Eight hundred and seventieth chapters come like the wind and go like the tide
Regardless of whether they wanted to or not, they still had other ideas. But at this moment, the four of them, Sun Fuhu, walked to their respective posts and began to prepare for the defense of the city in an orderly manner.
Under the city tower, on the empty land south of Pingcheng, more and more figures began to appear. There were more than 50,000 people. From a distance, they looked like locusts flying in. They were countless and endless to watch.
"The enemy is still seven miles away from the city gate..."
"The enemy is still six miles away from the city gate and has entered the range of the artillery..."
"The enemy is still five miles away from the city gate..."
"The enemy is still four and a half miles away from the city gate..."
As the observer shouted over and over again, Brigadier Sun Fuhu, who was the commander-in-chief on the tower, finally moved his chin slightly, and uttered two very clear words in his mouth - fire!
After receiving the order, the correspondent shouted loudly - fire! Then the red flags in the hands of several command flags representing the firing quickly fell.
In line with the principle of three guns firing once, one of every three newly installed cannons made a roaring sound. The cannonballs spun out of the bronze cannons, making a screaming sound, heading straight towards the incoming cannons outside the city.
Lost in the crowd.
Boom...boom!
A total of sixty latest artillery pieces were arranged on each city gate. When three of them were fired, twenty artillery pieces roared every time. And amidst the rumbling sound of the cannons, live ammunition and fire bombs
, the explosive bullets fell into the crowd respectively, killing and injuring the enemy to the greatest extent.
Live ammunition, that is, solid ammunition! This seemingly oldest artillery shell is playing an extremely lethal role at this moment. Whenever it appears, a long trench will be formed wherever it falls.
The enemy troops in the past were all crushed by its huge force, and they would not stop until they killed several dozen people with one shot.
Fire bomb! Once it hits the ground, it will form a flame that cannot be extinguished. Anyone affected will die yelling. Even water cannot extinguish the fire bomb. Once it is ignited on a person,
That means it will never stop until people are burned to death.
Explosive bombs! Not to mention, once the iron sheet splashes after landing on the human body, it will pierce into the body like a sharp blade. Unlucky fragments will pierce the vital position and cause death directly.
Even those with better luck will continue to bleed if they are scratched. Judging from the way the Xiongnu army treats these common people, it is absolutely impossible to spend energy on treating them. In the end, the wound infection will still be inevitable.
As a result, only a handful of people are lucky and have good resistance, and can barely survive.
As soon as the three types of artillery shells fell into the crowd, the serious damage they caused caused bursts of howling and howling. Many people were so frightened that their faces turned pale and their feet stopped involuntarily.
Come down.
Although the Xiongnu army told them before the attack, the Jizhou Army is no better than the Xiao Qi King's Army. They have the most powerful artillery in the world. They will definitely face the harassment of artillery when they attack, but please don't be afraid. This is just a loud thunder.
It's just a few things, and its real lethality is limited.
It can be considered that they were vaccinated in advance, but when the artillery fell, it still scared many people. In other words, the fourth-generation artillery of the Jizhou Army was indeed powerful enough, far beyond many people's expectations.
, so big that many people stopped moving forward and thought of retreating.
At this time, the two thousand gangsters in the team came into play.
They are the same common people who surrendered and were captured. The treatment of the gangsters is much better than that of these common people. Not only can they have enough to eat, but they are also at the level of squad leaders.
Even the worst gang rapes have dozens or twenty gang gangs under their control. As for those gang rapes with means, they have hundreds, or even hundreds, of people in charge.
Of course, if you want to become a traitor, you need to abandon all your dignity, be loyal to the Huns, and become their dog. Even in order to please the Huns, you need to help them every time they capture a city or village. Helping them find money and everything of value, including helping them find women.
In short, they are helping the Huns to harm Ganren. And because they themselves are Ganren, they understand Ganren better than the Huns and know what means to use to get more and gain more.
In some respects, these gangsters are far more abominable and hateful than the real Huns.
The two thousand Ganjiao were mixed in with the fifty thousand Ganjiao people. When the power of the artillery began to show up and the army was in chaos, the role of these people began to show. They shouted loudly, or threatened, and Or cheering up, etc., so that some Ganren people who were still hesitating about retreating "reinforced themselves", stepped over the corpses of their comrades around them one by one, and continued to rush towards the south gate of Pingcheng. .
"Put it back!"
