Chapter 47: The Power of Cannon Fodder
In the Xiaohuadao Military Town, Li Yuanru and the generals around him stood on the wall of the Tulou, and everyone looked at the opponent with high morale on the opposite side with solemn faces.
For their defenders, the biggest threat was standing three hundred meters away, the ten tall trebuchets that would attack at any time, and the huge stones of seventy or eighty pounds fell from the sky with inertia, which was definitely a huge damage to the walls of the tulou.
Fortunately, Tulou only has one main entrance, and the defensive pressure is not so great.
Reinforcements from Spindle Valley had arrived here the day before yesterday, and in addition to the Assault Camp and the Qingqi Battalion, there were also two hundred soldiers from the Destruction Battalion. What surprised Li Yuanru the most was that there were still Sang Nan and his three hundred young guards in the reinforcements.
There are not many reinforcements, because including Xiaohuadao, the Jin family's protector eight towns, Spindle Valley has to deal with four of them alone, and these soldiers are already all the strength that Spindle Valley can draw.
According to Gong Liangyu's inference and analysis, Xiaohuadao was captured prematurely, which disrupted the deployment of the Jin family, so the Jin family would inevitably send people to fight, so he ordered Wang Che to lead Gao Ran and Guo Yanchang to be stationed in the north of Xiaohuadao, and separately contain Jinxia Town in the west and Huizhou Town in the east, so that the other party did not dare to send troops to help easily.
After the Qingqi battalion arrived at Xiaohuadao, it needed to immediately divide 800 troops to the west, seize Songshanzhai, and form a trap against Jinxia Town in the west.
As for Sang Nan, firstly, he was excellent in force, and secondly, Gongliangyu thought that he also had the potential to be a tactical commander, so he sent him here to command.
In this regard, Sang Nan has no opinion, in extraordinary times, survival is important, as long as he can defeat the opponent, even if Gong Liangyu asks him to drill drainage pipes like Ji Poyu, he will also drill.
As a result, the strength of Spindle Valley can only be said to be barely enough, and now only the Mei Storm father and daughter, three hundred young guards, and the last five hundred horse thief captives in the training camp are left in the valley.
Huang Puyu came this time, not only brought 2,000 Huangjiawei, but also mobilized the troops of seven small villages around Xiaohuadao, a total of 5,500 people.
As a division commander of Huangjiawei, he is very familiar with the distribution of forces in the eight towns of the Protector Army, in addition to the bow battalion in Qingshi Village has been wiped out by the other party, there is still a cavalry battalion, an archery battalion, two spear battalions, two crossbow battalions and a swordsman battalion in the remaining seven villages. These soldiers will carry out daily training every day, although the strength is not as strong as that of the Yellow Guard, but when mixed together, it is enough to contain each other, and it is just right to come in handy for the current situation.
The other party's door was closed at this time, and he put on a posture of strict defense, the purpose was to delay time, but this did not play any role for Huang Puyu at all.
Since you refuse to come out, I will fight you until you come out.
A mocking smile appeared on Huang Puyu's face.
He knew that the old man Jin Beisi's idea of Xiaohuadao was bound to win, so when he came out, he specially mobilized ten medium-sized counterweight trebuchets from Jinxia Town, which was close to Xiaohuadao, to enhance the ability to siege the city, this kind of trebuchet only needs six people to complete the attack, and the accuracy is not bad, although it can only project stones below sixty catties from three hundred meters away, but it is enough to threaten the kind of tulou in front of him.
When he came yesterday, he didn't let people attack the city directly, but waited until it was dark and night, and then ordered the soldiers to assemble and ergo the trebuchet on the opposite side of the tulou overnight, and then arranged heavy guards, and when Sang Nan, Li Yuanru and others woke up from their dreams, they found that overnight, there were ten more big guys on the opposite side of the tulou!
Huang Puyu decided to take down Xiaohuadao today. He looked at the sun that wasn't too high, and planned to attack while the weather was cool.
Suddenly, the sound of the bowstring trembling came from the castle tower opposite.
Whoosh!
More than a hundred crossbow arrows flew through the sky in a sparse manner, and flew towards the Jin family camp in a high parabola.
Collapse! Collapse! Collapse!
