Under the leadership of Gongnu Camp Captain Sun Zheng.
A thousand crossbowmen stooped and moved towards the top of the city.
Every time they took a step, their legs felt as heavy as lead, their hairs stood on end, and cold air spread throughout their limbs.
Not to mention that the crossbowmen were nervous.
Even Captain Sun Zheng felt his scalp numb and his brain buzzing.
He really wasn't afraid of death, but he was afraid of the broken limbs and broken arms being blown up by the artillery fire. It would be terrible.
Besides, Sun Zheng was the captain. How could he not know the bloody and cruel nature of this battle? How could he not know that once they climbed to the top of the city, they would have a narrow escape from death.
But there are more governors under the city than there are crossbowmen on the top of the city.
So they have no choice.
Not long after.
Sun Zheng led a group of crossbowmen to the bottom of the arrow stack at the top of the city.
Everyone held their breath, not even daring to breathe out.
"call......"
Sun Zheng took a deep breath, then slowly stood up and looked down the city through the arrow stack.
I saw cannons, catapults and crossbows set up outside the city, showing their sharpness.
All 100,000 Wei troops gathered outside the city, staring directly at the top of the city. The murderous intent swept through Liangzhou City, and Sun Zheng was so overwhelmed that he couldn't breathe.
In addition, there were the prisoners of the Wei army who were carrying sandbags and throwing them into the moat one after another.
"Damn it! Just die!"
Sun Zheng cursed secretly, then drew his bow and arrow, "Everyone is ready!"
The words fell.
A group of crossbowmen began to cling to the arrow stack, unfurling their bows and setting arrows, and drew the bows to full capacity.
"put!"
Sun Zheng roared angrily, then thrust his head out of the arrow stack and shot randomly down the moat.
At the same time, a group of crossbowmen followed suit.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Arrows flew down from the top of the city and went straight to the prisoners of the Wei army who were filling in the moat below the city.
"ah!!!"
"Damn it! The Liangzhou army shot us with arrows!"
"Run! Run away!"
.......
All the prisoners of the Wei army were instantly frightened.
Some people were holding sandbags to resist, some were lying on the ground, and some even turned around and ran away.
The governor of the Anbei Army looked at the prisoners who were escaping in a hurry, and roared: "How dare there be any defectors! If you escape, you will behead a group! If you escape, you will be killed!"
The words have fallen!
The warlords drew out their swords and slashed at the prisoners who abandoned the sandbags and turned around to run away.
There was no mercy in their eyes for these damn intruders.
If they have the courage to invade the Wei Dynasty, they must be prepared to bear all the costs.
However, there were not many crossbowmen at the top of the city, and they all fired fearfully and chaotically, so they did not cause a fatal blow to the captive army.
In the military formation.
Control tower.
Looking at the Liangzhou crossbowmen who poked their heads out one by one and fought back in panic.
Xiao Nan's eyes darkened, "Brother-in-law, that bastard Guo Mingcheng started to fight back."
Qin Yu shook his head slightly, "It's not considered a counterattack. It's considered harassment at most. Judging from the arrows they shot, it's estimated that the number of people will not exceed two thousand."
Xiao Nan frowned and said in a deep voice: "But this will also delay the effectiveness of filling in the moat."
Qin Yu said lightly: "They are all hiding under the arrow stacks, and there are only a few of them. We can't take advantage, but it will definitely not work if we don't suppress them. Doesn't Guo Mingcheng just want to see the power of our Wei army's artillery? Then we can
Wouldn’t it be nice to fulfill his wish?”
"After the order is passed, the artillery, catapults, crossbows and crossbow battalions will alternately shoot at the city head to cover the prisoners and fill in the moat."
Catapults, chariot crossbows and crossbow battalions came to Liangzhou, but there was almost no room for their use.
Qin Yu had to let them perform well no matter what. He couldn't come to Liangzhou in vain.
Immediately afterwards.
One after another, the order flags were passed to the artillery positions in front of the military formation.
Under the command of General Su Chen of the Firearms Corps, the artillery began to adjust the muzzle angle, load ammunition, and light the fuse.
They had experienced the Battle of Qingfeng Pass and the Battle of Baima Pass, so they were already familiar with the artillery control.
While the Liangzhou Army's crossbowmen on top of the city were still counterattacking indiscriminately.
Bang, bang, bang...
Bursts of roaring artillery fire suddenly rose from the Wei army's artillery positions, shaking the earth and the earth, and shot straight into the sky.
The cannon fired.
Everyone in the Wei army's position became quiet, and they all looked towards the top of Liangzhou City in unison.
More than a hundred cannonballs roared towards the city head one after another at extremely fast speeds, like lightning.
"hidden!"
"All concealed!"
Sun Zheng threw the crossbow aside, pressed his body tightly against the arrow stack, knelt on the ground, and held his head in his hands.
A thousand crossbowmen also performed the same movements with ease.
At this moment, they completely handed over their lives, life and death were left to chance.
Rumble...
Rumble...
Along with the cannonballs falling on the city head.
Gunsmoke swept across the entire city in an instant, heat waves surged into the sky, shrapnel flew, and mercilessly devoured everything on the city.
Fortunately, Guo Mingcheng did not place any equipment at the top of the city, so there was only debris flying from the bombing of the brick wall, and there was no sense of broken walls like when Qingfeng Pass was bombed.
See this scene.
The soldiers of the left and right armed guards looked shocked!
The captives of Dayi Kingdom and Gustone Tribe looked shocked!
The Liangzhou soldiers in Liangzhou City were also stunned, their hearts were horrified, and fear swept through their bodies!
It was the first time for all of them to see artillery, and it was also the first time they saw the huge destructive power burst out by artillery.
All of this was like a giant hammer, hitting their hearts hard.
If you don't see it with your own eyes and experience it with your own eyes, you will never understand the shock brought by artillery and how powerful it is.
Now they finally understood why Qingfeng Pass could not be defended for even one day.
Faced with the indiscriminate bombardment of artillery at such a range, they didn't know what troops could hold on to the city.
The people watching the battle looked shocked.
The crossbow soldiers who fought back on the city were trembling, their livers and gallbladders were splitting, and some of them even peed their pants.
"Woo, woo, woo... I don't want to fight this battle, I want to go home..."
"I think my mother made the dough for me. I don't want to die here, I don't want to be blown into pieces!"
"How could the Wei army possess such nearly destructive weapons!"
.......
The ears and brains of all the crossbowmen were buzzing.
They have never experienced death so clearly at such a close distance.
This deep sense of powerlessness in the face of death frightens them.
Sun Zheng shook the dust from his head, raised his head and swept towards the city. How could he say "miserable"?
Even if these thousand crossbowmen were hiding under the arrow stacks, more than half of them were killed or injured.