Chapter 747 Battle of Resources
Qing Er led a large army to end the battle with the minimum cost of casualties, which made him very proud when facing the Asura friendly forces.
According to post-war statistics, the Demon God Army only captured the enemy's heads, and reached 30,000.
However, the total number of casualties of the enemy is more than these. The total loss of the enemy will exceed at least more than 100,000 people if it is killed by stone cannons and other means.
The number of deaths in the Demon God Army actually did not exceed 10,000. In general, the Demon God Army won a lot of glory. In terms of combat level, it is much stronger than the Asura Army of the same period.
For enemy troops protected by city walls, the attack of the Demon God Army seemed to be no problem. On the one hand, it was due to the excellence of their own military system. On the other hand, it also showed that the Demon God Army did not have reliable and practical heavy firepower siege cannons to be used, but in terms of siege, the final result was not affected by the lack of heavy firepower.
The Demon God Army adopted the tactic of swarming the city. Although it was not very clever, the result only showed that these Asura opponents were more backward troops.
If it is a celestial being of the same period, or in other realms, even humans can give the Demon God Army greater trauma.
Of course, this siege battle also has some shortcomings. For example, the use of the Demon God Army on the chariot can also be used to charge again to protect the Demon God Army soldiers from the enemy's killing and injury, but the result is that it is not well applied and the effect is very poor.
It can be said that this is the first battle of the Demon God Army after the fall of Emperor Asura. In this bloody battle, the Demon God Army still adopted the previous tactics. When both firepower and number of people are at a disadvantage, it can still defeat the enemy, alleviate the pressure from friendly forces, and provide the strongest blow to the victory of the war.
Most of the wars that followed were basically siege battles. It was not until the demon god was about to leave the Asura realm that the positional wars rose again.
The routine of siege battles can be said to be the same, and there has never been much change.
Persuading surrender is basically done when siegeing the city. Of course, it is the highest state of battle without blood. The price of forcing the city to capture is basically paving the way with flesh and blood.
Most of the people who forcibly attacked the city suffered heavy casualties, killing 10,000 enemies and losing 8,000 of them.
It can be said that basically it is not worth the loss.
Therefore, before every siege battle, the besieged side will not give up the psychological tactics of defeating the enemy without fighting, or send a messenger to give the other party preferential conditions for surrender, or burn, kill, loot the enemy personnel who have not retreated around the city and put pressure on the defending side. During this period, it is often accompanied by the force of intermittent launch of stone cannons or stone crossbows.
If the strength of the offensive and defensive sides is very different, or the material reserves in the city are insufficient, the defense side will be
It is possible that the white flag would be raised, and the two sides would enter the negotiation stage, and if the defenders responded by killing the invader who came to send the message and throwing his head out of the city wall, a great war would be inevitable.
However, in war, no one will fully expect that everything can be solved by just a mouth, so they are often prepared for both.
While persuading surrender, there is usually a work that will be carried out in full swing on both sides.
The siege troops built defensive camps around the castle, built siege machinery, captured nearby enemy personnel as laborers, filled castle ditches, plundered food, or took advantage of the night to send a small group of soldiers first with barges to the bottom of the city wall to accumulate energy for rapid entry into the city gate.
If the city defenders are prepared, their actions may actually be one step earlier.
Before the enemy arrives, surrounding villagers and their property may be included in the city as much as possible, and those who cannot be taken away will be subject to scorched earth policy, leaving no resources for the other party, and even larger stones must be moved away.
In this way, unless the enemy works tirelessly, there will be no lethal stones in the casting tool.
When everything is ready, the steps of siege will be launched. The siege pioneer will be divided into multiple dotted ladders. Some ladders have metal hooks at the top to lock the city wall, and the more advanced bottom has pulleys for easy movement.
The soldiers climbing the ladders are selected and agile. They first throw weapons at the soldiers defending the city walls and climb quickly while they are hiding. Time and speed are the key to survival.
Generally, while climbing ladders, archers, trespasses and even siege towers will all go into battle to distract the defenders.
The trencher is bulkier than imagined. The leverage principle is used to quickly drive the stone bullet to launch the stone bullet downward. To launch a 100-kilogram rock bullet to a distance, a very heavy balance hammer is needed. The large and long-range trencher light balance hammer must reach dozens of tons, so there will not be too many trenchers.
The siege tower is a wooden behemoth, divided into multiple layers and built on a large number of wheels, and some even require large ferocious beasts to pull.
Each floor of this tower is equipped with archers, and the top floor is filled with wall-climbing warriors who are eager to try.
The target of the siege tower is the engineers who are specifically responsible for excavating tunnels. They are supported by wooden frames. The engineers begin to dig offensive passages at the bottom of the city wall, or cause the entire wall to collapse.
Of course, the defending party usually does not give in easily. The soldiers who come to block the water and soil are the huge advantages of defending the city.
For attacks on the ladder, pushing down the ladder, or smashing stones from top to bottom, and pouring oil are all good ways to achieve immediate results.
Moreover, there are often archers and stone casters on the city walls. They will return them to the tower soldiers who are about to rush up to the city walls.
The archers were ready to go, and when they came to dig tunnels, the smoky and fire tactics were often effective in defending the enemy.
When it is difficult to conquer the city using these methods, and the siege side has sufficient food and supplies, the last move against the city will be launched.
The siege will block the way out and cut off the water source, and even throw corpses of plague animals into the city, waiting for the blockade of time to consume the resources in the city.
However, when implementing this tactic, there is a prerequisite that you need to bring enough troops and food. You must know that during the long-term siege, the two sides are fighting a war of attrition, and the amount of control resources is the key.
Under normal circumstances, the situation where the besieger returns without success will appear more.
Because the material reserves of cities are often richer than we imagined, some castles are located near forests, mines and other weapons and equipment materials. Many large cities have skilled stonemasons or carpenters who can use the geographical advantages of the castle to make weapons using materials.
Some cities moved livestock seeds into the city as early as before the war began. A small-scale agricultural production can be organized in the city, plus the original reserves, and maintain a certain period of self-sufficiency.
If you make material reserves in general cities in advance, it is common to stick to it for half a year to not come out.
In fact, most of the time, the failure of the defending party often does not come from the siege party's military conquest, but is due to the insufficient supply of food and weapons.
Although some cities were eventually captured, they held on for many years before they were defeated. Therefore, the defense ability of the castle not only depends on how high the city wall is and how good the terrain is, but also the internal material reserves are also a key link.
As the saying goes, there is no need to be prepared for any trouble. The richer the resources, the longer it can last. In this world of cultivation, if a city is well built, after using this powerful talisman array, it is very likely that the enemy will forcibly attack and will not be able to attack it at all.
The reason why they were forcibly captured in the end was mostly due to the exhaustion of resources. This is also the reason why many large cities, such as fortresses like Rising Sun City, use a large number of magic weapons to arrange the mustard space in this large space.
With a large capacity of mustard seed space, it can store materials that are beyond the enemy's expectations, making him desperate to attack the city. In the end, the materials in your city have not been consumed completely, and the materials he has sieged are already consumed without a single amount.
Under such circumstances, he had no other way than retreat, so a large part of the reason for this siege was actually a war of resources.
Chapter completed!