Chapter 66: The Wooden Donkey
On the plain of Nuoda, apart from the slaves who were still lying on the ground, there were piles of dead bodies. Yunfeng glanced at them and shouted: "Everyone, the Di people have fled, everyone please get up."
Being in the middle of a battle between the two armies was indeed an uncomfortable feeling. Although they basically closed their eyes, the sound of arrows piercing the air and the deafening shouts of killing still made them feel lingering fear. After hearing Yunfeng's words
After shouting, most of them turned their heads and looked behind. After they were sure that the Di people had retreated, they all stood up and thanked Yunfeng with tears in their eyes, kowtowed and bowed.
Yunfeng shook his head, spread his palms towards Zhang Lingyun and said, "You don't need to thank me. This General Zhang is the commander-in-chief of the army. It's because of General Zhang's kindness that I can't bear to have you die under the arrows of our army." So, everyone
The object of gratitude turned to Zhang Lingyun again.
Zhang Lingyun's pretty face was slightly red. After all, it was Yunfeng's suggestion that he saved the person. However, seeing more than two thousand people thanking her, she felt very happy. She looked at Yunfeng with some embarrassment and then said: "You don't need to
Duo Li, now please line up and go in in order. All matters in the future will be subject to General Yun's arrangements." Then he said to Yun Feng: "General Yun, take them back to the camp quickly without delay."
Yunfeng nodded, ordered the eight hundred soldiers to pour out of the trench, helped them stand in line, and lined up to take them back to their own camp.
It was very easy for Yunfeng to find out the details. After returning to the camp, he first took the women away to make other arrangements. There were less than 400 of them. The remaining men were randomly divided into twenty groups and stood in the open space in front of the camp.
. Then with an order, the sergeants all got on their horses, or held bright sabers, or stretched out their bows and arrows to surround them. They all looked fierce and murderous, and the field was filled with murderous intent!
Suddenly, most of the slaves were frightened, thinking that Yunfeng would kill them after taking the woman away. Some knelt down and begged for mercy, some trembled, and some hugged each other and cried. Only a few of them
His face was numb, and he looked like he was not afraid of life or death.
In this way, Yunfeng observed for half an hour. Everyone glanced at each other. Based on his experience in observing people in his previous life, everyone's reactions were quickly distinguished whether they were true or false. In the process, he discovered something
Nearly a hundred slaves behaved unnaturally, and the man who had shouted outside the trench to have everyone rush in was among these hundreds of people.
In order to avoid identification errors as much as possible, Yunfeng asked them to identify each other. As a result, the nearly 100 people only knew each other, but no one recognized them among the other 2,000 people.
By now, they also understood that they had been identified, but it was too late. They were already surrounded by sergeants. With Yunfeng's wave of his hand, arrows were fired from the field, and everyone was turned into a hedgehog.
Just as things were done here, Yunfeng originally planned to comfort the nearly 400 women, but the buzz of firing stone bullets came from the front position. It seemed that Pu Hong had started a new round of attack. So,
Yunfeng ordered the sergeants to take care of the slaves and hand them over to Zhang Lingyun later, and then continued to the position with ten personal guards to learn from experience.
This time, the people guarding the trench were replaced by the Xinyan tribe, and the Maji tribe returned to the second trench. Some of them took the time to rest and recuperate, while the other part went to the first trench to dismantle the unused watchtowers and deploy them around the watchtowers.
The trebuchet was dragged back to the second trench and rearranged.
Yunfeng also felt that Zhang Lingyun's arrangement was quite appropriate. After all, the enemy's trebuchets were watching, and the destroyed arrow tower could no longer be built. It was better to strengthen the defensive force of the second trench.
Arriving next to Zhang Lingyun, Yunfeng looked forward and saw the Di army's trebuchets pushing up again, throwing stone bombs towards their own position. Of course, their own trebuchets were also counterattacking, constantly
A trebuchet that throws stone projectiles at the opponent.
This time, the trench was filled with thirty wooden donkey carts (shaped like a mobile house with wheels, with a herringbone shape at the top) that could block arrows and cover our own side. They were covered with rawhide treated with medicine. They were fire-resistant and strong, and could be used for throwing stones.
