"Good morning, Brother Qin, good morning General Ran, good morning all captains, I'm sorry, I overslept this morning.
I didn¡¯t expect everyone to get up so early today. It seems that you didn¡¯t sleep well last night! "
Because Zhang Yang was thinking about the Turkic siege last night, he was alone until very late thinking about it. When he came to the tower on the wall of Xiaoguan City after breakfast this morning, he already found that everyone was here, and he was the only one missing. , so he said a little embarrassedly.
However, after everyone heard what Zhang Yang said, they only responded to Zhang Yang with a few "Haha!"
But it¡¯s not to blame for everyone¡¯s lackluster response to what Zhang Yang said. The main reason is that it is exactly what Zhang Yang said.
Does this need to be said? Such an obvious thing is a problem that people can see at a glance, and yet you need to explain it, which is complete nonsense! Everyone present thought so in their hearts,
At the same time, I also secretly thought that in order to comfort Xiao Guan, this group of middle and high-level generals of the Tang Dynasty had put a lot of effort and countless emotions into it. Otherwise, there would be no need to work day and night for Xiao Guan. Thinking about safety secretly.
But if you pay, there will naturally be rewards. It¡¯s just that the quality of the rewards cannot be determined before it appears. If it¡¯s good, then everyone will be happy. If it¡¯s not, then it will be a complete failure. But fortunately, this time it is Develop for the better.
After this night, everyone saw the other party's determination to stick to Xiaoguan, which invisibly strengthened their own determination.
"Captain Zhang, you don't need to apologize. Because you came not too late. Today is the first time we have entered Chen hour. There is still a long way to go before the three quarters of Chen hour agreed yesterday. It can be said that you came early, and we It just came earlier.¡±
"That's good, that's good. Let me just say, I didn't get a good night's sleep last night. I got up early today and planned to come here to catch an early meeting. Unexpectedly, I was still a step behind you. It made me think I had misjudged the time!¡±
After hearing Qin Liyan's words, Zhang Yang looked at the rising sun that was slowly rising on the horizon. Tell everyone.
"It seems that you are still like us, not sleeping well because of Xiao Guan's safety!
Captain Zhang, I thought that as a world-famous talent and martial arts master with superhuman martial arts skills, your vision would be much higher than ours. It would be unfathomable, but I didn¡¯t expect that you would be the same as us. I still worry about things! "
The old man sitting cross-legged in a circle around the city looked at the real center and talked boastfully.
"Well, I was also thinking about Xiao Guan's safety. I didn't get a good rest last night, so I got up so early. Hey"
Just as Zhengyang was saying "Hey!", "Hey!", "Hey!" incessantly, there was a sound like a drum beating from outside the city tower, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" This made the people who were still indifferent , everyone felt chills from it!
¡°It seems that our Turkic friends can no longer sit back and wait any longer!
Come on, everyone, follow me. Let¡¯s all go out and have a look. The Turks came to attack the city at less than three quarters today. Are they fully prepared, or are they just bluffing and playing a trick of exhausting the army? This must be seen with our own eyes. Just watch. "
As soon as Qin Liyan said these words, he took the lead to walk outside the city tower, intending to find out what the Turks were like. However, when the others saw Qin Liyan taking the lead, they could no longer control their curiosity and started to follow one after another. He followed Qin Liyan to the city wall.
Following Qin Liyan to Zhang Yang on the wall of Xiaoguan City, he glanced outside Xiaoguan and saw two tall buildings standing on the small plain outside the pass. They were so conspicuous and eye-catching.
I saw those two tall buildings, which were supported by tall solid wood from Liupan Mountain near Xiaoguan. They were more than four feet high. There was a five-foot-wide house at the top, with an entrance and exit at the bottom of the house. Nails were driven into the top at intervals of not more than a foot. It seemed that they were used for people to climb on, because someone was climbing up and down on the solid wood at this time.
There is a base made of huge solid wood at the bottom of the tall building, which is more than twice the size of the five-foot-wide house on the top. At the same time, the base is arranged in a triangle and is divided into three triangular wooden bases. At the same time, the lower end of the base was deeply buried and appeared extremely solid. It seemed that the enemy used the law of triangles.
