Daqin Engineers

So Shen Bing had to take the artillery to build a high platform in front of the formation that night.

To make the fire bomb as far as possible into the city, the trebuchet must be close enough to the city wall, and the high platform must be high enough.

High enough is not a big problem, because it just takes some time and manpower to build.

It's close enough to the city wall...the problem is big.

There are also trebuchets on the walls of the Zhao Jun city. These trebuchets are not only improved but also condescending.

Although these trebuchets still use the basket as the counterweight, the accuracy is not high.

But if Qin Jun had to move the trebuchet forward and build a high platform, the situation would be different.

No accident happened that night.

During this period of time Qin Jun had been building a village outside the city, beating and beating all day long, Zhao Jun had long been used to it.

So Qin Jun smoothly erected several high platforms and built trebuchets on them.

The next day, when the sky was dimly lit, something went wrong...

The raised platforms were very conspicuous outside the empty city, and Zhao Jun found them immediately.

So the horns of the horns rang at the head of Handan.

Soon there was a catapult hitting stone bullets from far away from the high platform...

Only then did Shen Bing discover a more serious problem: the high platform was bombarded with a large surface, like a raised target.

This shortcoming caused it to be easily hit by the Zhao Jun trebuchet.

In addition, Zhao Jun also learned to use the counterweight to adjust the impact point, whether a shot was close or far, left or right, and then another shot after adjustment...

The high platform couldn't move, so he could only watch Zhao Jun adjust.

As a result, one after another high platforms were destroyed under the stone bullets of Zhao Jun's catapult.

Yang Duanhe even had to order the troops to attack the city in advance to cover the high platform.

To be precise, it should be Wang Jian, because the siege at this time was a joint battle between Wang Jian and Yang Duan and the two armies.

So the war was about to start, and the whole battlefield boiled like a pot of cooked porridge.

However, this still didn't help much.

The number of high-platform trebuchets was reduced, and several batches of linen fire bombs were barely fired, just like a mud cow entering the sea without any response.

Qin Jun's charge was also beaten back by Zhao Jun wave after wave.

Fifteen artisans were injured or killed in this battle.

It would be nice if they died on the spot, but the more miserable ones are those injured...

A craftsman broke his leg by a stone bullet. The whole leg was bent back from the knee, and the broken leg bone was inserted diagonally from the other end, looking very strange.

When he was lifted down, he kept holding his leg and screamed, and the medical workers were helpless when he arrived.

To be precise, it is sloppy...that is, to force the foot straight and tie it with a branch as a clamp.

As a result, he fainted with pain before he was tied up.

The other was fell from a high platform and pierced his shoulders with broken wood.

The same was done by forcibly pulling out the broken wood and bandaging it with a healing tape, without even checking whether there were any fragments in the body.

Even more exaggerated is that an abdomen was pierced and couldn't stop the blood, the medical worker stuffed the wound healing cloth into the wound, just like blocking a leaking clay pot.

In addition, Shen Bing found that there were several medical workers beside the wounded, chanting words and dancing...

As mentioned before, the people of Qin Shi were extremely superstitious.

Those medical workers are also called medical witches, and they are stupid and confused as to whether they are curing diseases and saving people or jumping to the top.

Shen Bing actually knew why this happened.

In this era, technology and medicine are extremely backward, and many things cannot be scientifically and reasonably explained, so it is natural to classify them as ghosts.

However, it is difficult to accept the fact that it is so simple and rude to deal with their injuries in reality.

At the same time, there was a burst of fear and chills in my heart.

Because Shen Bing would unconsciously think:

If one day I was injured, would he like to give his life to these doctors or witches?

At this time, Shen Bing came to a conclusion: You must not be injured, otherwise you can get sick if you are not sick.

And this is just the beginning.

The artillery division wounded 21 craftsmen the next day.

The reason why there were more casualties was that Zhao Jun began to suppress Gaotai at night.

They even learned to use linen fireball...

This is one of the reasons why Shen Bing takes a conservative attitude towards invention.

Most of these inventions have no scientific and technological content, they are just a matter of creativity, and they can be learned at a glance.

So today the Qin Army uses the new invention to deal with the enemy, and tomorrow the enemy will use it to deal with the Qin Army in turn.

At this time, the artillery suffered such a pain.

They were secretly building a high platform at night, when suddenly dozens of fireballs broke through the air and illuminated the neighborhood.

Shen Bing secretly said that if it was not good, he immediately let Ren issue an order to withdraw the artillery.

However, it was too late, and several people were injured after a stone bullet.

This often recurs, and the failure to build a few people on the high platform has caused many casualties.

Artillery craftsmen alone lost 21 people.

We must know that all the artillerymen had more than a hundred people, and 36 casualties were killed or injured in two days. I am afraid that it will be the turn of the soldiers in a few days.

It's not just Shen Bing who suffers from casualties, but also Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe.

When Yang Duanhe was reporting the battle to Wang Jian, he said helplessly:

"Enlighten the general."

"The Handan defenders seem to have recovered some morale, and their resistance is very tenacious."

"Our army suffered more than 3,000 casualties in just two days."

"Go on like this..."

Needless to say, Wang Jian will count.

The Qin army's strength in besieging Handan is only more than 100,000. If one or two thousand casualties are killed every day, then the total strength will be halved within a month.

At that time, even if Zhao Jun didn't leave the city to fight back, I'm afraid Qin Jun himself would collapse.

But Wang Jian was also very helpless:

"The king is fate, I have to wait."

"The king has been asking about the battle situation every day for several days."

"I also said that when he arrives, he will rest in the Handan Palace..."

After that, Wang Jian sighed heavily.

Although he can understand Ying Zheng's eagerness to destroy Zhao, it is absolutely imperative to fight such a mess.

Wang Jian regrets it a little bit, knowing that he shouldn't have pressed Yang Duanhe back then.

If Yang Duanhe had not run to the north gate, Handan would have fallen into a sea of ​​flames at this time, and breaking the city would not be easy.

but now……

After thinking about it, Wang Jian said to Yang Duanhe:

"Tell Shen Bing that erecting a high platform doesn't work, so he thinks of another way."

Yang Duanhe answered "No" and retired.

After leaving the tent, Yang Duanhe was secretly ashamed.

In fact, Shen Bing had long told him that this method would not work, but he insisted on doing it.

Sure enough, Shen Bing was right.

After returning to Beiying, Yang Duanhe immediately found Shen Bing and asked anxiously:

"The king will rush to Handan in a few days."

"He ordered me to wait before breaking the city."

"But now..."

Shen Bing was also speechless.

This is almost an impossible task.

What is even more irritating is that you will win the government sooner or later in Handan. What is the urgency?

You can satisfy your selfish desires for a while, but you don't know how many more people will die on the front line!

But having said that, when will Yingzheng care about how many people die?

Shen Bing thought for a while, then asked:

"General, I wonder if I can have Mongolian sweat medicine?"