There are more torches than before.

This means that what Yuan Tan's camp is doing is something that he doesn't want to be noticed during the day.

Of course, he could optimistically guess that it was nothing more than torches lit by soldiers who stayed up all night packing their luggage.

But what if not?

Behind that spark, Yuan Tan sat alone in the tent, and no one wanted to see him.

He knew what Guo Tu would persuade him, Mr. Guo was a person who knew how to judge the situation, since Jizhou would not send troops to reinforce, then hurry up and withdraw the troops before Lu Lian returned to Qingzhou.

He also knew that Mr. would find many reasons, such as the current Xiliang army attacking Yanzhou, Yuan Gong must be worried that the court is coerced by Dong Cheng, maybe this is the second Dong Zhuo, so do you want to clear the monarch's side? What's more, Yanzhou is the barrier of the four northern states, if this barrier is broken, Jizhou will also be threatened, so it is still necessary to focus on the Yanzhou war......

That's all bullshit.

Yuan Tan held the letter written to him by his father in his hand, and he could see that it was not his father's handwriting, so the resentment in his heart deepened.

What do you say about the third brother being sick! Don't say he's sick, he's dead! Do you want to delay such a war for a yellow-mouthed child?! Wasn't he born of his father?!

Yuan Tan held the letter in his hand tightly, and after a while, he finally threw the silk silk that was already full of wrinkles and sweat into the brazier.

The tongue of fire is soft, reflecting a cloudy and uncertain face.

A soldier walked by knocking on a scorching bucket.

It's almost dawn.

But the eldest prince was not sleepy at all, he had a pale face, and he unfolded the city defense map of the drama city in high spirits, and made up his mind.

The requisitioned men are about to arrive, and they will be carrying countless logs to this place, which were originally intended to surprise my father......

But they can still be used to please himself.

When the morning fog had not yet faded, the merchants in the market were slowly adding water to their faces with a pair of sleepy eyes, and suddenly there was a thunderous sound.

…… Thunder?

Someone looked up like this, but above the thin morning mist, there was only the rising sun, and there was not a trace of dark clouds!

"Where did the sound come from?"

"What's going on?"

When the merchants exchanged their heads like this, the voice suddenly became louder!

It was the sound of a boulder in the distance smashing against the city wall through the cold, wet morning mist!

"Be careful——! Someone shouted, "The people of Jizhou have started to attack the city again!" ”

"Hide! Hide! ”

"Little Seven! Where is Xiao Qi! Yun Niang, have you seen it-"

A boulder that was not so heavy, but was still reported by the people of Jizhou with all their expectations, crossed the city wall and smashed on the street with impunity!

No one screamed, and the people around them seemed to be mute for a moment, as if it was not blood that was spilled, but a pair of giant hands holding their throats.

But soon the people of the drama city understood that the stone was not uncalibrated at all, and Yuan Tan was completely deliberate!

As long as he was within the limit of being able to hit the walls of the drama city, he didn't care if those would cross the walls and fully bloom the houses and civilians in the city.

He dug up mountains of earth and built towers, and now he hoisted all the stones that had been dug up, and threw them into the city piece by piece!

The city was on all sides, and he blossomed on all sides.

Tian Yu gritted his teeth.

In the early days of the siege, Yuan Tan tried to attack the city several times, but to no avail.

The drama city is made of earth, the city is high and thick, when the weather is cold, the earth city will be stronger than in the past, and there are huge crossbows on the city, you can wear long cards, and you can't get too cheap with siege equipment such as trebuchets, so Yuan Tan turned to besiege the city after the soldiers were repulsed several times.

But now Yuan Tan has obviously changed his thinking.

After this day, when Tian Yu went down the city wall, he saw a completely different drama city.

Those stones are large and small, but the lightest ones also weigh ten catties, and if they are smashed on a person's head, there is absolutely no way to live, and they will either die or be crippled next to each other.

They weren't very lethal, as the stones couldn't burn or explode, but their deterrent effect was far beyond the limits of the city's inhabitants.

Because whether it is a poor person who lives in a thatched house, or a family that lives in a high-ranking house, their roofs cannot withstand such a boulder.

In the east of the city, several families were smashed, several servants were injured, and a particularly unlucky scholar was stoned through the roof before he could get out of bed.

Everywhere there were sighs, everywhere there were people with panicked faces, everywhere people were busy mending houses;

As he walked on, he could see people mending the roof and wiping their tears.

After bandaging it indiscriminately, he sat in front of the door with a face covered with blood;

Someone hung a white cloth in front of the room, but there was not much sadness on his face, it was completely confused, and he did not understand what was happening;

Didn't you say that General Xiaolu was coming, and the enemy army was going to retreat?

Why is this happening?

What is Yuan Tan doing this for? ”

There must always be a purpose in war, and just throwing stones everywhere like this will not kill all the people in the city.

If he can't help him break through the city, what is his purpose?

He was probably adjusting the distance, determining the weight of those stones, and if so, tomorrow those stones would fall more on the walls.

Another possibility is that he wants to use the casualties of the people in the city—not even the common people, but many people in the city who are undecided about the Yuan family—to force the city to surrender.

…… No matter what Yuan Tan's purpose was, he needed to see if he had achieved the effect.

After Tian Yu had such an idea, he looked at the soldiers beside him.

"Which of you will use that crossbow?"

