The Shiwei people's attack only lasted one round and then failed. Two thousand people left behind nearly a thousand corpses.
However, the Shiwei people's attack did not stop. Throughout the morning, they attacked the outposts and the left and right fortresses respectively. However, the number of people attacking behind was only a thousand people. It was obvious that the Shiwei people were exploring the defensive loopholes of Zuowuguan.
But what disappointed them was that the Zuowuguan garrison had been prepared for a long time. The crossbows on the archery tower were not fired, and the Shiwei people could not touch the city wall with their crossbows alone.
Both sides were testing, and they attacked for three rounds throughout the morning. The Shiwei people lost more than 2,000 lives in front of Zuowuguan, but they were not even able to force out the crossbows at Zuowuguan.
In the afternoon, Aragba did not send Luo Dan to attack Zuowuguan again, because such an attack would have no effect at all and would only consume a few arrows from Zuowuguan.
At this time, the general camp at Zuowuguan was very busy. A lot of trees had been cut down before the Zuowuguan wall was cleared, and there was enough wood. As a defender of the city, the number of arrows undoubtedly related to the combat effectiveness of the frontier troops in the city defense.
Before the two guards on the left and two on the left, in addition to sending food, they also sent a lot of weapons and equipment, including two thousand sets of armor, six thousand horizontal knives, four thousand gun heads, and twenty thousand pots of arrows. Throughout the morning, the outposts were surrounded by
Sai used only more than 300 pots of arrows, but Su Ce still asked the general to stay idle and continue making arrows.
Aragba looked at the towering and dangerous Zuowuguan at noon, and in the afternoon asked the messenger to urge the Russian craftsmen to make large siege equipment.
These were the craftsmen he had previously bought from the principalities of Rus. The Jiuhu people's last wealth resulted in more than 400 craftsmen.
The greatest value of these craftsmen is their skills.
The remaining timber from the previous construction of the camp was piled into small hills. Rus craftsmen were making large siege engines at this time, while 40,000 Shiwei people were leveling the land.
The equipment used by the Shiwei people in the morning attack was only some light ladders. The real siege ladders are still being made. Along with the ladders, trench bridges, catapults, siege towers, battering rams, siege bunkers...
The outpost tower of Zuowuguan is three feet high, because the Jiuhu people's ladders are also made three feet high, with eight wooden wheels, and side panels made of cowhide boards on both sides. The main body of the ladder is more than one meter wide, allowing soldiers to
They quickly boarded the city.
The trench bridge is five feet long and one foot wide, with small wooden wheels underneath and removable wooden boards on both sides to defend against arrows when building the bridge.
The catapult is a Russian torque catapult, which can throw stones weighing more than 30 kilograms to a distance of 200 paces.
The siege tower is a truncated pyramid-shaped building with a wooden palisade structure covered with wooden boards arranged vertically. In addition, the entire building is hung with cattle and sheep hides, cloth covers or leather bags filled with sand.
The front wall was of vertical form, allowing easy access to the besieged wall.
The Russian craftsmen are preparing to build a six-foot-high tower, which is higher than the top of the Zuowuguan outpost city wall, which can allow the Jiuhu archers to shoot at a longer range. The three-foot-long square base is divided into five floors.
The bottom floor is used to push the huge wooden wheel that moves. The power floor is one foot high. The middle floor is a two-foot-high staircase floor for people to go up and down. The upper three floors are used as positions for various shooting machines and archers.
Cut the ropes of the suspension bridge on the fifth floor, and the suspension bridge will fall. The sword and shield wielders on the fourth floor can attack the city wall through the three-foot-long suspension bridge and engage in close combat with the Zuowuguan defenders.
The battering ram is a wooden frame with a trapezoidal structure, three and a half feet long, half a foot wide at the top, one foot and a half wide at the bottom, and one and a half feet high. The wooden frame is nailed with wooden boards, and the wooden boards are coated with mud and covered with a layer of mud.
Water-soaked cowhide, an iron-clad wooden hammer made of a whole fir was hung under the wooden rafts. On the bottom rectangular wooden frame were seven sets of wooden wheels. The soldiers first pushed the battering ram to the city gate, and then they could pull the wooden hammer.
The hammer attacked the city gate.
The Jiuhu people are good at using curved bows, but this does not prevent them from using the Russian lever crossbows. The crossbow has a range of 200, but the Jiuhu people finally bought it from the Rus.
On the first day, the Jiuhu people ended the battle hastily, leaving more than two thousand corpses in front of Zuowuguan.
In the evening, a group of gray-haired Jiuhu people pulled a wooden cart and approached Zuowuguan. There were only five hundred people in the group. Everyone on the walls of Zuowuguan knew that they were here to collect corpses.
No army will attack the corpse collection team. There are no weapons or eyesight on the battlefield. No one knows who will die next. Just like ferocious beasts never hunt their prey in water sources, the border troops and Jiuhu people will not attack each other.
The corpse collection team.
In fact, when it comes to the root cause, both sides are afraid that the rotting corpses on the battlefield will cause a plague.
"Captain Zuo, Chang Yu, is here!" Li Huaimin stood in front of the Bingge Hall and shouted, signing up for Su Ce in the hall.
The left captain, Chang Yu, was wearing armor. He and the right captain, Zhou Fengwu, took turns to be on duty. Today he was on duty. Just now, the right captain, Zhou Fengwu, went to the front pass. At this time, he came to report the battle situation to Su Ce.
Seeing the smile on the face of Captain Zuo Chang Yu, Su Ce breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that there was no big problem today.
"Meet the captain!" Captain Chang Yu, the captain of the left, bowed and saw Su Ce waving to him. He took the kettle on the table next to the sand table and poured warm water into the pottery bowl. He drank three bowls in a row before putting down the pottery bowl.
