Chapter 257: Boulders are like rain

At this moment, the strong crossbow rests on the shelf, and the strong crossbowman reclines on the long table, one on each side, and the two of them use four feet to kick the crossbow arms, and the four hands pull up the crossbow string and stretch it on the back groove of the crossbow. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

After hearing Song Qi's order, they pulled down the trigger of the crossbow string with all their might.

"Pap~Pap~Pap~"

Dozens of crossbow arrows flew diagonally, whistling over the battlements of the city wall, drawing a graceful arc in the air, and after flying to the highest point, the arrows turned to the front of the enemy's formation and shot down.

"Puff~Puff~" The crossbow arrows fell almost two hundred paces away from the opponent's ballista, and one by one they were stuck diagonally on the ground.

Although the grade is a little worse, he can shoot up to 600 steps horizontally, and he has a condescending advantage from the city wall, and he can shoot 700 steps, at least he can suppress the enemy, so that he will not get too close to the city wall.

"Haha, you can only shoot so little! You'd better save it. A burst of laughter erupted from the enemy line.

The enemy moved the crossbow forward by more than a hundred and fifty paces, because they needed to shoot from their backs and need to be closer to each other in order to be powerful.

Song Qi saw the enemy's ballista move to the place close to the landing of the crossbow arrows on the city tower, and ordered the crossbowmen: "Adjust the angle of the crossbow arrows... Put! ”

"Pap~Pap~Pap~"

Another batch of more numerous bolts soared into the sky, soaring higher into the air, arcing more gracefully, and when they reached the highest point, the arrows suddenly turned around and poured down like rain.

The soldiers in charge of the crossbow cart on the other side were still contemptuous at first, but at this moment, when they saw the crossbow bolts piercing their heads, they panicked and abandoned the cart and fled backwards with a scream.

"Bang~Bang~Poof~Poof~"

After the bolts landed, they were shot at the ballista, at the soldiers, and on the ground.

"Oops~" "Oh my mom! "Run!"

The crossbow bolts pierced the bodies of the soldiers on the ground, and the blood gushed out like a fountain, like a string of bloody kebabs in a barbecue shop, stuck diagonally on the slope.

The soldiers, who had not been hit by the arrows, were so frightened that they ran a hundred and ten paces backwards with a rolling belt, and ran close to the stone-throwing carts before they stopped their steps and threw the hundred and ten ballistas in the center of the position, and no one dared to approach.

"Haha! You also have today! The soldiers at the head of the city high-fived each other and laughed happily.

When they shot a batch of arrows just now, Song Qi asked them to deliberately shoot the distance close to confuse the enemy, but they didn't expect the enemy to really fall into their range and automatically walked into their range.

They looked at the unguarded ballista under the city with raised eyebrows, and the joy in their hearts really did not need to be mentioned.

Since the defeat of Liuyun County, they have not been so arrogant.

When he saw that a third of his ballista soldiers had been hit by arrows, and that the hundred and ten ballistae had become empty and unattended, he was so angry that his face turned yellow and he screamed.

Isn't the range of a strong crossbow six hundred paces, how can it be shot so far?

Chu Erji raised his head and squinted at the city wall towering halfway up the mountainside, and then glanced around the battlefield.

The place where they stood was a slope, which was wide and gentle and imperceptible, but which led to the heel of the wall by at least thirty or forty paces.

That's when he discovered the mystery of the matter.

The crossbow can shoot 600 paces when firing horizontally, but when shot down from the top of the city, it can shoot up to 700 paces, and with the drop of the hillside, it can shoot almost 800 paces.

His gaze fell on the first arrows that had been shot down from the city, and they were lined up in the center of the position, like cut leeks, straight and even, like a wall cut by arrows in the middle of the position.

The distance between the arrows and the wall was six hundred paces.

Hmph, Chu Erji understands, this Song Qi is playing tricks with him!

He was too carried away just now, so he didn't notice the difference in terrain and suffered such a dumb loss.

In fact, he could directly start a powerful catapult with a long range to attack the city, and then such a big loss would not have occurred.

Because he came with victory, he was arrogant and wanted to play like a cat and a mouse. I didn't expect to play this game, and I suffered a loss.

In the battle under the city of Liuyun County a few days ago, he annihilated more than 10,000 soldiers of Song Qi, and his own side lost no more than thirty soldiers. As soon as we clashed today, we lost forty or fifty ballista soldiers on our side, which was a great shame!

After analyzing the cause and effect, Chu Erji regretted it in his heart, but naturally he would not reveal it in front of the soldiers, let alone show it in front of Song Qi. He raised his head and shouted to the city, his voice was loud and could be clearly transmitted to the city: "Song Qi! Do you think you can stop me from attacking the city with such a small trick? ”

"Chuerji, you can use any trick! We wait! Song Qi responded loudly in a hoarse voice in the city.

Chu Erji looked back at the majestic stone throwing cart, and his face returned to a smug and arrogant look.

At this moment, 300 stone-throwing carts were divided into several rows and erected neatly at a distance of 900 paces from the city wall, like harvesting carts, waiting to harvest the fruits of victory.

Chull threw the three sticks into the air, and the three sticks collided with each other with a crisp and agitated sound.

"Stone-throwing truck ready!"

The soldier in charge of the tube switch pulled the switch on the left side of the shelf, "crunched", the wheels turned, the rope loosened, and the iron rod, which was erected high in the air, slowly fell backwards and then leaned against the ground.

"Loading stones!" Chu Erji ordered loudly again.

In fact, these steps can be done secretly in front, and the reason why he chose to do it openly is to shock the enemy's mind with this decomposed action.

The purpose of the Chur machine has indeed been achieved.

Song Qi saw the stone-throwing cart turning, and knew that the next bloody battle was inevitable, so he hurriedly ordered: "Everyone find a place to avoid!" ”

Everyone went their separate ways, hiding behind the battlements or cowering at the foot of the wall.

"Put!" In the distance, the chull machine waved a three-section stick.

"Huh~Huh~" Huge stones shot into the air like fireworks, dragging the trails left by the white streaks across the air in the air, like countless comets, cutting through the sky, and then like a dense meteorite rain, they passed over Song Qi's heads and poured down into the city.

"Bang~Bang~"Click~"Boom~"Boom~"Boom~"

All sorts of strange and terrifying voices came and went behind them.

It seems that stones have been smashed on the rooftops and streets of the city.

"Haha, this stone can't hit us here!" Some of the soldiers in the city began to rejoice. "After all, the stone throwing truck is not a ballista, so it can't be so accurate!"

Song Qi walked to the inner side of the city wall and raised his eyes to inspect the direction of the city.

I saw that countless houses in the city were smashed by stones, and some houses were smashed and collapsed, and the bricks and tiles rolled down, and the air was filled with a gray-white dust mixed with debris and rubble. (To be continued.) )