In the early morning of Youzhou City, the air was very fresh, and the dew that had not dissipated last night was hung on the green grass leaves, and a faint white mist was shrouded in the sky.
The sun has not risen yet, but it is already bright and the sky is blue.
Somewhere there were sparrows occasionally chuckling.
Guo Shao took his followers to strode past the cannon formation. He had to think that the Dragon Owl cannon cast in bronze was very beautiful and much better than the cast iron ones!
Huang Cancan's cannon body is polished and smooth, and the workmanship is very good and looks very new.
Rows of gun muzzles diagonally face the sky. When Guo Shao looked back, he could see rows of huge black hole muzzles.
The formation is very strong!
They are still just stone-killing mortars, and their actual functions cannot be bombed like howitzers that can destroy everything in their impression, and their power is very limited; but Guo Shao knows that as long as they are used properly, these things will have a great effect on siege!
Horrible!Mumble... Suddenly, a rooster screamed, and Guo Shaoxun looked at him and was stunned.
It turned out that several soldiers killed a rooster and dripped the chicken blood on the barrel of a cannon.The generals around him hurriedly said: The cannon was the first to ignite, everyone is looking for auspiciousness.
After inspecting, Guo Shao left the artillery array, and he didn't need to ask about all the specific tactics himself.
After a long time, a bolt suddenly broke out from the blue, and a slight trembling on the ground, and the thunderous cannon roared through the tranquility of the sky.Thick white smoke rose into the sky.
The neighing of horses and the noise of people increased, and the birds in the distance were frightened and flew away desperately.
However, after one shot, it calmed down for a while, and then the sound of cannons in the camp stopped and stopped as if it was messy.
The city towers and walls in the distance were not affected much. Instead, the Zhou army was filled with smoke and noisy people.
Guo Shao didn't say anything, and of course he didn't blame him... he designed the cannon himself, so of course he understood.
The accuracy of this kind of mortar is really limited, mainly because the casting technology and measurement tools are very rough; how can we hit the target?
That's right, try it in one shot!
Try out the elevation angle and charge, and because the gun size cannot be completely standard, the firing parameters of each gun are slightly different.
Even so, it is still impossible to be completely accurate, and it is enough to be able to hit the target.
The cannon formation was tinkered for more than half an hour and stopped again.
The world before was like a pool of clear water, with blue sky, green ground, fresh air with moist white mist; but now, it seems that a basin of sewage has been poured into the world!
The sky above the Zhou army camp was filled with mist, as if dust was everywhere, and the smoke of gunfire and mist were mixed together.The camp was crowded and busy.
At this moment, a group of horses slowly rushed to the fortifications in front, and did not stop. Then they spread across the Mutu camp and slowly moved forward.
The cannon fire for more than half an hour did not cause much damage to the city wall. Most of them were not hit, but only tried the cannon. Now the cannon fire stopped and never sounded again.What came in place was the crowd of horse riding.
The enemy's defense strength cannot be tested by bombardment alone, and this horse soldier is a test; and the soldiers approach the enemy to lure the defenders to the city, and the first round of volleys can unexpectedly expand the results!
Guo Shao and the ministers watched the scene. The inside and outside of the camp looked a little messy, but he could feel the order in the chaos, and everything was going on in an orderly manner according to the plan.
The light horse team entered the front line as if they were rushing to the formation. They first rectified, then jogged, and then rushed towards the city wall.
The horse team was almost not attacked from a distance, and successfully arrived at the moat and quickly turned around and detoured. The horse team shot many arrows from the side door and shot them up to the city wall.
The moat in Youzhou City is not very wide, and you can even shoot at the top of the city when riding a horse by the river.
Guo Shao was hundreds of steps away and could not see clearly the counterattack on the city.But judging from the situation of the Zhou army, the defenders had almost no strong counterattack.
Hey!A sound came from Wang Pu's mouth and the following words were gone.
The others didn't react much, but just looked at it. After more than half an hour of tossing around, the rhythm of the battle was not fierce, and everyone seemed to have a little lazy look.
