"Mom! Here, here."

By the fish pond, Li Anning walked with a smile, holding the newly picked flowers in his hand, jumping and jumping, followed by a maid, following him, and followed several people behind him, one of them was Zhao Mengniang.

Today, Li Anning was trying to surprise her mother, but Zhao Mengniang couldn't resist and followed her daughter to the fish pond.

Li Li repeatedly ordered that the little guys were not allowed to play by the water alone, so Zhao Mengniang was quite nervous. Even if she was following her daughter's maid, she would not dare to feel completely relieved.

When he arrived at the pond, Li Anning took the fishing rod and some tools brought by his maid, rolled up his sleeves, and began to toss.

Zhao Mengniang looked around and saw what the "surprise" her daughter gave her was.

Li Li has been an official in Poyang in the past two years, and her mother and daughter are often with her, so Li Li often takes Li Anning to play, such as fishing, and also makes some small fishing mechanisms.

Today, Li Anning wants to show how magical the fishing mechanism Aye taught her is.

The mechanism is called "automatic fishing machine", as the name implies, it can 'automatically' fishing.

The little girl didn't want anyone to help her, and she started to play it out quickly. When Zhao Mengniang saw it, she felt happy: her daughter was less than four years old, because she often played with Aye and had a strong ability to do things.

She could see clearly the so-called "automatic fishing machine": the structure is similar to a tangerine that fetches water, which is what Li Li often calls leverage.

Two thicker wooden twigs are inserted side by side on the ground to serve as brackets.

A bamboo pole is a horizontal rod, with a hole open from the middle and a wooden stick is worn in the hole, and then the two ends of the wooden stick are "ears" to make the bamboo pole stand on the wooden twig.

One end of the bamboo pole is shorter, with a small weight hanging at the tail; the long end points to the pond, a fish line is tied to the front end, and a fish hook with bait is tied to the end of the line.

At this time, the tail of the bamboo pole fell down and its front end raised. Li Anning pulled an additional thread tied to the front end of the bamboo pole and pulled it down to make the bamboo pole horizontal.

At the end of this thread is a hook pin, hooked on the top of the small bamboo stick inserted on the ground.

So, the bamboo pole was kept level, and Li Anning threw the bait at the end of the fishing line into the water, and then ran to Zhao Mengniang to "hide".

The shore was bare, where can I "hide"? When Zhao Mengniang saw her daughter 'hiding seriously', she held back her laughter and made a "hide" action.

Seeing this, the servants who followed him could only pretend to "hide".

Everyone looked at the floats tied to the fishing line by the water.

There were many fish in the fish pond. After a while, bubbles emerged from the water near the float, and the float quickly trembled slightly - it was a fish tentatively biting the bait in the water.

Zhao Mengniang was a little nervous and stared at the float, but saw that the float suddenly sank...

The fish in the water bit the bait and pulled the fishing line, so the bamboo pole "nodded" slightly, the hook pin at the front of the thin line fell, and the wooden stick inserted on the ground was "unhooked".

As a result, the originally balanced "leverage" was unbalanced.

The weight at the end of the bamboo pole fell down and suddenly raised the bamboo pole. So the fish biting the hook in the water was pulled out of the water and fell to the ground, constantly thrusting.

“Catch it!”

Li Anning cheered and rushed forward suddenly. Zhao Mengniang hurriedly followed and saw her daughter holding the fish as big as a palm in her arms, cheering and dripping with water droplets and mud spots on her face.

"Mom, look, I've caught it!"

"Well, I've caught it, An Ning is really capable." Zhao Mengniang praised, squatted down, took out a handkerchief to wipe off the water droplets and mud spots from her daughter's face, and then held it in her arms.

"An Ning, put the fish in the fish basket."

"No, I'm going to keep it in a basin."

"Why?"

"When Aye comes back, let him see it."

After hearing what his daughter said, Zhao Mengniang smiled and shaved her daughter's nose: "Aye has gone far away and is not back so soon."

"Then..." Li Anning looked at the fish in her arms and felt a little at a loss. Zhao Mengniang said again: "Then let's put the fish back into the water and wait until Aye comes back, we will catch it again, okay?"

"good!"

Li Anning wanted to release the fish, but Zhao Mengniang was afraid that her daughter would fall into the water, so she asked her maid to do this.

She looked at her daughter's enthusiastic introduction of the "automatic fishing machine" and suddenly felt a little lonely.

Li Li was an official in Poyang, and his wife Huang Feng was in Jiankang. So she accompanied Li Li and lived two carefree days in Poyang like a couple.

It seems like a dream, but now I'm awake.

No, this is not a dream, it is a reality. Even if the main wife comes back in the future, she and her daughter can still live by Li Li, just like a family.

As he thought about it, Zhao Mengniang gently stroked her slightly raised belly.

Last year, she gave birth to a daughter for Li Li, which was quite regretful. This year, she was pregnant again. I think it was time to give birth to a boy for Li Li this time.

......

In the morning, it was cloudy, and the Liang army at the south of Jiangling City began to attack the city.

"put!!"

Amid the shouting, a "crying" sounded, and a tall counterweight slasher, whose front end of the arm hitting basket suddenly fell, driving the arm to rotate, throwing a large stone weighing dozens of kilograms forward.

The stone drew an arc in the air and landed on the solid battle shed on the head of Jiangling City more than a hundred steps away.

