Before the Battle of Xinye, Ma Jian received a sketch of the counterweight trebuchet designed by Lu Yusheng.

It's just that Lu Yusheng didn't know if this thing could be used at that time, so he just gave Ma Jian a rough description of the principle of this thing on paper.

At that time, Ma Jian was stupid, I couldn't understand this thing at all, I had to find a master who was skilled in mechanics to take a look.

Guan Yu has a bad relationship with celebrities, but he knows a lot of talents from three religions and nine streams.

Everyone studied this thing for a long time, and probably realized that Lu Xiaoniang wanted to use the fall of heavy objects to replace the power of human dragging.

It's just that this idea has been said, but from the Warring States period to the present, no one has really come up with this method.

"It's so subtle, in addition to Ma Jun, there are such ingenious people in the world.

The world is so big, and there are countless capable people. ”

"Who is Ma Jun?" Ma Tan once asked very curiously.

"Back in the army, Ma Jun was born in the Fufeng Ma family, proficient in the art of organs, and is the best in the world."

Although these people are not as good as Ma Jun, they really created this thing by operating together.

Although the structure is very unreasonable, but the first test, I really threw a 20-pound stone to a place 300 steps away, (according to the "Xiangyang Shoucheng Record" records that a 150-pound boulder can be thrown to about 250 steps, according to Niu Er's law, in order to ensure the acceleration of the stone, the weight of the stone can not be too large, and those divine weapons restored in later generations are not considered)

This was a great surprise to everyone.

At that time, Ma Jian hurriedly recommended this thing to Guan Yu, hoping that Guan Yu would use this thing to break through Xinye.

Guan Yu looked up and down, and let the operation be demonstrated a few times first.

"Well, it's a bit of a hassle to operate, but ...... It's really a long way to go.

That's a good thing. ”

After watching the clumsy operation of a group of craftsmen, Guan Yu pondered for a moment, and announced that he would hide this thing temporarily, and he would not use it for this attack on Xinye.

This is not because Guan Yu is pretending to be forced, but Guan Yu thought about it from the perspective of the overall situation, and found that there was no need to take out the big killing weapon in this kind of offensive battle in a small city.

This counterweight trebuchet is not a thunderbolt, and the basic way to kill is to throw large stones to strike at the city wall.

In later generations, even in the era of artillery, it was not that the artillery collapsed instantly as soon as a wall was opened.

If the Wei army had prepared in advance, thickening the walls in the important places of Wancheng and Luoyang would greatly weaken the siege effect of the counterweight trebuchet.

And the technology of this kind of thing has to be kept secret.

In case the skillful craftsman named Ma Jun of the Wei State can really imitate something similar, it will be troublesome to use it to beat himself in the future.

Therefore, Guan Yu asked to treat these craftsmen well,

Gather them in Xiangyang first, not to mention detaining them, but also ask Guan Ping to take good care of them, eat and drink well, and serve them, and never let them talk nonsense.

This time to attack Xinye, Guan Yu had no intention of taking a counterweight trebuchet to the battlefield at all.

But this time he was fighting with Cao Hong, and suddenly someone started a trebuchet to attack Cao Hong's cavalry, and even Guan Yu was stunned for a while.

"Who is so presumptuous!" Guan Yu roared angrily.

Cao Hong's cavalry will definitely not be able to pick Guan Yu at once,

But it's entirely possible for them to kill in front of the counterweight trebuchet,

If someone destroys or sees the appearance of the trebuchet, it would be bad to go back and try to copy it.

Who is this who is firing the cannon indiscriminately and does not understand the overall situation!

"Second uncle, don't panic, the little nephew is here to save you!"

Outside the city of Shinno has become a country,

Liu Feng stepped on the icy water with one foot deep and one foot shallow, holding a spear tightly in his hand, and came to support Guan Yu on foot.

The faint light of dawn shone on Liu Feng's face, and Guan Yu could see that the eldest nephew's beard had burned a large part of his hair, and there were black marks everywhere on his face.

Obviously, yesterday's fire brought a lot of blows to Liu Feng.

Fortunately, he is in good spirits-

It was he who disobeyed Guan Yu's instructions, and seeing that the Wei army had formed a breakthrough, he directly ordered the soldiers to attack with a new type of trebuchet.

