Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 565 The Terrible Thunderbolt Catapult

Zhu Wei's army took advantage of the half a year of the truce, combined with realistic military training and combined with the training instructions of the Three Kingdoms game system, to train the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, which definitely surpassed the combat effectiveness of the soldiers that ordinary troops in the world can train.

What's more, the [-] soldiers Pang Yan brought with him at that time were the best among the best in his Xiongba camp, so they could still stand firm despite being surrounded by nearly [-] enemy troops.

In yesterday's battle, the pressure faced by the army led by Zhou Yu, Huang Gai, Sun Quan, and Zhuge Liang was naturally much lighter than that of Pang Yan, so it was the time when Zhou Yu and Huang Gai led the troops to break through Liu Xun's troops. A little bit of damage, and the damage after that is basically negligible.

It is said that if you kill one thousand enemies, you will lose eight hundred, but when the real elite soldiers face ordinary soldiers on the battlefield, the damage ratio may not be so high.

So today Zhu Wei once again led an army to attack Wan County, and the size of the army remained at nearly [-], which was almost the same as yesterday. Even because there were so many siege equipment in the army, the size of the army seemed It's a bit bigger.

Of course, there is nothing superfluous to attack Wan County today. Zhu Wei's army has set up an army formation on the battlefield two miles away from the city of Wan County.

Afterwards, from Zhu Wei's army formation, Pang Yan took nearly [-] sword shieldmen and [-] crossbowmen from the Xiongba camp, and went directly to a military fort outside the city of Wan County to kill them. There are also four towering siege arrow towers, two thunderbolt catapults, and many siege ladders.

This purpose is already very clear. The goal of the Zhu Wei army's siege battle today is to first pull out the two fortresses located outside the city of Wan County, and then launch a strong attack on the city of Wan County.

Soon the main force of the Xiongba Battalion brought by Pang Yan arrived in front of the military fort. Under the protection of the two thousand knife shields, the siege tower and thunderbolt catapult were erected on the ground, and then the rain of feathered arrows And a piece of rock to attack the fort in the past.

And this military fort constructed outside the city of Wanxian County is basically built with loess, gravel and wooden frames as the foundation. The direction is to use enough materials to strengthen the walls of the military fort.

The entire military fort covers an area of ​​more than a thousand steps, like a square loess hill extending from the city of Wan County. It is about three or four stories high, and the fort wall is about five or six steps thick, which is indeed solid and stable.

Wooden piles were also used as arrow screens on the top floor of the fort, and wooden boards were used to construct a platform, allowing more than a thousand soldiers in the fort to stand on the top floor at the same time to launch counterattacks against foreign enemies who came to attack the fort.

Of course, the soldiers in the fort can also send troops to attack the enemy troops attacking the city of Wan County from the garrison cave on the lower level of the fort at any time.

If faced with the attack of ordinary troops, such a fortress can indeed play a very good defensive and counterattack.

But now facing the siege equipment put out by Zhu Wei's army, this kind of military fort seems to have completely become a target. Pang Yan did not send troops to attack the city immediately, but let the siege arrow tower and thunderbolt catapult first. A round of bombardment was carried out on the defenders in the fort.

The archers and crossbowmen on the siege arrow tower are fine, at most they can only use feather arrows and crossbow arrows to threaten Liu Xun's soldiers hidden in the fortress, but the stones thrown by the thunderbolt catapult are really It's scary.

Now the stones thrown by the thunderbolt catapult in Zhu Weijun are not the kind of gravel at the beginning. Basically, it can be a thick stone the size of a washbasin, and a piece of rock weighs at least a hundred catties.

So with the torsional swing of the thunderbolt catapult, accompanied by a loud "thunderbolt", the rock was thrown over and hit the wooden piles on the top floor of the fort hard, opening a gap at once, and then fell on the ground. On the wooden platform on the top floor of the military fort, a hole can be smashed directly, and then it will fall into the cave for hiding soldiers below the military fort.

Even if the rock hit the loess and gravel outer wall of the military fort, it was enough to make the wall creak and creak, and most of the wooden piles hidden in the wall as supports would be broken by the force. There will also be a large pit on the wall, plus cracks spreading around.

Although the accuracy of the thunderbolt catapult is not that high, it is still rare to fail when it smashes into a military fort with a radius of more than a thousand steps.

Every stone thrown in, not to mention the soldiers standing on the top floor of the military fort, even the soldiers hiding in the caves below the military fort, may be directly smashed into mud by the stones falling from the sky.

"Thunderbolt...crack...", "Thunderbolt...clap..."

Two Thunderbolt riprap trucks, controlled by specialized operators, continuously threw more than a dozen rocks at the military fort over there, smashing the top floor of the military fort to pieces, leaving almost no one left standing. .

Hundreds of Liu Xun soldiers who were originally standing on the top floor of the fort could not help but look in the direction of the thunderbolt catapult with trepidation at this moment, and then stared at the rock thrown in the air, for fear that they would be the next one to be caught. The unlucky one hit by a rock.

Maybe they are not necessarily afraid of death, but they are afraid of death without a whole body.

Facing the thunderbolt catapult they had never seen before, they had completely lost the courage to fight, but at this moment they had no way to deal with it. Many people were already thinking of escaping from the fortress. At least they could still fight like that. Fighting with people face to face.

The current situation is completely waiting for death for them.

At this time, Liu Xun was stunned when he saw this scene on the gate tower of Wanxian County. He never thought that such a change would occur in the battle situation. Siege, do we use various means to defend the city?

What's going on now? You're cheating!

"This... what is this thing, it is so terrifying! If Zhu Wei's army uses it to attack the city, it will be useless!"

Liu Xun couldn't help but ask his counselors and generals. He originally thought that the Tibetan soldiers' fortress outside the city could be used to guard the corner of the city, but now he could only watch helplessly as it was attacked by Zhu Wei's army with terrible methods.

However, Zhu Wei's army was standing outside the attack range of the city. Liu Xun had no way to support the fortress outside the city. As for sending troops out to support or something, after yesterday's battle, Liu Xun didn't dare to.

Originally, according to Liu Xun's vision, these two military forts were within the range of bows and arrows on the city wall, so if Zhu Wei's army attacked these two military forts, he could naturally command the archers on the city wall to help shoot and attack the military forts. Zhu Wei army.

In this way, even if Zhu Wei's army captured these two fortresses, it would cost at least four or five thousand troops of Zhu Wei's army, which would naturally reduce the intensity of Zhu Wei's army's siege.

However, now that Zhu Wei's army has come up with this method, the military fort he placed outside the city can only be beaten but has no power to fight back.

If Zhu Wei's army also used this kind of equipment when attacking the city of Wan County, then he should defend it when defending the city. Are his soldiers going to stop Zhu Wei's army from attacking the city under the threat of these rocks... …

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