No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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The soldiers and horses under the command of Ziyad continue to attack the city. In this case, he must not fall. If the commander will fall, the soldiers and horses under his command will fall into chaos. The result of the siege is very likely. Will be defeated.

So, after returning to a safe enough position in the rear, Ziyad immediately pushed away the side guard and found a horse to ride up. He wanted to tell his men that he was very good now, not at all was injured, so as to stabilize the army. effect.

After a short period of riots, Ziyad returned to order. Several thousand soldiers saw the general not at all, and the army’s heart suddenly stabilized a lot.

Abu *** in the rear was more relieved to see this scene. If Ziyad was injured, he could only declare Armed Forces to retreat and temporarily stop the siege.

An attack failed to kill the enemy leader. The soldiers on the city wall were unavoidable. However, the enemy leader would not be allowed to retreat in embarrassment. This was also a success. At least, they were excited. For a while.

After tasting the sweetness of the catapult and giant crossbow attack, the defensive generals did not consider too much, and immediately ordered the catapult and giant crossbow to attack the siege horses outside the city to prevent the attack City soldiers fill the river a little bit to protect the safety of the city.

The catapults use relatively large boulders, and the formidable power of the bed crossbow is enough to penetrate the shield. After such a heavy weapon is put into use, it immediately causes a great loss to the soldiers and horses on the siege side. The original bow The crossbow fired, but the casualties were only a few hundred people that’s all, and after the bed crossbow and catapult were all put into use, the loss on the siege side was relatively large, the casualties increased several times, and the number of casualties began to increase.

The most important problem is that the formation of the siege side is completely broken, and siege without the formation is not very efficient. This is a very serious problem, which means that the siege side is very disadvantaged. The loss on the city side is relatively large.

Seeing that the offensive effect was very bad, Ziyade reluctantly ordered to withdraw his troops and retired to retire. After studying better tactics, he attacked again.

After the retreat order was issued, the siege horses and horses led by Ziyad retreated one after another, gradually getting out of contact with the soldiers and horses of the defending city. Can watch these siege soldiers retreat.

However, after all, the defense was successful. The defensive soldiers were all very excited and shouted to celebrate that they had repulsed the enemy.

After this battle, both sides suffered some losses. However, in terms of total strength, the losses of both sides are not great. The casualties on the offensive side are more than 1000 people, while the casualties on the defensive side are smaller, only 3 people, and most of them were injured by catapults on the siege side, and not many were shot by crossbows.

After the defender won, a small celebration was held to improve the morale of Armed Forces and prepare for the brutal battles that will follow.

The attacking side returned to the camp to rest, and morale seemed a bit low.

Ziyad went to meet Ai Bu ***, ready to discuss with him how to re-plan the siege.

Since ancient times, many weapons have been groped in practice and learned from the constant battle between the offense and the defense. Therefore, if there is no war, there will be no development of weapons, and after the war exists, the weapons can respond accordingly. Development.

After some pretense, Ziyad successfully tried out a defensive weapon on the defensive side. At the same time, it was enough to prove that the tactics just now were very undesirable, and the offensive plan must be re-formed.

“General, our army suffered a lot of casualties in this battle, and the main casualties were caused by the enemy ’s heavy crossbow arrows and catapults. The giant crossbow has a very long range and can penetrate the shield. Even my mount was shot. , This is a crossbow, and its size is too big. “

Ziyad complained as soon as he entered the door, and handed the crossbow picked up on the road to Aib ***.

Ai Bu *** took a thick and long crossbow and sighed: “This kind of crossbow is definitely not from Artic. For example, they were given to them by Great Tang, which caused great trouble to our siege. However, the mission that Harry sent us was to destroy Artic, so even if there were any major difficulties, we must also break through the city. “

Now that the boss has expressed his attitude, Ziyad will not object, think for a moment, and whisper: “General, Al City is not as good as we thought before. If we want to break through this city, we have to come up with a better attack. City strategy. “

“This is natural. I will not bet on the lives of the soldiers. The current siege method will definitely not work. A better method must be figured out. Do you have any good ideas?”

Abb asked.

Qi Yade thought for a long time, opened the mouth and said: “General, the enemy can cause huge damage to our army, the most reliant is the catapult and giant crossbow, our shield simply cannot withstand such a weapon, whether Can we build equipment that can withstand giant crossbows and catapults? “

By the time this suggestion was made, Ziad had already scored, but he did not know whether it was really useful, so he did not dare to say it easily.

Abu *** thought for a while and opened the mouth and said: “Qiyad, since you have already made this suggestion, if there is a more reliable way, talk about it.”

Qi Yade opened the mouth and said: “General, in today’s war, the enemy relied only on catapults and giant crossbows. As long as they can resist these two weapons, our soldiers will not have a lot of casualties. My idea is Renovate the red car, remove the siege hammer of the red car, and strengthen the top and front to make it resistant to the attack of boulders and giant crossbows. In addition, dozens of sandbags can be stacked inside the red car when it is pushed to the moat , Push the sandbags into the moat from the small opening in the front, so as to fill the moat step by step, so that we can complete our river filling plan with minimum casualties. “

“If you want to resist the power of the boulder falling from a height, the top wooden board needs to be thick enough. Also, you need to build the rush truck bigger. The existing rush trucks are too small, definitely not possible. , It needs to be re-manufactured, Ziyad, you are responsible! “

Abu *** understood Ziyad’s words. This defensive fortress was able to withstand the attacks of catapults and giant crossbows. As long as it was built strong enough, it could play a huge role, but it took time to make that’s all.

After accepting the order, Ziyad immediately found several carpenters, told them his ideas, and asked them to use the existing red car as a model to make necessary improvements to meet the needs of the river.

