Under the city of Xiangyang, Yuwenwen looked at the catapults left and right like a forest and was quite proud, this is a siege weapon created by the Anzhou army with all its strength, it must be powerful and powerful, and it must be numerous.

Xiangyang is a famous fortified city in the world, it is land in the east, south and west, but there is a wide moat, and the river water comes from the Han River in the north of the city, which flows for a long time and does not dry up.

But for the traverser, Xiangyang's greatest fame comes from two historical events: the first is that during the Three Kingdoms, Guan Yunchang made a northern expedition to Xiangfan, but the flooded Seventh Army was attacked by Eastern Wu and Lu Meng, and Jingzhou was cut off.

The second is the Battle of Xiangyang in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, where the Condor heroes Guo Jing and Huang Rong led the Xiangyang army and civilians to resist the Yuan army for several years and finally martyred heroically

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The second is the Battle of Xiangyang in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, which began with the Battle of Anyang Beach in which the Mengyuan general Ashu attacked Xiangyang in the third year of Xianchun in the Southern Song Dynasty, and ended in the ninth year of Xianchun (1273) when the Xiangyang defender Lu Wenhuan exhausted his efforts to surrender to the Yuan, which lasted nearly six years.

During the period Xiangyang defenders repelled countless attacks, the Southern Song Dynasty court also sent reinforcements along the Han River countless times to try to support, the Song and Yuan Dynasty carried out a series of offensive and defensive battles around Xiangyang, and finally the Song army strongholds around Xiangyang were uprooted one by one into a lonely city, and the Xiangyang defenders suffered heavy casualties under the siege for many years, and there was no reinforcement and no grain and grass inside to support it.

At this time, the Yuan army used the final weapon - gravity catapult, which was a siege machine built by the latest technology brought by the Arabs in the Western Regions, and finally became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

Now, Yuwenwen has erected this "long-range gravity projectile cannon across the era" under Xiangyang City nearly 700 years in advance!

Countless Anzhou soldiers looked at this huge catapult in amazement, some of them had seen a small one under the city of Changshou, and some were the first time they had seen the legendary sharp siege equipment in this army.

Their only thought was: how many people are going to have to pull this thing!

In this era, catapults are there, but they are all pulled by people as power, like such a huge catapult is hard to imagine how many people can move, not to mention that the bottom of the cannon tip is not tied with a long rope, it seems that people do not want to pull, so how does it throw stones?

The stones prepared by the gunners weighed fifty or sixty pounds, how far could this thing throw the boulders!

Intentionally or not, many people asked about the mystery, but soon they got the answer: this thing has a spell!

I saw a Taoist priest dancing with a wooden sword in his hand muttering words in his mouth, and the other hand pinched the rune paper with strange patterns, and then he sprayed the rune paper with rune water in his mouth, "Taishang Laojun is as anxious as the law!" ”

A soldier stepped forward to take the rune paper, and then split up to climb up the high shelf of the catapult and carefully stick the rune paper to the wooden basket hanging under the cannon.

"I'm not wrong, that's what they did last time in Longevity City, so this catapult can throw boulders without human pulling." A soldier in the crowd of onlookers said to the people around him.

"Is that okay? Which mountain gate is this Taoist priest? I don't know how much to bid before I can invite you to do something? The surrounding people poked their heads over and asked, this spell is really good, wouldn't it be useless to plow the fields at home and ask the Taoist priest to do it in the future?

There is no need for oars to travel on the water, and loading and unloading goods also saves labor, which is really a spell for prosperity!

"I heard that it was the Xiyang County Gong who met him, and he knelt in front of the door for more than a month, and moved the Taoist chief with sincerity before he asked his disciples to come to help in the battle." Someone said in a heartfelt voice, that person was Yuwen Fifteen with a sharp beak monkey cheek.

"yes, yes, I saw it with my own eyes." This is a 'silly and bold' acting acting, and Fifth Brother Chen is echoing.

