Of course, this siege is different from the last one.

Last time, Liu Zheng just made a feint attack to test the reality of this Xianglin City, but he only lost more than a dozen manpower, and it was not a siege in the real sense.

And this time he came prepared.

Not only did he build more than 30 trebuchets, but he also let his subordinates prepare more siege methods, which can be regarded as having a greater certainty.

"Xu Huang, remove the branches covering it, and let your trebuchet project first! Give that Fan bear some color and take a look. ”

Liu Zheng first instructed Xu Huang to let the trebuchets made by Xu Huang start testing whether they could really rely on these trebuchets to break through the defenses on the city tower.

"Yes, my lord!"

"Get on the trebuchet!"

The nine thousand soldiers and horses had not yet begun to charge, and the trebuchets that had been prepared were moved up by Xu Huang at this time, in fact, these trebuchets had been placed here a long time ago, but in order not to be exposed, they had not been shown.

Now that it's finally time to test their strength, there's no need to hide it.

The seventeen trebuchets that Xu Huang spent nine days building finally showed his true face of Lushan.

It is a boxy, three-dimensional square structure made up of several thigh-thick wooden stakes, and the bearing in the middle contracts the role of a lever.

On the other side, there is a circular wooden frame, and some stones have been placed in advance, and these stones are all stones that Liu Zheng has ordered someone to dig in the past few days, and they have been prepared here in advance.

The purpose was to provide ammunition for trebuchets to drop.

More than a dozen trebuchets were divided into two arrays by Xu Huang, one in front and one behind.

"Get on the ammo! Get ready to pull the ropes! ”

Two soldiers were responsible for loading stones and ammunition, and on the other side, eight soldiers pulled eight ropes tied together at the same time, so that the stones in the wooden frame could be thrown out in a short time.

Take a small team of men and horses as a trebuchet operator.

With Xu Huang's order, the eight people began to shout together, pulling the rope in their hands hard, and the eight people worked together, and the bearing was immediately pulled and swung.

The stones in the wooden frame were also thrown out at this time.

The stone was thrown in a perfect parabola in the sky.

Then it fell heavily and smashed directly on the city tower.

Rumble!

Bang!

Boom Boom!

The stones in the seven or eight trebuchets flew into the sky, and according to what Xu Huang had tested at the beginning, they landed smoothly near the castle tower.

Seven or eight huge stones of nearly 100 catties, although only two smashed on the city tower, and some others more or less deviated from some positions and did not fall on the city tower, but these thrown stones still played a huge role.

In particular, the two big stones that smashed on the city tower directly smashed the city guards on the city tower to death, and even the battlements that had been built were directly smashed off a large piece.

The scattered stones were scattered all over the place, and before the soldiers of the Linyi Kingdom on the city tower could react, the second round of trebuchet projectiles came one after another.

However, this second round of projectiles was not so smooth, and none of the stones projected by the eight trebuchets fell on the city tower, either the strength was not enough and did not fall on the city tower, or the force was too great, and it flew directly over the city tower and smashed into the city of Xianglin City.

The first round of trebuchets ends with the projectile, and the next time is the time to reload the ammo, with some time buffer.

Fan Xiong, who had escaped the catastrophe, stood on the city tower with a pale face, looking at the trebuchet pulled out by Xu Huang outside the city and fell into deep thought.

"This ...... What is this thing, and why is it so powerful? ”

During the time that Fan Xiong was the king of Linyi Kingdom, Linyi Kingdom hardly fought much, and even if he did, he, the king, did not need to play at all.

So I don't know about the battlefield thing like trebuchet, after all, trebuchet was not widely used in the Three Kingdoms period.

The reason why it is not widely used is because the trebuchet pulled by manpower has too low accuracy, and in siege warfare, although the trebuchet can throw dozens of pounds of stones, but if it cannot accurately hit the target, it is just doing useless work.

But the shock caused by the trebuchet was not small at all at this time, Fan Xiong was stunned by these trebuchets, but fortunately, after two successive projections, which did not cause too serious losses to the city tower, Fan Xiong was a little relieved.

Xu Huang ordered people to project three more rounds.

A total of fifty shells were fired, but only five or six of them hit the stones of the tower.

The chance of hitting is only 1 in 10.

"Hahaha, Liu Zheng, I thought you had some powerful means, didn't you expect it to be just like this?"

"I still have some expectations, if it's just like this, you will smash my Elephant Forest City, I'll see how you smash it!"

Fan Xiong stood on the city tower with courage and shouted loudly outside the city.

Seize this opportunity, he has to taunt Liu Zheng a few words.

When Liu Zheng heard Fan Xiong's words, he didn't respond to Fan Xiong, but Xu Huang blushed from Fan Xiong's words, this was slapping Xu Huang's face, saying that these trebuchets made by Xu Huang were useless.

In fact, if the trebuchet is done well, the hit rate can still be greatly improved, but Xu Huang has only seen this trebuchet before and knows the principle of the trebuchet, but he has never really observed the trebuchet closely.

This was the first time he had fiddled with this thing, and it was already great to be able to make it and throw rocks out, so the hit rate thing naturally couldn't be too forced.

"Lord, you look at Fan Xiong, he is too arrogant, he is too deceitful, give an order, I will lead people to rush and kill a wave, directly break through the city gate, and capture him alive!"

Xu Huang was angry, so he wanted to lead people to charge in person.

But Liu Zheng stretched out his hand and stopped Xu Huang.

"Hey, Brother Xu Huang, what's the hurry, you forgot, my trebuchet hasn't shot yet!"

"Yours?"

Xu Huang thought about it, and Liu Zheng's trebuchet had not been tried, but in Xu Huang's heart, he didn't have much hope at all, after all, his trebuchet didn't play its due role, and what effect could Liu Zheng's trebuchet have.

"Yes, open your eyes and take a good look, don't be scared for a while."

Liu Zheng patted Xu Huang on the shoulder, and then with a wave of his hand, the team of 100 people under his command began to act.

In groups of five, they stood next to twenty trebuchets, just waiting for Liu Zheng's order.