Chapter 461 Ancient Version of Chemical Weapons

After such exchanges, the Baipu coalition army and the Han army also reached an agreement. After a day and a night's rest, that is, on the second day of arriving in Zaiying, Yang Zilu and Baipu's allied forces concentrated in the north, preparing to launch an attack.

And the other three sides, Yang Zilu is not unprepared, first of all, the five thousand light cavalry on the land are ready to go, even if the Chu army can escape the pursuit of the light cavalry, it will be broken. fled to another city, and could not escape destruction. And the canal leading to the Han River in Zaiying, Yang Zilu also asked the soldiers to insert hidden piles in the water, and the boats walking here would only be cut through the bottom of the boat by the hidden piles, and finally sunk by the river water.

The Han army's move can be described as loose on the outside and tight on the inside, it is good that the Chu army does not escape, once they escape, they will only die faster, and it will not be better than defending Zaiying. But I don't know if it was because he saw through Yang Zilu's intentions, or because King Chu Hui did not inherit his runaway father's runaway bloodline, Chu Jun chose to defend Zaiying, and there was no intention of taking the opportunity to escape, of course, it means now, and I don't know in the future.

Although the Chu army did not hit the plan, it was necessary to storm Zaiying. There was a lot of trouble, but Yang Zilu didn't care too much, in fact, Yang Zilu couldn't afford to care. It's not like that, the battlefield is the place where the most unsatisfactory things happen in life. If Yang Zilu cares about things that don't go well, Yang Zilu is afraid that she will be depressed to death.

…… Zaiying North City Wall ......

"Set up the thunderbolt cannon" Yang Zilu sat on the nest car (the military vehicle used for command) and calmly commanded.

Twenty Thunderbolt trebuchets were immediately pulled onto the battlefield, revealing their formidable presence in the morning fog that had not yet melted. Because it has already been assembled, all that needs to be done is to fix the trebuchet on the battlefield, and this fixing process does not consume many times. About a quarter of an hour later, thunderbolts like little giants stood outside the city.

Seeing the huge thunderbolt cannon, the soldiers on the city wall couldn't help but gasp. Although they didn't know what these thunderbolts were up to, it didn't stop them from instinctively being terrified of huge objects. It is also said that each thunderbolt, plus their cannon tips, is four feet high, that is, more than eight meters high.

The height of Zaiying's city wall is only more than three feet and eight feet high, which means that the thunderbolt cannon is even higher than Zaiying's city wall. With such a high scale, the use of thunderbolts is no longer purely manpower, and has been used to operate with brutes. Under each thunderbolt, there are four sturdy ploughing oxen. Driven by the soldiers, the ploughing ox pulled the winch, and one of the thunderbolts slowly lowered his huge 'body' (cannon tip), and an irregular boulder half a man high was lifted by two strong soldiers with blushing faces and lowered into a bamboo basket at one end of the cannon tip.

After a period of adjustment, the "put" was accompanied by a high-pitched roar and waving red flags, and the thunderbolt let out a sharp whistling sound. The tip of the cannon is like the arm of a giant, using the strength of the whole body, swinging it vigorously, giving the soldiers who witnessed the thunderbolt for the first time, an indescribable shocking feeling. Even if there is a rope to fix, the huge force still makes the thunderbolt bounce slightly in place, and you can imagine how powerful it is.

"Ah, what kind of monster is this?"

"Oh my God, how did he throw such a big boulder so far?"

"Is it a god? If it's a demon? ”

In addition to the soldiers of the Han army, whether it was the soldiers of the Chu army at the head of the city or the soldiers of the Baipu coalition army, there were many discussions, and many people were shocked, their minds were chaotic, and they didn't know what to say at all. But no matter what the idea is, whether it is the Baipu Coalition Army or the Chu Army, at this moment they all have a little awe of the Han Army, but this awe is only the beginning.

This time I was lucky, usually only three or four of the ten bullets hit, but this time it got off to a good start. The boulder hit the battlement of the city wall, and the thick battlement was under the boulder at the moment, but it was like paper paste, and it shattered in an instant. The soldiers of the Chu army behind the battlement fled in all directions, and those who couldn't dodge were directly crushed into meat sauce by the boulder.

The boulder slammed into the city wall, and the boulder bounced down into the moat, immediately stirring up a column of water more than four feet high.

After the water column, I saw that a gap about one zhang wide was revealed on the city wall, and in Yang Zilu's position almost level with the city wall, the walkway on the city wall could be clearly seen from the gap.

When King Chu Hui, who was sitting on the city wall, saw this, his face changed greatly. Xu Cheng lost his voice and said: "This should be the thunderbolt of the Han barbarians"

"Thunderbolts? Then why did you ask you before, but you said you didn't know? Zuo Yin Zining frowned, and scolded Xu Cheng with some dissatisfaction.

Xu Cheng smiled bitterly: "It's not that the last general deliberately concealed it, but the last general had only heard of it before, and today I saw the thunderbolt for the first time." It was only after seeing the operation just now that I knew. In the country of Wu, this thunderbolt is like a giant, which can throw hundreds of catties or even thousands of catties of boulders to attack the city wall. That's when I remembered."