Guo Shao and Wang Pu seem to have the same intuition: the start is very strange.
He smelled something unusual.
Of course, the cavalry cannot attack the city. After all, horses cannot carry people to swim across the moat, and they cannot climb up the three-meter-high city wall on foot.
But in common sense, close to the city, you will be attacked by defenders, after all, the distance is only twenty or thirty steps.
Why don’t the defenders fight back from afar?It is very likely that there are not many people on the city wall...
The Zhou army cavalry in the distance moved around outside the city wall and shot, and then the head of the army gradually turned back. A cavalry seemed to have flowing water rushing to the wall and flowing backwards.
Wang Pu said in a deep voice: The situation seems to be different from what we expected.
Guo Shao did not act rashly.The Zhou army was too large and its deployment was relatively complicated. It was like a huge ship, with slow steering... You can't change your strategy just because of a little accident.
The horse team ran very fast, and in a short while, a row of triangular flags were inserted fifty steps away from the city wall, and then flocked back.
When he was away from a hundred steps, a sudden roar of the earth shaking sounded throughout the world.Guo Shao turned around and looked, a row of white smoke rose above the camp, and big rock bombs flew into the sky.
Before the stone bomb fell on the city wall, a moment later, the cannon sounded booming again, the fire shone brightly, and a row of white smoke rose.
The earth and rocks splashed on the top of Youzhou City, and you can see the scene of a female wall collapse from afar.
The artillery fired from far and near the Zhou army camp one after another, and the scene was very shocking.
The muzzle seemed to be squirting flames together, and smoke was rolling.
The sparse observation posts of the arrow towers between the cannon arrays seemed to be standing up from the clouds.
The deafening sound of cannons continued, and the shelling was frantically shot, with no sign of stopping at all.
Outside the first fortification, large unicycles were already spreading forward in the sound of cannons and smoke.Countless soldiers pushed the soil near the moat like a flood.
The real siege has just begun, and the Zhou army sieges roughly fills the river in the front!
When the crowded forward approached the pennant flag that had been placed before, the cannons on the cannon array stopped one after another, everything was in order and coordinated with each other.
The crowd who filled the river only needs to take the opportunity to advance twenty or thirty steps to reach the moat, and just pour the soil into it.
The moat is not a living river. The water flows very slowly and is almost static. It is very easy to fill the river, but it is just a matter of the quantity of soil and rocks!
Unexpectedly, at this moment, suddenly there were dark shadows above the city walls, and stones flew out like hail.
The Zhou army was very dense with engineers, and screamed everywhere. From time to time, wheelbarrows fell and soldiers fell.
As soon as this situation occurred, the ministers and generals who were looking at the central army immediately started to talk in a low voice.
Wang Pu said: Youzhou City Defense has been prepared for a long time, and it seems that it is a cannon specifically targeting us!The opponent's guarding the city is not on the city wall, but inside the city.Our previous bombardment was mainly aimed at the city walls, but failed to effectively destroy their equipment.
A general said: Our cannons are hit far away and we will reboot the equipment in the city.
Wang Pu frowned and said: We can’t see the city, how do you know where they are placed?What's more, if the enemy keeps moving, we have no way of knowing.
Everyone looked at Guo Shao in a slanted manner.
Guo Shao said nothing, stood on his horse with his sword, looking at the situation ahead.
He still has no intention of changing his tactics... First, he is considering the first wave of siege. If he is defeated immediately, it will affect his morale.
The opponent used a catapult to smash people and horses, and the lethality was worse than that of a mortar cannon. The proportion of combat losses of the Zhou army engineers was not high, and it was far from being defeated.
People will die when fighting!
Even if there are casualties, we cannot act rashly.
Second, he didn't think of a countermeasure to deal with it now.Even if it is withdrawn, how can we attack again?If you stop siege at the beginning, it is also not a good choice.
At this time, Guo Shao felt as if ten thousand animals had rushed by, which was very disturbed, but he still looked calm and composed.The tactics formulated by yourself must be carried on even if they are frustrated.