Those soldiers didn't want to listen to Liu Feng's blind command,

It can be seen that Liu Feng had an expression of wanting to eat people, so he had no choice but to obey his orders and operate a trebuchet to fire at Cao Hong's cavalry.

Staring at the rolling Cao Wei Tieqi, Liu Feng tore off the dirty robe on his body, and let out an earth-shattering roar at Cao Hong:

"Guts rat, come here!"

Cao Hong has been arrogant and extravagant all these years, and he has long since lost his courage (although he was not brave back then).

Listening to Liu Feng's call, he was a little suspicious,

Only then did he realize that he had marched too far forward in the night.

As the commander-in-chief, he actually rushed to the front of the team with the commando team of the Tiger and Leopard Riders.

This is not in line with Cao Hong's consistent style.

Their trebuchet is very weird, and I don't know how many have been made.

If you can't break through Guan Yu's infantry formation, it would be terrible to be smashed by these stones for a few rounds.

He was about to wave his hand to slow down the assault a little so that he could retreat a little,

At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear, which had been amplified many times.

"Cao Hong! Thou shalt dare to make a mistake here!

You, a dog thief, escaped under Dong Zhuo by dedicating his mother to Xu Rong.

In the Han Dynasty the year before last, it was you who kowtowed to Ma Meng 300 times before the battle to escape without dying.

Now I dare to make a mistake, I have to let Er personally castrate my son into the palace before letting Er escape! ”

Before Cao Hong could react to what was going on, he was scolded like a cannon, and he almost had a heart attack and fell off his horse.

I saw a big man in a strange shirt and a shovel in the distance pointing at himself from a distance and scolding, and the more he scolded, the more unpleasant it became, Cao Hong couldn't help but be furious.

What's going on, what's going on?

How can there be such people?

The hell is scolding!

Cao Hong had never suffered such an insult, he gave up the idea of retreating, beat his horse hard, and shouted:

"Bastard, give me death!"

A group of infantrymen who also want to stop the tiger and leopard riders?

Kill them all today!

He ordered the tiger and leopard to ride towards Liu Feng, Deng Tong and others,

Liu Feng, Deng Tong and others, who were still jumping and scolding just now, confessed in a second, turned around and fled, the scene was very funny.

Cao Hong smiled and raised his long knife, and said in his heart that this group of people is really stupid,

On flat ground, how is it possible for two legs to run more than four.

He hurried his horse in pursuit, but before he had run two steps, one of the knights beside him suddenly lost his horse's foot.

The war horse flipped directly forward, and the heavy body of the horse immediately crushed the knight to the point of losing his breath in an instant.

How so?

The tiger and leopard riders are all carefully selected riding masters, how can they wrestle on the ground.

It's simply ......

Cao Hong was still pondering, and his war horse suddenly slipped, and his four hooves opened with a snort, and he directly threw Cao Hong down!

"Hahahaha, idiot, idiot,

You are the commander, you have to bury all of you here! ”

It wasn't until he was thrown to the ground that Cao Hong was surprised to find that a thin layer of ice had formed outside Xinye City.

Just now, Liu Feng and Deng Tong came over with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and they were already trying their best to be careful to barely maintain their balance, Cao Hong attacked violently, and immediately turned over on his back.

This...... Or the ice that Cao Hong put in the water himself in the early hours of this morning!

These Shu troops...... How is it that there is not much loss?

Of course, Cao Hong would not have thought that the Han army, which has always been united, had launched a small infighting in the early hours of this morning-

There was a fire in Xinye City, seeing that Liu Feng's military camp was surrounded by flames, everyone was helpless, Liu Feng saw that his troops were surrounded by flames, and even felt aggrieved, almost giving birth to death.

Shen Tan outside the city saw that he was going to rescue subconsciously,

But Meng Da grabbed Shen Tan and told Shen Tan that it was best not to be troublesome.

Liu Feng's character understands everything,

Now that the fire is so big, you go to save him, if it doesn't work, you will have to be blamed by him.

Besides, at the beginning, Shen Tan said that there might be a mole in the city, but Liu Feng himself did not listen to the advice.

It's better to wait for the situation to expand, throw the black pot to Shi Tao at that time, and hack Shi Tao to death with a knife when the time comes, which will naturally solve all the situations, even Zhuge Liang will not say anything.

Shen Tan remembered Liu Feng's stinky temper, and also snorted coldly, letting Liu Feng die.

