Chapter 297: Go find the meat shield
Li Dao frantically threw all his troops into the battlefield at once, and Yuan Qi did not have spare arrows and crossbows as he expected. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info But this doesn't mean that Yuan Qi has no other way to defeat the enemy.
Just when the rebels braved the rain of arrows to come to the city of Beijing and put the ladder on the city wall, Dian Wei took Yuan Xie and others to carry dozens of large boxes and returned to the city wall. The Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers, which have been developed in secret, are packed in these boxes.
Pulling out the Red Sky Divine Sword, a sword split open a box, Yuan Qi took out a small Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower from it, and then said loudly: "The land belongs to it, each person takes two Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, quickly!" The thousands of land returning soldiers who stayed behind strode forward, opened the other boxes, and each took two small Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers in their hands. As for the effect of the things they held in their hands, except for Yuan Qi, no one present knew, but Yuan Qi's order, for the land return army, was the golden rule, what Yuan Qi asked them to do, they never asked why, but firmly carried it out, even if Yuan Qi asked them to die.
Yuan Qi's choice to return to the army to take the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, it also makes sense, in the four elite soldiers under the command of Yuan Qi, only the Ground Returning Army is the infantry army, their physical fitness is the best, and the usual training is also more focused on the direction of strength, and the arm strength is slightly higher than that of other elites.
Glancing down the city, Yuan Qi pointed to the rebels within ten to fifty paces of the city gate, and ordered loudly, "The land belongs to it." Form a skirmish line, and throw the heavenly maiden scattered flowers in your hands with all your might. ”
Thousands of Digui Lux did not hesitate, took a slight aim, and then suddenly took a few steps forward, using the power of the dash to drive their bodies, and smashed the small Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower in their hands towards the rebels.
The next moment, a scene that stunned all the sergeants on both sides of the city and the city appeared. Thousands of Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, which looked like iron eggs, were thrown by the power of the Earth Gui Lux and fell quickly to the ground in the air, and the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers collided with the ground in an instant. Affected by the reaction force of the ground. The surface of the iron sheet was violently shaken by inertia, which immediately caused a chemical reaction between the oil solids and nitrate and other objects inside, and a violent explosion was produced from the inside, accompanied by a thunderous sound. The iron sheet wrapped around the outside was blown apart. Scattered into dozens of pieces the size of a fingernail. Scattered out in all directions.
Don't look at the size of the burst fragments, which are not much larger than the fingernails, but under the air ** motion formed by the dual action of internal and external. With speed and destructive power that this era absolutely does not have. There is no problem in piercing through two layers of leather armor or one and a half layers of iron armor. Yuan Qi quoted the advanced technology of later generations to create a cross-era goddess scattered flowers, at this moment, let the world experience its terrifying power.
The rebels didn't expect Yuan Qi to have such a magical weapon, and they didn't have any defenses at all, and they didn't even make dodge moves. After thousands of Celestial Maidens scattered flowers fell to the ground, they exploded into tens of thousands of pieces of iron, and they were all-round, all-angle, and indiscriminate attacks. A large number of rebels were caught off guard, and were scattered by the iron pieces that pierced the iron armor, pierced the chest, and blinded their eyes, and some of the more unlucky ones were unfortunately cut through the lower body by the iron pieces, and the red blood immediately flowed down the crotch of their pants, and a pile of carrion that had lost its function fell from between their punctured crotches, which was shocking.
"Ah————" The rebels collectively wailed, under the huge power of the Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers, thousands of rebels lost their lives in an instant, and they didn't even have time to scream, and those rebels who were seriously injured and could not die immediately for a while, and the rebels who were cut off or suffered some minor injuries, and survived, hoarsely used wails to tell their physical pain and despair and fear in their hearts.
Satisfied with this high-altitude cluster bombardment, Yuan Qi quickly glanced at the battlefield with a smile on the corner of his mouth. Under the first bombardment, a vacuum of more than 30 steps appeared between the front and rear armies of the rebels, and countless rebel corpses lay on the battlefield, and those who were seriously injured and unable to stand up were lying on the ground and groaning in pain.
"Target, rebels within ten paces of the city, throw!" Yuan Qi coldly gave the order to throw a second time. Thousands of Earth Gui Lishi grasped the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower in his left hand and handed it to his right hand, and then ran to the back of the battlement, and threw the second Celestial Maiden Scattered Flower along the battlement.
Another rumbling explosion was heard, and the Celestial Maiden Scattered Flowers were blown open, and an indiscriminate attack came towards the rebels within ten paces of the capital. This time was different from the previous one, in the midst of a cacophony of explosions, piercings, and screams of rebels, there was also a strange crackling sound, which was the sound of exploding pieces of iron scattering and hitting the heavy walls of the capital. Although the effect of the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower is similar to that of the grenades of later generations, the power is far less powerful than the grenades, and it is only won by the number of fragments, and Yuan Qi is not worried about the damage that the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers will do to the walls of the capital.
It wasn't until the smoke of gunpowder after the explosion of the second Heavenly Maiden scattered flowers cleared that the enemy and the enemy who witnessed this scene woke up from their shock. Li Wei was already a little frightened, these two explosions beyond his thinking had brought thousands of casualties to his subordinates, and among these thousands of casualties, those who were lucky enough to survive the explosion were also more or less injured. Hundreds of steps away, Yuan Qi on the city wall of the capital still used his sharp eyes to see the paleness on Li Dao's face, which was almost a dead person's paleness.
