Riding and cutting the imperial pirates of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 122 Burning the City ([-])

From the first time he got the news of Wang Zheng's uprising, Xu He and Sima Ju discussed how to capture Linzi if their own family rose up at the same time.

They didn't have a good solution on the moat, but they had an idea to deal with Linzi's second line of defense.

The city wall, which is more than ten meters high, must not rely solely on means such as ladders.

It would be too difficult to capture the top of the city like that, even if a gap was opened, it might not be able to hold it.

After all, this requires some elite subordinates, whose individual and small team combat power far exceeds that of the official army.

Impossible
So after discussion, Sima Ju came up with a solution.

build a wall!

Use soil, sand, and even the corpses of refugees to forcibly pile up a slope!
This is actually a stupid way, which belongs to the kind that gets twice the result with half the effort.

Because what it takes is amazing.

The defenders will not watch you build a wall and ignore it.

That means that to build a slope that is long enough to overcome the high wall and reach the top of the city, the cost of human life should be huge!
So although this method will invalidate most of the largest direction of Jiancheng, very few people adopt it.

Although this strategy requires a lot of investment, in the end Xu He still believes that it is very feasible.

Because if it really builds up, the attacking side can almost be said to be able to drive straight in.

A mound with a suitable slope can even directly dispatch cavalry to charge!
This method actually did not appear frequently in siege warfare in the past dynasties.

The first is of course human life. Most of the regular army is basically auxiliary soldiers except for combat. How can it be so wasteful?

It is good to be compassionate and not command soldiers, but a general who does not care for his soldiers at all will not achieve much success.

The second is that there are actually many ways to attack the city, whether it is digging tunnels, besieging points to recruit reinforcements, or even instigating rebellion and internal recruitment, etc.
Forcibly sieging the city would have failed.

The third is that most of the cities themselves can be breached by using ladders, rushing cars, and some brave pioneers.

It is also a stupid method, the kind of siege without attacking, and exhausting the food and water sources in the city alive, is more cost-effective than this method.

Therefore, unless the siege party has really reached the point where they don't take human life seriously, and at the same time must break through a certain fortified city, and there is nothing they can do, they will consider building walls and attacking the city.

However, at this time, the rebel alliance under the city of Linzi perfectly met all the requirements and conditions.

Linzi is a big city, no matter whether it is food, equipment, or water, it is extremely sufficient.

The lives of hundreds of thousands of refugees are totally worthless.

For its richness and resources, it must be broken again!

Especially Wang Zheng's previous actions awakened Xu He and made him suddenly discover a better way to drive the refugees.

It was almost the last push, which greatly improved the operability of building walls and attacking the city.

In the shrill horn sound.

The siege began.

The first batch of people who rushed forward were naturally those refugees.

Many of them survived the disaster just yesterday, and their faces are full of fear of death at this time.

But under the threat of swords from the supervising team behind them, even though they were uneasy, they rushed forward again.

The ranks of officers and soldiers on the top of the city have actually changed.

While the thieves were overcoming difficulties step by step on the road to attack the city, Li Jiayuan was also strengthening the city's defense force to a limited extent.

The point is the army.

When in charge of the attack in the first three days, in order to ensure the range, they were basically the local city defense soldiers of Linzi City.

Today, it has been replaced by more than half of the militia and soldiers from the two counties.

Such a rotation, on the one hand, is to allow the officers and soldiers who fought before to recharge their batteries, rest fully, and leave them to go all out in more intense situations later.

On the other hand, Li Jiayuan also wanted to take the opportunity to quickly train the recruits.

The reinforcements from the two counties, the mighty servants, the militia
Under Li Jiayuan's inspection, these three forces were much worse than the local army in Linzi.

So guessing that the enemy would use refugees to lead the way today, Li Jiayuan also took the opportunity to let these people go up to familiarize themselves with the atmosphere of the battle, learn how to obey orders, form formations and other combat methods.

