Lu Qiming stroked the long beard under his chin, staring at the city gate tower in front of him, and the healthy horse under his crotch was a little restless, as if he was stimulated by this suppressed breath.

It has been a long time since he experienced such a big war, and even Lu Qiming, who has always been low-key and forbearing, seems to have a little more agitation in his bones, looking forward to the arrival of this battle.

The Wuning Left Army was in charge of the South Gate, which was not large, but it was also the focus of the attack.

According to the strategy agreed at the beginning, the east gate and the south gate were the focus of the attack, while the west gate and the north gate were used as a feint and strategy, especially the west gate, which directly retained only the cavalry and the infantry of one army as surveillance.

The reason why the north gate should be considered is also because the terrain of the north gate is slightly low, and if the Pinglu army is under too much pressure at the east gate and the south gate, maybe the feint attack at the north gate can be converted into a breakthrough.

"General, the time has come. Qin Han, the deputy behind him, reminded Lu Qiming.

"Okay, order, the heavy crossbow and stone artillery are ready to advance, the big shield is protected, and the protection is followed!" Lu Qiming took a deep breath and ordered categorically.

Almost at the same time, in the field outside the four gates of Qingzhou, the rumbling drums sounded, and the masters who came with the team began to carry the dirt bags a little shrunken, and silently followed the chariot shields erected in front of them to move forward.

Manpower is the most important, of course, it can be sacrificed at a critical time, but it is necessary to protect it in order to play its role to the maximum, this is Jiang Feng's principle, and the preparation work is done to the extreme, and losses are avoided as much as possible.

This kind of car shield is designed by the material officer, and it is built modularly, which can be freely disassembled and flexibly assembled.

In fact, the principle is also very simple, it is a three-wheeled wooden car, a large arc-shaped shield in front, with leather, wooden frame to take a special force to build, after the test, no matter from which angle the stone hits the shield car, can be a good way to reduce the impact force, to avoid excessive force but damage to the shield car.

Moreover, the shield car uses a very advanced steering method, and the front uniwheel can rotate flexibly and turn freely, which is quite convenient.

The use of this shield car can effectively enhance the protective strength, and greatly improve the efficiency, provide good protection for the soldiers and masters behind the shield, and also use magic processing on the surface cowhide, and the fire prevention effect is excellent.

Dozens of shield carts were pushed in a trapezoidal formation, each with the necessary distance between them, and dozens of masters gathered behind the shield carts, followed by catapults and heavy crossbows, suppressing the arrows and stone attacks above the opponent's city walls.

It should be said that the scouts in Qingzhou City also did some reconnaissance before, but what made the Qingzhou scouts a little desperate was that the equipment and equipment of the entire Huaiyou Army could not see any clues at the beginning, and they all began to assemble and build under Qingzhou City, that is to say, they knew that the Huaiyou Army must have siege equipment before, but they had no way of knowing what these equipment were and how high they were.

So when the shield carts stood up and swarmed towards Qingzhou City, both Wang Shouzhong and Zhang Junyue sensed the seriousness of the problem.

The moat of Qingzhou City is not too wide, due to the drought for many years, the entire Pinglu Army has also been deeply affected, and the water of the moat has also dropped a lot, but it can still play a role, which is also the first line of defense of Qingzhou City for a short time.

Catapults and rockets began to exert their power as soon as the shield cart entered the attack range, and with the advantage of the height of the city wall, crossbow arrows and boulders rained down on the head of the shield cart.

"Bang!bang!bang!"

The bowl-sized stones continued to be densely lowered towards the steadily advancing shield cart, which was obviously also the intention of the Pinglu army on the city wall, to test how strong the shield cart's defense was.

No matter how strong the shield is, it is impossible for this era to withstand the repeated impact of such a huge force, which is determined by the level of technology or magic in this era.

Under the blow of gravity, the strain and stress of the tenon of each support point reached the extreme, and it naturally collapsed.

Zhang Junyue's eyes were like torches, staring at the rapidly approaching shield car.

He was already silently counting the blows to the shield cart in the middle.

More than a dozen rockets hit the shield cart, and several of them were still on fire on the shield of the shield cart, but they could not ignite the shield cart at all.

Obviously, this shield car has been processed by special spells, and I have long heard that Huainan is prosperous in magic, and it seems that the Huaiyou Army has also played these aspects to the peak.

This makes people shudder, and it also means that the rocket, which is the most threatening weapon for all kinds of wood-based siege equipment, has failed for Huaiyou, at least the threat has dropped significantly, which cannot but be frightening.

