The most taboo in a siege is to defend it passively. Whenever possible, the defenders should send as many troops as possible out of the city to fight.
After all, if you just hide in the city, it means that you are giving all the initiative of the war to the attackers. Then whether to attack, when to attack, and where to attack will be decided by others, and you will be in a passive position.
Of course, that's what's written in military books, but in practice...
As a veteran general, Fan Liangyong certainly knew that it would be best to go out of the city and fight a battle at this time. Not to mention the dream of repelling the Qinghe people, even a small victory would be good to boost the morale of the army.
Anyway, Jingdong has been blocked for quite some time. Not to mention the city defense fortifications, at least there is no shortage of food in the city. In addition, it is close to the river and has abundant groundwater. I have also stored a lot of coal as fuel in advance. If I insist on defending it, I should be able to hold it for quite some time.
But once you leave the city...
Pan Liangyong tried it twice, but the results were not very good.
The first time, he prepared a large army and marched out of the city in broad daylight, but ended up being defeated.
How should I put it? Even before the hand-to-hand combat began, the mortar shells thrown by the Qinghe people's crushers had caused him heavy casualties.
This made Pan Liangyong very angry.
Because catapults are heavy and difficult to move, and difficult to build, there are not too many of them, so they have been used to attack cities in the past. Even if a stone was occasionally thrown into the crowd, it only looked scary. A stone would not kill many people, and the casualties caused were far less than those caused by powerful crossbows.
But the people of Qinghe were too much. Not only did the number and range of their catapults far exceed expectations, they even threw tile bombs.
That thing really can't kill several people at once.
However, the flying debris after landing caused massive casualties to the attacking side.
Fortunately, the ones he brought with him were all old brothers, and they could be considered to have been on the battlefield for a long time. If it were a group of new recruits, they would have been defeated in one go, and then the enemy would have been able to suppress the team and roll up the bead curtain with one hand and rush directly into the city.
After they had finally managed to boost morale and charged forward despite casualties, they encountered trenches and barbed wire dug by the Qinghe people.
Anyone who uses this tactic on the battlefield has a completely bad conscience.
Given Qinghe's steel production, producing barbed wire is a piece of cake. The only slightly difficult part is bringing these things to the battlefield.
When Pan Liangyong led his soldiers forward bravely, what appeared before them was a trench that was ten feet deep and wide.
To be honest, the view from the city wall was not very clear. After Pan Liangyong observed the trench closely, he found that the people of Qinghe did not want to fight him in hand-to-hand combat, nor did they intend to let him rush out.
Of course, a ten-foot-wide trench wasn't a problem, but who would bring materials for building a bridge when charging? And if the army paused in front of the trench, they would simply be a target for the Qinghe people's catapults.
However, he didn't quite understand the purpose of the Qinghe people's barbed wire. As a defender, he absolutely couldn't have something he didn't understand, so he still ordered someone to give it a try.
In fact, the method is very simple.
Just jump into the trench from the Jingdong side and then find a way to get up.
Then on the other side of the trench, there are layers of barbed wire. These barbed wires are fixed to the ground in a circular shape by logs. There are sharp barbs on the barbed wire that are visible to the naked eye.
It looks scary, but can such a thin wire stop soldiers holding sharp weapons?
Soon, Pan Liangyong's doubts were answered.
First, the location of the trench had already been marked.
Once someone jumped into the trench, a team of catapults would accurately throw tiles into the trench.
The fragments of the shells caused multiple casualties in the narrow trench.
At this time, you can only rely on your luck and armor to climb out of the trench as soon as possible.
However, the three sides of the trench were hardened with cement by the Qinghe people.
Although the thickness of the cement layer was not that thick due to time constraints, it was unrealistic to climb up with bare hands. The best way was to use a ladder, but they did not have a ladder.
The second method is to use weapons to knock out a few leverage points on the cement layer. As long as there are leverage points, it will not be a problem for elite soldiers to climb a steep slope of several meters.
But the problem is that this takes time.
The third method requires a little patience.
As long as you are lucky enough and have not been hit by the shells and their fragments, you can wait in the trench with peace of mind until enough people die nearby, then you can use the bodies of your comrades to build a ladder to get out.
Of course, it is best not to use such a plan unless it is absolutely necessary. Otherwise, even if you avoid being killed by Qinghe, you will not be able to escape military punishment when you return to the city.
At Pan Liangyong's command, five hundred warriors jumped into the trench despite the bullets.
Then, under the gaze of both sides, several times more tile bombs were thrown into the trench, which made the entire Cambodian army's scalps tingle.
The falling of tiles was accompanied by the clanging sound coming from the trench. As a veteran of the battlefield, Pan Liangyong had ordered the remaining people to retreat to the city gate, ready to close it at any time. However, he himself, under the protection of two personal soldiers and with the help of a collapsed arrow tower, observed the movements in the trench.
Judging from the digging sounds coming from the trenches, there are at least two hundred people still alive.
Regarding this, Pan Liangyong didn't know whether he should be sad or relieved.
But since the chess piece has been thrown out, the rest is no longer under his control.
His only regret was that a captain he had worked so hard to train was also among the charging troops. Originally, these 500 men were assigned to the captain, who was to lead the battle. However, Pan Liangyong waited for a long time but received no response from the captain, so he must have been killed in the battle.
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