Chapter 82325

Chapter 823-25

The Zhen army has already attacked the city of Baguan, and the heavy catapults have finally stopped, and the two sides have launched a more intense direct conflict.

The city defense of Baguan is very complete, with sufficient preparations for rolling logs, pounding stones, kerosene, etc. When the Zhen army set up the cloud ladder and rushed up, countless rolling logs and pounding stones fell down, and the sound of heavy objects hitting armor was endless. The Zhen soldiers climbing the cloud ladder fell from the air like snowflakes.

However, the soldiers of the Feng army were not so smooth when throwing rolling logs and pounding stones. The archers of the Zhen army had already stood in a long row under the city. When the Feng soldiers threw rolling logs and pounding stones at the Zhen soldiers, they were also pierced through the chest by arrows shot from below, and either fell on their backs with screams, or fell directly off the city wall.

Of course, the Feng army would not allow the enemy to shoot arrows comfortably outside the city. Many Feng army soldiers raised their bows and kept shooting back. The Zhen army archers outside the city often became targets before they could shoot an arrow. They were pierced with arrows and fell in a pool of blood.

On the battlefield, arrows flew back and forth, and the sound of arrows hitting the city came one after another. The soldiers of both sides were shot down in rows. Of course, the Feng army, which was on the defensive and commanding position, suffered much fewer casualties than the Zhen army outside the city.

The Zhen army fought bravely, and the Sichuan army behind them was gradually approaching. Ying Bu grabbed a messenger and asked him to pass on the order immediately, so that the catapults arranged in the city could throw stone bombs out.

Feng State used all its national strength to defend Baguan Pass, so it is conceivable that there were a lot of baggage. There were also hundreds of catapults stored in the city. Heavy weapons like trebuchets cannot be moved onto the city walls, nor can they be deployed. They can only be deployed inside the city. When trebuchets launch stone bombs, they must avoid the obstruction of their own city walls, so they are placed far away from the city walls. Because of this, the trebuchets in the city just avoid the attack of the heavy trebuchets of the Sichuan-Zhen coalition.

Following Ying Bu's order, the Feng Army trebuchets in the city began to start, and dense stone bombs were thrown out from the city, drawing arcs in the air, flying over the city walls, and then falling into the camp of the Sichuan-Zhen coalition.

Although the stone bombs launched by the Feng Army trebuchets are not as huge as those of the heavy trebuchets, they are also enough to kill people. Even if a spirit warrior in spirit armor is hit by a stone bomb, he will be turned into a meat pie in an instant. More importantly, many towers dragged up by the Sichuan Army were hit by stone bombs, and several were damaged.

The tower is a siege weapon. It is several times larger than a catapult. It is trapezoidal in shape and made of hard wood. It is seven or eight meters high. There are thick wooden shields in front and on both sides to block enemy arrows. There are ladders at the back for climbing. There are two rows of wooden wheels on the bottom floor, which can be moved. There is a platform on the top. When attacking a city, archers stand on the platform of the tower and can shoot face-to-face with the enemies on the city wall. The tower can also be used as a ladder. Put the tower on the city wall, and the soldiers standing on the platform can jump directly onto the city wall without any effort.

The tower weapon has many uses in sieges, and it has long been widely used in actual combat in Sichuan.

Fengguo has not yet used this weapon. Leng Ran saw the Sichuan army dragging huge monsters onto the battlefield, which is quite scary.

However, the tower can withstand arrows, but it cannot withstand the impact of stone bullets. If a stone bullet hits the front wooden shield, it can immediately create a big hole. If it hits any of the four pillars of the tower, the tower will basically be destroyed. Fragility is the biggest weakness of the tower.

Stone bullets, arrows, crossbows, rolling logs, pounding stones, and kerosene are pouring out from Baguan continuously. Under such a dense attack, it is more difficult for the Sichuan-Zhen coalition outside the city to successfully climb the top of the city than to climb to the sky.

When the fierce battle between the two sides gradually evolved into a stalemate, the Sichuan Army's Thunderbolt Cart was pushed up.

The Thunderbolt Cart is a powerful weapon specially used to hit the city gate. The whole car is a solid wooden frame, on which hangs a large wooden stake that can only be hugged by two or three people, like a giant hammer. The hammer head in front is made of solid iron, embedded in the wooden stake, and wrapped with a thick layer of iron sheet. When using it, the soldiers on both sides of the Thunderbolt Chariot pulled the rope lock to pull the giant hammer back, and then released them all at once, using the inertia of the falling giant hammer to hit the city gate, and so on.

As the Thunderbolt Chariot was successfully pushed to the front of the city gate, the morale of the Sichuan Army soldiers was greatly boosted. Hundreds of soldiers raised their shields, gathered on both sides of the Thunderbolt Chariot, and grabbed the ropes one after another. At this time, a thousand-man captain jumped onto the body of the chariot, commanded the soldiers on both sides, and shouted: "Pull--"

With the shouting of the thousand-man captain, dozens of ropes were pulled together, and the giant hammer was also suspended backwards. When it was pulled to the limit, the thousand-man captain waved his arms and shouted: "Release--"

Boom!

The falling giant hammer hit the gate of Baguan heavily, the sound was loud and deafening, and the force was so strong that the gate made of pure copper was knocked out of a pit, and the entire city wall seemed to tremble, especially the city wall above the city gate. Many Feng Army soldiers couldn't help but fall to the ground.