In particular, the servants and soldiers dispatched by various noble and gentry families can be said to be not inferior to the officers and soldiers in terms of physique or equipment, or even surpass them.

Li Jiayuan believed that as long as they worked out in the first few waves of offensives when they were not violent, they would be able to increase a lot of help in defending the city later.

Because there is a strong city to rely on, and facing refugees with extremely poor combat capabilities, the performance of the militiamen who have just entered the battlefield is not too bad, and they seem to be quite calm.

While Li Jiayuan made his rounds, he also reminded these new recruits all the time, while calming their emotions, he also imparted some experience and insights in defending the city.

Although these things have already been mentioned during the training of soldiers, it is obviously easier for people to understand now that they are on the battlefield in person.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and the atmosphere became more and more dignified.

The battle is imminent!

The first batch of figures have appeared in the shooting range!

I don't know if it was Xu He's request, or the madness when facing life and death.

The refugees all yelled and shouted, as if to embolden themselves, they began to trot and sprint towards the city.

"Aim!"

"Prepare!"

Li Jiayuan raised his breath and shouted, staring down, and raised his right hand high.

next moment.
"Call me!"

The adjusted trebuchets, bed crossbows and other equipment fired in succession!
With stumps all over the ground, the rest of the bandits continued to approach frantically.
It was another rain of arrows!

The most violent attack has not yet been launched.

When the last remaining thieves finally rushed under the city wall and set up a ladder, the officers and soldiers who had waited for a long time lifted the rolling logs and rocks.

Most of the refugees had just climbed halfway, and they were directly smashed and screamed, fell down, and fell into a puddle of flesh.

In such a short-distance situation, the wooden shield held high is no longer useful.

At this time, the city wall of Linzi seemed to have become the bloody maw of a giant beast, devouring everything non-stop.

There are not only human lives that are as cheap as nothing, but also countless bows and arrows falling into stones and other equipment.

With wave after wave of refugees
The resources of both the offensive and defensive sides are being consumed violently.

With more and more corpses.

dozens of people.
hundreds of people.
Over a thousand people.
A mound slowly raised.

Li Jiayuan was speechless.

This group of refugees charging towards the city had to be killed, but in the current situation, it seemed that they were constantly adding bricks and tiles to the "wall" of the bandits.

When most of the firepower of the officers and soldiers was attracted by the charging refugees.

Another group of refugees, under the urging of the Taiping Army supervisory team, rushed to the city wall one after another, throwing down their soil bags one by one.

run back quickly
Most of the group also left their bodies in place forever.

As time went by, the height of the soil slope under the city wall began to change significantly.

And when Li Jiayuan was secretly struggling, the wheelbarrow also made its debut.

This time it was the people of the Taiping Army who frantically pushed them towards the city wall.

Numerous wheels rolled crazily carrying hundreds of catties of sandbags.

This tool that appeared in the Western Han Dynasty was originally used for farm work in the field, but it has already appeared more on the battlefield.

Now it comes with the purpose of destroying Linzi.

"Smash them for me!"

Seeing the appearance of this thing, the changes in the mounds under the city became more and more obvious. Li Jiyuan knew that this was the biggest threat.

The efficiency of this thing is amazing!
As the order spread, the bed crossbows and catapults on the top of the city quickly made targeted adjustments.

It did have an immediate effect.

Many Taiping soldiers were directly smashed to death and shot through during the process of pushing the carts, or the wooden carts were overturned because they were too flustered when evading.
But when Xu He saw this, he resolutely increased the input of manpower and material resources.

So, throughout the day, there were always hundreds of wheelbarrows appearing back and forth under the city wall.

When the dusk was getting thicker, the cries of troops withdrawing finally sounded.

At this time, the slope of the soil was nearly three meters high!
Seeing this scene, Li Jiayuan turned pale.

This is the fourth day!
(End of this chapter)