"What do you think?" Lu Wu turned his head and asked for advice from his subordinates.
"The general's troops are linked together like clouds and flowing water, and the equipment is well prepared. I think the army will be able to enter the city to rest tonight." The captains were sincerely convinced and said quickly.
Everyone's words are different, but they basically express the same meaning.
Lu Wu shook his head slightly, and the captains felt a little uneasy, not knowing that what they said was wrong.
In their opinion, the general cared about the lives of soldiers extremely. He first used watchtowers to determine the situation in the city, then used trebuchets to attack the defending soldiers on the city, and finally used caravans to cover the soldiers and fill in the moat.
How could an ordinary military general think so much?
Not to mention specially modifying the caravan to cover the soldiers to fill in the moat, they would not even observe and attack the defensive soldiers on the city first.
The most common method is to directly drive soldiers forward despite the rain of arrows.
Those who are kind-hearted can get helmets and shields for the soldiers to protect them a little; those who are cruel-hearted can simply capture civilians from nearby villages to do this kind of head-turning job.
This ladder was drawn by the general himself, and he spent a lot of money to hire famous craftsmen to build it. It looks like a ramp, and is much safer and stronger than those ladder-shaped ladders.
Soldiers charge along this kind of ladder. They don't need to pay attention to whether their feet are empty, and they don't need to grab the rungs with their hands to climb up. They can free their hands to protect their bodies with their shields. Moreover, this ladder is six feet wide, although it is still It's not very wide, but it still has some room for dodge, which can greatly reduce casualties.
The only thing that needs attention is that boiling oil will be prepared on the top of the city. If the boiling oil is poured down and the ladder is ignited, there will be additional casualties.
However, just as they were looking to the tower for guidance, the stones thrown by the trebuchets had already knocked over several oil pans and ignited fires on the city walls. It was the defenders' own fault.
By the time the oil on the city dried up and the fire was extinguished, the ladder was almost up the city wall.
This was the first time these captains had seen such a smooth siege.
As for some casualties during the shooting from above and below, the soldiers on the ladder climbed to the top of the city several times during the siege, and were surrounded and killed by the defenders. There were more than a hundred casualties - what are these?
It was incredible that the siege battle could be fought so smoothly. What else could the general be dissatisfied with?
In Lu Wu's view, this is actually far from enough.
The main problem is that the soldiers are not elite enough, or in other words, there are not enough experts in the army to open the gap. As a result, everyone who rushes forward is surrounded and killed one by one by the defenders taking advantage of the advantageous terrain.
If there was a master who could hold out for a moment while being surrounded by the crowd at the top of the city, open up a place to stay, and follow-up soldiers rushed up, the city would have been broken long ago, and there would be no need to kill or injure many soldiers.
This was the result of Lu Wu's dismissal of all the original officers.
It is true that there are many officers who eat nothing and even drink the blood of soldiers, but these people have a certain background - not to mention anything else, their nutritional intake since childhood is much better than that of ordinary soldiers, and their physical foundation is naturally better.
Moreover, these people generally have martial arts inheritance. Although they cannot be said to be masters, there are indeed some good ones among them. In order to seize the military heart and power, Lu Wu has withdrawn these people no matter what.
The soldiers were quite satisfied, and they could no longer bear the brunt of it. However, when personal force was needed to break through at a certain point, Lu Wu's army still fell short.
"Come up and defeat this city with me." Lu Wu ordered.
"Disciples obey!" Behind Lu Wu, the twenty-four newly recruited disciples dismounted at the same time, raised their swords and grabbed their shields, and ran towards the ladder.
Although it only took a few days, Lu Wu not only gave guidance on the quick version of Jiu Nether Sea Zhenqi not to go astray, but also taught him some free-handed killing moves in accordance with his aptitude.
Although they have not yet begun to formally teach martial arts, these people have already entered the realm of sixth-grade internal strength, and they are all veteran killers who have both internal and external skills and have rich experience in battlefield fighting. If they wear a helmet and carry armor, they are ordinary fifth-grade masters. Definitely no match for them.
Wang Zhuo held a five-foot-long sword in each hand, his heart was burning, and his feet were running extremely briskly. He had twenty-six kilograms of steel armor on his body, which was not a burden at all.
Every time he lands, his feet are extremely heavy, leaving footprints on the hard ground. But the potential energy accumulated by these falls will turn into a released spring when he jumps next, allowing him to run easier and easier, and even feel like flying. feeling - of course this is just an illusion.
The heavy armor evenly distributes the weight to the whole body through the slight shaking of the muscles. Except for some "clanging" friction sounds, it hardly poses a burden on the body.
The newly formed Nine Nether Sea's true energy is extremely immature and cannot be released to cause harm to others. It cannot even form a complete cycle of true energy, but it has already shown an extremely miraculous characteristic - this true energy will automatically flow to the areas where the body needs it most. There is no need to specially control the place.
For example, if he is running, the Nine Nether Sea's true energy will flow into the musculoskeletal gaps such as the knee joints, ankle joints, thighs, and calves and fill them in, making the legs and feet like inflated balloons that rebound when pressed, and the body shape During the ups and downs, the effort is saved more than ten times.
This is just the result of his practice in less than half a month!
In just a moment, Wang Zhuo ran a hundred steps away, leaped high into the air, and made a 'dong' sound. Land on the ladder truck.
"Brothers, let a certain family climb first!" Wang Zhuo yelled.
On the ladder, all the soldiers hurriedly got out of the way. Even the soldiers on the ladder leaned sideways against the railing, leaving most of the space. Only the few sergeants at the front who really had to advance did not care about what was behind them, but just moved forward and fought desperately. City head.
This general looks like a warrior in the army.
This ladder car serves as the base of the ladder, with a width of one foot and six feet, a length of two feet and a height of nine feet (two meters and three). The general ran over in full body armor and jumped onto the roof of the car in one step with the help of inertia - such martial arts Isn't it idle?
Besides, being the first to climb aboard is a great achievement, but it is also the greatest danger. Not everyone among the soldiers wants to take this kind of credit.
Even though most of these soldiers were impressed by Lu Wu's new military regulations and were willing to fight with him in all directions, when it came to siege warfare, most of them still had to bite the bullet and rush up the ladder because they retreated before the battle and had to take military measures. .
——The ant siege has always been the most cruel part of the siege. The more veterans you are, the more you know the cruelty of this siege method.
Wang Zhuo ran wildly up the ladder. He swung the sword in his right hand to deflect a crossbow arrow that was fired at an angle. He rushed to the front of the ladder in three steps and two steps at a time. He couldn't wait for the soldiers in front to give way, so he jumped up high and jumped over the heads of the two soldiers. , falling on the city wall.
Before he could stand firm, and before the spear from the opposite side could stab him, he was pushed from behind. He suddenly lost his footing and threw himself towards the tip of the spear from the opposite side.
