The Era of Generals

Chapter 455   Incomprehensible Operation

Boom again?

Ouyang strictly enforced this method, and many generals showed sullen expressions on their faces.

Zheng Yuanyun is simply playing a scoundrel.

Relying on the sufficient supplies in Juhe City, he didn't care about it, and used trebuchets to bombard them indiscriminately. No matter what strategy you have, just bomb them back with shells.

If you want to fight like this, unless you really use human life to fill it, it is almost impossible to touch the city wall of Juhe City.

Zheng Yuanyun also seemed to have stolen Ouyang Lixing's arrangement when he was in Tianyuan City, and divided the trebuchet troops into groups to achieve a continuous attack mode.

It just so happened that he didn't have a lot of troops, but he had a lot of trebuchets. What Zheng Yuanyun was doing now was to direct the soldiers, regardless of their own consumption. When it comes to the level offensive in Tianyuan City.

However, apart from Zheng Yuanyun who was not in a hurry, Ouyang Lixing was also not in a hurry.

If the opponent wants to bomb, then boom.

Ouyang Lixing acted as if he didn't see it, and the offensive on the side road was blocked again, so he waved his hand again, and dozens of siege towers were pushed to the forefront from the central army formation.

And seeing the siege tower, Zheng Yuanyun's expression finally changed.

This...is a siege tower?

As you can see from the top of the city, the dozens of siege towers that Ouyang Lixing pushed to the front have obviously been deliberately modified. , It is no longer a watchtower in the traditional sense, but a large platform is made on the top of the tower, and a trebuchet is placed on each platform.

The role of the siege tower was originally to serve the archers, using the elevated tower body to even out the range disadvantage of the archers at the top of the city, but now they have set up trebuchets?

Of course, it's not that no one has thought about this kind of erection method before, but it's not practical.

Firstly, the anti-shock force produced by the trebuchet when firing is far inferior to that of a bow and arrow. Generally speaking, it can only fire one or two shots when it is mounted on a siege tower, and then due to the anti-shock force, Either the trebuchet was shaken off the top of the tower, or the entire siege tower collapsed.

Secondly, the main function of the siege tower is to transport troops and hide the soldiers in the tower, and the whole siege tower will be covered with a layer of wet cowhide, which can not only increase the defense, but also play a role in fire prevention. As for the inside of the tower Archers, that is, serve for the advancement of the siege tower, and are used to harass the opponent's offensive during the advancement process.

If the trebuchet is erected on the top of the tower like this, then the entire siege tower must be built extremely large. In this way, the flexibility will be greatly lost, and due to the strong recoil of the trebuchet, even if it is opened After one shot, the entire siege tower did not collapse, but it is normal to be shaken backwards.

A siege tower used for charging, if it does not advance but retreats in the process of advancing, the more it attacks, the farther it will be shaken, so what is the use?

The trebuchet erected on the top of the tower can barely even out the range gap with the trebuchet at the top of the defender's city, but at most it is at the same level.

In other words, when I can't hit you, you can't hit me, but when you can hit me, I can hit you too.

If you want to use the trebuchet to counter the trebuchet, unless Ouyang pushes the siege tower into the range of the opponent, then you can shoot at each other.

But he only has dozens of these weird siege towers, but he has to face hundreds of them that have already been prepared at the head of Juhe City. The two sides are not of the same order of magnitude at all.

It is estimated that before Ouyang Lixing gave the order to fire, the siege towers that entered the attack range of Juhe City Head would receive a round of stone-throwing volleys first. It would be considered good if he could keep ten of his pitiful dozens of towers.

The shells of ten trebuchets bombarded the head of Ihe Castle?

How is that different from tickling?

What's more, there is a high probability that you can only make one round of attacks, and you will be overwhelmed by the opponent's offensive.

Can such a large city be destroyed with only ten shells?

Of course not.

Not to mention ten shots, but a hundred shots, whether it can blast a gap in the solid city wall of Juhe City is not easy to say.

So Zheng Yuanyun didn't quite understand the reason for Ouyang Lixing's operation?

However, to his astonishment, Ouyang Lixing did show these dozens of siege towers, but obviously he did not intend to push these siege towers forward to attack Juhe City, but just let them light up. It was just a picture, and he stood at the forefront of the formation.

What is this for?

Zheng Yuanyun frowned slightly, after thinking about it, he still didn't understand the purpose of Ouyang Lixing's actions.

Could it be that it was just because Ouyang Lixing had already prepared these siege towers before coming to Juhe City, and seeing that they were not useful at this time, he was very unwilling, so he launched them to show off?

That's too naive, right?

Shaking his head, although he couldn't figure out the purpose of Ouyang Lixing, what was visible to the naked eye was that the other party still couldn't pose any threat to Juhe City.

In the case of sufficient material reserves, Zheng Yuanyun will not be stingy with resources at all, no matter what his strategy is, it is just a bombardment.

Ouyang didn't move, and he was also happy to save the soldiers' strength. Originally, he used the drag formula, as long as he could drag it until the reinforcements arrived, the victory of the battle would be in his pocket.

If you want to procrastinate, then procrastinate.

Therefore, after the two sides made slight contact, none of the soldiers died, only the stones were left on the ground, and then they fell into a state of silence.

Not long after, messenger soldiers from the left and right city gates came to report back, and the troops dispatched by Ouyang Lixing had arrived. However, under Zheng Yuanyun's prior arrangement, the city gates on both sides also implemented a brutal strategy. It doesn't matter who you are, as long as you dare to cross the thunder pool half a step, you will be thrown a round of stones and volleys to block the road.

This strategy was undoubtedly very successful, except that no soldiers under Ouyang Lixing's subordinates were killed, the effect was obvious. This round, Juhe City was defended as solid as gold.

Then there is the back gate.

Ouyang Lixing probably had an order. If the gates on the left and right sides still cannot be broken through, then go around the gates at the back.

However, in the direction of the city gate here, Zheng Yuanyun deployed heavy cavalry.

More than 300,000 of Ouyang Lixing's troops went around, but before they approached the city gate, they saw the heavy cavalry who were already on the charge roaring like a torrent of steel, scaring them to retreat and pull, at least they didn't let them go. The heavy cavalry hit head-on, but they also lost a small part of their troops.

And this turned out to be the only loss of troops between the two sides during the battle.