Lu Tai raised his right hand and pressed it gently, and said lightly: "Attack." ”

Guarding behind Lu Tai as a herald turned out to be the Han hussar general Zhou Guanfu, Lu Tai gave an order, Zhou Guanfu turned around and turned around, and howled sharply: "The general has an order, catapult...... Attack! ”

Zhou Guanfu gave an order, and the herald on the nest car hurriedly raised the order flag.

In the next moment, the corresponding command flags were also raised on the four subordinate command nest cars, and in an instant, the Han army colonels who were standing in front of the catapults with their swords pulled out their swords and held them high above the top, and followed by a long howl from the sky: "Huh...... Ha! As the word Ha exited, the long swords raised by the Han army colonels were slashed down one after another.

The Han military wrestler, who was already standing by the trebuchet, raised the wooden hammer high and smashed it heavily on the machine.

In the continuous banging sound, more than 200 catapults crashed into the machine bracket at the same time, and the counterweight weighing tens of thousands of catties lost the support of the machine bracket, and suddenly began to fall downward, and then drove the thick and long throwing arm, and the hanging basket connected to the far end of the throwing arm through the iron cable was thrown into the air.

When the hanging basket crossed the highest point, the boulder in the hanging basket broke free from the shackles of the hanging basket, and under the action of huge inertia, it tumbled and flew towards the Chu army camp five hundred steps away...... More than 200 boulders weighing hundreds of catties were intertwined in the air into a stone rain, roaring towards the Chu army camp with great shock.

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Xiang Zhuang's pupils contracted sharply in an instant, and the Han army's catapult was really not simple.

The feather fan in Bai Lixian's hand was also slightly swayed, and he said in a low voice: "King, the range of the Han army's catapult is almost not below that of our army's catapult, and it seems that Liu Bang's account also has a craftsman master who is not inferior to everyone who loses to the public." ”

Xiang Zhuang bowed his head slightly, looked back at Qu Bucai, and asked, "Old Qu, do you know who this person is?" ”

Qu Bucai said in a low voice: "King, there is no definite news yet, but. Speculate on the basis of various indications. It is likely that the Han army catapult was designed by Bai Mo. ”

"White ink?!" Xiang Zhuang said awe-inspiringly, "What an all-rounder." ”

Bai Lixian bowed his head lightly, and said with deep understanding: "The same person from Guigumen, Bai Mo may not be as good as learning swords in terms of commanding ten thousand armies and winning battles, but in terms of political strategy, strategy and miscellaneous attainments, I am afraid it is better than learning swords, and an all-rounder like Bai Mo, I am afraid that there will be no second one in the world." ”

"Such a talent cannot be used by a few people. Pity. Xiang Zhuang has regrets in his heart.

Bai Lixian smiled and said: "Just wait for Liu Bang's defeat, you might as well let Doctor Shang go to Xianyang, maybe you can persuade Bai Mo to be used by the king, in this way, Da Chu is very lucky, and the people in the world are very lucky." ”

While the two were talking, the boulder thrown by the Han army's catapult had already flown over a distance of more than 500 steps. Then with a huge sound of breaking the air, it smashed viciously down on Chu Jun's head. The Chu troops guarding the camp suddenly had a small commotion, and those Chu troops who happened to be in the direction of the boulder's fall hurriedly dodged.

A boulder with sharp corners fell first, and the fence of the Chu army camp was in the middle, only a loud bang was heard, and the fence made of logs with the thickness of the bowl mouth was torn apart in an instant, and the debris was splashed everywhere, and the broken wood flew sideways, and the originally thick and complete fence was smashed open a gap half a zhang wide in an instant, and several archers guarding it also screamed and fell down.

"Boom, boom, boom......" for the next moment. More than 200 boulders fell from the sky.

A boulder roared down towards the ranks of archers, and dozens of archers near the landing point suddenly scattered, only a recruit who had never been on the battlefield raised his head, as if he was frightened, and looked at the boulder falling from the sky in a daze, and forgot to dodge for a while.

"Dog, get out of the way. Get out of the way! A veteran yelled. ..., the recruit was unconscious, still stunned and stupid standing in place, the old soldier rushed forward in two steps in a hurry, grabbed the recruit's arm and threw it to the side, the recruit was finally thrown out, but the veteran was smashed by a boulder falling from the sky, and it became a pile of meat in an instant.

On the towering arrow tower, more than a dozen archers suddenly screamed.

Because a boulder has been whistling down from the air, if nothing else, it will definitely be smashed on the waist of the arrow tower, saying that it is too late and that is fast, the boulder will just smash on the waist of the arrow tower, and the entire arrow tower will be completely disintegrated in an instant, and in the debris of broken wood flying in the sky, more than a dozen Chu army archers suddenly screamed and fell down.

