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"What's that?"

After those strange instruments were pushed out from behind the earth mountain, the soldiers in the southwest corner of the song city looked at it in a daze for a long time, until the third pole of the sun, and still did not know what it was.

More than 100 steps outside the city wall, dozens of wooden machines have been deployed, the wheels are stuck back and forth with sandbags and stones, and a section of the wooden frame at the back is buried in the soil to fix it. The craftsmen of the Zhao army were each carrying more than 100 soldiers and laborers, sweating profusely adjusting their positions and angles.

Someone inside the city tried to shoot a few arrows, but found that the distance was too far to reach the people outside.

"It must be a siege weapon, hurry up and urge Liu Sima to take a look!" Because of the slackness of Zhao Bing's offensive, Zhong Xingyin, who had not closed his eyes in the city for several nights, went back to rest, and Liu Xiang happened to be not on this section of the city wall.

But at this moment, the guard of the Zhongxing clan suddenly found that his robes had loosened their weapons and looked at the sky outside the city in amazement.

The guard turned around and rubbed his eyes, thinking that he had seen it wrong.

But I saw that next to those strange machines, something even stranger was rising one after another......

Their wings fluttered in the morning wind, some flew to a height of more than ten zhang, some flew to a height of dozens of zhang, and finally circled over the Zhao army and the city wall, and did not disperse for a long time.

Everyone looked at it intently, and couldn't help but be shocked, but they saw that some of those things were dark, like the legendary Xuanniao, and some were fiery red and had a long tail like a phoenix. In addition, there are other feathered people with the head of a bird and a human body, a long snake dragon with a long trunk of several feet with teeth and claws, a fierce beast with a flying tiger body and feathers, and a greedy tengu that devours the moon......

"What's going on?" The blame must be a demon, the guards were horrified, and they looked left and right, but they saw that the Bai Di people who were responsible for carrying stones and bricks to the city all knelt on the ground one by one, and they were shocked.

"Look at the horse's body. It is the god of Zhongshan worshiped by our Di people! ”

Not only the Di people, but also the superstitious people at the head of the city saw these gods and monsters that only exist in legends appear in front of them at first glance, and most of them lost their square inches and subconsciously bowed down.

Only the people who were still stunned saw the next scene clearly.

The craftsman selected the appropriate stone balls and put them in the holster, and then under the sound of the trumpet. About 100 people began to pull the "tips" attached to the crossbar, each tip was pulled by more than a dozen strong men, and the long pole at the other end began to gradually press towards the ground under their pull.

"God helps!" With an order, more than 100 people let go in unison, followed by a dull crash from outside the city, the sound of the trebuchet's wooden pole colliding against the thick linen cloth wrapped in support.

The pull of the cannon tip turned into a huge thrust at this moment, throwing a large stone of more than ten catties out, drawing a beautiful semi-circular arc in the air, and sliding down sharply after crossing the apex. In the end, it fell heavily on the eaves of the building in Chaoge City!

With a loud "bang", the stones that looked like visitors from outside the sky pierced directly through the fragile eaves, bricks and rubble splashed everywhere, and an exclamation sounded on the towers and walls.

"This ......" Everyone was stunned in place, the siege of the Central Plains princes has always been monotonous, when have you ever seen a device that can throw a big stone into the city wall!

At this moment, the guards who had not been frightened by those kites before also knelt down with pale faces.

Could it be that Zhao Jun really has the help of ghosts and gods? The simple Chaoge people at the head of the city thought about it one after another.

See the success of the school shot. The craftsmen and soldiers outside the city were in high spirits and cheered in unison. Now fifty trebuchets have been fixed, and the craftsmen are drawing scoops according to the gourd, and they are leading everyone to prepare the stones.

With one voice after another, "God helps!" Then came a dense and dull crash! Those tall and rugged trebuchets threw the stone projectiles out one by one with the force of pull. Dozens of black dots are drawn into the air and fall towards the song city!

Some of the pulling forces were not grasped well and fell on the wall. Smash a dent; Some are lucky enough to be in the middle of the watchtower.

For a time, the sound outside the city was like thunder, and the stones fell from the sky, and the city was turbulent. All of them are shocked!

There are also a few trebuchets with scattered bombs in their holsters, and although each stone is not large, it can throw out a dozen at once! Some of them were so strong that they flew over the city walls and straight into the city!

……

At this moment, Liu Xiang was driving a car from the east of Chaoge to the southwest corner, passing through the grain market on the way.

Although most of the old and weak women and children were driven north of Qishui to eat, there were still many people left in the city, and because the Zhao army had besieged the city for 20 days, there was no other food to enter the city, so the price of food was ten times higher than before the war, and it continued to rise. The wealthy have hoarded a lot of corn, and the poor have either wandered from the grain market to the grain market, contemplating stealing, or they have stood hopelessly under the city walls, shivering, waiting to be called up to the city to carry wood and bricks, and mix a mouthful of porridge.

Liu Xiang will not look at these people with pity, he is now difficult to protect himself, it is a big crime to lose the defeat of Muye, it is a big crime to lose Handan and Fan Erzhu in the army, if it is not for the lord to die in battle, he must have been held accountable and removed from his post now.

