Time was pressing, Cao Liang didn't care to study more tactical plans, and when all the armies of the east and west arrived at Xindu City, Cao Liang ordered the soldiers and horses of each battalion to launch an attack on Xindu City.

For Cao Liang, he really needs to race against time now, Sima Division's reinforcements will come at any time, according to the information sent back from Luoyang, Sima Jun is already in full swing, according to the current process, Sima Division is likely to send troops in less than a month, leaving Cao Liang with little time.

If you can't take Xindu, then all the previous efforts of the Bingzhou army will come to naught, after the arrival of Sima Army's reinforcements, they will join forces inside and outside, and launch a crazy counterattack, not only the territory previously captured is likely to not be kept, I am afraid that even Youzhou and Bingzhou will be impacted.

Cao Liang knows that Sima Shi has not been idle in recent years, and has been vigorously developing cavalry and rebuilding the army, after Sima Shi sits in the position of a general, I am afraid that the biggest ambition is to recover and Youzhou, since he chose to send troops at this time, it proves that Sima Shi's newly built army has the corresponding combat effectiveness, Sima Shi dispatched such a large army, obviously the purpose is not just to rescue Jizhou, he must have greater ambitions.

Therefore, this battle of Jizhou is destined to become a decisive battle before Cao Liang and Sima Shi, and the outcome of this battle will completely determine the general trend, who can win, who will really grasp the overall situation and dominate.

Since it is a decisive battle, it is necessary to make all preparations before the decisive battle, if the battlefield is placed in the north of Jizhou, then the room for maneuver of the Bingzhou army will inevitably be small, and the existence of the nail of Xindu makes Cao Liang even more stabbed in the throat.

In fact, the 70,000 troops left behind in Xindu will not pose any threat to the Bingzhou army at this moment, after all, their lack of field combat ability can only shrink in Xindu City, strictly defend to the death, and do passive defense.

But after the arrival of Sima Division's reinforcements, all this will be completely changed, and with the reinforcements to rely on, these 70,000 people will surely become a serious trouble.

From the perspective of taking precautions, before the decisive battle, Cao Liang must remove this hidden danger and remove this nail, so as to eliminate the potential threat.

More importantly, with the existence of the nail of Xindu, the front of the Bingzhou Army will be dragged in the north of Jizhou, and only by taking Xindu can it be possible to move the front to the south, which will win depth space for the next operation of the Bingzhou Army.

Therefore, no matter from that point of view, the Bingzhou army must take Xindu, and it must be before the arrival of Sima Shi's reinforcements.

Therefore, Cao Liang only summoned the generals and held a simple meeting to explain the necessity of attacking the city and some key points of coordinated operations, and immediately ordered an attack on Xindu City.

There is Lecheng's siege experience, so when he launched an attack on Shindu, the catapult became the protagonist again.

After the Battle of Lecheng, the infantry battalion repaired the damaged catapults, and most of the catapults could be re-entered into battle after repair, and a small number of completely scrapped catapults were replenished, so that the number of catapults of the infantry battalion remained the original number.

As for the stone bullets, the supply of the infantry battalion has not stopped, because Yanghu knows that the next big war will still give full play to the role of the catapult, so he ordered the transportation of the stone bullet, which has always been a priority, and in some quarries in Youzhou, a number of craftsmen are also working overtime to produce, and new stone bullets are constantly being produced and transported to the front line, so after the infantry battalion arrives in Xindu, the reserve of stone bullets is extremely sufficient.

The shooting battalion and the left guard battalion that had just arrived from Bingzhou, like the infantry battalion, were each equipped with 100 catapults, and the six major infantry battalions of the Bingzhou army, except for the first battalion, which was mainly a flat box chariot, the other five battalions were basically the same in terms of configuration, and had the dual ability of field warfare and siege.

However, in terms of the reserve of stone bullets, they and the infantry battalion are slightly insufficient, after all, they came from Bingzhou, and they had to cross the mountains and mountains through the Taihang Mountains, and the stone bullets were heavy and heavy, and it was very difficult to transport and carry, so long-distance transportation naturally could not accumulate too much.

So Cao Liang came forward to coordinate, evenly distributed some of the stone bullets transported from Youzhou to the Shooting Battalion and the Left Guard Battalion, and strengthened the transfer of stone bullets, as far as possible, the stone bullets currently accumulated in Youzhou were given priority to the front line of Xindu, and only with a sufficient number of stone bullets could the walls of Xindu be blasted open.

When the army attacked, it was divided into two corps, the eastern army consisting of infantry battalions and the first battalion, and the western corps consisting of the shooting battalion and the left guard battalion, and at the same time launched an attack on the castle from the east and west.

Compared with these county towns of Lecheng, the city defense of Xindu is obviously a grade higher, the towering city walls are thicker, higher and stronger, and the city is densely packed with defenders, and the Jizhou army has put on a strict defense and is ready to fight.

In the east, the infantry battalion and the pioneer battalion discharged a phalanx composed of 130 catapults, and the catapults were several feet high and majestic, and this scene alone was enough to shock people's hearts.

To the west, the Shooting Battalion and the Left Guard Battalion jointly discharged a phalanx of 200 catapults, which was larger in scale and more imposing, and people were terrified to see it.

Everyone in the Jizhou Army knew that Le Cheng's catapult was the culprit, but how Le Cheng was broken by the catapult, most people did not see it with their own eyes, so they were both afraid and curious about the catapult of the Bingzhou Army, and they all wanted to see with their own eyes how powerful the catapult of the Bingzhou Army was.

Of course, the state army will not lose their expectations, the first to line out is the catapult phalanx, because the catapult is a long-range attack force, even far beyond the range of the bow and arrow, so the wide moat of the city of Shinto does not play any role in the catapult.

The defenders at the head of the city did not have any means of counterattack to threaten the catapults, even if they were also equipped with some trebuchets, but this kind of human-drawn catapults were far inferior to the equipped catapults of the Bingzhou army in terms of range, so the Jizhou army in the city could only watch the Bingzhou army carry out the catapult formation and could not do anything.

The catapult that destroyed Le Cheng has been assembled under the city of Xindu, this nightmare is already inevitable, the Jizhou army is solemn, showing a look of fear, none of them knows, the city wall of Xindu, can it stop this destructive power?

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.