Chapter 929: The Battle of Jiexiu (II)
Although the two sides are now gathering heavy troops to fight for the city wall, and the attention of the Bingzhou army is almost on the side of the city wall, but once the siege vehicle is dispatched, it is too difficult not to attract the attention of the Bingzhou army, after all, as soon as this behemoth as high as several zhang appears, there is a feeling of standing out from the crowd, unless the Bingzhou army is blind, it will not be able to see.
Sure enough, as soon as the five siege vehicles appeared on the battlefield, the catapults, which had been silent, suddenly threw stone projectiles like a frenzy.
Although Yanghu focused on the city wall, he never ignored the movement of Sima Jun in the distance, and at this moment his position was condescending, he only needed to glance at it from the corner of his eye, he could see it clearly, and he really didn't delay things.
Sima Jun's siege was blocked, and he should have a new move, and sure enough, as soon as Yanghu had such an idea, Sima Jun's siege vehicle was dispatched.
"Aim at those rushing cars and hit me hard!" Yanghu pointed to the siege lane that was slowly advancing in the distance.
After the two sides fell into a close fight, the catapults were relatively silent, and the catapults became a little idle, when an order from Yanghu came, and the pitchers immediately became excited, and the cannon began to attack the siege engine.
The target of the siege vehicle is very large, larger than the catapult destroyed earlier, and it is relatively easy for the state army to hit this kind of large target.
The only thing that makes people feel inconvenient is that the siege vehicle is not a fixed target, it is constantly moving, although it does not move as fast as the chariot, but the catapult is a weak point in attacking moving targets, and it is necessary to concentrate and predict its path before it can be hit.
Dozens of catapults gathered fire at the same time and launched an attack on the five siege vehicles, and one after another stone bullets flew whistling over the city wall and smashed towards the position of Sima Jun.
Of course, Chen Qian did not dare to put all the five siege vehicles together, although they set off at the same time, the five vehicles were not on the same level, but they were stretched as far as possible from the front and back, and the left and right sides were stretched as far as possible, and they used a roundabout way to advance, deliberately not taking a straight line, so as to prevent being locked by the catapults.
The stone projectile swept through the air, drawing a parabola, which was quite powerful in the process of falling, even if it was smashed into the open ground, it could also smash a large hole.
A lot of stone bullets fell on the siege vehicle, and when they landed, it was very worrying, but at such a long distance and the siege vehicle was constantly moving, so it was not too easy for the catapult to hit it.
On the contrary, the Sima soldiers who followed the siege vehicle on the left and right suffered from it, their area was relatively large, and if they couldn't hit the catapult and fell, it was easy to hit these soldiers, even if the stone projectile landed and bounced up and rolled, the secondary damage caused was not something that the flesh and blood could bear.
However, Chen Qian and Sima Shi did not pay attention to the casualties of these soldiers, they only focused on the siege vehicles, and the slow movement of the siege vehicles made them very worried, but they did not know whether these siege vehicles could safely pass through the coverage area of the catapults.
"Click", a stone bullet fell from the sky, impartially hit a siege vehicle, which was also the first of the five destroyed siege vehicle, the head of the stone bullet directly from the roof of the car to the bottom of the car, the siege vehicle burst violently, the soldiers hiding in the car were not spared, either killed by the stone bullet, or swept to death by the flying wooden blocks, the entire siege vehicle turned into a pile of waste wood in an instant.
Chen Qian and Sima Shi's faces suddenly became solemn, it seems that these catapults of the state army are really accurate, with such a powerful hit rate, I don't know if the other four siege vehicles have any hope of breaking through their blockade.
After the destruction of the first siege engine, Sima Jun became visibly nervous, and they pushed the siege vehicle forward with all their might, hoping to rush down the city as quickly as possible to avoid the catapult attack.
The Bingzhou army also significantly accelerated the pace of the attack, equipped with catapults and chain catapults to attack at the same time, and even the ballista vehicles joined the attack, although the ballista could not destroy the siege vehicle even if it was shot, but it could still play a certain role in delaying the advance of the siege vehicle.
Two more siege vehicles were hit by stone bullets and turned into two piles of waste firewood, and the situation suddenly became grim, and the hearts of Sima Jun's people watching the battle were all in their throats, and they all pinched a handful of cold sweat, and all their hopes were pinned on the last two remaining surrender vehicles. 、
At this moment, the stone bombs have become more dense, and the catapults that were originally scattered to attack the five siege vehicles are now all concentrated on these two vehicles, so you can imagine how much pressure these two siege vehicles are under.
Luckily, they were now close to the edge of the catapult's range, and they only needed a little more effort to get into the catapult's attack corner.
However, the catapults of the Bingzhou army also entered a crazy attack mode, and one after another stone bullets whistled, and some even fell down after grazing the body, and people couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
The fourth siege vehicle was also attacked, and two stone projectiles hit it at the same time, completely shattering the dump vehicle to slag.
However, the last siege vehicle managed to advance to the area that the catapult could not cover, although it was hit three times by the ballista, and three long crossbow arrows were stuck straight into the body, causing some damage to the body of the car, but it was not hit by any stone bullets, and finally reached the city of Jiexiu without danger.
One of the five siege vehicles can escape from the rain of stone bullets from the Bingzhou army, and the chance of survival is indeed lower, but it is already extremely lucky that the whole army is not destroyed, anyway, attacking the city gate, only one siege vehicle is enough.
The only remaining siege vehicle drove all the way in, and the surrounding Sima army gave way to it, and after reaching the position of the city gate, the siege vehicle did not make the slightest pause, and directly crossed the moat that had just been filled with sandbags, and rushed towards the gate of Jiexiu City.
The attack on the other side of the city wall could not open the situation, and now Chen Qian and Sima Shi have pinned all their hopes on this only remaining siege vehicle, and they hope that they can rely on the strong impact of this siege vehicle to break through the south gate of Jiexiu City, so that Sima Jun can enter Jiexiu City through the city gate and take the city. Baidu: Read the latest chapter of "The Last Three Kingdoms 2 Xingwei Jiezhong Literature" for free for the first time.