It is said that in the past few days, the morale of the army has dropped a lot, and Guo Jia thinks that his lord should also know about this, but for some reason, he has not taken any action. However, he did know that his lord seemed to be building a batch of siege equipment, but he didn't know if it was because it was not completed, so he didn't attack, or because there was some other reason. So at this time, he decided that he still had to talk to his lord in person, and now even if he knew that he might not be able to break through the county easily, he had to attack it.

"Lord!"

"It's Bongxiao, sit down!"

"Thank you, lord!"

"Feng Xiao is here to persuade me to join the army, right?"

Guo Jia nodded when he heard this, "That's true!" Could it be that the lord is ready to drag on like this? ”

Ma Chao shook his head, "I have some ideas now, why don't you come and see it in detail?" ”

"I wish to hear about it!"

So Ma Chao told Guo Jia what he thought, Guo Jia nodded slightly after hearing it, in fact, to be honest, his lord's idea is not too brilliant, and it seems that it will not play a big role. But now don't say that you are "sick and go to the doctor", in fact, it is not much worse, what can be done, even if you may know that the road is useless, but it is better than no way at all, isn't it. At least if you do this, in addition to consuming some manpower and material resources, there is no other loss, so it can indeed be implemented.

"The meaning of the lord, Jia understands it, Jia thinks that it can be like this now, no matter what, but it can be tried!"

Ma Chao looked at it, since even Guo Jia agreed. Then you can implement it according to your own ideas. As for whether it is useful or not, or how useful it is, it will only be known after it has been used-

In this way, a day later, Ma Chao ordered people to put many silk books that had already been written, and let the soldiers shoot them with arrows into the city of Yuxian County.

As for why, in fact, this is Ma Chao's idea. The first step is - rumors, the so-called three people become tigers, even Ma Chao knows that Zhang Ren's soldiers are all interested in him, but Ma Chao actually doesn't mean this. It was Liu Zhang, who was far away in Chengdu. However, he knew that the speed of the spread of rumors was the fastest, and it might reach Chengdu in a few days.

Although Ma Chao also knew that Liu Zhang trusted Zhang Renqi. Can't you sit back and ignore Zhang Ren's nearly 30,000 Yizhou soldiers? Of course, in fact, even if he wants to reason. But at least he doesn't have that much ability to do anything for the time being. After all, unless it was Zhang Ren, he automatically handed over the military power. Otherwise, Liu Zhang really couldn't move others. But fortunately, Zhang Ren is quite loyal to him, or whether Liu Zhang can stay in Chengdu now is a matter of two words.

Therefore, Ma Chao's intention is actually for Liu Zhang, and now that he is blocked in Luo County, it is impossible to spread any rumors and news to Chengdu, so Ma Chao can only use this method at this time to let the rumors spread quickly to Chengdu. But he didn't expect Liu Zhang to believe in Zhang Ren's way at once. It's just that Ma Chao knows that with Zhang Renqi's personality and his strength, he is under Liu Zhang's account. It's impossible for everyone to have a good relationship with him. So at this time, someone should jump out, and then attack Zhang Ren with rumors, and Ma Chao wants this -

After another day, Ma Chao finally ordered the whole army to attack the city, and at this time he also showed the siege equipment that had been built, as for this, that was Ma Chao's second step.

The siege weapon is the catapult, which is what Ma Chao asked the craftsmen in the army to build in the past few days to attack the city. Anyway, he hadn't let his soldiers use this before, but now it was the first time he had created it, and then it came in handy for the first time on the battlefield. Ma Chao remembered that when he used to read books, it should have been the catapult that Liu Ye offered to Cao Cao, and then he overwhelmed Yuan Shao's limelight at once, and for a while Cao Jun had the upper hand, and he didn't know the rest.

I hope that my catapult can also play a certain role this time, Ma Chao said at this time.

But of course, he didn't expect that as soon as the catapult got on, he would be able to break the county that Zhang Ren was guarding like an iron bucket at this time. It's just that after all, it's the first time the whole army has used this, so if it doesn't play a role, then I'm really spending manpower and material resources to build these things. Of course, in fact, Ma Chao doesn't feel sorry for these things, but if it's useless, then it's not good for him to explain to his own soldiers. Don't look at the morale of their own soldiers has dropped in the past few days, yes, but they can be said to be very confident in themselves.

And although Ma Chao said that he never thought of turning himself into a military god, or a character like the soul of the army. But as the commander of the first army and the leader of the figure, of course, he also hopes that his guards will trust him. And he must have enough prestige and enough deterrence, or why not lead a large army to fight everywhere. Therefore, the role of catapults also has to affect these, but Ma Chao can't ignore it.

At this time, the catapult had already been pushed to the city of Luoxian by the Liangzhou sergeant, and it found a suitable position to stop, as for this distance, it was not far or near anyway. Because if it's too close, it's easy to be destroyed by the other party, and if it's too far, it may not be able to attack the enemy's castle, or even if it does, the power of the last will definitely become smaller.

