"I'll help you!" Yuan Shu was counting the people, but he didn't want Zhang Chao to find him, and he was accompanied by Xuzhou Mu Taoqian.

"Thank you two for your help!" Yuan Shu didn't expect that there were still people willing to help him, and he was naturally grateful in his heart.

"I thought I was the fastest?" Li Ming also walked over.

"Riyao, why are you here?" Yuan Shu was a little surprised, his relationship with Li Ming was very bad, and in his opinion, Li Ming was on Yuan Shao's side, not his own person. Even Yan Xiang had analyzed it before, and it was very likely that Li Ming was the initiator of the whole army's diarrhea, and the key was the lack of sufficient evidence.

"I provided the siege equipment, and it was my people who were responsible for using them! I'm not going to go straight to the battle, because the walls are so wide that they can't accommodate so many people! But I'll be behind and we'll come to the rescue if necessary! Of course, I will naturally settle the previous accounts with you, but the main premise is that we are all coalition forces to fight for Dong! Li Ming said slowly.

"Hmph, thank you!" Yuan Shu snorted coldly, but in his heart, he actually accepted Li Ming's affection.

What he didn't know was that Li Ming would make a move, mainly to show Yuan Shao. Everyone can see that Yuan Shao is also worried about Yuan Shu's safety, but with Yuan Shu's attitude, he is not good at coming forward directly. At this time, he stepped in to help, not only could he brush Yuan Shao's favorability, but also Yuan Shu's favorability if he was lucky, so why not do it?

He even suspected that Zhang Chao and Tao Qian might also have this idea!

The heavy catapults, arranged by craftsmen, were assembled a mile away from the Tiger Prison Pass. This thing is actually an enlarged version of the catapult, not the Xiangyang cannon of later generations. However, such a large catapult and the stones thrown out are also very considerable, the key is that Li Ming deliberately installed a lot of bowling-sized stones, and these stones are not used to attack fortifications.

The rush is ready, and the ladder is in place. Yuan Shu, Zhang Chao and Tao Qian had already counted the soldiers and gave Li Ming a signal. The latter immediately gave the order for the catapult to throw stones.

"Bumper bumper ......" a few times, and the stones on the catapult suddenly flew out, a few fell very close, but most of them fell into the tiger prison. With the help of powerful kinetic energy, these bowling ball-sized stones, like cannonballs, fell into the checkpoints, many smashed the tiles on the top of the city tower, a few fell into the enemy, not to mention more than a dozen enemy soldiers.

"It's not very powerful!" Li Ming looked at the results of the trebuchet and was a little dissatisfied.

"Lord, you are embarrassed!" The lieutenant of the artisan battalion immediately complained, "It's temporary, we need to build trebuchets, and it's good that we can do this!" If we are given a year or two to study and improve, it is not easy to increase the power? Besides, this is the first test launch, of course there is a problem with the accuracy! ”

"Come on, you think I don't know? Alright, well, you guys did a good job! Li Ming smiled bitterly, after all, he did not plan to use a trebuchet from the beginning, so he knocked down the tiger prison.

Look at those stone bullets, hit the city wall, there are some white traces, this level, is not generally strong, unless it is with artillery, otherwise it is estimated that it will be difficult to blast the city wall open.

"Don't blame them, the craftsman battalion has done a good job with these catapults!" Yuan Shu stepped forward and said with relief, I have to say that this catapult is indeed good, according to this trend, after a few rounds, the army can also charge with peace of mind.

Artisan battalion, it is really necessary to set up one! At this moment, the three princes are all thinking in their hearts......

The catapult did catch the defenders of the Tiger Prison by surprise, and after a while, the heads hanging on the city wall were smashed down by stones, and of course a few of them were directly turned into meat sauce. This made many princes feel heartbroken, but it was difficult to say anything.

"Ordinary stones are useless, replace them with larger ones!" Li Ming took a look, although the city tower of the Tiger Prison Pass had been damaged a lot, but the city wall was nothing at all, so he simply ordered it to go down.

The soldiers quickly transported the stones, all of which were about 200 catties of large stones, and put them directly into the throwing pocket.

"Throw!" The captain of the engineering battalion shouted, and another round of projectiles began. It's just that this primitive trebuchet is really not very powerful, and the two hundred catties of stones flew out, and finally drew an arc and smashed directly on the city wall, and even the city wall on the upper layer of the tiger prison was not hit.

But the effect is still very good, at least a trace is smashed, if you smash dozens of them, it is estimated that you can smash the outer layer of defense. The key is still the gate, the iron-clad gate was hit three times, and the result was that the gate was deformed to a certain extent.

"Go on, focus on smashing towards their door!" Li Ming shouted, Yuan Shu and the others also saw the hope that the door of the tiger prison would be broken, everyone was ready to move, and even the princes behind seemed to be preparing to attack the city.

"Lord, we can't go up yet?" The officer in charge of the rush and the ladder stepped forward to ask. If the catapult continues, they won't have a chance to play.

"Since catapults are easy to use, you should wait!" Li Ming said with a smile.

When the two officers heard this, they immediately retreated depressedly. I don't know if I cursed the trebuchet to break down, but I guess there will still be frustration about not being able to fight.

"Smack!" After a few sounds, the throwing arm of the trebuchet also broke after the third time of the heavy stone. In the end, the wood was made of improvised logging, and the toughness was more than elastic and insufficient, and several high-intensity throwing movements still crushed it.

"Highway, trebuchets can't play anymore, are you ready?" Li Ming looked at the city gate.

A lot of bluestones were directly smashed out of the cracks, as long as they continue to be smashed a few times, it is estimated that a large piece of the city wall may be directly smashed down. On the other side of the gate, the city gate has begun to deform, and it feels like it may be destroyed if it continues to be smashed four or five times.

"And the rush and the ladder troops, aren't they? I'll take care of the rest! "Yuan Shu, Zhang Chao and Tao Qian are also full of confidence, and at this point, if they can't break through the Tiger Prison, then they will be too inferior.

"Lord, it is estimated that the car and the ladder will not pass!" It was at this time that a soldier from the engineering battalion came to report, "The stones thrown out before blocked the road!" ”

Everyone saw that the stones were all over the place in a straight line, although these stones greatly depleted the defense of the Tiger Prison Pass, but also hindered the advance of the follow-up siege equipment.

"Lord, we have an ordinary long ladder, we can try ......," one of the generals under Yuan Shu's command whispered.

"Alright, let's go up first! Sun, can you let your people clear the road? Yuan Shu looked at Li Ming.

"Good!" Li Ming has nothing to say, he has to carry his pot to the end.

"The whole army obeys the order and goes to battle with me!" Yuan Shu shouted, and in an instant, more than twenty long ladders with hooked claws were carried out by the soldiers, heading in the direction of Tiger Pass. At the same time, more than 1,000 sword and shield soldiers held shields to cover the advance of the guards.

"With a stone! Don't let them come close! Archers, with rockets! On the city wall, Xu Rong immediately ordered when he saw this.

The soldiers rested in a panic, and then began to counterattack according to Xu Rong's instructions......