Falling from the arrow tower, which was more than four feet high, more than a dozen archers were thrown half to death, and two unlucky archers fell directly on the fence, and in an instant they were pierced by the sharpened logs, and died no longer to die.

The two teams of spearmen suddenly rioted, because two boulders were falling towards their heads, and when there was no room for fire, the spearmen in the landing position quickly scattered and retreated, and the boulder fell to the ground with a bang, although it did not directly hit people, but the huge impact still knocked dozens of nearby spearmen to the ground.

Only the heavily armored warriors behind the fence appeared to be calm.

As a veteran, the heavy armor soldier knows that the catapult is actually scary, but as long as you don't run around, then the probability of being hit by a boulder is extremely small, but it is covered by the enemy's flying spears and arrow rain, which is the real fatality.

The first wave of stone rain blows of the Han army's catapults finally passed, except for about 50 boulders that fell on the open space in front of the camp, the rest of the more than 150 boulders all fell in the Chu army camp, and more than a dozen boulders directly smashed more than a dozen huge gaps in the wall of the Chu army camp.

Looking at the walled wall that had broken more than a dozen gaps, Xiang Zhuang couldn't help but sigh.

Although the Chu army also had catapults, and there were more than the Han army, they could not stop the Han army's catapults from destroying the Chu army's camp at all, and pushed the catapults up to confront the Han army's catapults? No kidding, catapults were originally designed to hit fixed large targets, and it was difficult to threaten the Han army's catapults five hundred paces away.

To put it mildly, the Chu and Han sides set up catapults to bombard, and they may not be able to destroy each other in half a day.

Therefore, instead of pushing the catapults to the front and engaging in a meaningless confrontation with the Han army, it is better to put them behind, so that when the Han army throws in the infantry to launch a strong attack, it can at least pose a certain threat to the Han army, and in front of the dense infantry formation, the range of catapults is still quite threatening.

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After the Han army catapult threw the first wave of stone rain, nearly a thousand Han army wrestlers with bare chests and backs began to frantically rotate the huge winch, slowly twisting the counterweight of the catapults, and after half an hour, the counterweights of more than 200 catapults were finally twisted to the apex, and then supported by the machine bracket to complete the launch preparations again.

More than 200 Han army colonels straightened their swords again, and then slashed down again.

With the sound of the wooden hammer crashing machine, more than 200 catapults in front of the Han army screamed again, throwing huge stones into the air, and then tumbling over the void, roaring down towards the sky above the Chu army camp, and the Chu army camp was shaking again.

The bombardment of the Han army's catapults lasted for more than half an hour before finally ending.

Under the repeated blows of the Han army's catapults, the Chu army camp has been devastated, the flat ground in front of the camp has been smashed into potholes, and the thick and solid wall has also been smashed out of hundreds of large gaps. ..., the only thing to be thankful for is that the casualties are not very large.

Again, the catapult is terrifying, and has incomparable lethality and destructive power against large fixed targets such as city walls, arrow towers, and camps, but the killing of individual soldiers is really limited, as long as you are not scared stupid, or the formation is not so crowded that it is difficult to even turn around, basically you will not be stoned to death.

However, the Han army never had the luxury of relying on catapults to kill and injure the Chu army, and the only thing they needed was to destroy the Chu army's camp defenses and clear the obstacles for the infantry to attack the fortifications as much as possible.

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For the effect of the catapult's blow, Liu Bang was quite satisfied.

In any case, the walls of the Chu army camp have been destroyed to the point of dilapidation, and it is simply not enough to resist the impact of the Han cavalry, and now, as long as the light soldiers are sent to fill the trench in front of the Chu army camp, and then remove those nasty deer and horses, you can directly throw in the heavy cavalry to charge.

Of course, the Chu army's repeater crossbows were still a huge threat.

However, the crossbow of the Chu army is not without shortcomings, although the crossbow is huge, but the crossbow bed must be fixed before launching, and the requirements for the shooting boundary are also very high, used to guard the battalion, then the crossbow must be fixed to the wall, so that the Han army catapult can be calmly destroyed.

Suddenly, Lu Tai raised his right hand again and pressed it forward.

Zhou Guanfu turned around, turned around, and then looked up to the sky and snorted: "Infantry, attack ......"

The central nest car and the surrounding secondary nest car successively raised the command flag of the infantry attack, and in an instant, the Han army heavy armor who was waiting for the battle drew their long swords, shouldered their big shields, and began to shout a loud trumpet to slowly step forward, followed by a group of Han army archers, and a team of light soldiers carrying sacks.

In the sound of trumpets rising wave after wave, the Han army's heavy armor, light soldiers and archers were surging forward.

Looking at the surging Han army soldiers, a cold smile suddenly bloomed at the corner of Liu Bang's mouth, and he looked back at Zhang Liang and Chen Ping and said, "Ovary, Chen Ping, do you say that Xiang Zhuang Xiao'er will sacrifice a repeater in the first round?" ”