"General, look!"
At the head of Shangyong North City, Liu Feng's deputy general pointed outside the city.
Shen Dan has ordered the soldiers at the three gates to assemble, obviously preparing to attack the city.
However, except for some of the soldiers standing in front who were wearing armor and holding shields to defend against arrow attacks from the city, the soldiers who were carrying ladders and preparing to climb the wall were all unarmored and only carried a single sword, and behind them were the supervising team.
Obviously Shen Dan planned to use all the conscripted people as cannon fodder to attack the city and climb the walls.
In fact, this cannot be blamed on Shen Dan's low moral level. In this era, this was a routine operation during siege.
Even if the elites participate in the siege, they must be sent in when the defenders are weak and there is a real hope of scaling the city wall to make the final decision.
It is impossible to give away the elite from the beginning.
That wasn't what surprised Lieutenant General Liu Feng. He pointed to a place farther away, where many Cao soldiers were pushing six wooden carts.
There is a long thick wooden pole on the car in an asymmetrical manner. It is short in front and long in back. A large leather sheath is tied to the long end, and more than ten ropes hang down from the short end.
Along with these six carts, there were many stones transported by Cao Jun.
"The stone car..."
Liu Feng's face darkened. There were only six stone carts. If it was a fortified city like Jiangling, they wouldn't have to worry about it at all. No matter how hard you smash it, if you can open a hole, it can be considered that the "Guan's Construction Brigade" is doing a shoddy project.
But things are different now. Shangyong is surrounded by mountains and the three counties are poor, so there is no need to build a strong city.
The above-mentioned city wall is strong enough to withstand smaller flying rocks, but if a large rock weighing more than a hundred kilograms is fired... the city wall will break down over time.
"Hurry and collect the large pieces of leather in the city, and quickly make leather curtains to hang on the top of the city! If the supplies are not enough, ask for them from the big families in the city. The situation is urgent, and anyone who dares to disobey... beheaded!
"Order the soldiers on standby below the city wall to stand close to the city wall and not to stray too far from the city wall."
"yes!"
But Liu Feng didn't intend to just sit back and wait for death. No matter what, he must hold on until the prince's reinforcements arrived!
Leather curtains were a widely used means of defense against stone carts at this time.
Just use a large piece of leather, wet it and increase its weight and hang it up. When the flying stone hits the leather curtain, the impact force will be absorbed. Smaller ones will fall directly to the ground, and larger ones can also reduce their damage.
The soldiers who were on standby to change defenses were asked to stay close to the city wall because this position, which was similar to the anti-slope defense principle, allowed the parabola-attacking stones to pass over the city wall without causing damage to the soldiers standing here.
Although he is a rookie when it comes to intrigues and meticulous layouts.
But when it comes to fighting, Liu Feng, who is appreciated by his father and has made many military exploits in Yizhou and Hanzhong, is not an amateur who only knows how to charge with strength.
"The order goes down. During the siege of the city, all people are prohibited from going out! Send people to patrol the city. Anyone who goes out in violation of the order will be shot without mercy!"
"yes!"
Liu Feng, who has learned his lesson, will never give the Shen family another chance to cause trouble for him from within.
According to the distribution of enemy troops, the defenders in the city also began to move under Liu Feng's orders.
When the sixth leather curtain was erected at the top of the city, the siege finally officially started after a stone was thrown out and hit the Shangyong city wall.
"kill--!"
Under the cover of the shieldmen, the young men who were recruited successively set up ladders on the top of the city.
This kind of siege ladder is equipped with a metal grappling hook at the front end. Once it is hung on the city wall, it is not as easy to push away as imagined with the weight of the soldiers climbing the ladder.
The young men, knowing that they would die if they went back, but might still have a chance of survival if they went forward, held single swords in their mouths and climbed hard.
The worse the living environment, the tougher the people living here.
Although these young men's clothes are shabby, some of them wear simple homemade leather armor, and those who don't have just ordinary common clothes.
But its ferocity is much higher than that of the real soldiers of the Soochow Foreign Army.
"One! Two! Hey!"
boom!
The young men holding the thick wooden sticks shouted chants and banged against the city gate of Shangyong.
"Fire the arrow!"
On top of the city, the defenders mainly rained arrows on the soldiers who hit the door.
Logs rolled down the ladder one after another, and stones were thrown down one after another. Those who were unfortunately hit might have broken bones and tendons, or even die. The blood soon spread under Shangyong City...
Xia Houshang frowned and looked at the battle situation in front of him: "I didn't expect that Liu Feng was not just brave."
Although Shang Yongshou's rules and regulations are not very bright, but the city defense is like this, and there are no major omissions, which is the bright spot.
Especially the leather curtains that were hung out were obviously a temporary response after seeing the Pili car sent to their side.
The Pili car is also a human-powered stone car that uses the principle of leverage. The distance it can shoot depends entirely on the pulling force and the weight of the stone.
