Ballista, a defensive device. Zeng said: The car of the repeater... Two axles and three wheels, the wheel is in the basket, and the upper basket is heavy... The left and right crossbows are planted, and the strings are hooked... The arrow is three feet high, and there are sixty pieces in and out... Ten people are in charge of this car. From this description, it can be seen that in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, not only ballistae were manufactured, but even crossbow carts that could fire sixty large arrows and countless small arrows. When technology is blessed with the tools of killing, the deterrence he creates is definitely made up of white bones.

It's just that only a very small number of skilled craftsmen can master such a powerful city defense weapon, and for this group of people, every country has a very strict protection for them, and their secret level is no less than that of nuclear bomb experts. Even in Zhao Guo, this kind of manufacturing talent is rare. So much so that Zhao Guoren did not expect that there were ballistas in the defensive equipment of Zhongshan Kingdom.

Although the ballista on the city wall of Shiyi is not as terrifying as the ballista, its power is not a joke. Standing on the leather cart, Zhao Yong saw with his own eyes that a ladder truck was approaching the city wall, but he saw two giant arrows, whistling through the crowd and directly hitting the shield in front of the ladder truck. However, this is not the end of the roadista, the arrows of the ballista are wrapped around the hemp rope, and when the arrows are fired, the hemp rope follows out, and then turns the wheel on the ballista to recover the giant arrows. Because Zhao Jun's ladder car was originally built in a hurry and was relatively thin, the giant arrows of the ballista car passed through the shield and were deeply embedded in the shield.

Seeing this, the Zhongshan army on the tower of the city beckoned their bows and arrows to shoot at the exposed hole. And all of them used rockets, and all of a sudden, like meteors, the rockets passed through the holes in the shield and shot into the group of soldiers below, igniting the wooden ladder cart, and the flames soon spread over the ladder, and the soldiers in the cart screamed and fell into the flames, and struggled to jump off the cart and roll on the ground to extinguish the flames on their bodies. Even so, the rockets of the Zhongshan Army still mercilessly took away their lives one by one, right next to the ladder cart, the burning ladder cart, mixed with Zhao Jun's howl of pain, was very tragic.

The ballista continued to exert his might, not only towards the attacking chariots, but also at the attacking soldiers. Whether it was a dust truck or a hook collision car, whether it was an archer or a foot soldier, the ballista always succeeded one after another, and the Zhao army attacked and once came to a standstill. Zhao Yong stood on top of the leather cart, anxious about the attack of the Zhao army, and on the other hand, he also expected that the catapult could push the newly built city wall to it quickly, and when the time came, the attack of the Zhao army would be like a bamboo.

"It seems that there is a new boss in Shiyi City." Le Yi rode on the horse and said to Zhao Yong next to him, between his eyebrows, he was a little worried.

"Oh?" Zhao Yong turned his face with a puzzled expression.

"Our army has been attacking for days, and the Zhongshan army has almost collapsed, but today, it is still in high spirits. If Sima Chong was in the city, it might be reasonable, but now the person defending the city should be his lieutenant, and he doesn't believe it, his lieutenant is even better than Sima Chong. If there is no new manager, it is strange! ”

"Maybe there are some capable people among the lieutenants, but I don't know."

Le Yi shook his head, "If the Zhongshan Army has a ballista, why would they use it today?" Wouldn't it be better to take it out early, the so-called hole card, not the one that wins in the end, but the one that is very deterrent. If you were defending the city, you would definitely take out the ballista early to reduce the consumption of your defense, so why stay today? Le Yi sneered and said, "If it is as expected, there must be a master of the Mo family in the city." ”

Le Yi said this, Zhao Yong suddenly appeared in front of him with a middle-aged man with a serious expression, beside the well in Linzi, constantly questioning himself, and even a little out of shape. He looked at the people of Zhongshan who were struggling to resist the castle tower, and couldn't help but murmur, "Isn't it... He? ”

Through a corner of the city wall, a pair of indifferent eyes passed through the black oppressive crowd, as if they wanted to see the young man on the leather cart behind them, and his current expression was calm and calm, or annoyed and angry, or both. At least he didn't expect that this time they met, the two sides would become rivals.

Life is really an interesting game.

Just as he sighed, a man hurriedly came to him, leaning closely against the city wall, lest he could not hear the chaotic siege, so he shouted loudly: "Giant, the newly built city wall is almost unbearable!" If Zhao State continues to attack like this, the city wall will collapse if there is about a cup of tea. When the time comes, it will be easy for Commander Zhao to drive straight in!"

Belly Shu nodded, and said helplessly: "This is also a matter of no way, if the Zhao army only attacks one side, then this wall can last for a few days, but this time the Zhao army is attacking this section of the city wall with all its might, and by attacking the other three aspects, the main force of our army is contained, so that we can't take care of both ends, but we concentrate the superior siege equipment and go all out to attack." There is nothing we can do about this method. ”

After a pause, there seemed to be something unspeakable, and after struggling for a while, he still said slowly: "I'm afraid, General Sima, I'm already in trouble." ”

"What!" The man was surprised and said, "You mean General Sima... Didn't you say that General Sima had already arrived in Fanwu? ”

Belly quickly motioned for him to remain silent. At this time, if the news of General Sima's death comes out, I am afraid that the Zhongshan soldiers who are desperately resisting now will immediately lose their fighting spirit, and when the time comes, the city of Shiyi will be broken, and it will be in the mundane. "There is no way to do this, the most important thing now is to resist the attack of the Zhao army to the death, as long as it can hold out until Fanwu's reinforcements arrive, the Zhao army will definitely retreat!" He whispered.

