The Era of Generals

Chapter 468   Siege Catapult

"Rush! Brothers, follow me!"

The drums of war sounded, and Ouyang Lixing's vanguard troops no longer had no fighting spirit as before. Instead, they all fought bravely to be the first. Under the leadership of the vanguard generals, they rushed straight to the gate of Juhe City with red eyes.

"Fire!"

Zheng Yuanyun was also unreserved on the other side. Just when Ouyang Lixing gave the order to charge, he was already ready.

At this moment, when the vanguard charged, facing the black mass of people roaring like a tidal wave, Zheng Yuanyun's right hand also slashed down fiercely.

boom--!

The top of the city shook, and the volley of hundreds of trebuchets was so powerful that even some defenders who were not firmly established almost fell to the top of the city.

This time, Zheng Yuanyun didn't hold back any more, the catapult he shot was doused with kerosene and ignited in advance. As soon as it was blasted out, hundreds of flying fire meteors appeared in the sky, billowing thick smoke, and went straight to the end of the crowd. The densely populated places were bombarded indiscriminately.

Compared with the previous layered attack, Zheng Yuanyun let all the trebuchets at the top of the city fire this time, but what didn't disappoint him was that Ouyang Lixing's side really didn't just touch and go as before, Instead, he rushed up against the gunfire like crazy.

avoid!

At the same time as the city roared, the vanguard general who had been prepared for a long time waved his flag, and the seemingly disorderly charge immediately changed into formation, but he predicted the enemy's stone throwing point and tried to dodge it as much as possible. The action avoids the most intensive drop point of the throwing stones.

Even though it was still not possible to completely dodge all the stone throwing, the casualties were minimized anyway.

This also made Zheng Yuanyun see that Ouyang Lixing's attack of throwing stones seemed to be helpless at first, but it was actually just a disguise.

But what is he pretending, and why is he pretending?

For a while, Zheng Yuanyun, who was in the battle situation, had no chance to think carefully about the key points, and this dodge did not exceed his expectations.

Originally, in a siege battle, although the soldiers who charge ahead often suffer heavy casualties, it is a normal siege routine to try to avoid artillery fire while continuing to charge forward to the city gate.

Zheng Yuanyun was concentrating on the battle situation at the moment, and did not think about the changes before and after Ouyang Lixing's troops for the time being. Seeing that his first round of throwing stones and attacking together had some damage, but it did not have the desired effect, he was not in a hurry, and ordered The archers prepared, and at the same time, the trebuchet troops hurriedly prepared for the next round of salvo.

In the first round, he was just trying to see how Ouyang Lixing's siege this time was different from the previous one. Now that he has made a judgment, he should adjust the projection mode of the trebuchet, not just once. Instead of bombarding all the shells, choose a layered continuous attack mode.

Zheng Yuanyun was dispatching and directing, and Ouyang Lixing was not idle on the other side.

The vanguard has already entered the attack range of Juhecheng. Although the salvo still caused some damage, it is obviously within the range of Ouyang Lixing.

Seeing that hundreds of thousands of people had already spread out under Juhe City, Ouyang Lixing with a serious face made another big move.

The stone-throwing siege tower, which had only appeared in the last time but was not used, was pushed to the front row.

This is an unconventional siege tower that had puzzled Zheng Yuanyun at the beginning. Not only is the tower full of arrow holes for archers, but there is also a ferocious trebuchet on the top of the tower.

A hundred or so siege towers were pushed out, and there was no intention of stopping, and they directly pushed forward to the front line.

Under each siege tower, there are hundreds of people around, shouting chant, pushing from the back, pulling forward, the moving speed of the seemingly heavy siege tower is not slow, just at the head of Juhe city. In the space where the catapult troops misfired, they had already pushed to the furthest crater that the enemy catapults could reach.

This is the opponent's longest attack distance!

And this was also calculated by Zheng Yuanyun for Ouyang Lixing, the longest attack distance of these towering catapults!

The construction of the siege tower was almost as high as the Juhe city wall, that is to say, wherever the catapult at the head of Juhe could hit, so could Ouyang Lixing's siege catapult.

This timing was determined with the lives of the brothers, and Ouyang hardly needed to give orders. When the furthest attack distance was reached, hundreds of siege towers shook violently, and the soldiers pushing the siege towers all gritted their teeth. The veins on their faces and arms were all exposed. They almost exhausted all their strength, and finally subsided the shock force from the feedback from the siege tower, which ensured the stability of the siege tower and allowed the trebuchet There will be no large deviations in the fired shells.

Then, under Zheng Yuanyun's wide-eyed gaze, dense catapults appeared in the sky again. Fortunately, the siege tower is always made of wood. In order to avoid unnecessary losses, Ouyang Lixing did not let the catapult The shells are stained with kerosene, but it is just a purely physical attack.

"Notice!"

Zheng Yuanyun was not the only one who discovered that the enemy had shot the catapult. The general who was in charge of commanding and watching over the catapult unit saw his eyes tearing open, and almost screamed out a warning.

All the soldiers dared to ignore the opponent's attack, seeing that the sling was getting closer and closer, they hurriedly hugged their heads and drilled into the parapet, at least to avoid this round first.

So listen to...

boom!

Boom boom boom!

It seemed as if a strong earthquake had suddenly erupted on the top of Juhe City. Hundreds of stones were thrown at the same time. Of course, due to the distance, only a few of them fell directly on the top of the city, causing serious damage to the defenders. A certain amount of damage, but most of the throwing stones did not fail, and almost all of them hit the city wall.

As a transit hub, Juhe City's city defenses are not bad. This round of throwing stones did not directly cause the city wall to collapse or blast a few holes, but it also smashed countless cracks.

Zheng Yuanyun was also shocked into a cold sweat. He had seen the batch of siege towers that Ouyang Lixing displayed last time.

But at that time, he was at a disadvantage in terms of military strength and had no way to destroy the opponent's unconventional weapons. Secondly, although this kind of siege tower was a threat to the city wall, in fact, it was impossible to get close except for firing two cannonballs from a long distance.

The siege tower equipped with trebuchets is extremely heavy. Even if more soldiers are sent below to help push and pull, it is impossible to compare the speed with the real arrow tower siege tower.

If Ouyang Lixing dared to push the siege tower forward again, he would have to bear the second round of artillery fire prepared by him immediately.

But even so, when the opponent's throwing stones hit the city wall, he felt the shock, which still shocked Zheng Yuanyun. He couldn't help but pay more attention to this batch of siege towers.

At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity created by our own siege towers, the hundreds of thousands of vanguard troops rushed forward for a while.