Hearing Chun Yuqiong say this, Guo Tu hurriedly spoke out to stop him: "Supervising the army, General Chun Yu, we must first look at the power of the catapult, and how many they have brought, as well as the soles of the feet and how to get involved in the car and the maximum destructive power." There are not many soldiers and horses that the lord can directly call in Julu, and it takes time to recruit temporarily, and it also takes a certain amount of time to go to the battlefield. ”

Gao Gan was a little hesitant, he could see that Chun Yuqiong was scared by Wei Xuanjun's army, and he knew that he was afraid of Wei Xuan's army. In the past few days, he has confronted Zhang Yang at the East Gate, and there have been casualties among each other, and Zhang Yang's advantage is greater, but he can feel that the gap between Wei Xuanjun and Jizhou soldiers is not as big as he imagined. Besides, his own side was about to receive reinforcements, so he was not worried about Yecheng being forced before today. Now Chun Yuqiong is like this, he looks down on him a little.

But now the enemy has suddenly used new siege weapons, and this balance has been broken. Gao Gan thought about it and felt that Guo Tu was more stable, so he said to Fu Zhu: "Prison army, let's take a look first, Gan suggested that all the reserves and young men in the city be dispatched to the east gate to standby." ”

???????????????? Fu Zhi nodded, as a prison army, he was not involved in specific defenses, but he had always been responsible for the distribution of soldiers in the city. Simon has always been the focus of prevention, and now that there has been such a big change, the reserves can no longer be kept.

Chun Yuqiong saw that the other three wanted to take a look, and it was not good for him to continue to ask to go out of the city to negotiate, but he still asked people to go to the city to ask for Fengji. In case the power of the catapult was enormous, he decided to make peace immediately.

Soon Huang Zhong satisfied the curiosity of all the Jizhou soldiers on the city wall. By the time the eighth catapult was assembled, two hours had passed. However, when eight boulders were smashed towards the city wall at the same time, it immediately caused the defenders on the city wall to scream.

Bar-ta, ba-ta, ba-ta, ba-ta...... This time the target of the stone blocks was no longer the city gate tower, but the defenders on the city walls. Eight boulders were scattered and smashed on the city wall, landing at different points, but when they landed, three of them directly hit the defenders, and the rest smashed on the city wall and lifted a few wall bricks, and then continued to run ahead of the city wall and slid into the city, causing a burst of exclamation again. The slopes and the city were covered with defenders, and although the speed of such stones had slowed down, they still caused some casualties, and when all eight stones fell, Chun Yuqiong estimated that the casualties this time were about twenty. Although it seems that the number is acceptable, this is too much of a blow to morale! Because there is no way to defend and counterattack except to dodge and fight luck.

Chun Yuqiong said to the herald beside him with a dark face: "Disperse, no one is allowed to stand within ten steps around the previous landing point on the city wall, and the city should also spread out!" ”

The order was passed down, and the defenders above and below the city walls quickly moved into action. In the face of such a boulder falling from the sky, they all wanted to hide far away.

The number of catapults outside the city was still increasing, and another hour passed, and soon after noon there were twelve!

But the catapults seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with Chun Yuqiong, and soon they fired again, but this time almost all of them were focused on the city gate. Four of them smashed directly on the city gate tower, and the second floor and above were seriously damaged. There are two pieces smashed on the city wall, one of the way love directly smashed on the city gate engraved with the word Ye County two words smashed out of a big pit to the word is incomplete, there is a cool fall at the city gate, did not hit the city wall, and the rest of the pieces flew over the city gate tower and smashed into the city, causing a scream and exclamation again!

Although the gate tower was badly damaged, it was still within the acceptable range of the frustrated people. On the contrary, the stones that fell into the city did not hit the intended target, but the damage was even greater, because the city was full of people.

After another moment, he found that the enemy's catapults did not continue to increase, but when the salvo was fired again, it was no longer a boulder, but a smoke-emitting debris larger than a man rolled up, and easily flew over the city wall, landing on the buildings in the city fifty or sixty paces from the wall. As it flew through the air, it seemed to be burning all the time, and soon after it fell, it set the buildings in the castle on fire! Twelve glove bags turned into twelve sources of fire.

Chun Yuqiong immediately ordered the reserves to go to fight the fire, and the people who were asked to put out the fire were a little hesitant at first, and when the soldiers told the soldiers that the enemy's stones could not be thrown so far, they were overcome with their hearts???????????????? In fear rushed over to extinguish the fire.

After two more rounds of flammable debris, the attackers changed the content, and the catapult was always throwing, but it was replaced by the kind of debris with thick smoke and a strong pungent smell. These things also fell in the city, although they did not cause a fire, but the landing point was very tricky, after flying over the city wall, most of them fell into the pile of soldiers on standby, but those soldiers on call choked on tears, snot flowed.

