Chapter Three Hundred and Sixty [Thunder]
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Lu Weihuang finally saw clearly that it was a round stone the size of a watermelon, carrying a muffled sound that made the blood sink, and was hitting head-on.
Lu Weihuang's soul flew out of the sky, and from seeing the huge rocks clearly to reacting, he had a second. At this time, the situation around Lu Weihuang was as follows: there was a railing in front, and a two-meter-high city head below. If you jump down, you can only break your legs, but it is definitely not too late; there are several entourages on the right, blocking the way; there is Xinpi on the left, and his entourages are more, and they are also tightly blocked; in the end, there are only behind you...
There must be escorts behind him, but the distance is unknown. There is no time to worry about it in the lightning and fire. Lu Weihuang had no time to worry about it, so he could only take a gamble.
At this moment, Lu Weihuang exerted the strongest explosive power in his life and bumped backwards. No matter whether there are or not, he would break a path of life.
There were indeed escorts behind him, at least three of them were hit by Lu Weihuang, who was wearing heavy armor, and three or four of them fell to the ground. The repeatedly blocked Lu Weihuang finally successfully found a way out.
Boom! The stone bullet flew in and smashed the guardrail. The wooden thorns shot everywhere, and instantly injured nearly ten people, including Xinpi. The sound of pain filled his ears and blood marks splashed all over the eyes. The stone bullet landed, smashing a round pit into the extremely strong ground. The hard rammed earth shot like a stone, further expanding the casualties.
At this time, Lu Weihuang was numb from his scalp to his toes, and was shocked and very grateful. Because the stone bullet fell to where he was standing, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Just as Lu Weihuang slapped his chest and thought he had escaped a disaster, a sad and terrifying scene appeared.
The stone bomb smashed a large pit on the hard mud ground and did not stop, but bounced and continued to move forward. Although Lu Weihuang took at least five steps back, he was still on the trajectory of the stone bomb sweeping. Lu Weihuang was also a long-time general who had been in dozens of battles, but in his more than ten years of war, he had never seen such large-scale throwing stone bombs be used in wars. Therefore, he did not understand its characteristics. It was this kind of ignorance that ruined Qingqing's life.
The stone bomb fell to the ground and bounced up, and it was as fierce as before - Lu Weihuang was the first to be hit.
Bang! It was like smashing a watermelon, the skull burst, and red and white splashing around. One of the brains was slapped on Xinpi's face, like a piece of tofu... Xinpi sucked it on the spot.
After the stone bomb exploded into Lu Weihuang, its momentum was still weak. It jumped all the way, swept across the crowd of entourages, rolled out a long path of flesh and blood, and finally smashed a big hole in the back wall of the gatehouse and flew downstairs. A burst of screams and screams came from the city. It was estimated that it had committed a lot of evil.
This was a test-firing stone bomb. No one expected that the effect would be so unexpected. The starting lineup hit the Ximen Guard General Lu Weihuang. He scared the military inspector Xin Pi, and also caused the result of three deaths and serious injuries to six people.
Logically speaking, there were eight casualties, which was not even an appetizer for a battle. But this kind of attack was too terrifying and had never been seen before. The unknown was the most terrifying thing. And the worst thing was that the main general died immediately. The dragons had no leader and the command system was paralyzed, which perfectly interpreted the scene in the Romance where a general was killed and the entire army collapsed.
The west gate of Yecheng was in chaos, with generals rushing to the storm, soldiers were confused, and soldiers panicked. For the attacking party, this was definitely the best opportunity to attack.
In front of the Dragon Wolf Army, Le Jin, known as the "first general", was not only his hands, but his whole body was itchy, and he wanted to pick up the gun and shield and rush up. It's a pity that this battle was not his command, and what's even more unfortunate is that he was just a "observer" and had no combat mission.
At this time, the Dragon Wolf Army, from the Mars to the ordinary soldiers, did not know that they had killed a general after the first test shot. They just thought that the chaos on the city was frightened by huge rocks from the sky, so everyone still took their place and nervously debugged the trencher.
If the defenders could see the situation behind through the earthen platform and wooden fence at this time, they would probably be frightened. The thirty-foot-long earthen platform was neatly arranged with twenty big guys, and on the flat ground behind the earthen platform, there were twenty catapults, forming high and low-level strikes.
Ma Han did not invest hundreds of aircraft at one time, but took out half of the experiment and decided to increase or decrease based on the results of the battle.
When the first stone bomb was dropped, the other thirty-nine were ready. Since the test fire was good, there was no need to debug. The red flag on the lookout hand on the whistle slashed, and a series of sounds of hammering the iron bolts, the thirty-nine stone catapults threw fifty kilograms of stone bombs at Yecheng almost at the same time.
Twenty catapults on the earthen platform "mainly targeted" the city head, focusing on destroying gate towers, corner towers, women's walls, pheasant discs and various defensive facilities. Twenty catapults behind the earthen platform mainly attacked the city walls and tried to destroy the city walls.
