Chapter 400: Flying Stones Fly Flesh and Blood
Murong Nan stood alone in front of the observation hole in the wall, looking at the hoplites of the Qin army like a torrent of steel, spears like a forest, fine armor, stepping on neat steps, like a forest moving towards the city wall of his side, the corners of his mouth hooked a cruel smile, and muttered: "Finally moved, Liang Cheng, you still can't help it." ”
Murong Nan turned his head and said sharply to the herald behind him: "Let all the catapults get ready, and I will load all the fifty-pound stones!" ”
The archers of the Qin army spread out to the sides, and the dense hoplites entered through the central passage they had left out, the drummers on the side of the line played small drums, and the team members standing on the side of the line shouted slogans, keeping the line moving at the same pace, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps, thirty steps.
Finally, thirty paces away from the city wall, almost catching up with the siege infantry in front, the officers at the head of the Qin army shouted: "Disperse, siege!" ”
Almost at the same time as he said this, dozens of thunderous noises suddenly came from the city, accompanied by huge objects falling heavily, and there was the sound of whistling and flying heavy objects in the air, and the Qin army hoplites who had just dispersed the formation suddenly felt that the sky was suddenly dark, and when they looked up at the sky, they saw a black and oppressive boulder, or even an entire wall, falling from the sky and smashing into themselves.
Dozens of pounds of boulders, as well as the whole piece of earth wall, roof and the like, flew all over the sky, with huge potential energy, smashed fiercely towards the infantry phalanx of the Qin army, this is not the kind of small stone that weighs a few pounds, but a big and heavy big guy, no longer one or two soldiers were smashed, but the whole piece of sergeants was pressed underneath, and they didn't even have time to hum, they turned into pieces of blood and mud, and they died.
The dense Qin army hoplite phalanx huddled together, suddenly there was chaos, military discipline, and the formation could no longer play a role, and there was only one thought left in everyone's minds: escape, escape, escape, escape from this terrible hell!
Human psychology is like this, for things that are completely impossible to fight with manpower, then fear will overcome anger, this kind of boulder down, even smashing and rolling can kill more than a dozen people, no matter how big the shield, no matter how fine the armor is useless, it really responds to the sentence: Die when you touch it, and die when you touch it.
With only one salvo, more than 2,000 Qin hoplites were buried alive under boulders and earthen walls, and the distance of dozens of steps outside the city, even the corpses could not be seen, because they were all pressed under this large area of rubble, only blood springs like streams, kept flowing out, and the living people were all covered with bloody soil, dirty and fishy, and the smell made people want to vomit.
The military formation, which had not moved like a mountain just now, suddenly dispersed at this moment, and the heavily armored soldiers scrambled to throw away the weapons in their hands and fled backwards, if it were not for the iron armor on their bodies that was too heavy and difficult to untie, I was afraid that they would even take off this iron armor that usually made other soldiers envious.
There was another huge whistling sound, the sky became dark again, and a large piece of flying stones and earth walls, like the whole flying hill, flew out of the city again, several boulders collided in the air, "boom", fell from mid-air, just hit the city gate building, and immediately broke through a big hole in the roof of the city tower, and a large piece of dust spread out, and the whole city was trembling.
And more stones still flew out of the city wall smoothly, and smashed into the fleeing crowd, and hundreds of people were buried under the rubble, as if they were Sun Monkey who was suppressed by Wuzhi Mountain, but Sun Monkey had the power to reach the sky and could still live, and the Qin soldiers who smashed these stones and earth walls were only dead.
The Qin sergeants outside the city fled backwards lifelessly, hoplites, light infantry, and archers were all mixed together, scrambling, and even pushing while running, pushing away all the people behind them and in front of them who were blocking their passages, pushing them down, and even if more than 1,000 people escaped from the safe area, they still knocked down and squeezed their companions, and then before they had time to get up, they stepped on the people behind them, and they couldn't even scream, so they were trampled on their bones and tendons, and they vomited blood and died.
The upheaval outside the city made the fierce battle at the head of the city even stop for a while, and the soldiers on both sides who were fighting to the death all looked at this terrifying scene outside the city blankly, at a loss, and in an instant, the soldiers of the Jin army broke out with bursts of roars and cheers, everyone seemed to be stimulant, even the wounded soldiers on the ground, all of them were alive and well, jumping up, and smashing to death the Qin infantry in front of them who began to tremble because of fear, one by one, piercing, or directly lifting them up and throwing them down the city wall.
It was almost a matter of time, and the five or six hundred Qin infantry who remained at the head of the city were defeated, and the remaining hundred or so people still had the slightest will to fight, and they threw their weapons one after another, kneeling and surrendering, but where could the red-eyed Jin army soldiers stop their hands, swords, hammers and sticks, and in the blink of an eye, these Qin troops who knelt on the ground and begged for mercy were killed on the spot.
When the corpse of the last Qin army was stripped of its armor and thrown down the city wall, bursts of cheers erupted from the city, and all the Jin troops waved their weapons in their hands and laughed loudly.
Murong Nan smiled, ran to the head of the city in three steps and two steps, Liu Yu carried his big knife, his hair was covered with enemy blood, and laughed: "Murong, the timing of this stone is really good, and the thief army collapsed all of a sudden." ”
Murong Nan said with a smile: "Liu Yu, now is not the time to celebrate, hurry up and evacuate the soldiers, the thieves are afraid that they will use trebuchets to fight back." ”
Liu Yu nodded and said with a smile: "It's better for you to remind you, give the order, withdraw quickly!" ”
Liang Cheng's eyes were blood-red, and a large number of routs passed in front of him, if it weren't for the dozens of troops in front of him forming a human wall, like a breakwater to prevent this crowd, I was afraid that he would also be knocked off the horse, Liang Yun's mouth was still wide open, he couldn't believe what he saw in front of him, and after a long time, he came back to his senses and muttered: "This, how is this possible, how can there be, how can there be such a big stone?" ”
Liang Cheng gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "This is a heavy catapult, it can't be thrown far, but the power is huge, I didn't expect that Liu Jinu actually put this kind of thing in Beicheng, they have been luring the enemy before, that is, we want to press the main force, and then use this kind of thing to smash it when the crowd is dense, causing maximum damage!" ”