The sky was getting dark, the sun was setting and the moon was rising. Li Xiang ordered the troops to withdraw back to the camp, and the one-day siege ended.
In just one day today, the Sui army had suffered nearly 6,000 casualties. But on the other hand, the Jin army only suffered about 1,500 casualties.
As a party attacking the city, it suffered so many fewer casualties than the enemy. This is very unreasonable. The reason for this is that the Jin army today only launched long-range fire strikes, rather than starting a true siege operation. In the siege, the most serious casualties occurred when climbing the city wall.
In today's battle, Li Xiang unswervingly implemented the artillery doctrine. A huge number of siege equipment such as catapults, crossbows, and wells were mobilized to overwhelm the opponent with the quantitative and qualitative advantages of long-range firepower.
Li Xiang had already planned to attack Yongliang. Therefore, a batch of large-scale siege equipment has been secretly built long ago. Moreover, since the beginning of the war, he still ordered the rear to continue building siege equipment, just for this day, to comprehensively suppress the Sui army with long-range firepower, and use the output of siege equipment to take the lead in consuming the Sui army's troops.
However, in today's battle, although Li Xiang's Jin army did not suffer much loss in troops, it suffered a lot in siege equipment. In just one day today, Li Xiang lost fifty wells, eighty catapults, and one hundred and fifty crossbows. On the other hand, the Sui army's equipment losses were only slightly more than half of the Jin army's.
However, despite this, Li Xiang, Bai Qi, Su Lie and others were not dissatisfied at all. The number of a series of equipment of the Jin army is far greater than that of the Sui army, and the Jin army can also be supplemented by rear forces. But once the Sui army's equipment was destroyed, it was really gone.
In Chang'an City.
When Yang Jian saw the comparison of casualties between the two sides today, he became furious and cursed Yang Su, Yang Lin, Zhang Xutuo and others as useless people for being beaten so badly even while defending the city.
The casualties of six thousand soldiers were indeed not much compared to the total strength of the Sui army. But this was only one day. If casualties continued at this rate, wouldn't it mean that in more than ten days, they would have become polished commanders?
At that time, if the Jin army attacks again, what will they use to resist, and what strength will they have to resist?
Below, several generals in command knew that they had indeed fought badly in today's battle, and they did not dare to say anything, so they could only suffer there.
Especially for Yang Lin, more than half of the 6,000 casualties occurred in his west city. Mainly because he was absent in the early stage, Bai Qi took a big advantage.
In fact, after the battle ended like this, these people were full of helplessness. The Jin army had too many siege equipment, and there was no way to suppress them all. Even a few of them were almost hit by falling rocks today.
"Lord, the enemy's siege equipment is too sharp. If this continues, our army may eventually be unable to resist it!" Yang Su said with an extremely ugly face.
After all, among the four generals Yang Su, Yang Lin, Yang Yichen, and Zhang Xutuo, three of them came from the same Hongnong Yang family as Yang Jian. Therefore, Yang Su just said it directly without paying too much attention to anything.
"Then our army will continue to build it!" Yang Jian said fiercely after thinking for a while.
"Our army has accumulated some supplies before, and the dozens of aristocratic families we killed before have demolished their houses. I don't believe we can't build a batch of catapults! If it's not enough, then Demolish my palace too!" Yang Jian said firmly.
Obviously, Yang Jian also knew very well that the reason why they suffered so many casualties today was because they were too suppressed by other people's siege equipment. If we want to turn the situation around, we must increase the number of equipment such as catapults and bed crossbows.
Chang'an City, as the capital of the empire, naturally has no shortage of ordnance that can make catapults and bed crossbows. What they lack is the resources to make these things. After all, Chang'an City is only one city after all, with limited resources.
Although Yang Jian had stored some of it, it was definitely not enough. Therefore, Yang Jian set his sights on the mansions of the aristocratic families that he had destroyed before. If you dismantle it, you can build a lot of catapults.
Of course, there was actually another way, which was to go out of the city for a sneak attack and burn the Jin army's siege equipment, but everyone subconsciously avoided this.
Elite soldiers and generals gathered outside the city, and the commanders of the other side were not vegetarians. If you are not careful during a sneak attack outside the city, not only will you not be able to burn down the opponent's siege equipment, but you will suffer heavy losses, which is not helpful to the current situation.
"Lord, you must not!" After hearing that Yang Jian wanted to demolish his palace, everyone couldn't help but became anxious, and immediately said, "Lord, if you want to demolish it, you must demolish our palace first!"
When they thought that it was time to demolish their lord's palace, all the generals didn't know what it was like. After all, if they weren't incompetent, why would they be in this situation now.
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On the city wall at night, except for some of the soldiers who had to stay on guard, the rest of the Sui army fell asleep. They had been panicking all day long, fearing that stray arrows or boulders would fall on them. It’s physical and mental fatigue.
The entire city wall looked dead, and except for the snoring sounds, there was no other movement.
That night, when all the soldiers had just fallen asleep, suddenly there was a sound of horns from under the city wall, followed by a shower of arrows, and then there was a cry of killing, which shook the whole country.
"Enemy attack... Enemy attack..."
"The Jin army came to attack the city again..."
A sound of panic rang out, and the exhausted Sui soldiers suddenly woke up. They grabbed the weapons around them and subconsciously stood up. However, the rain of arrows falling in the darkness killed countless unlucky people.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up. Follow your officers closely, don't mess up, the archers will start shooting back." A man dressed as a general kicked away the thick quilt covering his body, his eyes were red, and he shouted loudly .
This man was a general after all. Although he was guarding the city wall, he had a thick quilt. But ordinary soldiers don't have this kind of treatment. In the middle of winter, only two or three people can share an old quilt. There were even some unlucky soldiers who didn't even have these, and could only huddle together to keep each other warm.
Following the general's call and presence, the soldiers who had just been in chaos slowly began to regain their composure, and began to follow the commanders, commanders, team leaders and other officers at all levels, and looked for bunkers to avoid arrows. rain.
The archers also began to bend their bows and nock arrows. However, in this dark night, the soldiers of both the Jin Army and the Sui Army only fired arrows based on their feelings. Only the unlucky ones were really hit.
