After Zong Wang's army arrived at Daming Mansion, they began nervous preparations to attack the city.
If you want to siege a city, the most important thing is to build siege equipment.
The ladders used to climb the city, the rams used to hit the city gates, the catapults used to attack the city defenses from a distance, etc. cannot be built in a day or two.
There are many examples of immediately attacking a city as soon as a large army arrives, but it must be at the expense of a large number of soldiers, and the morale of one's own side must be high while the morale of the defenders is low, otherwise it would be a joke.
Take the Daming Mansion as an example. The ten-foot-wide moat alone is not something that can be crossed easily.
The siege army needs armor. Without armor protection, it will be a disaster to climb the city.
A soldier wearing armor trying to swim across the moat is probably no different from committing suicide.
The Jurchens were stationed outside Daming City for more than half a month before the siege equipment was completed.
This is because they brought a large number of Wu Dynasty craftsmen.
If the Jurchens themselves were to attack a bird city, they would not build siege equipment at all.
As for these barbarians who had just escaped from the old forest, if the Dawu Dynasty could work together, they would not be able to conquer even an ordinary city, let alone the majestic Tokyo Bianliang.
Yun Chao now knows how Kaifeng City, the largest city in the world today, was destroyed.
The Emperor of the Wu Dynasty didn't know what kind of lunacy he had committed. He actually let a magic stick named Guo Jing be fooled. He left so many generals unused and handed over the city defense to the magic stick Guo Jing.
Guo Jing took his so-called Liujia magic soldiers, opened the city gate directly, ran outside the city, and prepared to use magic to defeat the Jurchens.
Reality is often more magical than fiction.
This kind of thing is simply unheard of and unseen. No novels dare to write about it, and cartoons don’t dare to make it like this.
However, it really happened, and it happened in the middle of a battle to defend the capital of a country. How can you reason with it!
Wang Shitou had already received Yun Chao's army report and knew how the Jurchens had breached Kaifeng City.
Not counting the ridiculous scene at the end, Wang Shitou already had an understanding of the Jurchens' methods of siege.
Sure enough, the Jurchens still used their old tactics of attacking Bianliang City.
First, two high earth platforms were built outside Daming City.
The earth platform is higher than the city wall. Standing on the earth platform, you can not only see the situation in the city, but also launch attacks from the earth platform, throwing stones or fireballs into the city.
Unfortunately, the Jurchens thought too much.
Wang Shitou had already prepared. The Jurchens' earthen platform had just been repaired, and the trebuchet that was finally built had just been transported. Before it could be assembled, it was smashed by the trebuchet in the city.
Then, Wang Shitou let people stare at the two earthen platforms. No matter whether they were people or objects, as long as they appeared on the earthen platforms, they would be hit with trebuchets.
In the end, not only did the Jurchens dare not climb up, but even the platform was smashed a lot lower.
Of course, the Jurchens would not just wait to be beaten. There were trebuchets in the city, and they also built them.
When stones are thrown out from the city, they stoned back in.
As a result, the Jurchens were taught a lesson.
When they were at the gate of Bianliang City, their trebuchets hit the defenders so hard that they cried for their fathers and mothers.
But when they arrived at Daming Mansion, they were hit by trebuchets in the city and cried for father and mother.
There was no way, the earth platform was smashed low, the city could see outside the city, but the outside could not see the city. If not waiting for a beating, why are you waiting?
As a time traveler, Yun Chao is not joking with the Jurchens.
Torque trebuchets and counterweight trebuchets have been developed a long time ago.
Both in terms of range and accuracy, they beat the Jurchens' trebuchets.
Until now, Wang Shitou has not pulled the cannon up the city wall.
Because he was worried that Zong Wang would give up the spoils and surrender, and only take the Jurchen's own army to run around the city.
Wang Shitou kept in mind Yun Chao's teachings that the main purpose of fighting was to eliminate the enemy's effective strength.
Save people and lose land, and everyone and land will survive. Save land and lose people, and everyone and land will be lost.
Yun Chao told his generals that there were not many Jurchens in the first place. As long as they killed a large number of their effective forces, no matter how crazy they were, they wouldn't be able to hold on for long.
Yun Chao got out of the way and allowed Zong Wang to directly attack the Daming Mansion in order to eliminate their vitality.
Otherwise, if the Jurchens are used to sneaking into the old forest, once they are frightened and they run back and burrow into the old forest, the Yun family army will not be able to do anything no matter how powerful it is.
It's also a catapult, but the gap is huge, just like the gap between people, sometimes it's bigger than the gap between people and dogs.
The catapult that the Jurchens built with great difficulty was quickly smashed to pieces by the catapult of the Yun family army.
Zong Wang was so angry that he flew into a rage.
"Come here, let the death squads come up and fill the river!"
The Jurchens brought with them 100,000 surrendered imperial troops of the Wu Dynasty and 300,000 civilians. No matter how many people died, they would not feel sorry for them.
At the command, these cannon fodders carried the bags of soil and rushed towards the moat with all their strength.
Seeing that the Jurchens didn't even push up the shield cart to protect the people filling the river, Wang Shitou was so angry that his nose became crooked.
What a vicious Jurchen, you don’t take the lives of the Wu Dynasty people seriously at all!
Of course, Wang Shitou was not mainly angry because of this, but because he saw through Zong Wang's conspiracy.
Zong Wang wanted to use this method to consume the Yun Family Army's crossbow arrows.
I'm just watching the river being filled to see if you can cum or not?
If you don’t shoot arrows, you will fill up the moat.
Shooting arrows will consume a lot of your arrows!
Of course Wang Shitou had to shoot the arrow.
Even though he knew it was Zong Wang's trick, he couldn't help it.
The cost of making arrows is relatively small. If a cannon is used to shoot these cannon fodder, the cost will be even greater.
One shot goes down, ranging from three to five taels to more than ten taels.
This is not a war, it is just throwing away money!
Wang Shitou felt that he had lost blood by killing and injuring Wu Dynasty's own people at such a high price.
Blood loss increases to three levels!
Angry as hell, Wang Shitou did not lose his rhythm.
Yun Chao's order to him made it clear that this battle was not only to kill the Jurchens' effective strength, but also to train the Yun family's army's ability to defend the city.
Since the formation of the Yun family army, they have hardly fought any tough battles, especially city defense battles.
Yun Chao believes that a strong army should not have shortcomings.
It can both attack and defend, win and lose.
In order to train the Yun family army into an all-powerful army that can fight in a hundred battles, and in order to train Wang Shitou into an all-round general who can stand alone, Yun Chao is willing to go all out, and the investment is not ordinary!
Boom boom boom boom…
Along with the waves of arrow rain, the people filling the river fell one after another.
Knowing that these people were forced and knowing that they were all from the Wu Dynasty, Wang Shitou still gave the order to attack without mercy.
War is so cruel. If you are not willing to kill them, they will easily fill up the moat, climb up the city wall easily, and then easily capture the Ming Dynasty!
