In the camp, Hua Mulan was teaching her son to speak, and when she saw Zhao Junsheng walking in with a bad face, she asked her son to go to the side to play, and let a personal soldier follow, she greeted her and asked, "It's only been less than an hour since the war started, why did you come back?" Is the war not going well? ”

Zhao Junsheng rubbed his face, "Liu Song's army really has a set of defending the city, our wheeled siege ladder was restrained by the other party's use of a new type of city defense equipment, the defenders are obviously trained in defending the city, not chaotic at all, and the defense is clear-eyed, just a moment ago, the soldiers suffered heavy losses, I asked Gao Xu to order the retreat!" ”

After hearing this, Hua Mulan said: "I have long heard that the Southern Dynasty army has a set of defending the city, and it really deserves its reputation. However, this battle has just begun, and if you order the troops to be withdrawn less than an hour ago, it will be a big blow to morale! ”

Zhao Junsheng shook his head: "If you don't order the collection of troops, the losses will be even more heavy, and the impact on morale will be greater!" ”

After a while, the army withdrew to the camp, and the staff officials and generals were notified to come to the tent one after another.

Gao Xu was the last to walk in, and Zhao Junsheng asked him: "Anyway, how many people have you lost?" ”

Gao Xu replied: "After counting, counting those who were killed by the defenders' crossbow arrows, a total of 162 people were killed and 35 were wounded!" When retreating, half of the wheeled siege ladders were smashed by the opponent's lifting weights due to the untimely retreat! ”

The number of casualties seemed small, less than two hundred, but when their bodies were laid out on the ground one by one and covered with white cloths, a large area, the scene was shocking and sad.

"Let the Artisan Battalion continue to build wheeled siege ladders and replenish them! Although the defenders have a way to restrain the wheeled siege ladder, it doesn't mean that it can't work! ”

"Yes, King!"

Zhao Junsheng glanced at everyone and asked, "How to deal with the defending army's lifting hammer?" Have you come up with a solution? ”

On the way back to the camp, everyone was thinking about how to solve the opponent's lifting hammer, the defenders had this thing, the wheeled siege ladder of the cadre army would be completely useless, without the wheeled siege ladder, the output of the offensive force would be reduced by half.

Wang Huilong stood up and clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, your subordinates think that you can use the bed crossbow to deal with the lifting hammer of the defenders!" Your Majesty has observed that it is not easy for this thing to move, and if we use a bed crossbow, we will have enough time to fire two or three rounds of crossbow arrows before the defenders remove it, but it is ······ The defenders also have bed crossbows on the city walls, and there are quite a few of them, and the bed crossbows of our army will be pinned."

Cui Hao took over the topic and said: "One more point, as far as the minister knows, there is a problem with the shooting accuracy of the bed crossbow!" In addition, the main body of the defender's lifting hammer is a large wooden stand, and the bolts fired from the bed crossbow may be able to destroy it! If you use a rocket, it is easy to extinguish the rocket when it is fired on it! ”

Zhao Junsheng saw that there was no good way for the others, so he said: "In this way, we will no longer attack the city today, and make preparations for tomorrow's siege, don't use the well fence and trebuchet first, they will find a way to restrain them if they use it too early, let's solve the opponent's lifting hammer first!" ”

The next morning, the cadres again attacked the city.

Countless cadres and soldiers flocked to the city wall, siege ladders were erected, wheeled siege ladders were also pushed under the city walls, and a large number of cadres and soldiers rushed to the city wall on wooden planks.

The battle began, countless arrows were shot down from the city walls, stones were thrown from the city heads, and the soldiers on the ladders and on the outer walls of the city walls suffered considerable casualties and pressure.

In response to the wheeled siege ladder of the dry army, the defenders used the lifting hammer again, but it was still not easy to erect this thing, it was very time-consuming, and it would take a long time to withdraw.

In order not to affect the other defenders of the city, the defender Xue Tong had to draw troops from the city to deal with these cadres and soldiers who had rushed up.

The lifting hammer was erected again, and began to exert its power, and every time it fell, four soldiers on the wheeled ladder were smashed down.

In front of the besieging army outside the city, a row of bed crossbows was fixed to the ground, and the soldiers operated the bed crossbows to aim at the lifting hammers on the city wall, adjusting the angle and direction, and the crossbow arrows were placed in the launch slots.

Zhao Junsheng, Hua Mulan, Gao Xu and other generals and school officials all stood not far away and observed the situation of the bed crossbow firing and attacking the lifting hammer on the city wall.

"Put!"

With a command, the soldiers smashed their hammers, the trigger was released, and the bowstring ejected the crossbow arrows.

"Whoosh ······"

Sixty-four crossbow arrows were fired at a time, and the hit rate was less than five percent, and even if they hit the target, the crossbow arrows were only nailed to the bracket of the lifting hammer, and did not cause much damage to the lifting hammer.

Zhao Junsheng frowned.

Gao Xu reminded the bed crossbow commander: "Pay attention to the bed crossbows of the defenders, we have more bed crossbows than theirs, and a part of the bed crossbows is specially used to deal with them, don't let them make trouble!" ”

"Yes, General!"

