After hearing Yuan Bi's order, the remaining guardsmen also slowly avoided Zhang Fei's attack, allowing him to lead his cavalry out of the formation and run towards Lu County.
Seeing Zhang Fei leaving, Dian Wei came to Yuan Shu again.
"My Lord, are you satisfied with the Guards?"
Hearing Dian Wei's words, Yuan Shu couldn't help but nodded,
Although he was unable to stop Zhang Fei in the end, he was Zhang Fei, an enemy of ten thousand people.
Apart from generals of the same level, how many armies have been able to stop it in the past and present?
Not even the trapped camp, which is known as the strongest army in the Three Kingdoms, can do this. Just looking at its spirit and fighting spirit, the Guards can be regarded as the elite among the elite.
"Mingjin."
Hearing Yuan Shu's words, a harsh sound of ringing gold came from behind. Hearing this sound, Yuan Bi glanced at Zhang Fei who was leaving, and returned to the army with the corpses of the elite guards and his comrades.
The elite guardsmen suffered heavy losses in this battle. Over a thousand of the 3,000 heavy armored infantry were killed and countless others were slightly injured. Liu Bei's cavalry also suffered heavy casualties. Nearly a thousand cavalry remained in the military formation forever. It can be said that it was a battle.
It was evenly matched.
Zhang Fei returned to Lu County with the remaining cavalry. Looking at his brothers covered in blood, a red light flashed on his face and he climbed onto the city wall.
"Brother, Zhang Fei failed to complete the task and is here to receive his punishment."
Looking at Zhang Fei whose armor was damaged and covered in blood, Liu Bei also sighed. He did not expect that his most elite cavalry, led by Zhang Fei, could not break through the defense of three thousand Yuan troops. He was really speechless.
"My Lord, this battle is not the fault of the soldiers. Yuan Shu's Jizhou Army is truly the best in the world. Don't worry too much."
Chen Gong looked at Yuan Shujun outside the city with a slightly gloomy look in his eyes.
"Well, I know. It's good to appease the soldiers. Gongtai, do you have any countermeasures against Yuan Shu's trebuchet?"
Liu Bei nodded, but looking at the trebuchet outside the city, he was still scratching his head.
"Don't worry, my lord, although Yuan Shu's trap is clever, we don't have to be too afraid. Chief Gongye, please tell me."
Although Yuan Shu's trebuchets are very strong, they are not unable to withstand them, and Chief Gongye is the source of his confidence.
Gongye was said to be a descendant of the public loser during the Warring States Period, and he was unparalleled in his mechanical skills. After Chen Gong found Gongye, he made it clear why he was here. He thought it would be difficult, but he came happily to help Liu Bei.
"Sir, Yuan Shu's trebuchet is actually recorded in my family's ancestral Gongshu Book. In comparison, Yuan Shu's trebuchet is lighter and more convenient, and has a longer range.
But it doesn't matter. Its function is nothing more than using various powers to project stones.
So I put a lot of cooked cowhide on the city walls and battlements to buffer the force of falling stones and reduce damage to the city walls.
At the same time, multiple interception nets were arranged on the city wall to intercept stones falling from the sky and minimize our casualties."
Chief Gongye told Liu Bei in detail the defensive strategies he had prepared.
"Although sir, the defense is very complete, but as the saying goes, if you defend for a long time, you will lose. Isn't there any weapon that can resist Yuan Shu's trebuchet?"
Although what Gongye said was clear and logical, Liu Bei still felt that it was not enough. After all, he could only be beaten passively, and there would always be mistakes.
"Sir, there is no need to worry about this. Although the trebuchets recorded by my family are not as powerful as Yuan Shu's, they are not without workarounds. I have made twenty large trebuchets according to family records and then made some improvements. They should be able to follow suit.
They fight against each other, but they just need a lot of people."
Regarding Liu Bei's problems, Gongye Chang also had a solution.
"The number of people is not a problem. You can arrange how many people are needed for the official stage. As long as it can knock down Yuan Shu's arrogance."
Liu Bei didn't care about the problem of manpower. After all, he now has a strong army.
"promise."
The arrangements here are in place, and it will depend on who is stronger next.
With Liu Bei's permission, intense assembly work began under the city wall, and gradually the prototypes of more than twenty behemoths were revealed.
"Sir, what is that?"
Ying Shao's men couldn't help but wonder when they saw the trebuchet being assembled below the city.
"I don't know. It looks like the catapult outside the city, but this one has a bigger head."
Ying Shao had never seen it before, but he was well-informed and could still make a rough guess.
"Then don't we need it?"
After the man finished speaking, he just made a motion of slitting his throat with his hands.
"Don't act rashly, now is not the time."
Ying Shao couldn't help but shook his head. If they didn't move, they would be killed with one blow. Now was the time for them to take action.
"promise."
The city is still being assembled, but Yuan Shu's army outside the city has been fully prepared. Forty trebuchets have been assembled and lined up. Yuan Shu can only give the order to roar.
"Beat the drums and attack the city."
Seeing that everything was ready, there was no need to hesitate, and Yuan Shu directly ordered the attack.
"The Lord has an order to attack the city."
The rumble of war drums resounded throughout the sky, and the trebuchets that had been prepared took the lead in attacking.
"Reload."
"Target Wall."
"Five shots in a row."
"put."
Forty trebuchets were loaded at the same time, and then a series of trebuchet sounds sounded. Forty polished stone bullets, with the sound of howling wind, hit the Luxian city wall like raindrops.
"Defense, raise the barrier."
Seeing Yuan Shujun's trebuchet exerting force, Liu Bei quickly ordered the blockade deployed by Chief Gongye to be raised.
Following Liu Bei's order, the special blocking nets that had been prepared rose instantly, like a huge spider web, covering the entire Luxian city.
"boom."
"boom."
"boom."
It has to be said that the defense made by Gongye Chang is still very accurate. The city walls and battlements wrapped with cooked cowhide have a great effect in the face of the impact of the trebuchet. Although the stone bullets hit it with a bang, it still has no effect.
Didn't cause much damage to it,
The interception net also played a big role in blocking the stone bullets. Most of the stone bullets were blocked, and only a few of them got over the interception net and hit the city wall with body parts.
"My lord, it seems Liu Bei has an expert there."
Seeing the layout on the city wall, Tian Feng couldn't help but frowned. Whether it was the cooked cowhide walls or the interception nets, it seemed that engineers had specially prepared them.
"Expert?
Haha, let him stop me, and I will see how far he can stop me. I will tell him to go down and use kerosene bombs."
Faced with Liu Bei's defensive measures, Yuan Shu smiled. He wanted to stop his trebuchet with this little trick, so go ahead and dream.
"My lord has an order, use kerosene bombs."
Yuan Shu's military order was directly transmitted to the ears of the captain in charge of the trebuchet.
"Okay, everyone changes to kerosene bombs, five rounds in a row."
