After Nie Chen returned to the center of the Tiantai Army, he ordered the siege to begin.
The war drums beat loudly, and Nie Chen's army began to move.
The two corps pressed forward first, and the city-breaking crossbows, army-breaking crossbows, trebuchets, and other objects were also pushed out.
Before the army could advance, these heavy weapons began to project.
The Mohist-improved catapult, also known as a borrowed cart, is more powerful and can be thrown faster.
Under the action of the trebuchet, those stone bullets drew beautiful parabolas in the sky and slammed into the city wall, knocking down many Korean soldiers on the top of the city.
Not only are there trebuchets, but there are also city-breaking crossbows.
With the cooperation of Nie Chen and Mo Xun, the city-breaking crossbow has been changed from the previous horse-drawn string to a torque-strung one.
Several soldiers twisted the shaft vigorously together, and the hook at the end of the rope pulled apart the bowstring of the city-breaking crossbow little by little. After pulling it to the maximum, a soldier lifted the hook, and the string of the city-breaking crossbow swung. After bouncing back, the arrow on the crossbow, which was as thick as a tree, flew diagonally upward with a swish.
In almost the blink of an eye, the crossbow arrow hit the parapet, directly shattering the parapet and smashing the head of a soldier squatting behind it.
"Get down! Get down! Avoid stone bullets and city-breaking crossbows!"
Ren Jun squatted on the ground and shouted loudly.
At this time, all the soldiers on the city were squatting or lying on the ground to avoid the attack.
The heavy weapons outside fired for a quarter of an hour before stopping.
When the soldiers on the top of the city saw that there was no movement, they stood up one after another, ready to shoot outside the city with their bows and arrows.
The next second, they saw the orderly army outside the city, and also saw the huge spear-like crossbow flying in front of them.
Boom boom boom!
As a series of sounds came, many soldiers who stood up were directly shot through by the powerful and dense crossbow arrows of the Pojun Crossbow. Some were taken directly to fly under the inner city, and some were directly nailed to the ground. Upstairs at the city gate.
"Get down! Who told you to get up? Get down!"
While Ren Jun roared angrily, he quietly raised his head, exposed his eyes, and looked at the enemy battle formation below.
At this time, the two regiments of the Tiantai Army below had already reached a distance of two arrows from the city wall, and the broken crossbows in the distance were still attacking the city wall, suppressing the Korean archers, and for The siege troops buy time.
Ren Jun now understood why the opponent's trebuchets and city-breaking crossbows stopped firing. It was because he was worried about accidentally injuring his own soldiers.
Ren Jun looked up from time to time to look at the enemy troops below, while silently counting down the time in his mind, calculating the distance of the enemy troops into range.
"The whole army is ready, bows and arrows drawn, ready to fire!"
Ren Jun shouted loudly.
After calculating that the enemy had entered the shooting range, Ren Jun shouted,
"Get up! Launch!"
The soldiers immediately stood up and shot the arrows diagonally upward.
At this time, the Tiantai Army had already arrived within a stone's throw, and the crossbowmen pushing the Mohist ladder began to charge forward.
The shield bearers protected the archers and suppressed the defenders at the top of the city.
A wave of arrows rained down, killing many crossbowmen, but did not cause much damage to the archers.
Ren Jun saw that the enemy used his own tactics and knew that his own siege tactics could effectively avoid casualties. The enemy only needed to calculate the gaps between the defenders' arrows to counterattack and defend. .
So, Ren Jun immediately adapted his strategy and shouted,
"Attack freely, suppress the enemy's archers, don't concentrate your attacks! Get ready to roll the wood and stone, and attack the enemy on the ladder below."
"As you command!"
The soldiers immediately prepared stones, bows and arrows and other objects, and threw them downwards.
A Korean soldier held a big stone high, stuck his head out, and smashed it at the soldiers below.
He thought he was safe, because the archers below had just fired a wave of arrows, and now it was time to draw the bow and release the arrows. He attacked the siege soldiers under the city wall, and the enemy could not hurt him.
Instead, as soon as he threw the stone down, he saw the soldiers below who were holding knives and preparing to attack the city. Suddenly, a repeating crossbow appeared in their hands and they pulled the trigger repeatedly towards him.
Whoosh whoosh!
At least four or five arrows hit his head.
Before that soldier died, he couldn't figure out why melee infantry were equipped with long-range weapons?
Another soldier next to him saw that he had been shot, and immediately went to pull him back to see if he could be saved. However, the next second, a crossbow arrow flew towards him in the distance, and a The arrow pierced him.
Ren Jun frowned and gritted his teeth secretly as he looked at his soldiers who had suffered heavy casualties.
The Feng army that fought against him, whether defending or attacking the city, was able to cause heavy casualties to his side. The reason was that the opponent's large equipment greatly suppressed his own army.
There are so many good weapons, why are they not from our side?
Ren Jun secretly sighed. If he wanted to blame, he could only blame his own side. No one paid attention to the development of these heavy weapons. As a result, Nie Chen got them all out first and took advantage of them.
Who is Nie Chen?
He is good at attacking people's minds, is eloquent and eloquent, and has excellent political talent. It stands to reason that he should be a very good politician.
But this man is also a great inventor, able to develop a variety of weapons to win by surprise.
He is also good at commanding troops and conducting battles.
Doesn’t this person have any shortcomings?
Soon, Ren Jun thought of a shortcoming of Nie Chen.
That is, Nie Chen's personal force is not very good. On the battlefield, he rarely charges into battle and kills the enemy in person.
Since there is this shortcoming, we must firmly grasp this flaw!
At this moment, the corner of Ren Jun's eyes suddenly glanced at the battlements of the city wall on the right. Two iron hooks appeared and got stuck directly on the battlements.
"what?"
Ren Jun asked.
"Commander, that's the enemy's ladder. The ladder is up!"
"The rope hooks, the rope hooks I asked you to make a few days ago, take out all the rope hooks and pull up all the opponent's ladders for me!"
"clear!"
As Mo Xun expected, in the previous battle in Nanhe County, they used rope hooks to deal with Ren Jun's ladder. So after the offensive and defensive changes, Ren Jun would definitely follow suit and make the same weapon to deal with his own ladder.
After all, it doesn’t take much to make these things, all you need is a rope and a hook.
The Korean soldiers saw the direction of the ladder below, dropped the rope hook directly, and tied Feng Jun's ladder.
"pull!"
As a general shouted, several soldiers on each rope hook worked together to pull the ladder up.
However, they found that they couldn't pull it at all...
