Jia Meng closed the guards everywhere and saw thousands of crossbows shooting with the momentum of wind and thunder, and hurriedly hid behind a solid bunker while shouting at his subordinates: "Avoid! Find cover to evade! ”

The power of the red-clothed ballista, Liu Bei and the generals of Shuzhong have all been taught, and they know that this thing can penetrate stones, but no one expected that the range of the red-clothed ballista could reach a distance of thousands of steps! This is also too scary, is this still a weapon that belongs to the world? It's a long-range weapon from hell!

As soon as the Shu soldiers on the wall were hidden, the red-clothed crossbow roared and shot down, destroying everything that could be destroyed, everything that was not solid enough, or solid enough, but not thick enough, were all destroyed by the red-clothed crossbow, and those Shu soldiers who were hiding behind these bunkers, their bodies were torn apart by the huge penetrating power of the red-clothed crossbow in the wail, and the red blood instantly spurted out, dyeing the wall of Jiameng Pass red.

The red-clothed ballista is a sharp weapon carefully developed by Ao Lie according to the manufacturing principle of the rhubarb crossbow of the Great Qin State of the previous dynasty and the three-bow bed crossbow of the Song Dynasty in the later generations, and after Wang Hun and Ma Jun later joined forces to improve it several times, for Liu Bei and others, this is an unsolvable problem, because Liu Bei neither has Ao Lie's mind from later generations, nor is he a good craftsman like Wang Hun and Ma Jun, therefore, whenever facing the bombardment of the red-clothed ballista, Liu Bei can only be a turtle with a shrunken head, without the slightest resistance.

After a round of crossbows shot down, only twenty breaths later, there was another loud vibration, the Shu soldiers were already very familiar with the sound of the red-clothed ballista firing, and the second wave of crossbows had been shot out, and they hurriedly hid behind a more solid cover, they didn't want to even take a picture of the face of the Han army, so they died in a daze under the edge of the red-clothed crossbow. Looking at the performance of the Shu soldiers, Liu Bei couldn't help but curse in his heart: This damn Ao Lie. How did he come up with such a thing as a red-clothed ballista, I really don't know what kind of material his brain was made of.

Round after round of red-clothed crossbows kept attacking towards the Jiameng Pass, and the suppressed Shu soldiers couldn't even fight back, even if they came out to check outside the pass. It wasn't until more than a dozen rounds of crossbows had passed that the red-clothed ballistas stopped bombarding, allowing these Shu soldiers and Shu generals who had been shrinking turtles for a long time to poke their heads out and look at the pass, who knew that this look scared them collectively!

Originally. The Han army took advantage of the attack of the red-clothed ballista, and the entire queue advanced five hundred steps, especially the front army led by Ao Lie himself, which had approached the distance of three hundred steps in front of the Jiameng Pass, on Ao Lie's side, there were one hundred towering arrow towers on the left and right sides, at this moment, these arrow towers were already densely filled with Han archers, and the bowbows and crossbows in their hands had been put on the bowstring. At any time, you can carry out a condescending covering attack on Jia Mengguan. It is true that Jiameng Pass is dangerous, but that only means that the terrain of Jiameng Pass is precipitous, not that the wall of Jiameng Pass is high, and in order to attack Yizhou, which is full of natural dangers. Ao Lie deliberately asked Wang Hun and others to work overtime to raise the arrow tower, and now the arrow tower equipped in the Han army is twelve zhang high, which can be said to be the peak of the craftsmanship of this era. In the face of such a height, there are few cities that can compare with these arrow towers, all over the world. Perhaps only Chang'an, Luoyang and Yanjing are limited to the fortified cities of the third and fifth cities, which have such a height.

After seeing the Han army's arrow tower, the first reaction of the Shu generals was shock, and the second reaction was to hurriedly shout and give orders to the sergeants of their respective subordinates: "Zhang hangs wet cowhides, hurry up!" In the roar of the generals at all levels, the Shu soldiers acted quickly, turned out the cowhide from the materials defending the city, splashed it with water, hung it everywhere on the wall, and looked down from the sky, just like at the juncture of Jiameng Pass, a huge cowhide umbrella suddenly appeared.

With a sneer on the corner of Ao Lie's mouth, he said to himself: "Do you really think that these cowhides can block the rain of arrows of our army?" What's more, these cowhides of yours are all passive hands and feet......" suddenly raised his right hand, and then slashed down heavily, Ao Lie gave the order to shoot.

Xu Chu and Dian Wei, who were closely following Ao Lie's side, immediately shouted loudly to both sides: "Crossbowmen, release the arrows!" "The Han army on the arrow tower on both sides immediately raised the bow and arrow, and after a little aiming, the sharp arrow that had been placed on the bowstring shot out of the pass of Jia Meng Pass, and in an instant, the upper, middle and lower three layers of the Han army of two hundred arrow towers fired at the same time, and tens of thousands of sharp arrows roared into the sky, some of them shot down, some of them were thrown, and they were shot flat, the angles were different, but the purpose was the same, that is, to effectively kill the Shu soldiers on Jia Meng Pass!

When the arrow tower launched an attack, the veteran Huang Zhongyi once again ordered to launch a red-clothed ballista, thousands of crossbows mixed with tens of thousands of sharp arrows, overwhelmingly a real covering attack on Jia Mengguan.

