Volume 1 of the heroic aspirations at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, I was the reappearance of the 290th stone-treating machine. I realized that my responsibilities on my shoulders were very heavy. Wei Xu also tried his best to defend the city, actively prepare, prepare and persevere, waiting for the rescue of Lu Bu's army.

He believed that Lu Bu could fight back to support him and ensure the safety of Chenliu County. Even if it didn't work, he could still take everyone out. At worst, he would just run back to Hanoi.

However, even such thoughts cannot be satisfied.

On the tenth day of September, when Lu Bu received a report in the military camp that the military ration had not been delivered on time, he frowned and didn't care much, so he sent someone back to urge him to ask what the situation was.

Then we continued to attack Changyuan County.

On this day, Guo Peng led his army to Chenliu County and began to attack the city without saying a word.

This battle was the first show of the catapult once again reappearing on the battlefield after hundreds of years of leaving the battlefield.

Guo Peng besieged the city on all sides without any intention of giving Wei Xu a chance to escape. He arranged troops and catapults to attack the city walls on all sides, and decided to let Wei Xu have a good taste of the style of the siege king.

After having the killing weapon of the catapult, Guo Peng finally no longer had to use the tactic of setting up a mound to build an arrow tower to play shooting against the soldiers in the city.

Wei Xu climbed up the city tower and under the guidance of the soldiers, he saw a very strange device launched by Guo Peng's army far outside the city. He didn't know what it was.

"Have you seen that kind of thing?"

The personal guards around him shook their heads and said that they had never seen such things.

Pushing it to the battlefield, is it a new siege equipment?

Wei Xu felt a little more uneasy, so he ordered the army to guard the city carefully without any mistakes.

Before the order was issued, the rumbling drums sounded outside the city. Wei Xu was uneasy and leaned against the city wall and watched Guo Peng's army line up, advance, and prepare for battle.

Looking at Guo Peng's army's distinctive armor, well-equipped, flying flags and high fighting spirit, the more he looked, the more he felt that his city was difficult.

Can Lu Bu really come back in time?

Is it really possible?

The regular army he had only had more than 2,000. He pulled together a large number of strong men and joined the army and raised more than 10,000 people. However, if we say that they were very reliable, Wei Xu himself didn't believe it.

I was a farmer yesterday, but I was a soldier today. Is it reliable?

But who can they use without them?

Wei Xu had no choice but to fill in the cannon fodder's life so that he could last longer.

Instead of ordering the army to attack from the beginning, Guo Peng ordered the catapult to push the range and then prepared to attack the city wall.

The scale of stone bombs and stone catapults in the Warring States Period was relatively small. A 12-pound stone bomb was shot with 300 steps. Although it was very lethal, it was limited in the face of a strong city.

Guo Peng asked the trencher to be transformed in a more powerful direction, so that it could produce a larger scale and could hit 30 kilograms of stone bullets, otherwise it would not be enough to pose a sufficient threat to the city wall.

At this time, the catapult was a human-powered catapult that used manpower to pull the tips on the crossbar away from the catapult, and the tips of the cannon were mounted on a wooden frame. One end was tied to the leather case that accommodated the stone bullets with a rope, and the other end was tied with many ropes to pull them out, so that the stone bullets could be thrown out.

The lack of mechanical power makes the range limited, and it can shoot about 200 meters away, which is stronger than ordinary crossbows, but it is not inconsistent.

As long as wet cowhide and other things protect the key parts of the city wall, the power of the catapult can be greatly reduced.

There are also more powerful catapults. There are also counterweight catapults that use mechanical principles to enhance their power. Unfortunately, they still need time to improve and experiment, and finally apply them to the battlefield.

But for now, Guo Peng can be sure that Wei Xu doesn't have the brain and doesn't have the time to figure out how to deal with these catapults.

“Recharge!”

A trencher is a combat team, and a combat team arranges twenty people to fight. Each position has a clear division of labor. Before going to fight, he has been trained very well.

With a command, the soldiers immediately began to load.

"alignment!"

With another order, the soldiers immediately aimed the position and direction of the catapult at the city wall.

"Prepare to launch!"

With another order, twenty soldiers came to one end of the rope, and each of them held a rope.

"pull!"

The last command was issued, and twenty soldiers exerted force together, shouted loudly, and pulled the rope in their hands fiercely. The tip of the cannon was pulled up and the stone bullet inside the leather case was thrown out.

The stone bullets flew in the air, drew a beautiful arc, and rushed towards Chenliu County not far away.

The series of actions of the catapult troops made Wei Xu at the city wall confused.

When he saw larger stones next to those large equipment, a puzzle suddenly appeared in his head, "Do they want to throw these stones into the city?"

Soon, his doubts became reality.

Huge stones were flying in the air, dripping beautifully, and rushed straight towards his place.

At first it looked just a small black stone, and then the stone quickly became bigger, bigger, bigger.

It's not getting bigger, it's just getting closer.

Wei Xu couldn't figure out how they did it, how to make such a big stone fly so high and then hit the city wall.

Dozens of huge stones fell from the sky and hit the city tower, the city wall, and even jumped over the city wall and smashed into the city.

The soldiers on the city wall seemed to be caught off guard against this sudden flying stone attack.

Some people were unlucky and were directly smashed to death on the top of the city and smashed into a pool of meat sauce.

Some people were shaken down from the city tower by the aftermath of shock and fell to death.

Some people fled in panic and trampled on others to death, or were knocked to the ground by others and trampled to death.

Some people rushed down the city tower and tried to survive, but they stepped on the air and rolled down the city tower and fell to death.

Some officers also shouted loudly to tell the soldiers not to panic and find places to hide, but none of this made much sense, because soon, the second wave of stone-casting attacks came.

After the new round of loading, dozens of huge flying stones fell on the city walls, between the city towers, and among the city walls.

A violent and noisy sound came from the city, and the defenders at the city were shaken violently. Facing the flying stones, they felt extremely frightened and could hardly gain a foothold on the city.

"attack!!!"

It was observed that the enemy troops on the city wall did not have such good adaptability at all. When they were shaken violently, Guo Peng drew out his battle knife and pointed forward, and the sound of war drums rumbling.

The army that had already formed a military formation stepped on the pace of death and issued a deafening battle roar, and attacked step by step with a large shield.
Chapter completed!