Although the huge boulder falling from the sky only killed one person, the horrific appearance of his death would cast an indelible shadow on the surrounding soldiers.
The first boulder is just a test shot, and the next step is the moment when the twenty-four trebuchets show their power!
"call out!!!"
"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"
Twenty dozen rocks were whistling and flying from Cao Jun's position to Ji Ling's camp.
The loud noise in the sky and the gradually growing black shadow finally woke up the vomiting soldiers.
The big stone fell into the camp, and the rumbling sound of hitting the ground was mixed with the screams and screams of the soldiers, which immediately caused a large-scale commotion in Ji Ling Camp.
Countless people scurried away with their heads in their hands, trying their best to avoid the boulders falling from the sky.
After about two rounds of throwing, a huge angular boulder was not thrown very high because it was too heavy, and it hit the wooden wall of Ji Lingjun's camp.
There was only a loud "boom" and "click" sound, and the wooden walls of the camp made of logs as thick as the mouth of a bowl fell apart in an instant, with debris flying everywhere and broken wood flying!
There were two soldiers hiding behind the wooden wall. When the boulder hit the wooden wall, they were torn apart in an instant along with the wooden wall, leaving no intact corpses!
"What a tragedy! But the angle of that stone is good." Lu Yan put away the telescope that Zhao Yun handed him, shook his head, and then said to the messenger behind him: "Ask them to lower the angle and put two more rounds, I want to smash it
The wall of Lan Jiling’s camp!”
"Here!" The messenger trotted over and brought Lu Yan's order.
After a short adjustment, the trebuchet started roaring ferociously again!
"Boom boom boom!!!"
This time the effect was good. Four large rocks hit the wooden wall, and immediately opened four gaps nearly half a foot wide in the wooden wall of Ji Ling Camp!
Looking at the village wall that had broken through several gaps in just three rounds, the generals behind Lu Yan couldn't help but gasp.
Put yourself in Ji Ling's shoes, what kind of response could they make if they were replaced by Ji Ling?
"I'm afraid, I have to fight to the death and rush out of the camp with all my strength..." Xiahou Dun had just finished his thoughts when a cry of killing rang out in Ji Ling's camp!
"kill!"
"kill!"
The catapult behind Lu Yan was still working.
Nearly a hundred topless military men were frantically twisting the huge winch.
The counterweights of the catapults slowly rose again. After waiting for about a few minutes, the craftsman directed the soldiers to straighten the sword again, and then slashed it down!
Accompanied by the "bang bang bang" machine collision sound,
More than twenty catapults behind Cao's army roared, and huge stones were roared into the air again.
Several stone bullets drew a wonderful arc and fell accurately into the army that Ji Ling had assembled and charged out of the camp. In an instant, screams rang out again and again, and the ground was full of broken arms.
Limbs and even minced flesh.
Although the three rounds of stone throwing have so far killed only a few dozen of Yuan's soldiers, the tragic circumstances of their deaths were so horrific that they put tremendous psychological pressure on other soldiers.
You can die, but you can’t die in such a horrible way!
Look at that man, his whole body is mixed with the soil, and I'm afraid he won't be able to button it out!
A few soldiers who passed by the boulder felt a chill under their crotches. It turned out that they peed their pants at that moment...
"I won't fight, I won't fight!"
"It's too horrible. I don't want to die so miserably!"
"Hehehe...hahaha!!!"
Some soldiers turned around and ran away, while others were so stimulated that they became delirious and simply went crazy.
Ji Ling's team of supervisors stepped forward and slashed the soldiers who dared to retreat to the ground one by one. Seeing this, the other soldiers could only bite the bullet and continue to charge towards Cao Jun's position!
"Charge, rush, rush!!!" Ji Ling raised his three-pointed knife and shouted loudly, "If you rush in front of Cao Jun, their trebuchets will be useless!"
"Come on! Destroy those trebuchets!"
"Go ahead!!"
Seeing that Ji Lingjun finally launched a brazen charge, Lu Yan smiled slightly and said, "Send the order, when the enemy army approaches eighty steps, the crossbowmen will launch an attack!"
