Chapter 657: A Weapon for Defending the City

Originally, I thought that there was no wood and stone, relying on the absolute superiority in numbers, and it was only a matter of time before I climbed the city wall, but the displaced people never expected that the defenders still had a backhand. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

The people pushed a rack and a wheel similar to a well to the city wall, untied the thick hemp rope that was tied to it, and laid down a thick wooden plank a little bigger than the table of the eight immortals.

The homeless people who were climbing the ladder looked at this guy stupidly, they didn't know what it was.

With the shouts of the people in unison, the wheels turned rapidly, and the "Eight Immortals Table" quickly fell and smashed on the heads of the homeless people, and a long line of people on the ladder were thrown down and fell to the ground, and many people's skulls were cracked, and brains came out -- it turned out that under this "Eight Immortals Table" there were hundreds of thick iron nails inserted upside down, and a steel knife was embedded in each of the four corners.

Even if a table is smashed down, its weight and acceleration are unbearable for flesh and blood, not to mention the "vicious" iron nails and steel knives?

Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong of the Chinese army saw it and were taken aback, the defenders still have this thing?

Zhang Xianzhong scolded: "Thief, your mother, what are these melon skins going on?" "He was very depressed, the people who attacked the West Gate were all his own people, and he finally used his life to consume the other party's sassal wood and other city defense equipment, but he didn't expect a big killer to come out, can he still play happily?

Gao Yingxiang was well-informed, he frowned and said, "This is a wolf tooth shot, I didn't expect to meet it here." ”

The wolf tooth paddle is a kind of city guarding equipment, which appeared as early as the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and there was no major change in the shape until the end of the Ming Dynasty. The principle is very simple, that is, it is the same as the shelf and reel used for drilling well water, but the end of the rope is not tied to a wooden barrel, but a wooden board covered with iron nails, which is usually fixed with a rope, and when you want to use it, you will release the rope and put down the wolf's tooth swatter. After the advent of artillery, this ancient weapon of defending the city slowly withdrew from the mainstream stage. However, Hezhou City has been peaceful for a long time, the armament is relaxed, and there are not a few Fulong cannons, not to mention the Hongyi cannon, which is only available in border towns such as Jingshi and Liaodong.

After being ordered to take over the city defense command of Hezhou City, Su Thick Legs led people to turn the arsenal upside down, and none of the cannons were found, not even the fierce fire oil, but a lot of sassags, sassers, and twenty or thirty wolf teeth were found. I had no choice but to put all these guys to use, but I didn't expect the effect to be very good.

However, the wolf's tooth slap also has weaknesses, the weight of the shelf, the wheel, and the wooden slap are not light, and it is inconvenient to move, and the target at the head of the city is very large, easy to be attacked, and if the enemy attacks with artillery or rockets, it is easy to destroy. Therefore, Su Thick Leg waited until the enemy's archers retreated before sacrificing this big killing weapon.

Zhang Xianzhong asked: "Is there a way to crack this wolf tooth shot?" ”

Gao Yingxiang shook his head: "It will really be impossible to crack for a while and a half, if only we had a cannon, the wooden frame of the wolf's teeth is so high, and if you hit it with more than a dozen cannons, you can always hit the ......."

Zhang Xianzhong said anxiously: "But where did we get the cannon?" ”

The capital on which the exiled army relied to settle down is the word "flow", there is no fixed territory, it is erratic, and it is unpredictable to fight thousands of miles, so that the officers and soldiers cannot grasp the movement, if every time there is a war, they will be hard to meet and carry the officers and soldiers, whether it is King Chuang, the Eight Kings or Cao Cao, the grave grass is three feet high. In this kind of combat mode, even if the cannon is captured, it is impossible to slow down yourself with this bulky cannon.

Gao Yingxiang snorted: "What are you panicking about?" At best, there are only about 20 wolf fangs, and they are inconvenient to move, so if they can guard the west gate, they can't take care of the north gate and the south gate, and our people can change places to attack! ”

Zhang Xianzhong was overjoyed: "There is still a way to 'break the king', this thing is a dead thing, we are big living people, it doesn't move, we move." ”

The two discussed it and decided to change the direction of the main attack to the north gate. After the orders were lowered to the leaders of the siege troops in front, the displaced people were eager to stay away from this guy full of iron nails, and hurriedly retreated. As soon as the flow of siege people retreated, the pressure on Ximen was immediately relieved.

Su Bushy Legs on the city wall observed this sign, and keenly judged that the Liukou would either give up the siege or shift the direction of the main attack. Tens of thousands of rogues are coming, and it is impossible to stop when they encounter a little setback, and they must change places to attack.

He instructed left and right: "Send a few people to the north gate and the south gate, and once you find out where the rogue has increased his troops, go over to support." ”

Zhu Dadian walked down from the city tower and asked, "Chutu, the thieves are going to change the direction of the siege, right?" ”

Su replied: "The subordinate also thinks so, and has already sent people to the north gate and the south gate to keep an eye on it." ”

Zhu Dadian smiled and stroked his beard and said: "The siege of the city pays attention to one blow, if you change the strategy temporarily, half of the anger will be discharged, and then it will decline, and then it will be exhausted." No matter how many thieves there are, they have lost their momentum, and they have already lost this battle. ”

Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong didn't know Zhu Dadian's remarks, they were not a regular army, they were just a group of outcasts who had no political demands, and they didn't pay attention to the regular army.

The crowd of black pressure ran from the west gate to the north gate, and there was no virtual and real routine, and there was no need for special people to stare at it, and the blind could see that the rogue was going to focus on the north gate. Su Thick Legs didn't believe that Liukou could play the trick of feints to attack the north gate and attack the south gate, the distance between the two gates was more than ten miles around the city wall, and he couldn't fly over with his wings, so he directly took the recruits of the standard battalion to reinforce the north gate.

Because it was judged that the main attack direction of the Liukou was at the west gate, most of the equipment defending the city was concentrated at the west gate, and there were not many guys at the north gate.

Zhu Dadian's judgment was right, from the west gate to the north gate, the displaced people consumed a lot of physical strength, and the spirit of the initial siege was gone, and when attacking, it was a bit of a feeling of coping with errands.

The siege entered a mechanical war of attrition, and the attacking and defending sides had no other fancy tactics, one desperately climbed up, and the other desperately stopped. There were more and more corpses under the city, the moat was gradually dyed red, and the casualties on the walls were increasing. After all, the defenders were too few in number, and slowly a few outcasts approached the wall.

Seeing that the momentum was not good, Su Thick Leg shouted: "Brother of the standard camp, get on the bayonet, follow me!" ”

The recruits of this patrol standard battalion are completely built according to the army of the Qiong Navy, not only the combat method is the same, but even the weapons are produced by the Lingao Arsenal. Hearing the order, all the recruits loaded their bayonets, held their guns tightly, and nervously waited for the moment of hand-to-hand combat.