Chapter 174: Stone Rain and Turtle Shield
"Quick, throw the stones."
As soon as the twenty shield carts stepped on the steep slope, Wang Gang couldn't wait to shout.
More than 400 and 3 cliffs on the mountain were thieves, and they hurriedly pushed down piles of stones.
Suddenly, hundreds of large and small stones tumbled down the steep slope, some of them were stopped by the countless tree stumps on the slope, or slowed down, but the other part rolled faster and faster, roaring towards the shield cart of the Guan Emperor's army.
The twenty shield carts looked crumbling in the overwhelming rocks.
But when the rocks actually hit the shield cart, they slid to both sides, and the inside of the shield cart was supported by wood on both sides, and even if the stone hit the side, it could not knock through the thick planks.
With the exception of one shield cart that was smashed off the top of a large rock flying up the slope, the rest were barely damaged.
After a wave of stones, the twenty shield carts were lifted half a foot off the ground, and the Guan Emperor army inside shouted the trumpet and took two steps up.
"You can't stop, throw the rocks quickly, keep throwing."
Wang Gang was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, and personally pushed down a stone weighing dozens of catties.
More than 400 thieves started to throw stones down again.
The shield carts were tortoise-like, motionless in the rain of stones, with only a few cracks in the sides and tops.
The rocks did not stop, and the shield carts did not move, just lying on the steep slope, with countless spikes and four piercing feet at the bottom, firmly into the ground.
"They're consuming our stones."
Leopard Five's face was solemn, and he said with a frown.
Wang Gang subconsciously looked at the gravel on the slope, and then his face became very ugly.
There are no rocks everywhere on the three cliffs, they are all large rocks, few of them can be moved, and these piled up on the slope are still collected by them everywhere, and they chiseled for several months before they barely made it up, which is probably enough to throw about five rounds.
They had already thrown two rounds, a full forty percent less, and without those herringbone shield carts, the stones would have been enough to kill hundreds, if not thousands, of enemies.
But now, apart from causing a few cracks in the opponent's shield car, he didn't kill or injure any enemy at all.
It will definitely not work like this, and when all the stones are thrown, they will be finished.
"Go and pry the teststone off."
When he was helpless, Leopard Wu suddenly gritted his teeth and said.
"Heart Stone?"
Wang Gang subconsciously looked up.
On the top of the mountain, there is a big stone protruding, no more than one zhang long, about half a zhang wide, after Wang Gangbao Wu set up a village on the mountain, he called this big stone a test stone, used to test the loyalty and courage of his subordinates, but anyone who has the idea of defecting, or has a hint of rebellion, will be carried on the stone to interrogate.
In the past few months, several of his men who tried to defect have been kicked off the heart test stone and fell to their deaths.
If such a big stone rolls down, even the shield cart made of iron will have to be smashed to pieces.
"But can the stone be pried out?" Wang Gang was a little worried.
"You save some rocks first, and I will take fifty brothers to dig them, even if I dig up the top of the mountain, I will also dig out the stones."
As he spoke, Leopard Wu immediately ordered fifty subordinates on the side, and ran towards the test stone on the top of the mountain with an iron catalpa hoe and other things.
"Save the stone and throw it on time."
Wang Gang shouted as he picked up a large stone and threw it at the route of the shield cart below.
Originally, there were many tree stumps on the hillside that were high above the ground, which slowed down the rolling speed of many gravels, and after the number of gravel decreased, the threat to the shield cart was also less.
The twenty shield carts moved one after another, like turtles, picking a route with many stumps, and climbing up step by step.
After climbing about thirty steps, one of the shield carts was unfortunately smashed through the side panel by a large stone, smashing the two Guan Emperor soldiers inside into a blur of flesh and blood, and screaming incessantly.
The broken shield cart had to slowly retreat with the wounded, and before it could retreat to the foot of the mountain, it was smashed by a large stone, and three of the seven Guan Emperor troops in it fell.
The only two remaining Guan Emperor soldiers dragged two wounded soldiers down the hill, and just after reaching the foot of the mountain, one of the wounded soldiers was unfortunately smashed by a stone and smashed his head.
Seeing this, the thieves on the slope were greatly boosted and shouted excitedly.
But the remaining nineteen shield carts still moved upwards step by step.
Qin Chuan took the rest of Emperor Guan's army to wait on a small dirt slope not far from the foot of the mountain, watching the stones roll over the dirt slope, and watching his hands step by step to the top.
After seeing Leopard Wu and dozens of people go to the top of the mountain, Qin Chuan took out a telescope and aimed it at the top of the mountain.
"They want to pry that big rock down, big bull, and tell the brothers to deviate from that route and avoid the big rock as much as possible."
After looking at it for a while, Qin Chuan handed the telescope to Luo Daniu on the side, and said with a slight frown.
After Luo Daniu also took a few looks, he hurriedly ran to the foot of the mountain, and while avoiding the stones rolling down from the mountain, he commanded several shield carts to move to the side.
"Hurry up, dig quickly!"
On the top of the mountain, Leopard Five personally wielded a hoe and struggled to dig away the soil buried in the test stone.
With dozens of catalpa and hoes flying, the back half of the big stone slowly emerged.
