41. The wall collapsed
……
"Concealment~"
"Boom~~"
A hundred-pound boulder fell from mid-air, Sun Xueyou roared, took the lead in flashing to the side, and lay tightly on the city wall.
With a deafening loud noise, the boulder slammed heavily on the wall of Suoyunguan, and the yellow sand was filled with it, covering all Sun Xueyou and his party.
Wang Chang, who was dodging the attack of the boulder under the Suoyun Pass, couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for the thirty people in the city when he saw this scene.
"Phew~"
After a long time, Sun Xueyou shook his head, shook off the dust and gravel covering his body, leaned over to the battlement that had become a wreckage, looked out, and shouted loudly: "Are you okay?" A gasp squeak! ”
Dusty figures climbed up from the ruins one after another, each carrying a fire hammer and moving closer to Sun Xueyou's direction.
After counting, there were still twenty-six people left.
Four people were killed in this round of trebuchet attacks, and one of them was swept off the wall by the air wave set off by the collision, and his head was shattered.
For the sacrifice of his companions, Sun Xueyou didn't have much time to be sad, the most important thing at the moment was to continue to observe the movements of the enemy army, and never let them take advantage of the situation to attack the city.
He picked up the speculum and looked carefully, only to see that Chu Jun had begun to fill the stones again.
",!"
Sun Xueyou shouted angrily, put away the speculum, and then commanded: "Come a few people, put away the corpses of the dead brothers, and the rest continue to stick to their posts, no matter how fierce the thief army attacks, we can't retreat!" ”
"Whoa!"
The non-commissioned officer of Jingwutang let out a loud shout and began to complete his task in an orderly manner.
Soon, another round of trebuchet attacks swept in.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom......"
Fortunately, this time the hit rate was not high, and only one of the seven trebuchets hit the city wall.
But even so, it still made Sun Xueyou and them feel shaken for a while.
But Wang Chang and the others had no choice but to watch Sun Xueyou and them expose themselves to the enemy's long-range attacks.
"Hold on, you must hold on......"
Wang Chang tightly grasped the military card representing his identity at the left end of the breastplate, and couldn't stop praying to Sun Xueyou and them.
……
"Very well, after two more rounds of offensives, the enemy should almost despair."
On the side of the Chu army's barracks, witnessing the power of the trebuchet, Qin Zongquan was extremely excited, constantly rubbing his hands.
In his cognition, in the face of such a blow, no matter how tenacious the defenders of Suoyun Pass were, they should collapse.
Not only did he think so, but so did Fa Ying.
Seeing that Suoyun Guan was already crumbling under the ravages of trebuchets, Fa Ying thought that the blow for three consecutive days was still worth it.
"Keep throwing and make sure the enemy forces at the head of the city have no strength to resist!"
With Luo Song's order, the trebuchet, which had just been loaded with stone projectiles, began to throw again.
This round of projectiles hit hard and accurately, with five shots hitting the city wall, two of which fell into the pass.
"Uh~"
The two non-commissioned officers, who were observing the movement of the enemy troops, did not have time to dodge, and were immediately hit in the chest by the situation that fell on the city.
With a groan, a non-commissioned officer immediately fell to the top of the city, bleeding from seven holes and vomiting wildly.
Shocked, he raised his hand on his back, as if to see through the sky.
In the end, his hand fell weakly, ending his young and energetic life.
After this round of projectiles, although Sun Xueyou dodged a catastrophe, he felt a slight shaking under his feet the moment he got up.
"Not good!"
He immediately understood that the walls were about to fall.
"The whole army obeys the order and leaves the city wall~"
Bang la la la -
Before he could finish speaking, his feet softened, and a hissing echoed in his ears, and the whole person fell uncontrollably, thrown heavily into the gravel, and was drowned by the falling rubble from the city.
In the middle of the city wall of Suoyun Pass, under the continuous continuous projectile of the Chu army's trebuchet, it finally could not bear it and collapsed violently.
Together with Sun Xueyou, the famous non-commissioned officers of the time fell to the city together.
Witnessing this scene, Wang Chang immediately ordered: "Quick, save people!" ”
Then take the lead in rushing to the ruins and begin to dig up the companions with their bare hands.
Meanwhile......
"Attack~~"
"Drink!"
"Drink!"
"Drink!"
The Chu army finally began to launch a general offensive.
The collapse of the city wall was equivalent to losing the support barrier for the defenders, and few people could muster up the courage to continue to resist in the face of the surging army.
"Phew~ Pull me!"
Wang Chang, who was rummaging through Sun Xueyou, suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him, and when he looked back, Sun Xueyou was half exposed, and he was reaching out to Wang Chang for help with a disgraced face.
Wang Chang immediately pounced on him, pulled him out of the rubble, and couldn't help laughing: "Damn, I almost thought you were dead, just be alive." ”
Sun Xueyou spit out a mouthful of saliva, picked up the fire gun that fell on the ground, looked at the Chu army walking slowly outside the gap, and immediately said:
"Now it's time to give these sons of bitches a little bit of color, and just take this gap as the center and line up the firecrackers."
Wang Chang said: "I understand, you go down to rest for a while, and see that your forehead is injured." ”
Sun Xueyou shook his head: "I'm not tired, I've been suffering for two days, I should also let me vent, don't take a few lives, it's hard to eliminate the hatred in my heart." ”
After speaking, he checked the gunpowder and found that there was not much damage, so he immediately loaded the gunpowder projectile.
The three thousand Chu troops shouted neat slogans, and under the cover of the sword and shield hands, they pressed towards Suoyun Pass step by step.
Without the obstruction of the city wall, they were confident that they could successfully turn all the defenders in the pass into their own military exploits.
If you want to be promoted, you can only exchange military merit, what is military merit?
The enemy's head!
One head for five acres of land, or ten taels of silver, and two heads of twenty acres of land, converted into forty taels of silver.
For the Chu army, which had no military pay and was oppressed by the upper echelons of the Chu State on weekdays, the desire for a head with a head had reached an unprecedented situation.
In their subconscious, if they want to have enough to eat, they can only fight, and if they want to eat enough for the whole family, they can only exchange their heads for wealth.
Other than that, no profession can escape their embarrassment.
Under the rule of the policy of foolish people, in just a few years, the military and civilians of Qinghu and Qinghu have become numb to these, and the purpose of their lives is only to work and serve in the army.
The only material requirements are only money and food, as for the spiritual level, there are only officially run prostitution camps and gambling houses, as for books and the like, they have long been completely banned in the early years of the establishment of the Chu State, and the six arts in Confucianism are collectively referred to as the six lice that bring disaster to the country and the people.
Now, the wealth is in front of you, and inside the collapsed city wall is the wealth that these Chu soldiers dream of.
As long as their heads are cut off and pinned to their waists, even if there is only one, they can be exchanged for enough money and food for the family to eat for half a year.
However, before they reached the gap, twenty pitch-black guns were already aimed at them mercilessly.