readx;? Chapter 1: Asking Questions (1)

"Huh-!" The siege crossbow swept through the air with a terrible wind, directly lifting a Khitan general who was wielding a sword to supervise the battle, and fell far into the city, nowhere to be found!

"Lord Shulan, Lord Shulan—!" a panicked exclamation sounded at the head of the city. The pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info followed, and thousands of feather arrows fell like hail towards the position of the bed crossbow. But these feathered arrows did not play any role, and their effective range did not exceed one hundred and fifty paces at most, while the bed crossbows of the Han army were erected two hundred paces away from the city wall, and each bed crossbow was preceded by a thick door panel.

"Huh-!" "Whew-!" "Whew-!" "Whew-!" More siege crossbows broke away from the crossbow beds and flew up to the head of Bianliang City. The two-foot-long crossbow blade and the one-foot-long crossbow rod were dazzlingly cold by the scorching sun. Anyone who is hit by a crossbow, whether they are holding a shield or wearing Bright Light Armor, the result is the same.

The crossbow blade made of stainless steel pierced the thick shield and heavy iron armor like a piece of paper, piercing the people who were protected behind the shield and iron armor on it and continuing to fly. But the one who was hit did not die on the spot, and kept showing his teeth and claws on the way to fly. Blood, minced flesh, and feces and urine fell from mid-air, drenching the faces of the soldiers on the ground who couldn't dodge.

"Wow!" a Khitan general wiped half of his intestines from his face, leaned down, and vomited. Since the battle of the Hutuo River last year, he has not even fought a decent battle, and his body's reflexes and endurance are not as good as before. And the drunken gold fans in Bianliang City have greatly consumed his innate wildness. When he faced the death of his own robe, his reaction was even more unbearable than the "Liang Army" around him.

The surrounding "Liang Army" shrank behind the battlements one after another, and kept firing arrows through the shooting holes. Let's not talk about whether you can shoot people for the time being, at least, you have to let Liu Zhiyuan understand that everyone is not a fish that can be taken casually, and if you want to enter Bianliang City, you can give a full price.

They are all uncles of the Great Liao State, and Xiao Han spent a lot of money to recruit veterans from all over the country, and some of them had already been on the battlefield when Li Cunqiao was the emperor. Others, they have worked hard under the banners of Liang, Tang, Jin, and Shu, and they have nothing to do in this life except to fight with knives. Now for the sake of money, it is not too nosy to fight for the Great Liang State established by the Khitans. After all, Li Congyi, the emperor of the Great Liang State who had just been tied up by the Khitans with a rope and put on the dragon chair, was a descendant of the former Tang Emperor Mingzong, and he could definitely be regarded as Zhenggenzhengshuo!

Of course, expecting everyone to defeat Liu Zhiyuan is also a fool's dream. How much money to do is how big it is, this is the rule pursued by the old soldiers. The reason why everyone was able to squat behind the battlements and release arrows downward today was to repay the reward given by King Xiao Han at the beginning. When the payment and income are almost balanced, or Liu Zhiyuan outside the city takes the initiative to offer a high price, everyone will naturally put away their bows and arrows and strike a blow at the Khitans and the minions of the Great Liang Emperor in the city.

Of course, the arrows fired when they are full of thoughts cannot cause much disturbance to the attacker. Soon, a large group of Han troops came to the bank of the moat with their shields held high. Two generals carrying the command flag of the infantry army on their backs ran left and right along the riverside. In the blink of an eye, a shield wall half a zhang high and more than 300 feet long was erected with the moat as the boundary. Immediately after, two teams of crossbowmen stepped on the drum and walked behind the shield wall. Stand upright, scattered into three sparse rows, bow down, step on the crossbow arm with your feet and start hanging the strings!

"What about the three-talent crossbow, the three-talent crossbow, why don't you shoot it yet, hurry up and shoot the crossbow arrows to kill them. Don't, don't give them a chance to release their arrows!" several Khitan generals screamed and ran out of the enemy tower. Iron stumbled towards the three-talent crossbow erected on the horse's face and at the bottom of the enemy tower.

The defense facilities of Bianliang City are very perfect, this kind of three-talent crossbow with a length of one zhang and three bowstrings, there are no less than five in every wide position of the city wall. If he had used it earlier, he would not have been able to make the bed crossbow in Liu Zhiyuan's hand arrogant just now. It was not the turn of the Han army to place hundreds of crossbows on the edge of the moat!

"Bad, bad!" The generals of the "Liang Army" lying next to the Sancai crossbow waved at him with a sad face. "Someone, someone stole the crossbow hook last night!"

"Someone peed on the crossbow string!"

"There's one less iron feather on the crossbow tail!"

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More "bad news" came, each of which made the Khitan generals feel cold. The defensive weapon Sancai crossbow will not be broken sooner or later, and at the same time that the Han army arrives outside Bianliang City, it will all be broken! If there is no one in Bianliang City who has fornicated with Liu Zhiyuan, it will be strange! And the position of this group of people who have fornicated with Liu Zhiyuan will definitely not be too low. Otherwise, they would not have had a chance to approach the walls and enemy towers!

However, now is not the time to catch a mole at all. Even the Khitans' own King Xiao Han had sneaked away, so how could those Han generals who had previously been forced to surrender to the Khitan still be willing to live and die with Bianliang City? The most urgent thing at the moment was to mobilize all the forces that could be mobilized and give the Han army a blow first. Then look for an opportunity to break out of the encirclement and return to the grassland thousands of miles away!

