As the sky grew dark, the sun set and the moon rose, Li Xiang ordered the troops to withdraw and return to camp, thus ending the one-day siege.
In just one day today, the Sui army had suffered nearly 6,000 casualties. But on the other hand, the Jin army had only suffered about 1,500 casualties.
As a party attacking the city, it suffered so many fewer casualties than the enemy. This is very unreasonable. The reason for this is because today the Jin army only launched a long-range fire attack and did not start a true siege.
Combat. In a siege, the most serious casualties occur when climbing the city wall.
In today's battle, Li Xiang unswervingly implemented the principle of artillery. He mobilized a huge number of catapults, crossbows, wells and other siege equipment to overwhelm his opponents with the quantitative and qualitative advantages of long-range firepower.
Li Xiang had already planned to attack Yongliang. Therefore, he had already secretly built a batch of large-scale siege equipment. Moreover, since the beginning of the war, he still ordered the rear to continue building siege equipment, just for this day.
Comprehensively suppress the Sui army with long-range firepower, and use the output of siege equipment to take the lead in consuming the Sui army's troops.
However, in today's battle, although Li Xiang's Jin army lost not much troops, it lost a lot of siege equipment. In today's day alone, Li Xiang lost fifty wells, eighty catapults, and one hundred catapults.
Fifty crossbows. On the other hand, the Sui army's equipment losses were only slightly more than half of the Jin army's.
However, despite this, Li Xiang, Bai Qi, Su Lie and others were not dissatisfied at all. The number of a series of equipment of the Jin army was far greater than that of the Sui army, and the Jin army could also get supplements from the rear. But the Sui army
Once military equipment is destroyed, it is truly gone.
In Chang'an City.
When Yang Jian saw the comparison of casualties between the two sides today, he became furious and cursed Yang Su, Yang Lin, Zhang Xutuo and others for being useless and being beaten so badly even while defending the city.
The casualties of six thousand soldiers were indeed not much compared to the total strength of the Sui army. But this was only one day. If the casualties continued at this rate, wouldn't it mean that after more than ten days, they would be naked?
Commander?
At that time, if the Jin army attacks again, what will they use to resist, and what strength will they have to resist?
Below, several generals in command knew that they had indeed fought badly in today's battle, and they did not dare to say anything, so they could only suffer there.
Especially for Yang Lin, more than half of the 6,000 casualties appeared in the west city owned by him. Mainly because he was absent in the early stage, Bai Qi took a big advantage.
In fact, now that the battle has ended like this, these people are full of helplessness. The Jin army has too many siege equipment, and there is no way to suppress them all. Even a few of them were almost killed today.
Hit by falling rocks.
"Lord, the enemy's siege equipment is too sharp. If this continues, our army may eventually be unable to resist it!" Yang Su said with an extremely ugly face.
After all, among the four generals Yang Su, Yang Lin, Yang Yichen, and Zhang Xutuo, three of them were from the same Hongnong Yang family as Yang Jian. Therefore, Yang Su just said it directly without paying too much attention to anything.
"Then our army will continue to build it!" Yang Jian said fiercely after thinking for a while.
"Our army has accumulated some supplies before, and the dozens of aristocratic families we killed before have demolished their houses. I don't believe we can't build a batch of catapults! If it's not enough, then
Demolish my palace too!" Yang Jian said firmly.
Obviously, Yang Jian also knew very well that the reason why they suffered so many casualties today was because they were too suppressed by other people's siege equipment. If they want to turn the situation around, they must increase the number of catapults, bed crossbows and other equipment.
Chang'an City, as the imperial capital, naturally has no shortage of ordnance that can make catapults and bed crossbows. What they lack is the resources to manufacture these things. After all, Chang'an City is only one city after all, and all kinds of resources are limited.
Although Yang Jian had stored some of it, it was definitely not enough. Therefore, Yang Jian took the idea of the mansions of the aristocratic families that he had destroyed before. By demolishing them, he could build many catapults.
Of course, there was actually another way, which was to go out of the city for a sneak attack and burn the Jin army's siege equipment, but everyone subconsciously avoided this.
There are elite soldiers and generals gathered outside the city, and the commanders of the other side are not vegetarians. If you are not careful in a sneak attack outside the city, not only will you not be able to burn down the opponent's siege equipment, but you will suffer heavy losses, which is not helpful to the current situation.
"Lord, you must not do it!" After hearing that Yang Jian wanted to demolish his palace, everyone couldn't help but became anxious, and immediately said, "Lord, if you want to demolish it, you must demolish our palace first!"
When they thought that it was now time to demolish their lord's palace, all the generals didn't know what it was like. After all, if they weren't incompetent, why would they be in this situation.
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On the city wall at night, except for some of the soldiers who had to stay on guard, the rest of the Sui army fell asleep. They had been panicking all day long, fearing that stray arrows or boulders would fall on them.
It's physical and mental fatigue.
The entire city wall looked dead, and except for the snoring sounds, there was no other movement.
That night, when all the soldiers had just fallen asleep, suddenly there was a sound of horns from under the city wall, followed by a hail of arrows, and then there was a cry of killing, which shook the whole country.
"Enemy attack... Enemy attack..."
"The Jin army came to attack the city again..."
With the sound of panic, the tired Sui soldiers suddenly woke up, grabbed the weapons around them and subconsciously stood up, but the rain of arrows falling in the darkness killed countless unlucky people.
"Don't mess up, don't mess up. Follow your officers closely, don't mess up, the archers will start shooting again." A man dressed as a general kicked away the thick quilt covering his body, his eyes were red, and he shouted loudly
.
After all, this man is a general. Although he is guarding the city wall, he has a thick quilt. But those ordinary soldiers do not have this kind of treatment. In the winter, only two or three people can share one
An old quilt. Even some unlucky soldiers didn't even have these, so they could only huddle together to keep each other warm.
Following the general's call and the general's presence, the soldiers who had been in chaos slowly began to regain their composure, and began to follow closely the commanders, commanders, team leaders and other officers at all levels, and looked for bunkers to avoid arrows.
rain.
The archers also began to bend their bows and set arrows. However, in this dark night, the soldiers of both the Jin Army and the Sui Army only fired arrows based on their feelings. Only the unlucky ones were really hit.