Chapter Seventy-Five: The Power of the Ballista
Urged the horse forward again, but this time it stopped about three hundred meters away from the city, and Lin Feng was alone this time, without any guards.
"Hey! Chen Xiaoer! Aren't you going to surrender yet? Lin Feng raised his head and roared towards the city.
With just one sound, the soldiers in the city were in an uproar, and some people had even begun to whisper in their ears. Although Chen Jingxuan didn't notice these small details, he also understood that he had to stand up at this time, otherwise the army's morale would definitely be shaken.
Slowly pushed the left and right guards away, and after taking two deep breaths, Chen Jingxuan took heavy steps and returned to the battlement again. First coughed lightly twice to stabilize his mood, and Chen Jingxuan, who was surprised, found that he was even coughing with trembling, and couldn't help but stop, his hands were firmly propped on both sides of the battlement, and he took a few breaths again, trying to calm down his panic before he replied loudly: "Lin Feng'er!" Don't be arrogant! If you have the ability, you will attack it! Don't be brave in the city! Your cavalry may be mighty, but they can't take down my rock-solid city! If you're not convinced, you can attack it! ”
Chen Jingxuan's words were completely to cheer up himself and the subordinates around him, although there was some truth in what he said, but if Lin Feng really attacked the city at this time, I am afraid that Chen Jingxuan would immediately regret that he was trying to speak so quickly!
"You have the ability to come down! Open the gates and let's go to the flat ground and fight! Lin Feng also knew that if the city was attacked, the losses would be very large, and he had already discussed the general plan with everyone, so he was not willing to really attack the city, and he came over to shout a few times just to lower the morale of the rebels.
"Come up! If you have the ability, you will attack it! Chen Jingxuan spat fiercely at the city and shouted loudly.
"If you really don't surrender, I'll really order the siege!" Lin Feng smiled and opened his mouth again to scare Chen Jingxuan.
"Come on! If you have a kind, you will attack the city! Chen Jingxuan pointed at Lin Feng viciously and said, then suddenly raised his hand and waved down, shouting: "Release the arrow!" Shoot him to death! ”
"You mean old thing!" Seeing this, Lin Feng scolded loudly, and hurriedly pulled the reins to turn around and retreat, leaving a group of arrows far behind.
As soon as he returned to the front of the formation, Lin Feng angrily ordered Zhuge Cheng, who was in charge of the ballista: "up!" Dare to sneak attack! up! ”
"This... Han Guogong, you didn't say that you were going to attack the city before, so you just brought a small number of artillery arrows with the ballista! Zhuge Cheng's face was a little embarrassed, and he leaned over to Lin Feng's side and reminded him in a low voice.
"Oh, forget it! Call.. Lin Feng let out a long breath, eased his anger, and then waved his hand casually and ordered, "Do it as originally planned!" ”
"Yes, Han Guogong!" Zhuge Cheng slightly bowed his hand and agreed, waved his hand towards the guard beside him, and ordered in a low voice: "Prepare the ballista!" All pushed to the front of the battle! ”
As the ten ballistae were grouped together in two columns and bypassed the side of the army, it was not until they appeared in front of Chen Jingxuan and the others that Chen Jingxuan realized that he was afraid, although he didn't know what the behemoth under the city was and how much destructive power it would have, but he knew very well that the behemoth was definitely not used for decoration, it was definitely for siege. Ten ballistae, lined up on the west and east sides, occupy nearly 100 meters in width alone.
Thirty soldiers stood on either side of each ballista, two of whom were responsible for replacing the guns, and the remaining twenty-eight were divided into two groups to replace the winches that provided power to the crossbow strings for charging and firing.
Zhuge Cheng urged him to step forward, and after stopping at the far side of the crossbow cart, he first raised his right arm, and then slowly raised the red order flag held in his right hand above his head. With this move, the winch driver who was already in place began to pedal the winch vigorously, and with the tension of the crossbow string, the ballista began to gradually emit a "creaking" screak.
Gradually, all the winch riders stopped moving, but sweat had begun to ooze from their foreheads, and through the tight coat, they could see the strong muscle lines outlined by the clothes.
"Put!" Zhuge Cheng waved the command flag in his hand downward, and the soldiers who had already been prepared on both sides pulled the mechanism at the same time, and ten black round-headed artillery arrows rose into the sky, rushing towards the east with a violent whistling sound, and when the distance of the air was more than 400 meters, the artillery arrows began to lose power, and under the weight guidance of the front round head and the momentum of inertia, they continued to rush forward for three or four hundred meters or even four or five hundred meters before falling heavily to the ground.
"Boom..." A series of explosions sounded one after another, and the place where it landed was smashed into a large crater two meters deep, and the violent impact of the explosion lifted the surrounding dust five or six meters high, and people nearly a thousand meters away could not even see the flames of the explosion. In the thick dust, there was a little bit of light, which was the light reflected by the sunlight of the explosion of thistles.
Whether it was above or below the city, whether it was the rebels or the Feng family's army, they all exclaimed in surprise, and their eyes did not take their eyes off the place of the explosion for a long time, and they all looked at the place where the smoke and dust were raised in amazement.
Just when everyone was stunned, the second round of artillery arrows had already risen into the air, and within a few seconds, they saw ten black shadows plunging into the turbid and thick dust and fog, and then there was a loud bang again, and the ground under their feet trembled again, and the smoke and dust that had begun to dissipate once again spread violently and quickly to the surroundings, front and back, left and right, not down, only up. The dust fog, which was originally only five or six meters high, was pushed to a height of ten meters in one fell swoop. This time, because of the dust kicked up by the explosion, everyone couldn't even see the reflective thistle, but they heard the explosion in their ears, and felt the violent shaking of the earth under their feet and body.
"Oh my God!" Chen Jingxuan at the head of the city couldn't help but be the first to exclaim, his eyes looked at the large cloud of dust and smoke in the distance below the city, and the muscles on his face seemed to twitch because of this.
"This, if this thing hits the city wall, will we still be alive?" The henchmen on the side propped their hands on the battlement, muttering to themselves in a daze.
"It's too powerful, isn't it?"
"What the hell is this? How is that possible!? ”
Listening to the whispered discussions of his confidants and cronies, Chen Jingxuan wanted to open his mouth to scold them at this time, but he didn't have the courage to open his mouth himself. Now he only regrets in his heart, why did he rebel at this moment? Why don't you wait and raise an army to rebel after you have this siege weapon in your hands?
Seeing that the generals began to discuss in a low voice, those ordinary city guards also began to form their own discussion groups one after another, discussing the power of the explosion just now and the previous cavalry exercises. In less than half a day, the confidence that these soldiers had had had been completely and completely destroyed, and there was nothing left of the destruction.
In the face of two powerful field cavalry regiments and such a powerful siege weapon, almost no one can still raise the courage to resist, if it were not for Chen Jingxuan and others still in the city, maybe someone has already thrown away their weapons and opened the door to surrender.
In fact, the real situation is not as exaggerated as the rebels think, the target of the ballista just now is only the ground, just from the high dive impact force is very large, plus the explosion is naturally infinitely powerful. But if it hits a hard city wall, it can only cause some potholes and damage, and it will not be as powerful as an explosion on the ground.
The reason for this is the same as the previous military exercises, just to deter the enemy and demoralize.