There was wind in the air, and the thick smoke from the explosion of the city dissipated very quickly, and soon there was only thin smoke and dust left behind.
Guo Shao immediately looked at the rear hundreds of steps away, and his personal soldiers kept coming back to report the military situation.
He still didn't say much, but just nodded and responded to the people who came to report.
Wang Pu next to him said: The war will be stalemate.
Guo Shao calmed down and reviewed the chaotic scenes in the camp.
He paid extra attention to the cannon array and could not detect the panic atmosphere.
Now most of the remaining artillery has been concentrated in two siege points... because most of the losses have been lost in the early stage.
There is still some problem with the Dragon Owl Cannon, which is a problem that cannot be tried in the experimental stage.
During the test, the iron ring was added during the test because of the large diameter and thick pipe wall, so the cannon body would not explode, so the direct problem was that the heat dissipation was poor and the lifespan was degraded. In addition, the cast iron material was not strong at this time, and after multiple shellings, the cast iron cannon body cracked and damaged... Before and after the Zhou army besieged the city, more than 300 howling cannons were mobilized in total. More than ten days later, there are only less than 100 left.
Most of the damaged cannons have broken bodies and deflated air, and very few of them have directly exploded.There have been many problems before, such as some stone bombs are not strong enough and explode in the cannon chamber.
There are still dozens of artillery left to concentrate at the offensive point; the continued shelling before the attack is mainly to retest the range and find the data that hit the city wall... elevation angle and loading weight.
...The gaps in the collapsed city walls were filled with dense people in front of them, and the crowds on both sides were opposite in the direction, and the more they were blocked in the middle, the tighter they were; the place was very narrow, so it was difficult to rush forward at this time, even if you really wanted to clear it.
The pretentious shouts of killing, intimidating, and shouting were rumbling, and begging for mercy and begging, but nothing worked.
People were crowded there and could not move forward or backward, and it was difficult to turn around, let alone make any fancy moves.
A soldier from the Northern Han army had no weapons in his hand, and was squeezed in front of Zhou army with empty hands, staring at AhAhAh with wide eyes.
The Zhou army soldiers held a sword and shield, and the shield smashed it around his head, and the sword stabbed his armor desperately, screaming with despair and fear made people's ears hurt.
The Northern Han army died miserably, and they could not run away, and the front was almost unable to survive.
The generals of the Northern Han army who arranged the spearmen in the front made a mistake. At this time, the two sides were close and close, and they were almost at a distance of holding each other. The long spear could not be used, which was equivalent to unarmed facing the Zhou army's melee single sword and hook and hammer; and in the front of the Zhou army was heavy infantry wearing board mail, with better armor protection, which was obviously more resistant than the enemy... In this case, no martial arts were useful. You could just stab the weapon and attack people. At the same time, you could only hold the torso against the enemy's attack!
The Zhou army on the ramp gradually restored order, and a general shouted: Stop!
The soldiers near behind threw the javelins upwards, as if there were reeds flying in the air.
Below the ruins, Zhou army's sharpshooters barely formed a queue.A general shouted: Get ready...
A large number of sharpshooters (archers) picked up bows and took arrows, their faces were nervous and solemn, and they pulled the arrows diagonally upwards. Then they heard: Let... bang!The gong suddenly knocked, and everyone fired arrows one after another.
At this time, people don’t need to aim, just as the direction and angle are roughly correct.
A large number of black arrows flew into the air in a dense manner.
The archers ignored everything. Some people had found the memory of countless volley trainings and were gradually adjusting their breathing rhythm.
This is indeed fighting on the front line of the formation, but people are not fighting with a force. They are like doing a repetitive physical labor. They just need to follow the command of the generals to release their skillful arrow shooting steps. Maintaining physical strength is the most important thing, because pulling a bow requires a lot of strength, and every time you shoot an arrow, it consumes a lot of physical strength.
