So Shen Bing had to bring the artillery master to the front of the formation that night to build a high platform.

To allow the fire bomb to penetrate into the city as far as possible, the catapult must be close enough to the city wall and the platform must be high enough.

It’s not a big problem to be tall enough, because it’s just a waste of time and manpower to build it.

Close enough to the city wall...this problem is big.

There were also trenchers on the Zhao army's city wall. These trenchers were not only improved but also condescending.

Although these trenchers still use radish baskets as counterweights, the accuracy is not high.

But if the Qin army had to move the catapult forward and build a high platform, the situation would be different.

No accident happened that night.

During this period, the Qin army has been building villages outside the city, and they have been knocking and beating all day long. The Zhao army has long been used to it.

So the Qin army successfully built up several steps in front of the formation and built trenchers on it.

The next day, something happened when it was just dawn...

The high platforms that were standing were very conspicuous outside the empty city, and Zhao Jun immediately discovered them.

So the sound of oxen horns sounded from the city of Handan immediately.

Soon a catapult hit the high platform with stone bullets...

At this time, Chen Bing discovered a more serious problem: the platform was bounced very much, like a erected target.

This disadvantage makes it easy to be hit by Zhao Jun's catapult.

In addition, Zhao Jun also learned to use counterweight to adjust the bounce point. Whether one shot has gone near or far, whether it is left or right, and after adjustment, another shot has been made...

The platform could not be moved, so I could only watch Zhao Jun adjust.

As a result, high platforms were destroyed one after another under the stone bullets of Zhao army's catapult.

Yang Duanhe even had to order the troops to attack the city in advance to cover the platform.

To be precise, it should be Wang Jian, because the siege at this time was a joint battle between Wang Jian and Yang Duan and the two armies.

So the battle was about to break out, and the entire battlefield boiled like a pot of porridge.

However, this still didn't work much.

The high platform catapults decreased one by one, and barely fired a few batches of melon-clothed fire bombs were like mud cows entering the sea without any response.

The Qin army's charges were also beaten back by the Zhao army one after another.

Fifteen artisans were killed and killed in this battle.

If you die on the spot, it would be even worse, those injured...

A craftsman broke his leg by a stone bullet. His entire leg bent back from his knees, and the broken leg bone was inserted diagonally from the other end, looking very strange.

When he was lifted down, he kept holding his legs and shouting, and the doctor rushed over and was helpless.

To be precise, it is a hasty treatment... that is, forcibly straighten your feet and tie them with branches as sticks.

As a result, before he tied up, he fainted from pain.

The other one was that he fell from a high platform and was pierced by broken wood.

He also forced the broken wood to be pulled out and bandaged with a healing belt, and did not even check whether there were any fragments in his body.

What's even more exaggerated is that a pierced abdomen cannot stop the blood, so the doctor stuffed the healing cloth into the wound, like blocking a leaking pot.

In addition, Chen Bing found that there were several doctors beside the wounded and chanted with words and dancing...

As mentioned before, the people of Qin were extremely superstitious.

Those medical workers are also called doctors and witches, and they can’t tell whether to cure diseases and save people or to be a god or a fool.

Chen Bing actually knew why this happened.

In this era, science and technology and medicine were extremely backward, and many things could not be explained scientifically and reasonably, so it was naturally listed as the theory of ghosts and gods.

However, even though I know, it is difficult to accept that they can handle their injuries so simply and roughly.

At the same time, there was a sensation of fear and chills in my heart.

Because Shen Bing would unconsciously think:

If one day he is injured, will he also give his life to these medical workers or witches like them?

At this time, Chen Bing came to a conclusion: You must not be injured, otherwise you will be able to get sick even if you are not sick.

And this is just the beginning.

The next day, the artillery leader suffered casualties of twenty-one craftsmen.

The reason why there were more casualties was that the Zhao army began to suppress the high platform at night.

They even learned to use Maiya Fireballs...

This is also one of the reasons why Chen Bing took a conservative attitude towards invention.

Most of these inventions have no technological content and are just creative issues. You can basically learn it by taking a look.

So today the Qin army uses new inventions to deal with the enemy, and tomorrow the enemy will use it to deal with the Qin army.

The artillery was suffering like this at this time.

They were secretly building a high platform at night, and suddenly dozens of fireballs broke through the air and shone the nearby light.

Chen Bing thought it was not good and immediately asked Ren to issue an order to withdraw the artillery master.

However, it was still too late. After a rock bomb, several people were injured.

This often happens, and many people were injured or killed if they failed to build a few towers.

The artillery craftsmen alone lost twenty-one people.

You should know that the artillery troops have only more than a hundred people, and thirty-six casualties in two days. If this continues, it will be the turn of Shen Bing in a few days.

It is actually not just Chen Bing who is troubled by the casualties, but also Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe.

It was at that time that Yang Duanhe was reporting the battle situation to Wang Jian, and he said helplessly:

"Report to the General."

"The defenders of Handan seem to have recovered some morale and resisted very tenaciously."

"Our army suffered more than 3,000 casualties in just two days."

"So this continue..."

Needless to say, Wang Jian will do the next one.

The Qin army besieged Handan by only more than 100,000 troops. If one or two thousand casualties are killed or killed every day, the total force will be reduced by half within a month.

Even if the Zhao army does not leave the city to fight back, I am afraid that the Qin army will collapse.

But Wang Jian was also helpless:

"I have to wait for the king to follow."

"For several days, the king has been asking about the battle situation every day."

"I also said that when he arrived, he would rest in Handan Palace..."

Wang Jian sighed heavily as he said that.

Although he could understand Ying Zheng's desire to destroy Zhao, it is absolutely impossible to do so in a chaotic war.

Wang Jian regretted it a little. If he had known this, he would not have suppressed Yang Duanhe.

If Yang Duanhe was not squeezed to the north gate, Handan would probably have fallen into a sea of ​​fire at this time, and it would not be easy to break the city.

But now...

After thinking about it, Wang Jian said to Yang Duanhe:

"Tell the Shen Bing that setting up a high platform will not work, so he can think of another way."

Yang Duanhe responded and retreated.

After leaving the tent, Yang Duanhe felt ashamed.

In fact, Chen Bing had told him that this method would not work, but he insisted on doing so.

Sure enough, Shen Bing calculated accurately.

When he returned to Beiying, Yang Duanhe immediately found Chen Bing and asked anxiously:

"The king will rush to Handan in a few days."

"And I will destroy the city before this."

“But now…”

Chen Bing was speechless when he heard this.

This is almost an impossible task.

What makes people even more angry is... It's yours by Ying Zheng sooner or later, so why bother?

You can satisfy your own selfish desires for a moment, but you don’t know how many more people die on the front line!

But then again, when will Ying Zheng care about how many people die?

Chen Bing thought about it and asked:
Chapter completed!