Accompanied by the rumbling sound of war drums, the soldiers pushed the huge and heavy catapults slowly forward. Hundreds of giant catapults lined up. Looking down from the city, they looked like trees, and like sickles waving by the god of death. The Tang army's catapults were famous all over the world for their long range and great power. Liu Xinda had already experienced this kind of siege weapon when he was in Pinglu.

Compared with the opposite side, Liang Jun's catapult has much worse performance. The main reason is that Liang Jun still uses the traditional catapult structure, while Tang Jun's catapults all use the counterweight structure.

Although such a change is not true for this long-range attack weapon, it is not a landmark revolution. It can not only adjust the range at will, but more importantly, its launch speed is much faster than that of traditional trenchers.

After knowing that he had to defend Ezhou City, Liu Xinda had been thinking about how to deal with the other party's long-range stormy attack method that made people fearless and helpless.

In the end, he just came up with a way to deal with the other party's quality by quantity.

Of course, it takes a very long time for a skilled craftsman to make a standard trench machine and has extremely high requirements for materials. He does not have the capital. But the solution is always something that people think of.

Therefore, a large number of bamboos of bowl size were collected. After being specially processed, several bamboos were tied together. Two groups of bamboos such as bamboos formed a thing similar to a slingshot.

This crude throwing equipment has a range of no more than 150 steps, but it is low in cost and can be manufactured in large quantities. However, other orthodox trenchers are hidden behind the city wall by him, trying to avoid being targeted destructive attacks from the other party.

Of course, such a layout is not accurate. It is purely a hopeless pursuit, but there are many people who are preparing, and the use of two long-range weapons is quite effective.

"Can our catapult reach them?" Liu Xinda looked at the Tang soldiers who were busy in the distance below the city. They had stopped, waving their sledgehammers, and gruntingly putting several feet of iron nails on the ground. They were fixing their catapults.

Although this is not the first time I have seen this terrifying big guy, Liu Xinda still feels a little scared when he sees it again.

Liu Hanqing shook his head: "General, our range cannot reach them. We have no other way to destroy these big guys except to use cavalry to attack and destroy these catapults."

"This is a common trick used by the Tang army." Liu Xinda gritted his teeth and said, "It seems that their catapult position does not have much strict protection, but as soon as we attack, we will immediately fall into a trap and lose our troops in vain. In Pinglu, we have already suffered enough of such losses."

"Then I can only bear it." Liu Hanqing said helplessly.

Before he could finish his words, a huge whistling sound came from the sky. A stone bullet weighing more than 100 kilograms drifted through an arc in the air. In the terrified eyes of everyone, it landed more than ten steps from the city wall. It landed on the ground with a loud bang, smashing a huge deep pit on the ground.

There were bursts of cheers coming from the city, and the Tang army's catapult seemed to have been placed a little further away.

But Liu Xinda, who was experienced, was not happy. Sure enough, a cavalryman opposite him rode over the long catapult position, waving two small flags in his hand, and kept shouting loudly. Amid his shouting, the enemy's catapult position became busy again.

After a while, the sound of the war drum that had not stopped on the other side suddenly stopped.

Liu Xinda's face changed slightly and she shouted: "I'll order all soldiers to be careful, and the enemy's attack is coming."

Liang Jun on the top of the city immediately became busy. Some retracted into the hidden military cave on the top of the city, and some pressed their bodies tightly behind the battlements. Some were unbeliever, and they still held the battlements and stared at the opposite side intently.

The rumbling sound suddenly sounded, and the originally sunny sky suddenly darkened. Liu Xinda looked up at the sky, and could only see the overwhelming stone bullets falling from the sky.

The stone bullet weighing more than 100 kilograms was thrown to about 200 steps away, and its power was not to be described. Above this distance, even a small stone could easily smash the best armor.

The towering city tower suffered a devastating blow at the first time. In the blink of an eye, it was accompanied by a rumbling sound and turned into a ruin all over the ground. The Liu-like flag that was originally flying high was also buried in the ruins. A Liu Xinda's personal soldier ran out of the hiding seed, found the Liu-like flag in the ruins, and once again inserted it into a high place.

Some stone bullets fell on the city wall. Some of them fell to the ground, but turned into a pile of fragments, splashing fragments, raging above the city with a sharp whistling sound.

