Spring and Autumn I Am King

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"What is that?"

After those strange instruments were pushed out from the back of the Tushan Mountain, the soldiers in the southwest corner of Chaoge City stared blankly for a long time, and they still didn't figure out what they were. If you like Lewen Novel, go to www.X.

More than a hundred steps outside the city wall, dozens of wooden machines have been deployed, the wheels are stuck with sandbags and stones, and a section of the wooden frame at the rear is buried in the soil to fix it. Zhao Jun's craftsmen are each with more than a hundred soldiers and laborers, sweating profusely, adjusting their positions and angles.

Someone in the city tried to shoot a few arrows, but found that the distance was too far to shoot the people outside.

"It must be a siege weapon, hurry up and urge Liu Sima to take a look!" Because Zhao Bing's offensive was slack, Zhong Xingyin, who had not slept a few nights at the top of the city, went back to rest, and Liu Xiang was not at this section of the city wall. superior.

But at this moment, the guard of the Zhongxing clan suddenly discovered that his robes had loosened their weapons one after another and stared at the sky outside the city in a stunned manner.

The guard turned around and rubbed his eyes, thinking that he was wrong.

However, I saw some more strange things rising next to those strange machines...

Their wings trembled in the morning wind, some flew to a height of more than ten feet, some flew to a height of several dozen feet, and finally hovered over the Zhao army and the city wall, and did not disperse for a long time.

Everyone looked intently, and couldn't help but turn pale in shock, but saw that some of those things were black, like the legendary mysterious birds, and some were fiery red with long tails like phoenixes. In addition to this, there are others, there are feathered people with bird heads and human bodies, long snakes and dragons with a torso several feet long, tiger bodies and flying feathers, Xianyu fierce beasts, and greedy tengu devouring the moon...

"What's going on?" The strange thing must be a demon, and the guards were horrified. When they turned around, they saw that the Bai Di people who were responsible for carrying the stones and bricks to the city were all kneeling on the ground, bowing their heads.

"Look at that horse body and dragon head, it's the Zhongshan **** that we Di people worship!"

Not only the Di people, but the superstitious people in the city head suddenly saw these gods and monsters that only exist in legends appear in front of them.

Only the people who were still standing there. Just saw the next scene.

The craftsman selected a suitable stone ball and put it in the holster. Then, under the sound of the horn, about a hundred people began to pull the "tips" connected to the crossbar together, and each tip had more than ten strong men. Han pulls. The long pole on the other end began to gradually press towards the ground under their tension.

"God help!" With the order, more than a hundred people let go in unison, followed by a dull crashing sound from outside the city. This was the sound of the trebuchet's wooden pole colliding with the thick sackcloth-wrapped bracket.

At this moment, the pulling force of the cannon tip turned into a huge thrust, and a large stone weighing more than ten kilograms was thrown out. A beautiful semi-circular arc was drawn in the air, and it slid down quickly after crossing the apex, and finally fell heavily on the eaves of the tower in Chaoge City!

With a loud "bang", the stone like a visitor from the sky directly penetrated the fragile eaves, bricks and rubble splashed, and exclamations sounded on the city tower and walls.

"This..." Everyone froze in place. The siege of the Central Plains princes has always been monotonous. When have you ever seen a device that can throw large stones on the city wall in the air!

This time, the guards who had not been frightened by the kites before knelt down with pale faces.

Did Zhao Jun really have the help of ghosts and gods? The simple people of Chaoge on the top of the city thought about it one after another.

See the school shooting success. The craftsmen and soldiers outside the city were elated and cheered. Fifty catapults have now been fixed.

With repeated "God help!" followed by a dense and dull collision! Those tall and rough trebuchets, with the strength of their pulling force, threw the stone bullets out piece by piece. Dozens of black dots fell towards Chaoge City!

Some were not able to grasp the tension and fell on the wall, making a dent; some were lucky enough to hit the tower.

a time. The sound outside Chaoge City was like thunder, stones fell from the sky, and the city was turbulent, all of them were shocked!

A few more trebuchets have shotguns in their holsters. Although each stone is not big, it can throw more than a dozen at a time! Some of them were so powerful that they even crossed the city wall and flew straight into the city!

...

At this moment, Liu Xiang is driving the car from the east of Chaoge to the southwest corner. On the way through the grain market.

Although most of the old and weak women and children were driven to the north of Qishui for food, there were still many people in the city. Because the Zhao army besieged the city for 20 days, no other food entered the city, so the price of food was ten times that before the war. Still rising. The wealthy people in their families have hoarded a lot of corn, and the poor people are either wandering between the grain markets, contemplating stealing, or they are standing under the city walls and shivering hopelessly, waiting to be called to the city to carry wood and move bricks, and mix up. A clear porridge.

Liu Xiang will not even look at these people with pity. He is now in danger of losing himself. It is a big crime to lose the battle against Muye, and it is a big crime to die in the army. Accountability removed.

However, Bo Xingbo promised that if Liu Xiang kept the Chaoge this time, he would speak to the new head of the Fan family, Gao Yi, and save him from sin.

