The big man is on the run

Chapter 108 Dimensionality Reduction Strike: Counterweight Catapult!
"woooooo"

"Woooooo~woooooo~"

A series of bull horns sounded.

When Li Jue's Xiliang iron cavalry appeared in Weiqu and rode towards the Han army formation, a strong and substantial smell of killing immediately spread in the air, and the entire northwest of Weiqu The area seemed to have fallen into a kind of dead silence, empty and cold.

Xiliang cavalry, attack!
"Report—!"

"Report to Your Majesty, our army's scouts have discovered the traces of the enemy's troops, and they are still fifteen miles away from our army!"

A personal soldier reined in the horse and shouted loudly to Liu Yi from under the platform.

Liu Yi was wearing a scarlet cloak, holding a black long sword in his hand, his face was calm, but his heart was surging, even his breathing became short of breath.

This is the first time he has commanded tens of thousands of troops to fight in the true sense.

Although he has counselors and generals to assist him, it is undoubtedly himself who makes the final decision.

The mountain-like pressure did not crush him.

"Oh?"

Liu Yi smiled. If someone could observe carefully, they would probably be able to see the muscles on the side of the emperor's cheeks beating constantly.

"It's really good. I didn't expect that their actions would be so fast! If that's the case, then let's attack as planned."

"promise!"

Hearing Liu Yi's order, the guard nodded, and quickly retreated out.

The start was not unexpected. Li Jue, who had experienced many battles, did not adopt the stupid tactic of cavalry hard chiseling, but also covered the two wings with cavalry, and the infantry advanced forward in a large formation.

The Han army remained strangely silent until Li Jue's infantry entered some areas where the abrupt stone strips were inserted.

"Bed crossbow, launch!"

Following the captain's order, the bed crossbows pre-arranged on various natural or artificial hills flew condescendingly from all directions.

The sound of the crossbow breaking through the wind sounded, and an arm-thick crossbow shone coldly in the sun, and shot at the infantry of Li Jue's army at an extremely fast speed.

"Vertical shield!"

A school lieutenant shouted loudly, and then a group of soldiers put down the oar shields in front of them, trying to block the crossbow arrows fired at their own formation.

"Pfft--!"

The armor was pierced, followed by screams.

In the face of the terrifying penetrating power of the bed crossbow with its preset position, not to mention ordinary round shields and cowhide armor, it is impossible to resist it head-on, even oar shields and piercing armor.

After such a round of shooting, dozens of soldiers fell down, and basically they could not be rescued.

"Go forward! Hurry up! The reloading speed of the bed crossbow is very slow!" the captain roared angrily.

"Dong dong dong dong!"

As the captain's words fell, a series of drums in Li Jue's army resounded through the sky and the earth.

At the same time as the sound of the drum came, it also represented that Li Jue's army had officially launched a charge, and Li Jue's infantry formed a large formation and began to advance at a faster speed.

"Archer, let go!"

The Hanjun Xiaoxiao slammed down the sword he was holding high in his hand.

"Shhhhhhh~~~!"

"Whoosh whoosh~~~!"

The sound of the bowstring trembling continued to sound, and a sharp arrow fell from the sky like a torrential rain, and shot towards the infantry who were charging towards him.

The arrow rain fell, and the dense arrow rain directly opened a gully formed by blood on the ground.

"Puchi! Puchi"

Dozens of unlucky infantry had their throats and bodies pierced by arrows, and screamed and fell in a pool of blood. The bright red blood stained the ground.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa~!"

The ballistic trajectory of ordinary pedal crossbows is smoother, and the crossbow bolts cut through the air, bringing up a sharp and piercing scream, making bursts of piercing sounds.

Under the impact of the bed crossbow, step bow, and pedal crossbow, hundreds of infantry were shot into sieves by the rain of arrows, and blood shot out from the wound continuously, staining the yellow sand on the ground red.

A number of famous soldiers fell to the ground one after another, twitching their bodies continuously, and some of their eyes were wide open, apparently dead.

Seeing this scene, the faces of Qianjunli, Dong Cheng and others immediately flickered with a strong joy, and a strong color of excitement appeared on their faces.

"Hahahaha! What a joy! These bastards, do you really think they can be arrogant and domineering? They really treat us as soft persimmons! Today, we must let them come and go!" Dong Cheng roared crazily road.

Dong Cheng's troops were immediately under the greatest pressure.

Li Jue, who had survived the rain of arrows, began to charge Dong Chengjun frantically.

In an instant, the battle situation fell into a white-hot stage. The infantry of the two sides fought hand-to-hand, and the trenches and walls hardly played much of a blocking role in the face of the huge number of Li Jue's army.

The soldiers on both sides were constantly fighting between the trench and the wall of the village, and the metal clanging from the collision of knives and guns pushed the atmosphere of the entire battlefield to the craziest level in an instant.

The archers of Li Jue's army also started to fight back, and the Han army's advantage in long-range firepower began to be equalized.

Corpses lay in disorder on the battlefield, and the smell of blood spread throughout the battlefield.

While the soldiers of both sides were fighting, after the Han army formed a large formation, the catapults were also uncovered and pushed onto the battlefield in front of the world.

One of the secret weapons that Liu Yi has been preparing for a long time is the counterweight trebuchet.

Although in this world, there has not been a mature artillery vehicle that can be put into battle on a large scale in the Song and Jin Dynasties, but there have been similar things. In this time and space, relatively primitive artillery vehicles are used to attack The city's weapons only use the principle of leverage, which requires many people to pull, and because of the uneven force, the landing point is extremely unstable and lacks precision.

However, Liu Yi directly moved out the counterweight trebuchet and asked the craftsmen to manufacture more than a dozen of them.

