The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 170 Keep up and survive

More than a thousand Han soldiers slowly advanced forward.

At the same time, the catapult was also pushed up.

But soon the catapults stopped moving forward. As soon as they were within the distance of "hitting the city", they stopped, unfolded the supports, and the laborers used huge wooden wedges to nail the "feet" of the catapults into the ground as quickly as possible, fixing them firmly.

The soldiers of the Tieli tribe were responsible for operating these catapults. They loaded the stones into the trebuchets as quickly as possible...

Of course, the rebels would not sit idly by while they were doing these things.

"Buzz!"

With a bang, the rebels' trebuchets opened fire first. Because the rebels' trebuchets had already been prepared for firing, they did not need to be pushed forward like the attackers before they could start preparing.

A huge stone flew across the sky, making a sound of breaking through the air.

The souls of the Han soldiers walking in the front are flying in the sky!
They knew that the door panels in their hands could not stop the flying stones, nor could the roof of the battering ram, nor could the barriers on the building carriages. If these stones fell on their heads, they would be dead.

They could only pray desperately to God, Laozi, and Yuanshi Tianzun, begging them not to have the stones fall on them.

Their prayers were actually successful. The huge rocks flew over their heads, completely ignoring the Han soldiers, and all flew towards the Iron Li people's catapult position behind them.

"Pumppump!"

The stone fell to the ground with a dull sound.

The hit rate of the catapult is quite touching. Almost no stones hit the opponent's catapult directly, but they fall to the ground one after another, and there is still the effect of randomly selecting a few lucky children and sending them to the west.

Several Tieli people were blessed by heaven and went to heaven in a bloody state.

The Tieli people next to them screamed in fear. After all, they were also puppet troops, and their morale was not very high. The four words "dare to fight and dare to die" were not the characteristics of the puppet army in their souls.

This wave of stones directly shook the morale of the Tieli army. Several people who were operating the catapults had weak hands and were unable to throw the stones out for a while.

Someone yelled, "Fuck, are the defenders sick? The Han soldiers are clearly charging in the front, why don't they attack the Han soldiers instead of us?"

"The Han soldiers are still charging forward. If they get closer, the defenders' attention will definitely be drawn to them."

"Fire! Quick, quick, quick!"

After a period of panic among the Tieli people, a catapult finally swung out its huge arm, and huge stones flew towards the top of the city wall.

"Pong!"

A huge rock hit the city wall of Jiaoshui County.

County walls in the Song Dynasty rarely used stone, and the wall of Jiaoshui County was no exception. It was just a large earthen wall.

The huge rock hit the earth with a bang, and the mud and sand slid down, and the city wall shook.

The faces of the rebel soldiers guarding that section of the city wall turned pale.

Strictly speaking, they had not fought many battles and were still relatively inexperienced recruits. Facing the bombardment of catapults for the first time, they were terrified. Only then did they understand why the people of Baliyuanshan were easily defeated by a single volley of their catapults and crossbows.

There are some things that you cannot feel the horror of until they happen to you.

"call!"

Another huge rock flew over, and this time it actually flipped over the city wall and landed behind it.

Behind the city wall was a catapult position manned by Ma's men. When the enemy's huge rocks fell, they were lucky enough to hit a catapult. The catapult broke apart with a snap, scaring the Ma family servants nearby into jumping around in panic.

Fortunately no one was hurt!
Yue Wenxuan took a look and thought: "That's the plastic catapult I provided. It's broken, so it's broken. It's really lucky that no one was hit." The Ma family's people were also frightened by this, and many of the Ma family servants were trembling.

At this moment, the young Ma Congyi suddenly jumped in front of the servants and shouted, "Don't be afraid! Keep throwing stones. If you are afraid and dare not operate the catapults, our army will be defeated. If we lose, everyone will die. Now there is only a possibility of being crushed to death, but if you lose, you will definitely die. Think about it."

Possible death VS certain death!

Even a fool would know what to choose. The Ma family servants quickly plucked up their courage and continued to operate the catapults, smashing the Qian Li people's position.

At this point, the Jiaoshui County Magistrate also stood up. This magistrate, who disdained to associate with bandits, now flung up his official robe, jumped onto the city wall, and shouted to all the soldiers and civilians: "The Jin people like to massacre the city. After the city is broken, they will kill everyone, young and old, men and women. If you don't want to die, you have no choice but to fight back."

These words are very inspiring!
The people in the city started howling.

The laborers desperately tried to move the stones into the swing arm of the catapult. The Ma family servants made a slight adjustment and immediately fired again. The huge stones whistled and smashed towards the Iron Li man's head again.

The Tieli people's position was in chaos.

At the same time, the Han soldiers pushing battering rams, towers, ladders and other close-combat siege weapons were still moving forward.

The Han soldiers looked up at the huge rock flying over their heads and said, "Ah!"

Wang Hong and Li Cui yelled, "What are you looking at? Keep moving forward! Speed ​​up. Better yet, run."

The Han soldiers were a bit confused: in battle, they usually walked slowly at first, conserving their energy, and only took a running start when they were about to engage the enemy. If they started running from a distance of an arrow, they would be out of breath by the time they reached the city wall. Wouldn't that be suicide?

But Wang Hong and Li Cui continued to yell, desperately: "Run, speed up, don't get too close to the Iron Li people, or you'll be hit by the catapults."

After their roar, the Han soldiers finally understood. That’s right, if they stayed away from the Tieli people, the stones would not hit them.

Okay, let’s run!
The ones pushing the rams ran the fastest, sliding along the ground like giant cockroaches.

The soldiers pushing the building carriages were slow. This thing had a high wind resistance coefficient and was not well balanced. It wobbled and swayed when pushed, making people feel uneasy. The soldiers in charge of the building carriages saw the rocks falling from behind them, and they were panicked. They just wanted to run away, but they couldn't run fast. What could they do?

Soon they were within an arrow's reach.

At this time, the soldiers in the front row quickly raised their shields, and a row of door panels were spread out flat, like a moving wooden wall.

But they knew that such a wooden wall could only block small arrows, but could not block the giant arrows shot from the giant crossbow.

The power of that giant arrow would knock down all the soldiers holding shields. How could they stop it?

"God forbid you shoot me."

"God forbid they shoot the people next to them."

Although they knew that Song's thoughts were very dark, they still couldn't help but think so.

However, they felt that something unexpected had happened. None of the giant crossbows on the city wall were fired.

Amazing!

The enemy didn't shoot them?

Li Cui and Wang Hong shouted, "Charge forward, rush to the nearest point under the city wall, throw away the siege weapons, and run to the sides."

Soldiers: “???”

Li Cui yelled, "Follow me, your grandfather, and I will keep you alive."

Wang Hong also shouted: "Anyone who can follow my flag, come and live."

(End of this chapter)