Some stone bombs are very hard. After landing, they bounce like a ball, rushing around, and all the seeds they pass through are completely destroyed by them.

The Liang soldiers tried their best to curl up their bodies, some hiding behind shields, and some hiding in the corners of the city wall, watching the terrifying damage caused by these stone bullets on the top of the city.

Once upon a time, they thought that the city they had been running for a long time was as solid as a solid thing, but today the enemy's attack had just begun, but they discovered that there was nothing solid in this world.

Casualties inevitably occurred.

Some were scratched by howling gravel pieces, some were hit by broken stones. Even though they were wearing armor, they could not recover after being hit by this. At worst, they would be broken on the spot and fell to the ground with their tendons and their bones.

What is even more terrifying is that the Liang army hiding behind the city wall was quite unlucky. A stone bullet that did not hit the city was hit on the city wall outside them by chance.

The city wall was indeed very strong. After such a heavy blow, the stones outside were obviously concave inward, but they did not collapse. However, the soldiers hiding behind the city wall flew backwards, with no scars on their bodies, and their mouths and noses were sold out in blood. After landing, there was no sound.

Just one round of attacks, the city walls were already in a mess.

After a brief pause, the second round of attack came. Unlike the first time, this time, about half of the stone balls were still burning with blazing flames.

This is the Tang army pouring grease on the stone bullet, ignite it, and then launching it out.

Without attacking the Tang army, the Liang army on the city could only curl up in the corner and endure it hard.

But the surging fire forced some people out of their hiding place, and then the whistling fragments knocked some of them to the ground without any mercy.

After the second round of attack began, the Tang army also began to move. Countless powerful crossbows were pushed out from the catapult position and advanced towards the city wall.

This time, there is no longer the power to fight back on the city wall.

More than ten pounds of projectiles thrown by countless simple catapults came overwhelmingly. They could not beat the Tang army's catapults, but they could still cover the range of powerful crossbows.

The Tang army raised a huge shield and rushed forward in a rain-like stone bullet. From time to time, someone fell to the ground, but the gap would be filled immediately.

Strong crossbows raised their bodies, and sharp whistling sounds sounded. Strong crossbows as thick as children's arms shot towards the top of the city with a slick fire. When they landed on the city wall, a violent explosion came.

"Suppress the opponent's catapult and cover the infantry forward!" Ren Xiaonian shouted loudly.

The catapult made a slight adjustment and began to suppress the direction of the city wall where the stone bombs were flying. At the same time, the first part of the Left Army, under the leadership of Qin Chuangzi, raised the shield, pushed the ladder, carried the bumping wood, and pressed forward.

The stone bombs flying above the city wall fell down in a blink of an eye. It was obvious that many of them were destroyed by the Tang army under the city, but after a moment of silence, stone bombs flew up from the other direction.

This surprised Ren Xiaonian a little.

However, it only surprised him, because after another round of suppression, the long-range attacks in the city became sparse again. At this time, Qin Crazi had already entered the range of the enemy's feather arrows.

There was no one person's head on the head of the city before, but at this moment, heads suddenly appeared densely. They poked out half of their bodies from behind the walls and bent their bows and arrows down the city.

The siege ladder stopped because a chest wall about one person appeared in front of them. Qin Chaizi was the first to rush up, protecting his body with a shield, and hit the chest wall heavily.

With a bang, the chest wall did not even shake, but Qin Chuangzi was bounced back. Qin Chuangzi waved the horizontal knife in his hand and chopped it on the chest wall. With a sound, there was a stone under the loess. No wonder it was so hard.

The feathered arrows poured down from the city. Qin Chaizi raised his shield and climbed up to the wall of his chest without thinking.

The situation behind the chest wall was completely different from what I imagined. Qin Crazi landed on the ground with a loud bang, and removed the shield. What he saw in front of him was actually a deep pit. He looked up at the top, but was shocked. Behind the chest wall, a trench that was more than meter deep fell on the trench very deep, but it was only a few steps wide.

"Don't come down!" He raised his head and shouted, but it was too late. As the vanguard's commander, Qin Chuangzi led the way, and how could the soldiers behind him not follow closely. The sound of thumping sounds continued, and Tang soldiers jumped down one after another.

"Go back, don't come down!" Qin Chaizi roared at the top of his lungs.

The Tang army behind him finally found something wrong and guarded behind his chest wall. For a moment, he could not advance or retreat.
Chapter completed!