Under such circumstances, Antiochus III and his soldiers did not care about the trebuchets at all, they did not think that these trebuchets could cause any substantial damage to their cities, but waited for the trebuchets to have no effect, but the morale of the Great Qin soldiers was greatly frustrated after waiting for the trebuchets to have no effect.

At this time, if Zhang Kai now knew that the Seleucians looked down on the trebuchet that he had worked so hard to complete for nearly a year, he would have been able to be half angry, in order to test the power of the trebuchet, with the permission of Yinggao, Zhang Kai and his people almost destroyed the wall of a small city around Xianyang City.

The soldiers of Great Qin set up camp forty or fifty miles away from the city where Antiochus III was located, and after resting for a day, they slowly sent troops to approach the city of Seleucus.

In fact, this time to send troops, Han Xin and Meng Tian still took a certain risk, although the Great Qin cavalry who came with the trebuchet is no different from the previous 100,000 people in terms of armor, but these people are not the previous 100,000 people, they have not gone through so much formation training, the focus of their usual training is how to operate the trebuchet, and then how to cooperate with the trebuchet to fight.

If Antiochus III was a little bit natural and refused to admit defeat, this time he would directly lead the army to attack Daqin's camp at night like the last time, then at least he could be evenly matched with the Daqin soldiers who came to attack them this time, but since the last fiasco, Antiochus III has completely cut off the idea of confronting Daqin's cavalry head-on, no matter this time or which one in the future.

Therefore, even in this case, Antiochus III ordered all the defenders to retreat into the city, relying on a series of defensive methods within and outside the city walls to block the cavalry of Great Qin.

There was a meandering river outside this city, like a moat outside many cities in Great Qin, and it was for this reason that Antiochus III abandoned the previous city and placed the focus of his defense here.

The moat was originally a natural barrier for the cavalry, in addition, around the moat, the Seleucians also placed a lot of traps and tripwires, so that once a large number of cavalry intended to attack the city gate directly, even if they did not send troops, the attacking side would pay a lot of price.

On the city wall, there are also a lot of arrow holes, which are already densely packed with archers, so it can be said that under this arrangement, this city is really like a copper wall.

The trebuchet's team slowly moved forward until the other end of the moat, and this time Han Xin used the trebuchet to open the way in front, and the warriors followed behind the trebuchet, because the trebuchet was very strong, and the body was very large, although it also triggered a lot of traps and trips, but it had little impact on the trebuchet's advance.

"Is there a danger to their walls from the other side of the moat, and there are sergeants standing on the walls?"

This question is what Han Xin is most concerned about, he really didn't participate in the test of the trebuchet around Xianyang City because he was busy with other things, so at this seemingly long distance, he really didn't have any bottom in his heart, and said in his heart that if the formation on your side is set up, but in the end it doesn't cause any damage to others, then today's face is a bit embarrassing, isn't it?

"General, rest assured, at this distance, our Great Qin's trebuchet will definitely make them regret despising us!"

The general who answered Han Xin's question was the one who had been in charge of training trebuchets in Fahrenheit City, and he originally thought that training soldiers to use trebuchets was a very boring and useless job, but now when he looked at the Seleuche city, the general's confidence came out, and he said that this time he had to open the eyes of his commander and the enemy.

With the assurance of the generals under his command, and thinking of the previous respect for this trebuchet, Han Xin was slightly relieved.

This time, some of the Great Qin soldiers who followed the trebuchet were escorting the trebuchet, while the other part was transporting the stones needed by the trebuchet.

What no one could have imagined was that in order to inflict maximum damage on the enemy, the trebuchet that had been researched this time would no longer be able to pick up some stones of similar size in the ground as before.

Therefore, a large part of the soldiers in charge of the trebuchet are polishing the stones of the shape and size required by the trebuchet, this work is undoubtedly very boring, but this is a hard requirement ordered by Yinggao himself, so this matter has always been done in Fahrenheit, and a very considerable number of stones have been accumulated in such a long time.

After the trebuchets arrived at the river, they didn't think about crossing the river, so they lined up neatly by the river, and Daqin's crossbowmen were guarding behind them, in case any enemy troops suddenly rushed out of the city.

"Great Qin's trebuchet wants to attack our city wall even if it doesn't even have a river, it's really a fool's dream!"

Antiochus III saw Daqin's arrangement, and the words that came out of his mouth were undoubtedly very contemptuous, but he himself didn't know why, these trebuchets that didn't seem to be big or powerful actually made him feel a faint uneasiness in his heart.

"What the king said is extremely true, I think the generals of Great Qin are clearly afraid that once they enter the other side of the river, the archers in our city will let these trebuchets of ours become our bags! This was only possible to stay beyond the reach of our archers across the river. ”

"Yes, the archers in the arrow holes must be cheered up, and if any enemy enters our range, they must be shot as soon as possible, and it will be very disadvantageous for us to let those trebuchets enter their suitable range."

After Antiochus III had said this, he still stood in the center of the city, watching the situation below.

