Chapter 715: Siege Behemoth
"Send the order, siege the city!"
The horn sounded.
The order was passed down, and under Fuyu City, the soldiers of the army who had just used breakfast began to wear armor and hold sharp weapons, preparing to go into battle.
Luo Shixin actually told everyone the truth. The major strategic direction of this battle had long been decided, and at this time, all the armies had already been in place according to the established strategy.
Everyone is in charge of siege, intercepting, intercepting, preparing to attack aid, and preparing to attack the city. Therefore, Luo Shixin, the general, actually doesn't need to do too much, just follow the strategy set before the war.
After all, so far, the situation on the battlefield has not been unexpected.
Even better than expected.
The various siege equipment transported by ships from the military camps in various parts of Liaodong have been assembled in the military camps.
At this time, siege cars, cloud cars, rushing cars, ladders, siege rams, and catapults were launched into the camp.
There is a 80-meter-high car.
Using vertical wood as a rod is an upgraded version of the nest car, it is eight zhang high, with a plate layer on the top and five feet wide. It can accommodate a flag bearer holding a flag to watch the enemy movements and tell the enemy situation with the following messengers.
Rolling up the flag means that there is no enemy. When the flag is opened, the enemy will come. When the flagpole is stretched flat, the enemy will be close. When the flagpole is vertical, the enemy will arrive. When the enemy retreats, the flagpole will be slowly raised. The enemy has retreated and rolled up the flag.
For the battlefield, especially in large legion operations, it is very important to observe the enemy situation. The more people, the more important the command and the more difficult it is to command. Therefore, setting up this kind of 800-meter-high looking tower car on the battlefield can see farther and take the enemy's movements into your eyes in a timely manner to respond at any time.
This kind of car has wheels under it to push, and there are foot pedals on the vertical pole, which can be used for sentry up and down. The vertical pole is fixed with a thick rope. The building itself is also equipped with a rotating shaft, which can be rotated on all sides to observe. This kind of car is taller than the nest car and has a wider field of view.
For the siege, it can make up for the lack of vision.
There is also a leather curtain car.
This is a kind of equipment that is equipped with wooden boards in front and covered with raw skin outside, allowing infantry to hide behind the car and approach the city. It can deal with weapons such as bows, arrows, stones, and other weapons that are guarding the city. This weapon was originally made of grass and wood, and is usually hung on the city wall.
Now the Zhongwu Army has created an excellent offensive version. The leather curtain car is very huge and can be folded with dozens of people behind it. Especially the wooden board is still large, the leather outside is not afraid of fire attack, and the car has wheels, so it is easy to advance.
There are even horizontal plates on the car for station people to hide soldiers, with some switchable shooting holes on them, which can be counterattacked while pushing.
In addition, Zhongwu Army also brought some pointed wooden donkey carts this time. This cart is an upgraded version of the previous cart. The cart is a four-wheel bottomless wooden cart. It is like a closed cart outside, covered with raw cowhide to prevent arrows. People push the cart forward in the cart, and can hide about ten soldiers and approach the city wall.
The pointed wooden donkey was improved by Hou Jing, the general of the universe. This pointed wooden donkey has six wheels, the length is 15 feet long and eight feet high, with a large wood ridge across the top and a cowhide. This car has better arrow-proof and fire-proof properties, and is specially used to propel to the city and dig tunnels.
In addition, there are Lin Chong and Yun Ladders.
According to Linchong, it was said that it was invented by Jiang Taigong, and because he was honored as Lu Gong Gong in Lu, he was called Lu Gongche.
This type of car is a giant siege chariot. The car is several meters high and dozens of meters long. The car is divided into five layers, with ladders available for up and down each layer. A car can carry hundreds of soldiers, equipped with organic crossbows, poisonous arrows, guns, halberds, spears and other weapons, and even equipment that specifically destroys the city walls.