The stone was not connected to the rocks in the mountain, but was a large rock more than two feet long.
Under the scolding of Leopard Five, several of his subordinates got under the heart test stone and began to plank underneath the >>
of the dirt.
It didn't take long for half of the rock to hang out of the mountain.
Seeing that the shield carts below were avoiding one after another, Leopard Five led his men to shout the trumpet while priing the big rock out inch by inch.
Soon, the test stone began to sway, and suddenly it fell violently, carrying countless gravel with it, and rolled down the mountain with a roar.
At the foot of the mountain, Qin Chuan couldn't help but clench his fists.
With a "boom", the huge rock smashed a shield cart that had no time to dodge, and then continued to go down, from the side of the small dirt slope where Qin Chuan was, and tumbled down the mountain.
There were several terrible screams from the smashed shield cart.
On the mountain, Wang Gangbao Wu and his subordinates cheered.
Qin Chuan frowned, looking fixedly at the shield cart that was almost smashed.
"Climb up there and kill all those bitches!"
Luo Da Niu at the foot of the mountain had red eyes, brandished the long knife in his hand and roared loudly.
The remaining eighteen shield carts quickly moved again, climbing up step by step.
Wang Gangbao Wu and his more than 400 thieves recovered from the short-term excitement and hurriedly threw stones down.
An hour later, a total of sixteen shield carts climbed up the slope, less than eighty paces away from Wang Gangbao and the others.
By this time, there was not much stone left on the mountain.
"Attack with fire."
I don't know who mentioned it.
"It's useless, their shield car baffle is coated with a layer of mud and can't burn."
"With kerosene."
"I can't even afford to light kerosene lamps in the stockade, where the hell are you getting so much kerosene?"
"This ......"
"According to me, let's kill it and overturn those shield carts, won't we?"
"Yes, kill it."
Wang Gang and Leopard Wu frowned and thought for a moment, then they all pulled out their waist knives and roared: "Brothers, kill them and kill them......"
Before the words fell, I heard a "bang", and a cloud of gunpowder suddenly came out of the shield car under the mountain, and then the leopard five tilted his body, covered his shoulders and fell down.
"No, it's a firearm."
Wang Gang reacted quickly and immediately fell to the ground.
At this time, there was a sudden burst of gunfire at the bottom of the mountain, and a cloud of gunpowder smoke rose from the sixteen shield carts, and more than a dozen people who reacted slowly fell into a pool of blood in an instant.
Two of the shield carts suddenly made a hole in the front end, revealing a swarthy gun muzzle.
"Boom" twice, the two tiger squatting cannons inside roared in unison, and the two cannons roared past the heads of Wang Gang and others, smashing out two earth pits not far away.
Although these two cannons did not kill anyone, the roaring cannons and the whistling cannons frightened the courage of Wang Gangbao's more than 400 men.
As soon as the cannon fire passed, some people spread their legs and ran desperately towards the stockade above.
With the first, there will be the second, and more than 400 thieves ran away in the blink of an eye.
"Bastard! Come back, all for Lao Tzu back! ”
Wang Gang's face turned blue with anger, and he brandished his knife and scolded loudly.
Some people stopped stupidly, and then the gunshots rang out again from the bottom of the hill, and a dozen more of them fell.
As a result, more people fled.
Seeing that those people couldn't shout, Wang Gang had no choice but to scold and drag the injured leopard five to the cottage.
At the foot of the mountain, Qin Chuan stood up and drew his long knife.
"Go up the mountain."
"Kill it, slaughter those bitches!"
"Kill!"
More than 500 Guan Emperor Jun rushed up the steep slope like a tsunami.
Several artillery trucks were dragged by dozens of people, and they were transported up.
Among them, the five-foot big Buddha Lang machine gun car was tied with a full twenty ropes, and it was barely up the steep slope under the pull of twenty strong Guan Di troops.
Wang Gangbao's five people have all cowered in the cottage, and there are also a lot of stones in the village, but there is a hurdle below, and the stones can only attack the enemy close to the wall, and they can't roll away.
Qin Chuan asked Emperor Guan to press the artillery a hundred steps away from the Zhaimen, a total of four tiger squat cannons, four small Franc machines and one big Franc machine.
After the artillery was fixed, they began to take turns to spew out tongues of fire, concentrating on bombarding the gate of the wall, which was only up and down the stairs of sheep's intestines.
More than 400 thieves and sentient beings in the three cliffs were afraid of being affected by artillery, and they were far away from the gate of the village, huddled together and trembled.
The shelling lasted for half an hour, and the gate and the wall next to it were already dilapidated and collapsed.
Seeing that the bombardment was almost over, Qin Chuan said lightly: "Continue to get on the shield car, take the little Franco cannon car up, and blast it inside at the gate of the wall." ”
"Big boss, let me come this time."
Luo Daniu, who was already eager to try, pushed a small artillery cart and took a few gunners into the herringbone shield cart next to him.
Soon, the shield cart shouted the trumpet and forced towards the gate step by step.
"Hold on! Resist! ”
Wang Gang wielded his sword and roared at his panicked men.
Leopard Wu covered his injured shoulder, leaned against the entrance of the general's cave that had just been carved out of the doorway, and sighed in despair.