More than a dozen war drums beat instantly, and the huge sound was like muffled thunder falling from the sky, floating in the sky outside Hubeiguan.
"Scholar 3 is ready for assembly."
"promise."
Following the captain's order, thirty scholar trebuchets were rolled out, and hundreds of craftsmen began to assemble them as quickly as possible.
The Scholar No. 3 trebuchet is a medium-to-large trebuchet modified by Zheng Hun based on the Nightmare Trebuchet. It is a full circle larger than the No. 2 trebuchet, and the corresponding assembly weight and shooting distance have also been significantly improved.
Looking at the gadgets assembled outside the city, although Zhang Yang didn't know what it was, his years of experience told him that it was definitely not a good thing for him.
"My lord, how about I lead the cavalry to charge in and burn those things?"
Yang Chou looked at the trebuchet being assembled and frowned.
"No, we only have five thousand cavalry. If we go out now, we may be tricked by Yuan Shu's cavalry. I want to use the good steel on the blade, and I want to see what he can come up with."
However, Zhang Yang shook his head. He only had so few men and horses, and it was difficult to get out of Hard Steel.
"promise."
Yang Chou nodded and stopped talking.
After about half an hour, thanks to the hard work of the craftsmen, the thirty Scholar No. 3 trebuchets were finally assembled.
"The scholars are assembled."
"Prepare for heavy bombs, the target is to protect Beiguan, and test fire one round."
The captain was also experienced in battles and directly commanded the trebuchet to conduct test firings.
"One heavy round, test firing."
"One heavy round, test firing."
"One heavy round, test firing."
The captain's order was conveyed to the soldiers responsible for calibrating the trebuchets step by step, and then thirty trebuchets began the intense work of weighting and loading.
"Haha, Yuan Shu is nothing more than that, just projecting from such a long distance."
Looking at the loaded trebuchet, Zhang Yang couldn't help but shook his head. Yuan Shu was still hundreds of steps away from the city wall, and his own trebuchet on the city wall couldn't hit it, let alone his one on the ground.
Zhang Yang was relaxed, but Hao Zhao on the other side frowned. Yuan Shu's Jizhou army had been in battle for a long time and could not do useless work. Since he launched from there, it proved that the trebuchet could definitely hit.
"put."
"Whoosh"
"Whoosh"
"Whoosh"
The trebuchet, which was ready, directly launched the stone bullets carefully carved by the craftsmen.
"boom."
"boom."
"boom."
The stone bullets streaked through the void, and most of the thirty stone bullets hit the North Gate, and only a few landed under the city wall.
After the stone bombs, the city wall that had been neatly guarded instantly turned into a purgatory. A dozen Zhang Yangjun soldiers were smashed into meat patties on the spot, and dozens more soldiers lay in a pool of blood, moaning and wailing.
Seeing this scene in front of them, everyone on the top of the city guarding Beiguan City was dumbfounded. They had never thought that there would be such a weapon. This simply subverted their cognition.
"Lord, this place is dangerous, please go down to the city."
Yang Chou looked at the scene in front of him, and his liver trembled involuntarily.
"No, how can I go down to the city now?"
Zhang Yang, who was a military general, knew that this was a critical moment. If he went down to the city, the soldiers on top of the city would probably collapse.
"but."
"There are no buts, everyone is involved. Carry away the dead and carry the injured down to the city for treatment."
"promise."
Zhang Yang's words temporarily stabilized the morale of the army, but so what?
"No. 7, No. 9, No. 17, No. 24, No. 26, No. 28, raise the angle, use the remaining trebuchets to fire five consecutive rounds, reload, and launch."
The captain continued to command the trebuchets in combat.
Yuan Shu's trebuchet did not stop, and huge stone bullets roared out, hitting Hubeiguan one after another like a heavy rain.
"Everyone, hide under the battlements and defend."
Visible stone bullets were coming, but Zhang Yang didn't give any instructions. Hao Zhao couldn't help but shout loudly.
"promise."
With Hao Zhao's command, the soldiers guarding Beiguan City began to run at top speed and hid behind the solid battlements one by one.
The stone bullets hit the city wall, sending out stone fragments all over the sky, accompanied by the painful wails of the unlucky man.
After five consecutive rounds of stone bombs, the neatly guarded Beiguan City Headquarters had become extremely messy, with visible holes and shattered flesh and bones everywhere.
"Lord, it's time to attack."
Xun You looked at the top of the city guarding Beiguan and smiled slightly.
"That's not enough, let's fire another ten shots in a row."
Yuan Shu shook his head. In his opinion, although it was difficult to polish the stone bullets, it was still better than using one's own life to make them.
"Ten rounds of heavy ammunition, ready."
"put."
Just after the first wave, a second wave of ten consecutive rounds of bullets hit again. The embarrassed Hubeiguan was piled up with stone bullets, and the original appearance could not be seen at all.
There were squashed corpses everywhere, and the bright red blood formed a stream, flowing from west to east. The city head where Zhang Yang originally stood and the towers above were smashed into ruins.
"Tell Wen Chou to attack the city."
Seeing that it was almost done, Yuan Shu directly drew the long sword from his waist and ordered to attack the city.
"Siege the city."
After receiving the military order, Wen Chou directly led 20,000 tiger soldiers and 10,000 militiamen with siege equipment and pushed more than 20 towers towards Hubei Pass.
"They are attacking the city and preparing to defend it."
Seeing the Tiger Army approaching, Zhang Yang jumped out of the crowd and ordered his soldiers to prepare for defense.
Despite the public shouting, there was still a deathly silence at Hubei Pass. The surviving soldiers' eyes were dull and at a loss.
Even though they had experienced a war, they still couldn't react to such a heart-wrenching attack.
"What did I call you? Didn't you hear me?"
The situation in front of him was something Zhang Yang had never encountered before, and he couldn't help shouting loudly at his soldiers.
"Sir, let's change the troops. They are scared to death now."
Hao Zhao saw the situation in front of him and shouted loudly to Zhang Yang.
"Change the troops, yes. Instruct the soldiers waiting under the city wall to go up to the city wall. Yuan Shu must not be allowed to attack."
Hearing Hao Zhao's words, Zhang Yang suddenly understood and quickly ordered the soldiers on standby below the city to go up to the city wall to replace those who were frightened.
Seeing the soldiers running on the city wall, Yuan Shu could not help but curl his lips.
"Launch shotguns to cover the Tiger Army's attack on the city."
"Break ready."
"put."
The trebuchet that had just stopped was operating at full capacity again under Yuan Shu's order. After adjusting the counterweight, bags of loose stone bullets were filled into the bags one after another, and then roared towards Hubeiguan using the lever principle.
"Be careful, be careful."
Seeing the rain of scattered stone bullets, Hao Zhao shouted for the new soldiers to defend, but it seemed that it was too late.
As soon as Zhang Yangjun's soldiers raised their shields, stone bullets were already hitting them like hailstones.
