Chapter 529: Flying Stones Attack the Qin Camp All Over the Sky
With Liu Yu's first impact, the Beifu military formation, which was still standing still and standing like a mountain, suddenly scattered into thousands of small squares, and then turned the horizontal team into a column, forming a torrent of steel, closely following Liu Yu and other team leaders who were charging ahead, and rushed onto the embankment on the shore.
Fu Rong was stationed on a small high slope outside Shouchun City, and was directing his subordinates to retreat backwards, retreating into the temporary camp fence set up a few hundred paces offshore. As soon as his order was issued, it would be repeated by dozens, hundreds of heralds who spoke different languages, and then quickly turned to the armies of the various tribes, and after a while, they would see these armies noisily closing their formations and retreating, and the army of the Di tribe was dragging at the end, covered by the strong bow and shield array, and behind these tens of thousands of Di troops, there were hundreds of thousands of armies of various tribes that were retreating on the whole line, the speed was different, the order was not too good, and it was also a loss to the leaders of the tribes, and the chiefs were also battle-hardened, so as not to collapse at this time.
Fu Rong's side was the brave general Mao Dang, his brows were tightly locked, and he said in a low voice: "Yang Pinggong, is our retreat a little too hasty?" We should let the alien troops behind us withdraw first, and after they are finished, our Di army will withdraw, otherwise, it will be easy to cause chaos. ”
The corners of Fu Rong's mouth hooked up a sneer: "I just want to lead the Jin army to attack like this!" We saw the chaos, and they saw it, seeing that Xie Xuan stroking the qin on the mountain, with the sound of the piano as a signal, he would attack on all fronts, as long as they rushed to the pontoon, hehe, they would know how stupid they were! ”
Before his words fell, the Jin army had already begun to attack the whole line, and Mao Dang exclaimed: "Here, the Jin army is charging!" ”
A cold glint flashed in Fu Rong's eyes, and he raised his right arm high, his five fingers together, his palm was like a knife, and he cut it down fiercely: "The Jin army can't cross the river so quickly, let me guard against their catapults!" ”
At the same time, more than 200 catapults of the Jin army have been transported to the river fifty paces away, and the catapults are hurriedly removing the wheels under the carts, and then quickly fixing the catapults to avoid shaking and sideways in the process of throwing stones.
It is also a hot tea, more than 200 catapults have all been in place, each car is parked on the side of a big cart, full of large and small stones, the largest looks about seven or eight catties, and the small is a piece of pebbles, there is no big mountain on the edge of the river, the trebuchet trees can be transported from the rear to the big wood, but these thrown stones can not be obtained nearby, the pebbles on the west bank of the river are all scavenged by the craftsmen of the Jin army, this move yesterday also made the Qin people puzzled, Only now did I understand that its purpose was for today's catapult storm.
On the platform of the former army commander of the Beifu Army, Liu Gaozhi looked at the catapults by the river ready one by one, his arms hung down, and the stone throwing trough was already piled with large and small stones, he nodded, and said in a deep voice to Liu Jingxuan on the side: "Order, stone throwing!" ”
The order flag in Liu Jingxuan's hand was raised high, and this time it turned three and a half circles in the air and fell suddenly.
With the fierce fall of his command flag, the heavy objects hanging at the front end of more than 200 catapults in front of him also fell almost at the same time, and the force arm at the front end smashed to the ground, while the rear force arm loaded with stones drew a huge arc and flew into the sky, and the large and small stones in the stone throwing trough also broke away from the stone throwing trough one after another, crossed the water, and flew towards the array of the Qin army fifty steps away from the river.
There are large and small stones flying in the sky, because there are more than 200 catapults concentrated in the front of this ten miles wide, there is one almost every thirty steps apart, which has exceeded the safe distance of the catapult arrangement, many stones thrown out, directly in the air came to a close contact, about two-thirds of the stones were thrown across the river, and one-third of the stones, either the strength was insufficient, or they collided with other stones in the air, with the sound of "plop" and "plop", fell into the water, Rising up a column of white water soaring into the sky, even many fish in the river were frightened, and some simply fluttered directly on the two banks, and from a distance, on the opposite bank of the river, a white fish belly.
But there were still many stones that fell into the camp of the Qin army, and with the orders of the Qin camp, thousands of large wooden rows tied together by arm-thick wood were erected one after another, like giant umbrellas, supporting the heads of the 30,000 archers in the front row, forming a huge sky net to protect the safety of the archers, and those shield soldiers, like pillars, raised their hands up, against those wooden rows, for themselves and for the archers to hold up a piece of the sky.
The sound of "crackling" is endless, from time to time there are heavier stones smashed against the wooden row of several shield bearers can not stand, while vomiting blood, while falling to the ground, as long as a person falls, this erected wooden row will collapse a piece, exposing more than ten archers under the wooden row, and then a stone that follows is smashed over, these more than ten archers if they do not roll under other wooden rows in time, they will be smashed by these stones to the flesh and blood, a whimper.
Bursts of cheers erupted in the Jin army, and when each round of catapult volleys fired, the neighboring Jin soldiers always raised their lances in their hands and roared: "Wind! Wind! Wind! Gale! Gale! Gale! ”
And the Jin army's arrow and stone attack is indeed like a violent storm, pouring towards the opposite side, constantly there are wooden rafts being knocked down, smashed crookedly, the screams of the people who were smashed in the opposite camp, the rolling and moaning of the wounded, all clearly transmitted here, making the Jin army's slingers more excited, regardless of the cold of this early spring, sweating again and again to make firing movements.
Qin Fang, on the high slope, Fu Rong smiled, looking at the front of him that was beaten and shaking, but basically it was still most of the shield arrays that were held high, nodded slightly, and said to Mao Dang, who had a gloomy face on the side: "General Mao, do you see it, the catapults of the Jin army can't break our wooden shield array." ”
Mao Dang couldn't see any smile on his face, he shook his head and said: "But, but now we are only beaten, not attacked, after all, it is not a way, manpower is difficult to overcome the power of these machines after all, after a long time, the shoulders of the sergeants on the top of the wooden platoon will always be sore, I am afraid that we will not be able to last for another half an hour." ”