Chapter 410: Siege Equipment

After another two days of preparation, Lu Zhi led an army of two million headquarters, plus nearly a million reinforcements from various departments, and finally marched to Guangzong.

After the end of the Yellow Turban Army's state of fortune, Ma Teng finally arrived belatedly with the Liangzhou Army!

Together with more than 100,000 supporting soldiers and horses from nearby prefectures and counties, a total of 3 million troops marched towards Gwangjong City.

Along the way, all the Yellow Turban Army fled, and the cities in Julu County that were captured by the Yellow Turban Army were recovered one after another.

Although there are some tricky elements, this is still considered a merit to capture the city, but because it is not an independent action of the Shang Ji army, it will be judged according to the system, and the Shang Ji can only take part of the merit.

But this kind of pie-in-the-sky harvest still made Shang Ji overjoyed, and in just ten days, Shang Ji relied on this kind of siege like picking up leaks, and harvested nearly 10 million merit points.

However, it is a pity that because the war has not yet ended, the exchange of large amounts of merit has not yet begun. Shang Jikong has tens of millions of merit points, but he can't change them into strength.

However, it didn't take long for Shang Ji's good days to encounter hard stubble.

Quzhou, one of the big cities of Julu County, is located in the west of Guangzong, and is the only way for the army of thieves to march into Guangzong. And now, Quzhou has been transformed into a super-large military camp, and countless Yellow Turban troops have been stationed in it. In addition to the main force of 500,000 Yellow Turbans, there were also several times the Yellow Turban miscellaneous soldiers gathered from nearby states and counties and the previous defeat and retreat of the city.

Shang Ji took Zhang He, Zhao Yun and others to investigate the general situation of Quzhou City from afar, and the arrow towers, wide moats, thick and solid city walls and the dense yellow-clothed soldiers on the city walls immediately laid down Shang Ji's plan to test the siege of the city.

Obviously, this time is different from the past, in the past, it was not so much the Shang Ji to recover the city, but the Yellow Turban Army itself took the initiative to give up the defense, and today, the Yellow Turban Army does not intend to continue to retreat.

The Shang army was all cavalry, and there were no siege equipment, so naturally they could not go to attack the heavily defended city. Seriously speaking, if there is only the Shang army, there is only one way to besiege in the face of this kind of scene, and if the Shang army is doubled, it will be impossible to break through Quzhou without siege equipment.

But fortunately, this time Shang Ji was just a striker, there was no need to shake this kind of fortified city and reconnoiter the enemy's situation, Shang Ji decisively went to Lu Zhi to report.

"Duke Lu, the moth thieves in Quzhou are heavily guarded, the city walls are thick, and the last general lacks siege weapons, so he has no choice but to ask Duke Lu to punish him!"

After entering Lu Zhishuai's account, Shang Ji first asked for sin.

"Hahaha, Yue Wu doesn't need to feel guilty, the old man has long expected that this moth thief will resist stubbornly. The Yue Wu Department is heavily armed with cavalry, and field battles against the enemy are naturally your strength, and you have to rely on the old man to conquer the city! ”

Lu Zhi laughed, stroked the long beard on his chest and smiled.

"We'll see!" Shang Ji smiled slightly, bowed down and said.

The city in the beacon fire is dozens of meters high and dozens of meters thick at every turn, and the material is not ordinary stone, but basalt stone, which is extremely strong, and there is no powerful siege weapon, which is simply a nightmare for the attacker.

And Lu Zhineng was able to hold on under the onslaught of Zhang Jiao's millions of troops before, and he also took advantage of the Yellow Turban Army's lack of siege equipment.

So far, all the cities above the megacities have fallen due to internal reasons, and there has never been a giant city that has been captured head-on.

And so far, all the powerful siege equipment in the Huaxia District is in the hands of the Han Imperial Court, and the status of this thing is comparable to that of ballistic missiles in reality!

Before, Shang Ji had seen the blueprints of battleships that could be exchanged in the exchange list of the Youzhou Meritorious Office, and the drawings of the siege equipment did not even have a hair, which shows the importance of the imperial court to the siege equipment!

As the Central Army of the Han Dynasty, Lu Zhi's department naturally will not lack siege equipment, but it was besieged in Handan before, and of course the siege equipment will not be used, but now that the situation is reversed, these powerful weapons can finally show their style.

"Pass the order, and order the general of the sect to immediately lead the C-shaped tunnel battalion to break through the Quzhou city wall, and order Liu Bei, Gongsun Zhan, Lu Bu and others to lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters to help General Shang Ji break the thief!"

"Yes!"

With Lu Zhi's order, the army moved, Lu Bu and others led their own troops to Quzhou, and Shang Ji also returned to the front line, waiting for the arrival of the tunnel camp troops led by the sect.

LΓΌ Bu and Gongsun Zhan arrived one after another and joined forces with Shang Ji, and a day later, Liu Bei led the army to escort the sect members with the tunnel camp troops.

At the east gate of Quzhou, hundreds of thousands of troops gathered together, most of them were cavalry. The Yellow Turban Army was also on the lookout, with soldiers on the city walls, defensive gears, rolling stones, bed crossbows, giant shields, hook guns, and even a catapult not far away.

Under this kind of defensive intensity, a strong attack is tantamount to self-defeat.

"General Zong, the thief army is very well defended, and the thief still needs to see General Zong's divine might!"

"It's easy to say, it's easy to say, just a moth thief, it's not enough to worry about it!" The sect member looked at the city defense of Qu Zhou, and then said confidently: "Look, generals, the east city of Qu Zhou will be broken within an hour!" ”

"Pass the order, arrange the city-breaking dragon cannon and torch stone cart, and be sure to smash the Quzhou city wall within an hour!" After giving the order, the sect member said proudly: "Are you generals interested in appreciating the style of the imperial court's sharp weapons up close?"

Shang Ji and the others naturally would not refuse, and hurriedly accepted the invitation of the sect member and went to the tunnel camp with him.

At a position more than ten miles away from Quzhou City, the tunnel camp stopped advancing. The mysterious city-breaking dragon cannon revealed its true face.

The so-called city-breaking dragon cannon is cylindrical, shaped like its name, like a sleeping dragon. It is more than ten zhang long, and the diameter is also one zhang, and there are wheels at the bottom to help drive. The front of the car is the dragon's head high, majestic.

Compared with the city-breaking dragon cannon, the torch stone car has lost more than one step to the city-breaking dragon cannon both externally and internally.

Soon the siege equipment was placed, and the whole ten city-breaking dragon cannons were lined up, and there were hundreds of torch stone carts on both sides, aiming at Quzhou City.

Although there were also catapults on Quzhou City, the range was obviously inferior to that of the Han army, so they could only watch them arrange siege equipment.

"Tell the general, the city-breaking dragon cannon and the torch stone cart are ready, please instruct the general!" A member of the tunnel battalion trotted over and reported to the sect member.

The sect member smiled slightly, waved his hand, and said, "Start attacking the city!" ”

Then ignoring the little colonel, the sect member turned his head to look at Shang Ji and the others and smiled: "Generals, don't blink!" ”

Shang Ji clenched his fists, which was regarded as a response to the sect member, and his eyes stared at the ten city-breaking dragon cannons without blinking. The sect member didn't mind, and also turned his gaze to the city-breaking dragon cannon, although he had seen it many times, but every time the city-breaking dragon cannon was powerful, it made the sect member's heart sway.