In the early morning, the sun peeked out of the ground and faded away the darkness of the night.
The warm sunshine had already shown its power as soon as it appeared, and the coldness of the night was quickly forced back. However, in the valley of Jingxingkou, the cold murderous aura forced back the warm current of the sun, and tens of thousands of troops formed a tight formation. After a while, the huge trebuchet had been assembled and moved forward with difficulty.
Cao's troops on both sides of the valley also had their bows and arrows ready, solemnly prepared.
The powerful heavy crossbow has tightened the bow string and opened it to the maximum extent, staring closely at the approaching trebuchet below.
A thousand steps!
Eight hundred steps!
Five hundred steps!
The general of Cao's army in the valley was Cao Cao's son Cao Zhang. Cao Zhang liked to fight tigers before he was weak. He had great arm strength but was not good at writing. Because of his yellow beard, he was called "Yellow Beard" by his father Cao Cao. Jingxingkou is the pass closest to Ye Jing, and it is the key pass for Cao Wei's defense. Cao Cao ordered Xia Houyuan to be the main general, and Cao Zhang was sent to defend Cao Zhang by his brother, Crown Prince Cao Pi.
At this moment, Cao Zhang's tiger eyes stared closely at Jing Jun who was gradually approaching.
Five hundred steps is the maximum range of Cao Wei's newly developed heavy crossbow, and the effective shooting range is 350 steps. Seeing that Jing Jun was five hundred steps away from them, he slowly raised his hands, preparing to wait for Jing Jun to reach the shooting range. Thousands of arrows were fired within the range, but the next moment, Cao Zhang's eyes were stunned.
When they were five hundred steps away, Jing Jun stopped.
At this time, the captain next to him reminded in a low voice: "General, the trebuchet below is a second-generation trebuchet developed by Jingjun. The effective range is 500 steps, and the error is...three steps."
Cao Zhang's eyes jumped and he stared at the captain next to him in disbelief.
The captain was startled by Cao Zhang's gaze and hurriedly said: "General, you are aware of this. I am not talking nonsense. The Jing army used this trebuchet when they captured Luocheng in central Sichuan."
While the two were talking, Qian Chun below had ordered ten trebuchets to be aimed at the front of the valley on the left and right to prevent the stones thrown from rolling down and injuring his family. The direction of the trebuchets was all diagonally upward. , because the effective range of the trebuchet is 500 steps, but the maximum range is 800 steps. This distance is enough for Wei Jun to watch and get beaten with bare eyes.
But in order to defeat the enemy quickly, Qian Chun reduced the distance to 500 steps.
Looking at the valleys on both sides of the front, Qian Chun waved the command flag in his hand expressionlessly, and the soldiers of the Che Barracks skillfully began to load boulders, aiming at the side and front, in preparation.
"Get ready! Put-!"
When he was ready, Qian Chun issued the order without hesitation.
Suddenly, the huge vibration energy caused dust to fly under the base of the trebuchet, and the boulders flew out with a huge whistling sound, roaring towards both sides of the valley.
Cao Zhang, who was on the mountainside, saw the huge boulder flying towards him. His face suddenly turned pale as paper, and he hurriedly ordered: "The whole army is ready! Fire arrows——!"
It no longer matters whether it is within the effective range, as long as it can be reached. It no longer cares whether it can cause damage to Jing's army. We must not let Jing's army's trebuchets bombard without restraint. If this continues, the soldiers will inevitably Morale will drop sharply.
Cao Zhang and Jing Jun had almost never faced each other face to face, and they didn't know the power of Jing Jun's advanced equipment. Only after today's fight did they realize that the gap between the two sides was really not even a tiny bit. They were beaten so hard that they had no ability to fight back. It was simply a dimensionality-reducing blow. ah!
The giant arrow shot in front of the boulder is like an ant meeting an elephant.
