What a tough bone to gnaw.

Why did the Qin army maintain such a dense rain of arrows under the blow of two hundred catapults? The Qin army on the city does not seem to have been suppressed at all, and the strangest thing is that there are still some reasons why the Qin army's Longwu Thunderbolt Fierce Fire General Cannon returned fire less, but according to common sense, in such a fierce siege battle, the attack of the flying thunder cannon on the head of the Qin army seems to be more effective. The Flying Thunder Cannon is a miniature version of the Great General Cannon, which can throw a 20-pound bomb package 100 paces away, with a bomb volume of one-fifteenth of the General Cannon, and a range of one-sixth of the General Cannon.

However, this kind of flying thunder cannon is small and flexible, but it is only twenty or thirty pounds of steel cylinders, and it can be carried casually. Moreover, it is fast to reload and fire, with the ability to continuously fire, at least twenty explosive packs can be projected in an hour, if the Qin army lined up their flying thunder cannons, the fierce firepower can instantly empty all the siege soldiers and horses.

But in fact, although the Qin army has been using flying thunder cannons to assist in defending the city, according to his observations, the Qin army's flying thunder cannons, while maintaining the attack, do not exceed ten. It seems that the Qin army has set a limit, and the maximum is not more than ten flying thunder cannons to shoot.

According to the hardships he has endured in the past few days, he is relatively clear about these Qin army equipment in the city. This kind of flying thunder cannon is actually the best weapon to deal with the ant siege city, a large piece of killing, especially with the kind of scattered bullet bag, the gunpowder in it is mixed with iron nails and broken porcelain, the power is extremely fierce, although this kind of cannonball directly kills a small number, but the disabling effect is very good. On such a battlefield, a wounded soldier is sometimes equivalent to a dead man.

And the heavy crossbows on their heads. But it is definitely the most effective weapon to destroy their catapult array. Their 200 catapults were all small catapults. The range was actually far below that of the Qin army. Although Jerushrus built a short-walled shield in front of the catapult array. and immediately move after a burst of bombardment. But each time he projected, the position was still exposed, and in order to maintain the artillery position, Jerushlu had to set up an infantry shield array in front of his three artillery arrays that often changed positions.

If the Qin army in the city returned fire with their throwing artillery and heavy crossbows, and focused on bombarding their artillery arrays, it would cause heavy losses to the coalition forces. What could it be that the Qin army just bombarded with a few giant cannons, but never used their catapults and ballista arrays?

Could it be that the Qin army is deliberately preserving its strength? Or do they have cannons, and thunder cannons, and eight-ox crossbows, but they don't have enough ordinary catapults and heavy crossbows?

Jerusher's eyes narrowed into a slit.

"There's something strange here!" Jerushruh turned his head to Jerugungu and said.

Deputy Marshal Yelu Ganggu only nodded, but did not speak. Seeing this, Yelu Shilu's brows furrowed even tighter, and the meaning of the ancient man was very clear, and he had the same doubts as him.

"I heard that the Qin army was very good at building cities, and they built a large number of castles in Liaodong, most of which were prismatic and multi-sided walls. This allows defenders to defend against more enemies in smaller numbers. Let the besieging side be hit from many sides at the same time, and the undulating walls of the ridged tombs make their firepower cover completely without dead ends. It is said that it is possible to attack seven times with one defense, and hold on to the enemy's strong attack for at least seven months. Yelu Shilu thoughtfully said some of the information he had gathered these days, "It is said that the city of the Qin people will deliberately tilt inward at some angles. ”

"For what?"

Yelu Shilu beckoned, and took a shield from the hand of the guard behind him, it was a steel shield, a standard Qin army knight's shield, round, not big, and there was a tiger head pattern on it, the most important thing is that the shield surface is not flat, but a conical cone, and it is not cone-shaped, but divided into eighteen uneven faces.

"See this shield? The eighteen sides of this shield, as well as this cone, are not only beautiful. In fact, the biggest advantage of this shield is the protection against arrows. I've tried, and when an arrow is shot at this kind of shield, there is a good chance that because of this angle and edge on the shield, it can remove most of the force, causing the arrow to slide away. Even our strongest warriors, with the best bows, would have at most half the chance of being nailed into the shield. The Qin city was designed at an inclined angle, which had the same effect as this shield, but it was specially designed to prevent the bombardment of stone projectiles, and I heard that the walls and walls of the mausoleum-shaped city walls of the Qin army in Liaodong were tilted. This Datong wall is very correct, and there is no mausoleum-shaped wall, but I guess they may have modified the city face to an inclined angle, after all, it is not difficult. When defending the city, as long as their soldiers are defending against the battlements, our stone bullets pose very little threat to them. After all, it's good to have three out of ten stone bullets thrown into the city, and if their city really has a certain inclination, then these three stone bullets can achieve even less effect. ”

Gonggu is just a warrior of the Diera Division, but he doesn't understand these things like civil engineering, and Yelu Shilu said for a long time, and he only understands a little. But it would be too much to rely on him to come up with a solution.

