Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 122 Knocking off (asking for a monthly ticket)

Hulao Pass, after a whole day, Liang Jun's second wave of attack finally began.

"Hey ho, la ho, hi ho, la ho..." Accompanied by the extremely rhythmic chant, tens of thousands of Liang Jun light soldiers dragged hundreds of towering catapults to Hulao Pass , followed by hundreds of catapults, there are dozens of towering wells, dozens of ladders, and several heavy and huge siege vehicles.

Around these huge siege equipment, there are ants like Liang Junjia soldiers.

Wearing heavy armor, Liu Kou stood proudly on one of the well rails with a stern expression. This well rail was about a foot higher than the other forty or so well rails, but the observation tower on the top had only one floor. , and it can only accommodate a dozen people. Obviously, this well rail is not used for combat, but for observing the enemy's reality.

Hundreds of paces ahead, the Hulao Pass, which is no more than four feet high, has to be overlooked.

General Chu Chun tapped on the guardrail of the watchtower and said to Liu Kou: "General, this attack will definitely lead to the Hulao Pass!"

Liu Kou shook his head silently. He didn't dare to be as optimistic as Chu Chun. Even though his army had more than 200 catapults, more than 50 well rails and more than 10,000 ladders, Liang Jun was facing Chu Chun this time. The Chu army was the Chu army that killed Liu Bang's [-]+ army without daring to stay in the Dabie Mountains. The fierceness of this battle must be beyond imagination!

"Hi ho, la ho, hi ho, la ho..."

"Hi ho, la ho, hi ho, la ho..."

"Hi ho, la ho, hi ho, la ho..."

Amidst the loud and rhythmic chants, tens of thousands of Liang Guo's army with hundreds of heavy siege equipment slowly approached Hulao Pass. When stepping away, Liu Kou raised his right hand lightly, and in an instant, all the heavy siege equipment stopped at the same time.

The chant that originally resounded through the sky stopped abruptly in an instant, and the entire battlefield fell into a deathly silence.

In the suffocating silence, Liu Kou raised his right hand and pressed forward suddenly, and then gave the order to attack indifferently: "Catapult, start attacking."

Chu Chun, who was behind Liu Kou, immediately walked to the guardrail, raised a triangular flag and waved it vigorously twice.

In an instant, there was a continuous sound of horns and the sound of passionate and high-pitched war drums in Liang Jun's formation.

Accompanied by the sound of horns and the sound of war drums, teams of Liang Jun sharp soldiers began to get busy. Hundreds of light soldiers put huge boulders into the big basket of the catapult, and tens of thousands of soldiers with bare chests and backs Divided into more than 200 teams, 50 people in each team, under the order of their respective team leaders, began to struggle to pull dozens of ropes connected to the swing arm of the trebuchet.

Pulled by tens of thousands of soldiers, more than 200 swinging arms suddenly stood up from the tower feet of the catapult. With the erection of the swinging arms, the hanging basket tied to the far end of the swinging arms with iron cables was also lifted up. The high ground was thrown into the air, and when the hanging basket passed the high point, the boulder placed inside immediately broke away from the confinement of the hanging basket and roared forward...

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The Hulao is closed.

When groups of huge black shadows appeared in the sky ahead, the recruits on the wall finally became agitated.

"Oh, my God, what the hell is that? What the hell is that?"

"It's such a big thing, and it's thrown so far, at least it takes more than 100 steps. I guess it's reeds, right?"

"Bird, that's a rock, you fucking see clearly, it's all rocks, find a place to hide..."

However, the riots of the recruits were immediately reprimanded by the veterans and small schools at all levels. Although the catapults are powerful, their accuracy is worse than that of the bed crossbow. There are still not many stone bullets on the head, but the wall of Hulao Pass is about to undergo a cruel test.

"If you don't want to die, just stay where you are and don't move!"

"Don't panic, everyone, don't panic, the stone will not fall on your heads!"

"You bastards, I tell you, don't run around, the faster you run, the faster you die!"

Under the scolding of veterans and small schools at all levels, the riot of recruits finally subsided.

The next moment, hundreds of huge boulders fell viciously from the sky with piercing screams. Sure enough, as the veterans and the little school said, most of the boulders fell over the city wall and fell into the pass. Or they hit the huge facing section directly on the front of the city wall, and there were very few stones that fell directly on the wall.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Amidst the huge impact, hundreds of boulders had smashed onto the surface of the city wall.

In an instant, the bricks covering the surface of the city wall were smashed to pieces, and the rammed earth inside was also smashed straight down. When the smoke and dust dispersed, the original flat city wall surface Hundreds of large pits have been left, and two battlements on the top of the city have also been smashed down, and two recruits were smashed into a pulp when they couldn't dodge in time.

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The bombardment by Liang Jun's catapults lasted for half an hour. More than 200 catapults threw at least 2000 boulders at Hulao Pass, and at least 1000 of them fell on the front wall of Hulao Pass. The wall collapsed was devastated and horrible, but only a few stones fell on the wall, and there were less than 50 soldiers who were directly crushed to death by the stones.

