September 13th, the day after Liu Xiang led his army to Zhuoxian County.
Yan Gang led the guard camp with 6,000 people and 10,000 militiamen. He left the camp at Chenshi and rushed to Fangcheng County. Fangcheng had sent reinforcements before and suffered heavy losses. It is estimated that there are not many defenders left. The purpose of sending troops this time is to capture this city. City, cut off the wings of Zhuoxian, and open the passage to Anci.
There are nearly 80,000 civilians in the camp, and 60,000 of them are going to be moved to Anci County. It is better to send them away early. There is no need to stay here. Once you go to Anci County, you can transport food from Yuyang County, shortening the time The supply distance is convenient for relief.
Seeing Wang Xingxian's panic, Liu Xiang allocated another 20,000 militiamen to him and continued to build seven-shooter cannons. There was no limit to the number. They could build as many as they could. Now they had the manpower.
Only 300 were built before, because Wang Xing only considered the battlefield of Zhuoxian, and he thought it was enough. But Liu Xiang was thinking about the future battle situation in Beixin City, and he needed more trebuchets.
The light vehicle battalion also sent an additional 10,000 militiamen, led by 2,000 veterans, to learn how to operate trebuchets. After training, these people can probably operate a thousand seven-shooter cannons, and they will become artillery in the future.
Leaving two military marquises to guard the camp, Liu Xiang led 12,000 infantry and 2,000 crossbowmen from the Shesheng Battalion and rushed towards Xixiang City.
Xixiang City is a rural marquis fief, with less than a thousand households, and is under the jurisdiction of Zhuo County. There is currently no marquis edict.
The twentieth-level military title of the Han Dynasty is the marquis, and the marquis is divided into three levels. From low to high, they are Tinghou, Xianghou, and County Marquis. He is called Wanhu Hou.
Xixiang City is less than twenty miles away from Zhuoxian County. When an army attacks Zhuoxian County, it can attack from the side and harass the attacking army's food routes. Unfortunately, Wen Shu did not dare to leave the city, and the Anping army's food and grass were also robbed on the spot. The powerful landowners who plundered had no food channels at all, and the role of Xixiang was useless.
I didn't know who had a bag on the head before, so I had to transfer the defenders of Xixiang City to Zhuoxian County, but they were raided and suffered heavy losses.
So, it's pretty empty now.
It's not Liu Xiang's style not to take advantage of others' opportunities, and he would also be sorry for the great gifts given by others.
At noon, the army rushed to the foot of Xixiang City. The small rammed earth city with a circumference of less than three miles stood there quietly, like a helpless little lady, making people want to punch her.
Sure enough, he fell down with one punch.
Liu Xiang did not bring a ladder, but only pulled a large number of oars and pushed them towards the city. The crossbowmen suppressed the few defenders on the city. The infantry did not fill the river at all. There were more than a dozen trenches and bridges, and in a moment They crossed the moat and climbed up the city directly using the flying ladder. The people on the city resisted for less than a stick of incense before abandoning their weapons and surrendering.
There were less than 500 defenders in total, and there were only 5,000 or 6,000 people in the city. The young men refused to go to the city, and the villagers took the lead in resisting. The locals had no choice but to defend the city.
He was born in the Zou family and would rather die than surrender to Liu Xiang, and eventually died on the city wall.
In order to appease the people of Xixiang, Liu Xiang announced that Xixiang Qiangfu had meritorious service, promoted him to be a thief, and led three hundred young men to guard Xixiang and capture the bandits.
There are not many wealthy and powerful families in Xixiang, and there are a few big landlords who have already fled.
Liu Xiang wanted to recruit troops and divide the fields in Zhuo County, starting with Xixiang.
That night, when he returned to the Zhuoxian military camp, he brought back 800 Xixiang militiamen.
After capturing Xixiang City and eliminating the threat on the flanks, the next eye-catching place is the camp on the south bank of Taoshui.
"Wang Xing, do you want to try the power of the car camp?"
