But Jiang Xiu didn't expect that after a few rounds of catapult attacks by the state army, there was no sign of decay at all, and one by one the stone bullets bombarded the city head and the city wall one by one, and the Jizhou army defending the city was frightened, for fear that the stone bullet would hit his head.

After all, the flesh and blood can't parry this powerful thing at all, and when it hits the city, the blue brick ground can smash a pit, and you can imagine what the consequences will be after hitting people.

What made the Jizhou army even more unbearable was that these stone bullets were spherical, and after they fell, they would bounce and roll, causing even more serious secondary damage than the first time.

In the past, the catapults used by the Wei army were all square or irregular large stones, which were basically not deliberately carved into balls, although they saved time and effort, but they would not roll after landing.

And the spherical stone bullet of the state army is much more powerful, if dozens of stone bullets roll on the city at the same time, the chaos caused to the defenders is even more uncontrollable, in order to avoid these catastrophes, the city head of Lecheng has long been chaotic into a pot of porridge.

Jiang Xiu didn't understand why the Bingzhou army would use this kind of spherical stone projectile at first, after all, just carving this thing requires how many craftsmen to mobilize and how much time it takes, and it doesn't seem to be necessary.

But seeing the chaotic city, Jiang Xiu will discover the horror of this spherical stone bullet, fortunately the city is flat, if you catch up with a slope of the terrain, the consequences of the catapult can be called catastrophic.

Rao is like this, this round of stone bullets smashed down, and the defenders only had to hold their heads and run around, and countless people were killed and injured, and the defense line of the city became scattered.

Many soldiers, unbearable, fled to the city one after another, Jiang Xiu wanted to forbid, but thought that at this moment the infantry of the state army could not attack, so simply let most of the defenders go down to the city, in order to escape the stone bullets, only a few soldiers were left on the city to guard, once the state army stopped the catapult attack, the team under the city had to hurry up to the city, ready for the next battle.

But to Jiang Xiu's surprise, this waiting time was a bit long, and the state army had been bombarding with catapults in turn, followed by the attacks of the ballistas, and many crossbow arrows were also added to the stone rain, causing greater casualties to the defenders.

Jiang Xiu wondered, the Bingzhou army alone smashed thousands of stone bullets, and they continued to be fired, and there seemed to be no end in sight, so many stone bullets were transported from Youzhou, and how much manpower and material resources did the Bingzhou army have to use to achieve such a goal.

Under the continuous attack of the catapult, no matter how strong the city wall is, there are times when it can't resist, although the city wall made of blue bricks is stronger than the rammed earth city wall, but it can't stand the catapult's attack, Lecheng's city wall has been smashed beyond recognition, cracks and gaps have appeared in many places, and if it continues to be smashed like this, Jiang Xiu doesn't know how long Lecheng's city wall can last.

But this is also irresistible, the catapult of the Bingzhou army was placed outside the range of the bow and arrow, this distance from the Jizhou army is unable to launch a counterattack, if you want to destroy the catapult of the Bingzhou army, the Jizhou army must open the city gate and send an army to attack the catapult position of the Bingzhou army.

But Jiang Xiu saw it clearly at the head of the city, although the catapults and ballistae were placed at the forefront, but in the rear of the catapult array and the ballista array, the infantry of the state army was in strict formation, and they could come up at any time to protect the catapult array and the ballista array.

After all, Jizhou's field combat ability is really not flattering, Jiang Xiu's own details are clear, and fighting out of the city is no different from sending him to death.

But staying in the city, it was so aggrieved, and the state army had not officially sent troops to attack the city, and it had already scattered the spirit of the defenders.

Jiang Xiu has completely lost control of the current situation, so he can only pray for God's blessing, let the Bingzhou army run out of stone bullets, and stop the attack of catapults.

Yang Hu was in the formation at the moment, watching the battle from afar, to be honest, he didn't feel the attack of the catapult was not ideal, such a high-intensity bombardment, if it was a rammed earth wall, I am afraid it would have already collapsed.

I didn't expect this brick wall to be so strong, and so many stone bullets smashed down only caused slight damage to the wall, and did not achieve the result that Yanghu wanted.

After all, on the reinforcement of the wall, the Jizhou army did not spend a lot of effort, this brick wall, is not just the original rammed earth wall outside a thin layer, but a few feet thick, and then with clay lime glutinous rice paste as a pulp, the whole wall is thick and solid, can bear a lot of destructive force.

Judging from the current situation, the possibility of the state army wanting to smash the city wall through the catapult and then break through the wall is very low, after all, the stone bullets of the state army are not endless, and they are transported from Youzhou for a long time, each stone bullet is spent a lot of effort, Yanghu is so continuous bombardment, the consumption of stone bullets is also quite amazing, it is estimated that it will not support a few days, and the inventory of stone bullets will bottom out.

Yang Hu frowned, it was indeed not a way to continue to attack like this, he looked at a lot of stone bullets rolling down under the city, and had a plan, and ordered the catapults to stop attacking, and the infantry troops immediately pressed up, erected ladders, and attacked the city.

As soon as the catapult stopped, and the state army swarmed up, Jiang Xiu saw this, and hurriedly ordered the defenders who had already left the city to re-enter the city, and the real battle was about to begin.

The Jizhou army rushed to the head of the city in a hurry, at this time the city head was already a mess, most of the battlements as a bunker were destroyed, the city head was pitted outside, a lot of stone bullets rolled down, stumps and broken arms, blood splashed, the most disgusting, I am afraid that those smashed heads, white brains and dark red blood sprinkled on the ground, disgusting.

The Jizhou army hurriedly re-approached the defensive line, and at this time the Jizhou army had already attacked, and they had to resist in a panic, shooting with bows and arrows.

However, some people found a better way, and that was that these stone bullets scattered on the head of the city were quite a hindrance, so they lifted them up and used them as throwing stones downward.

The Jizhou army saw that this method was good, so everyone followed suit, regardless of whether they could hit people or not, and threw them all towards the city, so that they could not only clean up the garbage at the head of the city, but also serve as a weapon to defend the city, killing two birds with one stone.