Daqin Engineering Corps

The city wall was blown down the next afternoon.

With a loud noise, a section of the city wall that had already been sunken into a big pit turned into ruins in the dust.

The Qin army did not attack like the defenders thought, but continued to wait outside, and from time to time, they fired a few explosive bombs to create some panic.

Because Shen Bing thinks he still has time, he should wait until his interests are maximized before attacking.

Then the opportunity presented itself...

The Parthian cavalry and two teams of Seleucid cavalry arrived.

Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, Huo Musang's defenders couldn't help cheering from the top of the city, and many even wept with joy.

But then they were disappointed, because the Parthian cavalry stood still and just watched the battle from afar, no matter how the Seleucid cavalry shouted, it was useless.

On the one hand, King Anxi was worried that he would not be able to defeat the Qin army...

The Qin army surrounded Huo Musang with more than [-] troops, while the Anxi army had only [-].

This is really going to be a fight, and the Parthians who are not equipped with harnesses will definitely not be able to please.

The result is likely to be that Anxi's entire army was wiped out while Huo Musang's siege remained unsolved.

In fact, Anxi didn't want Huo Musang to break out of the siege, and even hoped that the Qin army could occupy Huo Musang.

The reason is simple. If the Qin army occupied Huomusang, it would become a barrier for Anxi. In the future, if the Seleucid army wanted to attack Anxi, it would have to pass the Qin army first.

Shen Bing also thought about this, so he thought that An Xi would not do anything unless he had to.

Then, the soldiers and civilians of Huo Musang found that their king had disappeared.

Because everyone agrees that this is the time for the king to come into play... the king should use his influence to order those Parthians to attack the enemy.

But the king never showed up, and the guards made excuses that the king was busy with official duties.

And yet, at this time, what public service could compare to directing and calling on the rest of the troops? !

Then the angry soldiers and civilians rushed into Antiochus III's residence regardless of the guards... only to find that it was empty.

Everyone felt that they had been cheated and betrayed by Antiochus III.

At this moment, Shen Bing ordered to attack the city.

Chapter 5 Huo Musang

At the forefront is the Shenwu Army.

The reason is that the rattan armor equipped by the Shenwu Army is relatively light and equipped with cable arrows, so they can easily and quickly cross the broken wall and rush into the city... Although the city wall has collapsed, there are still broken walls everywhere, and it is still difficult to climb over. Difficulties.

What's more, the Shenwu army from the Central Plains is better at attacking and defending the city, while the cavalry under Geyu and Jiazhi are only good at riding and shooting.

In fact, these are secondary.

Shen Bing knew that the morale of the Seleucid soldiers was exhausted at this time, no matter who they sent to attack the city, it would be the same.

But the Shenwu Army has never fought the enemy head-on, except as Shen Bing's personal guard and firing artillery from a distance.

Ge Yu and Ji didn't know what to say, and as leaders, they certainly knew the truth about how to make use of their own strengths.

But their subordinates, those Xiongnu and Western Region cavalry, will inevitably have opinions:

"The battles are fought by them. Is the Shenwu Army preserving their strength?"

At this time, the siege battle was what their cavalry feared, and there were still [-] Seleucid soldiers in the city, especially most of these Seleucid soldiers were ultra-long spearmen... This is definitely troublesome for the Xiongnu and Western Region cavalry .

At this time, it would be best if the Shenwu Army came to a show battle.

The Shenwu army shouted and rushed up the waste mound. Instead of rushing down the mound to fight hand-to-hand, they used the mound to fight the enemy with a crossbow.

This is the advantage of the Shenwu Army. The rattan armor on their bodies does not need to worry about the enemy's arrows, so they can safely aim at the target and shoot down the enemies one by one with the high-precision crossbow arrows.

This enemy includes not only the ultra-long spear phalanx under the mound, but also the breaks in the city walls on both sides of the mound.

There are many Seleucid archers gathered at the fracture. They are condescending from left to right, forming a cross-firing continuous bow and arrow, and shooting arrows towards the Shenwu army.

