Li Jing pondered for a few breaths. To be honest, if it were him, using terrain like Yangping Pass to lure the enemy deep would be his choice.
However, Li Jing soon shook his head and said that luring the enemy deep into the enemy's territory was a method that must not be used. Whenever a strategy is used, it is basically impossible to achieve an effective breakthrough on the frontal battlefield. If it is overwhelming on the frontal battlefield, then it is still possible.
What strategy is needed?
If the plan succeeds, the gains will naturally be huge. However, if it fails, the losses will be heavy. Therefore, most famous generals focus on good and use surprise as a supplement. When they have to, for example, when they are at a disadvantage in terms of military strength
Only when you are at an absolute disadvantage will you use unexpected tricks to win.
Yangping Pass is in such a situation. It is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of military strength. Don't forget that in addition to Li Jing and Feng Yi at Yangping Pass, there are also Wang Jian and Chang Yuchun's troops to the east.
With this disparity in strength, he would definitely not be able to defeat him in a head-on battle. For all famous generals, it is basically time to make surprising moves at this time.
However, the situation here at Yangping Pass is different. The presence of this dangerous pass is enough to help them find out a large part of their military disadvantage. Even if Li Jing is confident that he can still defeat this kind of pass, it will definitely be more difficult than usual.
It takes a long time.
Thinking about it, if the enemy general has some confidence in himself, he will definitely focus on guarding the pass in the early stage. If he persists until reinforcements arrive before the pass is destroyed, it will be a great victory for the Yizhou Army.
But if the Yizhou Army failed to hold Yangping Pass before reinforcements arrived, at this time, under such circumstances, Li Jing believed that it was time to use some strategies.
Therefore, if you think about it carefully, the enemy may use a trick to lure them, but now is far from the time.
"Li Cunxu, Li Siyuan, Dou Rong, Zhang Xutuo, and Deng Qiang! I will give each of you 30,000 soldiers and horses. Each of you will attack for two hours, and you will take turns to attack. I have only one request, which is to ensure that the soldiers on the top of the city are not allowed to attack.
Have a moment of rest!”
Li Jing made a decision in his mind, so he simply showed his military strength openly. He let the soldiers in Shu see the iron blood of my northern man, and also let them see the consequences of disobeying the heavenly army!
Moreover, it is definitely impossible to attack Shuzhong without making sacrifices. What's more, time is running out now, so Li Jing will fight a fierce battle as soon as he takes action.
Five people, each attacking for two hours, is ten hours. However, there are only twelve hours in a day.
Although there is still a gap of two hours, theoretically the Shu army can indeed rest for two hours. However, for these famous generals, it is the gap of these two hours that makes the opponent more and more desperate.
"The general has received the order and will never give the soldiers in Guanzhong a moment's respite!" Li Cunxu was overjoyed and was the first to agree. He rode his horse to the front of the formation, stabbed the sky with the long sword at his waist, and let out a long shout, as loud as thunder.
The sound echoed in front of the pass, "Thunderbolt camp, attack the city!"
On the wall of the pass, Yu Hualong suddenly turned pale, holding the handle of his gun tightly with both hands, wishing he could immediately rush down to the pass to compete with those famous generals of the Jin army.
Thunder Camp, this is the name of the Jin Army's siege equipment unit. The Jin Army's artillery tactics have long been famous throughout the world. In every siege battle, the overwhelming flying rocks will become a nightmare for the party being attacked by the Jin Army.
"Don't worry, don't disturb me! The enemy will never have that many catapults!" Dai Tuo patted Yu Hualong on the shoulder and said calmly.
Every prince has such a thing as a catapult, but why are the catapults of the Jin army the most powerful? It is because they have an absolute numerical advantage. In order to win a battle, thousands of catapults are used.
This is not something that any prince except Li Xiang is qualified to come up with alone.
However, some siege equipment, including catapults, are large on the ninth floor and above. On the road from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, it is impossible to use them in large quantities with the quality of the roads here. Therefore, Dai Tuo had already expected that,
The number of catapults this time will definitely not be large.
Of course, if Tuo Tuo and the others are not mistaken, Li Jing's army definitely has a large number of craftsmen. Although Li Jing cannot directly transport large quantities of finished siege equipment due to the road conditions here, there will definitely be craftsmen.
It was built on the spot. Any famous general would probably adopt this approach.
However, it takes time to build siege equipment. Li Jing's troops have just arrived. Of course, it cannot be completed in a day or two. Even if there are sufficient manpower, it will take a month or two.
normal.
"Come forward, Chunnu!" Dai Tuo suddenly waved his hand.
As the voice fell, there was a "crack, click, click" gasp and the sound of the wheels pressing against the ground from behind Dai Tuo.
Everyone followed the sound and looked back, and saw more than a thousand soldiers in the pass pushing and carrying thirty or fifty "bed crossbows" that they had never seen in their lives. They walked into the pass and walked up the city wall in front of them.
This bed crossbow is indeed a bed crossbow, but it was simply modified by Tuo Tuo to have a certain protection against catapult bombardment.
These huge bed crossbows that were brought up were about eight feet high and one foot long and wide. They were combined with the base of the bed crossbow and the siege vehicle.
The tops of these giant bed crossbows were covered with two layers of thick linoleum, but the middle was hollowed out and two normal bed crossbows were placed side by side, and four wheels were placed under the base for propulsion. As for the soldiers
Then they all stayed under the linoleum behind the crossbows. This not only ensured the distance of the attack, but also greatly improved the safety of the soldiers.
When all the big crossbows "mounted" on the top of the city and exposed their sharp teeth to stomp the arrows, the soldiers on the top of the city cheered.
Li Cunxu smiled coldly, and a spear in his hand flashed through the air with a flash of lightning before suddenly falling to the ground. How could you resist our pace just by relying on your improvised slightly larger bed crossbow? Did you do it last night?
You haven't woken up from an erotic dream, right?
"put!"
The words fall!
Stone out!
The tight reins in the hands of hundreds of engineering soldiers suddenly loosened as Li Cunxu screamed, more than seventy trebuchets screamed at the same time, hundreds of boulders suddenly rose into the air, and then flew toward Yangping Pass like a swarm of locusts.
Although the screams of more than seventy trebuchets at the same time were not small, they were nothing compared to the Jin army's offensives in the past.
Hundreds of catapults were mobilized, and sometimes even thousands of catapults were mobilized. The largest one mobilized 3,000 catapults.
In comparison, it is indeed drizzle now.
This time, in order to make up for the lack of firepower, Li Jing added a full 15,000 archers in addition to the 30,000 siege troops.