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Text Chapter 1,476: The last battle of Han Banner (166) years ago (Part 2)

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    Shannan County was established by the Qin State. After King Wulie of Qin defeated the Huns on the grassland and annihilated the Xiongnu royal court in one fell swoop, the Huns on the grassland became a piece of scattered sand. At that time, the Qin people were unwilling to concentrate their efforts on the Central Plains.  In order to fight against the Huns on the vast prairie, Shannan County was established. A force was stationed here to monitor the grassland. Firstly, it was to prevent the remnants of the Huns from harassing the northern part of the Qin State again. Secondly, it was also to prevent the Huns from attacking again.  It means sitting big.  This strategic abandonment of the prairie by the Qin people is, of course, extremely wrong now, because it gave Gao Yuan, who was in Jishi City at the time, the best opportunity to embezzle and cannibalize the Huns. As a result, Gao Yuan spent several years  Over time, the Huns were integrated under the banner of the Eastern Marching Army, which caused the strength of the Eastern Marching Army to surge and firmly control the grassland.  Later, in order to compete for Shannan County, many conflicts broke out between Gao Yuan and the Qin people. Shannan County also changed hands several times. Both sides lost a lot of their generals and troops here. Finally, after the invasion of Li Xin and Wang Xiao,  The Qin army took over again. This time, the Qin people stationed heavy troops here to strengthen the city walls. At this time, the Han army was already so strong that it was difficult to shake. Although the Qin people occupied Shannan County, they could no longer attack the Han army.  No matter how big a threat it posed, the Han army did not send troops to fight for it again.  But when the Han Dynasty annihilated all the countries on this continent except Qin, and the military front was directed at Qin again, Shannan County became the focus of competition again.  Taking Shannan County opened the door to the northern part of the Qin State. The Han army could launch an attack on the Qin State from both the north and south directions.  When the importance of Shannan County was highlighted again, the Qin people discovered that they did not have enough strength to reinforce Shannan County.  When Wang Changyong left the border, he took away half of Shannan County's garrison and never returned. Now more than 10,000 people have to defend Shannan County, which has to be said to be a very heavy task.  In recent years, with the strong rise of Han, Qin has repeatedly failed on the battlefield.  The city of Shannan County was also reinforced and raised again and again. Every time the Qin people lost a battle, Shannan County would carry out large-scale upgrades and renovations.  The current Shannan County is no longer the same as when Lu Chao was guarding here.  From the original adobe mud wall to a green brick wall.  The outer wall that has been rebuilt with reinforced concrete has now covered Shannan County with a thick and solid shell. Even the artillery of the Han army only made shallow holes in it, but could not drill through.  .  Blow down his thick walls.  However, the wall was strong enough, but the buildings above the city wall were not as strong. The cannonballs fell on the city wall, destroying the towers above, blowing up the cave where soldiers were hidden, overturning a crossbow platform, and setting off a fire.  Countless hammers were smashed, and piles of stones originally intended to be used to hit the enemy when the Han army attacked the city were blown away. Fires were blazing on the city wall, and there were wailing sounds.  This is the first time Shannan County Governor Fan Zhang has experienced being attacked by so many artillery pieces.  If it weren't for the quick hands and feet of his personal soldiers, the highest officer of Shannan County would have been buried along with the collapsed towers during the first wave of bombings, thus becoming the fastest defensive officer to die in history.  After several rounds of bombing, the highly nervous officers and soldiers of Shannan County found that nothing happened. The Han army did not let their infantry attack at this moment. It seemed that they were not ready to attack the city.  This made Fan Zhang breathe a sigh of relief. After the bombardment stopped, he began to organize people to clean up the messy city. Most of the defensive facilities on the city wall were destroyed.  There are broken walls and ruins everywhere, injured soldiers lying in the rubble and wailing miserably, and among the ruins, the remains of the soldiers who died in this round of artillery attacks can be seen everywhere.  The only thing that makes Fan Zhang happy is.  The main wall of Shannan County still stood proudly under the attack of artillery fire and did not suffer much damage.  Outside the city, He Lanxiong was summoning the commander of his engineering unit and the commander of the artillery battalion.  "Commander, based on the artillery strike just now, we can determine that the outer body of the main wall of Shannan County is made of a reinforced concrete structure. It is extremely strong. With our current artillery, we cannot cause too much damage to it.  Damage, and it is even more impossible to use engineers to destroy the wall. It cannot be dug at all, and it is completely worth the loss to destroy the wall against the enemy's counterattack. " "Then the engineers can do it for me.  What to do?" He Lanxiong asked with a frown.  "Commander, we can only build bigger and stronger siege vehicles, ladders and other objects for you. To capture Shannan County, I am afraid we will have to rely on infantry in the end." The engineer commander said a little embarrassedly: "  We can provide a sufficient number of siege vehicles for the infantry. This place is close to Huolan Mountain, and the wood is inexhaustible. We can continuously build siege vehicles." "Can't we build siege vehicles?The engineer commander shook his head: "Commander, the height of Shannan County City is too high and the angle is too large. It is difficult for the cavalry to launch a charge on it. Even if it is built and placed against the wall, it will be extremely easy for the defenders to defend. They can use  "The big steep angle will cause a lot of damage to our cavalry." "I, I understand, you go down and build more siege towers for our soldiers as you said. Remember, the more you build, the better."  