Daqin Engineers

Chapter 21 Fire Blockade

While talking, the drums outside the city suddenly became anxious, and then Zhao Jun shouted the killer.

Yang Ting and others were right. This 20,000-strong Zhao army was indeed an elite division.

Especially among them there is a 5,000-strong Northern Soldier.

The so-called northern soldiers are soldiers who have been stationed in northern Xinjiang for a long time to follow Li Mu against the Huns.

Li Mu originally confronted Wang Jian's Qin army at Jingxing (located in Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province).

Knowing that Yang Duanhe in the south had breached the Great Wall of Zhao and approached Handan, he left two subordinates to continue the defense, and he took 10,000 Ma Xingye to aid Handan.

Among them, five thousand people were led by Xiaowei Wang Bai to assist Xuchang in outflanking the rear to recover the Great Wall.

Wang Bai was eager and eager to challenge Xuchang as soon as he arrived at the Great Wall.

"General!"

"At the end, the general is willing to lead the northern soldiers to the city!"

"If you can't take down the city gate to welcome the army into the city, you will come to see you at the end!"

In other words, although Xuchang is not as old as Pang Nuan, he is also a long-standing veteran.

He carefully observed the Great Wall.

See the banners of the Qin Army on the Great Wall in a mess.

I thought to myself that Qin Jun was not prepared.

If you use Wang Bai, a soldier of hundred battles, to give the Qin army a head.

Unprepared, Qin Jun might collapse.

Right now, Wang Baizhi was allowed to send the five thousand northern soldiers.

So the first batch of more than 3,000 Zhao Jun went up with siege ladders, car crashes and other siege equipment.

The focus of the offensive was the gap in the Great Wall that the Qin Army failed to fill.

The offensive in other places was only to disperse the Qin army's troops and firepower.

The killing sound shook the sky, stone bullets and arrows flew randomly, and the two armies of Qin and Zhao fought back and forth like a bull in the gap.

But because Qin Jun had been prepared for a long time, he even set up arrow towers around the gap and arranged crossbowmen.

Therefore, Zhao Jun is often killed just a few steps into the breach.

For a while, the war became deadlocked.

On the other side, Shen Bing was still gesturing under the anxious eyes of the catkins, and occasionally glanced at the gap with the long bamboo in his hand.

After it was over, Shen Bing waved the flag while shouting at the catapult behind him:

"Go ahead, go ahead!"

"Hey, yes! Yes! Go, go..."

"Correct the angle!"

"One here, one here... align the tip of the gun in a straight line!"

At this time, the catkins can be considered to be named.

"Do you want to use a trebuchet to fight the enemy?"

"but……"

Catkins looked worriedly at the direction of the gap. The enemy and us were facing each other shortly, and they couldn't distinguish between sword and shield.

In this case, the trebuchet usually fails to function.

This is because the trebuchet has low accuracy, and the flying stone bullets can easily injure one's own people.

On the other hand, because the gap is only more than ten steps wide, it is difficult for the catapult to accurately shoot the stone bullet through the gap.

And if the stone bullet can't shoot through the gap, it will inevitably hit the city wall and hurt yourself by accident.

Seeing Liu Ting's puzzled gaze, Shen Bing explained as he commanded:

"Do you know the biggest advantage of the new trebuchet?"

"It is that its accuracy is much higher than that of the old trebuchet."

"In addition, its trajectory can be calculated..."

Liu Ting stared at Shen Bing with wide eyes in disbelief.

"Ballistic? Calculation?"

"You mean you can figure out where the stone bullets fall?"

"This... this is impossible!"

Shen Bing replied:

"It's really impossible to calculate the exact landing point."

"But it's not difficult to figure out an approximate."

"In addition, I arranged these trebuchets in a fan shape to aim at the gap."

"The stone bullets they hit pass through the gap, and they will form a fan-shaped coverage on the other side!"

"Understand?"

Catkin listened for a moment, then shook his head like a drum, and replied repeatedly: "I don't understand!"

Shen Bing waved his hand indifferently:

"You don't need to understand."

"You only need to know that the trebuchet can seal the gap."

Willow catkins don't believe it, but with a bit of excitement and expectations.

"Really?"

"Can a trebuchet close the gap?"

"Don't fool me, there is no joking in the army..."

Shen Bing was speechless for a while.

This is related to his own wealth and life, how could Shen Bing "joking".

Before that, he even tried firing with trebuchets with different weights, and then used the test firing data to calculate.

However, Shen Bing didn't bother to explain more to Willow, and the explanation couldn't make sense.

He just waved his hand and said: "Try it and you will know, and after another stick of incense, you will be ready!"

At this time the battlefield situation changed suddenly.

Zhao Jun is worthy of being an elite soldier, they cooperated with each other and pushed forward:

Shield players took cover in front, heavy infantry followed closely behind, and then crossbowmen.

Crossbowmen put arrows on both sides of the gap to cover the infantry.

The shield hand held the shield in front of the battalion in a straight line slowly.

Then suddenly he turned sideways and let the heavy infantry come forward.

These heavy infantry were all wearing heavy helmets and armed with large axes, heavy hammers and other weapons. They rushed forward and slashed.

Although Qin Jun’s shield hand held a shield to resist, these wooden shields and leather shields couldn’t stop the heavy hammer and large axe...

The wooden shields and leather shields used in cold weapon combat are mainly used against light weapons such as bows and arrows and bronze swords.

Weapons with built-in weights such as large axes and heavy hammers will basically fail.

The heavy hammer hit it down. Although the shield was not broken, the hand holding the shield was useless and could only be slaughtered.

The big axe is even more terrible. It can split the shield in half with one axe.

So soon Qin Jun's position was broken by Zhao Jun.

Qin Jun's shield hand was about to fill the gap to block these heavy infantry back, not wanting Zhao Jun's shield hand to block it again.

Then it goes round and round...

Shen Bing, who was watching the battle in the rear, couldn't help but "leaned" upon seeing this scene.

Isn't this special that modern multi-arms coordinated operations?

Although there is no coordination of sea, land, and air like modern ones, it is a perfect coordination of various infantry.

With such soldiers and such tactics, it is no wonder that Li Mu was able to defeat the Xiongnu who was good at riding and shooting in the north.

How could the Qin army withstand such an offensive? After falling many soldiers, they retreated.

Even the crossbowmen on the arrow tower were shot down.

Then Zhao Jun's soldiers rushed towards the gate...

At this critical moment, Hengli suddenly shot out a team of female soldiers.

It was Yang Ting who led the strong woman into the battle group.

Shen Bing couldn't help but let out a "Uh".

Although I have accepted the reality that there are female soldiers in this era, it is still a bit uncomfortable to watch the female soldiers fall one by one in front of Zhao Jun and splash blood on the spot.

Where did Shen Bing know that he was just not adapting, and Yang Ting, who was on the battlefield, had really felt the pressure of life and death.

Zhao Jun came one after another like a tide, endlessly.

Especially the heavy infantry wearing heavy helmets, they did not avoid the spear stabbed by Yang Ting.

A heavy hammer hit the handle of the gun, causing Yang Ting's hands to numb, and the spear almost came out.

Yang Ting secretly said:

"This trip is going to die here!"

"Qin army has been defeated in this battle."

"It doesn't matter if I die, but my father is afraid I will also..."

As I was thinking, suddenly stone bullets flew over his head, and then a scream came from the other side of the Great Wall.

Ren Na Zhaojun's shield soldiers and heavy infantry were extremely powerful, and could not stand a stone bullet.