"Then where is this Dao Chief?"

"It is said that he is a great sage from England in the far west, and the Taoist name 'Newton Heavenly Master' is." This is Yu Wenwen disguised as a 'bag inquiry', hiding in the crowd and spreading rumors.

"That Newton Heavenly Master was originally a mortal, and one day he was resting under the fruit tree, and he was hit on the head by a falling fruit, and he was immediately enlightened, and he won the true inheritance of the Heavenly Dao and created an immortal foundation."

"What kind of spell is this?"

"It is said that what is called the 'Law of Gravitation', if you learn the subtlety, you can fly above the nine heavens in the daytime, this is just a small skill of carving insects!"

"I see!" When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized.

That's right, how can there be a machine in the world that can automatically throw stones without being pulled, this time the Anzhou army will definitely be able to win every battle with the help of gods and men!

The power of the rumors is great, after the Taoist priests finished pasting the rune paper on all the catapults, through many suspicious small groups everywhere 'singing and harmonizing', the whole army of Anzhou knows that this "cross-era long range gravity projectile cannon" has the blessing of spells, and the city of Xiangyang will not be broken in a few days!

After the catapult was finished, the soldiers set up a formation on the edge of the trench in front of the catapult to surprise the defenders and destroy the siege equipment. Seeing this, the defenders of the city were busy raising the huge curtains.

A common and effective defense method against the stones thrown by the catapult is to raise the curtain and stand at the head of the city, the so-called soft to overcome the newly flying stones after hitting the curtain and then falling to the ground, which cannot cause much damage to objects or people behind the curtain.

This time, the official army defended the city and sent the people of the whole city to assist in the defense, and collected all the cloth that could be used to sew the cloth curtains, and now the cloth curtains erected in various parts of the city in Xiangyang are of various colors, and they should be sewn with different colors of cloth.

A trumpet sounded, and the tip of a catapult outside the city began to turn, and then a boulder whistled towards a huge curtain at the head of Xiangyang City.

After the piercing tearing sound, the boulder that crashed into the curtain was wrapped in cloth, but continued to rush forward, tearing it apart, and then crashing into the houses behind the city walls.

There was a "boom", and the house immediately turned into a pile of ruins and dust.

The nearby defenders were silent when they saw this, many of them were veterans who had attacked the city and defended the city, this curtain was a necessary equipment for defending the city, and the flying stones had a miraculous effect, why was it useless now?

Several of the catapults outside the city were launched one after another, and some of the stones thrown fell on the moat to stir up a column of water, some fell under the corners of the city wall, and some flew over the curtain at the head of the city to stir up a puff of dust.

The sentries in the nest car erected by the Anzhou army to observe the situation at the head of the city were shouting loudly to the ground, and then the soldiers who operated the catapult were seen climbing the bracket and fiddling with the wooden basket, putting things in or throwing things out of it.

The defenders on the arrow tower couldn't help but shoot arrows out of the city, and the feathered arrows fluttered in front of the army line guarding the catapults, and the position of the catapults had exceeded the effective range of the bows and arrows.

In other words, the defenders could only silently withstand the catapult attacks, but could not effectively return fire.

Wang Yi looked at the dense catapult outside the city from the city tower, and now he finally knew why the Anzhou army was so sure about capturing Xiangyang City: they could use witchcraft to make the huge catapult throw stones without manpower!

Saving manpower, these catapults are afraid that they can throw stones day and night, and the southwest of Xiangyang City is the inexhaustible stone block of Hutou Mountain, so how long can Xiangyang last day and night?

The continuous sound of horns interrupted his train of thought, and he saw that the dense catapults outside the city were all started, throwing dozens of catties of boulders towards the city wall, and the whistling sound sounded one after another.

With a "boom", an arrow tower was broken by a boulder, and half of the arrow tower fell to the ground and shattered into fragments, and the archers on it did not know whether they were alive or dead. The huge curtains erected at the top of the city lost their effect and were knocked down one by one by the boulders.

