Chapter 612 Advancing under the city with difficulty
Without waiting for Meng Fu to react, Zhao Jun's catapult gave him another surprise.
Just when his own catapult phalanx was still wailing, Zhao Jun's stone bullet smashed towards Qin Jun again.
"So fast?" Meng Fu's heart suddenly tightened.
Turning his head to look at the shadow of Zhao Jun's stone bullet in front of him, his soldiers were still struggling to carry the stone bullet, and Meng Fu's brows were even more unconsciously wrinkled.
Obviously, Zhao Jun's stone bullet was almost fired with his own stone bullet just now, why hasn't his own stone bullet been able to be transported to the frame, but Zhao Jun's stone bullet has already reached his head?
Obviously, Lian Po would not tell him the reason, and those stone bullets of the Zhao army in the air would not stop their flight because of Meng Fu's doubts.
With a loud bang, several catapults that had not had time to be loaded in front of the Qin army were destroyed by Zhao Jun's stone bullets.
was hit one after another by Zhao Jun's stone bullets, and no one knew that something was wrong. Not only the speed of the launch, but also the accuracy, Meng Fu knew that the catapult was completely lost by the Qin army.
However, fortunately, Meng Fu never thought that he would be able to break through the city with the help of catapults.
The reason is very simple, catapults have always been an accessory to the siege, and the real dependence on breaking the city is the fearless soldiers of the Qin army on the front line.
Immediately, Meng Fu ordered: "Withdraw all the catapults, and then spread them out along the entire line of attack." Order the front army, accelerate the advance. ”
It should be said that Meng's response was also very timely and wise.
The current situation is that Zhao Jun's catapult can hit him, but his own catapult cannot threaten Zhao Jun at all
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Since you can't beat it, you just don't fight! Of course, the catapults that have been caused so hard cannot be wasted, I will directly disperse them all, scattered to the vast front of the battle, even if you are accurate, if you want to destroy all my catapults, it will take some time!
And this time is enough time for me to throw the main army and siege equipment under the tower.
It's just that the heavy catapult is really difficult to move.
In the process of moving, the third round of Zhao Jun's catapult attack had arrived, and it was still a group of three or five, and each group was responsible for dropping a catapult, which was still so accurate and powerful.
Seeing this situation, Meng Fu has already ignored it! Again, as long as the main force and siege equipment can be safely delivered to the city, even if these catapults are all destroyed, they will not hesitate.
And in the face of the Qin army's change of formation, how could the artillery battalion of the Zhao army be so stupid to continue to fight against the "air" that was no longer threatening.
Soon the scouts on the tower of the city passed the situation to the artillery camp, and then the artillery camp also began to change formation, a small number of catapults continued to destroy the Qin army's moving catapults, but the main catapults were aimed at the Qin army's siege equipment that was rapidly approaching.
Standing on the top of the city tower, the outline of the arrow tower can now be clearly seen, it seems that the Qin army in the arrow tower has opened the bowstring, and the little cold light is facing the Zhao army on the city wall!
Zhao Jun's catapult immediately roared!
A few stone bullets crossed a graceful curve in the air, and then smashed into the marching military formation of the Qin army, instantly smashing more than a dozen Qin soldiers into juice and splashing dust and rubble
It even made the nearby Qin army soldiers disgraced.
But that's more than that. Even, one of the stone bullets was thrown between two sets of siege equipment, but it did not cause any damage to the siege equipment.
Of course, this is just a round of test firing by Zhao Jun. However, this gap in accuracy is also not unrelated to the march of the Qin army.
But where would the soldiers of the Qin army know this? For these inaccurate stone throwers, the soldiers of the Qin army are obviously not surprised, and those who are stoned to death can only blame their bad luck. Patting the dust on their bodies casually, the soldiers of the Qin army immediately continued to march on the drumbeat.
Obviously, Zhao Jun's test firing did not cause much damage to the Qin army, and even the speed of the army's march did not affect it in the slightest.
Only General Meng Fu, who was in this formation, frowned, and it was obvious that his division tactics had not been able to attract the attention of Zhao Jun. In other words, the road leading to the castle tower may not be so smooth.
"Give the order to the front army, speed up." Meng Fu then gave another order.
"Yes." The herald next to him immediately agreed.
Accelerating the sprint may be the only way that Meng Fu can think of at this time, so that the Qin army can reduce its losses and reach the bottom of the city tower.
It's just that Meng Wei still underestimated the combat power of Zhao Jun's catapult.
In just a moment, the Qin army had just received Meng Yu's order to start accelerating the sprint, and the Zhao army had already completed the adjustment, and dozens of stone bullets immediately attacked the main phalanx of the Qin army again.
And this time, they clearly came prepared.
"Bang ......"
The stone bullet accurately hit the Qin army
The arrow towers and city trucks that were advancing, under one blow, several arrow towers and city vehicles were shattered, and the soldiers of the Qin army in them also fell to the ground with the broken arrow towers, and died with them.
All of a sudden, the entire Qin army's marching queue was stunned.
