Nuqing Xiangxi Chapter 18 Divine Arm Bed Crossbow
Chen Blind Man used to lead the crowd to fight, never missed once, he has always been very confident in his means of "looking, smelling, asking, and cutting", but there is a way to be a good swimmer drowning, and those who drown have always been able to water, he heard that there are several large spaces like castles underground, and he thought that if he dug up the tomb and the tomb door, and blocked the venom at the entrance of the underground palace, he could go straight to the Yellow Dragon.
At this time, there was no time to judge whether it was the sappers who smashed the coffin to attract the city mechanism, the jack gate that cut off the way was smashed down, only to hear the sound of the mechanism on the enemy tower of the urn city, and the sound of the strings on the dark city wall around was suddenly tightened, and this sudden movement stirred the nerves of the group of thieves to tense quickly.
Blind Chen knew that this was an omen for the crossbow in the tomb to be activated, and in an instant, ten thousand arrows would be fired in a volley. He can dominate the thieves in the world, he has something extraordinary, but he calmed down in this dangerous situation, knowing that if everyone runs around, they will die and have no life, only to wait for the convenience, find a flaw, and maybe there is still life. Blind Chen didn't care about talking carefully with Luo Lao, and hurriedly whistled, beckoned the group of thieves to stabilize the formation, and erected a rattan grass shield to defend.
The group of thieves shouted in unison, erecting rattan signs around the phalanx, and those in the array held rattan grass shields above their heads to cover them. The poisonous smoke of ambush fire in the ancient tomb is very common, and the unloading equipment, whether it is a ladder or a shield, has been soaked in medicinal solution, which can prevent fire, and the formation will be tightened at the moment, and it is impermeable.
Luo Lao Crooked left the phalanx with a few sappers, they saw the group of thieves erecting rattan signs, protecting the formation like an iron bucket, and listening to the sound of the city's head machine springs, they also knew that the big thing was not good, and they fled to the formation as if flying. Blind Chen also commanded the bandits to move closer to them, and almost at the same time, the arrows on the four walls of the city had been accumulated.
The arrows rained down on locusts, and several sappers slowed down under their feet and were shot to the ground on the spot. Luo Lao Crooked was a character who crawled out of the pile of dead, and when he saw that the momentum was not good, he drilled into the cracks of the people, and used a few of his brothers as living shields, and finally struggled to escape back to the four-door shield array of the Jieling group of thieves, but he didn't hurt half a hair.
Chen Blind was protected by a group of thieves in the middle, and when he heard it, arrows rained out in all directions, shooting on the rattan plaques and falling one after another. Although the arrows and crossbows are old, the power is still amazing. He secretly complained to himself, and then thought again, although this rain of arrows is powerful, but the shield is protected around, even if the water splashes, it will not enter, only drag on for a while, and the city will always run out of machinery, if it is not for the large number of thieves in the unloading mountain and the excellent equipment, I am afraid it will be difficult to get out of this misfortune.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I had these lucky thoughts, I felt that the fire was scorching, it turned out that some arrows were hidden in the fire phosphorus, which burned in the wind, and there were many fire oil and fish ointment hidden in the white bones in the city, and it was immediately caused by a fire, like a burning city. The group of thieves fell into the sea of fire, and they couldn't help but feel a big chaos in their feet, and Chen Blind hurriedly asked the brothers outside to block the arrows, and the centipedes inside hung the ladder to go out, pushing away the white bones around everyone and pushing the wall of fire away. Just like that, it was a little messy, and the shield array was exposed, and immediately several thieves were wounded by arrows, and the arrows were all barbs, and they could not be pulled out when they entered the flesh, and they screamed in pain like killing pigs.
Although the group of thieves pushed the nearby bones away, there was still a fire under their feet, and there were flammable oil bricks buried in the ground, but the fire oil in this oil brick had volatilized a lot, and the burning momentum was not strong. Blind Chen scolded: "The Yuan people are so vicious, I really want to kill them all!" "Seeing that the fire is getting stronger, burning everyone to even feel difficult to breathe, as if fire ashes are about to come out of their throats, as long as someone in the group is a little timid and confused, the formation will disperse, and the group of thieves who enter the urn city is counted as one, and no one can escape, even if they are not burned to death, they have to be shot alive into hedgehogs. Whether or not you can stick to it for a moment or three at the moment is the key to life and death, Chen Blind immediately did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly shouted: "Brothers, listen to my orders, and leave the green son behind!" ”
The group of thieves was forced by the flames, like a group of ants on a hot pot, and was about to be in a big mess, when they suddenly heard the thief order to erect a bamboo ladder tower, fortunately the group of dragons had a leader, and hurriedly supported several centipedes hanging ladders in one place, and set up a simple bamboo tower above the big stone coffin with the weakest fire. The formation was rounded, each holding a rattan card in his hand, climbing on the ladder with random arrows, a little farther away from the scorching ground, and the panicked thieves gradually stabilized, but after such a move, they inevitably broke a few people.
