Just when Zhang He and Xu You's faces were ugly, on the city wall, many soldiers defending the city were also hiding with desperate faces, hoping that the stones falling from the sky could avoid them. For this reason, they even prayed to most of the gods they knew, and most of them prayed successfully, but unfortunately, there will always be one or two unlucky people in this world

Looking at his companions who were stoned to death by his side, I am afraid that there are not many people who can be indifferent. Especially when the limbs of these people were still twitching on the ground, and the blood was flowing down the cracks in the stone slabs, staining a large area around them red.

"Hell, how did these bastards from Qingzhou get so many trebuchets, and they also threw them on our city wall" Shrinking under the corner, a sergeant couldn't help but curse loudly, as if the louder he scolded, the less the stones in the sky would hit him.

It's a pity that his voice is really nothing on the huge battlefield, and the stones that should fall to his side will still fall to his side, and it doesn't seem to have changed anything.

There were a few sergeants who scolded him, but there were only a few of them, and the rest of the sergeants either shrank silently under the corner, silent, or simply cried secretly.

A large number of stones were thrown onto the walls, dealing a considerable blow to the defenders on the walls. This is true both in terms of casualties and in terms of the blow to morale.

Looking at the stones that fall like raindrops, no matter who you are, your heart becomes heavy. Even Zhang He and Xu You, who are the main figures in defending the city, are the same, just now, if Zhang He hadn't used his shield to help Xu You block the falling stones, I'm afraid that Xu You would have died on the spot by now.

No matter how resourceful a person is, when faced with such a blow, he is actually no different from ordinary people. A wise man like Pang Tong, didn't he die in the end? A person as talented as Ma Liang finally died in the chaos. Did their ingenuity change their fate?

What's more, compared with the two people in front of him, Xu You seems to be a little worse.

In terms of intelligence, he is indeed much stronger than ordinary people, but unfortunately his temperament is greedy, and he is too arrogant, and he doesn't know what is called the way to take trouble, and based on this alone, he is far worse than Pang Tong, Ma Liang and others.

No matter what, after being saved by Zhang He, Xu You is still very grateful to Zhang He, even if the other party is the martial artist he despises the most on weekdays. I am also desperate for the current situation.

In the face of such a storm-like blow, they can't put a lid on the entire Plains City, right?

Fortunately, in ancient wars, there were many such ways of warfare, and they were not very new. It's nothing more than a matter of endurance, if you really want to bear it, let alone a stone falling from the sky, even a grenade falling from the sky will also bear it. What's more, this little stone has no effect on the city wall.

But the problem is that on the north bank of the Yellow River, Zhang He had just suffered a defeat, and now it was the time when the army's morale was unstable. Coupled with the fact that they are now isolated and helpless, it is conceivable how unstable the morale of the army is.

Especially through the gap in the wait-and-see, after observing that a few more trebuchets were added below, it was Zhang He himself who also moved to lead the troops out to rush out and kill them, and destroyed the trebuchet first. But after all, Zhang He still didn't have his mind ruined by impulse, and knew that if he really went out, he might not be able to come back.

Before, he regarded the so-called four generals of Qingzhou as a joke, but after experiencing the previous bloody battle, this idea has long been thrown aside. On the other side, just one Gan Ning is on par with himself, not to mention a series of other generals?

Even if he is almost recovered now, he has absolutely no confidence that he will be able to come back alive under the siege of so many people.

So what he wants to do now is to obediently coax, it's as simple as that.

Unlike the Jizhou Army in the Plains City, compared to them, the mentality of the Qingzhou Army outside the city is much more relaxed.

It's not surprising that if it's you, watching your side continue to baptize the other side with stones, but the other side doesn't even have a chance to fight back, your mentality will be very relaxed. Some people even feel that as long as they continue like this, they don't need to climb the city wall, and the Jizhou army in the city is afraid that they will almost die.

Therefore, these people can only be small soldiers.

