The rising sun rises in the east, and the morning glow is bright and beautiful.
At dawn, the gate of the Jizhou military camp opened wide, and Yuan Shao was proud of the spring breeze. Surrounded by a crowd of civil and military personnel, he swaggered towards Tushan.
Yuan Fang walked so slowly and came directly to an earthen hill seventy steps away from the Qingzhou Barrier. He was not worried at all that Yuan Fang would send troops to attack him.
Yuan Shao firmly believed that his earth-mountain plan had already suppressed Yuan Fang until he could not lift his head, and he still dared to send troops to attack.
If Yuan Fang really had the guts to send out troops, Yuan Shao would be happy to see the wonderful scene of his own crossbowmen shooting the attacking enemy troops into hedgehogs from a high position.
Arriving at the foot of the mountain, Yuan Shao dismounted and climbed up the mountain himself.
Standing on the top of a few feet high, Yuan Shao put his hands on his hips and looked at the barrier coldly and arrogantly, showing his contempt for the world.
"My lord, please see, the rebels are like cowardly turtles, huddled under their shields, not even daring to show their faces." Feng Ji pointed at the Gudu Barrier and said with a smile.
Yuan Shao glanced down and saw thousands of Qingzhou soldiers, shivering and huddled under their shields, not even daring to take a breath. Those who showed their heads slightly were shot down by crossbowmen on the mountains. The rain came and hit the hedgehog on the spot.
Looking at the frustrated look of his enemy, Yuan Shao let out a long breath, as if the anger accumulated in his heart after being repeatedly humiliated by Yuan Fang had finally been vented, and he felt much more relaxed.
"If the situation continues like this, if we suppress it for another seven or eight days at most, the rebels' military morale will inevitably collapse. At that time, it will be time for the lord to launch a massive attack and level the enemy camp in one fell swoop." Fengji took advantage of the situation and outlined a blueprint for Yuan Shao.
The more Yuan Shao listened, the happier he became. He couldn't help laughing, stroking his beard and praising: "Yuan Tu, your plan is really clever. I don't expect that traitor to last long. If the rebellion can be put down this time, you must be the first to do it."
Ji was secretly happy when he saw it, but he said humbly: "Ji is responsible for sharing the worries and doing his best, and it is his duty. He must not take any credit. It is the lord who is wise and powerful. Only the rebellion can be quelled."
Fengji's flattery touched Yuan Shao's heart, and he laughed loudly, and his contempt for Jue became even stronger.
The high-spirited Yuan Shao. I saw the soldiers in front of me firing arrows. Interested together. Then he had to go into battle and shoot a few arrows.
Fengji hurriedly snatched the soldiers' bows and arrows, gave them to Yuan Shao with both hands, and said with expectation: "The soldiers are looking forward to seeing the lord's style. Please ask the lord to show us his superb shooting skills, so that the soldiers can learn from it." One study.¡±
Yuan Shao was full of confidence, stretched out his arms, kicked his legs, picked up his bow and arrow and got into a posture.
Before he could draw his bow, he clapped his hands and cheered at every opportunity, praising Yuan Shao's wonderful posture in drawing the bow.
The officers and soldiers on the left and right also joined in and cheered in unison.
Yuan Shao became more and more arrogant. He drew his bow to full capacity and aimed the arrow at the enemy at the foot of the mountain. However, the rising sun blinded him, and he couldn't even aim at a single figure for a long time.
Just when Yuan Shao was still squinting, trying to find his target, there was sudden movement in the Qingzhou Fortress in his field of vision.
Teams of Qingzhou soldiers, holding large shields as tall as a man, formed a shield array in teams of ten and advanced towards the wall.
Yuan Shao also vaguely saw that behind each shield wall, there seemed to be a mule cart following.
"What is that little beast Yuan Fang doing pulling a mule cart in front of the camp?" Yuan Shao suddenly became suspicious and couldn't help but squint his eyes and look again.
Gradually, Yuan Shao discovered that those mules did not seem to be pulling carts, but more like
Trebuchet!
That¡¯s right, it¡¯s a trebuchet, a movable trebuchet!
Yuan Shao¡¯s expression suddenly changed. His originally arrogant and confident expression suddenly gave way to shock and panic.
He never expected that Yuan Fang would secretly build a large number of trebuchets after standing still for many days, and they were also movable trebuchets.
"Quick, shoot the arrow, don't let the rebels set up the trebuchet!" Yuan Shao, who was awakened, shouted sternly.
At this moment, the crossbowmen of the Jizhou Army on the Tushan Mountain also reacted. More than 3,000 people went into battle together, and arrows like raindrops were shot towards the front line of the barrier.
In the barrier, Yuan Fang commanded his soldiers to withstand the enemy's arrow rain with their large shields, and protected the mules to pull the huge trebuchet to the line of the wall.
Within a quarter of an hour, more than a hundred trebuchets had been deployed.
This time the enemy's arrow rain only caused a small amount of damage to Yuan Fang's army. Most of the soldiers used their large shields to avoid the enemy's arrows.
The time to fight back has finally arrived.
Yuan Fang stood proudly on his horse and shouted loudly:??: "All trebuchets, load me with slugs!"
After the order was passed, the shield bearers hurriedly raised their shields to protect the loader, and put stone bullets the size of a human head into the bag.
After a while, more than a hundred trebuchets were loaded.
Yuan Fang's gaze was like a blade, and he shot coldly at the mountains of earth high up outside the wall. He pointed his skull-crushing stick and shouted: "Fire the stone bullets and blast the enemy invaders into a pulp!"