Fifty steps or less is the optimal killing distance for a repeating crossbow, but it does not mean that it cannot cause damage at eighty steps.
Lu Yan and the others tested it during the day yesterday. At eighty steps, the crossbow arrows could pass through the iron armor.
As for Ji Ling's soldiers, except for the generals, almost all of them wore ordinary leather armor, and only their chests and backs were made of inferior iron pieces.
The distance of eighty steps, considering the current power of the serial crossbow, is enough to form an effective lethality against them!
Of course, the Chu army's repeated crossbows are still a huge threat.
Amid the sound of chants rising one wave after another,
The soldiers under Ji Lingjun began to increase their speed to the maximum, and there were archers in the back row who fired bows and arrows to suppress Cao Jun's archers.
Looking at the surging Ji Ling infantry,
The corner of Lu Yan's mouth suddenly curved in a sharp arc, he looked back at Huang Zhong and said: "Han Sheng, prepare to command the crossbow formation to shoot the enemy!"
"Here!" Huang Zhong clasped his fists, roared angrily, and rode a green horse quickly to the front of the military formation.
When Ji Ling's army was still one hundred and twenty steps away, Huang Zhong suddenly shouted: "Liannu team, enter!"
As Huang Zhong's order was issued, the flag bearer raised the flag high and made several quick movements.
After the front row infantry received the order, their shield formation suddenly turned sideways.
One by one, holding a slightly bulky repeating crossbow in their hands, they walked through the gaps between the shield soldiers and knelt down in front of the formation.
When Ji Ling saw Cao Jun's sudden change of formation, his heart suddenly thumped, and he had an ominous premonition.
"One hundred steps! Prepare, aim!"
"Whoosh!"
Fifty soldiers of Cao's army carrying repeated crossbows slightly raised their crossbows and pointed them at the menacing Yuan Jun in front.
Behind them there are two assistants holding arrow boxes, waiting to shoot an empty round and then quickly replace the arrow boxes and shoot him for two more rounds!
Huang Zhong bent his bow like a full moon and shouted angrily: "Eighty steps! Shoot!!!"
Before he finished speaking, the long bow in his hand made a crisp sound, and then a junior high school student in the Ji Ling formation who was shouting for command fell to the ground.
After Huang Zhong's bow and arrow shot out, there was a terrifying roar of fifty repeating crossbows.
"Bang!" The soldiers deactivated the machine gun almost at the same time, and the repeating crossbows in their hands roared and sprayed out a row of jet-black arrows!
"Woo~~!"
Five hundred crossbow arrows instantly knocked down a row of Yuan soldiers, and then quickly replaced the arrow cases and fired another round.
After three rounds, Yuan Jun was still thirty steps away from Cao Jun, but they had lost nearly 2,000 infantry directly or indirectly!
The morale of Ji Ling's army was already shaken when they were fired upon by Lian Nu.
Upon seeing this, the generals at all levels in the army immediately began to frantically maintain order. They killed nearly a hundred people until they managed to maintain the military formation and prevent it from collapsing.
If there were fifty more repeating crossbows, Ji Ling's fifteen thousand men would probably have lost nearly one-third of them after three rounds. At that time, the entire army would immediately collapse. No matter you, the King of Hell or the Great Luo Jinxian, it would be impossible for them to do so.
The collapsed military morale can no longer be maintained.
"Unfortunately, there are still a few missing crossbows..." Lu Yan felt a little regretful.
But Xiahou Dun and others were dumbfounded...
These three consecutive rounds of fire caused Ji Lingjun unimaginable huge casualties.
Fortunately, Cao's army did not have many new-type repeating crossbowmen, and they retracted after firing three rounds. Ji Lingjun's charge was not aborted midway.
"No chaos, hold up your shield and charge forward!"
"Fuck it for me, rush it! Uh..."
The captain who was shouting so loudly had not finished shouting. With a "swish" sound, a wolf-fang arrow seemed to be guided with precision and pierced his throat.
Due to the excessive power of the arrow, the Wolf Fang Arrow directly penetrated the captain's throat, taking away most of his neck and almost decapitating him.
The captain fell off his horse and fell to the ground without saying a word.
For a time, no one in Ji Ling's army dared to give loud orders...