Puyang City

Looking down from the sky, Puyang City is like an island in the endless waves, surrounded by endless waves, the waves are rolling, and the waves are as black as ink, just waiting for the turbulent condensation into the last big wave, opening the big mouth of the sky, and swallowing this isolated island.

"Pass my orders! Aim at enemy equipment. Ready to throw stones! The ballista is ready to ......" Da Qiao's face was solemn, his left hand was holding a pear flower spear, and his right hand held the command flag high and waved it violently from side to side, causing the chain of armor on his body to rattle.

"Yes!" The herald behind him responded loudly, holding high the five-color order flag and running in all directions of the city.

At the trebuchet position under the city, a bearded soldier nodded to the herald and answered, "Yang Xiong has the order." Then he roared in all directions: "The enemy will immediately enter the attack range and attack the enemy's crossbow and throw stones!" Get ready! ”

High in the city, Sima Zhao Bao of the Ballista Battalion also shouted loudly: "Ballista, ready!" ”

Outside Puyang City.

Three miles.

Erli.

The dull and throbbing cowhide drum of "Rumble ......Rumble" suddenly sounded, and the mournful and rapid horn sound of "Woo Woo Woo" resounded again in the world. The Yanzhou soldiers suddenly let out an earth-shattering cry in unison, carrying the ladder and holding the regimental card, and under the drive or command of the generals of each team, they suddenly accelerated their pace and rushed desperately towards Puyang City. The catapults, ballistas, lookouts, and nest carts in the infantry formation also shook a few times, and they sped up in the desperate shouts of the servants, rolled the wheels, and pressed towards Puyang City.

"Catapult, ready...... Put! Sima Yang Xiong of the Catapult Battalion shouted loudly.

"Peng! Peng! Peng! ……”

In an instant, dozens of heavy and huge stones that had been simply polished bounced into a parabolic arc, roaring through the sky, passing through the city wall, and rushing towards Liu Dai's army. The first to be hit by the catapult is all kinds of siege equipment, especially the trebuchet ballista, because if left unchecked, when Liu Daijun's trebuchet ballista enters the right position, it will be attacked fiercely, and the advantage of the defender will be gone. Dozens of catties and hundreds of catties of stones fell from the sky, whirling and whistling, "Peng" smashed on the car, suddenly the rope was broken and the wood was broken, the car was crumbling, and it collapsed, and countless shooters on the car more than ten meters high screamed and fell to the ground, with broken heads and broken bones; "Peng" smashed on the trebuchet, the trebuchet long throwing rod cannon tip "creaked", and then "tore and pulled" to break, the heavy and huge trebuchet "boom" collapsed to the ground, crushing and crushing the cart servants below, and countless siege soldiers.

It's a pity that the accuracy of the trebuchet is too poor, and dozens of boulders can hit the siege machine in ten out of ten. More rocks didn't hit in place, but it didn't matter, there were more infantry charging outside the city, dense and boundless. The stones that did not hit the siege equipment were wrapped in huge energy, with unparalleled speed, and fell into the infantry group, the infantry's shield and armor were clearly like paper paste, and the stone bullets directly smashed the shield armor, smashed the infantry to pieces, and continued to roll forward and collide, everywhere they went, the bones were broken and the flesh was blurred, and dozens of people were killed and injured before stopping.

All of a sudden, the equipment collapsed, wails spread all over the field, rivers of blood flowed, shouts and screams resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the entire battlefield was no longer in order, and began to be chaotic and miserable.

However, this is only a small part of the scenes in the battlefield. After all, the number of catapults is still too small and too small, and the principle of catapults is destined to be impossible to many. According to legend, the trebuchet was invented in the Zhou Dynasty, also known as the "stone throwing car", and since its inception, it has become a heavy weapon in warfare, and was manufactured and used in large quantities during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty. According to the military book "Divine Mechanism Enemy Taibai Yin Jing", the whole body of the stone thrower is made of wood, and a rotating shaft is placed horizontally above the gun carriage, and the long rod fixed on the shaft is called "tip", which plays a role as a lever. Those with only one wooden pole are called "single pins", and those with multiple wooden poles are called "multiple pins", and the more pins, the heavier and farther the stone projectiles that can be ejected. In ancient times, the tips of the cannon could reach up to thirteen. In addition, because the stone thrower is made by the principle of lever, the length of the gun tip and the ratio of the force arm and the resistance arm must be carefully calculated, and the gun tip is generally about two or three zhang long. One end of the tip is tied with a "leather nest", which is loaded with stone bullets, and the other end is tied with a cannon cable, which is about several zhang long, and the cannon rope of a small cannon varies from one to ten, and the large cannon is more than a hundred, and each cannon is pulled by two or three people. When throwing stone projectiles, one person first aims and sets the position, and the Lasso man pulls the cannon rope at the same time, and when one end of the cannon tether falls sharply, the leather socket at the other end is quickly thrown up. Stone projectiles are thrown violently by inertia, and the range can reach hundreds of paces. To put it most clearly, a trebuchet requires dozens of people to operate together, and at most hundreds of people need to work together to complete it. Therefore, although the number of troops invested by both sides in the Puyang War was numerous, but the catapults owned by both sides were not as many as we imagined, and the Puyang defenders made and erected thirty or fifty units early, led by Sima Yangxiong and three thousand soldiers and thousands of people, while Liu Daijun's dozens of catapults were installed because they were going to attack, and thousands of soldiers and tens of thousands of servants were arranged to serve on the carts and operate.

