C13 (2/2)
With a creaking sound, baskets of giant rocks were thrown into the air by the stone thrower. The rough rattan baskets could not withstand the strong shear force and were torn apart in mid air. More than ten boulders burst out of the cage, forming a rain of stones as they pounced towards Moqiu Army.
Rocks fell to the ground, were carried along by momentum and rolled forward quickly, then heavily smashed onto the Moqiu Army's stone thrower, smashing the stone thrower that was purely made of wood into pieces.
The heavy armor soldiers frantically raised their shields, the huge shields tightly protecting the front of the stone thrower, and the bottom of the shields were tightly pressed against the ground. One of the officers hid behind his shield and saw the direction the stone had come from. When the stone came into contact with the giant shield, he immediately shouted, and the four heavy infantry s using his shield all gasped at the same time, and fiercely pushed the giant shield to the side, pushing the stone to the side. This method was purely using one's life in a battle. Even if some succeeded, they wouldn't be able to withstand a few blows with their strength. Breaking tendons and breaking bones was a common occurrence. Some simply made a mistake and were smashed into smithereens by the falling boulder, together with the car.
Even so, the stone thrower s were still continuously being pushed out, and every carriage had more than ten stones or wooden stakes installed. Seems like even the Moqiu Army Headquarters had never thought about how long these roughly crafted items would last, and it was completely based on the number of ants biting down to their deaths, as long as they could break through the seal placed on the Phoenix City Pass stone thrower and throw these ten or so items onto the Phoenix City Pass Wall, then it would be considered as completed.
From the looks of it, this task seemed to have been successfully completed. The wooden stone thrower was lighter than the rest, and could be pushed around by more than ten soldiers, which was not slow at all. Using the gaps between the Phoenix City Pass and stone thrower's firing, these seemingly crude stone thrower could only move forward a few meters. The key point was that there were a lot of them, so with the Phoenix City Pass, they could only play a role of destruction and mitigation, and it was impossible to stop them.
It was only a matter of time before the stone thrower threw the first stone at the walls of the Phoenix City Pass.
As the first batch of soldiers who rushed out of the trench hoisted up the cloud ladder, the walls of the Phoenix City Pass had already become a mess. Moqiu Army used a new battle method, they used two ladders to form a pair, and immediately made the heavy infantry begin to climb up the city walls. Although the heavy armor s were crawling very slowly, the simple javelins on the city walls were no longer a threat to them. The heavy infantry climbed up the city wall and used their bodies as weapons. His shield could not withstand these two to three hundred jin of beasts, so it left a hole in the ground. The rest of the Light Infantry soldiers then jumped into the hole and raised their scimitars to strike at the surrounding Fire Phoenix soldiers.
The hand-to-hand combat had finally begun at the city walls of Phoenix City Pass.
Until now, the difference in fighting strength between the local people's militia and the Border Army had finally been completely revealed. When the Border Army Soldier s fought with their shields and knives, the majority of the people's militia soldiers' hands trembled. Normally, they would only kill pigs and sheep, but now that they had seen people being sliced open and their hands and feet chopped off, they could still persevere and not run away. This was enough to prove that they had a strong mental fortitude.
Kong Sheng had become very busy now. He led the guards that were formed from the Apprentice Knight to rescue everyone, and just used his spear to push down a heavy infantry from the top of the city gate. When he turned around, he would have to stand behind people's militia to supervise the battle, so that no one would be able to escape with just a whoosh.
It was only when he arrived at the wall that Zhao Handong was guarding that Kong Sheng finally heaved a sigh of relief. He discovered that this normally big and simple Zhao Handong was practically a genius when it came to commanding people's militia.
Zhao Handong found a few heavy knight spears that were thrown aside by the Fire Phoenix Man-at-arms and not used. These things were at least six meters long, and ever since his Fire Phoenix Army had gotten on top of the city walls, there was no one left who could use them. Zhao Handong ordered four people's militia to hold this spear in a group. The moment they found an siege escalator placed on top of a wall, the four people's militia would stab down with their spears under the command of the Border Army. Furthermore, Zhao Handong repeatedly emphasized that he had to aim for the enemy's heavy siege escalade. Only after he had stabbed this target would he be able to stab others. In order to prevent the tip of the spear from piercing into the enemy's body and being unable to pull it out, they had even specially flattened the tip of the spear, or simply stabbed into a wooden block and turned the Heavy Knight Spear into a solid toilet seat.
Thus, after throwing the rocks, Zhao Handong's people's militia began to play the game of hamster. As long as they saw Border Army Soldier's small flag waving, the four men would immediately rush forward happily while holding onto their heavy spears, and even had the rhythm of shouting ”One, two, three, let's go!”
As long as he could grasp the timing properly, this large toilet seat would be able to stab right into heavy infantry's chest when he climbed up the wall. No matter how strong the heavy infantry were, they would definitely not be able to fight against all four of them at the same time, let alone such a sudden, horizontal strike. Thus, they could only helplessly push out of the city wall and fell to the ground.
The people's militia s were happily fighting, but Zhao Handong's expression was not very good. He pulled Kong Sheng to the side and asked in a low voice, ”Old Kong, isn't there something we can do about it? When the stone thrower comes up, it would definitely not be able to hold on. Also, why did the stone thrower not use fire? Isn't that stuff easy? ”
Kong Sheng was unable to treat Zhao Handong the way he treated him. He frowned and muttered to himself for a while before saying, ”Old Zhao, persevere more, persevere more.”
Seeing that he was not willing to speak, Zhao Handong did not ask anymore. He let out a loud laugh, turned around and walked to the edge of the crater, then casually picked up a boulder that was originally used as a stepping stone, and threw it down.
Kong Sheng understood that Zhao Handong was angry, he could not vent his anger on him, he could only use this method to express his dissatisfaction. Kong Sheng looked at the Moqiu Army stone thrower and prayed in his heart, ”You have to hurry, or else it'll really be too late.”
A stone thrower from the Moqiu Army finally broke through the barrier of the Phoenix City Pass and appeared fifty meters away. Two heavy infantry s brought out a half a man tall boulder from under the carriage and placed it in the basket behind the carriage. The rope broke and the giant arm swung rapidly with a creaking sound. The huge rock was thrown into the air. Under the gazes of over ten thousand people, the stone pillar drew an arc in the sky and heavily smashed onto the city wall of Phoenix City Pass.
The Moqiu State infantrymen erupted with earth-shaking cheers, like a tide they retreated, and hid in the trenches protected by giant shield. As for the officers of the Phoenix City Pass, they could only grit their teeth and tightly pressed their bodies to the wall, praying that the gigantic stone would not fall onto their bodies.
The outer city walls of Phoenix City Pass had finally welcomed the biggest test.