The flags waved and the drums soared into the sky.
With a loud whooshing sound, more than a hundred stone bombs rose into the sky, like falling stars, and shot toward the enemy's mountains overwhelmingly.
Boom! boom! boom!
The sky collapsed and the earth split, the sky changed color, dust flew up all over the sky, and the screams were deafening.
In the first wave of bombardment, three earthen mountains were directly hit, and the arrow tower was destroyed to pieces. The enemy crossbowmen who could not dodge were bombarded into pieces by stone bullets.
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After a round of bombardment, Yuan Fang ordered a group of twenty trebuchets to bombard the mountains outside the wall at will.
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Soon, nearly twenty mountains were destroyed in large areas, losing the ability to attack. The remaining archers and crossbowmen only tried to hide in ambush to avoid bullets, and evaded in a panic, without daring to raise their heads and fire arrows.
The enemy's arrow attack was suppressed, Yuan Fang ordered the shield array to be withdrawn, letting the pitchers free their hands and feet to bombard the enemy to their heart's content.
Looking at the dust outside the wall and listening to the screams of the enemies in the dust and mist, Yuan Fang raised a ferocious sneer at the corner of his mouth and said coldly: "Yuan Shao, let me try this time. What is it like to be suppressed so that you can't lift your head?" taste."
At the other end of the mountain, Yuan Shao was indeed pressed so hard that he could not lift his head. Not only could he not lift his head, he even had to lie half on the ground to avoid being hit by stone bullets.
Next to him, a famous crossbowman died. The spurting blood and flying dust splashed all over Yuan Shao, allowing him to fully explain what it means to be disgraced.
Looking around, Yuan Shao saw mountains of earth being destroyed one after another, and his elite crossbowmen died tragically under the enemy's stone bullets. Yuan Shao was horrified, and his heart was as sharp as a knife.
"What happened to the little beast's trebuchet? How could it be dragged to the front of the battle by horses? Feng Ji, tell me, what is going on?" Yuan Shao yelled at Feng Ji angrily.
"Subordinate I don't know. Since ancient times, trebuchets have been built in front of the formation. This is the first time I have seen a trebuchet drawn by a mule" Feng Ji choked. His mouth was gray and he shouted in an inarticulate trembling voice.
Yuan Shao was shocked and angry. After the tunnel strategy, he never expected that this seemingly unsolvable Tushan strategy would also be broken by that little beast Yuan Fang.
After losing again and again and being humiliated again and again, Yuan Shao was so angry that he opened his mouth and spurted out a stream of old blood.
¡°My lord, my lord~~¡± Feng Ji was startled and rushed forward to support the shaky Yuan Shao.
Yuan Shao took a few deep breaths and barely suppressed the surging energy and blood. He finally managed to hold on and did not faint from the anger.
"My lord, Tushan's plan has been broken. It is not suitable to stay here for a long time. You should quickly withdraw to the camp and make plans." Feng Ji anxiously persuaded.
But Yuan Shao pushed Feng Ji away fiercely, gritted his teeth and shouted: "I won't retreat, I will never let that little beast succeed, I will never -"
Before the word "retreat" was uttered, a rebounding stone bullet rolled over and hit Yuan Shao's leg.
Yuan Shao screamed and gritted his teeth in pain. He fell down and blood spurted out from his calf.
"My lord is injured, come here quickly, protect my lord and retreat to the camp." Feng Ji shouted in horror, ignoring Yuan Shao's order, and forcibly carried Yuan Shao away.
Yuan Shao was in so much pain that all his anger and pride had been forgotten. His mind was filled with pain and he had no strength to force himself. He could only let his men carry him down the mountain, and went to the camp in embarrassment. Escape.
As soon as Yuan Shao was injured and retreated, Yuan's army on the front line of the mountains collapsed one after another. Thousands of crossbowmen and nearly 7,000 infantrymen fled in panic, abandoning their helmets and armor.
The trebuchets of the Qingzhou Army kept firing stone bullets to send off the fleeing enemies. Within a range of several hundred steps, they destroyed countless enemies to pieces.
When the last enemy escaped from the firing range in shock, Yuan Fang ordered the bombardment to stop.
Climbing up the wall and looking into the distance, dozens of mountains of earth have been flattened, all from top to bottom.Enemy corpses, discarded weapons and flags and drums.
At this time, the Qingzhou soldiers, who had been huddled under their shields for nearly ten days, finally dared to stand up, straighten their backs and look out. All the soldiers in the army were stunned.
No one can believe that the seemingly indestructible enemy Tushan Formation was completely destroyed in less than half an hour.
After a moment of silence, the soldiers along the wall burst into cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami, and their excited shouts shook the heaven and the earth.
Looking at the mess left by the enemy, and then at the morale-boosted soldiers, Yuan Fangchang breathed a sigh of relief, with a smile of relief on his lips.
After being pleased, he turned his gaze to Zhuge Liang and praised: "Ah Liang, I have recorded the merit of breaking the earth mountain for you."
Zhuge Liang's little face suddenly showed excitement and a little pride, but he said: "Master, my mobile trebuchet is different from other trebuchets. Give it a resounding name."
Yuan Fang pondered for a moment, his eyes lit up, and he said: "The power of this trebuchet is as powerful as thunder, and it can also move, so let's just call it a thunderbolt chariot." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature for more novels. Good update faster!