Chapter seven hundred and seventy-two The Spring War begins
Chapter 772 The spring war begins
The trebuchets outside Yuan Shu City were assembled quickly, and in a short time fifty trebuchets were ready.
"Order the trebuchets to attack the city."
Seeing that the trebuchet was ready, Yuan Shu directly ordered the attack.
"My lord has ordered us to attack the city with trebuchets."
"All trebuchets are ready, fire one calibrated projectile."
Yuan Huang gave an order, and fifty trebuchets were loaded with heavy bombs at the same time. Then there was a roar, and fifty stone bombs pierced the sky and hit Shouchun City directly.
"Escape."
Seeing the stone bullets flying towards him, Zhou Ping roared and ducked behind a wall.
Most of the people currently defending the city had experienced the East City War. Without Zhou Ping's reminder, every one of them grabbed the wall stacks and hid.
"Peng."
"Peng."
"Peng."
A series of impact sounds were heard, and fifty stone bullets hit the Shouchun city wall one after another, scattering stone debris all over the sky.
Seeing the results of the trebuchet, Yuan Huang nodded slightly. More than thirty of the fifty stone bullets hit the city wall, and only about ten of them crossed the wall and hit Shouchun City.
"Adjust each one, reload ten rounds, and fire."
Yuan Huang gave an order, and the trebuchet began to make fine adjustments, and then a stone bullet hit Shouchun like hail.
The hailstones smashed down the city wall of Shouchun into a groan, while the Yangzhou Army on the wall huddled steadily without a single person showing their head.
"How are the preparations for the trailer going?"
The trebuchets were pounding desperately, while Zang Ba was anxiously urging in front of the formation. This time, the Xuzhou army was appointed as the vanguard by Yuan Shu and was the first to attack the city.
"It'll be ready soon."
The school captain who was assembling the truck replied to Zang Ba with sweat all over his head.
"Quick, speed up the construction, time waits for no one."
Zang Ba knew that it was useless to rush now and could only wait. Shouchun City had a lot of soldiers and horses. If he tried to attack it with ladders alone, the casualties would be huge. Moreover, it would be difficult to occupy the city wall. In order to be able to make a move in front of Yuan Shu.
tone, so he prepared to accompany the chariots to attack the city directly after the chariots were built.
The trebuchets kept pounding, and the Xuzhou Army under the city was also well prepared to attack at any time.
"My lord, why don't you let me, the mighty army, attack first."
Seeing that Zang Ba was reluctant to move forward, Wen Chou directly asked Yuan Shu for orders.
"Uncle evil, don't panic, let's see what Xuan Gao does."
Yuan Shu shook his head. This vanguard had already made arrangements, and it was time to show his face to the Xuzhou Army.
"promise."
Hearing Yuan Shu's words, Wen Chou could only shake his head.
"General, the cross carriage has been assembled."
After a while, the captain in charge of the truck directly rushed to Zang Ba to give his order.
"Beat the drums, march, and cover the carriages."
Upon hearing that the carriages were assembled, Zang Ba gave an order, and 50,000 Xuzhou troops protected the ten carriages, and more than 200 ladders began to advance towards Shouchun City.
"The attack is coming, they are coming."
A school captain climbed up to Zhou Ping and spoke to him.
"Abandon the moat. Don't use the moat. Wait until they attack the city."
Zhou Ping shook his head. He knew how powerful Yuan Shu's trebuchet was. Now if the archers rose up to shoot the enemy, they would most likely face a shotgun attack from Yuan Shu's army, and the gain would not be worth the loss.
"promise."
After hearing Zhou Ping's words, the captain nodded. Indeed, as Zhou Ping said, the current moat has become a decoration in front of Yuan Shu's superior trebuchet. If he blocks the enemy with bows and arrows, he will be killed by stone bullets immediately, so
All they can do now is to abandon the moat and concentrate on fighting Yuan Shu at the top of the city.
