This catapult is the perfect weapon for close combat for ordinary armies, but it has a limited range of only 3.9 km, which is about a thousand steps of an ancient battlefield soldier.

Siege ballistae can shoot farther, but outside of this range, siege ballistae are much less lethal to these soldiers in defensive gear!

Even an ordinary person with only a thousand steps to walk can be killed by a crossbow shot, and his life will not be in danger.

The Meng Yuan soldiers ran a thousand steps, Xiao ordered to stop shooting, this time if it was not for the preparation of such a gift from Wang, a while ago a day could break a city, how close to ten days to break the three cities of the Yuan Meng!

The siege crossbow fired more than ten rounds, it is estimated that at least more than 30,000 people were killed, nearly 40,000 people, plus the first three rounds of arrow attacks, this battle is not really close, and the 50,000 Yuan and Meng people killed are really a big victory!

So after King Ruyang retreated, Xiao Ziran did not pursue. Instead, he sent 50,000 soldiers with 500 siege ballistae to attack the surrounding cities.

He personally led the rest of the army and monitored the King of Ruyang, so if he made any moves, he could react immediately!

After all, with the exposed siege crossbow, there is no point in hiding under the tuck! This army of 50,000 people has no difficulty in attacking a city with 500 bows and capturing a city.

When the lord of the city heard this, he did not even tell the captain of the guard of the city, but fled secretly with his wife and his children, and those who were with him.

When the bodyguard captain found out, he was immediately angry, you said that you can't beat 10 runs, it's not a big deal, it's normal!

But he quietly ran away, without telling us what it meant, and immediately gave the direct order to open the city gates and surrender!

In any case, even if you resist, more than a thousand people with your own hands can't stop it for long, it's better to surrender, maybe you can save a life!

Sure enough, after these people opened the city gate and surrendered, they were convinced, and this time they led the team to attack the city lieutenant generals, without any difficulty for them, only let them disarm and return to the fields, and became an ordinary person yuan to receive the people!

When the news spread, the soldiers of the nearby towns either opened the gates and surrendered, or surrendered under the threat of five hundred encircling vehicles and were ordered to return to their fields.

As for the city lords, as officials of the Yuan Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, they did not dare to surrender.

Even if they surrendered, Xiao Ziran's army would not agree, so these people either fled in advance, or were caught red-handed by the 50,000-strong army and killed on the spot!

For more than ten days, King Ruyang did not make any movement. He simply begged the lord in front of him to leave and come to his city.

Anyway, it can't stop Xiao Ziran's army, it's better to surrender to him directly, and then save a little effective troops, although the front is close, there are many cities, and the guards inside add up to about 20,000 people, not big or small supplements!

And those who are not protected by the city will be completely occupied in a few days by the fifty thousand troops sent by petty bourgeoisie.

Xiao Ziran sat on Liu Bowen of Nange Bookstore and asked him to send some management talents under the Eagle Gate to take over the city.

When they arrived, they ordered 50,000 soldiers to rejoin them with 500 siege crossbows!

A day later, the news came from the commander of 50,000 soldiers. On the way back, a group of masters attacked us.

When Xiao Ziran heard the news, he knew that King Ruyang had shrunk for ten days, but nothing had happened.

And even in order to let their guard down, they took the initiative to give the city to themselves, and they were really fooled. They did not recover five hundred bows in time.

Luckily, only 500 were released this time, and if they were all given away, now I'm afraid I'll go crazy!

But without the crossbow, the threat to the Ruyang royal army was greatly reduced. I believe that soon, the two sides will really hold hands!

Sure enough, three days later, King Ruyang led a large army to leave the city and walk towards Xiao Ziran.

After a while, the two armies faced each other again!

The boy who was standing at the front of the team said to King Ruyang, who was also standing at the front of the line, "King Ruyang, although you have destroyed five hundred crossbows, I still have five hundred bows.

When Xiao Ran heard this, he thought that the soldiers under the rule of King Ruyang would make a fuss.

When King Ruyang saw this, he laughed and said, "Xiao Ziran, if the king wants to use people's lives, he can use them for twenty days." ”

"But I've been locked up in the city for 20 days. Do you think I'm just waiting for the imperial court to act?"

Xiao Zilan was puzzled: "Huh?"

King Ruyang waved his hand and said, "Push, let him see the results of our 20 days!"

And when he had said this, he saw five hundred shields, about a man high, and four wheels on the base of the shield to keep them in place.

King Ruyang smiled smugly and said, "Look, this is my secret weapon. The shields have fingers, and they are of fine iron.

"Is that so? let me try!

In an instant, a hundred siege crossbows shot out, hit the shield with a thud, and fell to the ground!

