Seeing this action of the Southwest Army, several imperial court generals on the wall were all surprised, and even Xie Jing, who was not very proficient in military affairs, also showed disdain.

Catapults are certainly siege weapons, but as we all know, this kind of thing is only auxiliary equipment, and the main force still has to have someone who does not want his life, and he sets up a ladder to fight hard, plus a long-range catapult to disturb the position of the defenders at the head of the city, so as to achieve the purpose of siege.

Since ancient times, no one has been able to conquer a city with a catapult alone.

What's more, the walls are covered by about half a man, and you can hide behind them to avoid arrows fired by enemies and stones thrown by trebuchets.

Chong Heng was the first to react, turned his head and shouted: "Everyone is low to avoid the stones, half of them are evacuated from the city wall, and the other half of the people pay attention to the enemy's movements, be careful that the enemy takes the opportunity to attack the city tower!" ”

This order was very sensible, because although it was possible to avoid almost all trebuchet attacks by withdrawing the towers, once everyone had withdrawn, it would be difficult to see the enemy's movements, and if the Southwestern Army took this opportunity to attack the city, it would be easy to pass through the "arrow attack area" of the city walls and get close to the city walls.

Although Chong Heng came to Xiangyang not long ago, he had a lot of prestige in the Hanzhong army, and after an order, everyone was short to hide. Then one out of every three men peeked out through the arrow holes in the city walls.

In the past few months, whether it is Mu Ying or Li Shuo, they have strictly trained the accuracy of their subordinates to throw stones, and they use stones about the same weight as clay pots to let these pitchers train day and night, so the first round of throwing version of the heavenly thunder almost all fell on the city wall!

At first, the people of the court did not pay much attention to these stones.

But when the stone was only a dozen meters away from the city wall, he had been paying attention to the enemy's situation, and suddenly his pupils dilated, and his face was full of horror.

Because he saw that these "stones" thrown by catapults were actually burning with fire!

As the eldest grandson of the seed family, he naturally had some knowledge about Tianlei, and the general of the small race reacted immediately, turned around and roared: "All lie down!" ”

However, time is running out.

The first batch of twenty heavenly thunderbolts fell on the city wall almost simultaneously.

The fuse, which had been accurately calculated by Lin Hu and others for several months, exploded almost when it was about to land!

In just an instant, on the entire western wall of Xiangyang City, everyone's ears were shaken, and a huge roar exploded in their ears!

Then, there are pottery shards scattered in the sky!

I don't know how many exclamations came at the same time!

After the smoke of the "stones" dissipated, the entire city wall was covered with blood, and some unlucky people who were smashed by the thunder were directly destroyed by the impact, and the severed limbs and stumps flew out of the distance!

Even the seed balance on the city wall, because the distance to watch the battle was too close, was splashed by a few pieces of pottery, and the area on the body that was not covered with armor was cut out a few wounds that were not deep or shallow!

Chong Heng's eyes widened angrily, and he glanced at the Southwest Army in the distance with anger, and then vaguely saw that the second round of loading of the catapult of the Southwest Army had been completed, he took a deep breath and gritted his teeth: "Everyone, remove the city wall, remove the city wall!" ”

At this time, the soldiers guarding the west city wall of Xiangyang were all Hanzhong soldiers, and after hearing Chong Heng's words, some soldiers who were still able to move struggled to climb down the city wall!

At the time of their withdrawal, the second round of "stones" arrived!

The surging and relentless thunder and fire once again flooded the western city wall of Xiangyang.

After this thunderstorm, the Hanzhong army, which had not yet evacuated on the west city wall, suffered heavy casualties!

Heavenly thunder, the most vicious thing is its pottery shard, this kind of thing is scattered on the battlefield, the lethality is too terrible, what is even more terrifying is that in this "throwing version of the heavenly thunder", Lin Hu also added a few pieces of iron to each one, once it explodes, the power of the pottery piece may not be able to break through the armor, but the power of these iron pieces is enough to pierce the armor, can threaten the lives of almost everyone! Beautiful

The third round of "bombing" is coming!

Chong Heng on the city wall, looking at this scene, and then at the southwest army under the city, trembling all over.

As a disciple of the general, he naturally will not tremble because of fear, this trembling comes from the sense of powerlessness in the soul, if he can fight head-on with the Southwest Army, he is confident that even if the Hanzhong Army can't crush these southwest barbarians, at least it can not fall behind, but at the moment, this kind of battle is almost not at a level, so that this disciple of the General Sect feels helpless from the bones.

He didn't know what to do anymore.

He doesn't even have the qualifications to fight back!

Chong Heng withdrew from the city wall in embarrassment, looked at the west city gate that had been blocked by bluestones, and smiled bitterly.

At the very beginning of the war, they knew that the sky thunder might be able to blow up the city gate, so they made preparations early and sealed the city gate with an unknown number of stones, so as to prevent the enemy from blowing it up with the sky thunder.

But right now, the enemy doesn't even need to get close, and directly uses a catapult to throw the thunder off his head!

Chong Heng, who removed the city wall, looked up and saw the two generals Xie Jing and Pei Jin who were also under the city wall.

Chong Heng took several deep breaths before calming down, his face was bitter, and his voice was hoarse: "We can't figure out why Hou Ye Li dared to attack Xiangyang, and only used 100,000 people to attack Xiangyang, and now Hou Ye Li finally let us know where his confidence is." ”

As he spoke, Chong Heng pointed to the thunder that was still falling on the city wall, and said with some despair: "Two generals, this ...... How to fight? ”

The southwestern army suppressed the Hanzhong army with firepower, and in just an instant, no one dared to stand on the west city wall, which made it easy for them to get close to the wall of Xiangyang City, and then erect a ladder to climb up.

In other words, the city walls of Xiangyang City are almost useless.

Although Pei Jin was already in turmoil in his heart, his face was expressionless, and he said in a deep voice: "No matter what, there can't be no one on the city wall, how many people die, and there must be people standing on the city wall, otherwise the southwest army can easily break through the city wall of Xiangyang and enter Xiangyang." ”

General Pei's voice was loud.

"I have 150,000 defenders in Xiangyang, how many of these things can he Li Chang'an make? As long as their things are exhausted, Xiangyang is still impregnable! ”

"I disagree!"

Uncle Guo Xie Jing's eyes were a little red, and he roared angrily: "Why do you want the soldiers of my Hanzhong Army to go to the city wall and be killed by the southwest barbarians in vain?" If you want me to say that you just open the wall of Xiangyang and let these southwest barbarians in, we have more troops than them, and we may not lose the street battles close to us, why do we need the soldiers to die in vain? ”

Speaking of this, he looked up at the city wall and said angrily: "If you climb up to defend the city again, you will just die in vain, their catapults are useless in close combat, they are close to each other, and their heavenly thunder does not dare to litter, so far, they can only fight with them in the streets!" ”

To be honest, although Xie Jing is unreliable on weekdays, what he said now is not completely unreasonable.

Chong Heng and Pei Jin glanced at each other, and both of them had some hesitation in their eyes.

In the face of such an unexpected situation, they don't know what to do right now.

So, Pei Jin's eyes turned and said slowly: "General Xie is the chief general of the Hanzhong Army, how General Xie commands the Hanzhong Army, the old man does not interfere." ”

Chong Heng was also silent for a while, bowing his head slightly.

"The last will obey the orders of the general."