Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 599 Improved Siege Technique (3)

In the original history, it took Cao Cao more than a month, almost running out of food and grass, to attack Shouchun City by means of morale boosting.

Although Zhu Wei, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, and Lu Bu are currently besieging Shouchun City, taking the defense of Shouchun City as an example, if ordinary ants attach to walls and climb the walls to attack the city, it will still consume a lot of soldiers' lives.

But if he used the method of digging the city, Zhu Wei believed that he would only need to spend a few days or even ten days at most to dig through the walls of Shouchun City, and he could easily enter Shouchun City.

In terms of time spent, it was much less than the time it took Cao Cao to capture Shouchun City in the original history.

At the same time, compared to other tactics for storming Shouchun City, this is definitely a method that makes the city defenders completely unable to deal with it, because even if Yuan Shu's soldiers in Shouchun City build a new city wall inside the city wall, there is no such thing as Zhu Wei's side. The speed of excavating the city wall is fast.

This will definitely allow Zhu Wei to use the least loss of troops to attack Shouchun City.

That's why Zhu Wei built his large army camp directly outside the south gate of Shouchun City this time, in order to put pressure on the defenders of Shouchun City, and he could also put Zhu Wei's army directly under the Shouchun City Wall, so that Zhu Wei Wei can send troops from the army camp at any time to support the soldiers stationed under the wall of Shouchun.

Zhu Wei didn't want his elite soldiers to be wasted in the loss of the ants' siege. Although the siege would inevitably cause a lot of damage, if the ants were to climb the city wall to attack the city, the height of Shouchun City would be as high as six. The seven-storey city wall, even if it accidentally fell down, would end in death or disability.

Even though Zhu Wei had all kinds of siege equipment to assist him, if he really used the method of attacking the city with ants, Zhu Wei's military loss would be very heavy. This is not what Zhu Wei wants to see.

To be honest, after fighting Yuan Shu, there may not be peace between Zhu Wei and Cao Cao. If the troops are exhausted, who knows what will happen.

Therefore, when attacking Shouchun City this time, Zhu Wei decided on the strategy of digging the city. Although the progress of the siege was slower, it was mainly stable.

Besides, Zhou Yu had already made a plan based on the possible changes on Lu Bu's side before. It is very likely that this Shouchun City can be taken without the need to attack the city, but the plan is ultimately up to the people to make things happen. There will be many accidents.

Anyway, Zhou Yu's plan will take time to carry out, and this period of time can also be used to cooperate with the implementation of the city-digging tactic.

To be honest, based on the previous performance of Yuan Shu's army, Zhu Wei believed that once his army entered the city, he would not have to worry about Yuan Shu's tens of thousands of troops.

Zhu Wei has full confidence in the fighting power of his army, as long as he can attack Shouchun City, no matter how many troops Yuan Shu has, it will be nothing.

Therefore, after setting such a tactic, under the wall of the south gate of Shouchun City, Zhu Wei's army just methodically followed the established tactic, slowly filling the moat, and slowly extending the anti-arrow fortifications to the edge of the city wall.

But judging from the situation here, even if Zhu Wei's army did not launch such a strong offensive against Shouchun City, there are probably more than a thousand soldiers on the five or six siege arrow towers in front of the Shouchun South Gate Urn City. They shot suppressively at Yuan Shu's soldiers on the top of the urn wall, but they did not actually pose too much threat to Yuan Shu's defenders.

But seeing Zhu Wei's army filling up the moat bit by bit, and seeing the arrow-proof fortifications like houses under the city wall approaching the city wall little by little, Yuan Shu's defenders on the city wall still felt a little chilly.

Although they didn't know what Zhu Wei's army was going to do, they instinctively felt a sense of crisis.

They watched Zhu Wei's army beating something under the city wall, but they couldn't stop it at all. The various defensive materials and defense methods prepared on the city wall seemed to have no effect at this moment.

At least when the soldiers of Zhu Wei laid the anti-arrow fortifications like houses below to the city wall, even if they threw stones and logs, they had no target.

In fact, there are still seven or eight steps between the moat and the city wall of Shouchun City. The auxiliary soldiers that Zhu Wei is now filling up the moat have not completely crossed the moat against arrows.

In addition to the rockets, there is really no need for such defensive means in the city.

However, when the rockets were shot on the roofs of the fortifications covered with wet mud and soil, they could not burn any flames at all, so shooting rockets was a waste of time.

But seeing the enemy's movements like this, and being unable to do anything by oneself, after all, it feels quite strange.

However, as the guard of the south gate of Shouchun City, Zhang Xun seemed to have seen the threat of Zhu Wei's siege method. He thought that Zhu Wei might dig the city and attack, so he sent people to Yuan Shu in the city immediately. A message was sent to the office, asking if it is possible to send troops out to charge for a while.

Now only by sending troops out can it be possible to destroy the houses built by Zhu Wei's army under the city wall and the offensive of Zhu Wei's army. It is a pity that Zhang Xun cannot make the decision when going out of the city to fight. Yuan Shu came to decide.

Then Zhang Xun asked people to prepare more kerosene. The house-like anti-arrow fortifications erected by Zhu Wei's army can't be burned with rockets, but after they are laid near the city wall, they may be destroyed with kerosene. Such combustion aids increase the power of the rocket, and there is still the possibility of destroying it.

Before trying it, no one knew whether the kerosene could burn the anti-arrow fortifications covered with wet mud and wet soil.

But there is another thing that makes Zhang Xun feel a headache, that is, the archers of the Zhu Wei army on the siege arrow tower, in addition to looking for opportunities to shoot and kill the defenders on the city wall, they often also look for the fire oil tanks prepared on the city wall. The class where the rocket is launched.

And once these fire oil tanks are shot by rockets, the powerful armor originally used for defense has become a terrible hidden danger to harm the defenders.

The oil used as kerosene during the defense of the city in this year is basically the oil made from the fat of various animals and fish. This kind of oil has a certain degree of adhesion, and sulfur is added to it. Adding combustion aids can make the kerosene more powerful.

Therefore, when the kerosene is thrown onto the enemy's siege equipment along with the oil tank, the grease spilled from the oil tank is not easy to slip off and be removed. After being ignited with a rocket, it can cause local violent flame burning, which has a great impact. Destructive and harmful.

This is also often an important weapon used by the defenders to destroy the siege equipment used by the siege party. It can burn a lot of wooden siege equipment in this year into charcoal.

But now this kind of oil tank storing kerosene is placed on the city wall. If it is shot by an enemy's rocket, it can cause a lot of damage on the city wall at once. Even if it does not hurt the soldiers guarding the city, it will also cause damage to the city wall. A flame zone was formed on the city wall, which became a weak point for the defenders.

If it is a normal city offensive and defensive battle, the city defenders can naturally hide these things behind the arrow piles on the city wall, so that they are not easy to be hit by rockets shooting up from the city, and also allow the soldiers defending the city to take them at any time and throw them at them. The rocket ignited to kill and injure the siege enemy soldiers.

But now Zhu Wei has made a siege arrow tower that is about the same height as the city wall, and the archers on the arrow tower can naturally see the prepared fire oil tanks on the city wall, so of course they will help their own people first. Destroyed this terrible defensive weapon.

And after destroying these fire oil tanks, you can still let the burning fire oil hurt the enemy defending the city, which can be regarded as killing multiple things...

(End of this chapter)