Chapter 312 Forge ahead

As the Fourth Army went into battle, the Sixth Army led by Makitake was gradually replaced from the battlefield.

When the whole army retreated to the city, Mu Wu made a statistic that in the battle just now, his own casualties were close to 5,000, most of them were killed or wounded by stone bullets, and the others were killed and wounded by the return fire of the You army.

After Mu Wu counted all the casualties, he immediately reported it to Lin Haotian.

On the other side, Gu Liangyun led tens of thousands of Guan defenders to start a fierce confrontation with the You army that attacked Shuangfeng City.

The city defense of Twin Peaks City is very perfect, rolling wood, stones, fire oil and other materials are well prepared, and when You Jun set up a ladder to rush up, countless rolling logs and stones fall down, and the sound of heavy objects hitting the armor is endless, and the You soldiers who climb the ladder fall from mid-air like snowflakes.

However, the Jin soldiers were not so smooth when throwing rolling logs and rocks, and the archers of the You army had already stood in a long row under the city, and when the Jin soldiers threw the rolling logs and stones at You Bing, they were also pierced through the chest by arrows from below, or fell on their backs screaming, or fell directly down the city wall.

Of course, the Jin army will not let the enemy army put cold arrows comfortably outside the city, many Jin soldiers raised their bows and kept firing back, and the archers of the You army outside the city often did not even shoot an arrow, and they became the target of the arrow first, and they were nailed all over with arrows, and fell in a pool of blood.

On the battlefield, arrows flew back and forth, the sound of arrows in the city and under the city came and went, and the soldiers on both sides were shot down row after row, of course, compared with the You army outside the city, the casualties were still much less.

You Jun fought bravely, and the Yan army behind was gradually advancing to the front, Gu Liangyun grabbed a herald and asked him to immediately give an order, so that the trebuchet arranged in the city would throw stone bombs outward.

Jin Guo poured all the strength of the whole country to defend the Twin Peaks City, and it is conceivable that there is a lot of baggage. There are also hundreds of trebuchets hoarded in the city.

With Gu Liangyun's order, the trebuchet of the Jin Army in the city began to start, and the dense stone projectiles were thrown out from the city, drawing arcs in the air, flying over the city wall, and then falling into the camp of the You Yan coalition army.

Although the stone projectiles thrown by the Jin Army trebuchet are not as huge as those of the heavy stone throwers. But it's enough to kill people, even if a soldier with a dark qi protector is smashed by a stone bullet, he has to turn into a meatloaf in an instant.

What's more, many of the towers that the Yan army hauled up were hit by stone bullets, and several were damaged.

The tower is a siege weapon, several times larger than a stone thrower, and the whole is trapezoidal, made of hard wood, and is seven or eight meters high. Directly in front and on both sides are thick wooden shields to block enemy arrows, behind which there are ladders for climbing, two rows of wooden wheels on the bottom that can be moved, and platforms at the top.

During the siege, the archers stood on the platform of the tower. It can be used for face-to-face flat fire with enemies on the city walls, and the tower can also be used as a ladder. By attaching the tower to the wall, the soldiers standing on the platform can jump directly onto the wall without much effort.

Towers are a weapon that can be used for many purposes during sieges, and has long been widely used in actual combat in the Yan Kingdom.

Jin Guo had not yet used this kind of weapon, and it was quite scary to see that the Yan army was dragging one behemoth after another onto the battlefield.

However, the tower can withstand the arrows, but not the stone bullets. If a stone projectile hits the wooden shield in front of it, it can immediately hit a large hole, and if it hits any of the four pillars of the tower, the tower is basically destroyed.

Fragility is the tower's greatest weakness.

Stone bullets, arrows, crossbow arrows, rolling logs, stones, and oil poured out of the Twin Peaks in a steady stream. Under such a dense attack, it was even more difficult for the You Yan coalition forces outside the city to successfully ascend to the top of the city.

When the fierce battle between the two sides gradually turned into a stalemate, the thunderbolt of the Yan army was pushed up.

The Thunderbolt is a powerful weapon used to strike the city gates, and the whole car is a sturdy wooden shelf, on which are hung large wooden stakes that can only be held by one or two or three people, like a giant hammer, and the hammer head in front is made of solid iron, inlaid on the wooden stake, and wrapped in a thick layer of iron.

When used, the soldiers on both sides of the Thunderbolt pull the rope locks, causing the hammer to pull backwards, and then release it in unison, using the inertia of the hammer's fall to hit the city gate, and so on.

