305, bloodletting [4000 words]
The steppe legion, which was bombarded and killed dozens of people by five stone bullets, did not have any fear of retreating at all.
The gap in the formation was filled in a blink of an eye by the shield carts that followed one after another, and the soldiers of the Prairie Legion, stepping on the broken corpses of their comrades, shouted loudly, pushed one after another heavy shield carts, and flooded into the canyon like a tide.
Trebuchet reloads too slowly.
The five trebuchets behind the walls of the city, although they were the most advanced counterweight trebuchets, and the firing rate and accuracy far exceeded that of the human-drawn trebuchet, but they could not quickly carry out a second launch in a short time.
The shield cart of the Prairie Legion, although it can't stop the bombardment of hundreds of catties of stone bullets, is still very effective in defending against arrows.
Even if a large ballista launches a spear-like giant arrow, even if it can barely penetrate the shield cart, it will not be able to effectively kill and injure the personnel behind the shield cart, let alone completely destroy it.
Looking at the surging grassland army in front of him, looking at the rows of thick shield carts like moving wooden walls, Ouyang Jing's face was expressionless.
The strategy of the Steppe Legion is simple and effective.
Each shield car is a van-shaped shield car with a height of two meters, a width of two meters, and a length of three meters.
There is a one-foot-thick solid wood baffle in front, and the ceiling is spliced with logs with thick bowl mouths, and covered with several layers of cowhide, and between each layer of cowhide, sand is sprinkled for fire prevention, just like an earthen tank.
Under the cover of the shield cart, the warriors of the steppe legion will soon be able to reach the foot of the city wall.
After the front row of shield cars stood in position, the shield cars that arrived after them were connected with the front row of shield cars, and as soon as the front and rear were opened, they could immediately form a "trench" with their own roof.
After that, the steppe soldiers were able to quickly support through the trenches formed by the rows of shield vehicles.
On Ouyang Jing's side, the only "heavy weapons" that could effectively threaten the shield car were the five trebuchets.
But five slow-firing trebuchets, even with each shot, could destroy several shield carts and kill dozens of steppe warriors, and this piecemeal loss was only an insignificant loss for the large and constantly supported steppe legion.
Therefore, the two sides will soon be close to each other.
But Ouyang Jing was unfazed.
He had the strongest warriors, and every warrior was covered in iron and armed to the toes. No matter how powerful the Steppe Legion is, what is he afraid of?
What about hand-to-hand combat?
Just let the steppe corps, under the city walls, drain every drop of blood!
The battle situation, if Ouyang Jing expected, is developing generally.
The trebuchet had only fired three rounds, and the front row of shield carts of the steppe legion had reached thirty meters in front of the city walls.
Then the first row of shield carts stopped, standing like a wooden wall in front of the wall.
The second row of shield cars arrived, and after the first row of shield cars, the roofs of the front and rear two rows of shield cars were tightly fitted.
After that, there is a third row, a fourth row......
Rows of shield carts, all connected, soon stretched beyond the canyon.
In the canyon, man-made "wooden trenches" appeared.
After the "trench" was formed, the grassland soldiers outside the canyon continued to drive into it.
At the same time, the front baffle of the first row of shield cars fell at the same time, and one by one the steppe warriors holding large shields shouted out from the open exit and surged out.
They quickly spread out their formation under the city walls, holding their large shields aloft, forming an airtight shield wall.
When the number of people had gathered enough, another group of archers rushed out, and quickly entered the shield wall, drew their bows and arrows, and threw arrows at the city.
During this period, the head of the city was closed and there was no response.
Only the five trebuchets fired one after another, destroying a small section of the wooden trench from time to time, setting off patches of bloody rain.
Disheveled!
The bowstrings roared, and a rain of arrows flew towards the city.
At the head of Guancheng, Ouyang Jing stood on a high platform, not looking at the rain of arrows that flew in.
Under the high platform, in front of the battlements, forty centaur archers in heavy armor lined up, their swords in sheaths, and their arrows unwound.
Behind the centaur shooter were forty minotaur warriors who were also iron-clad to their hooves. At the feet of each minotaur warrior was a bamboo basket, which was filled with discus with a diameter of one foot.
Yes, discus.
Although the lethality of the plate axe is huge, the cost performance is too low.
Using a plate axe as a throwing weapon, in this kind of siege warfare, it is simply impossible to recover in time, just to send equipment to the enemy.
