The siege vehicles under the city have three-inch thick wooden boards on the top gable roof and two-inch thick wooden boards on both sides. People push them inside. The wheels are made from the cross-section of a whole big tree and are very strong.
The muskets on the city wall kept firing, and the bullets were basically embedded in the wooden boards instead of penetrating.
Occasionally, shots fired through the gap hit one or two people.
Some accidentally exposed part of their bodies and were hit by muskets, but overall the casualties were greatly reduced.
Yang Fan watched as these siege vehicles opened the front baffles, and the people inside began to dig soil, chop wood piles, and destroy barbed wire fences.
"A small trebuchet uses a whole stone to launch."
With an order, each trebuchet was loaded with a twenty-kilogram stone. The weight of forty kilograms dropped from an altitude of more than 100 meters, which was enough to smash these siege vehicles.
"One, two, three, release" the officers were shouting.
With a roar, the swing arm reached its peak, and the net bag suddenly threw the stone out.
According to the observation on the city wall, accurately hit the siege vehicle outside the barbed wire fence.
Twenty stone bombs, five of them immediately, hit the gabled roof of the siege vehicle. The forty kilograms of weight directly smashed through the roof. Broken wood flew everywhere, and there was a scream inside.
Of the ten people crowded inside, three were smashed into a pulp, and two had their legs crushed by rolling stone bullets. The remaining five ran out of the siege vehicle, screaming crazily, and were then shot by muskets from the city head.
They were called and fell down one after another.
"Quickly, push up the catapults, shoot at them, and smash their trebuchets." Jia La E Zhen Alinzhe, who was leading the formation, shouted loudly.
The cavalry quickly threatened the bandits with their spears and pushed the catapult forward.
Soon these catapults moved to a place where they could hit the city wall and go further in. Alinger judged that the catapults in this village should be not far inside the city wall. This distance could destroy them.
Mo Zuo was lying on the battlement, watching Jiannu setting up a catapult, and checked the distance. He used what his master taught him, stretched out his right thumb, and measured the distance with his two eyes alternately. He thought about it in his mind and cursed in his heart.
.What a fool, but he’s pretty experienced.
"Move the catapult back ten feet," Mo Zuo turned around and shouted towards the city.
The soldiers below the city quickly pushed their catapults back.
"Okay, that's it. Load the bombs, load the cobblestones, load more small ones. Hurry"
Just as he was shouting, Jiannu's catapult had been fixed. Dozens of bandits pulled the rope together, and with a roar, stone bullets crossed the parabola one after another and hit the city.
The soldiers on the city wall exclaimed and lowered their heads.
The catapults of the Jiannu slaves were crudely made and had poor performance. They flew over the city from a low place.
At the position where he left just now, a pile of rocks smashed into the ground.
Suddenly the dust flew up and the earth trembled.
Huang San saw that the spot where he was just now was hit hard by a large stone weighing ten kilograms, and the stone penetrated three feet deep into the ground. He was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.
"Let the soldiers on top of the city start reporting the location of the enemy's catapults," Yang Fan ordered.
You can see the location of the enemy's catapults from the top of the city, but the enemy cannot see the location of the catapults inside the city. You have taken advantage.
"Launch" After adjusting the range, fifty strong men pulled the rope fiercely again, and forty kilograms of pebbles quickly flew into the sky under the swing of the rocker arm.
Looking from the outside, some small black dots appeared in the sky again.
There was a crackling sound, dust rose up on the ground of Jiannu's trebuchet, and eight to nine hundred cobblestones fell down. Such large cobblestones would have limited damage to the sturdy trebuchets, but they would do no harm to the dozens of soldiers operating these trebuchets.
A fatal blow indeed.
Both the bandits who pulled the ropes and the slave cavalry who watched them were smashed to pieces. Their bones were broken and their tendons were broken. They fell to the ground. There were injured people everywhere, wailing all over the ground.
"emission"
"emission"
This small catapult fires very quickly and has a short range. It can fire almost once a minute.
After the fifth cover, Jiannu's catapult finally collapsed, and all the operating bandits shouted and fled in all directions. Jiannu's cavalry immediately moved their horses forward and stabbed them with their spears, but they could not stop them from escaping at all.
"Shangzi camp and Xiazi camp, all of them, follow me out of the city to counterattack." Yang Fan saw that the catapult had been routed and the troops behind had been scattered, so he immediately launched a counterattack without delay.
The city gate opened wide, and a gate-blocking cart was pushed out amid the roars of the soldiers.
The gate-blocking knife cart is a large cart with two wheels. In front of it is an upright wooden board with rows of knives pointing outwards. The shape just fits the city gate opening.
If the city gate is broken, use this to block the city gate opening.
When the bandits outside saw the city gate opened, they were overjoyed and were about to rush in. They saw a wooden car full of dazzling knives blocking the city gate tightly, and quickly rushing toward me, and they were frightened.
He was so distraught that he turned around and ran away.
The first siege cart rushed out of the city, then the second, and then the third. Soon fifteen taels of siege carts rushed out one after another, forming a semicircular formation outside the city gate. Pushing
These sword and cart drivers are from Baihusuo. They are responsible for guarding the city gate and guarding the escape route for Yang Fan.
Wang Zongqi and Zhang Zongqi, with their 120 people from Baihusuo, which were already less than the number of people, relied on these swords and carts to guard. Yang Fan led two battalions of infantry with muskets to rush out from the center of the swords and carts array and attack those outside the city.
Siege vehicle.
The backs of these siege vehicles were empty and had no wooden protection at all. When they saw the group training coming from behind, they all got out of them.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Under the continuous fire of muskets, these unprotected bandits were living targets. They were knocked down one by one. If there were those who rushed up, the soldiers immediately installed the heads of their muskets and began to assassinate them.
The musket with the gun head mounted on it is 1.8 meters long, which is almost the same as the length of a flower gun. The machetes in the hands of the bandits are only a little over 1 meter long, which is no match for them.
Zhao Shuigen led his ten brothers and rushed to the front, knocking down the bandits in the siege vehicle one by one. He shot out the two barrels of the guns, then installed the gun heads and began to assassinate.
The bandits were completely in disarray, and the slave-building cavalry were also among them.
A cavalryman who couldn't run was useless in Zhao Shuigan's opinion.
He stabbed a disoriented cavalryman who was scolding the running bandits, directly stabbing him in the lower back and knocking him off the horse. The cavalryman covered his lower back and squatted on the ground unable to get up. Zhao Shuigan
He stabbed him in the neck again and sent him away.
When the upper camp moved to both sides to attack the siege vehicles approaching the city, Yang Fan led the lower camp and rushed directly towards the group of bandits who were carrying ladders behind the siege vehicle and preparing to attack.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Rows of muskets were fired intensively, and the bandits fell down one after another. Among them were the individual cavalrymen who were supervising them. They also fell off their horses under the close range bombardment of the muskets.
The entire military formation was in complete chaos, with people running around like pigs and wolves everywhere, and some even threw away their weapons. The lower camp was divided into 15 squadrons, with thirty people in each squadron forming a small triangular square.
The formation consists of sword and shield soldiers on the outside, musketeers in the middle, and spear soldiers inside.
Charge bravely and completely disrupt the offensive formation.
