Chapter 3248: The claw hook drags the city gate open
Following Xiang Mi's roar, a strong man behind him raised his sledgehammer early. This time, he dropped the sledgehammer hard and hit the mechanism behind the eight-stone bull-running crossbow carried by Xiang Mi.
In part, only a "click" sound was heard, and the bronze crossbow buckle flew up. On the crossbow arm, eight thick beef tendons were twisted together to form a crossbow string as thick as a child's arm. It bounced rapidly, and the
The long rope connected to the hook of the claw in front of Xiang Mi was fired fiercely.
At the same time, more than a dozen eight-stone bull-running crossbows placed around them began to roar at the same time, or the claw hooks attached to the long ropes, or the three barbed prongs and tails attached to the broken spears.
Then connected to a long rope, there were more than ten of these various kinds of hooks, which were either ropes or hooks, accurately and powerfully hit the sandbags and soil bags piled at the city gate.
From there, a cloud of smoke and dust rose up, along with the ashes and human ashes from the original burning on the ground, floating all over the city gate.
There was a burst of exclamation from the city gate: "No, Wu'er is about to attack the gate, hurry up!"
A burst of scattered crossbow arrows shot out from the back of the sandbag, but just like before, they were unable to cause any damage to the Jin army behind the eight-stone running bull crossbow. Xiang Mihahahahaha smiled, loosened his hand, and the huge crossbow arm came out from his
It slipped from his waist and fell to the ground. He picked up the one-handed battle ax that he had just thrown on the ground and said sternly: "Pull it back to me and clear the door!"
Hundreds of Jin troops who had been prepared long ago took off their shirts and armors, revealing their well-developed and strong muscles. They were either in groups of ten or in teams of eight. The person above them even more so.
The tail of the rope was wrapped around his waist, just like the tug-of-war in later generations. The leading warrior roared, and everyone used their strength together to rush back. As they exerted their strength, the people who were originally piled up at the city gate
The sandbags and earthbags were immediately pulled out of their positions, just like blocks being pulled out of a pile of blocks and running straight out of the city gate.
The dozen claw hooks and broken hooks launched in the first round brought out seven or eight large bags of soil at once, as well as six or seven bags. Because the claw hook hit the place not too strong, it often just made a scratch on the bag.
When the mouth was opened again, the bag body burst, and the soil and dust inside were scattered all over the ground. However, the big bags were still scattered in the city gate opening. They were not dragged out, but blocked some soil bags behind them.
Pull out.
He waved to Mi Yi, and more than twenty heavily armored sergeants who had been prepared behind him stepped out. Each of them held a rifle more than two feet long, and the tip of the rifle had been replaced with a claw hook or simply a
They formed the shape of a sword, and when they reached a place six or seven meters in front of the city gate, they formed a group of two or three people and stabbed or pecked at the broken earth bags and sandbags scattered in the city gate.
Zhao Gou and Heng Ge hit these sandbags hard from above, and then two or three people shouted and dragged them backwards. The sandbags weighing dozens of kilograms were dragged out of the city gate, along with
Just like the sandbags that were pulled out with ropes before, more than ten sandbags were just moved from the pile of sandbags to outside the city gate.
The originally crowded city gate cave suddenly became much emptyer. The sandbags and earthbags piled up like a wall were all scattered by the dragging. In addition to the more than ten earthbags that were pulled out,
, and more than twenty bags of sandbags rolled down everywhere. The sandbag wall collapsed suddenly, and the situation behind the wall was clearly visible.
Dozens of Yan Army sergeants holding crossbows stood with their mouths wide open behind the collapsed sandbag wall. In front of them, there were more than twenty wooden stakes, and more than thirty others were also bare-chested, carrying wooden stakes.
The hammer sergeant was driving the piles vigorously, and some wooden piles had been nailed with crossbars to form a preliminary fence.
Obviously, the defenders in the city also realized that the sandbag wall would always be broken through, and they began to seize the time to erect a fence inside the city gate as a second line of defense. However, they did not expect that the Jin army would actually
Using this method of dragging the bag with claws and long hooks, he quickly cleared the obstacles created by hundreds of sandbags. In less than a moment, he couldn't even hide what he was doing here.
He smiled at Mihaha and waved his hand. Hundreds of archers standing on the front line of the city gate fired a burst of fire into the city gate. Their bows and arrows originally pointed at the city head quickly flattened and fired straight away. For a moment, the arrows were like
Locusts, like a storm, swept over the Yan army who were driving piles and fences at the entrance to the city gate and the archers behind them. In just the blink of an eye, thirty or forty people were struck by arrows and fell to the ground, rolling and screaming.
, and even some weak wooden piles were knocked down in the chaos, causing the injured on the ground to vomit blood.
There was a burst of rapid shouting and cursing in the city, accompanied by the sound of many messy cries. The Yan army archers who were still alive quickly fired arrows towards the outside of the city to counterattack, and hundreds of them suddenly appeared at the top of the city.
The archers of the Yan army rushed to the line of the battlements and fired at the Jin army outside the city. Dozens of people among the Jin army's archers were shot down at once, but more people were leaning on them.
With good armor protection, they can still survive being hit by arrows. Many people have more than two feathered arrows stuck in their bodies. As long as they don't hit the fatal spot, they still nock the arrows at the standard speed and then reflect them to the city head.
Xiang Mi shouted sternly to the left and right: "What the hell are you waiting for? Eight ox crossbows, throwing poles, all for me to greet on the city wall, the Yan army comes out to fight, kill them!"
As he spoke, he grabbed an infantry crossbow and placed it next to his right foot, which had already been loaded. He pointed at a Yan army officer who was raising his sword in command at the top of the city and pulled the trigger directly. He only heard a scream,
Fifty steps away, the officer who had just leaned out was shot through the eyebrow between his eyes by the arrow, came out through his skull, and almost fell down on his back.
As the officer fell in response to the arrow, there was a small chaos among the Yan Army archers at the top of the city. The Jin Army archers below the city quickly began to fire arrows towards the top of the city, and a few of them rushed out to shoot.
The ten archers of the Yan Army also fell in response, but this time, they all knew that there was no way to retreat. If they did not hold back the archers of the Jin Army here, so that the Jin Army could directly attack behind the gate, once the city gate was broken, they would probably
They are also facing a problem of dying early and dying late. These shooters can only bite the bullet, grit their teeth, and start shooting against the Jin army without retreating!
"Woohoo", there was a sound of breaking through the air. It was the Jin army's flying rocks thrown by the throwing rod, which hit the city head. This time, the launching nest was stuffed with fist-sized gravel.
They were simply put in cloth bags and smashed onto the city wall. The leather armors and helmets of the Yan army's archers were completely unable to protect themselves from these flying stones. Those who were hit would either suffer head injuries or bloodshed or broken bones and tendons.