Chapter 597, Zhan Shu City (5)
Overnight, hundreds of catapults were placed on the dirt hills outside the south gate and the east gate of Shucheng. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
After nearly two months of labor, at the cost of hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded, Liu Feng's army was finally able to pose a threat to Shucheng, and was no longer as powerless as before, and placed the catapult in the position of attack, which was destroyed by the enemy in the city. With the dirt mountain, it can at least be used as a cover to block the enemy's view, and the catapult can be safely arranged in place at night, although it is still within the enemy's attack range and the like, it can already counterattack and suppress the castle.
Of course, this army of less than 5 million alone is not enough to complete this project, and in the past two months, a large number of young men and women sent by Linhu and Xiang'an, which had just been breached, and even Danyang on the other side of the river, continued to gather young and strong, migrated to Spring Valley, and then came to work under the escort of the navy, and there were not a few who died under the attack of the enemy's catapults.
In addition, Jiang ASEAN also suffered many casualties. There are a lot of players under Yuan Shu's command, and it can even be said that there are a lot of them, not because everyone is optimistic about Yuan Shu, but because they are not optimistic, they have taken refuge in Yuan Shu, wanting to wait for Yuan Shu to fall and pick up the cheap. Up to now, this is already a very strong force, although Lujiang and Jiujiang are not their main strategic direction, because they all know that if Liu Feng wants to sit in the southeast, he will definitely cross the river to the north, and sometimes, compared to the aborigines, even if Liu Feng's strength is weaker, they don't want to provoke, because they are both players, and they know each other far more than the aborigines, so they don't want to directly confront Liu Feng without effectively counterbalancing Liu Feng's powerful army.
But even so, there are hundreds of thousands of players in Lujiang City, as well as no less than this number of troops. Ranger players are good to say, they are here to join in the fun or seek excitement, but lord players are forced to come to defend the city, although the combat effectiveness of these people needs to be improved, but at least they can be used as cannon fodder to defend the city. And after these people arrived in Shucheng, they were directly taken over by Liu Xun's subordinates, and the people who led the troops only obeyed orders and did not have any freedom.
Most of Jiang's losses were caused by battles with Ranger players. Today's Jiangxi ASEAN War Hall personnel, although there are as many as two or three hundred thousand, have been trained by the aborigines for a long time, although they can also be assembled to attack the city or fight in the field, but after all, they can't hold on to the aborigines for as long, and in the previous situation, they naturally can't help much, and Liu Feng didn't insist on letting them move freely. As a result, after Jiang ASEAN dispersed, he lost some people in the battle with the enemy player.
Although there is a threat of Liu Feng's army on the east and south, there is no army on the west and north sides, Liu Xun wants to keep the external contact unimpeded, so naturally he can't close the city gate, except for the tighter defense and strict interrogation when entering the city, it is not very complicated to go out of the city. Previously, the players in Shucheng were also able to go out of the city because of this, and they fought with each other.
But it is almost impossible to get a large army out of the city. Although there are few horses in Jiangdong, over the years, Liu Feng has obtained more than 100,000 horses of the rank of good horses through various methods, and formed 100,000 cavalry to patrol around outside Shucheng, just to prevent the troops in the city from leaving the city from these two sides, and also to prevent reinforcements from arriving and give early warning to the army.
Liu Feng didn't know how many men and horses there were in Shucheng, but he knew that there were definitely not many cavalry in the city. The land of Huainan, similar to Jiangdong, has no source of war horses, and even if horses are raised, they are mostly horses, and they cannot go to the battlefield at all. In history, when Zhou Yu defected to Sun Ce from Juchao, Sun Ce gave 2,000 soldiers, but only 50 horsemen. There must be more cavalry under Yuan Shu's command than Liu Feng, but when it comes to Lujiang City, there will definitely not be too many. Although Jiang ASEAN's people have not found out, it should not exceed 30,000.
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Of course, the movement outside the city could not be hidden from Liu Xun, and he appeared on the top of the city as soon as it was dawn, looking at the earth mountain not far away. Less than a mile away, he could see clearly with his strength. Not only did he set up hundreds of catapults, but he also built a women's wall to prevent his own attacks.
"Liu Ye, this is the result of your two months, under our noses, the enemy has built this dirt mountain that is enough to threaten Shucheng, and there are so many catapults, what have you done?" Liu Xun said angrily at Liu Ye.
"Lord Fujun, in the past two months, the catapults of the Jiangdong Army have appeared thirty-eight times, a total of 426, and under the command of the catapults, 154 have been destroyed, and the remaining 32 have been destroyed in Dongcheng, and the number of catapults on both sides is not much different." Liu Ye spoke directly with data, "I am weak in the next doppelganger and cannot give effective guidance to Dongcheng." ”
"Hmph, no matter what excuse you have, it's an indisputable fact that we can already be threatened outside the city." Liu Xun listened to this data, naturally he couldn't get angry, after all, most of the catapults that appeared outside the south gate were destroyed, what else could he say, "But in any case, suppressing the enemy's catapults is your task and must be completed." You can go around the eastern wall as much as you want, and the other side of the province will break through from there. ”
"Obey the order." Liu Ye replied honestly. A man is under the roof and must not. Don't bow your head.
"There are still so many catapults of the Jiangdong Army, could it be that they have come out of the nest?" Liu Xun looked at the dense catapults on the dirt mountain outside the city, and muttered to himself. He knew that outside the East Side, there were catapults of the same size.
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Liu Feng did not pour out of the nest, but it was almost, he left a part of the army, with He Qi as the commander, Zhang Zhao, Hua Xin and others supplemented, guarding Jiangdong, like catapults, siege vehicles, rushing cars, wells and other equipment accumulated over the years, most of them were transferred out of the treasury and continuously transported to the front line. In Liu Feng's camp alone, there are already nearly 1,000 catapults, serving more than 100,000 troops, and in the rear, heavy soldiers are still being transported to the front line.
"Let's get started!" In the rear of the Chinese army, Xun You looked at Tushan and said calmly. Tushan is within the enemy's attack range, it is not safe, of course, these high-ranking people will not go to the front line in person, and they can only desperately fight for low-level soldiers and officers.
Bai Jian nodded, and immediately a waiter went to convey the order, and while the flag was waving, more than a hundred catapults that had already been calibrated moved at the same time, and a large number of stones flew towards the opposite city wall.
"Ah......h
"Help......
"It hurts......"
Screams came from afar, and for the first time in two months, this was the first time in two months that the army at the south gate had inflicted damage on the city, and the morale of the people who had been relatively low was instantly high.
But this is by no means only a good thing, the catapult that was originally hidden behind the female wall instantly revealed its location, and immediately attracted a counterattack from the city wall. Liu Feng didn't know that the wave just now had destroyed several enemy catapults, but just what he could see, the enemy's attack directly destroyed three of his own catapults, and some of the stones crossed the dirt mountain, causing casualties to the people who were transporting the stones up.
"In terms of catapults, Liu Ye is simply a BUG." Liu Feng thought to himself.
Like Zheng Ma and Pu Yuan, who have a high talent for weapon forging, Liu Ye can be said to be the only mechanical expert in the Three Kingdoms era, how can such a character not be adopted by game designers. Having such an opponent in the enemy camp was a big trouble for Liu Feng. But no matter how troublesome it is, Liu Feng will not be afraid, and his subordinates have no shortage of people who can compete with Liu Ye. More crucially, his boss is not Cao Cao.