There were also enemy bows and arrows flying over his head, but the iron helmets of Zhou soldiers had hat brims and leather armor, and their shoulders and chests were plate armor. They had extremely high defenses against projectile bows and arrows that fell mainly by weight, and were difficult to be shot and injured at most.
Without much threat, it will not be possible to add pressure to them!
What is most worrying is the crossbow flying slanted on the city wall, the arrow is as thick as an arm!
It is very heavy and powerful, and can shoot 200 steps. It is not something that armor can resist. No matter whether it is worn or not, it will kill a person at such a close distance. As long as you are hit, you will either die or be injured.
Although the crossbow fires like a bed is very troublesome and requires many people, the arrows are sparse and very slow, and one shot can kill and injure one person... But once there is a threat, it can cause great psychological pressure.
It’s like standing downstairs, with stones occasionally falling off the top, making the crowd feel dangerous and panic and confusion, even if the proportion of casualties and injuries in the crowd is very small.
Fortunately, the Hu Ben Army is an elite, and it shows the organizational strength that the army has in this kind of thing. People are nervously pulling their bows and shooting arrows under screams and death threats.
The Zhou army, which was fighting in a short-term battle on the front line, gained an advantage and continued to move forward, but the speed was very slow!
There are corpses in every inch of the ground, and the blood has wet the soil. People step on the dirt mountain and it is muddy, as if they are trekking in the mud on a rainy day!
At this moment, someone suddenly felt a chill on his body. He looked up and saw that some soldiers from the Northern Han army were pouring the barrels down with wooden barrels containing heavy tinder oil on the edge of Duanhuan, nearly four meters tall!
The Northern Han Army was probably anxious at this time, whether it was hot tin oil, tung oil, or even the air, the smell of sesame oil, and he desperately threw it into the gap.
The soldiers of the Zhou army suddenly realized something, and the crowd began to panic. People forgot to fight and couldn't squeeze out for a while. The people were clamoring and the screams suddenly became louder!
Even the soldiers of the Northern Han army were panicked, and both sides stopped fighting. They were panicked and turbulent there, and many people were squeezed to the ground and trampled like corpses.
A young Zhou soldier opened his eyes wide, looking at the city wall with a hollow look. Tears rolled down, shaking the blood on his rough and uneven face, as if blood and tears were flowing.
At this time, there was no blood ahead, only fear and despair.Someone is shouting: Mom, Mom...
Suddenly, a fire rolled up and down from above and threw it down. Everyone watched the black smoke light drew a wing of black smoke in the air. For a moment, it seemed like a lifetime, and time seemed to have passed through countless years.
boom!All kinds of oils ignite when they catch fire!
The fire was soaring into the sky and the black smoke rolled on the ruins of the valley. The Northern Han army poured too much oil down.
The soldiers on both sides were yelling and struggling loudly in the blood and fire. The fire-burning human figure rolled down from above, and the fire was splattered around like magma.
The ghosts and gods were crying and howling above, it was a terrible sight.
...Guo Shao and others looked at the fire and black smoke in the distance. His hands tightly grasped the hilt of the sword, and his fingers turned white.
A general said in a hurry: The last general thought that the central army must quickly order the front army to retreat.
Wang Zhang, the commander of the Sixth Army, was on the front line!Guo Shao gritted his teeth and said, he remembered this general. He overcame the fatigue of soldiers since the Battle of Qin Feng and successfully marched and set up an ambush overnight.
He was a military general who was experienced in many battles, had a firm perseverance, and could make decisive decisions under any military situation. Guo Shao trusted him.
The responsibilities of each army have been deployed, so that Wang Zhang from the front can be ordered in time.
Sure enough, the tribes in front immediately retreated and whispered flags, and the messenger rushed back on horseback.
Wang Zhang sat on the horse, looked at the situation ahead and said coldly: The first commander immediately withdrew from the battlefield and retreated for repair.The second command advanced to the fifty-step flag.
The military capital's guard immediately made a statement: According to the arrangements of the central army, our troops will set off firecrackers as soon as they retreat. The second command is nearly fifty steps...
snort.Wang Zhang glared at him and said nothing.