The sharp arrows and crossbows of the Han army had just been fired, and Ao Lie didn't wait to see the effect, he turned his head to Zhang Liao and said, "Wenyuan, launch an attack on the city!" ”

Zhang Liao agreed loudly, stretched out his hand behind him, and the 20,000 Han troops under him immediately carried the cloud ladder and rushed out behind Zhang Liao. In this campaign, Zhang Liao has always played the role of the vanguard of the attack, and his subordinates have long been adapted to such a task, and have long prepared all kinds of military materials for the siege.

With Zhang Liao's movements, Tai Shi Ci took the 20,000 Han troops of the headquarters to fill the blank space left behind after Zhang Liao's department rushed out, according to the convention, after Zhang Liao, it should be his troops to prepare, once Zhang Liao's soldiers set up the ladder, they will rush over, following Zhang Liao's department, along the ladder began to forcibly attack the city.

At the same time that Ao Lie gave the order to attack, after the pass, Ma Chao also led his troops to launch a strong attack, but it did not launch a strong attack, but let the tiger warriors cover with crossbows, and let Wei Yan take a part of the tiger warriors to feint behind the pass. After all, there are only 20,000 troops behind the enemy line, and there is a non-combat attrition on the way to the army, even if they are tiger warriors, it is impossible to force the capture of Jiameng Pass with this number of people, attracting firepower, distracting Liu Bei's attention, and creating fighters for Ao Lie in front of the pass is Ma Chao's strategic goal.

However, it seems that things are a little unexpected by Ma Chao, the cowhides hanging on the wall seem to be thick and strong, but they are broken in a bucket, and even the crossbow arrows of the hand crossbow can't resist, only two rounds of salvos, the Shu soldiers hiding behind the cowhides, were killed by the tiger Ben Lishi as many as two or three thousand people in the air.

After discovering this situation, Ma Chao immediately changed his combat policy and shouted loudly to his subordinates: "Stop scattering, find the target for precise strikes, and pay attention to saving ammunition!" "Although the power of the Xizi hand crossbow is large, but in order to facilitate carrying, the size is very small, and the Xizi hand crossbow that can be fastened on the arm can only accommodate three crossbow arrows, after two rounds of salvos, the hand crossbow in the hands of the tiger is left, only the crossbow arrow of the last blow is left, but because this time it is a detour behind the enemy's back, so each tiger is carrying three times the crossbow arrow, that is, they also have two spare ammunition to load the crossbow arrow.

With Ma Chao's order, the Shu soldiers commanded by Fa Zheng after the pass, immediately had greater casualties, Hu Ben Lux is one of the four elite troops of the Northern Han Dynasty, although they are not as versatile as the Blood Killing Army, but they usually work the hand crossbow, so their shooting level is also first-class, under the precision strike, a crossbow bolt is locked on different targets, causing accurate shooting to the Shu soldiers, more than a dozen breaths of time, more than 4,000 Shu soldiers were killed, It's even better than the two salvos combined.

This situation was immediately discovered by Fa Zheng at the juncture, Fa Zheng looked at the cowhide in front of the Shu soldiers with doubts, the cowhide is still a cowhide, if it is fake, and there is no problem with looking at the thickness, how could it be penetrated so easily? Could it be that the Han army's hand crossbow is too powerful, not only can it reach the range of a bow and arrow, but its attack power is also sharper than that of ordinary hand crossbows?

"Stack two cowhides on top of each other, and I'll see how powerful their crossbows are!" After Fa Zheng didn't find a problem, he could only attribute the reason why the cowhide hanging in his house was easily penetrated by the Han army's hand crossbow to the reason why the hand crossbow was too powerful, so he issued such an order.

When the Shu soldiers were adjusting according to Fa Zheng's order, Fa Zheng beckoned to the general Zhang Wei and asked in a low voice: "Are there any problems with these cowhides?" "Fa Zheng knows that he is a civilian official, and he is not very familiar with the military resources of cowhide, and Zhang Wei and Zhang Yi are both generals from the army, and they know all the armaments very well, so Fa Zheng will have this question.

Zhang Wei said with a puzzled face: "Just now there are a few cowhides that are hung by a certain hand, judging from the thickness and weight, there is no problem, but a certain person found that the flexibility of these cowhides seems to be slightly worse than usual, but this does not mean that there is a problem with the cowhide, it is normal for the cowhide to harden after being stored for a long time, and this will not affect the toughness of the cowhide, logically speaking, it should not be impossible to block the penetration of the crossbow, even if, the Han army, uh, the Yan army's hand crossbow is very powerful." ”

"So what's going on? Why can't these cowhides stop the crossbows of the Han army? Fa Zheng lowered his head and pondered with a puzzled face......

The things that puzzled Fa Zheng were also bothering Liu Bei on the main battlefield in front of the pass. Originally, the Shu generals in front of the pass were full of confidence that their hanging cowhides could block most of the Han army's bows and arrows, but what was surprising was that these cowhides were like paper paste, becoming fragile, under the thorns of tens of thousands of sharp arrows of the Han army, none of the cowhides played their due role, without exception were pierced by sharp arrows, resulting in the Shu soldiers hiding under the cowhides, all of them were shot on the spot, because it was too unexpected, no one thought that the cowhide would not be able to block the sharp arrows of the Han army, and many Shu soldiers did not even raise their shields, Safely hid behind the cowhide, so this rain of arrows from the Han army took away the lives of nearly 10,000 Shu soldiers, making the already red Jiamengguan wall even more crimson, and the ground was full of streams formed by blood gathering. (To be continued......)