Realizing that the responsibility on his shoulders was very heavy, Wei Xu could be regarded as working hard to defend the city, actively preparing, preparing to hold on, and waiting for the rescue of Lu Bu's army.

He believed that Lu Bu could come back to support him and ensure the safety of Chenliu County, even if he couldn't, he could escape with everyone, and it was a big deal to escape back to Hanoi.

However, such ideas cannot be satisfied.

On the tenth day of the ninth month, when Lu Bu received a report in the barracks that the military rations had not been delivered on time, he frowned, and didn't pay much attention to it, so he sent someone back to urge him and ask what the situation was.

Then he continued to attack Changyuan County.

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

This battle was the first time that trebuchets had reappeared on the battlefield after hundreds of years of absence.

Guo Peng besieged the city on all sides and did not intend to give Wei Xu the possibility of escaping, so he arranged siege troops and trebuchets on all four walls, and decided to let Wei Xu have a good taste of the demeanor of the besieging king.

After having the trebuchet as a killing weapon, Guo Peng finally didn't have to use the tactics of raising mounds and building arrow towers to shoot at the soldiers in the city.

Wei Xu ascended the city tower, and under the guidance of the soldiers, he saw a strange-looking device pushed out by Guo Peng's army in the distance outside the city, and he didn't know what it was.

"Have you ever seen anything like that?"

The guards and generals around him shook their heads, saying that they had never seen anything like that.

Pushed to the battlefield, is it a new siege machine?

Wei Xu's heart was a little more uneasy, so he ordered the army to guard the city without mistakes.

Before the order was issued, there was not a single stick of incense, and the rumbling war drums sounded outside the city, Wei Xu felt uneasy, leaning on the city wall and watching Guo Peng's army line up, advancing, and preparing for battle.

Looking at Guo Peng's army with bright armor, well-equipped, flying flags, and high fighting spirit, the more he looked at it, the more he felt that his defense of the city would be very difficult.

Will Lu Bu really be able to come back in time?

Can it really be?

There are more than 2,000 regular troops in his hands, and Donglaxi has pulled together a large number of strong men to join the army, and more than 10,000 people have been brought out, but to say that they are very reliable, Wei Xu himself does not believe it.

Yesterday he was a farmer, but today he is a soldier, can he be reliable?

But who can they use without them?

Wei Xu also had no choice, so he had to fill in the life of cannon fodder, so that he could hold on for a longer time.

Guo Peng did not order the army to attack at the outset, but ordered the trebuchet to be pushed within range and then prepared to attack the city walls.

The scale of stone bullets and trebuchets in the Warring States period was relatively small, and the 12-pound stone bullets, hitting 300 steps, were certainly very lethal, but in the face of a strong city, the lethality was limited.

Guo Peng demanded that the trebuchet be transformed in a more powerful direction, and that it should be built on a larger scale, capable of firing 30 kilograms of stone projectiles, otherwise it would not be enough to pose a sufficient threat to the city wall.

At this time, the trebuchet was a manpower trebuchet that purely used manpower, which was to use manpower to pull the tips attached to the crossbar at a place far away from the catapult, and the gun tips were erected on a wooden frame, one end was tied to a leather case that contained the stone bullet with a rope, and the other end was tied with many ropes for people to pull, so as to throw the stone projectile.

The lack of mechanical strength makes the range limited, and it can shoot at a distance of about 200 meters, which is stronger than ordinary bows and crossbows, but it is not impossible to resist.

Protecting the vital parts of the city wall with something like wet cowhide can greatly reduce the power of the trebuchet.

More powerful trebuchets are not absent, and counterweight trebuchets that use the principle of machinery to enhance their power also exist, but unfortunately it still takes time to improve, experiment, and finally apply to the battlefield.

But for now, Guo Peng can be sure that Wei Xu doesn't have the brain, nor does he have the time to figure out how to deal with these trebuchets.

"Reload!"

A trebuchet is a combat team, and a combat group arranges twenty people to fight, and each post has a clear division of labor, and before going into battle, it has been trained very well.

At the sound of the order, the soldier immediately began to reload.

"Align!"

Another order was given, and the soldiers immediately aimed the position and direction of the trebuchet at the city wall.

"Ready to launch!"

At another command, twenty soldiers came to the end of the rope together, each holding a rope.

"Pull!"

The last firing command was given, and the twenty soldiers exerted their strength together, shouted together, and pulled the rope in their hands fiercely, and the tip of the cannon was pulled up fiercely, throwing the stone projectile in the holster.

The stone bullet flew in the air, crossed a beautiful arc, and rushed towards Chenliu County, which was not far away.

A series of actions by the trebuchet force made Wei Xu at the head of the city a little puzzled.

When he saw the large stones next to the large instruments, he suddenly had a question in his head, "Do they want to throw these stones into the city?"

Soon, his doubts became reality.

Huge rocks flew through the air, arcing in a beautiful arc and heading straight for where he was.

At first it looked like a small black stone, and then it quickly grew bigger, bigger, bigger.

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

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

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

The soldiers at the head of the city were caught off guard by the sudden attack of flying stones.

Some people were unlucky, and they were directly stoned to death at the head of the city, smashed into a puddle of meat sauce.

Some were shaken off the towers by the aftermath of the shaking and fell to their deaths.

Some people stomped others to death in a panic and ran for their lives, or were knocked to the ground by others and trampled to death.

Some people hurriedly ran down the tower, trying to survive, but they stepped on the air, rolled down the tower and fell to their deaths.

There were also officers who shouted for the soldiers not to panic and to find a place to hide, but none of this meant much, because soon the second wave of stone-throwing attacks came.

After the new round of reloading, dozens of huge flying stones fell in the arc of death and fell on the city walls, between the towers, and in the city.

A violent noise came from the city, and the defenders of the city shook violently, and in the face of the flying stones, they developed a great sense of fear, and could hardly stand on the city.

"Attacking !!"

Observing that the enemy army at the head of the city did not have such a good ability to adapt at all, when they were violently shaken, Guo Peng pulled out his war knife and pointed forward, and the war drums rumbled.

The army, which had already formed a military formation, stepped on the steps of death, issued a deafening battle cry, and attacked step by step with a large shield.

The huge siege equipment and the army advanced in tandem, and the crossbowmen continued to fire at the city, and the defenders at the head of the city panicked, and the number of people who resisted was negligible.

vertex