The matter of the catapult was put aside first, although he couldn't get enough weapons to suppress the repeater for a while, but he couldn't just give up the attack, Chen Mo tried to attack the city in other ways for two days in a row.

He ordered the craftsman to make a huge wooden shield in front of the shield car, let the soldiers push the siege of the city, although the crossbow has a strong penetrating power, but it is also difficult to penetrate the wooden shield that is three inches thick, once pressed to the city, when the ladder was set on the city wall, it was smashed a lot by the defenders with rolling wood and stones, Fancheng soldiers and horses were invincible, fortunately Zhuge Liang transferred the Xiangyang soldiers and horses in time, drove the Ming army down again, and set fire to the well, the ladder, which forced the Ming army to retreat.

"Damn, if it weren't for that pontoon bridge, this Fancheng would have been captured!" Wei Yan, who was in charge of the siege, looked unwilling after returning to the camp, and punched the ground fiercely, saying indignantly.

The rest of the generals are also ugly, these wells, ladders and shield carts, but it took a lot of materials to make them, but now most of them have been burned, even if they attack the city again tomorrow, without these things, it will be difficult to almost break the city like today.

"Don't be impetuous." Chen Mo knocked on the table and motioned to Wei Yan to sit down, don't make a fuss, this kind of thing is originally a process of you coming and going, you have a good plan, I have a wall ladder, who is strong and who is weak, each with his own ability, how can there be a battle that can only be won and not lost?

"Whoa!" Wei Yan bowed and sat back in his place.

Chen Mo looked at the crowd: "Since the pontoon bridge is in the way, remove the pontoon bridge." ”

"Your Majesty, the last general has gone to see the copper pillar in the center of the river, not to mention the copper pillar, the surrounding hidden piles are buried deep in the bottom of the river, and most of them are hidden underwater, I ordered the soldiers to go and dismantle, but the hammer is difficult to exert force underwater, if you do not remove these dark piles, it will be difficult for our ships to come." Xu Huang bowed.

Chen Mo nodded, thought for a while, and said, "I've seen the pontoon bridge, in fact, to break this pontoon bridge, it only takes a few fireboats, I'll try it tonight." ”

A few small boats, there is no need for Ma Jun to come in person, the army found more than a dozen craftsmen, and soon built sixteen fireboats, Chen Mo asked eight boats to be filled with hay, fire oil and other flammable things, two in a group, each with a soldier, implicated each other with ropes, until late at night, Chen Mo let these people row the boats close to the pontoon, and when it was almost there, the boats full of fires were ignited, and then cut the ropes, let the eight fireboats go downstream.

On the bank of the river, watching the fireboats approaching the pontoon bridge, Chen Mo and the generals flashed with joy on their faces, and the soldiers who kept vigil in the two cities of Xiangfan were obviously aware of these, above the two cities, the sound of drums and trumpets was loud, Zhuge Liang took Zhang Fei and others to the city, looking at the fireboats that were quickly approaching the pontoon bridge, Zhuge Liang squinted slightly, looked at the direction of the Ming army camp in the distance, and said to Zhang Fei: "Pass my military order, don't repair the pontoon bridge for the time being, and talk about it when the sky is about to dawn tomorrow, and go to fight the fire with a team of people." ”

"Why is that?" Zhang Fei frowned.

"It makes sense! Just do it! Zhuge Liang said with a smile.

"Whoa!" Zhang Fei agreed, and immediately sent a team of men and horses out of the city to put out the fire, and at the same time ordered the craftsmen responsible for repairing the bridge on the other side not to go out of the city, and to repair the pontoon bridge from this side.

As the eight fireboats docked, the pontoon bridge quickly burned, Chen Mo looked at the Jingzhou soldiers who hurriedly went out of the city to put out the fire, and always felt that something was wrong, this seemed to be too smooth, Zhuge Liang wouldn't have only this trick, right?

"Your Majesty, the bridge is ruined, why is it like this?" Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo and wondered.

"It's going so well." Chen Mo shook his head, looked at Zhang Liao beside him and said, "Wen Yuan, you are spying here to see if the Jingzhou army still makes any moves tonight." ”

"Whoa!" Zhang Liao agreed.

Everyone saw that the Jingzhou army began to fight the fire, but the pontoon bridge was obviously soaked in oil in order to prevent moisture, even if the Jingzhou army tried its best to rescue, it was still lost by most of it, it seems that the connection between Xiangfan and Fan has been broken, but Chen Mo always feels that it is not so simple.

"Back to camp." After observing for a long time, seeing that the Jingzhou army did not make any next move, Chen Mo took the generals back to the camp and waited for the next battle.

Early the next morning, as soon as Chen Mo got up, he saw Zhang Liao hurriedly come to his tent to ask for a meeting.

Chen Mo put on his clothes and motioned for Zhang Liao to come in.

"As the king expected, when the sky is about to dawn today, a Jingzhou army came out of the city, and quickly repaired the pontoon bridge, less than a quarter of an hour before and after, the last general personally went to see it, the wooden stakes under the pontoon bridge were not burned, and there were iron cables connected to them, and those Jingzhou troops quickly laid wooden planks along the iron cables after leaving the city." Zhang Liao frowned.

"Then why didn't you fix it last night? Isn't this a fart by lifting your robe? Dian Wei, who followed in, was stunned.

