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Lu Weihuang finally saw that it was a round stone the size of a watermelon, carrying a snoring sound that made people sink into his head.

Lu Weihuang's soul flew out of the sky, and he had a second from seeing the boulder clearly to reacting. At this time, the situation around Lu Weihuang was like this: there was a railing in front, and a two-zhang high city head below. On the right are a few servants, blocking the way; On the left is Simbi, whose retinues are more numerous and equally tightly guarded; In the end, there is only behind you......

There must be followers behind him, but the distance is unknown, between the lightning and the fire, there is no time to worry, Lu Weihuang can only gamble.

At this moment, Lu Weihuang exerted the strongest explosive power in his life and slammed backwards, no matter whether there was anyone behind him, he had to crash into a way out.

Sure enough, there were servants behind him, at least three, who were rammed by Lu Weihuang, who was dressed in heavy armor, and three or four servants fell on their backs. And Lu Weihuang, who was blocked again and again, finally succeeded in hitting a way out.

Rumble! The stone bullet flew diagonally in, smashed the guardrail, and the wooden thorns shot out in all directions, instantly stabbing nearly ten people, including Xin Bi, and the sound of pain filled the ears, and the blood line was splashed all over the eyes. The stone bullet landed, smashing the unusually solid ground into a large round crater, and the hard rammed earth shot out like stones, further expanding the casualties.

At this time, Lu Weihuang was numb from his scalp to his feet, and he was shocked and rejoiced. Because the place where the stone bullet landed is the same place where he was standing, if he was still there. The consequences are unimaginable.

Just as Lu Weihuang slapped his chest, thinking that he had escaped, a tragic and terrifying scene appeared.

The stone projectile did not stop after smashing a large crater in the hard dirt, but bounced and continued to move forward. Although Lu Weihuang took at least five steps back, he was still on the trajectory of the stone bullet sweep. Lu Weihuang can also be regarded as a veteran general who has experienced dozens of battles, but in his more than ten years of war career, he has never seen this kind of large-scale throwing stone projectile applied to war, so he does not understand its characteristics. It was this ignorance that cost Qingqing her life.

The stone bullet landed and bounced up, as fierce as ever -- Lu Weihuang bore the brunt of the blow.

Boom! It's like smashing a watermelon. The skull burst, red, white, and white splattered in all directions, and a large chunk of the gyrus slapped against Simbi's face like a piece of tofu...... Simbi smoked it on the spot.

After the stone bullet exploded Lu Weihuang, although its momentum was still decreasing, it bounced all the way, swept through the crowd, rolled out a long road of flesh and blood, and finally smashed a big hole in the back wall of the gatehouse. Fly downstairs. Judging from the screams and screams from the city, it is estimated that there is no shortage of evil.

This was a test-fired stone projectile, and no one could have imagined that the effect would be so unexpected, and the first hit was Ximen defender Lu Weihuang. It frightened the prison army Xinbi, and also killed three people and seriously injured six others.

It stands to reason that there were eight out of ten casualties. It's not even an appetizer for a campaign, but this kind of blow is terrifying. I've never seen it, the unknown is the most terrifying. And the worst thing is that the main general died in battle for the first time, the dragons were leaderless, and the command system was paralyzed, which perfectly interpreted the scene of a general being beheaded and the whole army collapsing in the romance.

There was a big chaos at the west gate of Yecheng, the generals rushed to the front, the soldiers were dazed, and the servants panicked, this was definitely the best opportunity for the attackers.

In front of the dragon and wolf army, Le Jin, who is known as the "first general", is not only with his hands, but all over his body, eager to pick up the gun and shield and rush up. It's a pity that he didn't command this battle, and it's a pity that he was just an "observer" and didn't have a combat mission.

At this time, the dragon and wolf army went up to the horse, down to the ordinary pawn, and they didn't know that they had killed a general in the first test shot, but when the city was in chaos, they were frightened by the boulders falling from the sky, so everyone was still in place, nervously debugging the trebuchet.

If the defenders could see the situation behind the earthen platform through the wooden fence at this time, they would probably be stupid - the thirty-zhang long earthen platform was neatly arranged with twenty big guys, and on the flat ground behind the earthen platform, twenty trebuchets were also placed, forming a high-level attack.

Ma Han did not put in 100 planes at one time, but first took out half of the tests, and decided to increase or decrease them according to the results.

By the time the first stone bomb was dropped, the remaining thirty-nine were ready. Due to the good test firing effect and no further debugging, the watchman on the watchtower slashed the red flag, and a series of hammering iron bolts sounded, and thirty-nine trebuchets threw fifty catties of stone bullets at Yecheng almost simultaneously.

Twenty trebuchets on the earthen platform "dominated" the city head, focusing on destroying the gatehouse, corner tower, female wall, pheasant saucer and various defense facilities, while the twenty trebuchets behind the earthen platform mainly attacked the city wall, trying to destroy the city wall.

When dozens of huge boulders popped out in the air and fell like meteors, the scene of chaos in Yecheng was quiet. Simon's soldiers and servants looked up forty-five degrees one by one, their mouths wide open, and their expressions glazed over.