At this time, the rain of arrows was concentrated in the area where the coffins were arranged, aiming at the weakest part of the fire, and the fires kept accumulating, but fortunately, the angle of the crossbow was fixed, and it could be resisted after finding out the law. However, the bamboo tower made of centipedes hanging on the mountain ladder was surrounded by a fire, and the group of thieves seemed to be trapped on an isolated island in the sea of fire. Chen Blind took advantage of the firelight to take the opportunity to look at the enemy's upstairs, but if he didn't look at it, he saw that his face was like ashes.
I saw that the city was full of crossbows, and there were countless wooden people standing behind them, those wooden people were as tall as ordinary people, the structure was very simple, the armor and robes on their bodies were rotten, and the stake-like heads were painted with oil paint, staring and closing their mouths, with solemn expressions, divided into two teams, constantly repeating the action of carrying arrows and loading crossbows, hanging strings and shooting. There are wells of mercury in the enemy towers that are infused with it, and once the mercury begins to circulate, it will circulate until the bow is exhausted, or the machine collapses.
Blind Chen had smelled something strange in the enemy building before, and it was precisely because of the mercury well hidden in that building, but before he could distinguish it carefully, he had already triggered an ambush. It turns out that in the Huang Lao's art of cultivating immortals and alchemy, lead and mercury are indispensable, and one of the very important reasons why the emperors who sought immortals in the past chose Bottle Mountain as the place of alchemy is that Chenzhou is rich in cinnabar, and Chenzhou sand can refine the best mercury. Xiangxi is rich in mercury, but after all, there are many civil uprisings since ancient times, Emperor Daojun is worried that the elixir will be taken away by the chaotic people, so the secret garrison of the forbidden army guards, after a long time, he has created a pass in the belly of the mountain.
The Song Dynasty emphasized literature over military force, and the commanders and envoys were incompetent people who talked about the army on paper, and they had no real knowledge in military affairs, and they only wanted to deal with the emperor's errands, and where to care whether this city pass could play any military role. And Song Huizong thinks that he is a barefoot immortal, and he likes the magic of Fang Technique the most in his life, and there is a favored Duobao Taoist in front of the emperor, who claims to be good at the art of machine springs, and imitates the wooden ox and flowing horse of Zhuge Wuhou, and invents many mechanical instruments, which are used by the emperor in the army.
And because the nobles of the Yuan Dynasty were most afraid of being upside down, the tomb owner and the tomb robber did not share the sky, it was a cruel contest between the dead and the living, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a duel, because whoever fell into the hands of whom would not end well. The corpse of the tomb owner was unloaded, and it must be knocked out of the teeth, scraped the jade naked, peeled the skin and the ring, and picked the intestines to find the pearls, even if it is the punishment of burning the body, it is not so cool; And the anti-theft organs set up by the tomb owner are mostly insidious and vicious, counting those ambushes that burn fires, bury quicksand alive, break bones of boulders, and poison the rotten liquid in ambushes.
At that time, it was very popular to have false tombs and doubtful mounds, so there were many theories of moving corpses in the Yuan Dynasty, but in fact, they were all fake mounds that confused the ears and eyes of thieves, and they were also made to try to confuse the truth; Once it is broken, it is thought that the tomb owner has already ascended to the immortal solution, and no one will investigate the real location of the tomb.
The tomb passage in the gate of Bottle Mountain leads directly to this trap-like urn city. If the tomb robbers were led here by virtue of oxen and horses, it would be difficult for the team to do it, so they turned the city pass of the Gongwei Immortal Palace into a virtual tomb, cut off the passage connected to the real tomb, and used the original mechanism to modify it, and it became a ghost army to protect the tomb, so as to catch all the thieves who dared to come in and fight, which was an insidious false tomb trap.
Chen Blind is not really able to pinch and calculate, and his past experience cannot be used in the tomb rebuilt from the Daoguan Immortal Palace in Bottle Mountain, even if he guesses his head, he can't imagine that this is the case. At this time, if you have an understanding, you can't help but feel that the bones are cold, although those wooden crossbows are dead things, but they can all move, as soon as the crossbow machine is exhausted, there are wooden people to transport arrows to load, and I don't know how many arrows are stored in the city, and when they will be shot. The fire spread in the city, and after being trapped on the bamboo tower for a long time, the scorching air flow alone was unbearable.
These chaotic arrows and fire are ambushed by the organs, in the real battle array attack and defense, may not play any practical role, but the group of thieves in the mountains are tomb robbers but not to attack the city, plus they did not expect it in advance, they lost the opportunity as soon as they came up, and it was inevitable that they would fall behind, and more than 100 people were trapped on the bamboo tower and struggled to support.
