The matter of catapulting was put aside. Although we could not provide enough weapons to suppress the crossbow for a while, we could not give up the attack just like this. Chen Mo tried to attack the city with other methods for two consecutive days.

He ordered the craftsmen to make a shield chariot with huge wooden shields in front of them, so that the soldiers could push them to attack the city. Although the crossbow had extremely strong penetration power, it was difficult to penetrate the three-inch thick wooden shield. It was once pressed to the city. When the cloud ladder was placed on the city wall, it was smashed by the defenders with wooden rocks. Fancheng was defeated. Fortunately, Zhuge Liang transferred the Xiangyang troops in time and drove the Ming army back, setting fire to burn the well and cloud ladder, which forced the Ming army to retreat.

"Damn it, if it weren't for the floating bridge, this Fancheng had already been captured!" Wei Yan, who was in charge of the siege, returned to the camp and punched the ground with a fierce punch, and said indignantly.

The other generals also looked ugly. These wells, ladders and shields were made after a lot of materials, but most of them have been burned down. Even if they attack the city tomorrow, it will be difficult to almost break the city without these things like today.

"For generals, please be irritable." Chen Mo knocked on the table and signaled Wei Yan to sit down and not to get upset. Wars are a process of going back and forth. You have Zhang Liang's plan. I have a ladder. Whoever is stronger and weak is based on their own abilities. How can there be a battle that only wins and not loses?

"Here!" Wei Yan bowed and sat back to his seat.

Chen Mo looked at everyone and said, "Since the floating bridge is in trouble, remove the floating bridge."

"Your Majesty, I will see the copper pillar in the middle of the river. Not to mention the copper pillar, the stakes around are buried deep at the bottom of the river, and most of them are hidden under the water. I ordered the soldiers to go and dismantle them, but the hammer is difficult to exert force under the water. If these stakes are not removed, it will be difficult for our military ships to come." Xu Huang bowed and said.

Chen Mo nodded and thought for a while, "I have seen the floating bridge. In fact, to break this floating bridge, it only takes a few fire boats. I'll try it tonight."

There was no need for Ma Jun to come in person. He found more than a dozen craftsmen in the army and quickly built sixteen fire boats. Chen Mo asked eight ships to fill all of them with hay, tinder oil and other flammable objects, two in groups, each with a soldier, and connected each other with ropes. When it was late at night, Chen Mo asked these people to row the boats near the pontoon bridge. When it was almost time to arrive, he ignited the small boats full of fire-induced objects, and then cut off the ropes and let the eight fire boats go down the flow.

On the banks of the river, watching the fire boats approaching the floating bridge, Chen Mo and the generals' faces flashed with joy. The soldiers who were guarding the night in Xiangfan City obviously noticed these. Above the two cities, the sound of drums and trumpets was loud. Zhuge Liang brought Zhang Fei and others to the city. Looking at the fire boats that quickly approached the floating bridge, Zhuge Liang narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the direction of the Ming army camp in the distance, and said to Zhang Fei: "Transfer our military order, don't repair the floating bridge for the time being. Let's talk about it tomorrow, and then go to put out the fire."

"Why is this?" Zhang Fei frowned.

"It makes sense! Just do it!" Zhuge Liang smiled.

"Here!" Zhang Fei agreed and immediately sent a team of people out of the city to put out the fire. At the same time, he ordered the craftsmen responsible for the construction of bridges on the other side to not leave the city. The repair of the floating bridge will be done by this side.

As the eight fireboats docked, the floating bridge quickly burned. Chen Mo looked at the Jingzhou soldiers who hurried out to put out the fire, and always felt something was wrong. This seemed to be a little smoother. Zhuge Liang wouldn't have only this trick, right?

"King, the bridge is destroyed, why do you look like this?" Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo and asked in confusion.

"It's going well." Chen Mo shook his head and looked at Zhang Liao beside him and said, "Wenyuan, you are here to monitor and see if the Jingzhou army still has any movement tonight."

"Here!" Zhang Liao agreed.

Everyone saw that the Jingzhou army began to put out the fire, but in order to prevent moisture, the floating bridge obviously had oil. Even if the Jingzhou army tried hard to rescue, most of them were missing. It seemed that the connection between Xiangfan was broken, but Chen Mo always felt that it was not that simple.

"Return to the camp." After observing for a while, seeing that the Jingzhou army had no next move, Chen Mo took the generals back to the camp and waited for another battle tomorrow.

The next morning, Chen Mo just got up when he saw Zhang Liao hurried out to his tent and ask for a meeting.

Chen Mo put on his clothes and signaled Zhang Liao to come in.

"If the king expected, today when it was dawn, a Jingzhou army came out of the city and quickly repaired the floating bridge. Less than a quarter of an hour ago, the general went to see it in person. The wooden stakes under the floating bridge were not burned, and there were iron chains connected there. After the Jingzhou army left the city, they quickly laid wooden boards along the iron chains." Zhang Liao frowned.

"Then why didn't I practice last night? Isn't this aphrodisiac? Isn't it that I'm just lifting my robe and farting?" Dian Wei, who followed in, said in shock.

