At the same time, when the Jin army's catapults began to attack mightily, Dai Tuo also dropped his war sword, and seventy or eighty giant crossbows as thick as a baby's arm also shot out of the air, hidden in the arrows.
The crossbowmen under the mouth and behind the crossbow also raised their bows and crossbows.
Boulders were like rain, densely packed boulders overlooking the pass, occupying every inch of the airspace above Yangping Pass. The simple boulders roared away and came roaring back, like thunder, full of shock, terror and infinite lethality.
The arrows fell like a waterfall, and the rows of sharp arrows looked down from a bird's eye view. They were like hawks preparing to prey on yellow sheep thousands of miles above the sky. They suddenly rose into the air and then fell suddenly. They pounced on the prey they had already aimed at with lightning speed, leaving streaks in the air.
Permeated with traces of murderous intent.
Screams came one after another, and the creepy sounds of broken bones were also mixed in. Flowers of blood bloomed under sharp arrows and boulders, and lives were suddenly cut off. From then on, they could only live in the mourning of their families.
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In the rain of arrows in the stone forest where soldiers from both sides were coming and going, Pandora quietly opened his magic box. From time to time, people fell from the top of the city at Yangping Pass, and from time to time, people below Yangping Pass became the dead souls of arrows.
However, neither party can take care of this at all at this time. You have no intention of caring about other places. You can only step forward mechanically, and you can only mechanically draw the bow string in your hand.
Every hour, every moment, every minute, every second, life is withering here. The cruelty of war is undoubtedly evident at this moment.
Corpses piled up like mountains, blood drifted into rivers, and Yangping Pass seemed to have become a ghost Shura field. It was disgusting and frightening to hear. However, there was no one left behind among the soldiers on both sides.
Obviously, after years of training and fighting, they have already become accustomed to life and death, or in other words, they have already seen life and death, and they are already prepared for disaster.
Before the battlefield, the more you fear death, shrink back, and dare not move forward, the more likely you are to encounter a life-and-death crisis. But the more you move forward bravely, the more you strive for a bright future.
Before the battle, perhaps they still had some fear, worry, shrinkage, and retreat in their hearts, but once the battle began, their blood had been completely ignited.
At this moment, in their minds, fighting is higher than life and death, and victory is higher than life and death!
After a full two hours of attack, the hands of the soldiers on both sides had begun to tremble, and their backs had begun to feel numb. They were still mechanically nocking arrows, stringing them, releasing arrows, pulling and loosening ropes, without any trace of decadence. They were all surprised.
They were shocked by the opponent's strength, their ferocity and their disregard for life and death, but they did not dare to stop and rest for a moment.
Because once they stop, what will greet them is real death!
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
The melancholy sound of the horn sounded from the battlefield. After hearing the sound of the horn, the soldiers of the Shu army above Yangping Pass breathed a sigh of relief.
According to their past experience, whenever this horn starts to sound, it means that the enemy will temporarily retreat. Whenever this horn starts to sound, they will basically get a certain period of breathing space.
However, these soldiers never noticed that the general who led them, Tuo Tuo, did not show the slightest bit of relaxation like they did at this time.
The Jin army showed such a strong offensive from the beginning. Just as they had expected, the opponent was also competing for time. Therefore, at the beginning, they did not make any unnecessary so-called testing moves.
What was immediately carried out was a thorough and violent attack.
Since the Jin army launched a thorough and complete attack as soon as they came up, it was naturally impossible to retreat so easily. It was only two hours before sunset, and the soldiers still had time to rest.
It's early!
Therefore, I am afraid that the meaning of the Jin army's trumpet sound is not to retreat. Or to be more precise, even if the meaning of this trumpet sound is to retreat, it only allows this army to retreat, but it does not mean that there are no other troops.
An army came up.
Sure enough, good things don't work but bad things work, so the bad expectations seem to have become a reality, and a new and energetic army has been mobilized!
"Fire the arrow!"
Dai Tuo shouted angrily again, and the sword in his hand stood firmly on the city wall.
Although the Jin army's lifeless attack method also put huge pressure on them, as the attacker, the Jin army would definitely suffer the most damage.
Dai Tuo made a rough estimate and found that at present, they had achieved a casualty ratio of about one to three. In other words, for every three Jin soldiers who fell below the city wall, they could replace the life of one Shu soldier above the city wall.
However, this time his military order did not receive much response, and the sharp arrows flying into the air no longer looked like waterfalls or rain, but more like catkins flying by the pond in spring.
Two hours, calculated, is four hours. The Shu army on the city wall has been fighting for four consecutive hours, and it is such a high-intensity battle. The physical and mental exhaustion on them at this time can be imagined.
Moreover, when the horn sounded just now, they originally thought that the enemy was going to retreat temporarily, but now this is the situation. This kind of psychological gap will definitely have an impact on them.
All kinds of factors, taken together, the situation of the Shu army at Yangping Pass is not optimistic at this time.
Half of the 100,000-strong army in Hanzhong are here at Yangping Pass, which means that Dai Tuo now controls an army of 50,000.
And with an army of 50,000 guarding the pass, Dai Tuo did not need to mobilize all his troops to the city wall. In other words, Dai Tuo was qualified to mobilize troops and horses to fight in batches like Li Jing did.
However, after all, the cards he could hold were different. When Li Jing divided his five groups of soldiers and horses to take turns to fight, he still retained more than 100,000 mobilizable troops in his hands.
However, Dai Tuo could only be divided into two groups, or at most three groups to fight in turns. The Jin army had just retreated one force, and Dai Tu was not qualified to withdraw one force like the Jin army.
If we want to fight as another group of soldiers, we have to at least wait until we survive this round.
"Li Jing, this lunatic!" The more he directed the soldiers to resist, the more he began to realize that something was wrong. A flash of light flashed in his mind, and Dai Tuo seemed to have noticed something.
However, it was precisely because he noticed something that Dai Tuo became more and more frightened.
