The morning sun is rising, after the Xianbei people have breakfast, they lined up and set up a camp at the same time, but it can be seen from the thickness of their formation that they did not evenly distribute the troops, the east and west gates are just contained, and the main attack direction is the south gate, which is personally commanded by Huai Zong, and the first to take charge of the main attack is the team led by Dou Gui led by the Dou family and the Huns.

The drums of war exploded, and the siege began.

Liu Xiu was at the West Gate, facing the Split Wind of a feint, and the Split Wind obviously knew that he was not the main attacker, so he just put on a siege posture, but he never entered the attack range. Zhang He was waiting under the city, Liu Xiu accompanied Lu Min to gossip on the city tower, while estimating how many people Huai Zong would have to die this time to touch the wall skin, and on the other hand, he planned to wait for Huai Zong to break his head and bleed, and what kind of immoral idea would arouse his anger, make him lose his mind, and continue to attack the city with perseverance.

To his surprise, Xia Yu quickly sent someone to deliver bad news: the Xianbei people who were besieging the city had a stone thrower. Although there were not many of them, there were more than a dozen in total, but as soon as the battle started, Dou Gui asked people to push the dozen or so stone throwers in front of the deep ditch.

"The Han who the dog said killed people." Liu Xiu spat and scolded, and hurriedly accompanied Lu Min to the south gate. As soon as he arrived outside the south gate, he was taken aback, Wang Chan and the others behind Feng Yuan were beaten so that they couldn't lift their heads, and several soldiers fell to the ground, and the flesh and blood were blurred by the big stones thrown by the stone thrower, and the blood flowed everywhere, which was shocking.

There are some differences between the stone thrower in this era and Liu Xiu from the movie, this is pulled by people, hundreds of people pull the rope together, and the stones in the basket are thrown out, and the stones fly not particularly far, that is, one hundred and ten steps, and the accuracy is also very poor. But the power of the huge stones flying in the air was too terrifying, and some of them hit the city wall, and the heavy wall trembled, and another flew over the city wall and entered the city, killing two homeless people on the spot, causing a cry full of fear, and the two soldiers pounced on the frightened homeless people and knocked them to the ground and gagged them.

Even so, the bloodstains on the ground still terrified the homeless.

Xia Yu kept his face calm and ordered the strong crossbow in the city to shoot at the soldiers of the stone throwing machine outside the city. The dense rain of arrows knocked down the person who pulled the stone thrower, but Dou Gui was obviously prepared, and when he fell a batch, he immediately sent another batch.

Liu Xiu could see clearly that none of these people were wearing armor, and they were not Xianbei people with hairheads, but Han Chinese. He couldn't help but shout: "My lord, they are Han!" ”

"I know." Xia Yu snorted expressionlessly.

"Your Excellency, you can't do anything to our Han people." Lu Min stepped forward and stopped in front of Xia Yu and shouted angrily. Xia Yu turned his head, looked at him with a strange gaze, and suddenly sneered: "I know that they are Han people, but now they are attacking the city for the Xianbei people, what can I do?" If you don't shoot them, will you let the people of the city be killed by the catapult? ”

He raised his hand, ready to push Lu Min aside, but halfway through, he took it back, endured his unhappiness, and said in a soothing tone: "Mr. Zixing, I know this is very cruel, but we have no other way, you know, they are attacking us now, not only them, even these stone throwers are made by our Han people, I believe that these barbarians do not have such ability, ordinary Han people do not have this ability, even we don't know how to build stone throwers." Only the famous disciple surnamed Dou had the opportunity to see the drawings of the stone thrower and make such a sharp weapon. You have to blame, you should blame him. ”

After speaking, he turned around and shouted: "Concentrate all the strong crossbows and shoot them at the catapult for me." Use rockets to burn all those stone throwers. ”

"Whoa!" The herald answered, and ran quickly up the wall, shouting, "With rockets—"

Lu Min blushed and stood aside helplessly. He knew that Xia Yu was right, the stone thrower, like the strong crossbow, belonged to the sharp weapons controlled by the court, and it was not something that ordinary people had the opportunity to see, and there was no stone thrower in Ningcheng. Although there are many Han people who fled to the grassland, there are absolutely few who can master the manufacturing method of the stone thrower, and the most likely is Dou Gui.

