Just as Shen Pei, who was far away in Jizhou, was fiddling with his military tactics, Lu Meng, who was guarding Luoyang, was about to face a dangerous challenge.
"Damn it, where did these Xiliang barbarians get so many catapults?"
Seeing Zhang Liao's army under the city still loading catapults one after another, Lu Meng's head was bigger than the two.
Luoyang is one of the few majestic cities in the world. If the enemy only has a small number of catapults, they can be completely ignored.
However, the number of catapults in Zhang Liao's camp may have exceeded fifty.
Moreover, this thing is still being installed. How many are you planning to make? Hundreds of them? How is this possible? How could there be so many catapults in a remote place like Xiliang?
How did Lu Meng know that although the Xiliang army did not have it, the Chang'an clan did?
Now that the situation in the world has basically been decided, the clans in Chang'an will naturally choose to support Qin King Lu Bu.
When the clans heard that Zhang Liao's army was blocked from attacking Luoyang, they donated generously and used their wealth to support Zhang Liao's conquest of Luoyang.
These catapults were prepared by the joint efforts of all the clans.
As for why there was no movement among the clans when Hao Meng attacked Luoyang?
That's just because Lu Bu has recently adopted an adopted son, and this adopted son's name is Sima Yi!
Yes, because Lu Bu accepted Sima Yi as his adopted son, under the call of the Sima family, the Chang'an clan also chose to place their fortunes and lives on Qin King Lu Bu.
Of course, some people would say that the Sima clan is a clan from Luoyang, Sizhou.
But don't forget that when Dong Zhuo burned down Luoyang, he moved all the major clans with him.
History has changed. Lu Bu occupied Chang'an and Cao Cao occupied Luoyang. The clans in Sizhou naturally stayed in Chang'an.
"Commander Lu, why don't you let Huang lead the charge and burn these catapults!"
Similarly, Huang Zhong also discovered the harm these catapults could bring to Luoyang.
If we let it continue to be assembled, I am afraid that if hundreds of catapults are launched at the same time, even Chengyang in Luoyang will not be able to withstand it!
"No need. Zhang Liao's protection of the catapult must be extremely tight now. Even if he goes at this time, I'm afraid it will only cause casualties."
Why did Lu Meng never want to burn these catapults? But now, it is obviously not the time.
Anyone can imagine that when they see such a large number of catapults, they will try their best to destroy them, so they are naturally fully prepared to defend them.
Lü Meng is not afraid of losing a few soldiers, but if Huang Zhong is left here because of this, it will be a waste.
As an independent leader, Lü Meng has always suffered from the fact that he has no generals who can fight. Now that Overlord Xiang Ji has finally sent Huang Zhong over, how can he be easily destroyed? Even when Overlord Xiang Ji asked, Lü Meng also faced
Sorry.
With nothing to do, Lu Meng could only look at the raging assembly work below the city in distress.
At this time, the second batch of reinforcements from the direction of Pengcheng had already set off towards Qingzhou and Luoyang respectively.
Yes, Pengcheng sent a second batch of reinforcements in addition to the first batch of 30,000 troops to support Xiang Ji.
This reinforcement was only accompanied by a small number of soldiers and armor.
The team was drawn very long, and each bullock cart was loaded with heavy wooden equipment.
This is the contribution Huang Yueying made after coming to Chu State.
Heavy repeating ballista!
After more than half a year of research and development, and with Xiang Ji's "genius" advice, Huang Yueying finally made a ballista suitable for battle formations.
Although this crossbow does not have the perverted ten-shot streak like the Zhuge Liannu in history, it can only fire two crossbow arrows at a time.
But! Don’t forget that the so-called Zhuge Liannu is an individual weapon, but this heavy ballista is a sharp weapon used between battle formations or when defending a city.
Shu said, below Luoyang City.
After days of assembly, a total of seventy catapults supported by the clans were finally loaded.
Looking at the catapult brigade behind him, Zhang Liao was in high spirits.
Humph, with such a large number of catapults, I can't attack that huge city in the world?
Today, let me take you, Luoyang, as the first step for my great Qin to conquer the world!
"The whole army obeyed the order and prepared to attack the city.
Catapult brigade, aim at the Luoyang city wall and hit me hard!"
To prepare the army to attack the city, Zhang Liao gave orders to the stone chariot brigade.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Following Zhang Liao's order, the catapult formation roared loudly.
"Shuai Lu, the Xiliang army has attacked the city! There are so many huge rocks!"
Alarmed by the roar of the catapults, the Chu army in Luoyang City fell into panic.
This, overwhelming boulders are coming. Have ordinary people ever seen such a scene?
"Don't panic, tell everyone, don't panic!
Everyone go to the battlements to find cover, don't panic.
With such a dense boulder attack, they themselves can’t attack the city, so don’t be afraid!”
Although there is no way to defeat the enemy, Lu Meng is not stupid either.
Under such a dense bombardment of boulders, do you dare to attack the city? Even if I don't have a single defender or shoot an arrow, do you dare to come?
Obviously, it was not only Lu Meng who discovered this problem, Zhang Liao who was under the city also discovered it.
Damn it, why is this catapult attack so violent? How can I order people to attack the city?
Looking at the huge rocks falling like rain on top of Luoyang City, Zhang Liao was stunned.
After all, this was the first time in Zhang Liao's life that he commanded so many catapults to attack a city.
No matter how he thought about it, he would never have imagined that this catapult not only suppressed the defense of the defenders.
But it also hinders our siege?
Damn it, do you want your subordinates to brave the rain of boulders to attack the city? That's nonsense. I'm afraid that if you give the order, there will be a mutiny immediately.
This is not a siege, this is a suicide attempt!
Damn it, do we need to reduce the number of catapults used at the same time?
But once it is reduced, can it still have such a suppressive effect in the face of such a huge Luoyang city wall?
If the Chu army cannot be suppressed, then the value of the catapult will be lost, right?
"Boom! Keep banging! Give me a hard bang!"
After thinking for a while, Zhang Liao made a decision.
Ma De, at worst I won't send troops to attack the city, I will just rely on these catapults to bombard you.
I don’t believe that your Luoyang city wall is so strong that it can withstand such non-stop bombing for several days.
By then, as long as a section of your city wall is destroyed, Luoyang will be easily captured.
Damn it!? Can I have a little face?
Lu Meng, who was on the Luoyang city wall, also discovered that the bombardment of the catapults not only did not weaken, but became more intensive.
What does this mean?
Obviously, that shameless Zhang Liao planned to use his catapult to destroy Luoyang!