Chapter 84: Sparks in the Sky
Chen Gong was still gloomy with an old face that seemed to owe him two thousand taels of silver, the majestic Wusha crown was meticulously worn on his head, and he looked at the city with gloomy eyes against the cold wind blowing on the city gate building.
The trench near the city wall has been stopped, and these hoes that have forgotten to be taken back are stuck on it, and Cao Jun, who was standing on the siege iceberg and secretly shooting a few arrows from time to time, has disappeared for ten days, and now it is approaching the New Year's Festival of the fourth year of Jian'an, and the Cao army who is facing against the Lu army seems to be wholeheartedly preparing for the festival, as if he has completely put up the war against Xiapi.
If others still think this is a good thing, but for Chen Gong, there is only a deep uneasiness in his heart, it was Cao Cao who he assisted in the first place to quell the Yellow Turban Rebellion in Qingzhou, Yanzhou, he knows Cao Cao's terrible too well! If you don't move, it's enough, and if you move, it will definitely be a thunderous blow.
And just when he was worried, suddenly a few little colonels carried two human heads full of fear and blood, and trotted past Chen Gong's side, and then hung the human heads on the city gate with trembling hands, and ran down the city gate in a hurry without saying a word.
This scene made Chen Gong sigh again, now he doesn't know whether it is right or wrong to follow Lu Bu, the influence of Wang Hou's scolding war fourteen days ago has not subsided until now, and now as long as someone in the city talks a little bit and says a few words, it can touch Lu Bu's sensitive nerves, making him think that he is laughing at himself behind his back, or talking about something man, and he will drag it down and behead him regardless of it.
Yesterday, he had another big quarrel with his favorite Mrs. Ren, and he also whipped Hou Cheng dozens of times, and now people in Xiapi City are panicking.
"I knew earlier, I should have killed that Cao thief earlier!"
Shaking his head with some regret, his face was gloomy, Chen Gong also turned around and planned to go back, who knew that at this moment, a drum beat suddenly appeared behind him rhythmically, and he turned his head in amazement, and in the next second, Chen Gong's pupils couldn't help but grow to the extreme in an instant.
The open space under the city that was still empty just now, suddenly countless Cao troops appeared in an instant, a column of Cao character flags flew in the cold wind, and the black armor Cao army was like an iron block that had just come out of the blast furnace and hugged forward in a neat formation, and what made Chen Gong's pupils jump even more was that in the middle of the Cao army's infantry formation, dozens or hundreds of giant wooden towers as high as the city wall were dragged to the bottom of Xiapi City in the bulls and people shouting and pulling.
After being stunned for a few seconds, Chen Gong came back to his senses, but even so, he did not panic, but calmly turned his head and snorted coldly at the stunned officer of the Lu Army.
"Don't beat the drum yet, face the !!"
"!!"
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The head of the city also followed the drums and shouted, the sound of the footsteps of the clanging military boots sounded intensively in the ears, standing on the iceberg of the siege with frozen feet, a column of archers and arrows were put on the bow, densely buried behind the battlements, if a few days ago, such a strict protection, Cao Cao's face must have been covered with gloom, but this time, a smug laugh suddenly appeared on his handsome old face, holding the horse whip high, he was high-spirited and shouted out.
"Cease-of-arms !!"
Woo~woo~~~
The desolate bull's horn sounded for a long time, and with a bang, tens of thousands of Cao Jun were actually neatly like a person, and they stopped in an instant, and no one took one more step. The next moment, the heralds flowed through the army like a beating electric current, and in the curious eyes of the Lu army at the head of the city, those two rows were side by side, and the wooden towers that followed the heavy march of the army were unfolded, and some soldiers dragged the iron chain under the tower, picked up the big hammer high, and nailed it to the ground.
Eleven days of preparation, even the most quintessential mortise and tenon structure of Chinese carpentry was abandoned, no matter what shape is beautiful or not, directly on the big nails, one hundred and eight return cannons are heavily arrayed under the city of Xiapi!
In his shouting, on the ox cart that followed on the side, more than 100 catties of fragments of the building were carried down by the sergeant shouting and placed in the net pocket of the front row back to the gun, and the back row poured the red-hot coal blocks from the stove directly into the cast iron cauldron used as a spoon.
I have to admit that in terms of rebuilding machinery, the ancient Chinese people are really inferior to the Western barbarians, the trebuchet of the Romans of the same era is to use animal tendons as torsion, ejection and launch, and the Chu State handed down, is like a whip that has been poured down, it needs to be dragged by manpower to carry the whip, drag and run backwards in order to throw the stone out violently, which requires a great range of motion, occupies a lot of manpower, and needs to fix the catapult on the ground, which is not practical, so in the ancient Chinese war, the use of trebuchet is not much.
