Chapter 1286: Appalling Hoarding
The book is picked up again.
"Damn it!" Looking at Wei Yan, who fled in a hurry, Li Zheng once again hit the city wall with a fist of remorse and scolded bitterly.
If he had known that the enemy's generals were in the army, he would have had people attack with big stones!
But now it's too late to say anything, and he can only watch Wei Yan run farther and farther, and after a while, he runs back to his camp.
And the other enemies also followed Wei Yanfa and ran back to their positions, so that Li Zheng could only stare dryly.
After Wei Yan returned to the army, he immediately found Huang Zhongyu and reported: "General Huang, although the enemy did not cause much damage to us this time, it was only because they couldn't adapt to our strange behavior for a while.
If I wait and continue to let the soldiers carry sacks to the wall, as is the case this time, the enemy will probably fire arrows between the walls before I have even reached them!
In this way, the loss of our wait will be great, and I hope General Huang will find a way. β
"......" After Huang Zhong heard Wei Yan's words, he frowned, stroked his beard, and fell into deep thought.
He knew that what Wei Yan said was right, the reason why they lost so little this time was because they had blinded the enemy by their unexpected actions.
If you do it again, the enemy will definitely release the arrows in advance!
Their soldiers did not have the invulnerable armor of the enemy, so how could they defend themselves against arrows?
After thinking of this, Huang Zhong let out a long sigh, shook his head, and said with a wry smile: "The old man has no good way, he can only take one step at a time."
However, you can have the soldiers carry a boulder or sack in their left hand and a wooden plank or something in their right hand as a shield.
Although it can't completely defend against enemy arrows, it can always reduce some losses. β
"This ......" Otherwise, after hearing Huang Zhong's words, his brows furrowed tightly.
What kind of solution is this? How can a mere plank resist the arrows that help the enemy?
You must know that the enemy's arrows are shot down from the high tiger prison, and their impact is very strong, and ordinary thin wooden boards can be shot through at will!
Even if you can't shoot through, how can a mere wooden board block the overwhelming number of arrows?!
However, he didn't come up with a better way, so he could only grit his teeth and nod his head in agreement.
Then he ordered the heralds on the side: "General Chuanben ordered the baggage soldiers to dismantle all the carriages, and hand over the wooden planks to the 100,000 troops in front.
Then go and collect all the shields of the Chinese army and hand them over to the 100,000 troops.
At the same time, give them orders to cover them with planks or wooden shields when they attack with large rocks or sacks, and not to rush stupidly. β
"Alas......" After giving the order, Wei Changchang let out a long sigh.
He knew that although they were prepared, their casualties must have been very heavy!
But what can they do now, if they don't finish casting that man-made mountain sooner, they will never be able to break through the tiger prison.
Therefore, even if they are desperately trying to break their muscles and bones, they must finish casting that mountain in the shortest possible time!
"Knock knock knock......" After Wei Yan's order was given for a while, another fierce war drum sounded.
Then, I saw an army of 100,000 carrying sacks or boulders in their left hand, and a wooden plank diagonally in their right hand, slowly moving forward.
"Huh! I still want to repeat the old tricks, but I can't look at it
Started a certain house, right?! After Li Zheng on the city wall saw this, he sneered and said, "If you wait for all of them to hold big shields, a certain family will not be able to help you."
But it's naΓ―ve for you to try to block the arrows with a thin plank! β
After finishing speaking, he waved his hand at the more than 20,000 crossbowmen on the city wall and shouted: "Release! β
"Buzz ......" With Li Zheng's order, more than 20,000 wolf's tooth arrows formed an overwhelming rain of arrows, rushing towards those enemies who were holding shields.
That's right, it's more than 20,000!
After the enemy retreated, Li Zheng found that the 20,000 infantry in his hands was actually of little use.
Because the enemy is not planning to attack the city now, but to destroy the Tiger Prison Pass, the 20,000 soldiers defending the city will not be useful.
Therefore, Li Zheng had more than 20,000 pairs of bows and arrows shipped, and these soldiers became crossbowmen.
Anyway, he didn't need the accuracy of these soldiers who had become crossbowmen on a temporary basis.
He wants a wide range of coverage attacks!
As long as they can draw their bows and shoot arrows, these soldiers are more than capable of doing the job.
Li Zheng has figured it out now, they have no chance to engage the enemy in the short term!
In this case, it is better to let the defenders of the city become crossbowmen and become long-range, so that they can also inflict a lot of damage on the enemy.
"Woo Woo ......"
