Chapter 235: Smoke and Sand in the Half City (92)
This trebuchet is so huge that it stands on the wall of Cangzhou, as if it is pestle in front of you.
The huge trebuchet that was built was put into use, and the boulders continued to smash into Cangzhou City, causing huge losses to Cangzhou City!
Before, the Qin army was not without catapults and siege vehicles, but because their range was limited after all, they needed to be close to the city wall to be effective.
And there are also trebuchets on Cangzhou City, which can play a great role in the Qin army's siege machinery, and the stones thrown by these machinery are not huge, and the losses in Cangzhou are within a controllable range.
But after this huge trebuchet was built, that kind of boulder was thrown over, and the damage caused to Cangzhou City was huge!
They were built outside the range of the trebuchets in Cangzhou, and Cangzhou had nothing to do with them.
No matter how strong the city wall is, it was hit by this kind of boulder, and some places were smashed and collapsed, and the soldiers had to repair it overnight, but the rush repair was too late to fill all the gaps, and the Qin army could already enter through these gaps.
And these places rely on human lives to block.
At the beginning, Yan Yuheng couldn't participate in the battle because he was not a soldier, but later it can be said that he has reached the level of taking people's lives and piling them in, who else can care if the person who comes up has a token or not, as long as he can fight and is not afraid of death, then come up and fight together!
The only thing that can make Cangzhou breathe a sigh of relief for the time being is that because this trebuchet is too huge, it is not easy for the Qin army to use it, it can't be used for a long time, and it can't be thrown continuously, giving the Cangzhou army time to breathe.
The war was fought from the end of winter to the end of spring, and after nearly three months of such a long period of attack and defense, there was no one in the Cangzhou army who was not injured. The difference is only in the size of the injury.
On this day, after the Qin army retreated, Xi Fan retreated from the front line after changing her guard and walked slowly towards her residence.
The Qin army's huge trebuchet not only threw boulders, but also flaming flints, and the power of this flint was enormous, and the flint that crossed the city wall made the houses near the city wall not only smashed, but also burned.
And when the fire is together, it is not a single family that is affected.
Many of the city's residents were now homeless, sitting numbly in front of their dilapidated houses, not knowing what to think.
On the road, soldiers constantly carried the wounded to the rear for treatment, but on their stretchers, more of the dead were carried.
"Son! You can't leave your mother! You open your eyes, you wake up for your mother! Your father is gone, you are gone, how do you let your mother live, how do you live! Get up! Hurry up! ”
An old woman in front of her stopped a stretcher, lay on the stretcher and beat the body of the soldier who had been killed, crying heartbreakingly.
The two soldiers carrying the stretcher just lowered the stretcher with their heads down, allowing the old woman to vent, looking sad but unable to comfort her.
What haunts them is lingering sadness and despair.
This scene, during this time, Xi Fan could see it almost every day.
Cangzhou City is a military fortress, and most of the residents in the city are military dependents, and they are related to the soldiers in the Cangzhou army.
Day by day, after fighting, every day there are families broken because of this, and almost all of them are these old and weak women and children.
After losing their husbands and sons, the pain in their hearts is no less than the injuries on their bodies, not only because of the death of their loved ones, but also because of the despair of their future lives.