flood.

The real siege has just begun, and the Zhou Jun’s siege was rough filling the river frontally!

When the crowd forward approached the pennant placed earlier, the artillery on the artillery array stopped one after another, everything was in order and coordinated with each other.

The people who fill the river only need to take the opportunity to advance twenty or thirty steps to reach the moat and pour the soil in. The moat is not a river of living water. The water flow is very slow and almost static. It is very easy to fill the river. It is just a matter of the quantity of soil and rock!

Unexpectedly, at this moment, suddenly there was a black shadow on the wall, and the stone flew out like a hailstone. Zhou Jun’s engineers were very dense, and suddenly screamed everywhere. From time to time, the wheelbarrow was dumped and the soldiers fell.

As soon as this situation occurred, the minister and military commander whom the Chinese army looked over suddenly started talking in a low voice.

Wang Pu said: "Youzhou city defense has been prepared for a long time, it seems that it is specifically aimed at our artillery! The opponent's defense weapon is not on the wall, but inside the city. Our previous bombardment was mainly aimed at the wall and failed to effectively destroy their weapons. ."

A military commander said: "Our artillery hits far, and re-blasts the equipment in the city."

Wang Pu frowned and said: "We can't see the city, how do you know where they are? Besides, if the enemy keeps moving, we don't know."

Everyone paid attention to Guo Shao.

Guo Shao said nothing, stood on the horse with his sword, looking at the situation ahead.

He still has no intention to change his tactics... One is to consider the first wave of siege. If he is immediately repelled, it will affect morale. The opponent used a catapult to hit a man and a horse, and the damage was not as good as that of a mortar gun. The proportion of damage caused by the Zhou army engineers was not high, and it was far from being defeated. Fighting will kill you! Even if there are casualties, you cannot act rashly.

Second, he did not think of a countermeasure. Even if you withdraw, how to attack again? It is also not a good choice to stop the siege at the beginning.

At this time, Guo Shao felt as if 10,000 animals rushed past and was very blocked, but he was still acting calmly and calmly. The tactics that I personally made, I have to carry it out if I am frustrated.

He had to re-examine the "barbarians" in Liao.

Both artillery and tactics are new things in this era, but those people don't seem to be so ignorant and slow. They can adapt and understand the new war mode so quickly.

It can be guessed that Xiao Siwen and other Khitan people understood Guo Shao's siege technique through the tactical details of the Battle of Jinyang, and it seemed that they truly understood the tactical logic.

Guo Shao carefully looked at the stones that kept flying out of the sky. It was a parabola... In fact, by drawing out the model diagram, he could roughly calculate the position of the opponent's boulder. However, the Liao Army still has a simple way to deal with it.

Guo Shao could immediately think of two methods: One, as Wang Pu said, constantly moving positions, Zhou Jun could not know when they moved outside the city. Second, move the catapult close to the city wall. The trajectory of Zhou Jun's artillery shells is still a parabola, with angle restrictions; there is an area inside the city wall that is a dead angle.

At this moment, a military commander asked: "How should we respond?"

Obviously there is no perfect way~www.readwn.com~ But no matter how bad the way, we must take one out immediately, at least let the soldiers know what to do!

Guo Shao immediately said: "Pass the order, all the artillery in the artillery camp immediately increase the elevation angle, let the artillery shells into the city."

Wang Pu replied with a fist, and immediately asked the military officials to arrange the messenger to pass the order.

Guo Shao pointed to the front again and said: "When the first batch of people to fill the river returns and the artillery formation begins to shell, order the engineers to reorganize the formation, with a distance of at least one metre between the two, and continue to fill the river with sparse deployment. "

"According to the purpose."

After a long time, the crowds in the distance gradually receded from the moat. A few hundred steps away, Zhou Jun paid the price. The ground outside the moat was a mess, many wheelbarrows were damaged and left there, and there were still many dead bodies on the ground. More people were brought back injured.

The Liao army deployed a large number of catapults in the city, and it seemed that they were fully prepared. Maybe they don't know when the Zhou army will attack Youzhou, but they have already guessed to guard against Zhou's Northern Expedition.

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