Wen Pin said with his hand: "Enlighten the lord, there happened to be a city offensive and defensive drill today. If you are brave enough, please let the lord watch this drill."
Liu Xin nodded and said, "Don't tell them I'm here, let them practice as they please. I want to see the most real situation."
In front is a simulated city built with bricks and stones, with high walls and deep pools. The moat, city gates, towers, and Luzhai outside the city are all available, and there is even an attached urn city, which is extremely strong. Looking at the entire Han Dynasty, it can match There are definitely no more than twenty cities comparable to this simulated city, including big cities like Xiangyang, Chang'an, and Luoyang.
Liu Xin led Qiao Xuan on a small hill near the simulated city. On the hillside, there is a high observation deck. From here you can see the entire city. This is also the commander of the civil servants for dispatching urban defense drills and evaluating the effects of the drills. center,
Wenpin took out two telescopes and handed them to Liu Xin and Qiao Xuan, pointing to the direction of the city, and said: "Master Qi, today is the defense of the city by local coalition forces from some counties and counties in Yangzhou and Jiaozhou. There are 10,000 people. The third army is responsible for the siege. There are 20,000 people in total. These local troops have been training at the base for more than three months. Today is the time to test the effectiveness of their training."
There are also local troops in Lujiang. These local troops and Liu Xin’s regular troops wear the same armor. The only difference is that they use different flags and logos on their chests. In Qiao Xuan’s eyes, the so-called local troops are actually miscellaneous troops. , The combat effectiveness is naturally not much better. Now, with 20,000 well-trained regular troops to attack 10,000 miscellaneous troops, and these 10,000 miscellaneous troops come from different places, such a drill is simply not fair, it must be. Liu Xin deliberately showed him the combat power of the regular army. That's how it was arranged.
However, when Qiao Xuan picked up the telescope, he was surprised. Through the telescope, the city in the distance seemed to be pulled in front of him all at once. Qiao Xuan held the telescope and looked carefully, and couldn't help asking. : "General Wen, what kind of baby is this,"
Wen Pin arched his hand and said, "Mr. Qiao, this was invented by my lord of the house. Look over there. The weather is good today and the smiles on the faces of the soldiers on the city’s head can be clearly seen. It’s just a telescope, costly. It's really expensive,"
Qiao Xuan picked up the telescope and observed it carefully. Sure enough, on the top of the simulated city, young faces watched the movement under the city nervously and resolutely, as the telescope in his hand moved slowly. You can see clearly in the wilderness outside the city, a team of soldiers carrying a long ladder, under the cover of a huge shield, are slowly approaching the moat. I can't think of a small telescope that can actually see objects that are so far away. Qiao Xuan’s admiration for Liu Xin deepened.
At this time, Wen Pin took out a firework tube, and with a "bang", a red fire exploded in the sky, shocking Qiao Xuan who was unprepared.
Liu Xin explained: "Except for Member Qiao, this is a signal flare. The red one means that the exercise can officially begin. Later, a green flare will be used to announce the end of the exercise. If you look over there, the city will be attacked soon."
This is an exercise close to actual combat. Of course, all the arrows have the arrow clusters removed. The knives and guns are also relatively blunt wooden knives and wooden guns. The tips and knives and guns are preliminarily limed to judge the drill. The result of the battle,
As the red flares rose into the sky, the soldiers of the Third Army screamed and rushed towards the simulated city from four directions. Obviously they did not know how many times they had conducted this kind of exercise, and they almost rushed to the moat with their eyes closed. The defenders on the city’s head looked a little flustered. They drew their bows and shot arrows early. The arrows that removed the clusters of arrows rained down to the side of the moat, hitting the shields with a "pop", but it caused the attacking party. The "casualties" of the squadron are extremely limited. Although it is only a drill, the soldiers shot by the feather arrows will consciously withdraw from the battlefield.
The morale of the siege party was not affected in any way. Under the cover of the shield, the hook hand threw the lasso and hook, and quickly cleared the deer village outside the city.
What made Qiao Xuan's tongue astounding was that the soldiers who attacked the city actually put the long ladder directly on the wide moat, and then ran over the long ladder. The long ladder swayed and soldiers kept falling in. In the moat,
Liu Xin explained: "These soldiers didn't fall into the ground unsteadily, but were shot by the bows on the head of the city. Although the bows and arrows removed from the clusters of arrows are not very lethal, but being shot by the bows and arrows means that he has been killed. In order not to affect the attack of the follow-up troops, these soldiers took the initiative to jump off the moat."
Qiao Xuan did not expect these soldiers to be so desperate in training. If they were on the battlefield, they would be a group of fierce tigers.
