Chapter 793 War is the best teacher
"According to the Earl of Sampoly, the walls of Xia Lucheng have been around for nearly a hundred years.
The first Archbishop of Thousand River Valley was Ustchu, who used lime, rice pulp and large pieces of granite.
Since then, successive bishops and nobles have repaired and expanded the city walls many times in order to prevent being besieged by the Kush nobles and rebels.
Before the witch Meliati steals the royal family, the latest wall repair was twenty-three years ago. ”
On the slope about four or five hundred meters away from Xia Lucheng, Ravl and the King's Special Envoy blew the cold wind in the snow and pointed at Xia Lucheng in the distance.
The fat man wearing a mink hat and a thick short and thick beard on his lips looked like a Norn from the North.
But he was actually a serious Heshangyu nobleman, who had been traveling around the border of the Kingdom of Non for many years.
"Is this far?" Squinted and looked at Xia Lucheng in the snow, the king's envoy said dissatisfied, "Can't you look closer?"
Ravl shook his head flatly: "This is the nearest place. Although the clockwork is not accurate enough from five hundred to six hundred yards, they have divination spells. Who knows?"
He took out his pipe from his arms tremblingly, and then clamped it with his carrot-like fingers. The King's envoy took a breath before signaling Ravl to continue.
In front of the red envoy with a cold nose, Ravl, as the Great Knight, only wore a short jacket to shelter the wind, but it seemed that it was still in autumn.
"In the past two years, Moliati has made some transformations to the city defense to a certain extent and cleared the moat.
On the periphery of the moat, she also built a chest wall and a watchtower with rammed earth and fences.
Behind the chest wall and the watchtower, the new and old city walls are connected to form a triangular city wall. ”
The king's envoy nodded while listening and looking at the triangular wall protruding from the city wall in the distance, he knew it was the "triangle castle" in the information.
In the letter from the Duke of Wingchas, the awkwardness of this special vault is vigorously described.
Its interior is solid and has a clockwork cannon installed on it, making it difficult to place the siege tower at sharp corners, and attacking from the side will be attacked by both sides.
If you attack the city wall between the two protrusions, that is, the "concave", you will be attacked from three sides.
These Kush people in Thousand River Valley are very good at hard crossbows, especially the mountain people who can shoot arrows.
The Duke of Wingschat suffered a lot in the war of the gravel origin.
"Don't we also have a clockwork gun? Take it to the city." As the king's confidant, the special envoy naturally knew the current situation.
In this case, no matter what magic or alchemy it is, let’s use it first.
To say something else, these Lea people may not want to learn or cannot.
But they learn very quickly when it comes to this war-related thing.
The clockwork gun fell into their hands, and under the guidance of the surrendered gunners, he understood this new weapon in two or three weeks.
Although it is not as accurate as the people in Qianhe Valley, they are quite good.
"The outer wall of Xia Lucheng City is 4 methods (7 to 8 meters), and the inner wall is 6 methods (11 to 12 meters), and the clockwork cannons placed in higher places are longer than the clockwork cannons we collected.
Moreover, many triangular forts are thick city walls repaired with mortar. Our three-pound and six-pound clockwork cannons will probably take a long time to hit. ”
"What about the water battle? Or is it called the red knight swimming?"
"There is no wall built in a quarter of Xia Greentown, but there are shore defense cannons installed, so the warships cannot pass.
As for the level of the Red Knights, you also know that their intelligence is low. Once they succeeded before, the enemy was prepared for it, and it would be difficult for them to have a second time. ”
The envoy took a breath of his pipe and vomited out the thick smoke from the traditional school: "Prince Kong Dai put such a strong city but did not defend it, but he wanted to go out to meet the enemy... Ruozhi."
"I can't say that." Ravl made a smooth move for the dead Prince Kong Dai. "He was in a hurry and had to fight quickly, and the city defense at that time was not as strict as it is today."
