Daqin Engineering Corps

After knowing that Yang Duanhe in the south had broken through the Great Wall of Zhao and approached Handan, he left two subordinates to continue the defense, and he led 1 horses and horses to help Handan at night.

Among them, 5000 people were led by the school lieutenant Wang Bai to assist Xuchang to outflank the rear and recover the Great Wall.

Wang Bo was eager to make contributions, and immediately challenged Xuchang to fight as soon as he arrived at the Great Wall.

"General!"

"The last general is willing to lead the northern soldiers to break the city!"

"If you can't capture the city gate and welcome the army into the city, the general will come to see you!"

It is said that although Xu Chang is not as old and treacherous as Pang Nuan, he is also a veteran who has been through many battles.

He observed the Great Wall carefully.

See the Qin army's flags on the Great Wall are messy and disorderly.

Thinking secretly in my heart, I thought that Qin Jun was not prepared enough.

If you use Wang Bo, an elite soldier with a hundred battles, to give Qin Jun a blow.

Qin Jun is likely to collapse if he is caught off guard.

Immediately, Wang Baizhi asked to send the [-] northern soldiers.

So the first batch of more than [-] Zhao troops went up with siege ladders, crash cars and other siege equipment.

The focus of the attack was the gap in the Great Wall that the Qin army failed to fill.

The attack in other places was only to disperse the strength and firepower of the Qin army.

For a moment, the sound of killing shook the sky, stone bullets and arrows flew randomly, and the Qin and Zhao armies fought back and forth at the gap like bulls.

But because the Qin army had already prepared for it, they even set up arrow towers around the gap and arranged for crossbowmen.

Therefore, Zhao Jun was often killed and returned just a few steps into the gap.

The war situation fell into a stalemate for a while.

On the other side, Shen Bing was still gesticulating under Liu Xu's anxious eyes, and occasionally glanced at the gap with the long bamboo in his hand.

When it was over, Shen Bing waved the flag and shouted at the catapult behind:

"Go forward, go forward!"

"Oh, yes! Yes! Go, go..."

"Correct the angle!"

"One here, one here... align the tip of the cannon in a straight line!"

At this time, Liu Xu had seen something tricky.

"Don't you want to use the trebuchet to deal with the enemy?"

"But……"

Liu Xu looked at the direction of the gap worriedly. The enemy and us were fighting at close quarters there, with swords and shields indistinguishable from each other.

In this case, trebuchets are usually useless.

On the one hand, this is because the accuracy of the trebuchet is low, and the flying stone bullets can easily hurt one's own people.

On the other hand, because the gap is only more than ten steps wide, it is difficult for the trebuchet to accurately shoot the stone bullet through the gap.

And if the stone bullet can't shoot through the gap, it will inevitably hit the city wall and it will be the result of accidentally injuring one's own side.

Looking at Liu Xu's puzzled eyes, Shen Bing explained while commanding:

"Do you know what the biggest advantage of the new trebuchet is?"

"Its accuracy is much higher than that of the old trebuchet."

"Besides, its trajectory can be calculated..."

Liu Xu stared at Shen Bing with wide eyes in disbelief.

"Ballistics? Calculation?"

"You mean you can figure out where the stone bullets landed?"

"This... this is impossible!"

Shen Bing replied:

"It is indeed impossible to calculate the exact landing point."

"But it's not difficult to figure out a rough idea."

"Additionally, I arranged these trebuchets in a fan pattern aimed at the notch."

"The stone bullets they shoot pass through the gap, and it will form a fan-shaped coverage on the other side!"

"Understand?"

Liu Xu was stunned for a while, then shook her head like a drum, and replied heavily: "I don't understand!"

Shen Bing waved his hand indifferently:

"You don't need to understand."

"All you need to know is that the trebuchet can seal the gap."

Liu Xu didn't believe in herself, but she was excited and expectant.

"Is this true?"

"Can the trebuchet seal the gap?"

"Don't deceive me, there is no joke in the army..."

Shen Bing was speechless for a moment.

This is related to his own wealth and life, how could Shen Bing "joke".

Before that, he even tried firing catapults with different counterweights, and then used the test firing data to calculate.

But Shen Bing didn't bother to explain to Liu Xu any more, and the explanation didn't make sense.

He just waved his hand and said: "Try it and you will know, it will be ready in one stick of incense time!"

At this time, the situation on the battlefield changed suddenly.

Zhao Jun is worthy of being an elite soldier in a hundred battles. They cooperated with each other and advanced step by step:

The shieldmen cover in front, the heavy infantry follow closely behind, and the crossbowmen follow behind.

