It only took two days for Le Cheng to fall, and when the news reached Yecheng, Zhong Hui's brows tightened.

According to his original estimate, after Le Cheng was attacked, with Le Cheng's defense, it should not be difficult to hold on for a hundred days, and it should be able to hold on for a month, but now it is only two days, and Le Cheng has lost, which is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Jizhou defense system carefully constructed by Zhong Hui.

Hold on for a hundred days and only hold for two days, those are two completely different concepts, if the war can be delayed, even if Lecheng does not get the support of reinforcements, but it can consume a lot of troops and materials of the Bingzhou army, what the Jizhou army does not lack is manpower, as long as the Bingzhou army is dragged into a protracted war, Zhong Hui believes that Cao Liang will not last long.

Coke achievements were lost so simply, not only were the defenders of Lecheng wiped out, but it is estimated that the Bingzhou army only paid a very small price for casualties, so that instead of playing the original role, all the military supplies of Lecheng fell into the hands of the Bingzhou army, which was extremely beneficial to the next move of the Bingzhou army.

Lecheng's brittle defeat also made the defense line in the north of Jizhou useless, and a self-proclaimed impregnable defensive town was lost within two days.

Attracting countless questions obviously made Zhong Hui's face a little unbearable, but more importantly, Zhong Hui had no shame to meet Sima Shi, the entire defense plan of Jizhou was concocted by him, Zhong Hui was full of confidence in this defense plan, but he swore to Sima Shi at the beginning that Jizhou was absolutely foolproof.

The loss of Ke Lecheng made Zhong Hui embarrassed, he didn't even have time to make any moves, he just received the news that Le Cheng was besieged a day earlier, and the next day he got an urgent report of Le Cheng's loss, and the so-called solid soup became a joke.

What's even more difficult is, how will the next battle be fought?

The Bingzhou cavalry was cruising on the land of Jizhou, just like a black ghost, and everywhere they went, the Jizhou army was afraid of it, because they did not have the ability to fight in the field at all, so they could only retreat in various cities and stick to the cities.

But now with the brittle defeat of Lecheng, will the other cities be safe? Obviously, it is impossible, and since Bingzhou can capture Le Chenglai so easily, then attacking other cities is like searching for things, without the slightest difficulty.

Zhong Hui has already read the detailed battle report on the loss of Lecheng, and the state army captured Lecheng, and did not use any special means and strategies, neither sneak attack nor rebellion, and the tactics were monotonous to the point of terrible, just using catapults to smash hard, and smash the newly built brick city wall that the Jizhou army had just built proudly.

What is hard power? This is out-and-out hard power, hardcore can no longer be hardcore, in the face of such absolute strength, what conspiracies, what ingenious means, are all fucking floating clouds.

Zhong Hui already knew in advance the power of the catapult of the Bingzhou Army, but to what extent it was powerful, it could only be said that it would be ineffable.

In order to deal with the catapults, Zhong Hui worked the defense of the city, and spent great efforts to upgrade almost all the important cities in Jizhou, replacing the rammed earth city walls with brick and stone walls, which greatly improved the defense capability of the city.

In order to verify the defense capability of the city, Zhong Hui also deliberately transferred a few catapults and tried to smash the city wall, and the experiment proved that the catapult could only hurt the skin of the city wall at most, and could not shake the overall structure of the city wall at all, so Zhong Hui would carry out large-scale promotion in Jizhou.

But Zhong Hui ignored that such an experiment itself did not have much reference significance, he could not obtain the catapult of the state army, so he could only use Sima Jun's catapult to conduct experiments, in fact, the two are essentially different, Sima Jun used a traction catapult, and the catapult using more than 100 manpower was already the largest model, although it could theoretically be made larger, as long as enough manpower was used. However, there are too many people, and the problem of coordination is serious, so the catapult equipped by Sima Jun is equipped with a maximum of 128 tractors.

Even if it is the largest catapult, compared with the counterweight catapult of the state army, it is also a small thing, whether it is the volume or the stone projectile thrown, it cannot be compared, and the power of the counterweight catapult is far greater than that of the barricade catapult.

But even if Zhong Hui obtained a counterweight catapult, he would not be able to conduct an accurate experiment, because Bingzhou's attack on Lecheng this time was a saturation attack method, and they threw tens of thousands of stone bullets at the city wall of Le'an, such a high-intensity attack, Zhong Hui's experiment would never be able to achieve.

Based on the results of this blindly optimistic experiment, Zhong Hui naturally came to the wrong conclusion that the masonry city wall could completely resist the attack of the catapults of the state army, so there was a defense system that was built with a lot of manpower and material resources today.

However, Le Cheng's fragility made Zhong Hui's ambition come to naught at once, and for Zhong Hui, this was really a catastrophic consequence, and the chain reaction caused by this was bound to make his hard work go to waste.

Even more tricky, what's next? The previous plans were all around the defense of the city, but now the city has become vulnerable, and in the field, they cannot be the opponent of the cavalry of the state, and the situation in the entire Jizhou has fallen into chaos.

Zhong Hui felt powerless, the current situation in Jizhou was no longer under his control, and the only way was to ask Sima Shi in Luoyang for help.

Zhong Hui also knew that if he asked Sima Shi for help, he would inevitably disappoint Sima Shida.

In order to keep Jizhou, Sima Shi even did not hesitate to destroy Jizhou's people's livelihood and economy, recruited 300,000 troops in Jizhou, and used crowd tactics to hold Jizhou.

But now there has been a major mistake in Jizhou's defense strategy, even if Zhong Hui does not take the initiative to report, the paper will not be able to contain the fire, such a major event as the loss of Lecheng, Sima Shi will soon know, if Zhong Hui deliberately conceals it, he will be reprimanded by Sima Shi.

Therefore, Zhong Hui hurriedly used a six-hundred-mile expedited horse to deliver a chapter to Sima Shi, detailing the reasons for Le Cheng's loss, and at the same time taking the responsibility for Le Cheng's loss on his own body, and asking for punishment from the imperial court.