Sun En said, waved his hand, and the camp door behind him opened wide. Dozens of tall trebuchets were pushed out by thousands of soldiers, bypassing Sun En and others, and pushed directly to a place about two miles away from the city, and placed them in sequence. put.
There was a small commotion at the top of the city, and many sergeants who had not experienced a war shouted in horror: "No, it's a catapult. The enemy is about to attack the city, they are about to attack the city!"
Yuan Song also turned pale. After all, he was a civil servant and had never experienced an offensive or defensive battle. His voice trembled slightly: "Wei, Chief Wei, what should we do now?" Mobile::
Chen Yi said in a deep voice: "Don't worry, Governor. We at Hudu Fortress also have more than twenty catapults and giant crossbows. If we roll them out now and shoot at the thieves, we won't suffer any loss."
Yuan Song quickly said: "Okay, okay, hurry up and push them out to kill these demon thieves."
Wei Shunzhi waved his hand: "Wait a minute, Mr. Yuan, the thieves' first attack on the city must be based on testing. The enemy is strong and we are weak, the fortress is small, and there is no room for transformation. If the positions of our catapults and crossbows are exposed now, the thieves will It will be destroyed by concentrated attacks. What we need to do now is to hide our strength. If the demon thieves want to attack the city, they can only attack the west side of the city. The other places near the sea are full of cliffs. They can't get up. They can only rely on throwing stones. , they can’t destroy our fortified stone city!”
Yuan Song's brows widened, and he smiled at Chen Yi and said, "Have you seen it? It turns out that Lord Wei has experience, so just do as he said."
Chen Yi turned back to the soldiers at the top of the city and said loudly: "Everyone, listen up. According to the drill beforehand, one person from each team will be left at the top of the city to hide behind the crenellations and parapets. The rest will quickly go down to the city. All the residents in the city will gather here. Stay at home, do not go out, and prepare to face enemy troops throwing stones!"
Following his orders, the city quickly began to evacuate. Many soldiers who had wanted to leave for a long time ran down the city tower as if they were running away. They did not celebrate until they hid on the back of the city wall and stood close to the wall, because I know I am safe for now.
At this moment, all the trebuchets on the opposite side were loaded. Sun En had an evil smile on his face and waved his hand: "Smash it, let the people in Hudu Fortress see what is real." fear!" : :
"Woo swoosh", the sound of arms drooping, and the sound of flying stones breaking through the air, can be heard endlessly. Along with the bursts of cheers from Tianshi Dao sergeants outside the city, stones flying all over the sky, like raindrops, flew up At the top of the city wall of Hudu, Yuan Song had already been helped into a wall under the city wall. Hearing the sound of things falling to the ground on his head, his eyebrows were almost beating. A great scholar and celebrity who could write dozens of volumes of the Later Han Dynasty and countless poems handed down from generation to generation, when faced with a real war, was as nervous as a child, rubbing his hands constantly and saying: "These, these are the slings." Wow, so scary, so scary!”
Chen Yi smiled slightly: "Don't worry, Mr. Yuan, these stones can't destroy our Hudu Fortress. From the situation above, it sounds like there may not be any fortifications destroyed yet. Lord Wei is right, the enemy is just testing with small stones." The sexual attack wants us to expose the weaknesses of our fortifications."
Wei Shunzhi's ears pricked up, his brows furrowed, and he shook his head: "No, these are not stones, and the sound they made was completely different. It seemed like..."
Suddenly there was a burst of exclamations and screams in the city, accompanied by some people crying: "Oh my god, isn't this Li Erfu from Liu Laozhuang?"
"Ah, she is my aunt from Qijiagou outside the city. My aunt, you died so miserably!"
"I've seen this person before. He's Li Sanhu from Nancheng. He went out to the city to do some shopping the day before yesterday. Why, how did it end up like this!"
"That's right, it's Li Sanhu. Sanhu, what will your wife do if she dies?"
Wei Shunzhi bit his lip and said in a deep voice: "Sure enough, this is what happened again. The demon thieves slaughtered the people who were robbed outside the city, beheaded them and threw them into the city to shock people and spread panic."
The roaring sound outside the city gradually ended. Yuan Song looked towards the inner city from the observation port on the wall. He saw one or two thousand bloody heads scattered in the streets and alleys, above the treetops and roofs. Many people in the city have already run out of their homes and are identifying these heads on the street. More and more people are going to the heads they know, holding them and crying bitterly. Even if no relatives or acquaintances have been killed, The sergeants who were killed were all watching silently, their faces showing not only anger but also horror and silence.
Sun En's voice sounded outside the city again: "Listen up, people in the city, these heads belong to the people of Wu County. They thought your Governor Yuan could protect you, so they stayed at home. Yesterday the divine army defeated Liu Yu After being chased by the pursuers, they thought of escaping. It was already too late. These people captured by us have been possessed by evil spirits. According to the will of the heavenly master, they will all be killed, and their heads will be given to you people in the city and left behind. Burying you is also a warning to you. If you don’t follow the Heavenly Master and fight against the divine religion, this is the fate you will suffer.”
Yuan Song was so angry that he trembled all over, got out from the wall, held the city wall, and shouted: "Sun En, you, you inhumane beast! What do you have to do with the people when the two armies are fighting? You will lose everything. If you are a conscientious person and massacre people, there will be retribution!"
Sun En laughed and said, "Did the soldiers and people in the city see that this is your governor? This man is called a famous scholar, but he can only recite poems, compose poems, dance, and write. He has no military talent at all. He can't protect the people outside the city and makes them die. The same goes for you people in the city. If you continue to follow this incompetent governor, your heads will be cut off and then thrown into Jiankang City and Jingkou Town by the leader of the cult to warn those fools who are fighting against the divine religion!"
He then waved his hand, and the dozens of catapults behind him suddenly sank with their arms at the same time. Wei Shunzhi shouted: "No!" With a tiger pounce, Yuan Song was grabbed around the waist and fell into the underground. Inside the wall, he fell from a height of several feet. Yuan Song had never suffered like this before. If the landing place below was not a haystack, I am afraid that this well-off man would have been hit directly. Either dead or disabled.
However, the place where he was standing just now was hit by at least three watermelon-sized stones. The sound of screams could be heard in the city. The soldiers and civilians who had just come out to identify the heads were hit by real stones. The cries of women and meat resounded throughout the city, accompanied by the screams of rocks above their heads and the thuds of rocks hitting the ground, echoing throughout the entire Hudu Fortress, while the sky on both sides of the sea and land In the Shidao military camp and warships, gongs and drums were beating in unison, and the sound of drums and horns was so loud that everyone in Hudu City felt short of breath, chest tightness, and difficulty breathing.
This chapter has been completed!