When these counterweight catapults were equipped in the Pingbei Army, they attracted countless amazing eyes, most people have never seen catapults, even if they have seen them, they are just those rough workmanship, low head of the traction catapults, like such a tall and majestic catapult, it is the first time in my life to see.

No matter how powerful these catapults are, just looking at the height of more than five zhang is already making people's blood surge, and the confidence of the Wei soldiers is greatly increased, I believe that with these siege weapons, it will be easy to take Jiuyuan City.

The catapult moves slowly under the pull of the mule and horse, and the reason why it is called a catapult is because at the bottom of it, there are four huge wheels installed, and ordinary trebuchets have no wheels, and they are not as convenient as catapults to move.

Due to the large size of the catapults, each catapult needs two large green mules to pull, and if it encounters an uphill situation, it also needs a dozen people to push it behind.

However, compared with the traction catapults with dozens or even hundreds of people, the number of gunners operating these counterweight catapults is very small, and each catapult only needs a dozen people to complete the control, which is simply an incredible thing.

Because the larger the volume of the tractor-type catapult built, the heavier the projectile of the stone projectile, the required tractor is almost geometrically growing, the largest catapult is said to need more than 500 people to pull, and its height is not as high as the counterweight catapult, if you really want to build a traction catapult of the same height, the more towing hands will be required, and such a large machine, the more complicated the control, so theoretically speaking, such a large trebuchet is impossible to apply to war.

The Wei army was approaching step by step, and the Xiongnu defenders in the city were waiting for the enemy as if they were facing a great enemy.

Since the Wei army attacked in only one direction, the Huns also concentrated their main forces on the southern city wall.

However, in order to prevent the Wei army from attacking the west, the Huns did not dare to empty the defenders on the other three city walls, and while reducing the troops, they strengthened the alert level to prevent sneak attacks.

Liu Meng, Liu Bao, and Liu Jiao stood on the south gate tower, from which you can see that the phalanx of the Wei army is slowly advancing, and the Huns can't see how many people the Wei army has sent because of the dust that has been stepped on.

This battle is related to the life and death of the Huns, and the faces of Liu Meng and the three of them are particularly solemn. Having just experienced a violent civil strife, the entire Xiongnu army was unstable, and the three of them were not sure about facing the attacking Wei army in this state.

But if you want to say regret, you can't talk about it, after all, the cause of this incident is Liu Teng, if it weren't for Liu Teng being so aggressive, wanting to carry Shan Yu and wanting to annex several other departments, Liu Meng and the three would not have killed the killer.

Now that things are forced to come to this, there is no way back for them.

However, after the incorporation of the army of the Xiongnu in the north, now the Huns can mobilize the soldiers and horses, there are still 50,000 people, although nearly half of the troops have been reduced, but they can still maintain enough combat effectiveness, Liu Meng is still full of confidence in fighting this Jiuyuan defense battle.

The dust and smoke cleared, and fifty giant catapults were pushed to the front of the formation, lined up, facing the walls of Jiuyuan.

The Huns were all horrified, what were these huge wooden shelves used for? It's terrifying, these wooden shelves are almost up to the height of the city walls.

"Catapult!" The well-informed Liu Bao's eyes became gloomy, and he whispered in a deep voice.

Liu Meng was younger and had never seen a catapult, but when he heard what Liu Bao said, he also exclaimed: "Is this the catapult commonly used in the Wei army?" ”

"No, this one is bigger than that!" The catapults that Liu Bao has seen are naturally those catapults equipped by the Wei army, and they naturally cannot be compared with this in terms of size.

"Pull up the wet cowhide." Liu Bao obviously knew how to deal with the catapult, he had prepared the whole cowhide in advance and soaked it in the water tank for backup, and at this moment the Wei army was ready to use the catapult first, of course Liu Bao had to be equipped with defensive weapons.

Although it was not realistic to use bows and arrows to destroy the Wei catapults, Liu Meng's aim was to shoot more Wei gunners, so as to curb the use of the Wei catapults.

But it's a pity that even if these Hun archers pull their bows to the full moon and use all the strength to eat, the arrows that can be shot out are still some distance away from the catapult and fall to the ground.

This distance was carefully calculated by Cao Liang, and he wanted to place these catapults a stone's throw away, after all, these catapults could not be destroyed by the Huns.

After arriving at the designated attack position, the Wei gunners began to get busy, the winch man pulled up the equipment box, the loader began to load the stone projectile, and the calibrator made the final fine-tuning of the catapult's sighting device.

"Launch!"

After the order was given, the winch hand pulled the switch, and the counterweight box fell rapidly to the ground under the action of gravity, pulling the cannon rod, and the stone projectile the size of a human head roared into the air, and flew towards the head of Jiuyuan City.

The first stone bullet drew a beautiful arc in the air, and smashed heavily on the head of Jiuyuan City, with a "bang", the stones on the city head splashed in all directions, and those Hun soldiers on the city wall clearly felt that the entire city wall was trembling gently.

Fragmented stone chips were flying sideways, and when they crossed Liu Meng's door, a shallow blood mark was drawn on his forehead.

Although it was only a minor injury, it was insignificant, but it really made Liu Meng sweat all over, and he retreated again and again, never daring to stay at the forefront anymore.

Fifty catapults could throw one stone projectile at each turn, and fifty stone projectiles flew in the air, whistling and smashing towards the city.

The wet buffalo skin can indeed reduce the strength of the stone projectile and let the stone bullet slide down to the city, but not every stone bullet can be intercepted, and some stone bullets smashed on the city wall, the sound is like a thunderbolt, and the city wall is smashed out of a large hole and shakes.

Some stone bullets fell in the dense crowd at the head of the city, and the bones of those who were hit were broken, and the flesh and blood were blurred, and the stone bullets would bounce up after landing and roll on the ground, which could produce a large area of secondary damage.

This is where spherical stone projectiles are more powerful than ordinary stone bullets.

For a time, the people in the city were in turmoil, and the Hun soldiers fled from the city one after another. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "The Last Three Kingdoms 2: Xingwei Claw Book House" for free for the first time.