The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 130 Strong Nanpi

Although the Pili car was pushed to the outer wall, it also suffered a lot of damage.

After all, although the main body of the Pili car is made of wood accumulated from logging these days, it will not be damaged in a short period of time.

However, the reserve materials such as the hemp ropes and tendons that connect the Thunderbolt cars to each other consume a lot. These accessories rely on daily accumulation. At least in wartime, if one is damaged, the other will be lost.

Although they brought a lot of troops here to attack Nanpi City this time, they only blew up the outer walls.

Thinking of this, Qi Hong couldn't help but look at Duan Ji Liujuan with disgust. If the Xianbei cavalry hadn't been frightened by the Bohai people, then he could have stayed on, continued to stock up on siege equipment, and then penetrated it in one go.

But now with the Xianbei cavalry retreating, he was forced to attack Nanpi City, otherwise these Xianbei people would be afraid and choose to retreat.

Although Qi Hong used the Xianbei cavalry as dogs, Qi Hong still recognized the lethality of the Xianbei cavalry.

At this time, Duan Ji's six family members saw Qi Hong turning his gaze towards them, and couldn't help but murmured in their hearts:

"Why are you looking at me like this? Isn't it so inhumane that you let your own Xianbei men attack the city?

Are you kidding me? I will absolutely refuse as long as this question is raised. In this world, there is no reason to let cavalry attack the city. "

However, Qi Hong only glanced at Duan Ji's six dependents and did not say anything about letting the cavalry attack the city.

Qi Hong ordered the archers to first throw arrows as cover, and then let the soldiers be covered by wooden curtains, and the soldiers were transported by Lu Gong's chariot to quickly reach the gap in the outer wall.

Qi Hong issued orders one after another, and the entire war group, which had been preparing for nearly a month, began to operate steadily.

However, Wang Sang had already predicted that the external walls would be destroyed. After all, these external walls were built on a temporary basis. If others don't know the quality of this thing, don't they themselves know it?
If these outer walls were really reliable, why would they build soldier-hiding caves? Isn't it just to prevent their soldiers from rushing out after the opponent throws rocks?

In the final analysis, Liu Tai's craftsmanship skills have not kept up. If he has, Liu Tai will definitely build ten or eight catapults for the city he focuses on defending.

After all, Liu Tai had only been stable in Qingzhou for a few years, and his craftsmen were even transferred to the shipyard, so he was inferior in terms of siege weapons.

However, the Thunderbolt Car is not a new technology, and there are mature ways to deal with it.

The best choice is naturally technology collision. Of course, if you really don't have such a thing in hand, you can also choose Wang Sang's method, build outer walls, build caves to hide soldiers, and smash the outer walls as you like.

Anyway, my soldiers hid in the built soldier cave. If you have the ability, your thunderbolt car also destroyed my soldier cave.

But the problem is that the one that can do this is not a thunderbolt vehicle, but an earth-penetrating bomb. Even in the 21st century, building underground bunkers is still a beneficial way to carry out confrontation.

After all, in the final analysis, no matter how advanced the siege weapons of this era are, they will still have to be snatched by superiors in the end.

Seeing that the opponent finally gave up throwing stones and chose to let the soldiers fight, Wang Sang decisively asked the drummer to beat the war drum and let the soldiers out of the cave.

At the same time, some soldiers rushed out, carrying obstacles such as blocking horses, and immediately went to the collapsed city wall to build this crude defense as quickly as possible.

The two sides began to fight fiercely around this breach. The first wave of soldiers failed to capture this gap. Qi Hong's second wave immediately got on the charge car, using it as a gate to attack the city, and directly forced it open.

This time the outer wall was breached, and even if they tried to block the gap, they were pushed open by the constant influx of soldiers.

Seeing this scene, Wang Sang didn't care at all. Instead, he immediately waved the flag and asked the soldiers to retreat. The real flaws of this defense system began to be revealed.

After Qi Hong's soldiers rushed into the outer wall, they saw another layer of rock wall inside, and another enemy above them!

"Why is there such a high city wall?" Everyone suddenly felt something was wrong.

Because they didn't realize that the land inside was slightly tilted, their impact was so smooth.

The rock wall inside looks like a rock wall, but it is actually a low wall. The height of this low wall is much lower than the outermost outer wall, but at this moment, the ground under their feet is being excavated. Then it was deliberately filled again, so the foundation was much lower than normal land.

This caused the gap after they rushed in, giving them the illusion that the low wall in front of them seemed to be very high.