"What about the Eight Ox Crossbows, are the Eight Ox Crossbows all broken!" Thinking of this, the Khitan generals immediately gave up their hopes for the Sancai Crossbow and quickly turned their eyes to the third floor of the enemy building. On it, there are also two world's first sharp weapons, eight-bull crossbows. It takes a full forty people to operate, each crossbow arrow has the thickness of an adult man's calf, and the range is as high as more than 400 steps.

"Hanging strings, hanging strings with bald steel teeth. The inside of the card slot was filled with water and green alum oil!" On the third floor of the enemy building, a "Liang Army" general poked out half of his head, his face like ashes. (Note 3)

The eight-ox crossbow is very powerful, but the structure inside is also quite complicated. Just for winding and firing, there are a number of precision parts such as winch, tenon, string hook, hammer tooth and so on. Regardless of which one breaks, the entire Eight Ox Crossbow will be completely wasted. Not a single bolt could be fired.

"I don't believe it! You must have colluded with Liu Zhiyuan!" The Khitan generals drew their scimitars and roared and rushed back to the enemy tower again. It's such a coincidence, it all happened so coincidentally. The three-cai crossbows placed in the open air on the horse's face and the bottom floor of the enemy building were all scrapped, locked on the third floor of the enemy building, and the eight-bull crossbow, which was guarded by special personnel from morning to night, actually lost their spirit at the same time. No matter how great the ability of the person who colluded with Liu Zhiyuan is, it is impossible to be so big. If there's no cat here, it's weird?

What answered them was a neat row of carved feathers. Yang Li, the head of the Liang army, who had been mourned before, quickly retracted his body back to the third floor of the enemy building, commanded a team of archers, and condescendingly launched a shot at the Khitans.

There was chaos around the entire enemy tower. The Khitan soldiers in charge of supervising the battle grabbed their weapons and slashed at all suspicious-looking targets near their homes. The veterans, who originally wanted to ask Liu Zhiyuan for some benefits, refused to bow their heads and kill, and suddenly let out a shout, either fleeing into the city along the horse road, or wielding their swords and fighting with the Khitans.

"Peng-!" Hundreds of bright crossbow arrows were shot into the air by the crossbows. Sticking to the edge of the battlements, forming a line of death. Anyone who is not hidden in the dead corner, the roadless Khitans or the Han, whether they are generals or soldiers, are planted in rows, and the blood flows down the brick cracks on the surface of the city wall, bubbling into a stream!

"Peng-!" and hundreds of crossbow arrows overturned a large area of the defenders on the city wall who could not evade. Under the deliberate indulgence of the "traitors", the crossbowmen of the Han army outside the city shot a clear and distinct rhythm. One row leans over to stretch the strings with its legs after firing, and the other row pulls the trigger. Several rows of men and horses cooperate with each other, and the crossbow arrows are like hail without stopping!

On the enemy towers, horse faces, and city walls facing the direction of the Han army's attack, there was soon no longer anyone standing. All those who were lucky enough not to be hit by the crossbow arrows leaned down to hide in their places, shields or arms to protect their necks and heads, shivering.

The Han army outside the city, under the command of Guo Wei, began to erect wooden bridges to cross the river. Several wide, low wooden carts were pushed by the soldiers to the moat. "Stop!" the commander of a baggage battalion waved a white flag vigorously, and the moving wooden cart slowly stopped against the edge of the moat.

"Drop anchor!" the commander of the baggage battalion continued to wave a yellow flag, shouting at the top of his throat. Several heavy iron claws descended along the edge of the carriage and were smashed under the ground by the soldiers with hammers.

Immediately, another red flag was quickly raised, "Upper beam, upper beam!" The hoarse shouts were incessant, and the soldiers struggled to shake the winches on both sides of the body, and pushed the wooden beams that were three feet long and short and hugged the thickness of the moat inch by inch by the pre-tied ropes.

Such an ingenious and skillful bridge building technique stunned the Khitan generals who were hiding in the city gate to supervise the battle. It wasn't until two or three of the fastest-moving wooden beams had already set up the riverbank close to the side of the city wall that they suddenly woke up, held up the thistle bones, and shouted, "Go out, set fire, set fire to the wooden beams." Whoever burns one will be rewarded with ten women and five horses!"

"Set fire, set fire quickly! Set fire to the bridge!" The rest of the Khitan soldiers in the door cave knew that the situation was critical. Without pretending to be enslaved by them, Liang Jun lit a torch and rushed to Muliang.

On the other side of the moat, there was a whole team of Han crossbowmen, waiting for them. Under the command of the ten generals, the head of the capital and the team generals, waves were launched in turn. In the blink of an eye, all the Khitan soldiers who rushed out and set fire to death were shot to death at the base of the city wall. Each person had at least five or more crossbow arrows pierced from the front chest to the back, and they couldn't be seen!

Note 1: Liu Zhiyuan, with the full support of powerful people in various places, launched a people's war against the Khitans. Lanzhou, Songzhou, Bozhou, and Mizhou were taken by the rebels one after another, and Fu Yanqing, Gao Xingzhou and others watched from the wall. The Khitan Emperor Yelu Deguang took the initiative to retreat to Hebei at the beginning of the war because of the great losses of his subordinates and the fear that the way back would be cut off. Uncle Xiao Han guarded Bianliang.

Note 2: Li Congyi. Xiao Han refused to wait for death, and sent people from the Huiling Tomb to arrest Li Congyi, the son of Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, and set up him as the emperor, with the name of Daliang. Leaving a small Khitan to supervise his administration, he secretly fled himself. Therefore, when Liu Zhiyuan's troops were in Bianliang, the banner of the city head suddenly changed from Daliao to Daliang.

Note 3: Alum oil, ancient concentrated sulfuric acid, impure. When diluted with water, it can corrode most iron products.

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