The Great Song Dynasty had a three-bow bed crossbow, also known as the eight-ox crossbow. But the time-consuming, expensive, and difficult operation of that thing are all notoriously time-consuming, and difficult to maintain, there are not many in the whole Song Dynasty, most of them are installed on the city wall of Bianliang City and the border town bordering Xixia in the west. Tong Guan led the troops to recruit Fang La, and it was impossible to bring that thing.

In fact, the Great Song Dynasty has seen very few soldiers and generals of the Eight Ox Crossbow, and it takes thirty people to control the Eight Ox Crossbow, and it takes nearly two teas to launch once, plus dozens of times to maintain and repair, which is really a bit chicken in everyone's opinion.

Because the southeast is too far away from the grassland, the ballistae of the Heaven-Sent Alliance use many alternative materials, although the range is shorter, but the cost is cheaper, and the production speed is much faster. With the addition of the deflection wheel, it can be operated by only three soldiers, and the launch speed is faster and less prone to damage.

Yumei had seen the Eight Bull Crossbows, and she was startled when she saw the ballistas exposed in the Heavenly Army. The stout crossbow arrows were shot into the military formation of the Fan Han army, but Yumei was surprised to find that those crossbow arrows looked thick, but they were far less powerful than the flat-headed giant arrows of the Eight Bull Crossbows.

I was just relieved, but unexpectedly, those crossbow arrows flashed and exploded one after another. A stout crossbow bolt was shot in front of the horse, and it was plunged straight into the ground until the fuse was extinguished, which allowed the young to escape.

At this time, Yumei only looked at the front, and a ring-shaped cloth bag was tied to the thick crossbow arrows of the Tianci Army, and it was estimated that it was because of the things in the cloth bag that it would breathe fire and thunder. Yumi immediately guessed that the crossbow arrows of the Heavenly Gift Army relied on fire-breathing thunder to hurt people, not the crossbow arrows themselves.

The Fanhan army was fierce and brave by nature, but it was also because of the mixed personnel, and the military discipline was poor. Suddenly bombarded by a gunpowder weapon that he had never seen before, the Fan Han army immediately became chaotic.

Yumei immediately ordered the generals at all levels to rectify the soldiers and quickly rush into battle, and the eight bull crossbows required two teas at a time, which was enough for the Han army to rush to a distance sufficient to launch the crossbow.

Looking around, Yumei breathed a sigh of relief. Under the restraint of the overseers and generals at all levels, the Fanhan army is restoring order and will soon be able to continue to charge. And the dozens of strange weapons that breathe fire and thunder from the Tianci Army, although they look terrifying, the casualties are not heavy.

Seeing this, Yumei suddenly despised the heaven-sent army in her heart. The ballista looks scary, but the range and power are too far from the Eight Bull crossbow, and what is the use of spending so much money and so much effort to do such flashy things, it is not as useful as recruiting more soldiers. After all, people have it, and they don't need to give much pension when they die. If you have 30,000 Han troops under your command, you can completely annihilate all the Tianci troops on the opposite side if you are divided into several battle formations and charge at once.

The Fanhan army has not yet been rectified, but unexpectedly ushered in the second round of ballista attacks by the Tianci army. Yumei's brain suddenly began to tingle, why is the ballista of the Tianci Army so fast, could it be that another batch of ballistas was hidden and not fired?

Hurriedly looked in the direction of the Tianci Army, and found that they really only had a dozen ballistas.

The soldiers of Fanhan, who hurriedly continued to rectify the chaos, heard the explosion in their ears again, that is, the other three city gates were attacked by the Tianci army.

"The Heaven-Sent Army has begun to attack the city?" Sumi could barely believe her ears. There are only 2,500 heavenly troops outside each city gate, how dare they attack the city? 33

At this moment, the third round of ballista attacks fell into the array of the Fan Han army again, and this time the Fan Han army, which was already not strong in military discipline, completely collapsed. Many of the soldiers of the Fan Han Dynasty even threw away the crossbows in their hands, and fled to Xiuning City when they turned their heads, and the overseers of more than 100 people were knocked to the ground in an instant, and many of the overseers were directly trampled to death on the spot.

Yumei roared loudly, but the strength of one person was of no use in the flight of nearly six thousand people. Knowing that the attack had been completely defeated, Yumei had no choice but to lead the pro-army to flee to the city, and it would be too wrongful to escape too late and be captured by the Tianci army.

Under the order of Yumei, the pro-army guards waved their knives and cut down all the Fanhan soldiers who were in front of General Yu's horse, and Yumei finally rushed back to the city. He knew that he had to straighten out his soldiers immediately at this time, and then he could only honestly refuse to defend the city.

Huge explosions rose higher and higher, and the shouts of killing seemed to be slowly extending into the city. Yu Meizheng didn't know what was going on, but there were reports from Tanma Blue Banner one after another, saying that the three city gates of the east, south, and north had been lost one after another.

Everything was like in a dream, such a strong city defense, with a thousand defenders left at each gate, why was it so easy to lose?

The Heavens' advance was slow, but extremely determined. Nearly all the buildings in front of them were destroyed by the explosion, and the place where the Heaven-sent Army passed was in ruins. Anyway, the people in the city were also slaughtered by the Fanhan army, and the Tianci army obviously wanted to kill all the people in the city who were still breathing.

She shouted hoarsely, and kept sending troops, but to no avail. In the roar of a large number of gunpowder weapons, cold weapons hardly played any role. At this time, even the West City, which he had just attacked, had been breached.

In the end, the remaining more than 3,000 Han troops, under the leadership of Yumei, retreated to the county government to hold on.

The Tianci army put the few Xiangyang cannons that they brought out this time outside, the gunpowder fuses with strict rulers were ignited, and the gunpowder packets were thrown into the county government one by one. After a meal, the entire county government office has long been gone, and even half of the broken tiles and ruins are gone, and everything has been razed to the ground.

Under Niu Gao's military order, the Tianci army cleaned up all the living enemies in Xiuning City again, and then divided the troops into two routes, all the way to Jiyang Bridge, and all the way to the direction of Baiyue Mountain.

Tong Guan sent 10,000 people to slaughter the city as bait, naturally wanting to eat all the Tianci troops who left the city. Without ambush soldiers, how could the 10,000 Han army of Yumei eat 20,000 Tianci troops. It's just that Tong Guan would never have thought that Yumei, who he had high hopes for, was so unbeaten, and the Tianci army didn't even set up a camp, and tens of thousands of Han troops were killed in one battle.

At this time, the Jiyang Bridge was a relatively wide bridge in Shezhou Mansion, and Yao Pingzhong felt that the mere 3,000 Tianci army could not stop his army at all. The entire 15,000 elite Western Army, if you can't even take down the bridgehead guarded by the 3,000 Tianci Army, then it is better to change into women's clothes and dance in the building. As for whether anyone will watch the dance and whether it will be beaten, Yao Pingzhong will not consider this issue.

The 3,000 Tianci army was only equipped with seven ballistas and six Xiangyang cannons, because Niu Gao's order was to resist the bridge and defend it. The bridge deck is so wide, these ballistas and Xiangyang cannons are enough to resist the enemy, not to mention that if you can't defend it, you can blow up the bridge.