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while, walked to a bed crossbow and said to the soldier who had the direction of the launch: "Get out of the way!" ”

The soldiers retreated to the side as instructed, Zhao Junsheng walked over and found a bed crossbow on the city wall, roughly estimated the distance, and ordered the soldier in charge of the scale next to him: "Raise the scale by one scale!" ”

The soldier swung the shaft as he commanded, and the crossbow machine was raised by a scale.

At this time, the loader had already loaded the crossbow arrow into the launch slot, and Zhao Junsheng used the method of three points and one line to aim at the target bed crossbow on the city wall, and the other party was also operating the bed crossbow to launch outside the city.

After aiming, Zhao Junsheng gave a thumbs up and signaled that it was ready to fire.

The hammer hand who got the signal picked up the sledgehammer and smashed it, and with a "whoosh", the crossbow arrow shot out.

Zhao Junsheng watched intently as the crossbow arrow shot at the bed crossbow on the city wall, but the crossbow arrow hit the battlement of the city wall under the bed crossbow.

The bowstring was wound again by two soldiers, and Zhao Junsheng shouted: "One more scale!" ”

The soldier next to him immediately shook the lifting shaft of the crossbow machine, and the head of the crossbow machine was raised a little again, and a thick crossbow arrow was loaded into the launch slot.

Zhao Junsheng quickly standardized and shouted: "Launch!" ”

With a "bang", the trigger was smashed, and the bowstring ejected the crossbow arrow with great force, "Whoosh-"

"Whoa—" The bolt shot the target bed crossbow on the wall in all directions as everyone watched.

"Good!"

"Shot!" The people around cheered.

Zhao Junsheng beckoned to the bed crossbow commander, motioned for him to come over, taught him to fire crossbow arrows with a three-point-line aiming method, and said after teaching: "You try this method!" ”

"Yes!" The bed crossbow commander agreed, and personally stepped forward to operate the bed crossbow.

He chose another bed crossbow on the city wall as the target, and tested it once according to Zhao Junsheng's method, but there was a deviation, and he estimated and judged according to the method taught by Zhao Junsheng, adjusted the launch angle, and then used the three-point and one-line method to aim.

"Whoosh-"

With a "clang", even at such a distance, the generals and soldiers here heard the sound of the target being destroyed, and the target's bed crossbow in the line of sight had been shot apart, and several soldiers around were also injured by sawdust.

Hua Mulan and the generals and soldiers on the side all looked at each other, half of the hit rate, there was such a god?

"Divine skill, divine skill!" The Bed Crossbow Commander screamed almost frantically.

Gao Xu walked over and grabbed him and shouted, "What are you muttering, why don't you teach this shooting skill to all the crossbowmen!" ”

"Ah····· Yes, yes, the last general got carried away for a while, and asked the general to forgive his sins, and the last general summoned all the crossbowmen to teach them new marksmanship! ”

The on-site teaching worked very well, and the crossbowmen who were called over quickly learned this new shooting technique, but whether they could apply it depends on their individual talent.

After firing again, the hit rate of the bed crossbow has really increased a lot, and there are even people who are very talented, do not need to test fire, only use the naked eye to estimate and judge, and then use the three-point and one-line aiming method, the first arrow can hit the target.

In a matter of moments, all the bed crossbows on the city wall were destroyed by the bed crossbows of the cadres, and the soldiers and generals who operated the bed crossbows also suffered heavy casualties.

"Good, well done! Now that the defenders' bed crossbows have been solved, let's go all out to deal with their lifting hammers, and since the power of ordinary crossbow arrows is not enough, use them with rockets! In addition, let the well fence go out again! ”

With Zhao Junsheng's order, the bed crossbow team attacked the lifting hammer on the city wall with all their might, and with the hit rate greatly improved, the lifting hammer on the city wall was shot by more and more crossbow arrows, and rockets were also shot over, which made the Southern Dynasty soldiers panic greatly, and quickly organized troops to cut off the rocket nailed to the lifting hammer to extinguish the fire.

During this time, the wheeled ladders of the cadres had been completely destroyed by the lifting hammers of the defenders, and the output of the cadres had been reduced by half.

As dozens of well railings approached, a large number of dry army archers climbed to the top platform of the well railing and fired arrows at the city wall.

The defenders who were planning to withdraw the lifting hammer were shot by a large number of arrows on the well railing, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and the lifting hammer could not be withdrawn, so they could only become the target of the dry army's bed crossbow, and the dry army used a large number of crossbow arrows and rockets to finally destroy and burn the defenders' lifting hammer.

Seeing the lifting hammers on the city wall that fell apart or were burned, Zhao Junsheng and Gao Xu and the other generals were relieved.

"Attack, give me an attack without wheeled ladders, with the cooperation of the well fence, you can greatly suppress the defending generals, and provide cover and support for the generals of our army who climb the city walls and ladders!"

Under Gao Xu's order, the siege continued, the second wave of attack echelons came up, and a large number of soldiers rushed across the moat with cloud ladders and came to the city wall.

Under the blow of a large number of archers on the well railing, the generals of the Southern Dynasty on the city wall suffered heavy losses, and the defender Xue Tong immediately ordered the distribution of shields to the defenders on the city wall, so that the defenders could fight with shields.