Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 598 Improved Siege Technique (2)

In front of the moat outside the south gate of Nashouchun City, a row of cave carts formed a row of anti-arrow fortifications like a safe house, allowing more than a thousand auxiliary soldiers to safely carry out the action of filling the moat inside.

At the same time, with the filling of the moat, these cave cars can also slowly move forward, making the moat narrower and narrower.

After each siege battle, Zhu Wei would ask his craftsmen to research and improve the siege equipment according to the problems discovered during the war, so various siege equipment was developed and improved again and again, and more effects were produced.

Although the anti-arrow fortifications transformed from such bridal carts are still likely to be burned if they are attacked by rockets from the defenders on the city wall.

However, the wet mud layer is laid on the top of the cave car, but it still has good fire resistance. At the same time, as long as a large amount of wet mud is sprinkled on it, the flames can naturally be slowed down, and even the destructiveness of the flames can be eliminated.

In addition, the top is a tile-like structure. Inside the cave car, it can also spray water and soil on the fire area to increase the fire extinguishing effect, unless it is poured with a large amount of kerosene, and then ignited and burned. Ordinary rockets There can be no threat at all.

However, the siege soldiers on Zhu Wei's side could use the man-made fortifications directly under the city wall to completely shield the threat of bows and arrows on the city wall, and devote more attention to attacking and climbing the city.

In addition, this kind of anti-arrow fortification under the city can also put a lot of psychological pressure on the defenders on the city. Many times they don't know what tricks the soldiers on the attacking side under the city wall are playing, and naturally they will have various worries and fears.

Of course, for Zhu Wei, this was just a small trick.

In fact, the cave carts on Zhu Wei’s side are now divided into several different types of functions. For example, these cave carts can break through the inner wall and quickly transform into anti-arrow fortifications under the city wall. The function is mainly to strengthen and expand the space. superior.

In this way, the auxiliary soldiers hiding inside can have a safer and wider working environment, so that the action of filling the moat will naturally not be restrained.

Next, they don't even need to push the cave carts to continue to push forward. They can use planks and stakes to build anti-arrow fortifications a little bit forward under the enemy's city wall, and finally spread the anti-arrow fortifications directly to the enemy's city wall. At the foot of the city wall.

In addition, the wooden piles they set up inside the fortifications can be directly driven into the moat below, thus forming a wooden fence, and fixing the floating boards laid on the moat below between the wooden fences, so that they will not be washed away by the moat water .

After prior training, these auxiliary soldiers have almost become professional engineering and construction soldiers. They can quickly build a solid anti-arrow fortification under the nose of the city defenders, and construct a solid forward position for subsequent soldiers to attack the city.

In fact, the craftsmen on Zhu Wei's side are already thinking about how to quickly build a bridge over the moat with the help of the cave cart structure.

Anyway, the moat is generally more than ten steps wide, and at most it is more than twenty steps wide. A few moso bamboos can be used to pave a passage on the moat, so that the moat can be solved in a more time-saving and labor-saving way. the barrier of the city.

Of course, this kind of simple bridge is most afraid of being attacked by fire, but if there is a fire-proof cave roof above the bridge to protect it, naturally there is no need to worry about being destroyed by fire.

It has to be said that after Zhu Wei elevated the status of craftsmen, the wisdom of the working people that they were able to display is also very gratifying. In fact, it is just a change in concept.

Of course, in addition to the cave car models that can be transformed into anti-arrow fortifications under the city wall, there are also some cave car models that are specially used to help transport materials such as sediment and plates. In the design of these cave house cars In terms of defense, it will be weaker in terms of defense, but the auxiliary soldiers that push the cave cart to move can use a more labor-saving method to quickly transport things back and forth in front of the enemy's city.

Anyway, now that Zhu Wei's army came up with such a method of moving with a house on their backs, quickly filling the moat under the city wall, and building anti-arrow fortifications, Yuan Shu's guards on Shouchun City were stunned.

They never thought that they could do this when attacking the city. Now they have nothing to do with Zhu Wei's method. They can't see any figures under the protection of the cave carts at all, and can only look at the structures built under the city wall. The anti-arrow fortifications are getting closer to the city wall.

So they naturally couldn't attack the enemies hiding in the cave car, but even if they shot rockets at the anti-arrow fortifications covered with wet mud on the top, they couldn't burn much flames.

As for throwing away the fire canister and using a rocket to ignite it, although it seems to be effective in a short period of time, it will be extinguished soon, and there is no way to destroy the buildings below.

Outside the south gate of Shouchun City, Zhu Weijin's two or three thousand troops surrounded him with a shield array. Even if the defenders in the city wanted to send people out to destroy these anti-arrow fortifications, it might not be easy to achieve.

Moreover, the defenders in the city came out by themselves, which happened to be Zhu Wei's wishes.

Now that you have come out by yourself, Zhu Wei's army can directly fight Yuan Shu's army outside the city without attacking the city.

Anyway, Zhu Wei's army also has siege arrow tower vehicles parked in the front positions, and they are not worried about fighting Yuan Shu's army in front of the city wall. .

So at this time, if Zhang Xun, who guards the south gate of Shouchun, dares to send troops out of the city to fight, Zhu Wei will naturally send more troops up, and various siege equipment will also be transported up to suppress the defenders on the city wall. The threat of war.

In this way, the two sides can start a scuffle outside the city, but in this way, Yuan Shu's army will lose their advantage in defending the city in vain.

However, through the cooperation of Zhu Wei's armies, it is possible to take advantage of Yuan Shu's army to take the initiative to open the gate of the urn city and lower the suspension bridge to directly attack the urn city outside the south gate of Shouchun, and then they can face the south gate of Shouchun. .

It can be said that Zhu Wei has already designed a perfect strategy for attacking Shouchun City. No matter how the defenders respond, Zhu Wei can follow up with countermeasures.

And once the anti-arrow fortifications built by the auxiliary soldiers in front of the Shouchun city wall were completed, it would be equivalent to building a safe hiding place for Zhu Wei's army in front of the Shouchun city.

Zhu Weidu can directly send troops to station under the enemy's city wall, which can pose a threat to Shouchun City 24 hours a day, and launch siege warfare at any time, so that Yuan Shu's soldiers have to always be on guard against possible siege warfare launched by Zhu Wei's army.

However, this time Zhu Wei didn't seem to plan to send troops to attack the city, but to dig directly into the walls of Shouchun City and attack.

Nowadays, cities in this era generally use rammed earth as the basic texture of the city walls. This Shouchun City is also constructed of rammed earth, so as long as it takes some time, it is still possible to dig a channel directly on the city wall to enter the city.

After all, no matter how thick the wall of a city is, it is only four or fifty paces thick. As long as the inside is made of soil as the main material, even if the soil is rammed like a rock, even if sticky things like glutinous rice juice are added to fix it , but the soil can also be softened by watering and wetting.

In this way, it is still easy to dig a hole in the city wall with tools to dig out the wet soil. In this way, no matter whether the city wall is finally dug through or directly collapsed, the towering and huge Shouchun city wall will lose its view of the city. Protect.

Although this kind of siege battle will consume more time, Shouchun City is not a big city that can be conquered easily, and Zhu Wei naturally doesn't care about the time spent...

(End of this chapter)