He had to reexamine the barbarians of the Liao Kingdom.
Whether it is artillery or tactics, they are new things in this era, but those people do not seem so ignorant and slow. They can adapt to and understand the new mode of war so quickly.
It can be guessed that Xiao Siwen and other Khitans understood Guo Shao's siege skills through the tactical details of the Battle of Jinyang, and it seems that they have truly understood the tactical logic.
Guo Shao looked carefully at the stones flying out of the air. It was a parabola... In fact, by drawing a model diagram, you can roughly calculate the position of the other party's throwing cart.
However, the Liao army still had a simple way to deal with it.
Guo Shao could think of two methods immediately: First, as Wang Pu said, constantly moving the position, Zhou army could not know when they moved outside the city.
Second, put the catapult cart close to the city wall.
The trajectory of the Zhou army's artillery shells is still a parabola with angle restrictions; there is an area inside the city wall that is a dead corner.
At this moment, a general asked: How should we deal with it?
Obviously there is no perfect method, but no matter how bad the method is, you must take one out immediately, at least let the soldiers know what they should do!
Guo Shao immediately said: By sending a command, all artillery artillery battalion immediately increase its elevation angle and let the shells be thrown into the city.
Wang Pu answered with his fists and immediately asked the military officials to arrange for the orders to pass on the orders.
Guo Shao pointed to the front again and said: When the first batch of people filling the river returned and the artillery array began to be bombarded, the engineers ordered to reorganize their formation, and the two men were at least one meter apart, and the river was filled with sparse deployment.
Follow the order.
After a long time, the crowds in the distance gradually subsided from the moat.
It was also possible to see the price that Zhou Jun paid hundreds of steps away. The ground outside the moat was in a mess, and many wheelbarrows were damaged and thrown there, and there were many corpses on the ground.
More people were brought back due to injuries.
The Liao army deployed a large number of catapults in the city, and it seemed that it was very well prepared.Maybe they didn't know when the Zhou army would attack Youzhou, but they had already speculated that they were wary of the Zhou army's northern expedition.
The sun has not risen yet, but it is already bright and the sky is blue.
Somewhere there were sparrows occasionally chuckling.
Guo Shao took his followers to strode past the cannon formation. He had to think that the Dragon Owl cannon cast in bronze was very beautiful and much better than the cast iron ones!
Huang Cancan's cannon body is polished and smooth, and the workmanship is very good and looks very new.
Rows of gun muzzles diagonally face the sky. When Guo Shao looked back, he could see rows of huge black hole muzzles.
The formation is very strong!
They are still just stone-killing mortars, and their actual functions cannot be bombed like howitzers that can destroy everything in their impression, and their power is very limited; but Guo Shao knows that as long as they are used properly, these things will have a great effect on siege!
Horrible!Mumble... Suddenly, a rooster screamed, and Guo Shaoxun looked at him and was stunned.
It turned out that several soldiers killed a rooster and dripped the chicken blood on the barrel of a cannon.The generals around him hurriedly said: The cannon was the first to ignite, everyone is looking for auspiciousness.
After inspecting, Guo Shao left the artillery array, and he didn't need to ask about all the specific tactics himself.
After a long time, a bolt suddenly broke out from the blue, and a slight trembling on the ground, and the thunderous cannon roared through the tranquility of the sky.Thick white smoke rose into the sky.
The neighing of horses and the noise of people increased, and the birds in the distance were frightened and flew away desperately.
However, after one shot, it calmed down for a while, and then the sound of cannons in the camp stopped and stopped as if it was messy.
The city towers and walls in the distance were not affected much. Instead, the Zhou army was filled with smoke and noisy people.
Guo Shao didn't say anything, and of course he didn't blame him... he designed the cannon himself, so of course he understood.
The accuracy of this kind of mortar is really limited, mainly because the casting technology and measurement tools are very rough; how can we hit the target?
That's right, try it in one shot!
Try out the elevation angle and charge, and because the gun size cannot be completely standard, the firing parameters of each gun are slightly different.
