Eight hundred and twenty-three ~ twenty-five chapters
Chapter 823~25
The Zhen army had already reached the foot of Baguan City, and the ejection of the heavy trebuchet finally stopped, and the two sides launched an even more intense direct conflict.
The city defense of Baguan is very complete, and there are sufficient preparations for rolling logs, beating stones, kerosene and other materials. When the Zhen army set up the ladder to rush upward, countless rolling logs and stones fell down, and the sound of heavy objects hitting the armor was endless.
The soldiers fell from the air like snowflakes.
However, the Feng soldiers were not so smooth when throwing rolling logs and rocks. The Zhen army's archers had already stood in a long row under the city. When the Feng soldiers threw the rolling logs and rocks at the Zhen soldiers, they were also shot from below.
The incoming arrow pierced the chest, and some people screamed and fell on their backs, or they fell directly off the city wall.
Of course, the Feng Army would not allow the enemy to freely fire arrows outside the city. Many Feng Army soldiers raised their bows and kept firing back. The Zhen Army archers outside the city often did not even shoot an arrow, and they themselves became the target first.
The crucified man was covered in arrows and fell into a pool of blood.
On the battlefield, arrows were flying back and forth, and the sound of arrows hitting the city was heard one after another. Soldiers on both sides were shot down row after row. Of course, the Feng army, who was on the defensive and condescending, suffered more casualties than the Zhen army outside the city.
Much less.
The Zhen army fought bravely, and the Sichuan army behind them gradually approached. Yingbu grabbed a messenger and asked him to immediately give the order for the trebuchets deployed in the city to throw stone projectiles outwards.
The Feng Kingdom used all its strength to defend the Baguan Pass, so you can imagine how much equipment there was. There were hundreds of trebuchets stocked in the city. Heavy weapons like trebuchets could not be moved onto the city wall, nor could they be used.
It can only be deployed in the city, and when the trebuchet launches stone projectiles, it must avoid the obstruction of its own city wall, so it is placed far away from the city wall. It is precisely because of this that the trebuchets in the city can avoid it.
The attack by the heavy trebuchet of the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces.
Following Yingbu's order, the Fengjun stone trebuchets in the city began to activate, and dense stone bullets were thrown out from the city, drawing arcs in the air, flying over the city wall, and then all falling into the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces.
In the camp.
Although the stone projectiles thrown by the Fengjun trebuchet are not as huge as the heavy trebuchet projectiles, they are still enough to kill people. Even a spiritual warrior wearing spiritual armor will be instantly turned into a meat pie if he is hit by a stone projectile.
.More importantly, many of the towers hauled up by the Sichuan Army were hit by stone bullets, and several were damaged.
The tower is a siege weapon, several times larger than a trebuchet. It is trapezoidal in shape and made of hard wood. It is seven or eight meters high. There are thick wooden shields in front and on both sides.
, which can block the enemy's arrows. There is a ladder at the back for climbing. There are two rows of wooden wheels on the bottom, which can be moved. The top is a platform. When attacking a city, the archers stand on the platform of the tower and can communicate with the tower on the wall.
When the enemy fires face-to-face, the tower can also be used as a ladder. If the tower is attached to the city wall, the soldiers standing on the platform can jump directly onto the city wall without any effort.
Weapons such as towers have many uses in sieges, and have long been widely used in actual combat in Sichuan.
Feng Guo has not yet used this kind of weapon, so it was quite scary for Leng Ran to see the Sichuan army dragging huge monsters onto the battlefield.
However, the tower can block arrows, but it cannot block the impact of stone bullets. If a stone bullet hits the front wooden shield, it will immediately make a big hole. If it hits the four pillars of the tower,
If there is any one branch, the tower is basically useless. Fragility is the biggest weakness of the tower.
Stone bullets, arrows, crossbows, rolling logs, hammered stones, and kerosene poured out continuously from Ba Pass. Under such a density of attacks, the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces outside the city wanted to successfully climb to the top of the city, which was like climbing to the sky.
Disaster.
When the fierce battle between the two sides gradually turned into a stalemate, the Sichuan Army's Thunderbolt Car was pushed forward.
The Thunderbolt Cart is a powerful weapon specially used to hit the city gate. The whole car is a solid wooden frame, with large wooden stakes that can only be hugged by one or two or three people hanging on it. It looks like a giant hammer. The hammer head in front is
It is made of solid iron, inlaid on wooden stakes, and covered with a thick layer of iron. When used, the soldiers on both sides of the Thunderbolt Car pull the rope locks to pull the giant hammer back, and then release it simultaneously.
Use the inertia of the falling hammer to hit the city gate, and so on.
As the Pili chariot was successfully pushed to the city gate, the morale of the Sichuan soldiers was greatly boosted. Hundreds of soldiers held their shields high, gathered on both sides of the Pili chariot, and grabbed the ropes. At this time, a captain jumped onto the chariot.
On his body, he commanded the soldiers on both sides and shouted: "Pull——"
Amidst the captain's shouts, dozens of ropes were pulled together, and the giant hammer was hung backwards. When it was pulled to the limit, the captain waved his arms and shouted: "Let go -"
Boom!
The falling giant hammer hit the city gate of Baguan hard, the sound was loud and deafening, and the force was so strong that the pure copper city gate was knocked into a dent, and the entire city wall seemed to tremble, especially
On the wall above the city gate, many Feng soldiers fell to the ground involuntarily.