However, Uncle Zhongxing promised that if Liu Xiang kept the song this time, he would say something to Gaoyi, the new head of the Fan family, on his behalf, to avoid his guilt.

After passing the grain market, we arrived at the south gate, where the sound of hammers stirred in the early morning air, and a large number of Chaoge carpenters gathered here to add planks to the battlements, and it seemed that they were making good progress.

Liu Xiang couldn't wait to triple the height of the city wall and thicken it by three layers, so that he could safely defend it until after the autumn harvest, when the reinforcements from the north were coming, and Zhibo would definitely intervene, maybe the Qi people had already hit Qufu! Zhao Jun couldn't help but retreat.

However, at this moment, a loud noise and exclamations suddenly sounded outside the city and on the city walls.

"What's wrong?"

Liu Xiang raised his head in confusion, but saw more than ten black dots over the city wall, smashed down from mid-air, and landed in his convoy impartially!

Liu Xiang didn't have time to react, but his personal guards raised their shields, but it was useless. The power of these stone balls falling from the sky hitting the human body is by no means comparable to a few taels of bows and arrows, even if you just rub it, you will break bones and tendons!

In an instant, the crisp sound of the stones hitting the shield and the screams of the soldiers became one, and the chariot collapsed with a bang, and the horse fell to the ground on all four legs after being hit in the neck, spitting out blood foam and fragments of internal organs, wailing, and several people were smashed to the ground, either with their heads blooming or their hands and legs broken.

And Liu Xiang was even more miserable, a stone just smashed on his head, and with a pop he smashed his head wearing a bronze jacket and dented it, he fell into the car without saying a word, and when the guards rushed over after the turmoil was over, they found that Chao Ge Sima had burst out of his head, and the pink brain and blood flowed all over his face, and he was not alive......

……

"In fact, the probability of a trebuchet being able to kill a person is very low, it is not as good as a salvo of bows and arrows, but the psychological shock caused by it is incomparable to any weapon......"

Zhao Wuxian stood in front of the formation in high spirits, looking at the "thunderbolt car" that was just showing its edge, and couldn't help laughing. He didn't know that Chaoge Sima was so unlucky that he would die in such a small attack.

The public defeat squad suddenly realized: "It turns out that the general asked me to make those kites that look like ghosts and gods, and it is also to hit the morale of the enemy army, plus the trebuchets they have never seen before, the soldiers in the city may really think that it is the ghosts and gods who are helping the Zhao army." ”

"Yes, if it is a small town, it will not have to wait for the general attack of the besiegers, and after a long bombardment, it will surrender. As for a great city like Chaoge, we will not only destroy their gates, women's walls, and watchtowers, but also smash their determination to resist. In a few days, the city will lose the confidence to resist, and when the time comes, another fierce attack will have a chance to break the city! “

In the days that followed, Zhao Jun would bombard Chaoge with trebuchets every daytime, and 200 experienced craftsmen and 5,000 soldiers and laborers would operate 50 trebuchets in shifts, and more than 2,000 stone projectiles would be dropped into the city every day!

In order to ensure accuracy, the projectiles fired must have a relatively uniform shape and weight, so in the siege baggage team, the stonemasons became an important member. Not only do they have to chisel the stone, but they also have to choose the right stone.

The wooden city gate naturally became the preferred target, after forcing the archers on the city wall to dare not raise their heads with scattered bullets, the trebuchet could also advance to a close distance of more than 50 steps away and bombard the wooden gate with dozens of pounds of heavy bombs, although it took dozens of shots to prepare for one shot......

Even at night, "fire bombs" lit with sackcloth and grease wraps are fired! Even if the probability of hitting an important target with a projectile is small, such a long "barrage of fire" has a great impact on the morale of the city.

Because of Liu Xiang's accidental death, there was a big mistake in Chaoge's city defense, which could not be made up for even if Zhong Xingyin and Zhang Liushuo personally climbed to the head of the city to defend against the enemy.

The soldiers at the head of the city saw that they were bombarded with stone bullets every day, but their bows and arrows could not shoot the enemy because of the lack of distance, so they could only be beaten passively, and their morale dropped sharply. As you can imagine, the fear of a big rock hitting your head all the time.

Although the accuracy of the manpower pulling and projectile is not high, under the accumulation of numbers, the city head has become a serious disaster area, the wall is as if it has been bombarded by a meteor shower, but it has not collapsed due to its thickness, the female wall is also like the old man's broken teeth, the watchtower has destroyed two, and the houses near the city wall have collapsed countless times.

In this case, the 800 Baidi people first refused to go to the city and fought against the "Zhongshan God" they worshipped. There was even a rebellion that broke out, and after being pacified and slaughtered by Zhong Xingyin's troops, the guards themselves were also greatly injured.

As for the people who temporarily went to the city to fight, they trembled every time they reached the wall, and they were even afraid of incontinence, and they had completely lost the courage to resist the Zhao army.

In desperation, Zhongxingyin had to summon all the Fan retainers and Zhongxing military officials in Chaoge City to discuss countermeasures. (To be continued.) )