Chapter 160 Dismantling the trebuchet
Dian Wei was extremely efficient in his work. In just half a day, all the so-called inner men were arrested by him and sent to the prison cell, totaling 33 people. Through torture, he reported more details to Qing Cang, allowing Qing Cang to prepare in advance, so that he knew one and knew the other to win a hundred battles.
Two days later, it was dark and windy at night. There was still some time before dawn. A large number of troops suddenly appeared outside the south of the city, crowded with people, gathering outside the city.
In the dark, Dian Wei led two thousand soldiers to ambush in the woods and grass. He was waiting for the best time to take action and give them a sudden attack. The control of this degree must be very exquisite, otherwise it may cause a big deal.
On the city tower in the south, Qing Cang was very nervous. In just a few hours, he ordered Dian Wei to ambush and at the same time let those insiders contact the enemy. This time, he must catch Sun Qing off guard.
"Staff General Guo, are everything ready?"
You should know that the entire city is only more than 2,000 people, Qing Cang once again took the risk and handed over all his troops to Dian Wei's command. The purpose of this trip was to use surprise troops to dismantle the enemy's catapult. He did not have much force to call. If Dian Wei failed, there would be no need to fight this battle.
"All the crossbows have been set up by migrant workers, and I will wait for Dian Wei to return and control them."
"Okay! We just wait for Dian Wei to return smoothly. We will launch an attack, and we will definitely make them come and go."
A question has been lingering in Guo Jia's mind, and now he asked:
"Commander, we only have 2,000 people, why do we need to build a thousand crossbows? Four people are one shot, which is a low-profile. Two thousand people can only control five hundred crossbows. Moreover, these two thousand people have to be divided into parts and guarded at the other three city gates. There are less than five hundred real available crossbows!"
"I have a premonition that all these crossbows can be used."
If Qing Cang said this, Guo Jia would not say anything anymore. Since he got to know Qing Cang, he seemed to have never done anything he was unsure.
Qing Cang looked at the sky and there was a heavy fog at this time.
"I don't know if the fog is good to us or not."
Heavy fog can limit the vision of both sides, which is very detrimental to the war between both sides.
"Maybe it's a good thing. I thought they wouldn't dare to act rashly in the foggy weather."
People exist with a hint of fear of unknown things, and they don’t know what is behind the fog.
"Hope so."
As soon as he finished speaking, waves of wailing sounds came from not far away, and the sound of beating drums. It was obvious that Dian Wei had already started to act, otherwise the enemy would not beating drums so rashly before attacking.
After a while, a large number of firelights could be seen in the fog, piles of them seemed to be lit. Such a huge sound caused panic in the entire Huaxia City. All the residents in the city rushed out and looked at the sky with red red, not knowing what happened.
After a while, Dian Wei's voice came from the city gate.
"Open the city gate quickly, I'm going in!"
The city gate opened quickly, and after all the two thousand men he led passed the suspension bridge, the entire suspension bridge rose.
Dian Wei brought two thousand people to the city tower. As soon as he entered the door, he reported: "Report to the commander, this raid was very smooth. Nearly 200 enemy catapults were demolished. We all rush to tear them down before they set them up and set fire. Kill the enemy's 500, and our side lost nearly 100 people."
If you raid the catapult, killing the enemy is second. As long as you remove the catapult, the task will be considered complete. Dian Wei did a good job and completed it very beautifully. He even exchanged a few sacrifices for the lives of the enemy's five hundred soldiers.
"Very good, thank you for your hard work!"
Qing Cang shouted to the soldiers down the city tower: "Soldiers, 600 soldiers are divided into 200 soldiers from each east and west gates to guard them. If an enemy comes, bombard them with crossbows. The others prepare the crossbows in the South Gate! Aim at the fire."
The two thousand people in the city just now immediately took their place, followed Qing Cang's arrangement, and divided more than 600 people to go to the three city gates. The other one thousand people were manipulating four hundred crossbows and the crossbows on the mail tower.
This was probably the first time Dian Wei saw such a formation. The whole army was full of morale and was not afraid at all, nor was he worried that there would be 30,000 people from the enemy. They followed Qing Cang's slogan in an orderly manner, loaded the arrows, and aimed at the firelight from afar. Although there was heavy fog, the firelight was still visible.
"emission!"
Four hundred arrows with fire were flying out and shot directly two hundred feet away. The fire shone into the sky, and the wailing sound became even more intense.
You can vaguely hear the enemy's voice.
"Ensure the fire quickly, the enemy fires the crossbows based on these fires!"
"No, the fire is too big, and our catapult has been burned halfway!"
"The enemy has many rockets too fierce, and nearly 300 people have died on our side."
"The fog is too big, you can't tell the direction and you can't see the road"
"What should I do with the general? The catapult is probably going to be ruined!"
"Damn it, if we hadn't just removed part of that team, we would have launched an attack."
With the launch of the second wave of crossbows, the enemy became in chaos again.
"According to the general's catapult, 80% of the time, is scrapped! Only half of the remaining ones are assembled."
"Retreat! Retreat!"
"What to do if the catapult is done"
"Don't worry about those catapults, life is important."
The enemy was in chaos, and you could feel that they were retreating in a panic. Before they evacuated, the third wave of crossbows had been fired, and these rockets were harvesting the lives of the enemy.
The fire of the crossbow lasted for an hour, and the sky had already started to light up, and the fog gradually dissipated, and the visibility was directly improved. You can see a large amount of black charcoal stacked two hundred feet away. These were the structure of the trenchers. Some trenchers were still on fire. It was just a wreckage, not assembled wreckage.
There were still a thousand corpses lying beside the wreckage, which were burned to black at this time.
Looking further a little further, a large army was stationed five miles away, and the soldiers on the front line seemed a little embarrassed. An hour ago, they were still a full-minded army. An hour later, everyone stood there like a dog and followed the command of the Hou. It was a nightmare. They never thought that the person they had an insider would be discovered, and then used it to give them this surprise attack, and cooperated with the bombardment of the crossbows.
The Chinese Legion began to cheer, and the first stage achieved a huge victory.
"This wave of attacks is very beautiful, thank you all!"
The troops shouted: "Good commander, leader!"
"Okay, you guys have a rest first, today is destined to be an extraordinary day!"
Chapter completed!