Chapter 694: Luban's Catapult [Fifth Update]
All the troops in Xiyi City add up to 2.1 million, of which there are only more than 800,000 real elite soldiers, and the rest are newly recruited recruits.
Although he has undergone some training, he is not an elite soldier.
Now Meng Tian is taking all these recruits with him to use them as the Chinese army.
Because in his plan, the most critical thing is not the Chinese army, but the army of Wei Chigong, Han Sen, and Qin Qiong.
As long as they completed the task, the battle was won, and the role of the Chinese army under his command was more of a military oppression than a fight.
Meng Tian had just made a move on the side of Xiyi City, and Rong Shiyun, who was in charge of the broken back, got the news as soon as possible.
"Meng Tian's speed is so fast!"
Rong Shiyun's face was solemn.
Regarding Meng Tian's ability, he would not doubt it, because it was because Meng Tian was guarding Xiyi City that Fan Haosheng ordered the army to attack the city several times, and he was beaten back without even approaching the city wall.
Not to mention that Meng Tian was still the main general who destroyed the Ziyang Kingdom before, and his ability was undoubted.
Now facing a full-scale attack by the army under his command led by Meng Tian, even if Rong Shiyun's command is basically elite soldiers, he can't feel the slightest ease.
"Pass the order, let the generals rely on the barracks as a formation, defend the barracks, and buy time for the army to retreat!"
"At the same time, I sent someone to pass the news to General Fan, and asked him to arrange for the army to assist me, otherwise I would not be able to stop the enemy army for long. Rong Shiyun immediately ordered.
"Yes!"
His own soldiers immediately went down to give the order.
After Fan Haosheng got the news, his face also changed greatly, he didn't expect that the army on his side would attack as soon as Meng Tian moved, and he didn't give himself extra time to retreat at all.
However, for Rong Shiyun's request, he groaned slightly, shook his head, and said: "Give Rong Shiyun an order, the army has begun to retreat at present, and there are no extra people for him." ”
"Order him to give Ben General to block Meng Tian's army, dare to abandon the position, and engage in military law!"
Soon, a special soldier passed Fan Haosheng's order to Rong Shiyun.
When Rong Shiyun heard this, he was furious and scolded angrily: "Fan Haosheng, you bastard who kills a thousand knives, you are trying to kill 600,000 sons under my command!"
Meng Tian's army is coming, and he doesn't need to think much to know that the enemy army must be coming with the determination to break the enemy, and his 600,000 army will definitely not be able to hold it for long.
It's just that Fan Haosheng's order came down, and Rong Shiyun didn't have the right to refuse, so he could only scold angrily twice, and then pass the order to the generals under his command to let them do a good job of defense.
He himself went down and hurried to the camp.
Faced with the attack of Meng Tian's million-strong army, he didn't dare to be careless.
Meng Tian brought more than a million troops to Rong Shiyun's camp.
"Meng Tian, the army of my Bailan Kingdom has not yet attacked your Xiyi City, and you dare to send troops to attack my camp, you are simply looking for death!"
On the camp, Rong Shiyun shouted angrily at Meng Tian below.
Meng Tian looked at it and said with a smile: "Bailan City, the royal capital of your Bailan Kingdom, has been captured by His Majesty the Emperor of my Nanyan Kingdom, why don't I dare to fight this small camp?"
"Come on, prepare to attack the city!"
Under Meng Tian's order, a group of tall and sturdy soldiers pushed out a hundred huge wooden boxes and stood in front of the large army.
The soldiers pressed down on top of the huge wooden box, which soon changed into a catapult more than ten meters high.
The body of the car is carved with formation patterns, and spirit stones are used as power on it, and huge stones are fired for siege.
On the Kyushu continent more than 1,000 years ago, catapults were used as siege vehicles, but they were abandoned later.
The reason is simple, the catapult is bulky and slow-moving, and with the slow speed of reloading, it will be unusable for a while after a round.
And during this time, there were enough rounds of enemy crossbows from bed crossbows.
In addition, the stones thrown by the catapult are easily blocked by the warriors, which leads to the gradual abandonment of the catapult behind.
Up to now, when the two armies are fighting, whether it is a plain battle or a siege battle, they basically do not use catapults, and most of them use bed crossbows, which are powerful and faster to reload.
But at present, these catapults pushed out by Meng Tian have been improved by Lu Ban.
He used the blessing of the formation to fill the spirit stones, and at the same time, the catapult was not just a stone that could be used like before, it was all special stones.
These stones can be borrowed from the formation to infuse the spiritual energy in the spirit stone, and then thrown out by the catapult, and then with the blessing of the formation, it is difficult for the warrior to resist.
And if the stone thrown out is stimulated by the true qi, it will directly detonate the spiritual energy inside, which is extremely powerful.
In addition, Lu Ban used the trick to change the catapult, which was no longer as bulky and difficult to move as before.
Now the catapult in Lu Feng's army will turn into a trap box when it is not in use, although it is still very large, but compared to the catapult on the Kyushu continent before, the movement speed is more than a little faster.
This is also one of the confidence of Meng Tian to break through the enemy camp this time.
"Is this a catapult?"
Rong Shiyun on the camp saw it and frowned.
He had seen drawings and records of catapults in military array classics, which were used in army combat many years ago, and became the three major weapons of the army, along with the crossbow bed crossbow.
But later, as the bed crossbow was improved by some craftsmen, the catapult was completely abandoned, and the three sharp weapons became the two major sharp weapons.
"Meng Tian, Meng Tian, I thought you had what kind of means you would dare to attack the city, but I didn't expect it to be a catapult!"
With a sneer, Rong Shiyun waved his hand, and suddenly a group of warriors in the army walked out, took precautions, and waited for the catapult to throw stones out, and immediately hit back.
"Put!"
With Meng Tian's order, the formation of a hundred catapults was activated, and stones the size of a grinding disc were thrown out.
"I said how dare Meng Tian attack the city with a catapult, it turned out to be a catapult that could shoot continuously!"
"This craftsman of the Nanyan Kingdom has some skills!"
"But what if you have some skills?"
Rong Shiyun's face was cold, and he said, "Under the martial artist's block, the catapult is waste!"
When these stones flew halfway, Rong Shiyun immediately waved his hand, and the warriors who had been prepared for a long time immediately flew out, with true qi in their hands, and hit these stones.
They were all ready to smash the stones with all their might, so that the enemy could see how powerful they were.
But when they touched these stones with their fists with true qi, they suddenly felt a strange fluctuation coming from inside the stones.
Before they could react, the stone shattered, and a violent energy directly hit the bodies of these warriors.
"Poof!"
These warriors were immediately sent flying, and those with weak strength were directly killed.
For a while, only the explosion of 'boom' was heard.
Under everyone's attention, those fierce warriors either flew upside down and crashed into the camp, or their bones were directly gone.
PS: Update tomorrow from 3 to 4 pm, and I still owe 88 chapters of the update.
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