A series of projectiles fell to the ground. Although it was not accurate enough, there was always a chance that a blind cat would hit a dead mouse among the more than twenty ballistae. The two trebuchets being assembled were directly smashed into pieces.
"No, the enemy has long-range weapons."
Jiang Qin was watching and commanding from the rear. He was stunned when he saw that the enemy actually had such a long-range siege equipment. China had always bullied others, but he didn't expect to be bullied by others this time.
"Don't panic, Xu Chu."
Tian Feng glanced at Jiang Qin and called Xu Chu directly.
"exist."
Xu Chu was dressed in iron armor and came directly to Tian Feng.
"Tell the Polu troops to move forward and guard the trebuchets to complete assembly."
This kind of situation is not something he has never encountered before. As long as his trebuchet is assembled, he believes that his firepower will definitely not be resisted by the opponent.
Judging from the strength of the opponent's attack, it is equivalent to a 38-gauge at most. Compared with his own Italian cannon, the 38-gauge is not at the same level at all.
"promise."
Xu Chu cupped his fists at Tian Feng, and directly arranged for the enemy soldiers to wear armor, and then came out to the front of the trebuchet formation. The shields were erected to form a barrier to protect the trebuchets from being assembled smoothly.
The ballistas on the city wall were still firing, but with the armored Polu troops resisting them, they couldn't find the target and could only continue to fire projectiles in the same direction.
As the projectiles from the opposite side fell continuously, they were either deflected or hit the Polu soldiers outside the trebuchet, making it difficult to cause damage to the trebuchet.
As time goes by, the assembly progress of the trebuchet is gradually completed.
"General, forty-eight trebuchets have been assembled, and the other two trebuchets are also being repaired as soon as possible."
After completion, Colonel Yuan Wei came directly to report the situation to Jiang Qin, who was commanding in front of the formation.
"Just load me with shotguns and hit them."
After hearing Yuan Wei's words, Jiang Qin had nothing to say. If he had shown his sword, he would have shouted to pull out my Italian cannon.
"promise."
"The distance is four hundred and two, the direction is self-determined, the angle is freely allocated, the strength is self-adjusted, one shot is calibrated and fired."
Yuan Wei returned directly to the trebuchet formation, checked the direction and distance, and then directed the trebuchet to launch a counterattack against the city wall.
After hearing Yuan Wei's order, the trebuchets loaded their shotguns and knocked down the trebuchets one after another.
"Peng."
"Peng."
"Peng."
Compared with the ballistas in Maracanda, the sky was blocked when fired here, and the scattered bullets gathered in the air into a rain of stones and flew towards the city wall of Maracanda.
Seeing the rain of bullets appearing in front of them, the soldiers guarding the city wall were so confused. Compared with the opponent's attack, their attack was like a bird's shit.
"Why are you still standing there, defending."
Seeing that the soldiers on the city wall were still in a daze, Armstad directly shouted and ordered the soldiers to defend themselves.
Hearing Amsdar's roar, the soldiers on the city wall also reacted and hurriedly put up their shields to protect the soldiers behind them.
"Peng."
"Peng."
"Peng."
The rain of bullets fell like rain on banana trees, and flowers of blood bloomed on the city walls.
Even if the soldiers on the city wall had shields for defense, it was useless. They died under the rain of bullets one by one. There were corpses and wailing wounded lying on the ground everywhere.
"Adjust each one of them, shoot ten rounds of shotguns, and kill them for me."
Seeing the effect of the first hail of bullets, Yuan Wei directly ordered the trebuchet to continue firing, beating them to death with ten consecutive rounds.
After hearing Yuan Wei's order, each trebuchet also made fine adjustments, and then began a journey of revenge with ten consecutive rounds.
Scattered shells were fired out one after another, sweeping through the enemy's walls like a violent storm.
The Kushan army on the city wall is like a small boat drifting in the waves. Casualties have never stopped from beginning to end. All they can do now is to pray to God not to let a rain of bullets fall on their heads.
After ten consecutive rounds, the trebuchet can only rest temporarily for maintenance. After all, if you want to work for a long time, you have to be relaxed.
Even if the trebuchets stopped attacking, the walls of Malacanda were like flowers and plants destroyed by heavy rain, with corpses and blood everywhere. Not a single weapon of Armsda's carefully prepared defense weapons was left behind, and all were smashed into tatters.
"Reform the troops and horses, collect the dead and wounded, and order the soldiers below the city to mount the city."
When the opponent's trebuchets stopped, Amsda was escorted by soldiers to the city wall. Looking at the city wall full of wandering people, he felt extremely distressed. These were all good men of Kushan, and they were just killed by stone bullets.
"Amsda, you direct the battle on the city wall, I will go down to support you."
The opponent was so fierce, which really made Rijeka see the tyranny of China. The so-called gentleman does not stand behind a dangerous wall. He is the governor of Lite Province and the emperor of a country. If he is really wiped out by a stone bullet, then Te
It would be too unfair.
"Governor, please hurry up and get down from the city wall. It's too dangerous here."
Hearing Rijeka's words, although Armstad was a little disdainful, this was also the truth. Who knew that he was a hard worker when he was the governor of Lit Province?
"Well, by the way, since the enemy's siege equipment is so powerful, you can temporarily let the soldiers and horses wait under the city wall and empty the city wall, so that their trebuchets will not be effective. Wait until the opponent's people attack the city, and then move the soldiers
Horses were sent to resist."
Although Rijeka wanted to go down the city wall, he also gave him countermeasures against the trebuchet.
"Armsdale understands."
Amstal glanced at Rijeka, and what the other party said was indeed a method. In this way, he could minimize his losses.
