Daqin Engineers

In the beginning, Pang Nuan only said that it was deserters spreading news... How could this city gate fall so quickly?

It is no wonder that Pang Nuan did not believe that the most difficult thing to attack a city was the city gate.

The gates of the real battlefield are not as simple as those filmed in movies and TV, just two gates and one bolt.

Such a city gate only needs a few bundles of Songming to throw it over and burn it for a few hours, I am afraid it will burn through.

In ancient times, cities, especially capitals like Handan, had their gates often made into urns.

The so-called Wengcheng is to change the city gate into two front and back gates, which are connected end to end in a circle surrounded by city walls.

It looks like an urn from above, so it is called the urn city.

In addition to making the gate more difficult to break through, this also turns the gate’s static defense into a dynamic defense:

The enemy broke through a gate?

It doesn't matter.

They will soon enter Wengcheng by another gate.

At the same time, these enemies who entered the urn city were surrounded by the city wall like a turtle in the urn.

The crossbowmen at the top of the city open their bows and shoot downwards, which is an all-round and full-angle blow.

Occasionally, you can throw away the rolling stones and woods...that sour and cool.

Therefore, Wengcheng deliberately opened the first gate and the enemy did not dare to enter easily.

On the other hand, Wengcheng is also favorable to counterattack.

If it were just a city gate, the guards in the city would face a problem when they want to go out of the city to confront the enemy: as soon as the city gate is opened, the enemy will take advantage of the momentum to come in from the city gate.

Wengcheng has no worries in this regard.

If you want to counterattack, first place your troops in Wengcheng.

The operation steps are like watertight compartments, which door is closed and the door is opened, and then this door is opened and the door is closed.

Then the troops went out again...the enemy was anti-killing and entering Wengcheng to be surrounded.

Handan is the capital city of Zhao State, and its four gates are all Urn City, especially the north gate of Urn City, whose walls are extremely hard to break.

Therefore, it is hard for Pang Nuan to believe that he lost in the blink of an eye, and it was the city gate that fell.

Although Pang Nuan was skeptical, but his subordinates did not dare to neglect, immediately took a thousand guards and rushed to the north gate for reinforcements.

Pang Nuan thought to himself, even if the North Gate was lost, I was afraid that Qin Jun would only make a small gap.

As long as these thousand guards can make up in time and retake the city gate, it will be fine.

However, the facts slapped Pang Nuan severely:

When Pang Nuan led his troops to the north gate, he found that the Qin army had completely captured the city wall and spread to the city...

Then there was just a small gap, Qin Jun had already flooded towards them like a bank and flood, and instantly Pang Nuan was stunned on the spot.

Needless to say why the North Gate was breached in a short period of time, of course it was because of the Panmu soft-shelled turtle.

To be precise, it is a poison bomb made from a soft-shelled turtle.

Soon after the war, Shen Bing ordered the poison bombs to be ignited into the city, and all of them were hit near the city gate.

Since he had seen Qin Jun throwing this linen fire bomb three times before, Zhao Jun didn't care.

Why would they think that this sack bomb is not the other sack bomb.

In addition to burning, these linen fire bombs also released thick smoke outwards, and in a short while, the vicinity of the city gate was blurred like fog.

Among them, Zhao Bing occasionally coughed.

In addition, some poison bombs were thrown on the city wall by soldiers of the Qin army who were attacking the city...

This is due to the fact that it is difficult to accurately throw the poisonous bombs to Zhao Bing, who is at the head of the city wall with a trebuchet.

So Shen Bing thought of a way, tied the poison bomb with twine and carried it with the siege soldiers.

When the soldiers climbed up the siege ladder not far from the city head, they used torches to ignite the poison bombs to the city head...

It's a bit like the original grenade.

So it didn't take long for all Zhao Jun under the city wall to breathe shortly and weakly.

At first, Zhao Jun only said that he was nervous about defending the enemy, but he was too late when he noticed something was wrong...

At this time, Yang Duanhe waved Ling Qi and ordered the team to attack.

The five hundred trapped men were all wearing brown clothes without armor.

Most of them are only equipped with a bronze sword and use a healing cloth to cover the nose and mouth to prevent poison.

Only a few soldiers who were responsible for the defense at the head of the city carried leather shields.

This light outfit allowed them to quickly leap up the wooden ladder and attack the city head with lightning speed.

At this time, Zhao Jun at the head of the city was weak and unable to resist.

Therefore, the shields blocked the Zhao Jun who came to help from both sides, the murderers murder, the city gates grab the city gate...

The North Gate Wengcheng, which was originally inexhaustibly golden, was breached before and after a stick of incense.

As the two city gates opened, Qin Jun shouted and poured into the city like a tide.

It was too late when Pang Nuan brought troops to help. He could only watch this scene helplessly.

The guards did not wait for the order to immediately step forward to withstand the Qin army's attack and protect Pang Nuan from retreating.

Who wants Pang Nuan to be disheartened at this time.

He sighed and said:

"It's a sigh that Pang Nuan didn't die a few days earlier."

"Otherwise, there is no need to sit back and watch Zhao Guo die in the hands of Qin Man!"

After that, he drew the bronze sword from his waist and stroked it on his neck...

The guard screamed in exclamation and rushed forward to stop him, but he was in a hurry.

Pang Nuan's neck was filled with blood, and after a long while following the bronze sword, he collapsed to the ground.

As soon as Pang Nuan died, Zhao Jun lost the will to resist and gave up his weapons and surrendered.

The nobles of the Zhao country fought and fled into the imperial city...

The imperial city is the inner city of Handan, and there are also walls that are not even lower than the outer city.

However, everyone knows that the general situation is over at this time, and hiding in the inner city is just a moment of psychological comfort.

As long as the Qin Army placed the trebuchet outside the city, and flung the linen fire bomb into it, the inner city would soon become a city of fire.

The fact is true.

However, Wang Jian was not in a hurry to attack the inner city. He ordered the descending army to be controlled first and then the people would be comforted.

This is one of Wang Jian's strengths. He is good at playing steadily instead of eager for quick success.

It was not until that night when everything was settled that Wang Jian transported the trebuchets to the outside of the imperial city.

My own messenger rushed to the city gate and shouted:

"General Wang Jian has orders."

"If you surrender out of the city within half an hour, I will spare you not to die."

"Otherwise, the general will burn the imperial city!"

...

Shen Bing looked at the Handan Imperial City under the torch from behind the trebuchet.

A burst of crying came from inside...At this time, the nobles of the Zhao country had nothing to do except crying.

Perhaps it was Zhao Wang who believed Wang Jian's words, and it didn't take long for the city gate to slowly open from the inside. Zhao Wangqian followed a group of soldiers and led civil and military officials out of the city.

Shen Bing looked at the headed Zhao Wangqian who walked out of the city tremblingly, not knowing what it felt like.

Who is to blame for his own death?

It is "the poor man must have something sad."

Although King Zhao was hit by a divorce, if he hadn't been thinking about getting rid of Li Mu, how could he have fallen into such a field?

The soldiers of the Qin Army raised their weapons and cheered.

The nobles of the Zhao country were trembling with fright, and they couldn't even stand steady.

So far...

The only one among the six nations, the State of Zhao, who can defend against Qin militarily, came to an end.