More than 100 pounds of falling rocks and heavy rolling logs covered with nails were lifted by the soldiers on the head of the city and smashed at the slaves who had ascended to the city, and the Taiqi Gebu did not know where to find the drawings, so that the craftsmen made long iron cones for these slaves who could be inserted into the cracks in the city wall, and tied them to their hands and feet with belts, so that the sturdy slaves could climb the walls of the small counties that were a few feet high, and the higher walls were many of the best people who fell under the attack of the city.

There was a precedent for such technology as early as the previous dynasty of Dayao, and its simple design and low cost made it once occupy an extremely important place in the siege equipment of the army. However, this is really a miserable thing for the sergeant who wants to use such equipment to ascend the city without protection.

In the past, Dayao was the era of chaos among the countries, and now there are dozens of large and small countries in the territory of Dayao, the smallest of which only occupies one county. Too many of them do not have horse farms, so they can't afford to support the cavalry army, and the battle is either a siege or a field battle of the infantry army, so those years are also the most rapid development of siege equipment in the Central Plains, the largest torch stone cart can even throw two hundred catties of boulders to nine hundred steps away, and the rhino horn chong used to break through the city gate has also been improved from a behemoth that must be pulled by animal power to only a few thousand catties.

What's more, if you want to climb the city, the ladder is the best thing to use, and the reason why the imperial court uses such a rough thing is largely because of the comparison between its cheapness and the expensive cost of the ladder, but before the battle started, the military academy where the sergeant in charge of the drill immediately refused to use these iron awls, because even among the selected soldiers, there is no one in ten who can use this iron cone to climb up to a foot high. ‘

The most dead people in the siege are on the way to the city, don't count the soldiers who dare to die first, if it is to rely on these rough things to send the soldiers to the city, I am afraid that the soldiers who dare to die are dead, and few can use this thing to climb up, which commander dares to use such unreliable things to climb the city?

This crude siege equipment was only a flash in the pan in the Central Plains and was left in the history books, only the families of the hundred families of the princes occasionally mentioned it when writing the market romance, and it was often regarded as being able to help the soldiers to climb the city as if they were on the ground, and many literati who had been buried in the pile of old papers all their lives would not know that the number of slaves who were disabled due to injuries in the field of the drill and ascending alone reached a staggering number.

Knowing the power of the bed crossbows at the head of the city, he led his horse to a stop five hundred paces away, and saw many slave warriors fall from exhaustion after climbing to the heights, and the sturdy slave warriors were hit by falling rocks or rolling logs and fell into the trenches under the city and no longer moved.

At least one of the 1,000-strong slave warriors died at the foot of the city, but none of them were able to climb to the top of the city, as if those close to the city could not defend themselves with swords, guns, and arrows, and finally fell to the bottom of the city and became a pool of blurred flesh.

It is not very difficult for the Taiqi Gebu to get the drawings of this iron cone, many craftsmen who make siege equipment know how to make it, and even the blacksmith who does not know a single big character can make a copy of eight or nine after reading it, although the Taiqi Gebu has almost exhausted its financial resources after building a large number of siege equipment, but it has become their only means to endanger the city today.

"Drop rocks, roll wood, release arrows!" the captain on duty in the city drew his sword and shouted, "Let these barbarians also learn our Da Yao's bow and arrow!"

The sergeants who are good at shooting in the army carry two quivers, each of which can store 30 arrows, and the bow and stone used can wear light shields with strong shooting power from top to bottom. The powerful sergeants carried the rolling wood and arrows to the battlements for easy access, and the jars filled with fire oil were set on fire and thrown into the shield-wielding slave warriors of the city, and the oil burst into flames and set fire to dozens of people around them.

"My lord. He just came back from the city under the rain of falling rocks and arrows, and lowered his voice in Dunmao's ear and said urgently, "The slaves in front of them have the momentum of retreating, and they can't climb the city, and there is nothing that can chisel through the city gate, so don't you rest for a while before making plans..."

In an instant, hundreds of people were set on fire by the altar of fire oil and wine thrown down from under the city, and the defenders of Yuancheng emptied the water of the moat early under Song Zhiwen's military orders, and the trenches several feet deep added a huge obstacle to the slave warriors of the Taiqige Division, and without water, the people around them could only watch the ignited companions run away or roll on the ground. They couldn't extinguish the secret fire oil made by the Dayao Army, and they could only watch as these people gradually swallowed their breath and then emitted an unpleasant scorching smell.

Slave warriors were human beings, too, and although they were tempted by their freedom and the titles of nobility that could be exchanged for military exploits, they needed to live to enjoy them.

