Qian Song

Chapter 30 General Zhao Han'er

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After lunch, Li Cun ordered the whole army to rest and prepare for night battle.

Many people have misunderstood the siege, thinking that it would be easier to siege during the day.

Actually, this is a mistake.

In the siege battle, although the abilities of the attacking side and the defending side will be weakened at night, relatively speaking, the weakening of the defending side is actually more.

You must know that many people in this era have night blindness, which leads to their very limited visibility at night.

Therefore, the dark night can greatly weaken the pressure on the defenders' long-range attacks.

Furthermore, the dark night can conceal whether the attacking party is really attacking or a false attack, as well as the movement of the attacking party and the number of attacking parties.

In addition, attacking the city in the dark can make the defenders feel stress and even fear, especially for the defenders who are not experienced in defending the city.

This is why Li Cun chose to attack these Zhuangzi at night, because the best time to attack the city is the dark night, and the best time to defend the city is the bright day.

In the late afternoon, a Zhuangzi suddenly opened the door and surrendered.

Li Cun ordered that Qiu will not offend the people in the village.

However, Li Cun still "asked" the other party to do him a small favor, which was to ask them to persuade the other six people in Zhuangzi to surrender.

Because their whole family stood in front of the village to speak out, they were really persuaded to surrender a Zhuangzi.

As for the remaining five Zhuangzi, either they didn't believe that Li Cunzhen would let them go, or they were reluctant to part with the huge family property they had accumulated, or they felt that they had something to rely on and believed that they could defend the attack of the Huben army. It's over.

Seeing this, Li Cun ordered not to talk nonsense to the remaining five stubborn Zhuangzi, and directly sent people to escort the two surrendered Zhuangzi intact to Qingxi County, and at the same time ordered people to bury the pot. Rice, ready to attack.

During this process, Li Cun popularized the skills of siege to a group of officers.

"Go up to attack the city, and go down to attack the city. However, when the two armies are at war, the attack on the city is inevitable, and soldiers should not be afraid of it."

"A strong city cannot be built in one or two years. It takes three to fifty years to achieve great success. After completion, it must be continuously reinforced and repaired. From this point of view, these five villages are far from a strong city. , so you first have to look for the weak points of the defense of these five villages, such as Fanjiazhuang, which is high in the east and low in the west, and the west side is built against the mountain. It looks solid, but if I send people to this mountain and choose a suitable place, Hit it with a catapult, and its village will be destroyed."

"The city is guarded by ten people. If there are not enough people, no matter how strong the city is, it will be like paper. I have already wiped out the elite of the five villages in Linjiadian. There must be insufficient defenders. You can attack them from three sides. Stay all the way and force him to abandon the village and flee."

"Those who stand firm must have enough weapons, food and grass. If our army attacks fiercely, the consumption of wood, rolling stones, and arrows will be huge. Taking wood and rolling stones as an example, they will consume thousands of dollars a day, and tens of thousands of arrows. These five Zhuang is an ordinary Zhuangzi, and it is not a military city, how can there be so many armaments, so if I really attack, these five villages will be destroyed."

"If there is no city that must be saved, there is no city that must be defended. No matter how strong the city is, if there is no reinforcements, it will only be time before it is broken. The remaining seven villages of the Destiny Society are all owned by me, and the officers and soldiers dare not go out. These five villages must be defeated." How can they defend without reinforcements, so they are looking for their own death."

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The soldiers of the Huben army who originally thought that it would be difficult to attack these five Zhuangzi, after listening to Li Cun's analysis and teaching, immediately felt that the five Zhuangzi might not be as difficult to fight as they imagined, right?

Li Cun knew that it was useless to say.

Therefore, Li Cun asked all the soldiers, which of these five Zhuangzis is the most difficult to fight?

As a result, almost everyone said that the most difficult Zhuangzi was Qianjiazhuang with four bed crossbows.

Li Cun said, okay, then let's fight Qianjiazhuang first.

Li Cun asked again, who of you wants to try to lead troops to attack Qianjiazhuang?

Although everyone felt that attacking these five Zhuangzi was not as difficult as they had imagined before, they were still a little afraid to fight, especially when they remembered that the four bed crossbows shot and killed seven or eighty people in one fell swoop.

At this time, Zhao Han'er suddenly came out and shouted: "The final general is willing to lead his troops to attack this village!"

Zhao Han'er received a promotion reward second only to Niu Meng, which caused a lot of criticism. Some people even thought that Zhao Han'er was not as good as the second pole. After all, the second pole killed a coach by himself. Zhao Han'er was purely lucky. .

Zhao Han'er listened to these words and kept them in his heart. He kept holding back, waiting for a chance to prove himself.

Now, this opportunity has finally come.

Li Cun called Zhao Han'er aside, explained to Zhao Han'er alone for a while, and then asked Zhao Han'er to prepare for the siege...

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As night fell, the battle drums in the Huben army were beating.

Then, a ladder and a chariot were pushed towards Qianjiazhuang under the cover of the wooden curtain in the three directions of east, west and south at the same time, leaving only the north side unattacked.

