Chapter 1065: The Battle Before Jia Meng Pass (Part I)
When the bloody battle between the two sides at the Eagle Head Peak along the Sheephorn Road finally ended when the sun rose, in front of Jiameng Pass, dozens of miles away, the more fierce battle had just begun with the sun rising.
After two days of preparation, today, the siege equipment in Guan Long's army has finally been arranged.
So, after Li Wannian's order, nearly 20 stone throwing machines have been lined up more than 200 steps away from Jiameng Pass, and in the sound of drums, thousands of people are busy, and then in the shouting, large and small stone bullets are smashed like hail at the head of this seemingly impregnable wall.
The reason why the Guan Long army only used twenty stone throwers was not that their supplies were insufficient, but that the terrain in front of the pass had too many restrictions on this.
The geographical location of Jiameng Pass is really good, sandwiched between a gap in a broken mountain, and the area in front of it is extremely narrow, and it can only accommodate three or five thousand people to attack in batches.
If you really count the 150 steps before the pass, the scale of the stone throwing machine is only enough to put a dozen or so planes. After all, this stone thrower itself occupies a large area, and it still needs at least dozens or hundreds of people to operate the launch stones, so the space required is naturally large.
Therefore, in the end, the generals of the Guan Long army could only choose to sacrifice a certain amount of destructive power and set up the stone throwing machine in an open place two hundred steps away from the pass, so that they could barely put down twenty planes, so as to bombard the wall with a more intensive stone rain offensive.
Although there was a big difference between the use of only 20 stone throwers and Li Wannian's original plan of at least 50 stone throwers for a full-scale onslaught, the stone bullets that roared in the sky and flew towards the wall still made the soldiers feel excited and happy.
This stone thrower is really worthy of being called a thunderbolt by some people before, not only when the stone is thrown, it is not small, it is as straight as a thunderbolt, and its destructive power and lethality are also quite amazing.
In just one round of attacks, those stones as big as a millstone and as small as a canopy smashed the wall into stone chips, and the defenders screamed incessantly, and the casualties continued.
Seeing that the stone throwing machine had this effect, Li Wannian was even more energetic, and immediately ordered again to shoot out all the stone bullets collected in all these days.
Even if you can't really collapse this wall, it will cause considerable casualties to the army guarding the pass. It's best to be able to break down the fighting spirit of the defenders with one blow, so that you can win the Jiameng Pass in one battle!
After getting the boss's order, the soldiers who operated the stone throwing machine naturally worked harder, and after a busy time, another stone bullet was smashed out like hail.
Suddenly, the roar was like thunder, the stones fell like meteors, and a burst of smoke and dust rose up, and the ghost cried and howled.
There was even a piece of the wall that collapsed and slipped due to continuous blows, and many of the defenders at that angle were buried directly......
However, when more smoke and dust dissipated and Jia Mengguan was re-revealed, Li Wannian frowned slightly, and the killing effect of this round was much less than before.
Because the defenders had responded in time, shields of different sizes had been hurried up to the city, and a large number of soldiers had been withdrawn, except for a small number of soldiers and horses who had to be guarded at the pass.
Except for the wall that happened to be blasted through, only a few of the defenders in other positions were wounded, and those small stone bullets did not pose much of a threat to them at all.
Seeing this, Li Wannian snorted coldly, but also quickly understood.
It is impossible to achieve what you want with such a bombardment alone, and you must change your thinking a little.
Since the lethality of small stone projectiles is almost non-existent, it is better to directly use large stones to destroy the entire wall.
It's like just breaking down a piece of wall, causing considerable damage, and then as long as the wall in front of them is broken, won't the support they rely on to defend disappear?
"Tell me all my orders, and they all use big stone bullets. Hit me intensively, hit hard! He immediately shouted loudly and gave the military order again.
Soon, before the order was passed to the rear stone thrower, the soldiers who had already begun to load the various stone bullets could only resort them as they wished, putting in the large stone bullets and taking out the small ones.
It's just that in this way, the consumption of large stones has suddenly accelerated, and this round of firing alone has almost knocked out nearly half of the stock.
And this time, the effect of the bombardment on the close was much worse than before.
Although the whistling stone still left a shocking deep scar on the wall, for the sturdy Jiameng wall, this damage really didn't hurt the root. Not even the second gap was stoned out again.
However, two of the stones flew into the wall, causing some damage to the defenders holding shields.
But even so, there were only about twenty dead and wounded, which is not worth mentioning at all.
Then, the third batch of stone bullets flew out again, and its effect was not much different from the previous one, although the defenders had casualties, they did not hurt their muscles and bones, but they just looked a little passive and embarrassed.
"General, you've run out of big rocks......"
When Li Wannian frowned and wanted to urge to continue the launch, the rear soldiers brought such a news, which made him a little irritated and stunned.
In fact, Li Wannian is not an impatient person, and he also knows that the throat portal in the east of Sichuan and Shu like Jiamengguan is not so easy to break.
But it was really this dispatch of troops that was of great significance and could not afford to be missed, so he was a little out of shape.
After thinking about it for a while, he finally made a wise choice: "Continue to let people send small stone bombs over and cause as many casualties as possible." Also, send more men and horses to look around for more large stones to transport. If you fight for a few more days, you can always make a gap in this wall and let us get in! ”
When this subordinate received the order to go to the arrangement, Li Wannian was suddenly stunned for a moment, as if he had forgotten Jiang Chong's strange soldiers along the way......
It was as if their surprise attack was no longer possible.
Is this worrying about yourself, or is it possible that things have changed?
For a while, he couldn't figure it out himself, so he could only look at the front of him and let people hit more stone bullets to hit the defenders hard.
But obviously, after surviving the first two rounds of attacks and having a certain amount of experience in dealing with them, the defenders of Jiameng Pass have sufficient means to deal with it, no matter how big the stone bullet is, no matter how embarrassed they look, they are also guarding it well.
Even after a few rounds of stone bombs, Guan Long's army organized another frontal assault, but they were condescendingly blocked by them who quickly recovered their strength, which made Guan Long's army lose hundreds of people.
And this day also passed in such an offensive and defensive confrontation, and when night fell, this offensive and defensive battle could only stop again.