Chapter 922: Are You Sure You Didn't Get an Axe at the Ban Gate?

Shoot with a bow and arrow, the range is not far enough, send a death squad or cavalry team to carry out a surprise attack, but this road also seems to be blocked by Sima Jun, but Yang Hu is not in a hurry at all, he is even calm, looking at the nervous and busy Sima Jun, there is a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

Maybe Yanghu has nothing to do with other weapons, but with a catapult, Chen Qian, are you sure you don't get an axe at the class gate?

Due to the lack of innovative spirit, the catapult used by Sima Jun was still the same as when Guandu was in the past, even if Ma Jun invented a new type of catapult, the people in power without exception disdained it, including Cao Shuang and Sima Yi, who were auxiliary ministers at the time, were not interested in Ma Jun's invention, and they naturally missed the opportunity to improve the catapult.

Perhaps they feel that the weapon of catapults is already quite powerful, and there is no need to improve them, and the cost of building catapults is relatively high, and if all the existing catapults of the army are eliminated and new catapults are built, it will be a lot of money.

After all, catapults are just an auxiliary weapon on the battlefield, and will not become a mainstream weapon, and it is not worth the time and effort to do this.

Cao Liang is different, his Ma Jun's new catapult is very interested, on this basis, and research and invention of the counterweight catapult, this kind of catapult that only requires very little manpower to operate the catapult has a longer range, stronger power, and simpler operation, no matter from that aspect, it can be thrown on Sima Jun's catapult eight streets.

Yanghu was not in a hurry at all, because he had already placed the counterweight catapult and the repeating catapult on the city wall, ready to be launched at any time.

Seeing Sima Jun hurriedly fiddling with the catapults, Yanghu's face was more mocking, and he was not in a hurry at all, because he knew very well that it would take a long time to prepare these catapults, and all he had to do now was to wait for Sima Jun to put all these catapults out, and then smash them to pieces.

Because the location of Sima Jun's catapult was completely within the coverage of the counterweight catapult of the Bingzhou Army, although this powerful catapult was much smaller than the traction catapult, the stone projectile used was larger than it, the range was farther, and the accuracy was more accurate.

Chen Qian and Sima Shi didn't realize this, because the Bingzhou Army did a good job of secrecy in this regard, of course, even if Sima Jun's meticulous work saw these catapults, what they saw was only dead things, and they were not as big as the catapults used by Sima Jun, so they naturally didn't care.

Before there was no head-to-head battle between the catapults of the two sides, Sima Jun's side only had a vague impression of the catapults of the Bingzhou army, so Chen Qian and Sima Shi dared to sacrifice the catapults boldly and boldly, trying to blast a hole in the city wall of Jiexiu.

When Sima Jun was almost fiddling, Yang Hu gave the order to attack the catapult that had already completed the loading equipment, and the spherical stone bullets roared out from the city and smashed into the catapult position that Sima Jun had just arranged.

The biggest weakness of the catapult is that it has poor mobility and is difficult to move, and once it is attacked, it is like a target placed there, and there is no way to dodge.

The first stone bullet thrown did not hit Sima Jun's catapult, but it happened to be smashed in the pile of people, and every head-on collision between the big stone bullet and the real human head was obviously a complete victory, and a Sima soldier's head was hit by a stone bullet, as if a watermelon was smashed, and the head was completely exploded with a "Peng" sound, and the red and white things splashed everywhere, causing Sima Bing to scatter and flee.

Stone bullets are more time-consuming and laborious to make than stones, but the effect is very different, the ball type of stone bullets is more accurate, and it will bounce and roll after landing, causing secondary damage.

The first stone bullet fell in the crowd, not only directly smashed a human head, but also caused many soldiers to be injured in the process of rolling, either broken bones or broken tendons, and they died when they touched it, and they were injured when they were next to each other.

The sudden attack of the Bingzhou army made Chen Qian and Sima Shi startled, but looking at the catapult safe and sound, they suddenly felt at ease, the most difficult thing for the catapult to control is the degree of hit, at such a distance, it is so difficult to hit such a small target, seeing that the stone of the Bingzhou army was missed, Chen Qian and Sima Shi looked at each other and smiled, unconcerned.

But in the next moment, they couldn't laugh, because the second stone projectile hit a catapult with great precision, even if the frame of the catapult looked extremely thick, but in front of this volley of stone bullets, it was as fragile as paper paste, only to hear a loud "click", the wooden frame broke, and the whole catapult became a pile of rotten wood.

Chen Qian and Sima Yi were dumbfounded, this shot was too accurate, maybe it was because of a coincidence, this was too accurate, I had never heard of a catapult with such a big head.

Coincidentally, this must be a coincidence, the blind cat ran into a dead mouse!

However, they quickly gave up on this idea, because the stone bullets of the Bingzhou army were shot one after another, apparently aimed at these catapults, and the hit rate was not too high at first, about one or two out of ten, but the more they went to the back, the more they shot, and they could hit four or five out of ten.

This hit rate of nearly fifty percent was really terrible, only to see the stone bullets flying in the air, and the catapult carefully arranged by Sima Jun turned into a pile of waste wood.

"Fight back! Fight back now! Chen Qian ordered angrily.

Seeing that the carefully prepared plan was destroyed, how could Chen Qian not be annoyed, but there was nothing he could do, because it was too difficult for the catapult to move, and if he retreated at this moment, it would have a serious impact on the morale of the army, and Chen Qian was naturally unwilling to withdraw like this.

Anyway, hundreds of catapults, although some were damaged, but most of them were still intact, so Chen Qian ordered a counterattack, can you shoot me, can't you shoot, using catapults to bombard, is the best means of counterattack.

However, Sima Jun's catapult did not complete the final preparations, and at this time he was in a hurry to respond to the battle, and the stone bullets of the Bingzhou army fell one by one, either hitting the catapult or hitting the pitchers around the catapult, which made Sima Jun's pitchers panic, and how could they accurately operate the catapult.