The light curtain of the magic array was raised to block it, six or seven red fires exploded in the air, and iron pieces poured down like a torrential rain. This was successfully intercepted by five real people in advance, and some intercepted two.
Liu Zhenren hurriedly intercepted a real leaf fire thunder 300 meters away, and exploded it with a "bang"
Before I could take a breath, I saw several flames shining brightly in several places, followed by deafening explosions. The ripples of impact made many people on the wall unsteady, and mushroom clouds rose.
Even if most of them were oil cans and rocks, even one percent would cause the sky to be filled with flames, and flesh and blood would burn in the splash of oil fire.
Most of the city walls were made of stone bricks, but there were also wooden structures. In the mushroom cloud explosion, pieces of paper collapsed and burned.
The iron pieces, like arrows, passed through the bodies of the soldiers and officers, and the iron armor could not stop them at all, causing their stumps to splatter with blood.
The collapse scattered debris and caused huge casualties on the city. Soldiers were blown away or fell down. More people rolled around and screamed, and some people suddenly lost their hearing.
In the thick smoke, Master Liu immediately hid behind an obstacle. His own self-defense skills may not be able to withstand such a huge lethality.
When the smoke dissipated, Master Liu could see the situation clearly. The city wall where the mushroom cloud was located was full of mutilated corpses of soldiers and officers. Their bodies had turned into corpses, and their internal organs were everywhere, but they had not completely lost their lives.
It's still squirming and steaming.
But the next moment, Master Liu breathed a sigh of relief. Even in the area where the mushroom cloud exploded, the protective array worked. There were cracks and collapses, but the holes were not big.
Just as he was thinking about it, a sound made him startle. He looked carefully. It was an officer who had been blown up to the wall and fell down. He was still alive for a moment, struggling vaguely and mouthing loudly.
A large mouthful of blood spurted out.
Master Liu couldn't help but cursed, and he didn't know who he was scolding.
And then, the soldiers woke up from the shock of the explosion, their morale was devastated, and they instinctively cried and fled. However, after a moment, Liu Zhenren heard the officer's angry scolding and ordering. Looking from above, he saw a group of soldiers rushing towards them.
When he came up, he raised his sword and chopped: "Whoever dares to escape will be punished on the spot."
At this time, they woke up and the officers shouted orders: "Whoever dares to escape will be punished on the spot."
"Dong dong"
The enemy's war drums sounded, and another female voice's order spread throughout the battlefield: "Let go"
"call--"
The second wave of meteor showers struck again from the opposite side, leaving no chance to breathe. Firelights fell one after another. Amid the hoarse shouts of the real people, the city walls shook violently, deafening explosions continued, and dense firelight and smoke rose into the sky.
This 200-meter-long area was shrouded in thick smoke. This time, twenty leaf fire thunders were added, and the casualties were even more heavy... The iron fragments flying within the area can be described as dense as rain.
Within the range, no matter who was wearing heavy armor or wearing civilian clothes, no matter who they were, they were all swept away. Thick blood mist filled the air, and flesh and blood spattered all over the ground.
Fortunately, people survived, but people kept calling Han people like crazy, crowding each other and blocking each other, causing a lot of chaos.
Many Xiliang soldiers had extremely frightened eyes, and some of the Qiang soldiers who were usually the bravest were shouting wildly, almost thinking they were being punished by heaven.
On the gate tower of the core protection, Hu Zhen himself was not affected at all. He only stared at the special envoy: "If this happens two or three times, the morale will collapse. If you want to continue the fight, you must upgrade the magic circle protection."
"This won't work...our mana will be lost in advance..."
"This business" Hu Zhen's eyes were about to spit out fire: "Cao Cao's feedback is very clear. Ye Qing does not have enough Ye Huolei in his hand. How many are there in total? Fifty? If you kill them, you can't raise one hundred.
There are only so many...
The special envoy's face was very ugly. He knew this was true. Not long after the aura of Xiato was in full swing, the output of spiritual stones was not much. However, he thought that these native cannon fodder could last a few more rounds, but now they have to take action in the first round.
Wouldn't it be extremely dangerous to fight like this?
Hu Zhen thought he was considering the number, so he couldn't help but persuade more urgently: "The total amount must be this much. He doesn't have to rush to add twenty in the second round. This is because you are afraid that we will react and you will no longer need this magic circle."
, he dared to press them all in the third round and destroyed them directly.”
The special envoy was shocked and suddenly understood that this was a fact. Ye Qing's usual style would indeed lead to this.
Moreover, Zhang Jue's order also echoed in his ears: "The elite of our sect, led by Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, are operating in Hanzhong in the southwest... Your side is strong, and the bottom line is more than five days."
Master gave a clear order that if you don’t want to die, you must not cross this bottom line...
"Open the magic circle with all your strength and pay attention to replenishing spiritual objects. All magicians will follow the drilled order and follow the orders to take their positions..."
"Replenishing Battle Damage"
"Fight back"
Although there was a Taoist priest transmitting the message, there were some things that could not be replaced by nervousness and drive. The general was shouting at the top of his lungs.
A curtain of crystal light rose in Guancheng, and the military spirit boiled.
Ye Qing saw him from a distance under the commander's banner, exchanged a few words with Qianqian, and then looked back at the surprise counselors Guo Jia, Xu You, and Chen Deng and nodded: "Thanks to all of you for planning and planning in the past few days, I caught the enemy by surprise...
…But we’re not happy yet.”
"The war has just begun"
"However, if we had hundreds of leaf fire thunders, we could have destroyed them in one fell swoop." Ye Qing said with a bit of regret.
"Lord, even if there are not hundreds of Ye Huolei, everything is under your control." Guo Jia took a step forward and said.