Wang Xing was extremely excited and said nonchalantly: "My lord, I have wanted to try it for a long time, but there are not enough soldiers to transport the chariot camp. When I saw Zhuo County using carts to set up camp in Taoshui, I thought, this
The car camp is very useful, I have been thinking about it for several days.”
He slapped his thigh and continued: "Remembering the story that my lord told about Wei Qing's formation of chariots to defeat the enemy when he was building Wugang chariots, I started to try it. After several attempts, I found that the defense was strongest when using oars and chariots in series.
, the current oar-car joint operation was created. In order to solve the problem of the joint operation being clumsy, a shaft was added so that the cart could be pulled by oxen, and it became a mobile car camp."
Before he finished speaking, he asked proudly: "Master, am I smart?"
"Yes, yes, you are very smart. You are the modern Crouching Dragon and Phoenix."
Wang Xing didn't hear Liu Xiang's teasing, and accepted the compliment happily. He laughed and said: "My lord, that's too much praise. I can't bear such a big name as Wolong Fengchu. I can't bear it. I can't bear it."
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"Send out the troops tomorrow. You will lead the left army's five thousand soldiers out. I will allocate twenty thousand spearmen to you, transport the chariot camp, and set up a formation at the north gate of Zhuo County. If the defenders of Zhuo County leave the city, try your chariot.
The power of the camp.”
"Tomorrow, my lord, I will watch someone kill an enemy!" Wang Xing was eager to give it a try.
On the second day, cook rice at Mao hour and leave the camp at Chen hour.
Liu Xiang ordered the establishment of artillery arrays on the east and south sides of Zhuo County. Each artillery array deployed seven cannons and 140 guns. Thirty-five thousand people were dispatched to carry them. It took an hour to install them. The light vehicle battalion
One thousand veterans led nine thousand militiamen to operate.
Practical combat is the best way to learn.
The artillery array was surrounded by a guard camp of 6,000 infantry soldiers.
The Xiaoqi battalion was on standby in the rear formation, and the Yueqi were traveling around the city.
The remaining 1,000 veterans of the light vehicle camp are to lead 1,000 militiamen, transport 20 seven-shooter artillery and 150 single-shooter artillery carriages, and accompany the army to attack the enemy camp in the north of the city.
Liu Xiang wanted to demolish this camp and turn Zhuoxian into an isolated city.
For this purpose, eighteen thousand infantry, two thousand crossbowmen, and two thousand chariots were invested, twice the number of enemy troops in the camp.
When the artillery formation was established, Wang Xing had already led the left army and 20,000 militiamen carrying shuttles and holding spear throwers to drive
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He sent a thousand pack horses to pull the oar cart to the north gate of Zhuoxian County.
There are a thousand oars, and the large oars on the vehicles are one foot wide and one foot three high. They can form a carriage camp with a circumference of five miles, which is larger than the average small town.
The oars and carts are connected in series with wrist-thick straw ropes, and reinforced with multiple thumb-thick hemp ropes. Such soft ropes can have a certain degree of flexibility, making it easier to advance and change formations.
Eight door bolts and limiting wood are installed behind the big oar. When the formation is set up, the door bolts can be inserted with the two adjacent oar cars like a gate. When people are supported behind, the cattle cannot knock them open.
Unless the enemy uses a crash car, it will be difficult to break through the defense. However, the speed of the crash car is too slow. Once the crash car is in place, the car camp can be dismantled and run away.
Because the chariot camps can be assembled at will according to the terrain and battle conditions, like building blocks, to form various formations. Now Wang Xing has only developed the square formation, Xuanxiang formation, wild goose formation, and crane wing formation.
Give him time, and he'll probably come up with a lot of wonderful ideas.
After the car camp is spliced, you can still advance. If you want to retreat, you only need to change the direction of the packhorse. If you form a separate small formation, you can also turn forward and cover each other to achieve the purpose of wheel battle.
After arriving at the battlefield, the chariot camp began to set up a formation, spread out along the Zhuoxian city wall, forming a formation two miles long and half a mile wide.
A hundred steps away from the Zhuoxian city wall, waiting for the movement of the city's defenders.
Liu Xiang is looking forward to the actual combat effect of this thing. It must not be just a fake.
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