The catapult was twenty feet away from the city gate.

In front of the catapult, a two-tiered shield wall has been erected.

Just enough not to hinder the catapult and block the arrows from the walls.

"What are they doing here?"

On the city wall, Li Biao's soldiers watched Zhao Hui's army busy before and after.

They did not use arrows to attack Zhao Hui's soldiers and horses.

A lot of time, who will win, depends on whose money is more.

For every war, the amount of material that needs to be spent is a staggering number.

The more they fought, the poorer they became, and in the end they couldn't support it, so they could only raise the white flag and surrender.

Even if they are victors, after a war, their losses are also incalculable, and they don't know whether they have earned or lost.

As for the use of war to feed war, it can only be used when dealing with foreign races.

If you want to use it in your own country, it won't take long for you to become a public enemy of the whole country, and it is possible for everyone to betray their relatives and leave.

Grain, grass, weapons, armor, arrows, rolling wood, fire oil, and so on.

The reserves of these strategic materials in Yuyang County are far lower than those in Shanggu County.

As a very large consumption of arrows in the war, there are not many in Yuyang County.

Before seeing Zhao Hui's army attacking the city, they didn't want to waste their arrows.

"Ready? Adjust the angle first. Cheng Yuanzhi said.

These catapults are now under his command.

"Captain, it's done." Chen Lie, who was in charge of a catapult, said.

"Okay, let's try it first." Cheng Yuanzhi said with a smile: "You say, will those bad seeds on the city wall be frightened." ”

"Haha, they're going to be scared and hiding." Chen Lie said.

The soldiers in charge of the catapult all laughed.

When they first saw it, they were all dumbfounded.

Even now that they think about it, they are still a little frightened.

If the Yellow Turban Army had such a siege weapon, would they still fail?

After coming into contact with the catapult, Cheng Yuanzhi often had such thoughts in his heart.

But he just thinks about it.

has followed Zhao Hui for so many years, and his vision has also improved a lot.

Even if Zhao Hui proposed to use catapults, how many people in the Yellow Turban Army would support it and how many people would come to build it.

Cheng Yuanzhi personally participated in the construction of catapults, and before these catapults in front of them, they scrapped a larger number of catapults.

The bars of wood were crushed, the shafts were broken, and the stones that ejected out were weak, and they fell in front of them, and even smashed their own people.

At that time, the Yellow Turban Army had no such mind, and spent a lot of time and materials to build catapults.

"Look, something looks like it's flying over."

"It's stone. A big rock. ”

On the city wall, Li Biao's soldiers finally saw the power of catapults.

Because the catapult was hiding behind the shield wall, they didn't see it, they only saw that in Zhao Hui's army, something suddenly flew towards them.

"It's really a stone, hide quickly."

The older soldier hurriedly shouted.

As a veteran, although his combat experience is limited to fighting bandits.

In Yuyang County, there are no such siege weapons. Prior to this, the imperial court had forbidden local armies to possess these things.

But that doesn't mean he doesn't know about catapults.

In the barracks, there is nothing to do, and this is what I like to talk about the most.

Rumble!

There was a loud bang, and stones fell on the city walls.

Li Lie's first shot, the head was slightly off.

Failed to hit the people on the wall, but the wall was already cracking.

"How so? Why do they have catapults. The veteran on the ramparts reacted.

"Go and report to Lord Taishou, go quickly."

The soldiers on the city wall were already panicking.

They had heard of catapults, but this was the first time they had seen the power of catapults.

Outside the city, Chen Lie, who was hiding behind the shield wall, kept staring at the trajectory of the thrown stones in the air.

"The angle is a little smaller, adjust it again." Li Lie said.

Soon another stone flew over the shield wall.

Rumble!

Another loud bang.

This time the parabola of the stone in the air was perfect, and it landed exactly on the city wall.

However, it did not hit the Li Biao soldiers on the city wall.

When they saw the stones flying, they ran away in an instant.

Only a hole was smashed in the city wall, leaving gravel all over the ground.

And the flying rubble injured a few unlucky soldiers.

The stones thrown by the catapult are very powerful.

But the rate of fire was slow, and there were not many of them, and it was somewhat difficult to hit the people on the walls.

The reason why it is a siege weapon is not because of how many people it can kill, but because it can suppress the soldiers on the city wall, so that they dare not stand on the city wall with peace of mind.

Compared with the dense rain of arrows, the pressure caused is greater.

After all, the power of arrows is small, and the soldiers on the city wall can completely avoid the damage of arrows as long as they crouch down.

And the existence of catapults makes people dare not stay on the city walls to fight.

Now they can look at the flying stones and dodge them in the first place.

But if they really start fighting, where can they take care of this, no one knows when they will be crushed to death by stones falling from the sky.

After Li Biao received the news, he immediately rushed to the city wall.

At this time, Cheng Yuanzhi had already asked people to adjust all the catapults.

Li Biao, who had just come to the city wall, happened to see more than a dozen stones falling from the sky, which frightened him to retreat again and again.

"What's going on, didn't you say there was only one catapult." Li Biao scolded.

If there was only one catapult, he could hold on for a while and wait for Tian Kai's reinforcements to arrive.

But now more than a dozen catapults are working at the same time, and on the western side of the city wall, there are people who dare to stand on it.

How can this battle be fought?

The 20,000 people in Li Biao's hands were almost all recruits, and they faced this kind of regional-level difficulty in the first battle.

Even if Li Biao forcibly sent them to the city wall, as long as the catapult came for a few rounds, these people would immediately collapse when they looked at their smashed bloody bodies.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Another round of stones fell, and there were few soldiers left on the walls.

Those who can run have already run far.

Others were carried on their backs and ran away.

The only ones who can continue to fight with the power of catapults are those veterans of a hundred battles.

They are accustomed to fighting, and although their individual strength may not be the strongest, they know better how to save their lives on the battlefield.

The entire western city wall, for Zhao Hui's army, is completely undefended. At this time, as long as Zhao Hui was sending siege vehicles, he could easily knock the city gate open.

"Tian Kai's army, how far is it from here?" Zhao Hui asked.

Although the defenders on the western city wall retreated for the time being, Zhao Hui did not immediately send troops to attack the city. Catapults also stopped for the time being.

Xu Shu said: "There are still two hundred miles. ”