Chapter 924: Thunder Breaks the City
The arrival of the Ming army made Huang Chuanbing cautious about 120,000. That night, he did not go down the city tower, but stayed directly on the city wall, and never closed his eyes all night. When the Ming army first took peace and worked hard, they had a lot of strange plans, and sneak attacks and ambushing and setting up ambush.
But the night was extremely quiet. Not to mention sneak attacks, even a scout had never been discovered.
At dawn, Huang Chuanbing finally couldn't stand the tiredness that was coming like a tide, and curled up in the wool blanket and fell asleep.
The snow stopped, but the wind was still blowing, like a knife. The Ming army had just arrived. In such weather, they were human and not gods. They had to rest for a few days. It was already dawn today. Today, they might not come to attack, right?
I don’t know how long I slept, or just closed my eyes, Huang Chuanbing was awakened by the fierce push of his personal soldiers. He jumped up, and the sound of rumbling footsteps and neat sounds of war drums came to his ears.
He rushed to the city wall and looked into the distance with his eyes wide open.
There is no snow today, and the sight is very good. In the distance, the black tide of war is slowly approaching Lingchuan City, and the Sun and Moon Flags of the Ming Dynasty and the Battle Flag of the Pili Camp are waving in the wind.
The Ming Dynasty army was in front, but the Wu Teng's Xinning Army was behind. Huang Chuanbing took a deep breath and it seemed that the main attacker of the Ming Dynasty army was the one who was in charge today.
"Send the whole army to prepare for battle!" He tried his best to suppress the uneasiness in his heart and issued a stern order. The Ming army clearly had to prepare for a tough attack. But what made him feel strange was that he did not see the army in the distance carrying tall siege vehicles, such as the necessary weapon for siege, and did not even see a ladder.
The enemy is coming with great fanfare. Could it be that it is just a demonstration? Huang Chuanbing doesn't think so.
Standing at the top of the city, he stared at the approaching army. The fear in his heart became more and more. Earlier, the Ming army captured Anju and went to work, and destroyed half of the regular army stationed in Lingchuan County. However, he had not really seen the power of this army. Only today can he see the true appearance. Just looking at the other party's marching posture is enough to shock people.
The troops of twenty-five horizontally and twenty vertically advanced slowly with the sound of drum beats. From when Huang Chuanbing saw them, they had at least advanced about about a little while, but the queue was not bent at all, and they remained straight. Standing at his position, you could see all the soldiers of an army moving their thighs forward, then landing heavily on the ground, and then a thud came, and the whole earth seemed to tremble once. The most shocking thing was that the spear they raised was not moving at all during their journey.
Not all troops with strict military discipline can fight, but all those who can fight are strict and strict military disciplines. Huang Chuanbing himself is also a general who leads troops, so of course he understands this truth.
The Ming army was walking in the front, only a little over a quarter of the Xinning Army of Chu State, but the momentum of the entire marching exceeded that of the Xinning Army following them. At least in Huang Chuan's eyes, the Xinning Army behind them had already walked in a zigzag manner. The officers of the Chu army had to run back and forth on horseback before the queue, shouting loudly and shouting at the soldiers to re-arrange.
With a long horn sound, the Ming army stopped. Then, with the dense drum beats, things like small houses were pushed out from behind the formation. Following this black house were strange weapons with four wheels, moving like flying on the frozen snow. Huang Chuanbing did not recognize what it was, but he recognized the crossbow machine installed on it.
What was that black house? When Huang Chuanbing was wondering, he was condescending to him and saw that behind the black house, one pole after another was flat, and then one pole after another appeared from the back of the small house.
"Take Pilot!" Huang Chuanbing was shocked. Although he didn't know why the Ming army's trencher caused this ghost appearance, the one that appeared behind was definitely the throwing arm.
"Tell me the order, all the catapults will attack the black houses with all their strength." He issued the order loudly. The other party's black houses had already entered the attack range of the catapults in the city.
A loud rumbling sound rang out, and dozens of stone bombs swept from behind the city and flew down to the city. However, the black houses under the city moved quickly at this moment. They were originally lined up, and in an instant, they scattered.
Huang Chuanbing was shocked and angry and saw that the extremely huge black houses could be pushed and moved quickly with only dozens of soldiers. They pushed forward about fifty steps.
