Chapter Eighty-Five: Manifestation
More than 50 trebuchets were loaded with stone bullets and aimed at the south gate of Xiangping City, slowly revealing a bloodthirsty hideousness.
After Han Yu's hand fell heavily, more than fifty trebuchets were launched at the gate of Xiangping City together.
The huge stone broke through the air, forming a whistling sound in the air, and quickly fell to the south gate of Xiangping City, breaking off half of the Wuhuan cavalry who had just left the city.
After the huge stone fell, the horses and the cavalry on the horses were directly smashed into meatloaf, and the blood was better like smashed tomato juice, and blood droplets appeared on the faces of the soldiers on the city wall.
The place where the boulder in front of the city gate fell was even more smoky, and deep pits of various sizes appeared at the gate.
Some boulders fell on the city wall, and the city wall shook even more, and the soldiers on the city wall could feel the city wall constantly shaking, as if the city wall could be shaken down with more force.
Even some of the cavalry who had already run out of the city gate were also affected, and the shocking sound of the boulder falling and the blood splashing everywhere frightened the cavalry of Wu Huan, and even more frightened the war horses that had just run out of the city gate.
Qiu Duo led the cavalry to rush out of the city gate, and just after a distance of more than 100 meters, he saw a lot of big stones flying out of the Han army's battle array.
When he saw the large rocks flying over his head and behind him, a sense of foreboding suddenly rose in his heart.
Just as Qiu Duo looked back to see what was happening, there was a loud noise behind him, and even more so the mournful screams of war horses and the screams of soldiers.
Churd's head buzzed suddenly, and he almost didn't fall off his horse.
He was surprised to see that about one-third of the more than three hundred cavalry behind him were frightened, and nearly one-tenth of the cavalry were thrown off the horses by the hairy horses in a frightened and stupid situation.
The 700 neat cavalry team was forcibly divided into two halves by the big stones made by the Han army, that is, in the blink of an eye, a quarter of the cavalry under his command had died.
What kind of magic did those damn dogs come up with?!!!
The fact that such a stone could be thrown from such a distance was simply too much for Chudor to let go.
Could it be that the Han soldiers have the help of the gods, or are they magicians??
Zhang Chun, who had been slandering Qiu Duo on the city wall and barking at the Han dog with his mouth open and closed, that is, the moment he was distracted, he saw the boulders flying all over the sky.
Zhang Chun's eyes widened, and his mouth opened wide, as if he could swallow a watermelon in one bite.
Zhang Chun was frightened by the loud sound of the boulder falling to the ground, and he stared blankly at the boulder the size of a millstone constantly falling from the sky, his face was as white as paper, and his body was also shaky.
Zhang Chun has never paid too much attention to the Han army under the city, after all, the army under the city is not commanded by Gongsun Zan and Meng Yi.
After arriving in Xiangping, these Han soldiers only cautiously besieged the city, and did not make any moves to siege the city, which made Zhang Chun have a feeling of contempt for Gongsun Xu's team.
He felt that there was no possibility for these Han soldiers to attack Xiangping when they came here, and the biggest possibility was that Liu Yu saw that Qiu Liju was delayed in replying to the letter, so he sent some soldiers here to show off his might, wanting to scare and scare Qiu Liju and let Qiu Liju make plans early.
This time, Nanlin led an army of more than 5,000 cavalry and infantry to support, and Zhang Chun always felt that as long as Nanlin and the cavalry in the city who had defeated Gongsun Zhan attacked, the Han soldiers would be defeated and defeated.
He really didn't expect that the Han army would have such a big killing weapon.
Zhang Chun can be regarded as a famous general in the Han Dynasty, he really has never seen the Han army have such a powerful attack method, and he can make such a big attack pattern at a distance of two hundred meters, Zhang Chun's face is suspicious.
Qiu Liju's face was gloomy like water, and his heart was like a knife.
The cavalry led by Qiu Duo was the last reliance of his subordinates, and Qiu Liju always felt that Qiu Duo led the 700 cavalry under his command out of the city to attack, even if he could not directly break through the enemy army, he would return to Xiangping unharmed.
Qiu Liju didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, the cavalry he was proud of would be beaten so miserably by the Han army.
Qiu Liju could see very clearly from the city gate, that is, this trebuchet attack caused the cavalry at the city gate to lose more than 100 people, not including the wounded cavalry.
Looking at this scene, Qiu Liju faintly felt a chill rise in his heart, could it be that those Han troops who went to the city before and did not fight wanted to target those troops in the difficult forest?
The more Qiu Liju thought about it, the more frightened he became, and he faintly had a feeling that something was going to be wrong this time.
Zhang Chun and Qiu Liju were blinded by the boulder that suddenly fell from the sky, and the soldiers under their command fell to the ground one by one, and even some soldiers directly threw away the weapons in their hands, screaming and rushing towards the city.
Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun recruited a lot of soldiers, how could they have seen such a tragic scene, and they were directly frightened by this round of boulder attacks.
Qiu Liju looked at the fleeing soldiers, his gloomy face began to distort, and he shouted loudly: "Where is the supervising team, put the fleeing soldiers to death immediately, and correct the military discipline."
Han Yu has been paying attention to the situation at the gate of Xiangping City, and Gongsun Xu told him that the number of cavalry in Xiangping City is about seven or eight hundred, and the cavalry that can go out of the city to fight can be at most seven hundred.
The number of about three hundred cavalry was not enough to threaten Han Yu's infantry battle array, there were many archers in Han Yu's infantry battle array, and those Wuhuan cavalry would be consumed by Han Yu's infantry sooner or later.
The distance of the trebuchet was far greater than that of the archers, and Qiu Liju and Zhang Chun could only watch as these cavalry were slowly wiped out by Han Yu without any solution.
Han Yu saw that the south gate of Xiangping City was smashed by a boulder, and directly blocked the passage for Qiu Liju's cavalry to leave the city, and his mind moved, and he immediately thought of what Gongsun Xu had told him before.
Gongsun Xu made it very clear to him at the previous military meeting that their trebuchets could adjust the angle and direction at any time, and if the first wave of trebuchets had already made it impossible for the people in Xiangping City to get out, Han Yu could choose to let a large part of the perspective target the cavalry who had already left the city, leaving only a small part of the trebuchets to block the south gate of Xiangping City.
Thinking of this, Han Yu immediately commanded the heralds around him to go over to the trebuchet and told the soldiers in charge of the trebuchet to adjust the direction and prepare to strike at those cavalry outside the city.