The most stressful part of a siege is the small area at the top of the city.

After the Battle of Wen'an County, Liu Bei and Li Mengxi took advantage of the city wall to practice offensive and defensive tactics. At that time, it was concluded that when attacking the city, the location of the stairs behind the city should be staggered, because if our soldiers climbed up here,

The city will face siege from enemies on three sides, from the left and right and from the stairwell. Since it is close to the stairwell, enemy reinforcements will arrive quickly, making it difficult for our attackers to advance.

Therefore, the main attack point of the siege should avoid the stairs behind the city.

The best siege point should be the corner of the city wall, because...

Liu Bei and Li Mengxi both looked along the city wall to the corner of the city wall. They saw the tall arrow tower standing at the corner of the city wall!

Liu Bei and Li Mengxi were stunned for a while. They looked up at the arrow tower from left to right, feeling confused and puzzled for a long time.

It's like a retarded person whose database is incomplete, and then the computer crashed when it scanned something unfamiliar.

After a while, Liu Bei and Li Mengxi turned around and looked at each other, their tacit understanding unspoken.

"Oh," Li Mengxi looked up at Liu Bei and suddenly said, "It turns out that there is an arrow tower at the corner of the city wall!"

Earlier, Wen'an County deduced offensive and defensive tactics. Wen'an County was a small city with no arrow towers at the corners of the city walls. Therefore, Li Mengxi quickly discovered that attacking the corner of the city wall would, firstly, bear the lowest density of arrow rain for the siege team. Secondly,

, after jumping to the corner of the city wall, the enemy troops around the siege soldiers are far less than the enemy troops in the middle of the city wall.

To simplify the comparison, take fighting as an example. When fighting, you can avoid attacks from behind by leaning your back against the wall, and you can deal with enemies from one less direction.

The position of the city wall corner is equivalent to being close to the wall, which can also reduce attacks from one direction. If you climb to the left city wall corner, you will not have to face attacks from the right. If you climb to the right city wall corner, you will not have to face attacks from the left.

The corner of the city wall is undoubtedly the weakest point in defense.

However, now that he saw the arrow tower standing at the corner of the city wall in front of him, Li Mengxi realized that the ancients also knew that the defensive power of the city wall corner was insufficient, and invented the arrow tower as a supplementary means.

If the siege team attacks the center of the city wall, there is no doubt that they will withstand overlapping attacks from the front and left and right crossbows, and will withstand the densest rain of arrows.

However, when the siege team attacks the corner of the city wall, it can only withstand the arrow rain from the front and one flank, and the density of the enemy's arrow rain is greatly reduced.

This is when the enemy city has no arrow tower.

But when an arrow tower stood at the corner of the enemy city, the situation changed.

In the square inch of space at the corner of the city, there are several layers of arrow towers, and crossbowmen can be stationed on each layer, which can increase the troop density at the corner of the city wall several times.

At this time, the siege team attacked again from the corner of the city. Although there was less arrow rain from the flanks, there was more arrow rain from the heights of the arrow tower. At this point in the city corner, the density of the arrow rain was no longer weak.

After the siege team steps onto the city from the corner, the siege troops will be besieged again from the left and right due to the presence of the arrow towers in the corners, and the weak troops in the corners of the city will no longer exist.

The addition of the arrow tower instantly changed the defensive structure of the city wall, and the corner of the wall jumped from the weakest position to the strongest position.

Attack and defense have always been integrated. The wisdom of the ancients in building cities is amazing.

Li Mengxi looked at the arrow tower on the city wall for a long time, and he learned new knowledge.

Siege tactics 2.0 update.

The strategy of building and defending the city has been updated to 2.0.

[The purpose of the city corner arrow tower is that the corner is the weak point of the structure, manpower, and arrow rain, and it has also been breached.

In order to solve this shortcoming and enhance the defense of the corner, an arrow tower can be built at the corner.

The arrow tower is several stories high and can hold dozens of crossbows for armored soldiers. It can also be used to collect wooden boulders and gold juice for defense.

As soon as the arrow tower came out, the city was weakened and the situation changed.

If there is no arrow tower in the corner, the corner is the weakest, but the defense in the middle section of the wall is strong; if there is an arrow tower in the corner, the defense in the corner is the strongest, and the defense in the middle section of the wall is also strong, so the city defense is not weak.

Know how to attack a city. If there is an arrow tower at the corner of the enemy city wall, you must use crossbows, trebuchets, rockets, etc. to destroy the arrow tower first, and then attack the corner by force.

As for the way to defend the city, there is an arrow tower in the corner of the wall. When defending the city, you can send more powerful bows and crossbows to the tower. This place is tall and open, and the city wall is more than ten feet high. The tower is high up, so that the power of the bows and crossbows can be used more effectively.

In the middle section of the wall, enemy troops jumped in from time to time, and the crossbowmen in the wall were constantly disturbed and could not fire their arrows at full strength.

On top of the arrow tower, the enemy troops can jump in from the corner. The tower cannot be very high, and the crossbowmen on the tower will not be disturbed and can fire arrows with all their strength.

Regarding the method of building a city, if the city has corners, it is necessary to build arrow towers at the corners. Otherwise, the city defense will be deficient.]

The tactics for attacking and defending the city were updated. After Li Mengxi finished writing, he rolled up the cloth, put away his pen and ink, and looked up again. Looking at the arrow tower of the enemy city in the distance, Li Mengxi frowned slightly.

The defensive holes in the corners of the city wall cannot be exploited, and the main attack point cannot be chosen at the corners. Then we can only attack from the middle of the city.

When attacking the center of the city wall, you should avoid the stairs behind the wall. After looking at the city for a long time, you can't see any stairs behind the wall.

I remembered that during sieges in ancient times, there was a siege equipment specially used for observation - wells.

The well is a large equipment that is very high and can be seen far beyond the enemy city. The biggest advantage of the well is the height. With the height, the soldiers above the well can see the city clearly, regardless of the enemy's strength.

Movements can be observed, and nature, the structure of the city wall, and where there are stairs behind the wall can also be seen clearly.

In addition to the observation function, the well railing can also be pushed closer to the city wall. The crossbowmen on the well railing can use their height to attack the enemies at the top of the city.

You can even put a board on top of the well to place a bed crossbow.

A crossbow kept firing at the enemy troops at the top of the city. The psychological pressure on the enemies defending the city was extremely high.

In order to understand the structure of the city wall, a well is needed.

Li Mengxi and Liu Bei went to the carpenters' camp together to discuss with the carpenters how to build the well.

The army now has a powerful arms craftsman, who was poached from Dong Zhuo by Lu Zhi's old subordinates.

I learned from the armorer that the well fence requires a lot of wood, which is also labor-intensive and time-consuming.

Wood is not the problem. If it is labor-intensive and time-consuming, Li Mengxi asked, how many hours of wasted labor will be needed?

The armorer meditated for a while, four or five days.

Four or five days is a bit too long, especially now that military supplies are running out.

Li Mengxi frowned. From Li Mengxi's understanding, the greatest use of a well is height, that is, as long as it is high enough.

He looked far away and could still see the outline of the city in the distance, "How about this? Let's build a high shelf, as high as possible, and then find a long bamboo pole with a person tied to it and lift the person up.

, you can also see the city.

Wouldn’t this save a lot of man-hours?”
Chapter completed!