As the thunderbolt was successfully pushed to the city gate, the morale of the Yan soldiers was greatly boosted, and hundreds of soldiers raised their shields and gathered on both sides of the thunderbolt to grab the ropes.

At this moment, a commander jumped on the car, commanded the soldiers on both sides, and shouted: "Pull-"

At the shouts of the commander, dozens of ropes were pulled in unison, and the giant hammer was suspended backwards.

When it reached the limit, the commander waved his arms and shouted, "Let's-"

"Boom!"

The falling giant hammer slammed into the city gate of Twin Peaks, the sound was loud, deafening, and the strength was so strong that the city gate made of pure copper was knocked out of a pit, and the entire city wall seemed to tremble, especially the city wall above the city gate, and many Jin soldiers and soldiers involuntarily fell to the ground.

After the first impact, the second and third impacts followed, and in the city, several wooden stakes that held the city gate were shattered, and stone chips continued to fall from the gaps in the border of the city gate, and the originally strong and unusually strong city gate became precarious in an instant.

The golden general in the city was sweating profusely, and while commanding his subordinates to carry more wooden stakes and hold the city gate, he shouted at the city: "Quickly knock out the enemy's rushing car, the city gate will not be able to bear it!"

The shouts of the golden generals reached the city, and the Jin soldiers in the city were also anxious, and many soldiers leaned out and released arrows, but for the Yan army with shields, the lethality of the arrows was really limited, not enough to limit the impact of the thunderbolts.

Soon, many Jin soldiers jumped onto the arrow stacks with rolling logs and stones, aiming at the Yan army below, and wanted to smash the rolling logs and stones, but when they threw down heavy objects, the Jin soldiers were also shot by the enemy outside the city, and they fell off the arrow stacks one after another.

The Yan soldiers who pulled the Thunderbolt were killed and injured by falling rocks and rolling logs from time to time, but there were too many Yan soldiers around, one was injured, one was filled, one died, and two came up, and the impact of the Thunderbolt continued continuously.

Seeing that his own soldiers were crushed by the opponent's arrows and could not show their heads, a golden general jumped on the arrow stack and yelled at the soldiers behind, "Throw me a stone!"

Several Jin soldiers hurriedly stepped forward with the stone, and the Jin general grabbed one, aimed it at the Sichuan soldiers under the city, and smashed it hard.

"Click!"

A soldier who was pulling the rope hard was hit by a falling rock, and the shield he had raised was deformed, and the man fell to the ground.

The golden general did not stop, grabbed another stone, and threw it again, and with a crisp sound, another Yan soldier was smashed and his bones were broken, and he died.

Before Jin Jiang could throw another falling stone, the arrows below arrived, and in an instant, dozens of eagle feathers flew towards him.

Jin will have a dark qi body, plus the opponent is shooting from the bottom up, the strength is not strong, he stands on the arrow and does not dodge, and continues to smash stones downward.

"Jingle Bellโ€”"

The arrows were nailed to his armor, clanging and sparks splashing, but they failed to shatter his armor.

The Yan generals who commanded the battle outside the city also reacted quickly, and immediately transferred fifty hard archers from other places to continue to fire arrows at the golden generals in the city.

The power of a hard archer's arrows is much greater than that of a regular archer.

These fifty carved feathers were nailed to the golden general's body together, and the sound of clicking was endless, and the armor on the golden general's body was instantly covered with cracks, and several arrows pierced through the armor and pierced deep into his body.

The golden general, who stood on the battlement, shook his body for a while, and then fell headlong from the city.

"Plop!"

The golden general's body fell to the ground heavily, and the already broken armor could no longer withstand such a strong impact force, and the pieces were shattered and scattered, but the golden general, who was covered in blood and had several arrows stuck in his body, got up from the ground and staggered towards the thunderbolt of the Yan army.

Before he could get closer, the surrounding Yan army swarmed up and slashed at each other, pitiful of the golden general, who was cut into pieces in an instant.

Arrows didn't work, rolling logs didn't work, and the red-eyed Jin army began to resort to suicidal attacks.

Several soldiers volunteered to serve as death squads, and in order to increase their weight, they were tied with stones, and then their comrades raised arrows to dodge, and jumped out of the city against the arrows of the Yan army outside the city, and hit the thunderbolt with their own bodies. (To be continued......)