"Haha!" Ye Qing smiled and said nothing, and ordered: "The opponent's formation has been fully activated. I don't dare to cancel it at will. The stone throwing group should be replaced with ordinary stone bullets."
"Also, the subsequent construction will be accelerated."
The "yes" order was issued immediately.
"Hurry up--"
Behind the trebuchet matrix group, 1,500 meters away from Hulao Pass, large-scale earth-building operations are underway.
Hundreds of thousands of sergeants were assigned to work on a long or short embankment of earth according to the princes they belonged to. There were several hundred sergeants in teams. Basically, they did not wear armor and were only equipped with long swords for defense.
, one by one, carrying thick and heavy bags of earth, they trotted all the way from the excavation site near the camp and dumped them on the nascent earth embankment, and there was a wave of soil tamping hands on the embankment responsible for compacting the soil.
It seems that one of the advantages of the farming tradition is that the traditional skill of Chinese soldiers is civil engineering. The establishment of any camp will be accompanied by the establishment of a large number of trenches and earth walls. Therefore, the excavation work that was carried out beforehand did not alarm Dong Zhuofang at all, and even regarded it as
This is evidence of the deep defensive barriers between the princes in each camp.
No one knew Ye Qing's intention in ordering this project. Even the governor and Yu Fan had just learned of the order... because Ye Qing wanted to borrow the labor of their soldiers.
Yu Fan stood on the slope, looking through the fog at the fierce trebuchet attack in front of him. Ye Qing seemed to have exhausted the Ye Huolei. Even the kerosene bombs that were specially designed to kill soldiers were also fired, and all were replaced by ordinary ones.
Stone bullet.
Amidst the rumbling sound, the sky above the three miles ahead was filled with flying gray shadows. Every time they landed, there was a bloody storm, destroying houses and siege equipment...
The raging fire caused by thousands of kerosene bombs on the wall of Hulao Pass has already hit the face. The Taoist priest group on the opposite side spent a lot of money to put out the fire with rain. The ordinary stone bullets only caused a tremor on the city wall reinforced by the magic circle.
Even if there was no serious problem, it still dealt a heavy blow to the defenders of Hulao Pass. The number of thousands of trebuchets was probably five times as many as those in the pass... It was simply a heavy firepower crushing them.
There are fewer and fewer stone bombs being thrown out of Guancheng. It is obvious that they are suppressed and destroyed by concentrated fire. Once a situation of pure beating in the air is formed, morale will decline even faster.
Yu Fan knew that when attacking and defending Pingyuan Guancheng, the defender would be at a disadvantage in the total number of offensive and defensive equipment due to the inferior strength of its troops. Due to the limited capacity of the city and various street restrictions, no matter how big the Guancheng was, it would be dwarfed by the enemy's larger front.
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"Ye Qing should know that no matter how low the morale of the Xiliang Army is, it is a regular army after all. The officers and men above and below are unanimous, and they are still determined to defend for ten days... He never thought that it would be as easy as Xuzhou to defeat the Qingzhou thieves..."
Thinking of this, he frowned and wanted to go back to Ye Qing's order to build the earthworks. He laughed at himself, thinking that he was being treated as a handyman again.
"Just bear with it for now." He said calmly. After all, this was not about using his soldiers as cannon fodder, which was very satisfying. What really made people suspicious was Ye Qing's purpose.
Shooting in formation?
The ten-meter-high earth embankment standard is the same as Hulao Pass, but the distance of three miles is too far. The longest effective range of the big yellow crossbow is only one mile, and the last row of the trebuchet matrix cannot reach this position. Even if Ye Qing steps back,
The improved "Thunderbolt Car" cannot hit Guancheng...
Or build a mound of earth and attack the city?
Stacking 1,500 meters all the way, it can be kept flush with the city wall under the protection of the crossbow array, but it is meaningless to just pile up a few ramps. As long as the Hulao Pass array is not broken, the magician has many ways to
People rushed down several ramps...
Yu Fan thought to himself that if he had a long-term confrontation, he would build a slope of dirt along the entire ten-mile front if he had no other choice, but he would not choose 1,500 meters. How much earthwork would be needed for such a distance... Are you crazy?
Yu Fan doesn't think Ye Qing is crazy, even if Ye Qing is crazy, his group of counselors will not be crazy...
More importantly, Taiping Dao Master revealed the secret of Dragon Qi - Ye Qing's Dragon Qi has moved. This fact cannot be concealed. It is a quick attack.
Could it be that after the navy's westward expedition and Gongsun Zan's attack on Jizhou, this dragon's quick attack was the third obstacle?
"Everyone knows that the real people in Taiping Dao are clearly demons from the outside world. Whether they can be trusted or not, I'm afraid I can't guarantee whether what I say is accurate...otherwise, the assassination that night would cost three real people the money to go in?"
Yu Fan frowned and tried to think in Ye Qing's shoes.
Maintaining the slope of the mound like this is still very unfavorable for the Xiliang Army, because it will turn the coalition's five-fold advantage in strength into huge pressure - clearly it means piling up the number of people, crushing them with civil engineering works, and all kinds of subsequent conversion attacks.
There are all possibilities and it is very difficult to guard against.
In order to delay the attack of the coalition forces, even if they knew that both of them would be cannon fodder under the rain of arrows after the pile was close to each other, once the pile came close to Guancheng without sacrificing human lives, Taipingdao would have to expend mana to stop it.
In the previous secret negotiations, the governor and Yu Fan both promised to restrain the magicians from performing on the front line by conserving their strength in exchange for subsequent support from the Xiliang Army and Taiping Dao.
Political exchanges are what they are, but the victory is worth it.