Daqin Engineering Corps

"It's a good plan, and we will act like this when we attack the city tomorrow."

"No, I will set up a high platform tonight."

"The siege begins at dawn."

Shen Bing hesitated for a while, then objected:

"But the general."

"If Zhao Jun is prepared for the fire attack, he will definitely make preparations in advance."

"I'm just trying to increase the range, but I'm afraid it won't hurt the root."

The fire attack, especially the fire attack that throws fireballs at the city wall, should be more of a surprise.

For example, if Yang Duan and Huo Gong started the night with Huo Gong from all sides at the same time...

I am afraid that the fire in Handan could not be controlled, and the fire burned out.

But now, Zhao Jun is prepared and the fire is easy to control.

After all, it is a matter of tearing down a few houses and building a whole isolation zone.

As long as this isolation belt is wide and long enough, no matter how the fire is burned outside, it will not spread inside.

Yang Duanhe said distressedly:

"Actually, we all know that besieging and not attacking is the best policy."

"But your majesty has to obey."

"What's more, Your Majesty has already rushed to Handan himself, and will arrive soon."

"If Handan hadn't been taken by then, I'm afraid the king will blame him..."

Shen Bing was dumbfounded at the time.

king?

Could it be that Qin Shihuang won the government?

Is Ying Zheng going to personally supervise Handan and supervise the formation?

Chapter 69 Selfish Desires

So Shen Bing had to take the artillery division to the front of the formation to build a high platform that night.

In order for the fireball to go deep into the city as far as possible, the catapult must be close enough to the city wall, and the high platform must be high enough.

Being tall enough isn't a big deal because it just takes time and manpower to build.

Close enough to the city walls...that's a big problem.

There are also trebuchets on Zhao Jun's city walls. These trebuchets have not only been improved but also condescending.

Although these trebuchets still use dill baskets as counterweights, the accuracy is not high.

But if the Qin army had to move the trebuchet forward and build a high platform, the situation would be different.

Nothing happened that night.

During this period of time, Qin Jun has been building a stronghold outside the city, beating and beating all day long, Zhao Jun has long been used to it.

So the Qin army successfully built high platforms a few steps high in front of the formation and built trebuchets on them.

On the second day, something happened when the sky was only hazy...

The high platforms erected were very conspicuous outside the empty city, and Zhao Jun found them immediately.

So the horn sounded immediately at the top of Handan city.

Soon there was a trebuchet shooting stone bombs from afar towards the high platform...

Only then did Shen Bing discover a more serious problem: the surface of the high platform was very large, like a vertical target.

This shortcoming makes it easy to be hit by Zhao Jun's trebuchet.

In addition, Zhao Jun also learned to use the counterweight to adjust the point of impact. Once the shot is close or far, whether it is left or right, it will be adjusted again...

And the high platform couldn't move, so he could only watch Zhao Jun adjust.

As a result, one after another, the high platforms were destroyed by the stone bullets of Zhao Jun's trebuchet.

Yang Duanhe even had to order his troops to attack the city in advance to cover the high platform.

To be precise, it should be Wang Jian, because the siege battle at this time was already a joint battle between Wang Jian and Yang Duan and the two armies.

So the war was about to break out, and the whole battlefield boiled like a pot of porridge.

However, this still didn't help much.

The catapults on the high platform were reduced one by one, and a few batches of sackcloth bombs were barely fired, like mud cows entering the sea without any response.

Qin Jun's charge was also beaten back by Zhao Jun wave after wave.

In this battle, the artillery division lost fifteen craftsmen.

It would be better if they died on the spot, but those who were injured are even worse...

A craftsman's leg was broken by a stone bullet. The whole leg was bent back from the knee, and the broken leg bone protruded obliquely from the other end, which looked very strange.

When he was carried down, he kept holding his legs and screaming, and the medical staff came to help him.

To be precise, it was handled in a hasty way... that is, to forcefully straighten the foot and tie it up with a branch as a stick.

As a result, the person was so painful that he passed out before he was tied up.

The other fell from a high platform and was pierced by a piece of wood in the shoulder.

The broken wood was also forcibly pulled out and then bandaged with a healing belt, without even checking whether there were still pieces in the body.

