Chapter 56 Cao Pi's deposed emperor usurped Yan and Liu Nanye re-rejuvenated troops (17
Nan Ye didn't know that Li Ru in the city had prepared a big gift for himself. His skills can detect the deployment of people in the city, but he can't detect the blade equipment, except those weapons that belong to treasures.
It is even more impossible for Liu Bei and Sun Quan to know Li Ru's cards, and their soldiers didn't even know that this was just a homicide. The three soldiers held their shields high, pushed the rushing cars and ladders, and approached the city wall with firm steps. They are not fast, but carefully cover themselves behind the shield. The soldiers all understood that there was nothing they could do to rush to the city without siege equipment. Rushing fast is just dying fast. Only when these big guys get to the city can they get to the city as soon as possible.
A platoon of siege weapons was still beyond the ground, and Li Ru ordered, "Prepare for the Thunderbolt!"
Yes, Li Ru's secret weapon is the Thunderbolt. In the Battle of Guandu, Nanye dedicated the drawings of a generation of Thunderbolt car to Cao Cao to break Yuan Shao's well. Since then, Cao Cao has realized that the Thunderbolt car is a good thing. However, Cao Cao found that the manufacturing of a generation of Thunderbolt cars is complex, the operation is equally complicated, and there are shortcomings such as being unable to move and not easy to change the aiming direction. The lethality of the soldiers is also very limited. In addition to dealing with the huge slow movement of the target, there is almost no other effect, so it was sealed.
After seeing the drawings of the Thunderbolt car, Li Ru also found various shortcomings of a generation of Thunderbolt cars, but the advantages of Thunderbolt cars are also obvious, that is, they can perfectly fight against all kinds of siege equipment that are slow to move. So Li Ru built a batch of Thunderbolt cars and placed them in Xuchang City. Only a large city with a wide city wall like Xuchang can install a huge generation of Thunderbolt cars.
Soon Cao Bing, the head of the city, prepared the Thunderbolt car, and the ring stone was also put into the leather pocket of the Thunderbolt car as ammunition. Li Ru squinted at all kinds of siege equipment from far to near, waiting for these big guys to enter the range of the Thunderbolt.
Nan Ye, Liu Bei and Sun Quan did not notice that there was a piece of red soil on the yellow land outside Xuchang City. The distribution of these clays is exactly a line parallel to the city wall, and there are such clay lines outside the four walls, just like a red square box surrounding Xuchang City, which is obviously a man-made masterpiece.
The role of this red earth line is not clear even for Cao Bing in the city. Only Li Ru knows that this warning line represents the effective range of the Thunderbolt. Because a generation of Thunderbolt car is not easy to aim, Li Ru simply used this stupid method to find the landing point of the Thunderbolt car, and then wait for the enemy to enter the range.
Although the method is stupid, it does not mean that it is invalid. On the contrary, some stupid methods are more effective than smart methods. At least Nanye's new Thunderbolt car aiming at this red line with an arrow out of the ground may not be accurate, and Li Ru only needs to order the soldiers to launch with all his strength and maximize the range of the Thunderbolt car, which can almost perfectly hit the clay line.
When Li Ru saw Nanye soldiers pushing the car and ladders into the red clay area in a row, he only said one word: "Let go!"
There is still a big gap between the sound of breaking the sky and the thunderbolt, but the boulder flying all over the sky is more frightening than the thunder and lightning in the rainstorm. The power of thunder and lightning is awesome, but the probability of splitting a person is only one in a million, and the hit rate of these boulders is obviously much higher.
"Disperse! Lie down! Back!" Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong and other commanders in the front of the battle array shouted for orders together. In fact, before their order, the Jiaozhou army had already reacted. The catapult is not strange to them, and the avoidance action is also in the training program.
The stone hit the carbub and made a loud noise, and the car made of thick trees and hardwood suddenly split apart under the bombardment of the boulder. It was not until this time that the power of the thunderbolt car appeared, and the loud noise and destructive power were indeed no less than the nine-day thunderbolt.
Not all boulders can hit cars and ladders. More boulders fall on the red land to stir up a piece of dust or fall into the crowd and throw a piece of blood. No matter how effective the evasive action formulated by Nan Ye is, it is impossible for all the dense soldiers to avoid the sudden boulder. No matter how sophisticated the armor of the Jiaozhou army is, it is not enough to defend against the stones thrown by the Thunderbolt car.
"Mingjin withdraws the army! All the siege equipment has been abandoned!" Nan Ye looked at the Jiaozhou soldiers under the tragic death of the boulder one by one, and his heart was like blood. In fact, Nanye had been prepared to deal with Cao Jun's Thunderbolt car, or he would not let the soldiers train and avoid actions. However, when the Thunderbolt car really appeared in Cao Jun's camp, Nan Ye still felt indescribably uncomfortable. It's really bad to lift a stone and hit yourself, which is the reason why Nanye has never studied gunpowder technology in Jiaozhou.
Nanye's soldiers' lives were more important than the siege equipment, and he gave up the equipment and attack at the first time, which made Li Ru, the head of the city, very admired and happy. Because Li Ru's goal is not soldiers, but those siege instruments. For Li Ru, using a Thunderbolt car to fight over the state soldiers is like a cannon hitting mosquitoes. Even if it is hit, it is not worth the loss. Destroying the siege equipment makes Nanye unable to attack the city, which is the most important thing.
There was a very strange scene outside the south gate of Xuchang City. The boulder kept falling from the air, and the siege equipment parked on the red land was smashed, but the Jiaozhou army no longer suffered casualties, and all retreated beyond the range of the Thunderbolt car. They looked at the boulder flying all over the sky with great interest and whispered from time to time.
"Hey~ Using a Thunderbolt car to deal with me, Cao in the city is not crazy, is he?" A soldier said to the robe next to him.
"It's not crazy, it's stupid! The Thunderbolt car made by the national teacher is much more powerful than those goods in the city. The Jiaozhou soldiers next to him responded.
"Why don't you think the national teacher uses the Thunderbolt car first?" The previous soldier asked.
"I'm afraid it's not the national teacher who thinks it's useless. Didn't we have a big victory the day before yesterday? But it's hard to say next. I think Cao Jun at the head of the city will be unlucky. The soldier said with a bad smile, as if he saw the scene of Nanye's Thunderbolt car attacking the city.
"Look! Isn't that Tian Biao! This boy is still alive." As the soldier spoke, he suddenly pointed to the center of the battlefield. I saw a young soldier crawling on the rocky battlefield.
I don't know whether it was lucky or unfortunate. The boulder cast by the Thunderbolt car broke Tian Biao's feet, but it didn't kill him. Usually, there is only one end after being hit by a boulder thrown by a Thunderbolt car, which is death. Injury without death can be said to be a kind of luck, but everyone can see that Tian Biao's good luck is coming to an end. No one knows whether the boulders flying in the sky will fall on his head the next moment, but even if he is lucky enough to avoid all the boulders, when he climbs back to the army, the blood on his body will dry up.