Look at the raging fire on the city gate. The people in the 19th Regiment were a little stunned.
They were here to test fire, but when the attack reached this level, they could almost launch infantry to attack the city.
Because Jining is a small town, the city gate building is only thirty square meters in size. But after being ignited, it still burned like a torch.
It should be because this is a grassland, and only the nearby mountains have pine trees. This city gate building is built of pine wood. Pine wood has a lot of grease and is particularly susceptible to fire due to dry weather in winter. After being hit by the fireball, a raging fire immediately ignited.
In the third round of shooting, twelve fireballs were thrown into the city. At this time, the city was full of fire. The people in the city were awake, shouting and putting out fires everywhere.
A large number of Mongolians climbed onto the city wall, thinking that the Ming army had begun to attack the city under cover of night.
Liu Sansi sighed that it would be a pity if he had to bring out all 3,600 people in a group. At this point, you can attack the city. Unfortunately, they only brought a few hundred people to prevent the Mongols from coming out. This small number of people is not enough to attack the city.
Zhao Dazhuang looked at Jining City in the distance carelessly, as if a pot was boiling. The flames in the city illuminated the city walls as if they were illuminated by lights.
"Ryudanzao, the test firing is over perfectly, we can go back." As he said that, he yawned. I was so sleepy most of the night. It's time to go back to sleep.
This is Yang Fan's rule. As long as you finish your work, you can go back to sleep.
Liu Sansi looked back three times at the burning Jining City that lit up half the sky. He felt very sorry for it. If he had known it earlier, alas!
The Mongols, as if facing a formidable enemy, defended the city wall until dawn, and did not see the Ming army attack the city. Everyone was exhausted. About to withdraw and rest. Suddenly, in the morning light, a loud bugle sounded, and then the sound of Dongdongdong's war drums was heard.
Lord Yin Billy was seriously injured. One of his legs was shattered, his head was also fractured, and several ribs were broken. Now I can only receive treatment at the back. Captain Aoden is temporarily in charge of defending the city.
"What are these Ming troops doing? They made a surprise attack last night and disrupted the whole city. They retreated instead. They left us hanging on the wall for half the night, and now they are attacking again. These cunning southern barbarians." Captain Geer cursed angrily.
Aoden and Bridge could only smile bitterly, who knew what they were thinking.
At this time, it was already dawn, and a large number of Ming troops were lining up in the distance, and then walking towards the city wall.
After the Mongols calmed down the chaos last night, they put out the fire and then used the method of demolishing the houses in the city to obtain building materials to plug the gaps in the city wall. Although it is very crude, it does not look very strong. After all, things are back to how they were at the beginning.
Bridge was still laughing, these Ming army generals were idiots. The cows and horses refused to take the grass under their mouths, and instead climbed over the mountains to chew the sand. No need for such a good opportunity. We have repaired the city, and there is no chance for us to fight again.
However, it is getting bright now. It is a sunny day and the visibility is very high.
When they saw the military town coming from the opposite side, each of them opened their mouths in surprise.
Thirteen huge trebuchets were pushed over by soldiers. These trebuchets are actually made of steel. There was a lack of steel on the grassland, so this lavish method made them almost drool with envy. This steel is enough to build a set of fine steel armor for each of the entire Jining City defenders. ….
Ten other trucks were also pushed over. The height of these carriages is a full five feet, which is more than one foot higher than the city wall. It would be very troublesome to shoot arrows from above. Moreover, when the building cart is pushed under the city wall, you can climb directly to the city. Each floor of the building car has stairs up and down. A large number of soldiers can use the building car to put down the springboard and directly climb to the city.
The top of the cart is more than one foot higher than the city wall, and crossbowmen are arranged on it to shoot at the defenders on the city wall. The springboard was set up on the crenel, and a large number of soldiers jumped down, sending dozens of people up the city wall in an instant. This is a very tricky siege weapon.
Fire attacks are generally used to deal with this kind of weapon. Because the siege weapons of this era were all made of wood. So it's very flammable. The defenders fired rockets from a distance and set the building on fire in advance.
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Such a high building cart requires many people to push it, or many oxen to pull it. Very slow. Plenty of time to burn it down. Or get close and smash it with trebuchets and catapults.
It's a pity that the Mongols can't make catapults and trebuchets, they only have rockets. But they could see very clearly that these trucks were also made of steel.
Yang Fan comes from a construction site background and is most familiar with building materials. What he used was a building truck built with steel pipe scaffolding. This thing is very strong. Just press the wheels on the bottom. In order to prevent arrows, you can use iron wire to cover the steel plate. It's ready in no time. Very time saving. And it’s easy to transport even if it’s dismantled.
The Mongols were dumbfounded. They had no means of counterattack against this kind of steel truck.
They watched helplessly as the army formed its formation three hundred meters away. Trebuchets and carts were in front of the formation. You may accept the coach's order to start attacking at any time.
What made them even more angry was that a hundred meters away from the four city walls, many Ming soldiers began to use scaffolding steel pipes to intensively build watchtowers. These watchtowers are six feet high. The arrows shot by one's own side missed, and it seemed to have no effect on them. Many people had arrows missing from their bodies, but they were still building the watchtower in an orderly manner.
Yang Fan began to educate the rookie officers in martial arts.
"If we want to attack a city, we must first cut off its connection with the outside world. This is called battlefield interception. We must completely cut off communication between the inside and outside. Otherwise, the outside will transport food and reinforcements, and then cooperate with the inside and outside, and attack from both inside and outside. You... Naturally, the city cannot be defeated. Therefore, siege the city first. This is a basic operation."
I saw these rookies listening carefully and taking notes. Yang Fan nodded with satisfaction. They will be the grassroots officers after the Beijing Camp. Hope they can grow up as soon as possible.
"There are many types of siege tactics, but the cheapest one is just to station all the troops and horses around the city wall to prevent the enemies inside the city from coming out and the enemies outside the city from entering. However, if you want to surround the city with water, then It’s a very complicated and huge project that needs to be completed!”
"The first thing to do is to dig a trench around the outside of the city wall to surround the entire city, and then place inverted spikes and other objects on both sides of the trench to prevent people in the city from climbing over. If you want to be stronger, you can simply build another wall outside the siege trench and directly surround the entire city. So before attacking the city, the first thing to do is to carry out civil engineering!"
Having said this, Yang Fan looked at the merchant groups and the civilian men sent by Donglin with ill intentions. They'll have work soon.
"Of course, in addition to trapping the enemy to death and making them despair, another method we can adopt is to "encircle three buildings." In other words, don’t surround one side of the city with a wall. Leave an escape route for the enemy, which often makes the enemy take chances and not be able to defend the city with all their strength! "
[In view of the general environment, the young martial arts students were all listening to Yang Fan's lectures in front of the battle in ecstasy. There aren't many opportunities like this. It was chewed and fed to them. Observe it live on the battlefield, and the fight will begin shortly. This is an opportunity to learn the entire siege process in its entirety. .
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