The attack firepower of the Tibetan army is indeed amazing, and more than 500 siege equipment are used to attack a military camp on flat ground, which is obviously very powerful. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 There were several rows of throwing buildings, and seven or eight rows of catapults in front of them were bombarding indiscriminately in the direction of the front of the Tang army camp within a radius of 100 paces. As small as a fist, as big as a grinding disc like a rain of stones falling down, basically within 100 steps of not wanting to stand people. Six thousand Don soldiers defending in this area were stoned dead and half wounded.

Huge boulders fell, smashing on the hard ground and blooming everywhere, hitting only a few people, but the cracked stones were the biggest threat. The boulders in the sky fell with traces, and they could be deliberately avoided, but these stones were flying around without a trace, and they shattered and blossomed after landing, causing the surrounding soldiers to bleed one by one, and if they were unlucky, they would lose their lives.

However, the threat of Tibetan throwing and catapults was limited to a hundred paces within the camp. In fact, the stones that fell into the farther part of the camp were all thrown from the building, because the range of the throwing could reach up to more than 400 steps. Because of the limited range, those catapults could only be placed at a distance of 200 steps from the front of the Tang army's camp, so the range of attack could only cover about 50 steps deep in the Tang army's camp.

In view of this, the rear of the Tang army camp, which is more than 100 steps deep, is actually very safe. Rocks are flying in front of you, and the skin of the smashed people is open, but here is a busy scene of stability and tension, and there is no need to worry about stones falling from the sky. Thousands of soldiers of the artillery battalion were nailing the behemoth-like Shenwei cannons to the ground under Liu Dehai's loud urging, and dozens of Shenwei cannons were lined up and quickly fixed in place.

"General Liu, the marshal ordered me to come and ask when the Shenwei cannon could be fired." A gallop came at a gallop, and it was Zhao Qing, the commander of Wang Yuan's personal guard battalion.

"Please General Zhao report to the commander, the preparations have been completed, and the attack can be made immediately." Liu Dehai replied sweating profusely. It's not that he doesn't do his best, but the location of the Shenwei cannon needs to depend on the position of the opponent's throwing building, and he can only determine the position after the opponent's throwing is launched. Now the Tanma can't get close to the Tanma, because after the first two hundred steps of the Tang military camp, it is already all under the control of the Tubo people.

Zhao Qing nodded and said, "I'll go to report, and the marshal said that he would personally launch the cannon." ”

Zhao Qing set his horse and galloped away, and soon after, Wang Yuan really came to the place where the Shenwei cannon was standing, Liu Dehai was busy saluting, Wang Yuan urged: "Immediately fire the cannon, what about the thunderbolt?" ”

Liu Dehai hurriedly said: "It's all ready." The thunderbolts are all in place. ”

Wang Yuan nodded, walked quickly to the side of a divine power breaker, glanced at the Tubo position in front of him, and said, "The distance has been estimated?" Isn't there anything wrong? ”

Liu Dehai said: "Don't worry, Dashuai. ”

Wang Yuan waved his hand and said, "Okay, then let them taste our thunderbolts." Come on, wring down the throwing arm, and load the ammunition. ”

More than a dozen gunners were already in place, and when they heard the words of twisting the winch, in the squeaky and squeaking sound, the one end of the throwing arm was twisted and fell, and the other end of the configuration of the thousand pound boulder slowly rose into the air. After the hook and rope were securely attached, the two soldiers had already used a crowbar to pry open the lid of the large wooden box next to it, and inside was a messy pile of yellow grass. Wang Yuan walked over, bent down and reached out and touched his hand among the unkempt yellow grass, and when he pulled out his hand, there was a black and shiny round clay pot in his hand, the size was similar to that of a watermelon, and it was very heavy. This is a thunderbolt.

Wang Yuan cautiously held the thunderbolt to the back of the Shenwei cannon, carefully put the thunderbolt in the throwing basket, and then reached out to take the big wooden hammer handed over by a fierce soldier, walked to the side, picked up the sledgehammer high and made a sound, and the sledgehammer smashed the latch.

The hook hook hooked the latch was loosened at the moment when the latch was repulsed, and the boulder in front fell, driving the rear throwing arm to rise suddenly, and when the boulder fell to the ground with a bang, the throwing arm at that end instantly threw the thunderbolt out.

Everyone looked up at the small orb, and although it was engulfed in darkness for a short time after launch, everyone's eyes subconsciously moved up and down into the distance, as if they could see its trajectory.

"Boom!" After a few breaths, there was a loud bang in the formation of the Tubo army with torches hundreds of paces away, and the silhouette of someone flying into the air in the explosion of firelight, a puff of black smoke rose into the air, like a mushroom suddenly growing out of the opponent's soldiers and horses.

"Oh my God, what's that?" Ge Shuhan asked, dumbfounded.

No one answered him, because all the sounds had been drowned out by the explosions, and after Wang Yuan personally threw the first thunderbolt, dozens of Shenwei cannons opened fire in unison, and dozens of thunderbolts exploded in a linear manner among the Tibetan army. The flames soared into the sky, the explosions roared, and the shock waves and heat waves brought by the explosions overturned the surrounding soldiers and horses. The iron pieces in the thunderbolt, the iron thistle terrestris and other objects flew in all directions, enveloping the entire area within a radius of two zhang.

