Chapter 356: The Negative Earth Truck Dispatches
"Hey roar ~ hey roar ~ " The two huge well rails slowly approached about a stone's throw away from the outside of Jiashi City under the impetus of the well-bar wrestler. Reading at zero .
"Stop!" With a shout from the chief of the leader, the huge well bar slowly stopped under the force of gravity.
"Test the distance!" The leader of the archer colonel gave an order, and the three archers climbed up the well railing along the bamboo ladder and came to the platform on the top floor. Remove the longbow from your back, pull out the feathered arrow from the quiver, and throw it at a forty-five-degree angle. Three white-feathered arrows pierced the sky and flew towards the city, one of which landed smoothly on the city wall, and the other two fell into the moat outside the wall.
"Ten steps forward!" After a brief discussion, the three archers who participated in the test shouted at the bottom of the well railing.
"Ten steps forward!" The tun chief in charge of driving shouted loudly, and the well-fenced wrestler rolled up his sleeves, continued to exert his strength, and pushed the well-bar forward ten steps again.
The three archers tested again, and made sure that all the arrows had landed accurately on the walls of the stone city, and beckoned the remaining 400 or so archers to come to the stage in full force.
"Shoot the arrows! Put rockets! "On the stone city, Zhang Shi was already chilled when he saw the huge well fence. Seeing a few arrows flying over the well railing, I thought the battle had officially begun. Roaring and ordering his archers to fire rockets at the well bar. However, the height of Jiashi City is no more than five meters, and it is three meters lower than the well fence. A projectile from the top of the well bar can be used to attack the head of the city, but it is not enough to attack the fence from the head of the wall. There are a few archers with more outstanding strength, who can barely shoot to the well bar with brute strength, but one or two rockets can't hurt the well bar.
"The county order, you can no longer release arrows! That big guy is too far away for our arrows to attack! The county lieutenant shouted to stop Zhang Shidao.
"Bastard!" Zhang Shi gave the county lieutenant a horsewhip and asked angrily: "Then why can the enemy's arrows attack our army?" ”
The county lieutenant didn't dare to reply, and said with a wry smile: "Because that big guy is taller than our city wall!" ”
Zhang Shi's face was pale, and he no longer spoke, he had sworn that he would block the Nanyang Army for at least three days, buy time for the county guard Zhang Xun, and ensure the arrival of Shouchun reinforcements, but now that the battle has not officially started, Zhang Shi has a bad premonition. It seems that it will be difficult to stick to the task for three days, and it will be difficult in general.
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"Lord, the well fence is ready!" On the side of the Nanyang Army, Zhao Yun rode over to ask for instructions.
"Negative earth-wagons dispatched!" He Xian stared at the changes on the battlefield and issued the second military order with a blank face.
The so-called negative dirt car is actually a modified version of the unicycle. According to legend, the wheelbarrow was invented by Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period. But because of the existence of He Xian, coupled with the cooperation and perfection of Huang Yueying, Ma Jun and other institutional skills, an invention like a wheelbarrow that is simple and easy to use and has an uncomplicated design can no longer wait for Wang Zhuliang to develop. The Nanyang area has fully implemented wheelbarrows, whether military or civilian, which has greatly increased the transportation capacity. And this negative earth cart is based on the wheelbarrow, with a large shield installed in front of it, when the enemy's arrows attack, the wheelbarrow handle can be put down on the ground, and people shrink under the big shield to avoid the arrows.
Compared with other armies, the people who filled the moat were the common people or the young and strong who were sent to death. The soldiers of the Nanyang Army who are responsible for pushing and carrying the earthcart are simply the elite of the elite. They are all wearing leather armor, arm guards, and iron helmets, and their bodies are strong, and they are not ordinary soldiers at first glance, they are the negative soil fighters of the Nanyang Army. The fighting skills are not the highest, but they have great strength and courage, and they are a type of well-bar wrestlers who are responsible for pushing the well bar.
With Zhao Yun's order, five hundred negative earth wrestlers pushed the negative earth cart, which carried a total of two thousand sacks of soil, and densely headed towards the moat outside the gate of Jiashi City.
"What's that weird thing?" Zhang Shi looked at the negative dirt carts and asked the county lieutenants around him. The county lieutenant had never been to Nanyang, so he naturally didn't know what a wheelbarrow was, but he was a soldier after all, and he recognized the sack on the wheelbarrow, and knew that it was definitely not a good thing.
"It's the dirt of the river! The county order, those things are here to fill the river! The county lieutenant shouted.
When Zhang Shi heard this, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly said: "Hurry up and release the arrow!" Shoot those damn cars! “
The county lieutenant commanded the Yangzhou soldiers to adjust the direction and shifted the target from the well fence in the distance to the side of the rapidly approaching negative earth truck. Here, the Yangzhou and the archers had just finished arranging, ready to draw their bows and shoot arrows, only to see a burst of black dots flying over the high well railing, reflecting a little cold light under the sunlight!
"Arrow strike! Beware of concealment, beware of concealment! Vertical shield! The county lieutenant yelled, but unfortunately it was a little late. The rain of arrows on the well fence came a little suddenly, and it was just the gap when the Yangzhou army drew their bows and shot arrows. not only interrupted the shooting rhythm of the archers of the Yangzhou army, but also made them too late to find cover. Hundreds of archers had no time to dodge, and they fell to the ground one after another, and there was a wail on the city wall.
"Stand up! All stand up and fight back! Can't let those little cars get close to the moat! With a shield in his left hand and a sword at his waist in his right hand, the lieutenant began to drive the archers back against the city.
The archers on the well fence did not stop, for about thirty seconds or about a minute, and there was always a rain of arrows that covered the walls of the city, providing fire suppression for the negative earthcarts. The archers of the Yangzhou army on the city were miserable, on the one hand, they had to avoid the attack of the Nanyang army's bows and arrows, and on the other hand, they had to risk their lives to attack the negative earth carts under the city during the interval of the arrow rain. The Yangzhou army that was sent to Jiashi City was not an elite in the first place, and under such pressure, the five-point archery level could only play thirty percent. And without a covering attack, scattered arrows really can't cause much damage to the negative dirt cart. A few unlucky soldiers failed to dodge the loss and were shot in the arm or chest. But because of the protection of thick cowhide leather armor, these arrows that are not too powerful are not as deadly. They pushed the cart forward quickly with arrows, trying to push the cart into the moat as soon as possible, along with the sandbags on it, so that they could complete the task.
"My lord, send the emergency team out, otherwise, we won't be able to withstand it for a day!" The county lieutenant said with an anxious expression. At the same time, Jiang Yan, a military general under Zhang Xun, who was responsible for guarding Nanyang, also sent people to ask for help. The situation encountered at the south gate was the same as that at the north gate, Wen Ping also sent two well railings to suppress it, and then converted all the wheelbarrows used in logistics into negative earth trucks to participate in the river filling, and the offensive was cold.