"Woo~"

With the sound of whining wind, a black shadow smashed straight towards the south bank, and the Yellow Turban generals were shocked, and their eyes couldn't help but immediately move to their own crossbow array, and they saw explosion-like dust rising in succession, accompanied by a dull loud noise, the wreckage of the crossbow mixed with the broken human body flying in the air, and the ears were full of the screams of their own soldiers. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

After the dust settled, the Yellow Turban Army's crossbow array was already a mess, almost three-quarters of the crossbow was torn apart in the bombardment of the boulder, nearly 100 Yellow Turban soldiers fell in a pool of blood, a considerable part of the flesh and blood were blurred and miserable, and many Yellow Turban soldiers fell to the ground wailing, and the remaining dozen intact people stood in place in a daze.

"Oh my God, what are those things?"

"How so?"

"How can such a big rock fly so far?"

“……”

The Yellow Turban generals came back to their senses and couldn't help but talk a lot, and everyone had a look of horror on their faces.

A Yellow Turban General shouted in a pale tone: "Then, those 'flying stones' are so fucking terrifying!" ”

That's right, this kind of big guy is a trebuchet, strictly speaking, trebuchets have been used as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and the first large-scale use of trebuchets in the history of Chinese warfare was the time when Li Xin attacked Chu, but the person who was smashed was Li Xin himself.

No one may know about Li Xin, but his descendant Li Guang is a famous general, and Li Xin is Li Guang's distant ancestor.

When Li Xin attacked Chu, Chu used a large number of trebuchets, when the Qin army crossed the river, countless stones smashed into the Qin army like dark clouds, resulting in the defeat of 200,000 Qin elite troops, Li Xin himself died in that war, so later generations said that it was the battle of Guandu, Cao Cao was beaten by Yuan Shao's high turret, Liu Ye invented the trebuchet to break the high turret, Liu Ye is the inventor of the trebuchet, the battle of Guandu is the first appearance of the trebuchet, is completely nonsense.

The trebuchet was indeed invented and used in the war a long time ago, but there are not many people who have seen the trebuchet, let alone a person who can build it, because this kind of machinery was quite sophisticated at the time, and the production process was quite complicated, so even in the Spring and Autumn Period when the war was quite common, and in the complicated Three Kingdoms War, the trebuchet was not used much, but the effect of each appearance was amazing.

It is precisely because few people can make it, and the production process is too responsible, so no one has seen the generals of the Yellow Turban Army, so that when Zhang Yi launched the trebuchet, a big killing weapon, everyone was dumbfounded.

"Immediately order the crossbow troops to retreat to the rear!"

After seeing the power of the trebuchet, Peng Tuo gave a categorical order, then glanced back at the generals, and said coldly: "What are you panicking about? ”

The generals realized their gaffe and immediately calmed down.

In fact, it is no wonder that they are like this, anyone will instinctively feel fear when they suddenly see something terrifying that they have never seen before, and at this time, Du Xiang, who learned of the tragic situation on the river beach, hurriedly ran back to Peng Tuo's side.

Seeing that Du Xiang was back, Peng Tuo pointed to the other side and asked in a deep voice: "Military advisor, you are well-informed, have you ever seen this kind of thing?" ”

Looking at the other side of the river, Du Xiang frowned and shook his head and said: "I have never seen this thing, even when the Dingping army attacked Pingling City to the most critical juncture, I didn't see the Dingping army using this kind of weapon!" But I know this kind of thing, it's called trebuchet, Qu Shuai, let ...... quickly"

"Woo~"

Before Du Xiang's words were finished, the sound of breaking the wind sounded again, Peng Tuo and Du Xiang immediately looked towards the other side of the river, only to see a dark cloud-like rain of stones appear again, and then once again set off a dust in the crossbow array, and the Yellow Turban Army crossbow troops that were moving backwards were once again hit hard.

Seeing that his side had suffered another heavy blow, Peng Tuo exclaimed in surprise: "This trebuchet not only has a longer range than our crossbows, but also fires faster than our crossbows!" Fast! Immediately ordered the third, fourth, and 50,000 teams to attack at the same time from the upper, middle and lower roads! ”

"No!"