But they never expected that Deng Tong and Ding Li went against the fire and really controlled the fire in the military camp a little, and rescued a large number of Han soldiers who were besieged by the fire.

Fire extinguisher!

This is the artifact that Liu Chan gave Deng Tongjun at that time.

In the battle of Youjiangkou, the fire extinguisher extinguished Xu Sheng's forward attack,

Now it is used to extinguish fires, which naturally plays its old job, and the effect is very significant.

Liu Feng was rescued by Deng Tong and Ding Li, and after a while, he saw the water rolling in.

At this time, no matter how stupid he was, he knew that he had been ambushed, and he was so anxious and hateful that he almost vomited blood.

Ding Li, who has been in charge of supervising Zhang Fei to prevent him from drinking, saw that Liu Feng looked half-dead, so he had to hurry up to persuade Liu Feng to cheer up.

"General, the enemy army is both fire and water, and the one who is sure to plan is great,

If the general is depressed here, has he not fallen into the enemy's trap and tricks?

Now the two generals of Guan Zhang are leading the army to fight fiercely, please cheer up the generals and kill the enemy side by side with us! ”

Liu Feng was stunned, and then heard the sound of drums and horns in Mengda's army outside the city, and knew that he was attacked by the enemy.

He gritted his teeth and snorted coldly:

"These Wei dogs, I want to let them have no return!"

Shen Tan and the others did not enter the city before, and Liu Feng received the support of Deng Tong, and the losses of the troops were really not big.

Seeing that the stagnant water outside Xinye City had frozen, they simply withdrew from a position, covering Guan Yu's retreat while inducing Cao Hong to kill this land full of ice water.

Cao Hong struggled to get up, and before he could get on his horse, the horns and drums of the Han army were already sounding around him.

In the distance, Zhang Fei took the lead and directly led the cavalry to rush towards the tiger and leopard cavalry.

On the other side, Shen Tan, Meng Da, and Ding Li also led their own infantry and cavalry to attack Cao Wei's vanguard troops.

Zhang Fei has a big feud with Cao Hong and Haw Par Rider.

Back then, in Changbanpo, Zhang Fei was alone, and he was chased by tigers and leopards and was forced to hug his head and run away.

Later, in the Battle of Hanzhong, he was stubbornly resisted by Cao Hong and Cao Xiu, and his troops were lost.

Now there's finally a chance for revenge.

Whether it was Tiger and Leopard Riding or Cao Hong, he didn't want to let it go.

"I am Yan Zhang Yide, who dares to fight to the death with me!"

The earth-shattering roar on the slope of Nagasaka resounded outside Shinno Castle again.

When Cao Hong saw that it was Zhang Fei, he immediately panicked,

He desperately tried to escape by taking the road, but the surroundings were muddy, and it was difficult for the cavalry that had been arrayed to deploy, and he was immediately exposed to Zhang Fei's arrow rain.

Zhang Fei, who doesn't use a spear, also has a pretty good archery skill.

His cavalry was prepared, and the arrows rained down,

Cao Hong was soon unable to resist, and a large number of tigers and leopards were shot to the ground, and the remaining cavalry panicked and urged the horses forward, and plopped into the mud full of thin ice.

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After Sima Yi finished telling Cao Hong's story, Cao Zhen was so frightened that he was a little out of his soul for a while.

If the main force of 50,000 troops (including 30,000 cavalry) led by Cao Hong is annihilated, I am afraid that Guan Yu will directly wave his troops north.

Then Cao Zhen doesn't have to wait for Liu Chan here, it is true to hurry back to King Qin.

Fortunately, Sima Yi brought him reasonably reasonable news-

The tiger and leopard cavalry was hit hard, the commander Cao Hong was trapped, the Wei army was not in good command, and the army was in chaos.

But the Xinye County Lieutenant, who had just escaped from Ascension, found Jia Kui, the deputy general who followed Cao Hong's expedition, and tried to show the danger of the current situation-

Deng Ai told Jia Kui that although the Shu army ambushed Cao Hong, Xinye was indeed burned, and many Shu troops lost their combat effectiveness.

Before Cao Hong's assault, Guan Yu's infantry couldn't resist it and suffered a big loss.

Even if Cao Hong was captured, the Wei army still had the upper hand.

If you don't take the opportunity to attack and the Shu army recovers, the next time you will go north from Xinye and cut the flesh with a blunt knife to eliminate the living force of the Wei army.