This can be regarded as Chu Hui's handiwork. He directly used the soil excavated nearby to build two city walls, one is an outer wall and the other is a low wall. While maximizing the use of the excavated soil, it is also in the defensive battle. Create local terrain advantages.

After the soldiers under Qi Hong's command rushed in, a soldier named Wang Sang no longer used his bow and arrow, but all took out his crossbow. Without saying anything, he shot them first.Even these soldiers who ascended first were well equipped with armor, high morale and firm will.

But at this moment, he was unprepared to be taken care of by Wang Sang's soldiers with crossbows, and his comrades around him were brutally slaughtered.

Even if they have the best psychological quality, they will inevitably be shaken when they see a large number of their comrades die in front of them in an instant.

However, Zhuge Liannu's skills were not in Liu Tai's hands. This crossbow arrow was a normal Han crossbow, so after shooting a crossbow arrow, he threw it to the ground, and specialized personnel immediately started loading the crossbow arrows.

After all, the job of stringing a crossbow is not only a technical job, but also a physical job. Even a hand crossbow cannot be plugged and used in a short time.

After the soldiers threw away the Han crossbows, they began to shoot with bows and arrows. As for the arrows, there was no need to cherish them. There was no guarantee that there would be anything else in Nanpi City, but there were so many arrows, so why not part with them.

Therefore, at this moment, the momentum of Qi Hong's attack was curbed again. Seeing that something was wrong, Qi Hong decisively ordered to stop the attack.

Because we continue to invest manpower in the attack, the price/performance ratio is already a bit too low, and even this outer wall cannot be taken down.

In the days that followed, Qi Hong gave up the forced siege, and instead chose to start a steady attack by letting his soldiers throw rocks with thunderbolt carts, intending to use this stupid method to slowly bulldoze Nanpi's defense works.

Because Qi Hong understood that the other party was indeed well prepared for Nanpi City. With such abundant preparations, he could either cut off the other party's food and completely surround the other party, or he could honestly push back, at least until the other party did not change. , and there is no other way.

Since ancient times, siege has been such a painful and numb thing for the siege party.

However, before Qi Hong could wait for Wang Sang's change, Wang Jun from behind had already sent a message to inquire.

He said that he was not urging you, but when he could win Nanpi, it would be a great gift for him to ascend the throne!
Yes, Wang Jun's confidence increased after defeating Liu Kun. He felt that the Jin Dynasty had been destroyed and there was no emperor in the world, so he did his duty. If this emperor could do what the Sima family in Henan did, he, the Wang family in Taiyuan, could do it!

Wang Jun just wanted to be the emperor, so he felt that just expelling Liu Kun was not enough. But if he surrendered to Shi Le, expelled Liu Tai, and allowed himself to monopolize the two states of Youji, then he would be justified in proclaiming the emperor.

As Shi Le wrote some flattering words to him, Wang Jun thought that as long as he expelled Liu Tai from Jizhou, Shi Le would become a bastard who took refuge in him at any time, just like Duan Xianbei obeyed his orders.

In comparison, only Liu Tai showed no sign of surrendering to him. He was clearly a die-hard member of the Huns and Han Kingdom.

If this kind of people are not used for surgery, then what are they going to do with it? So after the autumn harvest, when the river in the north froze, Qi Hong was asked to decisively attack him.But after such a long time, even Nanpi City has not been captured, and Bohai County has not yet been captured, which makes Wang Jun a little impatient.

But Wang Jun recognized Qi Hong's strength after all, especially since he was 60 years old, he couldn't let himself wear armor and go into battle.

So I just sent an order to ask Qi Hong.

Qi Hong couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he saw Wang Jun's order, but he still chose to follow his own pace!

After all, this is a siege, not a field battle. If it were a field battle, I would be sure of victory against anyone I faced.

But if it's an attack on the city... save it. This kind of thing is really head-on, and no one can tell how much time it will take.

No matter what happens, Wang Jun will not kill himself because he cannot capture Nanpi City. After all, siege of the city has been the most troublesome among all generals since ancient times.

Therefore, Qi Hong also wrote a reply to Wang Jun, and continued to patiently hit Nanpi City with his thunderbolt car.

"When will Liu Tai's reinforcements arrive? Are they really going to just watch me throw rocks here?"

Qi Hong couldn't help but look in Liu Tai's direction. After waiting for a long time, he couldn't help but feel a little irritable in his heart.

Whether it is his own Red Blood Cavalry or the Huns Cavalry, these are the cavalry that are best at encounters in the wild and are not good at attacking cities.