Look at the shield. It was pushed back a few meters, and the soldier pushing it behind was ejected by the force of the recoil.

But when they stood up and looked around, not a single one died. At best, they were shot and slightly wounded!

The boy looked at it and knew that King Ruyang was right. With them, his battering crossbow is essentially useless.

If there are five hundred people there, then it is better to widen the battle line a little more, and then fire two shells, the first one hits the soldiers of the patriarch Meng, and the second one kills them!

Unfortunately, King Ruyang had already thought of this result. He demanded that the masters of the court destroy five hundred siege crossbows.

Looking at the helpless Xiao Ziran, King Ruyang smiled and said, "How is the quality of my shield?"

Xiao Ziran sneered and said, "Yes, but even if you don't know the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, is it still so good?"

King Ruyang replied proudly: "Then you try, don't you know?"

As soon as Xiao Ran saw the appearance of King Ruyang, he didn't say anything more.

When the king of Ruyang saw this, he shouted, "Kill me!"

After a while, the two armies fought and killed each other.

At this time, you can't rely on anything, the only thing you can rely on is your own strength, and only your own strength can make yourself in this situation!

Strength is reflected in the usual training, training hard, the strength will be stronger.

In Xiao Ziran's troops, the minimum training is also four or five years, so the strength is definitely there, and the only thing lacking is the mentality of recruits.

But the last battle with the Seven Lords gave them the mentality that part of the battlefield should have!

In contrast, only a small percentage of Ruyang's army are veterans, and the rest are recruits who had just enlisted a few years earlier.

But among Xiao Ziran's soldiers and veterans, they have fought, and the recruits have a little internal force, and after the internal force, the attack is equal to them!

Coupled with some external skills, the first confrontation between the two sides, Xiao Ziran's troops will be led by Yuan Bing.

Among them, the old soldiers cooperated with each other, more like the soldiers of the patriarch Meng, who launched a massacre!

Willing to show weakness, and those recruits are reluctant to fight fiercely for the first time, after finding out that this will accelerate the loss of stamina, then slowly learn the appearance of the experienced, constantly change their mentality and attack patterns, and gradually learn to use the lowest cost, kill the enemy, and then switch to the old!

Half an hour later, Xiao Ziran's advantage began to appear, and the balance of victory began to tilt.

After an hour, most of the recruits have completed their metamorphosis and become qualified veterans.

As for the others, they have been fighting on the battlefield for an hour straight. Can they survive without degradation? The answer is obvious!

All but a lucky few died in battle!

Xiao Ziran saw that the time was almost up, and it was time to fight, those exhausted recruits who had just completed the breakthrough, no, they should be veterans, I was afraid to stay on the battlefield forever!

With Xiao Ziran ordering a retreat, the King of Ruyang on the opposite side was also ruthlessly relieved, after all, the situation just now was already obvious.

From the beginning of the equal, to the later Xiao Ziran's soldiers had a slight advantage, and in the end he was completely defeated under his own soldiers.

If it weren't for the fear that he would call people to retreat, which could easily lead to the rout of his own army, King Ruyang would have called people to retreat long ago.

After the two sides retreated, they began to point out their losses, and Xiao Ziran's troops could lose about forty or fifty thousand in the first hour.

But the losses on the side of King Ruyang were much more serious. More than 100,000 soldiers were killed in action.

And the current situation is that there are more people than others, and individual soldiers are not as effective as others, what do you let him do in this situation!

They had to stay in the city and rely on the city's defenses to resist the army of Petty Zilan, but it wouldn't last long. After all, five hundred siege crossbows are not vegetarians.

On the flat ground, it was impossible to capture the exquisite iron shield of the King of Ruyang, only to repel it.

But it was enough, and when the defenders were repulsed, or even blown away, some of them ran up the ladder.

Let the defending soldiers above simply have no time to throw the rolling out wood, falling stones and other things, and smash the ladder on the soldier and fall down!

In this way, Xiao Ziran's troops could easily open the gap in the city wall, of course, it was not so simple to hold this small area!

Because those Yuan soldiers Meng scurried around, and when they saw the enemy rushing up the city wall, they rushed up to attack like crazy, and if necessary, they had to exchange injuries for injuries, and even if they killed the enemy, they had to tear down the city wall together, and then quickly plug the gap!

If this is not done, when those who climb the walls stand up, they will come up in a steady stream, and the walls are not far from disappearing.

This has been happening for nearly a month, and every time Yuan Meng has to pay a huge price to stop Xiao Zilan's army from attacking.

On the contrary, Xiao Ziran's side, with the help of five hundred siege ballistas, did not suffer much loss. So far, only 20,000 people have been killed, and now only 300,000 remain.