Some of the slaves began to retreat, they did not have the fine armor of the Yao people to protect the vital points, and the light shields made of layers of cowhide could not stop the arrows that shot down from the city, not to mention the falling stones that could smash people into a blur of flesh, and the rolling wood with spikes could take away a large piece of human flesh as soon as it touched the flesh of a person.

What frightened them most was to be burned alive, which was a painful and long wait to die, unlike being shot by an arrow and falling from a height of several feet. Many of them could not choose to be born slaves, but thought they could choose a less painful death.

"The cavalry came forward and shot them if they dared to go fifty paces from the wall. "The lines of his cheeks are as stiff as gold and iron, "I promised to give them a chance to be reborn, but following in my footsteps will inevitably lead to the death of many people, but the Taiqi Gebu will become the grassland.... King!"

After listening to the words, he galloped non-stop to the general of the Taiqige Department who led the troops to suppress the formation, and after less than a cup of tea, the banner of the Taiqige Department was pulled up from the land, and the fur of the white wolf on the top of the flag was vividly displayed in the wind, and finally stopped at a place three hundred steps away from the city, and then immediately all the horsemen opened their bows and arrows, and shot a rain of arrows forward, which fell only fifty paces away from the slave warriors under the city, and fell into a forest of arrows, forcing back the slave warriors who wanted to escape.

"Aren't these barbarians afraid of death?" a sergeant in the city complained as he rubbed his sore arm after shooting an empty quiver, "to say the least, he has shot more than a dozen barbarians, and none of them have been able to stand at the head of the city until now, and they climb the city wall empty-handed to find shots, and they don't know what the barbarians are thinking." ”

The tens of thousands of arrows shot down from the castle were deadly to the barely protected slave warriors, and to the castle Daiyao were more like living targets, the targets made of flesh and blood by the slave warriors of the Taiqige tribe.

Song Zhiwen was also at the head of the city, and under Zhang Ziwen's persuasion, he still approached the battlements and looked at the city. This was a method of siege that he had never seen before, and was the lord of the Taiqige tribe really going to use the lives of these men to pile up and round the head of the city?

It would not be easy to know what the Nest and Rad were covering up with the lives of these slaves, but it would be crucial for the garrison of the city to willingly cover up the conspiracy with the corpses of the slave warriors who had gradually filled the trenches below.

If you want to know what the Barbarian Lord of the Taiqig tribe thinks, you have to be in his place to think about him....

According to the news from the spies who are very deep in the Taiqige department, this lord who seems to be in his prime is already an out-and-out old man, and the number of times he gets up three or five times every night is not much, and there are also Que family attendants who have not been summoned to sleep with the army for a considerable number of days. Such a lord who is too old to be humane.... What kind of ambition drove him to lead almost all the forces that could be mobilized by the Taiqige to attack and round the city?

When Song Zhiwen frowned and pondered, the only two torch stone carts left by the barbarians were pulled to the place where they were more than 400 steps away from the city, and it was impossible for such a behemoth to escape the eyes of the Dayao sergeant in the city, and it didn't take long for the city to mobilize six bed crossbows to aim at the two slow torch stone carts.

The nine-foot-and-five-inch long arrow was the thickness of a forearm, and it was more like an iron spear than an arrow. From the crossbow string, which can only be pulled apart by a winch and a rope, a huge arrow was driven to shoot at the torch stone cart more than 400 steps away, and the force was so great that the beam and pillar used for the support of one of the torch stone carts were immediately shot and broken. The six giant arrows immediately abolished one of the two torch stone carts, and one of the crossbow arrows penetrated the side of the torch stone cart, and a company of five or six barbarians stopped castration.

There was a cheer from the side of a bed crossbow in the city, and the soldiers in the vicinity were all crowded, and it was the elder Shi who fiddled with the crossbow who had done the work of destroying the torch cart with an arrow before, and he did not show much smugness after being hit by this arrow, but loudly shouted at the rest of the sergeants who were waiting for the bed crossbow to hurry up and bring the giant arrow to wind.

The bed crossbow can shoot a huge arrow of nine feet and five inches to a place of seven hundred paces away, and the sergeant who also needs to serve to use all his strength to open the rope with a winch, which takes a long time, but the only stone chariot left in the city has put dozens of pounds of stones on the net pocket at the end of the crossbar, and the craftsmen of the barbarians are far from enough to make the best siege equipment, so these siege equipment can throw dozens of pounds of stone is the limit.

The torch stone cart is against .... Yes and round the head of the city!

By the time the Elder Nash sensed the barbarian's attempt, he was already a step too late, and by the time the bed crossbow was wound, the stone cart had already thrown the stones from the net pocket towards the head of the city.

Song Zhiwen raised his head amid the shouts of the people around him, and saw the falling stone that was constantly enlarging in his field of vision.