In mid-air, black shadows flew towards Chenggu County with lightning speed, and the air was torn apart, making a piercing "biubiu" sound. If someone stands from a distance and looks, they can clearly see the trajectory of these black shadows.

These are twenty trebuchets that have been assembled, and they are finally starting to wield.

The moment the boulder hit the city wall, the defenders on the city wall felt it, and it seemed that the city wall was trembling.

Some of them were not on the right head and fell into the moat, splashing waves two or three feet high, and some trebuchets were too high, but the stone bullets they threw flew directly over the city wall, and they didn't know which innocent place in the city they hit.

Of course, the stone projectiles that hit the city wall were naturally the most.

The moment the stone bullet hit the city wall, the rubble was splashed everywhere, and the defenders on the city wall were instantly mourning.

The gate tower of Chenggu City was relatively lucky, and several trebuchets aimed at it, but only smashed one cornice.

This alone made the guard Du Zong frightened.

Du Zong is a small leader of the Ganren forces.

When Zhang Lu rebelled against Liu Zhang's camp, there were at least a dozen people like Du Zong, who were small leaders like Du Zong. Their tribes are not large, and their strength is naturally a little uneven.

However, the small leaders of these people's forces are loyal to Zhang Lu.

This is also the reason why Zhang Lu is relieved to hand over the gateway of Nanzheng City to Du Zong to guard.

"Where's our trebuchet?"

"Fight back for General Ben!"

In the city gate tower, Du Zong took a few steps back, shouting loudly as the trebuchet counterattacked.

Under normal circumstances, when attacking a city, if the enemy army uses trebuchets to attack the city, the defenders on the city walls will inevitably use trebuchets to counterattack. Of course, if the defenders did not have trebuchets, they would most likely send light cavalry and risk their lives to burn the enemy's trebuchets.

Only by destroying the trebuchets of the enemy troops outside the city will the walls not be smashed.

Otherwise, if the enemy army is allowed to smash it like this, the city wall will be smashed out of the gap sooner or later.

Moreover, the constant threat of stone shells was also a blow to the morale of the defenders.

On the city wall of Chenggu County, trebuchets are naturally arranged.

Zhang Lu still attaches great importance to this kind of strategic-level heavy equipment, and there are not a few trebuchets in stock in the capital Nanzheng City and the four surrounding gateway cities. It's just that the transportation of trebuchets is a big difficulty, so when he counterattacked Xicheng County, Zhang Lujun did not carry it.

……

On the wall of Chenggu County, trebuchets have naturally been arranged a long time ago.

A group of guards hurriedly put a winch on the stone, and then placed the stone bullets in the basket, and the sighter roughly aimed at the position of the enemy trebuchet outside the city, adjusted the direction slightly, and the trebuchet on the city wall began to wield.

With the expectations of the defenders, the stone bullets flew out of the city walls.

Then, with a "poof", I saw a few waves splashing in the moat again.

"He~he!"

Behind Zhuge Liang, tens of thousands of troops let out a sneer almost at the same time.

After the improvement of Pang Tong, the trebuchet has a maximum range of more than 600 steps, and the position of the trebuchet is far away from the moat, and it can hit the city wall of Chenggu County far away. But the trebuchets of the Hanzhong Army are all bosses.

What is the range of a trebuchet without a modified one?

A hundred steps?

Two hundred steps?

Or three hundred steps?

Even if the trebuchet arranged on the city wall occupies a condescending advantage, its range is often the same, and I am afraid that even my own moat will not be able to fly over, right?

In the face of such a result, the tens of thousands of Liu Beijun who stood quietly under the city were all sneering.

On the other hand, the defenders on the city wall all felt a little humiliated. Many people don't understand the principle of trebuchet, but they just think that their trebuchet is accurate, which is too outrageous, right?

"The accuracy is so bad, what are you all doing to eat?!"

Du Zong angrily rebuked the slingers, and even whipped several people with horsewhips.

In Du Zong's view, everyone is a trebuchet, and the enemy's trebuchet can smash into the city wall so far, it makes no sense that his own trebuchet can take advantage of the condescending advantage, but he can't even fly over his own moat, right?

So, it must be a problem with the slingers' accuracy!

Finally, there were a few knowledgeable slingers, and one of the team leaders cried bitterly:

"General, our trebuchet can only shoot three hundred paces, which is still a condescending advantage. But the enemy's trebuchets are all 500 paces away, and our trebuchets can't hit them! ”

……

Under the city, a thousand steps to the left, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang stood on the wheel of the carriage to watch the battle.

Liu Bei was also the first time to see this improved version of the trebuchet powerful, and he was instantly stunned.

Pang Tong's improved trebuchet, in addition to the test firing, its first battle was in Phoenix Mountain.

However, when Pang Tong held on to Phoenix Mountain, Uncle Liu Huang was sitting in Xicheng County, and he did not witness the majesty of this improved trebuchet. Today in Chenggu County, Uncle Liu Huang saw its power for the first time.

"The range is actually more than 600 steps?"

In Liu Bei's muttering, I don't know if he was questioning or being surprised.

After running around for so many years, Liu Bei has naturally seen the trebuchet.

But this was the first time he had seen a trebuchet with a range of more than 600 paces.

When the two military divisions lined up their troops, they only asked to bring dozens of trebuchets, but did not explain in detail the performance of these trebuchets. This made Liu Bei mistakenly think that the trebuchets they were carrying were similar to what he had seen before.

"Pass the order to General Wen Shuo, and the trebuchet will smash him for half an hour first!"

Zhuge Liang ordered to the soldiers around him.

Of course, Zhuge Liang's personal soldiers are still being trained by Lu Qiling in Longzhong, and the personal soldiers he is calling now are all the personal soldiers of the lord Liu Bei.

The soldiers ran down to convey the military order, and Zhuge Liang invited Liu Bei: "Lord, let's go to lunch first." ”

"By the time we're done with lunch, half an hour will be over in the end. When the time comes, it depends on whether the guards of Chenggu County really want to be martyred for Zhang Lu, or whether they will resist by chance, and then throw themselves in. ”

In other words, the defenders who surrender without a fight are actually the most despised.

If you can surrender without a fight under my coercion today, will he abandon me again in the future under the coercion of others?

Therefore, the defenders who surrender without a fight, even if they are finally accepted, most of them will not be reused.

Of course, the defenders who resist to the end can indeed make both the enemy and the enemy admire.

But this kind of guard is basically out of the way.

The defenders who stubbornly resist to the end will inevitably inflict a lot of casualties on the besieging side; After the city is broken, the casualties of the besieging side are too great, it would be good not to slaughter the city, how could it be possible to stay and surrender the defenders?

In many cases, such stubborn defenders who resisted to the end, if they did not die in battle when the city was broken, were captured and killed on the spot.

The guards who stubbornly resisted to the end and were surrendered are not often found in historical biographies for thousands of years.

Therefore, if the defender wants to surrender, he usually pretends to resist for a while, and then goes out of the city to surrender.

……

Liu Bei glanced at Chenggu County again, and saw that this city was under the obscenity of trebuchets, and it was no longer a strong city.

Then, Uncle Liu Huang pulled Zhuge Kongming out of the car and went straight to the main camp of the Chinese army.

There, the Firehead Army is preparing for lunch!