What's even more exaggerated is that a punctured abdomen couldn't stop the bleeding, so the medical worker stuffed a healing cloth into the wound, like blocking a leaking clay pot.

In addition, Shen Bing found that there were several medical workers beside the wounded, chanting words and dancing...

As mentioned before, the people in Qin Dynasty were extremely superstitious.

Those medical workers are also called medicine witches, and they can't tell whether they are curing diseases and saving lives or dancing masters.

Shen Bing actually knew why this happened.

In this era, science and technology and medicine are extremely backward, and many things cannot be explained scientifically and rationally, so it is natural to list them as theories of ghosts and gods.

However, if you know what you know, it is hard to accept seeing them deal with injuries so simply and rudely in reality.

At the same time, there was a wave of fear and chills in my heart.

Because Shen Bing would subconsciously think:

If one day I get injured, will I hand over my life to these medical workers or witch doctors like them?

At this time, Shen Bing came to a conclusion: absolutely not to be injured, otherwise you will get sick if you are not sick.

And this is just the beginning.

The artillery division suffered 21 craftsmen the next day.

The reason why there were more casualties was because Zhao Jun began to suppress Gaotai at night.

They even learned to use sackcloth fireballs...

This is one of the reasons why Shen Bing takes a conservative attitude towards invention.

Most of these inventions have no scientific and technological content, but are just a matter of creativity, and you can basically learn them at a glance.

So today the Qin army uses the new invention against the enemy, and tomorrow the enemy will use it against the Qin army in turn.

At this time, the gunner suffered such a hardship.

They were secretly building a high platform at night, when suddenly dozens of fireballs pierced through the air and illuminated the surrounding area brightly.

Shen Bing secretly thought that it was not good, and immediately asked Ren to issue an order to withdraw the artillery division.

However, it was too late, and several people were injured after a stone bomb passed.

This is often repeated, and the high platform failed to build a few people, but there were many casualties.

Artillery craftsmen alone lost 21 people.

You must know that there are only more than a hundred artillery divisions, and there were 36 casualties in two days. If this continues, it may be Shen Bing's turn in a few days.

Shen Bing was not the only one who was troubled by casualties, Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe were also the same.

At that time, Yang Duanhe was reporting the battle situation to Wang Jian, and he said helplessly:

"Report to the General."

"The Handan defenders seem to have regained some morale, and the resistance is very tenacious."

"Our army suffered more than [-] casualties in just two days."

"This way..."

Needless to say, Wang Jian will also count.

The total strength of the Qin army besieging Handan was no more than [-]. If there were one or two thousand casualties every day, the total strength would be halved within a month.

At that time, even if Zhao Jun does not go out of the city to fight back, I am afraid that Qin Jun himself will collapse.

But Wang Jian was also very helpless:

"Your Majesty ordered me to wait."

"The king has been asking about the battle situation every day for several days."

"Also said that when he arrives, he will rest in the Handan Palace..."

Saying that, Wang Jian sighed heavily.

Although he could understand Ying Zheng's eagerness to destroy Zhao, it was absolutely unacceptable to fight such a mess.

Wang Jian regretted it a little, he should not have suppressed Yang Duanhe in the first place.

If Yang Duanhe hadn't been pushed to the north gate, Handan would have been engulfed in flames, and it would not be easy to break the city.

but now……

After thinking about it, Wang Jian said to Yang Duanhe:

"Tell Shen Bing that erecting a high platform won't work, let him think of another way."

Yang Duanhe said "No" and backed out.

After leaving the tent, Yang Duanhe felt ashamed secretly.

In fact, Shen Bing had told him that this method would not work, but he insisted on doing so.

Sure enough, Shen Bing got it right.

Back in Beiying, Yang Duanhe immediately found Shen Bing, and asked anxiously:

"Your Majesty will arrive in Handan in a few days."

"And ordered me to break the city before then."

"But now..."

Shen Bing was speechless after hearing this.

This is almost an impossible task.

What's even more infuriating is... sooner or later, you will be in charge of this Handan, so what's the rush?

You can satisfy your selfish desires for a while, but you don't know how many people died on the front line!

But having said that, when does Ying Zheng care about how many people die?

Shen Bing thought for a while and asked:

"General, I don't know if I have any medicine for sweating?"