The people in front of them retreated in a scattered manner as if they were defeated. In fact, most of them did not directly take over the enemy, but after retreating after a hard battle, it was difficult to avoid chaos.
People were carrying wounded soldiers and running around like refugees.
Wang Zhang personally rode his horse within fifty steps of the city wall. Regardless of the arrows and arrows flying from time to time, he rode his horse in front of a new line of neat people, and the commander came forward.
Wang Zhang said: As soon as the cannon stopped, a short weapon was arranged, and the horse was riding in front; the rest were promoted in an infantry queue.
The commander clasped his fists and said: The last general will get the order!
Wang Zhang looked back at his left and right: Working with his life and serving the country to wrap the body is our destination!If you are afraid of death, you will not join the army.
The soldiers widened their eyes, looked at the fire in front of them, and piles of corpses on the earthen mountain, waiting nervously one by one.
Wang Zhang said again: We have already died tragically, and we are ruthlessly a man if we don’t take revenge!Kill into Jinyang and let those thieves pay their lives!
Everyone immediately shouted: Take revenge!revenge……
After a while, a huge horn blowing came from behind.It seems to be the prelude to some kind of rapid rhythm.
In a short while, a loud bang broke open the sky!
The first row of red flags, more than 400 steps away from the city, leaned forward, and after a moment, boom... The loud thunderous sound made the earth shake, and a row of dazzling flames erupted into the sky, raging into the air, and white smoke rose up.
Round stones flew out quickly into the sky.
The cannon body rushed back violently. If it weren't for the tampering of the earth bag and the piles were fixed, the cannon would almost jump up.
As soon as the sound of cannons passed, the flags in the second row were also sank, and a general shouted in a hoarse voice: Second capital, let it go!
The sound of the gong clangs, boom!Boom... A row of artillery fired again indirectly.
Up and down the city walls in the distance, earth and rocks splashed, and dust rose, and were subjected to intensive artillery attacks by Zhou army in batches.
Guo Shao immediately looked at the rear hundreds of steps away, and his personal soldiers kept coming back to report the military situation.
He still didn't say much, but just nodded and responded to the people who came to report.
Wang Pu next to him said: The war will be stalemate.
Guo Shao calmed down and reviewed the chaotic scenes in the camp.
He paid extra attention to the cannon array and could not detect the panic atmosphere.
Now most of the remaining artillery has been concentrated in two siege points... because most of the losses have been lost in the early stage.
There is still some problem with the Dragon Owl Cannon, which is a problem that cannot be tried in the experimental stage.
During the test, the iron ring was added during the test because of the large diameter and thick pipe wall, so the cannon body would not explode, so the direct problem was that the heat dissipation was poor and the lifespan was degraded. In addition, the cast iron material was not strong at this time, and after multiple shellings, the cast iron cannon body cracked and damaged... Before and after the Zhou army besieged the city, more than 300 howling cannons were mobilized in total. More than ten days later, there are only less than 100 left.
Most of the damaged cannons have broken bodies and deflated air, and very few of them have directly exploded.There have been many problems before, such as some stone bombs are not strong enough and explode in the cannon chamber.
There are still dozens of artillery left to concentrate at the offensive point; the continued shelling before the attack is mainly to retest the range and find the data that hit the city wall... elevation angle and loading weight.
...The gaps in the collapsed city walls were filled with dense people in front of them, and the crowds on both sides were opposite in the direction, and the more they were blocked in the middle, the tighter they were; the place was very narrow, so it was difficult to rush forward at this time, even if you really wanted to clear it.
The pretentious shouts of killing, intimidating, and shouting were rumbling, and begging for mercy and begging, but nothing worked.
People were crowded there and could not move forward or backward, and it was difficult to turn around, let alone make any fancy moves.
A soldier from the Northern Han army had no weapons in his hand, and was squeezed in front of Zhou army with empty hands, staring at AhAhAh with wide eyes.