After the first impact, the second and third impact followed. In the city, several wooden piles holding up the city gate were broken, and stone chips continued to fall from the gaps in the city gate frame.
The extremely strong city gate became precarious in an instant.
The wind in the city was so anxious that he was sweating profusely. While commanding his subordinates to carry more wooden stakes to hold up the city gate, he shouted to the city: "Quickly knock out the enemy's chariots. The city gate must be closed."
I can’t bear it anymore!”
General Feng's shouts reached the top of the city, and the Feng soldiers on the city were also anxious. Many soldiers leaned out and fired arrows. However, for the Sichuan army carrying shields, the lethality of the arrows was really limited.
, not enough to prevent the impact of a thunderbolt car.
Soon, many Feng soldiers jumped onto the arrow stacks with rolling logs and rocks, aiming at the Sichuan army below, intending to smash down the rolling logs and rocks. However, when they threw down the heavy objects, the Feng soldiers were also thrown out of the city.
The enemy soldiers shot at him and fell down the arrow stack one after another.
The Sichuan soldiers pulling the Pili chariots were killed and wounded by falling rocks and rolling logs from time to time, but there were too many Sichuan soldiers around. One was injured, one was replaced, one died, and two were pushed up. The collision of the Pili chariots continued.
Seeing that his own soldiers were unable to show their heads due to being shot by the opponent's arrows, a general jumped up on the arrow stack and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Pump the rocks for me!"
Several Feng soldiers hurriedly came forward with stones in their arms. The Feng general grabbed one, aimed it at the Sichuan soldiers below the city, and smashed it down hard.
Click!
A Sichuan soldier who was pulling on the rope was hit by a falling rock. The shield he held up was deformed by the pressure, and the man fell to the ground. Without stopping, the wind general grabbed another rock and struck again.
Throwing it down hard, with a crisp sound, another Sichuan soldier was hit with broken bones and tendons, and died unexpectedly.
Before General Feng could throw another falling stone, the arrows from below arrived. In an instant, dozens of eagle feathers flew towards him. General Feng was protected by a spiritual armor, and the opponent was shooting from bottom to top, so the force was very strong.
Not being strong, he stood on top of the arrow to avoid it, and continued to hit the stone downwards.
Ding, Dang, Dang - the arrow was nailed to his spiritual armor, making a clanging sound and sparks flying, but it failed to break his spiritual armor. The Sichuan general who was directing the battle outside the city also reacted quickly and immediately transferred five troops from elsewhere.
The ten hard archers continued to shoot arrows at the wind general on the city. The power of the arrows shot by the hard archers was much greater than that of ordinary archers.
The fifty carved feathers were all nailed to Feng Jiang's body, and the sound of clicking was endless. Feng Jiang's spiritual armor was instantly covered with cracks, and several arrows penetrated the spiritual armor and penetrated deeply into his body. Standing.
The wind on the arrow stack shook his body for a while, and then he fell down from the city.
thump!
General Feng's body fell heavily to the ground. The already cracked spiritual armor could no longer withstand such a strong impact. It shattered into pieces and scattered invisible. However, General Feng was covered in blood and had several arrows stuck in his body.
He climbed up from the ground and ran staggeringly towards the Sichuan Army's Thunderbolt Chariot. Before he could get close, the surrounding Sichuan Army swarmed up and slashed at him with their swords. The poor Feng General was cut into pieces in an instant.
Shooting arrows didn't work, rolling logs and stones didn't work, and the Fengjun, who were stunned, began to resort to suicidal attacks. Several soldiers volunteered to serve as death squads. In order to increase their weight, they were tied with rocks, and then they were lifted up with arrows by their comrades to hide.
, resisting the arrows fired by the Sichuan army outside the city, he jumped out of the city and hit the thunderbolt chariot with his own body.
If they fall in the crowd or on the giant hammer of the Thunderbolt Car, they will be of no use at all and will not have any destructive effect. Only if they fall on the stand of the Thunderbolt Car can they be damaged. But this is too difficult.
, among the more than ten Fengjun death squads, only one of them hit the bracket of the Pili car when he fell. Unfortunately, the bracket was not damaged yet.
One group of people was ineffective, and then Feng Jun organized a second group of death squads. This time the number was larger. Feng Jun who committed suicide by jumping off the city wall was like a dumpling. The left rear bracket of the Pili car was hit by two people in succession.
Under the impact of Sergeant Feng, he finally couldn't hold it anymore. With a clear click sound, the bracket broke from the middle, losing the support force on one side. The hanging giant hammer immediately tilted to the back and could no longer exert its original function.
The power of.
When the nearby Sichuan general saw this, he jumped up and down anxiously and shouted at his soldiers: "Tow the Thunderbolt cart away and bring up another one!"
The damaged Pili car was towed away by the Sichuan army, but the subsequent Pili car failed to catch up. General Sichuan's eyes turned red with anxiety. He pulled the deputy general next to him and asked in a sharp voice: "The other Pili cars are there."
Where’s the car?”
The lieutenant general did not answer, but looked to his own rear.
General Sichuan turned around and looked back, only to see that most of his large weapons were at the rear, suppressed by the wind army's arrow array and unable to move up.
For a Thunderbolt chariot, the Sichuan soldiers had to pay the price in blood if they wanted to advance even one meter. A large number of soldiers were shot to the ground while pushing the chariot. The large weapons of the Sichuan army left behind every step forward.
There was a row of corpses, and so many vehicles of the logistics team were already filled to the brim with the corpses of our own personnel.