Ever since Qiu Lin left the city, Lu Zhao's gaze had never left, and he had been silently watching the progress of the battle.

  This raid battle started and ended quickly, but Lu Zhao felt that it was longer than a sixtieth armor, this was an extremely heart-wrenching battle, and every breath made people's hearts beat.

  Just when Qiu Lin broke through to the defense line of Bingzhou, and when he was about to succeed in talking, Lu Zhao's heart almost jumped to his throat, how much he longed for Qiu Lin to succeed, as long as he could destroy the catapult of the Bingzhou army, it would definitely be able to greatly relieve the pressure on Xindu.

  Unfortunately, at the last moment, it was still a failure, Qiu Lin reluctantly threw a fierce oil canister, but due to the distance, only more than ten catapults were destroyed in the end.

  In exchange for Qiu Lin's life with these more than ten catapults, as his confidant and favorite general, Lu Zhao has always been very important to him, if it weren't for the danger of Xindu City this time and Qiu Lin confidently guaranteed that he would succeed, Lu Zhao would definitely not take this risk, after all, it was likely to be worth the loss.

  The catapult is a sharp weapon for attacking the city, and it is also the guarantee for the siege of the state, Lu Zhao believes that the army of the state must have worked the catapult defense, Qiu Lin only took 200 people out of the city, which is different from sending them to death.

  It wasn't until Qiu Lin told him that the secret weapon he used was a fierce oil fire canister that Lu Zhao decided to give it a go and let Qiu Lin gamble.

  But the result was unsatisfactory, and he also lost Qiu Lin, a general, Lu Zhao couldn't help but sigh faintly, knowing this, he would definitely not allow Qiu Lin to go out of the city.

  The failure of this raid plan, I am afraid that the Jizhou army will never have a chance to get close to the catapult, and next, I am afraid that it will face a more fierce attack by the Bingzhou army, and how long the walls of Xindu City can hold out, I am afraid it is really an unknown.

  Although this raid disrupted the offensive deployment of the Bingzhou army, the number of burned catapults was limited after all, and after a short adjustment, the Bingzhou army was only delayed by half an hour than expected, and the catapults began to fire stone shells again.

  After the firing began again, the first stone projectile actually did not attack the city wall, but directly hit Liu Qiao.

  This time the Jizhou army easily completed the sneak attack, in addition to the fact that the preparation of Yanghu's defense was somewhat insufficient, that is, there was too much space left for the Jizhou army to operate, and the position of the catapult was relatively close to the city wall, so Qiu Lin dared to boldly use the cavalry to raid.

  If the Bingzhou army could break the drawbridge of Xindu City earlier, the Jizhou army would have to cross the wide and deep moat if it wanted to get out of the city again, which was almost impossible to cross.

  And keep the drawbridge, undoubtedly to the Jizhou army out of the city to leave a convenient door, the drawbridge down, across the moat is like walking on the ground, which also makes Yanghu a little annoyed, I knew this, it is better to destroy the drawbridge yesterday, but also save the Jizhou army to engage in these moths.

  After the raid, the generals suggested that Yanghu do a good job in the defense of the catapult array, and the Jizhou army could have the first attack, perhaps after tasting the sweetness, it would launch a second attack, so at this time the protection of the catapult became the top priority, only by mobilizing more people and horses, and more perfect defense facilities, can the catapult position be foolproof.

  However, Yanghu had no intention of increasing his troops, because he had other plans.

  So today's first stone bomb, Yang Hu ordered the catapult to hit the suspension bridge, three or four stone bullets down, the suspension bridge was already unrecognizable, completely smashed.

  In this way, although the Bingzhou army could no longer enter the city through the drawbridge, it also blocked the Jizhou army's route out of the city.

  At the same time, Yanghu sent his own soldiers to the west of the city and the position of the state army, and told Du Yu and Lianhong about the damage to the catapult here, and asked them to always be on guard against the possible destruction of the catapult position by the Jizhou army, and it was best to destroy the drawbridge at the west gate first, and cut off the idea of the Jizhou army going out of the city.

  Although the raid of the Jizhou army did not cause substantial damage to the catapult, it must have made Lu Zhao taste some sweetness, so as long as the conditions permit, Lu Zhao is likely to send people to carry out a sneak attack again.

  After easily destroying Liu Qiao, Yanghu ordered to concentrate all his efforts on attacking the city wall, and the attack was still in the areas that were damaged yesterday, Yanghu decided to strike while the iron was hot, yesterday's attack had made the city wall obviously cracked, and if he continued to attack, he would definitely gain something.

  The raid of the Jizhou army caused the loss of more than a dozen catapults, and also caused hundreds of casualties, and now it was the turn of the catapults to counterattack, the catapults accelerated the frequency of the attack, and the stone bullets, which seemed to be with anger, shot towards the city wall of Xindu, smashed on the city wall, and made a clanging sound.

  Seeing the catapult attacking again, Lu Zhao's heart immediately hung again, and the city wall that was repaired overnight last night didn't know if it could withstand the catapult's second attack.

  Suffered from repeated attacks, the city wall is still shaking, but Lu Zhao found that those cracks nailed up by wood do not seem to increase the momentum, this is obviously a better thing, it seems that this method is still more feasible, as long as these cracks do not increase, the city wall has no risk of collapse for the time being, and it should be okay to hold on a few more.

  As for the city wall not being destroyed, it is almost impossible, and the catapults of the state army are so powerful that even the strongest city walls will collapse sooner or later under its indiscriminate bombardment.

  Lu Zhao hoped that it would be best to hold on until Sima Shi's reinforcements arrived, even if he couldn't wait for that, he would hold on a little more, the outer city wall was lost, and he still had an inner city wall to retreat.

  But how long can the inner city wall last, Lu Zhao has no bottom in his heart, so he still cares about the outer city wall, at least the outer city wall is the guarantee of the entire Xindu City, and once the outer city wall is lost, only the inner city wall will remain, and at that time, there will be no way back at all

  Once the city is broken, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Xindu will definitely be ruined. It's not that the Bingzhou army will massacre it when it enters the city, but Lu Zhao didn't plan to hand over the letter intact to the Bingzhou army.

  If he really got the time when the city was broken, Lu Zhao had no intention of surrendering at all, he had already made up his mind, people were in the city, people were dead in the city, if it really reached the point where he couldn't hold it, he would set fire to the city, and what the state army got was at most a pile of rubble, a piece of scorched earth.