Chapter 141 Artifact Reappearance
After a short while of touching, Xiang Mi led 10,000 infantrymen to the north gate. There were hundreds of female medical soldiers. The women were traveling lightly, but the men were pushing wheelbarrows, carrying tents, food, soldiers and armor. Because they couldn't see clearly at night and were guarded by cavalry, Sun En did not dare to attack rashly. By the second half of the night, a simple camp had already stood under the northern city of Yuyao.
This camp is indeed very simple. According to the general standards for establishing a village, the walls should be equipped with two rows inside and outside, high outside and low inside. Wooden boards are installed between the two rows, with two upper and lower layers. The upper layer can be used as a cover, and the lower layer can store weapons and arrows and rest. In addition, the camps should be opposite each other. Drainage ditches and toilets should be dug around the camp and between the camps, and stables should be built for cavalry. However, Weifeng's camp is a circle of wooden fences that surround a pile of tents. There is no way, and time is too tight.
Fortunately, it was safe that night, but just after morning, Sun En led Lu Xun, Xu Daofu and several personal troops to the Arrow Tower to look at the opposite city wall. There were sparse soldiers on the top of the city, and there was no movement in the camp below the city.
Lu Xun noticed a detail and couldn't help asking: "The Wei surname is indeed a general. It would be wise to not enter the city. Otherwise, he would be surrounded by our army and would be unable to fly! But general, please see, he placed the catapult behind the village wall. What is this? Is it because he wants to use a few stones to block our army's attack?"
"This..." Sun En also felt quite incomprehensible. Behind the entire village wall, there were less than a hundred catapults, and they were scattered. With the slow rate of fire and madly hit rate, how many people could be killed? What's more, a catapult requires dozens of people to operate, and nearly a hundred catapults accounted for one-third of the troops. What exactly did he do?
In his subconscious mind, Sun En thought that Wei Feng would not be so bored, but could not understand the intention behind it, so he turned his gaze to Xu Daofu. Xu Daofu could not think of any reason for a moment, so he had to shake his head helplessly.
"Well!" Sun En snorted coldly: "I don't know how to play tricks, so I can send orders and attack according to the scheduled plan!"
"As for the order!" The personal army bowed heavily and quickly leaned down to convey the order.
"Dongdongdongdongdong~~" The cowhide drum sounded heavily. With the dull drum sound, the camp gate slowly opened inward. Sergeants from each battalion rushed out and arranged in formation. After a while, teams of sergeants came out in sequence.
The first thing to be driven out was hundreds of car-mounted wall shields protected by nearly 10,000 archers and gun shield soldiers. This shield is one zhang high and half a zhang wide, with a pointed conical lower part. When used, it is inserted into soil, and is supported by soldiers or large chariot roofs in the rear. It is connected like a wall, and is often used in conjunction with three zhang iron spear to prevent cavalry from attacking.
Then there was a mixed formation of ordinary spearmen and archers. This was the main force of the attack, with a total of about 40,000 people. There were some ladder troops in the future. They only gathered near the camp gate and did not step forward. It seemed that they planned to break the camp and attack the city in one go. As for the catapults and crossbows, there were no Sun En's army. They had lost all their losses when they attacked Shanyin last year and could not be created on the island. His offensive idea was still the tactic of attacking the sea of people.
The drums were rumbling, the army was advancing steadily, and the large shields on the vehicular were driving on both sides, with infantry in the middle. In the Weifeng Army, except for the cavalry, most of the manpower was distributed near the catapult, and the village seemed empty. This was not only because Sun En did not understand, but the people watching the battle in Yuyao City were also sweating coldly on their foreheads. Although they did not know the tactics, they knew that the catapult had very limited lethality on the scattered soldiers.
It doesn't matter if he is defeated. If there are cavalrymen, they can run away at any time, but our city is full of old and young people.
Wei Feng had no time to pay attention to the thoughts of these people. He stared at the front and counted the distance secretly.
"Kill!" A little while ago, a shout suddenly broke out in front of him. About 40,000 people accelerated in an instant, and the momentum was indeed extraordinary. Some people on the city wall were so scared that they sat on the ground!
Wei Feng immediately waved his hand and said, "Let it go!"
"Twist~~" The ropes that grabbed the tip of the catapult were cut off by the giant axe, and a puffed cloth was cast into the air!
"Damn it, what's the matter?" The Yuyao County Magistrate on the city wall could no longer help but curse. At this moment, he regretted that Wei Feng used the battle as a joke, and he regretted that he should have escaped with his family yesterday!
Sun En, Lu Xun, and Xu Daofu were also stunned, and all kinds of speculations came one after another. What exactly was in the cloth bag, dead clothes, bloody donkey hooves, or beans?
"Hahahaha~~" Lu Xun stretched out his hand and laughed wildly, "Could that Wei, who was deceived by Wang Ning, also came to play with sprinkling beans into soldiers? General, the last general guessed that there must be soybeans in his cloth bag! Futang, what do you guess?"