There are only 200,000 left at the king's side!

In a typical siege, soldiers should lose to attackers twice or even several times as much as the defenders, but now the opposite is true.

This was all because Xiao Ran's army was supported by five hundred siege crossbows. This is one of the reasons why Xiao Ran was not in a hurry to start a war a few years ago and did not send troops to the north.

Because it is too wasteful of time and energy to build this thing, and it also requires a lot of manpower and material resources, otherwise, this thing must not fly!

Back to the topic, petty bourgeoisie these days, don't rush to launch a siege, every day at such a time, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the afternoon!

It's better to break in than to break in.

Because on the first day of the siege, he gave Chan you the news and told him to do his best to keep the king's army here, so that he has any means to show as soon as possible by taking this opportunity, otherwise it is not stored in this village!

When Chen Youliang saw this news, he thought about it for a while, and knew that this was Xiao Zilan of Yang, and asked him to lead troops to attack the surrounding cities and enhance his strength!

When Xiao Ziran completely defeated the King of Ruyang, if Chen Youliang's strength had not yet grown, when he only surrendered to Xiao Ziran, all the territories occupied by nature would also belong to Xiao Ziran!

If the time is ripe and Chen Youliang's strength has grown, the two of them will join hands, Yuan will be destroyed, and then fight for the world!

But if the two of them together destroy Yuan Yuanzhang's Meng, Chen Youliang will face another question, that is, whether they are the opponents of the petty bourgeoisie who owns the entire south and a quarter of the north!

When the time comes, as long as you defeat yourself, Xiao Ziran will successfully rule the world!

It's time-saving and effort-saving, so to speak, killing two birds with one stone, but they can't refuse because it's their only chance!

Because if you follow this plan by the small, as long as they move quickly, there will be a few minutes of chance in the world, but if you are not willing to follow Shaw's plan, I'm afraid there will be no chance!

How to choose, as long as there are wise people, they know, and Chen Youliang is a smart person among smart people, and the natural choice is to follow the planning direction given by Xiao Ziran.

On the day he received Xiao Ziran's book, he used all his savings to recruit troops in the city, while his men set out with 100,000 troops to attack nearby cities in four ways!

Before, this was Chen Youliang's territory, Yuan Meng was attacked, left with the whole city, and gave up here!

Later, it was occupied by Yuan Meng, and a group of people moved from other places to live here!

Originally, there should have been a few thousand troops here, but due to the tension of the war, most of the Ruyang kings were transferred to the front line, and now there are only a few hundred Mongol soldiers for 500 yuan.

It only took half a day for Chen Youliang's generals to break through the four cities and regain control of them!

The property of all Yuan and Mongol officials in the city was looted, and then people were sent to manage it.

In this way, after five days, Chen Youliang snatched back all the chengguan in his original territory, and then ruthlessly searched those officials of Yuan Meng.

Combined with his previous savings, he was able to muster an army of 100,000 men, not counting equipment.

But the problem of equipment is easy to solve, it turns out that during the siege of the city, those soldiers who died on the city wall, whether it was their own soldiers or the soldiers of the patriarch Meng!

Except for all the broken equipment and the remaining intact equipment, Chen Youliang is enough to equip another 200,000 troops, and all Chen Youliang does not have to worry about equipment!

The army of 200,000, although there are 100,000 recruits, but the number is small, and it is also quite a bluff person, in its current form, except for most of the imperial city received by Yuan, other cities are basically unable to stop Chen Youliang's attack.

In fact, it is also the case, Chen You understand that if you restore your original territory, you will put the things that pacify the people into your own hands, and you will keep fighting.

At their border with Meng, which was closest to Yuancheng, they continued to attack southward.

In this way, there was no danger between the Yuan dynasty and the Mongol court.

And the 100,000 guards of the Imperial City are relieved, these recruits, they should deal with double the number of enemies around them when they go to the battlefield, that is not a dead heart!

However, in view of the greatly reduced number of the Imperial Forest Army, Yuan Shizu took out a large sum of money and went to the territory to be recruited under his own control.

But the reaction of the common people has been greatly reduced, because who knows that the battle situation on the front line is tense, and they don't know what imperial city to fight, and who doesn't want to die!

And the most important thing is that both Xiao Ziran and Chen Youliang have said in the four expeditionary armies that as long as those veterans of Meng's people, don't run to join the army, and when they break the city, as usual!

The only change is that the city has a new owner, but it doesn't have any effect on them!

But if after joining the army, you come to rebel against yourself, but you are defeated by yourself and collect the people, then you will never forgive, and you will not forgive for killing!