However, those arrows shot on the rattan armor like tickling the soldiers of the Shenwu Army.

The crossbow arrows shot by the Shenwu Army caused the Seleucid archers to scream and fall from the height of the fracture from time to time.

Then, while the crossbow arrows suppressed the enemy, the Shenwu Army fired cable arrows above the fracture, and then climbed up along the rope one by one.

The Seleucid ultra-pikemen below the mound never expected that after the enemy broke the city wall, they would not enter the city through the gap, but climb up the city wall from the break...

In fact, not only the Seleucid soldiers did not expect it, but Ge Yu and Yu and the Huns and soldiers from the Western Regions under their command also did not expect it. grassland.

This is obviously beneficial to the Qin army, because it is a kind of deterrence both internally and externally: externally it makes the enemy frightened and confused, and internally it makes the Huns and Western Regions soldiers convinced of the Qin army, so they will never again. Want to make a mess.

The Seleucid ultra-pikemen guarding the gap were anxious, and under the command of the captain, the whole team attacked the mound.

However, this is a wrong choice.

The reason is that the ultra-long spearman phalanx first has high requirements for quality and training, and second, it also has requirements for terrain.

This spear array is only suitable for areas with flat terrain, and once the terrain is rough, it will not be able to form a spear wall.

For example, now, the ultra-long spearmen are attacking along the mound from the bottom up... The irregular mound immediately disrupted the formation of the spear formation, causing many loopholes.

Even in some positions, such as a low wall that needs to be crossed, it is still impossible to do it while wearing heavy armor and holding a super long gun.

Even if it can be done, when climbing the mound, the ultra-long spearmen have to hold the ultra-long spear weighing more than ten kilograms obliquely so that the tip of the spear is upward, while holding up the shield to block the crossbow arrows shot by the enemy, and pay attention to the landing point of the feet , So it is impossible to fight regardless of the past and the future.

And the soldiers of the Shenwu Army on the mound, while shooting crossbow arrows, easily dodged the slow and powerless spearhead in front of them...

To be precise, it is not dodging, but directly grabbing the head of the gun and pushing it down, pushing the enemy off the ground.

There were even many soldiers of the Shenwu Army who snatched spears from the enemy, stabbed the Seleucid soldiers one by one with a condescending burst of stabbing.

What's even more powerful is that the Shenwu Army threw a row of "thunderbolt fireballs" down, blowing up the Seleucid soldiers and fleeing immediately.

In fact, these soldiers were more scared away. The "thunderbolt fireball" was actually hard to hurt them who were wearing heavy armor and holding shields. After all, the gunpowder at this time was not powerful enough, and the fragments were just "barbed caltrops".

The soldiers of the Shenwu Army put away their crossbow arrows, drew out their bronze swords and chased after him.

Another feature of the ultra-long spear phalanx is that it cannot be missing, because once a hole is missing, the enemy will get in through this hole. You only need to advance a short distance from this hole to cross the control range of the ultra-long spear, and the ultra-long spear will be powerless up.

Therefore, the soldiers who form the ultra-long spear phalanx are also required to have a strong psychological quality, and they must not run away at any time. In case someone is injured or dies, someone will immediately step up from behind.

At this time, the Seleucid soldiers had already fled in groups, so the subsequent gun formation immediately became chaotic, and they were defeated by the Shenwu army and fled in all directions.

Ge Yu led [-] Xiongnu soldiers to follow behind the Shenwu army, and took control of the entire city of Homusang within a short time.

In fact, it was not easy for Huo Musang to persist until now.

The reason is that most of the people and soldiers of Homusang are Central Asians and West Asians who speak Cypriot, not Greeks.

As mentioned before, Alexander destroyed Persia, and after his death, the three forces of Seleucid, Ptolemy and Macedonia were split.

In addition to Macedonia, the three forces, Ptolemy controlled Egypt, and Seleucid controlled Central and Western Asia.

The ruling method of these two countries is to use Greeks and Macedonians as generals, and recruit troops from local people such as Egypt and Central Asia to form a Hellenistic army.