Bang, bang, bang, the boulder hit the city, and the defenders around the city only felt that the bricks and stones splashed on the ground, and they shook it, and they stood firm and saw that the boulder had knocked the city wall out of a pit, and several cracks spread out, and the arrow buttresses on the original city head were gone.

The Anzhou army attacked the city walls on the east, south and west sides of Xiangyang City at the same time, and after the first round of attacks, the arrow towers on the three sides of Xiangyang lost 10%, and the cloth mantle went 60%.

Wang Yi looked at the miserable situation at the head of the city with a pale face, the boulder fell not far from his side, and the splashed stones hit the guards around him, some of the lucky helmets blocked the impact of the gravel for his head, and some of the unlucky ones were hit by the gravel and fell to the ground with blurred flesh and blood and screamed.

He saw the operator of the catapult outside the city pull the winch to slowly pull down the cannon rod, and then several people pushed the boulder into the cloth bag together, and a new round of artillery attack would begin.

"Quick, everyone except the observation post will go down the city wall to take refuge!" He gave the order for most of the defenders at the head of the city to leave the city to avoid the stone rain, after all, standing at the head of the city under the attack of such a terrifying weapon can only be sent to death in vain!

However, it didn't take long for the artillery bombardment to begin, boulders raining down and arrow towers collapsing, and the city head of the city was splashed with broken arms and stumps, and the smell of blood spread.

After getting the commander's order, the defenders fled down the city with rolling and crawling, except for the sentinels who observed the enemy's situation, there was no one in the city, and Wang Yi at the corner of the city wall gasped and ordered: "Order the Xiangyang Navy to dispatch, no matter how much the cost must burn the Hannan pontoon bridge!" ”

"Except for the sentinels, let everyone else hide under the walls, not too close and not too far!"

"Prepare the timber and stones, and prepare to repair the gap in the wall."

"Send people to Jiangbei, let Fancheng recruit most of the people to cross the river to support, and send a message to Cui Yanmu, so that he can quickly reinforce him!"

The Anzhou army did not have a naval army, so it was urgent to attack Fancheng in the north of the Yangtze River, and the Xiangyang naval army should go south to burn the Hannan pontoon bridge and cut off the connection between the Anzhou army and the east bank instead of anchoring in the water village and doing nothing.

"Send someone to the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion to report the emergency!"

After a round of arrangement, Wang Yi calmed down a little, but his brows couldn't be untied, the Anzhou army had demon magic to help, how long could it be to attack this Xiangyang city wall day and night?

Outside the city, the soldiers of the Anzhou Army were stunned to watch the stone rain falling on Xiangyang City, stirring up bursts of dust, and Yu Wenliang outside the Chinese army tent twisted his beard and looked at the Xiangyang City Wall and nodded slightly, and the generals around him were surprised.

Somewhere in the crowd of onlookers, Yuwen Wen led three hundred 'trumpeters' and a group of personal soldiers to leave, and Yuwen Fifteen followed him and asked, "What will Master Lang do in a while?" ”

"Bengong has come up with a few new ways to play, and you're having a good time."

"What's the new way to play?" Everyone was interested when they heard this, although they couldn't follow Yuwenwen to grab people's heads and 'generate income', but the 'Sunset County Prince' generously gave the military salary to be full, and although the weekday drills were a little harder, it was quite interesting, anyway, the county prince would not deliberately entertain them.

"The blood-boiling spear thrust, the armed cross-country running towards the sunset, the passionate riverside chasing back and forth!" Yuwen Wen showed deep white teeth, "My father is optimistic about you!" ”

In the water village on the north side of Xiangyang City, the naval warships densely sailed into the Han River and sailed down the river to Hannan, only then they received an order from the commander Wang Yi to break the Hannan pontoon bridge downstream at any cost.

Inside a warship, Team Li, who was pale, and Zhang Yu, who was skinny, looked blankly at the river outside the cabin.