After the end of the first round of shelling, the soldiers of the Cao army woke up from the deafening explosions and the pungent and choking smoke of gunpowder, and when they looked at it, they were all dumbfounded, and the front positions were in disarray, and the trebuchets that had once made the Cao soldiers proud and made great use on the battlefield in Hebei turned into piles of rotten wood, long sticks and short boards, scattered all over the ground, mixed with stumps and broken arms, like a chaotic pole field.

Cao Cao was also dumbfounded, he never expected that his invincible siege artifact would be destroyed by the unknown weapon of the Jing army with just a face, which was really unbelievable. Cao Cao racked his brains and couldn't figure out when the Jing army had such a powerful weapon, and the black iron bumps thrown from the black hole could actually fall to the ground and bloom, and they could actually raze the things in the surrounding abbots to the ground, what was this thing? How did Liu Ze make it? Cao Cao's head was full of 100,000 whys.

The trebuchet showed its skills in Guandu, blocking Yuan Shao's army from Guandu and not allowing an inch; The trebuchet shines in Youzhou, Jizhou, the solid and thick city wall collapses under the bombardment of the boulder, Cao Cao is full of confidence in today's battle, as long as his hundreds of trebuchets are lined up, the capture of Picheng will be easy. But the scene in front of him undoubtedly gave Cao Cao a head start, the trebuchet was destroyed, the magic weapon of the siege was gone, and the plan to capture Xiapi City suffered a great setback.

Guo Jia looked at the situation in front of him, frowned, and said to Cao Cao: "Lord, the trebuchet is completely destroyed." The opponent's firearms are fierce, and the morale of our army is low, so it is better to retreat first today and think about the method of attacking the city again in the future. ”

Cao Cao stretched out his arms and looked forward coldly and gloomily, it is never Cao Cao's style to retreat in the face of difficulties, even if the trebuchet is destroyed, even if the enemy's firearms are ferocious, so what? Cao Cao has nearly 200,000 men and horses in his hands. On one of the walls of the other side. At best, it's only twenty firearms, Cao Cao really doesn't believe in this evil, no matter how powerful the twenty firearms are, can they really kill his 200,000 army?

"Command the armies. Ant-attached siege! Cao Cao calmly gave the order to siege the city.

Guo Jia wanted to say something more. But look at Cao Cao Tieqing's face. He didn't speak again, he knew very well that Cao Cao led his troops to attack Xiapixia City. Even if the trebuchet was destroyed, Cao Cao was unwilling to withdraw his troops lightly. What's more, Liu Ze's reinforcements will arrive soon, if you really wait until Liu Ze's reinforcements arrive, and then want to take Xuzhou, it will not be so easy. However, Cao Cao's mood is understandable, but there are no heavy siege preparations such as trebuchets, and with the means of ant-attached siege, I don't know how much casualties will cost, and Guo Jia also sighed secretly.

Cao Cao's order, Xu Chu and others were shouting excitedly, all kinds of troops, began to attack Xiapi City, ladders, bed crossbows, rushing cars, chariots, shelters and other all that can be used on the siege equipment, all were pulled to the front line, from a distance, Cao's army overwhelming, like flying locusts crossing, all over the mountains and fields.

Zhang He was calm and composed, without the slightest fear, on the one hand, he ordered the Jing army defending the city to immediately throw themselves into the city wall, prepare bows and crossbows, rolling wood and stones, and boiling water with fire oil, and immediately enter the battle state, and on the other hand, he ordered the gunners to replace the flowering shells with scattered shells.

The Redcoat Cannon can use three shells, the first is solid, the second is flowering, and the third is scattering. Solid bullets are cannonballs used when attacking the enemy's city walls, and the solid iron balls fired at high speed are faster than the stone bullets thrown by catapults, and the ring breaking force on the city walls is great, but when defending the city, its use is limited, and a solid iron ball has a limited ability to damage the swarming enemy soldiers. Therefore, the most effective weapon is to fight against the catapult machine crossbow and the soldiers in a neat formation, the flowering bullet has an iron shell, but the inside is hollow, filled with gunpowder and lead pellets, before launching, the flowering bullet has been ignited with a fuse, and it is generally thrown out and landed before exploding. A strong explosion can tear the entire iron shell to shreds, and the impact of gunpowder itself can produce fatal damage, not to mention that a large number of lead pellets are added to the flowering bullets, which are splashed everywhere after the explosion, and the middle one is killed instantly.

But the cost of flowering shells is expensive, and the damage effect on scattered targets is not obvious, so Ma Jun developed a scatter bomb to deal with targets at close range, scattered bullets and solid bullets are different from flowering shells, after the barrel is filled with gunpowder, on top of the gunpowder, hundreds of small iron pellets or lead pellets are loaded, relying on the propulsion of gunpowder, hundreds of small lead pellets are shot forward. Because the projectile is small and numerous, it can form a certain death fan, especially against the enemy soldiers attached to the ants, and it can often receive miraculous results.

Cao Bing had just rushed up, and the muzzles on the city wall began to spray flames several feet long, and to their surprise, the muzzles of these cannons were not just bowl-sized balls that exploded after they landed, but small iron pellets that were as dense as a shower. These small iron pellets have a terrifying speed, more terrifying than the penetration of crossbow arrows, and no matter how thick the armor you wear, the middle one can be easily pierced, and the middle one will be killed instantly.

The lethal power of the artillery is amazing, but the power of twenty guns is limited after all, and no matter how large the area covered, it can't stop Cao's soldiers from attacking like wolves.

After crossing the line of fire, Cao's army rushed to the moat, and under the bows and crossbows on the city, Cao's corpses pillowed each other, and filling the moat was also a huge project. After braving the rain of arrows and paying a great price, Cao Bing reluctantly opened a few roads through the moat to the bottom of Xiapi City, and began to carry out ant-attached operations against the city walls of Xiapi.

But they soon found that Xiapi City was far higher and stronger than the ordinary state and county towns, and the defense facilities on the city were extremely terrifying, and it was almost a nightmare to climb the head of the city of Xiapi, and the corpses of Cao Bing were almost covered under the city.

Cao Cao's eyes were torn apart, and he frantically commanded Cao Bing to launch round after round of attacks on Xia Pi, but until it was dark, Cao Bing still made no progress.

In the next few days, Cao Cao, who was almost frantic, changed his calm image and launched a fierce attack on Xiapi City regardless of gains and losses, and at the same time, his command position was repeatedly moved forward, but he did not know that danger was quietly coming. (To be continued......)