And on the city wall, except for the two elites of the Heavenly Return Army and the Earth Return Army, they were slightly stunned, and then returned to normal, the other generals and sergeants were still in a state of shock and distraction, Yuan Xie was one of the representatives, although Yuan Xie knew very well in his heart that no matter what miracles happened to Yuan Qi, it was not worth being too surprised, but this time, Yuan Xie's face was still full of horror, and the whole person was stupid, and he couldn't extricate himself for a long time.
After a long time, Yuan Xie let out a long breath and said two words from the bottom of his heart: "Miracle!" In his tone, he was full of admiration. It's just that I don't know if he's admiring the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, or admiring Yuan Qi's superhuman wisdom.
The others were shocked, but Yuan Qi didn't have the slightest distraction. Not to mention that he has already seen the power of the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flowers, but he has not seen it, he has also seen the explosion of grenades on TV in later generations, which is a miraculous existence for people in this era, and it is just a relatively advanced weapon in the eyes of Yuan Qi.
Taking advantage of the rebels' panic and shock, Yuan Qi took a few steps forward, glanced quickly down the city, and then strode back five steps back. He shouted calmly: "The Earth Return Army stepped forward." Ruined the rebels' ladder!" The reason why Yuan Qi deliberately stepped forward to observe it was to confirm the idea in his heart, under his imagination, although the Heavenly Maiden Scattered Flower had relatively strong lethality. However, it does not have the destructive power to destroy the ladder. After all. Those pieces of iron, which were only the size of fingernails, were only so penetrating that it was impossible to completely destroy the thick ladder. The ladder was one of the necessary conventional armaments for siege warfare in this era. In the era when there were no lifts and landing planes, people could only use this most primitive tool to launch a tragic siege war, destroy the enemy's ladder, which was a heavy blow to the morale of the enemy, and could effectively delay the enemy's all-out siege.
The returning army roared in unison, strode forward, leaned out of the city wall, and then raised the horse chopping knife in his hand and slashed down to the ladder on the city wall. The saber was only seven feet long, and at most it could cut off the seven-foot-long portion of the top of the ladder, but that was enough. Not to mention seven feet, even if it is shorter, it will also make the ladder lose its due effect. Just imagine, when a group of soldiers climbed to the top along the ladder, but suddenly found that the top of the ladder was still some distance from the city, what a tragic scene it should be.
Li Dao under the city finally came to his senses in shock, raised his head and glanced in the direction of Yuan Qi on the city wall, his eyes were already bloodshot, his eyes were full of humiliation, unwillingness and anger, but more than that, fear. In just one hour, the 50,000 troops under his subordinates have lost more than 10,000 people without even really touching the edge of the capital city, how the hell can they fight?
"Withdraw the troops! Withdraw the troops quickly!" Li Dao let out a heart-rending roar like a wolf's howl. In the process of retreating, their footsteps were extremely chaotic, regardless of the seriously injured comrades who fell to the ground, and ruthlessly stepped over them, and many rebels who were not injured to death died under the trampling of their own people.
Just when Li Dao gathered the remnants, Guo Yan and Han Sui respectively sent people over and asked Li Dao what the earth-shattering explosion was just now, Li Dao glanced at the two probes angrily, and squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Tell your lord, if you don't want to die, you will withdraw." ”
The two scouts didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly turned around and ran back to their respective units to inform Guo Yan and Han Sui. After a while, the rebels attacking the other two city gates, under the orders of Guo Yan and Han Sui, also withdrew from the battle range and gathered on Li Wei's side. In the short fierce battle just now, Guo Yan and Han Sui's troops also suffered a lot of casualties, although Zhao Hu and Zuo Ci, who were responsible for defending the other two city gates, did not have red-clothed ballistas and Heavenly Maiden Sanhua such killers, but they still brought huge trouble to the two rebels besieging the city, and never let the rebels take the first step in the capital.
After everyone gathered around Li Dao, they all looked at Li Dao with confusion and confusion. Li Dao pouted in the direction of the battlefield, and said with some fear: "Look, those dead soldiers, they were injured by Yuan Qi with an extremely magical weapon, and in just two rounds of explosions, thousands of lives of our army were taken. Yuanqi has ballistas, triple crossbows, and this kind of explosive weapon, the capital, we can't beat it. ”
Li Wei's words made Guo Yan and the others silent. If you don't succeed, you will become a benevolent, and now you don't take advantage of the weakness of the defenders of the capital city to take the capital in one fell swoop, and after Yuan Qi has solved Yuan Ding, he will turn around and use troops against Liangzhou, so how can he resist? But everyone also knows that Li Dao is a fierce figure, and if it weren't for Yuan Qi's secret weapon being too terrifying, Li Dao would never give up so lightly.
Senior General Yan Xing lowered his head and pondered for a while, and then suddenly said: "General, we can't retreat, we have no way to retreat for a long time, stretching out our head is a knife, and shrinking our head is also a knife, why don't we fight to the death? General, a certain suggestion is to temporarily withdraw the army, arrest the common people in the countryside near the capital overnight, and mix it with our army tomorrow to attack the capital together." Yuan Xie and Yuan Qi advertised that they were orthodox, so they would definitely not use this secret weapon against our army, so as not to injure ordinary people by mistake. ”
When Li Wei heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, if he followed Yan Xing's method, not to mention that Yuan Qi couldn't use a secret weapon that would explode, even the red-clothed ballista and the three-in-a-row crossbow probably didn't dare to use it, and he could only engage in hand-to-hand combat with himself and others, if this was the case, would his own army of more than 100,000 still not be able to take the capital garrisoned by only 40,000 or 50,000 people?
"Okay, that's it! Second brother, General Yan Xing, you will split up tonight to arrest the common people, and tomorrow, let's fight Yuan Qi to the death again!" Li Wei's eyes regained his fighting spirit, exuding a fierce light like a hungry wolf, and said fiercely.