In the past, it was not without feudal lords to carry out fire prevention treatment on siege weapons such as shield carts, storm carts, nest carts, and wooden donkeys, but most of them were handled in crude ways such as mud and water.

Not only do these methods increase the weight and efficiency of siege weapons, but they are also not very effective.

But now the situation is completely different, these siege weapons processed by magic are basically immune to rockets, and if more than ten rockets were changed to before, they would have been able to make a city car burn, but now they are completely ineffective.

If there is no lethality of rockets, then you can only rely on the blows of catapults.

What made Zhang Junyue breathe a sigh of relief was that the shield cart in the middle finally couldn't stand it after being hit by the catapult with seventeen boulders in a row, and the tenon of the support point of the arm on the left side finally broke, and half of the shield hung down, exposing the master behind him in front of the crossbowmen in the city.

The crossbowmen, who had been aggrieved for a long time, finally found an outlet to vent, venting to this gap like a storm.

Screaming and screaming, the twenty or so masters carrying dirt bags barely had time to react, and they were nailed to the position by a dense rain of arrows, only the shield cart was dragged by the soldiers hiding behind the remnants of the shield cart and retreated back from the gap that had been reserved.

This move made Zhang Junyue on the city wall even more frightened.

This also means that even if the shield cart of the Huaiyou Army suffers damage, they can still easily and flexibly drag it back, and after a little repair, they may still be able to fight in the next war, which is terrifying.

Originally, Wang Shouzhong and Zhang Junyue also considered that the labor division of the Huaiyou Army would definitely be affected by the logistics of the baggage, and they also knew that it was said that the siege equipment of Huaiyou was quite sharp, but the siege equipment and equipment were consumables, which were the same in all feudal lords, whether it was catapults, storming vehicles, nest cars, wooden donkeys, battering rams and other equipment, they were all the same.

First, it is easy to be destroyed by the defender's defensive equipment, and secondly, it is also easy to be damaged in the process of movement and attack, and once these things are destroyed, it is difficult to restore use, and most of them are abandoned on the battlefield, but now it seems that Huaiyou is not very different.

Once there is this frightening recovery and repair mechanism, it means that Huaiyou can easily repair these originally useless equipment and quickly put them back into the battlefield, which is often the most difficult problem for the siege side in the past, and it has been solved in this way.

In the past, in the late stage of the offensive and defensive war, the attacker's equipment and equipment would have to be attacked by the accumulation of manpower advantages due to lack of equipment, which would also plague the defender, but it was much better, after all, relying on the city to defend, on the one hand, it was easier to be protected, on the other hand, the city itself was a huge logistics base, and the city's craftsmen could quickly repair and create more equipment and equipment.

Now this advantage has been made up by the attacking side, and Huaiyou seems to have been prepared for this for a long time, which is quite dangerous.

This phenomenon continued to happen, from the first round of shield cart advances to the first wave of the master's completion of the dirtbag river reclamation offensive, a total of three shield carts were damaged, but they were all successfully dragged back.

At the same time, with the experience of the first shield cart being destroyed and the master being killed and injured, from the time the second shield cart was destroyed, the masters quickly moved to the surrounding shield carts, and only a few of them were killed or injured, which also made Zhang Junyue on the city wall feel cold.

What made Zhang Junyue feel even more weak and sweaty was the enemy's catapult and heavy crossbow that accompanied the shield cart forward, and there was a catapult and heavy crossbow behind the shield cart at certain distances, and they also advanced under the cover of the shield cart, but they did not advance to the city wall, but began to stop and start preparing after reaching a certain distance.

The distance of 250 steps made the catapults of the Pinglu army on the city wall unattainable, even the range of the bed crossbow on the city wall was only about 300 steps, which was originally the most powerful long-range strike weapon of this era, but now it was almost caught up by the catapults that were usually less than 100 steps, and the Pinglu army on the city wall could not help but be dumbfounded.

"General, what's going on?!" a general under his command pointed to the place where more than a dozen catapults and heavy crossbows had begun to stop, and couldn't help but shout, with a look of disbelief, "How did they stop so far? This is at least three hundred steps! How is this possible?"

"Uh, do they have to prepare first before they continue to advance?" The other lieutenant couldn't help but mutter, "It doesn't seem like ah, they're all starting to pull the bracket, so what is that, it's a bit like a ballista, the question is how can the ballista be raised, how is it possible?"

The attacks on the walls continued unabated, and the shield carts continued to be destroyed, and the masters and sons fell to the ground in screams and cries, and pools of dark red blood seeped into the brown dirt and became more unsightly.