"Everyone, listen to me, get ready!"

Wu Anguo commanded the Liangzhou soldiers next to the catapult to use it to attack the city, and after the soldiers were ready, Wu Anguo shouted: "Release!" ”

These are what Ma Chao has already taught them, as long as Wu Anguo said that he was ready, the soldiers in charge of the stones hurriedly moved the stones and put them away, and then when he finished speaking, the other soldiers began to attack the city with catapults. And although this is their first actual battle with a catapult, the Liangzhou sergeants and soldiers did cooperate quite tacitly, and Ma Chao watched the performance of his own soldiers behind, and he also bowed slightly. I have to say. This is really good, after all, it is the first actual battle, so to be able to perform like this, it can be said that the Liangzhou army has done a good job. This is not Ma Chao's arrogant boasting, but it is really the case.

At this time, Zhang Ren, who was at the head of the city, looked at it and said in his heart, I didn't expect that Ma Mengqi and the Liangzhou army had not moved in the past few days. I was a little surprised, and I had to be surprised. And looking at the big stones that flew up to the city from the city at this time, although these were indeed of little use to Zhang Ren, Zhang Ren knew the way and saw it. These have already made the other soldiers of the Yizhou Army suffer old crimes.

Not only can this stone be thrown from above to under the city, but also from under the city to the city. I don't see it now. But fortunately, Ma Chao didn't build too many catapults. It's only ten, but just these ten catapults have also made the Yizhou sergeants suffer a lot of losses. The reason is that they are really unprepared for this, so in the case of unpreparedness, people are "calculating and unintentional". So they naturally lost the opportunity, but let the catapults of the Liangzhou army temporarily gain the upper hand.

Judging from the constant screams coming from the head of the city of Yuxian, it is clear that the Yizhou sergeants of the Dao Dao have suffered a loss. And although the stones thrown by the catapult are not particularly large, they are the heavier ones. And after hitting the soldiers of the Yizhou army, they were either killed or wounded. Because after hitting the head, basically the soldiers were all killed, and as for the other parts, it was better, but the soldiers who were hit were also injured and could not be spared.

Only those who were light, quick-witted, or more intelligent and clever escaped the catapult's attack. As for some of the other soldiers, they were not spared.

At this time, Ma Chao, who was sitting on the back of the white lion, looked at the head of the city from afar, saw the tragic situation of the Yizhou sergeant being smashed, and listened to the screams of the Yizhou sergeant from the city, and he smiled slightly. The catapult finally did what it should have done, so today it is very successful and very successful. As for tomorrow, Zhang Ren must be on guard, so it won't be like today.

And the soldiers next to the catapult have also been changed twice, after all, this is not an easy job, especially moving stones, it is more physical work, so you have to change to someone else to do it for a while, or your physical strength can't keep up.

At this moment, Ma Chao pulled out his snow drinking knife, and the tip of the knife pointed directly at the head of the city, and he shouted: "The whole army, attack the city!" ”

Of course, Ma Chao himself would not rush up, but the Liangzhou sergeant attacked with his order. And there are catapults here, so the pressure is reduced a lot.

For Ma Chao, the reason why he didn't let the soldiers attack the city before was because it was the first time he used a catapult, so some soldiers were still not familiar with it, so Ma Chao was afraid that they would not be able to guarantee that they would not be able to throw all the stones on the city of Ruoxian. So if this is a siege of the city, the result is that your own soldiers climb the city, so the catapult stones behind you directly smashed over, not on the top of the city, but directly under the city, then it is interesting. It's not an attack on people, it's an indiscriminate attack.

So after running in for a while, Ma Chao saw that the Liangzhou soldiers were already more proficient in the catapult at this time, so he was relieved to let the soldiers attack the city in a big way. However, not long after the soldiers attacked, according to Ma Chao's calculation method, it would take more than five minutes for Ma Chao to stop the catapult.

After all, if a soldier attacked the city, the catapult would be an indiscriminate attack. And catapults can't be so incessantly attacking forever, and that kind of powerful stone is not infinite. If you don't need soldiers to attack the city, just throw stones with catapults.

Moreover, Ma Chao had also discovered at this time, and at this time, Zhang Ren had already launched a defense against his catapult, so at this time it was not as good as before, which made the Yizhou sergeant suffer a lot of losses. Therefore, it is to accept it when it is good, not insatiable, this is Ma Chao's consistent style.

However, Ma Chao, Guo Jia and Wu Anguo are really able to sympathize with the soldiers, and they can't bear to let the soldiers be injured. If Jia Xu had been replaced as the coach today, he would never have cared about this. He would have his soldiers attack with catapults on one side, and then on the other side, he would immediately have his soldiers attack the city.

This is Jia Xu's style, he is the most realistic person. Because in his eyes, it may lose some soldiers, but this allows his side to occupy an absolute advantage, gain the upper hand, and may not be able to take the city in the end, so the price of such a small casualty has been exchanged for more and greater benefits, so why not? (To be continued......)