The place where the thunderbolts fell was not the dense base of the Tubo people, but the place where the Tubo people threw their buildings. Dozens of thunderbolts fell and then exploded at the position where the Tubo Throwing Building was placed, and the explosion took the lives of the soldiers who manipulated the Tubo Throwing Building, and even blew up more than half of the 200 throwing buildings in an instant, turning them into waste wood that was pushed and set on fire.

Almost all the Tibetan soldiers were stunned for a moment, they had never seen such a sudden explosion from the sky, and they couldn't understand what was happening. But before they could figure out what was going on, a violent explosion sounded again, and this time the thunderbolt fell in the dense Tibetan army.

This time the consequences were even more serious, and every thunderbolt that fell would empty the ground within a radius of nearly two feet. The soldiers and horses in this range were blown to the ground, and the sharp iron pieces and thistles and steel balls flew in all directions, hitting the soldiers farther away. These things can penetrate the weak points of the armor, and if they hit the unprotected position directly, they will directly penetrate the flesh, and the lethality is no less than being in the center of the explosion.

"What's going on, what's that?" Enargu watched all this in the open space in the middle of the army, and asked in surprise.

"I don't know, General." The people around him were equally confused.

The sound of "boom boom" explosions was endless, and the army that was arraying in front of it was ready to charge into a sea of fire. At the sound of the explosion, the soldiers scattered and fled, panicking. They had seen it there, and it was beyond their knowledge. On the battlefield, although there are many cruel attack methods, I have not experienced it or at least heard of it, the rain of arrows, the rain of stones, the water attack, the fire attack, at least these are within the scope of cognition. And now they have never seen it, let alone heard of it. The loud sound of the thunderbolt, the scorching and powerful waves of air, the dazzling fire, and the unidentified splashes flying everywhere all constitute a devastating weapon of destruction. This can't be called hot in the full sense of the word, though. Weapons, but even so, are already products beyond this age.

The bombing continued, and one after another thunderbolts fell on the crowd and exploded, killing people more or less is secondary, the key is the panic and deterrence brought by the explosion of this object. Any kind of attack can be dealt with, for example, the rain of arrows can be used to hold up the shield, the stones thrown by the catapult can be used to build fortifications, etc., but the attack of this thunderbolt cannot be resisted, which is the most terrifying.

It was not only the Tubo people who were stunned, but also many people in the Jiannan military camp who were stunned. Ge Shuhan and Li Guangbi both stared at the explosion and flames in the enemy formation in a daze, and even Li Mi and Ge Luofeng, who had already known the name of the thunderbolt but saw the real power of the thunderbolt for the first time, were all pale in shock.

Especially Ge Luofeng, in the battle of Yanghe Bacheng, Wang Yuan used a Shenwei cannon to fire a fireball to burn the whole city, at that time Wang Yuan used a wooden bullet rich in pine resin, which had already destroyed the Yangba City. If you use this kind of thunderbolt in front of you, then even a living person will not be left in the sheep and baa city. Ge Luofeng was stunned, and secretly made up his mind in his heart to get some of this thing, if there was this thing, what tribe in Nanzhao Kingdom would dare to move? Wang Yuan must be unwilling, this matter can only rely on Ah Luo to blow the wind on the pillow. Ah Luo's stomach is not angry, it would be good if Wang Yuan gave birth to a big fat son, and then what he said would be anything.

Ge Shuhan and Li Guangbi were surprised that there was such a powerful long-range firearm in the Jiannan Army. However, this is a configuration that Datang soldiers and horses do not have at all, which is the strange place. It stands to reason that the imperial court should develop such a powerful weapon with all its might, with this powerful thing, are you still afraid of losing the battle in the future? But for some reason, among the soldiers and horses of the entire Tang Dynasty, only Wang Yuan's Jiannan Army had this killing weapon.

But there is no need to ask this question at this time, and I don't have time to think about it now, so I will know if I ask it in detail. The Shenwei cannon and thunderbolt in front of him were so powerful that they were like thunderbolts falling from the sky, and they bombarded the opponent's formation. Now the opponent's throwing of the building is also dumb, and the cavalry and infantry are in a mess, all due to the power of this thing. Ge Shuhan and Li Guangbi didn't expect the battle to develop like this.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!

The explosions came one after another, and the Tibetan people were in a mess. Knowing that this situation could not continue, he had figured out what kind of weapon the Tang army was using. A few months ago, the yak city was captured by Banri, and he led his army to the rescue, but he learned that the city had been broken halfway. Later, the generals who fled to the Yak City under their command said that the Yak City was directly blasted through the thin city wall by the Tang army with a fierce weapon, and then directly attacked the city.

At that time, he never understood what siege equipment in this world could break through the city walls. Although the city wall of Yak City is not very strong, it is a rammed earth bluestone wall as wide as a zhang, and it may not be able to be knocked down by a car for a day, how can it be blown down. At that time, the ancient generals also scolded the people who said this, thinking that they deliberately exaggerated the opponent's ability in order to shirk responsibility. Now it seems that all this is true, and the Jiannan Army does have this kind of killing weapon that can shatter the city wall in his hands.

When he realized this, one of his hearts fell into a cold pool. How could the Jiannan Army, which possessed such a devastating killing weapon, still be able to fight with it, this would be a big problem. Especially now, after the roar of the killing weapon, his plan to force the Tang army out of the camp for a frontal decisive battle has instantly come to naught, what should I do now? Will it just withdraw to the honest turtle in the city, or will it fight to the death? It's a tough choice.