"Launch, launch! Launch for me!"
Li Xiaochuan shouted loudly to Wang Dongjiang, the leader of the crossbow formation.
Wang Dongjiang directed his men to move several three-bow crossbows and aim at the returning artillery that was more than a hundred steps away.
There is a two-foot-wide wall stack in front of the archery tower, where five bed crossbows can be placed.
Each bed crossbow is manned by seven or eight soldiers from the security group, and seven of them are already more than thirty people.
The bed crossbow is also a physical job and requires a strong man to operate it.
Because it consumes a lot of energy, it is also known as the eight-ox crossbow, which means that it requires eight cows to drive it.
Obviously, oxen cannot be used on the watchtower, and only two teams of people can operate it in turns.
This is only the archery tower in Hedong. There is also an archery tower in Hexi, which also houses seven crossbows and is commanded by another formation commander Guo Maoyong.
Wang Dongjiang used a wooden hammer to hit the machine joint and tongue hard, and with two bangs, the six-step long crossbow arrows shot towards the huihui cannon like meteors.
Not far away from the cannon, all seven crossbow arrows hit.
The cannon was over a foot high and a foot wide. It shook a few times but was still firing.
Wang Dongjiang asked the soldiers to put on new crossbow arrows and fired again. This time the cannon shook a few times and was still firing.
It wasn't until the sixth time that the sweating crossbow soldier finally made the cannon fall apart.
Wang Dongjiang shouted with joy, but saw another cannon being fired not far away.
"Boom, boom." This time the Hu people's returning artillery fired not huge rocks, but mountain thunder.
It exploded in front of the small bridge, splashing huge waves and washing away the smoke wall of its explosion.
Wang Dongjiang was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat. Fortunately, the round shot was not accurate and it wasted dozens of kilograms of gunpowder.
He personally controlled the crossbow and fired at the returning cannon.
At Hetan Pass, smoke filled the entire pass.
The barbarians came in waves of thousands, like a surging tide.
They held the Eight Immortals table covered with wet quilts, shouted for courage and rushed towards the pass.
When they arrived at the ladder, the foreigner held up a small Eight Immortals table covered with a wet quilt and climbed up quickly from the ladder or flying ladder.
The Hu people used the three-day truce to make a large number of Eight Immortals tables, large and small, which came in handy at this time.
Forty return artillery pieces were arranged in eight rows and fired continuously towards the city gate.
In front of Huihui Pao are twenty wells. This well is five feet high, which is one foot higher than the city wall.
It has four wheels underneath to allow people to move.
Since the well is one foot higher than the city wall, you can see clearly above the city gate.
Jing Lan used to be an archer, but now he has a copycat cyclone cannon, which keeps firing copycat thunder towards the city gate.
The Hu people's copycat cyclone cannon in Jinglan kept throwing the copycat thunder, over the table array on the city wall, directly towards the cyclone cannon behind it.
War is cruel, but it is also lucky.
It is cruel because the death rate is too high.
The reason why it is lucky is that promotion comes quickly.
The Hu people were the attacking party, and since ancient times the casualties suffered during sieges were far greater than those suffered by defenders.
In just three or four days, the Hu people suffered over 10,000 casualties at Hetan Pass.
Since ancient times, if you kill ten thousand enemies, you will lose three thousand.
Thanks to the good medical treatment and protection provided by the Hetan Checkpoint Security Group, there were almost no deaths.
However, almost all of the three thousand soldiers and horses were injured, and fortunately most of them were minor injuries.
Facing the fierce attack of the Hu people, Hetanguan also strengthened its defense and its troop strength has tripled.
Almost all the soldiers in Hetanguan were lucky and almost did not die.
Even more fortunately, many soldiers who performed well were promoted.
For example, Huang Xiaoniu, who started as the leader of the table formation, has now been promoted to the camp leader and has 500 subordinates.
Facing the crazy attack of the Hu people, Huang Xiaoniu divided his men into four squads.
Two of them were fixed on the city wall and used table formations to resist the copycats who attacked from the cloud and flying ladders.
Another group of people acted as a mobile table formation to resist the thunder and boulders that passed through the table formation.
The remaining troops are used as emergency supplies to fill in wherever needed.
At this time, the copycat cyclone cannon above Jinglan was higher than the city wall, and it was firing towards the city gate.
They had the height advantage, and basically all the copycat Thunderbolts jumped over the fixed table array and flew directly to the cyclone cannon position above the city gate.
