Chapter 527: You said Wu Anjun is afraid of you? Ridiculous!
The old Qin people roared and sang Qin Feng, charging towards the huge city that suddenly rose from the ground.
The Wei soldiers put down their arrows and instead threw locust stones down from the ladders that led to the top of the city.
There were too many Qin soldiers climbing up, like ants clinging together. The Wei army didn't need to aim at all, they just threw them down with force, and they would always hear the sound of stones and armor colliding.
"The first push is strong, the second is weak, the third is exhausted, Qin Gou can't hold on for long!"
Zhou Shi shouted loudly, and the messenger with a loud voice carried his voice throughout the city wall.
He picked up a big rock and threw it down. Without even looking at the result, Mayor Zhou picked up another rock and smashed it down hard, still roaring and giving orders.
"If the enemy doesn't move their vehicles, you won't cut down the ladders! I, Zhou Shi, stand with you! Kill more Qin dogs!"
As soon as he finished speaking, flames streaked across the sky, like burning meteorites, covering the top of Linji City.
Zhou Shi's personal soldiers were well prepared and all picked up wooden shields and stood beside Zhou Shi.
Zhou Shi's eyes widened. There was no time to lure and kill Qin Gou with the ladder because Ji's car was coming.
He worked together with two or four guards around him to push down the ladder in front of them, and then shouted orders.
"When the chariot arrives, push the ladder!"
The Ji Chariot, similar to a trebuchet, is a Chinese siege weapon and also the earliest form of air cover.
"Mozi. Preparing for the City Gate" records: Use a large piece of wood with a circumference of two feet and four tenths of a foot, dig it early, put charcoal fire in the middle to heat it, and then throw it in with a cart.
Without chariots, the defenders have the upper hand and can look down on the attackers. Even if their numbers are less than one-tenth of the attackers, as long as they have enough food and grass and their will remains strong, they will be difficult to break through in a hundred years.
The living and the dead were mixed together and fell at the foot of Linji City, and it was impossible to tell which was which.
Just rushing here, the Qin army lost more than a hundred people.
Those who arrive first will find it far ahead and unable to see the light.
One general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers. This number is definitely an understatement.
A vanguard who kills a thousand sharp soldiers may have to sacrifice several thousand sharp soldiers.
The burning stones fell irregularly, restraining the unbridled Wei soldiers on the city wall, but did not cause too many casualties.
Although the stones thrown up were hollow and contained charcoal fire, there was no flammable material on the top of Linji City, which was made of stone and loess.
On the inferior arrows and gold juice, these weapons for defending the city, there was a roof-like structure that tilted toward the ground. The flint thrown by the chariot could only stir up a cloud of dust on the roof, and then rolled away helplessly, unable to damage anything.
Only some guards who were extremely unlucky and not agile enough were hit by the irregularly falling flints and died on the spot.
Because they took the registered car too seriously, the attackers came to attack them.
If you don't take your registered car seriously, there is a small chance that you will die.
The deterrent power of a registered car is far greater than its lethality, and the psychological pressure it causes to people is far greater than the physical pressure.
This is a siege weapon, but also a psychological weapon that tests the fighting will of the defenders.
There was continuous artillery fire, and Zhou Shi looked around at the Wei soldiers.
They were in an orderly manner, with different expressions. The blood, Qin Feng, and Ji Che could not make them retreat. They poured gold juice, pushed the ladder, and stood on the top of the city wall, cursing loudly at you damn Qin dogs.
Under the pressure of the country's destruction and the family's ruin, the Wei army who were not Wei Wuzu also began to fight desperately.
They didn't have a chance to fight back on the day the flood washed away the beams, but they made up for it this time.
Qin Feng's voice was still loud, but the roaring tiger and wolf army stopped at the foot of Linji City and they were blocked.
"It is a great honor to meet the general today."
Zhou Shi looked back and saw a man wearing a tight short black coat and with a beard on his lips.
Zhou Shi wiped his face from head to toe, and the blood and sweat mixed together to form a big clown face, which was somewhat scary.
