"Liu Zheng, your men and horses, it is not so easy to break the gate of my Xianglin City, my proposal just now is still useful, as long as you are willing to accept peace talks, I am willing to add another three thousand gold!"

Seeing that the battle had stopped, Fan Xiong, who had been paying close attention to the situation of the battlefield on the city tower, immediately walked out, stood in the gap of the battlements, and shouted at Liu Zheng outside the city again.

Liu Zheng heard the shouts from the city tower from afar, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Fan Xiong, keep it to buy a coffin for your son!"

"You ......"

Liu Zheng completely crushed Fan Xiong's heart for peace talks with one sentence.

"Okay, Liu Zheng, you can do it, since you are determined to go against our Lin Yi Kingdom, then I will put down my words here, if you have the ability, you will enter the city, I will wait for you here!"

Fan Xiong had already given up the idea of making peace with Liu Zheng at this time, and naturally he didn't care about saying a few cruel words to Liu Zheng.

Anyway, after seeing Liu Zheng's men and horses just now, after attacking the rhythm, Fan Xiong was not worried about Liu Zheng's men and horses, and he could attack the city in a short time.

These thousands of soldiers and horses, even if there are a few more rounds of siege, with 20,000 troops stationed here, it will not be so easy to defeat them.

Liu Zheng's men and horses can't beat the city in a short time, and the grain and grass will definitely not be able to keep up, and when the time comes, it is Liu Zheng himself who is worried, they still have several warehouses of grain and grass stocks in Xianglin City, even if they besiege the city for a year and a half, they will not starve to death.

That's why Fan Xiong is so unscrupulous and doesn't look worried at all.

And Liu Zheng heard Fan Xiong's words, but immediately responded again.

"Don't worry, this Xianglin City, I will definitely take it, and it doesn't hurt to tell you directly, if I can't take this small city within ten days, I will withdraw immediately!"

"I can fight the world's first tiger prison, let alone a small county town in your district, you just wash my neck and wait!"

Liu Zheng shouted heroically at the city tower.

Liu Zheng's words did not get a response from Fan Xiong on the city tower, Fan Xiong and the others had already gone down the city tower at this time, and the worry just now also made Fan Xiong look a little uneasy, and now that the battle has stopped, Fan Xiong naturally went back to rest.

After Liu Zheng's truce, outside Xianglin City, there was peace for the time being, and the two sides were safe, but everyone knew that this was just a calm before the storm.

In Liu Zhengjun's camp.

Liu Zheng, Xu Huang, Wen Ping, and several Qu Chang gathered here.

There is a table with some sand on it, and Liu Zheng made a simple sand table to place on it.

At this time, Liu Zheng was carefully observing this sand table, as if he was pondering how to break this Xianglin City.

Xu Huang, who was standing on the side, had some worry on his face, and asked Liu Zheng at this time.

"Lord, just now you boasted about Haikou in front of that Fan Xiong, saying that you would enter the city in ten days, did you already have a good plan?"

Xu Huang was also worried, if he didn't enter the city for ten days, wouldn't he really want to retreat?

Liu Zheng raised his head, looked at Xu Huang, and showed a hint of a smile.

"No, there is no way, although this is not as strong as the Tiger Prison Pass and Luoyang City, but it is not simple, if you want to enter the city, it is not so easy to just go through the city gate."

"Yes, if you want to enter the city, unless there is a trebuchet, with a siege weapon such as a trebuchet, otherwise, it is difficult to break this city gate with a sledgehammer and a high arrow tower."

Xu Huang also answered, and was even more worried about Liu Zheng's previous words, ten days were somewhat tight.

"Although there is no chance, it is not completely without a chance."

"Please also make it clear to the lord!"

"As you just said, trebuchet!"

"The lord wants to use a trebuchet, but the height of this tower, with a general trebuchet, we can't throw stones at all."

"And most importantly, we don't have trebuchets here!"

The trebuchet is not a siege ram, it only needs a larger rolling log, and the trebuchet has some mechanical principles, and ordinary people really can't build it.

Only some masters who are proficient in carpentry, or who have learned to make bows and arrows, can make it.

And even if it is a simple trebuchet, if the strength is not enough, the stones thrown are too small, or the lethality is not enough, it will not be able to cause much damage to the castle tower at all.

In fact, the trebuchet has appeared very early, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it has been widely used on the battlefield, but the trebuchets at this time are all human trebuchets.

The principle used is very simple, it is to erect a triangular railing, and then put a beam in the middle, at the other end of the beam, to prevent the ammunition that will be ejected.

Then, on the other side, a few ropes are tied by manpower, and the ammunition on the other side is thrown out with the force of several people.

Although such catapults can also be used, their strength is not strong enough after all, and their lethality is not enough to break the city walls, at most they pose some threats to the defenders of the city, and they dare not come out to defend the city.

And the number of people required is very large.

And the trebuchet that Liu Zheng thought of in his heart was the elastic trebuchet of later generations.

The power and lethality of this trebuchet is simply a qualitative leap compared to that of a human trebuchet. Not a thing at all.

"If there is no trebuchet, we will build it! Ten days is enough time for us. ”

"Build trebuchets? We don't seem to know many people. I've seen it a few times, so I'll take someone to build it! ”

After Xu Huang received Liu Zheng's order, he directly wanted to solve Liu Zheng's problems and directly went to build a trebuchet himself.

Liu Zheng didn't know at this time that the trebuchet that Xu Huang said and the trebuchet he thought about were not the same thing, so he was also happy.

"Okay, anyway, ten days later, it will be the day of siege, and in these days, we will build trebuchets first!"

At that moment, Liu Zheng and Xu Huang ordered their soldiers to send hundreds of people to cut down trees in the woodland outside Xianglin City.

The main army continued to defend the city to prevent the soldiers and horses from leaving the city.

It seems to be just a simple siege, but it has left a layer of haze besieged by the soldiers of Linyi Kingdom in the city, and this state will make the soldiers of Linyi Kingdom more and more demoralized.

In just one day, Liu Zheng had ordered people to cut down enough trees to build more than enough trebuchets.

Xu Huang took the lead in demonstrating the production of trebuchets to Liu Zheng.