Chapter 584: Collapse with a bang
Liu Meng and Liu Jiao thought so, after all, these stone bullets looked very fine, the size was comparable, and they showed a perfect spherical shape, if it were not for a skilled stonemason, it would indeed be difficult to make them.
Liu Meng, who is such a sophisticated stone bullet, doesn't believe that the Wei army can have much inventory, today's thunder is a bit loud, and tomorrow the Wei army will presumably change the way of attacking.
Liu Meng looked at the city wall, how could such a dilapidated city wall withstand the attack of the Wei army, so he ordered the Huns to come and repair it overnight.
Torches illuminated the city above and below, and the Huns continued to transport wood and stone materials for repairing the city to repair the city walls.
Although it is impossible to repair the city wall overnight, it is finally possible to plug the holes and strengthen the places that are about to collapse, and on the whole, it can be regarded as something like that.
After dawn the next day, the Wei army reappeared under the city, and the formation was still the same.
Cao Liang looked at it from afar, and the disfigured city wall that was destroyed by catapults yesterday had also been restored a lot, and it seemed that the Huns had not rested this night. Cao Liang smiled, see if you repair fast or I destroy it quickly, he ordered that yesterday's attack formation was still discharged, and all the battalions were not moving, only the catapult was at the front.
It was another round of stormy stone bomb attacks, the Huns fled from the city with a lot of urine, and the strength of the stone bullet attack of the Wei army was not weaker than yesterday, staying in the city, always worrying about their lives.
The facilities on the head of the city were almost destroyed, and even the wet cowhides of the Huns to defend against stone bullets had long been destroyed under the saturation attack of the catapults, and most of the Huns had withdrawn from the city, and it would be pointless if the catapults continued to attack the city.
So Cao Liang ordered the catapults to be divided into two groups, one group stayed in place, adjusted the angle of attack, and bombarded the city wall with all their might, while the other group advanced fifty steps forward, threw stone projectiles into the city, and attacked the buildings in the city and the Huns hiding under the city walls.
Each stone bullet seems to have a thousand powers, smashed on the city wall and roared, not long after, the Huns worked hard all night to destroy the fruits of their labor, the stone bullets continued to smash on the rammed earth city wall, smashed out one after another big pits.
The stone bullets thrown into the city set off a greater panic among the Huns, and wherever the stone bullets went, the walls collapsed and the houses collapsed, and they hit the people, and the flesh and blood were blurred.
The Hun soldiers originally withdrew from the city and assembled not far from the city wall to facilitate the second landing of the city, but the place where the stone bullet fell was just above their heads, and these Hun soldiers were smashed into a mess, and had to flee farther to the center of the city.
Far away from the city wall, this produced a huge drawback, that is, if the Wei army suddenly launched an infantry attack, it would be difficult for the Xiongnu defenders to quickly arrive, and there would inevitably be a big hole in the defense of the city.
Liu Meng looked at it, this is not good, if it is guarded like this, the Hun army has no other way than to be beaten passively.
If you want to stop the Wei army's attack, you must destroy these catapults.
Ordinary trebuchet, the damage rate is quite high, after a day of continuous attack, can have about seventy percent intact, it is quite good, if the continuous attack to two or three days, I am afraid that even half of the can not be used, such an attack power, naturally is greatly reduced.
The catapult built by Cao Liang is not only huge in size, but also extremely solid in structure, and after two consecutive days of attack, fifty catapults were intact, which cannot be said to be a miracle.
Liu Meng couldn't hold it back, he had fought a lot of battles, and he had never seen such a fight before, and the two armies didn't look at each other, and it was directly a catapult bombardment indiscriminately, who could stand this Nima, no, he couldn't let the Wei army attack so unscrupulously again.
Liu Meng immediately gathered two thousand elite cavalry, slammed open the city gates, and rushed towards the Wei army's catapult position.
Sending such a death squad out, the purpose is to destroy the Wei army's catapults, Liu Meng does not seek to win a big victory, as long as he can destroy about half of the Wei army's catapults, then the pressure on the Hun army will be reduced a lot.
The speed of the Hun cavalry was very fast, and they opened the city gate very suddenly, and before the Wei army could understand it, they had already rushed to the front.
However, the catapult is Cao Liang's baby bump, and how could the Huns be allowed to destroy it easily, so in front of the catapult, Cao Liang arranged a lot of defensive means, such as a team of crossbowmen and invisible rejection horses.
These invisible horses are laid flat on the ground and buried with loess and branches, and if you don't look closely, you can't find them at all. These horses were tied with ropes, and the soldiers who were in ambush behind were waiting with all their attention, waiting until the Hun cavalry rushed closer, and then suddenly pulled up the horses, so that the Hun cavalry was caught off guard and would hit the horses.
Just when the Huns thought they were about to succeed, the dust was flying in front of them, and suddenly a row of horse repelling rifles composed of spikes appeared, and the sharp tips of the spears easily pierced the body of the war horse and threw the Hun cavalry on horseback.
Some of the Huns hung directly on the horses, and the spikes pierced out of the abdomen, and some rolled to the ground, and the Wei soldiers who were ambushed behind raised their knives and cut off the heads of the Huns like cutting watermelons.
The rows of rejecting rifles held back the offensive momentum of the Hun cavalry, and it was difficult for them to rush to the catapults without removing them.
But before the Huns stepped forward to move the horses, the crossbowmen who were ambushed behind had already shot, and the dense rain of arrows covered the entire battlefield in an instant, and the Huns suffered heavy casualties, and finally they could only throw down the corpses all over the ground and retreat back to the city in embarrassment.
After the failure of this counterattack, the situation of the Huns became very difficult, and the city walls, which had been painstakingly repaired at night, were soon destroyed by the Wei army's catapults during the day.
The stone bullets of the Wei army were fired continuously, as if they were endless, and the continuous attacks made the Huns shudder, and they did not know how long the walls of Jiuyuan City could hold out under this fierce attack.
Sure enough, after five days of continuous attack, on the sixth day, the devastated southern wall could no longer hold on, and a stone bullet hit the foundation part of the wall, and after the wall staggered for half a moment, it finally collapsed and turned into a pile of ruins.