I saw that after Daqin's hundred trebuchets were lined up neatly on the riverside, there were carriages one after another, and they arrived next to each trebuchet in a neat and orderly manner, and the unhurried Daqin soldiers took out bags of stones from the carriage and put them next to the trebuchet, this series of actions saw that the Seleucets defenders were stunned, until this time, they still did not believe that these trebuchets could attack their city walls or city gates from the other side of the river.

If there were guys who came from that era with Yinggao, especially if they were to study physics, they would definitely say, isn't this Nima just a solid cannonball? Doesn't this Nima make use of the principles of aerodynamics? Isn't this just BC? Where does this talent come from?

In fact, the fact that such a shaped stone can greatly increase the power of the trebuchet is naturally the credit of Yinggao, but if it is actually discussed, Yinggao is at most half of the credit.

Yinggao even almost didn't finish physics when he was in high school in his previous life, at most he knew a little bit of a superficial truth, but it was this little bit of a superficial truth, so that Zhang Kai didn't know how many times he opened it after listening to it.

After Yinggao unconsciously proposed that the shape of the stone should have a lot of impact on the power of the trebuchet, and after drawing the approximate shape of a cannonball on a piece of hemp paper, Zhang Kai and his team went through an unknown number of experiments in a few months, and finally combined the shape of the simple sketch on the Yinggao drawing with the stone that can really enhance the power of the trebuchet, which is the current shape of the stone.

Even after determining the shape of the stone, Zhang Kai made a lot of modifications to many places of the trebuchet according to the shape of the stone, so that the trebuchet could better adapt to the shape of this somewhat sharp cylindrical stone, so there was a trebuchet at this time.

The hardships and countless trials were almost only known to Yinggao, because whenever Zhang Kai made progress, he would invite Yinggao to the site of their experiments to observe, and even Han Xin and Meng Tian didn't know how many times this little trebuchet had been polished, let alone Antiochus III.

"General, we are ready to launch stones at the Seleu city, and judging by this situation, the Seleuks have no intention of going out of the city to meet the attack!"

The general in charge of the trebuchet was already gearing up and couldn't wait, because he knew that once the machines under his command launched the first wave of stones, it would be the time when Daqin's trebuchet would make a name for itself in this world.

"Okay, fire a round at their walls and the people on them, and see the effect first!"

Han Xin's heart obviously still has some reservations about these trebuchets he brought, and he will launch a round to see first, obviously he doesn't know what the effect will be.

"Good!"

After the general received Han Xin's order, he gave an order, and the soldiers who had been waiting next to the trebuchet for a long time hurriedly loaded the stones that had already been placed in the ground into the catapult with a quick movement.

Seeing that it was ready to be launched, the general touched the back of his head, ran to Han Xin's side again, and asked in a low voice: "General, I have a request, I don't know if to say it?" ”

"Hurry up!" Han Xin looked at it and said in his heart that you have wasted all your time, can I still say that I can't talk about it?

"After taking this city, please allow my soldiers to find these stones under the city walls or in the city, otherwise it will be too much effort to polish such a good shape stone."

The question raised by this general made Yinggao smile a little bitterly, and said in his heart that this guy was quite confident, and before the battle began, he actually thought about what would happen after the city was broken.

"It's okay to do this, but this matter still has to wait until when my Great Qin captures the Seleucid city!"

After receiving Han Xin's affirmative answer, the general shouted to the soldiers under his command: "Soldiers, General Han Xin has promised that if we can capture this city at that time, we can recover these stones that were launched, don't spare the stones, just attack their city walls and the people on the city walls with all their might!" ”

After this voice was shouted, even Han Xin didn't quite know why, and the soldiers who operated the trebuchet seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and directly launched the stones in their hands at once.

At this time, Antiochus III was still standing on the city wall and watching what the soldiers of Great Qin were doing.

"General, they seem to have launched something, and they are indeed coming in the direction of our city wall, how can this little catapult ......?"

"Ahh

One of the Seleucus generals had just reported to Antiochus before he could finish a word, when suddenly a Seleucid defender not far from them suddenly let out a very miserable cry, and when Antiochus III and the general who had spoken half of the previous conversation turned his head to look, he saw that the sergeant had fallen under the city wall, and the place where he had been standing was already a puddle of blood.

Before they could react, there were several similar screams around them, followed by the sound of the city walls being bombarded.

"Your Majesty, get down to the city quickly, this trebuchet of theirs can really project stones from the river onto our walls, it's dangerous here!"

The general didn't care that he was slapping himself in the face when he said such a thing, and dragged Antiochus III down as he spoke.

At this time, Antiochus III was completely blindfolded, originally he wanted to see the excitement of Daqin, but now, it turned out that he had not kept up with the pace of others at all, and they brought a hundred inconspicuous things, and they actually put them there as a big killing weapon, which was the same as the cavalry of Daqin before who could skillfully use the formation, which made Antiochus III feel very powerless.

It took a while for Antiochus III, who was helped down the city wall by his subordinates, to come back to his senses, and what he knew was that although all kinds of unfavorable situations had happened on his side, Seleucus had not perished at least until now, and Seleucus had not perished, so he had to find a way, after all, there were still millions of Seleucians behind him, right?

"Hurry up and check the city walls to see if the stones they fired can cause damage to my Seleu walls!"