At present, in order to ensure the safety of the soldiers operating the Thunderbolt Chariot, only small stones are used to fire the weapons, so that the range can be kept beyond the range of ordinary bows and arrows.
However, the leather curtains that were still being hung on the top of the city were gradually playing an increasingly important role, and the chaos and casualties caused by the small stones to the defenders on the city began to decrease.
"Push the Thunderbolt Car closer, switch to the boulder, and pay attention to cover."
"As you command!"
The soldiers of the Wei army began to stop firing flying stones and gradually approached with their thunderbolt carts.
Without the rocks flying from time to time on their heads, the defenders on the city were relieved for a moment and concentrated on fighting back.
Liu Feng couldn't relax, so he pushed the thunderbolt cart closer. He was preparing to replace the big stone.
In fact, he also knows the best way to deal with the stone-making vehicle, which is to use the stone-making vehicle to defeat the stone-making vehicle...
Set up a stone-shooting cart position in the open space in the city and fight with the stone-shooting carts outside the city.
Because the purpose is only to destroy the opponent's stone cart, there is no need to use stones as big as smashing the city wall, so the advantage in range can also be maintained.
However, something happened suddenly, and the city was not prepared at all.
Even if he had the time to demolish the house and remove the beams, it would be too late. By the time his stone truck position was set up, the city would be destroyed.
boom!
A big stone hit the city wall of Shangyong, creating a small crater. The wall seemed to be fine.
However, the vibrations coming from under their feet made the soldiers on the city wall panic, and their counterattack immediately slowed down.
"Don't panic! The enemy only has six stone chariots. Shangyong City can't fall. Fight back quickly!" Liu Feng roared and took the lead to kill a young man from the Shen family who was hitting the door with an arrow.
Amid Liu Feng's shouts, the surrounding soldiers finally began to fight back again.
"Prepare rockets!"
After stabilizing the morale of the army, Liu Feng ordered again. Before the rockets were sent, he also ordered some archers to attack Cao Jun who was operating the stone cart.
The defenders were condescending and had a high altitude advantage. At this time, the stone-discharging chariot was already close to the killing distance of bows and arrows.
Although ordinary arrows cannot destroy the stone-throwing chariot, it is difficult to cause a lot of damage to Cao's army who is wearing armor and shield and pays attention to protecting the stone-throwing chariot. However, harassment can always slow down the speed of the opponent's shooting of boulders.
After a while, the rockets were moved to the front line, and the shooters put on lit rockets one after another and shot at Cao Jun's stone cart.
For a moment, fireballs streaked through the air in front of the city, and the burning smell caused by the burning made the battlefield, which was already filled with the smell of blood, even more unpleasant.
Xia Houshang didn't panic when he saw this. He sneered at the corner of his mouth and did not order anyone to withdraw the stone cart.
"Go to the river to get water to splash, and keep throwing rocks!"
Shangyong City was built next to the river, surrounded by water, and there were rivers to its south and east.
Not far east from the siege point in the north of the city is the Dushui River.
Moreover, the weather is still cold now, and the mediocre land with many forests and rivers is not too dry even now.
The last time the rocket was so effective in Gangneung was because Shen Zhong and others had poured kerosene on the house in advance, but now it is not that useful.
After searching for a long time, I still didn't see a stone car being set on fire.
"Hey!" Seeing that the rocket offensive was not effective, Liu Feng punched the city wall.
He stared fiercely at the stone carts and ordered: "Prepare kerosene torches and select five hundred people who dare to die to follow me out of the city!"
"General..." This deputy general has been in Liu Bei's army for many years, and has followed Liu Feng for a long time. He has always been loyal, but he is not like the three people who were bribed before.
Hearing Liu Feng's words at this time, he couldn't help but want to persuade him.
Liu Feng didn't wait for him to say anything more, but interrupted: "If Cao's army is not destroyed by thunderbolt, Shangyong City will not be able to defend it for a long time. Now we must lead our troops out of the city and burn it to make it invincible, and wait for the enemy to attack." Winner!"
The deputy general also knew that Liu Feng's words were true, and he clasped his fists and said: "General Mo is willing to lead his troops there, and I ask the general to continue to guard Shangyong!"
Liu Feng smiled happily and patted the deputy general on the shoulder: "Looking at the appearance of Cao's army, its commander is not mediocre. If this time does not succeed, he will not give me a second chance. There are some brave men in the whole army. Win this general?"
The lieutenant felt that Liu Feng seemed to have changed again. Although his words were still arrogant, he would not have explained this to him in the past.
He has always been strong, and he will never make any affectionate gestures like patting on the shoulder to his subordinates.
"General Wang is loyal and prudent. After I leave, you should do your best to defend the city and wait for the prince's reinforcements. I hope you will be cautious and repay the king." Liu Feng then straightened his expression and said, "Go quickly!"
"...As ordered!" Vice General Wang gritted his teeth and clasped his fists, returning to the city to prepare.
Vice General Wang, who left in a hurry, knew that Liu Feng was going there with the intention of dying...
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