"Ming Gong, I'm afraid Ma Qiang is preparing to repair the bridge." Frustrated and said with a frown as he looked at the constant carriages and horses transporting things on the other side.

"Repair the bridge? Isn't there a bridge? ”

"This bridge is too narrow for such a big battle, and it is difficult for the sergeant to dispatch quickly, Ma Qiang has learned the lesson of Gongsun Chan before, and is ready to build more bridges to make natural dangers a thoroughfare."

"Wait... What is the Qingzhou Army doing? .... Are they building walls?? ”

Frustrated and rubbed his eyes desperately, to make sure that he was right, whether you are going to defend or attack, what kind of wall are you building.

Yue Yang, who was on the opposite side, wore short sleeves and a wooden helmet on his head, and shouted while commanding, "Build both sides of the bridge first, dig the foundation for me, and leave the location of the door, although it will only take a few days, it can't collapse."

Over there, number 2238, say you! Is it for you to dig this? I said, "What about your foreman?" Can't read the drawings? Were you taught by Red Star Camp? Lose face! Over there! Hurry up, are you going to let the whole army wait for you alone? ”

Ma Qiang, Duan Ying, Guo Jia and others looked at the riverside that had become a big construction site, and they didn't know where to start for a while.

Is this going to fill in the Qingshui River?

"Ming Gong, look, this is Yue Gong's drawings."

Ma Qiang took the drawing, and when he saw it, he was happy.

Yue Yang was actually preparing to build a cement city wall along the river that could be guarded, and dozens of trebuchets were waiting behind the cement wall, and the wall was densely packed with bow and crossbow firing positions.

Is this a tower defense game?

However, because of the artifact of cement, Yue Yang's idea of building a temporary city wall can really succeed.

If there is a city wall to protect it, the range of the bow and crossbow will be much farther than that of Yuan Shaojun on the ground opposite, and the pontoon bridge is indeed easy to build.

Maybe you should open a new class - the sapper.

This branch of the army is a particularly important member of the modern and even modern army... At the very least, in the cards, sappers can eat mines, right?

Although there are no mines on the other side, it is.

Yuan Shao looked at the opposite city wall and finished laying the foundation in only two hours, and began to tie bamboo tendons, and couldn't help but feel anxious.

This is not a joke, if the Qingzhou Army really built a wall along the Qingshui River, wouldn't it be that the field battle would become a siege war, and the Qingshui River would become the moat of the Qingzhou Army.

"Guys, how do you break the enemy?" Yuan Shao asked everyone anxiously, and everyone looked at each other, all of them looking helpless.

Yuan Shao looked at Fu Zhu and Tian Feng, Fu Zhu thought about it and said, "If the thief army wants to build a pontoon bridge, it must cross the river, our army can pile more mounds, build tall buildings, ambush bows and crossbows, and then set up throwing cars on the left and right, the thief army wants to cross the river, our army can use arrows to kill the enemy, throw stones and destroy the bridge, the thief army ordnance is on the other side of the river, even if there is a city wall to rely on, there is nothing to do!" ”

The armies of the same era in ancient times, as long as they were not alien civilizations, the ordnance was basically about the same, and the width of a river was indeed enough to form an absolute advantage in range.

Yuan Shao listened to it, reliable!

"Lu Kuang! Lv Xiang! ”

The two of them lined up in unison and responded.

"The two of you will build mounds, tall buildings, and throw cars on the left and right sides of the boundary bridge, and when the thief army crosses the river and builds a pontoon bridge, you will attack it, and the thief army must not be allowed to build a pontoon bridge!"

"No!"

Yuan Shaojun's every move was watched by the scouts on the hot air balloon, and Yue Yang below soon learned that the opposite side was also building mounds, arrow towers, and throwing cars.

"If it weren't for Brother Pony not letting me use artillery, I'd have blown you to shreds right now!"

Yue Yang hummed as he took the telescope to observe the situation on the other side. 110 eBooks

Artillery is a killer trick in Ma Qiang's heart, so naturally it will not be used in a place like grabbing a beachhead.

Yue Yang visually inspected it and found that the opposite mound was more than 100 meters away from the river bank, plus the width of the river and some open space reserved on his side, it was probably more than 150 meters away from the city wall he built, which was already more than the range of an ordinary bow and crossbow, but the opposite side could stand on the mound and shoot the soldiers who were about to cross the river.

I think those arrow towers and throwing carts will also be located at that distance.

Knowing that you can't melee combat, are you ready to play long-range combat?

Yue Yang smiled, don't you Yuan Shao know that Yuanzhan is fighting for ordnance?

And ordnance is what I'm best at Yueyang.

"Leave them alone, let's do our own thing, let the scouts help us mark their positions on the scale map!"

With that, Yue Yang rode back to the artisan camp he was in charge of.

"Chu Fang! Chu Fang!! ”

Yue Yang shouted to his assistant, and a young man about the same age as him ran over and shouted, "Camp master, here's the lowly position!" ”

"Yuan Shao is throwing the car, fortunately I have been prepared, how are the materials of the counterweight trebuchet prepared?"

"There are about twenty units ready, because the time is urgent, they are all at the level of 100 catties!"

"It's a little smaller, it's enough, all of them are pulled to the position, let's give Yuan Shao a good-looking one!"

One hundred Han catties, about forty-five catties in later generations, this refers to the weight of the projectile fired.

This is indeed not a large trebuchet.

When Yue Yang began to assemble the trebuchet by the river with various materials, Ma Qiang, who had already moved the deck chair to watch the battle, almost spewed out a mouthful of Sprite.

Trebuchet against mounds, arrow towers?

Will Yuan Shao have such a catastrophe in his fate?

However, unlike Cao Cao in the Battle of Guandu, the trebuchet used by Cao Cao was a manpower trebuchet, while Yue Yang was now making a counterweight trebuchet.

As the name suggests, the human trebuchet is to use a person to pull down the lever on one side to throw the stone projectile on the other side, while the counterweight trebuchet is loaded with a heavy object at one end, and the other end is not a direct wooden spoon to release the projectile, but a grenade belt, which makes the swing arm greatly increased, and the range is naturally much farther.

The counterweight trebuchet also had a more famous name in later generations, and that was the return cannon.

The later Mongol Empire obtained this weapon during its westward conquest of the Arab world, thus breaking the Song Dynasty cities in the east and the castles in the west.

The hundred-pound-level trebuchet is really not big, only more than two meters high, and compared to the six-hundred-pound-level giant return cannon that later attacked Xiangyang, it is simply a hellokitty.

Time passed little by little, and both sides were desperately building ordnance equipment and preparing for an ordnance war.

When Yueyang built a six-meter-high city wall, the mounds, arrow towers, and throwing carts on the opposite side had not yet been built.

Looking at the opposite side of the wall in one day, Yuan Shao gasped.

What kind of witchcraft is this!

If the opposite side sends troops to build a pontoon bridge at this time, he will be too passive.

However, what made him feel strange was that the Qingzhou army was quiet and did not send troops.

Yue Yang wanted to send troops immediately, but the cement didn't agree, the cement needed time to set and harden, so Yue Yang only needed three days.