Yuan Shu's order reached the ears of the old craftsman in charge of the Nightmare Trebuchet. After hearing the order, he couldn't help but squint his eyes and start looking for a suitable location.
"Adjust the direction to the north by 9, the power to 70, the angle down to 7, a heavy bullet, and release."
After watching it for a while, the old craftsman directly chose the direction and ordered the trebuchet to prepare for the attack.
"Adjust the direction to the north by 9, the power to 70, the angle to decrease by 7, and shoot again."
Following the old craftsman's instructions, Nightmare began to adjust its angle and orientation, while the winch was also applying force nervously.
"Adjustment completed, loading completed."
A huge stone bullet was loaded into Nightmare's bullet bag again.
"put."
The nightmare trembled violently, and the super-giant stone bullets with afterimages hit the lower half of Dantu's city wall like lightning.
"boom."
There was a shocking loud noise, and Dantu City trembled violently with the loud noise, and half of the entire stone bullet smashed into the city wall.
"Is this Yuan Shu's secret weapon?"
After the shaking, Cao Cao stood firm. To be honest, he had never felt such a vibration before, which was almost unbelievable to him.
"Raise the angle by half a degree, force 80, release."
Seeing that the stone bullet hit exactly where he imagined, the old craftsman nodded. Since Yuan Shu wanted to destroy the city wall, he had to start from below. A bottom-up attack is the most effective.
"put."
The winch was strengthened again, and the angle was slightly increased. Another stone bullet hit the city wall again at a faster speed than before. This time the effect was even more shocking. The entire stone bullet had penetrated more than 70% of the city wall.
After Dantu's city wall groaned, a fine line quietly appeared on the city wall.
"Five rounds, fire."
The old craftsman picked up the teapot at his feet again and took a sip, but found that there was no tea in it. He couldn't help but shook his head. Unknowingly, this battle had been going on for so long.
"Ten rounds, ready, fire."
As the military order arrived, stone bullets pierced the void one after another and hit the city wall one after another.
"Click."
As the stone bullets continued to hit, the cracks outside the city wall gradually grew larger and wider from being undetectable. After five stone bullets, a crack about half a meter wide appeared in front of people.
"Go quickly."
Feeling the deformation of the city wall, the soldiers fighting over there were also a little frightened, especially Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses. They had already anticipated what was going to happen next.
The city wall here will definitely be destroyed, so what they have to do is to leave here quickly, otherwise with the arrival of the next stone bullet, they may be turned into ruins along with the city wall.
The two sides who were still fighting at the same time decided to give up and then rushed to both sides.
"Slightly adjust the direction half a degree to the north, decrease the angle by 1, keep the force unchanged, and release it."
The old craftsman had already seen the cracks appearing on the city wall, which was exactly what he wanted to see, so he fine-tuned the nightmare again.
With a tremor, Nightmare fired a huge stone bullet again. This stone bullet, carrying violent air fluctuations, slammed into the city wall next to the crack.
"Boom."
There was a violent tremor, and the solid city wall was finally unable to withstand the precise attack. The three or four-meter-long city wall suddenly collapsed, sending dust all over the sky.
"Lord, the northern city wall has been destroyed."
News of the collapse of the city wall quickly reached Cao Cao's ears, and Cao Cao had already seen the collapsed city wall.
"Immediately send someone to plug the gap for me, fast, fast, fast, at all costs."
His troops were nearly 100,000 fewer than Yuan Shu's. The fact that the battle could last so long was entirely due to the advantage of the city wall. There were only so many troops on both sides of the enemy and us. If Yuan Shu's troops could pass through the gap now,
Once you attack them, there will be no suspense in this battle.
Upon hearing Cao Cao's order, countless soldiers directly carried the wooden beams, and the stones began to rush towards the gap.
"Direction to the north 1, angle, force unchanged, release."
After the first shot entered the soul, the old craftsman made another adjustment. After the adjustment, the nightmare once again shot a giant stone bullet towards the Dantu city wall.
"boom."
Stone chips were flying all over the sky. Once a gap was opened in the city wall, there would be no support. This stone bullet once again directly destroyed a section of the city wall that was four to five meters long. The two sections of the gap were nearly seven or eight meters long.
"Order Yuan Huang and the trebuchet troops to suppress the gap, and order Ma Chao to dispatch his cavalry and attack the city."
Now that the gap has appeared, there is no need to hesitate. Ma Chao directly leads the cavalry to attack.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
The mournful horn sounded, and Ma Chao took the lead and rushed out. Behind him were 15,000 cavalry, who followed Ma Chao towards the gap with rumbling horse hooves.
"Prepare heavy bombs to suppress the gaps in the city wall."
When the cavalry charged, Yuan Huang also completed the steering of the trebuchet, and then countless stone bullets fell from the sky, directly turning the gap into a purgatory.
Cao Cao's soldiers had no way to defend themselves against the heavy bombs and could only be smashed into pieces. The city wall they had just started to repair was also smashed to pieces in an instant.
"My lord, we can't stop it anymore. We can't fill the gap at all. Yuan Shu's cavalry will rush in soon."
Xia Houyuan, covered in blood, rushed to Cao Cao and reported to him the situation of the gap in the north.
"No, we must block it, otherwise Yangzhou will be doomed."
Facing Xia Houyuan's words, Cao Cao became a little anxious and grabbed his shoulders and yelled.
"My lord, I really can't stop it. Brothers tried their best."
Xia Houyuan's eyes were full of sorrow. He didn't know that once Yuan Shu entered the city, it would be over. But the fact now is that their main force is on the city wall, and they are really powerless to resist the gap. At this moment, Yuan Shu has already entered the city.
It's inevitable.
"Is there really nothing we can do?"
Looking at Xia Houyuan's appearance, Cao Cao also knew that he might really lose this time, but just when both of them were a little desperate, hundreds of people in uniforms rushed directly to the gap carrying and pushing a large number of carts.
The place.
"Throw all the wood over and prepare the kerosene."
Xun Yu finally arrived at the critical moment. It turned out that when Nightmare targeted the northern wall to attack, Xun Yu discovered Yuan Shu's intention, and he also knew that since Yuan Shu did this, the city wall would most likely be destroyed, so he attacked it in advance.
The government officials organized themselves and began to collect carts, wood and other fire starters.
Cans of kerosene were thrown directly on the cart, and then a torch fell from the sky, directly igniting the wood, and the entire gap instantly turned into a wall of fire.
Ma Chao, who was galloping on horseback, saw the sea of fire appearing at the gap, and waved his hand to stop the cavalry charge. Now he had no idea how wide the sea of fire was, and he might be burned to death in the fire if he rashly stepped over it.
"My lord, this is Mr. Wen Ruo."
Xia Houyuan on the city wall saw that the gap turned into a sea of fire, and Yuan Shu's cavalry also stopped and couldn't help but feel a little excited.
"I saw that although he could stop Yuan Shu's cavalry for a while by setting fire, he could not stop him forever. He ordered the soldiers and horses to move closer to me, preparing to abandon the city and retreat to Danyang County."
