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"put!"
Two hundred steps away, with the roar of the Han commanders at the fortresses everywhere, the operators behind hundreds of trebuchets picked up their hammers and smashed the triggers.
In an instant, hundreds of flaming iron balls brought up a long string of black curtains above the city wall, overwhelmingly roaring towards the Monro army attacking outside the pass.
"Boom boom boom..."
The thin iron sheet had gradually melted under the burning kerosene, and exploded the moment it hit the ground, sending up clouds of yellow-brown smoke that filled the dense formation of alien soldiers.
"Ah~~My eyes, ah~~"
A foreign soldier who was carrying a ladder screamed, and his eyes were penetrated by the lime silt in the iron cannon. He immediately threw the ladder down regardless of his companions behind him and rolled on the ground with his face covered.
After losing its center of gravity, the heavy ladder immediately tripped the rest of the companions to the ground. The thigh and knee of a foreign soldier on the left was accidentally crushed by the ladder. He grinned in pain and was in unspeakable pain.
On the other side, the foreign generals who raised their fox swords high and commanded the attack were shouting hard to boost their morale just a moment ago.
But the next moment, an iron cannon exploded at his feet. Immediately, the iron slag and nails inside were mixed with the pungent lime mud, all of which pierced his cheek.
The severe stinging pain made him unable to even utter a scream, and he fell straight down. His face was covered in blood and flesh, and even one side of his cheek was torn open by an iron nail, revealing a The sight of Pai Sen's white teeth was extremely terrifying.
"Let it go! Keep letting it go! Kill these sons of bitches, hahaha!"
Seeing the Mengluo army outside the Pass wailing shrilly under the iron artillery offensive, Han Kuang finally smiled. His smile was so comfortable and comfortable, as if all the pent-up frustration of the people before was released from his body, and he just had to sing a song. .
Compared with the giant trebuchet, the trebuchet cannot compare with it in terms of destructive power and range, but it has an advantage that the giant trebuchet does not have, that is, the shooting frequency is much higher than that of the giant trebuchet.
After each round of projection by the giant trebuchet, according to modern time, it would take about five minutes at the fastest to be reloaded, but the Han army's trebuchet only took one minute to complete all steps.
This is mainly due to the gear device developed by the Military Science Department on the trebuchet of the Han army, which can greatly shorten the preparation work before shooting. Even the giant trebuchet of the Han army is also equipped with a gear device and has been completely mechanically standardized. This is The Munro Empire simply cannot steal the learned technology.
Therefore, abandoning the heavy trebuchets and switching to trebuchets that can cause heavy casualties is actually strictly speaking the tactical arrangement of the current emperor Liu Ce. There is no need to equip Xuanwu Pass with heavy trebuchets. Instead, a movable type with rails is used. The catapults were enough to defend against the Mengluo people's offensive outside the Great Wall.
Of course, the more important point is that Liu Ce believes that the heavy machinery of the giant trebuchet has become outdated and can easily become a living target, and will soon be replaced by brand-new military products...
In the blink of an eye, the Han army on the wall of Xuanwuguan had launched more than ten consecutive counterattacks against the foreign troops outside the pass, and the Mengluo army on the opposite side could not even lift its head.
Seeing that the battlefield was gradually filled with smoke, and the huge siege towers stopped a hundred steps away from the city wall, Han Kuang breathed a sigh of relief.
This time, the offensive of Munro's army was repulsed by him again. Although the enemy's retreat horn had not yet sounded, it was only a matter of time.
"Ah, ah, ah..."
A Munro soldier was lying on the corpse of his companion, his dark face covered with iron slag debris, and he kept making hoarse roars from his throat, seeming to be asking for help from the passing companions around him.
Sadly, many foreign soldiers were like him. Under the iron artillery offensive, the blood and bravery in their bodies had long been replaced by the icy cold. How could they care about his situation?
However, there is still a group of Mengluo soldiers who are not afraid of death. Under the leadership of their respective generals, they carry ladders and get close to the city wall.
However, in front of them, a moat one foot wide and seven meters deep, lined with sharp spikes, blocked their way...
Do you want to fill in trenches at this distance? You have to pay for it with your life!
But this group of alien soldiers who had already killed them didn't care at all. They set up the ladder on the trench, and then each of them stepped on the rickety ladder with crazy expressions, trying to cross the city protection trench.
As for how to break into the hard and thick city gate after passing the trench, they were no longer considering it.
"Whoosh whoosh..."
"Puff, puff..."
As soon as the foreign soldiers stepped onto the ladder, the Han army's crossbowmen at Xuanwu Pass immediately started shooting, driving them into the ditch one by one and stabbing them into hedgehogs.
"kill!"
"Pfft~"
"Uh~"
A foreign general was just about to boost his morale when a crossbow arrow whizzed through the air and pierced the iron leaf in his chest. The cold arrow penetrated his body. Immediately, a coldness swept through his whole body, making him groan and his body... Unsteady, he fell into the trench and was penetrated directly into his abdominal cavity by a huge angle, causing his blood to drain out and he died.
"Run for your life!"
The commanding general was killed, and Monro's soldiers who had originally planned to cross the death zone turned around and ran away, finally triggering a great rout.
"Woo~~"
The retreating horn of Munro's army also sounded at the right time, announcing that this attack had failed again.
"Ho~~"
"Hahahaha~~"
When the Han soldiers at Xuanwu Pass saw Meng Luo's army retreating toward their base camp like a tide, they immediately let out earth-shattering cheers.
Han Kuang was so excited that he punched the crenel with his fist and said with joy on his face: "I have fought with the Mengluo people all my life, and I have never been so happy to follow your Majesty. This Xuanwu Pass is really impregnable, hahaha! "
The deputy general Zhao Ming on the side agreed deeply: "Yes, since the founding of the Han Dynasty, when have our soldiers at Xuanwu Pass ever been so proud? All this is possible because of your majesty's support."
Han Kuang nodded: "That's why we must guard this piece of Han land and live up to your majesty's trust!"
"Han family land? Does General Han mean the Xuanwu Pass?"
While Han Kuang and Zhao Ming were excited, a joking voice sounded behind them.
When he looked back, he saw a handsome young man wearing a brocade robe, holding a riding whip, and a smile on his face, slowly walking towards the two of them.
When the two saw each other, they quickly saluted: "General, I will see you, General Hussar!"
This young man is none other than Huo Qing, the commander of the Yulin Guards, a talented general who is in charge of the military affairs of the four towns in Xuanwu Pass and has been on the battlefield for eight years without a single defeat.
In addition, he also has a distinguished status as the brother-in-law of the current emperor, the adopted brother of Concubine Song, and the "cheap son-in-law" of Tuoba Hongye, the king of the Mengluo Empire!
Huo Qing stood in front of the city wall, pointed to the dense Mengluo army in the distance and said: "Everything the sun and moon shine on is Han soil. The land outside the wall is also the royal land of our Han family. The people of the Han family have the power to Riding and galloping on the grassland outside the Great Wall!"