"Bang!"

With a muffled sound, the city was shaken slightly, wood chips flew, and a big hole was smashed into the battle shed. The soldiers in the shed turned into broken limbs and broken arms, and were wrapped in stone and rolled into the city.

"put!!"

Amid the shouts and the "crying" sounds, dozens of counterweight catapults began to shoot huge rocks, and the stone rain fell to the top of Jiangling City, destroying the dead.

The battle shed collapsed, the arrow tower collapsed, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties. The Liang soldiers watching the battle on the spot were shocked by the scenes in front of them: What awesome, what awesome siege equipment!

Catalogs have existed since ancient times, but they are all manpower. If the heavy stones thrown, the farther they need to throw, the more manpower they need.

Seeing that the Arrow Tower had been damaged and the city was in chaos, many Liang army generals could not help but turn their heads and look at Li Li, who looked calm.

Before noon, in less than half a day, the defense of Jiangling City was destroyed. Li Li, who was good at siege, was indeed well-known!

With Li Li in Jiangling and Xiangyang, you can go down just around the corner!

Li Li felt everyone's eyes, but his face was calm. The counterweight catapult machine made according to the principle of leverage is not very complicated. Its power is not as powerful as a cannon, but it can destroy the city defense.

There were such siege equipment in history. He remembered that Xiangyang City in the Southern Song Dynasty was captured by this thing. Of course, this was related to the fact that Xiangyang was surrounded for several years and could not be defended.

There is no doubt that the counterweight catapult machine can deal with the city defense facilities of this era without any effort. Although it is difficult to smash the rammed earth city wall, it is very suitable to destroy the city head and arrow tower.

Therefore, the strategic attack based on the counterweight catapulting machine will inevitably succeed.

The premise is to prepare enough stones in advance, otherwise if you only find a place to quarrel when you are siegeing the city, it is like making arrows on the spot during a war.

Previously, Li Li took the initiative to ask the emperor for battle and strongly advocated that the official army should attack with all their might and recover Jing and Xiang. It was because of the counterweight catapulting machine that he dared to boast about Haikou.

Next to it, smoke was surging in the temporary camp. The chefs prepared the meal and started eating first. On the high ground in the east, Wang Sengbian put down the thousand-mile mirror and his confidence increased greatly.

Jiangling City has been surrounded by him, and enemy reinforcements have been unable to get out of rescue recently. Now that our side has such sharp siege equipment to help, it is not a problem to quickly capture Jiangling City.

Even if Jiangling is divided into internal and external cities, it will not last for a few days.

This time, the emperor ordered the recovery of Jing and Xiang. The army stationed in Baling quickly attacked, first defeating the Jingzhou navy with great loss, and then landing in Jiangjin, the north bank.

A temporary wharf was built on the river bank south of Jiangling, allowing follow-up troops to land and surrounded Jiangling City.

We must recover Jiangling before the Wei army launched large-scale reinforcements.

For this reason, the Emperor Sect sent the Poyang Inner Historian who was good at siegeing the city, and the Marquis of Xinping Li Li helped the battle.

Next to him, the Jiangxia King Xiao, who was overjoyed, put down the Qianli Mile Mile Mile and asked Wang Sengbian: "Duke, can you break the city in a few days as Li Poyang said?"

"Yes, you can break the city in a few days!"

After Wang Sengbian finished speaking, he pointed to the riverside far behind him: "King, Li Poyang has made full preparations for this battle, prepared a large number of stones, shipped to the riverside, and used nearby."

"So, there is no shortage of stones with so many trenchers, and you can keep sending... to sending cannons."

"Although it is difficult for the catapult to smash the rammed earth city wall, it can smash the city head into a mess, and clean up the enemy building and arrow tower. In this way, how can the defenders defend the city wall?"

"They cannot defend the city wall, and our soldiers will definitely break the city within a few days."

"Yes, yes!" Xiao Daqian was very happy. Li Li had already explained the advantages and disadvantages of this catapult to him.

Just as a bow must have arrows to shoot when a bow wants to kill someone, if a stone casting is to destroy the city defense facilities, there must be stones to throw.

However, there are not many stone mountains in the suburbs of Jiangling City. If it is temporarily mined, it will take time and effort, so it will be impossible to capture Jiangling before the enemy reinforcements arrive.

If Li Li had not made preparations in advance and used a large number of stones to carry out the army to fight, even if they had a catapult, how could they quickly break through Jiangling?

Daqian Xiao looked at Rulin's catapult again, full of confidence: With Li Poyang helping the battle this time, the recovery of Jingxiang is just around the corner!

He had been in charge of Xiangzhou before, but his father ordered him to attack Jiangling nearby and sent Li Li, a Poyang internal historian who was good at siege, to help the battle. Now it seems that this decision is very correct.

A new round of ejection began soon, and the sky was covered with stone rain fell to the south of Jiangling again. On a tall building in the city, Xiao Lun, the king of Shaoling, looked at the remaining arrow towers in the south of the city, and closed his eyes helplessly.

What a powerful siege equipment. I think that Li Li, who is famous for his siege, is in the army?

He opened his eyes, looked at the left and right with an uneasy expression, and his heart was filled with bitterness.

Two nephews were captured one after another, so he couldn't continue his dream.

Although he was named King of Liang by Wei, he was just curled up in Jiangling. This emperor dream would not last long and he would wake up.
Chapter completed!