Chapter 14: The Strongest Weapon

Hushan Chong, a camp stands at the foot of the mountain, his east side is a small river, not far downstream is a waterfall, the left and right two mountains are very steep, the mountain wall is almost perpendicular to the ground like a knife, the road leading to the Shihu Village after the mountain chong is guarded by the camp.

The name of the camp is to kill the tiger, according to legend, the mountain chong tiger is seriously troubled, the ancestor of the stone tiger village led the warriors to kill the tiger here to eliminate the harm, to keep the village safe, and the killing tiger village has also become the main village of the screen, countless times to repel the enemy's attack.

Now the slaughtering tiger village ushered in the enemy army again, and the owner of Shihu Village, Ran Song, led the village soldiers to be stationed here, and together with other village owners who led the troops to help the battle, they resisted the Zhou army that had been camped outside.

There are some scattered farmland on both sides of the road before and after the camp, which is the paddy field reclaimed by Shihuzhai not far after Hushan Chong camp, but now it has become an obstacle for the Zhou army to attack the camp.

"How high is the waterfall behind the creek?" Yang Ji asked, now he was holding a clairvoyant mirror to observe the terrain of the Tiger Killing Village, and the general turned his question into local dialect and asked the man on the side.

After chatting for a while, the general replied to Yang Ji that the waterfall is more than ten zhang high, if people fall down the river from the waterfall, they will not die or be disabled, kill the tiger village and guard the tiger mountain chong, if you want to go over, you can only break the village first.

"Tiger Mountain Chongshan Chong Shan Chong Isn't it the meaning of the valley?" Yang Ji asked, leading the troops into the mountain for more than a month, and he has been.

The general said that this is true, the mountain people will call the valley 'mountain chong', the mountain chong water cold is not conducive to the growth of grass seedlings, the mountain people along the mountain chong on the slope to open up the '畎', 畎 is also called a kind of ditch in the field that is wide and deep, the mountain people use the mountain water to introduce the mountain water into the farmland for irrigation, and discharge the cold water in time.

"So this farmland is using water from the mountains, not cold water from the creek next to it." Tongshi said, "It is also because of these farmlands that it is difficult to attack and kill Tiger Village, except for the dirt road in the middle, the rest of the place is muddy and difficult to walk." ”

"The officers and soldiers came all the way and pulled out more than a dozen villages, and none of them was easy to fight." Yang Ji didn't care, it was difficult to fight in the mountains, mainly because the terrain was complicated, which made it inconvenient to deploy large-scale troops, but the officers and troops were well prepared and would not advance recklessly.

More than a dozen stockades were pulled, and more stockades were set up, and there were guards in the village with sufficient food and water, which was the food route of the official army and the retreat at the time of emergency.

Tian Yunshan and his allies sent many village soldiers, in a vain attempt to use attack tactics to make the officers and soldiers casualties and exhausted, but the officers and soldiers also had strong helpers, and many cottages sent village soldiers to accompany the army, both as guides and bodyguards.

They hunted around the main force of the official army, hunting and killing the hostile soldiers who infiltrated one by one, and the Zhou army set up villages in various dangerous places, slowly compressing the enemy's range of activities, so Yang Ji didn't think that Tian Yunshan and others still had a chance to turn around.

"Sima, the equipment is ready, when will you attack?" A general approached to report that Yang Ji looked ahead, and many siege equipment had been built, but he still decided to wait.

The three soldiers are approaching the Tiger Killing Village, and their mission is to fight for the last chance to be lobbyists before the battle, so that the people in the village will not use their mantis arms as a car, and recognize the situation and open the door to surrender.

In order to prevent hidden arrows from hurting people, they wore hoods and sleeve armor on their heads, holding shields, and one person in the center held a shield in one hand and a flag in the other.

As soon as he walked about one hundred and twenty steps away from the gate of the Killing Tiger Village, a soldier's head suddenly fell back and then fell to the ground, and the flag in his hand fell immediately, and the other two soldiers hurriedly dragged him back, and the crowd on the wall seemed to burst into laughter, faintly reaching the ears of Yang Ji and others.

"They chose the path, so there is a price to pay!" Yang Ji's eyes showed a cold light, "Order, attack!" ”

"Yes!" ……

"Lord Ranzhai is good at archery!"

Ran Song put down the bow in admiration, the strength of this bow is not something that ordinary people can pull away, even if someone pulls it away, he can't aim well, he is conceited that he is the strongest person in the nearby mountains, so he shot an arrow and sure enough, 'a hundred steps through Yang', hitting the front door of the Zhou soldiers at a distance of one hundred and twenty steps.

The villages in the mountains call the people who can shoot tigers alone as 'shooting tigers', but most of those people use large crossbows and are equipped with medicine arrows, but Ran Song uses this bow with iron arrows to shoot tigers with one arrow alone.

With superb archery skills, the arm strength to open a strong bow, and the courage to face the tiger alone, Ran Song convinces the surrounding village owners with his personal bravery, and only he can truly unite the hearts of these villages and compete with the menacing Zhou army.

"Self-righteous, thinking we'd be scared into surrender?" One person sneered, several of their village owners led the village soldiers to help in the battle, and they wanted to thwart the prestige of the Zhou army in this tiger village, and Ran Song's arrow was really exciting.