"Tell the soldiers and horses on the city wall to postpone going up to the city wall, and leave fifty people on each wall for observation."
After Rijeka descended from the city, Amsda also directly ordered the soldiers on the city wall to descend from the city wall, leaving only observation posts there to check the dynamics of the Chinese army.
"Are you doing this again?"
Jiang Qin was a little helpless when he saw that the other side had empty the city wall. Now that everyone was well versed in it, they knew that it was difficult to resist his trebuchet, so he simply did not send troops to defend and waited for him to attack the city.
"The Shooting Army, the Tiger Roaring Army, and the Crosswind Army are dispatched to suppress the city wall, and the trebuchets are ready. Wait for the enemy troops to enter the city, and then smash them for me."
Since the opponent wanted to play this way, he had not experienced it before. He directly ordered three troops of the fifth army to move forward, pretending to attack the city to attract the opponent's troops, and then used trebuchets to annihilate the opponent's effective forces.
"Dong dong dong."
"Dong dong dong."
"Dong dong dong."
A series of war drums resounded throughout the sky, and then a phalanx of 30,000 people from the Shooting Army, the Tiger Roaring Army, and the Crosswind Army left the main force of the army, carried ladders, and began to attack the city wall of Malakanda.
"General, the enemy is beating drums to attack the city."
The other side sent troops to attack the city, and the observation post on the city wall immediately reported the situation to Amsda below the city.
"The whole army is ready to go to the city at any time."
Hearing that the other party had begun to attack the city, Amsda also straightened up his expression and directly issued an order for the entire army to prepare to support the city wall.
As time goes by, the three armies of Shesheng are getting closer and closer to the city wall of Malakanda.
"The enemy is still three hundred steps away from the city wall."
The observation post went down to the city wall again and reported the news to Amsdal.
"General, it's three hundred steps, go up to the city wall and kill them."
Hearing that the opponent still had 300 steps to go, a captain directly rushed to Armsdale to ask for orders.
"Waiting, we are still too far away from the city wall now, don't be impatient."
Amsda shook his head. This distance was still too dangerous. If he climbed up to the city wall, the opponent's trebuchet might still cause harm to him.
Amsda did not order an attack on the city. All the soldiers resisted their impulses and waited for the opponent to get closer before going to the city to start fighting.
"Two hundred steps."
The observation post came down again to report the news.
"Waiting, wait until one hundred and fifty steps before reporting again."
Amstal heard that it was already 200 steps, but still did not give the order to go up the city wall. Now they were still a little out of reach of his bow and arrow, so he simply waited until they were closer.
"One hundred and fifty steps, one hundred and fifty steps, General."
The observation post reported again that it had reached step 150.
"Go up the city wall, go up the city wall quickly, archers first, sword and shield men behind, hurry up, hurry up."
One hundred and fifty steps had already entered the complete strike range of his archers. He directly ordered his soldiers to go to the city and fight against the opponent.
"The general has orders to go up the city wall. Archers in front and sword and shield bearers behind. Go up the city wall quickly."
Soon Amsda's order spread among the army, and then the archers went up to the city first, while the swordsmen and shieldmen followed closely behind and began to run towards the city wall.
"They're on the city wall."
Thirty thousand Chinese elite soldiers also saw the enemy appearing on the city wall.
"The whole army moves slowly, shield bearers are in position, the enemy is about to fire arrows."
The captains in charge knew their mission. They were the bait, and their mission was to fish out the enemy's soldiers. Now that the enemy had just climbed onto the city wall, they naturally had to give them time to get into position.
For a time, the army slowed down its marching speed, and at the same time, shields were erected in front of the army, giving the opponent time to climb up the city wall to defend against attacks.
"Trebuchet ready."
The 30,000 elite men in the front knew what they were doing, and the trebuchets in the back also knew what they were doing. Each trebuchet was loaded and ready to be launched at any time with just an order.
"Fire the arrow."
The archers who had just entered the city did not hesitate and bent their bows to shoot arrows, spraying arrows on the Chinese army below the city wall.
Facing the pouring rain of arrows, the Chinese army under the city wall had long been prepared. Shields were like mushrooms in the rain, shielding them from the enemy's damage.
"Captain, aren't you going to attack yet?"
Seeing that the enemy's archers had begun to attack his robe, the soldiers around Yuan Wei were also a little anxious.
"Wait a moment, the enemy's soldiers are not enough now, just wait."
Yuan Wei glanced at the soldiers on the city wall and pressed his hands directly. He also knew that his robe was now being attacked by the enemy, but this opportunity was not easy. He would kill the enemy with a stick.
Yuan Wei didn't give orders here, so the trebuchet troops could only try their best to fine-tune again, not wanting to waste the opportunity he had bought with his life.
As time went by, more and more soldiers were on the city wall, and later sword and shield soldiers also boarded the city wall to protect the safety of the archers.
"Trebuchet, release."
Seeing that the city walls were full of people, Yuan Wei knew that the time was ripe and directly ordered the trebuchet to be launched.
In an instant, fifty trebuchets were launched directly, and a barrage of stone bullets rose into the sky and flew towards the city wall of Maracanda.
"No, get off the city wall quickly, get off the city wall quickly."
Seeing the rain of bullets coming, the people on the city wall were instantly stunned. After realizing it, no one dared to stay and fled directly, trying to get off the city wall to avoid the bullets.
The soldiers on the city wall wanted to get down, but the soldiers under the city wall were still rushing towards the city wall. They bumped into each other in an instant, and it was full of chaos.
"Peng."
"Peng."
"Peng."
A rain of bullets fell from the sky, directly hitting the city wall with bloody flowers, and countless soldiers fell into a pool of blood.