No more than a few catapults were destroyed, and the remaining catapults finally came within two miles of the city.

"Catapult, attack!" General Liu Daijun also shouted loudly.

Countless soldiers scrambled to secure the huge and heavy trebuchet, and several servants worked together to load a heavy stone into a leather nest. "Put!" Dozens of soldiers in front of them pulled suddenly, and the stone bullets were thrown out suddenly, whistling towards the head of Puyang City.

"Peng! Peng! Peng! ……”

One, two, ten, dozens.

Dozens of trebuchets bounced up, and dozens of boulders flew towards the city with the sound of breaking wind.

"Poof...... Puff ......"

At this time, the ugly curtains, leather curtains, grate fences, and leather bamboo fences hanging at the head of Puyang City finally played an important role. A large number of stones were caught by these defensive nets, and the huge energy helplessly rolled over these flexible and elastic nets helplessly, and fell off the city with "plop, plop".

Some stone bullets narrowly escaped the defense of the net, crashed into the city wall through the gap, whistling and spinning, smashing a large area, killing and wounding countless soldiers of the city, staining the city with blood, and screaming miserably. Some stone bullets smashed on the battlements, the "bang" wall bricks were broken and splashed, the stones bounced off the city or bounced into the city, or smashed the soldiers defending the city either dead or injured. There are also some stone bullets with a slightly higher arc, passing over the city, smashing into the city of Puyang, "bang" smashed on the heads of the soldiers of the Puyang Army Stone Throwing Battalion in the city, and more than ten Puyang soldiers have been smashed into meat sauce, the flesh and blood are blurred, or the missing arms and legs are broken, lying on the ground rolling and wailing and screaming.

In this way, the trebuchets that attacked the farthest distance began the most brutal smashing operation. The two sides come and go, and the stones rise and fall. The person who hit it is not a meat patty with meat sauce, it is not a broken leg and an arm, screaming and wailing, and it is terrible and shocking.

Under such circumstances, Liu Dai's army did not stop the impact on Puyang City, and countless infantry continued to pour into the Puyang city wall like a tide, getting closer and closer, closer and closer, and the front army was only Li Xu away from the city.

Sima Zhao Bao of the Ballista Battalion took a deep breath and roared sharply: "Ballista...... Put! ”

In an instant, dozens or hundreds of strong men raised their heavy rams and struck them down, "Peng Peng Peng", the strings contracted, and rows of crossbow arrows as huge as spears pierced the sky with a sharp whistling sound, faster than lightning, and stabbed into Liu Dai's infantry formation. The infantry burst into a terrible scream, and the powerful and thick arrows smashed the shields, smashed the armor, and penetrated through the body of one soldier, and then continued through the body of the next soldier, and even through the tall war horse, nailing the soldiers and horses firmly to the ground, splashing the sky with blood and soaking the entire battlefield. The bed crossbow is really powerful, the range can reach a mile, within this distance, the Buddha blocks and kills the Buddha, the god blocks and kills the god, it can easily penetrate the heavy armor, and any shield and armor can not withstand his terrifying destructive power. Although the lethality of the bed crossbow is terrifying, its size is bulky, the operation is laborious, and the arrows are expensive to make. Generally, it takes twenty people to operate a bed crossbow, and the mobility is too poor, so it is rarely used in field battles, most of them are placed on the city wall, and when the enemy attacks, multiple bed crossbows are fired at the same time as a salvo for defending the city. It is effective against enemies in dense formations, but it is not very effective against enemies in loose formations.

At the same time.

At the head of the city, Da Qiao held high the trumpet banner and shouted loudly: "Crossbowman, shoot!" ……”

Countless Puyang archers on the city wall bent their bows and arrows, and shot upwards forty-five degrees, shooting towards the sky. Suddenly, arrows rained down and densely formed clouds. There were too many Yanzhou infantry rushing over, and they just shot straight into the sky, and there was no need to aim accurately at all.

"Raise your shield! …… Raise the shield ......" The Sima Junhou in the Yanzhou camp roared loudly.

The foot soldiers had already raised the group cards in their hands tightly with one or both hands, also forty-five degrees upward, leaning on the various group cards in everyone's hands. did not dare to stop, all the soldiers continued to run forward under the protection of the regimental card.

Round after round of arrows poured down. "Brush, brush, brush, brush......" Countless bows and arrows pierced deeply into the group card, shaking the arrow feathers buzzing; Countless bows and arrows pierced through the gaps in the shields and shot fiercely at the hands, facades, and bodies of the soldiers. "Ah......" The terrible screams suddenly sounded, and some soldiers threw away their regimental cards, or fell to death with a muffled sound, or rolled on the ground with their hands covering their wounds, and were instantly trampled into pulp by their own soldiers.

Seeing that there was a gap in the group card, the group players on the side hurriedly held up the group card to fill the gap and continued to move forward, no one had time to care about the robe that fell to the ground. Some of the gaps were too late to be filled, but this time it was good, countless arrows in the sky drilled into this gap, and pierced into all the soldiers who exposed their torsos, "Ah......" More screams rang out, and the soldiers around them all fell down with dense arrows on their heads, and their deaths were extremely miserable.

There is already a river of blood flowing under Puyang City, and there are countless corpses.