Therefore, although he now has [-] soldiers to fight, there are not many who can actually engage in siege warfare.

It would be fine if he could capture Nanpi City in one go.

But since the generals who defended the city in Nanpi City were more difficult to deal with than he expected, Qi Hong, in addition to serious attack on the city, was waiting for Liu Tai's reinforcements to come to the rescue, and then he took Liu Tai's Kill the reinforcements.

Using the heads of the reinforcements to crush the morale of Nanpi City, and then attacking the city again will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort.

Because of such a plan, Qi Hong patiently continued to let the Pili Car smash the outer wall bit by bit.

But all his thoughts were focused on Liu Tai's reinforcements, and Zhao An, who broke into pieces and entered the countryside as soon as he came over, was not counted.

But the real main rescue force, the reinforcements that can have a main battle with him.

Qi Hong believed that Liu Tai would definitely send reinforcements, because even the Jin State had inherited Cao Wei's rule that as long as he stayed in the city for a hundred days without rescue, he would surrender. Just Wang Sang, why should he be loyal to Liu Tai with all his heart?

Therefore, Qi Hong has been silently counting time since the siege of Nanpi City.

Qi Hong believed that no matter how patient Liu Tai was, Liu Tai would eventually send an army over.

And his purpose has long since changed from Nanpi City itself to reinforcements to attack Liu Tai.

Qi Hong was waiting for Liu Tai to attack, and Liu Tai was also waiting.

It's just that Liu Tai really didn't expect that Wang Jun would take the initiative to attack after finishing Liu Kun, so he didn't have time to respond.

Zhao An can only be used as the vanguard to cooperate with Wang Sang to delay Qi Hong's attack.

And he arranged his own craftsmen to organize the assembly line to mainly produce two types of weapons, one was a Wugang vehicle, and the other was a giant crossbow!

There is no way, he lacks horses, Liu Tai knows his weakness.

Therefore, even if the infantry has to deal with these two things when traveling, he has the capital to fight them.

Otherwise, no matter how brave his soldiers are and are not afraid of death, if they really meet in the wild, they will inevitably have to compete with the cavalry with their flesh and blood.

Although these two months were not long, it was enough for Liu Tai to use up all the materials he had saved to build enough giant crossbows and Wugang chariots.

The Wugang chariot is almost a must-have equipment for fighting on foot against cavalry. It can be traced back to the battle between Wei Qing and the Xiongnu. One of the sharp weapons for the Han soldiers to carry out positional warfare is one of them.

And even in later history, such as the Tang Dynasty, this kind of battlefield weapon was often used to deal with the Turks.

As for the giant crossbow, Liu Tai couldn't make the Zhuge Repeating Crossbow or the Ma Jun Repeating Crossbow, but if he couldn't even make a giant crossbow, he would be looking down on Liu Tai's craftsmen.

Moreover, what Liu Tai didn't know was that the enlargement of crossbows was actually more in line with the development trend of crossbows in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Especially during the Tang Dynasty, the number of bows and crossbows carried by Tang Dynasty soldiers was only about one-fifth of their soldiers.

A large part of the reason is that the Tang Dynasty also pursued the huge flower of crossbows and developed towards crossbow carts.

The number of craftsmen under his command is limited after all, and he is still hoarding materials, so he first used the craftsmen on the ship. But now that he needs them, he naturally chooses to dispatch the craftsmen for crazy production.

After these two months of saving up, Liu Tai also knew that he had to send troops to rescue Wang Sang.

Just as Qi Hong had judged, Zhao An sent by him to support gave Wang Sang the first wave of confidence, allowing Wang Sang to settle down and fight a defensive battle with Qi Hong.

But there was no way that he could really leave Wang Sang alone and just waste Qi Hong's morale and supplies.

After all, Wang Sang is a human being, not an NPC in his game.

It was impossible for him to think that he would fight to the death and fight for himself until every soldier was defeated.

As long as he treats Wang Sang with this attitude, Wang Sang will abandon him in the next second.

Therefore, although the rules and regulations require it to be kept for a hundred days, normally, two months is the limit. At the same time, I have been fully prepared for these two months.

At least if he continues to stay in Qingzhou, he will not be able to increase his chances of defeating Qi Hong.

So Liu Tai chose to lead his army northward at this moment and led the army towards Nanpi City!

Liu Tai understood that as long as Qi Hong was really a famous general, he would not let his army reach Nanpi City!

(End of this chapter)