Such a big killing weapon made the Huns like moths to a fire, and none of them rushed close to the infantry array, and all of them had fallen under the bow of the divine arm.

"Hiss......"

Looking at such a battlefield, everyone took a sip of cool soldiers, the cavalry of the late Han Dynasty, when they encountered the nemesis of long-range strikes, they were almost powerless to fight back.

Several generals took a closer look at the battlefield and gave thumbs up to the archers of their battalions.

……

After crossing the Shahe River, Liu Wei led the army to Yuxian County.

Yuxian County was guarded by 3,000 men and horses led by Bai Huan, and after Liu Wei led the two battalions of Ji and Yi and the men and horses directly under the central government to settle outside the city, he immediately shot a book and went to the city.

The book only has a few short lines, and the time limit is one day to come out and surrender, otherwise the city will be forcibly attacked.

"My lord, your current tactics are very different from before."

Lu Yin returned to the camp and quietly asked Liu Wei.

"I've never seen the lord forcibly attack the city, I used to fight skillfully, and I think you will find some way to transfer the enemy out of the city to fight."

"For the rabble, there is no need, these people are capricious, if there is milk, they are mothers, Feng does not want to take it for use, whether it is the original Black Mountain Army Department or the troops in Fuluo, they are mainly annihilated, let's take a few cities strongly, and the mind will be chaotic."

……

The pre-war meeting was short and bright, Guo Jia proposed that this battle did not need to be surrounded by three and one, and that the war of annihilation should be fought simply and rudely, while Liu Wei sent people to the party to find the organization of the Heroes Association and to divide the relationship between Zhang Yang and Yang Chou.

In history, Yang Chou killed Zhang Yang to defect to Cao Cao, which shows that under heavy pressure, this Zhang Yang's henchman is a villain who is afraid of death, and Liu Wei must of course take advantage of it.

These three forces are divided and combined, and when they are ideologically unified, the battle situation should be very clear.

Liu Wei was only worried about two people in the Shangdang area, Yuan Shao's nephew Gao Gan and his cousin Gao Rou.

These two are considered talents, and Liu Wei decided to take this opportunity to keep them here and prevent them from escaping to Jizhou to help Yuan Shao.

Gao Gan was born in the Eastern Han Dynasty Wang clan Chen Liugao clan, Gao's filial piety and reputation accumulated into a kind of political capital, enjoyed prestige in Shilin, and married the Yuan clan in Runan.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the best in governing and merging the state belonged to the senior cadre brothers, who were ordered to govern the state for a total of seven years, and their governance achievements were outstanding. During this period, the Quartet traveled to him, and under his rule, the state was much stronger than Zhang Yang.

If it weren't for the high-ranking cadres who helped Yuan Shao in the Battle of Guandu and provided Yuan Shao with food and soldiers, his political achievements in Bingzhou would continue.

Liu Wei won the state, if he can subdue Gao Gan and make him a subordinate official, this is the best result, once he defeats Yuan Shao, where else can Gao Gan go?

With such a talent to assist in merging the state, Liu Wei will also feel much more at ease.

……

Bai Huan of Yuxian County did not reply, and a day later, Liu Wei ordered the siege to begin.

In this siege battle, Liu Wei called all the generals to observe together, because this was the first time that the craftsman battalion had made a move.

In ancient times, most of the equipment would be made from local materials, and then thrown away when they ran out, especially after going deep into the enemy's territory, because of the food to the enemy, what was required was the speed of marching and the change of the use of troops.

These big guys, under such dynamic conditions as the late Han Dynasty, did not have the ability to move in combat at all.

Since Liu Wei arrived in Dong'e County, he has already established a streamlined operation, and after all the plates have been processed, they are assembled into a small catapult according to standardization.

Although large siege equipment such as the head car and Xiangyang cannon cannot be completed by using the assembly line, many light catapults, as long as they are not strategic decisive battles and attacking fortified cities, are completely sufficient.

The rows of trebuchets under the city were quickly lined up, and Zhang Fei couldn't see the power, but Dian Wei and Tai Shici happily ordered their troops to prepare for the siege.

All the firepower was concentrated at the east gate, and the remaining three gates were all cavalry swimming, preventing the defenders of Yuxian County from leaving the city.

"It's called artillery coverage." Liu Wei looked at Guo Jia and Pang Tong and told them about the wonders of this long-range strike.

When the hour came, hundreds of small catapults made a uniform sound as the artisan camp flag waved, and the locust-like stones covered half of the sky.

"Boom, boom, boom."

A large area collapsed on the siege city, mixed with the screams of countless soldiers, and streams of blood flowed down the city walls.

"It's really cool to attack the city like this." Several generals assessed the results of the battle and commanded the cavalry to monitor the city and prevent the enemy from breaking through.

The stone projectile has been processed into a round shape in advance, which is easy to transport, and the siege power is also great, and it can also cause secondary damage by inertia.

A burst of fierce artillery fire came down, and Yuxian was like a broken porcelain, and the cracks were slowly spreading.

The black flag waved, and the trebuchet finally fell silent.

A sparse figure finally flashed on the top of the city, and looking at the devastation, Liu Wei believed that their spirits were on the verge of collapse.

With a wave of the blue flag, the artisan battalion introduced a giant bow and crossbow - the bed crossbow.

It was like a teaching performance, the bed crossbow slowly advanced into the firing range, and the defenders in the city were helpless, watching Liu Wei's army line up.

The distance between the two sides is too far!

For the siege equipment, Liu Wei demanded that all the shells be shot out, and Yuxian County was captured, and these shells could be recycled and reused.

The launch of the bed crossbow was completely different from that of the catapult, and the iron spears of more than ten meters with a whistling sound and indiscriminate saturation attacks were carried out, and a series of screams sounded on the head of the city that had just been cleaned.

If a stone bullet is a cannon, then a bed crossbow is a heavy machine gun, and the firing density is much stronger.

The city wall, which had been smashed by stone bullets, was nailed to the city wall by iron spears, and it looked like a hedgehog.

"Lord, yes!"

Dian Wei ran over, "Let's go to the camp, there are so many iron guns, that's a natural ladder!" Our Jizi battalion can take the city wall with one charge. ”

Seeing Sun Ce and Zhou Yu open their mouths wide, Liu Wei smiled slightly, "Mountain Monarch, don't worry, let you take a good look at the demeanor of the King of Bed Crossbows this time." ”

The yellow flag beckoned again, the sound of wheels sounded, and the craftsman battalion launched fifty more wooden cart-like things.

This is the eight-bull crossbow, with two bows in front and one bow in the back, this is the king of crossbows, and no one can compete with it.

"After this round of shooting, seeing the golden flag waving, Shanjun and Ziyi led the team to attack."

The eight-bull crossbow can be pulled by 30 people, and the range can reach about 1,000 meters, which is ten times that of ordinary bows and arrows!

This is a killing weapon with a farther range than a catapult, and the distance is comparable to that of a sniper rifle, and it is definitely the king of the cold weapon era!

The iron spears and arrows of the Eight Ox Crossbows are made of iron sheets, and ordinary city walls can easily penetrate them.

Fifty eight-bull crossbows were fired in five volleys, such weapons were not mainly used to kill, but siege weapons, nearly a thousand iron spears shot stones flying at the head of the city, and many walls had begun to collapse.

(End of chapter)