Therefore, what Shen Bing saw and faced was not the authentic Macedonian phalanx... They were trained by Central and Western Asians equipped with Macedonian armor and super long spears.

This is somewhat similar to the troops formed by Shen Bing in the Western Regions and grasslands.

Their fighting power is very strong, and it is no wonder that they once fought peacefully and bowed their heads. There is no problem with their loyalty to Antioch III. It is especially rare that they resisted for a while when they knew that Antioch III and the nobles had abandoned them. .

If it were someone else, I'm afraid they would have surrendered or even turned against each other.

Shen Bing entered the city through the open city gate, and people kneeling everywhere on both sides of the city gate were terrified and crying.

They were not sure how Shen Bing, the new ruler, would treat them.

Massacre?

coolie?

Or drive out of town?

They never thought that Shen Bing didn't care about this at all, and he led the troops straight to the barracks warehouse.

Chapter 5 and Ten

The grain in the warehouse was piled up like a hill, and weapons and equipment were everywhere. It is no exaggeration to say that it was enough for the Qin army to feed for several years.

It's just a pity that the weapons and equipment are not available... The Qin army is all cavalry, and they are not used to and cannot use the heavy equipment that these infantry can only use.

However, after Shen Bing looked at the equipment, his expression was serious.

Because these equipments are all made of iron, and the quality of the iron is still higher than the new iron made by Shen Bing... As I said before, the West Asia area entered the Iron Age hundreds of years earlier than the Central Plains, and the iron equipment at this time was very matured.

Shen Bing didn't think too much, and immediately ordered:

"Block the iron smelting workshops in the whole city, and no blacksmith is allowed to escape!"

Wang Ben responded, and took the Shenwu army to execute it.

It was only later that Shen Bing realized that he didn't need to be so nervous at all, because there were quite a few people in Central and Western Asia who could smelt iron and forge iron tools, which was very common for them.

The second thing Shen Bing did was to order Jiang to take the Pu Lei army to station outside the city.

This is not because there is no place for the Pu Lei army to live in the city.

In fact, Homusang is a large city with a population of several 10. It originally had a garrison of [-] troops, and it has always been the base of the Seleucid Empire's eastern expedition. Therefore, the military camp has redundancy and can station [-] troops.

But Shen Bing didn't dare to let all the troops station in the city.

The reason is simple. The Qin army is a cavalry army, and it is dealing with the Seleucid army.

Once the Seleucid army deployed the ultra-long spear phalanx at the gates of the cities, the cavalry of the Qin army would not be able to leave the city, so the mobility of the cavalry would be useless, and it would be a matter of time before they were wiped out.

But if the main force is placed outside the city, it will be different. Supplies and drinking water can be supplied from inside the city. Once attacked by the enemy, the cavalry will avoid and flee.

At this time, Akaifus was still on his way to reinforce Huo Musang. When he heard that Huo Musang had fallen and listened to the arrangement of the Qin army, he sighed and ordered:

"Bypass Huo Musang!"

The subordinate asked puzzledly:

"General, do we just give up on Huo Musang?"

"Why not surround it and take it back?"

"I heard that the city wall of Huomusang has been blown down by the Si Army, so we can just attack from the gap!"

Acaevus shook his head and said:

"Until now, don't you guys know how powerful the Silk Army is?"

"We may be able to attack through the gap, but we can't take back Homusang!"

The subordinates were dissatisfied and asked:

"why?"

Acaves replied:

"Because they arranged the main force outside the city, [-] cavalry!"

"Once we attack the city, or even if we surround Homusang, these [-] cavalry will cut off our supply lines and prevent us from getting food!"

"How many days can we last then?"

Only then did the subordinates understand what the problem was after hearing the words.

But someone asked again:

"General, we can order Partia and Dawan to deal with these silk cavalry!"

Acaevus laughed:

"We can't order them anymore!"

"Even if we don't leave, we may be killed by them!"

Acaevus was right.

Rest can be said to have turned against Seleucid.

In fact, there is no one else to blame for this, but Akaifus who ordered them to rescue Huo Musang.