"Bang!"

A long stack of arrows hit the birch cowhide shield of Yelu Abaoji, and the person who shot the arrow was obviously also a person with great strength, and the tail of the arrow still shook after the arrow was inserted into the shield, which was even more shocking Abaoji's hand was sore. At this time, he didn't know who shot this arrow, and the soldiers hiding in the rushing car covered with thick sand and raw cowhide had already covered the tribal warriors through the defensive formations such as ditches, pits, and sharp piles outside the city that had been filled with countless lives in the past few days, and rushed to the bottom of the city, and the soldiers carried the ladder out of the rushing car and leaned against the city wall of Datong. The ladder rose one by one and went directly to the female wall of the urn city.

"Kill!"

"Rush!"

The war drums behind him became more and more urgent, and several officers of Abaoji's guard pro-military camp each held a shield, a knife in their mouths, and their eyes were very wide, jumping on the ladder and climbing towards Yunzhou City, and a team of warriors behind them also followed.

Yelu Abaoji clenched his fist and punched him hard in the chest, let out a loud roar, and rushed forward with his shield raised. As soon as he stepped up, the warriors of the various tribes guarding the pro-military camp behind him also rushed up one after another.

At this time, on the walls of Yunzhou City, there were rising ladders everywhere, rows of black, gray and white leather robes, as well as Suozi armor, iron armor, and even the half-body armor that had just been peeled off from the corpse of the Qin army, and the tribal warriors of the steel plate armor, holding shields, like a huge ant colony, were heading towards the ants of Yunzhou City.

At the same time, the three coalition catapult clusters that had once again shifted their positions again simultaneously launched a long-range stone bomb covering suppression on the city.

Under the command of the banner soldiers on the cloud cart not far away, the two hundred catapults of the Hu people threw stone bullets at the city of Yunzhou like crazy, and did not hesitate to expose their positions and attract the danger of heavy artillery bombardment by the Qin army. Moreover, Yelu Shilu also gathered as many as 30,000 Hu people to form a dense phalanx of bows and arrows, frantically advanced to within 60 steps of the city, regardless of casualties, launched an upward shot at the city, and suppressed the city head with a rain of arrows.

Tens of thousands of Hu horsemen dismounted and gathered in formation, shooting bows and arrows from the sky at the Qin army at the head of the city.

Immediately after, hundreds of rushing cars, building cars, cloud cars, and arrow tower cars sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, suddenly emerging from the rear and moving wildly on the battlefield. On these various building carts, which are taller than Yunzhou City, each of them carries dozens of warriors, and on the tall arrow tower carts, there are rows of crossbowmen standing, and Yelu Shilu gathered all the crossbowmen.

This was a thunderous blow that Yelu Shilu had planned for a long time, concentrating on building many chariots, and then suddenly erupted at this time, intending to use these chariot equipment and sergeants to break through the defense of the Yunzhou city wall in one fell swoop.

The head of Yunzhou City is getting closer and closer.

"Hu Lu is going to die!" On the city tower, General Song Xi spat out thick phlegm and scolded. He turned to look at his clan brother Song Jirong and other generals, and said in a deep voice: "Hu Gou doesn't care about casualties, if you want to break through in one fell swoop, we have to come up with real guys." ”

Song Jirong, the chief general of Yunzhou, was once the envoy of Song Wei in the Ziqing Festival, and he was not only Song Wei's nephew, but also a general from the Shence Army who had followed him for many years. After the death of Song Wei, when Li Jing conquered the Liaodong Peninsula and became the king of Andong County, he joined Cui Yunqing and others under Li Jing's command. In the past few years, he has been holding military positions in various provinces, and his grade is not low, but he has never had any real power and has not been able to enter Li Jing's inner circle. This time, Zhang Zimian went west, and he took the initiative to ask for help. Li Jing agreed to his request to fight, but after arriving in Daibei, Zhang Zimian sent Song Jirong, Song Xi, Chang Bao, Yang Lin, Liu Heng, Han Zhong, Liu Jian, Xu Cheng, Cui Decheng, who were once Li Jing's bosses, and the former generals under the names of Song Wei and Cui Yunqing to Yunzhou to defend the city, and only brought Li Jing's three protégés to the south.

I think that at the beginning, when Li Jing was just a united soldier, which of them was not a soldier or a general? is like Cui Decheng, who was just a small treasury official under him, and almost killed Li Jing. But when the time comes, now Li Jing has become the most powerful person in the world, and a few of them are almost standing still. Speaking of which, Li Jing is actually not thin on them, and the generals are now either the defense envoys of a state or the governors and commanders of a province. However, if you compare with Liu Xun, Wang Yanzhang and other young people, they seem to be nothing.

However, although there is some loss in my heart, no one has resentment towards Li Jing, at most, I can only feel that I have no chance. (To be continued......)