The herald promised to go down immediately to give the order.

"Wait!"

Du Xiang suddenly stopped the herald, and then hugged his fist at Peng Tuo and said: "Qu Shuai is attacking this time, I ask for orders to go down and command it personally!" ”

Peng Tuo pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Then it's bothering the military division!" ”

"Thank you Qu Shuai!"

Du Xiang turned around suddenly, stepped on his war horse, and galloped down the hill.

Standing immediately behind the trebuchet, Zhang Yi stroked his two goatees and laughed: "Haha...... You thieves finally know how powerful you are! ”

At the same time as Zhang Yi laughed, the soldiers around him, except for those soldiers who controlled the trebuchet, were already mentally prepared, including Guan Yu and Dian Wei, the two fierce generals, all stood in place stunned, Yang Kai and other wounded soldiers, all who could stand up stood up, and their expressions were surprisingly consistent, they all opened their eyes wide, opened their mouths wide, like a wooden man, at this time to describe them as dumb as a wooden chicken, it is simply appropriate.

The sudden silence around made Zhang Yi's laughter seem extremely abrupt, and he turned his head to look at the people around him who were stunned, Zhang Yi scratched his face and asked with a smile: "What?" Are you stupid? ”

Zhang Yi asked three times with a face, and everyone suddenly came to their senses, and immediately began to talk about it, and what they were talking about was nothing more than the power of the trebuchet and the tragic situation of the Yellow Turban Army on the other side.

"Big, big brother, this... That..."

Pointing to the trebuchet, and then pointing to the other side, Guan Yu was a little unfavorable at the moment.

Guan Yu's expression, as well as Guan Yu's performance, made Zhang Yi frown: "What? Yun Chang has never seen a trebuchet? ”

Shaking his head, Guan Yu looked a little embarrassed and said, "The foolish brother of trebuchet has only heard of it in the war book, but he has never seen it. ”

"The book of war, hehe," Zhang Yi, who heard Guan Yu mention the book of war, suddenly thought of a sentence, and recited with a smile: "Indeed, the book of war has clouds, all cannons, sharp weapons in the army, and can be used by offensive and defensive divisions, which shows the importance of trebuchets." ”

After listening to the ancient saying quoted by Zhang Yi, Guan Yu couldn't help but be a little confused, because he was familiar with military books, he had never heard that ancient proverb at all, let alone where the words came from, so after listening to Zhang Yi's words, Guan Yu admired Zhang Yi a little more, and at the same time secretly told himself in his heart that he would have to read more military books when he had time in the future.

The ancient saying that Zhang Yi said about the trebuchet is actually a sentence in the military books of later generations, and it is strange that Guan Yu can know where the words come from.

"Bang Bang~"

"Whoosh~"

At the same time that Guan Yu was stunned, the trebuchet was launched again, although the power of this round of launch was great, but the effect was not as good as the last two times, because the only remaining Yellow Turban Army on the shore had withdrawn far away at this moment, and after the previous two rounds of attacks, there were not many Yellow Turban Army left on the shore.

"Lord, the thieves have withdrawn from the strike range!"

The company commander, who was in charge of commanding the trebuchet unit, trotted to Zhang Yi's horse and reported loudly.

Squinting his eyes, Zhang Yi visually measured the distance, and then ordered: "Take thirty-five steps forward and dig a ring fortification!" Always watch out for sudden enemy attacks, reload your trebuchet and be ready to go! ”

"No!"

After answering the promise, the company commander immediately retreated and began to arrange.

The so-called ring fortification, in which dirt, stones, and planks are pushed in front of the trebuchet to form a wall shield, and the trebuchet hides behind the wall shield to attack, this simple fortification can be very effective in defending against the attack of the opponent's crossbow.

After giving instructions to the company commander, Zhang Yi said to Guan Yu again: "And this thing itself is cumbersome to make, and the production process is only mastered by a few people, such as the public loser and the Mo family. When the foolish brother of this trebuchet asked Mr. Gongyi and Lao Chen to make it, it took a lot of effort and a lot of money, and the foolish brother made them add a lot of things, which allowed the trebuchet to exert this effect, tsk, to be honest, if this thing wasn't too hard to make, we would have been able to use it when we leveled Lingcheng, and we wouldn't have to die so many brothers, hey~"

At the end of the words, Zhang Yi let out a long sigh, his face full of sadness and pain.

