Chapter 483 Summary of Nanhe Siege Battle (2)
"During the war, I occasionally learned how to shoot a sniper crossbow.
When shooting with a crossbow, the most unfavorable factor affecting shooting accuracy is the shaking of the human hand.
Therefore, if the hand shaking can be reduced, the shooting can be accurate. Therefore, if a person with strong arms has a steady hand and a steady bow, the arrow will be accurate.
If you try to fix the crossbow in one place, you can make the shaking so small that it cannot be stabilized. Therefore, if you use the crossbow for a lifetime, you can be more accurate than the old soldiers.
Therefore, when attacking a city, you can use sniper crossbow rack tactics to make a fixed crossbow rack and mount a powerful crossbow to gain the advantage of accuracy when exchanging fire with the enemy at the top of the city."
"[A strong bow and powerful crossbow will be more accurate than a soft bow and inferior crossbow. Because of the strong bow and powerful crossbow, the arrow must be fast. If the arrow is fast, the arrow path will be straight. If the arrow path is straight, the curvature of the arrow path will be smaller.
If the arc of the path is small, the path will be short. If the path is short, there will be less wind resistance and interference, so the arrow will be more stable and deviate less, so it will be more accurate.
From this we can see that since ancient times, all the masters of archery are people with extraordinary strength, without any exception. Only with great strength can they draw a hard bow, and when the arrow is drawn from a hard bow, the arrow speed can be fast, and if the arrow speed is fast, the arrow can be accurate.
It can be seen from this that the weight assigned to soldiers in the army is slightly insufficient.
In the past, strong men were divided equally between crossbowmen and sword and shield warriors.
Now that I think about it, those who are physically strong should be given priority to join the ranks of strong bows.]"
"[The method of riding a shield and carrying a shield to enhance the defense behind...]"
"[The strict discipline of borrowing firewood from the villagers and leaving money with seals...]"
"[After the city was broken, the city was in chaos, the commander was busy with his affairs, and many of the sergeants needed to see him for advice. In addition, there were many buildings in the city. At this time, the commander's flag was spread high and could not be fully conspicuous.
After Shan Yu broke the city, when the city was in chaos, it was especially important to display the commander's flag. You might as well put the commander's flag on the top of the wall to make it eye-catching.
Furthermore, there are rules for the conduct of the commander after the city is captured. After the city is breached, affairs are complicated. The commander should not move arbitrarily and should be quiet and not move, so as to facilitate the search by the soldiers.]"
"[In open areas, the handsome flag is enough to be eye-catching, but in sheltered places, such as in a city, in a forest, or in a valley. At this time, the city wall, forest, and valley are blocking the way. No matter how high the handsome flag is, it cannot be higher than the wall and forest. At this time, the handsome flag is eye-catching.
Great reduction.
Therefore, one pole with a handsome flag is not enough. You can use several poles from the flag to point with the human stake method.
To point to the flag, it is best to use the Chang'ao. The Chang'o is both a flag and a weapon, so you can make full use of your manpower."
"[The siege soldiers' weapon combination, the siege soldiers all use swords and shields, can't handle the complexity.
Sometimes, bundles of fire were thrown down from the top of the city. At this time, the daggers in the hands of the attackers were not in a position to move the fire.
The best weapon for moving fire is the short sword or the hand halberd. The short sword can be hooked and dragged to move the fire easily.
Moreover, the short sword is light and does not interfere with climbing the ladder. When fighting on the top of the city, the short sword can be used calmly.
Therefore, the sword and shield warriors of the rebel army should use the short sword and hand halberd as their standing weapon.]"
"[Know the fire of the city and abide by the law.
The weapons used to defend the city are crossbows, falling stones, and gold juice. These three things, although crossbows are as fast and dense as rain, they cannot penetrate the shield array. Falling stones can smash the shield array. One falling stone is slow, the other is rare, and the third cannot attack far. As for gold,
The golden juice pours down on the body, and even heavy armor cannot stop it. However, although the golden juice is sharp, it kills slowly. A bucket of golden juice cannot kill one or two people.
