Chapter 107: Chengdu Crackdown on Thieves (8)

After the ballistas under the city fired all the arrows they carried today, the operators began to put away the arrow boxes and stuff them in the open space under the locomotive, dismantled the winches and installed them around the crossbow frames, and then a group of people began to push and pull the twenty ballistas back slowly back to their camp, and slowly moved backwards along the crowd passage when they came out.

At the same time as packing up the ballistas, fifteen medium-sized trebuchets had begun to be built and assembled nearly 700 meters away from the city, and in the front row there was already a solid shield wall composed of shield soldiers more than three meters high and nearly 100 meters wide, in order to prevent the ballista from reaching 700 meters away from the city. In this way, it can not only ensure the safety of the trebuchet, but also smash the stone bullet firmly on the city, so as to achieve the best range and destruction.

Compared with the panic at the head of the city, the Feng family army here is diametrically opposed, forming a stark contrast, tens of thousands of people are still neatly arrayed, only the soldiers in the front row operating the trebuchet are constantly running around in front and back, or assembling the trebuchet, or carrying stone bullets back and forth, and some are adjusting the arm and rope of the trebuchet, so as not to make mistakes when projecting the attack.

Lin Feng and the others not far behind the trebuchet looked even more natural, occasionally chuckling and chatting with each other, and then nodding and shaking their heads from time to time, accompanied by the action of raising their hands to point to the city, anyway, they didn't seem to be a little flustered, as if they were watching a 3D war blockbuster with excellent visual effects and extremely realistic.

Fifteen trebuchets, only three responsible commanders, after making sure that the assembly was completed and there were no mistakes, trotted all the way to Zhuge Cheng to report back one by one. Zhuge Cheng first waved his hand at the three of them to signal to return to his post, and then turned his head to look at Lin Feng to apply for an order.

"Let's get started!" Lin Feng smiled faintly, waved his arm lightly, and said lightly, and then turned his gaze back to the city head of Chengdu Mansion again.

"Reload!" Zhuge Cheng waved the red order flag in his hand again with a serious face and shouted in a low voice.

"Reload!"

"Reload!"

"Reload!"

As the three commanders issued orders one after another, hundreds of shirtless soldiers pressed their arms backwards and down at the bottom, and the leather bullet bags containing stone bullets at the front end of the arm also fell down.

Seeing that all the fifteen catapults were loaded, Zhuge Cheng raised the blue order flag in his hand again, and then waved it down violently, and shouted in his mouth: "Release!" ”

"Put! Put! Put.. As the three commanders spoke one after another, losing the restraint from the twisted ropes, the booms of the fifteen trebuchets bounced back sharply with the strong wind of "whirring", and then the booms slammed into the intercepting cross arm, making a chaotic "thud" sound.

Suddenly blocked by the cross arm, the arm rod naturally staggered, and the stone bullets in the front leather bullet bag were sent into the air by inertia, quickly crashing into the air in front of them, and the tyrannical they opened up a trajectory of their own in the peaceful air, accompanied by a dull whistling sound, rushing towards the rebels at the head of the city.

Looking at the black dots flying out of the Feng family's army camp under the city from far to near, from small to large, the pupils of the defenders at the end of the trajectory contracted violently almost at the same time, and the serious horror seemed to have flown out, imprinted on the surface of the stone bullet that would appear in front of his face even in the next second.

"Ahh The first huge stone bullet finally completed its mission, and completely opened up an air route connecting the Fengjia army under the city and the rebels at the head of the city, and when the defender in front of him had not shouted a whole shout, it had already smashed heavily on the giant shield in front of the person, and the huge impact force directly knocked the person out, and the stone bullet did not change its trajectory because of this, but clinged to the giant shield and smashed a pit on the ground. In between, there was a corpse whose body had been completely transformed, a giant shield with a cracked surface.

At the same time, it was not only such a rebel who suffered this catastrophe, and he was not the most unlucky one among them, at least, at the last moment, he vented his fear through shouting, although he was ruthlessly interrupted by the boulder when he was only half vented, but fortunately he died very neatly, and there was no time to feel the pain, let alone bear the physical pain.

Worse than him, of course, were those companions who were attacked by the first round of stone bullets with him, and some of them were like him, who were directly hit by the shield in front of him and died, but some of them were affected, or their hands and feet were broken, or their waists were broken, and broken tendons were inevitable. These people are the worst of them, neither died happily, nor were they completely spared, especially those who were smashed to the arms and legs, under normal circumstances, the injured area was turned into a mass of flesh, which was also wrapped in countless broken bones and slag, the pain of drilling the heart can make people faint instantly, and then suddenly wake up, faint again, continue to wake up, over and over again...

A round of stone bullets fell, the total amount was only fifteen stone bullets, the real casualties caused were not large, even inferior to the previous ballista, only less than fifty people were injured, but the mortality rate caused by comparison was indeed much higher than that of the ballista, this round of stone bullets alone, has caused nearly ten injuries, three serious injuries, thirty or forty people were hit or scratched by the splashing stone chips when they were broken, but there was basically no major problem, and they could continue to defend the city without even resting.

This situation is already very content for Chen Jingxuan in the city, after all, it is impossible for the Feng family army to bomb with trebuchets for a day, even if the manpower can withstand it, there is no place to find so many stone bombs! Listening to the screams coming from the place where the stone bullets were attacked on the road, Chen Jingxuan's brows furrowed, and his heart seemed to be dripping blood, although it was not he who was injured by the hit, but these soldiers were all his soldiers and horses of Jiannan Dao, and they almost obeyed him, and Chen Jingxuan, the envoy of Jiannan Dao.

It can be said that if it was the forbidden army in the city that suffered from the city, Chen Jingxuan would definitely not be as distressed as he is now, and even wished that he would be stoned to death more. After all, the forbidden army is only nominally controlled in his hands, and some of them can be completely controlled, and the rest are soft bones such as some wall grass, and there is no loyalty at all.

A few days ago, some generals under his command had proposed that Chen Jingxuan use the forbidden army with low combat effectiveness as cannon fodder to defend the city, but this proposal was immediately vetoed by Gongsun Yun, General Wang and others, and even Chen Jingxuan shook his head and vetoed. Looking at the situation at this time, and thinking about the attack of the ballista just now, Chen Jingxuan was secretly glad that the decision he made was right. Otherwise, under this kind of offensive, I am afraid that the forbidden army will flee in all directions without hesitation and hide back in the city, and it is not even impossible to cause a mutiny on the verge of defection.

"Quick! Carry the wounded brothers down to heal their wounds! The rest plugged the gap! General Wang was still fighting at the forefront, and under the protection of the shields of his henchmen, he ran back and forth on the road to command, and calmed everyone's fears: "Brothers, be careful! Try to avoid stone bullets head-on to avoid unnecessary losses! But don't mess around, next to you is your own robe of life and death! Behind you are your loved ones! Be sure to resist! ”

Although everyone was very afraid of stone bullets, after listening to General Wang's encouragement and appeasement, and looking at Chen Jingxuan, the envoy of Jiedu who was still accompanying everyone, everyone still risked their lives and raised their shields to the front.

For the robes beside them, for the relatives behind them, and for the sake of the festival envoys who have been leading them.