There is Hongtianlei behind the cyclone cannon position. What Hongtianlei is most afraid of, besides fire, is its peers.
Under Huang Xiaoniu's constant command, the soldiers of the Sichuan Guard Army desperately moved the Eight Immortals Table to resist the cyclone cannon of the Hu Renjing Lan.
"Boom, boom, boom." These copycat thunders kept exploding and were almost caught by the mobile table array.
The imitation cyclone cannons and thunderbolts have two characteristics, that is, their power and range are not as good as those of the authentic cyclone cannons and thunderbolts.
Even so, the Jinglan Cyclone Cannon had the height advantage after all, and it still made the soldiers of the mobile table formation confused.
Huang Xiaoniu, the leader of the table camp, used to be handsome and fair, but now his face has turned black. If it weren't for his exposed eyes and swaying teeth, it would be hard to imagine that he was still a human being.
This is true for the battalion leader, not to mention the other formation commanders and fire chief soldiers.
They kept moving the Eight Immortals Table, taking over the explosives from the Huihui Cannon and the Jinglan Copycat Cyclone Cannon, as well as the Copycat Thunderbolt.
Luo Xianwei is the leader of the cyclone cannon camp, and he is very fond of this new cyclone cannon.
Compared with the previous cyclone cannon, its range is not only 20 steps longer, reaching 70 steps, it is easier to use and has a longer lifespan.
He adjusted the regulator knob of the cyclone cannon and checked the well.
Jinglan is less than twenty steps away from the city wall, which is the range of the cyclone cannon in the barbarian village.
"Boom, boom." The thunderbolt he fired exploded in front of Jinglan, startling the barbarians above Jinglan.
It seems that there is still some distance from the well, and the bomb did not hit the barbarians above the well.
Luo Xianwei squinted his eyes and aimed at the well. At this time, he found that the well was moving slowly.
No wonder they couldn't aim at Jinglan. It was because the Hu people were too cunning.
Luo Xianwei continued to aim at the well while calculating the moving speed of the well.
He fired a thunderbolt, which exploded on the right side of Jinglan.
It seemed that the mobile well was far less easy to fight than the fixed Lugong car, but he was not discouraged.
This time he took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
After taking aim again, he fired again.
"Boom, boom," Bangtianlei exploded again.
At this time, in front of the city wall was a wall of black smoke composed of black gunpowder smoke.
Luo Xianwei rubbed his eyes, trying to see if the copycat's well was hit.
Woo hoo, at this time the river wind blew over from the Han River in time, gradually blowing away the black smoke wall.
"Great, Leader Luo Ying, we hit that damn well." His assistant almost jumped with joy.
Luo Xianwei looked at the well in front of him and saw that the top half of it was in pieces.
It seems that the explosion of Luo Xianwei's thunderbolt caused the explosion of the cottage's thunderbolt above the well, destroying the well.
Not only were the barbarians dead, Jinglan was also destroyed.
"Boom, boom, boom." Suddenly there was an earth-shattering explosion sound.
This time it attracted the attention of the city wall defenders and the attacking party below. Previous explosions were insignificant in front of it.
Some of the copycats turned pale and their bodies could not help but tremble.
It turned out to be a specially made copycat sky-blasting thunder fired by the copycat people, which exploded on the city wall.
This special thunderbolt weighed more than 100 kilograms and exploded into a black mushroom cloud.
Several wall stacks were blown crooked, and more than a dozen Eight Immortals tables were blown to pieces.
The Eight Immortals Table suffered a huge impact and was more than ten feet away from its original place.
More than a hundred security guards suffered injuries to their arms and thighs from the ground, and more than 30 were seriously injured, even bleeding from their mouths and noses.
Huang Xiaoniu wiped the sweat from his forehead and couldn't help but shed tears.
Although he was sad, he still had to take command and hurriedly arranged for the rest of the soldiers to be covered by the new table array.
"Nurse, nurse." Tan Xing looked into the distance and shouted.
Qiu Ruoshui and a dozen nurses carried medicine boxes on their backs and shouted loudly as they ran: "It's coming, it's coming."
"Stretcher." Song Fei shouted, and he and his men hurriedly took down the stretcher from the gate tower.
They came to the center of the explosion one after another and stepped forward to carry the seriously injured soldiers onto stretchers.
It's disrespectful to come back without reciprocating, so Feng Yongcheng shouted loudly: "Bring the Tiger Crouching Cannon."
The Tiger Crouching Cannon is a weapon that Zhaojiazhuang is still experimenting with and has just been produced.
