Li Mengxi couldn't help but frown. How fragile is a trench bridge in the face of fire?

Also, hey, fire attack is actually a very effective way to defend the city.

What are the weapons used by the defenders to defend the city? Crossbows, fallen rocks, and gold juice.

However, it seems that these three methods sometimes cannot completely block the enemy's attack under the city.

As for fire, when Li Mengxi was a child, he had the experience of lighting up other people's wheat straw piles. Good guy, if the wheat straw pile is a little small, the fire will burn so loudly that no one can stand several meters away, and the heat wave will burn people's hair.

If there is a large number of enemy troops gathered under the city, the enemy troops are wearing thick armor and the shield formation is dense, then the bows and crossbows are useless, the falling rocks are useless, and the effect of gold juice is limited.

Seeing that this large group of soldiers is about to board the city, what should we do?

At this time, setting fire may have miraculous effects.

A large pile of firewood, as big as a wheat straw pile, was thrown at the foot of a certain siege ladder, and the fire started roaring. No matter who the soldier was, he had to retreat for two minutes, and his armor would be roasted red.

When firewood is burning, it is the best way to interrupt the enemy's attack rhythm.

No elite soldier can withstand the fire, not even Lu Bu.

Furthermore, a large amount of firewood was piled up and burning under the city, and the siege ladders were also made of wood. Wouldn't they be easily burned?

Because of the fire, Li Mengxi suddenly realized that neither the siege ladder nor the trench bridge could be easily destroyed by fire.

During the siege, once the siege equipment is damaged, the siege rhythm will be interrupted. Once the rhythm is interrupted, our army's previous efforts will be wasted, and it will become a fuel tactic, and the casualties will inevitably increase greatly.

So, if the defenders are attacked by fire and throw a lot of firewood from the top of the city, how should the swordsmen and shield soldiers under my city protect themselves?

Li Mengxi couldn't figure it out and asked Guan Yu.

Guan Yu pondered for a moment and said, "Open the fire. When the firewood is not piled up, as long as you open it in time, the fire will not break out."

Oh, that is, to remove the fuel from the bottom of the cauldron.

If you throw firewood at the top of the city, just pick it up and throw it aside.

The key lies in this [open], the key lies in this [side].

How do you open up a large bundle of burning firewood? The short ring-shaped sword in the sword and shield man's hand is of no use when trying to separate the firewood.

The flames of a burning bundle of firewood are several feet long, but the knife is too short and burns your hands, so you need a weapon.

However, when ants attack a city, long weapons cannot be used when climbing the ladder, and they cannot be used when climbing to the top of the city. They are not as light and easy to use as swords and shields.

Just to fetch firewood, the attackers had to abandon their swords and bring their guns. Li Mengxi felt that this was a small gain at a loss.

Guan Yu frowned and thought for a while, "It won't work with a gun...a short gun. I can't afford it, so I have to hook it. Short Ge? How about Short Ge?"

Guan Yu looked at Li Mengxi and said, "The short sword is slightly longer than the sword. It can hook and cut. When we go to the city to fight, it will not be unable to use it."

Moreover, if there is a fire attack on me from the top of the city, the sword can be hooked and hung. If one person holds a short sword and hooks the edge of the bundle of firewood and pulls it, the fire can be stopped."

When Guan Yu said this, Li Mengxi remembered that not all sword and shield warriors in the army had a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. In the past, when the equipment was not very sufficient, there were many sword and shield warriors, some of whom were good at halberds and some with short swords. Li Mengxi felt that the armaments were not enough.

Unification and promotion have unified the armaments. Nowadays, sword and shield warriors almost have swords and shields in their hands.

Unexpectedly, this was unnecessary.

Swords and shields are good, and unification of armaments is good, but this does not mean that a short sword with a shield and a hand halberd with a shield are not as good as a sword and shield.

Thinking about it now, the hand halberd and the tango might be more powerful than the sword and shield in hand-to-hand combat. The sword and shield can also hit, cut and stab. However, the hand halberd and the shield can not only hit, cut and stab, but also hook the opponent.

The shield can draw away the opponent's shield, and can also block enemy weapons.

Li Mengxi didn't quite understand why there were hand halberds and short swords among the Han armaments. He thought they were complicated and urged rectification.

However, now I understand that the existence is reasonable. As a dynasty with abundant military virtues, the Han Dynasty had a complete armament system and developed tactics. Since the Han armament retains short swords and hand halberds, it means that they have been tested by long wars and are reliable weapons.

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Take the short sword as an example. When attacking a city, throwing bundles of firewood at the top of the city and dragging them with the sword is much more troublesome?

Li Mengxi can even think of other uses of the short Ge. When climbing a ladder, the Ge is hooked on the ladder to borrow strength to climb up. When climbing mountains and valleys, the Ge is like a mountaineering ax, hooking on trees and vines to facilitate the use of strength.

Weapons actually also have the function of tools.

Li Mengxi realized that complete unification of military equipment may not be entirely a good thing. Because different weapons always have different functions, and the situations faced on the battlefield are too complex. The army is equipped with many types of weapons and has strong ability to deal with complex situations. On the contrary,

, the types of weapons are single, and the ability to deal with complex situations is insufficient.

It seems that the siege sword and shield warriors cannot all be just sword and shield warriors. They must be equipped with some short sword shield soldiers and halberd shield soldiers. These soldiers with special armaments can be used when the enemy at the top of the city throws fire bundles down.

You can use the short sword to quickly remove the fire bundle and move the fire bundle aside.

The question comes again, move the fire bundle [to one side], where to move it?

When attacking a city, siege ladders were set up all over the enemy city, one after another. Under the city, there were soldiers surrounding the siege ladders waiting to climb up the ladders. Fire was dropped from the top of the city, but there were people on the left and right, so the fire was not moved.

Space.

When we talked about trench bridges just now, we mentioned that trench bridges should not be completely covered with trenches, because if rocks fall and accumulate, the trench bridges will be crushed.

Therefore, it is best to leave gaps for clearing obstacles in trench bridges.

Now that he encountered a bundle of fire and had nowhere to move, Li Mengxi immediately thought of a solution.

Like the trench bridge, the siege ladder also has gaps.

As for how many siege ladders should be built together and how far away the clusters of siege ladders should be from each other, Li Mengxi didn't know. He had to design it carefully.

There should be enough space between the clusters of siege ladders. In this way, if the bundle of fire is dropped from the top of the city, the swordsman and shield warrior can directly use the short sword to hook the bundle of fire to the open space on the side, allowing him to burn it without burning our troops.

It seems that when attacking a city, our attackers also need to have space to move around.

The attack and defense of trench bridges, fire attack, and fire defense attack are all considered.

There is no other oversight.
Chapter completed!