This is a projectile strike. There are six rows of Song Army soldiers at Qingping Pass. Every other row is divided into a group of three rows. In this way, there are two groups of people, one group is designing, and the other is winding. They must be rotated according to the command.
mistaken!
The military orders were like mountains. Under Ye An's training and command, the shooting gap was adjusted to the fastest, and the number of people was also adjusted to the best. If the city wall of Xipingguan could accommodate it, it would be best to have three rows of three consecutive attacks.
In this way, the speed of accumulating arrows will definitely be improved to a higher level, so that the physical consumption of soldiers will be reduced exponentially.
Since ancient times, attacking a city has not been an easy task. In contrast, passes are more difficult to conquer than cities because they do not need to shoulder too many urban functions. On the contrary, defense is its main job.
There are not that many private houses in the city, just some simple houses used to house the people near the pass to prevent them from being massacred by foreigners.
Therefore, Qingpingguan is easier to defend than ordinary military villages, military towns, and cities, and the burden on you is smaller.
Tens of thousands of Western Qiang rebels are outside Qingping Pass, and everyone inside the pass has been mobilized. Even the Han people hiding here are shuttled through the city to transport supplies and help prepare logistics.
Ye An even saw children helping to carry arrows and even rolling stones and wood in the adults' team, but in the eyes of the adults, these children were no longer "children".
The constant accumulation of arrows by soldiers on the city wall consumes a lot of arrows, and the specifications of crossbow arrows and bow arrows are not the same. Crossbow arrows are shorter but stronger, while bow arrows are slender but very flexible. The two are not universal.
On the one hand, there is a lot of consumption, and on the other hand, there is a need for a lot of replenishment. Fortunately, there is a considerable reserve of arrows in Qingping Pass, about 100,000 rounds, including 40,000 crossbow arrows and 60,000 bow arrows. But even this reserve is not enough for consumption.
It was still not enough for the amazing Song Army.
The only way is to use and manufacture at the same time, and there is no shortage of wood in Qingping Pass. Even if the woods in front are burned down, there are a lot of woods to the north of Qingping Pass.
That's right, Qingping Pass is located in the valley of Jiulian Mountain. The geographical location like Hangu Pass makes it a pass rather than a city. What you need to worry about is only the enemies on the opposite side, not the enemies behind you.
In Sha Wentian's words, unless the reinforcements from the Western Qiang in Qinggang Gorge were killed, Qingping Pass only had to resist the Western Qiang tribes in front of them.
The topography of Jiulian Mountain is very strange. Before Qingping Pass, there was only a forest that was burned by the Xiqiang people in the previous battle. But behind the pass is Jiulian Mountain, with lush trees and no shortage of wood.
This also caused the troops of the Western Qiang tribes to be unable to obtain enough wood to make siege equipment. "Mozi: Preparing the City Gate" records that "if the people's houses are equipped with wood, tiles, and stones, they can prepare the city.
Order to kill!"
Therefore, long before Ye An arrived, Sha Wentian had already demolished all the buildings and villages outside the pass, transported the wood to the interior of the pass, and moved the people here.
If the soldiers and horses of the Western Qiang tribes wanted to make siege equipment, they had to go to places with lush trees to cut and process them. This greatly reduced the threat to Qingping Pass.
In Ye An's view, this is Sha Wentian's ability as a customs guard.
A siege war is a war of attrition, which consumes weapons and human lives. The city wall of Qingpingguan is the real "millstone of flesh and blood" where the Song army and the troops of the Xiqiang tribes launched a life-and-death battle.
This is a war with contradictions inside and outside the high wall, and the outcome is unpredictable. The troops of the Western Qiang tribes have an absolute advantage, but the Song army has the advantage of the terrain and well-trained soldiers, so both sides are equally matched.
The Xiqiang soldiers who advanced in the rain of arrows made shields. These simple shields made of thick wooden boards could effectively protect against arrows flying from the front, but they had little effect on the rain of arrows thrown from the front.
