Chapter Ninety-Five: The Boulder
After taking Tongyuan City, De Yong's troops rested in place, and did not rush to attack Xiama Guancheng, he was planning how to attack Xiama Guancheng, which was personally defended by King Yuwen, he knew that Xiama Pass was steep, the city walls were tall and strong, and if the giant warriors only relied on a wooden stick, they obviously could not pose a threat to the city. So he was also waiting for the weapons of the giant warriors to arrive in the rear.
Two days later, the giant weapons transported from the county town of northern Jin arrived, a hundred large iron rods nearly five zhang long, thick bowls, one end of the iron rod was an iron hammer the size of a grinding plate, if the giant warrior held this kind of iron hammer, it was enough to reach the high city wall of Xiama Pass, and all the defensive soldiers and facilities on it were destroyed. After inspecting it himself, he was so satisfied that he gave the weapon a name called the "Hammer of Death".
After everything was ready, De Yong confidently led the troops to march towards Xiamaguan City, and the large army of more than 300,000 people drove until it was less than two miles in front of Xiamaguan City before stopping.
De Yong was still sitting on the wooden platform with his national teacher Dimo, but this time it was no longer a yak pulling the giant wooden platform forward, but two people from the front and two on the left and right, a total of eight giant warriors pushed forward, so it was not majestic.
Under the signal of De Yong, the flag soldiers on the top of the platform waved signal flags and mobilized troops to arrange their troops, and De Yong lined up fifty giant warriors with long hammers in the front, followed by siege soldiers and archers, long knife soldiers, etc.
After having the experience of attacking Kirihara Castle last time, Tokuku did not send all the giants to the front of the battle to prevent accidents. And he thinks that with the "Hammer of Death", only a few dozen giant warriors are enough to break through the city.
After the siege formation was arranged, the war drums beat, the trumpet sounded for a long time, and under the leadership of the giants, the siege team had arrived close to the city of Xiama Pass, and the sound of shouting resounded in the sky.
Seeing a row of metal giants leading tens of thousands of Tufan soldiers to the city like a tide, the soldiers on the city wall all showed frightened looks, although they had already been told that Tufan would send giant warriors to attack the city, but when they saw it with their own eyes, they were still very shocked.
Seeing the enemy army coming up from the slope in front of the city, and when there were still dozens of zhang away from the city wall, General Sima Yao on the city wall issued an order, and the soldiers threw thousands of rolling logs from the city wall. After landing on the slope, these logs bounce and accelerate downward.
These logs are as insignificant to the Giant Warriors as small sticks, or they are bounced off their legs, or they kick them away, but they don't stop them from moving forward in the slightest.
However, the rolling log that crossed the giant warrior knocked down a large part of the Tufan soldiers who followed behind, and the Tufan soldiers gathered behind the giant to avoid the attack of the rolling wood.
Under the command of the command, the giant warriors also moved closer to each other, forming a barrier for the troops behind. The giant warriors raised their hammers and swung them as they continued their march towards the walls.
Seeing that the giants had come to the steep slope in front of the city wall, General Sima Yao issued another order, and thousands of soldiers from the Western Regions began to pour rubble under the city wall.
The rubble didn't have much effect on the Tufan soldiers, but the giant warriors who were trying to climb the steep slope were slid to the ground by the rubble. At least twenty or so giants slipped and fell to the ground on their backs when they tried to climb the steep slope, and some of them rolled out of the way before stopping.
The giant warriors found that they could not climb the steep slope in front of them in this gravel waterfall, and they had no choice but to stop advancing in front of the steep slope. In this position, the long hammers in their hands could not reach the top of the city walls, and could only be swung out of thin air, causing no damage to the warriors defending the city.
The siege force following the giants saw that the giants could no longer advance, so they had to jump over the giants in front of them and try to attack the city gate over the steep slope, but they were shot back by the overwhelming rain of arrows on the city walls.
As soon as the giants had stopped in front of the steep slope, the warriors of the city stopped pouring the rubble and simply shot arrows downward, and as soon as the giants tried to try to climb the slope, they immediately threw the stones down.
In this way, the Tufan troops were in a stalemate for a long time on the steep slope in front of the city wall, and they did not find a way to attack the city wall. Seeing this, the Deyong Khan in the army had no choice but to withdraw his troops and fight again in the coming day.
Hearing that the first battle repelled the giant warriors, the king of Zhenxi was very happy, in order to prevent Yuwen from stealing the limelight alone, the next day, he led several civil and military ministers to climb the city tower with him, ready to personally supervise the battle.
As a result, in the morning, Tufan only dispatched a few groups of siege troops to attack and harass the city, but they were all repelled by the soldiers of the Western Regions, and did not send giant warriors to attack the city.
The king of Zhenxi looked at the city wall for a while, turned around and laughed and said to the ministers: "Ha, ha, Tufan Beiman, this time you can see the power of the iron wall of my Western Regions Guancheng, and the giants are not useful, but it is a pity that this king did not see what those giants are like today, and it is a pity!"
At this time, about fifty giant warriors from the distant slope outside the city lined up in two rows, marching in the direction of the city to the sound of drums and trumpets. The metal armor on the giant warrior's body glittered in the sunlight, like fifty metal castles crushing against the city of Xiamaguan, and its formation made people shudder.
The two rows of giant warriors, the front row of more than twenty people until they reached the steep slope under the city wall before stopping, the back row of more than twenty giant warriors and the tens of thousands of siege troops following behind did not follow closely, but stopped outside the range of bows and arrows.
At this time, dozens of large carriages were launched from the array of siege troops behind, each of which was filled with huge stones, each of which was the size of a millstone.
The soldiers on the city walls were ready to defend, and looked at the giants under the city very nervously, not knowing what they were going to do.
At this time, I saw dozens of giants standing in the back row moving the stones from the cart, holding them on their bodies, and walking towards the giant warriors standing in front of the steep slope.
The giant warrior standing in front turned around, took the boulder sent by the giant behind him, raised it high, and smashed it towards the city wall and gate not far away.
Dozens of boulders smashed into the city wall together, making a violent crashing sound, and the entire city wall shook for a moment. After the gate of the city wall was hit by seven or eight boulders, it had already cracked a few holes, which did not matter much, because there was a thick steel fence behind the huge iron-clad wooden gate, which was very strong and difficult to destroy.
However, the masonry on the city wall was smashed into a lot of craters by the boulders, and with the impact, the broken masonry fell one after another, raising a puff of dust.
The king of Zhenxi on the city wall clearly felt the vibration of the impact of the boulder, and he was taken aback, thinking that if he was allowed to attack like this, no matter how strong the city wall was, it would be destroyed. Immediately ordered the soldiers on the city wall to counterattack, and in an instant, rolling logs, thunder stones, bows, arrows, and crossbows poured down towards the giants.
However, these things were like a drizzle falling on the giant warriors under the city, and they had no effect at all. The boulders were still being smashed into the walls round after round, and the walls shook as the boulders slammed into them, and the guards on the walls were in disarray.
Such a scene made the king of Zhenxi, who was watching the battle on the city tower, frightened into a cold sweat, his face was bloodless, and he stood there in a daze, not knowing what to do.