In addition to the base, Zhang Yang also discovered that in order to ensure that the tall building would not be swayed left and right by the strong wind when encountering the wind, the Turks would make the people on it unstable and fall to the ground. A hemp rope, which looked as thick as an arm from a distance, was tied to the corners, and the other end was tied to a wooden stake buried deep in the ground.
It shows that this suddenPeople have spent a lot of effort to ensure the safety and smooth use of these two high-rise buildings.
There are many four-foot-long trees. After all, no matter that era, there is no shortage of big trees around Liupan Mountain. What's more, the four-foot-high trees in the Tang Dynasty were only a little over twelve meters. That's all. Considering the original appearance of the environment at this time and the level of development, it is still very easy to find such a big tree. It can be said that you can find it everywhere.
But what should be noted is that it is not easy for such a piece of wood to support a five-foot-wide wooden house and also allow people to get up and down. In this way, a tree that is usually more than ten meters high will be completely useless.
In order to withstand such a weight, rootless wood, and the tossing of strong winds, such trees must be tough, wear-resistant, durable, hard, and high-strength. Ordinary thick broad-leaved forest trees cannot achieve this. to such a request.
Not only that, if you want to build two tall buildings like this, in addition to finding trees with good texture, you also need to find trees that are large enough. They must also be very straight without serious distortion or distortion, otherwise It's useless.
Through Zhang Yang's eyes, he observed from a distance that the solid wood used in these two tall buildings was as thick as a man's arms. Although this was still in the Tang Dynasty, the Liupan Mountain area of ??Yuanzhou at this time could also be said to be barren, with high mountains and dense forests, and dense vegetation. lush.
But it is not easy to find such a big tree that is thick enough for a person to hug, and it is also so straight. After adding the parts to be used (the smallest diameter is about 80 centimeters), it reaches four feet. Before felling, it would have to be a big tree over ten feet to be able to extract so many useful things. Come aniseed.
In addition, the texture is generally tough. Wear-resistant, durable, hard, and strong trees are usually extremely slow-growing tree species. It is difficult to grow to such a large size. To be so high, it would take hundreds of years.
Now Xiaoguan is located on the edge of the Liupan Mountains. Although the mountains are high and the forests are dense and the vegetation is lush, it is also located on the edge. The size and height of the trees are much larger than those in the virgin forests in the Liupan Mountains. The tree needs to be much smaller, usually a big tree is four or five feet tall. It is five or six feet high, and the top reaches the sky, which is a little over seven feet.
It is very difficult to find such a big tree that is obviously much higher than the average altitude. Although it stands out from the crowd, you can tell at a glance that it is a crane from a distance. Similarly, just look for the tallest tree as far as the eye can see. A tree will do.
But the truth that a tree that is beautiful in the forest will be destroyed by the wind comes from the trees. Later it was slowly used on humans.
Therefore, it is very rare that such a giant tree, which is obviously much higher than other trees, has not been destroyed by wind, rain, thunder and lightning in hundreds of years, and has not been visible to ants and insects.
?? Such a big tree, which was rarely seen in the past year, was actually destroyed by the Turkic army. To find two such big trees in Yuanzhou, an unfamiliar place, it seemed that they had put in a lot of hard work, otherwise they would not have been able to find them.
For these two giant trees, the Turks had to pay a considerable price to move them outside Xiaoguan in such a short period of time. Zhang Yang admired the spirit of the Turks quite a lot.
However, Zhang Yang also thanked Xiaoguan for his construction work. He built the city wall of Xiaoguan to a height of more than three feet, which is about half higher than the city wall of Chang'an City, the imperial capital. This is in this city without bricks and stones. The times were quite difficult.
However, if Xiaoguan also built a city wall one to two feet high according to the general standards, then the Turks would not go to such great lengths to find two such big trees. After all, a city wall more than two feet high is usually seven feet high. A big tree is enough.
After comparing the two tall buildings and the siege equipment in his memory, Zhang Yang confirmed that this was the watchtower!
In addition to Xiaoguan and the two watchtowers built a hundred and fifty steps away from Xiaoguan, Zhang Yang also saw another siege weapon between the two watchtowers, a ram car. It was almost eight feet tall, one foot long, and six feet wide. Zhang Yang felt a deep chill all over his body, especially the ram that was three feet above the ground on the ram.
