The previous battle was just a test by the Tubo people. Su Ce's brows furrowed together.
Using rammed earth as the foundation and covering it with green bricks is the traditional construction habit of Dagan City.
The soldiers of Daqian Prefecture are tyrannical, stronger than armaments, stronger than military discipline, stronger than training, and stronger than military formations. Among them, the armed military formations are famous in the world.
But now, in the battle to defend the city, there are only small military formations, which can easily be torn apart by tyrannical people. In addition, the unpainted dark silver armors under the city, which are the same shape as those of Daqian, remind the city all the time. The soldiers on board are now on the same level as these Tibetan archer guards.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
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A loud noise came from the city wall, and at the same time, the soldiers on the city wall also felt a slight vibration.
"Treading arrow!" Hearing the exclamations of his subordinates, Su Ce also took a breath of cold air. The loud noise just now was the sound of a stepping arrow hitting the city wall.
Su Ce looked at the Tibetan elites arrayed in the distance. Although there were no complex and changeable military formations, there were thirty neat square formations, filling the field of vision filled with Daqianfu soldiers.
"Move the seventh team! Crossbow soldiers to the archery tower!" Su Ce said very briefly, but mobilized two soldiers.
One is the rear army composed of 500 soldiers from the north and south walls respectively drawn by Su Ce.
The other group has five hundred crossbowmen, three hundred crossbowmen go to the city gate archery tower, and the remaining two hundred crossbowmen go to the two turrets in the southwest and northwest corners.
In addition to firing some cannons, the Tibetan enemy troops in the west of the city just lined up quietly about a mile away from the west of the city. However, the Tibetan slaves who had just retreated half a mile were already enough to bear on the soldiers on the city wall.
If Su Ce had not informed each captain in advance that they would have to rotate once they were exhausted, I am afraid that the Tibetan slaves who had just swarmed up would have been able to set foot on the city wall of Maozhou.
Su Ce stood on the top floor of the West Gate Archery Tower. This is the only two highest places on the city wall, the other is the East Gate Archery Tower.
In the trial attack just now, Su Ce visually estimated that there were more than 3,000 corpses lying under the city wall. Although he killed many enemies, it also meant a huge consumption of arrows.
And there were more Tubo slaves than those in the Tubo camps in front of us.
Su Ce knew very well how many enemies he had to face. The Tibetan left wing consisted of 10,000 shooters, 20,000 defenders, and 70,000 slaves.
"How many arrows were used?" As the defender of the city, the number of arrows determines the time of hand-to-hand combat.
"Reporting to the governor, I have just finished replenishing the arrows, and used two thousand pots of white feather arrows and more than a hundred crossbows." As an army commander, Zhao Fei, these figures are related to the general's use of troops, and he cannot be careless at all.
There are thirty white-feathered arrows in a pot, and twenty red-feathered arrows in a pot.
That is to say, during the mutual testing just now, 60,000 of the 300,000 white-feathered arrows in Maozhou's 500,000 arrows were consumed.
It is the custom for the soldiers of the government to carry two pots of arrows with them when they go into battle, one with white feathers and one with red feathers.
The arrows sent by Zhao Zaixiao, King of Shu, from Yizhou to Maozhou were only enough to replenish the amount of arrows used by these ten thousand soldiers.
That's why Su Ce didn't say enough at the time, but it's too late to say anything now.
In a probing attack, among the 30,000 slaves, in addition to the more than 3,000 people lying on the ground, there were more than 1,000 slaves with white feather arrows stuck in their bodies and fled to a mile away, more than 300 steps away, where they were captured. The Tibetan guardians whipped the troops in formation.
Further west, that is, seven hundred steps away, three-bow crossbows with a range of more than a hundred and a thousand steps were shooting stilt arrows at the Maozhou city wall. However, these Tubo people did not understand how to use the slug arrows. The range of the three-bow crossbows was A thousand steps is true, but the stepping arrow needs to be closer to a distance of 200 steps to firmly insert the stepping arrow into the city wall.
