Chapter 672: Siege (1)

Towards the east city of Manchester, a seemingly inconspicuous city wall became the focus of the siege.

Outside the city, there are more than 2,000 explosive torch carts, torch carts, and riprap carts, and nearly 10,000 large-scale siege crossbows. The endless firepower is vented on this seemingly ordinary city wall!

The Xianbei people are not fools, so it is impossible to hide such a big movement from the Pingzhou Army, and the Xianbei Army has long been prepared. The city walls are heavily guarded.

Rolling stones, lumber, bed crossbows, catapults, poles and other facilities are densely arranged, and no less than 100,000 defenders are deployed on a not very long city wall.

The war hadn't officially started yet. On the city wall, Ke Bi Neng looked out of the city expressionlessly, with a hint of worry in his eyes.

Touman City has such a large area and such a wide city wall, but the attack node chosen by the Pingzhou Army is precisely the weakest link of the city wall.

Even if Ke Bineng was killed, he wouldn't believe that this was just a coincidence!

"The Pingzhou army must have an internal response in Touman City, and it is a very high-level internal response!"

After silently speculating in his heart, Ke Bi Neng felt even more headache. If it was an ordinary general, Ke Bineng would directly order the arrest. What is needed at this moment is to kill the wrong rather than let it go.

But the problem is that any general who is qualified to know the weak points of the city defense is an important general in the Xianbei army, and even Ke Bineng cannot be arrested for no reason.

Ke Bi Neng, who was already suspicious, looked at everyone as a spy at this time. Although he didn't show it for the time being, the seeds of doubt had already been planted.

If Shang Ji knew what Ke Bineng was thinking, he would definitely laugh three times happily.

Although Qian Huan is powerful, he is not strong enough to directly place pawns in Ke Bineng's core generals. The ability to accurately find the weakest point of defense in Manchester City relies on the deduction skills of the artifact [Luoshu].

As soon as Luoshu came out, any mountain, river, city, village, or city within three thousand miles could be seen at a glance, and Toman City was no exception. Unfolding Luoshu, Shang Ji easily found the weakest area of ​​the Touman city wall.

As for Ke Bineng being misunderstood because of this, and his opponent's senior generals were suspicious, this was a complete surprise.

"My lord, the siege troops are ready, may I ask if the lord has started to attack the city?"

Kou Xian trotted to Shang Ji's side and asked excitedly.

No wonder Kou Xian is excited. Compared with Liu Meng, Su Huan and others who have been promoted to S-level generals and master prefecture-level special arms, as a senior veteran who is not inferior to Su Huan, his sense of presence is far inferior to Su Huan on weekdays , Even Qin Ping, Lu Kuang and others who were a step behind were inferior.

A large part of the reason for this is because the unit he commanded [mechanical soldiers] did not have a chance to show off its demeanor.

In the previous few wars, although the Pingzhou army also attacked the city and land, there were not many head-to-head siege battles, and Kou Xian could only sit on the bench all the time.

In the past, Li Xu, Fu Yao, Gao Xiang, Zhao Shen and others who were sitting on the bench like him relied on the outstanding performance of elite infantry such as giant shield soldiers, heavy armor sharp spears, giant axe soldiers, and northern crossbows. Vigorously showing a sense of presence, under the command of Zhang Xi, he forcibly resisted Ke Bineng's crazy attack, and caused a huge amount of damage to the enemy, earning a sigh of relief for the infantry regiment in Pingzhou.

While Kou Xian was happy for his colleagues, he was naturally also a little bit disappointed. After all, the mechanical soldiers he commanded so far have not had any impressive records.

Unexpectedly, the disappointment didn't last long, and the opportunity came!

Kebi Neng was huddled in Touman City, the city was high and the walls were deep, and the ordinary troops were helpless, so it was the best opportunity for the mechanical soldiers to show their might!

"let's start!"

Looking up at the densely packed siege equipment, Shang Ji's heart surged with pride and high spirits!

The cost of these torch chariots and siege crossbows is quite expensive, even more than high-level special arms. Although it has not really played a role before, Shangji's investment in it has never been interrupted. The construction cost of siege equipment accounts for about a quarter of the total military expenditure every year.

Similar to the situation of large siege equipment, there are also navy,

The cost of navy warships is more expensive, but in the first battle of Goguryeo, the navy has demonstrated its value and won the respect of the whole army. This time it is the turn of the siege troops!

"yes!"

Kou Xian shouted, then turned around excitedly, stepped forward quickly, and shouted: "My lord has an order, start attacking the city!"

"Woo--"

A horn blew and flags were waved, and the siege troops began to move slowly but firmly.

"Bang bang bang!!!"

The explosive torch stone vehicle with the longest range was the first to show its power, and the explosive torch stones slammed into the city wall with bursts of sonic booms.

"Boom—boom—boom—"

Explosions came one after another from above the city walls of Touman City, stone chips flew, screams came and went, and some defensive equipment was destroyed.

In fact, in the siege positioning of the Pingzhou Army, the role of the bursting torch stone vehicle is to suppress the enemy's firepower, destroy the opponent's large defensive equipment such as riprap vehicles, and provide cover for our army's attack.

The blasting torch stone cart's attack distance is far beyond that of an ordinary catapult cart, and the Xianbei people are not as good as Lu Bu in Jiuyuan in terms of large-scale equipment manufacturing.

Coupled with the title bonus of [City Destroyer] and the role of manipulators, even if the Xianbei's defensive equipment is condescending, they can't help Pingzhou's explosive torch stone chariot!

Not to mention the bursting torch stone chariot, even the ordinary torch stone chariot with a shorter range can suppress the Xianbei people.

The explosive torchstone vehicle stopped in a relatively safe position, and then began to aim at the opponent's siege equipment without any haste, while the torchstone vehicle and the catapult vehicle continued to move forward.

In the end, the siege troops formed four offensive echelons of bursting torch stone carts, torch stone carts, catapult carts, and large siege crossbows. Among them, the explosive torch stone cart and the torch stone cart are completely out of the attack range of the Xianbei defenders. The Xianbei people could barely attack the catapults and large-scale siege vehicles, but under the suppression of the firepower of the explosive torch stone vehicles, as long as they dared to show their heads, they would directly focus their fire on them.

In the end, only bed crossbows with numerous targets and small targets remained on the city wall that could effectively counterattack.

However, both the catapults and the large siege crossbows in the Pingzhou Army are all improved models of public losers, each of which comes with defensive facilities similar to shield vehicles, and ordinary bed crossbows are not ideal for them.

For a while, the Xianbei people were completely passive and beaten, and with the passage of time, many obvious damage points had appeared on the city wall. Even though there was still a long way to go before the real damage, this was still a good sign.

Everyone knows the truth that an isolated city cannot be defended. Without the ability to fight in the field, no matter how strong the city wall is, it will be broken one day. The corruption of the Liaodong War in the late Ming Dynasty is the best proof.

Compared with the wild boar skin, Shang Ji's siege ability is stronger, but Xianbei's defensive ability is not as good as that of the Ming army, and it is no problem to defeat Manchester City within a month.

The premise is that Ke Bi Neng is really at the end of his rope!