Even if the momentum of the attack is damaged now, and the casualties have exceeded previous expectations, but one thing is certain, that is, the guard strength of Miaojiazhuang is very small, if there are 300 or even 400 heavy infantry on the head of the city, the result will be completely different, and now, there is still a chance.

Most of the hoplites had already begun to climb to the halfway point, and some of them were already about to touch the city, in Wei Gui's opinion, as long as they waited a little time, when there were enough soldiers climbing to the top of the city, this seemingly well-defended fortress would be captured.

If they were not facing 800 regimental training, but 800 soldiers who had been strictly trained and had a full set of forbidden army equipment, even if they could take it down, they would need to pay more than half of the casualties, not the current one, with no more than a thousand casualties.

Wei Gui's heart was full of expectations, he didn't know that just when he was full of expectations, an unprecedented weapon above had begun to show its edge in the Northern Song Dynasty.

70 ladders, each ladder above, will climb up more than ten, plus the bottom of the gathering, under the entire fortress, at least three or four thousand people gathered, they are wearing step armor, in this era, the era of cold weapons, except for a few weapons such as bed crossbows, there are not many other people who can pose a threat to the foot armor.

"Let's get started!" Sun Ji said slowly, and another 50 heavy armored infantry rushed up, and the personnel who burst in joined in, which surprised Wei Gui, and after seeing the number of personnel, he was completely relieved, this is probably the last strength they left, counting the longbowmen, these heavy armored infantry, maybe there are two or three hundred regimental training, but those are not useful in the war at all.

"What is this?" Wang Xiansong said with some consternation, the heavy infantry who joined the camp later did not help the previous infantry, but with the help of the previous soldiers, they took out a two or three meter long tree trunk.

Mustache? On the city wall, through the height of the smash down anything, there is a certain lethality, the sassal wood is the best of them, when a huge sassal wood, smashed down from the top of the ladder, I am afraid that your people on the ladder are very uncomfortable.

The soldiers who bore the brunt of the attack, with a miserable face, he could only cheer himself up in his heart and rush forward, if they could rush to the top of the city in a short time, crossing the distance of the ladder.

But it seems that the way to open it is wrong, under the worry of Wei Gui and Wang Xiansong, the other party did not roll the sassaga downward, but aimed the sassanine wood vertically below.

These soldiers are confused, right? It's hard to be like a spear, and there are penetrating wounds, but that thick body, it's hard to be held and wielded by a strong man, no matter how you look at it, you can't see what strong men are in these group exercises!

I can't think about it, whether these soldiers are wrong or not, maybe they are really novices, they took the wrong wood, this time is very critical, one by one, the rebels began to rush forward frantically, the speed was much faster than before, and when he saw that the city was in front of him, he seemed to see a puff of smoke.

That's right, the tree cannon that has already been loaded, the moment it is taken out, the fuse is ignited, after the tree cannon hunting suit, the most important thing for these infantry is to practice, anyway, this is not difficult, just fill the powder bag, and then light the fuse, just like the Chinese New Year, firecrackers and fireworks are as simple.

The fuse burned rapidly, the tree cannon at this time was used in actual combat, and the time for the fuse to burn was much less than when it was verified before, probably within 10 breaths, and the fastest infantry seemed to see the city, and the city head was as close as a stone's throw, as if adding a little more strength, a little effort, and a few breaths to be able to cross.

It's a pity that he will never have this time, he only heard a light sound for a lifetime, the trunk itself has the effect of absorbing sound waves, plus the amount of gunpowder is not very large, after the instant detonation, the gas pushes the steel ball, and begins to show a fan-covered attack, the range is only about one meter, but it penetrates all the way down, and the speed is extremely fast.

Buren armor is the strongest armor in this era, on the battlefield, there are few weapons that can threaten him, even if it is an armor-piercing bow, after all, there is a limit to manpower, even if Sun Ji is holding a 10-stone bow, only in the near distance, looking for some weak links, can break through the Buren armor.

But thermal weapons are different, even if this is black powder, even if this is the most rudimentary tree cannon, but the tree cannon already has some characteristics of artillery, 3 kilograms of medicine pack, enough to push about 4 taels of steel balls, close to the muzzle velocity of artillery in the middle of the 18th century, such muzzle velocity and kinetic energy, is no longer able to resist by manpower.

A puff of smoke rose up, heavy at the front, this famous strong man of the Yunyi Army, the strongest warrior, and the most experienced, once went to the Liao State to fight against the grass valley, and also killed two Liao knights, suddenly felt his body fly, severe pain came, he was surprised to find that the thick step armor could not protect his safety at all, the chest was penetrated, there seemed to be something, through the body.