After the first collision, the second and third collisions followed one after another. Several wooden stakes supporting the city gate were broken, and stone chips kept falling from the gaps in the city gate frame. The originally strong city gate suddenly became precarious.

The general in the city was sweating profusely. While commanding his subordinates to carry more wooden stakes to support the city gate, he shouted to the city: "Hurry up and knock down the enemy's battering rams. The city gate can't bear it!"

The shouts of the wind general reached the top of the city, and the soldiers of the wind army on the city were also anxious. Many soldiers leaned out and shot arrows, but for the Sichuan army holding shields, the lethality of the arrows was really limited and not enough to stop the impact of the thunder chariot.

Soon, many more wind soldiers jumped onto the arrow stacks with rolling logs and pounding stones, aiming at the Sichuan army below, aiming at the rolling logs and pounding stones, but when they threw down the heavy objects, the soldiers of the wind army were also shot by the enemy outside the city and fell off the arrow stacks one after another.

The Sichuan soldiers pulling the thunder chariot were killed or injured by falling rocks and rolling logs from time to time, but there were too many Sichuan soldiers around. One was injured, one was filled, one died, and two came up to top it. The impact of the thunder chariot continued.

Seeing that his own soldiers were unable to show their heads due to the arrows from the other side, a general jumped onto the arrow stack and shouted to the soldiers behind him: "Give me the pounding stones!"

Several soldiers hurriedly came forward with pounding stones, and the general grabbed one and smashed it hard at the Sichuan soldiers under the city.

Crack!

A Sichuan soldier who was pulling the rope hard was hit by the falling stone, and the shield he held up was deformed, and the man fell to the ground. The general did not stop, grabbed another pounding stone, and threw it hard again. With a crisp sound, another Sichuan soldier was smashed to death.

Before the general threw the falling stone again, the arrows below arrived, and in an instant, dozens of eagle feathers flew towards him. The general was protected by spiritual armor, and the opponent was shooting from the bottom up, so the force was not strong. He stood on the arrow without dodging or avoiding, and continued to smash the stone down.

Ding, ding, dang, dang—arrows were nailed to his spirit armor, making a ding-dang sound, sparks flying everywhere, but they failed to break his spirit armor. The Sichuan general who was commanding the battle outside the city also reacted quickly, and immediately transferred fifty hard archers from other places to continue shooting arrows at the Feng general on the city. The power of the arrows shot by the hard archers is much greater than that of the arrows shot by ordinary archers.

These fifty eagle feathers were nailed to the Feng general at the same time, and the sound of ka-ka continued. The spirit armor on the Feng general's body was instantly covered with cracks, and several arrows penetrated the spirit armor and pierced deeply into his body. Standing on the arrow stack, the Feng general's body shook for a while, and then he fell headfirst from the city.

Plop!

The body of the Feng general fell heavily to the ground. The already broken spirit armor could no longer withstand such a strong impact, and it broke into pieces and scattered into nothingness, but the Feng general, who was covered in blood and had several arrows stuck in his body, got up from the ground and staggered towards the Sichuan army's thunder car. Before he could get close, the surrounding Sichuan troops rushed forward and hacked at him with swords. The poor Feng general was chopped into pieces in an instant.

Arrows didn't work, rolling logs and hitting stones didn't work, and the Feng army, who were watching carefully, began to take suicidal attacks. Several soldiers volunteered to act as the death squad. In order to increase the weight, they tied stones on their bodies, and then were lifted up by their comrades to dodge the arrows. They jumped out of the city against the arrows of the Sichuan troops outside the city, and hit the Thunderbolt Chariot with their bodies.

If they fell in the crowd or on the giant hammer of the Thunderbolt Chariot, it would be useless and would not have any destructive effect. Only if they fell on the bracket of the Thunderbolt Chariot could it be damaged. But this was too difficult. Among the more than ten Feng army death squads, only one of them hit the bracket of the Thunderbolt Chariot when he fell, but unfortunately it did not cause damage to the bracket.

A group of people failed, and then the Feng Army organized a second group of death squads. This time, there were more people. The Feng Army who committed suicide by jumping off the city wall were like dumplings. The left rear support of the Thunderbolt Cart finally couldn't hold up after being hit by two Feng Army soldiers. With a crisp sound, the support broke from the middle, and one side of the support was lost. The hanging giant hammer immediately tilted to the back and could no longer exert its original power.

Seeing this, the nearby Sichuan general jumped up and down in a hurry, and shouted at his soldiers: "Tow away the Thunderbolt Cart and replace it with another one!"

The damaged Thunderbolt Cart was towed away by the Sichuan Army, but the subsequent Thunderbolt Carts were slow to catch up. The Sichuan general was so anxious that his eyes turned red. He pulled the deputy general next to him and asked sharply: "Where are the other Thunderbolt Carts?"

The deputy general did not answer, but cast his eyes to the back of his side.

The Sichuan general turned his head and saw that most of his large weapons were in the back, suppressed by the Feng Army's arrow formation and could not be pushed up.

If the Sichuan soldiers wanted to move a Thunderbolt chariot one meter forward, they had to pay the price of blood. A large number of soldiers were shot to the ground when they pushed the chariot. The Sichuan Army's large weapons left a row of corpses every time they moved forward. The logistics team had so many chariots that they were already filled with the corpses of their own personnel.