Hearing Yuan Shu mention the nightmare, Dian Wei also nodded. There is really no pressure when there is a nightmare. So far, he has never seen a city that can block the attack of a nightmare.
"Okay, there's nothing to see, let's go back."
Yuan Shu shook his head and led Dian Wei directly back to the army.
"General, the enemy's army has arrived. There are at least more than 200,000 troops. What should we do?"
The captain looked at the defending general Cantrach, his eyes full of worry.
"what to do?
Do your best to obey the destiny, order the soldiers in the city to be on alert, and be ready to fight at any time."
Cantrachi glanced at the other party, flicked his sleeves and left the city wall, leaving only the soldiers on the wall in a daze.
After Yuan Shu's army rested for a day, all the troops came out the next day and directly surrounded Hamatri.
"Tell us to go down and assemble the nightmare trebuchet. Since this is the first battle, we must show everything that needs to be shown and let the other side see our strength."
Since he wanted to fight, Yuan Shu had nothing to say and directly ordered the assembly of the nightmare trebuchet. If he wanted to do it, he would go for the big one.
"promise."
Tian Feng glanced at Yuan Shu and immediately understood what he meant, and went directly to give the order to assemble the nightmare trebuchet.
Fifty trebuchets immediately came out and began to be assembled in front of the army, and a building truck was also slowly being assembled. As the only seedling in the Jizhou army, Nightmare was assembled directly in the army, because his range was compared to ordinary trebuchets.
The machine exceeds too much.
The defenders of Hamatri were extremely nervous when they saw that the enemy was not attacking the city. They didn't know about the trebuchet, but they still knew about the cart. After the cart was assembled, a big battle would probably begin.
Ordinary trebuchets are very fast to assemble and can be assembled within a short period of time. The building carts are also modular and can be assembled very quickly. Only the nightmare trebuchet is too cumbersome to assemble.
“Your Majesty, why don’t you let the trebuchet hit you first?
Look at the quality of the other party?"
Seeing that the trebuchet was ready, Tian Feng directly suggested to Yuan Shu that the trebuchet should be fired first.
"Well, tell the trebuchet troops to launch and hit me hard."
Yuan Shu nodded. Now that the nightmare is not ready, let's let the trebuchet serve as an appetizer for the opponent.
"promise."
The order flag was erected directly on the commander's platform, and the trebuchet troops saw the flag message and directly conveyed the order to the trebuchets.
"All trebuchets calibrate their targets by themselves, and prepare with one calibrated projectile."
"Car No. 1 is ready."
"Car No. 2 is ready."
"Car No. 3 is ready."
After hearing the military order, all the trebuchets were prepared and reported the situation to the captain.
"put."
With an order, fifty trebuchets were launched at the same time, and fifty huge stone bullets pierced the sky and flew towards the city wall of Hamatri.
"Boom."
"Boom."
"Boom."
Loud noises were heard, forty of the fifty stone bullets hit the city wall, and ten heavy bullets either flew over the city wall and fell into the city, or failed to reach their destination and rolled under the city wall.
"hiss."
The defenders of Hamatri are now more experienced. The Kushan Empire also has trebuchets, but they are indeed a bit insignificant compared to China. Theirs are all manpower, and the opponent has already used mechanical ones.
There is no comparison at all.
"Instruct the soldiers to temporarily put away the city defense weapons to prevent them from being damaged by the enemy's trebuchets."
Kantrachi was a little surprised to see how fierce the opponent was. His first thought was to find a way to protect the city defense equipment. Otherwise, when the enemy attacked and the city defense weapons were all damaged, they would
Too passive.
"Each of you make adjustments, reload and replace with shotguns, let me release them."
Captain Yuan Wei took a look at the battle situation just now and directly ordered the trebuchet troops to reload with shotguns to annihilate the opponent's effective forces. Anyway, the city wall has nightmares to deal with, so these trebuchets can just kill people.
Fifty trebuchets were launched at the same time, and the barrage formed by scattered shells was like a dark cloud, slowly drifting towards the city wall of Hamatri.
"defense."
Seeing this situation, Cantrachi directly let out a heartbreaking cry. He didn't care about the heavy bomb just now.
After all, the Hamatri city wall is very strong. It is made of huge boulders transported from the Onion Territory. Heavy bullets cannot break the defense of the city wall.
But shotguns are different. The soldiers on the entire city wall are within the strike range of shotguns.
"Protect the General."
As soon as Canterage shouted, the captain of the guard beside him also reacted quickly and ordered the guard to hold the shield and wrap the opponent tightly in the middle.
The scattered bullets fell like rain hitting banana trees, shattering the shields of the soldiers on the city wall and killing people. Corpses were scattered everywhere, and blood was flowing everywhere.
After a wave of scattered bullets, Cantrachi came out from among the guards. Looking at the miserable condition of the soldiers on the city wall, he couldn't help but feel a rush of anger rushing to his forehead.
"Adjust the ballistics individually, shoot ten rounds of shotguns, and fire."
Seeing shotguns flying all over the city wall, Yuan Wei had nothing to say and directly ordered the trebuchets to start a continuous attack.
"put."
"put."
"put."
