Chapter 35: A Boulder Falling from the Sky
In the camp of the Xuanzi camp, there is a significant open space, and above the open space, there is a simple wooden platform.
Previously, there were many soldiers who had a lot of discussions about this strange wooden platform, but they didn't know what it was for, but it was Mr. Zhao who was ordered to open the altar and use the power of ghosts and gods to repel the barbarian army.
At this time, a guard rushed onto the wooden platform with two small triangular red flags, waving the small flags in his hand vigorously, and posing in various poses that no one could understand.
Semaphore!
This was another weapon that Zhao Hengyi brought to the Xuanzi Battalion, but time was pressing, and the personal guards acting as standard-bearers could only express a simple meaning to those who observed from afar.
But that's enough.
The people who were driven away by the barbarian soldiers had slowly stepped into the labyrinth of horse guns, and the desperate faces of the weeping people, as well as the hideous expressions of the barbarians, were clearly visible to the soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom who had lined up in front of the defense line!
Some of the people fell to the ground, and the barbarians who drove them would not hesitate to draw their swords and slash, and for a while the cry shook the sky, and all the people struggled forward under the threat of death!
"Get rid of all the thistles on the ground! Or cut off your heads! ”
The barbarian officer's order made the people, who did not know that even if they were obedient, they would eventually be slaughtered, they would clean up the thistles scattered on the ground on the way.
Behind the common people, there are barbarian soldiers holding small round shields of cowhide to protect their heads, all of whom are leading their horses, and once they pass through the labyrinth of repulsive rifles, they will get on their horses and charge.
And those Dayan people who act as shields will bear the brunt of the attack and become the first victims of the cavalry's trampling and chopping!
On the defensive line, the soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom looked at each other, and the sound of heavy breathing was accompanied by incomparable entanglement and struggle!
But the military order is like a mountain, no one is allowed to attack, even if more than half of the archers in Yonggu City are gathered on the defense line, they can only watch silently!
Just as all the people entered the labyrinth of rejecting rifles, the sound of a heavy object falling from a high place broke the almost frozen air!
Call!
A boulder the size of a millstone fell from the sky and smashed into the entrance of the maze with precision!
The barbarian soldiers who followed behind the people were smashed into pulp in an instant!
The boulder seemed to be just a signal, and then more than a dozen stones of different sizes fell from the sky, like the punishment of the gods, and smashed heavily into the crowd of barbarian soldiers!
Trebuchet, Zhao Hengyi's trebuchet that was previously arranged on the mountain beams on both sides of the valley!
Zhao Hengyi, who was watching in front of the battle, gave a thumbs up to the person who commanded the trebuchet in his heart!
The timing is too accurate!
The trebuchet, which is simple to manufacture and can even be called a crude weapon of war, has never appeared in the Great Yan Kingdom.
In Zhao Hengyi's memory, trebuchets were used in large quantities on the battlefield of cold weapons in ancient times, but most of the time, this kind of war weapon that can be built from anywhere is used to siege cities.
However, when you occupy the high ground, when you can prepare calmly, when you can use simple geometry knowledge to accurately locate the landing point of the stone, the trebuchet can also be a sharp weapon when defending!
The huge stone that fell from the sky smashed into the crowd of barbarian soldiers, and the strong inertia made the stone still roll for a distance after it landed.
Each boulder tumbles forward, leaving a blank space of flesh and blood among the barbarian soldiers!
"Why are there rocks falling from the sky?!"
"The gods are angry! Run! ”
"This is divine punishment, someone has angered the gods!"
Barbarian soldiers, who had never seen trebuchets before, could not understand why a boulder the size of a millstone fell from the sky, and in an age when everyone believed in the existence of gods, the theory of ghosts and gods became the best explanation!
Not to mention those barbarians who were being crushed by the boulders, even the soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom on the defensive line thought that they had seen a miracle!
The partial general, who had been standing beside Zhao Hengyi, widened his eyes in shock, his mouth was half open, and there was a loud sound in his throat, but he couldn't say a word, and the hand that was pressed on the handle of the waist knife didn't know when to let go.
Even Wang Erhu, who had seen the trebuchet more than once while reconnoitering the situation in the nearby area, could not have imagined that such a clumsy and simple instrument would be able to create such a terrifying scene once it was fully fired!
The boulder falling from the sky was tumbling, and the strange sound of flesh and blood being crushed kept ringing, and with it, this was the miserable howl of those wounded soldiers who were bruised by the boulder and did not lose their lives!
In front of the defensive line, Zhang Can appeared with an iron horn at some point, shouting at the people who were also in fear and chaos: "Run this way, you will be safe when you run over!" ”
As if mixed into the flock of wolves, the people in the labyrinth hurriedly rushed towards the position of the Great Yan Kingdom!
The barbarian soldiers who were mixing in the crowd and pretending to be ordinary people suddenly burst out, drew their waist knives and slashed the people around them!
These inhumane bastards pick on women, children, and children who can't run fast.
Duh!
A dull sound different from that of the bow and arrow when the bowstring was activated suddenly appeared, and a cold light then sank into the neck of a barbarian soldier posing as a commoner, bringing out a canopy of blood!
Aggressive!
Dull sounds sounded one after another, and the barbarian soldiers who blended into the crowd one by one were sniped accurately!
The labyrinth of the horse repulsion rifle was only less than thirty meters away from the defense line of the Great Yan Kingdom, and it was completely within the range of the new hand crossbow!
Under Zhao Hengyi's repeated orders, the soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom, who had been extremely aggrieved, took the initiative to attack!
The rejecting rifle was quickly carried to the sides of the valley by the baggage soldiers, and the people who were driven away by the barbarians had a special person in charge of channeling, and the archers shot a rain of arrows at the barbarian army in the valley that fell into chaos, and then rushed out, which was a ten-person squad that had only been trained for two days!
The barbarian soldiers in the valley were unstoppably plunged into great chaos.
The boulders that fell from the sky terrified these guys who believed in ghosts and gods!
And everyone led the war horses, a whole twenty hundred-man team, almost filled the valley, and it was almost an impossible task to turn around and escape at this time!
Under the order of the standard-bearer, the trebuchet arranged on the mountain beam focused the attack on the middle line of the valley, and the barbarian soldiers at the rear of the team did not know what was happening at all, only saw the boulders falling from the sky, and the soldiers who did not receive the order to retreat were stunned on the spot, and many people directly threw themselves to the ground and knelt down to the sky!
The screams of humans, the wails of horses, the peculiar sound of bones being smashed make up a piece of music that can only be heard in hell!
These ferocious and vicious beasts should have fallen to hell forever!