Chapter 176 Let the big stone fly
The follow-up army, which pulled the siege carts and horn-held cannons, quickly caught up. This follow-up army was already a semi-mechanized army at the end of the Han Dynasty. The soldiers were all engineers, led by Gao Shun.
Gao Shun was on the war horse and escorted the horn-bowing cannon to the city. He shouted, "Li Lang, are you going to attack the city?"
Li Qin looked back at him, waved his hand, and said, "Don't be polite to me if you can smash it!"
"Okay, I haven't known what to say!" Gao Shun smiled. He turned around and immediately asked someone to install the corner cannon and prepare to attack the city.
The horn-punching cannon used by the Fujiao Army is considered an upgraded product. It is even more powerful than the attack power when rescuing Jincheng County. The artillery cart is much smaller, and the accuracy has been further improved. The weight of the fired stones has also been increased a lot. The most important thing is that there are now two horn-punching cannons!
After the corner-held cannon was installed, Gao Shun shouted: "Test shot one stone, the target city gate tower!"
The gunners of the corners agreed in unison, loaded a large stone of about 200 kilograms into the car, aimed it at the city gate tower, and fired it out!
The big stone flew towards the city tower with a roaring fire, and in the sky, it hit the battlements in front of the city gate tower, and immediately smashed the two battlements out of sight, and the big stone also fell outside the city!
Among the Qiang soldiers on the city, there were those who saw the horn-boosting cannons. They screamed. This terrifying chariot that could make big stones fly. They had seen it when they were in Jincheng County. At that time, they didn’t know what it was, and they thought it was a meteorite falling from the sky, but now they all knew it. It was a trencher, and it was a particularly powerful trencher!
When Li Wenhou saw the flying gravel. Although it was very far away from him this time, he still felt it and stamped his feet and said, "Oh no, the Fujiao Army has used this kind of catapult again. Why did I forget that they have such a powerful weapon to siege!" When he was anxious, he stopped calling himself me, and called himself me again.
Bian Zhang shouted: "Your Majesty, do you recognize this kind of catapult?"
Li Wenhou said angrily: "Nonsense, of course I recognize it. I have been smashed!" He called his own Qiang soldiers and said: "Open the city gate, you go out and destroy the catapult!"
Facing the scattering machine of Fujiao Army, it is meaningless to block the city gate or not. Such terrible siege weapons can even be smashed into the city wall, let alone the city gate. The only way to solve this kind of weapon is to remove the firewood from the bottom of the cauldron and destroy them!
The solution is easy to find, but it is too difficult to execute. Of course, the Qiang soldiers of Li Wenhou’s personal guards are all powerful people, but when he heard that His Majesty the Emperor asked them to go out of the city to smash cars, no one dared to do so. He would die if he went out. The soldiers who were holding the corners outside were blocked. Not to mention smashing cars, even if he went out of the city and could come back alive, it was a matter of two things!
Bian Zhang ran over and shouted, "Your Majesty, there must be brave men under the heavy reward. If any brothers dare to destroy the catapult, then after they come back, everyone will be granted the title of Marquis and the title of Marquis of Wanhu!"
Li Wenhou hurriedly said, "Yes, everyone is named Wanhuhou. Those who claim to be warriors will go, go!"
There were still some Qiang soldiers who were not afraid of death. Several of the most powerful Qiang soldiers who usually picked up their weapons and ran down the city, intending to go out to smash the car! But these few people were too few, not enough to feed arrows to the horn-boosting soldiers. Not to mention smashing the car, even if they attacked the catapults, it would be insufficient to have one or two hundred people, and a few people were too few!
Seeing that most of the Qiang soldiers were still standing still, Bian Zhang shouted again: "After smashing the car, there is no need to go back to the city. We are all outside the city. You can gather the army, fight with us inside and outside, and completely defeat the Fujiao Army. Everyone, the moment to make achievements is right in front of you. If you give up, there will be no more in the future. If you want to be glorious, you can fight for your life!"
This sentence is quite effective. It is impossible to guarantee whether the catapult can be smashed. However, if the catapult can be smashed and the soldiers can be recruited, it is easier to do it. Even if it cannot be done, it doesn’t matter. It won’t be possible to turn around and run away. Staying outside the city now is much safer than staying in the city!
When the Qiang soldiers were neutral, dozens of people started to scream. They ran to the city after scouting the guys. They ran and shouted. When the people who heard them shouting, they also searched the guys and ran away!
Seeing this, Li Wenhou said, "Brother Bian, you have a way. Let them go down in a few words, otherwise I really can't do it!"
Bian Zhang said with a bitter face: "This is also helpless. Zhaochen estimated that half of these people who went down would really smash the car, thank God!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the second big stone was smashed over, and the direction of the smash was much more accurate than the first one. With a loud bang, the city gate tower collapsed! The Qiang soldiers on the city wall all exclaimed, avoiding them one after another, and never dared to stay near the city gate tower again!
Outside the city, Gao Shun saw the second big stone hit the target, and he shouted: "Just shoot again with this force, the two cannons are the same target, and no place is allowed!"