The Zhou army soldiers held a sword and shield, and the shield smashed it around his head, and the sword stabbed his armor desperately, screaming with despair and fear made people's ears hurt.
The Northern Han army died miserably, and they could not run away, and the front was almost unable to survive.
The generals of the Northern Han army who arranged the spearmen in the front made a mistake. At this time, the two sides were close and close, and they were almost at a distance of holding each other. The long spear could not be used, which was equivalent to unarmed facing the Zhou army's melee single sword and hook and hammer; and in the front of the Zhou army was heavy infantry wearing board mail, with better armor protection, which was obviously more resistant than the enemy... In this case, no martial arts were useful. You could just stab the weapon and attack people. At the same time, you could only hold the torso against the enemy's attack!
The Zhou army on the ramp gradually restored order, and a general shouted: Stop!
The soldiers near behind threw the javelins upwards, as if there were reeds flying in the air.
Below the ruins, Zhou army's sharpshooters barely formed a queue.A general shouted: Get ready...
A large number of sharpshooters (archers) picked up bows and took arrows, their faces were nervous and solemn, and they pulled the arrows diagonally upwards. Then they heard: Let... bang!The gong suddenly knocked, and everyone fired arrows one after another.
At this time, people don’t need to aim, just as the direction and angle are roughly correct.
A large number of black arrows flew into the air in a dense manner.
The archers ignored everything. Some people had found the memory of countless volley trainings and were gradually adjusting their breathing rhythm.
This is indeed fighting on the front line of the formation, but people are not fighting with a force. They are like doing a repetitive physical labor. They just need to follow the command of the generals to release their skillful arrow shooting steps. Maintaining physical strength is the most important thing, because pulling a bow requires a lot of strength, and every time you shoot an arrow, it consumes a lot of physical strength.
There were also enemy bows and arrows flying over his head, but the iron helmets of Zhou soldiers had hat brims and leather armor, and their shoulders and chests were plate armor. They had extremely high defenses against projectile bows and arrows that fell mainly by weight, and were difficult to be shot and injured at most.
Without much threat, it will not be possible to add pressure to them!
What is most worrying is the crossbow flying slanted on the city wall, the arrow is as thick as an arm!
It is very heavy and powerful, and can shoot 200 steps. It is not something that armor can resist. No matter whether it is worn or not, it will kill a person at such a close distance. As long as you are hit, you will either die or be injured.
Although the crossbow fires like a bed is very troublesome and requires many people, the arrows are sparse and very slow, and one shot can kill and injure one person... But once there is a threat, it can cause great psychological pressure.
It’s like standing downstairs, with stones occasionally falling off the top, making the crowd feel dangerous and panic and confusion, even if the proportion of casualties and injuries in the crowd is very small.
Fortunately, the Hu Ben Army is an elite, and it shows the organizational strength that the army has in this kind of thing. People are nervously pulling their bows and shooting arrows under screams and death threats.
The Zhou army, which was fighting in a short-term battle on the front line, gained an advantage and continued to move forward, but the speed was very slow!
There are corpses in every inch of the ground, and the blood has wet the soil. People step on the dirt mountain and it is muddy, as if they are trekking in the mud on a rainy day!
At this moment, someone suddenly felt a chill on his body. He looked up and saw that some soldiers from the Northern Han army were pouring the barrels down with wooden barrels containing heavy tinder oil on the edge of Duanhuan, nearly four meters tall!
The Northern Han Army was probably anxious at this time, whether it was hot tin oil, tung oil, or even the air, the smell of sesame oil, and he desperately threw it into the gap.
The soldiers of the Zhou army suddenly realized something, and the crowd began to panic. People forgot to fight and couldn't squeeze out for a while. The people were clamoring and the screams suddenly became louder!
Even the soldiers of the Northern Han army were panicked, and both sides stopped fighting. They were panicked and turbulent there, and many people were squeezed to the ground and trampled like corpses.
