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The quarreling generals immediately shut up and obediently returned to their original positions.

Hua Mulan glanced over the faces of the generals, and said, "All commanders stand up!"

Swish, swish, ten commanders stood up together and stood in two rows.

Hua Mulan waved her hand and asked someone to bring an earthen jar. She cut out ten pieces of paper with a knife, and wrote the name of a city on each piece of paper with a brush. After throwing all the paper balls into the crock, he said to the commanders: "Did you see that each paper ball has the name of a city written on it, now you line up to draw lots, and the lottery you catch has the name of which city written on it." You just take your troops to attack this city. This general can only give you some simple siege ladders, and no other siege equipment!"

"This general reminds you that you must use your brains in battle, whether it is a siege or a frontal battle in the field or an encounter. Reckless action is not acceptable, especially in siege warfare. If you blindly act recklessly and use no brains, not only will you not be able to capture the city , will also lose soldiers and lose generals!"

Chapter 629 Bed Crossbow Showdown

Hua Mulan looked at the crowd, and in order to annoy these commanders, she said: "Let's talk about rewards, the first to break through the city and complete the task, in addition to the rewards they should have received, will also be rewarded with [-] yuan and ten pieces of brocade; The reward for completing the task is [-] and five pieces of brocade; the third person who completes the task is rewarded with [-] and two pieces of brocade! If there is a vacancy, priority will be given to promotion and appointment!"

"Let's talk about punishment. The deadline for the task is five days. Within five days, you must capture the city you want to attack to complete the task. If you fail to complete the task, you will be dismissed from the post of commander and fined for half a year! In addition, if someone completes the task first, they will be punished." The commander who has not completed the task can ask the commander who has completed the task to help complete the task, but the reward must be given to the other party in half!"

After hearing this, the commanders were all eager to try, and the first three who completed the task had additional rewards, which was a pleasant surprise.

After the military discussion was over, the commanders of thousands set off with their teams of thousands of people, and rushed towards their own goals. There was only five days between now and the completion of the task, and the time was not too much, so we had to Hold on tight, with a sense of urgency.

In order to win the top spot, these commanders used their brains one by one. The commander who was not smart enough called the centurions under his command to discuss how to use the shortcomings of night blindness of the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty to carry out night attacks.

Hua Mulan did not personally lead the troops at all, but assigned tasks to these commanders, and encouraged and encouraged them to let them play freely. It seemed that they were suspected of herding sheep, but in fact, this greatly increased the enthusiasm of the commanders. , It also allowed them to use their brains and give full play to their subjective initiative, and she herself didn't have to work so hard, and she felt quite strategic.

"Hey, Mulan, didn't you lead the troops to attack the surrounding cities? Why are you still in the camp?" Zhao Junsheng couldn't help asking when he returned to the handsome tent after inspecting the camp and found Hua Mulan playing with his son.

Hua Mulan raised her head and said, "I assigned the task of attacking the city to the commanders!"

Then, Hua Mulan told Zhao Junsheng about her reward and punishment measures, and Zhao Junsheng laughed after hearing this: "This method is good, very good! Next, we will see their performance."

Before Zhao Junsheng began to attack Linzi City, a commander named Di Tong had already captured Qiancheng County in the north. He was the first commander among the ten commanders who completed the siege task.

On the eleventh day of the first lunar month, Zhao Junsheng ordered Gao Xu to be the siege commander to carry out the siege.

Fifty thousand soldiers and horses surrounded Linzi City outside the city, leaving the south gate behind.

The army lined up in countless large and small phalanxes outside the city, and many people in the surrounding villages were conscripted to be civilian husbands.

A siege ladder was lifted out, a wheeled siege ladder was also pushed out and placed at the front of the army formation, a bed crossbow was deployed at the rear of the army formation, and the well fence was also pushed out after being assembled.

Gao Xu was making the final deployment before the siege, Zhao Junsheng asked the officials of the siege battalion: "Why is the trebuchet not assembled?"

The officials of the siege battalion replied: "Your Majesty, the peasants are stepping on stones and polishing stone bullets. It will take at least two days to have enough stone bullets for attacking the city!"

At this time, Jiao Yunzhe, the supervisor of the Artisan Camp, came to report and said: "Your Majesty, our Artisan Camp has invented a new type of weapon, and it is currently being tested. I would like to invite Your Majesty to watch the experiment process!"

"Oh? That's good, I'll go over and have a look!" Zhao Junsheng agreed, and sent someone to tell Gao Xu that he would start attacking the city directly when the time came, without waiting for him to come back.

Zhao Junsheng followed Jiao Yunzhe to the craftsman's camp. A large open space was surrounded by guard posts.

Jiao Yunze ordered someone to bring something up, and he said to Zhao Junsheng, "This is the king's situation!"

