Wang Ben came to the defensive position outside the city of the Qin army and climbed the high platform of the position, so that he could better command the Qin army to defend the position and resist the attack of the Hezhong army. And looking forward from the high platform, I saw that the Hezong army had advanced to about 400 steps away from the position of the Qin army, with all kinds of troops on the chariots and horses, and a large area of black pressure, it seemed that even if there was no 100,000 army, it was not much worse.

Therefore, Wang Ben also knew that this time the combined column army went to war, but it was no longer to test the strength of the Qin army, but to officially launch a full-scale attack on the Qin army's defensive positions outside the city.

This time, the combined column army did dispatch an army of 100,000, divided into five phalanxes, the left and right flanks are two small phalanxes, each composed of 5,000 cavalry, protecting both sides of the whole army, and the three large phalanxes in the middle, each with about 30,000 people, composed of chariots and infantry troops, the chariots are lined up in front of the array, the infantry is in the rear of the chariots, and in the center of each phalanx, a high platform is also erected, the queue is neat, the guns and halberds are like a forest, and the flags are displayed, covering the sky and the sun, bringing out a strong coercive momentum.

Although in the array of the combined column, only the central phalanx and the cavalry on both sides were Han troops, while the other two large phalanxes were all Qi troops, and the ratio of Han and Qi armies was about four to six, and the Qi army accounted for the majority. However, after several fierce battles in the past few days, the spiritual outlook of the Qi army has indeed undergone great changes, at least in terms of momentum, it is enough to make the Qin army feel a sense of oppression.

Now Wang Ben does not dare to despise the combat effectiveness of the Qi army, but in the face of the strong momentum of the Hezong army, Wang Ben is not afraid, because the Qin army is the defensive side, in the general battlefield, the defending side often has a certain advantage, and the Qin army has established perfect fortifications outside the city, and arranged a large number of defenders and defensive equipment, if the Hezhong army launches an attack on the position of the Qin army, it will inevitably be hit hard by the Qin army, and will suffer heavy casualties. Therefore, Wang Ben even looked forward to the attack of the combined army, so as to inflict huge casualties on the combined army.

At this moment, he only heard a horn sound from the array of the Hezong army, and Wang Ben couldn't help but perk up, is the attack of the Hezong army about to begin?

Sure enough, I saw that in the phalanx in the middle of the army, dozens of vehicles with very strange styles were launched. Although the distance was very far, Wang Ben could not see the details of these vehicles, but the general outline could still be seen, although these vehicles were also pulled by four horses, but the length, width and height were much larger than ordinary chariots, so it was certain that this kind of vehicle was definitely something he had never seen before.

Wang Ben also felt very strange in his heart, what kind of vehicles were these vehicles, and was it difficult to be some secret weapon of Gaoyuan? Of course, Wang Ben knew that during the war of the Qin Dynasty, Han Teng had built hundreds of new chariots, with strange styles and different functions, which could be driven by manpower, and one of them was a very huge chariot like a small city.

In the beginning, these chariots played a significant role, defeating the Dai army at that time in a row and achieving several victories, but soon the Dai army found a way to deal with the chariots, simply put, using fire and melee combat, so the chariots were not very effective. After the battle of the Qin Dynasty, Han Teng and the Qin army did not have much expectations for chariots, and did not continue to manufacture chariots on a large scale.

However, if the Qin army does not build, it does not mean that the plateau does not build, since the plateau dares to push this kind of vehicle out on the battlefield, it is definitely his intention. Since the death of Wang Jian in battle, Wang Ben has also carefully studied the process of becoming famous on the plateau, and unexpectedly found that in the process of growing up on the plateau, in addition to the elusive and unpredictable use of troops, he also brought many strange and useful things, such as double high bridge saddles and horse shoes, which greatly changed the style of war, as well as heavy armored cavalry, back army, fierce oil rockets, etc., although they seem inconspicuous, but they are indeed unprecedented things, and the achievements of the plateau are actually inseparable from these things. It can be said that if there were no cavalry troops, there would be no backing army, and there would be no plateau today.

In addition to the military aspect, the plateau also brought with it papermaking, printing and other technologies, so it is not surprising that the plateau has come up with some strange chariots.

But soon Wang Ben had doubts about his own thoughts, because after the chariots of the Han army jumped out of the array, they only advanced more than twenty steps before stopping, and there were soldiers who came to untie the horses pulling the carts and led them back into the array, but they left all the vehicles behind, lined up, and each chariot was about three zhang apart. Then a large number of people without armor came out of the array, and dozens of people surrounded a chariot, not knowing what they were doing. But after a while, Wang Ben unexpectedly found that they were actually dismantling the chariot.

This also surprised Wang Ben, what is Han Jun planning to do? Is it difficult that the tank is broken and needs to be repaired before the battle? However, it is only a few chariots that will be broken, and there is a reason why all chariots are broken. Did Gao Yuan want to use this method to induce the Qin army to attack? But this method is also a little too clumsy, of course Wang Ben will not let the Qin army attack lightly.

