Dong Shouye saw that the troops led by his second brother Zhang Liao had successfully seized the beachhead and gained a firm foothold under the cover of Jing Yan, and cooperated with the baggage truck troops led by Li Meng to fill in the moat of Chang'an City. Of course, this is not a complete fill-in, but just a way to create some passages for the army to walk.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Dong Shouye ordered again: "Chuan Ben will give the order to immediately let Captain Wang Fang lead his men and horses to put the catapult into the battlefield, and reach a position suitable for attack, and inform the troops who are fighting on the battlefield and let them cover the catapult as much as possible." ”

Immediately after that, a herald informed the flag officer and conveyed the order to the people who were fighting.

After receiving the order, Wang immediately instructed his soldiers to transport the wooden parts used to make the catapult to the battlefield, and then began to build and assemble the catapult on the spot under the cover of friendly forces.

A group of people were busy for a while, and one catapult after another was being assembled.

I saw that these catapults were about five meters high, and there was a huge lever on it, the long end was a stone loaded with a holster or a wooden basket, and dozens of ropes were tied to the short end.

The "ammunition" of this catapult is a stone polished into an almost circular shape, which can also be called a stone projectile. Each stone projectile weighs about 20 kilograms, has a range of up to 200 meters, and is slightly inferior to some strong bows or crossbows in terms of range, so it requires infantry to occupy a stable forward position in front of it as its cover, otherwise, the defenders in the city are not vegetarians, and the soldiers who operate the catapult under a rain of arrows will suffer heavy casualties.

You can imagine what kind of power a 20-kilogram stone projectile will have when it flies out, and it can be said that as long as it is stained, it will not die and be seriously injured. Although the catapult is powerful, it is also more cumbersome to maneuver. The existing catapults in the Xiliang army under Dong Shouye required at least thirty people to operate each.

The West Gate attacked by Zhang Liao, due to Dong Shouye's deposit, the number of catapults was the largest, almost 200.

If you look down from the air, these two hundred catapults are unusually neatly lined up, and they look spectacular and murderous.

After all the catapults were assembled, Wang ordered all the catapults to be loaded with stone bullets and ready for firing.

Listening to Wang Fang's order, the catapult made a loud noise and threw the stone projectile out.

Since this was the first shot, it was necessary to adjust the attack angle and attack distance, so there were not many stone bullets fired in the first wave, only twenty or thirty.

After these stone projectiles flew out, some of them shot to the city wall, some fell to the ground before they flew to the city wall, and some fell from the air without even flying a few steps, and there was a catapult that was very unexpected, after the stone projectile was ejected, it directly hit its own people, and a catapult was directly scrapped on the spot.

After Wang Fang saw the effect of the first wave of stone projectiles, he immediately ordered some catapults to be revised, as well as some related adjustments.

After a few more waves of stone projectiles, all the remaining catapults were ready for service.

The king ordered all the catapults to shoot together.

I saw more than 200 stone bullets in the sky heading towards Chang'an City.

Twenty kilograms of stone smashed on the stacks of arrows that covered the archers, and they smashed them to pieces.

When a stone projectile hits a wall, it can smash a large hole in the wall, or it can collapse part of the wall.

A defender soldier on the city wall was an archer, who was originally hiding behind the arrow stack, but the arrow stack was smashed by the flying stone projectiles, and this person had no cover, seeing the stone bullets flying in the air, with a piercing whistling sound, he was frightened to the point that the six gods were stunned on the spot, and he didn't know how to dodge. As a result, he was hit in the chest by an oncoming stone bullet, and only to hear the sound of broken bones, and the stone bullet fell into the man's chest.

The man didn't have time to shout half a sentence before he vomited blood from his mouth and died on the spot.

Seeing this, the leader of the defenders of the city immediately ordered his men to find cover and take refuge, and ordered the archers to wait for an opportunity to attack the catapult and destroy the powerful catapult as much as possible.

However, as soon as the defenders in the city on the opposite side saw the defenders in the city coming up, they immediately began to shoot into the city and suppress the fire.

The defenders of the city were unable to raise their heads in the face of the roaring stone bullets and the rain of arrows from the wells. It's very difficult to even shoot with your head out, let alone destroy a catapult.

Seeing this, Wang Yun, who was fighting for a long time, immediately ordered: "There are also catapults in the city, so immediately arrange a counterattack." ”

When the leader of the defenders heard this, he immediately went down to make arrangements, but in fact, there were not many catapults in the city, and they had to be divided into four directions, southeast, northwest, and even more stretched.

In the past, Dong Zhuo relied on his strong soldiers and horses when he was in Chang'an, and no one could attack Chang'an, and the Xiliang army was good at field warfare and was not good at defending the city, so he did not put too much experience on building city-defending equipment such as catapults. After Wang Yun took over Chang'an, he was no better than Dong Zhuo, which can be said to be even more unbearable. This old boy is a corrupt Confucian, he is a master of theory, he is good at talking about troops, and he can also command battles, but he is not very clever in some details of these offensive and defensive battles.

There are only a few generals in Chang'an City who can fight well, but the most powerful Huangfu Song is dead, and the rest, whether it is Lu Bu or Dong Huang, are good at leading cavalry and field battles, and they are not proficient in defending the city at all, so they don't pay attention to building city defense equipment at all.

The leader of the guards searched for a long time and finally found more than 50 catapults, but they were all some years old, and whether they could be used or not was still a matter of two words.

The catapult was assembled a little further back to avoid being hit by the catapult of the Xiliang army, and at the same time prepared to use the condescending advantage to surpass the Xiliang army in range and defeat the catapult of the leader.

Without saying a word, after setting up the catapult, he began to fight back.

After a few waves of stone catapults were ejected, the response was not very good, and the distance of this catapult was a little shrunk due to the long age, and most of them could not shoot the catapult of the Xiliang Army, let alone the troops of Jing Yan and Zhang Liao behind the catapult.

After barely getting some pitiful casualties, they were all hit by the catapults of the Xiliang army and smashed by stone bullets.

Wang Yun was dumbfounded, he originally thought that it was just a little gap in quantity, but he didn't expect that there would be such a big gap in quality.

After Dong Shouye saw those antique catapults on the city wall in the middle of the military array, he laughed out loud and said: "Wang Yun's old thief has pressed too much naivety, and he actually wants to rely on these broken things to confront the catapults carefully built by our army. ”