Chapter 4 Mohist Organs
On Jimo City, the archers of Qi State kept being killed, and people kept replenishing them, and then they pounced and replenished them, forming a tug-of-war between human flesh and blood, which was very tragic.
But only outside the main city tower, there were more than 300 archers, shooting at thousands of Chu troops, and almost no one fell.
In front of the archers, rows of barefoot warriors in ink stood.
The warriors each held a shield and erected it on the earthen city wall, layered on top of each other, extending from side to side, forming a huge curved barrier.
These shields are oddly shaped, half a man tall, black throughout, hexagonal, and turned outward, like an umbrella blown over by the wind. In the center of the umbrella, a finger-thick copper sheet is also nailed.
The arrows of the Chu army hit the shield, and they converged just along the beveled bevel, and were blocked by the copper plate in the center.
What's even more peculiar is that at the edge of each shield, there are two slots, one protruding and one concave, and the shields riveted each other and connected together to form a wall-like barrier.
More than 300 archers, hiding behind their shields, took turns shooting arrows in groups of three, through the gaps in the shields.
I saw arrows flying out, like a waterfall flowing out of the city gate, coherent and dense, sweeping away the city and wailing.
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"General Jing, these soldiers of yours have no missing arrows, and everyone is a good archer!" An old man stroked his white beard and exclaimed.
The old man was also barefoot, dressed in an ink robe, but his body was short and fat, and his stomach was already bulging.
Jing Hong arched his hand to the old man, and said respectfully: "Master Dou has won the award, it all depends on the Mo family's 'non-attacking shield', otherwise I, the soldiers, don't know how many dead and injured I have." ”
The soldiers Jing Hong said were these 300 shooters, but the faces of these shooters also burned with the word "slave".
"That's it!" A young girl stood next to the white-haired old man, snorted coldly, and said: "Defending the city is indeed the greatest credit of the Mo family, if there is no Mo family, I don't know how many people have died in this city, and how many times it has been breached!" ”
"Cher, don't talk nonsense!" The white-haired old man stopped.
"Uncle Dou, is there anything wrong with what Xue'er said?" The girl stepped forward, pointed to Ma Ba next to her, and asked, "Like General Ma, opening the city gate wide and welcoming the enemy army in, didn't he push Jimo City to death?" How can this city be defended? ”
This girl's name is Shi Xue, she is dressed in white and has cloth shoes on her feet, which is completely different from other Mo disciples.
But her dress is also unpretentious, only hanging a delicate birdcage made of bamboo around her waist, bunching out a beautiful waist, and her beautiful facial features are naturally carved and decorated, revealing a heroic spirit.
The Uncle Dou in her mouth is naturally a white-haired old man.
The white-haired old man's real name is Dou Gongbo, and he is an elder of the Mo family, proficient in the Mojia technique, and is known as "Master Dou".
Founded by Mo Zhai more than 200 years ago, after a hundred years of development, the Mohist family has gradually divided into three branches due to different schools and specializations, namely "Moxia" who advocates swordsmanship and chivalry, "Mogong" who advocates mechanical arts, and "Mobian" who advocates political change.
The three branches of the Mo family have been fighting for a hundred years and do not integrate with each other, until ten years ago, Mo Xia sent a giant who gathered the greatest achievements - Shi Geng, to unify the three Mo families and return to the Mo Gate.
Shi Xue is Shi Geng's daughter.
It's just that Shi Geng is leading another group of Mo family disciples at this time to protect Jucheng, that is, the Mo family disciples in Mo City, which is naturally under the command of Dou Gongbo.
"Miss Shi, General Ben...... Isn't this the heart of saving the son? How could I have thought that those Chu people were so despicable that they actually took refuge in those dog thieves of the Yan people! Ma Ba endured his anger, but he didn't dare to have the slightest temper towards this girl, don't look at the Mo family disciples in the city There are less than five hundred, but if there were no these five hundred, that is, Mo City would have fallen five years ago.
"Childe? You said that Tian Ziyun?! If you don't say it, forget it, I'll ...... it."
"Cher! The enemy is now, don't forget the instructions of the giant! Dou Gongbo glared at Shi Xue, this girl really gave him a headache, so he could only move out of the giant.
"Hmph, don't you pay attention to what Xue'er said?" Shi Xue still wanted to refute, but seeing that a Yan Kingdom dead soldier had already rushed in under the city, he knew that the situation was critical, so he glared at Ma Ba fiercely and stopped talking.
Ma Ba had already held back a cold sweat, the city gate was lost, it was like the sky was falling, seeing that Jimo City was about to be completely finished, these Mo family disciples were still talking about it here?!
It was precisely because he thought that the situation was wrong that Ma Ba immediately asked the Mo family to take charge of the overall situation.
In this way, even if the city gate is lost, it will be regarded as the Mo family's disciple's poor defense, and it will not be his fault alone.
"Master Dou, the Yan people have already entered the city, if they rush into the city again, Jimo City will be over!" Ma Ba said busily.
Dou Gongbo ignored Ma Ba, but turned his head to look at Jing Hong, who nodded and said, "Half of the dead soldiers of the Yan Kingdom have already entered the city, it is the best time to ambush, Jing Hong and the soldiers, listen to Master Dou's dispatch at any time." ”
"Well, whoever defends the city, he will be the one who will be wounded by the enemy, and the head and tail will be cut off, and he will be killed." Dou Gongbo stroked his white beard, and suddenly raised his hand and shouted: "Gu Wu, release the arrow!" ”
"No!" A tall, barefoot warrior stepped forward, holding a longbow and a peculiar arrow in his right hand.