"Ahhh!!h
Sure enough, Li Zheng's plan succeeded, and after those arrows flew into the enemy's military formation, they caused thousands of casualties in an instant!
"Hey, hey......" Seeing this, Li Zheng touched his nose and laughed, and then he waved his hand again, "Go on!" β
"No!" One of the lieutenants answered, and continued to let the crossbowmen on the ramparts attack.
"Put!"
"Buzz ......"
"Puff puff ......"
"Ahhh!!h
"Hahaha......" Seeing that the second round of arrow rain took the lives of thousands of enemies, this made Li Zheng almost overjoyed!
He didn't expect the enemy to be so stupid as he watched his side shoot arrows without retreating, which was simply a gift for nothing!
One rain of arrows can kill two or three thousand people, twenty or thirty thousand ten times, in other words, just these 100,000 people, fifty or sixty times can kill them all!
Although fifty or sixty shots will consume all the arrows in the Tiger Prison Pass.
But Li Zhengcai doesn't care about this!
His main purpose now is to delay as much time as possible and kill more enemies, if he can shoot 100,000 people with a million arrows, it will be a lot of money for Li Zheng!
Because there is no one in the world who has more than the ordnance prepared by their Li family!
Ever since Li Zhi came to the end of the Han Dynasty, he has been suffering from a slight lack of firepower.
So he frantically hoarded bows and arrows, armor, and even a lot of food.
It's a pity that these things are all in Luoyang, if they are in the Tiger Prison Pass, Li Zheng is sure that he can kill these enemies outside the city with just arrows!
Because Li is content to hoard nearly 100 million arrows!
The main reason why so many things are made is because this thing is so easy to make!
It's not very technical, a small stick, a few feathers, and an iron arrowhead will do
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Even a common man can make thirty or fifty sticks a day.
Therefore, Li Zhi unknowingly hoarded so much.
It's a pity that all these things are in Luoyang, and they only brought more than a million arrows with them when they came here.
However, for Li Zheng, these are barely enough, as long as these arrows can shoot 100,000 people, it will be a big profit for them!
Outside the city, Huang Zhong ......
"......" Huang Zhong and Wei Yan were stunned as they watched the rain of arrows shooting out of the city in a daze, and were silent.
Although the two of them wanted to withdraw their troops now and let their troops withdraw quickly, in the end, neither of them issued this order!
Because they know that although the damage is heavy at this time, this loss is necessary!
If they can't quickly cast a mountain, then they won't die even if they are a soldier, and there is no way to take the tiger prison!
So, although their hearts hurt, they forcibly endured it!
"Put !!"
"Bang bang bang...... "The soldier who finally came to the low wall he had cast in the face of the enemy's three rounds of arrows, roared, and threw the stones on his shoulders and shoulders.
Then, the people behind them who resisted the sack also hurriedly threw the soil in the sack into the crack of the stone.
After doing this, they quickly turned around and fled in panic.
No way, who knows if the enemy will continue to shoot arrows?
However, to their surprise, there was no movement in the city when they fled.
At this moment, a captain on the city wall also asked Li Zheng with a puzzled face: "General, why don't we continue to shoot arrows?" β
"Can't shoot" After Li Zheng heard the captain's words, he shook his head and said, "Although I have a lot of arrows, I can't waste them!" β
Saying this, he raised his hand and pointed at the enemies who were fleeing in a hurry, and said, "Look at these enemies, now they are fleeing in the opposite direction of the arrows.
If I wait to shoot an arrow, even if the arrow hits them, they will lose some of their strength, and they won't be able to do much damage.
Also, if you look at these people, they all have thin planks behind them, and if you shoot arrows now, you can only shoot on thin planks. β
When the captain heard this, he frowned and said, "It's just a thin plank, how much can it do?"
They were also holding thin planks when they attacked just now, but weren't they all very miserable by us? β
"This is not the time!" Li Zheng shook his head and explained, "The reason why the crossbowmen we waited for just now were able to shoot through the enemy's thin planks was because they were charging at the arrows.
The speed of their head-on charge increases the lethality of the arrows, which is why a rain of arrows can take the lives of thousands of enemies!
Now they had their backs to the arrows and were running frantically.
In this way, even if the arrow hits them, it will invisibly weaken the lethality of the arrow.
Coupled with the defense of the planks diagonally above them, it was enough to keep them unscathed!
Therefore, we are just wasting arrows by archery now.
Besides......"
After saying this, Li Zheng paused and said with a smile: "I only need fifty or sixty rounds of arrow rain to kill the enemy's 100,000 army, so it is not mine but the enemy who should be anxious now!" β