Qinglong Three Kingdoms

Chapter 148
After all, the battlefield was in Yuzhang territory, so after the war broke out, all the official business of Ruo Rong could only be put aside, and all the attention could only be focused on the battlefield.

Time dragged on, not to mention Ruo Rong's farming and government affairs, even things like the construction of Buddhist temples that Ruo Rong has been working on, have to stop.

Therefore, seeing that there was no movement from Zhu Wei's side, Ruo Rong could only take the initiative to attack.

Probably on the sixth day of the confrontation between the two armies, Ruo Rong ordered [-] main Buddhist soldiers and [-] Dharma protectors to approach Zhu Wei's camp, hoping to have a decisive battle with Zhu Wei's army.

But this time Zhu Wei didn't go out to fight the battle. He just fought an offensive and defensive battle with Ruo Rong with the help of the camp wall built like a fortress.

In Zhu Wei's army, there were about [-] auxiliary soldiers, including many craftsmen brought by Zhu Wei from Liyang. In this way, under the arrangement of Wang Yuyan, according to the sketch of the torsion trebuchet roughly drawn by Zhu Wei before, Research has created nearly a hundred trebuchets that can be called "thunderbolt guns".

Set up in the Zhuwei army camp in this way, a large number of gravels and pebbles were thrown towards the Ruo Rong army attacking from outside the camp, and they were thrown from the air like a rain of falling stones, hitting the Buddhist soldiers and Dharma protectors in Ruo Rong. Although the people's heads could not be killed immediately, they could still bruise their heads and bleed.

Although these trebuchets did not throw rocks or rock balls, these gravels and pebbles had a wider attack range and had a greater impact on Ruo Rong's army.

Well, in fact, the research on the trebuchet has not been completely successful, so it is not possible to launch too heavy rocks, rock balls and the like for the time being, only finely crushed stones and pebbles, and the attack distance is at most three, Four hundred steps range.

But it is enough for the time being, at least Ruo Rong's more than 3 Buddhist soldiers and Dharma protectors have not been able to get close to Zhu Wei's camp, and most of them have been smashed by falling rocks.

After finally passing the gravel and pebble area thrown by the trebuchet, they have to face the ditches dug outside the camp and the rain of arrows shot by the archers on the wall of the camp. This is really fatal.

Ruo Rong led troops to invite the battle this time, but he was not prepared to storm Zhu Wei's camp, so he tried to fight once, and finally blew the gong to withdraw the troops.

As a result, Ruo Rong left more than a thousand corpses in front of Zhu Wei's camp this time, which was another small defeat.

After this time, Zhu Wei's army remained stationary in the camp, and Zuo Rong could not think of conquering Zhu Wei's camp, which was like a turtle shell. The two sides temporarily stopped fighting and stopped fighting each other.

Of course, during the war, both sides gathered a large number of young and strong people, so they consumed a lot of food and supplies every day. Even if there was no war, it was also a kind of confrontation of the background of the war.

Although Zhu Wei's side claims to have an army of 2, there are actually more than 7 people in the camp, and the combined water and land camps on Zerong's side also have a solid [-] to [-] people.

Comparing the consumption, Ruo Rong's daily consumption is obviously much higher than Zhu Wei's.

Although Zuo Rong didn't know how much Zhu Wei's daily expenditure was, he was still unwilling to waste money like this, so one night, Zuo Rong sent troops again to prepare for a night attack on Zhu Wei's barracks.

This has been the No. 12 day when Zhu Wei and Ruo Rong faced each other.

Different from Ruo Rong's water and land camps, Zhu Wei's camp has been built more and more as strong as a firewood castle over time.

Obviously, Wang Yuyan had no intention of competing with Zuo Rong for strength in the battle formation. She just wanted to spend time with Zuo Rong.

It would be even better if Ruo Rong took the initiative to fight. Zhu Wei could take advantage of the defensive battle to kill and injure a large number of Ruo Rong's soldiers with the least loss.

Although Wang Yuyan asked people to build the "Thunderbolt Cannon" based on the torsion trebuchet, because many gears and other structures have not been thoroughly studied, so the power of the trebuchet is not enough, but it is enough to defend the camp.

In this way, Ze Rong did not dare to rush to Zhu Wei's barracks after experiencing the setback of that storm.

Ke Ming couldn't do it, so Zuo Rong was ready to play dirty.

It was about four o'clock in the morning, before dawn, when people were most sleepy, five or six thousand main Buddhist soldiers and more than 2 Dharma protectors sneaked out of Ruo Rong's land camp. One by one, with hemp sticks in their mouths and ropes in their hands, they pushed some carts piled with earth and rocks, and walked towards Zhu Wei's barracks.

At the same time, in Ruorong's water village, the gate of the village was also quietly opened, and about 1 ships carrying troops with more than [-] Ruorong's main Buddhist soldiers sailed along the Yuzhang River to the rear of Zhuwei's barracks. Going, it seems that they want to bypass the camp wall at the main entrance of Zhu Wei's camp, and go around to the rear to attack Zhu Wei's barracks.

This can be regarded as Ruo Rong's big move to dispatch the whole army.

Let's not talk about the ships that transported troops out of Ruo Rongshui Village, just say that the nearly [-] soldiers and horses that came out of Ruo Rong's land camp could not make too much noise without lighting torches and biting hemp sticks in their mouths. Before dawn, under the cover of the night, he really got close to Zhu Wei's barracks.

However, Han lanterns were hung outside the walls of Zhu Wei’s barracks for early warning. In addition, the guards who kept watch at night were still doing their duty. Therefore, when the army of Ruo Rong’s sneak attack was still more than 50 steps away from the barracks, they seemed to have discovered it. strange.

"Clang clang clang..."

A warning bell rang, and torches suddenly lit up in Zhuwei's barracks, and then the catapult of "Thunderbolt...Thunderbolt..." was heard twisting and twisting, and the sound of the catapult lever piercing the air was heard. Pieces of gravel and pebbles were thrown from the Zhu Weijun camp.

It turned out that Zhu Wei's barracks had already been prepared, and they deliberately waited until Ze Rong's army approached before suddenly mobilizing.

As a result, the crushed stones and pebbles almost covered the heads of all Ruo Rong's soldiers like flowers scattered by a goddess. The Buddhist soldiers and Dharma protectors under Ruo Rong's men did not wear helmets, and they were smashed by gravels and pebbles on their heads one by one. , either had a blood bag, or had his head broken.

Many people fell directly on the ground in pain, and then were trampled to death by their own people in the chaos, and suffered heavy losses like the last attack on Zhu Wei's barracks.

Only Ruo Rong's main Buddhist soldiers have shields in their hands, and they can hold the shield above their heads to protect their heads, but it is like falling rocks like rain, and they will inevitably make a "dong dong dong" sound on their hand shields , It also made their left hands feel a lot of effort, and their hearts became a little panicked.

But Ze Rong was still unwilling to retreat, so he ordered his soldiers to charge to the front of Zhu Wei's camp, filled the ditches with the sand they brought, rushed to the camp wall and climbed the wall to attack.

Soon there was another big move in Zhu Wei's camp...

(End of this chapter)