Chengwu did not have a large-scale repeating crossbow machine to assist in defending the city, which has always been a problem in Hu Hai's heart!

After all, in this era when cold weapons are king, the Qin army's large-scale repeating crossbow machine with a range of 1,800 steps (nearly 900 meters) and an effective killing distance of 1,500 steps (nearly 750 meters) can be said to be a weapon that truly belongs to the strategic surname! It's almost the same as the cannon effect that just appeared in later generations!

If there are dozens of large repeating crossbows in Chengwu County, then Hu Hai doesn't have to worry about any trebuchets at all, as long as the trebuchets appear, they can be destroyed with large repeating crossbows!

With the range of the Qin army's large-scale repeating crossbow machine, the range of the manpower trebuchet, which can be called pitiful, is basically destroyed at sight!

However, the key is that today's Chengwu does not have a large repeating crossbow machine! Then, if Xiang Liang really used a large number of trebuchets to attack the city, Hu Hai would no longer have to think about the consequences, and there would be no living people in the entire city to stand!

At that time, Xiang Liang, who had an army of hundreds of thousands, could pile people up on the city even if he was stacked!

Hu Hai didn't think about making a large-scale repeating crossbow machine in Chengwu, and brought and asked the only dozen or so craftsmen who accompanied the army, and the manufacturing would be made, but with the current conditions of Chengwu, it is obvious that even if Chengwu City is manufactured, it will have already been breached!

"Go and lead the walls to be covered with hay and all the like! Just go! By the way, I summoned those craftsmen, I have something to ask! Hu Hai was silent for a long time and said to Long Xuan!

"Whoa!" Long Xuan hurriedly answered, and as he spoke, he turned around and prepared to go out!

"Wait!"

The terrifying thing about the stones thrown by the trebuchet is not the damage when it falls, but the fact that it will inevitably roll around after touching the city wall, which is easy to cause cascade casualties and cause more casualties among the defenders!

The reason why Hu Hai asked Long Xuan to spread hay on the city wall was to prevent the stones from falling on the city wall. It's just that he immediately thought that if Xiang Liang attacked with fire, wouldn't he spread hay on the city wall when it caught fire? At that time, not only did the soldiers defending the city be saved, but I was afraid that a fire would burn more soldiers to death!

"Don't lay hay! Go and lead the people to cover the four walls with at least three inches of sand, not five inches thick! Hurry up! "Hu Hai Dao!

"The last will obey!"

After a while, a dozen or so craftsmen who followed Hu Hai back to Xianyang arrived!

"Tian Rong, can the trebuchet be built?" Hu Hai stopped a few people and saluted to get straight to the point!

"Back to Your Majesty, the villain will build it!" Tian Rong is the Mo family who followed Hu Hai to the north to explore and determine the location of the shipyard. He is now the clansman of Tian Ren, the leader of the Mo family, and the more than 100 craftsmen brought by Hu Hai to the north from Shangfang are also headed by him!

"How far can you throw a stone? I need a trebuchet to throw stones in the city, not on top of the city! ”

"This ......" Hearing Hu Hai's words, Tian Rong was a little unsure! After all, if the trebuchet throws stones from the city, the first thing to face is the city wall that is several feet high, and then it can be punched out!

"Okay, I don't ask, Tian Rong, you wait and lead someone to build two trebuchets for me to see! The range doesn't have to be too far, five or six hundred steps is enough! "Hu Hai is lazy about this question, after all, Tian Rong is a professional, and how many craftsmen Xiang Liang can use is worth considering, and the range of the trebuchet he wants to build can be a few hundred steps farther than the Qin army's crossbow!

"The villain obeys!"

Hu Hai began to forget about the trebuchet, and he had been thinking about the large repeating crossbow machine, but he had forgotten the primitive siege weapon of the trebuchet!

It's just that this situation is a bit passive now, Xiang Liang's army of more than 300,000 people will soon be able to build enough trebuchets for siege of the city, and at that time, it is time for Xiang Liang to attack!

Now it seems that the trenches dug by Xiang Liang are mainly to prevent the Xuanwu army in the city from going out of the city and destroying the trebuchet, rather than really trapping himself in this Chengwu for life!

What to do, what to do! Hu Hai is indeed a little panicked now!

He could imagine the tragic situation of the Qin army defending the city under the rain of stones!

But now he really can't do anything about it!

Time flies!

The city walls were covered with more than five inches of mud and sand by Long Xuan's people to prevent the stones from jumping up and hurting people when they fell on the city!

Du Teng, Weng Zhong, Xiahou Ying and Fan Hao all knew that they would have to face the rain of stones thrown by Xiang Liang's trebuchet when they were defending the city, and the reason why Xiang Liang had not moved until now was obviously to build a sufficient number of trebuchets and siege equipment! Once the drums of the attack sounded, then the head of Chengwu City would inevitably face the first stone rain thrown by Xiang Liang's trebuchet!

Then there are Xiang Liang's overwhelming siege soldiers!

However, everyone, like Hu Hai, didn't have a good way to stop Xiang Liang's trebuchet! And judging from the current situation, Xiang Liang will definitely attack on all sides at the same time, rather than just attacking one city wall!

