This quarter of an hour of intensive assault finally ceased in the exhausted state of the five or six thousand slaves.

At the outermost end of the circle were rocks and corroded ground.

The steppe people moved quickly, and the second batch of slaves soon came up to take over the work, and then there was another round of indiscriminate bombardment.

This time, the steppe people were very patient and did not be impatient, as if they were ready to blast open the magic circle and attack again.

Chen Zheng also saw siege warfare for the first time, although he had experienced it several times in his "memory", but it was as a resident, fleeing for his life.

As a defender of the city, standing on the top of the city and watching it is naturally a different feeling.

Stones that are much larger than people, disgusting explosives, standing at the first time, are very impactful.

Don't think about using your own martial arts to smash these things, that's something that only martial artists above the Innate Realm can do.

The martial artists under the innate realm only penetrate the meridians, in the end, they are still mortal flesh and blood, no matter how high the talent is, no matter how exquisite the martial arts, it is difficult to resist in the face of the power formed by nature.

Only when one has stepped into the innate realm can the human body have a trace of extraordinary possibility, and it is possible to smash such a huge stone head-on.

It's just that there are not many martial artists above the innate realm in Daxing Pass, no more than twenty people, they can almost be said to be the core combat power and command level of Daxing Pass, their opponents are not these big stones, but should be the high-level martial artists in the enemy one by one.

Their energy and stamina must be used on the blade, so before the enemy's generals make a move, the entire battlefield is a competition and contest between the soldiers of both sides.

The city defense circle was already a little shaky under the wash of the second wave of attacks.

Then the grassland people didn't care about sending a third wave of people up, and now it is the stage where everyone tests and consumes each other.

Because he was standing on the front line, Chen Zheng could clearly see that the light curtain of the magic circle was already very transparent.

Wu Tong's side also had soldiers come to inform that the stored Yuan Qi Stone was about to bottom out, and it was estimated that this wave of attacks would make the magic circle unable to support it.

Wu Tong nodded to make it clear, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to prepare to meet the enemy head-on, frontally those soldiers with large shields, who would defend themselves against possible arrow attacks by the steppe people.

And in the back are the archers of the Zhenbei Army, they don't need to aim as long as they follow the order to shoot, the pass is long, and the ground in front is destined to be a place for the enemy to set foot in, and the dense enemy does not need to aim at all, only needs to shoot mechanically with a bow, and it will definitely hit the enemy.

As for ballistas, repeaters and the like will have to wait a little longer, and now is not the time for them to strike.

All eyes on both sides were fixed on the crumbling light curtain, waiting for the moment when it shattered. x

"Bang!" "Whoa!"

As another stone bombarded the light curtain, the previously crumbling light curtain finally shattered.

The subsequent stones and explosives finally came into contact with the walls of Daxingguan.

Some of them jumped over the heads of the people and smashed into the buildings in the gate, and some of them bombarded the city walls, bringing up a cloud of dust and a clear sense of vibration.

Some of them landed on the top of the city, and the soldiers near the landing point hurried to avoid the attack of the boulder, and those who cultivated higher could try to deflect the direction of the boulder a little so that it would not cause too much damage. x

But that corpse mixture was very troublesome. After exploding, all kinds of dirty things inside came out at once, and the city walls, true qi shields, and armor would all be corroded accordingly.

If there is an unlucky egg who does not resist with true qi in time, and it touches the skin, it will soon be a pothole, and it must be treated as soon as possible.

Normally, once the circle is destroyed, the steppe people will stop the catapult attacks and start using their crowd tactics, but this time the situation is somewhat unexpected.

The steppe people did not stop the catapults, and a new wave of slaves came up, and they decided to attack after all the ammunition had been emptied.

Such a change suddenly made Wu Tong and Yan Xuelan feel that the commander style of the grassland people this time seemed to have changed.

It's a bit of a war in the Central Plains, and you don't have much close contact, but you start to suppress your morale from a distance and have a suppressive effect.