On the tower, Sun Fuhu, who had put away his telescope, had a frosty look on his face.
When those shells fell among the common people, he had clearly seen some people showing fear, and some even stopped moving forward. But soon, under the instigation of other people, they He regained his energy and strode forward again. He knew that this might be the role of rape.
Sun Fuhu really couldn't understand, how many people committed crimes against the common people? How many committed rapes? Why didn't they resist?
Fifty thousand to two thousand, that's a ratio of one to twenty-five. If they really dared to resist and rushed to the city with a white flag, wouldn't it be equivalent to finding a way out for themselves?
But why doesn't anyone do this? They know clearly that the Huns are using them and don't care about their life and death, but they are still willing to do it. Such thoughtless people really deserve to die!
Thinking of this, Sun Fuhu's previous compassion was much less, and when he talked about firing, his voice and attitude became a little firmer.
The sound of cannons is still continuing. Under the principle of three guns firing, a cannon will boom almost every few seconds, and then it will fall into the enemy's camp, killing them.
But in the end, too many people came, more than 50,000 people. How many people could be injured by 60 artillery pieces? At best, it was only a thousand people. Even if the injured were added, the threat of thousands of people was only enough. In the end, Still can't sway more people.
"Get ready for the giant crossbow!" Seeing the enemy getting closer and closer, he rushed quickly to the moat under the city, less than a mile away, and people were already laying planks. Sun Fuhu gave another order, and then Zhang Zhang The huge crossbows were fired from various crenels on the tower.
Compared with artillery, the power of Shen's giant crossbows is naturally much inferior. But they also have their own advantages, that is, they are large enough.
Once three Shen's giant crossbows were launched, their numerical advantage would be frightening. In a short period of time, more than half of the more than two thousand people rushing at the front were slaughtered.
But it seems that because they rushed to the city, the eyes of these common people were all red. They seemed to have seen the hope of victory. They stepped over the corpses of their companions one by one and collapsed on the laid wooden planks. The moat.
The Ganren people who came to the city tower set up ladders that were five or six feet long, and then desperately began to climb up. Some people even stood still under the city tower, holding the ladders on their bodies. The bows and arrows began to reflect toward the tower.
The damage power of bows and arrows is naturally far inferior to that of the Jizhou Army, but they have a very large number. Often the Jizhou Army on the tower just kills or injures someone with their bows, and someone quickly picks up the bow and arrows to make up for it. Position, he was performing a move without any target, but it was enough to cover the reflections on the towers of Pingcheng.
Many of these Ganren people had participated in siege battles. They had long been familiar with what to do when they got under the city tower. With the number of people and the courage, they actually formed a plan. With a certain degree of threat, many Jizhou Army recruits who showed up due to excitement were either shot or wounded, or were unlucky enough to be shot to death.
The common people of Ganren still have such fighting power. Sun Fuhu and others on the city tower really don't know what to say. You said you really have such a brave spirit, why don't you fight the Huns desperately? It's like fighting your own people. Pretty decent.
"Pour the black oil and burn these bastards to death." Sun Fuhu spoke again. Just from his attitude again, it can be seen that he really hates these so-called gangsters.
Black oil is different from kerosene. Fire oil can also be put out, but black oil, hehe...
After a military order, the Jizhou Army guarding the city stopped firing arrows, and instead threw barrels of black oil from the tower. Then torches that had been prepared long ago were thrown at it, and fell to the black ground. The oil instantly caused a raging fire.
Since ancient times, the emergence of fire has been regarded as a disaster by humans.
It hasn't changed over the years.
When the raging fire started to burn, I don't know how many people screamed. Out of self-protection, the Ganren people who were burned by the fire ran towards their companions, hoping that they could save them. Some He simply ran to the moat and tried to get into the water to put out the fire.
However, there are no eggs!
Once it is stained by black oil, how can it be said that it can be extinguished? But wherever those people whose black oil is ignited run, it will cause a fire somewhere. While it cannot be extinguished, it will also cause fire. He also burned many other companions with him.
When everyone saw that the fire oil could not be extinguished, not only the gangsters and the common people, but also the gangsters among them were afraid. They were also afraid of death. When they found that courage could not solve the problem, they had no choice but to follow everyone. Retreat.
The 50,000-strong siege army retreated like a tide. A total of nearly 10,000 corpses were left behind on the battlefield. Especially, the moat was filled with corpses, making the moat full of corpses. It has lost its original defensive role.