Wang Meng attacked the east gate, Wang Jian attacked the north gate, and Wu Qi attacked the west gate. It was a very standard way of surrounding three buildings. Leave the south gate behind and attack only the north, east and west gates, leaving a glimmer of hope for the defenders in the city so that they won't fight to the death.
Following Wang Meng's order, tens of thousands of Jin troops left the camp, pushing catapults, manholes, crossbows, rams and other siege equipment, and began to surround the three gates in the north and southeast.
"Informing the military adviser, several generals have been prepared. The catapults and wells are in place and ready to attack the city at any time." Soldiers reported.
"good."
Wang Meng nodded, then pulled out the long sword from his waist, pointed to the sky and shouted: "Attack the city."
"promise."
After receiving the order, the soldiers immediately waved the battle flag, and then the war drums sounded, and tens of thousands of Jin troops roared.
"Kill, kill, kill..."
"Ding, the second effect of Wang Meng's Wang Fu skill is activated. When he personally leads the army in battle, he will increase his command by 1 to 4 points. The current commander will be +3, the basic command will be 98, and Wang Meng's command will rise to 101."
The East Gate, which Wang Meng was in charge of, was the first to launch an attack on Chengdu City.
As soon as the order to attack was given, one hundred and fifty catapults and sixty catapults at the east gate were pushed by soldiers and kept approaching the tower.
But after advancing to a certain distance, the defenders on the city tower took the lead in attacking. Flying rocks, kerosene, and rockets flew from the sky, but they did not cause many casualties to the Jin soldiers because they all hid behind the equipment to avoid the attack.
"Boom...boom...boom..."
Flying rocks and kerosene continued to fall, but because the Jin army's catapults were scattered across the ground, only a few were damaged. Although the Shu army's catapults can obviously throw farther distances due to their height advantage, things like catapults are limited by the technological level of ancient times and cannot achieve precise strikes at all.
Therefore, as long as a large number of catapults are not obviously concentrated together, it will be difficult for the Shu army's catapults to actually attack the Jin army's catapults in a short period of time.
As for the fire oil dropped by the Shu army, groups of Jin soldiers quickly extinguished it with sand and earth, one by one.
"ah……"
The unlucky soldier was affected by the kerosene and his body was ignited in flames, but he could not put it out and could only roll on the ground in pain.
When the comrades around saw it, they immediately poured the sand and soil from their backs directly onto the soldiers, and also used the sand and soil to extinguish the fire.
However, if it's just a small-scale splash damage, it's okay. If someone is hit in the front by kerosene and his whole body is on fire, even if he can be saved by luck, he will probably spend the rest of his life in pain. . In a situation like this, it would be happier to die on the spot than to be rescued.
After paying the price of more than a dozen catapults being smashed, the Shu army on the city tower also fell within the siege range of the Jin army's catapults.
Seeing this, Wang Meng made a decisive decision and shouted: "Order the troops to throw chariot stones and throw kerosene."
If it is just pure killing, using a catapult to throw kerosene is more effective than using a catapult to throw flying stones. The probability of a flying stone hitting directly from a catapult is not high. Even if it does hit, it will only hit one or two people.
But if the fire oil is projected, the fire oil scattered in all directions may burn a large area of enemies at once. Moreover, the chaos caused by projecting fire oil on the city wall will be even greater.
After Wang Meng's order was issued, the soldiers immediately loaded the catapult and loaded jars of kerosene onto the catapult.
There were more than 130 catapults, each projecting three jars of fire oil, which amounted to nearly 400 jars in one round.
Boom...boom...boom...
Nearly four hundred jars of fierce fire oil fell on the tower. In an instant, a large area of the tower was ignited by the fire oil.
This is why the road to Shu is difficult. The Jin army's large siege equipment cannot be transported directly from Si and Yong states to Yizhou. Instead, the Jin army brought craftsmen to Yizhou and built it on the spot.
Due to the tense battle situation in Sizhou, Wang Meng was unwilling to wait for more time for craftsmen to build more equipment, so he started the war directly.
Otherwise, if the Jin army wanted to use thousands of catapults to blast directly on the Jingbei battlefield, the scene would definitely be more lively than now.
Many Shu army defenders were burned to ashes. Unable to bear the pain, they jumped from the towers. Rather than being burned to death by the flames in pain, it is better to give yourself a happy one.
As for the other defenders, under the command of East Gate guard Han Zeng, they also used various means to put out the fire.
Kerosene is already a very common siege method in siege warfare. The defenders have already prepared a large amount of sand and stones on the city wall, ready to put out fires at any time. It would be difficult to capture a strong city using only kerosene.
"Keep blasting!" Wang Meng ordered expressionlessly.
For this Yizhou war, all resources will be provided to Yizhou first. It was inconvenient to transport siege equipment to Yizhou from outside. But in comparison, transporting kerosene is not as troublesome as those large equipment. This time, kerosene accounted for an important part of the strategic materials prepared by the Jin army.
Therefore, Wang Meng had enough confidence to continue blasting with kerosene round after round. Before the formal confrontation between the two armies, he first used his money power to severely torture the Shu army!
It can be said that the Jin army has not officially attacked the city, but it has already caused nearly a thousand casualties to the Shu army!
"Catapults! Bed crossbows cover! Siege troops open the way!"
After ten rounds of bombing, Wang Meng began to speak slowly.
If you want to truly attack a strong city, the first step is to fill in its moat! However, Wang Meng obviously has no real intention to fill in the moat!
A large number of long and thick planks were pushed out by groups of soldiers, and they were quickly put on the moat, and a dozen simple "bridges" were built as quickly as possible for the brothers behind who were preparing to charge. "
Then, a large number of soldiers laid a thick layer of sand on top of these thick wooden boards. As a result, even if the enemies on the city wall wanted to use kerosene to burn down these simple bridges, they would have no chance of success.
After these simple bridges were successfully laid, the next step was the real knife-on-knife, flesh-on-flesh fight of the most brutal kind!
"Jing Lan steps forward to suppress us! Tell General Xiong Yan that if the drums keep beating, even if the last one is killed, he will never retreat!"
"No!" The general didn't doubt him, and immediately went down to deliver Wang Meng's order!
They had already experienced this kind of high-intensity siege battle once in Fucheng. This time, Wang Meng issued a similar order again, and the soldiers below did not hesitate!
(End of chapter)
