PS: Chapter anti-theft, correct tomorrow morning................................................

The counterweight catapult used by the state army is a counterweight catapult, the stone bullet used by the catapult is relatively large, all like a human head, and only the counterweight catapult has such a high hit rate, the gunner skillfully controls the catapult, even if the first stone bullet does not hit the target, but after a simple adjustment, the second stone bullet is a bullet without missing a shot.

However, when dealing with dense crowds, the equipped catapult is less efficient than the serial catapult.

The serial stone cart is Ma Jun's brainchild, and its biggest improvement is the addition of a huge wheel behind the catapult, which is all suspended on the wheel, so as to speed up the speed of the catapult and improve the attack efficiency of the catapult.

Although the stone bullet of the serial catapult is one size smaller than that of the counterweight catapult, the range is also closer, and the accuracy of the hit cannot be compared, but the serial stone cart has its biggest advantage, that is, the rate of fire is fast, and the counterweight catapult can throw three or four stone bullets when the counterweight catapult fires a stone projectile.

This high-frequency attack weapon was naturally the most effective weapon against dense crowds, and dozens of serial stone carts attacked at the same time, and the stone bullets smashed into Sima Jun's head like hail.

Of course, this is just a metaphor, these stone bullets are much more powerful than hailstones, no matter how big the hail is, it will break a head at most, and these stone bullets will almost be smashed on the head when they fall on the top of the head.

At the critical time, these stone bullets were much denser, so that Sima Jun was unable to defend against them, but they were willing to speed up their pace and escape from the coverage of these stone bullets, so that they could avoid the attack of the stone bullets.

However, this was just wishful thinking on the part of Sima Bing, and after crossing the stone bullet area, they immediately entered the arrow area, although the damage level of the bow and arrow could not be compared with that of the catapult, but the density of the bow and arrow was beyond the reach of the catapult.

As soon as Sima Jun entered the range of the archers, they could immediately smell the breath of death covering them, and the dense rain of arrows immediately poured in, blocking the path of Sima Jun's forward.

The rain of arrows in the state army was so dense because of the new arrow towers built on the city walls. The tower is a wooden structure with three tiers at fixed intervals between the four corners of the city and the city walls, which can accommodate more archers, and the tower itself has a protective shield to protect the archers who stay on it from the opponent's bow and arrows, and their attacks are completely unscrupulous.

In fact, the biggest enemy of this wooden arrow tower is the catapult, a boulder flying, you can easily destroy the arrow tower, so the state army placed the catapult on the city wall, more to protect the safety of these arrow towers, before the Sima army's catapult attacked, to destroy these possible threats.

Although Sima Jun's catapult accuracy is extremely low, as long as the catapult fires more stone bullets, the blind cat can also run into a dead mouse, so eliminating these threats is the best strategy.

Of course, Sima Jun had not seen the power of the arrow towers before, so he naturally didn't know what these arrow towers were for, but he saw some tower-like wooden structures on the city wall of Jiexiu from a distance.

Generally speaking, building some buckets or wooden towers in the city or on the city wall can play the role of lookout, but it stands to reason that if you look out, you only need to build one or two, and there is no need to build so much?

When Sima Jun entered the range of the bow and arrows of the Bingzhou Army, he was surprised to find that these wooden towers actually hid a lot of archers, and the three-story structure was equivalent to the fact that the Bingzhou Army could have three times the firepower and could fire more arrows at the same time.

As soon as Sima Jun launched the attack, he clearly felt the pressure brought by the arrow tower, and the resistance to the attack increased significantly.

In fact, Sima Jun has not yet attacked the city, and has not launched the siege, and only then will he realize the real horror of the arrow tower.

These towers are not parallel to the city wall, they are built on the city wall, but they are clearly protruding from the city wall, and it is precisely because of this extra few feet that the attack range of the arrow tower becomes larger.

The archers on the city wall can only attack in one direction in the front, while the arrow tower can attack not only the front, but also the left and right sides and below, and carry out all-round three-dimensional attacks.

This structure is similar to the horse face at the city gate, which increases the defense capacity of the side of the city, but the four horse faces alone are still beyond the power of such a wide distance.

The arrow tower solves this problem to a large extent, because the arrow tower is set up more, and can be taken into account left and right, so these arrow towers work together, greatly strengthening the defense ability of the side of the city wall.

In a normal city, the attacking side only needs to pay attention to the enemy in front of them, but with the arrow tower, their flanks are exposed to the defenders' bow and arrow coverage, and they are hit from three directions at the same time, making the already difficult siege even more difficult.

Therefore, such an arrow tower is the real nightmare of the siegers.

At this time, Sima Jun had not yet realized how terrible the arrow tower was, but felt that the arrow rain they endured was much denser than usual, but fortunately, most of the siege troops were equipped with rectangular shields with relatively large coverage, so that they could resist the attack of arrows when they were advancing.

But these arrows are always pervasive, no matter how tightly Sima Jun's protection is, there will always be a certain gap, and these gaps will often become fatal, advancing all the way, and people will continue to fall to the ground with arrows.

The most casualties were the infantry who carried the ladder forward, because they had to carry the ladder in one hand and have to hold the shield, which always left a larger gap, and these dense rain of arrows would easily shoot these infantry through these gaps.

When the Sima army attacked, it was also equipped with a large number of archers to cover, although their counterattack played a certain role in suppressing the state army on the city wall, but for the archers on the arrow tower, the suppression effect was much worse, because the arrow tower was set up on the baffle, you can basically ignore these bows and arrows to counterattack.

Sima Jun hesitated, advancing extremely slowly, just the distance of this arrow place, they had already walked very hard, but when they advanced to the city, there was a greater test in front of them, that is, this moat under Jiexiu City.