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The camp of Qiu Xinghou, which had been attacked, had been completely damaged, and the raging fire that had burned all night had burned almost everything that could be burned, and the watchtowers that had once stood at both ends of the camp were black and smoking, and several bright or dark fires were jumping.

Qiu Xing, who was familiar with military books, subconsciously avoided the question that he should have been worried about, because in his heart, there was a problem that he thought was more serious......

If he loses his troops like this and goes back, what will Yang Biao think of him, and what will happen to his future?

It's like a gambler sitting at the poker table, when he finds that he is starting to lose money, he often does not stop in time, but is anxious to try to press all the gambling books in one go!

Don't these red-eyed gamblers know that even if they press it, the vast majority of people can still lose, and they will lose even more badly and faster?

No, they all know, but they all feel like they're among the lucky few......

It's like Qiu Xing.

The shouting of killing echoed in this piece of heaven and earth, hitting the city wall of Pingyang and splashing in all directions, as if colliding with boundless murderous aura!

Qiu Xing's soldiers couldn't stop running back and forth under Pingyang City, a team of soldiers filled it up, and then there were dead and wounded flowing back, just like a ** wave hit the Pingyang city wall, and those catapults under the city, although the power is amazing, but this thing is a weapon to hit the surface at the moment, not at all accurate, the stone projectiles thrown out, I don't know how much they are smashed on the head of Pingyang City, or how many are smashed on the heads of Qiu Xing's own soldiers.

In the afternoon, Qiu Xing's soldiers climbed a small part of the Second Ring City Wall, although they were quickly driven down, but this almost made Qiu Xing see the dawn of success, and also stimulated him to be more excited, unconsciously, even he himself leaned forward, closer and closer to the Pingyang City Wall.

The boss pressed forward, and his soldiers naturally had no reason to retreat.

On Qiu Xing's side and behind him, there were flags representing various troops, one by one planted on the ground, like a screen made of flags. Among these flags, the most eye-catching in addition to Qiu Xing's own Chinese army commander flag, are two glamorous flying tiger flags, one blue and the other red, waving in the wind, which represent the two most elite pawns in Qiu Xing's army!

Qiu Xing suddenly beckoned, pulled out a red flying tiger flag, turned his head to look at Wang Zhong on the side and said, "Wang Junhou!" Raising troops for many days, used for a while, now the city defense of Pingyang has been in decline, you can lead the troops to attack the east gate! A certain stone and cloud tower are helping you, and you need to go to the city within an hour! ”

Wang Zhong was stunned for a moment, and finally lowered his head to take the Flying Tiger Flag and turned away.

The arrows of the two sides were densely intertwined in mid-air, and in each attack window, there were countless people fighting to the death, one side was desperately trying to break into Pingyang City, and the other side was desperately trying to block the erosion of Qiu Xing's soldiers. From sunrise to mid-day, and then from mid-day to west, the number of casualties among the soldiers on both sides soared rapidly, and no one could know how many people had fallen and how many people would fall during this period of desperate melee in the city!

At the east gate, a catapult had been ignited by a rocket, and the fire was rising and could never be extinguished. The remaining two catapults were struggling to smash the stone projectiles into the city wall of Pingyang, and repeatedly advanced to such a distance, even if it was a rough stone cannon, the accuracy was improved a lot, and it fell on the city wall with a bang, and the place where it passed was a blur of flesh and blood!

Although Qiu Xing attacked Pingyang City with the advantage of troops, and as the attacking party, he could choose the location of the attack, and he had the advantage of being able to concentrate his forces for an assault, but as a Chinese Han Chinese, his experience in defending the city was quite sufficient, so even though Qiu Xing had siege equipment to assist, he could not quickly open the situation and make a breakthrough.

As Qiu Xing's subordinate, Wang Zhong naturally had no room for bargaining, because Qiu Xing did not ask for advice, but directly issued a military order, so he naturally had to obey.

After a day of attacking, if this breath of strength is discharged......

Wang Zhong didn't dare to think about it, so he could only roar, urging the soldiers to wait for the cloud ladder and cloud tower to grab the city wall!

Although it is said that under the suppression of catapults and cloud towers, Wang Zhong struggled to climb the Pingyang City Tower, but those heavily armored soldiers who marched to the west, coupled with sharp long blades, have always been a nightmare for siege soldiers. Even if Qiu Xing's soldiers were willing to spend a lot of money on rations, they had to climb the ladder to some extent, so how could they wear heavy armor?