Xiqiang soldiers continued to fall under the dense rain of arrows. Their bodies were dragged forward by their companions and used as shields and sandbags to pile up under the city wall of Qingpingguan. Of course, there were real sandbags among them, but the number was far less than that of the Xiqiang soldiers.
One's own corpse.
Fortunately, Ye An used the captured Xiqiang elites to strengthen the city defense, the most important of which was to heighten the walls. These Xiqiang people may not be good at fighting, but they are good at fighting with their physical strength, and they were able to control Qingpingguan.
The city wall has been reinforced to an impregnable level, and its height has also been greatly increased.
The Xiqiang people finally began to climb the city wall with their numerical advantage, and the war entered a cruel tug-of-war.
No matter how high the city wall is, no matter how fast and dense the arrows are, the Song army still has a fatal problem. The number of people is insufficient. The total number of people on the city wall of Qingpingguan can only be a thousand. This has already preserved the movement line.
No matter how many people there are, the city wall will be overcrowded. This is the most fatal mistake.
In eight days, the Xiqiang people have consumed enough old, weak, sick and disabled people. The current Xiqiang army is almost all young and middle-aged men, and their combat strength is obviously much higher, and those old, weak, sick and disabled people have become the ladder under their feet.
At the same time, during these eight days, the Xiqiang people also transported enough wood from far away to build siege equipment, but the equipment was outrageously crude.
This was not an attack on the city, but an insult to Qingping Pass. Ye An looked at the Xiqiang people on the city wall, which were so simple that they only had ladders and crashed cars. He immediately ordered the defenders on the city wall not to waste the white phosphorus pots in their hands, and again
Wrap it in tarpaulin and soak it in water.
The cloth strip on the earthen jar filled with gasoline was ignited, and then it was thrown fiercely towards the simple crash car at the city gate. The earthenware jar shattered, and the burning cloth strip ignited the spilled gasoline, and everything contaminated for a while
Wrapped in fire.
The dryness of summer caused the fire to spread very quickly. The crash quickly turned into a "train", and the Xiqiang people quickly turned into a "man on fire". As long as it was contaminated by gasoline, it was almost impossible to put it out, especially
On the chaotic battlefield.
Under the burning flames, the Xiqiang people screamed and dispersed, but they did not dare to retreat because the people of the White Horse Tribe had already acted as a killing team, and any deserters would be ruthlessly executed.
Under such high pressure, some Xiqiang people finally climbed onto the city wall of Qingpingguan, which also gave the Xiqiang people hope. They shouted and set up countless ladders, so that the Song army had no time to knock down all the poles.
But when they climbed onto the city wall, they said they were facing something even more terrifying. Soldiers wearing heavy infantry armor wielded huge ring-headed straight knives and slashed down, advancing like a mountain into a wall, crushing the people they had just climbed.
The Xiqiang people from Shangqing Pingguan chopped them down.
Ye An's order to move away was not to make it easier for the Xiqiang people to climb the city wall. On the contrary, it was to leave room for the Song army soldiers to perform and to prevent the soldiers from being pulled down by the Xiqiang people.
The Song army had moved some distance away, so it was naturally able to avoid arrows shot from the bottom up to the greatest extent and avoid casualties.
Facing the Song army, which was armed to the teeth, the Xiqiang people now knew what despair meant. The only thing left behind when their swords struck the thick armor was white marks, while the Song army's ring head was straight. The knife could easily split their leather armor and disembowel them like fish.
The soldiers of the Song Army are growing rapidly, and there is nothing they can do if they don't grow. Now they have reached a life-or-death situation. Any hesitation or retreat will kill themselves and the people around them.
The young soldiers, those with little combat experience, began to chop wildly and mechanically in the blood and fire. They were not replaced until there were no more enemies in front of them. Their eyes and movements had even become numb, but they would soon become stronger under the heavy pressure. He grew into a qualified frontier soldier in the smell of blood.