"The floating bridge was burned last night, and it was re-paved today. It fell into the eyes of the uninformed person. It must be shocked, which can hit the morale of our army." Chen Mo sneered and shook his head and said, "Since the floating bridge is difficult to destroy, I will try my best. However, I will not fight today, and it will only cost too much troops to fight. There is no need to let the soldiers die!"

"Your Majesty, look at the wooden pillars supported under the floating bridge, which are quite similar to the wooden pillars around the copper pillars in the middle of the river. It is extremely difficult to destroy them." Zhang Liao frowned and said, "Now that if you want to capture Xiangfan, it seems that you can only attack for a strong attack. If you don't go to the battle, wouldn't it give the Jingzhou army a chance to breathe?"

Since the separation of Xiangfan connections is ineffective, what can be done now is to attack forcefully and increase human life. But even if this method is more difficult to wait for Jingzhou's troops to be strong and food is sufficient. Now that Liu Bei has entered Sichuan and has not come back, it is the weakest time. As long as Xiangfan can conquer, Jingzhou will be difficult to defend. Although the cost is higher, if this battle is won, it will establish a unified trend. Jiangdong and Shuzhong can be separated and defeated each of them.

"Don't be in a hurry, isn't there Ma Jun?" Chen Mo smiled and shook his head. He did not advocate a strong attack. Zhuge Liang was able to defend Fancheng, and in addition to his ability, he also took a big advantage in equipment. However, if he could suppress this, even if Xiangfan's troops could be interconnected, he would not be able to stop them.

Seeing Chen Mo say this, Zhang Liao knew what Chen Mo meant and was not going to use this conventional method to waste Xiangfan, so he had to bow and say he could not leave.

"Your Majesty, I think Wenyuan is right." Dian Wei looked at Chen Mo after Zhang Liao left and there were only two people left in the tent, saying, "Where are no ones who can die in war?" He has never seen Chen Mo so kind on the battlefield before.

"This is a method, but I always feel there is a better method." Chen Mo said with a smile. In fact, he still has the intention to completely suppress Zhuge Liang and defeat him in the field he is good at, so that Zhuge Liang knows that the situation is difficult to win, whether it is surrender or retirement, in short, a talent like Zhuge Liang has made Chen Mo love talents.

Dian Wei didn't quite understand why Chen Mo was so persistent, so he nodded and nodded.

In the next few days, Chen Mo did not move troops, but stayed with Ma Jun all day long. Three days later, Ma Jun made a larger catapult car. This catapult car was larger than the previous catapult car. The base alone was nearly three meters, and it was more complex, and the projection distance was also farther. A stone bullet of nearly 100 kilograms could throw ninety steps.

"Try changing to an oil tank." Chen Mo looked at the catapult car and said with a smile.

"Here!" Ma Jun nodded and asked someone to change it to a prepared oil tank. Under the control of eight strongmen, the oil tank was thrown out and someone went to calculate the distance.

"One hundred and fifty steps!" Ma Jun turned his head to look at Chen Mo with surprise. Chen Mo made great contributions to the production of this catapult. He used numerology to calculate a way to superimpose force infinitely. Theoretically, as long as the materials are sufficient, wireless superposition can be performed. If this method is done, the catapult can seep infinitely, but this is just a theory. In fact, the wood is overwhelmed when it is superimposed for the second time, and the entire catapult is disintegrated. Then he made this catapult, which is more than twice as large, and can cast the oil tank out of 150 steps. This distance has exceeded the range of most crossbows.

"Transfer our military orders and build a fort at a distance of 140 steps outside the city, five meters in length and width!" Chen Mo was also a little surprised. He finally did not waste these days. Of course, the most important thing is that he entered the dream training camp and systematically learned the structure and principles of the catapult car and the range calculation. What ratio is the best? It is precisely because of this that the latest catapult car can be created so quickly.

As for why he didn't learn more, in fact, after learning the strategy of water battles, Chen Mo found that every time he came out of the dream training camp, his head would swell and even memory chaos. According to the gods in the system, this is the limit of his brain to endure. Although Chen Mo is only in his forties, the time he experienced in his dreams has been over for hundreds of years since he was young to adulthood. This is why Chen Mo is now almost an all-rounder, but the upper limit of human tolerance is limited, and Chen Mo is now approaching this limit.

Therefore, since the book "State of the Navy" was published, Chen Mo rarely went to dream training camps again. Although the system gods did not give any explanation for what would happen after breaking through the limit, Chen Mo was a little worried that he would have problems, so he did not study anything else.

This time, Nanzheng also discovered that this mechanism was similar to mathematics, so he took the risk of entering it once, and he only learned some principles, but did not make him become a craftsman who was proficient in craftsmanship overnight as he used to his previous skills.

"Here!" Dian Wei, who was standing beside him, knew that he was preparing for a big battle, so he immediately agreed excitedly and ran to pass the order.

Although the generals in the army did not know why, they still perfectly executed Chen Mo's orders.

Chen Mo ordered Ma Jun to quickly prepare enough materials according to the catapult cart. This time, he was preparing to break Fancheng in one go, so this time he planned to build forty forts to burn Fancheng.

Ma Jun personally led the craftsmen to the front line, calculated the distance, and selected the best position, and helped design the fort. A large number of soldiers were sent out to help pile soil and build the platform. Outside Fancheng, it suddenly seemed like a construction site...
Chapter completed!