If a large army of enemy soldiers has gathered below the city, bows, crossbows, rocks, gold, and liquid will not be able to stop the enemy. The only way to stop the enemy is to use fire.
Bundle up the firewood, light a fire, and then throw it under the siege ladder. One bundle of fire cannot stop the enemy, but ten bundles of fire will cause the fire to become raging.
At this time, no matter how many enemy soldiers there are and no matter how thick the armor is, they cannot get even half a step past the fire wall.
So, the enemy could not be stopped by these three things, such as crossbows, falling stones, and gold juice. He used fire to send thousands of troops under the city. The fire was not extinguished and the enemy could not get even half a step closer to the city.
This is the fire law of guarding the city.
On the contrary, if you attack a city, most of the siege equipment is made of wood and can be defeated by fire. Therefore, fire prevention is the most important thing in siege.
To restrain the enemy's fire attack, there are three methods: weather, time, location, and craftsmanship.
If the weather is right, since ladders and weapons are afraid of fire, why not choose a rainy day to attack the city?
On a rainy day, the enemy's bow string was soaked and unable to fire. The enemy's gold juice was boiled and transported to the top of the city. Halfway through, the gold juice had been cooled by the rain, and because of the heavy rain, he set fire to the attack. The firewood was thrown out and was extinguished. This is the time of day.
The geographical advantage is that trench bridges and siege ladders are arranged in groups of three to five, leaving enough gaps. In this way, if fire is thrown at the top of the city, our siege soldiers can quickly move the fire to the side, so that the fire will not block our siege momentum.
.When our army attacks the city, it is a geographical advantage to leave room for movement.
As for the craftsmanship, for fire protection, siege ladders can be coated with wet mud, and trench bridges can be coated with wet mud, or covered with earth and sand to enhance the fire prevention capabilities of the ladders.]"
"[Methods to improve siege ladders.
The steps of the siege ladder should be narrow, not wide, because like wooden chopsticks, long wooden chopsticks are easy to break.
Therefore, if a siege ladder is made, the steps should be narrow enough for one person to climb.
Furthermore, you can use tree roots to grow wood and make steps. One wood is easy to break, but several trees are strong.
Also, when making a siege ladder, wet wood is better than dry wood, because wet wood is tough and dry wood is fragile.
As for the method of hitting the ladder with falling rocks, it is better to hit the lowest step. Because the city wall is high and the rocks fall fast, they are like thunder and the hits are endless.
However, if the stone is pushed down the ladder, it cannot hit the lower step, so the ladder cannot be damaged.
Therefore, the stone is heavy and cannot be thrown by a person without strong strength. Therefore, a stone throwing tool is needed and will be refined later.
As for the best time for falling rocks to smash the ladder, it is at the moment when the enemy has hung the ladder on top of the city and has not yet climbed the ladder. At this time, there is no one on the ladder and there is no human body to block it, so it is easy for falling rocks to smash the ladder.
Therefore, on the defensive side, the angle of the siege ladder is also straight, and it is not easy to be flat. If it is flat, it will also be hit by falling rocks. If the siege ladder is straight up and down, the falling rocks cannot hit the lower steps. The falling force is insufficient, and the upper steps will not be hit.
It cannot be broken, so the siege ladder is stable.
Furthermore, when attacking a city, as soon as the ladder is set up, you need to climb it immediately to prevent falling rocks.]"
"[How to protect gold juice with a bucket hat, bucket hat helmet, Fan Yangli.]"
"[The army needs to be equipped with whetstones.]"
"[Siege Vertebra, the siege vertebra hammer head can be sharpened to increase the effectiveness of breaking the door.
The attack vertebra hits the edge of the door on one side to break the door the fastest.
Furthermore, the city gate is tall, but the siege vertebra is low. If the hammer head of the siege vertebra is higher, it will be closer to the door bolt at the back of the door, making it easier to break the door.]"
Lots and lots of things, countless gains after the war, all sorted out.
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The main tent of the Chinese army was quiet. Liu Bei was afraid that others would disturb Li Mengxi, so he specifically asked others not to enter.
