To the sound of rumbling war drums, the soldiers slowly moved forward with huge and heavy trebuchets, hundreds of huge trebuchets lined up, looking down from the city, as dense as a forest, and like scythes wielding the Grim Reaper. The trebuchet of the Tang army is famous all over the world for its long range and great power, and this kind of siege weapon has been taught by Liu Xinda when he was in Pinglu.

Liang Jun's trebuchet is much worse in performance than the other side, mainly because Liang Jun still uses the traditional trebuchet structure, while Tang Jun's trebuchet adopts a counterweight structure.

Don't look at such a change, but for this long-range attack weapon, it is not an epoch-making revolution. Not only can he adjust the range at will, but more importantly, he fires much faster than a traditional trebuchet.

After knowing that he had to defend Ezhou City, Liu Xinda had been thinking about how to deal with the other party's long-range stormy and fearful and helpless attack methods.

In the end, he just came up with a way to deal with the quality of the other party with quantity.

Of course, to make a standard trebuchet, it takes a very long time for a skilled craftsman to make it, and the requirements for materials are extremely high, and he does not have the capital to do so. But the solution is always figured out.

So a large number of bowl-thick bamboos were collected, and after being specially processed, several bamboos were tied together, and two groups of such bamboos formed a slingshot-like thing.

Such crude throwing equipment, with a range of no more than one hundred and fifty paces, was low in cost and could be manufactured in large quantities. The other orthodox trebuchets were hidden behind the walls by him, trying to avoid being attacked by the opponent's purposeful destruction.

Of course, such an arrangement is not accurate. It's purely a matter of looking at the sky, but fortunately, there are a lot of guys who are prepared, and the combination of the two ranged weapons is quite effective.

"Can our trebuchets reach them?" Liu Xinda looked at the Tang troops who were busy in the distance below the city, they had stopped, they were wielding sledgehammers, and they were nailing iron chisels several feet long to the ground, and they were fixing their trebuchets.

Although it is not the first time to see this terrifying big guy, seeing it again, Liu Xinda still has some lingering palpitations.

Liu Hanqing shook his head: "General, our range can't reach them. We have no other way to destroy these big creatures than to destroy them with cavalry. ”

"This is a trick used by the Tang Army." Liu Xinda gritted his teeth and said: "It seems that their trebuchet position is not very tightly protected, but as soon as we attack, we will immediately fall into the trap and lose our troops in vain. ”

"Then I can only endure it." Liu Hanqing said a little helplessly.

Before the words fell, there was a huge whistling sound in the sky, and a stone projectile weighing more than 100 catties crossed an arc in the air, and fell more than ten steps away from the city wall in the eyes of everyone with some horror, and fell to the ground with a bang, smashing a huge pit on the ground.

There were bursts of cheers from the city, and the trebuchets of the Tang army seemed to be placed farther away.

But the experienced Liu Xinda was very unhappy, and sure enough, a cavalryman on the opposite side crossed the long trebuchet position, waving two small flags in his hand, and kept shouting loudly. And in the midst of his shouting, the enemy's trebuchet position was once again busy.

A moment later, the sound of war drums on the other side, which had not stopped, suddenly stopped.

Liu Xinda's face changed slightly, and he said loudly: "Order all soldiers, be careful, the enemy's attack is coming." ”

The Liang army above the city head immediately became busy, some retracted into the hidden soldier cave above the city head, some kept their bodies tightly behind the battlements, and some did not believe in evil, still holding the battlements and staring intently at the opposite side.

A rumbling sound suddenly sounded, and the originally sunny sky suddenly darkened. Liu Xinda looked up at the sky, and he could only see the overwhelming stone bullets falling from the sky.

More than 100 pounds of stone bullets were thrown almost 200 paces away, and its power cannot be repeated. At this distance, there is a small stone, which can easily lift and smash the best armor.

The towering city tower suffered a devastating blow at the first time, and in a blink of an eye, it was accompanied by a rumbling sound, and it became a ruin, and the banner of Liu Zi, which was originally flying high, was also buried in the ruins. A personal soldier of Liu Xinda ran out of the hiding seed, found the Liu character banner in the ruins, and planted it on a high place again.

Some of the stone bullets fell on the city walls, and some of them fell to the ground, but they became a pile of debris, and the fragments flew and raged above the city with a sharp whistling sound.

Some stone bullets are very hard, and after they hit the ground, they bounce like a leather ball, rampage, and all the seeds they pass are completely destroyed by them.