Zhang Yi This is not a performance, he is really sad in his heart, although he has seen a lot of dead people, and he has killed many people with his own hands, but those people followed him after all, and tens of thousands of people died at once, Zhang Yi is not hard-hearted, it is strange if he is not sad.

"Big brother doesn't have to be so sad," Seeing Zhang Yi's sad face, Guan Yu hurriedly persuaded: "Big brother also said just now, soldiers should be proud of dying on the battlefield, and they can die for the descendants of Yan and Huang, they, including the foolish brother, including Yide, are willing to die on the battlefield!" ”

Guan Yu's words were impassioned, and they were all from the bottom of their hearts, which made the soldiers around them all boil with blood when they heard it.

Glancing at the soldiers around him, Zhang Yi also hurriedly said: "Including the eldest brother, I am also willing to die on the battlefield, if you don't stop me, the eldest brother and I will rush to the forefront every time, and I am willing to fight side by side with you!" ”

At this time, what Zhang Yi said, it was not from the bottom of his heart, he was good at fooling others to dedicate himself, he didn't want to dedicate himself, he was forced to charge into battle before, and now he has soldiers and generals, and he will not rush forward until he has to, the reason why he said this is because after seeing the expressions of the soldiers around him, he said those words because he felt a little like a duck on the shelf, but because Zhang Yi had indeed rushed to the front line before, and even went to the city to fight, so after everyone listened, When they looked at Zhang Yi, they all showed reverence, and this was also the effect that Zhang Yi wanted.

Turning over and dismounting, he walked to the side of a trebuchet, looking at the winch and gears and other things on it, Zhang Yi couldn't help but recall the process when he and Gongyi discussed strengthening the trebuchet.

At the beginning, Zhang Yi asked Gongyi and Lao Chen to make trebuchets, Gongyi just said that it was not easy to get it, but he didn't refuse, and the trebuchet that could be built, regardless of the production time, or the funds consumed, as well as the power and range, Zhang Yi was not very satisfied, so Zhang Yi deliberately made a lot of gears out of dough to make styles for Gongyi and Lao Chen.

Although gears have long been applied in ancient times, but they were first invented in the Western Han Dynasty, and they began to be applied in some simple machinery at the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, not as people say about it, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the gears at the beginning are only the earliest herringbone gears, but Zhang Yi has a lot of gears for Gong Yi and Lao Chen, in addition to the most basic herringbone gears, there are spiral bevel gears, helical racks, bevel gears and even silk strips to demonstrate the working principle of synchronous belt transmission, When Gong Yi and Lao Chen watched Zhang Yi's demonstration, the expressions on their faces were both excited and shocked, and then it took them a month to finally make this kind of trebuchet that relied on a winch to charge Zhang Yi.

The traditional trebuchet is nothing more than relying on manpower to pull the throwing arm, the more people who pull the throwing arm, the greater the force of the throwing, and there is a heavy object on the reverse end of the wooden spoon, but no matter which one, it is the use of reaction force and the principle of leverage to start the trebuchet, this way not only wastes manpower, but also the loading time is very long.

The Song Dynasty military book "Wujing General Essentials" recorded a kind of largest trebuchet, the throwing arm is nine meters long, the weight of the launch reaches one hundred catties, but it needs more than 300 people to pull, and the maximum range is only about two hundred, of course, it may be in the reason to keep the war weapons secret, or the reason to mislead the enemy, so that the range is shortened, according to other historical records and later calculations, the actual range of this trebuchet is actually more than 300 meters, but it is only more than 300 meters.

And the kind of accumulating trebuchet that Zhang Yi is getting now only needs four or five people to control, which can make the trebuchet reach the power and range that can only be achieved when more than a dozen people control it.

"Order the infantry to immediately set up a horse resistance along the river!"

Zhang Yi then ordered again.

The Dingping army immediately took action, and the trebuchet troops pushed the trebuchets to the riverbank, while thousands of infantry were also moving towards the riverbank with their horses.

