The Song Dynasty on the Sand Table

Chapter 205: Just collapsed like this?

Liu Lin's forehead was slightly blocked, and he spent 0.32 seconds thinking deeply.

The enemy actually threw stones at this distance?
This is too far! The stone can't fly over here.

What does this mean?
This shows that the enemy army is a enemy army, and they cannot even correctly grasp the range of siege weapons.

They must have seen our catapults moving forward, and they panicked, and their visual estimation of the distance became inaccurate, so they just wanted to throw the stones as quickly as possible.

This round of their stones are thrown in vain, and it takes a long time to reload, which will allow our army to advance safely to the range and fire calmly, giving us the attacking side a big advantage, hahahaha.

0.32 seconds arrived!

A huge rock fell with a whoosh and hit the shield soldier at the front of Liu Lin's army.

The shield soldier had the same idea as Liu Lin: It's too far away, he can't hit me.

But the stone told him: "You are wrong!"

The shield soldier was hit on the forehead by a stone, and his entire head instantly turned into a smashed watermelon, with red flesh flowing all over the ground. He didn't hear a word the stone said to him, so he didn't know he was wrong until his death.

He didn't know, but the people around him knew.

Liu Lin screamed loudly: "This is impossible."

Zhang Jian: “Here we go again!”

Another huge rock flew over and landed in the army formation with a bang. This time it hit two people, scaring the soldiers next to them so much that they screamed and rolled over.

Then, a large number of big rocks came flying over.

Some of them hit nothing, some hit a person, some hit the newly built chariots of the Han soldiers, and some hit Liu Linfang's catapult.

How could the wooden products withstand the force of the huge rock? They fell apart with a crackling sound, and wood chips flew and fragments of wood splashed in all directions.

After just one round of catapults, six of the thirty-five catapults built by Liu Linjun were lost.

The remaining twenty-nine soldiers were so frightened that they didn't even dare to move forward.

Liu Lin also lost his voice for a moment...

Gu Wei was furious: "These useless people, the catapults from the other side have smashed them so hard that they dare not move. Useless, absolutely useless. Blow the horn and warn them."

The sound of ox horns rang out in the Jurchen army. The sound was deep and rich, floating on the battlefield.

Liu Lin and his men were suddenly awakened when they heard the sound.

Oh no! The Jurchens are urging us to fight.

Only then did he remember that we were not fighting for the Song Dynasty, but for the Jin Dynasty.

You can lose the war and run away at will when fighting for the Song Dynasty. All the soldiers in the Song Dynasty are like this anyway. They will turn around and run away if something goes wrong. The law does not hold them responsible, and no one will do anything to you.

But you can't fight like this for the Jin Dynasty. Try running away and the Jurchen cavalry will catch up and stab you in the back.

Liu Lin had no choice but to bite the bullet and shout, "Don't be afraid. They've already fired a round. It'll take a long time to reload. Push forward and fight back."

The soldiers perked up a bit after hearing this. Indeed, reloading a trebuchet after firing it once was very time-consuming, especially pulling the swing arm down again. This required a lot of manpower, usually more than a dozen men, sometimes even using animals, working their butts off to pull the arm down. During this process, they were safe!
The soldiers gathered their courage and continued pushing the catapults forward...

Sure enough, the opposite side's catapult stopped firing. They pushed desperately and finally pushed their own catapult into the range. Then they removed the wheels and used huge wooden nails to nail the support arms into the ground to stabilize the catapult body.

Only after doing this can you pull down the swing arm and load ammunition.

A dozen soldiers grabbed a thick rope and yelled in unison: "Hey yo ha."

Desperately pulling at the swinging arm...

At this moment, the rebels' catapults fired again.

The speed of reloading and firing made Liu Lin confused again: "Huh?"

Gu Wei, who was far away, was also startled: "What's going on?"

A large piece of stone rose into the air again and fell towards Liu Lin's catapult position. Then, a physics problem arose: a 30-kilogram stone bullet was thrown more than 200 meters. How much impact force would it cause when it landed on the ground?

"boom!"

The sound of the falling object was dull and terrifying, causing sand and rocks to fly everywhere on the ground.

A stone bullet landed a few steps away from a soldier of Liu Lin's army. Although it didn't hit the soldier, it scared him so much that he peed and shit. This Han army was weak and cowardly to begin with. They had always fought like short-legged cats. Now they had to fight under such stone bullets?
His nerves, which had been stretched to the limit for a long time, could no longer hold on. He let out a scream and turned around and ran away.

At the same time, stone bullets kept falling within a radius of dozens of feet around him. Soldiers, chariots, and catapults, whoever was hit was unlucky.

Liu Linjun originally had 29 catapults available, but after this wave of attacks, not a single one was usable.

Of course, not all of them were destroyed. Only five were destroyed in this round, but all the soldiers ran away, so the remaining ones were naturally unusable.

Liu Lin shouted loudly: "Don't run, now is the time to fight back."

No one listened to him.

Guwei was speechless for a while. He knew that the Han soldiers were cowardly. When the Han soldiers were his enemies before, he laughed and mocked the Han soldiers' cowardice. Now that the Han soldiers became his teammates, he felt a deep sense of powerlessness.

Damn it, if you dare to persist for one more round, won’t you be able to win?
As a result, they collapsed just when they were about to fight back.

This is a hairy move.

Gu Wei had not wanted to admit defeat, but now he had no choice but to do so. He sighed deeply and said, "Withdraw the troops and return to Changyi County."

Riding back...

After running a short distance, Liu Lin approached with the look of a "child who has done something wrong" on his face. He nodded and bowed to Gu Wei, "General, this...this time...this...is due to my lax discipline and incompetence. I have deeply realized my mistakes. When I return, I will reflect on them and train these soldiers well. I will give you an explanation in the next battle."

Gu Wei looked at Liu Lin with an idiot look in his eyes. After staring at him for a long time, he waved his hand and didn't want to say anything more. He rode his horse and rode away quickly, staying away from this loser.

On the Jiaoshui County side, countless soldiers and civilians inside and outside the city saw with their own eyes that all the real and fake Jin thieves had retreated, and they immediately cheered loudly.

Especially Li Cui, Wang Hong, Liu Sanlang and the other bald men, they were shouting especially loudly, "We were right to surrender! We were really right to surrender! This Jiaodong area could actually withstand the attack of the Jin thieves."

This must be the pure land of Shandong area!
It is the final pure land!
(End of this chapter)