Chapter 172: One Hundred and Seventy-Three. The Mysterious Thunder of Destruction, Heavy Charge

Huang Chao was stunned. He asked back to the servant who had just swallowed and raised a soul-stirring question.

"Those carriage-like things look no worse than those catapults, right? If we don't destroy them, how can we defend the city with the earthen city and the city walls?"

"No matter what, these things must be destroyed. Li Ye is so confident that he can attack the city because of these things. The number is still small. Let's quickly make a batch of simple catapults in the city. I feel that those carriages are more dangerous than catapults. Let's step back."

The attendant hurriedly persuaded Huang Chao.

Huang Chao sighed and nodded, but he was suppressed at the first round of contact. What should he do next?

"You're right, let's go back first."

……

At the moment when the first round of rain of arrows ended on the Tucheng side, at the same time, the armored vehicles equipped with heavy crossbows also started to move. While they continued to advance towards Tucheng in an orderly manner, they installed those crossbow arrows, which were tied with the Mysterious Thunder of Annihilation!
More than 10,000 heavily armored infantry followed the armored vehicles and thunder chariots and launched a charge towards the earthen city and other fortifications.

After quickly adjusting the direction of attack, a captain with a foundation in Hell sitting on the armored vehicle quickly used his spiritual power to activate the mechanism array inside the Silent Mysterious Thunder, and the ordinary soldiers below immediately pulled the trigger!

In an instant, fifty three-foot-long crossbow arrows shot towards the deer horn trenches in front of Li Ye's army and the walls of the earthen city!
Just after the crossbow arrows pierced through some of the unlucky Huang Chao bandit soldiers like a lottery, the formation diagram on the Silence Mysterious Thunder also reached the expected time. Almost when the crossbow arrows just reached the predetermined target and pierced the wall of the earth city, a huge explosion occurred suddenly, accompanied by violent thunder, ravaging the wall of the earth city!

Suddenly, there was an earth-shaking roar of thunder on the battlefield. Fifty blue-purple lightning fires with a diameter of several feet, which were formed after the explosion of the Mysterious Thunder of Annihilation, suddenly appeared on the walls of the earthen city and in the fortifications on the front of the earthen city. In an instant, some of the fortifications on the earthen city were blown up and the heavy antlers were ignited.

In the explosion, the large pots that were originally placed on the top of the city walls, containing boiling gold juice and boiling hot oil, overturned a lot. The hot oil and the foul-smelling gold juice immediately scattered all over the ground and exploded on the bodies of Huang Chao's own bandits, causing them to scream in agony!
Instantly, the entire earthen city wall was filled with a foul smell, mixed with billowing black and gray smoke and screams...

There was no way to organize another round of arrow rain in time.

However, Li Ye's army had no intention of just watching the show. During this gap, the roar of armored vehicles and thunder chariots, the sound of arrows breaking through the air, and the shouts of soldiers mixed together, forming a powerful momentum, pressing towards the front of the earthen city!

"This Mysterious Thunder of Silence is quite powerful, but it is also quite interesting... When we have time, ask them to research more black technology!"

Those crossbow arrows with the annihilation thunder streaked across the night sky like a meteor shower, accurately hitting the front blocking position of the earthen city. With a loud noise, the crossbow arrows exploded one after another. The power of the explosion was extremely shocking. The heavy antlers on the ground, which were originally used to block the advance of Li Ye's army, were overturned to the ground under the impact of the explosion, as if they were wantonly ravaged by an invisible big hand.

They were scattered all over the ground, and some of the antlers were even ignited, bursting into pieces, flying into the air and smashing back into the trenches. Some unlucky soldiers of the Huang Chao bandit army were also hit by the shattered antlers, and screamed in agony. The fate of those Huang Chao bandit soldiers standing on the battlefield was even more tragic. At the moment of the explosion, they seemed to feel a feeling they had never experienced before, as if they were knocked to the ground by a running horse in an instant. Their bodies were instantly overturned by the shock wave of the explosion, and their screams and wails filled the entire battlefield for a while, making people shudder.

During this round of shooting, Li Ye, who was commanding from the ladder, showed some surprise in his eyes. He had not expected that these explosive crossbows would have such an amazing effect.

These crossbow arrows not only caused great damage to the solid walls of the earthen city, but also caused considerable casualties to Huang Chao's bandit army on the earthen city and on the frontline positions. Their greatest effect was that they destroyed certain city defense measures in a short period of time.

Just now, those crossbow arrows streaked across the sky like meteors, with the piercing screams and dazzling flames of the ignited fuses, and plunged into the formation of Huang Chao's bandit army. The mud and gravel splashed by their explosions fell on the heads and bodies of the rebels like raindrops.

Those unlucky guys who were originally pierced by the crossbow arrows, those rebels were directly killed in the explosion, and some were dizzy and dazed by the shock wave generated by the explosion, it was a horrible sight.

Just one round resulted in such great results!
"Armored vehicles, listen up! All of you, continue to attack from the same angle as before! Thunder vehicles, load them with boulders, and continue to smash the positions and earthen walls in front! You must destroy all the surrounding city defenses today!"

After seeing such an effect, Li Ye, who was sitting on the ladder, naturally did not hesitate and directly chose to use these mechanisms to clean up the battlefield first.

There are dead objects but they are not used. Sending soldiers to fight is not just a brain problem, right? Even if they are prepared later, the effect will definitely be greatly reduced, but as long as there is an effect, it is not a waste of effort.

So he slapped the armrest of his chair and gave the order loudly. His voice was full of firmness and determination, and his confidence in defeating the enemy in one fell swoop was evident in his words.

After receiving Li Ye's order, the armored vehicles equipped with heavy crossbows below immediately adjusted the angle slightly based on the previous angle, and began to load crossbow arrows. Then they pulled the bowstring, lit the fuse, pulled the trigger, and continued to fire a new round of crossbow arrows towards the earthen city to attack.

And those heavily armored elite infantrymen continued to hold their shields and gathered around the mechanisms without receiving Li Ye's military orders. The standard spears in their hands were pointed obliquely in the distance, with the tips aimed at the direction of the earthen city to prevent Huang Chao's bandit army from suddenly attacking and causing damage.

These crossbow arrows were like lightning, cutting through the night sky, carrying the breath of death, and rushing towards the earthen city and the frontline positions!

The thunder chariots at the rear of the army began to load boulders in an orderly manner, preparing for a new round of attacks.

……

(End of this chapter)