After passing the grain market, we arrived at the South Gate. The sound of hammers rang out in the early morning air, and a large number of Chaoge carpenters gathered here to add planks to the battlements, which seemed to be progressing well.

Liu Xiang can't wait to double the height of the city wall and thicken it by three layers, so that he can safely defend it until after the autumn harvest, when reinforcements from the north are approaching, Zhibo will definitely interfere, maybe the Qi people have already hit Qufu! Zhao Jun had no choice but to retreat.

However, at this moment, a loud noise and exclamations of people suddenly sounded outside the city and on the city wall.

"What happened?"

Liu Xiang looked up in confusion, but saw more than ten black dots cross the city wall, smashed down from the air, and landed on his convoy without any bias!

Liu Xiang didn't have time to react, but his guard raised his shield, but it was useless. The power of these stone **** falling from the sky hitting the human body is by no means comparable to that of several heavy bows and arrows.

Just in an instant, the crisp sound of the stone hitting the shield and the screams of the soldiers became one. The car slammed into the ground and collapsed. The horse was hit in the neck and knelt on all four legs, spitting out blood. Foam and pieces of internal organs were moaning endlessly, and several people were smashed to the ground, either their heads were blooming or their hands and legs were broken.

And Liu Xiang was even more miserable. A stone just hit his head. With a puff, his head wearing a copper jacket was smashed and dented. He fell into the car without a word, and waited for the turmoil to end. When the guards rushed over, they were surprised to find that Sima Chaoge's head had been split open, with pink brains and blood all over his face, and he seemed to be dead...

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"Actually, the chance of smashing people to death by a slingshot is very low. It might be better than a salvo of bows and arrows, but the psychological shock caused by it is unmatched by any weapon..."

Zhao Wuxi stood in front of the formation in high spirits, and couldn't help laughing as he watched the "Thunderbolt Car" showing off his strength. He didn't know that Chaoge Sima had such bad luck that he died in such a small probability attack.

Gong Shuban suddenly realized: "It turns out that the general asked me to make kites that look like ghosts and gods, but also to dampen the morale of the enemy, plus the trebuchets they have never seen before, the soldiers in the city may really think that ghosts and gods are helping Zhao Jun. ."

"Yes, if it were a small city, and the trebuchets would take a few rounds, you wouldn't have to wait for the besieger's general attack. After a long period of bombardment, you would surrender. As for a big city like Chaoge, we will not only destroy their city. Doors, parapets, watchtowers, and their determination to resist will be smashed. Within a few days, the city will lose confidence to resist, and then another fierce attack will have a chance to break the city!"

In the days that followed, Zhao Jun would bombard Chaoge with trebuchets every day. Two hundred experienced craftsmen, 5,000 soldiers and laborers would operate fifty trebuchets in shifts, projecting more than 2,000 trebuchets into the city every day. Stone bomb!

The stone bullets have been accurate for 20 days, and the number is sufficient. In order to ensure the accuracy, the projectiles fired must have a relatively uniform shape and weight. Therefore, in the siege transport team, the stonemason has become an important member. Not only did they have to chisel the stones into shape, but they also had to choose the right ones.

The wooden city gate naturally became the preferred target. After the archers on the city wall were forced to look up with shotguns, the trebuchet could be advanced to a close distance of more than 50 paces and hit them with heavy bullets weighing dozens of pounds. Wooden door bombardment, although it takes dozens of shots to prepare for one shot...

"Firebombs" wrapped in sackcloth and grease are fired even at night! Even though the probability of the projectile hitting an important target is very small, such a long "barrage shooting" has a great impact on the morale of the city.

Because of Liu Xiang's accidental death~www.readwn.com~ Chaoge's city defense had a big flaw, and even if Zhong Xingyin and Zhang Liushuo personally went to the city to defend against the enemy, they could not make up for this flaw.

The soldiers on the top of the city saw that they were bombarded with stone bullets every day, but their bows and arrows could not reach the enemy because the distance was not enough, so they could only passively be beaten, and their morale dropped sharply. You can imagine the fear of having a big rock hit your head all the time.

Although the accuracy of human pulling and projecting is not high, the city head has become the hardest hit area due to the accumulation of numbers. The walls are riddled with holes as if they were bombarded by meteor showers, but because of their thickness, they did not collapse, and the parapet walls also looked like The old man's missing teeth, two watchtowers were destroyed, and countless houses near the city wall collapsed.

In this case, the eight hundred Baidi people first refused to go to the city and fought against the "Zhongshan God" they worshiped. There was even a rebellion, and after being pacified and slaughtered by Zhong Xingyin, the guards themselves were severely damaged.

As for those people who temporarily went to the city to fight, they shivered every time they reached the wall, and were even afraid of incontinence. They had completely lost their courage to fight against the Zhao army.

In desperation, Bank of China Yin had no choice but to summon all the retainers of the Fan family and officers of the Bank of China in Chaoge City to discuss countermeasures. (To be continued.)