Fu Zhi and the others understood that they were not going to attack today, and they purely used Yecheng as a testing ground for this kind of catapult. It's humiliating, but it's obviously impossible to get out of town now. Not to mention the enemy's cavalry, Huang Zhong's infantry in front of him alone is not easy to provoke, and the enemy's purpose is to force them to give up the advantage of the city wall and go out of the city for field battles.

Chun Yuqiong felt that he was quite unlucky, when he rushed to lead the troops to seize Hanoi, but Wei Xuan used cavalry to completely annihilate the vanguard Yan Liang 5,000 people, and seized Neihuang, and then he was almost wiped out of the camp after the peace talks failed. This time, Yuan Shao sent 50,000 Jizhou elites, and Wei Xuan stared at him again, leaving Zhang He and Gao Gan alone. finally escaped to Yecheng, and was left by Yuan Shao to guard Yecheng.

With 25,000 defenders and temporarily recruited young men, Chun Yuqiong was assigned to the West Gate, only to be tested by the enemy. Although it seems that there is no large-scale chaos among the defenders, he knows that the morale of his generals is rapidly declining. Because the most taboo thing about this kind of offensive and defensive warfare is that the casualties are not equal.

This was followed by a test firing of adjusted range, and the twelve stones fell back and forth, but the huge tremors were already preventing the defenders from approaching the vicinity of the city gate. Chun Yuqiong's first thought was that if the enemy sent an orange hammer to storm the city gate at this time, wouldn't it be ......

Chun Yuqiong did not usher in the orange hammer, but ushered in the rain of stones, it was obvious that the interval between the various launches was a little long before, and now it was an intensive attack, after seven or eight rounds, a large number of stones fell on the city wall, and the ground was also smashed into potholes!

Although Chun Yuqiong hid on the city wall of the city gate tower safely, as the main general, he quickly realized that if he did not dispose of the stones on the city wall in time, then when the enemy launched a battle to enter the city, he would not be able to calmly let his soldiers appear neatly in their position. Especially archers!

When it was necessary to jump and move to the mouth of the ladder to fight the enemies who climbed up, Chun Yuqiong did not feel that these stones were beneficial to his side. On the contrary, it will become an obstacle to the defenders both physically and psychologically.

And Huang Zhong seemed to have guessed Chun Yuqiong's thoughts, and then there were eight rounds of stone bullets, not only did there be no way to stand on the city wall, but some stones even flew up and fell into the city again after being hit, causing secondary damage.

Chun Yuqiong looked at Fu Zhu again, that means to supervise the army, it's better to negotiate peace early, do you have to wait until Huang Zhong breaks through the West Gate? He didn't speak, because it was still difficult to judge the situation today, because although this huge catapult could shoot boulders, it could still be avoided if it was properly avoided. What he actually wanted to see was that Huang Zhong was sending people to climb the city wall while launching stones. Only when the enemy attacks with all his might can the difference between the two sides be seen, and thus estimate how long they can hold out.

Soon Huang Zhong let him get his wish. Head???????????????? The first to be moved were the heavy infantry, who carried ladders and planks as before, many of which were simply erected over the moat and laid on top of them. Soon, a passage about a hundred paces wide appeared on each side of the drawbridge on the moat.

The catapults never stopped, and as the heavy infantry approached the city walls with the ladders, the catapults again turned to fire combustible debris, which flew into the city for a hundred or two hundred paces, much more intensively than the previous test firing. Chun Yuqiong did not fail to dispatch a large number of reserves to extinguish the fire again.

Then ladders were erected on the city wall in an orderly manner, and Chun Yuqiong ordered the soldiers who had previously avoided the boulder to return to the city wall again. However, this time they were shot a lot by the Divine Arm Archer who was in position first. Many lieutenants and marquis had to bring their own soldiers to personally supervise the battle.

The hoplites could not climb as fast as the defenders could reach the walls from inside the city. But unlike the rows of defenders who had been waiting for battle, they now had to climb through the rubble to find their position faster.

The first sturdy heavy infantry quickly climbed the wall and engaged the defenders there, and then the Divine Arm Archers began to push forward step by step, covering almost the entire width of the wall. Many of the defenders had to raise their shields or planks above their heads and approach the mouth of the ladder.

Huang Zhong had already arrived in front of the drawbridge, closely watching the movements up and down the city wall.

Chun Yuqiong also saw his old rival on the city wall, and he suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart, Huang Zhong had never appeared nearby for so many days before. Is it preparing for a strong attack today?

Sure enough, before he could be sure, there were heralds in the city who came to see Guo Tu and Gao Gan respectively, because the captain guarding the two gates felt that the enemy's attack intensity today was greater than before, so he wanted to invite the two main generals to go to the town.

Outside the west gate, the catapult has stopped firing, but there is a creaking, crunching sound, this is the catapult moving forward, see this posture Huang Zhong is going to move the catapult to the moat and the front, so that most of the soldiers on call in the city will fall into the coverage of the catapult.