"Put the big crossbow on the string, use the medicine arrows, and let these people taste the power of blood to seal their throats!"

"Lift the vipers up, and in a moment they will fall down on a ladder!"

"Boiled the dung!"

Their morale was very high, and they did not think that the Zhou army could break through the camp they were defending, which was different from other places, and the walls and arrow towers were all made of hard stones and glutinous rice juice, which was not comparable to the small village of rammed earth.

There are steep mountain walls on both sides, there is no place to climb, the mountain is so high that even if someone wants to slide down the long vine from the mountain, they can only fall to their death, and it is impossible to rush through the small river next to the village, because there is a waterfall behind it.

If you want to come to Shihu Village, you can only break through and kill Tiger Village, and if you want to break through the village, you can only attack head-on, not to mention the paddy field in front of the village, even two trenches have been dug under the wall.

The bottom of the trench is covered with bamboo sticks and poisonous snakes, and the leaves are covered with branches and soil, which is completely a trap, and the Zhou army has to carry a ladder to climb the wall, so he must first fill in the two trenches with human lives.

The wall is also divided into two ways, even if the Zhou army climbs the outer wall, but the archers on the inner wall can easily shoot it, just as easy as shooting a hare, so everyone is full of confidence and waiting for the Zhou army to come and die.

Seeing that the other party had erected a tall wooden frame and moved a lot of big stones, the owners of the village were a little strange, and Ran Song had some insight to know that this was a trebuchet for siege, so he pulled the cannon rod together with many people and threw the big stone at the other end of the cannon pole.

"Do you want a lot of people to pull? There's a big lump under the pole, it doesn't look like a rope or something, right? How do people pull? Someone asked.

"Isn't it ready yet?"

"But the stone is already loaded"

"It's more than two hundred steps away, what kind of trebuchet can Zhou Jun really use to throw big stones over?"

Ran Song sneered and said that it was nothing more than throwing some stones, killing the tiger village could bear it, and when the other party couldn't break the wall, he had to rely on the soldiers to rush up and climb the wall, and then he would let the other party know what the strongest weapon was.

"This treasure bow can break through armor with an iron arrow in one hundred and twenty steps, I want them to see what a hundred shots and a hundred hits are!"

In the applause, they saw Zhou Jun pushing some strange crossbows, the appearance of the crossbow was a little strange, the crossbow arm was very short, it didn't look very powerful, and the connection between it and the crossbow body was a little bloated, like two hammers sticking to the crossbow with hammer heads.

These big crossbows stopped at a distance of about one hundred and twenty paces from the Tiger Killing Village, and they were preparing to wind up when they saw that the Zhou army was busy.

"Good come, come here!" Ran Song shouted, bent his bow and arrows at a Zhou army's crossbow and was about to release the arrows, but the Zhou army's speed was faster, and those crossbows 'banged', only to see several black shadows rushing towards the wall.

There was a splash of blood, and Ran Song, who was about to release the arrow, turned and fell, the bow still in his left hand, and his right arm was gone.

"The owner of the village!" Several soldiers behind the wall shouted in panic, Ran Song, who had fallen to the ground, had broken his head, lying on the ground with blurred flesh and convulsions, and his sturdy body was already mutilated: his right shoulder and right arm were completely missing, as if he had been bitten a big bite of fruit.

"Ho ho" Ran Song wanted to say something, but he couldn't say anything, a large amount of blood gushed out from the wound on his right shoulder and stained the ground red, waiting for the soldiers to cry and help him up, his left arm hung weakly, and the treasure bow also slid to the ground.

A warrior with a bow in hand fell like a meteor piercing the sky.

In this wave of attacks, Ran Song was not the only one who was killed or wounded, several other archers standing behind the arrow stacks were smashed by the cracked arrow stacks and their faces were covered with blood, and even one person's chest was pierced by the black shadow that rushed through his chest, and he fell to the ground and died without even making a sound.

"What kind of weapon is this, why is it so powerful!!" A village owner muttered to himself with a pale face, and someone picked up a stone from the ground, which was the size of a fist and stained with blood, as if it had been specially polished.

"Is this the stone projectile from the crossbow? How could they shoot so far! ”

The creaking sound sounded, and the Zhou army trebuchet actually ran on its own without anyone pulling it, and the cannon pole threw the big stone to the killing tiger village with a slam of time, and the soldiers of the village were stunned to see the big stone sweeping overhead, grazing an arrow tower and smashing it into the open space in the wall.

A burst of dust rose up, and everyone saw that the stone was not small, and before they had time to get lucky, they saw that the Zhou army's trebuchets fired cannons one after another, and a solid stone arrow tower collapsed after only two stones.

The wall was also shaken after being concentrated by the stones, and the Zhou army only smashed a few holes in the wall of the Tiger Killing Village with the first wave of attacks, and before the defenders could react, those strange crossbows began to fire again.

In the thud, some people were lucky enough to dodge the flying stone bullets, while others were smashed in the chest and fell to the ground like falling leaves, and the head of an unlucky ghost exploded, and red and white things were scattered all around.

"Witchcraft, Zhou Jun has witchcraft!!" (To be continued.) )