In fact, the improved red car that Ziyad wants to build is a primitive tank. Because it is strong enough, it is difficult to destroy it with cold weapons, so the formidable power is still very large.

Because all kinds of wood are readily available and the number of craftsmen is sufficient, it only takes a day or two to produce the first batch of vehicles.

In order to resist a huge impact, the roof is designed in the shape of a ridge, and the front part is concave inward, that is, the concave design, which is also very convenient to put the sandbags into the moat immediately, and can increase the defensive after being hit. power, if it is tilted outward like a normal vehicle, the point of force is vertical when attacked by a boulder, which is very unfavorable for defense, and it is likely to cause the front plate to break, thus allowing such a huge transportation The car becomes waste.

The wooden boards on the top and front are not only thicker, but at the same time, in order to further enhance the structural strength, many parts inside have been reinforced, so that they can better resist the attacks of boulders and heavy crossbows.

There is a small opening in the center of the thick wooden board at the front. The width of the small opening is enough to pass through the sandbag. You only need to throw the baffle to throw the sandbag. Moreover, because the baffle is inclined inward, it can be more convenient. Put the sandbags into the moat.

For a whole day, Ziyad was instructing the craftsmen to work and let them complete each part carefully, so that the transporter could be finally assembled.

Because Qiyad personally supervised the work, all the 1000 craftsmen worked very hard, and no craftsman dared to be lazy. In this way, the ultra-heavy transport vehicle was completed on time.

When 6 super-heavy transport vehicles were built, Ziyad was very satisfied with the nodded, and immediately went in for a visit, and then let 20 soldiers push forward, although the speed of travel is slower, but as long as they can push It suffices. Anyway, he has soldiers under his hands, and it ’s okay to change a group of people at a time.

20 soldiers need to enter from the rear, and then ten people on each side are responsible for pushing the heavy transport vehicle forward, and the middle part is a shelf for placing sandbags, which can put 50 sandbags at one time.

Because of the protection of thick planks, the 20 soldiers in the car do not have to worry about being attacked at all, and transporting 50 sandbags at a time is relatively efficient.

“General, the first batch of 6 vehicles was built, and the soldiers are experimenting. The 20 soldiers are easy to push.”

Ziyad saw Abu *** coming and greeted him quickly.

Ai Bu *** struck the heavy transport truck with the scabbard in his hand and felt the strength. Then he said with satisfaction: “Yes, it looks very strong, but whether this thing is strong or not, you need to go to the battlefield to test It ’s already afternoon, let ’s fight now! Just fill the river in the north, let 10000 cavalry stand behind, and prepare ten times the troop strength. “

“Yes, general.”

Ziad responded.

A car needs 20 people, 6 cars need 100 20 people, and ten times the strength is 1000 200 people, in addition to the transport of horses and horses, someone needs to prepare sandbags, and another 300 people, a total of 1500 people, 10000 cavalry Then, they pressed the rear to prevent the soldiers and horses in the city from rushing out to attack the heavy transport vehicles.

Because each transport vehicle is relatively large, the following wheels are relatively large. A vehicle has 20 wheels, divided into front and rear 5 groups, as many as the number of operators.

With so many wheels, the traffic of the vehicle is well guaranteed, so that such a large vehicle will not fall into the dirt.

However, the vehicles of this era have not yet realized the steering function, that is to say, the vehicles are all deadlifted when turning, so the general vehicle is 2 wheels, if there are many wheels in front and back, steering will become Big problem.

After the emergence of Great Tang, Li An solved the problem of vehicle steering very well, but there is no such advanced technology here in Aab Caliphate. Therefore, vehicle steering has become a big problem.

However, there are many soldiers and horses under Qi Yade’s army. When you need to turn, you only need to let a large number of soldiers push. Especially before the attack, first figure out the forward position of the vehicle, and then follow the straight line.

When the vehicle is empty, the speed of implementation is relatively fast, and because it is still far from the city wall, the outside and the rear can be used for people. The original is a 20-person cart. In this way, one car There are 50 people in the car, which is very fast.

And the place where Qiyad asked the craftsmen to work was not far from Al city, only a few miles that’s all. In this way, the soldiers quickly pushed the 6 2 heavy transport vehicle not far away from the city wall.

Ziyad already knew about the range of catapults and bed crossbows, so he let the cavalry line up at twice the range of the bed crossbow, and he stayed there himself.

The 6 transport vehicles and 1500 soldiers continue to move forward and stop at the range close to the giant crossbow, but they need to ensure that the giant crossbow cannot shoot itself.

Then, these soldiers began to prepare sandbags in batches, digging up soil from the local materials. Then bag by bag is loaded into the transport vehicle.

The soldiers in charge of defense on the city wall naturally saw these heavy transport vehicles. They did not know that these vehicles were dry and so on. After all, they had never seen this thing before and naturally did n’t understand it.

After the 6 vehicles were filled with 50 bags of mud, 20 soldiers each entered the car and pushed towards the moat step by step.

“The enemy is about to fill the river, and the catapult attacked immediately.”

The guards of the city immediately ordered to get rid of these moving transporters.

The accuracy of the catapult is not very good. Most of the stones fell on the open ground. At least a small amount of stones hit the roof, but the thickened vehicles are not afraid of stone attacks. There is no trace of damage. The vehicle Still moving forward, only one car’s wheels were blocked by stones and stopped temporarily, but the soldiers inside easily pushed the stones away with wooden sticks, and even moved a few stones into the car. , Placed on top of the sandbags, so that these stones can be used to fill the river.

Seeing that the transport vehicle he invented completely resisted the stone attack of the defenders, Ziyad was sweet in his heart. As long as the defenders had no way to get this transport vehicle, the moat would be quickly filled.