However, from the eyes of the lieutenant general, it seemed that he did not get a response that he wanted to know, and he knew that with himself and these people, the hope of snatching victory in the hands of the tiger-like Zhao army under the city was very slim. He was still lurking in the city that day, and if it weren't for General Sima leaving and the Zhao army starting to besiege Shiyi again, he would definitely not have come out. The Mo family has its own opinions, if the Zhongshan people can really hold it, there is no need to expose it, but unexpectedly, Sima Chong rashly went out of the city to pursue, and he didn't see that this was Zhao Guo's trap at all. Fortunately, thanks to him, Zhongshan was able to persevere in yesterday's siege.

He shook his head, looked back at the Zhao army array in the distance, he knew that the person had a card in his hand, a winning hole card, but he didn't know why, the Zhao army suffered so many casualties, and he hadn't used it yet. Could it be that he is really different from ordinary kings?

The same question, Le Yi, who was in the back, had no answer. He saw that the casualties of the Zhao army were expanding, and cautiously reminded: "Your Majesty, why don't you ...... yet?"

"Strategist, I know what you want to ask." Zhao Yong didn't dare to look at Le Yi at all, as if he was afraid that he would lose to him if he saw Le Yi, "However, Gu thinks that maybe the timing is not the best." ”

"But your lordship..."

"Strategist, let Lone make his own decisions." Zhao Yong looked at Le Yi with resolute eyes. This kind of look, Le Yi has seen it many times, whether it was before Zhao Yong decided to go to Zhongshan, or outside the Nine Gates, when he met him for the first time, this kind of look made Le Yi unforgettable. He also knew that whenever Zhao Yong showed this kind of look, everything was already doomed.

Zhao Jun's attack was not chaotic at all, like rows of waves, one moment ** like a group of waves coming in rows, and one moment low back like ants scattering in all directions. The rhythm of this kind of attack can often ensure that the army can maintain sufficient physical strength and order, and it is easier to obtain results than blindly attacking. However, the disadvantage of this is also obvious, that is, the grasp of morale, which is very much a test of the ability of the general.

Although the commanders of the battle were Zhao Yong and Le Yi, it was Zhao Guang who commanded on the front line instead of Zhao Yong. In yesterday's battle, he was seriously injured and unconscious, but fortunately, Bian Que was taken by Zhao Yong's side, and after the treatment of this miracle doctor, he recovered in just one night. Zhao Yong made up his mind yesterday to capture Shiyi today, and after hearing about it, he naturally couldn't miss this good opportunity to make contributions. So, he took the initiative to ask Ying to fight.

Zhao Yong also knew that he was also desperately trying to show his face in front of the ministers and let others look up to him, so he didn't stop it, and handed over the front-line command of the South Gate siege to Zhao Guang, clearly saying that he was guilty of meritorious service, but in fact, he also hoped that his old subordinates could make some military merits.

Zhao Guang rode on a horse, staring closely at the siege troops in front of him in a fateful attack, whether it was a stray arrow or a flying stone, they all brought huge casualties to the Zhao army. But he didn't feel it at all, just stared at the place where the stone thrower was attacking, as long as that section of the city wall collapsed, the stone city would be finished. This is what Zhao Yong and Le Yi have told them thousands of times.

At this moment, Zhao Guang suddenly found that the Zhao army on the city tower was quickly evacuating the newly repaired section of the city wall attacked by the catapult, and he was blessed to the heart, and shouted to the herald soldiers beside him: "Quick! Fast! Order the siege troops to suspend the attack! Fast! ”

When the herald received the order, he immediately turned around and ran to give the order, and after a while, Zhao Jun's Ming Jin hand knocked the signal to retreat. The Zhao army, who was attacking in front, was suddenly stunned, and wondered why he was retreating now. However, the military orders were like a mountain, and naturally everyone could not think too much, so the army changed to the front army, and the Chinese army covered the retreat of the front army, and began to withdraw from the battlefield in an orderly manner.

However, Zhao Jun wanted to retreat, but the Zhongshan people did not agree. Seeing that the Zhao army began to retreat, he immediately called the archers and fired at the Zhao army's troops in a covering manner. Zhao's Chinese army also had to respond to Zhongshan's attack and do its best to maintain the retreat of the front army. The whole retreat was carried out very slowly.

Just when the two armies were fighting each other, a "boom" sound suddenly sounded, resounding through the sky. Just when the two armies didn't know what was happening, a hole appeared in the wall of the city where the Zhao army was attacking, and a little sunlight shone in and passed through the bloody battlefield.

The two armies looked at each other, and they actually fell into a kind of calm. Even Zhao Yong, Zhao Guang, Le Yi and others outside the battlefield fell into a boundless silence, and they didn't even dare to breathe.

At this time, the Zhao army under the city was the first to come back to their senses, because they saw that on the breached city wall, there was a torrent of loess, at first, it was just some soil chips, but soon, it became a large particle, and then, the entire city wall fell down one after another. If they didn't know what was going on at this time, they would be too numb. Hurriedly didn't care about anything, and quickly ran towards his own formation.

Suddenly, the entire city wall collapsed, and there was a huge roar, and I saw the eyes of all the people who were blurred with loess in the sky, and the huge sunlight penetrated the city wall, revealing a hideous mouth. But what he devoured was indeed hopeful, because everyone realized that the destruction of Shiyi City was already doomed.