Adhering to the duty of justice, opportunities sometimes come when they come, even if they encounter great difficulties, they will inadvertently become auspicious. The darkness before dawn is always cruel, but breaking through this darkest time, there is a broad road ahead, what we need to do is to resist, resist, and resist!

As mentioned last time, after these multiple rounds of stone bomb attacks, through the observation of the lookout post on the nest car, everything seems to be not optimistic, and the killing effect is extremely limited. In order to reduce your own casualties, the purpose of the first day of this attack was to use this stone bomb from the sky to wear down the spirit of the soldiers defending the city!

In view of this, at the suggestion of the nest car lookout post, after a total of Wang Xuance and the soldiers, it was decided to move the nest car and the stone thrower forward by a hundred steps and build them on the edge of the moat. In the face of such a distance, not only can the nest car see more clearly, but this stone thrower can also attack the barracks in the city!

So, again, there was a tense busyness, and all the offensive was ready; In view of such a close distance, it was possible to be shot by the archers in the city at any time, so Wang Xuance arranged a curtain cart.

Speaking of this mantle car, we have to talk about its kind. It is mainly divided into wooden curtains and cloth curtains, and these two kinds of curtains are a kind of large shields to put it bluntly!

This mantle was mainly used for siege equipment, and in simple terms, a large lever was loaded on top of a flat plate, and a large wooden plank was hung on top of this bar, which was wrapped with leather, to increase the strength of the surface and prevent enemy fire.

Usually the size of the curtain varies, mainly depending on the specific situation of the city, in order to increase its mobility, four wheels are loaded under the slab, so it becomes a mantle cart.

In order to alleviate the attack power of the enemy's shots, the pillars used are freely loaded, and the wooden curtain can be moved up and down by using leverage according to the strength and pattern of the enemy's attack, so as to shield the enemy's attacks from feathered arrows and flowing stones. After approaching the city wall, it can also be used to defend the entrance to the tunnel!

The reason why the mantle has a high defensive power mainly comes from its soft support. When hit, it leans backwards to unload its power. And Wang Xuance, as the attacker this time, in order to protect the safety of the soldiers, Mr. Li Zhengji and Mr. Li designed this kind of mantle car!

And this cloth curtain, mainly used by the soldiers defending the city, the cloth curtain is made of thick hemp rope, of course, there are also woven with bamboo, usually made of local materials, with wooden sticks as a free state as support! The curtain was mainly placed on the city wall to shield the besieging enemy's feather arrows and stone projectiles, and its size and size also depended on the configuration of the tall buildings and walls.

Usually this curtain should be soaked in water or coated with wet mud to prevent enemy fire. When the enemy uses the tactics of crowds to climb the city wall, you can also ignite the untreated curtain and throw it at the enemy who climbs the wall, and its larger area can cover the enemy who climbs the city from top to bottom, so you can achieve the purpose of repelling the enemy by fire!

When the enemy attacking the city wall is about to push the curtain, not only can you sprinkle sand and lime on the enemy, but you can also take advantage of the opportunity for the enemy to clean up the curtain and attack and destroy it!

In the face of such equipment, it is full of the wisdom and experience of the people of the Tang Dynasty; Therefore, in these five Indian lands, it is impossible to see it, and of course Kapiwa cannot be equipped.

When he found Wang Xuance's attack echelon and pressed forward towards Wang Cheng, Kapiwa, who poked his head out slightly, looked at it and felt that they had reached the range of this bow and arrow. Therefore, while they were preparing, they quickly called these two thousand archers, hiding themselves on the one hand, and shooting well on the other!

But with such a trick, how can he escape the eyes of the Tang generals who were born in the military!

Before this transfer of positions, Wang Xuance did not transfer his position collectively, but temporarily left a basic combat unit composed of a nest car and two stone throwers to observe all the dynamics of this battlefield. Therefore, after the prompting of the lookout post above the nest cart, and seeing the signs of archers outcropping on the city wall, Zhou Zeng and Chen Maocai had already hailed these ten mantle carts, lined up in front of the stone thrower being erected in turn, and prepared for defense!

With Kapiwa's order, thousands of arrows were fired at the top of the city, as dense as flying locusts, and one after another carved wolf's tooth arrows rushed towards the many dragging hands of the stone thrower!

And it was the shaking hands of the mantle cart that were waiting for these thousands of flying arrows, and I saw them shaking the crank under the mantle cart, so that the wooden mantle had already protected the many dragging hands in the direction of the arrow rain, and flew with thousands of feathered arrows. One by one, the "bell block" hit the wooden board wrapped in cowhide and fell to the ground!

This scene completely stunned Kapiwa, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, and never expected that this Tang Coalition Army would have such a divine weapon. Looking at his thousands of arrows, he didn't hurt these many hands in the slightest, and he gave away so many feather arrows in vain, he was also angry and hateful!

The soldiers defending the city were also quite surprised when they saw this scene, and they couldn't help but make a sound that the shield was too strong. Not only surprised, but also frustrated by this helplessness!

At this time, look at the city head, next to the mantle cart, Chen Maocai has already beckoned a group of soldiers, used rattan armor shields to protect them, walked to the mantle cart, and unhurriedly picked up the carved wolf tooth arrows scattered all over the ground! While picking it up, he shouted: "Thank you for the arrows, thank you for the arrows!" ”

Listening to this sound and watching this trip, the defenders above the city also hated their gums, and they wanted to continue to fire a salvo! Although Pikawa was also quite angry at this time, reason still occupied the most important position in his mind; hurriedly stopped them: "Slow, in this way, wouldn't you give them the feather arrows for nothing?" ”

"Alas" With this long sigh, above the city, sigh......

This plan failed, but when he saw this Kapiwa, his eyes rolled, and then he had another plan. So the soldiers were asked to dye their arrows with palm oil and shoot them at the mantle again.

Unfortunately, he didn't know much about the curtain; How can this kind of trick escape, the eyes of these skilled craftsmen of the Tang Dynasty? They wrapped this cowhide around this wooden curtain, and based on previous experience, in order to prevent the enemy from attacking! Therefore, his rocket attack still did not have any effect at all!

When Kapiwa had exhausted all his tactics and was still at a loss, the rest of the nest carts were slowly rising, and the stone throwers were ready. With the singing of the lookout post, under the reasonable arrangement of the sightman, many stone bullets, once again, like flying boulders, smashed down on the top of the city and into the military camp of Kapiwa!

The editor said: This is the hair of the Tang Dynasty offensive written according to the book of Wei Gongbing~

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