The siege engines under the city had three-inch-thick planks on their gabled roofs, and two-inch-thick planks on both sides. People are pushing inside. The wheels are made from the cross-section of a whole tree and are very strong.
The muskets on the city wall kept firing, and the bullets were basically embedded in the wooden boards instead of penetrating.
Occasionally one or two people were shot through the cracks.
Some accidentally exposed part of their bodies and were hit by muskets, but overall the casualties were greatly reduced.
Yang Fan watched as these siege vehicles opened the front baffles, and the people inside began to dig soil, chop wood piles, and destroy barbed wire fences.
"A small trebuchet, using a whole stone, launches it."
With an order, each trebuchet was loaded with a twenty-kilogram stone. The weight of forty kilograms dropped from an altitude of more than 100 meters, which was enough to smash these siege vehicles.
"One, two, three, let go" the officers were shouting.
With a roar, the swing arm reached its peak, and the stone was thrown out of the net bag.
According to the observation on the city wall, he accurately hit the siege vehicle outside the barbed wire fence.
Twenty stone bombs, five of them immediately, hit the gabled roof of the siege vehicle. The forty kilograms of weight directly smashed through the roof. Broken wood flew everywhere, and there was a scream inside.
Of the ten people crowded inside, three were smashed into pulp and two had their legs broken by rolling stone bullets. The remaining five yelled crazily and ran out of the siege vehicle. They were then called out by the musketeers at the top of the city and fell down one after another.
"Quickly, push up the catapult, shoot at them, and smash their trebuchet." Jia La'e Zhen Arinzhe, who was leading the formation, shouted loudly.
The cavalry quickly threatened the bandits with their spears and pushed the catapult forward.
Soon these catapults moved to a place where they could hit the city wall and go deeper. Alinghe judged that the catapult of this village should be not far inside the city wall. This distance can destroy them.
Mo Zuo was lying on the battlement and saw Jiannu setting up a catapult. He checked the distance and measured the distance by stretching out his right thumb and observing alternately with his two eyes as the master taught him. I thought about it in my mind. I cursed in my mind. Damn it, he's pretty experienced.
"Move the catapult back ten feet," Mo Zuo turned around and shouted towards the city.
The soldiers under the city quickly pushed their catapults back.
"Okay, that's it. Load the bombs, load the cobblestones, load more small ones. Hurry"
Just as he was shouting, Jiannu's catapult had been fixed. Dozens of bandits pulled the rope together, and with a roar, stone bullets crossed the parabola one after another and hit the city.
The soldiers on the city wall exclaimed and lowered their heads.
The catapult of the Jiannu slaves was crudely made and had poor performance. It flew over a low place above the city.
Where he left just now, a pile of rocks smashed into the ground.
Suddenly dust flew up and the earth trembled.
Huang San saw that the spot where he was just now was hit hard by a large stone weighing ten kilograms. The stone penetrated the ground three feet deep. I was so scared that I broke into a cold sweat.
"Let the soldiers on top of the city start reporting the location of the enemy's catapults," Yang Fan ordered.
The location of the enemy's catapult can be seen on the top of the city, but the enemy cannot see the location of the catapult inside the city. I took advantage of it.
"Launch" After adjusting the range, fifty strong men yanked the rope again, and forty pounds of pebbles quickly flew into the sky under the swing of the rocker arm.
Looking from the outside, some small black spots appeared in the sky again.
There was a crackling sound, dust rose from the ground of Jiannu's trebuchet formation, and eight or nine hundred cobblestones fell down. Such large cobblestones would do limited damage to the sturdy catapults, but they would be a fatal blow to the dozens of soldiers operating these catapults.
Both the bandits pulling the rope and the slave cavalry looking at them were all smashed to pieces with broken bones and tendons. It fell to the ground, and there were injured people everywhere, wailing all over the place.
"emission"
"emission"
This small catapult fires very quickly, and has a short range. It can be fired almost once a minute.
After the fifth cover, Jiannu's catapult finally collapsed, and all the operating bandits shouted and fled in all directions. The slave cavalry immediately moved their horses forward and stabbed them with their spears, but they could not stop them from escaping at all.
"Shangzi camp and Xiazi camp, all of them, follow me out of the city to fight back." Yang Fan saw that the catapult had been defeated and the troops behind had been scattered, so he immediately launched a counterattack without hesitation.
The city gate opened wide, and a gate-blocking cart was pushed out amid the roars of the soldiers.
The gate-closing knife cart is a large cart with two wheels. In front of it is an upright wooden board with rows of knives pointing outwards. The shape just fits the city gate hole.
If the city gate is broken, use this to block the city gate hole.
When the bandits outside saw the city gate opened, they were overjoyed and were about to rush in after them. I saw a wooden plank full of dazzling knives blocking the city gate tightly, and rushing towards Xiang Xiang very quickly, and I was immediately frightened out of my mind. Turn around and run.
The first gate-carrying car rushed out of the city, followed by the second and third car. Soon, fifteen taels of sword carts rushed out one after another and formed a semicircular formation outside the city gate. The people who drive these knife carts are people from Baihusuo. They were responsible for guarding the city gate and guarding Yang Fan's escape.
Wang Zongqi and Zhang Zongqi, together with the 120 people from the Hundred Household Institute who were already under-numbered, relied on these swords and carts to guard. Yang Fan led two battalions of infantrymen with muskets in hand and rushed out from the middle of the sword-cart array to attack the siege vehicles outside the city.
The backs of these siege vehicles were empty, and there was no wooden protection at all. When they saw the group trainers coming from behind, they all got out of them.
boom! boom! boom! Under the continuous fire of muskets, these unprotected bandits were living targets. They were knocked down one by one. If there were those who rushed up, the soldiers immediately installed the heads of their muskets and began to assassinate them.
The musket with the gun head installed is 1.8 meters long, almost the same length as a flower gun. The machetes in the hands of the bandits are only a little over 1 meter long, which is no match for them.
Zhao Shuigen led his ten brothers and rushed to the front, defeating the bandits in the siege vehicles one by one. He polished off the two barrels of the gun, then installed the gun head and began to assassinate.
The bandits were completely in chaos, and the cavalry of Jiannu were also among them.
A cavalryman who couldn't run was useless in Zhao Shuigan's eyes.
He stabbed a disoriented cavalryman who was scolding the running bandits, directly stabbing him in the lower back and knocking him off the horse. The cavalryman covered his lower back and squatted on the ground unable to get up. Zhao Shuigan Another shot was stabbed into his neck and sent him away.
When the upper battalion went to both sides to attack the siege vehicles approaching the city, Yang Fan led the lower battalion and rushed directly towards the group of bandits who were carrying ladders behind the siege vehicles and preparing to attack.
boom! boom! boom! Rows of muskets were fired intensively, and the bandits fell down one after another. Among them were the individual cavalrymen who were supervising them. They also fell off their horses under the close range bombardment of muskets.
The entire military formation was in complete chaos, with people running around like pigs and wolves everywhere, and some even threw away their weapons. The Xiazi battalion was divided into 15 squadrons, with thirty men in each squadron forming a small triangular square formation, with sword and shield soldiers on the outside, musketeers in the middle, and spear soldiers inside.
Charge bravely and completely disrupt the offensive formation.