The Liang soldiers curled up as much as they could, some hiding behind shields, some hiding in the corners of the city walls, watching with horror the horrific damage caused by these stone bullets on the city.

Once upon a time, they thought that the city they had been running for a long time was impregnable, but now that the enemy attack had just begun, they found that there was something impregnable somewhere in the world.

Casualties inevitably followed.

Some were scratched by the whistling pieces of rubble, some were hit by the broken stones, even though they were wearing armor, but after this blow, they could not breathe for a long time, and at the worst, they broke their tendons and fractures on the spot, and vomited and fell to the ground.

What's even more terrifying is a few Liang troops hiding behind the city wall, and their luck is quite bad. A stone bullet that did not hit the city coincidentally hit the outer wall of the city by chance.

The city wall was indeed very strong, and after being hit so hard, the stones outside were obviously recessed inward, but they did not collapse, but the few soldiers hiding behind the city wall flew out upside down, and there were no scars on their bodies, but blood came out of their mouths and noses, and after they landed, there was no sound.

It was just a round of attacks, and the city walls were already in shambles.

After a slight pause, a second round of attacks swirled. Unlike the first time, this time, about half of the stone balls were still burning with flames.

This is the Tang Army pouring grease on the stone bullets, lighting them, and then launching them.

Unable to attack the Tang army, the Liang army in the city could only huddle in the corner, struggling to endure.

But the raging fire forced some people out of their hiding places, and then the whizzing fragments knocked some of them to the ground without mercy.

After the second round of attacks began, the Tang army also began to move, and countless strong crossbows were pushed out from behind the trebuchet position and advanced in the direction of the city wall.

This time, the walls were no longer without the power to fight back.

Countless improvised trebuchets threw more than ten pounds of projectiles all over the world, and they couldn't beat the trebuchets of the Tang Army, but they could still cover the range of the strong crossbow.

The Tang army raised a huge shield and advanced forward in the rain of stone bullets. From time to time, someone falls to the ground, but the gap is immediately filled.

A series of powerful crossbows raised their crossbows, and a sharp whistling sounded, and a strong crossbow with the thickness of a child's arm shot towards the city with a slippery firelight, and when they fell to the city wall, the sound of violent explosions came.

"Suppress the opponent's trebuchet and cover the advance of the foot soldiers!" Ren Xiaonian shouted loudly.

The trebuchet adjusted slightly, and began to suppress the shooting in the direction of the city wall where the stone bullets were flying, and at the same time, the first part of the left army, already under the leadership of Qin Scar, raised the shield, pushed the ladder, carried the crashing wood, and pressed forward.

The stone bullets flying above the city fell in the blink of an eye, and it was obvious that many of them were destroyed by the Tang army under the city, but after a moment of silence, from the other direction, one after another stone bullets flew up.

This made Ren Xiaonian a little surprised.

However, it only surprised him for a moment, because after another round of suppression, the long-range attacks in the city were thinned out again. At this time, Qin Scar had already entered the range of the enemy's feather arrows.

There was not a single head in sight above the city before, but at this time, one by one, heads suddenly appeared in a dense manner, and they leaned out half of their bodies from behind the battlements, and bent their bows and arrows towards the city.

The siege ladder stopped, because in front of them, a breastwall about a person high appeared, and Qin Scar was the first to rush up, protecting himself with a shield, and slammed into this breastwork.

With a bang, the chest wall didn't even shake, but Qin Scar was bounced back. The stunned Qin Scar waved the horizontal knife in his hand and slashed it on the chest wall, and with a bang, under the loess, there was actually a stone. No wonder it's so hard.

The feather arrows poured down from the city, and Qin Scarzi didn't think twice, and as soon as he jumped up with his shield, he climbed the chest wall, and then jumped down.

Behind the chest wall was completely different from the imaginary situation, Qin Scar fell to the ground with a thud, removed the shield, and what he saw in front of him was actually a deep pit, he raised his eyes and looked up, but he was shocked. Behind the breastwork, a trench was more than a foot deep. The fall in the trench was deep, but only a few paces wide.

"Don't come down!" He raised his head and shouted, but it was too late, as the main general of the forward, he Qin Scar was the first, how could the soldiers behind not follow closely. The sound of porphyry was endless, and one after another Tang Jun jumped down.

"Go back, don't come down!" Qin Scar roared hoarsely.

The Tang army behind him finally found out that something was wrong, and guarded behind the breastwork, and for a while, he couldn't advance or retreat.

At this time, the closed city gate suddenly opened, and the Liang army rushed out, all they held in their hands were spears that were more than a foot long.