Chapter 137: Trebuchet
Zhang Liang below heard Hu Hai's words, and Junxiu's face was red and white!
The cheers on the head of the city did not make Zhang Liang feel anything! After all, if Hu Hai, as the emperor, couldn't even hold the hearts of the people in a city, then he wouldn't stay in Chengwu County and wait to be surrounded by Xiang Liang's hundreds of thousands of troops!
Regarding Hu Hai's solicitation, although Zhang Liang will definitely not submit to Hu Hai because of family hatred or national hatred, although Hu Hai is now a turtle in the urn, but being valued and recruited by Emperor Daqin still makes Zhang Liang's face colorful!
What really traumatized Zhang Liang's self-esteem was Hu Hai's series of words later! Especially the "disgusting to the point" made Zhang Liang, who thought highly of himself because he was taught the "Art of War", as if he had been slapped in the face, hot and humiliating!
Zhang Liang is very clear about what Xiang Liang's army has done along the way! Although there was no large-scale slaughter of the people along the way, hundreds of thousands of troops, every day, there would be soldiers who left the team to loot the silver humiliation people, whether it was the Baiyue barbarians or the soldiers of the Central Plains, this was the case!
With Zhang Liang's background, he really never cared about the life and death of the people, and most of his emphasis on military discipline was just beating the drum and retreating, but he often took the soldiers and plundered the people lightly!
From Hu Hai's undisguised words, Zhang Liang could tell that Emperor Qin was not trying to recruit himself, but to completely humiliate himself in front of the people of the city and the hundreds of thousands of troops behind him!
"Look at the cheers of the people in the city, do you think you have won the hearts of the people by raising an army against Qin? Indeed, if I am indeed as deaf and incompetent as before, then perhaps you, Xiang Liang, and those remnants of the Six Kingdoms who are immortal in their hearts can indeed be helped by the hearts of the people of the world. But, now! Hu Hai stood on the city wall, stretched out a finger and pointed at Zhang Liang to point at the boundless company camp behind Zhang Liang, then shook his finger contemptuously, and continued: "If you act against the way of heaven, you will die without a place to be buried!" I'm waiting for you to break the city! ”
After Hu Hai finished speaking, he turned around and left! After talking to Zhang Liang for half a sentence, he was worried that he would vomit disgustingly!
There was still a faint remnant of Hu Hai's last sentence in his ears, and Zhang Liang knew from the soldiers in the city that Hu Hai was gone!
The bronze car carefully crossed the five passages that were built by rough fresh wooden boards, and before Zhang Liang got off the car, Xiang Liang and Fan Zeng came out of the camp!
"Ovary, I just said don't go to see that dog emperor, you don't listen! Look at this now? Xiang Liang looked at Zhang Liang, who was getting out of the car with the support of two children, and said worriedly!
Hu Hai's words, Xiang Liang and others, who had been concerned about Zhang Liang's safety in front of the camp, listened to them!
"Don't worry, general, then Emperor Qin doesn't have to care about Liang's insults! It's not for nothing. Zhang Liang reluctantly pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled at Xiang Liang. Then the topic changed: "Has the general ever found the major general?" ”
Since setting up camp yesterday, Xiang Liang began to send people to find Xiang Yu and Xiang Yu's tens of thousands of troops. After all, according to reason, even if Xiang Yu's 60,000 army couldn't surround Chengwu City, they would at least camp somewhere!
"I haven't found my nephew yet!" Hearing Zhang Liang's words, Xiang Liang's face was gloomy!
The place where Xiang Yu camped had been found by Xiang Liang last night, and he and Zhang Liang had gone to see it in person.
A large camp in ruins, and the now parched land dyed red, told them what a terrible battle had taken place here! But they didn't look at even a single corpse!
The corpses were all burned by Hu Hai's order! After all, sometimes a dead man can not only demoralize the enemy, but also arouse the enemy's fighting spirit!
Especially the tragic situation of tens of thousands of Baiyue barbarians being slaughtered, if they were seen by the more than ten thousand Baiyue barbarians who arrived with Xiang Yu, the hatred value would inevitably soar, although the Baiyue barbarians were fierce to outsiders, but they were protective of their own people!
In order to avenge the tragic death of the clansmen, Chengwu County will inevitably be attacked by the reckless onslaught of the Baiyue barbarians!
At that time, the 60,000 Baiyue barbarians who were slaughtered with human heads were used to fight against Xiang Yu, and that was because Hu Hai was sure that Xiang Yu's army would be wiped out with the strength in his hands! But now, in the face of Xiang Liang's army of more than 300,000 people, although he had won a big victory yesterday, Xiang Liang should have at least 300,000 people! If there are stump arms and severed limbs and human heads all over the ground, you are pulling hatred for yourself!
Therefore, after Hu Hai searched for Xiang Yu to no avail, he ordered Du Teng and the others to burn the corpses of all the Baiyue barbarians who were killed! After all, on such a hot day, so many corpses have been left for a long time, and the plague will inevitably occur!
In this way, I didn't see the corpses of the clansmen, although I knew that the clansmen were dead, at least it wouldn't be too exciting for the Baiyue barbarians!