Before the soldiers of the Qin army could react, another round of stone bullets had continued to break through the air.
It was only then that the soldiers of the Qin army realized how correct their General Meng's orders were.
"Keep going!" At this time, Meng Fu's general order was conveyed again.
The soldiers suddenly realized that stopping would only make themselves the target of the Zhao army, and only by continuing to move forward and sticking to the city wall was the solution.
Thinking of this, the soldiers of the Qin army no longer cared about the stone bullets covering the sky and the sun on their heads, and one by one they worked hard to push the arrow tower and the rushing cart forward.
The Zhao army, who had already tasted the sweetness, was not idle, and round after round of stone bullets frantically smashed on the main force of the Qin army and the siege equipment!
The captain who served as the vanguard was even more useless, it was useless to retreat at this time, not only the military law of the Qin army could not tolerate it, but the dust and wailing in the rear had already informed the outcome, only by moving forward, approaching the city wall as soon as possible, and leaning against the city wall could avoid doom.
"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" The captain kept urging, and even divided a team of people to cooperate with the "pull forward and push" the equipment.
However, the length of the rope is limited after all, and the place where the instrument can push is even less, and no matter how much manpower there is, there is a limit, so the speed is really not up.
In desperation, the captain had to order to be stationed on the arrow tower to guard the advance of the arrow tower
Xiang's small number of soldiers also quickly went downstairs, which can reduce the weight of the arrow tower a little, that is, as long as they can speed up a little, even if the position of the arrow tower deviates slightly, it is worth it.
Either way, keep as many of these towers as you can.
You know, these arrow towers are the most important equipment to suppress the crossbowmen on the city tower, if there is no suppression of the arrow tower, the crossbowmen on the city tower can shoot the people under the city into hedgehogs. What's the point?
It's a pity that although the vanguard lieutenant of the Qin army tried his best to make adjustments in time, it took time for the army's actions to adjust in the end, and the stone bullets of the Zhao army kept smashing into the Qin army's camp all the time!
As a result, except for a few arrow towers on both sides of the captain, which moved relatively quickly, were spared, and nearly half of the remaining arrow towers were destroyed by Zhao Jun's catapults.
Among the only remaining arrow towers, there are two that are pushed too close to the city wall because they are too eager.
This is a bit disrespectful to the soldiers of the Zhao army on the city wall.
Seeing the arrow tower that could almost be touched by reaching out, the corners of Zhao Jun's soldiers suddenly showed a smile on their mouths.
Without saying a word, the captain on duty immediately led the soldiers to smash the hot oil in the clay pots originally prepared for the infantry on the two arrow towers!
"Bang, bang!" One by one, the clay pots burst open on top of the arrow tower in an instant;
The hot oil in the "Zila......" clay pot splashed out, and flowed straight down the body of the arrow tower to the soldiers of the Qin army below, and it was so hot that the archers of the Qin army who were waiting to go upstairs howled for a while!
However, the nightmare of the Qin army's archers had just begun, one by one torches and rockets
It has been ignited in the hands of Zhao Jun!
With a "whoosh", the torches and rockets crossed the air in an arc and fell on the turret. With a "poof", flames rose into the sky, and the Qin soldiers who instantly entered the arrow tower and its interior were engulfed in flames.
One by one, the fire men burst out of the tower, trying to seek the help of their former comrades. But on the battlefield, where was the water to extinguish the fire mixed with grease, and his former comrades tried to stay away from him as much as possible, for fear that they would also be stained with a star. The wails and cries for help resounded again in the front army.
Looking at the "fire men" who were rampage like headless flies, the vanguard captain of the Qin army had no choice but to order his own archers again to directly execute these fire men! One alleviates their pain, and the other prevents them from causing more damage to their own formation.
Just when the archers of the Qin army were helpless to shoot their comrades with arrows according to the order, the sound of "Xiu Xiu Xiu" breaking the air resounded in the ears, and the first round of arrow rain of the Zhao army had covered them, and due to the burning of the arrow tower, the Qin soldiers unconsciously retreated backwards, so they were huddled together, just to kill the archers of the Zhao army!
After a rain of arrows, the vanguard of the Qin army had already suffered heavy losses, but something that made the Qin army even more desperate happened, and before the Qin army could defend itself, the second round of arrow rain came again!
"Protection!" The pioneer captain of the Qin Army shouted!
In the end, the Qin army is worthy of being an elite division, and Rao still maintains strict discipline under such circumstances. With the issuance of the general's order, the shield soldiers formed a formation one after another, protecting the Qin army in it. At this time, the entire pioneer battalion was a full 5,000 elites, and more than 1,000 people had fallen
Finish.
If you add the siege equipment lost on the way, the losses of the Qin army are even greater.
On the other hand, on Zhao Jun's side, except for dozens of unlucky eggs who were crushed to death by stone bullets, there were almost no losses.
I thought that this battle would be difficult to fight, but Meng Fu didn't expect that this battle would be so difficult!
But no matter how difficult it is, this battle must continue.
"Herald ......"