When attacking, everyone pushed the car to the foot of the city wall, and the roof could be flush with the city wall. Then the soldiers rushed to the city through the overpass to fight against the enemy, and used wood to smash the city wall below to destroy it.
This type of large chariot is generally rare when siegeing the city. Because it takes a long time to make the cover and requires strict craftsmen's skills. On the other hand, it advances slowly and is more restricted by the terrain.
But this kind of giant is also very powerful and can give the enemy a huge deterrent effect on the battlefield.
If the siege army can fill the trenches, push down the sheep and horse walls outside, etc., and pave a road for the chariots in the early stage, then its lethality will be extremely strong.
In comparison, the ladder is simpler.
But the ladder is not a simple ladder. The ladder is also a kind of combat chariot with wheels underneath, which can drive and drive. Therefore, it is also called a ladder truck, equipped with anti-shield, winch, grab hook and other equipment. It is said that the ladder was invented by Lu Ban, and is actually a ladder truck with a chassis and wheels.
The ladder has a frame and is equipped with wheels. It pushes forward, reaches the city, opens the ladder, and soldiers climb the ladder to attack the city.
The Zhongwu Army's cloud ladder has been improved, with a main ladder and a secondary ladder. The main ladder is fixed on the chassis car at a certain angle. Outside the main ladder, a moving upper city sub-ladder is added, with a winch at the top, which can slide up and down along the wall surface of the city wall when climbing the city.
This design, because of the fixed device, simplifies the ladder program and shortens the ladder time. The active city ladder design greatly reduces the height of the ladder before the enemy is connected.
In this way, when sieging the city, you only need to park the main ladder under the city, and then set up the city ladder on the main ladder, so that you can go up to the city, thereby reducing the danger and difficulty of setting up the ladder in front of the enemy. At the same time, it can ensure that the ladder approaches the city edge before entering the city, and avoid being destroyed by the defenders.
Even the craftsmen of the Zhongwu Army made various forms of secondary ladders, including flying ladders, bamboo ladders, tiptoe flying ladders, etc. These improvements made it easy to move to catch the enemy by climbing the city and meeting the enemy quickly.
Compared to the simplest ordinary long ladder, this kind of siege ladder is more practical.
In addition, the craftsmen have also built many trench bridges for this siege, which are specially used to pass through trenches or moats, and are equivalent to a mobile bridge.
It also has wheels, pushes it to the edge of the trench, then opens the bridge plate folded on the trench and sets it onto the trench.
This kind of trench bridge can reach 1000 feet wide. If eight trench cars are installed together, it can reach 120 feet wide, and it can be used to run a car and a horse.
Of course, stone-casting cannons and siege crossbows are indispensable in siege.
The first few are all for approaching the city and climbing the city. Catstone chariots and siege crossbows are specially designed to kill enemies or smash cities. With a siege ram, a complete set of siege equipment will be prepared.
When the trumpet of the Zhongwu Army camp sounded.
The carts at the tower that were eight feet tall rose one by one, and when the huge carts that were several feet tall and dozens of feet long appeared, the alarm bells at the top of Fuyu city continued to ring.
Yuan Jiantu hurriedly climbed to the top of the city.
But I only saw hundreds of such huge monsters slowly approaching under the city.
"When did they create so many giant siege equipment and actually create so many monsters overnight? How did they do it?" Yuan Jiantu collapsed.
"Prince, it must be the Sui people who have created good luck in advance and assembled here." One person is quite knowledgeable.
Ke Yuan Jiantu did not care about these things. What he thought was how he would defend against so many huge creatures, especially the Sui army, which was several times the defenders in the city?
"Send additional messengers to the domestic city for help, just say that all the main forces of the Sui army are in Fuyu, so let them come to support quickly."
"Master General, the light cavalry of the Sui army has blocked the entire Fuyuchuan. Our messengers can't escape hunting after leaving the city."
"We are alone." A general looked at the slowly approaching Sui Jundao under the city in despair.
Chapter completed!