Wu Feng once led his troops to capture Nanbao City. When he attacked the sturdy city of Nanbao City, his favorite thing was to build huge trenchers.

Using a catapult to carry out saturation strikes on the target will greatly eliminate the enemy's living forces and destroy its defense system.

Even though this is easy to use, Wu Feng wanted to copy this form to wipe out the acropolis of the Rising Sun City.

Cha Jie, the commander of the Luohu army in Rising Sun City, is different from the image you imagined. He is actually a capable and thoughtful general.

When the Luohu army attacked the Rising Sun City, which was still under the control of the Yanhu Army, Cha Jie used several siege equipment, the largest of which was the stone-throwing machine "Giant Bear".

Cha Jie sent out a total of 500 weapon refiners and 8,000 workers, and it took nearly six months to complete it. Even before these equipment was completed, the flame army in Rising Sun City was frightened by its physique and wanted to surrender.

But this irritable general did not intend to forgive his opponent. In the subsequent forcibly launched artillery bombardment, the super trencher "Giant Bear" accurately threw out hundreds of stone bullets weighing ten thousand pounds, completely razing a large section of the city wall.

As soon as the "Giant Bear" catapult took action, everyone was completely shocked.

It can be said that before this giant super trencher showed its power, no one could imagine that it would have such powerful power.

Its height was about 100 meters, which was enough to make most of the siege weapons at that time dwarfed them.

In front of such weapons, everyone is full of powerlessness.

However, such battles are often just an isolated case. In that era, some of the defensive weapons and cities built by the demons had not been completely damaged and were well maintained.

And when these war weapons are completely unavailable, they will be a matter of a long time after the demons were expelled from the Asura realm.

In that era, there were still many cities that were enough to withstand the attacks of heavy weapons.

In this case, if the siege side can only use other means, and digging tunnels is one of them.

Once the soldiers in charge of civil engineering secretly arrived at the foundation, they would fill the tunnel with flammable materials, such as tar-soaked wood, and then ignite them in one fell swoop.

If everything goes well, when the flammable products are burned out, the entire tunnel will collapse, and the city walls and towers above will fall down. At this time, the commando teams that have been prepared will rush up and attack the city from the gap.

Of course, the danger of this method is self-evident. The tunnel often collapses prematurely due to various unpredictable situations, resulting in the development of soil and wood

The soldiers who were working were buried alive in batches.

However, such losses are not unacceptable compared to the casualties caused by strong attacks, and in many cases, digging tunnels is often the only choice for the attacking side.

If you don’t do this, the means of siege will be more single, the losses will be greater, and the time will be longer.

When digging the tunnel, there are wooden rafts as protection in the entrances and exits to prevent soldiers from being shot by bows and arrows when entering and leaving

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When the Rising Sun City was still in the hands of the Fire Army, the Fire King did not pay attention to it, so there were very few defenders in the Rising Sun City at that time.

Although there were less than 100,000 defenders in the Rising Sun City, some of them were well-equipped cavalry. The several strong attacks of the Luohu army were declared unsuccessful. In the end, after careful consideration, Cha Jie, who was responsible for the siege, decided to send civil engineering soldiers to completely wipe out the stronghold of the Fire Army.

These civil and engineer soldiers lived up to their expectations and first destroyed the castle gate, but the Fire Army soldiers quickly retreated into the central area and resisted step by step with the strong inner city.

After all the attack methods failed, Cha Jie had no choice but to order the civil and engineer soldiers to dig the tunnels.

At the same time, in order to ensure that the action was successful, he ordered his subordinates to travel day and night to send thousands of large fat pigs and slaughter the pigs immediately, and the bodies were stuffed into the tunnel.

As the lard in the tunnel was ignited, the flames burned a corner of the inner city, but even so, the fire army guarding the inner city refused to surrender, and some of them even persisted for a long time until they were exhausted.

One of the main reasons for this is that Luohu had just risen and had little reputation. In the heart of the Fire Army, they still maintained a high psychological advantage. They believed that Luohu was just a little lucky, so they tried to overestimate themselves and challenge the old Shura king, and even some ungrateful and young man who was ungrateful.

This is this psychological advantage, which made the Fire Army at that time believe that even if the Luohu army temporarily gained a little advantage, it would be a failure in the end.

In their hearts, many people have always believed that as long as they persisted a little, and when the King of Fire sent out reinforcements, it would be the time for these Luohu troops to perish.

But what I didn't expect was that until the Rising Sun City changed hands and the Firefighting Army was wiped out, and the reinforcements of the Firefighting King were not sent out.

Cha Jie, who personally organized and participated in such a siege battle and made the greatest contribution, is the current leader of the Luohu army to guard the Rising Sun City and the supreme commander of the tens of millions of troops. Of course, he would not make the same mistake as the Fire Army back then.

Outside the Rising Sun City today, when Wu Feng was conquering the small acropolis, in addition to using civil engineering soldiers, he sometimes also

He will use the largest weapon of the year to siege the city tower.

However, the cost of building a siege tower is also extremely high. This large siege weapon requires a lot of materials as early as possible, and it takes a considerable time to build it. It is precisely because of this that sometimes, when the battle begins, the craftsmen will prepare parts early in the rear so that they can assemble as soon as possible when needed.

In the siege battle, the tower in the center of the siege team is the siege tower. In addition to using manpower to push, the craftsmen will also use pulleys to pull them with animal power to move towards the city wall.

In the era of Asura Emperor, the siege tower generally had three floors. Near the top, there was a retractable suspension bridge so that the commando could rush up to the battlements.

Some siege towers have a height of about 100 meters. In order to avoid the tower body being ignited or destroyed by heavy weapons in the city, the craftsmen will also apply wet mud on the shell of the tower and cover the ferocious beast skin soaked in vinegar, or ferocious beast skins with fire warding attributes or water warding attributes.

In a very rare case, craftsmen even install iron plates on the front, and the inside of the siege tower can accommodate dozens of soldiers.

However, for the siege team, although the siege tower is powerful, it is quite difficult to move it into place. During this period, the siege party needs to fill the moat and trenches in the rain of arrows, and clear nearby fences and obstacles.

Then, a large group of infantry will push it to the foot of the city wall, but at the same time, the towers that slowly advance will also become targets for various weapons.

And it is precisely because of this that the people who operate the siege tower are like gears on machines, with clear tasks and division of labor.

Some of them were responsible for moving the siege tower into place, while others stood aside with buckets to put out the fires lit on the tower.

At the same time, a city-breaking hammer may be installed at the bottom of the siege tower. When approaching the foundation of the wall, soldiers will use it to continuously destroy the city wall.

On the upper floors, archers, crossbowmen and armored knights are arranged. Some of them have to use bows and arrows to suppress the defenders on the wall, while others need to rush to the top of the city when the suspension bridge of the siege tower is lowered.

Although these methods are extremely powerful, they are actually the last resort of the attacking side.

In other words, if you use siege towers and digging tunnels, you cannot break through the city, then the siege battle will be at risk of failure.

Generally speaking, if the battle lasts for more than half a year, the attacking party will encounter supply difficulties and the troops will be depressed as a result.
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