Time passed slowly, and half a month passed in a blink of an eye.

Since losing nearly 4,000 cavalry and destroying a quarter of Cao's army's catapults, Cao's army has basically launched a fierce attack every two to four days in the past half a month.

Tai Shi Ci estimated that even if he had concealed some things in terms of stones before, he would definitely start to lack them now.

In addition, in the past half a month, Cao's army has attacked four times, and the soldiers lost in each attack are not much different from before.

However, because a quarter of the catapults were destroyed, the number of losses of the Xinzheng defenders began to decrease.

If calculated according to the initial loss of troops, these four attacks were expected to kill about 13,000 people, but now only less than 10,000 people have been killed.

At the same time, Cao's army lost more than 16,000 people as a result.

In less than a month, Cao's army attacked eight times, with between 32,000 and 35,000 killed and wounded.

On the side of the Xinzheng garrison, more than 22,000 were killed and more than 35,000 were wounded.

There were only 5,000 recruits and 15,000 female soldiers, because they did not go to Xinzheng for reinforcements, so they were not injured.

this day.

A sentry rode into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qi, General Taishi, let your subordinates send an urgent report!" ”

After speaking, he put the emergency report in his hand and presented it with both hands.

Xiong Da walked directly to the sentry horse, took the emergency report, and then handed it over to Zhao Feng.

Zhao Feng took the urgent report, and had a bad premonition in his heart,

Because under normal circumstances, if there is a war, it is only after the war is over that people are sent to report the war situation.

And now it's still daytime, but someone sent an urgent report, something bad must have happened.

After opening it, I just glanced at it, and my face changed drastically.

Because Tai Shici said that Cao Jun led his troops to storm Xinzheng today, the southern city wall of Xinzheng, after eight days of smashing catapults, there are several city walls today, which have been smashed.

According to this situation, even if you desperately defend Xinzheng today, I am afraid that as long as you come to smash it once or twice, the Xinzheng city wall will all collapse.

Once Xinzheng is lost, all the boulders that Cao's army has invested in Xinzheng City can be recovered and then prepared to attack Fanling or Mi County.

In addition, with the Xinzheng city wall being smashed, Cao Cao didn't need to storm the city after that, just let the catapult smash it violently!

In this way, the casualty rate of both sides will be reversed.

Then.

A guard ran into the big tent of the Chinese army and bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Lord Qi, a person who claims to be the fake dean of the Mojia Academy, Xu Shu, asks to see the lord!" ”

After Zhao Feng heard this, he was overjoyed in his heart, Xu Shu finally rushed to Henan Yin, and immediately said, "Go and invite Xu Shu in." ”

The guard bowed his hand to Zhao Feng: "Huh! ”

After speaking, he quickly ran out of the Chinese army's tent.

After a while, Xu Shu walked into the big tent of the Chinese army and waved at Zhao Feng: "Meet the general!" ”

Zhao Feng didn't care about Xu Shu's title, after all, strictly speaking, Xu Shu was not Zhao Feng's subordinate.

He raised his hand in the air and said with a smile: "Yuan Zhi doesn't need to be polite. ”

Then he asked, "Why did it take half a month to get here?" ”

Zhao Feng didn't mean to blame, he was purely curious.

After all, if you come here from the Yuan family, two days is enough, and if you want to bring some Mo students, seven or eight days, it's about the same.

Xu Shu smiled and waved at Zhao Feng: "Because Shu wants to give a big gift to the general on behalf of the Mo Family Academy!" ”

After speaking, he took out a bamboo slip from his sleeve and presented it with both hands.

Xiong Da walked up to Xu Shu, took the bamboo slip with both hands, and then handed it to Zhao Feng.

After Zhao Feng opened the bamboo slip, he just looked at it roughly, and he was overjoyed.

The reason why Xu Shu came so late was because the Mojia Academy carried five large catapults, twenty medium-sized catapults, and fifty small catapults.

These catapults were specially made according to the drawings that Zhao Feng gave Huang Yueying last year.

In addition, in order to facilitate Zhao Feng's rapid use of the catapult, the Mojia Academy also sent 250 students who could skillfully operate a large catapult.

As long as these two hundred and fifty people are divided into five batches to be responsible for the key parts of the large catapults, Zhao Feng only needs to add an additional 1,000 people to enter, and then train a little time, and these five large catapults can be used normally.

There are more than 200 people who can skillfully operate three medium-sized catapults, and Zhao Feng only needs to leave more than 20 people to operate key parts, as long as 500 soldiers are filled in, he can quickly control ten medium-sized catapults.

These are not the most important, after all, whether it is a large catapult or a medium-sized catapult, it is used for siege.

It's just a large catapult, which is used to attack the fortified city, and the effective range is very long, so it can be guarded by a large army in front, and catapults are directly projected in the back.

The medium-sized catapult, on the other hand, is slightly larger than the current catapult, but in terms of performance, it is much superior.

The main advantage is that there is no need for soldiers to cooperate with the force, and the number of operators has also been reduced by 30%.

The small catapult can be used directly to attack the opponent's army, and it can be operated with only twenty people.

For the current Zhao Feng, the role of small catapults is much more useful than that of medium-sized and large catapults.

In addition, Huang Yueying developed a miniature catapult based on the style of a small catapult and the mobility of a bicycle.

It's just that the range and strength of this thing are not too large, and the specific combat effectiveness is unknown, so there are only twenty.

However, one miniature catapult only needs five people to use it proficiently, and twenty miniature catapults, a total of 100 people, can be tried.

In addition, these 100 people, all of whom are students of the Mo family, have already been equipped.

Zhao Feng knew that for Huang Yueying, she valued the miniature catapult she developed more seriously, so she assigned her own hands to observe its effect.

In this way, in actual combat, we can better analyze the relevant data for better improvement.

If you are a soldier who does not know the principle, even if you participate in a real battle, in the end, if you ask him, you still don't know anything, and you can't get an effective result.

Zhao Feng wanted to see what this so-called miniature catapult looked like.

After all, Zhao Feng drew the drawings himself, and he still had a rough image in his mind.

Zhao Feng pondered for a moment and asked, "Where is the catapult now?" ”

Xu Shu waved at Zhao Feng: "Back to the general, in order to come to the general as soon as possible, Shu crossed the Yellow River and separated from the students of the Mo family. ”

"According to the itinerary, these catapults should be in the area of Jingxian now."