Chapter 302 Manual Catapult (Please vote and subscribe)

Arrows flew towards the top of Hanyang City like they were free, but how much power could these crudely made bows and arrows exert? The thickness of the bows was uneven at both ends, so could the arrows fly straight?

The sound of arrows hitting each other was endless. Some arrows didn't even fly over the city wall, but directly hit the wall. Some arrows flew directly over the top of the city wall and shot into the city wall. The soldiers on the city wall had already hidden behind the arrow stacks. Not to mention sacrifice, not even one was injured.

The 600 cannibal archers shot seven or eight rounds, but there was no result at all. The captains who led the troops also called for a halt. After all, they didn't have many arrows to begin with, and each person only had 20 or 30 arrows. They couldn't just waste them.

You have to know that arrows are equivalent to modern ammunition, and are even more precious than ammunition. In ancient times, swords and knives could be ignored for civilian use, but bows and spears were all under government control, which was enough to show their importance.

Seeing that the enemy's arrows had no effect on them, the soldiers on the top of the city cheered again, and their morale rose again

and again. On the other hand, the enemy soldiers below were either dejected or furious. However, there were some smart people among them. They knew that their bows and arrows were of poor quality, so they adopted a more primitive attack strategy. Someone soon shouted something loudly, and then a large part of the crowd below ran to the river. They were not interested in the rice that looked like weeds. Seeing a road in the middle, they followed the road to the river. Because the rice fields were all muddy, no one would walk in the muddy and weed-covered paddy fields.

Hundreds of people ran to the river and soon ran back, each holding a few pebbles in their hands, and finally piled them under the city wall.

The red-haired giant apes' eyes lit up when they saw the stones. Without saying a word, they picked up a piece and threw it at the figure on the top of the city wall. Ying Rui, who had just stuck his head out to look down, suddenly saw a dark shadow rushing towards him. He was so scared that he quickly retracted his neck. Then he heard a clang of a heavy object hitting the wall. The fist-sized pebble hit the corner of the ravine and finally bounced back into the moat below.

With this inspiration, the other giant apes and totem warriors were not idle either. They picked up stones and threw them at the city wall. In an instant, hundreds and thousands of pebbles fell like raindrops. The warriors squatting under the ravines curled up on the ground and hugged their heads. Many people were hit and screamed, and many were directly injured.

"Quickly evacuate the city wall, all of you get off the city wall, leave some people in the tower, and the rest of you hurry down."

Ying Rui also held his head and rushed into the tower. When the other soldiers heard the shouts, they quickly evacuated the city wall. Some were hit twice when they evacuated, and they all grimaced in pain. In the end, they all ran under the city wall in the rain of stones, clinging to the base of the inner city to avoid the flying stones outside.

The elders and rat witches standing inside the city gate were also shocked to see such a scene. After thinking for a while, the elder immediately said,

"Go to the woodworking workshop and take a look. I remember there should be a lot of spare shields. They are used by the leader to expand the army. Bring all those shields over. If it doesn't work, get some wooden boards. As long as they can block the stones, it's fine."

Du Er, who was standing aside, heard this and his eyes suddenly lit up. Without saying a word, he ran to the wood processing factory, and the other soldiers followed behind.

The rain of stones did not last long and soon stopped. After all, the amount of stones they could get from the river was limited. They could only throw a few rounds before their ammunition ran out.

Just as they ran to the river to pick up stones again, Du'er and his men also brought a lot of shields and wooden boards from the woodworking workshop. A group of people ran up to the top of the city again, and some of the soldiers who had just been injured were arranged to go to the warehouse in the military camp for treatment. When

the leader of the Snake Tribe saw dozens of wounded soldiers coming down, he hurried to ask the Rat Witch and the elders for herbs and tools, preparing to let his tribesmen treat the wounded. The Snake Tribe was good at healing and had sold a lot of medicinal materials to the Han Tribe in daily transactions. At this time, they came in handy. The elders were very happy to hear this and personally led the Snake leader to get the things.

A few minutes later, the second round of stone attacks began again, but the warriors on the wall had also prepared in advance. Some of them held a shield alone, and some held a wooden board at the same time. The clanging sound of flying stones falling on the wooden board was endless, but this time no one was injured. The morale that had just dropped due to the injuries from the stone attacks rose again.

Ying Rui arrogantly erected a huge wooden board and poked it into the gap of the arrow stack, just to show the enemy below that I have a shield, but you still can't do anything to me.

Such provocation quickly took effect. Just now, when someone on the wall was heard screaming, the totem warriors below were also excited. After trying so many ways, they finally had a way to deal with them, so they smashed more vigorously.

However, after just a few rounds of smashing, the guards with their hair tied up above had a countermeasure again. Looking at the man wearing a silver tin crown on the wall, hiding behind the big wooden board and sneering at them, the totem warriors below immediately lost the motivation to continue smashing.

Only those unwilling apes picked up stones to smash Ying Rui's wooden planks. The giant ape was so powerful that the wooden planks made a loud bang, and even made Ying Rui step back a few steps. Ying Rui no longer resisted and hid under the arrow stack again after being hit by more than a dozen flying stones.

After the flying stone attack, the cannibal totem warriors were completely out of tricks. A group of people circled the city wall for several times, but could not find a flaw to break in. Finally, they had no choice but to confront the Hanyang City defenders. The four city gates were blocked. Let's see what you can do. You can't just not eat or drink. If you don't come out to hunt, you will starve to death. Let's see if you can come out.

It's normal for them to have such thoughts. They have never been to Hanyang City, so who knows what the city is like, and they don't know what the people in the city eat. They thought they hunted every day like them.

After a short break in the fighting, Ying Rui also inspected the four city walls. Seeing that the four city gates were blocked, he shook his head helplessly. Even if they were able to fight out, Luo Chong had already issued an order not to leave the city to meet the enemy. Besides, if they really fought out, there would definitely be casualties on the Han tribe side. Maybe that's what the leader thought, otherwise why didn't he let them fight back?

So the two sides were deadlocked, and the Rat Witch also had people pick up the flying stones and send them to the top of the city wall. This way, they didn't even have to pick up the stones themselves, and they could just keep them to hit the enemies below.

(End of this chapter)