Zhang Liang heard Xiang Liang's words and comforted: "The general doesn't have to worry too much! With the courage of a young general, if you want to go, the Qin people will definitely not be able to stop you! Now that I think about it, the major general should be leading the remnants of the army to hide somewhere, and I think that I will definitely know that we are waiting for the army to come! When the time comes, the major general will naturally come to meet! ”
If he hadn't seen Weng Zhong's brave throw, Xiang Liang really wasn't too worried about Xiang Yu, with Xiang Yu's martial arts and bravery, he didn't think that there was anyone in this world who could stop him before that!
However, after seeing Weng Zhong, he had no bottom in his heart! It was simply an invincible plunge that was not inferior to Xiang Yu in the slightest, and even Xiang Liang thought that Xiang Yu was not comparable in some places, such as strength!
Seeing that Xiang Liang was silent, Zhang Liang did not dwell on Xiang Yu's issue anymore, after all, Zhang Liang had long expected the annihilation of Xiang Yu's army, although he did not want Xiang Yu, an invincible general on the battlefield, to die like this, but psychologically, he was not optimistic that Xiang Yu was still alive!
"General, how many trebuchets have been made?"
"From yesterday overnight, there are only more than 30 trebuchets now! Among them, there are more than ten of them that can only throw stones for more than 300 steps, which is far from the large crossbow machines of the Qin army! Xiang Liang said helplessly!
"Don't worry, General! According to Liang, Chengwu does not have the giant crossbow machine of the Qin army! If so, presumably the general should see the corpse of Liang now, not Liang himself! Zhang Liang said with certainty!
Zhang Liang is indeed not wrong about this! Now Hu Hai really doesn't have a large repeating crossbow machine!
It is obviously impossible for Daqin to equip a small insignificant city with a strategic surname such as a large repeating crossbow machine, after all, the strategic location of Chengwu is not up to that requirement, if it is not taken away by the rebels, it will definitely be copied and then used to deal with the Qin army!
Therefore, except for the county-governed cities of each county, the rest of the counties are generally not equipped with large-scale repeating crossbow machines! Most of the large repeating crossbow machines were kept tightly in the Qin army!
And Hu Hai secretly went north this time, so it was naturally impossible for him to bring a huge repeating crossbow machine with the army! I don't need it at all! If you take it with you, it's better to bring an extra 20,000 soldiers, it's the same!
"So, the general doesn't have to worry too much about the Qin Army's giant crossbow! The Qin army did not have such a long-range giant crossbow to defend the city, and with a strong crossbow alone at a distance of less than three hundred paces, it would not cause much damage to our army's trebuchet! A trebuchet only needs to be able to throw a stone of this size in 500 steps! Zhang Liang said and picked up a stone the size of Chengren's head from the ground, and said to Xiang Liang!
"Such a small stone, you want to be able to throw it five hundred paces away?" Zhang Liang looked at Xiang Liang and asked!
"If that's the case, there's no problem throwing 500 steps!" Xiang Liang stretched out his hand to take the stone in Zhang Liang's hand and nodded!
"Imagine, general, hundreds of such small stones are falling like rain, how can the Qin army defend the city? Even with that soldier wearing steel armor all over his body, can he resist such a rain of stones!? ”
This is Zhang Liang's strategy for Xiang Liang to break the city!
The trench was naturally to prevent the cavalry of the Qin army from coming out and attacking suddenly! And the reason why Zhang Liang insisted on seeing Hu Hai was to see if there was a large repeating crossbow machine in this city!
Of course, Zhang Liang will not look for death, but his bronze car is specially required by him to be made of copper and iron, which can block the power of thousands of catties! The large repeating crossbow machine will not be able to break for a while and a half! By the time it was about to break, it was estimated that Zhang Liang would have run out of the range of the repeating crossbow machine!
The stone rain in the sky can not only effectively suppress the soldiers who defend the city at the head of Wucheng, making the crossbow arrows of the Qin army unusable, but also can kill and injure a large number of Qin soldiers! Just ask, how many people should be able to fit in the small Chengwu City!
And among them, how many people should be able to go to the head of the city to defend the city?
The army is attacking from all sides, as long as you climb the city wall all the way, then Chengwu is not far from the period of breaking the city!
The trebuchet does not require a very complicated process, and most of the trebuchets at this time are human slings, and Xiang Liang is naturally the most lacking at the moment! As for the timber used to build trebuchets, it is all over the place!
"Haha! The strategy of the ovary is very good, and I will order someone to hurry up the trebuchet! I want to come to this day, and then Emperor Qin can become a prisoner of my rank! Xiang Liang seemed to have forgotten Xiang Yu's life and death at this moment, and had already begun to understand how to humiliate Hu Hai if he caught him!
At this time, both Xiang Liang and Zhang Liang thought about capturing Hu Hai alive, rather than taking Hu Hai's head! After all, the value of a living Qin Emperor seems to be far greater than that of a dead Qin Emperor!
Xiang Liang also seemed to have completely lost confidence in finding Xiang Yu, and gathered a large number of Xiang Yu's soldiers who had gone out to find him back to join in the matter of cutting down trees to make trebuchets!
Outside the city, Xiang Liang's army besieged the city, and it seemed that he really wanted to trap Hu Hai to death in Chengwu like this, but Hu Hai never believed that Xiang Liang and Zhang Liang would really do this! There are many dreams at night, will they not know?
Soon, the abnormal movements of Xiang Liang's army outside the city were reported to Hu Hai by Long Xuanyuan, who was monitoring with a telescope!
"You say the rebels outside the city are cutting down trees on a large scale to make trebuchets?" Hu Hai heard Long Xuan's report and turned over!
(To be continued)