The Dou family had the opportunity to see the patterns in the palace.

With Xia Yu's order, dozens of strong crossbows on the city wall were immediately replaced with rockets, and with a loud roar, the five or six feet long crossbow arrows with crackling fire instantly leaped a distance of a hundred paces and poured into the crowd of people who pulled the stone thrower. Some of the ragged Han people were directly killed by arrows, some were wounded, and the flames of oil immediately burned on their bodies, they screamed and let go of the ropes in their hands, desperately fighting the fire on their bodies, and the people next to them were so frightened that they scattered and fled.

But a rain of arrows destroyed their hope of escape, and a row of Xianbei people standing ten paces away drew their swords, cut down several people who were on fire one after another, and then forced those who were not on fire to retreat, braved the rockets in the city, pulled out the burning crossbow arrows from the catapult, and continued to attack as a catapult.

There were cries and shouts in front of the battle, and the corpses were scattered everywhere.

In less than a meal before the war began, hundreds of people died inside and outside the city, and ...... Almost all of them are Han Chinese.

Liu Xiu's heart sank for a while, and he suddenly wondered if he had done something wrong, obviously to fight the Xianbei people and protect the Han people, how could it be that all the Han people died in the end?

"Sir?" Zhang Fei saw that Liu Xiu's face was very ugly, so he hurriedly pulled him and reminded him not to conflict with Xia Yu at this time. Don't look at Xia Yu has always been optimistic about him, but now it is wartime, and no one can blame the decision of the commander, otherwise it will challenge his authority.

Liu Xiu came back to his senses, he looked at Lu Min, Lu Min's face was also a little pale, but he stared at the outside of the city, supported the female wall with both hands, and gritted his teeth and said: "Deran, you are right, you must kill Dou Gui, that brute." ”

Liu Xiu raised his head and looked into the distance. Dou Gui rode a horse and stood in front of the formation, about two hundred steps away from the city wall, even the four-stone strong crossbow on the city wall was not sure to shoot him.

Xia Yu heard their words, turned his head and glanced at them indifferently, raised his hand to cover his forehead, blocked the rising sun, and watched the situation of the stone thrower in the distance. Under the concentrated blow of the strong crossbow, those stone throwers caught fire one after another, although the Xianbei people drove the Han people up with knives to extinguish the fire, but they still could not catch up with the speed of the crossbow arrows, and they were burned in about half an hour.

Although Liu Xiu couldn't see it really, he believed that almost all of them were Han Chinese, and few of them were Xianbei or Huns.

Before being destroyed, the stone thrower fired nearly two hundred stones, less than two percent of these stones hit the target, causing more than a dozen casualties, and most of the others missed, more than a dozen of them hit the city wall, and the huge force made the city wall tremble, making people wonder if the city wall would collapse.

In the distance, Dou Gui had already returned to his own formation, and was talking to Huai Zong on a makeshift high platform, and it could be seen from their figures that they were very satisfied with the effect of this attack.

"Zixing, we need to find a way to restrain the stone thrower." Xia Yu's face was a little gloomy, "They're just experimenting, I guess they'll be able to build more stone throwers soon." Although it is impossible for them to capture Ningcheng with these stone throwers alone, the impact on our morale is too great. ”

Although Lu Min's face was still a little ugly, his spirit had recovered, and he asked in a deep voice, "What can you do?" ”

"I'm going to send Warriors to sabotage these stone throwers and not give them a chance to launch." He looked at the soldiers in Feng Yuan under the city who were bandaging their wounds by the Taiping Dao people: "I can't let my men be pressed and beaten like this. ”

"But taking the initiative to go out of the city to fight, isn't it in the hands of the Xianbei people?" Lu Min said worriedly.

"Even so, that's all I can do." Xia Yu stroked the knife ring and nodded affirmatively: "Unless there is a better way." ”