The arrow of this arrow is three times larger than ordinary arrows, the head is hollowed, and there is a thin copper sheet inlaid inside, like a whistle, which is Dou Gongbo's original "Xiangyun Arrow".
"Senior brother, give it to me, let me come!" Shi Xue is a girl after all, and with the playfulness of a girl, she suddenly snatched the Xiangyun Arrow from Gu Wu's hand, then took off the longbow on her back, and instantly pulled it into a full moon.
As soon as she let go of her fingers, a sharp arrow flashed out, sending out a loud scream in the air!
The sound resounded through the sky, and even the three armies fighting below looked up at the sky in shock.
Qi Guo, who was guarding the city below, heard the whistle and suddenly dispersed, and Qi retreated into the city, revealing the open space in the middle.
The dead soldiers of the Yan Kingdom lost their obstacles, like the tide of the embankment, driving straight in, and they were about to spread to the city!
Suddenly, only the sound of wheeling and rolling could be heard, and the figures in the streets and alleys flickered, and hundreds of knife carts rushed out of the street, and the knife edge was outward, and a cold light crashed towards the dead soldiers of Yan Kingdom!
The so-called knife cart is a kind of vehicle that defends the city, the car has two wheels, and in front of the body is a whole thick wooden plank, three people high, one person wide. The planks were loaded with 24 blades, each arm long, and ordinary people would be cut into minced flesh if they were hit by a car.
Behind the planks, there was a long wheel that could be moved, sealed on all sides, leaving only a back door for two soldiers to hide in and push the cart forward.
As soon as hundreds of knife carts appeared, they immediately blocked all the ways of the Yan army.
The dozens of Yan soldiers who rushed to the front were caught off guard, and the men and horses crashed into the knife cart, and were immediately nailed to death by dozens of blades, cutting into pieces!
The follow-up men and horses continued to collide, scattering the formation of the knife carts, but there were immediately knife carts rushing out of the streets and alleys, tightening the formation, surrounding the water, and forcing the dead soldiers of the Yan Kingdom to the city gate.
In less than a moment, the ground was littered with shredded human limbs, and the knife cart was also full of dead bodies, and a river of blood flowed.
The corpses became thicker and thicker, and gradually piled up into a small slope, and occasionally a few dead soldiers of the Yan Kingdom stepped on the corpses, crossed the knife cart, and fell into the city, but they were immediately killed by the Qi soldiers who rushed out of the street.
But gradually, more and more cavalry rushed through the knife cart, faintly breaking through the formation.
At this moment, I heard a loud bang, which shook the whole ground!
When everyone heard the prestige, they saw that the originally wide open Jimo City Gate suddenly fell a thick bronze giant gate, weighing 10,000 catties, and a dead soldier of the Yan Kingdom who galloped to the middle of the way, even people and horses, was directly crushed into meat paste!
"The Mo family's 10,000-pound door!"
"The legend is true!"
"It's over, we're trapped!"
The dead soldiers of the Yan Kingdom in the city suddenly panicked and rioted, and began to rush around.
But this chaos just arose, and rows of archers suddenly flashed out of the city, and arrows rained down, shooting all the dead soldiers of the Yan Kingdom.
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The main building of the city walls.
Dou Gongbo's face was heavy, his hand holding his beard stopped, and he sighed softly: "When will this war end?" ”
Shi Xue also covered her mouth, her eyebrows frowned, even though she had experienced Jimo offensive and defensive battles again and again, but in the face of such a scene, she still made her a little evil.
"I'm afraid, as long as Le Yi leads the troops one day, we will have no chance to escape." Jing Hong put away his bow and arrows, looked at a dilapidated house in the east of the city, and muttered.
"Great, the Mo family mechanism is really useful!" Ma Ba's eyes lit up, and he said excitedly: "Master Dou, the gate is closed, there is no crisis in Jimo City, let's kill those traitors of the Chu State!" ”
Dou Gongbo sighed secretly and waved his hand to Gu Wu.
Listening to Gu Wu's shout, the disciples of the Mo family who were guarding all over the city wall, in pairs, pushed the huge triangular bed crossbows outside the city wall.
These bed crossbows are like ox carts, more than one person high. Under the bed crossbow were three wheels, and a huge receiver was embedded in it, and inside the receiver were seven or eight crossbow arrows, each three meters long and the thickness of the barrel.
Behind the receiver, there are two shafts, on which rattan is used as a string, and the reel is drawn to form a huge ejection force.
In front of the receiver, there are also two erected wooden planks to block the arrows fired in front of them, and in the middle of the plank, there is a gap in the crossbow arrows.
More than a hundred bed crossbows suddenly poked out of the wall, like sharp minions, and the two armies of Yan and Chu, which were already blocked outside the city, immediately panicked.
"Pull the strings, release the arrows!"
Gu Wu gave an order, and a creaking sound suddenly sounded on the city gate, as if it had shattered bones, and then like a cannon, a long arrow broke through the air and shot straight at the enemy below!
Stab!
The long arrow pierced the chest of the first Chu Jun, piercing it to death, and then shot into the shoulder of one person behind him, shot out with his body, and shot one person behind him in the stomach, and the three of them flew ten meters in mid-air in a string, knocking down several people!
The surrounding Chu soldiers were so frightened by this tragic scene that they scattered and fled, swarming back from the drawbridge, no matter how the officers in the rear shouted, they couldn't stop castrating.
For a time, the suspension bridge was crowded with people on their backs, and most of them fell.
The autumn moat had dried up, and the soldiers who had fallen into the water were not fast running in the muddy riverbed, and were immediately killed by the arrows of the city, and the riverbed was filled with blood.
Bang bang bang, more sky-breaking cannon sounds came from the city wall, and crossbow arrows tore through the sky and shot downward!
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