The actual killing effect of this kind of heavy weapon on the frontal battlefield, if we only talk about the number of killings per unit time, including loading and launching, it is not even as good as the number of casualties caused by infantry melee combat at the same time, but it is shocking to the enemy's heart The effect is unparalleled.

After all, although the counterweight trebuchet has a simple principle, it is an out-and-out dimensionality reduction blow for the army of this era.

The enemy threw stone balls at them from unseen places.

——Like a meteorite falling from the sky.

A huge counterweight trebuchet was erected behind the formation, and aimed at the infantry of Li Jue's army according to the range reference that had been calibrated in advance.

Because the trebuchet has a very long range, once it is launched, the enemy cannot fight back at all. When the projectile hits, the enemy army hit will be directly smashed into meat and powder, and there is not even a complete bone residue left.

Of course, although the power of the trebuchet is huge, the loading speed is very slow.

"shoot!"

"Bang bang bang bang!"

The huge stone, with a strong shock wave, howled and smashed towards the infantry formation in the center of the battlefield.

These stones carry a large amount of stone flakes and soil debris, and even the body of the stone is not needed. Just these scraps are shot out under the huge inertia, and only the soldiers who are shot are needed, and they will be disabled even if they are not dead.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

There were bursts of loud sounds, and stones were thrown down quickly towards Li Jue's formation.

"Boom boom boom boom boom~~~!"

The stones fell, and one after another, the stones continued to burst, turning into groups of death-defying Yamas wandering on the battlefield.

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

The pawns were hit by the explosive stones one by one, and their bodies were directly blasted to pieces.

"Don't run around!" the captain yelled at the panicked soldiers.

The goal of the trebuchet was very clear. In order to avoid accidentally injuring Dong Cheng's friendly troops, these stone bombs were thrown into the rear troops where the infantry formation could not be put into the battlefield.

"Whoosh!"

Suddenly, another stone flew over the head of a soldier, and with the piercing sound of the wind, a huge piece of stone smashed directly into the head of the captain who was still supervising the battle. In the process, the captain's head was cut in half.

Seeing the scene in front of them, all the soldiers present showed horrified expressions on their faces, with panic written all over their faces.

"Run!"

A soldier from Xiqiang yelled and turned to run away, but before he could take two steps, a stone slice broke his thigh.

All of a sudden, there were screams and calls for help.

More than a dozen boulders fell, and many soldiers were knocked to the ground, blood spattered everywhere, and corpses were lying on the ground in a mess. The soldiers standing beside them couldn't help but feel their stomachs tumbling.

"Damn, these sons of bitches, they're so damned!"

"Hateful, hateful!"

"retreat!"

"Quick retreat!"

"Damn it! Damn it!"

Some soldiers saw that on the battlefield, the trebuchets of the Han army could throw stones weighing hundreds of catties at a time, and the stones hit the ground one by one and burst immediately.

Such a weapon is simply more terrifying than slaughtering a pig.

Some clever soldiers even desperately charged towards the soldiers of the Han army, regardless of the danger of their lives.

Because they have discovered that as long as they fight together with the Han army, they will not be hit by these stone bombs.

However, as some people rushed forward, the formation became chaotic and lost the protection of the complete formation. Under the shooting of the crossbowmen of the Han army, soldiers fell to the ground one by one.

“No! Don’t rush any further!”

When a school lieutenant saw his subordinates being shot and killed within the range of the Han army, he became very anxious and couldn't help roaring loudly.

"Whoo! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The crossbowmen of the Han army aimed at the lieutenant and fired arrows continuously, nailing the lieutenant's head to the ground.

"Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!"

Feathered arrows pierced the captain's head, and blood spattered.

The captain stared wide-eyed, looking at everything in front of him in disbelief.

It's unbelievable that he died just like that.

A school lieutenant was shot and killed on the battlefield just like that.

"Puff! Puff! Puff!"

An arrow from a Han army pierced the forward soldier's chest, spurting blood, and fell straight down.

And the second round of stone bombs from the Han army's trebuchet has already struck.

The stone bombs all over the sky are like meteors falling.

This scene completely stupefied the soldiers behind, with horror written all over their faces.

In this world, how could there be such a terrifying weapon?

He couldn't figure it out.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Jue, who was watching the battle from behind, felt extremely resentful in his heart.

"Pass my general order, all soldiers, all attack, don't give the officers and soldiers a chance to fire continuously!"

"Yes! Da Sima!"

Following Li Jue's order, the entire front began to move forward.

Not only the large formation of infantry in front of Dong Chengbu, but also the cavalry of Li Jue's army in front of Yang Fengbu immediately accelerated their charge, and the horses galloped forward, making hooves that shook the ground.

Li Jue's order was to attack in an all-round way, and he wanted to use his superiority in strength to quickly find out the weaknesses of the Han army.

Li Jue believes that the strengths of the various units of the Han army that have gone through hard battles are inherently different. In this width of the battlefield, it is impossible to have no weaknesses. As long as you find a weakness, preferably the joint unit, then Li Jue will use his troops to make a breakthrough , completely outflanked and divided the formation of the Han army.

On the left wing of the Han army (the right wing of Li Jue's army), thousands of cavalry, like a flood of beasts, surged from all directions, and submerged in Yang Fengjun who was facing him.

Almost at the moment of meeting each other, Yang Fengjun's formation, which was originally the weakest in combat power, suddenly seemed to be crumbling, and the Baibo army infantry in the front row, holding simple spears and wooden shields, were rushed to the ground and kept fighting. Howling, struggling.

In the first round of the all-out attack, Li Jue found the weakness of the Han army.

(End of this chapter)