After all, compared to Chengwu County, which is more than ten miles away, Xiang Liang's 300,000 troops would be more than enough even if they attacked from all sides at the same time!

It seems that now we can only hope that the trebuchet built by Tian Rong and the others can be useful, and then use them to fight Xiang Liang's trebuchet! But everyone knows that this is only temporary!

After all, there are only more than 100,000 people in Chengwu City, but Xiang Liang has more than 300,000 people! The speed of destruction is estimated to be less than the speed that Xiang Liang's army built this kind of trebuchet!

However, there is always better than nothing!

Tian Rong is now leading tens of thousands of people to hurry up to make trebuchets, and all the materials that can be used in Chengwu City have been dismantled. Hu Hai didn't ask how far his trebuchet could hit, thinking that with the skills of the Mo family, since Tian Rong dared to build it boldly and boldly, it must be useful!

On the ninth day of the seventh month of the first year of Great Qin II, it was three quarters of the Shen hour!

"Knock knock!"

The sound of war drums in the sky suddenly sounded outside the four walls of Chengwu County!

Many soldiers on the city wall who were originally hiding in the hiding hole and the shade of the city wall corridor were stunned for a moment when they heard the sound of war drums, and then quickly got up, put on their helmets, picked up their weapons, poured out from each hiding cave, and rushed to the battlements!

Hearing the sound of the war drums, Hu Hai, who was already dressed in military uniform, sat in the county office, stood up, strode out of the county office, took a golden helmet handed over by Long Xuan, put it on his head, and went straight to the city wall!

With the sound of war drums, the four Xiangliang company camps surrounded outside Chengwu County, all the camp gates were opened, and the dense soldiers carried long and wide planks full of sawdust and rushed out of the camp in the shouts of the sky!

"Bang bang bang!"

Under the gaze of the Great Qin soldiers on the city wall, a muffled sound sounded, and these ragged rebel soldiers rushed to the wide trench and erected a thick wooden plank of more than three zhang, and then fell heavily to the opposite side of the trench!

After a while, dozens of wooden plank bridges more than ten zhang wide appeared in front of the first trench!

After the wooden bridge was built, the soldiers who put down the planks in their hands rushed back to the camp, and more soldiers carrying planks behind them quickly passed through the first trench, and built a wooden bridge on the second trench as they did!

More people is more power! In a moment, the five trenches around Chengwu County were all connected, and they became a smooth road!

"Boom!" A continuous roar sounded!

After the five trenches became a smooth road, countless rebel soldiers or more than ten people pushed one or more than twenty people pulled one, and there were almost no less than 500 dense cars, which were not big or small, and the trebuchets with wooden wheels and long handles under them rumbled out from the camp of Xiangliang on all sides!

Seeing so many catapults, Hu Hai and others all gasped!

How big should the county seat of Chengwu be, a city wall is less than four miles long, and the height is not a little more than three zhang, Xiang Liang This is a typical attempt to take Chengwu in one attack!

"Hit me with Sakae's trebuchet!"

The reason why the first strike is strong, and then the next suffers Hu Hai is still very clear! Now there are more than sixty trebuchets in Chengwu City! Although he hasn't experimented with the range yet, if he doesn't take advantage of Xiang Liang's trebuchets to squeeze into a pile to earn a little now, is it possible to wait for him to set up a formation and bombard his head?

More than 60 trebuchets were divided into four parts and formed a hundred steps behind each wall! Four to four sides!

However, the trebuchet made by Tian Rong is also pulled by manpower, that is, the net pocket and body size of the stone are obviously much larger than Xiang Liang's trebuchet, and the handle is also much longer!

More than sixty trebuchets quickly set up their formations, and the people standing in front of the trebuchets were not ordinary people, but all of them were the Xuanwu army under Weng Zhong's command! There are not many people, and in front of a trebuchet are ten Xuanwu soldiers!

"Huhu!"

Four rough stones the size of a foot flew out one after another from behind the four city walls with a whirring sound of breaking through the air!

This is a stone throwing to calibrate the target and landing point! After all, Tian Rong's trebuchet has not been experimented with since it was made in a hurry, and how far it can hit!

Fortunately, the four stones flew over the city wall smoothly and did not hit their own people! Tian Rong wiped the cold sweat on his head!

Four stones flew over the city wall for more than 700 paces, smashed into the open space in front of the fifth trench closest to the city wall, splashed a cloud of dust, and then jumped up and rolled out a few feet, and then did not move!

The trebuchet is good and powerful!

Although it did not hit a catapult of Xiang Liang, it has far exceeded Hu Hai's expectations! More than 700 steps, obviously Xiang Liang's trebuchets that are obviously smaller than the trebuchets made by Tian Rong cannot have such a long range!

Xiang Liang's hundreds of trebuchets are now crossing the second trench, and there are still more than a thousand steps away from the city wall, so it is naturally impossible to hit! But even so, the four boulders that suddenly flew out of the city made the Xiang Liang rebels who were pushing the trebuchet scratch for a while!

Xiang Liang, who was originally full of confidence, saw the boulder flying out of the city, which was obviously much larger than the stone on his trebuchet, and his heart suddenly sank!

(To be continued)