"General! The little ones are very good at it! ”

The young general looked at the eager soldiers for a moment, "If I want to use that crossbow to shoot a wild goose flying three hundred paces away, which of you can do it?" ”

The soldiers looked at each other.

This giant crossbow has strong penetrating power and can shoot extremely far, but it is so heavy that it is not easy to turn, and you don't even think about doing some delicate work.

Suddenly, a small soldier quietly stretched out his hand, attracting Tian Yu's attention.

"Can you?"

"The villain can't," the soldier hesitated for a moment, "but the women's battalion fiddles with these crossbows every day......

There was a team leader next to him who couldn't listen to it and scolded, "The general asked about the crossbow projectile, what do you say are the women who can only disassemble and wipe!" ”

"When I heard that Mr. Zhuge asked them to try whether these crossbows were in good condition, a woman used three crossbow arrows and shot a wild boar running in the jungle outside the city......"

"Come here, and," Tian Yu thought for a while, "Please fox...... Please Liu Bao go to my account, I have something to discuss with him. ”

Chapter 296

It is impossible to throw stones forever, because no city is destroyed by throwing stones.

But throwing stones is still a harmless thing, especially when Yuan Tan uses this improved trebuchet to throw stones, which is more than three hundred paces away, but the accuracy is quite good—which is terrifying.

After the first two days of tuning and trying to get the touch, on the third day, the irascible commander began a full-scale siege.

The stones were slowly transported from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, and then hung up the oars with a noose, and the stones weighing more than ten catties were hung at the bottom of the tops, and then the ropes were pulled and thrown out.

Such behemoths, as powerful as they are, are generally rough and bulky, and those stones are too heavy to be thrown out, and may even crush the long shoots, or at least they can be thrown off track and thrown somewhere.

The boulders that bloomed on all sides of the drama city, most of them were missed, and they were smashed on the top of anyone's head casually, anyway, Yuan Tan didn't care much.

He asked the craftsmen to repeatedly calculate the distance and direction, and constantly proofread it.

On the third day, the soldiers of Jizhou began to move towards the city wall step by step.

The defenders of the city rained down with arrows, and the towers on the opposite side responded with stone bullets.

The stones that flew over the heads of the Jizhou soldiers and rushed to the opposite side finally showed their true power:

At the distance of "300 paces", the city wall about five zhang wide is like a thin line.

If the distance is insufficient, those stones can easily hit one's own people;

If the distance is exceeded, the stones will fly into the city;

If the angle is never changed, the defenders will avoid the landing of the stone projectiles;

If the angle is changed, then the consequent distance also needs to be recalculated;

In the past few days, those craftsmen used the lives of dozens of people in the city as tools for training, gradually mastering and writing down the power scale of several different angles to draw the long shoots. Of the ten stone bullets, four will hit the city wall, and five will still fly into the city, and only one will fall under the city and smash open the skulls of several Jizhou soldiers.

The officers were roaring anxiously, the soldiers were running around, and the men were following.

When Yuan Tan found the right distance, the female walls of the earth city were no longer safe, and the soldiers could not count on shields, so they could only dodge the flying stone bullets in vain while trying to continue to defend the city.

Some of them need to be thrown round after round, others need to pour hot oil down, throw torches, burn ladder cars, and some need to hold shields in front of the battlements, ready to push every Jizhou person who climbs up again.

The work was already arduous, and the interference of stone bullets was even more unbearable, so there were soon huge casualties.

The cauldron full of boiling oil may be overturned by a stone, and the soldier next to him will be enveloped in hot oil in an instant, and the whole person will let out a hysterical scream, but this is not even the most unlucky-because there are also people who approach the oil pot with torches, and they are thrown away by stones, not to mention the torch in their hands, which turns the wall sprinkled with hot oil into a sea of fire.

As a result, the city had to recruit more men, some of whom had to be armed to defend the walls, the worse ones to carry the wounded and corpses, to put out fires, to re-heat the oil, and to hold on to the bloody, rancid, burnt walls.

It was very cold, but almost all the soldiers and men on the city walls were sweating profusely, and some of them even had blisters on their faces and hands from the red-hot earth, but few paid attention to these details.

They all fought in purgatory.

"Can you think of it?" Tian Yu stood on the city tower and watched this scene, "In the matter of attacking the city, it is not an exaggeration for Yuan Tan to call him a genius of the sky. ”

Kong Rong frowned, very puzzled, "How did Guorang have such fear?" ”

"I'm not afraid of him," Tian Yu was dumbfounded for a moment, and sighed softly, "Such a strong enemy is afraid of him, and it's okay to say it!" If he could have used this siege method earlier, the drama city would have been able to defend it, and it would have been inevitable that there would have been heavy casualties. ”

Yuan Tan is a person who is very good at attacking cities, maybe the Yuan family is very good at this.

Just as Mr. Zhuge Xiao, who was not able to reach the weak crown on Lu Lian's side, placed a giant crossbow on the city wall to strengthen the defense of the city wall, Yuan Tan seemed to be thinking about how to improve siege tactics in the days when he was not fighting.

Trebuchets are not uncommon, but Yuan Tan can adjust it so accurately, fly so far, and choose such a stone bullet with such weight, Tian Yu thinks in his heart, if he is replaced, most of them will not be able to find such a group of excellent craftsmen.