The crossbowmen fired arrows on both sides of the gap to cover the infantry.

The shield bearers marched slowly in a straight line, holding the shield step by step.

Then suddenly turned sideways to let the heavy infantry behind him come forward.

These heavy infantrymen are all wearing heavy helmets and holding large axes, heavy hammers and other weapons. When they rush forward, they smash and slash.

Although Qin Jun's shields were fighting with shields, these wooden shields and leather shields simply couldn't stop the chopping of heavy hammers and big axes...

Wooden shields and leather shields in cold weapon combat are mainly used against light weapons such as bows and arrows and bronze swords.

When encountering weapons with their own weight like big axes and heavy hammers, they are basically ineffective.

The heavy hammer hammered down hard. Although the shield was not broken, the hand holding the shield was useless and could only be slaughtered.

The big ax is even more terrible. A single stroke of the ax can split the shield in half.

So soon Qin Jun's formation was broken by Zhao Jun.

Qin Jun's shield hand was about to fill the gap and block the heavy infantry back, but Zhao Jun's shield hand blocked it again.

And then again and again...

Shen Bing, who was watching the battle from behind, couldn't help but let out a "reliance" when he saw this scene.

Isn't this a modern multi-arms coordinated operation?

Although it is not like modern sea, land, and air coordination, it is a perfect coordination of various infantry.

With such soldiers and tactics, it is no wonder that Li Mu was able to defeat the Xiongnu who were good at riding and shooting in the north.

How could the Qin army resist such an offensive, and retreated after many soldiers fell.

Even the crossbowmen on the arrow tower were shot down a lot.

Then Zhao Jun rushed to the city gate as soon as he turned his front...

At this critical moment, a group of female soldiers suddenly appeared in Hengli.

It was Yang Ting who led the strong girl into the battle group.

Shen Bing couldn't help but let out an "uh".

Although I have accepted the reality that there are female soldiers in this era, it is still a bit uncomfortable to watch the female soldiers fall one by one in front of Zhao Jun and splatter blood on the spot.

How did Shen Bing know that he was just not used to it? Yang Ting, who was on the battlefield, really felt the pressure of life and death.

Zhao Jun came one by one like a tide, endlessly.

Especially the heavy infantry in heavy helmets, they couldn't avoid Yang Ting's spear at all.

A heavy hammer hit the handle of the gun, making Yang Ting's hands numb for a while, and the spear almost fell out of her hand.

Yang Ting secretly said:

"I'm going to die here today!"

"The Qin army has lost this battle."

"It doesn't matter if I die, but I'm afraid my father will..."

Just as he was thinking, suddenly stone bullets flew over his head, and then there was a scream from the other side of the Great Wall.

Ren Zhao's shield soldiers and heavy infantry were extremely powerful, and they couldn't stand the heavy stone bombs.

Chapter 22 Shame

"Let go!" Following Shen Bing's order, another round of stone bullets flew out.

Immediately there was another scream and wailing outside the Great Wall.

Zhao Jun's offensive gap is to adopt a dense formation, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is crowded.

Therefore, no stone bullets will miss where they pass, and even one stone bullet can hit several.

Especially if there are two stone bombs colliding in the air, it will be even more beautiful, and the broken stones will fly downward like a goddess scattering flowers.

Ren Na Zhao Jun was an elite army, and he was beaten to the point of crying and howling.

Of course, the trebuchet killed and wounded the Zhao army outside the city.

This is determined by the accuracy of the trebuchet.

Although the new trebuchet is Shen Bing's latest improved conjoined trebuchet, its accuracy has been improved to a higher level.

But the trebuchet is a trebuchet after all, and its accuracy cannot be as accurate as modern artillery and rifles.

This also means that its killing target is not at the boundary between the enemy and the enemy.

The distance between the enemy and friendly troops at the boundary is too close, and the trebuchet cannot guarantee that it will not be accidentally injured.

So the landing point can only be set on the other side of the city wall.

In this way, there is almost no chance of accidental injury, unless a few Qin soldiers are brave enough to fight back outside the city wall.

At the same time, it can also achieve the effect of fire blockade.

Because it is equivalent to cutting off Zhao Jun's follow-up reinforcements...

It may not be possible to cut off the water with a knife, but it is a matter of minutes to interrupt the dense crowd of Zhao Jun with stone bullets.

As a result, Yang Ting and Qin Jun only felt the pressure lighten, and the Zhao Jun in front of them immediately became much less.

Qin Jun's morale was greatly shaken by this, and with a loud shout, they joined forces to kill Zhao Jun.

The Zhao Jun who broke into the gap originally said that the victory was settled, so his morale was high.