The steel balls sprayed out by the tree cannon do not penetrate only one person, as many as 20 steel balls, driven by the chemical energy of gunpowder, move forward quickly at a speed exceeding the speed of sound, and the strong kinetic energy does not stop because of a step man armor and a body, and the dense cloud ladder is the place where the tree cannon exerts the greatest power, and the strong kinetic energy makes the cannonballs of the tree cannon penetrate at least five or six people, which finally loses the kinetic energy.

But five or six, which is amazing enough, the power of the thermal weapon is undoubtedly displayed at this moment, and at the same time there are as many as 40 tree cannons, at least more than 40 cloud ladders have been cleared, even if there are left, they dare not go any further, because the forerunners have already used their lives and blood to tell them how terrible it is.

This? Wei Gui looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, he couldn't believe it, because seeing that the soldier who was about to reach the top actually killed and injured so many people at once, what was that tree trunk and why was it so powerful.

Also surprised was Wang Xiansong, 8,000 steps of human armor, also through his hands, which was successfully transferred to Baozhou, which went through how many links, many times almost went wrong, and finally replenished the hands of the rebels.

These foot armor is not shoddy, all of them are first-class products of the forbidden army, except for the bed crossbow, or the kind of heavy bed crossbow with more than 3 bull crossbows and 5 ox crossbows, there is nothing to threaten him, even if it is a catapult, only the one that throws boulders, relying on weight and hardness, threatens him, and now it is killed by a section of tree trunk, which is too incredible?

However, Wei Gui still has expectations, only more than 40 cloud ladders have been cleaned up, and other cloud ladders are still rising, although they are fast, they have been cleaned up, but the rest, at most, can climb up in a while.

This thing must be similar to a bow and arrow and a bed crossbow, it is long-range, and it is not convenient to reload, otherwise, why didn't you take it out just now, and you have to wait until now to take it out!

Wei Gui guessed very accurately, the reloading of the tree cannon is not easy, with the current efficiency, to complete a reload, it takes at least 30 breaths of time, this is still the loading of three or four people, because it takes time for the gunpowder to burn and clean the gun chamber, if the cannon chamber is not cleaned up, the slightest flame is enough to ignite the medicine bag, which is not what they want to see.

However, they prepared enough tree cannons, a total of 120 cannons, that is, 40 at a time, which can be fired three times in a row.

As for how long it will take to fill after three times, the people above don't care at all, 120 doors, each door has 20 steel balls, which is almost 2400 steel balls, and in the end in a small range, how much damage will be caused.

Just clean up the killing of the ladder, only a part, three or four steel balls, enough to clean up the people on the ladder, fan-shaped downward steel balls, even if 100 meters away, still have huge lethality, rushed into the dense crowd, the lethality is very considerable, this is another 40 rounds, only a small part of them is used to clean the ladder, the rest, just run to the crowd, the most dense place.

Lines of green smoke, a muffled sound that is not too high, but like death, harvesting human lives.

Even Sun Ji didn't expect that the effect of this tree cannon would be so good, even the last 40 tree cannons were not used, and it had already produced huge damage, when there was no one on the ladder, and even the corpses below were scattered, the rebels finally collapsed.

Some of the rebels didn't even bother to take the ladders, only about 30 of them were taken away, and the rest stayed where they were.

Looking at the rebels who were running for their lives, Sun Ji did not pursue, the range of the tree cannon was a little too close, and the pursuit effect was not good, but there were still a few soldiers who took out the largest tree cannon.

In the training before, the effect of this big tree cannon is much more powerful than that of the small one, and the most important thing is that he is a range attack, looking at the rebels who are gathered in a group and are running towards Miaojiazhuang, they can hit a group of people without aiming, and they also boldly started a test firing.

The big tree cannon, using shells, is dozens of times the steel ball, reaching about 20 catties, the caliber is about 190 mm, and the loading is enough, almost 10 times that of the small tree cannon, 30 catties of black powder, the driving force brought by it, it can be said that it is extremely powerful.

When the fuse was lit, everyone covered their ears, no way, the sound was a little too loud.

There was a loud bang, as if it was thunder, even if Wei Gui was 500 meters away, he was startled, like thunder, what kind of sound is this.

Wei Gui and Wang Xiansong saw a scene that he would never forget for the rest of his life, a huge tree cannon three or four times larger than a small tree cannon, the muzzle of the cannon emitted a red light, and a black shadow flew out of the muzzle, with an astonishing speed, pounced on the fleeing rebels, and then swept through the crowd with a sweeping momentum, and everywhere it passed, it was a mess.