Hard to destroy), followed by 2,000 archers, 1,000 spear and shield soldiers, and 1,500 toad vehicles mixed in between.
After careful identification, it was found that the people filling the soil this time were both sergeants and slaves. It seemed that Bo Hong was still stubborn and was reluctant to send a large number of sergeants to die. He mixed the sergeants and slaves and pushed the toad cart forward to charge forward.
But Pu Hong did it wrongly, hitting the Achilles' heel of Yunfeng and Zhang Lingyun. For a moment, both of them felt extremely embarrassed. They looked at each other and saw anger and struggle in each other's eyes.
After a while, Zhang Lingyun took a deep breath, turned to Yunfeng and said, "I never expected that Pu Hong could be so vicious. I'm afraid I won't be able to save the lives of these slaves this time."
Yunfeng was silent for a while and said sadly: "I don't know clearly that defending the trench is a serious matter, so I won't be arrogant. General, there is no need to be too concerned. After all, I have tried my best to save these slaves, so I should have a clear conscience."
There was a hint of gratitude on Zhang Lingyun's face, but she immediately thought of why she had to seek Yunfeng's understanding? Faintly, she seemed a little afraid that this man would get angry at her, but at this time the enemy's wooden donkey was about to enter the sixth stage.
She had no time to think about the throwing range of ten-pound bullets, and immediately ordered: "Send the order to hit the enemy's wooden donkey cart with large bullets!"
"Yes, General!" The orderer immediately issued instructions to the trebuchet group after receiving the order.
It only takes twenty people to fire fifteen kilograms of ammunition, but fifty people are needed to fire the largest sixty kilograms of ammunition.
First, the stone bullet was placed in the holster and tied to a thick wooden stake with a rope. The other end was pulled by fifty sergeants at the tip connected to the horizontal bar. When the arm of the lever was bent to a sufficient arc, it was
A stalwart sergeant used a big ax to violently cut the rope holding the holster. Under the strong elastic force, the stone bullet was immediately thrown out. Yunfeng couldn't help but marvel at the toughness of the lever arm. He took a closer look.
Observation revealed that it was composed of several wooden poles and thick and long animal tendons mixed together longitudinally, and then tied with wider raw animal skin strips to form a circular composite pole arm.
The power of the sixty-pound bullet was much greater. When it hit the wooden donkey, it made a loud "bang bang" sound like a drum. The whole vehicle was hit with a huge earthquake. Then the stone bullet bounced away and caused a huge impact on the surrounding area.
The enemy troops suffered a horrific blow. Although the rawhide covering the wooden donkey carts could effectively prevent bullets, it could not withstand the continuous hits of large bullets. After several rounds of firing, five of them were completely destroyed. The remaining ones were exposed to bullets.
The rain gradually entered the bow and arrow shooting process, and Zhang Lingyun ordered the archers to burn it with rockets.
The Di army came well prepared this time, and the spear and shield soldiers following the wooden donkey held large shields to cover the archers and fire arrows to fight back.
The sky was full of arrows, coming and going! Mixed in among them were stone bullets with huge destructive power, and the toad trucks, densely packed like ants, also accelerated their speed and rushed forward to fill the trenches. Despite facing a barrage of crossbow arrows
Snipe, but there will always be a fish that slips through the net and can rush to the edge of the trench and push the toad truck into the trench.
The battle to fill the trenches has completely entered a fever pitch. Soldiers from both sides continued to fall to the ground and died. With the intensive attacks from the original army, the Di army's wooden donkeys were basically destroyed by stone bombs or shot by a large number of rockets and burned. One thousand and five
Hundreds of toad carts, and eventually about 200 were pushed into the trench. During this time of filling the trench, more than 2,000 Di troops, including slaves, died, and the number of casualties among our side's crossbowmen also reached an astonishing three
More than a hundred.
Regarding the defeat of the Di army, Yunfeng did not feel any joy as he should have after a victory. Among the corpses on the opposite side, there were Di soldiers, slaves, and hundreds of women lying on the ground, all of whom were pushing carts.
Chapter completed!