Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 131 Siege
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Near Jicheng, a new city was planned to connect with the old city, and construction of countless buildings began.

The [-] to [-] Liaodong soldiers originally captured by Youzhou have been put into the railway construction project.

As a result, because of the relocation of the capital, most of these captives were transferred to become free labor for the construction of the new city.

The building material production workshops and factories all over Youzhou started production with all their strength, making Youzhou very lively for a while.

During Cao Cao's half month in Youzhou, good news on the grassland kept coming one after another.

Yue Fei's [-] cavalry continued to attack Xianbei herdsmen on the grasslands, and had captured tens of thousands of herdsmen, as well as hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep.

Faced with such a situation, Ke Bineng also organized an army of tens of thousands to resist, but the result was that Xianbei's army of tens of thousands was defeated by [-] Yue Fei's cavalry in just one round.

Fortunately, the Xianbei people are all cavalry, and Yue Fei's cavalry is not enough, otherwise the world will be determined in one battle.

Half a month later, the tens of thousands of cavalry trained by Youzhou also entered the territory of the Xianbei, and completely controlled all the cities on the border between the Yanshan Mountains and the grassland.

Within half a month, the Xianbei people also sent envoys to subdue Cao Cao, but Youzhou was determined to destroy Xianbei, or drive Xianbei out of the Northeast Plain.

After the [-] cavalry trained in Youzhou joined the battle, the Xianbei where Ke Bineng was located could not stand it anymore.

More than a month later, under the continuous attack of Youzhou cavalry, the Kebineng Xianbei tribe had to withdraw from the Rehe Plain and cross the Daxingan Mountains to the Mongolian Plateau.

Of course, this is something.

On the other hand, when the news of defeating Gongsun Kang in Liaodong in Youzhou reached Jiangnan, Sun Quan and his subordinates were shocked.

"My lord, we must capture Hefei and drive Cao Cao's troops out of the Qinling and Huaihe River lines, otherwise we will be in trouble when Cao Cao slows down." Someone said to Sun Quan.

At this time, Sun Quan's 10,000+ army was confronting Zhang Liao's tens of thousands of troops in Hefei City.

Although Sun Quan's 10,000+ army seems powerful, but there is no way to block the supply of grain and grass in Hefei City.

Originally, Sun Quan besieged Hefei mainly to buy time for Liaodong Gongsun Kang to attack Youzhou. Now, Gongsun Kang has been defeated and Sun Quan's plan has failed.

"My lord, we must take Hefei City. Xiahouyuan's tens of thousands of soldiers are already on the way, and our time is running out." Others also advised Sun Quan.

At this time, Hefei has become Hanzhong, the land of Sichuan and Sichuan, and it is an important strategic goal that both sides must strive for.

"Okay, then attack Hefei City." Sun Quan finally made up his mind.

Following Sun Quan's order, outside Hefei, countless troops began to prepare for the siege.

In the past few months of confrontation with Zhang Liao, Sun Quan's army has produced countless siege tools.

Following this siege, countless siege machines were pushed out, the number of which was no less than several thousand.

Since Sun Quan was going to attack the city, he went all out. He chose to attack the city from four directions at the same time.

On this day, under the impetus of an army of 10,000+, Sun Quan soldiers pushed out the siege equipment from the camp, and then slowly moved towards Hefei City.

At the front is a row of shield cars.

This kind of shield car can prevent archers from shooting and is one of the indispensable siege equipment in ancient sieges.

Behind the shield car are the materials and tools for building the pontoon bridge.

The moat of Hefei City is too wide. If you want to attack the city wall, you must build many pontoon bridges, so that more troops can be invested in attacking the city.

To siege a city, too few troops are invested, which is a tactic of refueling. Only by investing a large amount of troops at one time can it be possible to capture a city.

On the side of Hefei City, Zhang Liao's soldiers and the Youzhou fleet are also ready.

On the moat of Hefei City, there are three gunboats guarding each side.

Dozens of cannons were also set up on the four walls.

When Sun Quan's army was getting closer and closer to Hefei City, and finally less than a few hundred meters away, the artillery began to fire.

Boom boom boom boom boom!

Countless shells shot out from the barrel, and smashed fiercely towards countless siege equipment in the distance.

Bang.

A shield car was hit by a solid shell, and countless sawdust were immediately splashed, and the shield car was directly smashed to pieces by the powerful kinetic energy.

The shell also hit the people behind the shield vehicle, and there were endless exclamations and screams.

As the artillery on the city wall fired, so did the artillery on the gunboat.

More intensive artillery shells smashed in the direction of Sun Quan's soldiers, and countless siege equipment were beaten one by one.

However, Sun Quan's army is really too many, with a total of 10,000+ people and thousands of siege equipment, which cannot be destroyed by dozens or hundreds of artillery in a short time.

Even so, Sun Quan's army was also uncomfortable. They were under the damage of hundreds of artillery all the time.

If the main targets of these artillery were not the siege equipment, Sun Quan's soldiers would not know how much they would have died.

At a distance of several hundred meters, Sun Quan's soldiers rushed to the moat after only a few rounds of artillery firing.

Bang bang bang bang!

On the city wall, five thousand musketeers from Youzhou began to shoot.

However, under the city wall, countless Sun Quan soldiers braved the attack on the city wall and began to build trench bridges.

The trench bridge is a bridge specially made for crossing trenches and moats in ancient wars.

In order to deal with Hefei City, the trench bridge built by Sun Quan's army was 50 meters long and required hundreds of people to push it.

On the city wall, countless arrows and flintlock bullets rained down on Sun Quan's soldiers below the city.

However, because of the shield chariot and the shields in the hands of Sun Quan soldiers, the lethality is not very great.

Whether it is a shield car or a shield, Sun Quan's army has thickened them, the purpose is to deal with Youzhou's firearms.

However, when facing artillery, whether it is a shield or a shield vehicle, it is no different from paper.

However, when faced with musket shooting, the shield car produced a miraculous effect.

In order to avoid the attack of the musketeers, many Sun Quan soldiers hid their bodies behind the train.

But fortunately, whether it is the artillery on the city wall or the artillery on the ship, they are firing all the time, breaking each shield car into parts.

In this process, Sun Quan's soldiers have not yet attacked below the city wall, but the casualties of Sun Quan's soldiers have been steadily increasing.

Fortunately, in such a large-scale siege battle, the soldiers in the army formation couldn't think too much, or they might have been beaten to pieces.

From this point of view, the quality of Sun Quan's soldiers is much better than that of Liaodong Gongsun Kang's soldiers.

The siege continued.

Half an hour later, Sun Quan's army finally built pontoon bridges on the moat.

Immediately, countless Sun Quan soldiers rushed under the city wall of Hefei City carrying the siege ladder.

They set up the ladder, and then followed the ladder to climb the city wall.

However, waiting for them on the city wall were thousands of plate armor infantry wearing plate armor.

(End of this chapter)