It is indeed not a good thing to be beaten passively like this, and morale will definitely be affected, so even if it is the possibility of being set on fire by a catapult, Wu Tong must fight back.

So Wu Tong ordered all the high-level cultivators on his side to go to the crossbows and ballistas, focusing on protecting these defending ordnance.

Then he ordered the ballistas and repeaters, which had long been aimed at the sidelines, to fire at the position of the trebuchet.

At this time, the catapults in the steppe people's team had just made a round of shooting and were reloading, that is, in the critical process of loading ammunition, an accident happened.

With the sound of a huge machine, huge crossbow arrows shot down from the pass of Daxing Pass, and at the same time, there were dense arrows pouring down from Daxing Pass, and the target was also a catapult, which was already their limit position.

No sooner had than the frightened expressions in the eyes of the slaves that the attack had arrived.

The huge bolts fired by the ballistas were at least three meters long, and the arrows alone were larger than a person's head.

Even if it has been aimed, but there is no test launch, everything is judged by the experience of the shooter, and it is not impossible to lose the accuracy.

The crossbow arrows used for this ballista have a very powerful penetrating power, and the arrows are also multi-forked, which can be torn while having penetrating power, which is very advantageous for destroying the enemy's siege equipment or destroying the formation.

Among them, the accurate hit on the catapult directly penetrates the parts of the catapult, these siege equipment are very precise, and if there is a small part that fails, it may cause the entire catapult to be unusable.

If it is a Central Plains country, they may have corresponding craftsmen who will directly repair and replace them with prepared accessories.

But the steppe people don't have this ability, they are originally rough workmanship, if it breaks, they hardly need it, because there is no need, and they can move things that have been cobbled together. If you want to fix it, it's better to build another one faster.

As for the crossbow arrows that missed, they plunged directly into the slave pile, and directly like a string of sugar gourds, they nailed a string of several people together, no need to look at it, they would definitely not survive, a hole as big as a human head, the organs in the body are estimated to explode in an instant, and it is a kind of torture that does not die on the spot. Zero Jiu Literature Network 09

The effect of the crossbow is also very good, and the dense continuous arrows cannot penetrate the catapult, but they are used to harvest the lives of the slaves very quickly.

It's like cutting wheat, it's a piece when you brush it, and it's all shot like a hedgehog.

Some of the more miserable ones were hit by more arrows, and they were all about to be shot into pulp.

The slaves who received the attack did not stupidly stay where they were and let others shoot, and began to hide behind, and some even turned around and ran backwards, turning their backs towards the enemy, they made a mistake that was obvious in the Yuanwu Continent, that is, they did not leave their backs to the enemy at any time, let alone the enemy's weapons were facing them.

On the contrary, more people were hit by arrows because of this run, and some were directly shot in the head, which was an ending of violent death on the spot.

They also let out panicked screams.

"Run for your life."

"! Hurry up, I don't want to die! ”

The list goes on and on.

The other slaves were also timid.

Even the whips of the slave leaders could not stop the slaves from retreating, and the reprimands and force that were effective in the past did not seem to work at this time.

Soon, however, the escaped slaves fell to the ground with wide eyes.

Some were hit by arrows in the forehead or throat and other vital parts, some were cut off by someone in a flash, and some were hit hard by sticks and weapons, and the chest was directly a big pit and fell to the ground, which had more air in and less air out.

The blood splash in front of them finally made these escaped slaves realize that the attack on the pass was more dangerous, but these steppe jackals behind them were more dangerous than the rain of arrows at the pass.

"You lowly slaves still dare to run away, isn't it itchy to kill those who dare to run away, the corpse can be used as ammunition, now return to the catapult for me immediately, and knock out these ballistas and repeaters for me!" Bands of steppe cavalry formed a human wall to block the retreating slaves, and the first man dressed as a general waved a mace with a red and white object on his hand and shouted at the slaves.