Even so, it is still impossible to be completely accurate, and it is enough to be able to hit the target.
The cannon formation was tinkered for more than half an hour and stopped again.
The world before was like a pool of clear water, with blue sky, green ground, fresh air with moist white mist; but now, it seems that a basin of sewage has been poured into the world!
The sky above the Zhou army camp was filled with mist, as if dust was everywhere, and the smoke of gunfire and mist were mixed together.The camp was crowded and busy.
At this moment, a group of horses slowly rushed to the fortifications in front, and did not stop. Then they spread across the Mutu camp and slowly moved forward.
The cannon fire for more than half an hour did not cause much damage to the city wall. Most of them were not hit, but only tried the cannon. Now the cannon fire stopped and never sounded again.What came in place was the crowd of horse riding.
The enemy's defense strength cannot be tested by bombardment alone, and this horse soldier is a test; and the soldiers approach the enemy to lure the defenders to the city, and the first round of volleys can unexpectedly expand the results!
Guo Shao and the ministers watched the scene. The inside and outside of the camp looked a little messy, but he could feel the order in the chaos, and everything was going on in an orderly manner according to the plan.
The light horse team entered the front line as if they were rushing to the formation. They first rectified, then jogged, and then rushed towards the city wall.
The horse team was almost not attacked from a distance, and successfully arrived at the moat and quickly turned around and detoured. The horse team shot many arrows from the side door and shot them up to the city wall.
The moat in Youzhou City is not very wide, and you can even shoot at the top of the city when riding a horse by the river.
Guo Shao was hundreds of steps away and could not see clearly the counterattack on the city.But judging from the situation of the Zhou army, the defenders had almost no strong counterattack.
Hey!A sound came from Wang Pu's mouth and the following words were gone.
The others didn't react much, but just looked at it. After more than half an hour of tossing around, the rhythm of the battle was not fierce, and everyone seemed to have a little lazy look.
Guo Shao and Wang Pu seem to have the same intuition: the start is very strange.
He smelled something unusual.
Of course, the cavalry cannot attack the city. After all, horses cannot carry people to swim across the moat, and they cannot climb up the three-meter-high city wall on foot.
But in common sense, close to the city, you will be attacked by defenders, after all, the distance is only twenty or thirty steps.
Why don’t the defenders fight back from afar?It is very likely that there are not many people on the city wall...
The Zhou army cavalry in the distance moved around outside the city wall and shot, and then the head of the army gradually turned back. A cavalry seemed to have flowing water rushing to the wall and flowing backwards.
Wang Pu said in a deep voice: The situation seems to be different from what we expected.
Guo Shao did not act rashly.The Zhou army was too large and its deployment was relatively complicated. It was like a huge ship, with slow steering... You can't change your strategy just because of a little accident.
The horse team ran very fast, and in a short while, a row of triangular flags were inserted fifty steps away from the city wall, and then flocked back.
When he was away from a hundred steps, a sudden roar of the earth shaking sounded throughout the world.Guo Shao turned around and looked, a row of white smoke rose above the camp, and big rock bombs flew into the sky.
Before the stone bomb fell on the city wall, a moment later, the cannon sounded booming again, the fire shone brightly, and a row of white smoke rose.
The earth and rocks splashed on the top of Youzhou City, and you can see the scene of a female wall collapse from afar.
The artillery fired from far and near the Zhou army camp one after another, and the scene was very shocking.
The muzzle seemed to be squirting flames together, and smoke was rolling.
The sparse observation posts of the arrow towers between the cannon arrays seemed to be standing up from the clouds.
The deafening sound of cannons continued, and the shelling was frantically shot, with no sign of stopping at all.
Outside the first fortification, large unicycles were already spreading forward in the sound of cannons and smoke.Countless soldiers pushed the soil near the moat like a flood.
The real siege has just begun, and the Zhou army sieges roughly fills the river in the front!
When the crowded forward approached the pennant flag that had been placed before, the cannons on the cannon array stopped one after another, everything was in order and coordinated with each other.
