Chapter 597: A Thousand People Killed

Zhu Ling and Zhang Fei personally guarded the two wings and killed the attacking Yuan army one by one or flew off the city wall, controlling the city wall to the death.

Yuan Jun suffered huge losses, but he still continued to impact like ants, wave after wave like a tide.

Looking at the sky, and then looking at the time scale, looking for a good place of refuge in the gate of the city tower Guo Jia looked at the overall situation and ordered: "The trebuchets on both wings can be pushed forward, covering the trebuchet position of Yuan Jun, and killing him at once." ”

"Whoa!"

The two flank trebuchet troops who received the order were tired of waiting, loaded the stone shells, and then concentrated on smashing the Yuan army's trebuchet position outside the city.

Soon the stone projectile was thrown out and landed fiercely in the trebuchet.

One trebuchet after another was ruthlessly smashed, and the operators were scared to dodge.

Yuan's army wanted to shift positions, but it was too late, and most of the trebuchets were smashed beyond recognition, becoming broken logs.

There are also a small number of missing arms and legs.

"Damn!"

Seeing that the big killing weapon had been destroyed, Yuan Shao scolded angrily, and the others also regretted it.

The defenders of the city had so many trebuchets and projected them at a longer range than theirs.

After a wave of dark losses, all the trebuchets were destroyed.

This is quite a loss for the siege.

"My lord, are we going to collect troops?"

Without the suppression of the trebuchet, the possibility of advancing and breaking through was completely lost in front of him, and a general asked Yuan Shaodao.

"No, you don't! Attack in front, press all in, notify the other two gates, and follow up the attack at the same time. Yuan Shao's face became resolute at this time.

The siege of the city is like this, one blow, then decline, and three exhaustion.

If you can't take Plains City today, then the possibility of taking it in the future is much smaller.

Since they have lost so much, simply come to a big wave, press the whole army, continue to attack, and break the will of the fourth lieutenant army with a strong breakthrough.

With Yuan Shao's order, his generals Zhang Jaw, Wen Chou, Chun Yuqiong, Han Juzi, Jiang Qi, Meng Dai, Wang Zhao, Cen Bi, Peng An and other generals rushed forward one after another.

The west, south, and north gates launched a fierce attack.

"Inform the generals that Yuan Shao had better come with a wave of onslaught, and we will win if we resist this wave, and the battle will be easy to fight in the future." Seeing the banner of the Yuan army dancing under the city and the larger-scale crowd coming, Guo Jia knew Yuan Shao's plan.

"Sir, are we going to use a honeycomb box?"

Such a dense crowd of people under the city made the generals defending the city a little nervous.

There is still a sharp weapon in the city that has not been used, and it has been retained.

This weapon is only used in the most difficult times, and when the city is about to be overwhelmed, it is absolutely capable of turning the tide.

Guo Jia thought for a while and said, "Use it, use the most powerful Thousand People Slash!" Hurt Yuan Shao once. ”

"Yes!" The deputy lieutenant was overjoyed, and then commanded the soldiers to carry out the boxes from the caves under the city.

One by one, the boxes were quickly placed at the battlements, and then the wooden lid of the box facing outward was removed.

I saw that it was densely packed with holes, like honeycombs.

There is an arrow in each hole.

It's a large honeycomb box, and if you count it, you'll know that it contains a thousand well-crafted crossbow arrows.

"Three, two, one! Put! ”

The machine behind the box was heavily broken, and the transmission inside was immediately activated.

In an instant, the crossbow arrows in the honeycomb compartment poured out like a group of fronts out of the nest to fight.

Dense crossbow arrows rained down on the city.

"Puff puff ......"

The Yuan army that was charging under the city fell in an instant, with crossbow arrows stuck in their bodies, and corpses lay there, leaving a large area empty.

Yuan Jun, who was followed by an unhit behind, was blinded in the head.

It's sharp, it's so ferocious!

Four honeycomb compartments, several arrows flew out one after another, quickly striking and killing the Yuan army under the city in each section of the city.

Yuan Shao, Xu You and others, who were watching the battlefield in the rear, gasped.

It made Yuan Jun a little frightened, this deterrent was greater than a trebuchet, and he was killed in pieces when he rushed to the city, no one was lucky, and no one was afraid, even if it was a young general with higher martial arts, he couldn't dodge.

The crossbow arrows are too dense, too many, to block one arrow, but definitely not the second, not to mention that there are more than three or four arrows in each person.

The Fourth Lieutenant Corps kept loading new boxes and going down like empty boxes.

This time, it was a medium beehive with 400 arrows, and a small beehive with 100 arrows.

A hundred small beehives are the most flexible, and the most efficient, aiming at a place with a little more people can shoot, a stud down, and a hundred and eighty people will fall, almost an arrow and an enemy, the best utilization.

Medium and large beehives, on the other hand, should be used in the most densely populated and large-scale places so as not to be wasted, so the frequency of use is much smaller.

With the close-range culling of the honeycomb box, the Yuan army that rushed to the city was afraid, and without an order, they retreated one after another.

"Damn! What kind of weapon is this, exactly? "Yuan Shao and his subordinates didn't expect that Xu Dingbu still had such a powerful weapon, and they had never heard of it.

The repeater is a highly effective repeating weapon, which has caused great psychological deterrence and practical distress to people.

Now there is also a weapon with hundreds of arrows, which is definitely a big killer weapon for defending the city, more terrifying than a bed crossbow or something.

"Xu Ding has too many skilled craftsmen in his hands, I heard that his woman Huang Yueying is a genius in ordnance, all the dexterous ordnance comes from her, it seems that this is a special weapon developed by her, there is such a thing, we are afraid that there will be big trouble in attacking the city in the future." Feng Ji asked Xu Yu and said:

"Can't your people get into Weiyuan Island?"

Xu You is the person in charge of intelligence on Yuan Shao's side, and he doesn't know anything about it, so he shook his head and said: "The overpass leading to Weiyuan Island is tightly guarded, and it is usually not open to ordinary people, but by sea, not only the dock will be checked, but also patrol boats, Xu Ding has an identity registration certificate there, but anyone who enters the island must have an identity registration certificate, as well as a travel pass, without these two things you can't enter the island at all."

If it is a smuggler, the number of people on the island will not be large, and it will not be possible to get close to the factory that builds ordnance. ”

"Humph! I don't want to hear these useless explanations. Yuan Shao's face darkened half, and he just said coldly:

"Xu Ziyuan, you go to check immediately, you must find out the specific situation of this weapon, and it is best to let someone steal one or two."

"It's the lord!" Xu You secretly bitter, I don't know what the name of this thing is, how to get it for you.

If important ordnance is to be closely guarded.

Feng Ji said: "My lord, Xu Ding's army is more powerful than his sharp armament, so even without him, his various troops are quite strong in combat, and I suggest that we should also follow his example."

Collect more craftsmen, let them study more sharp weapons, and at the same time give more rewards to the craftsmen to improve their status. ”

Yuan Shao said: "Yuan Tu's words are feasible, you can arrange the implementation of this aspect after you go back, but the matter of improving your status will be exempted, just give more rewards." ”

Shinong industry and commerce, this has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the ancestors have long been decided.

How can you break the rules because of mud legs?

If he really dared to raise the status of the craftsmen, those families would rebel in minutes.

Yuan Shao doesn't do such stupid things.

There are many things that Xu Ding can't learn.

He's right, and if you do it, there's a problem.

"It's the lord!" Feng Ji knew what Yuan Shao was worried about, so he didn't say anything else.

Because he also understands where his strengths lie.

What can be done and what cannot be done.