So Ouyang Jing replaced all the throwing weapons of the cattle people with discus.
The minotaur warriors have all practiced the Boss team, tailor-made for them, combined with the throwing kung fu created by the "Shakya Elephant Throwing Skill".
With the talent and strength of the minotaur, coupled with this tailor-made throwing kung fu, even if the edge of the discus is not sharp, a discus flying out, and the warrior wearing plate armor is hit, and the bones will be broken and the tendons will be broken, and he will fall to the ground.
And the large discus with a diameter of one foot can only be used effectively as a weapon by a race with wide palms like the Minotaur. Even if you are picked up by an enemy, the enemy will not be able to use it on your side on the spot.
Unless they have the time and patience to pick up the discus and melt it and reforge it into other weapons.
The same goes for the centaurs' arrows.
Each centaur's arrow is only the point of the arrow's edge, made of stainless steel. The arrows other than the arrows are made of fragile pig iron.
With the bow power of more than 600 catties of the steel arm longbow of the centaur archers, the arrows hit hard targets such as armor and bones, and at the same time, under the huge momentum, the arrows are either broken or deformed, which can not only cause great damage to the enemy, but also difficult to leave a complete arrow for the enemy to use.
Ouyang Jing and his teammates, all aspects, including the details of the weapons, have all been taken into account, how can this battle be invincible?
The rain of arrows from the city flew up to the top of the city.
Ouyang Jing stood on the high platform, not moving.
The centaur and minotaur warriors at the head of the city also remained motionless, but bowed their heads slightly.
Ding-ding-bell......
The rain of arrows fell on the warriors, making only a crisp sound like striking iron, and only on their steel helmets and plate armor, splashing small sparks and scratching small scratches.
The soldiers at the head of the city were unscathed.
And the enemy archers under the city are still firing arrows. At the same time, under the cover of shield hands, they kept approaching the city wall.
Soon, they were within twenty meters of the city wall.
It was only at this time that Ouyang Jing ordered in a deep voice: "Shooter, salvo!" β
At the sound of an order, forty centaur archers, armed with two arrows in their hands, wound their bows and opened their bows.
Bang!
In the sound of firecrackers, eighty branches of heavy steel armor shot out against the high shield wall.
If the arrows of the archers of the Prairie Legion are a storm of flying locusts, then the heavy arrows shot by the centaur archers are indestructible lightning!
Eighty bolts of lightning pierced through the air, piercing through the wooden shields held high by the steppe soldiers on that side like breaking grass mats, shooting through the shieldmen and shields!
With just one round of fire, the wall of the steppe shieldmen that the steppe shieldmen used to cover the shooters was broken through a huge gap, revealing the undisguised shooters behind them.
The centaur shooters were expressionless, their skills were as fast as lightning, and in the blink of an eye, they shot another round.
A group of steppe shooters, screaming and falling to the ground.
Bang!
Bang!
Bang!
The sound of explosive arrows leaving the strings continued to sound, and waves of heavy arrows as fast as lightning and as strong as meteors rushed mercilessly into the grassland shooter array. The steppe warriors fell to the ground in pieces, and the gushing blood soon gathered into a stream of blood.
A centaur who is a natural marksman, he can shoot three rounds in two seconds under a high-speed charge.
So how high can the rate of fire be when they stand still and play to their heart's content?
Two seconds, five rounds!
Forty centaur archers, in ten seconds, fired twenty-five rounds of heavy arrows.
In each round, eighty arrows can be fired at the same time. Under the burst of two thousand heavy arrows, the vanguard of the grassland legion under the city seemed to be bombarded by a platoon of guns, and in an instant, it was swept away!
Nearly 500 grassland soldiers were corpsed under the city.
And in the rear, in the "wooden trenches", the steppe warriors are still pouring out.
Ouyang Jing's face was expressionless, and he ordered in a deep voice: "Shooter retreat!" β
With a steel arm longbow with a bow strength of at least 600 catties and a maximum of 800 catties, within ten seconds, twenty-five rounds of continuous shooting, Rao is these forty centaur archers, all of them have two-star strength, each of them is long, and they are three-star warriors, and they must also retire and rest.
Otherwise, even if their physical strength will not be greatly consumed for a while, their fingers and arms will be left with dark wounds, which will affect long-term combat.
Forty centaur shooters retreated at the same time.
The forty minotaur warriors in the back row of them carried bamboo baskets full of discus and stepped forward to fill their positions.