The diameter of this ram is more than 60 centimeters, plus the length of more than 10 feet, and the force of more than 20 people at the same time, which is a big consideration for the toughness and defense of Xiaoguan's city gate.
Apart from the first time, Zhang Yang saw the number of ladders used by the Turks today. They were several times the ones burned yesterday. There were sixty or seventy ladders. In addition, there were more than two thousand people holding the flying ladders near him. , it seems that a fierce battle is inevitable today! (A flying ladder is a wooden ladder with a flying hook. During wartime, a flying ladder is supported by twenty people at the same time and rushes to the city wall to be attacked. The flying hook at the top of the flying ladder is first hooked on the city wall to make the flying ladder firmly After being hung on the city wall, it was climbed up by people.)
Apart from these things, Zhang Yang did not find any other siege weapons. For example, since the Turks had already built two watchtowers, there was no need to build a chariot, a mediocre tool for spying on the enemy.
At the same time, due to the geology of Xiaoguan City, when the Xiaoguan City Wall was built, the soil under the city wall was excavated until it was three feet underground when the foundation was being laid. All the soil under the Xiaoguan city wall has been excavated, and it is all hard stone underneath.
The foundation of Xiaoguan is also made of stones collected from the cliffs on both sides of the nearby river. It can be said to be extremely hard and indestructible, which directly eliminates the enemy's idea of ??digging tunnels into the city for sneak attacks.
Since the tunnel cannot be dug, there is naturally no use for the anemone vehicle used to dig the tunnel.
In addition, the outer edge of the Xiaoguan city wall is also made of the same material as the foundation. Each piece is made of rectangular boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms. This also makes it possible for the Turkic anemone vehicles to directly work on the city wall. Sex is gone.
If you want to destroy hundreds of kilograms of hard boulders with a simple knife and sword, you don't know how long it will take. Even if you don't chop with swords and swords, if you want to pry such a heavy boulder, add the boulder. There are countless boulders and soil suppressing it, which is almost impossible to pry with human power, so even if the Turks built an anemone chariot, it would be of no use.
Of course, the entire Xiaoguan city wall facing Lingzhou is several miles long, and the foundations under the entire city wall are only a few feet dug at most. There are still many places that have not touched the huge rock veins underground, but this It¡¯s also harmless.
????????????????????????????????????Outside of the buildings of Xiaoguan City Wall, no one knows where the tunnel must be dug to penetrate the Xiaoguan City Wall, enter Xiaoguan, etc., and launch an attack.
At the same time, it is harmless even if the Turks know a few of these places. After all, even if this is a sneak attack by digging tunnels, the number of people is small. Facing Xiaoguan, which is guarded by a heavy army, they are not around, so there is no way to guard against the enemy. Digging tunnels, unless it is the era of large-scale use of gunpowder, by which time the defensive nature of the city wall will be greatly reduced.
Moreover, the city wall of Xiaoguan is fearsomely tall and thick. Your ordinary city wall with a top of three feet wide is more than a foot wide, reaching more than four feet wide. In this way, according to the principle of small at the top and large at the bottom, if you want to dig There is a tunnel that is several feet long. If there are fewer people, I don¡¯t know how busy it will be until the end of the year of the monkey. With more people, there will naturally be more noise. With the ground listening jar in the city, you will definitely be able to hear the noise.
As for what Lin Chong Lu Gongcha was going to do, such a giant siege machine, with the Turkic people's technical level at this time, they simply couldn't build it, but Zhang Yang didn't care at all.
Zhang Yang was concerned about another thing at this time. It had an astonishing lethality and an astonishing attack range. It was a terrifying weapon known as the 'God of War' in the cold weapon era, the catapult. However, after Zhang Yang looked around for a while, he finally It was confirmed that the Turks did not participate in catapults in this siege, which reassured him a lot. After all, this catapult was the most lethal weapon in the cold weapon era.
Moreover, the lethality of this thing is no matter whether it is against people, morale, or buildings. Even if it is a city wall as strong as Xiaoguan, under the continuous attack of huge rocks thrown by a large number of catapults, some cities are likely to be destroyed and people killed. . (To be continued)! ~!
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