At the same time, he also ordered the execution of some slaves who had fled in the first place and caused panic, as well as a few slave leaders who had just managed poorly.

Don't look at them showing off their might in front of the slaves below on weekdays, but they are only slightly more advanced slaves, and for the grassland people, they naturally want to kill them.

These slaves had no choice, and when they went back to pull the catapult, they would face the rain of arrows at the pass and be shot, or they would die.

But if you go to the back, you can't survive, the cavalry of the steppe people can watch, and if there are retreating slaves, they can be killed.

If you go forward, you may still be alive, but if you go back, you will definitely die immediately.

So the slaves gritted their teeth, returned to the trebuchet, and continued to pull the trebuchet, while they began to adjust their positions, aiming their fire at the ballista and repeater, but they had little experience in operation and were relatively unfamiliar with the movements, and could only be observed with the naked eye.

The efficiency is lower, but it's starting to fight back.

It's just that the accuracy is relatively poor, and it has not touched the corresponding target many times, and it has deviated a little too far.

The two sides are still shooting at each other, but the professionals are still better.

As long as the ballista of the Zhenbei Army is successfully launched, without the interference of the steppe warriors on the way, after one or two shots, it will definitely be able to successfully hit the catapult and make it unable to work.

So even if the tribal warriors on the steppe side began to protect the safety of the catapults, they did not achieve much success.

As for those slaves, the grassland people will not protect them, isn't it good to let these slaves consume the arrow rain of the Northern Yan people

In the end, two-thirds of these fifty or sixty catapults were knocked out by the ballistae of the Northern Yan, and the remaining one-third might not have been kept if it had not been for the protection of the steppe people.

However, the Daxingguan side was not without losses, and the ballistae and repeaters in the exposed positions were also damaged by the trebuchet by fourteen.

Nine of them have been smashed and cannot be repaired and reused, and the remaining five can be repaired before going to war, which is also a matter of no choice.

The ballistas and crossbows are not small, and it is a little difficult to move them before the attack comes, and if you can't interrupt the attack halfway, you have to abandon these defense machines and save people's lives first.

Ballistas and repeaters are destroyed, and it is only a matter of small money that they can be remade.

But soldiers who are proficient in the use of defense machinery are indeed rare, their experience takes a lot of time to train, and the talented ones can even train more soldiers who are proficient in the operation of equipment by hand, each of them is a baby bump, and protecting these people when things are wrong is more important than some dead things such as machines.

The casualties can be said to be not large, they are all skin injuries, and it is an exaggeration to say that they hurt the muscles and bones.

No more than a hundred people died on this side of Daxingguan, mainly because these people were relatively unlucky, they didn't dodge fast enough, and they were directly hit by boulders or corpse mixtures, and they were either directly crushed into meat sauce, or they were corroded through their bodies.

Most of the rest are wounded, and they don't affect their combat effectiveness too much.

Of the 5,000 slaves who were responsible for pulling the catapults on the steppe people's side, no more than 800 survived the rain of arrows, and half of them were nailed to the ground or on the catapults by arrows, and they should not be able to die for a while, but no one would give them a good time, and perhaps they would eventually die of excessive blood loss.

The remaining more than 400 were not shot, but their eyes were full of horror, even if they were all warriors, but after so many years of labor, the pride and courage belonging to the warriors were almost worn away, and the whole person had already become servile, and in order to survive, anything could be done.

As for the slaves who haven't gone up yet, although they are a little scared in their hearts, their emotions are still relatively stable.

Fortunately, they can live a little longer.

Then by order of the steppe generals, a new batch of slaves was ready.

However, this time, the state of the slaves was different from what Wu Tong remembered.

Normally, the next step for the steppe people is to use the sea of people, and any ladders, siege towers, siege vehicles and other things will be used to carry out frontal attacks.

But the scene below was different from what he had been exposed to.

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