"Tell me, how are you today?" Su Ce stood up and walked to Chang Yu's side, and stretched out his body.
"Today Jiuhu sent only ten thousand people from Shiwei to attack. They attacked the outposts and the left and right fortresses respectively. The enemy's casualties should be four thousand. I just turned around and Jiuhu's corpse collection team came up. There should be two people killed in the battle.
Thousands and five hundred people." Chang Yu pointed to the places on the sand table one by one for Su Ce.
"Where is our army?" Su Ce glanced at the sand table. Everything around Zuowuguan was in his head, but the sand table was still very useful. In this afternoon's battle, the news could pass through the auxiliary soldiers ten meters apart in just a hundred breaths.
It was passed down orally through bamboo tubes, then summarized by personal guards, and finally presented on the sand table. For this purpose, Su Ce specially selected 500 people to be responsible for this matter.
"Nineteen people were injured in the front pass, eight people were injured on the left side, and thirteen people were injured on the right side. They were all shot by Shiwei's long arrows and were protected by armor. They have been sent to the military medical camp and were protected by armor. They were all skin injuries.
If it hadn't been for the order given by you, Captain, these guys probably wouldn't have even gotten off the city wall." Chang Yu said cheerfully.
Su Ce nodded and stopped talking about this matter. Excuse me, injured, this is a military order from Su Ce. Although this is a battlefield specially planned by the Anbei lineage to establish his position as the military commander of Su Ce, he, Su Ce, cannot ignore his subordinates.
The lives of soldiers are worthless.
"Thank you for your hard work. Inform the right director Shi Zhaoyu and inform the entire army of the battle situation. Chang Yu, you and Zhou Fengwu are stationed at the front pass. The outpost is the weak point of Zuowuguan. If the outpost cannot hold up, remember to mobilize troops to support and go to rest early.
"Su Ce thought for a while and decided to report the battle situation to the entire army. There were only four thousand old frontier troops in the army. Although the rest were defeated by the best selected by the various Xiang armies, many people had seen blood, but the bandits and frontier fortress battles
The intensity cannot be compared, so I still want to boost the morale of these new soldiers.
The time, place, and people are favorable. Now that the time and place are all favorable to Zuowu, Su Ce is not willing to have problems with people and people. The entire army must work together in the isolated city. Therefore, Su Ce cannot hide the battle situation from his soldiers.
Although they are all new recruits in their 19s and 20s, don't forget that these people have been training in Zhechong Mansion for two years and have been "veterans" of the Xiang Army for two years.
"Young Master, it's time for dinner!" Li Huaimin came in holding a dinner plate, two pieces of pancakes, a bowl of pickles, and a bowl of mutton soup with green onions floating on it.
Su Ce sat behind the table. Li Huaimin put down the plate, and Su Ce picked it up to eat and drink. After eating, Su Ce seemed to have thought of something, and went to the right hall. Chief Shi Zhao Yu was eating at this time. Su Ce waved his hand and said: "
You eat your food, there is something you need to do!"
Zhao Yu swallowed a mouthful of pancake and said, "It's just what the captain ordered!"
"I don't know if you have heard of blindness. The frontier army has been guarding for a long time and cannot see at night. There are only a hundred horses in the pass. Using beans to sprout some sprouts can alleviate the problem. Find someone to do this. In addition, we need to prepare medicine for the wound.
, Find a place with thick soil in the pass to store some vegetables. The Jiuhu people came in a hurry, but they were not in a hurry to fight. Obviously they did not want to lose too many troops, so this battle was fought." Su Ce did not show off, and explained some trivial matters.
, then returned to the backyard to rest.
Although the enemy army was outside Zuowuguan, Su Ce knew that it was still a time for testing between the two sides, so he was not in a hurry. The ones who were anxious should be the Jiuhu people.
This is the stage set up by the old coach Li Sizhe for Su Ce. How he sings this scene and whether he sings it well or not all depends on Su Ce.
Back in the room, Su Ce slept peacefully, but the Protectorate of the Three Passes was extremely busy at this time. The Jiuhu people were blocked at Zuowuguan. The Jiuhu people did not consider bulldozing the low walls on both sides of Zuowuguan.
Going south around the pass, this scene requires the stage of the Protectorate of the Three Passes.
Gongsun Zong, the Protector of the Three Passes, dispatched eight thousand Shouchu Lang from four Shouchuo cities, one on the left, two on the right, and two on the right, together with 10,000 troops from the 20,000 elite troops of his headquarters, to station in the south of the valley and look for stones to build walls on the spot. At the same time, the previous
Some of the craftsmen who built Sanguan still had not returned to their jobs, and were temporarily recruited to dig soil and build kilns in the south of the valley to bake city bricks.
Gongsun Zong knew that this move would block the last hope of the Jiuhu people to go south, but the duty of the Sanguan Protectorate was to prevent the Jiuhu from crossing the Langyan Mountains.
The siege of Zuowuguan can be said to be a border provocation, and the crossing of the mountain is a war. There has been no expedition for three years, the military has been suppressed, and the court has been reshuffled. But this is not a change of power in the military. Those in the early years of the prosperous period have experienced the war.
The old coaches are getting old, and the most capable Li Sizhe is now nearly 60 years old.
If the old commander does not retire, how can the young generals in the army ascend to the throne?
The younger generation of the other five armies are still under the fifth rank. After three years of non-conquest, it will be a war that will destroy the country. The young generals have not experienced many fierce battles, how can they shoulder the heavy responsibilities of the army.
Gongsun Zong had already received the news that Zuo Wuguan was besieged. He thought that in the morning he would see that the guards who had been serving him for many years had all turned gray. After this term was completed, it was time for the horses to be released to Nanshan. The generals took off their armor, put on their court uniforms and went to the court to "fight".
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