Xu Daofu dared not be careless. Since attacking Yangxian last year, his side has not gained benefits from Wei Feng's hands. He believed that even if there was no Northern Army to help last year, Sun En might not be able to hold on. How could such a person play beans and become soldiers? You must know that in addition to Wang Ningzhi taking Taoism seriously, even if Sun En, as a Taoist master of the Heavenly Master, does not believe in gods and ghosts. Taoism is just a means to deceive the people and flatter the powerful and nobles!
Xu Daofu vaguely sensed something. The things in the cloth bag must be of great use, but what exactly is it? He felt that he seemed to understand one or two, but in a hurry, he was always separated by a layer of gauze, which was hazy and unreal!
Xu Daofu stared at the cloth bag in the air. In less than a few breaths, the cloth bag had been thrown to the highest point. Then, the cloth piece wrapped was shaken open one after another by the strong wind in the sky, and balls of black balls the size of eggs were scattered towards the military formation below like hail.
"Can this kill someone?" Sun En murmured unconsciously.
Xu Daofu suddenly realized, and in an instant he looked shocked and shouted anxiously: "General, hurry up and make a sound of gold, don't delay!"
This thing is not known to Lu Xun, but Xu Daofu was deeply impressed. He was caught off guard by the city of Yangxian and was called caltrops!
During the Han Dynasty, the process of casting iron plates about inches thick had been developed. The technology requirements for the cervix were not complicated. It only required casting iron into a soil mold to form. At that time, Wei Feng spent several months to make thousands of pieces in Yangxian, and the scale of Shanyin was far from comparable to Yangxian. After nearly a year of preparation, tens of thousands of cervixes had been cast!
The cloth bags used for throwing are also very particular. After repeated trials in the army, it is most suitable to wrap two layers of burlap, each bag is about a hundred. Among them, the buckles of the cloth bag are the most difficult. They must not be too loose or too tight. They must be sure to be pulled open by the strong wind in the air. Therefore, a caltrop was tied to the knot of the cloth bag to provide the corresponding pulling force. However, even so, it was tried hundreds of times before the balance was achieved!
As soon as Xu Daofu finished speaking, Sun Enlu Xun's inquiry had not yet been released, there was a whimpering sound in the formation. Since Sun Enjun's main force was not wearing armor, someone directly hit the head. The head was bloody when he was lucky, and the bad life was dead. You must know that the force generated by the caltrops on all sides was shot by a catapult to a height of about a hundred feet. How could the force generated by the swelling of the two feet of Yangxian city be compared to the force that was thrown from Yangxian two feet of the city?
Those who were not hit were accidentally stepped on it and immediately rolled on the ground in pain. During the rolling process, they were stabbed by the caltrops beside them, and their bodies were covered in blood. They were terrible!
With just one round of throwing, the originally neat queue was already in chaos. In fact, only less than ten thousand caltrops were thrown in this round, which could not cover Sun En's entire army. However, the miserable appearance of his companions was heartbroken. A row of archers in the camp ahead had already set their bows and arrows. What made people even more numb was that the soldiers near the catapult began to pull up the pole again, which indicates that the second round of launch was about to begin, and no one wanted to be stabbed by the spike and lose their power of movement!
"Okay!" Wei Feng shouted yes and shouted: "Cabinets attack, kill less, and catch more prisoners!"
"Abide by the order!" The soldiers agreed!
The rumbling sound of horse hooves suddenly sounded, and the cavalry divided into several whirlwinds and rushed out of the camp. The infantry was restrained by the calcareani, but the cavalry was not afraid. The horse hooves were nailed with iron palms, and the sharp pricks of the calcareani were not penetrated. In an instant, the shouts of "kneeling on the ground and not killing!" resounded throughout the audience!
The audience at the top of Yuyao City rubbed their eyes in disbelief. This victory was too easy. No wonder General Wei was full of confidence. For a moment, he exclaimed one after another, and his faces showed relief.
But in the opposite Arrow Tower, Sun En's face turned pale and his eyes were blazing. An attack with high hopes collapsed and even the wooden fences of the opponent's camp were not next to him. This made him unable to accept it. If the attack was not broken, he would feel better!
Seeing that Sun En was still stunned, Xu Daofu quickly reminded: "General, hurry up and call the gold, adjust the archer to respond, return first, let's make a long-term plan!"
Sun En immediately came to his senses and shouted: "Singing gold, singing gold!"
"Bang bang bang bang bang~~" The gong of the throne sounded heavily!
This accelerated the defeat of the entire army. Those who stepped on the caltrops could only hold their feet and wait for the decision of fate. Those who did not step on the tram, ran away desperately. More than 10,000 soldiers guarding the giant shield on both sides could not even care about the chariots. Originally, the chariots were to defend the cavalry from the sides, but the Kuaiji cavalry took advantage of the chaos and rushed directly from the middle!
In the large open space between the camps of the two armies, people were crowded and pushed each other and fought each other. Five thousand cavalry dispersed again. They ignored Sun En's army who were rolling all over the ground and tried their best to pursue the fleeing unsuffered soldiers. As long as the horse's hooves were stepped on and did not kneel down to surrender, they would be a knife in the head!
Some soldiers were chased and saw that they had no hope of escaping, they immediately pounced on their knees and raised their weapons high!
Chapter completed!