"How long can I hold out, in your opinion?"
He had a calm expression, and although he was surrounded by stench and blood, he still had a noble air.
"I heard that the general has stored 700,000 dan of grain and fodder in Linji, and 40,000 troops. Stones and woods within a radius of 100 miles have been collected by the general to Linji to resist the Qin army. If the general holds on to Linji and does not leave, even if Wang Jian comes in person, he will not be able to defeat him in a year."
The short-sleeved man bowed his head slightly and said in a deep voice:
"But can the general really be willing to do this?"
"What are you willing to do?"
"To be willing to stay in the city and not go out, to be cursed by the enemy and afraid of fighting, is like a turtle hiding in its shell..."
The short-sleeved man was forced to interrupt before he could finish his words.
Two two-foot swords were placed on his neck, and the owners of the two swords were personal soldiers with fire in their eyes.
"Let him go."
Zhou Shi gave the order, and the two soldiers snorted coldly and withdrew their swords, leaving two long bloody marks.
The man in shorts didn't even frown, nor did he reach out to touch the painful neck. He just looked at Zhou Shi calmly.
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Qin army camp.
The second emperor leaned his hands on the simple desk, staring at the map, as if in a daze.
In front of him, a group of generals from the Great Qin were talking non-stop.
"Bypass the city!"
In the Qin army camp, Lian Po, with a head full of white hair, said in a deep voice.
The veteran tapped the map.
"Today's Linji reminds me of Handan, which our army could not break through."
Li Xin, who had urgently returned to the camp to discuss matters, did not look very happy. Now it was his vanguard army that was attacking the city.
"The Qin sword is powerful and unstoppable. This city is just a trapped beast fighting. Is the deputy general afraid of his old age?"
"I defended Handan, defeated Wang Ling, defeated Wang, and Bai Qi did not dare to attack. The morale and preparation of Linji are almost the same as Handan after Changping. I say that if you can't break through Linji, you can't break it!"
Li Xin wanted to argue again.
[You said Wu Anjun is afraid of you? Ridiculous!]
Meng Tian grabbed his confused younger brother who was eager to avenge his humiliation.
"I second the proposal. With the newly recovered strength of the Wei State, it is not possible to build many cities of this size. I suspect there is only one, and it is easy to bypass it."
His father Meng Wu was Bai Qi's student, and he knew very well that what Lian Po said was probably true.
But the word "fear" is worth discussing.
According to my father, Wu'an Jun was not afraid of anyone, but he never fought a losing battle or a useless battle.
Several years after the Battle of Changping, the Battle of Handan, defended by Lian Po, was a battle that Bai Qi considered a losing battle.
Bai Qi, the Marquis of Wu'an, who refused to lead the army to attack Handan of Zhao State, was sentenced to death by King Zhaoxiang of Qin after the defeat of Qin State.
Young general Zhao Tuo jumped out.
"If we bypass Linji, our army will be attacked from both sides. We have to worry all the time that the Linji defenders will cut off our retreat and our food supply will be cut off. We must capture this city!"
The mature and prudent Ren Xiong continued:
"In a head-on battle, our Qin army is not afraid of anyone. Xiao is stationed here with 30,000 elite soldiers. If you can't keep Linji at bay, I'll give you this life!"
Tu Sui shook his head.
"No, bypassing Linji will greatly extend the journey and require passing through the forest. Without roads, soldiers and horses can walk, but carts can't pass. General Ren can keep an eye on the Linji garrison, but he can't ask the grain carts to speed up."
Cities were built in strategic locations, such as Linji on the banks of the Yellow River.
There were only a few transportation networks in the Qin Dynasty, and the hubs of the transportation networks were very important cities.
These cities were either built on the mountains or by the water. If a city was captured, an effective geographical location would be obtained to contain other cities.
If you can't take the city, you have to take a detour, which not only takes too much time, but also makes it difficult to provide logistical support. In ancient times, food and grass were the most important things in war. People could take a detour, but food and grass were too difficult to obtain.
