In a broad sense, siege warfare refers to a war mode in which a castle, city or fortress is attacked.
According to the battle mode, it can be divided into street fighting and siege warfare. The purpose can be to seize buildings, resources, strategic locations or annihilate the enemy.
Usually, siege warfare is a mode of war that is carried out only under necessary circumstances, because it often requires paying a huge price to achieve the goal.
In the Middle Ages, castles were the main opponents of the attackers in siege warfare. The attackers often needed a large number of siege weapons, such as trebuchets, siege vehicles, ballistas, etc.
As we all know, siege warfare has always been called the life harvester on the battlefield.
For soldiers, there is no faster death in war than attacking a city.
After all, siege warfare does not depend on whether you are a veteran of many battles.
Those rolling logs and rocks cannot be avoided by just relying on movement skills.
Moreover, even if the city gate is breached by luck, the soldiers will still have to enter the city to engage in street battles with the enemy. Only those who have participated in siege battles will know the specific casualties.
Moreover, there is another very important point to explain here.
That is, due to the social chaos during the Jin and Jin Dynasties, many techniques for making war weapons have long been lost.
So much so that during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, siege weapons were not as advanced as those during the Three Kingdoms era.
During the Three Kingdoms period, there was a trebuchet that could throw a hundred kilograms of boulders 500 steps. In the Tang Dynasty, it could only throw 300 steps at most.
If Li Chengqian hadn't come out of nowhere and improved these things.
I'm afraid it will take several years for the Tang Dynasty's army to regain control of these large weapons.
Of course, as a guy who traveled through time from later times.
Li Chengqian naturally didn't need to use any stupid methods to attack the city.
After all, he had developed the H drug a long time ago. Although this thing is not as good as artillery, it is at least much better than trebuchets and so on...
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The day of the siege.
When Li Chengqian's order to attack the city was issued.
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty launched a fierce attack on Buyeo City.
The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty formed a square formation and pressed towards Buyeo City like a tide.
Without exception, these 30,000 people are all soldiers of Bingzhou.
As mentioned earlier, the two most elite troops of the Tang Dynasty, the Liangzhou soldiers Yongguan, have always been recognized as the ace unit, and the Bingzhou soldiers followed closely behind, ranking second in the Tang Dynasty's military rankings.
Perhaps in the eyes of others, being ranked second is really good, and it is also an honor.
But in the eyes of Bingzhou soldiers, it was far more than that.
This group of guys, every time they go to the battlefield, they try their best to suppress the Liangzhou soldiers.
After all, if you don’t compete for steamed buns and reputation, who wants to always be second?
And these two forces have always been cheating on each other.
For example, the soldiers of Liangzhou were indeed very capable in individual combat, and they were unmatched in the entire Tang Dynasty.
Although the Bingzhou soldiers were not as good as the Liangzhou soldiers, they were not much inferior.
And in large-scale team battles, it was always their Bingzhou Legion that turned the tide.
This time they followed Li Chengqian to attack the city, and they all tried their best to prove themselves in front of His Highness.
After all, they had seen Li Chengqian take Liangzhou soldiers with him whenever he went on an expedition, and that he had given Liangzhou soldiers new swords and new equipment.
Although no one complained, how could they not be angry?
What's going on?
Only you Liangzhou soldier is your biological son, and our Bingzhou soldier is your stepmother?
This time, we, Bingzhou Soldiers, have to show you who is the pinnacle of the Tang Dynasty's combat power.
With this mentality in mind, these guys, encouraged by the captain, worked hard to attack the city.
Even though Li Chengqian had told them that the east, west, and south sides were feint attacks, they still failed to obey this military order.
Arranged at the forefront of the military formation were the archers, followed by the sword and shield bearers, and then the dead soldiers carrying ladders.
At this moment, this group of people lined up in a neat battle formation and slowly advanced towards the city wall of Buyeo City.
When they were still two hundred steps away from the city wall, the former Goguryeo archers on the city wall nocked their bows and loaded their arrows.
In this case, they don't need to aim at all, they only need to shoot the arrows to cause damage to the enemy.
However, Bingzhou soldiers are not vegetarians either.
When they were still two hundred steps away from the city wall, the sword-and-shield bearers carrying the ladders in front threw their legs and ran towards the city wall very quickly.
Although the archers behind were no longer protected by these sword and shield men, they were still not afraid of the opponent's arrow array.
Even if their comrades next to them were shot and fell by arrows, they still ran forward in formation without blinking.
When they were still a hundred steps away from the city wall, the Bingzhou soldiers' archers under the city also began to show off their power.
"Latch your bow and arrow!"
"put!"
Following the captain's order, I heard buzzing in my ears! A sound.
A dark cloud of arrows as dense as locusts rose into the sky within the military formation of Bingzhou soldiers.
The dark clouds of arrows fell one after another when they reached their peak, falling like raindrops on the wall of Buyeo City.
For a time, there were screams and wails on the city wall.
Under the three-sided attack of the Bingzhou Army, Buyeo City was like a lonely boat in the waves, as if it would sink at any time.
Li Chengqian behind him was dumbfounded by the scene in front of him.
What's going on?
Isn't the order given by the young master a feint?
How come these guys are so fake?
This change was something Li Chengqian never expected.
But the war has already progressed to this point, he can't order to call all those people back, can he?
He quickly looked at Changsun Chong and shouted: "Brother Chong, hurry up and send an order to Cheng Hualiang to seize the time to launch an attack on the city, otherwise these guys are going to get into big trouble!"
Changsun Chong also found that the situation was unusual.
He hurriedly rode out of the military formation on a fast horse, and soon ran to Cheng Huailiang to convey the order.
At this moment, Cheng Hualiang was ready.
After hearing Changsun Chong's order, he immediately led his soldiers and ran towards Buyeo City with their shields on their backs.
Originally, the fact that Buyeo Castle was besieged from three sides had already made all the Goguryeo soldiers very anxious.
At this moment, I found these guys rushing from the North City Gate, and I suddenly panicked.
Some Goguryeo soldiers discovered their existence and reported it to their generals.
The general was also puzzled by the impact of more than a thousand people.
They did not carry ladders, and they were not even seen with weapons drawn. They just charged with an iron can on their backs and shields.
What's happening here?
What are they trying to do?
Naturally, this general had never seen Li Chengqian's tactics.
So after being stunned for a while, he gave the order: "Archers, put on their bows and arrows, and kill these people for me..."
However, at this moment, the opponent was less than 150 steps away from the city wall.
Of course, these people are all the elite soldiers brought out by Li Chengqian this time.
However, it was still difficult to dodge under the arrows fired by nearly a thousand people from the other side, and many people were shot into hedgehogs on the spot.
Of the fifteen hundred people, only half could rush to Buyeo Castle.
Almost all of the remaining individuals died on the way to the charge.
Seeing the soldiers who suffered heavy casualties, Cheng Huailiang was extremely angry.
He looked straight at the head of Fuyu City, his eyes filled with resentment.
"When I break through this city gate, I will kill all of you without leaving a trace!"