However, not long after the time, Wang Ben made a new discovery, it turned out that the Han army dismantled the chariot parts were put together a tall door beam-like structure, so it seems that the Han army is not dismantling the vehicle on the battlefield, but to reassemble the vehicle and put it together into other things. Although Wang Ben didn't know what the Han army was assembling? But since it is assembled on the battlefield, of course, it can't be an ordinary item, it must be some kind of weapon.

Unconsciously, most of the hours passed, the Hezhong army did not move, and the weapons assembled by the Han army were also roughly formed, at this time Wang Ben could also see that the original weapon assembled by the Han army seemed to be a large trebuchet, because the door beam is a unique structure of the trebuchet.

At this time, the door beam of the general large trebuchet is not more than two zhang high, and the height of the door beam of the trebuchet assembled by the Han army is close to three zhang, and the door beam is heightened, and the body shape of the trebuchet is naturally larger, and such a huge trebuchet must be very inconvenient to move on the battlefield, and the use of this assembly structure, usually put together into a big car, conducive to moving, after arriving at the battlefield, and then assembled into a trebuchet, this is really an ingenious idea.

But now Wang Ben did not think of the ingenious idea of the Han army, but the size of the trebuchet increased, so the projection distance would naturally be much greater than that of ordinary trebuchets, so it seems that Gao Yuan obviously intended to use this trebuchet to attack the position of the Qin army.

In the defensive positions of the Qin army, a large number of trebuchets were also arranged, but the projection distance of these trebuchets was basically within 200 steps, and the projection distance of the trebuchets used by other countries was also similar, but now the distance between the two sides was about 400 steps, and at this distance, even the bed crossbow could not reach the range. Could it be that this trebuchet of the Han army can reach this projection distance?

If it was someone else, Wang Ben would not believe it, but the opponent was Gao Yuan, and Wang Ben would not dare to be sure. Although Wang Ben also thought about whether to take the initiative to attack, so as not to be attacked by the long-range attack of the combined army, he had some doubts, first, there was no long-range weapon that could hit more than 400 steps away in this era; Second, Wang Ben also doubted whether Gao Yuan was bluffing or inducing the Qin army to attack, so after thinking about it, Wang Ben still couldn't make up his mind to attack after all.

The vehicle launched by the Han army is naturally a lightning strike vehicle, which is also a plan that Gao Yuan has made before sending troops, that is, at the beginning of the war, using the ultra-long attack distance of the lightning strike car to hit the Qin army, and cause a huge deterrent to the Qin army, attract the attention of the Qin State to Daliang, and then attack from the north and south to attack the Qin State.

Although the power of the lightning strike car is huge, but because the structure is complex, the process is fine, the production is difficult, so the cost is also extremely high, before Gao Yuan participated in the Triple Alliance, the entire Han country also only manufactured sixty-two lightning strike vehicles, and this attack on the beam, although the Han army only invested more than 50,000 troops, but brought forty lightning strike cars, it can also be said that the plateau will pin the main hope on the lightning strike car.

Tian Kezang is also the first time to see the lightning strike car, although I heard Gao Yuan say that the range of this giant trebuchet is amazing, but I have not seen it with my own eyes, I am always a little skeptical, but seeing that the lightning strike car is gradually assembled successfully, the tall door beam is even more than the Gao Yuan and Tian Kezang who are in command on the high platform, and it looks really powerful. It also made Tian Kezang's heart full of expectations for this kind of lightning strike.

After assembling for more than half an hour, all the forty lightning trucks were finally assembled into giant trebuchets, and Mo Jing, who was responsible for commanding the assembly, walked up to the command platform to see the plateau and said: "King, the forty trebuchets have all been assembled, and they can attack the Qin army at any time. ”

Gao Yuan nodded and said, "Okay, let's start right away and let Qin Jun know how powerful we are." ”

After Mo Jing received the order, he immediately came down from the high platform, rushed to the position of the trebuchet, and ordered to start launching the trebuchet to strike at the defensive position of the Qin army.

Although the strike distance of the lightning truck was very long, the speed of the launch was not fast, so the forty trebuchets would be divided into two groups and take turns to attack the Qin army's position. Twenty trebuchets use different stones, ten of which can throw small stones weighing no more than 20 catties, and can throw seven or eight pieces at a time, while the other ten are large stones that weigh more than 100 catties, and can only throw one stone at a time. Before throwing stones, large or small, they were all poured with grease and lit with flames to strengthen the blow.

By this time all forty trebuchets were ready, the projected stones were placed in the chutes, and the boulders that were responsible for powering them were twisted and suspended in the air and held in place with latches. And with Mo Jing's order, the fire was ignited, and twenty of the trebuchets pulled out the latch.