The boulder carried a monstrous force. When the giant arrow hit the boulder, it was instantly smashed into pieces. However, the boulder smashed down without weakening at all. The terrifying energy exploded on the top of the mountain. The entire mountain seemed to be shaken and shattered. Stone splash.
One stone exploded, and thousands of stones rolled away.
Countless stones were blown away by the boulders, breaking free from the shackles of the mountain and rolling down the valley. The huge energy contained in their own gravity was extremely lethal. Wherever they passed, no matter whether they were mosquitoes, birds, animals, flowers, plants or trees, they were all smashed. The Wei army hiding in the valley was so frightened that they fled for their lives, and the screams echoed in the valley.
Qian Chun's face was still plain, like a ruthless cold-blooded animal. He looked coldly at the Wei Jun who was running for his life all over the mountain. The miserable screams of the Wei Jun who had half of his body smashed were heart-wrenching. Some Jing Jun were shocked when they saw this scene. Can not bear to look. Qian Chun calmly waved another command flag and ordered in a cold voice:
"Kecheng heavy crossbow is ready!"
The heavy crossbow soldier immediately shook the handle, and the bow string expanded to the specified limit. Thirty giant arrows were already installed in place, and the arrows were aimed at the Wei army who was fleeing halfway up the mountain.
"put--!"
Accompanied by the huge roar of boulders falling in the valley, Qian Chun waved the flag to release arrows.
"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo-!"
When the continuous giant arrows were shot, the terrifying initial speed directly pierced the air and made a whistling sound that shook the eardrums. Ten Kecheng heavy ballistas were placed left and right, five on each side, and one hundred and fifty giant arrows formed a black shadow light curtain in mid-air, shooting towards the fleeing Wei army in the mountains and forests.
The roar of the boulders rolling down drowned out the whistling of the giant arrows. Wei Jun was completely unaware of the giant arrows shot from behind. He only felt his body light up and was carried forward by something, until an arrow carrying The giant bloody arrow pierced his chest, and he realized in horror that he had been shot.
Cao Zhang took shelter in a natural cave halfway up the mountain.
Seeing his own sergeant being mercilessly beaten and shot to death, Cao Zhang was so anxious that his eyes were red. He gritted his teeth and held the knife, but he could only watch helplessly, helpless.
"call!"
At this moment, a giant arrow shot accurately into the cave.
Cao Zhang's bodyguards hurriedly flew to block him, but his body was easily penetrated by the terrifying giant arrow as if it were made of paper, and the giant arrow shot inwards without losing any strength. With this gap, Cao Zhang hurriedly lay down and narrowly avoided the giant arrow, only to hear a roar from behind.
When Cao Zhang looked back, he was stunned.
I saw that the giant arrow shot straight into the boulder, and the arrowhead was completely submerged.
Cao Zhang's heart was severely grasped.
With the blessing of such a terrifying weapon, the Wei army had no power to fight back against the Jing army. Not to mention fighting, they did not even touch the Jing army, and they had already suffered heavy losses.
The rolling rocks stopped, and the whistling of arrows stopped.
Both sides of the valley were in shambles.
There were no more screams from the Wei army, and no Wei army could be seen standing.
Cao Zhang walked out of the cave and looked around with dull eyes.
The personal guards who followed Cao Zhang looked at everything below in horror. The power of Jing's army's weapons was unbelievable.
At this time, Li Yan and Yang Bai led five thousand soldiers and horses to the top of the mountain and began to investigate.
It happened that Li Yan was checking the valley on the side of Cao Zhang. He climbed up the valley and saw the tragic death of the Wei army. Even Li Yan, who was used to seeing mountains of corpses and seas of blood, couldn't help but shudder. When he looked up, he saw a stunned man standing halfway up the mountain. Cao Zhang and others. At this moment, Li Yan didn't know that this was Cao Zhang, Cao Cao's second son, but he was definitely an important figure until he survived.
He immediately ordered the army to kill him and capture him alive.