Zi Ning's face immediately changed greatly, and he persuaded King Chu Hui: "If it is so powerful, then it is too dangerous here now, please return to the palace and sit in the palace quickly."

King Chu Hui was also frightened by the power of the thunderbolt, if that boulder fell in his position, no matter how many soldiers in front of him were guarding with tower shields, in the end it would only add a few more people to crush into meat sauce. Even if you hide in the house, you are afraid that the house will collapse and be buried alive inside. King Chu Hui couldn't care about the loss of face, and when he heard Zi Ning's words, he immediately nodded and said, "Oh good, come and prepare the carriage, the widow will leave first, and everything here will be handed over to Zuo Yin."

Zining nodded and said, "King, please rest assured"

As soon as Zining's words fell, the city wall trembled.

Xu Cheng, who was paying attention to the battlefield, knew what was going on, and said in horror: "The king is leaving, before the Han barbarians tested the range, and now the Han barbarians are attacking together with twenty thunderbolts." If the king doesn't leave, I'm afraid there is a danger of being hit."

When King Chu Hui heard this, his heart trembled, and he also reacted at this time, the reason why the city wall trembled was because it was smashed by a boulder. He forgot all the royal etiquette and hurried towards the stairs. Xu Cheng was also scared and followed King Chu Hui away.

Although Zining is also afraid, he is the son of Zixi in the end, although he is afraid, he can suppress the fear in his heart, and calmly command the soldiers to avoid the attack of the boulder.

In the attack, it was not exactly a boulder. There are also some man-high mud bombs. These mud bombs are different from ordinary mud bombs, which are made into a large bamboo basket and smeared with a layer of earth on the outside of the bamboo basket. Then put it in the oven and bake it until the surface is firm. smashed on the city wall, and immediately fragments flew sideways, which was the ancient version of the flowering bullet.

Flowering shells are not counted, after a few rounds of projectiles. Yang Zilu ordered the use of the ancient version of chemical weapons, and this ancient version of chemical weapons is also simple. In a low-quality ceramic filled with quicklime, supplemented by some pungent cheap herbs.

Thrown by a trebuchet, the ceramics fell on the city wall and immediately cracked, and even some were too inferior, and when they arrived near the city wall, the ceramics had not yet been cracked. After the quicklime landed, it naturally rose or scattered, and now the north wind blows, the quicklime is coming, and its power has been maximized.

Quicklime will emit a lot of heat when it comes into contact with water, and the skin will be slightly burned. The most important thing is that the human eye contains a lot of water, and opening the eyes is likely to lead to permanent blindness, and even if the eyes are closed, it is impossible to open the eyes again in a short time.

Although the Chu army was very miserable, Yang Zilu was no better, watching the lime bullets shoot out, the flesh hurt even in the ancient era when productivity was relatively low, the price of quicklime was not expensive, but it could not stand the large quantity. However, thinking that he was about to be able to attack Ying, Yang Zilu's heart felt a little better.

"Woo woo" At this time, in the Baipu coalition army, the horn sounded loudly. Thousands of Pu coalition soldiers carried a bag of dirt on their backs and marched forward quickly.

"Release arrows and release arrows" Zining was well protected, so he was not blindfolded by quicklime, and after seeing the Baipu coalition army, he was in a hurry.

But now it is useless to hurry, not all the soldiers on the city walls have been hit by quicklime, but there are very few archers without quicklime. Everyone knows that there is a moat, and unless the Han barbarians can fly away, they can only send people to bury the moat, and there will be no hand-to-hand combat when they attack the city just now.

In this way, more than ninety percent of the archers on the city wall are naturally more than sixty percent of the archers, but more than sixty percent of them have been hit by quicklime. In addition, at this time, Yang Zilu did not forget to suppress it with a thunderbolt cannon, although he may have mistakenly hit the soldiers of the Baipu Alliance Army who filled the moat, but it was not the Han army, so Yang Zilu didn't care.

Of course, it is impossible for the thunderbolt to suppress a wall. Soon, there were 3,000 longbowmen and 5,000 strong crossbowmen, and the archers of the Chu army, who had lost more than half of their combat effectiveness, were immediately suppressed.

Seeing this, Zi Ning gasped, continuing like this, wouldn't he sit back and watch the Han barbarians erect the siege ladder? Zi Ning was even more anxious when he thought of this. But if it's useful to be anxious, there will be no defeat in this world, who wouldn't be in a hurry?

However, Zining did have some skills, and when he saw that he couldn't do anything, he immediately ordered Minfu to carry the injured archer down for treatment. Ordinary archers, with the exception of those who were highly skilled in archery, were ordered to retreat from the walls. And the spearmen, sword and shield soldiers and other hand-to-hand combat troops were immediately transferred to the stairs, and only waited for the Han army to attack with siege ladders before going up to the city wall to fight.

The reason why this was done was to be attacked by the Han army's thunderbolt cannons, the accuracy of the thunderbolt cannons was indeed low, but to be honest, the lethality was even lower than that of bows and crossbows. But he couldn't stand the blow to morale, and hand-to-hand combat relied on such a breath, Zining was naturally afraid of hurting morale.

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