At this time, Luo Lao Crooked also made up his mind, he was a brave and ruthless Tai Sui, but seeing that the city on all sides, were all wooden people with angry eyes, where did he know what the reason for the action of the machine spring, and thought that it was really the Yin soldiers guarding the tomb to attack, cold sweat broke out on his forehead, but the bandit's temperament attacked, how to care about it, even if he really entered the Senluo Palace, he also wanted to fight the trapped beasts, so he ordered his subordinates to shoot at the city, and he himself also drew two guns to shoot the bow left and right, and for a time the gunfire was loud, and the bullets flew sideways.
Those wooden people at the head of the city, the wood is tight and abnormal, the structure is very simple, the wood is immortal, and it is not easy to damage, even if it is hit by a bullet, it is difficult to have much impact on its actions, and the situation is chaotic, Luo Lao crooked and others shot in the rain of guns and arrows, and it is difficult to judge whether they hit the target. But his eyes were red, and he ran out of bullets from the two revolvers in an instant, and then gritted his teeth to reload and shoot, but the range of action was slightly larger, and the military hat on his head was shot down by an arrow in the city, so frightened that he hurriedly shrank his neck and hid his head, and scolded the ancestors of those Yin soldiers and ghost armies.
Chen Blind held down Luo Lao crookedly, so that he could not make a mistake, raised his eyes to catch a glimpse of the enemy tower in the city, and his heart turned, only by destroying the mercury machine in the enemy tower and stopping this rain of arrows, can he have a chance to escape, but to climb up to the city in the chaos of arrows, it is not easy to say, even if he can avoid a rain of flying locusts and arrows, but the city is full of flames, who has the ability to fly through the sea of fire?
Blind Chen looked at the centipede hanging on the mountain ladder under his feet, and had some plans in his heart. He was about to risk his death to try, but he was suddenly dragged by the mute Kunlun Mole. It turned out that this Kunlun Mole was not deaf and dumb, he couldn't speak, but his ears were still deaf, and he had followed Chen Blind for many years, and when he saw the leader's demeanor, he already understood his meaning, and hurriedly made a gesture to go to the soup for Chen Blind Man, climb to the top of the city and destroy the enemy tower infused with mercury. He slapped his chest, glared and stuck out his tongue, and wiped his neck with a gesture, which he probably meant: The life of a dumb man is a thief, so what's the harm in dying?
Chen Blind Man knew that Kunlun Mole was a savage in the mountains, his skills were unusually agile, very accessible, if he went, maybe he could have a chance of success, he could hold the bamboo ladder and jump over the sea of fire, as long as he reached the bottom of the city wall, it was a dead angle that the crossbow could not shoot, at this moment the feet were already scorching, without further ado, he nodded to the dumb man, and ordered him to give up his head to the city.
But before the dumb Kunlun Mole could make a move, he suddenly heard a sound of twisted strings from the heights around him, although the strings of the wooden man Zhang Ji and the crossbow were dense, they were not so intense, and the group of thieves attached to the bamboo tower trembled in their hearts, and they didn't know what was going on.
There was a loud sound of strings in the ground, and the sharp sound of breaking the wind whistled, and everyone raised their eyes to see, they were all stunned, a big arrow with the thickness of a human arm, like a meteor, like a thunderbolt, with a golden wind, shot out of a giant crossbow at the head of the city, and rushed down to the bamboo tower where the thieves gathered.
There are naturalists among the thieves, and they know that it is the god arm bed crossbow of the ancient army envoy, and even the rammed earth wall can shoot through, but the group of thieves can't dodge in the fire and arrows, and the bed crossbow is too fast to sink, and it is too late to dodge when you see it, and the giant crossbow is to the side in the blink of an eye, and a thief who bears the brunt of it suddenly saw this kind of momentum, and he didn't even have time to scream, so he had to bite the bullet and connect it with a rattan card.
The rattan brand defense against ordinary crossbow arrows is acceptable, but for the giant bed crossbow used for shooting cities, it is tantamount to a mantis arm blocking a car. The three-edged arrowhead shattered the rattan plaque, piercing the thief through the two sappers behind him, and the flesh was broken into a string of nails to the ground. On the bamboo tower, there was a bloody alley, random arrows shot into, one after another people fell down the bamboo ladder and rolled into the fire, and the dumb Kunlun Moeller was also hit by several arrows.
The rest of the people were stunned, the corpses that were shot through, splashed Luo Lao's crooked face was covered with blood, and before the group of thieves blocked the gap that was shot through by the strong crossbow, the city was stretched several strings, and several bed crossbows flew out in response, shooting from different directions. Luo Lao's crooked face was full of hot human blood, and as soon as he wiped it, he saw a cold star flashing in front of him, and before he could see it clearly, the hard crossbow had already shot in front of him.