What is the biggest advantage of the ballista?

It's not powerful, compared to a trebuchet that can launch three or four hundred catties of boulders, it only has a maximum launch weight of more than fifty catties, which is really not worth mentioning!

It's not that it has a long range, compared to a crossbow machine with a maximum range of up to 800 paces, it only has a range of 400 steps when firing feather arrows, which is really not worth mentioning!

However, it persisted tenaciously and existed in an irreplaceable position on the battlefields of ancient Greece until its complex manufacturing process was lost, and it disappeared into the long river of history.

The reason for this is that it has a high shooting accuracy. Although you can't go through Yang in a hundred steps, it is still very easy to point where to hit in the hands of a skilled operator! On the battlefield of ancient Greece, there was once a long spear fired by the same ballista, and the story of splitting the previous spear it fired can be imagined to be highly accurate.

The soldiers of the Xuzhou Ballista Battalion have only been familiar with the use of ballistas for two months, but these two months of training have also achieved very surprising achievements!

A chill flashed in the eyes of Guan Yu and Tian Fan before the big array! The two of them glanced at each other, but neither of them spoke, and there was a burst of sympathy for their enemies in their hearts!

On the wall of Yinling, it is like a purgatory on earth!

After five consecutive rounds of firing, Mi Fang decisively ordered the ballista battalion to retreat.

Five rounds, a total of nearly 1,000 canisters of fire oil, tens of thousands of catties of oil and fire, set the city wall on fire.

The location of the city gate tower and the arrow tower is the focus of care, and it is natural that many ballistas are continuously hit. At this time, several arrow towers and city gate towers have been burned to the sky. Due to the unskilled operation of the soldiers, many canisters were hit on the city wall, and after the fire oil was burned, the entire city wall was set on fire. The arrow tower and the city gate tower were bathed in fire from top to bottom, and this strange sight fell in the eyes of everyone, but there was no surprise, only infinite shock.

The miserable howls of many of the soldiers of Yuan Shu's army were heard far away, but they only stopped for a few breaths. Some soldiers were burned by the fire, and they couldn't bear this painful way of dying, so they chose to jump from the city poles, and one by one the soldiers who were covered in fire fell downside like onions, and the hearts of tens of thousands of soldiers outside the city were chilled.

On the city walls, only certain positions were hit, and naturally not everywhere was on fire. But at the location of the fire, it was also a blazing flame that was difficult to extinguish. The high temperature of the fire caused the soldiers on fire to scream again and again, but after the hot gas was inhaled into the lungs, the lungs were like paper paste, and they were instantly scorched, but this moment was doomed to save these soldiers. The rest of the screams were nothing more than a death struggle.

Many sergeants carried water and poured water on the fire, but the fire caused by this fire oil itself was not easy to extinguish, let alone caused by a large amount of fire oil in the same place. It can only be in vain. Some unlucky soldiers, just watering, were burned by fuel splashes, so that no one dared to come forward to save people.

Tian Fan felt a chill in his heart and hissed, "Cloud ...... Yun Chang, now you can get on! ”

Guan Yu was stunned for a moment and said, "Oh...... Oh well! After saying that, he turned to look at the five hundred school swordsman guards beside him, and saw that their faces were also pale, obviously frightened by this scene.

He hurriedly yelled and said, "Brothers, the destruction of the city is at this time, follow me!" ”

This roar brought the soldiers back to their senses, and they were frightened by the terrible scene in front of them, and let out a nervous howl, and rushed to the city wall in a hurry.

In front of a group of about a dozen people, carrying a high ladder, behind the infantry soldiers with a single knife followed. The four thousand archers, who were supposed to play a big role, were dumbfounded, they didn't see any enemies that needed them to play. The soldiers of Yuan Shujun on the city wall were either frightened or busy fighting fires, and no one could resist them at all. …,