"Smack!" With a loud bang, one side of the bracket of the stone thrower was broken, making a creaking cracking sound, the body of the machine tilted, and the counterweight box fell down first, and the masonry contained in it was scattered all over the ground. The craftsmen next to them screamed in fright and fled in all directions. The guards who oversaw the battle rushed up, and were about to slash with their swords, when the wind sounded overhead, and the long pole fell, and smashed right on his shoulder. The guards screamed and fell to the ground in a pool of blood.

Before Cao Cao could react, a stone thrower not far away was also hit, the pole was raised, the counterweight box was thrown down the city wall, and a series of exclamations rang out from the city.

"So accurate?" Cao Cao's face changed drastically. He heard from the people of the He family that Sun Ce launched more than a dozen times to attack the He family's manor, and only then did he hit the target twice, and the hit rate was about 10%. Outside the city, there are thirty stone throwers, if they all aim at the two stone throwers at the head of the city and fire a salvo, they may be able to hit quickly, but what he saw was obviously a one-on-one battle, and he could hit the target so quickly, which showed that the other party's stone throwers were not only accurate, but also the craftsmen who operated the stone throwers were skilled, which was a big improvement compared to the attack on the He family manor.

"I said earlier, Yuan Shu's stone thrower is stronger than ours, so it's accurate." Cao Hong sat on the ground with his back against the city wall, his eyes swept over the stone throwers lined up on the city wall, and he pouted again and again, and the cold sweat on his forehead could not be wiped clean. "I estimate that in half a day at most, there will not be a single one of these stone throwers left."

Cao Cao and Xi Zhicai glanced at each other and shook their heads in unison. Cao Hong is too pessimistic, this kind of mentality cannot be taken alone. But Cao Cao's mood was not much better. He presided over the imitation of the stone throwing machine and knew what level these stone throwing machines were at. The gap between the two sides is by no means a star and a half, and it is impossible for anyone to have confidence.

It turns out that Cao Hong's pessimism is not out of nowhere, but a valuable intuition. The two sides fought back and forth for a long time, the sun was just in the west, and the craftsmen of the baggage battalion outside the city were finally more skilled, and destroyed more than 30 stone throwers in the city one by one, while only two stone throwers outside the city were lost.

Cao Cao's heart sank to the bottom like the counterweight box of those stone throwers.

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Victorious, the stone throwers outside the city began to concentrate on attacking the towers, making final preparations for the siege vehicles to come forward and break the door.

Seeing that the great work was about to be completed, Chen Yu was so happy that he was restless, walking back and forth on the platform, and sending people to the West Gate from time to time to check the situation. If you can break the city before Sun Ce, it can be regarded as a small credit. It's not that Chen Yu is jealous of Sun Ce, it's that Yuan Shu relies too much on Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, two young people, and everyone, including Chen Yu, feels the pressure.

The situation outside the West Gate was similar, except that Sun Ce was not as excited as Chen Yu. He sat on the platform and sat a little tired, so he simply straightened his legs, clenched his fists and tapped gently. In the front, you are fighting very lively, but the back is somewhat deserted.

"Is the stone thrower in place? The sun is about to set. ”

Pang Tong stood on tiptoe and looked carefully. "It should be almost ready, as if it was on the stone."

"Well, that's pretty much it. After playing early, I rested early, and after sitting for a day, I was really tired. Sun Ce muttered to himself. It is said that the offensive is magnificent and exciting, but it is a little lacking after watching it for a long time. After a day of sitting on the platform, the only pastime was to watch the stone throwers on both sides attack each other. But the stone throwers in the city are too weak, they are not opponents at all, and they are cleared by the stone throwers that have been on the side for less than an hour, and the rest is a unilateral show of skills, which is really boring.

Invincible, how lonely.

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Huang Yueying craned her neck and looked at the towering pole, unable to suppress the excitement in her heart.

After a lot of hard work, these giant stone throwers are finally in place and are about to be test-fired. She is not worried about the effect of the test shot, in the past few months, in addition to eating and sleeping, she has spent almost all of her time on these stone throwers, test firing during the day every day, sorting out the records at night, figuring out the rules, and constantly improving them. Although she has not yet reached the realm of simplicity and ease as Sun Ce said, she knows every detail of these stone throwers well. With just one glance, she knew what was wrong and what the test shot would be.

If the previous stone throwing machines were mainly the efforts of her father Huang Chengyan, then these giant stone throwing machines are completely her achievements. Sun Ce did not agree with the craftsmen of the baggage battalion to enter the city to assemble, forcing her to find another way, and the result of a few days of meditation and hard thinking created these giant stone throwing machines, which also gave her a more open mind.

With perseverance, she believes that one day she will be able to refine a simple formula that will make everyone understand the truth.

But all this was not as happy as Sun Ce's surprise eyes at that time.

Huang Chengyan walked over and tapped Huang Yueying's shoulder. "Don't look at it, watch your neck."

"Hee-hee, I'm fine." Huang Yueying turned her head, her neck was indeed a little sore, but her heart was beautiful. "Ah Weng, do you think General Hou can really give me the title of king?"

Huang Chengyan couldn't help laughing. "Does it matter? With your intelligence, it is only a matter of time before you become a king. ”

Huang Yueying became shy. "I don't want that kind of shadowy feudal king, I want to earn it by my own ability. Of course, I don't want to be crowned king now, this is the credit of Ah Weng, if Ah Weng can be crowned a marquis, I will be happier than I am crowned a king. ”

"I'm not worried, it's only a matter of time before I become a marquis." Huang Chengyan patted Huang Yueying's little face, looked at the busy craftsmen around, and said with a smile: "What I'm curious about is how many two thousand stones and how many feudal monarchs will come out of the Mu Academy in the future." ”

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Cao Cao had just rushed back from the north gate, climbed the city tower, put up a pergola with his hand, looked at the stone thrower position outside the city, and sighed: "What is that?" Treultuous machine, why is it so big? ”

Xiahoudun has been paying attention to this matter, and hurriedly said: "Yes, these two stone throwers came relatively late, and they have been adjusting their positions, and they are still covered with cloth. At first, I thought it was a watchtower, but I didn't expect it to be a bigger stone thrower. ”

Cao Cao was inexplicable. What does Sun Ce want to do, use a stone thrower to directly bombard the city wall? The power of the stone thrower is not small, it is by no means comparable to the bow and crossbow, the towers on the city are almost smashed, and the battlements have been smashed a lot, but the overall damage to the city wall is very limited, even if the stone thrower is big, how can it directly smash open the city gate, how accurate is this?

"General, get out of the way, it's like you're about to radiate." Xi Zhicai reminded.

Cao Cao laughed. "Zhicai, don't be nervous, Sun Ce won't hit the city wall even if he wants to fight. The tower had been broken, and he should attack the gate now. We're still more than a mile away from the West City Gate, and if we can get here, I don't think the craftsman's head will be able to keep it. ”

Xi Zhicai shook his head self-deprecatingly. "The general is still calm, I just watched the catapult shooting at the north gate, but I was very panicked."

Cao Cao remembered what he had seen and heard at the north gate just now, and he also felt shocked.

"General be careful!" Cao Anmin pounced and knocked Cao Cao to the ground. Cao Cao fell to the ground, his teeth were loose, and his nose was sore and sore. He was so angry that he was about to scold, but he heard a loud whistling sound in his ears. He turned his head to look, and suddenly shuddered, and a chill rushed to the back of his head.