"The pontoon bridge was burned last night, and it was rebuilt today, and in the eyes of those who don't know, it will definitely be shocking, and it can hit the morale of our army." Chen Mo sneered, shook his head and said: "Since the pontoon bridge is difficult to destroy, we will try to do it again, but today we will not fight, and it will not consume too many troops to fight, so there is no need to let the soldiers die!" ”

"Your Majesty, look at the wooden pillars supported under the pontoon bridge, which are quite similar to the wooden piles around the copper pillars in the heart of the river, and it is extremely difficult to destroy them." Zhang Liao frowned and said: "Now if you want to capture Xiangfan, it seems that you can only attack by force, if you don't fight, won't it give the Jingzhou army a chance to breathe?" ”

Since the separation of Xiangfan contact is ineffective, what can be done now can only be a strong attack, with human lives to add, but even if this method, if it is more difficult to wait for Jingzhou soldiers to be full, now Liu Bei into Sichuan, did not come back, it is the weakest time, as long as Xiangfan can be defeated, Jingzhou will be difficult to hold, although the cost is greater, but if this battle is won, it will lay the momentum of unification, Jiangdong and Shuzhong are separated, enough to break each.

"Don't be in a hurry, isn't there still Ma Jun?" Chen Mo smiled and shook his head, he did not advocate a strong attack, Zhuge Liang was able to hold Fancheng, in addition to his ability was really good, he also took a big advantage in terms of equipment, but if he could press it in this regard, even if Xiangfan's troops could communicate with each other, he couldn't stop it.

When Zhang Liao saw Chen Mo say this, he also knew what Chen Mo meant, and he was not ready to use this conventional method to consume Xiangfan, so he had to bow down and resign.

"Your Majesty, I think what Wen Yuan said is right." Dian Wei waited for Zhang Liao to leave, and only after there were only two people left in the tent, he looked at Chen Mo and said, how can there be immortals in a war? I had never seen Chen Mo so kind on the battlefield before.

"It's a way, but I always feel like there's a better way." Chen Mo said with a smile, in fact, he still has a mind to completely subdue Zhuge Liang, defeat him in the field he is good at, and let Zhuge Liang know that the general trend is irreversible, whether it is obedience or retreat, in short, talents like Zhuge Liang have made Chen Mo love talents.

Dian Wei didn't quite understand why Chen Mo was so persistent, so he nodded at the moment and didn't ask any more.

In the next few days, Chen Mo did not move his troops, but stayed with Ma Jun all day, three days later, Ma Jun made a larger catapult, this catapult is larger than the previous catapult, the base alone is nearly three zhang, and it is more complicated, and the projection distance is also farther, nearly 100 catties of stone bullets can be thrown 90 steps.

"Try switching to an oil tank." Chen Mo looked at the catapult and smiled.

"Whoa!" Ma Jun nodded, and asked people to replace it with the prepared oil tank, and under the control of the eight wrestlers, the oil tank was thrown out, and someone went to measure the distance.

"One hundred and fifty steps!" Ma Jun turned his head to look at Chen Mo with a look of surprise, the production of this catapult, Chen Mo contributed a lot, he used mathematics to calculate a way that can infinitely superimpose the force, theoretically speaking, as long as the material is enough, it can be superimposed wirelessly, if you do it according to this method, the catapult can reveal infinity, but this is only a theory, in fact, the wood was overwhelmed when it was superimposed for the second time, and the whole catapult fell apart directly, and then made this catapult that was more than twice as large as the volume, which could project the oil tank one hundred and fifty stepsThis distance is already beyond the range of most ballistas.

"Pass on my military order, and set up a cannon platform one hundred and forty steps outside the city, with a length and width of five zhang!" Chen Mo was also a little surprised, he finally didn't waste these few days in vain, of course, the most important thing is that he specially entered the dream training camp, and systematically learned the structure and principle of the catapult and the calculation of the range, what is the best ratio, and it is precisely because of this that the latest catapult can be made so quickly.

As for why he didn't learn more, in fact, after Chen Mo learned the strategy of water warfare, he found that every time he came out of the dream training camp, it would be accompanied by the problem of brain swelling and even memory confusion, according to the system immortals, this is the limit of his brain bearing, although Chen Mo is only in his forties, but the time he has experienced in the dream has been hundreds of years from small to large, and this is why there is Chen Mo, who is almost an all-rounder now, but there is a limit to people's tolerance, and Chen Mo is now approaching this limit.

Therefore, since the book of naval tactics, Chen Mo rarely went to the dream training camp again, although the system immortal did not give what would happen after breaking through the limit, but Chen Mo was a little worried that he would have a problem, so he did not study other things.

This southern expedition also found that this mechanism is connected with arithmetic, so he ventured into it once, and only learned some principles, not as good as the previous skills, so that he became a craftsman proficient in craftsmanship overnight.

"Whoa!" Dian Wei on the side also knew that this was preparing for a big battle, so he immediately excitedly agreed and ran to pass the order.

Although the generals in the army didn't know why, they still perfectly carried out Chen Mo's orders.

And Chen Mo ordered Ma Jun to quickly prepare enough materials according to the standard of this catapult, this time, he was ready to break through Fancheng in one go, so this time he was ready to build forty artillery platforms and burn Fancheng.

Ma Jun personally rushed to the front line with craftsmen, calculated the distance, and after choosing the best location, he helped design the artillery platform, and a large number of soldiers were sent out to assist in piling up the soil and setting up the platform......

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