Ouyang Jing ordered again: "Discus shooting." β
The minotaur warriors shouted in unison, grabbed a discus with their huge palms, shook their thick arms with all their might, and forty discuss spun at high speed, and flew towards the steppe soldiers who were rushing towards the city wall in a tornado-like roar.
Bang bang bang......
In the roar, one by one the steppe soldiers, even the officers in double armor, as long as they were hit by the discus on their torsos, they all spat blood from their mouths and fell to the ground, instantly despairing.
The discus hit on the head was especially miserable, and the whole head exploded like a watermelon!
The minotaur warriors kept throwing the discus, and the air in front of the level was filled with tornado-like whistling.
Some Minotaur warriors who have learned the "elephant throwing skill" very well can even make the discus hit one target and then eject and attack the next target again.
A three-star minotaur can even make a discus throw catapult five times in a row, knocking down five enemies!
Minotaur warriors are not as fast as centaurs don't shoot arrows.
But the discus they threw was far more powerful than the arrows fired by the centaur archers.
The fast arrows of the centaur archers are not always accurate. Some will also be blocked or even dodged by the warriors of the Prairie Legion - because the reincarnation of the Prairie is used to sacrifice and summon the sacrifices, all of them are strong Prairie Minotaurs and Centaurs, so the quality of the soldiers of the Prairie Legion is not bad.
Although there are a large number of relationships between the elderly, weak, women and children among the sacrifices, the 100,000 troops of the Prairie Legion are not more than two-star in all members. But the steppe warriors whose physique and strength have reached two stars are also in their early 40,000s. Three-star level fighters are even more thousand-remembered.
Fighters above the second level already have the opportunity to block and dodge the fast arrows fired by the centaur archers.
And the reaction speed of a three-star fighter will not be easily hit. Even if they are accidentally shot, they have a way to avoid the vital point, only suffer a few minor injuries, and still continue to fight.
Therefore, even with the archery talent of a centaur archer, twenty-five rounds of shooting, two thousand heavy arrows, at a close range of less than twenty meters, only shot less than five hundred steppe soldiers.
But the discus thrown by the Minotaur warriors has no room for parry.
If you want to block, the knife will be broken, the arm will be broken, and the discus will still have the strength to continue to bombard, shattering bones and internal organs.
After being hit by a discus, there will be no minor injuries.
Hit the torso, the head, and you will definitely die. Hit the limbs, it was also a comminuted fracture, completely incapacitated.
What's even more terrifying is that the flight trajectory of the discus is not straight, and often has a slight arc, which is difficult to dodge. Not to mention those discus throws that catapult.
Therefore, the discus throws of the minotaur warriors are more brilliant than the centaur archers.
When the 40 minotaur warriors threw all the 30 discus in their bamboo baskets, more than 700 steppe warriors fell under the city wall.
When they retreated, forty more unprepared centaur archers took turns and continued to rain down like a storm of steel......
The steppe legion, using the shield cart as a wall, built a wooden trench, and at a very slight cost, successfully moved to thirty meters in front of the city wall.
But since then, no matter how brave the steppe army is and how brave they are to death, no soldier has been able to break through to the root of the city wall and touch the wall that is not too high.
One of the most courageous, the commander of the steppe legion, with three-star strength, wielding a mace, and being able to open the discus of the minotaur, only rushed to a distance of ten meters from the city wall, and was set on fire by several minotaurs, blasting his upper body to pieces.
In just one hour, more than 3,000 steppe warriors died under the city walls.
Although the vanguard sent by the grassland legion was not the most elite corps, it only used the old and weak women and children of the grassland as sacrifices, and summoned less than two-star "low-level" soldiers, only ten-captain, centurion, thousand-captain and other officers, and the soldiers above the two-star rank, but such a heavy loss still made the goat-bearded old man who commanded the attack outside the canyon secretly frowned.
"Although cannon fodder is not very valuable, it has only been an hour since the start of the war, and the losses are so heavy...... It's too ugly to play. And, if you continue to fight like this, when will you be able to force out all the reincarnators on the other side? So far, except for the reincarnation lord who is dressed as a singing man, I haven't seen any reincarnators appear. β
The goat-bearded old man groaned for a while, as if to say to himself: "Servants, it's time to come in handy......"
There was silence for a while, and a voice from nowhere sounded in his ears, and he only said one word briefly and forcefully: "Good! β
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