With a clear goal, it was much easier to throw big rocks just by throwing them. The artillery brigades mounted one huge rock after another and smashed them to the city gate tower! Four or five large rocks passed by, and the already collapsed city gate tower continued to collapse, and even the city wall was smashed to pieces!
The city walls of Gaonu County are built with civilian construction, and only some stones are used in the city gate tower. If the same location is repeatedly smashed by large stones, the earth wall will not be able to bear it!
Two more big stones were smashed over, and the city gate trembled. Even if the earth wall was built strongly, it would finally be smashed!
At this time, the city gate suddenly opened wide, and countless Qiang soldiers rushed out of the city, screaming and rushed towards the direction of Fujiao Army! But they only rushed out a few dozen people. When the Qiang soldiers behind were rushing out, they saw another huge rock smashing from the sky, which was neither side nor slanted, but still hit the city gate tower. Under the city gate tower, there was a city gate hole!
With a loud bang, the city gate collapsed, and a large piece of the entire city wall was buried in the tunnel of the city gate. All the Qiang soldiers who were rushing out were buried alive in the earth and rocks. They didn't even give the Qiang soldiers a chance to send a scream, so they all explained!
The Qiang soldiers behind shouted loudly, slammed their horses and quickly retreated. Following the streets of the city, they ran towards other city gates. Now they are not going to attack the catapult, but the farther away from the catapult, the better!
Li Wenhou and Bian Zhang fell down on the city wall together. The city gate collapsed, shaking so violently, and the entire city wall was trembling. Not only did they sit on the ground, but all the Qiang soldiers lay down, and everyone was terrified. This kind of battle scene was something they could never imagine, and it was too tough!
The city was filled with fire, and the Qiang soldiers outside the city could see clearly the scene on the city wall. There were countless brave Qiang soldiers still rushing here. There were still many brave people in the army of more than 200,000 people. But when these brave Qiang soldiers saw that the city gate was smashed by a big stone, they were all shocked and did not dare to come. This had nothing to do with whether they were brave or not, but the normal psychological reaction of human beings.
In this era, people were not informed, there were no TV or movies, and of course there were no newspapers or Internet. Many Qiang soldiers didn’t know about the world’s affairs. Seeing a big rock smashing the city gate, it was just like modern people who saw a high-tech spacecraft throwing storm bombs on the earth. The initial reaction was at a loss and didn’t know how to react!
The moment the city wall collapsed, the Qiang soldiers were stunned and were so shocked that they could not move. But in just a moment of kung fu, the Qiang soldiers came back to their senses and were so scared that they would never dare to rush to the Fujiao Army again. Whether they were brave or timid, they turned around and ran. They would run as far as they could. No one was left with the mood to fight again, and they just wanted to save their lives first!
If you are hacked to death on the battlefield, you will die, and if you are hit by a big stone, you will die. Although the result is the same, almost all the Qiang soldiers did not choose two ways of death. They all wanted to live first and ran away frantically!
Li Qinle turned his horse's head and looked into the distance. In the dark night, he could not see too far, and even his eyes were not beyond his army. But he felt that the Qiang soldiers were running away, and they were running away in groups. Now Gaonu County has become an isolated city, so he can't even get any support!
After smiling, Li Qin said to Jia Xu: "It seems that this raid is really useful, especially when using a corner cannon in the fire, it is better to use it, and it will be more useful!"
Jia Xu was so excited that his face was blushed. He said, "You can't let Li Wenhou run away. He must not have the intention to defend the city now. He escaped once last time. There are one things and there are two. He must still escape this time. We have to block the city gate quickly. Maybe we can catch a living!"
Li Qin said: "Don't think about it, he will definitely run in the opposite direction, it must be the East Gate!" He waved to Wu Danzi and said: "You take people to the East Gate and walk around the moat. When you arrive at the East Gate, don't start a war immediately. You have to fall down and fight again when you go out for seven or eight miles."
Wu Danzi agreed loudly, ordered two thousand kaku soldiers, and walked around the east gate along the moat. Walking along the moat, you can encounter less Qiang soldiers. At this time, no Qiang soldiers dared to approach the city wall. Therefore, Wu Danzi would not be too much resistance to lead the troops and would not be chased immediately. It is because when Li Wenhou just escaped from the city, there would be many Qiang soldiers around him. If he escaped for a while, the Qiang soldiers would start to escape and would not hang out with Li Wenhou. At this time, Wu Danzi chased and started the war, and he would get the greatest result!
On the city wall, Li Wenhou and Bian Zhang stood up with each other. Bian Zhang said, "Your Majesty, the troops of the Fujiao Army are at a sharp edge. We have to avoid the enemy's front for a while. Otherwise, you can walk from the east gate and I will resist the city wall for a while to attract the attention of the Fujiao Army. It is almost dawn and I will break through the north gate. We will gather in two hundred miles in three days. What do you think?"
Li Wenhou said: "It's not appropriate to go to the north. The north is vast and sparsely populated, and it's better to rush to the south. It's a prosperous place in Bingzhou. We can force the people and prevent Li Qin from coming to attack, so we can get time to rest!"
Chapter completed!