Compared with these ordinary sergeants, Yan Shao and the others' mentality is not so relaxed.

Not to mention that Yuan Shao in the north is still a hidden danger that I don't know when it will appear, and a city can be solved by trebuchets or crossbow arrows alone? I'm sorry, but in China's thousands of years of history, I'm afraid there haven't been a few times like this, right? What's more, Yan Shao already knew that it was Zhang He and Xu You who were guarding the plain. In Yan Shao's opinion, these two people may not be as good as the strategists under his command, but they are definitely not too bad, especially this time the other party still made it clear that they want to stick to the city, which is considered a hard bone, and it is not as easy to gnaw as those people outside think.

"How long will it take for the rest of the trebuchets to arrive?" Looking at the city wall, more than a dozen trebuchets kept throwing stones onto the city wall, Yan Shao asked silently to an officer next to him.

If you want to break through the city, it is definitely not something that can be done in a day or two, so to be able to suppress the firepower of the entire city, of course, the more the better.

Yan Shao didn't expect to be able to smash all the soldiers and horses defending the city to death, but as long as the pressure was reduced, it was worth it.

"My lord, things are a little troublesome, those trebuchets and carts are too large, there is no ferry on the riverbank, the boats are loaded with trebuchets to transport them, and it is very troublesome to send them to the riverbank. Now there are at least twenty or thirty trebuchets waiting to be transported on the south bank, and there are more than ten on the north bank that are being brought up, in addition to the rushing carts and other things are also in the process of being transported, which is very troublesome, but the soldiers and horses on the river bank have begun to build ferries, as long as the ferries are done, these things will be much simpler. Hearing Yan Shao asking, the officer hurriedly explained.

In fact, the ferry port is still very easy to get, and many so-called ferries are just a small wooden plank on the shore to allow the boat to dock and let the people or some smaller goods on it drop down. But this time it was different, this time it was more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, as well as heavy ordnance materials. The weight of these things is not something that ordinary ferries can withstand, and the scale is not enough to use, so a larger ferry must be built.

In this case, it will take some time.

"Can't you speed up a little" Hearing this, Yan Shao couldn't help frowning.

With this trebuchet at this stage alone, it is not easy to suppress those soldiers and horses on the city wall, and now it seems that he does not dare to lift his head against the opposite side, but if he wants to take the plain city, it is not enough to rely on this.

"My lord, why don't we take local materials? There are also woods around Plains City, and you can send some soldiers and horses to build it on the spot," a general immediately proposed. "And at this stage, the siege ordnance in our hands is only crossbow arrows and catapults, at most it is a rushing car, to be honest, the type is somewhat insufficient, especially the catapult, it seems to be not small, but it is still a little worse, if you can build some well fences, maybe the situation will be better"

Wells are definitely a siege weapon on the ancient battlefield.

That's right, it's definitely a real weapon.

The trebuchet seems to be really powerful, but the accuracy is a little worse, if you want to hit the target, you basically rely on the blind, and if you don't get it, it depends on your own luck and the luck of the other party. The only advantage of this thing is that it is very powerful, at least until the invention of the large trebuchet, and to be honest, it is not particularly useful in siege warfare. Large trebuchets can destroy city walls, and this kind of stone is just an itch for the city walls.

The really useful ones are the well fences or the rushing cars.

Especially in the well railing, a large number of archers stand on top of the siege ordnance that is higher than the city wall, which can achieve a condescending effect.

And unlike the trebuchets of Lemon, the archers' arrows still have a aiming effect, which is much more accurate, and can effectively kill the objects on the city wall. Especially when your own soldiers and horses are in the city, it can provide a considerable degree of fire cover.

"Then let's do it" Yan Shao thought about it for a while, and also felt that it was okay, so he ordered.

When the general heard this, he immediately took the order and turned around, leaving the rest of the men to stand by his side.