A young Zhou soldier opened his eyes wide, looking at the city wall with a hollow look. Tears rolled down, shaking the blood on his rough and uneven face, as if blood and tears were flowing.
At this time, there was no blood ahead, only fear and despair.Someone is shouting: Mom, Mom...
Suddenly, a fire rolled up and down from above and threw it down. Everyone watched the black smoke light drew a wing of black smoke in the air. For a moment, it seemed like a lifetime, and time seemed to have passed through countless years.
boom!All kinds of oils ignite when they catch fire!
The fire was soaring into the sky and the black smoke rolled on the ruins of the valley. The Northern Han army poured too much oil down.
The soldiers on both sides were yelling and struggling loudly in the blood and fire. The fire-burning human figure rolled down from above, and the fire was splattered around like magma.
The ghosts and gods were crying and howling above, it was a terrible sight.
...Guo Shao and others looked at the fire and black smoke in the distance. His hands tightly grasped the hilt of the sword, and his fingers turned white.
A general said in a hurry: The last general thought that the central army must quickly order the front army to retreat.
Wang Zhang, the commander of the Sixth Army, was on the front line!Guo Shao gritted his teeth and said, he remembered this general. He overcame the fatigue of soldiers since the Battle of Qin Feng and successfully marched and set up an ambush overnight.
He was a military general who was experienced in many battles, had a firm perseverance, and could make decisive decisions under any military situation. Guo Shao trusted him.
The responsibilities of each army have been deployed, so that Wang Zhang from the front can be ordered in time.
Sure enough, the tribes in front immediately retreated and whispered flags, and the messenger rushed back on horseback.
Wang Zhang sat on the horse, looked at the situation ahead and said coldly: The first commander immediately withdrew from the battlefield and retreated for repair.The second command advanced to the fifty-step flag.
The military capital's guard immediately made a statement: According to the arrangements of the central army, our troops will set off firecrackers as soon as they retreat. The second command is nearly fifty steps...
snort.Wang Zhang glared at him and said nothing.
The people in front of them retreated in a scattered manner as if they were defeated. In fact, most of them did not directly take over the enemy, but after retreating after a hard battle, it was difficult to avoid chaos.
People were carrying wounded soldiers and running around like refugees.
Wang Zhang personally rode his horse within fifty steps of the city wall. Regardless of the arrows and arrows flying from time to time, he rode his horse in front of a new line of neat people, and the commander came forward.
Wang Zhang said: As soon as the cannon stopped, a short weapon was arranged, and the horse was riding in front; the rest were promoted in an infantry queue.
The commander clasped his fists and said: The last general will get the order!
Wang Zhang looked back at his left and right: Working with his life and serving the country to wrap the body is our destination!If you are afraid of death, you will not join the army.
The soldiers widened their eyes, looked at the fire in front of them, and piles of corpses on the earthen mountain, waiting nervously one by one.
Wang Zhang said again: We have already died tragically, and we are ruthlessly a man if we don’t take revenge!Kill into Jinyang and let those thieves pay their lives!
Everyone immediately shouted: Take revenge!revenge……
After a while, a huge horn blowing came from behind.It seems to be the prelude to some kind of rapid rhythm.
In a short while, a loud bang broke open the sky!
The first row of red flags, more than 400 steps away from the city, leaned forward, and after a moment, boom... The loud thunderous sound made the earth shake, and a row of dazzling flames erupted into the sky, raging into the air, and white smoke rose up.
Round stones flew out quickly into the sky.
The cannon body rushed back violently. If it weren't for the tampering of the earth bag and the piles were fixed, the cannon would almost jump up.
As soon as the sound of cannons passed, the flags in the second row were also sank, and a general shouted in a hoarse voice: Second capital, let it go!
The sound of the gong clangs, boom!Boom... A row of artillery fired again indirectly.
Up and down the city walls in the distance, earth and rocks splashed, and dust rose, and were subjected to intensive artillery attacks by Zhou army in batches.
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