The Era of Generals

Chapter 421 Purgatory on Earth

The unconventional method of digging tunnels is not applicable at all times.

Even when fighting in the main city, it depends on whether the local geographical environment is suitable for this method.

Otherwise, if a tunnel is dug directly from the inner city like Tianyuan City, if the soil is a little softer, it may be difficult to support the city wall just by wooden piles.

Moreover, on the frontal battlefield facing the city gate, there is either a moat as a barrier, or the trees on both sides of the official road are shady, so it is difficult to make the enemy invisible on the surface after digging the tunnel.

And also because of the city wall, the tunnel has to be dug deeper and supported by a wide enough stratum to prevent the city wall from collapsing. It collapsed directly, such a stupid thing that makes loved ones hurt and enemies happy.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, tunnel traps are generally not a conventional tactic considered by the defender's coach.

But Tianyuan City is not the case.

Tianyuan City was not built on a major traffic road. In order to make way for the passage of soldiers, the city was moved to the side, which made the space outside the city extremely open and empty, and there were no trees to block it.

And Ouyang Lixing is also very smart. The tunnels he dug without hesitation are just at the two ends of the city wall. This kind of place will not easily become the focus of the enemy's attack.

Because he knows very well that with Zheng Yuanyun's sophistication, he will not fail to guard against some of the most basic common sense, for example, before the army launches a charge on the city gate, there will inevitably be engineers who will first detect the terrain to ensure that they can move forward. There is no ambush on the road.

Another point is that even if a tunnel is dug here at the main city gate, it can only block a small part of the enemy army. It will also launch intensive large-scale destructive attacks such as throwing stones.

The stones hit by the trebuchet are very heavy!

When the weight accumulated to a certain level, even before the enemy's large troops stepped into the trap, he had to expose the tunnel he had dug with great difficulty. In this way, how could the other party be willing to be fooled?

Compared with the huge investment in engineering, if it can only be used against a small number of enemy troops, or even a small team that has no effect on the enemy's strength, it is very unnecessary.

Therefore, what Ouyang strictly ordered people to dig was the two ends of the city wall, which generally would not be the focus of attack.

Digging a tunnel here, on the one hand, the other party is unlikely to think about it, and on the other hand, his tunnel is about 20 meters deep underground. Even if engineers investigate in advance, it is impossible to easily find out that the bottom of the foot is actually empty. a fact.

And Zheng Yuanyun sent 400,000 troops to both sides, divided into two sides, with 200,000 troops on one side.

With this amount, the head of Tianyuan City didn't pour out the artillery fire from the trebuchets, which means that if you want to make the ground collapse, you have to rely entirely on the weight of the soldiers themselves.

So this is why Ouyang Lixing has been waiting for enough soldiers to enter the trap before ordering to break the pre-tied wooden stakes. It happened that it was one step faster than Zheng Yuanyun's order, and the soldiers of the Qingyang Empire Under the situation of being unprepared and unable to change formations, most of the soldiers were drawn into the ground, only luckily they did not step into a small part of the subsidence area, and stared blankly at the ground not far from their feet. The deep pit trembled.

What's in there?

Broken legs and broken arms?

No, it was impossible to tell which was a stump and which was a severed arm.

The bottom of the pit is densely packed, layer upon layer squeezing your brothers, people pressing people, people squeezing people, and occasionally one or two impact hammers rolled through the crowd, the huge weight made people feel like crying out in pain. When they didn't arrive, they all fell silent.

This is simply a mass grave!

No, 100,000 graves!

The smell of blood soared into the sky, accompanied by the smell of feces, urine, and sour smell of vomit, mixed together, and drilled into the nasal passages of the soldiers who survived by chance.

What you see in your eyes, what you hear in your ears, and what you smell in your nose, when these three things are added together, even the most iron-blooded and ruthless person will inevitably feel a nausea rushing down his throat at this moment, and he crouches down on the ground There are not a few people who vomit.

Even the soldiers of Zhu Yan at the top of Tianyuan City didn't feel any joy in their hearts when they looked down at this purgatory-like scene. They also vomited together outside the city.

Of course, Ouyang Lixing would not be among those who vomited.

The success of the strategy did not make him appear half crazy, he just calmly and indifferently issued the second order - attack!

How could there be no defenders at both ends of the city wall?

There are defenders, which means that there are trebuchets and archers. Although there are fewer than those at the main city gate, there are definitely many.

Ouyang Lixing will not show kindness at this time, let go of the Qingyang soldiers who are almost petrified outside the city, even in the 100,000 pits, don't look at the dire situation at the moment, just listen to the pitiful wailing in the pit I also know that the number of soldiers killed in battle is far less than it seems on the surface.

So, attack!

The enemy soldiers who did not step into the trap towards the periphery also fell into the big pit towards the two huge ground!

boom!

The trebuchets hidden on both sides of the city wall finally let out a roar at this time, and huge rocks burning with flames were thrown into the air one by one, and then roared towards them like meteorites from outside the sky, smashing down angrily!

Facing the sudden attack, the soldiers on the periphery were better. Those who reacted quickly didn't care to vomit anymore, and ran back with the comrades around them.

But those in the pit, those who are crushed under others, or those who are at the top and are trying to climb up desperately, their luck is not so good.

A large part of the projectiles fired by the trebuchet are accurately thrown into the pit. There is no certain position in the pit, only the standard two large pits are needed. Such a big target, even if Ouyang Lixing throws stones The aircraft troops don't know Chen Ze's stone-throwing method of using coordinates to judge the precise direction, so it is absolutely impossible to miss it.

I saw two meteor showers falling from the sky, one on the left and one on the right, falling crazily at both ends of Tianyuan City. The flames in the two big pits were raging, and as the meteors fell, even some incomplete figures could be seen being killed. It was so smashed that it flew up, and then fell heavily.

The two big pits have turned into two huge melting furnaces at this time, but the furnace is burning...

It's all human life!

Zheng Yuanyun's eyes were about to burst, and even his breathing seemed to stop for a while. There were a total of 400,000 troops on the left and right, and there were probably less than 100,000 people who could escape this catastrophe.

A whole 300,000 troops, just gone?