"Lord, why are you in such a hurry? Now there are only thousands of remnants of Zhang He's defeated soldiers left in this city, and it won't take ten days for us to break through the city, even if there are no weapons for attacking the city, it won't affect anything" Looking at Yan Shao's somewhat anxious look, Gan Ning next to him felt a little strange.

In his opinion, the destruction of the plain city is also a matter of the recent period, if Yan Shao is willing to pay the price, and he can even take the city in ten days, why be in such a hurry, and do so many things?

"I'm worried about Yuan Shao" Yan Shao glanced at Gan Ning, and didn't hide it, but directly said his thoughts. "Yuan Shao is scheming and indecisive, so he is not a threat, but Gongsun Zhan opposite him is even worse than him, but he is just a brave horseman. And Yuan Shao has at least many strategists around him, and there are many more brave generals than Gongsun Zan under his command, the so-called White Horse General? Is there a famous military general under him? Otherwise, Gongsun Chan is afraid that he will be defeated by Yuan Shao, and I even suspect that Yuan Shao has already solved Gongsun Chan and is on his way south, if he can't solve the problem of the plain before this, things will be in trouble."

To be honest, Gongsun Zhan, the general of the white horse, is indeed very powerful, at least among these generals in the late Han Dynasty, there are not many who are more powerful than him. But the problem is that no matter how powerful he is, he is just a brave and unscrupulous horseman, and what is even more troublesome is that there are no powerful characters under his hands to help him.

For example, his main opponent Yuan Shao, although he has one or another flaw, but under his hands, in terms of bravery, there are fierce generals such as Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Ran, etc., and in terms of wisdom, there are also Tian Feng, Fu Zhu, Ju Pei, Guo Tu, Xu You, Feng Ji and others to help him. In addition, Yuan Shao has a lot of problems, but he is also a hegemon-level figure, in addition to facing an opponent like Cao Cao, otherwise with such a luxurious lineup, it is not easy to lose.

In the face of such an opponent, Yan Shao naturally had to be 120,000 points cautious.

Even if he knew very well that Yuan Shao had one flaw or another, if he was not careful, he would become one of Yuan Shao's stepping stones.

"That's it" Gan Ning nodded, indicating that he understood.

The others looked at each other and said nothing.

For Yuan Shao, they are still very cautious, after all, he is the current head of the Yuan family, and he is also the leader of the Dong Alliance, and his status is definitely higher than that of any of today's princes. And he also has a considerable degree of strength, such a prince, if he underestimates it, it is no different from seeking his own death.

Soon, more trebuchets were placed around Plains City, and even two wells that had just been built were put into use.

As mentioned before, compared to trebuchets, the power of the well fence is obviously much greater, at least the archers above can choose the target as they like, instead of being like the previous trebuchets, they can only choose a general area, as for whether they can hit the target in the end, this can only depend on the will of God

After the well fence was also put into use, the pressure on the defenders of the plain instantly increased a lot, and Yan Shao also sent a lot of soldiers and horses to climb the city on the ladder to fight, but they were all successfully killed and retreated by Zhang He. However, in the past few days, Zhang He's casualties have also been very heavy, especially after more and more well fences have been put into use, Zhang He needs to brave the baptism of arrow rain to fight, and the difficulty can be imagined.

It is not surprising that when the archers under Yan Shao's command strike at the enemy troops on the plain city, they are in a disadvantageous position, they are the suppressed side, the effect is not outstanding, and it is easy to cause casualties, in this case, why not let them all go to the well fence?

Almost as the city of the plains was under siege, on the road to the plains, a group of cavalry was also galloping like a lightning speed.

The military general who was the leader was Wen Chou, who was known as one of the four court pillars in Hebei

Just as Yan Shao had guessed, the war in the north had basically ended, and now Yuan Shao was free to solve the security problem in the south.

"Zhang He, you have to be more angry, otherwise I will have to collect the body for you" His legs gently kicked on the horse's belly, and a cruel smile appeared on Wen Chou's face.