Therefore, in terms of equipment, even though Wang Zhong fought hard, but the Qiu Xing soldiers under him were still embarrassed, and the wooden shield in the hands of the Qiu Xing soldiers who were heavily armed with foot soldiers in the west was split under the sharp war knife, and only half armor or even no armor could not resist the sharp blade, and they were killed and stumbled, crying and shouting, basically there was no power to fight back, if it were not for Wang Zhong's hard work, coupled with the assistance and support of the ladder and catapult, Qiu Xing's soldiers would not have been able to climb the city at all!

In order to preserve this piece of territory that was not easy to stand up, under the leadership of Wang Zhong, hundreds of Qiu Xing soldiers also killed blood, every step was bloody, the two sides did not give an inch, tried their best to calm their strength, slashed and killed each other, and there was a stalemate for a while.

Unlike Qiu Xing, who is as conspicuous as standing out from the crowd, if Xun Chen didn't have guards carrying big shields around him at this moment, and some banners on his side, he actually didn't look much different from ordinary soldiers who conquered the west.

Of course, if you pay attention, there are differences.

Although it is the same helmet and barrel sleeve armor, there is a five-petal pattern inlaid with gold wire at the ear guards on both sides of the helmet that looks the same, and there is also such a pattern under the arms on both sides of the barrel sleeve armor.

There are also on the belt.

It will be gold, the school will be silver, the military will be the red line, the tun commander will be the blue line, and the team rate will be the black line.

It's simple, but it's practical.

At first, when Zheng Xifei came up with such a trick, most people were still a little puzzled, but as time went by, they slowly tasted the mystery of it, and Xun Chen was naturally one of them.

Especially when there is a scuffle, when the formation is scattered, like now.

Qiu Xing has been looking for Xun Chen and others under the city, trying to attack with a catapult, but looking at the top of the city two hundred steps away, the soldiers of Zhengxi seem to look similar, and they can't tell where Xun Chen is for a while, and naturally they can't talk about any key areas.

In addition, for the melee at the head of the city, even if the queue is broken up, as long as there is a lieutenant lieutenant in the middle of the greeting, it will naturally be regrouped again, and there is no need to be like the previous need to withdraw the whole team to have a way to gather in one place, and the benefits of this difference are naturally needless to say.

It's just that the replacement of military equipment has always been a big project, so up to now, it is only these soldiers who are near Pingyang that are close to the water and the towers are complete, and as for other places, it still takes some time.

Since the dawn of the day, it has been fighting until now, although the number of Qiu Xing's soldiers is more, but people are not iron, especially the fight of cold weapons, the consumption of people's energy and physical strength, it can be said that it is several times of the usual daily activities, if it were not for the fact that most of the foot soldiers sent out by Xun Chen last night were a disguise, and they did not exert much strength, and the city at this time was probably consumed by Qiu Xing's tide-like offensive.

Although there is dry food and water in Xun Chen City to replenish, but in the battle array, there are not many people who can take turns to fill their stomachs, and the loss of energy is not something that can be replenished by some rations and drinking water, so even if Xun Chen is on the city wall, he will not be far away from using less than 2,000 cavalry in the city in advance.

But at this moment, Xun Chen watched Qiu Xing's soldiers pounce on him one by one, and then retreated one by one, estimating the momentum of Qiu Xing's soldiers, and gradually reached the moment when they were close to exhaustion......

"Ballista trucks come up!" Xun Chen looked at Qiu Xing's main formation, which was getting more and more urgent and getting closer and closer to the city, and ordered in a deep voice.

Qiu Xing has catapults, but how can there be no relevant research in Huang's workshop?

It's just that under the influence of Fei Qian, the general of Zhengxi, there is really not much interest in the catapult, which is more bulky and has more intimidating power than direct lethality, and the previous research direction has been climbing the bow and crossbow technology tree, so in terms of large-scale long-range weapons, Huang's workshop is still mainly researching ballista.

Although the technology of the catapult is not complicated, the weight of the stone bullet thrown is also higher, and the power of a single shot is much stronger than that of the ballista, but the stone projectile or something, you can't control it if you throw it, and even the weapon that you don't know where to throw it is not consistent with Fei Qian's character at all, so the upper part is good, and the lower part must be effective, plus although the ballista is not a parabolic shooting track, sometimes it will be affected by the obstruction, but in the Han Dynasty, an era when there was no gunpowder for afterburner, The effective range that a three-armed six-string ballista can achieve with pure physical force is already four hundred steps, and if it is the maximum range, it cannot be said to be five or six hundred steps!

