Chapter 221: Defeat is like a mountain

The siege infantry is no longer much of a threat, it really can't be used, and the thunderbolt is used as a grenade. It's just that the timing of this deflagration must be mastered.

"Zhao Yi, you go and give an order, order all the trebuchets to concentrate on those siege trucks, and arrange people to point out the direction of the catapults in the city and throw thunderbolts at will."

After all, trebuchets are not cannons, let alone missiles, and it is impossible to point where to fight, not to mention that those who operate trebuchets are novices, without any professional training, nor do they have any measuring tools, so they can only rely on luck.

Fortunately, the body plate of the siege tower is big enough, and the target is big enough, and the blind cat can always catch a few dead mice, right?

After saying this, Jia Yidao beckoned Zhao Yi to come closer, and whispered: "You go and lead the forbidden army in the inner hall to test the lead of the thunderbolt, and you must test it clearly. Then he ordered the craftsmen of the Ordnance Supervisor to make thunderbolts according to that standard, and if there were any more thunderbolts that exploded in advance, the official would also kill people! After the test is written, you have the Forbidden Army enter the three walls with thunderbolts, wait until the Mongol soldiers get close to the walls, and then directly ignite the thunderbolts and throw them under the walls. ”

Just now, a few thunderbolts exploded in advance when they crossed the city, and the Song army suffered a lot of casualties, but fortunately, there were only a few, if there were more, I am afraid that the Mongols would have no morale, and the infantry of the Jinghu army defending the city would almost lose their morale.

Zhao Yi turned around and hurried away.

"Like, can you still throw the thunderbolt by hand? No...... Hurt your own people, right? Meng Hui naturally heard Jia Yidao's order, and he also saw the thunderbolts that exploded in the city before, so after thinking about it, he still asked with some worry.

"Alas, Meng Shuai, if the mouth temperature doesn't take half a day, and a few more hours, I can make this thunderbolt more perfect, but unfortunately the mouth temperature doesn't take so much time at all, and now ...... It's really a helpless move! ”

Jia Rudao was also very depressed, he was worried that he would not be able to use them for the Jinghu Army to take advantage of the time, if he threw it in advance, it would be good if he smashed it and not exploded, once the time was not grasped well, the time in his hand was too long, and it would be a big deal to explode directly in his hand. It's better to say that if he just hurts himself, what he is most worried about is that the Jinghu Army will be afraid of the thunderbolt in his heart, and he will not dare to use it in the future, which is a big trouble.

Therefore, he had no choice but to let the two thousand forbidden soldiers who followed him use this thunderbolt. First of all, there are few forbidden soldiers, and secondly, Zhao Yi has always been by his side, and he still has some experience with thunderbolts.

Meng Hui was silent when he heard Jia Yidao's words. He naturally knew that what he said was the truth, and compared with the damage caused by the thunderbolts to the Mongols, the casualties caused by the many thunderbolts that exploded in advance to the Jinghu Army were really nothing. Compared to defending Xiangyang City, it is even less important.

The battlefield was meant to be dead, and Meng Heng understood it better than anyone else.

Soon the direction of the thunderbolts thrown by the catapults in the city began to change, and they fell one after another around the giant siege tower carts that were less than three hundred steps away from the city wall, and the people and archers pushing the tower carts were caught off guard, and immediately lay down, especially the people who pushed the tower carts, all of them were frightened and ran around, and more than 20 siege tower carts suddenly stopped.

The archers who supervised the battle behind were also stunned by the thunderbolts that suddenly fell overhead and in the crowd, and they couldn't even care about where they could still go up and kill the fleeing people, and the rear of the Mongol army was suddenly in chaos.

"Poof! Poof! Poof! ……”

Hundreds of feathered arrows struck from the rear of the Mongol army, piercing the thin bodies of the fleeing men and crucifying them in place.

The piercing screams and the bright red blood suddenly brought the stunned archers back to their senses, and reflexively raised the bows and arrows in their hands and shot at the people who were still running.

The Mongolian infantry soldiers who were besieging the city suddenly fell into a bloody storm.

Jia Rudao, who had been observing the results of the thunderbolt battle with a telescope on the upper floor of Nancheng, saw the Mongolian cavalry slaughtering those scattered and fleeing people, silently put down the telescope in his hand, and was silent.

When ordering the catapults in the city to destroy the siege towers, he hypnotized himself and selectively ignored the people pushing the siege towers, telling himself that this was on the battlefield, and if the siege towers were allowed to come closer, these people would also die, and at the same time take the lives of more defenders.

But when he really saw the tragic situation of those people who were slaughtered by the Mongolian cavalry, Jia Rudao realized that there were some things that he could not really turn a blind to.

"Zhao Yi, give the order, concentrate on it, concentrate all the catapults, two hundred paces range, and destroy all the siege towers!"

Jia Rudao knew that this was not the time for him to be soft-hearted, and shouted in a deep voice.

On the top of the city, the red flag waved, and soon the dense thunderbolts smashed towards the stagnant siege towers.