Seeing this, Qian Dahai, the owner of the Qianjiazhuang, immediately ordered the guards and servants of the village to separate two bed crossbows to the east and west directions. At the south main entrance, only two bed crossbows were left.

The longest range of the bed crossbow can reach [-] steps. It is the weapon with the longest range and the greatest power in this era.

It's no wonder that the people in Qianjiazhuang dared to defend Qianjiazhuang with four bed crossbows.

The arrows fired by the bed crossbow use wood as the shaft, the iron spear head as the arrowhead, and the iron feathers as the tail. Its destructive power is huge, and the places it shoots are all destroyed.

During the Battle of Chanyuan, the Song army used this kind of arrow to shoot and kill the Liao army leader Taran at a distance of [-] steps, which contributed to the peace negotiation between Song and Liao.

However, this kind of sharp arrow can be shot one at a time. If you want to load the arrow after shooting, you have to slowly pull the bed crossbow with a winch, and then you can put the second arrow and start shooting.

This process, all down, does not take 5 minutes, so you don't even need to think about it.

In this dark night, what is the use of an arrow, let alone one or two people, let alone miss it nine times out of ten?

In addition, put a pocket on the bowstring, release dozens of arrows at a time, and send them out like a storm at the same time, which is called "Jackdaw Arrow".

Yesterday, Qianjiazhuang caused so many casualties to the unshielded Huben Army soldiers by firing jackdaw arrows from four bed crossbows.

Today, people in Qianjiazhuang obviously want to repeat the old tricks.

It's a pity that today is not yesterday, because Li exists here today.

In short, almost all the jackdaw arrows fired by the four bed crossbows like a storm were blocked by the wooden curtains, and if the wooden curtains couldn't stop them, they couldn't break through the defenses of the ladders and chariots.

Three ladders and three carts quickly advanced to the front of the village under the cover of the wooden curtain.

At this time, Li Cun gave an order, and the four trebuchets fired at once!
In an instant, four boulders flew towards Qian's Village!
The trebuchet is also called a stone cart. Its structure is very simple, that is, a horizontal shaft is made on a wooden frame, and a long rod is interspersed between the shaft and the horizontal shaft. There are dozens or hundreds of ropes tied to the other end.

When using it, put the stone into the leather case, and after an order, everyone pulls the rope, and the stone in the leather case is thrown like a fly.

During the Battle of Guandu, Cao Cao used a catapult to break through Yuan Shao's camp, thus winning a complete victory.

During the Han and Tang Dynasties, the use of trebuchets in combat gradually increased.

With the development to the present, the trebuchet is getting bigger and bigger.

However, the stone trebuchet that Li Cun commanded the army to make overnight has required hundreds of people to pull the rope to throw the boulder. Each stone can even kill several people. It is definitely a sharp weapon for attacking the city.

I don't know if Zhao Han'er was really a lucky general. One of the four boulders thrown for the first time happened to land on the top of the wall, killing five people in one fell swoop.

This undoubtedly gave a great shock to the people in Qianjiazhuang. Some people were so frightened that "Ah Ye" uttered a strange cry and ran away immediately.

It has to be said that Qian Dahai is still a bit decisive.

Seeing that things were not going well, Qian Dahai hacked to death two people who dared to run away, and his sons also followed suit, and managed to stabilize the battle situation.

But this is useless.

Because the ladder similar to the fire trucks of later generations has already leaned against the wall.

Immediately afterwards, soldiers of the Huben Army got out of the car and climbed up the ladder.

Seeing this, Qian Dahai quickly ordered people to shoot arrows, throw rolling wood and thunder stones, and pour gold juice down.

At the same time, Li Cun ordered the trebuchets to continue firing to cover the soldiers of the Huben Army who attacked Qianjiazhuang, while he himself took off his coat and walked to the drums, and then beat the drums to cheer for the soldiers of the Tiger Army who attacked the city naked. .

"Dong dong dong..."

Inspired by the rhythmic battle drums, a group of tiger and cardinal soldiers climbed up the ladder one after another.

Finally, after the catapult hit the people on the city wall again, the people guarding the village were frightened and immediately ran around. Taking this opportunity, one person climbed up the wall.

The man who climbed up the wall hacked to death a farmer in front of him with a single knife, and said loudly: "I am Zhao Han, the general under Li Cun's account of General Huben, you wait for the traitor, come and die!"

After speaking, Zhao Han'er, who had two arrows stuck in his body and had a lot of gold juice on him, swung his cold steel knife desperately and charged at the crowd.

I don't know if Zhao Han'er's bravery frightened the enemy, the dozens of Qianjiazhuang people on the top of the wall, when they saw Zhao Han'er single-handedly killed, they all backed away in fright.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, another Huben army officer rushed to the wall.

Then more and more soldiers of the Huben army rushed to the wall...

Not long after, the gate of Qianjiazhuang was opened from the inside, and Zhao Haner's troops rushed into Qianjiazhuang like a tide...

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(End of this chapter)