However, the Huihui cannon that appeared here today was the pinnacle of the Yuan Dynasty's Yuan, a native of the Western Regions, and as soon as it was born, it helped the Mongolian iron cavalry to defeat the Xiangfan defense line on which the Southern Song Empire depended, and only a few years later, the Southern Song Dynasty collapsed in the roar of the Huihui cannon.
In addition, in the crusade movement, this kind of heavy trebuchet also made an overwhelming roar in the holy city of Jerusalem, in the era of cold weapons, this can be regarded as the pinnacle of giant equipment, although this thing is not very bright, but Wang Hou is full of confidence in these giant guys.
"Brethren, are you cold?"
"Cold !!"
In the neat shouts of his subordinates, the long sword pointed directly at Xiapicheng, and Wang Hou roared with great passion.
"Then I'll light the biggest torch for you! Put! ”
Before the sound fell, the temporary artillerymen who had already been ready to attack suddenly pulled the rope buckle tied to the counterweight, and under the groan of the creaking wood, the stone and wood counterweight fell violently, throwing the stones loaded with coal in the back row and throwing them out, in mid-air, as if a meteor shower, in the stunned gaze of the Lu army at the head of the city, the red coal block dragging black smoke smashed into their faces.
"Ahhhhh!!hh
The terrible screams suddenly rose in an uproar, and the surface temperature of the coal that had been burned through was thousands of degrees, and the Danyang soldiers were basically light infantry, and the coal pieces that fell like a pound or two and rained hit the skin, and the barbecue-like sound suddenly came out terrible, falling into the back, the clothes were fine, and the electric shock dance was thrown down, but it was smashed on the face, on the eyes, and the desperate screams even made people want to go crazy.
This is not over, the buildings of this era are basically made of wood, and the red-hot coal blocks spread out more than 300 meters to the back, and it fell into the snowdrift, and it was extinguished with a tear, but it fell on the wooden corridor, the windows, and the hay pile, and in less than a moment, the raging fire roared and burned.
Walk the water! The terrible screams of the firefighting, the hustle and bustle sounded behind him, pushing away the shield in front of him, Chen Gong looked down worriedly, these are just appetizers, those larger return cannons with a thick circle of slings in the front row are the main thing, the coal cannons in the back row are already pulling the rope to reload, and the hundreds of catties of cannonballs in the front row have just been loaded, in Chen Gong's scalp numbness, again, the sharp whistling sound pierced his ears violently.
Bang~
This impact is no less than some early artillery, smashed on the city wall one by one, the ice armor poured outside was immediately directly torn apart, and fell off fiercely, and the bricks inside were also cracked instantly, some broken bricks were even directly glued by the ice, and the two fragments just smashed on the beam of the arrow tower on the city gate building, with a click, the beam of the house was directly smashed, and half of the building collapsed directly, and the Lu Jun below disappeared into the rubble without even snorting.
This time, even he Chen Gong couldn't be so calm, he was stepped aside by the impact, and he was embarrassed to get up with the battlement, but before he could stand firmly, there was a sudden bang under him.
It was a stroke of genius, a triangular piece of Pengcheng smashed right on the city gate, and in the sound of clicking, the bolt of the door broke from the middle, and the heavy city gate slammed suddenly, slamming on both sides of the doorway, and the gatekeepers who didn't have time to run disappeared directly behind the door panel, but a stream of blood splattered out.
"Block the door! Blocking the door!! ”
The soul of the dead was so angry that he couldn't be calm anymore, Chen Gong was screaming as hard as he could, and he didn't care about the raging fire nearby, Zhang Liao was sweating profusely and personally pushed half of the door full of viscous blood, and closed it with a bang.
The Danyang soldiers behind him were also anxious to close the other side, and then directly demolished the nearby houses, and the wood and stones on them were stuffed to the city gate regardless of it.
This hand broke the city with one shot, which Cao Jun himself didn't expect, didn't wait for the cavalry to rush out, Zhang Liao sealed the city gate again, looking at this scene, Guo Jia was a pity to slap his thigh, and then grinned with painful teeth, put down the binoculars, Cao Cao also shook his head regretfully, but immediately, the smile returned to his face.
"Order Peng Cheng to stay behind and let him step up the demolition of the house! Beams, broken pieces, were transported to the front line of Xiapi as soon as possible, and the city wall was demolished if it was not enough! Send him an additional 10,000 people, the Surabaya dam and ditch will be completely stopped by the prime minister, and all the manpower will be supported to Guangling Taishou Chen Deng, and he will also step up the transportation of coal and iron, and send someone to tell Wang Tuqiu, let him give the prime minister a bang! What is missing!! ”
Such a generous boss, Wang Hou is naturally not polite, again, another furnace of childish coal is filled, in his somewhat hoarse voice, the artilleryman once again suddenly loosened the thick rope that tied the return cannon, and in the sound of the bang, once again a brilliant meteor came to the city of Xiapi City!
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