However, most of these crossbow arrows were extremely accurate, and most of them missed the target, only three of them hit the wooden frame of the trebuchet, and one actually hit the wooden platform used for the herald!
Hahaha!
There was a burst of laughter in the Jin Jia camp, and even Huang Puyu himself didn't feel a little embarrassed.
"What is the other party doing?"
"Do you want to rely on this kind of attack to stop yourself?"
It's like a kid punching and kicking a tall man, can it be useful?
"Spindle Valley's combat power doesn't seem to be as powerful as the legend?"
"Are they going to use some cannon fodder to drag themselves down?"
After a little contemplation, Huang Puyu became alert, and he turned his head to the flag officer and said, "Beat the flag, order the trebuchet to start attacking!" ”
Zhangqi took out the red and blue flags from his back, ran to the middle of the wooden platform for the herald, and kicked away the crossbow arrow inserted in the wooden platform.
There are also two large drums and two horns standing under the wooden platform.
Holding a small flag in each hand, he took a specific posture and repeated it three times, and then he heard the sound of the drum under the wooden platform.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! The drum beat is kept at a constant speed, neither fast nor slow.
After the drum sounded four times, the high-pitched and long trumpet began to blow.
Whining!!
Often, experienced veterans are familiar with the meaning of pre-battle drum and horn combinations, such as attacking, waiting, canceling an attack, and so on. However, they do not know much about the flag language, so it is particularly important for the generals who are proficient in the flag language, otherwise it is a very unreliable thing to command the scale of more than 10,000 people and rely on the roar of the generals.
Hearing the sound of drums and trumpets and seeing the flags on the wooden platform, the general in charge of operating the trebuchet began to give orders.
The trebuchet unit is a very unpopular combat unit, it is very powerful, it can play an amazing role in the siege, but it has very strict requirements for the operator, because every time the trebuchet attacks, it takes a long time to prepare, if there is an operation error, it is likely to delay the fighter, so the trebuchet unit, whether it is a soldier or a general, must go through strict training, proficient in the complete operation standard from assembly, ranging, aiming to launch.
Hearing the general's order, the six soldiers of the trebuchet unit began to reload with skill, first using a winch to pull up the weight, then placing the boulder into the net, and then using a sliding hook to secure the trebuchet's pole arm.
At the same time, on the city wall of Tulou, there was a long bull-headed crossbow, and in the wave of attacks just now, except for the ten crossbow arrows, the rest were deliberately shot high and missed, so as to hide people's eyes and ears.
"You guys tell the others about the data! Remember, only attack the opposing standard-bearers and trebuchet troops! Did you hear me clearly? Sang Nan said loudly as he stood among the soldiers of the Destroyer Battalion.
Be! Two hundred soldiers replied in unison. The original "No. 1 soldier" was also among them, and because of his excellent shooting talent, he had been promoted by Qiu Ye to serve as a captain.
After a lot of training, these soldiers are extremely quick to move, and quickly adjust the distance and angle of shooting, the wind on the wall is very strong, so they use special crossbow arrows, the arrow is triangular, the tail of the triangular tail is slightly retracted, the streamline is also very beautiful, can effectively reduce the wind resistance, and the arrow shaft also uses new wood.
In order to distinguish it from other arrows, the soldiers called this type of arrow the number seven arrow.
"Reloaded!" The soldiers of the trebuchet unit shouted loudly and stood in place, and as soon as the commander gave the order to fire, they would pull the hook, and then the heavy object would fall quickly, driving the pole arm to throw the boulder.
Suddenly, there was another tremor of bowstrings from the opposite wall, only this time it sounded a little different from just now.
Buzz!
A full hundred No. 7 arrows brushed off the strings in unison, making a terrifying roar, like a hundred straight bolts of lightning, piercing the sky, and striking at the moment.
Fooled! Huang Puyu's gaze froze suddenly, and then he shouted loudly:
Watch defensive!
He started with the stone turtle and rushed forward!
Swish! The yellow armor guards the heavy shield swings sideways, protecting the whole body!
Burst! Burst! Burst! The crossbow bolt carried a huge force, penetrated through the body, and in front of the trebuchet, a large corpse suddenly fell.
Immediately after, there was a plop on the wooden platform.
Hold the flag and die! (To be continued.) )