Chapter 431: Siege Engine
The dense traps outside the city are still useful!
In order to facilitate the siege of the city, from the beginning of the morning, the Japanese invaders cleaned the siege roads under the city; On the solstice, there are still only a few safe passages.
In other vast fields, the Japanese army did not dare to move around at will.
"For each road cleared by the Japanese army, arrange three trebuchets and two bed crossbows, and when the Japanese army attacks, give me good service!" Cai Hui saw that the work of cleaning up the road was almost over, and he should be preparing to attack, so he made corresponding arrangements.
While the defenders at the head of the city were busy adjusting the direction of attack of trebuchets and bed crossbows, the Japanese army under the city also pushed siege engines and other siege equipment to the end of the cleared road, and the war was about to break out!
"Kill GIGI", Fujita Hiroshi, the commander of the Pioneer Legion of the Japanese Invaders, pulled out his command knife, pointed forward, and officially issued a raid order!
At the end of dozens of safe passages that had just been cleared, there was a siege vehicle more than ten meters high and with good protection performance, which began to rumble forward under the impetus of the Japanese robbers hiding behind the car!
Dozens of siege vehicles that started at the same time made a majestic attack!
Behind each siege vehicle, there was a team of elite soldiers.
When the first siege vehicle rushed out of a distance of about thirty meters, the second siege vehicle started immediately!
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When the siege vehicle of the Japanese invaders approached the city head at a distance of about seventy or eighty meters, Cai Hui's voice resounded through the city: "Trebuchet prepare!" Ready-to-go! ”
The sound of the axles of trebuchets rubbing against each other suddenly sounded above the city.
Every 3 trebuchets were aimed at a gongcheng cart and threw stones the size of a human head. At present, the distance of the siege vehicle is relatively long, and the stones are too large to attack the target.
Unfortunately, the effect was not satisfactory.
Most of the trebuchets did not hit the target, and the few that hit the target did not achieve significant results. After a round of attacks, the siege vehicles with wheels and good protection are still slowly advancing. It seems that if you don't get hit ten times or eight times in a row, you can't collapse.
The only effective attack was the occasional few rocks that hit the enemy behind the siege engine, smashing it into a bloody blur.
"Target, enemy forces behind siege vehicles, prepare, release!" Seeing that the siege vehicle was sturdy, Cai Hui adjusted the target in time.
After another unpleasant "squeak", the enemy troops under the city screamed from time to time.
This time, the effect was better, more enemy troops were smashed, but because of the siege vehicle cover, the effect was still not ideal.
But Cai Hui did not give the order to stop the attack.
Ye Teng nodded secretly at Cai Hui's command.
When a big battle is approaching, if you let the soldiers watch the enemy's siege vehicles slowly drive into the range of their own long-range weapons, but they are powerless and do not move, it is actually quite demoralizing.
"Change the big rocks, attack!" After three rounds, the enemy's siege vehicle was already about thirty meters closer to the head of the city, and Cai Hui ordered to replace the "cannonballs" with stones the size of a grinding plate!
The results have improved significantly.
Several siege engines were damaged, and the enemy troops behind the siege engines were even more killed.
However, at this time, the soldiers who followed behind the siege vehicle, under the command of the general, began to shoot back at the head of the city, and the defenders also began to suffer casualties.
Some of the soldiers who had not experienced much of the war were in a panic.
"Nervous about what? A few soft throwing arrows were just a few floppy arrows, and the speed was not too fast, so they were blocked by raising their shields. A tun commander yelled at the recruits beside him, raising his shield to block a flying arrow as he roared.
The recruits did not dare to say more, raised their shields in both hands, and stubbornly blocked their heads.
"Don't be so stubborn!" Seeing the recruit's dodging posture, the tun chief couldn't help but roar again: "Dare to look at the arrow, otherwise you will always be a recruit's egg!" One-handed shield! One-handed shield! If you're worried about the power of the arrows, tilt the shield at an angle! Like this! ”
Roared and demonstrated! At this time, an arrow just came, and was blocked by the commander with a slightly inclined shield, and a crisp sound came from the shield surface, and then, the arrow sputtered and fell to the left of the person.
"See, when the shield is tilted, be careful not to let the arrows bounce at the comrades around you, causing accidental injuries!" Tun Chang continued.
Although the recruits were still nervous, they admired the commander a little in their hearts, and tried to learn to hold the shield in one hand and block the arrows according to the action essentials that the commander said.
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In the blink of an eye, the siege vehicle approached the moat.
The Japanese army behind the car began to bypass the siege engines, took out large thick planks from the storage rings, and spread them towards the moat. At this time, although the soldiers who laid the planks also covered each other with shields, it was much easier to attack than to hide behind a bulky siege vehicle.
The archers and trebuchets at the head of the city all aimed at the Japanese army laying wooden planks, and the number of casualties of the Japanese army rose rapidly, and the moat gradually floated bright red blood.
However, the Japanese army turned a blind eye to this situation and still carried out the plank laying work in an orderly manner, basically paving a boardwalk for the siege vehicles to barely pass in tens of seconds, and then pushing the siege vehicles over as quickly as possible.
Despite the high cost of casualties, in less than half an hour, dozens of siege engines were pushed less than ten meters from the city walls, and above each siege vehicle, 10 archers removed the upper half of their bodies and stood on the roof of the vehicles to shoot arrows, and they were protected by wooden planks about one meter high in front of them.
What's even worse is that the position they are standing in is about 1 meter higher than the female wall at the head of the city, forming a condescending posture, posing a great threat to the officers and soldiers of the Zhenbei Army at the head of the city!
At the same time, at the feet of the archers, there were planks sticking out of the way and reaching the city! Under the siege truck, the Japanese army is climbing up frantically!
The sudden increase in casualties, as well as the close climb of the enemy, caused a certain amount of confusion to the defenders, and everyone's attention was almost attracted by the siege engine.
The enemy forces farther away were advancing more smoothly.
"Choose the most advantageous attack distance and angle for each one! Siege engines are naturally dealt with! Cai Hui commanded, and then ordered loudly: "Siege crossbow listen to the order, attack the archers on the roof of the car!" Attention the fire oil team, throw siege engines! ”
With Cai Hui's order, the defenders at the head of the city became orderly again.
The firing of the bed crossbow greatly suppressed the archers on the roof of the car, so that the trebuchets and archers at the head of the city dared to attack the Japanese foot soldiers who were approaching the city wall on a larger scale in the distance, bringing them dead and wounded.
And many high-level generals are holding a shield in one hand and grabbing a crockpot in the other, and throwing it at the siege vehicle, which is very accurate!
What is even more conspicuous are Ye Teng, Dian Wei, Wan Hao and several other prefecture-level and heaven-level generals, who are not only wearing spirit-level armor and storage rings, but also have high martial arts and fast speed.
I saw that they kept running on the wall, ran to a siege vehicle, directly took out a large earthen pot and a large pot of kerosene, and threw it at the siege vehicle. After each siege vehicle was rewarded with eight cans of ten, it was immediately followed by the next siege vehicle.
The Japanese army archers on the roof of the car saw that they were a huge threat, and kept shooting arrows at them, but unfortunately they were just tickling, and it was impossible to break the protection of the spirit-level armor.
Behind them, the rocketeers followed closely, shooting at close range, basically shooting one at a time, turning one siege vehicle after another into fireballs.
On the battlefield, the boarding troops of the Japanese army could be seen jumping under the car in flames at any time, and the screams were endless.