Chapter 23: The Chariot of Blood and Fire (2)

Due to the restrictions of the terrain, Zhang Chu could only choose the frontal attack of Zhuangbao, the rhythmic drum sounded, the soldiers stepped on the drum and marched towards the wall of Zhuangzi, the front row of five huge shield carts close together, under the push of the soldiers, moving forward with difficulty, trying to shield the soldiers behind from more coming arrow rain. Behind was a row of sword and shield men holding their shields aloft, and various siege equipment followed the line. Gradually, the beat of the drums increased, and the speed of the whole team increased.

When the shield cart was about to enter the range of the bow and arrows, the sound of bowstrings suddenly sounded on the wall of Zhuangzi, and five spear-like crossbow arrows flew down from the village wall, and flew accurately to the team of the security team, three of which were heavily inserted into the shield cart in front, and the shield cart was driven to shake violently, almost overturned, and the other two passed through the gap in the shield cart and shot on the shield of the knife player behind, the shield was immediately shattered, and the crossbow arrows passed through the shield and its momentum was unabated. Nailed a security guard in the back directly to the ground.

The rapid horn sounded, and the attacking team of the security team retreated as quickly as the ebbing tide, but the shield cart was thrown in place.

Zhuang Wallzhi Zhou Lian Ming was scolding the family who operated the bed: "A group of stupid things, what are you afraid of, what are you anxious about, when the thieves get a little closer, you can shoot the shield car over at once, what is the use of just plugging it on it now!" What are you doing in a daze, quickly wind up and shoot again to knock down the shield cart. ”

Although he was scolding, Zhou Lianming's heart was still very happy, the thief's courage was too small, and a group of rabble came, five crossbow arrows flew over and threw down the shield cart and fled, as long as the thief caused more casualties next time, the thief would run away, and it was another boring battle.

The bed was wound, and Zhou Lianming ordered five crossbow arrows to attack the shield car, and the stationary shield car was a good target, and the crossbow arrows were accurately pierced on the shield car. But the shield car didn't even shake this time, and Zhou Lianming was very strange to see it. When you look closely, you can vaguely see that someone is building an earthen wall behind the shield cart with a cloth bag full of dirt, reinforcing the shield cart. At this time, those people were still using cloth bags to raise the earthen wall behind the shield cart, it turned out that when the thieves attacked, there was a special group of people behind them carrying cloth bags filled with soil, but when the others retreated, those people came up and threw the cloth bags to the back of the shield cart, not only did not escape, but also built the earthen wall with cloth bags. However, Zhou Lianming still couldn't help but secretly curse in his heart that the thieves were all pig brains, and the shield cart was fixed outside the range of the bow and arrow, although it would not be overturned by the bed shot, but it could not move forward and had completely lost its effect. Although the shield car was useless, Zhou Lianming didn't want the thief to have a good time, he immediately ordered the family to wrap the fire-igniting thing around the crossbow arrows on the bed, and then dipped it in oil and ignited the fire, and as the bowstring sounded, five huge torches flew out, and then stuck on the shield car, and the fire quickly burned. The villagers on the village wall couldn't help but shout loudly.

The thieves' reaction was even more swift, and some thieves climbed the earthen wall with animal skin bags, opened the bags and poured saliva from the top of the shield cart, and the fire was extinguished.

"Hurry up, keep shooting, I'm going to see how much water you have prepared." Zhou Lianming ordered loudly.

But the next action of the security team made Zhou Lianming hesitate, and he didn't know whether to continue to shoot the shield car with the bed.

After being drenched, a member of the security team threw a wet quilt soaked in water from the roof of the shield car, and the quilt was spread on the shield car as if it was going to be dried. Even if a crossbow bolt is shot at it, it will not necessarily ignite the shield cart.

There must be some conspiracy for the security team to do this, Zhou Lianming hurriedly ordered Zhuang Ding to carefully observe what the security team was doing behind the shield car, the security team would never have to dry the quilt here with such great effort. Sure enough, the sharp-eyed Zhuang Ding saw that the people of the security team were digging behind the shield car. Everyone looked carefully, and sure enough, they saw that the thieves had piled up the excavated soil backwards, and a dirt slope had been piled up. Zhou Lianming was relieved when he saw this, it seems that the thieves want to dig a tunnel from there to enter the village, but the thieves don't know that the land here is mixed with a large number of rocks, and the thieves dig the tunnel without knowing when they will dig to the bottom of the village wall, and there is also the blocking of the moat, digging the tunnel will not succeed at all, and then they will either be stoned to death by the collapsed tunnel or drowned by the water of the moat.

Zhou Lianming didn't be happy for long, suddenly there was a gap between the shield cars, and then there was a loud bang, a black iron ball flew towards Zhuangzi, obviously this time it was not accurate, the iron ball flew over the village wall and flew to the village, smashing a big hole in the roof of a private house and penetrating it, followed by three loud bangs, three iron balls of different sizes flew towards the wall of Zhuangzi. At the same time, the long arms on the three wooden shelves that had just been assembled behind the shield cart flicked three larger swarthy east-west and flew towards the village wall.

The thieves had cannons and trebuchets, and there was a great chaos on the village wall, and the villagers ran under the wall. Three shells hit the village wall, and the stone wall was hit by stone chips, and several villagers were injured and fell to the ground on the spot, letting out a cry of pain. And the cannonball bounced up again, jumping around, causing greater damage, a cannonball hit a Zhuang Ding's chest, Zhuang Ding's chest immediately appeared a big hole, Zhuang Ding looked down at the big hole and raised his hand to block it, but his eyes have lost their brilliance, the whole person languished to the ground, the cannonball with the blood and internal organs of this Zhuang Ding, and hit a Zhuang Ding's arm, breaking his arm before flying down the Zhuang wall. However, the three black dots thrown by the three trebuchets flew into the village, and the place where they fell immediately burst into flames.

Zhou Lianming was also shocked, but he quickly calmed down, ordered his henchman Zhuang Ding to drive the fleeing Zhuang people back to the village wall with a knife, and then ordered the people in the village to use sand to extinguish the fire, because he knew that this kind of thing was generally made of various oils as combustibles. Therefore, the sand and soil for extinguishing the fire have already been prepared in the Zhuangzi. There must be time for the artillery and trebuchets to be reloaded, and the thieves may use this time to attack.

The first attack of the security team outside the village wall retreated before it entered the range of the bow and arrow, not only lost the shield car, but also dozens of team members were thrown behind the shield car, where they neither attacked nor retreated, I don't know what they were busy with, especially two team members were shot to death by the bed, I have never seen such a battle, and the morale of the entire security team is very low. It wasn't until the sound of artillery that I realized that the attack just now was not in vain, everything was planned, and morale rose all at once.

The team was regrouped again, and the commander shouted loudly, telling each member of the team to clarify their mission, and another round of attacks was about to begin.