Chapter 386: Soldiers are in danger
The iron nails embedded in the wolf's tooth slap are very thick and long, and it is also a way to increase the lethality.
"Put!"
A soldier of the Shandong army lifted the stone and threw it down, and knocked down a climbing intruder in the head, he did not hesitate after hearing the order of the sentry officer behind him, and immediately turned around and stepped on the battlements to exert force, and his hands tightly held the tight rope.
There were two soldiers pulling this wolf tooth slap, and they were actually the weakest when they were brewing, so soon the rest of the soldiers came forward with swords and guns to protect them.
"Bang Bang ......"
The sound of the wolf's teeth slapping was very loud, and a soldier was climbing on the ladder with a knife in his mouth, thinking that he could be the first to climb the city wall to make meritorious contributions, but at this moment, a slight tremor suddenly came from the ladder he was holding.
He looked down in wonder, only to see the intruders climbing behind him staring at it with wide eyes, and even those who were in charge of holding down the ladder were scattered in terror as if something very terrifying was above him.
The intruder had just turned his head when the wolf fangs on it suddenly tilted down and slammed into his head.
The human skull was the hardest, but it didn't resist for a moment, and suddenly cracked like a watermelon.
The waist knife that had been clenched tightly in his mouth fell weakly to the ground, and along with the corpse of the intruder, the red and white gathered together, gurgling into the land under his feet.
The rudimentary ladder was also defenseless, and was directly shattered along with several around it, and the wooden stakes were scattered all over the ground.
The ladder shattered, and the intruders on it suddenly lost their focus, waving their hands and feet wildly, obviously trying to catch something and not let themselves fall, but there was nothing around them except for the slightly sloping city wall that they could grab.
"Ah——, catch me, catch me......"
These screams are destined to be only wishful thinking, and they often fall to the ground weakly in the end, but now this height cannot directly kill a person unless the head hits the ground.
If it were on weekdays, there would be a blessing if they didn't die, but at this time, they were the most miserable, and it was not even as good as being killed in an instant.
There are a very small number of people who can't bear the pain of this heart, and commit suicide with their last strength, except for these people who muster up the courage to commit suicide, most of the rest are cowardly, neither dare to commit suicide, but also do not want to die, often covering the severed stump and howling miserably, hoping that others can kindly save themselves.
At this time, the cohesion of an army is manifested, although these intruders around them are all in the same team, but they have no connection with each other, they all ignore the wounded who have fallen to the ground, and no one will waste time on these people who are not related to them and are about to die.
"Wolf tooth shoot, how can a small Tuocheng have this thing!?"
Hearing the report of his subordinates, Liu Zongmin first screamed in surprise, then reacted and immediately thought of a solution.
He has been crisscrossing the provinces of the Central Plains for more than ten years, and he has naturally encountered it with wolf teeth, although the lethality is huge, but there is a fatal flaw.
Speaking of which, this huge device actually has this problem, that is, it is more than enough to kill but it is very time-consuming and laborious to use.
The wolf tooth slap was disposable at first, and it was gone when it was thrown down, but later the Ming army found that it was too wasteful, and the role in the battle was too small, and it was difficult to recycle the used wolf tooth slap after the battle.
After continuous improvement, this wolf's tooth paddle was placed on the edge of the battlement with a solid base made of elm, as if pulling a bucket to carry water, and was tied with several layers of tight ropes to recycle and put it for a long time.
However, a giant instrument like the wolf's tooth slap is too heavy, and it often takes three or five young people to put it away, and the effort to release it and then take it back in wartime is actually enough to throw down a lot of stones or sprinkle a few pots of hot oil.
Therefore, even if the city is equipped with wolf fangs, the officers and soldiers defending the city often only take it out when the opponent uses giant equipment.
There are few heavy equipment in the army, this kind of famine year, the city is often uneven, Li Zicheng all the way smoothly with the tactics of using the sea of people to eat half of the country, even in many big city battles, the Ming army will often collapse without a fight, so it is difficult for the wolf tooth to play its due effect.
But once there is no self-rebellion in the city, the rudimentary siege equipment and thin armor of the soldiers will immediately appear to be insufficient.
Although the wolf's tooth slap is slow to retract, once it is smashed down, in addition to destroying several rows of ladders, it can often sweep down an entire area of intruders.
Most of the soldiers who were attacking the city were attached recruits, who were used to fighting with the wind, and had never encountered such powerful objects at all, and it didn't take long for them to retreat.
Those old battalions have naturally encountered it in the Central Plains, and when they saw the wolf teeth standing at the head of the city from afar, coupled with the intruders who were shot down like raindrops, they already felt very scared in their hearts.
However, it was only half an hour of hard work, Liu Zongmin gathered the army to make a comeback, and the ladder had just been set up on the city, and the Shandong army repeated the old trick and put the wolf's tooth down.
The whole group of intruders immediately fell down with a miserable howl, and saw that they were about to retreat, but at this time some of the intruders came running at the guns that flew everywhere, and drew their bows and arrows and aimed them at the city.
"Shoot, shoot those officers and soldiers who pull the rope!!"
With the order of several leaders, these archers immediately threw a round of arrows towards the city, and the rain of arrows falling was very close, and the Shandong army defending the city was all regular soldiers, and did not popularize iron armor, so casualties gradually appeared.
A soldier of the Shandong army stepped on the battlement, and pulled back the wolf tooth slap that had just been thrown with both hands, but the next moment he suddenly did not move, and then fell headlong.
It turned out that just as he was tightening the rope, a cluster of arrows shot at his unarmored neck impartially, and such a weakness was directly pierced in an instant, and the person lost consciousness and strength.
The wolf's tooth slap was very heavy, and the other two soldiers immediately felt struggling, but they were already halfway through, and no one was willing to let go, they all gritted their teeth and held on.
However, the wolf's tooth slap was still falling slowly, and at this time, another soldier hurriedly filled his position, but his hand had just touched the tight rope, and before he could exert force, he was immediately shot into a sieve and fell down.
When this Shandong soldier fell, the people around him who were ready to fill the position suddenly hesitated and did not go up in time to relay.
At this time, the two soldiers were already screaming in pain, and even their hands had been ground into a blur of flesh and blood, and finally they couldn't support it, and they let go violently, and the wolf's teeth slipped down with a "bald lur", and finally hung in the air.
"Hold, pull!!"
A sentry officer was a little frightened when he saw that the soldiers around him were a little frightened, so he simply stood on the ground with his knife, picked up the tight rope that fell on the ground and pulled it desperately.
Seeing this, the torturer shouted loudly, stood outside the city wall, picked up the stone by the battlement, and smashed it down.
The main general is like this, and the rest of the Shandong soldiers are no longer stunned, or bend down to pick up the stones and smash them down, or the two of them work together to pick up a basin of hot oil and tilt it towards the city.
"Ah——,h
Before the archers in the city could fire their arrows again, the stones and hot oil on them had reached their heads, and they immediately howled in misery.