The next day, the snow fell less heavily.
Pharmacist Guo felt that Sai Ci was in the way, so he asked him to lead a thousand soldiers to Gao Laozhuang, while he stayed behind to attack Zhang Xiaozhuang.
Ten catapults were lined up in a row, aimed at the village gate and the ice city wall next to it. At a command, stones the size of a human head flew towards this side.
Seeing this, the soldiers of the National Protection Army hurriedly squatted down and hid behind the parapet.
The stone hit the hard wall, leaving only a small hole.
Two stones flew over the ice city wall and landed in the village. One of them hit the roof of a thatched house, making a big hole.
This was the only damage caused to Zhang Xiaozhuang by this round of attack.
Seeing this, the soldiers of the National Protection Army burst into laughter.
They all poked their heads out from behind the parapets and shouted towards the Jin army, "Master Guo, can you do this?"
"You want to throw this tiny rock at us?"
"Guo Gou, change to a bigger one."
…
The trebuchet only threw five or six rounds before it stopped.
There is no other stone.
Kaifeng is located in a plain, surrounded by flat land, and stones are hard to find.
When he led the team out, he finally found some stones, but they were gone in a few seconds.
The problem was that several rounds of attacks did not cause any damage to the ice city wall.
In this situation, even if there are more stones, it will be of no use.
Pharmacist Guo stood beside a catapult with a gloomy face, and no one knew what was going on in his mind.
One of his men came over and said, "General, if we don't have stones, we can make some ice balls instead."
Pharmacist Guo glared at him. "What a bad idea! Stone can't even break the ice wall, so what good will the ice ball do?"
Another subordinate said, "Since they can use ice and snow to build the city wall, we can also use ice and snow."
"How to use it?"
"Build a gentle slope with ice and snow, leading directly to the top of the wall."
Pharmacist Guo nodded slowly. "That's a good idea, but Zhang Shixun is no fool. He won't just stand by and watch us do this. Using bows and crossbows alone can cause us huge casualties."
The subordinate smiled flatteringly and said, "General, you must have played with snowballs before. They get bigger and bigger as they roll. When they are as tall as a man, we can hide behind them and push them against the city wall. Their arrows won't be able to hurt us."
When Pharmacist Guo heard this, he immediately became excited and said, "This idea is feasible. Let's do it."
So, more than a thousand Jin soldiers started a vigorous snowball movement, and the scene was very lively.
Upon hearing the news, Zhang Shixun climbed up the wall and looked at the city below with great interest. He sighed, "We can build the city wall with ice and snow, and the enemy has also learned from us and used snow to make snowballs. Haha!"
Yue Fan said with some concern, "Master, the Jin soldiers are snowballing, and their intention is clear. They're planning to roll the snowballs down to our city and pile them up there."
Chen San also said: "They must have this idea, General, we have to be on guard."
Zhang Shixun smiled slightly and asked, "What if they roll the snowball to our city?"
Yue Fan replied without hesitation, "They'll build higher and higher until it's flush with our walls. Then, relying on their numbers, they'll be able to storm our village."
Zhang Shixun turned his gaze to Chen San again.
Chen San gave a bitter laugh and said to Yue Fan, "Captain Yue, if the Jin army wants to push the snowball to the city, they have to make it at least as tall as a person, then hide behind the snowball and slowly push it towards the city. Otherwise, they won't be able to avoid our arrows."
Yue Fan asked, "How should we deal with this?"
“No need to deal with it at all.”
"No need to deal with it? What do you mean?"
Zhang Shixun sighed softly.
Yue Fan is still not smart enough.
"Master Yue, if they succeed in getting the snowball under the city wall, what should we do next?"
"They'll just keep piling snowballs on top of it."
"How many people can lift a snowball as tall as a person?"
When Chen San said this, Yue Fan finally understood and slapped his head: "I am too stupid, even dumber than a pig."
Zhang Shixun smiled and shook his head, saying, "Pharmacist Guo is not stupid. When he realizes this isn't working, he might change his strategy. For example, he might pile up ice and snow to create a high slope. From there, he could shoot arrows at us, or even pull up a catapult. That way, he'd cause us heavy casualties."
Yue Fan said, "Even so, they still can't attack our village."
Chen Sandao said, "If they really build up a high-altitude attack, they can fire back at us. They have more people, so we will definitely suffer. Moreover, they can also fire at us while setting up ladders to attack the city. By then, we will be passive."
Zhang Shixun nodded, "Chen San is right... Yue Fan, you should learn more from Chen San. He has practical combat experience."
Yue Fangang quickly responded.
As they were talking, the Jin army had already made more than a dozen snowballs that were half a person's height, and then they formed groups of three or four and began to slowly push the snowballs towards the ice city wall.
The snowball grew bigger and bigger at a visible speed. When it was more than fifty steps away from the ice city wall, it was already as tall as a person.
As the weight of the snowball increased, it became very difficult for three or four people to push it.
Seeing that the snowball was not enough to completely cover the Jin soldiers behind him, Zhang Shixun picked up the bow customized for him by Wang Dong, turned on the AI aiming function in the command system, bent the bow and put the arrow on. When the bowstring sounded, a Jin soldier with half of his body exposed screamed and was hit by an arrow in the left shoulder.
Seeing this, the other Jin soldiers squeezed behind the snowball as much as possible.
As a result, the efficiency of snowballing is greatly reduced.
Zhang Shixun picked up another arrow and aimed at the Jin soldier behind the snowball on the right. With a "whoosh", the arrow hit the head of a Jin soldier.
The Jin soldier fell headfirst into the snow without even a scream.
Zhang Shixun walked back and forth on the wall with a bow and arrow. Once he found the right angle, he would raise his hand and shoot an arrow. Wherever the bowstring sounded, a Jin soldier would fall down.
The soldiers on the city wall cheered for him when they saw that his arrows never missed their targets.
The other archers followed suit and shot sharp arrows at the Jin soldiers behind Snowball.
Regardless of the casualties, the Jin soldiers sent out another group of Jin soldiers to replace the injured and dead. At the same time, they also sent out hundreds of archers to shoot at the people on the ice city wall.
On the top of the city wall, a farmhand archer screamed and fell down holding his chest. When other farmhands went over to see, the farmhand archer who was shot was breathing more out than in and was obviously dying.
Immediately afterwards, a crossbowman of the National Protection Army was also hit by an arrow in the shoulder.
Casualties occurred one after another.
Zhang Shixun was unwilling to suffer heavy casualties among his men, so he quickly gave the order: "Everyone, take cover beneath the battlements. No one is allowed to shoot arrows without my order."
He did not hide himself, but pulled down the mask on his helmet and continued to shoot arrows downwards, targeting the Jin army archers behind him.
The Jin army's arrows could not penetrate his armor at all.
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