837 Sword refers to Damascus 8
The siege tower carrying a banner slogan was placed about one hundred and fifty meters away from the city wall. Of course, the big cannibal had already begun to strike. The catapult and heavy archers on the city wall placed their targets. On the tall tower body.
The catapult on the city wall is not strong enough, and the stone bullets fired are only three or four kilograms, plus the distance is not very close. This kind of force can not cause substantial damage to the tower, but the heavy archers shoot. The rocket is more useful, but there is a special person in the middle of the tower car who is responsible for cleaning these rockets. Once the rocket is hit, someone will use a long wooden stick to knock the rocket off. Because the tower car is really far away from the city wall, I want to find an effective one. The means of attack are indeed not easy.
Behind the tower cart is the enemy's army. The defense is tight and solid. There are huge shields everywhere. No one dares to approach easily. The battle a few days ago really scared the food army.
After the field artillery on the tower truck fired, the situation was very different. They aimed at where there were many people and fired. Anyway, at such a close range, there will be little deviation. After counting the shots , The defenders of the city wall all hid behind the wall, and then the musketeers sniped and killed them. Although not all sharpshooters, they are condescending and there are many people on the wall, so naturally they can easily hit enemy's.
All day, the war was fought like this. The methods were very simple and it seemed very boring, but the effect was really good. At dusk, the food army had killed and injured more than 4,000 people. There was no way, so I had to stop attacking the city wall. Only a small number of people were left to defend the city wall, and they would mobilize troops to reinforce the city once the enemy actually attacked the city.
Seeing that the sky was about to get dark, Li You had to withdraw his troops and return to the camp. The fighting on the first day ended in this way. In terms of the effect, Li You was still very satisfied, and he also saw that some improvements could be made. Because the big cannibal basically does not cause much damage to the tower cart, once the musketeers start shooting, it is impossible to counterattack. Therefore, the tower cart can be changed to allow more people to go up. Shooting, in this way, you can find a chance to take down a section of the city wall.
After returning to camp, the tower car's modification began. A support frame was added to the top two wings. On top of it, fences were set up for people to shoot on. As a result, there were four more people. In terms of strength, it has increased by 40%.
In the big tent, Wang Yanzhang said with a smile: "Lord, according to the current situation, we won't be able to win the city soon."
Li You said: "It's so simple to win the city. I have done so much to hope that the food army will fight. There are too many people defending the city. I don't want to reduce their number. I want to win. City, the price we will pay will be high, and I don’t want to pay such a high price."
But Ono Maro said: "Lord of the country, come down to see, tomorrow, the food army will not send many people to the city wall, do we have to think of other ways?"
Li You can still understand this. He increased the shooting position on the tower cart. In fact, he also considered this aspect. After adding the musketeer, he could divide the army into two and launch an offensive from two walls. Looking forward to causing more serious damage to the food defenders, once they reduce their defenses again, they can wait for the opportunity to attack the city wall.
"This matter, let it go for a while, and wait until tomorrow's war to discuss it. What you said is what I think. Tomorrow they will have a lot less people to defend on the wall, but we can still cause huge casualties to them. After all, they can't help but go to the wall."
Seeing that Li You had already decided, Maro Ono didn't say much, he knew that Li You had plans.
The next day’s siege was changed to an offensive on both sides in the southwest. The defensive army also became two, one army with 10,000 people. Regarding this change, Ishhag quickly reported the change, saying that the opponent’s 20,000 people formed one. The army formation, they really did not dare to fight, but now, it is equivalent to half the attack power, which is a good opportunity. But in the end it was rejected by Prime Minister Ivau. His reason was simple. Since the enemy dares to do this, it means that they are prepared enough. If they really launch an offensive under the city, once they lose, they will do everything. It's over, they can't afford to lose now, and they don't dare to lose. New 81 Chinese network update the fastest computer terminal: https://
The offensive was still the same as yesterday. It was still fired with muskets, but as Li You said, it is impossible for the food army to not send people to the city wall, but if they go up, they can only hide behind the wall, otherwise they will be shot and killed. , But it doesn’t make any sense to avoid fighting back like this. It’s better not to send someone up.
In this way, another day passed, and the casualties were basically the same as yesterday, but what to do tomorrow, this is what the commander-in-chief Ishag wants to consider. He knew very well that if there was no one on the wall, the enemy would definitely have to climb the wall, but once the group of people came up, the wall might not really be able to hold.
On the third day, the food army finally learned to be smart and prepared a lot of thick shields in anticipation of reducing casualties. They did it. Not only did they reduce casualties, but they could also make some counterattacks. It was really not easy. At noon, an army from Aleppo finally broke the offensive routine of the past few days.
This army has never fought against the army led by Li You, only know that an army attacked the capital and defeated the defenders of the capital. It was precisely because of the defeat in the first battle and the enemy attacked the capital that the Caliph ordered them to reinforce the capital, and this army came from Aleppo.
It only took five days for them to arrive from the time they received the letter to the whole army. They came here very quickly. You must know that there are six hundred miles from Aleppo to Damascus. They are a mix of horse and infantry, not all cavalry. It is not easy to travel one hundred and twenty miles.
When they rushed to the capital, they heard that the enemy was only 20,000 and dared to attack the city. The leader of the army, Hari Kirahan, bypassed the Berada River from the western outskirts of the mountain and launched an offensive from the west to the south of the city. . Since Hari Kirahan had already led the offensive, the commander-in-chief Ishag would definitely not let go of such a good opportunity. He also chose to attack out of the city. After all, there are only 10,000 people here, if it weren't for the prime minister, Ivau. So, he had long wanted to go out for a fight, but he was a little bit out of breath these days. ァ新ヤ~⑧~1~中文网ωωω.χ~⒏~1zщ.còм
Wu Zhi Changxin and Dong Kui were in charge of the offensive in the west of the city. Seeing people were killed, they immediately let the army start the defense. There were not many musketeers here, not even a thousand people, but there were two hundred field artillery pieces, which was enough. In addition, there are three thousand taels of stone crossbowmen here, which is completely defensible.
To the south of the city, when the three city gates were opened, the army in the city swarmed up, but unfortunately, they could not even get out. There were more than ten artillery pieces facing each other at the gates of the three city gates. They immediately saw people pouring out. After the cannon was fired, the gates were small and the people inside could only watch the reinforcements from Aleppo fighting alone. (End of this chapter)