The special envoy sucked the clouds and asked in a hoarse voice: "I have heard enough of the city defense, let's talk about the defenders."
Ravle waved and immediately a priest handed over a scroll.
"At present, there are 8,000 defenders, 3,000 militiamen, and 40 to 50 firecrackers. The city originally had 60,000 to 80,000 residents, but later they took a boat and moved to tens of thousands of mountain people in the military camp. At this time, it is estimated that there are about 50,000 people.
Because we failed to control the Naoan River, two clockwork cannons on the bank blocked our warships, resulting in the subsequent food, grass and weapons being transported to Xia Green City. ”
"Do they have a risk of food outages in the short term?"
"No."
"How long will it take to capture this city?"
"At the current progress, it may take one year."
"There are 48,000 people outside your city!"
Ravl frowned: "At that time, the 100,000 army of the Flesh and Blood Royal Court besieged the Holy Seal City for three years, and there were only 9,000 defenders in the city. Did they conquer it?"
And there is another point that he didn't speak.
The people in Xia Lucheng City are united, and the troops outside the city are mixed with fish and dragons, including a large number of vassals and vassals.
In addition to the 20,000 people directly under the king brought by Ravl, there are also-
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The army of vassals in Xianshidian was led by Earl Monberd.
The vassal army of Dawn Island was nine thousand led by Duke Siontuster.
Eight thousand members of the Norn Allied Army called from the Bear Castle, and seven thousand members of the Thousand River Valley Returning Nobles.
The vassal army in Xianshidian and Liming Island is okay to fight a smooth battle, but it would be extremely unwilling to ask them to attack the city desperately.
Soon, the 12,000 troops of the Osla family were about to arrive, but I don’t know how many troops His Highness Ginnigis could bring.
After sucking a few sips of cigarettes, the special envoy kicked the rock block and kicked a piece of sandstone out of cracks: "Mad, this is not OK, that's not there. Can this female grandfather really guard against the day of judgment?"
Raffle pinched his eyebrows: "We made a mistake in the judgment of Xia Lucheng City. Even if we risked the risk of being cut off by Moriyati, we should take Xia Lucheng directly."
"Did her plan work, that royal pharmacist? Is there any reaction in the city?"
Ravl didn't speak, just rubbed the ruby on the hilt of the sword.
In the wind and snow, the soldiers who had just spent the New Oriental Festival in the barracks walked onto the snow-covered land under the whip of the knights.
They waved their shovels and pickaxes, and were winding towards the excavation tunnel towards Xia Lucheng, approaching the city wall by geo-excavation.
This is the attack method adopted by Ravl after he thought hard, which is the attack method in the military book "Siege" compiled by Arbod, King Lea, the previous dynasty.
However, the method of attacking the hole is to collapse the city wall, while Ravl's excavation operation is to prevent the soldiers from becoming living targets.
This idea came up in November, but it took more than half a month to mobilize the shovel pickaxe and mobilize the soldiers to excavate.
It is now January 1449, and four methods (1.9 meters) of depth were dug, and the two sides were filled with vine baskets with bulletproof trenches.
At first they used a straight trench and were hit by a flesh-and-blood alley by six-pound cannons.
After learning from the pain, Ravl brainstormed his ideas and came up with the Z-shaped trench, and then digged the parallel trench about sixty yards away from the rammed earth chest wall.
It is January 12th, after ten days of parallel excavation, they have entered a fifty yard range and started fighting with the soldiers behind the fence and the chest wall.
In comparison, Ravl still wants to take the city upright.
If the pharmacist's method worked, I'm afraid Xia Lucheng would not be able to live in two or three years.
"The excavation operation is also being carried out in the direction of Adan Fort. If Adan Fort is broken, the rear path in the city will be cut off. We can bypass it and attack Xia Ruifu County in the rear."
"If not, then vote for those cattle and sheep who died of illness again." The envoy bit the accent on the word "morbidity".
(This chapter ends)