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In the evening of that day, the offensive and defensive tactics were perfected and recorded. Each team of the Qingjin soldiers restarted their formation training. The prisoners were divided into battalions of 2,000 people. All kinds of loaded trucks were captured and packed.
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The grave pit should be dug together.
In this battle, the rebels suffered casualties of more than 400 soldiers. All of these 400 soldiers were soldiers. If they had been replaced by ordinary civilians, the casualties would have been several times higher.
In the past two days, some people died of serious injuries and others who could not survive the battle died. The total death toll of the rebels exceeded two hundred.
In the evening, the soldiers in the army gathered together and made 234 thin wooden coffins. To build these coffins, the carpenter camp worked almost all night for the past two days, and finally managed to make more than 200 crude and crude coffins.
During the pre-battle reward promotion, during the section of appreciating life and commemorating death, Liu Xuande personally promised that if he died during the siege, he would be buried with generous coffins and worshiped at all times.
Since he agreed at that time, Liu Bei was determined not to break his promise to the dead and had to build the coffin.
It is said that the one-day suspension of troops is for military training, but in fact it is also for waiting for the coffin to be completed.
The rebels now have abundant materials, manpower and craftsmen. Although the thin coffin is just a drawer-like box nailed to some wood, it is not easy to make more than two hundred such boxes.
There was a burial pit in the south of the city. Under the witness of the whole army, the soldiers carried the coffins and lowered them into the earth. They buried the soldiers who died in the battle one by one, then filled them with earth and built the graves one after another.
In front of each tomb, there are tombstones with the names of the soldiers written on them.
The cemetery was a good choice. Although the pit was not deep, it was regular. Although the tomb was not large, it was well built. Although the tombstone was made of wood, it was made of fine pine. The calligraphy on the tombstone was also beautiful.
Nowadays, the world is not good. Soldiers often see hasty burials and people die on the roadside with no one caring about them. Seeing the neat and beautiful tombs and the many soldiers, they are actually very satisfied.
This was an unintentional and heart-warming move.
Liu Xuande, a distinguished scholar before the war, said that war dead should be buried in generous coffins. Liu Xuande was serious about it. If he had enough time and money, he would really build a larger tomb and use fine wood to make a huge coffin.
But Li Mengxi would not be like this. He said that if he wanted to pay too much for the dead, he would not want to. Li Mengxi knew that it was meaningless to spend too much money on the dead. It was better to spend money on the living.
After the rebels' own dead soldiers were buried, there were also hundreds of corpses of the Yellow Turban Army. In the north of the city, there was also a cemetery with one grave for each person, and there were also grave mounds. They were just hasty, the grave pits were dug in a messy way, and the grave mounds were also messy.
According to Liu Bei's words, he must be buried in peace and his body should not be exposed in the wilderness.
When everything was over, the sky became dark.
He said that the army would be withdrawn tomorrow, and mentioned that there were too many prisoners in the army. The number of soldiers plus prisoners was 50,000, which was too bloated.
Liu Bei asked if Kenan and the city were just around the corner and could the prisoners be placed in the city.
Li Mengxi thought about this question seriously. In fact, the prisoners in the army were not only prisoners, but also spare soldiers. The captives were recruited. One round of seven days could recruit 2,000 captives into civilian husbands.
Also, the army is training soldiers. There are forty blue scarf soldiers. Each of them will train forty more. By one month, there will be 1,600 soldiers who can line up in an organized manner and fight in formation.
Then each of these 1,600 people will train forty more, and in one month, the army will suddenly expand to 64,000 capable men.
In other words, prisoners are actually related to military expansion during wartime.
Taking this into consideration, if the prisoners are left behind, they cannot train while traveling.
It would be better to leave the old and the weak in the city, but firstly, there would be more manpower to guard them. Secondly, Li Mengxi wanted to take the women and children camp with him. Now there are enough carts in the army, and women and children can travel on carts, as long as they are not as big as the cattle pulling grain.
If the car is slow, it will not hinder the march.
Especially for children, it is better to be in the army. There is no safer place than in the army.
Chapter completed!