The crowd who filled the river only needs to take the opportunity to advance twenty or thirty steps to reach the moat, and just pour the soil into it.
The moat is not a living river. The water flows very slowly and is almost static. It is very easy to fill the river, but it is just a matter of the quantity of soil and rocks!
Unexpectedly, at this moment, suddenly there were dark shadows above the city walls, and stones flew out like hail.
The Zhou army was very dense with engineers, and screamed everywhere. From time to time, wheelbarrows fell and soldiers fell.
As soon as this situation occurred, the ministers and generals who were looking at the central army immediately started to talk in a low voice.
Wang Pu said: Youzhou City Defense has been prepared for a long time, and it seems that it is a cannon specifically targeting us!The opponent's guarding the city is not on the city wall, but inside the city.Our previous bombardment was mainly aimed at the city walls, but failed to effectively destroy their equipment.
A general said: Our cannons are hit far away and we will reboot the equipment in the city.
Wang Pu frowned and said: We can’t see the city, how do you know where they are placed?What's more, if the enemy keeps moving, we have no way of knowing.
Everyone looked at Guo Shao in a slanted manner.
Guo Shao said nothing, stood on his horse with his sword, looking at the situation ahead.
He still has no intention of changing his tactics... First, he is considering the first wave of siege. If he is defeated immediately, it will affect his morale.
The opponent used a catapult to smash people and horses, and the lethality was worse than that of a mortar cannon. The proportion of combat losses of the Zhou army engineers was not high, and it was far from being defeated.
People will die when fighting!
Even if there are casualties, we cannot act rashly.
Second, he didn't think of a countermeasure to deal with it now.Even if it is withdrawn, how can we attack again?If you stop siege at the beginning, it is also not a good choice.
At this time, Guo Shao felt as if ten thousand animals had rushed by, which was very disturbed, but he still looked calm and composed.The tactics formulated by yourself must be carried on even if they are frustrated.
He had to reexamine the barbarians of the Liao Kingdom.
Whether it is artillery or tactics, they are new things in this era, but those people do not seem so ignorant and slow. They can adapt to and understand the new mode of war so quickly.
It can be guessed that Xiao Siwen and other Khitans understood Guo Shao's siege skills through the tactical details of the Battle of Jinyang, and it seems that they have truly understood the tactical logic.
Guo Shao looked carefully at the stones flying out of the air. It was a parabola... In fact, by drawing a model diagram, you can roughly calculate the position of the other party's throwing cart.
However, the Liao army still had a simple way to deal with it.
Guo Shao could think of two methods immediately: First, as Wang Pu said, constantly moving the position, Zhou army could not know when they moved outside the city.
Second, put the catapult cart close to the city wall.
The trajectory of the Zhou army's artillery shells is still a parabola with angle restrictions; there is an area inside the city wall that is a dead corner.
At this moment, a general asked: How should we deal with it?
Obviously there is no perfect method, but no matter how bad the method is, you must take one out immediately, at least let the soldiers know what they should do!
Guo Shao immediately said: By sending a command, all artillery artillery battalion immediately increase its elevation angle and let the shells be thrown into the city.
Wang Pu answered with his fists and immediately asked the military officials to arrange for the orders to pass on the orders.
Guo Shao pointed to the front again and said: When the first batch of people filling the river returned and the artillery array began to be bombarded, the engineers ordered to reorganize their formation, and the two men were at least one meter apart, and the river was filled with sparse deployment.
Follow the order.
After a long time, the crowds in the distance gradually subsided from the moat.
It was also possible to see the price that Zhou Jun paid hundreds of steps away. The ground outside the moat was in a mess, and many wheelbarrows were damaged and thrown there, and there were many corpses on the ground.
More people were brought back due to injuries.
The Liao army deployed a large number of catapults in the city, and it seemed that it was very well prepared.Maybe they didn't know when the Zhou army would attack Youzhou, but they had already speculated that they were wary of the Zhou army's northern expedition.
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