If we are strong, our soldiers will reduce casualties, and this is the meaning of your engineers' existence." "We will do our best in the end!" The engineer commander bowed and retreated.  He Lanxiong's eyes turned to the artillery commander: "Can the artillery really blow up this damn city wall?" "Yes." The artillery commander nodded: "The outer wall of the entire Shannan County City is a whole, and the reinforced concrete structure gives it  The people of Qin are extremely resistant to destruction, and the Qin people are willing to spend money to build the entire wall into a whole, and it is thick enough that it is difficult for solid bullets to cause too much damage to it. Commander, I suggest that the artillery take over.  The main task is to cause damage to the Qin army defending the city and provide artillery cover for the infantry to attack the city. "From now on, the artillery can attack the county and city at any time, with the purpose of destroying and killing." He Lanxiong stood.  He got up and took a few steps back and forth in the tent, "Killing and wounding the enemy, destroying the enemy's defense facilities, and destroying the enemy's courage and will to the greatest extent. Making them feel irresistible." "The general will finally understand." "  Don't worry about the loss of artillery shells. We are the only one left in the entire Han army, and the rest are being repaired. The supply of logistics supplies will be sufficient, just because you can't use them up." He Lanxiong said with a smile: "This is also your practice.  This is a good opportunity to practice your artillery. Our artillery in the Third Military Region is not as good as the First and Second Military Region, and there are fewer opportunities for actual combat. In this battle, let your artillery practice their accuracy, and they will be able to show off their skills next year." "Yes!  "The artillery commander beamed with joy.  As far as he is concerned, there is no better news than this. The artillery fire is accurate. If you just say it without practicing, it is just some fake skills. A good gunner, an experienced gunner, is just feeding the artillery shells.  The Third Military Region is not the main theater, and there are not many opportunities for artillery live-fire exercises.  Now I am training with battle, and I don¡¯t have to worry about ammunition. This is a unique opportunity.  The artillery commander left happily.  He Lanjie walked in quickly.  "Commander, the tortoise shell in Shannan County is really hard." "It's hard enough. Since we can't break the tortoise shell, we can only go and chop off the head." He Lanxiong smiled and said: "Ajie, lead your troops to give  I'm building a ski platform. You should be very clear about the distance, right?" "Snow platform? High skiing?" He Lanjie was stunned and suddenly understood.  "Are you going to fly there?" "Climb on the ground and fly in the sky. I still don't believe that Shannan County City is really impregnable." He Lanxiong sneered.  "The characteristics of our Third Military Region must be fought out in this battle." The sound of artillery rumbled from time to time every day. The Qin army on the tower did not have any sense of security or a relatively safe time, because of the shelling below.  There is no pattern at all.  The sporadic bombardment never stopped, and occasionally there would be a salvo of hundreds of artillery pieces.  Some of the defense facilities that had just been built with great difficulty were destroyed again and again in such shelling.  What's even more terrible is that the soldiers on the city wall discovered that the opponent's artillery fire was getting more and more accurate. The sporadic artillery fire at first was often incomprehensible. Apart from the sound, it did not have much lethality. However, after three days, it was no longer effective.  The Qin army, which had been bombed countless times, found that the accuracy of those sporadic bombardments began to become scary.  This made the soldiers of the Qin army very distraught. They worked hard to carry the sand cannons up the city wall one by one. As soon as they were set up, a few cannonballs flew in and they were blown up into a mess. If one of them failed, several lives would have to be lost.  , in that case, why don¡¯t you take a chance on me!  The soldiers no longer wanted to show their faces on the city wall. They would rather stay under the city. Anyway, the Han army had no intention of rushing up to attack the city. No one wanted to climb on the city wall and die in vain.  What makes Fan Zhang even more anxious is that more and more Han army siege vehicles appear outside the city. In three days, there have been more than a hundred such siege vehicles.  The height of these siege vehicles is the same as the city wall. Once they are allowed to get close to the city wall, the consequences will be disastrous.  What puzzled him even more was that the Han army used snow to build high platforms outside the city. He saw that those high platforms were getting higher and higher day by day, far exceeding the height of the city wall. And behind these high platforms, they also built long walls.  ramp.  Because the Han army was bombarding them day and night, the city did not have enough counterattack measures. They actually watched as the snow platforms were built little by little until they were only more than a hundred meters away from the city wall.  "This is not going to work. If it continues like this, the Han army will not need to fight. The Qin army will collapse under such pressure.  Fan Zhang decided to do it first no matter what.Let's fight to boost our morale.  (To be continued.) Mobile phone users please visit http://m.piaotia.net
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