Peng Tuo, who discovered the actions of the Dingping Army, was very anxious, but he had no way to stop it at the moment.

The trebuchet troops of the Dingping army advanced to a distance of about thirty-five paces from the river bank and spread out along the line and began to dig fortifications, while the infantry laid out their horses along the Weishui River.

Just as the Dingping army was arranging defenses, the 20,000 Yellow Turban Army began to launch a river-crossing attack, Zhang Yi turned his head and signaled Guan Yu to continue commanding, and he ran to Zhang Fei's side, Guan Yu immediately issued an order to respond, thousands of strong crossbowmen and hundreds of giant crossbowmen went out to wait behind the trebuchet array, pikemen, sword and shield men were on standby behind the strong crossbowmen, and the cavalry troops were divided into three teams to wait on the three assault channels set aside.

The battle immediately began, the first to attack was the trebuchet troops of the Dingping Army, the stones rained down towards the Yellow Turban Army who were crossing the river, the huge splash continued to rise, from time to time the raft was hit by the boulder and overturned, the Yellow Turban Army soldiers who fell into the water or desperately swam back or swam towards the nearby raft, and some were unlucky to be directly hit by the boulder, and instantly turned into a large ball of blood in the water, and the whole river surface was like boiling water.

The Yellow Turbans' crossbows fired back at the first time, but this time the attack was very ineffective, and the huge spears and arrows basically hit the earth shield.

Just when the battle here was in full swing, the Yellow Turban Army on the central line also began to attack, the Yellow Turban Army launched a fierce attack in two directions of the Weishui River at the same time, this time the Yellow Turban Army's attack scale was much larger than the last time, and the Yellow Turban Army seemed to be going to open the Weishui River defense line of the Dingping Army with blood.

Guan Yu immediately stood on a high post on the west bank, looking at the fierce battle in front of him, at this moment, a beach-grabbing unit of the Yellow Turban Army had already landed on the river bank in one place, and was charging in depth, but the strong crossbowmen of the Dingping Army caused their casualties to rise in a straight line.

When the Yellow Turban Army rushed to the point about twenty paces away from the trebuchet barrier, a group of cavalry troops that had been waiting for it shouted violently, and hundreds of iron horsemen rushed out with dust and smoke, and the iron horsemen instantly smashed into the enemy's army, and the Yellow Turban Army only resisted for a moment before collapsing.

"Humph! Stupid guys. ”

Guan Yu stroked the long hair under his chin and showed a sneer.

"These traitors are too stupid!" Yang Kai on the side also sneered at the same time: "This rush is clearly sending you to death!" Tsk, I don't know if it's the same with General Zhang San, but they don't seem to have trebuchets. ”

At this moment, Yang Kaijing was naked, the upper half of his body was wrapped like a mummy, and there was a lot of blood under the snow-white cotton cloth.

Hearing this, Guan Yu frowned, and Yang Kai reminded him of this inadvertently.

"How is the battle on the Eastern Front?"

Guan Yu asked.

Yang Kai immediately replied: "Just now, General Zhang San's lieutenant Qi Yong sent a report that the thieves attacked fiercely, but they only increased the casualties in vain, and did not make any progress!" ”

Guan Yu nodded, and asked again, "What about the Western Front?" What is the current situation on the Western Front? ”

Yang Kai frowned slightly and replied, "There seems to be no movement on the Western Front for the time being!" ”

"Not good!" Guan Yu's eyes widened: "The real attack direction of the thief army is very likely to be the Western Front!" ”

Hearing this, Yang Kai couldn't help but be taken aback, and said urgently: "The last general will immediately send an order to be strictly guarded!" ”

And when he had spoken, he went down to give orders.

"Wait!"

Guan Yu stopped Yang Kai, stroked his long hair and thought for a while, and said, "You quickly send someone to report to Hou Ye, let Hou Ye command here, and I will personally go to the Western Front for reinforcements!" ”

"No!"

Yang Kai clenched his fists and immediately retreated.