Now, although the arrows shot by the Tubo people appear to have been inserted into the city wall, they are not firm.
At this time, most of the soldiers were resting against the wall. Only the soldiers in charge of the bed crossbows on the city wall repeated the operation of the three-bow bed crossbow and fired one ballista after another into the Tibetan bed crossbow array.
The constant bleeding made the Tibetan people unable to sit still.
Seeing more and more arrows on the city wall, the upper wing of the Tubo left wing pulled out the horizontal sword from his waist. This is a hundred-standard horizontal sword, but because this type of horizontal sword is mainly used in the south, the shape is somewhat different.
There are two types of Daqian horizontal swords. The first one is a double-edged horizontal sword. It is said to be double-edged, but in fact, a three-inch short blade is opened on one side of the back of the sword and the blade is combined into the tip, which is similar to the tip of a sword. The blade is straight.
The second type is a single-edged horizontal sword that is heavier for cutting and has some bends. The batch of horizontal swords from the Yizhou Arsenal that the Tubo people received are single-edged horizontal swords. Originally, the troops to be armed by the Yizhou Arsenal were used in the southwest and southwest. When marching in one direction, the vines in the forest need to be chopped down.
There are two types of horizontal knives, so the horizontal knives carried by the general soldiers are single-edged or double-edged from their own knife holders according to their situation of guarding the border. Of course, like the heavy horizontal knives used by Su Ce, then The style used is a double-edged horizontal knife.
"What a sword!" he exclaimed, and the upper wing commander of the Tubo left wing did not forget about business.
Tubo imitated Daqian, and its military disciplines were also borrowed from them.
However, compared with the Daqian army, which has the main army in the front and the auxiliary army in the back, and the idea of alternating operations is different, the Tubo army has slaves in the front, guards in the middle, and archers in the back.
The Tubo guardians beheaded many slaves who were the first to retreat, but for the Tibetan slaves who were like cattle and sheep in the eyes of the guardians, this only made their fearful eyes more numb.
But when the wing chief on the upper left wing shouted: "Whoever gets there first, the slaves can be the protectors! The protectors can be the shooters! The shooters can be the hundreds of households! Attack!"
The entire Tibetan army was confused for a while, and then immediately began to charge.
More than 20,000 slaves abandoned their injured comrades and excitedly carried bamboo ladders with crude weapons to attack the west gate of Maozhou.
As for the guardians and archers, they followed the slaves and attacked step by step.
Looking at the Tubo people attacking like a tide again, the bronze whistle from the horses on the city wall and the sound of the big drum from the archery tower sounded again.
"Military Sima!" Su Ce had just arrived, and he didn't have enough time to remember many people's names. However, Su Ce only needed to know the military commander Zhao Ji. Who should be sent specifically? Su Ce felt that this time the Jiannan Road soldiers would select Zhao Zi knows better.
"Four thousand people in the East Gate, South City, and North City stood still and notified the auxiliary soldiers to register the demolished houses, carry the bricks and stones up the city wall, and send the wood to the army craftsmen to make more large wooden boards. The remaining three thousand people took turns Fight." After Su Ce ordered, he turned sideways and looked out along the arrow stack of the archery tower.
The world is a chessboard, and the soldiers are chess pieces!
Su Ce looked silently at the Tibetan slaves under the city wall. They ignored the piles of burning corpses and tried to climb up the city wall using bamboo ladders or grabbing arrows. However, the arrows kept falling, which made these slaves start to climb up. despair.
However, there are always many smart people in this world who carry the corpses of their companions and try to pile up a corpse slope. However, unlike the previous corpse slope, many Tubo slaves choose to use their own animal skins to carry dirt.
The corpses were mixed with the soil dug out with worn-out weapons, and the trench was slowly filled up, gradually forming a slope more than 40 meters long and 67 meters high, leading directly to the city wall.
The pressure began to fall on the shoulders of the Maozhou defenders from the first Tibetan slave who rushed from the slope to the consuming city wall.
－－－－－－Digression－－－－－
My health has been bad recently and I have been on a sling for several days.