Soon the enemy who climbed to the top of the city was only Lejin alone, and most of the thirty simple ladders had been destroyed, five of the rushing cars had also been destroyed by fire, and most of the ten ladder cars had also been burned, and the remaining few were also fighting alone.

Seeing this, Cao Cao was afraid that Le Jin would suffer a loss, so he hurriedly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

When Le Jin heard the sound of gold, he hurriedly retreated to the nearest battlement where the ladder was still there, and was about to climb down the city and evacuate from the ladder.

Wang Quan shot a cold arrow in the distance, hum, come if you want, leave if you want, how can there be such a cheap thing?

The cold arrow was originally aimed at Le Jin's throat, but Le Jin was worthy of being a battle-hardened general, and when he retreated, he still watched and listened to all directions.

When he heard the sound of the bowstring, he instinctively leaned back, and Wang Quan's cold arrow flew past the tip of his nose.

The cold arrow dodged, but behind him was outside the city wall, and it was empty, so Le Jin fell from the city.

Fortunately, the general's reaction was amazing, and he used his long knife to desperately scratch the city wall, trying to stop the fall, but the big shield in his left hand had already been thrown away.

Fortunately, many Cao soldiers had been killed in the city, and the corpses were stacked in several layers, and the unremitting efforts of Lejin's long knife also played some role, and finally fell under the city, but his life was saved, only a few ribs were broken.

Le Jin's subordinates desperately grabbed it and rescued Le Jin.

Cao's army left behind the corpses and burning siege equipment scattered all over the city, and withdrew to the main camp.

This was the end of the first attempt to siege the city, which ended in the defeat of Cao's army.

The Central Army lowered some soldiers with ropes from the city wall, destroyed all the undamaged ladders and ladder carts left by the Cao army, and simply cleaned the battlefield, and recovered as many arrows as possible.

From the perspective of humanitarianism and preventing the plague, Lu Bu ordered someone to collect the corpses of the Central Army that fell under the city, and simply bandaged the wounded of the Cao army who had not died, and sent someone to call for the Cao army to send someone to treat the wounded and clean up the corpses.

Although Cao Cao sometimes fights by unscrupulous means, since Lu Bu can make such a gesture, how can he waste this opportunity to buy people's hearts and restore the morale of the army.

He immediately sent a large number of unarmed soldiers to carry the wounded and corpses, and the corpses of Cao's army on the city were also sent down by the Central Army.

Although the siege time was not very long, the casualties were not small, and the Kwantung princes sat together, frowning and thinking of good strategies.

After a while, Yuan Shao's military advisor Tian Feng said: "I look at today's siege battle, rushing cars and ladders are still very practical, but the number is too small, and the ladders are narrow and can only be climbed up by one person, we still need to build more, and we can try to make a few wide ladders." ”

"In addition, the central army mostly relies on condescending bows and crossbows to suppress us, and I have a blueprint here that can create a treasure to restrain the bows and crossbows above the city."

Cao Cao and the others were interested when they heard this, and they all gathered around to watch Tian Feng unfold a silk silk.

It depicts an object that looks like an arrow tower, but there are several pairs of wooden wheels underneath, and some people push it inside.

"This is called the well, in fact, it is a movable arrow tower, each floor can be arranged to shoot crossbowmen on the city, and the highest crossbowmen can condescendingly suppress the enemy crossbowmen at the head of the city."

"Its height depends on the city wall, the wall of the Tiger Prison Pass is about six zhang, then we can build a seven-zhang high well, and use the heavily armored dead soldiers to push it underneath to advance."

"However, it has no protection itself, and troops need to be sent around it to protect it, and the number cannot be too small, and it needs to be built to suppress it."

"Well, that's a good idea! Meng De, my military advisor has taken out a good treasure, don't hide it anymore. Yuan Shao high-fived and laughed.

Cao Cao also really admired Tian Feng's well, and he replied: "Brother Benchu, I really have a secret weapon, and I didn't take it out, but it's not that I hide it, but this weapon takes a lot of time to make, although I work day and night, the quantity is still insufficient, and if it is used to attack the city, it will have to wait for some time." ”

Yuan Shao nodded, "It's okay, it will take some time to make the well, so let's postpone the siege for a few days, but can Meng De's treasure give us a sneak peek?" ”

Cao Cao laughed, "Of course, it will be put into use soon, and there is no need to keep it secret, everyone, please come with me." ”

The Kwantung princes and the main generals and strategists followed Cao Cao to Cao's camp and walked to the end of the camp.

It's a big open space, and there are some big guys in the clearing.

If Lu Bu was here, he could recognize that they were all manpower trebuchets with wooden wheels that could move, and if he looked at the ropes on the tips of the cannons, there were as many as thirty or forty.

In other words, Cao Cao's trebuchet also needed at least thirty people to tow and cast, and the power was not small.

It's just that the overall workmanship of the trebuchet is still rough, and the site is being assembled while making, and they don't have Lu Bu's set of process operations, so they can only build one and install another, which is very inefficient.

Tian Feng, Chen Gong and others are all well-educated people, so they naturally recognize what this is, "trebuchet!" "Stone cannon!"

Cao Cao called over a scribe in his thirties and forties to introduce to everyone, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the designer of the "Thunderbolt Car", Liu Ye, Liu Ziyang, a native of Huainan, he is the descendant of Liu Yan, the king of Fuling, and a member of the royal family. ”

Chen Gong asked, "Dare to ask Mr. Ziyang, how powerful is your trebuchet?" What is the range? ”

Liu Ye replied proudly: "Mr. Gongtai, my thunderbolt can throw a hundred-pound boulder to a distance of 400 steps!" ”

Everyone exclaimed, a hundred catties of boulders can be thrown four hundred steps, that is, eighty zhang, it is not far away, especially those who know something about trebuchets, but also know the range and power of the previous trebuchet.

Tian Feng said: "Sir's trebuchet is indeed much better than the predecessors, and eighty zhang is also far away, but the bow and crossbow of the Central Army can also be shot to eighty to one hundred zhang on the Tiger Prison. “

"Their large repeater crossbow and cannons can shoot nearly two hundred zhang away, and you are still within their range!"

Liu Ye replied with a smile: "What Mr. Yuan Hao said is extremely true, so my thunderbolt can also deliver forty pounds of stones, and the range can be close to two hundred zhang at this time." ”

"We can first suppress the archers on the city head with a long range, cover our crossbowmen into range, fire at the city, destroy their large repeaters as much as possible, and then move the thunderbolt forward to destroy the city walls and suppress the city head."

Tian Feng looked at Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, "Ziyang's thunderbolt and my wells are really a perfect match, first use his thunderbolts to attack remotely, suppress the city, and then send out the wells, I see, the Tiger Prison Pass is just around the corner!" ”

Yuan Shao also nodded in agreement with Tian Feng's point of view, believing that with these siege weapons, capturing the Tiger Prison Pass was a certain result.

Cao Cao is more cautious, "Although we have added two major siege weapons, Lu Bu is the most cunning, and he often does things unexpectedly, and the central army often has some unbelievable weapons and tactics, so we should be careful." ”

"I think we must send more soldiers out to collect raw materials, build enough wells and thunderbolts, and then carry out the next siege, I think the next siege will be our decisive battle with Lu Bu."

(End of chapter)