Fifty trebuchets continued to reload shotguns, and then rained shotguns on the city wall non-stop. Facing the offensive like a torrential rain, the Kushan soldiers hid as much as they could, even in obstacles.
Trachi only temporarily got into the tower to avoid the Chinese attack.
After ten consecutive shots, the trebuchet is temporarily stopped, because to ensure the durability of the trebuchet, it cannot work continuously at high intensity, and the trebuchet needs to be given a rest period.
"General, stop, the opponent's attack has stopped."
Seeing that the opponent's trebuchet had stopped working, a captain immediately came to Cantrach with his arms hanging down to report the situation.
"Immediately count the casualties and then arrange for soldiers to go up the city wall."
Hearing that the opponent's trebuchet had stopped, Cantrachi also appeared from the tower. Looking at the city wall that had turned into a hell on earth, his heart was bleeding.
These were all men from Li Te Province, and he really felt that it was not worth it to die under stones like this.
"General, this wave of attacks has damaged more than 2,000 of us, and nearly a thousand others have suffered varying degrees of injuries."
All are registered in the register. After repelling the enemy attack, I will report to the governor and give them the best subsidies.
"yes."
After resting for a while, the trebuchet started roaring again, hitting the city wall one by one with shotguns, constantly causing damage to the Kushan army.
"General, we can't continue like this. If we continue like this, our soldiers may all die under the rocks before the enemy infantry attacks the city."
The captain came to Cantrach, his eyes full of sadness.
"Then what else do you think we can do?
The enemy's trebuchets are so far away that our defensive weapons cannot reach them."
Hearing the captain's words, Kantrachi couldn't help but get angry. He also knew that he couldn't go on like this, but the current situation was that his technology was not as good as the opponent's, and he could only be beaten passively. How to defend himself.
"The opponent's offensive is a comprehensive attack. I guess they want to kill our soldiers first, and then send soldiers to attack the city.
In this case, we can let the soldiers wait under the city wall temporarily to avoid the enemy's attack.
After their infantry sieges the city, their siege equipment will inevitably stop. At that time, we will defend the opponent's attack on the upper city, so as to minimize the damage to the soldiers."
The captain directly said the countermeasures he thought of. The opponent's trebuchet was so powerful that he and I could not resist it. Instead of waiting for death on the city wall, it would be better to pull the people down first and wait until the opponent attacks the city.
At that time, I sent people to climb the city wall and fight them to the death.
"Okay, you are right. I will do as you said. Instruct the soldiers to temporarily go down the city wall to avoid the enemy's attack, and then come up when they attack the city."
Hearing what the other party said, Kantrachi's eyes also lit up. What a wonderful move. Anyway, now that his city defense equipment can't be activated at all and the enemy doesn't attack, why are he still wasting his time here?
With Cantrach's order, all the soldiers on the city wall seemed to be fleeing and got off the city wall, leaving only a few dozen soldiers behind the wall stacks to observe the enemy's movements.
"The enemy has learned a lesson, so stop shooting."
Seeing that the enemies on the city wall had learned to be smart and began to avoid their sharp edges, Yuan Wei directly announced that the trebuchets had stopped shooting, and then went to see Yuan Shu on the commander's platform.
"Your Majesty, Yuan Wei has something to report."
Yuan Wei knelt down on one knee and spoke to Yuan Shu.
"Word."
After such a long period of training, Yuan Wei had already developed his own unique understanding of the trebuchet.
"Your Majesty, the enemy is now afraid of my trebuchet attack and has chosen to hide his troops in the city. I suggest that we pause the trebuchet launch now and then command the soldiers to conduct a feint attack to make the enemy think we are about to attack. At this time, let the soldiers suddenly retreat.
Then use the trebuchet to attack the enemy to maximize the damage to the enemy."
Yuan Wei directly expressed his thoughts. Since the enemy chose to temporarily leave the city wall in order to prevent the trebuchet attack, he would temporarily stop the attack and send soldiers to pretend to attack. He would definitely be able to catch the opponent's soldiers and horses, and then use the trebuchet to attack.
A devastating blow.
"Okay, I allow you to implement it, Jiang Qin, with the Shesheng Fifth Army as the vanguard and you as the commander-in-chief responsible for attacking the city, but you must obey Yuan Wei's orders."
Yuan Shu now has all his generals sent to support Zhao Yun. Only Xu Chu, Jiang Qin, and Ju Yi are left here. Ju Yi and Xu Chu are both reckless and unsuitable for command, so he will command the front row of soldiers to attack.
The task of the city was handed over to Jiang Qin.
"promise."
Jiang Qin directly saluted Yuan Shu with clasped fists, and then came to the front row of soldiers, preparing to command the battle.
"General Jiang Qin, I will order the trebuchets to pause now, and then the general will lead his soldiers to attack the city. When the enemy's soldiers appear on the city wall to prepare for defense, you will immediately order the soldiers to retreat."
Yuan Wei glanced at Jiang Qin and told him his arrangement.
"okay, I get it."
Jiang Qin nodded to Yuan Wei. Although he was just a captain, he was an out-and-out old man in the Jizhou Army. Even if he was a general, he couldn't see him clearly.
"The whole army is ready. Shoot the five armies to attack the city with ladders and advance."