This is the world's first iron firearm and the only iron artillery piece.
It is made of wrought iron, and five iron hoops are added to the outside to prevent explosions.
It has an outer diameter of three inches and a half, an inner diameter of two inches, a length of two feet, and a weight of about thirty-six kilograms.
There are two tiger claws in front of it, which looks like a squatting tiger, so it is named Tiger Crouching Cannon.
Li Kunlun is the only operator and the only gunner of the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
He was both happy and worried. What was happy was that he was the first person to use the Tiger Crouching Cannon on the battlefield.
But he was more worried that he would fail in his first performance.
He took a deep breath, carefully placed the Tiger Crouching Cannon on the ground, and asked two assistants to place the Tiger Crouching Cannon.
He added seven or eight taels of gunpowder to the Tiger Crouching Cannon, and a hundred lead bullets weighing five cents.
These alone are not enough, because after the gunpowder explodes, the gas rushes directly from the tiger's mouth, losing the attack effect.
Bian Sanjue Wei carefully added a large lead weighing thirty taels to the outside to seal the mouth, leaving only a live wire.
Li Kunlun asked his two assistants to hold the two legs of the Crouching Tiger Cannon with their hands and ignite the firing line himself.
About thirty breaths later, with a booming sound, the muzzle of the Crouching Tiger Cannon flashed red.
As the big piece of lead at the muzzle was flushed away, everyone saw a hundred pieces of lead ejected from the muzzle and flying towards the cannon.
Everyone looked at Hui Hui Pao, wanting to see whether this Tiger Crouching Cannon was a big insect or a kitten.
The barbarian commander Aldudin couldn't help but laugh when he saw that the Huihui artillery bombed a river bank.
He shouted loudly: "Warriors, if you work harder, you will capture the southern barbarian city gate."
All the people yelled, pulled out their clothes and tied their sleeves, and all fired back the cannon.
This return cannon required fifty or sixty barbarians to pull the rope and use the lever principle to lift the other end containing boulders or gunpowder high.
Centurion Yesma placed the ceramic jar containing a hundred kilograms of gunpowder on the bucket, lit the fuse, and shouted, "Fire!"
Amidst the sound of grinding teeth, the Huihui cannon and the bucket were pulled up more than ten feet high by the barbarians.
Now as long as they loosen their hands hard, the copycat thunder in the bucket will be ejected.
Yesima's hand raised high suddenly felt severe pain.
Then, he felt severe pain coming from his forehead, his vision went dark, and he fell softly to the ground.
Not only him, dozens of his men were also injured.
Most of the time, an object suddenly drilled into the arm. It was much smaller than an arrow, but the severe pain was heart-wrenching.
These barbarians could no longer hold on to the rope of the cannon, and the bucket in their mouths lost tension and was suddenly thrown out.
It did not fly towards the city wall at this time, but landed on the attacking barbarian crowd and exploded.
"Boom." This explosion is producing a small mushroom cloud.
With this explosion as the center, the barbarians suffered disaster within a dozen steps.
Dozens of Hu people who were resisting the Eight Immortals Table fell to the ground and groaned. All the Eight Immortals tables of the Hu people within five steps of the middle were blown to pieces. More than twenty Hu people fell in a pool of blood, twitching continuously. It looked like There are many deaths.
Within five to ten steps outside, the Eight Immortals Table was blown to pieces. Most of the Hu people were seriously injured, with blood flowing from their facial features and mouths.
The barbarians who were between ten and fifteen steps were also affected, as if a giant had given them a heavy blow.
Their Eight Immortals table was knocked to the ground, and people fell to the ground. Their brains felt shaking, their ears suffered temporary deafness, and some even had bleeding from their facial features.
These barbarians were so unlucky. The big explosion was a copycat thunder that fell on the ground and exploded. Their Eight Immortals Table towards the sky almost worked.
Ye Sima was awakened by the explosion. He never expected that this huge copycat thunder would explode under the city wall.
He stood up unsteadily from the ground and shouted loudly to the dazed barbarians: "What are you doing here? Keep working."
After saying that, Yesima endured the excruciating pain and wiped the blood on his forehead and arms with a cloth.
After wiping it, he seemed to feel less pain.
Yesima called a few uninjured barbarians, lifted a giant imitation thunderbolt from the explosive box, and carefully placed it on the bucket.
"Okay." The other Hu men nodded, and the uninjured Hu man immediately controlled the rope and prepared to launch again.