In just fifty steps, these long-range attack weapons of the Ming army completely avoided the attack of the catapults in the city. The catapults in the city were all heavy big guys. Once the shooting range was determined, it was not something that could be changed in a short time. The catapults in the city were mainly used to bombard siege cars. The siege cars were huge and moved extremely slowly, and they have always been good targets.
Amid Huang Chuanbing's fear and anger, the dark houses of the Ming army below began to roar. Black projectiles flew up and flew into the city. Looking at the trajectory of the projectiles in the air, Huang Chuanbing's face changed drastically.
The opponent attacked his catapult.
These black houses are distributed in different places at this moment, but the landing points of the projectiles are extremely consistent. In his somewhat dull eyes, the projectiles fell to the ground, accompanied by huge roars, screams, and collapses. Several catapults arranged in the city have been smashed into pieces.
Seeing that the projectiles that fell to the ground did not break, but were bounced on the ground, sweeping across all obstacles in front of him, Huang Chuanbing even lamented that these projectiles were actually made of iron.
The bombardment of the black houses outside the city seemed to be endless. After Huang Chuanbing saw their accuracy, he once again saw their shooting speed. This time he saw more clearly that behind each black house, there were eight throwing arms, starting to attack from left to right. When the eighth throwing arm started to fall, the first one on the left threw the projectile again. It continued and continued.
"Mr. Wu County, this is called carpet bombing!" Lu Feng happily explained to Wu Teng, who was also shocked, "First lure the enemy's trencher to expose their placement, then blast all the way over and kill their trencher first."
"This is also a catapult?" Wu Teng asked blankly.
"Yes, it's also a catapult, but in our Ming army, we call him Pili Fire!" Lu Feng said with a smile: "It's winter now, and there's snow everywhere. If it's the other three seasons now, you can see why they're called Pili Fire."
A loud noise from Dangdang came from the front, and Wu Teng shook his body, "Heavy crossbow, it's a heavy crossbow!"
There were indeed many heavy crossbows shooting at the black house above the city wall. Every time they hit, there were deafening sounds.
"Don't worry, the black house is covered with iron plates. He is afraid of being hit by a weapon like a catapult. He is not afraid of such a crossbow. Even if he can shoot through the iron plates wrapped outside, he will not be able to hurt the inside, and it will have no effect on the Thunder Fire at all." Lu Feng didn't care at all.
"If the heavy crossbow doesn't work, I'm afraid that the city will launch troops and raids!" Wu Teng's eyes flashed, "General Lu, there are less than fifty soldiers next to each of your thunder fires, and they are divided very scattered. If the city raids, you will be dispatched from the rear, and it will be too late."
"Mr. Wu County Master, have you seen those little guys running back and forth? His name is the rushing car. If the Qi army in the city really rushed out, you can see their abilities." Lu Feng said with a smile.
As soon as Lu Feng finished speaking, the gate of Lingchuan County City opened, and more than a hundred cavalrymen and hundreds of infantry came out, but each of them held a torch high in their hands.
"They want to burn the thunder fire with tinder oil!" Wu Teng exclaimed in a flash.
Lu Feng flattened his mouth, "The idea is good, but there is a gap between ideals and reality. But speaking of this guard's response is really good."
Wu Teng felt sad when he heard this. Of course it was good. I took tens of thousands of people to fight for more than ten days. Until now, my best result was only touching the city wall. I don’t know how much it is to capture it.
This thought flashed through his mind and saw the crossbows on the rushing chariot in Lu Feng's mouth start their attack. With the sound of linoline, the crossbow arrows shot towards the Qi army that rushed out of the city gate like a splash of rain.
Wu Teng widened his eyes and looked at the rushing chariots with almost no stops, with the sound of people wailing, and the sound of falling to the ground.
Huang Chuanbing on the city was completely illiterate. Of course, he saw the huge threat to the city walls of those black houses, so he had to send out the few elite forces left in his hands. Even if the losses were too great, he would have to destroy those damn black houses. He saw it very accurately. It was impossible to easily build such a weapon. As long as one was destroyed, the enemy would have one less.
But what made him sad was that the elite soldiers sent out, not to mention destroying these black houses, could not even get close to them. Seeing his soldiers being shot one after another, falling on the charge road, Huang Chuanbing's full strength seemed to have been taken away.
"Thunderbolt fire, attack the city wall, rush into the formation car, cover and shoot. Siege the city trestle, step forward and lean against the wall!" Lu Feng gave the order one after another.
Chapter completed!