Guan Yu looked at the hill on the other side of the river with the flag of the Yellow Turban Army Marshal, and muttered: "I can't imagine that a thief Qu Shuai actually knows how to use stratagems, a certain family really underestimates you!" ”

After receiving Yang Kai's report, Zhang Yi frowned, and didn't have time to think about it, so he hurriedly led people over, and at the same time, Guan Yu also hurriedly led people to the Western Front.

It was almost noon, the battle on the Eastern and Central Fronts was still going on, and the earth-shattering shouts looked a little tired.

The Yellow Turban Army invested more than 50,000 attack troops, and the Dingping Army defending the defense was already very difficult, but after Wen Ping led his troops to arrive, the battle situation on the two fronts was stabilized.

"Dingding......

When the sun was on the third pole, the sound of singing gold came from the south bank, and the Yellow Turban Army couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when they heard it, not only they were relieved, but the Dingping Army on the north bank was also secretly relieved.

At this time, on the banks and tidal flats of the central and eastern lines, the corpses were all over the field, the corpses of the soldiers on both sides were stacked on top of each other, the remnants of the river were floating, the corpses of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army were floating with the waves, and the entire Weishui River almost turned red.

At noon, after arranging the fortifications on the riverbank by himself, Zhang Yi hurried to the camp where the wounded were placed, and when comforting the wounded, Zhang Yi, who was tired and hungry, and Zhang Yi, who couldn't support it, almost fainted on the side of the wounded's couch in front of him, and Zhang Yi, who felt a little unsupportable, entrusted the defense of the middle line to Wen Ping, and ordered Dian Wei and Han Tao to lead the golden sword guard to assist Wen Ping, and returned to the Chinese army's big tent.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

It seems that there is a premonition, Zhang Yi just returned to the camp to rest, the Yellow Turban Army on the south bank sounded the war drum of attack, and the brutal offensive and defensive battle started again, this time the Yellow Turban Army seemed to be desperate, 50,000 troops launched an attack from the eastern front, the middle line and the western front at the same time, and this time, the Yellow Turban Army seemed to have taken some fierce medicine, several times faster than the previous landing speed, after they went ashore, the soldiers of the Dingping Army were surprised to find that many of the Yellow Turban Army attacking this time were straw men!

Those straw men walked crookedly, moved very slowly, and did not know how to dodge arrows, but after they were hit by arrows, they were like no one, and they could continue to move forward, unless they were smashed by trebuchets and torn apart, no matter what attack those straw men received, they were like no one, which frightened the soldiers of the Dingping Army.

Standing on the dirt slope on the south bank, Peng Tuo, who was holding a peachwood sword, recited a spell silently in his mouth again, and pointed forward suddenly, and after he finished pointing, the whole person immediately seemed to be out of strength, and he couldn't even stand, if it wasn't for the people behind him to support him in time, he would definitely have to roll down the dirt slope.

"Qu Shuai!"

"Qu Shuai is okay, right?"

"How are you?"

“……”

Seeing Peng Tuo's sallow face after casting the spell, all the generals stepped forward to ask.

"I'm fine, it's just a little empty," waving his hand, Peng Tuo struggled to stand up, looked at the other side and said: "My Taoism is still too shallow, hey~ If it weren't for the strong combat strength of this Dingping army, we would have lost nearly 40,000 horses in just one morning, and this technique should have been used after crossing the river." ”

Peng Tuo is not a general, he is also one of Zhang Jiao's proud disciples, his Taoism is still above Zhang Mancheng, and the most proficient is to sprinkle beans into soldiers, but this time there are a bit of a lot of them, there are 30,000, and these soldiers he made are not superficial Taoism like sprinkling beans into soldiers, but stronger Taoism than sprinkling beans into soldiers, Peng Tuo is out of strength.

In fact, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang will also scatter beans into soldiers, but they are not proficient, at most they can get a thousand people, which will not help at all in the war, Zhang Bao is actually best at the art of civil engineering in the five elements, so he can get out of the city wall, and Zhang Liang is the best at the art of golden fire, can turn stones into gold, most of the financial resources of the Yellow Turban Army are obtained by Zhang Liang, but his Taoist skills are useless in the battle.

With the help of those straw men, the defense in the middle line has once again become precarious.