After a brief panic at the beginning of the war, the soldiers of the local army who defended the city quickly stabilized their positions. The shooting of bows and arrows was not as blind as at the beginning, and the hit rate was greatly improved. "After going on, the whole exercise was not as one-sided as Qiao Xuan imagined, but was carried out extremely arduously.
At this time, many long ladders have been erected on the city wall, and a large number of archers from the offensive side also came to the city, and they fired at the soldiers on the front of the city. The defender relied on the location and still had the upper hand. Time passed by. At first, some soldiers climbed up to the top of the city, and in a blink of an eye they were counterattacked by the reserve forces organized by the defending side.
The offensive and defensive rehearsal lasted for an hour and a half. More and more soldiers on both sides of the offensive and defenders withdrew from the rehearsal. Many soldiers were injured during the rehearsal. The medics with red cloth strips on their arms walked through the arrow rain and were busy dressing up The wounded, the soldiers from both sides who retreated from the battlefield gathered together and talked and laughed, commenting on the gains and losses in the battle,
Standing on the observation deck, Qiao Xuan was extremely nervous. It seemed that what he saw was not a drill, but a war of real swords and guns. Qiao Xuan was also a soldier, he knew very well, such a fierce offensive. , If it were his former soldiers who came to defend the city, I’m afraid it won’t last half an hour, because just now, while observing through a telescope, he counted silently in his heart. An attacking soldier started from the long ladder on the top of the city. When he counted to six, the soldier had already rushed to the top of the city. At this speed, even the best archer had only time to shoot an arrow.
Seeing this exercise that was extremely close to actual combat, Qiao Xuan's palms were full of sweat, and couldn't help asking: "Liu Master, when will this be hit?"
Liu Xin put down the telescope and said, "Under normal circumstances, the winner must be distinguished. Of course, today is a special situation. Liu also wants you to see a few equipment used for siege and defense, so let They end early,"
Wenpin got the order and took out a firework tube. The sky exploded again. This time it was a green signal flare. Soon, there was a burst of gongs on the simulated city, and the actions of the offensive and defenders stopped instantly. The assembly was completed as quickly as possible, and they had withdrawn from the "battlefield" in an orderly manner. Their mission has ended, and the rest of the cleanup work will naturally be completed by the professional team at the base.
With little effort, a school lieutenant ran over and presented the statistics of the battle report. The casualty ratio of the offensive and defensive sides reached two to one. It seems that Wenren arranged 20,000 people to attack the city and 10,000 to defend the city. , This result was already expected,
Qiao Xuan wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said with lingering fear: "Master Liu, this exercise is so realistic, it's just killing me,"
Liu Xin laughed and said: "Such drills are held almost every day, regardless of wind or rain, but the scale is different. If you sweat more on the training field, you can reduce the bloodshed on the battlefield. Outside of Qiao, he is attacking and defending. As for the city, there are still a few heavy equipment. Let Zhongye show it to you now."
Wen Pin nodded, took out a firework tube, and released a yellow signal flare. Suddenly a large number of figures appeared on the head of the previously empty simulated city. This is another army. After the soldiers were busy. , Ten huge crossbows appeared on the head of the city,
Liu Xin took the telescope and observed it, pointed with her hand, and said, "Outside member Qiao, look at it. It's a ballista with a length of one foot and five feet, and a range far beyond the bow and arrow. It can go straight to the attacker. China Army,"
While talking, the ballista was launched, and ten ballistas fired together. Ten huge iron bolts flew nearly a thousand steps from the top of the city and plunged heavily into the mud. Qiao Xuan even felt a slight shock under his feet. , Could not help but change his face,
Liu Xin explained: "The ballista is very powerful, so it was not used in the siege exercise just now to avoid unnecessary casualties. Nowadays, such crossbows have been deployed at important levels such as Hulao Pass, Wuguan Pass, and Yumen Pass. Car, look again,"
Following the direction of Liu Xin’s fingers, ten newly improved catapults slowly pushed out, and the ballista on the city’s head has been withdrawn.
Wenpin hesitated for a moment, and said, "Master, do you really want to demonstrate the sling attack?"
Liu Xin waved his hand indisputably, and said: "Liu asked member Qiao to come out today, so he naturally wants him to see some real things at a fair price, so vote for it."
Wenpin didn’t dare to persuade people to wave the flag on the observation deck. There was a loud noise in the distance, and huge stone bullets roared towards the tower of the simulated city. After improvement, every trebuchet Ten stone bullets can be thrown at the same time. Ten trebuchets are a total of one hundred stone bullets. These one hundred stone bullets are still rushing to a target at the same time, which also simulates the gates of the city.
There was another loud bang, and the city gate building collapsed on the spot after withstanding a huge impact.
Qiao Xuan opened his mouth wide, and was so startled that he couldn't say a word. He hadn't even heard of such a powerful weapon. If it were put into actual combat, no city would be able to stop the advance of the Han army.