Zhao Junsheng walked over and saw that it was a big clay pot. The mouth of the pot was sealed, and a thick wet rope protruded out. He sniffed it with his nose, raised his head and asked, "Is it filled with kerosene?"

Jiao Yunzhe introduced: "Yes, Your Majesty! But there is more than kerosene in it. In addition to kerosene, there are also some combustibles mixed in, such as silk flocks, sawdust, etc. We call this stuff

For fire oil cans.I plan to launch it as a trebuchet and see how it burns! "

Petroleum bomb?Zhao Junsheng quickly said: "Try shooting a can of that piece to see how it works!"

"Yes!"

At this time, in the army formation, Gao Xu had already arranged all the siege matters, and was about to ask Zhao Junsheng for instructions. When he came to the big banner and learned that Zhao Junsheng had gone to the craftsman camp, he was asked to launch the attack immediately when the time came. Siege.

Gao Xu immediately came to the front of the army and ordered: "Come here, order the siege battalion to push the bed crossbow forward!"

A row of bed crossbows was drawn to the front of the formation by horses. There were 64 of them in total, each operated by five people, and all of them were fixed on the carriage. This kind of bed crossbow was called a crossbow cart. They unloaded the wheels, and used wooden stakes and hammers to drive wooden stakes on the ground to fix the ballista in place, so as not to hurt people due to recoil when firing crossbow bolts.

When all the bed crossbows were ready, the flag bearer raised the small yellow flag.

Gao Xu turned his head to take a look, and ordered: "Fire the stepping arrows!"

The flag bearer was ordered to play the semaphore directly, and the bed crossbow commander saw it and immediately ordered: "Stand on the prong and prepare for the arrow, and the shooting range is zero!"

Each bed crossbow has soldiers who take and release arrows to keep them, soldiers who smash hammers to shoot them, and soldiers who string strings. All the soldiers perform their duties without any disorder.

Ballista Angle The operator holds the ballista flat, parallel to the horizon.

A thick crossbow bolt was placed in the groove on the bed crossbow machine, all the loaders raised their hands, and the commander ordered: "Launch!"

The flag bearer swung down the small yellow flag violently, the archer lifted the heavy hammer and smashed the trigger, the three thick bowstrings were ejected together, and the crossbow arrow was knocked out of the launch slot by the huge elastic force, and the iron plate inlaid at the tail played a very good stabilizing effect .

The crossbow arrows were nailed to the city wall one after another, but they were not at the same level, and there were some differences in height.

After the first crossbow was fired, the defenders on the city wall squatted down in fright, but soon they found that the Lujiang River was not shooting at them, but at the city wall, and they all leaned on the wall to look down. .

After firing the first wave of crossbow arrows, the soldiers in charge of operating the bed crossbow quickly wound up and raised the shooting range by one step according to the command of the commander. The bed crossbow with the labor-saving device was wound up much faster than before, within a few seconds. Winding is complete.

The second wave of crossbow bolts was fired again, this time the shooting position was higher than the first time, but the positions of all the crossbow bolts were not on the same horizontal line, which is also normal.

Under the command of the commander, all the ballistas fired a total of [-] rounds of stepping arrows. Rows of stepping arrows were inserted on the city wall. Although they were not very dense, they were enough for a pawn of an attacking unit to climb.

At this time, there was already a reaction on the city wall, and some soldiers of the Southern Dynasty were messing with something on the city wall.

"General, the defenders seem to be setting up defensive weapons!" The deputy general reminded Gao Xu.

Gao Xu set up a pergola to see that many people were doing something at intervals on the city wall. At this moment, a messenger ran over to report: "General, the Southern Dynasty army on the city wall is operating a bed crossbow!"

Gao Xu's face changed, and he immediately ordered: "Order the bed crossbow team to fire crossbow arrows and destroy the defender's bed crossbow!"

"Yes!"

The bed crossbow commander received the order and immediately gave the order to shoot. The angle and direction of the crossbow machine were quickly adjusted, and the crossbow bolts were placed in the firing grooves one by one.

"emission--"

"Whoosh whoosh..."

Crossbow bolts were fired one after another, and the position where a bed crossbow was located on the wall of the defenders was shot by the crossbow. hid under the wall.

A bed crossbow was hit by a crossbow arrow, and the huge impact force split the arm of the bed crossbow from the middle, and the bow string was also broken. This bed crossbow was completely useless.

After a short period of panic, the defenders on the city wall quickly counterattacked under the command of the officers. These Southern Dynasty soldiers were very good at defending the city.

chaos.

"Let go!" Following the order of the guard on the city wall, the bed crossbows of the Southern Dynasty army also started to fire, countering the bed crossbows of the army outside the city.

The second round of crossbow arrows from Qianjun came again. This firing speed shocked the soldiers of the Southern Dynasty. How could the bed crossbow be fired so fast?