On the contrary, the closed watchtower was smashed down, and more than a hundred archers guarding the watchtower were directly buried alive.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the bombardment of Liang Jun's catapult stopped, and Liang Jun's general Liu Kou knew very well that it was absolutely impossible to directly smash down the wall of Hulao Pass with a catapult, regardless of Hulao The wall of the pass is already covered with scars, but for a wall that is more than five feet thick, this level of damage is nothing at all.

Similar to the intensive shooting of the archers, the strike of the catapult can only cause real fatal damage under certain conditions, but in most cases, these two methods are only used to deter the enemy and destroy the morale of the enemy. The real trump card used to snatch the city is the ladder, the well rail and the siege engine!
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On the high well fence, Liu Kou raised his right hand again, pressed forward again, and said indifferently: "Send the order, let the ladder, the well fence, and the siege engine go up together, and attack the city with all our strength!"

Liu Kou is also straightforward, since Liang Wang insists on attacking the city, let's go all out.

"Promise!" Chu Chun promised loudly, and then raised several large flags one after another, waving them vigorously.

In an instant, there was an overwhelming shout in Liang Jun's formation. Thousands of Liang Jun's soldiers swarmed up, pulling and pulling, driving a towering ladder, a well rail and a series of cumbersome The siege engine slowly rolled over aggressively towards the messy and devastated Hulao Pass.

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"Is it finally about to start?!"

Jing Qian couldn't help but turned his head and looked at Pang Yu.

From Pang Yu's eyes, Jing Qian saw the same dignified look, Liang Jun even dispatched all the ladders and all the well rails!As for those huge and heavy siege engines, they were nothing compared to the threat of the ladders and well rails, because the east gate of Hulao Pass had already been bricked to death.

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

"Roar!"

Amidst Liang Junshan's tsunami-like trumpets, the distance between the two armies quickly approached.

All of a sudden, the towering ladder and Jinglan were less than [-] steps away from the Hulao Pass, and the defenders could even see the ferocious expressions of the archers of the Liang Army on the opposite Jinglan.

After crossing a distance of fifty steps, Liang Jun's archers on Jinglan suddenly launched an attack.

In an instant, waves of arrow rain shot down from more than forty well rails, and poured all over the heads of the guards. In a small blind spot, 7000 heavily armored infantry can still barely support with their heavy armor and large shields, but the remaining [-] light soldiers can only wait to be slaughtered.

Liang Jun's archers condescended to shoot directly at close range, posing a great threat to the defenders.

In less than a moment, at least 500 people were shot by arrows and fell into a pool of blood. The nerves of nearly [-] recruits are undergoing a cruel test. Huan Chu, Ji Bu, and Jing Qian have no doubt that if this situation continues In a quarter of an hour, these recruits will definitely collapse completely, turn around and run away. At that time, Hulao Pass will be completely over!

Although Jingqian's 500 light soldiers are very brave, how can [-] people guard Hulao Pass?
Suddenly, Jing Qian, who was hiding behind the battlements, had already raised his right hand, but soon, another big hand firmly held Jing Qian's big hand, and Pang Yu arched his back, avoiding the well ahead The rain of arrows came and urged loudly: "General, it's not the time yet, wait, wait!"

Jing Qian gritted his teeth, and finally retracted his raised right hand.

On the high well fence, dense arrows poured down like a torrential rain.

Hulao closed the wall, and more than 7000 recruits were running back and forth, yelling. From time to time, recruits were shot in the face, chest, abdomen, or arms and legs by arrows, and then screamed and fell down in a pool of blood.

After the Hulao was closed, the chant of Liang Jun's light soldiers continued.

Accompanied by the sound of trumpeting one after another, more than forty well rails continued to move forward, and finally entered within twenty steps!

The next moment, more than forty well rails finally stopped, but more than twenty ladders continued to move forward, trying to pass through the gap between the well rails, preparing for the final scramble to seize the city.

A hundred paces away, Liu Kou slapped heavily on the guardrail of the watchtower.

As long as these more than 20 ladders lean against the wall, the Hulao Pass will undoubtedly be broken!
But at this moment, a sudden change occurred, and hundreds of spears suddenly shot out from behind the battlements of the Hulao Pass. Almost all of these hundreds of spears hit the well fence twenty steps away. A hemp rope was tied to the end of the hundred spears, and the other end of the hemp rope suddenly reached the wall of Hulao Pass.

The next moment, the defenders suddenly broke out, and they were divided into hundreds of teams and pulled the hemp rope to the side.

In an instant, more than forty towering wells began to tilt, and, with the roar of the closing defenders wave after wave, the angle of inclination of the wells became larger and larger. I'm about to lose my center of gravity and roll over!But at this time, more than twenty ladders just entered the gap between the wells...

(End of this chapter)