"Fill the river, push the sand truck and drive quickly."
Fighting all the way to the moat without any danger, Zang Ba looked at the wide moat and directly ordered the river to be filled.
Flat-bed sand carts were loaded with sandbags and pushed directly into the moat. The soldiers next to them also filled the sandbags on their shoulders, and soon the moat was filled with solid channels.
"The truck is crossing the river, and the rest of the people are covering it."
Seeing the passage appear, Zang Ba drew his long sword and directed the soldiers to push the cart across the river.
The cart is heavy and heavy, and even if there are forty or fifty people underneath it, it is extremely slow.
"Tell the archers to use rockets to burn their carriages, and also have the city guards bring up all their crossbows and shoot them to pieces."
Seeing the enemy's carts approaching the city wall step by step, Zhou Ping directly ordered the archers to use rockets to shoot the carts. At the same time, he also pulled up the city defense crossbows that had been hidden for a long time. Yuan Shu's ladder could come over, but the carts were tens of thousands of meters away.
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After hearing Zhou Ping's order, the archers who were already ready directly replaced their rockets and fired flaming arrows at the building cart in front.
"Don't be afraid. Our vehicles have fire prevention measures. Keep moving forward. Where are the trebuchets? Hit them with me."
Seeing the rockets fired by the Yangzhou Army, the captain in charge of the truck was not afraid. The outside of his truck had special fire prevention measures. Ordinary rockets could not damage the truck at all.
"Trebuchets, shotguns, cover the city head for me."
The trebuchet commander accompanying the army also saw the archers of the Yangzhou Army shooting at the carriages, and immediately ordered the trebuchet to be loaded with shotguns to cover the city wall.
Twenty trebuchets were loaded instantly, and countless stone bullets covered the Shouchun wall like a dark cloud.
"Dodge, duck."
Seeing the stone bullets coming, the captain in charge of the archers roared and hid behind the wall.
As soon as he finished speaking, shotguns had already covered the top of the city like hail, and the archers who were drawing their bows and shooting arrows were swept down before they could react.
"Keep pushing forward."
The cart continued to move forward, and the archers on the tower also began to bend their bows and shoot arrows to suppress the wall.
"Where's the city guard crossbow?
Shoot them for me."
Seeing that the archer was suppressed and unable to get up, Zhou Ping was sweating profusely.
"Here we are, here we are."
After hearing Zhou Ping's words, the village chief responsible for guarding the city's crossbows wiped the sweat from his head.
"Then shoot him and blow up the tower for me."
Now that the city defense crossbows were ready, Zhou Ping directly ordered the city defense crossbows to fire.
"Peng."
"Peng."
"Peng."
The thick and long crossbow arrows shot out instantly, causing the building to tremble.
"Push quickly, the trebuchet will suppress their ballistae."
The school captain's heart trembled when he saw the crossbow arrows coming. Although the tower cart was treated with fire protection, there was still no way to deal with heavy equipment like the crossbow cart, unless the entire tower was made of iron, but that would consume too much.
The trebuchet unleashed its power again, covering the city with stone bullets. Several crossbows guarding the city and the soldiers around them were directly smashed to pieces.
"Don't be afraid, even if all the ballistas are destroyed, I will destroy the enemy's ballistas."
The city guard's crossbow was under attack, but Zhou Ping knew that now was not the time to pity him. If he was killed by the enemy's car, everything would be over.
"Put up a ladder to distract the soldiers on the city wall."
With the firing of the crossbow arrows, the two carts were directly shot and exploded. Zang Ba directly changed his strategy and set up a ladder to attack the city.
"kill."
"Come on."
"Fuck them."
Aerial ladders were erected directly on the Shouchun city wall, and countless Xuzhou troops began to attack the city wall with steel knives in their teeth.
"Suppress them and don't let them go to the city. Cut off their ladders for me, knife and axemen."