Of course, any bit of air flow in the air will cause the ballista to deviate in flight, the farther the distance, the greater the deviation, in the maximum range, the so-called accuracy is basically already a joke, what to shoot is completely up to luck.

However, as a crossbow, after all, there are still some differences, unlike ordinary crossbow arrows, there is a so-called strong crossbow can not wear Lu Min, even at the end of the range, the weight of the crossbow gun can still hurt people, but the power is not great. But if you are shot in a limb at close range, it is normal for the huge kinetic energy to directly penetrate the torso, or even tear the torso apart.

In fact, if you want to strengthen the range, it's not impossible, but there is a cause and effect, if you want to have a long range, you need to have a stronger crossbow arm, and the crossbow arm in turn requires a greater open bow twisting force, and the material of the ballista itself naturally has higher requirements, and if it is all replaced with iron, the weight, hehe......

In addition, Huang's workshop has done experiments, even if it is replaced with iron thorn wheel traction, it takes ten people to pull the three-armed crossbow, if it is safer, it is necessary to arrange twenty people, or even thirty people to rotate, otherwise the bow is halfway open, but because of the unloading of the force, the ballista crossbow arm is empty, only need this, the ballista is basically scrapped......

The steel used in the ballista is all made of hundreds of steel, even so, some parts still need to be made of wood, otherwise it is too cumbersome to handle, even so, the accuracy requirements between the ballista parts are still very high, especially the Wangshan, crossbow machine, suspension knife and other parts, some require precision, some require toughness, and are different. Therefore, for ballista technology, the gold content is extremely high, and it is not something that a random person can imitate with a drawing.

Of course, the most important thing is that it is expensive......

In these days, Fei Qian has only arranged fifty ballistas in Pingyang, most of which were originally arranged in the inner city, and they are not easily displayed, but now Xun Chen has also transported twenty of them to the outer city wall, just waiting for the unsuspecting Qiu Xing to drink a pot at the moment.

The current range is just right, Qiu Xing, who is two arrows away, is normally difficult even if it is a strong crossbow, but for a ballista, it is just within the range that can exert its maximum power.

If it were ordinary, according to Xun Chen's temperament, he would not have made such a black hand towards Qiu Xing. Although the troubled times are gradually rising now, the ancient style of the Spring and Autumn Period is still mostly appreciated by the disciples of the scholar clan, and the so-called romantic heroism of the dignified array, the brilliant teacher, the so-called romantic heroism of each by means and drinking in the next battle is still full of popularity, so this kind of thing secretly ruthless to the other party's boss, Jia Xu naturally has no psychological burden to do, but for Xun Chen, it is not his wish.

However, when Xun Chen learned about Taoshan, the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed, in his opinion, not to mention the death of one Qiu Xing, even if it was ten hundred Qiu Xing, he still needed to bury Cai Yong and Cai!

Therefore, Xun Chen would rather face the threat of Qiu Xing's shoddy catapults, and hide the ballista until the end before using it, all he wants is to kill with one blow!

A team of sword and shield men stepped forward to shield the Huang craftsmen next to the ballista that were about to be aimed, so that they would not be injured by stray arrows. Because of the unfolding surface, a battlement can accommodate at most one ballista, and on this section of the city wall, only ten can be discharged, and there is no place to put the other ten, so they are transferred to the east gate for support.

"Look!" Xun Chen stood on the side of the Huang craftsman who was operating the ballista, and even arched his hand to several craftsmen and said, "After one blow, his army will be in chaos!" So there's only one shot! If this fang can be killed, General Zhengxi will definitely reward him! ”

The Huang craftsman bent down to return the salute and said solemnly: "We understand! ”

With the sound of a squeaky winch, the ballista guns as thick as a child's arm were placed in the greased card slots and hung with crossbow strings. The Huang craftsman began to adjust the angle of the crossbow machine, and stuffed Qiu Xing's figure under the city into the thin slit of Wangshan Mountain......

Qiu Xing saw that the sun was in the west, and his heart was also a little anxious, and at this moment, he suddenly heard a "boom", and the crisp and powerful sound almost covered up the noisy sounds inside and outside the city, penetrating into the hearts of everyone present!

Qiu Xing's heart shrank sharply, and he looked up at the sound, only to see a thick black line flying out of the head of Pingyang City, coming straight towards here with a roar!

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