When dozens of huge boulders appeared in the air and fell like a meteor, the chaos in Yecheng became quiet. The soldiers of Ximen and their servants all looked up forty-five degrees, their mouths wide open, and their expressions were dull.
Boom! The first stone bullet fell, hitting a corner of the pheasant disc, and the debris splashed, and several soldiers near the left covered their faces and shouted. The stone bullet fell to the ground, smashing a deep pit, bounced up and rolled, and knocked over an oil pan. More than ten men around him screamed like a pig killer and fled desperately, but the people close to him were already smoking and screaming in pain.
Boom boom boom! Bang bang bang bang!
One after another, the rock bullets fell like rain, and the shocking sound of shocking impacts continued. The city walls in the west section of Yecheng were smashed into pits. From a distance, they looked like pits on the faces. For the defenders, it was a lucky thing to hit the city wall. Almost all the stone bullets falling on the top of the city were death talismans. Each one could take away several lives, and as for the injured, they could not count them.
In fact, unless each stone bomb hits directly, it will not cause damage. However, the city is damaged. Not only is it full of people, but it is also full of various defense tools, especially hot oil, boiling water, gold juice, lime, and these things are splashed, and the consequences are simply disaster.
For a moment, there were crying and screaming everywhere on the top of the city, and there were figures running everywhere, squeezing and trampling, which was terrible. Many figures of smoke and fire all over the body fell head-on and fell from the top of the city, causing panic to spread.
After the first round of throwing, Ximen was completely disrupted. More than 6,000 soldiers of the Dragon Wolf Army were all stunned.
Boom boom boom! Bang bang bang bang!
The terrifying blow sounded again, and the second round of blows began.
The Dragon Wolf Army's stone-cattering soldiers are basically composed of strong soldiers selected from the auxiliary soldiers. They only took less than two months of training and were the first actual combat. However, the stone-cattering machine is easy to operate, and the only one with technical content is to let go.
The so-called "decisive letting go" means the personnel responsible for aiming, adjusting the various elements, and finally splitting the flag. Each catapult operator is required to be ten, so why should it be long? In other words, the Dragon Wolf Army actually used only forty people and forty catapults to defeat thousands of defenders and more than a thousand soldiers in the west gate of Yecheng.
In the second round of forty bombs, except for five bombs that fell into the moat, the other 35 stone bombs were all strongly blooming on the city walls. After all, even if such a big target is not accurate, it is not easy to hit it.
Finally, when three consecutive stone bombs hit a protruding horse face on the city wall, the unlucky horse face could no longer withstand it and exploded and collapsed. The five strong archers inside had no time to escape and were all buried alive.
This tragic scene scared all the soldiers hiding in the horse's face and the enemy building, and fled out like ants trampled on the nest. The narrow passage was suddenly filled with countless people, and many soldiers and servants were squeezed and dropped from the wall, twisting their ankles at the worst, and breaking their shins at the worst.
With just two rounds of throwing, the Ximen defenders defeated the army. It was not so much that the stone bomb was powerful, but it was more psychologically stressful to people. Just like the artillery bombs in later generations, the casualties caused by the bombardment may be far less than the bayonets, but the deafening sound of cannons squeezed out the hearts of people, the leveled mountain positions, the mud and sand that could bury people... all of this is enough to make people collapse.
This is the terrible thing about the shelling, uh, the catapult array.
It was not until this time that Ma Han issued an order to attack. A thousand elite soldiers from the mountain made excited screams and jumped like flying. More than a hundred auxiliary soldiers from the boat and bridge carried wooden stakes, cables, boards, and climbing the city ladders to take the lead.
In the devastated city, there was no one standing except for the casualties everywhere, let alone counterattacking...
It was noon and the city of Ximen Guocheng conquered it.
Even the Dragon Wolf generals who had seen the catapult test could not believe that such a strong city took only one morning, and there was no casualties or soldiers!
The generals of Longlang were ecstatic and surrounded Ma Han and asked their troops to equip them with such trespasses. You should only have twenty more polite ones, but you should be welcome, for example, if you have an old subordinate like Xiang Lejin, you will have fifty ones.
Ma Han said in one sentence: "Go and find Ma Deheng, I will give you as much as he can."
Although Ma Han was also excited about the results he achieved when the catapult debuted for the first time, he had more knowledge than the generals, knowing that the catapult was not as invincible as his subordinates imagined. The defeat of Yuan's army, only because of the sharp weapon of war emerged and the defenders were unprepared. In addition, the chief general was killed by a blow, his morale fell sharply, and his fear soared, so he had such a result. In time, the catapult was put into war in large quantities, and various response measures would inevitably emerge one after another. War is a process of spears and shields fighting each other, one rising and the other growing.
At dusk, the Dragon Wolf Army had completely cleared the periphery and occupied the West Gate.
Ma Han immediately ordered people to shoot an arrow letter into Siemens City.
After receiving the Zicheng garrison, he did not dare to neglect and immediately sent it to General Zhenbei's Mansion.
Chapter completed!