"Boom!"

Soon, the hard work paid off, a thunderbolt smashed on the siege tower car, sawdust scattered, the upper half of the siege tower car was blown up, countless miserable howls, bloody corpses burst out from the tower car, and the explosion of the iron that flew everywhere will be the thick cowhide covered by the siege tower car instantly tore to pieces.

The siege tower cart that fell down in the upper half fell to the ground, smashing more than a dozen people who couldn't dodge into pulp.

Seeing the Song soldiers who had finally destroyed a behemoth, the soldiers watching the battle on the city wall all cheered in unison.

Jia Rudao and Meng Heng also had a relaxed smile on their faces.

Not long after the cheering of the southern city wall stopped, cheers were also heard from the east and west walls, and it was clear that both sides had also won at the same time.

The thunderbolts in the city smashed towards the siege tower vehicles one by one in an orderly manner, and the siege tower vehicles were destroyed by the thunderbolts one after another. Every cheer on the walls brought the Mongol foot to a halt, and everyone feared that the terrible smoke-emitting thing would fall on their heads. Thinking that the huge and solid siege towers were easily destroyed like papier-mΓ’chΓ©, what were their flesh and blood?

Soon, the only two or three siege tower carts left under the southern city wall turned around and began to retreat towards the rear of the formation. There is no need to ask, Jia Rudao also knew that it was a warm mouth and did not spend money to order those siege tower cars to go back.

Anyone can see the situation on this battlefield clearly, and with the slow speed of the siege tower cart, it is impossible to get under the city wall at all, and it will be completely destroyed. These nearly 80 siege tower vehicles, but the mouth temperature does not cost more than 20 days of inventory in the camp, and each one requires a lot of manpower to build. If all of them are destroyed, then the efforts of the previous twenty days will be in vain.

The siege tower retreated, and the Mongolian cavalry slowly approaching behind the formation shot thousands of scattered deserters in a row, and the Mongolian foot soldiers, who had lost half of their morale, finally arrived at the city of Xiangyang.

For a while, the feather arrows rained down, desperately throwing towards the city, but the Mongolian infantry who no longer had much morale did not have much thought on the bow and arrow at the moment, and the soft feather arrows could not cause any damage to the Song soldiers on the high city head, and even many of the feather arrows fell on their own heads, killing their own people.

The thunderbolts inside the city were still falling in an orderly manner towards the siege soldiers outside the city.

Seeing this, Jia Rudao had to admire the warmth of the mouth, the wisest choice at this time was to withdraw from the army, but the temperature of the mouth was not spent but he used his long-term prestige to suppress these soldiers who had lost half of their morale and still came to attack the city, which shows that the fierce power of the Mongolian people remains.

However, Jia Rudao wished that Kouwen would not spend money on it, in this case, relying on thunderbolts, he would be able to kill and injure a large number of Mongolian foot soldiers, and completely let Kouwen not spend money on his extravagant hope of occupying Xiangyang City.

Looking at the ladders that set up the city wall one by one, and looking at the Mongolian foot soldiers who were desperately climbing up like ants wielding knives and guns under the city wall, Jia Rudao slowly withdrew his eyes, put the telescope on his eyes, and looked at the tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry who were in the rear of the formation.

The Mongolian infantry who attacked the city no longer had much morale, and at the moment it was just because the advance was death, the retreat was also death, and a little bit of luck was supporting them, after all, under the city wall, the thunderbolts did not fall again, and it was possible to predict what the consequences would be when the forbidden soldiers armed with the thunderbolts threw the thunderbolts on their heads, not to mention, even if there were no thunderbolts, only relying on the gold water, rolling stones and wooden weapons stored on the city walls, It was enough to deal with the siege soldiers, who had lost much morale.

Jia Yidao's target was only the tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry who were looking down, which was his main goal.

I don't know when the thunderbolts in the city have stopped throwing under Jia Yidao's order, and the earth-shattering shouts of killing sounded up and down the walls of Xiangyang City at the same time.

After seeing that the battlefield was finally gone, a few smiles finally appeared on the old face that had been tense.

Meng Hui is really a trapped beast, bluffing. With such a powerful firearm, how could the Song army have a large amount of equipment, if so, I am afraid that it would have been used more than ten days ago.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ……”

The continuous earth-shattering roar made the smile on the face of the mouth warm and flowery instantly solidify!

It can be seen with the naked eye that the green smoke of things is constantly thrown from the head of Xiangyang City, and then it falls into the dense crowd of siege soldiers, setting off a mass of flesh and blood and stump arms.

The sudden blow made all the Mongol foot soldiers who thought that they had finally come out of the nightmare and victory was in sight, and fell into the abyss again. Under the various city walls, there was chaos in an instant.

Finally, someone couldn't stand the horror in his heart and began to scream miserably, turning around and fleeing!

With the first one there will be the second!

In just a few moments, the Mongol foot soldiers who had managed to reach the city wall from the south, east, and north had already scattered and fled in all directions.

There is nothing more than this!