The next day.
Xiao Yan commanded an army of 100,000 to attack Qianhu Suo, but although the mountain road was spacious, it was impossible to accommodate so many people.
In the end, only 10,000 people went up.
Xiao Yan felt that ten thousand people were enough, ten times the number of the enemy, and they should be able to attack and defeat them.
Not to mention that these 10,000 people also carried catapults, battering rams, and ladders.
As long as these 10,000 people can climb up the city wall, the rebellion will basically be declared over.
This time, Chang Wei and others did not ambush on the left side of the mountain road. It was not because they did not want to, but after the spies surveyed the terrain yesterday, Xiao Yan sent a captain to lead troops to station above the mountain road.
Xiao Yan was quite experienced in suppressing bandits. He knew that bandits would take advantage of mountain roads to launch attacks, so he would occupy the area first to prevent the enemy from ambushing.
Pei Yun actually hadn't thought of sending people to ambush. The last ambush was to destroy Xiao Cheng's siege vehicle, but now that the cannons have been built, there is no need for an ambush.
At this moment, Pei Yun was directing everyone to lift the cannon onto the city wall, but it was indeed a bit difficult to lift the weight of two thousand kilograms, and the city wall was too high, so it was a bit difficult to move it.
"Get out of the way."
Shen Yanyu asked everyone to move aside. She circulated her internal energy and kicked the base of the cannon. Suddenly, the 2,000-jin cannon flew up and fell towards the city wall.
Everyone swallowed their saliva and could only say that the top-notch strong man was really awesome. It was difficult for so many of them to lift the object, but the other party kicked it away with one kick.
On the city wall, Ye Zhaoyuan and Ye Jinghong attacked at the same time and caught the cannon.
Then put it in the designated location.
Then everyone started to move the shells. There are two types of shells. One is a large solid iron ball, weighing about ten pounds, and the other is an explosive bomb, which is filled with explosives. Before firing, the fuse is ignited and then fired, so that it will explode when it falls.
During the test firing yesterday, everyone had seen the power of the cannon and now they were all gathered around the cannon, wanting to try it out.
Pei Yun said: "Okay, the enemy is coming soon, get ready."
Ye Zhaoyuan said, "Why bother? Miss Shen and I can go down the mountain and get the commander's head."
Chen Yanyu nodded aside. Two top-notch masters, two first-rate masters, even if there were an army of 100,000 at the foot of the mountain, they would dare to give it a try.
Pei Yun smiled and said, "Killing the main general alone is useless. If we kill one, there will be another. What I want is to shock the court. If they think that my thousand households are easy to bully, then I will let them know what a tough guy is."
"Only when they are scared will they not dare to come."
Ye Zhaoyuan didn't say much after hearing this, "Okay, I'm going to watch TV. Call me if you need anything."
After saying that, his figure moved and disappeared. Ye Jinghong hurriedly followed him. Recently, the two gentlemen have been fascinated by martial arts dramas, in which the moves are gorgeous and the special effects are superb. The two of them watched with great fascination.
Although Chen Yanyu and Leng Qingqiu also wanted to watch a martial arts drama, as Pei Yun's guards, they would naturally be wherever Pei Yun was.
Not long after, the soldiers from Jingzhou came up. Although there were only 10,000 of them, they formed a large black mass. When they saw the shape of the Qianhu Suo, they were slightly stunned.
A small thousand-household unit was actually built like a fortress. Did they expect this day to come?
Five trebuchets began to be assembled, as well as three battering rams.
But before the 10,000 men could launch the attack, Pei Yun had already opened fire first.
“Bang!”
As the cannon sounded, a cannonball whizzed out and landed accurately in the catapult position of the Jingzhou army.
boom!
A huge explosion was heard, and a catapult was instantly blown to pieces. A dozen soldiers around were also affected by the explosion and their bodies were not left.
The other Jingzhou troops were all confused. What was going on?
They were still five hundred steps away from the city wall. Could it be that the other side also had catapults?
But what fell was not a stone.
Looking towards the city wall, they saw standing on it a huge monster that they had never seen before, and several people were busy working beside this monster.
Smoke was still coming out of the dark hole of the huge creature. Could it be that this thing was attacking just now?
"Quick, assemble it!"
The captain shouted loudly, and the Jingzhou soldiers who were responsible for assembling the catapults moved even faster.
On Pei Yun's side, Chang Wei and others are performing a series of complicated operations. After the cannon is fired, it will deviate from its original position due to recoil, so it needs to be reset first.
He also had to clean the barrel with a wet brush, extinguish sparks, and finally wipe it dry with a dry cloth before reloading the gunpowder. Pei Yun looked at it and it took about 5 minutes to load the second shell.
Once you become proficient, it can be shortened to about 3 minutes.
He was also somewhat helpless. Firing cannons was cumbersome, but these were necessary steps. Only when there were more cannons and they were fired in turns could this period of time be covered.
Fortunately, it also takes time for the other side to assemble the catapult.
By the time the second shell was fired, the opponent had assembled two catapults.
boom!
Another huge explosion sounded, and the catapult was destroyed again.
“Fight back, fight back.”
The captain spoke loudly, and the soldiers of Jingzhou placed huge stones on the catapults and threw them out.
A sharp sound of breaking through the air was heard, and two huge rocks were seen smashing towards the city wall.
But before it fell, it was shattered by Chen Yanyu and Leng Qingqiu.
The two women can easily defend against this kind of scattered attacks.
The attack frequency of the catapults was not fast, and the time was almost the same as that of the cannons. By the time the three catapults had loaded the boulders, the third cannonball had arrived.
Another catapult was destroyed. Although the remaining two threw out huge rocks, with Chen Yanyu and Leng Qingqiu there, they were unable to cause any damage to the defenders on the city wall.
Ten minutes later, the last two trebuchets were scrapped.
Chang Wei and others were so excited that they adjusted the angle and aimed the cannon at the battering ram.
The captain looked grim, five catapults were destroyed just like that, and they didn't even touch the enemy's hair.
Looking at the defenders on the city wall, although they were ready for battle, their small number was a fatal weakness. So, there was no need to use catapults, and they could just attack the city directly.
"attack!"
The captain roared, and immediately the Jingzhou soldiers shouted and rushed towards the city wall with ladders.
Once they came into the range of the bows and arrows, archers from both sides began to shoot at each other.
However, there were fewer archers on the Qianhu Division's side, only a hundred of them, and the arrows they shot were sparse, which did not pose much threat to the Jingzhou army.
The captain laughed. It was so funny that such a small number of people dared to rebel. The credit for attacking the city would be his.
But the next second, the captain could no longer laugh, because he saw the people on the city wall throwing out a black object with sparks coming out of the top of the object.
When those round things fell to the ground, they exploded instantly.
Bombs exploded among the Jingzhou soldiers one after another, flames shot into the sky, shrapnel flew everywhere, and screams instantly resounded throughout the valley!
What was even more terrifying was that the cannons roared again, and the shells fell, causing more damage than the bombs.
In an instant, the soldiers of Jingzhou were thrown to the ground!
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