Rumble! The first stone bullet fell, hitting the corner of the pheasant, the debris splattered, and several soldiers on the left covered their faces and shouted. The stone bullet fell to the ground, smashed out a deep pit, bounced and rolled, knocked over an oil pot, and more than ten servants around screamed like killing pigs, struggling to escape, but the few people who were close to it were already smoking, screaming again and again.

Boom Boom! Bang bang bang!

A series of stone bullets rained down, and the shocking impact sound was endless, and the western section of the city wall of Yecheng was punched out of the pits, looking from a distance, like pockmarks on people's faces. For the defenders, it was lucky to hit the city wall, and the stone bullets that fell on the city head were almost all life charms. Each one, more or less, can take a few lives, and as for the injured, it is impossible to count.

In fact, every stone projectile will not cause damage unless it hits directly, but the bad thing is that the city is not only full of people, but also full of various guarding tools, especially hot oil, boiling water, gold juice lime, these things are knocked over and splashed, and the consequences are simply a disaster.

For a time, the city was full of crying and screaming, and there were running figures everywhere, squeezing and trampling, which was unbearable. Many figures covered in smoke and fire ran and fell headlong from the city, causing panic to spread.

At the end of the first round of throwing, Simon was completely disrupted. More than 6,000 soldiers of the Dragon and Wolf Army were all stunned.

Boom Boom! Bang bang bang!

The heart-pounding blow sounded again, and the second blow began.

The dragon wolf army squirts are basically composed of strong soldiers selected from auxiliary soldiers, and they have only been trained for less than two months, and it is the first actual battle. However, the trebuchet is simple and easy to operate, and the only thing with technical content is to let go.

The so-called set let go is the person who is responsible for aiming, adjusting the elements, and finally splitting the order. Each trebuchet operator has a crew of ten people, and it will be long to let go, that is to say, the dragon wolf army actually only used forty people and forty trebuchets to defeat thousands of defenders and more than 1,000 soldiers in the city wall section of the west gate of Yecheng.

In the second round of 40 bullets, except for five bullets that missed and fell into the moat, the remaining 35 stone bullets were all solid and blossomed on the city wall -- after all, such a big target, no matter how accurate it was, it would not be easy to miss.

Finally, when three stone bullets hit a protruding horse face on the city wall, the unlucky horse face could no longer resist and exploded and collapsed. The five strong archers inside did not have time to escape, and they were all buried alive.

This tragic scene frightened all the soldiers hiding in the face of the horse and the enemy building, and they fled frantically like ants that had been trampled on their nests. The narrow passage was suddenly crowded with countless people, and many soldiers and servants were stumbled and fell off the wall, twisting their ankles at the slightest and breaking their shins.

With just two rounds of throwing, it defeated the defenders of Ximen, not so much because of the power of the stone bullet, but because of the great psychological pressure it had on people. Just like the artillery bombardment in later generations, the casualties caused may be far less than those of bayonets, but the deafening sound of artillery, the violent tremors that squeeze out people's hearts, the razed hilltop positions, and the overwhelming mud and sand that can bury people...... This qiē is enough to make people collapse.

That's the horror of shelling, uh, trebuchet.

It was only then that Ma Han gave the order to attack. A thousand mountains and more elite soldiers, let out an exuberant scream, leaping like flying. More than 100 boat and bridge auxiliaries took the lead in carrying the wooden piles, cables, paving boards, and ladders used to pave the pontoon bridge.

The devastated city was littered with no one who could stand, let alone fight back, except for the dead and wounded......

It was not too late, and Ximen Guocheng was conquered.

Even the dragon and wolf generals who had seen the trebuchet test couldn't believe that such a strong city could be taken in just one morning, and there were no casualties!

The dragon and wolf generals were ecstatic, and they surrounded Ma Han one after another, demanding to equip their troops with this trebuchet. There are only twenty planes for those who are polite, and for those who are not polite, such as old subordinates like Le Jin, there are fifty planes when they open their mouths.

Ma Han just said: "Go to Ma Deheng, I will give you as much as he can make." ”

Although he was thrilled by the success of the trebuchet's debut, he knew more than the generals that the trebuchet was not as invincible as his men had imagined. The defeat of Yuan's army at the West Gate was only because of the fact that the weapons of war were born, the defenders were unprepared, and the lord would be killed with one blow, the morale plummeted, and the fear soared, so that there was such a result. In time, trebuchets will be thrown into the war in large numbers, and various countermeasures will inevitably emerge. War is a process in which spears and shields compete against each other, and one loses the other.

At dusk, the dragon wolf army had completely cleared the perimeter and occupied the west gate.

Ma Han immediately ordered someone to shoot a book of arrows into the city of Simmen.

After receiving it, the sub-city guard did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent it to the Zhenbei General's Mansion.

Yuan Shang, Xianpei, Feng Ji and others took it apart and took a look, and there was only one big vernacular on it: "Do you continue to fight!" (To be continued......)