Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 571
Although because of the weight of the rock, the thunderbolt catapult must be placed closer to the city wall, but with the threat of the arrow tower and gravel, it is difficult for the archers on the city wall to launch a counterattack against the city wall.

Therefore, the auxiliary soldiers on Zhu Wei's side still placed the three Thunderbolt catapults at a position where they could attack the city wall, and then, under the protection of the surrounding swords and shields, they started to launch the Thunderbolt catapults.

"Thunderbolt... crack... woo..."

As pieces of rocks were thrown towards the city wall, a terrifying and bloody scene suddenly appeared on the city wall. Once the defenders who were densely packed on the city wall were hit by falling rocks, it was like a hollow appeared on the ground. Immediately, a gap appeared with blood splashing everywhere.

Faced with such a terrible attack, the defenders on the city wall could not help but look like dead disciples waiting for the judgment of fate, only to see who would be unlucky and who would be stoned to nothing.

However, without a military order, the defenders on the city wall did not dare to escape easily, but when they saw the falling rocks flying from the sky, they often had no chance to escape.

Facing the successive attacks on the city wall by three different siege equipment from Zhu Wei's army, Liu Xun's defenders on the wall of Wan County had no intention of fighting back at all for a while.

Just at this moment, Zhu Wei's army hadn't formally started to attack the city, so the defenders on the city wall just used their shields to resist the splashing of feather arrows, crossbow arrows and gravel, and then bet their lives that the falling stones would not hit themselves.

"Order to withdraw half of the soldiers to the place where the falling rocks cannot reach! Let the remaining soldiers scatter on the city wall!"

Liu Xun saw that the defenders on his city wall were so passive, so he could only send out such a military order. This would reduce the number of defenders on the city wall, but also allow some soldiers to avoid the bombardment of falling rocks.

It is not possible to let every falling rock take the life of one or two defenders.

Although this kind of falling rock can only kill one or two defenders at a time, in fact, it is not very lethal compared to the three or four thousand defenders on the city wall, but it is mainly the kind that is psychologically harmful. The deterrence is terrible.

No one can face such a situation of being smashed into pieces by rocks at any time, so Liu Xun must also deal with it.

Of course, now that Liu Xun is really facing the falling rocks thrown by the thunderbolt catapult, Liu Xun also thought of a way to deal with it, that is, to disperse the soldiers on the city wall as much as possible, so that every falling rock will not be able to hit it. people.

As long as the falling rock can smash into the air, then this kind of threat will be a little less.

At that moment, the soldiers on the city wall seemed to have been ordered to be released, and quickly started to move. Some soldiers retreated to the wall of the urn city behind, and other soldiers also leaned against the arrow piles of the city wall to avoid falling rocks and broken stones. and the attack of caltrops.

In this way, the rocks thrown up by the thunderbolt catapult really failed again and again, but potholes were smashed on the city wall, but not many soldiers were killed.

However, all this was also seen by Sun Quan who was standing on a siege arrow tower outside the city wall, so he sent the signal down, and Pang Yan, Zhou Yu, and Huang Gai who were below immediately responded to each other. The soldiers he brought passed the military order.

Among the nearly 300 soldiers gathered in front of the city of Wan County, five or six thousand soldiers were divided into armored formations of about two to three hundred people. He rushed in the direction of the county wall.

"Attack is coming, attack is coming!"

Seeing this scene, Liu Xun's soldiers on the city wall shouted hastily, beckoning their comrades scattered around to come up and prepare to defend the city.

However, these soldiers only rushed to the front, but still did not climb up. Instead, they made a noise under the city for a while, and after attracting the defenders on the city wall, they retreated a few steps to give a safe distance.

As a result, the defenders on the city wall were busy preparing to defend the city, but they gave the archers on the siege arrow tower a chance. For a while, feather arrows and crossbow arrows shot randomly, and hundreds of defenders on the city wall were killed or injured. .

At the same time, the gravel that was thrown up also beat many soldiers to death, and many falling stones smashed into the gathered defenders, killing and wounding many people again and again.

Seeing that the soldiers of Zhu Wei under the city were only shouting but did not attack the city, the defenders on the city naturally knew that they had been fooled, and they couldn't help but cursed angrily in their mouths.

There were also some archers who shot arrows down angrily, but the Zhu guards below used shields of various sizes to form a shield array, but they also protected themselves very well. It slid to the side again.

In this way, it made the defenders in the city a little uncomfortable.

They didn't dare to relax to dodge arrows, gravel and falling rocks, which might give Zhu Wei's army below the city an opportunity to attack the city at any time, but they didn't dare to pile up easily, if falling rocks were attracted, Suicide.

Of course, it is not up to the ordinary Liu Xun soldiers to decide at this moment, so under the command of some military officers, these city guards can only carry the attack on the city wall, and defend the enemy from climbing the city at any time. preparation.

As a result, Zhu Wei's army has been clamoring to attract the attention of the soldiers on the city wall under the city wall, but they have not really launched an attack. In vain, Liu Xun's defenders on the city wall were shot and killed by the archers on the siege tower. Sustained losses, either dead or wounded.

This process continued for a while, and it was finally time for those thunderbolt catapults to stop for maintenance.

Therefore, under the orders of Pang Yan, Zhou Yu, and Huang Gai from the rear, the soldiers in front finally rushed towards the city wall, and then officially launched the city climbing attack.

"Go! Kill!"

Although in the high-level planning of Zhu Wei's side, today's battle was just for a feigned attack, but ordinary soldiers did not know such a plan, so under the urging of officers such as military marquis and village chiefs in the rear, these siege attacks The soldiers really started to attack the city desperately.

A series of ladders for siege hung on the city wall, and then a dozen strong soldiers below them protected their bodies with large shields, and then used their bodies to hold the ladders so that they would not be easily attacked by the defenders on the city wall. push away.

Some brave corporal leaders rushed up the ladder first, and soon each soldier held a ring-shouldered knife in his mouth, held a double-handed shield in his left hand, and grabbed the handrail of the ladder frame with his right, and walked along the siege ladder. The frame quickly climbed towards the city wall.

"Come here, come here, don't let them rush up!", "Smash stones, let them have a taste of this!", "Come and move wood!"

For a moment, Liu Xun's defenders on the city wall seemed to finally have a place to vent. Before, they could only be beaten but could not fight back. Now they can finally find a place to vent.

As a result, all kinds of stones and rolling logs fell from the city wall one after another, and some people used spears and spears to stab the attacking soldiers of Zhu Wei who rushed up, stabbing the climbing soldiers down from the city wall one by one. ...

(End of this chapter)