Jia Kui has a high prestige in the Wei army,

When he heard this, he immediately contacted Jiang Ji, Chen Tai, Chen Jiao and others who accompanied him on the expedition, and everyone agreed that this was a clever plan.

So Jia Kui temporarily took over Cao Hong's command and encouraged the Wei army to attack south.

In order to eliminate the tiger and leopard cavalry, Guan Yu personally sent troops to block the Wei army from moving south.

Zhang Fei led the army to launch a fierce attack on the besieged tiger and leopard cavalry.

The tiger and leopard cavalry deserved to be the elite of the Wei army, and they still fought hard when they were surrounded by Zhang Fei's superior forces.

It's a pity that the ground is muddy, and the advantages of the cavalry can't be brought into play at all,

And later, Shen Tan actually pushed the watchtower ladder used for the siege to help the battle.

Under the onslaught of various instruments, the Wei army was in chaos, Zhang Fei broke into the enemy formation, and finally captured his old opponent Cao Hongsheng.

In order to allow the friendly army to completely annihilate the tiger and leopard cavalry, Guan Yujun went all out to block the repeated impact of the Wei cavalry in a narrow area, and paid a lot of casualties.

The two sides fought fiercely for a day, and Guan Yu's army had lost thousands of people.

Seeing that Xinye has been burned into a white land, it makes little sense to stick to this place again,

Guan Yu gritted his teeth and thought for a moment, and simply ordered the whole army to retreat.

When retreating, Guan Yu did not forget to instruct his subordinates to burn the counterweight trebuchet that was not easy to cause, and resolutely did not give the Wei army a chance to collect the imitation.

Although the Wei army seemed to have the upper hand, the tiger and leopard cavalry was completely annihilated, Cao Hong was captured, and the weakness of the lack of assault elite was undoubtedly exposed.

Guan Yu fought and retreated, all the way back to Fancheng, Jia Kui recovered Xinye, but he did not dare to chase deeply, and had to announce a strike.

Niu Jin, disguised as a mountain bandit, found that the Han army was retreating, and thought that Cao Hong's cavalry had broken up the Han army.

He was overjoyed and took the initiative to lead his soldiers to outflank the rear of the Han army.

But he never expected that the Han army was not in a chaotic formation in the retreating army, and Liu Fengzheng was holding back his anger, and he was worried that no one would vent.

When he saw the Wei general Niu Jin, who had killed him so badly, his eyes were suddenly split, his eyes were red, and he directly threw off the troops and led an army to pursue Niu Jin.

Only then did Niu Jin know that Cao Hong was also captured,

The whole plan collapsed, and Cao Hong was captured,

Niu Jin knew that even if he went back, he would probably be the object of the blame.

In desperation, he could only look up to the sky and roar, and the horizontal knife was forced to commit suicide.

Paying such a big price is really a blood loss for Cao Wei.

Surprisingly......

They actually won this battle!

This was Cao Wei's first victory against Ji Han since Cao Cao's Battle of Hanzhong.

And this time, it was actually repelled by the joint onslaught of Ji Han's great Sima Guan Yu and the cavalry general Zhang Fei, and held Xinye, which can be described as a rare victory.

This once again verified that the Wei army was extremely strong in combat and had an extremely strong advantage on the plains.

It strengthened Cao Pi's determination to guard the front line of Jingzhou.

Hmph, Cao Hong's fall is not his own problem,

It's already good to set fire to nothing, why do you have to burst the embankment to release water in the winter.

Cao Pi is already investigating who gave Cao Hong this bad idea.

This person must be Liu Chan's meticulous work!

Defend Xinye, repel Guan Yu, and on the Jingzhou line, the two sides returned to a state of seesaw.

Guan Yu and Cao Wei's main forces fought head-on, and they also paid a lot of casualties.

After hesitating for a long time, Guan Yu was forced to choose to retreat to Fancheng, temporarily ending the Northern Expedition.

Meaning......

The corners of Cao Zhen's mouth twitched a few times.

He suddenly realized that the road to Jingzhou was basically safe.

And now, all Cao Wei's hopes are pressed on his own alone.

As long as Liu Chan is driven away, Cao Pi will face Liu Bei and win a complete victory after taking the throne.

This is very important to Cao Pi.

If not......

If it doesn't work, it has to work!