What is the most arrogant attitude of luring your enemies across your tower?

It is certainly a good choice to sway in front of one's own tower, but it is not enough to reach the most storm.

The most unlucky choice should be to not even defend one tower on one side, and rush up to kill the enemy on the line, pull out one tower of the enemy, erect a sun disk on the ruins of the enemy tower, and then guard the sun disk.

It is best to allow the enemy to be fully fucked on all the traffic routes leading to this sun disk. We don’t have any eyes, so we will tell the enemy openly: I don’t have teammates nearby, so hurry up and get back!

At this moment, Xiling City in front of Guan Yu was a tower of the thieves of Jingnan Sect.

The deeper Yiling City is the enemy's second tower.

Huarong thief Bei Yu is the enemy of the tower.

Kill Bei Yu, pushed Xiling, and advanced to the waves near Yiling. We will definitely force the main force of the enemy who is still worried about "how many troops Guan Yu has, and whether there are reinforcements in the mouth of the Three Gorges in the future" to force out a quick battle.

Let me tell you openly: I only have 5,000 people and no reinforcements.

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Since he adjusted his strategy and decided to carry out a quick attack on Xiling that showed his muscle properties, Guan Yu's army also changed his previous posture of leisurely repairing after leaving the gorge and entered a sprint to attack the city with all his might.

Fortunately, Guan Yu was not idle when he was stationed a few days ago. While recruiting talents, he was logging and building siege weapons. So now he can do it at any time if he wants to do it.

After all, Xiling is just a county town. Although it is located on the strategic ground of "The exit of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River", its defense is much stronger than that of ordinary county towns, but it has reached the level of an ordinary county town.

The biggest advantage of defense here is to be obtained by relying on the terrain of the mountain city.

If you look at the map of Yichang in later generations, you will know that this place is bordered by the Yangtze River to the southwest, and the mountains of the Three Gorges to the north. There is a small river flowing from the south of the city to the Yangtze River. Therefore, the entire urban area is on a peninsula where rivers meet, and only the sandbank on the south side is relatively soft, suitable for landing on the back of landing and siege.

(Note: The "Xiling" of the Han Dynasty was the Yiling District of Yichang in later generations, and the "Yiling" of the Han Dynasty was the Yidu city (county-level city) under the jurisdiction of Yichang in later generations.

However, it is precisely because of the complex terrain of the mountain city that the construction cost of building urban defense is also very high. It is very laborious to transport wood and stone to a height, and the city wall is shorter than that of ordinary county towns, only 1 twelve and 6 feet, which is only three meters and five meters.

It is made entirely by rammed earth, without bricks and stones or glutinous rice juice, and even the women's walls are simply piled with soil. There is no incline or perforation, and there is no roof in the city tower. There is only a two-story high platform, like a beacon tower.

Considering that you have to climb the hill before approaching the city wall, there are rocks on the mountain road that cannot push the cart, so all heavy equipment that requires wheels, such as ladder trucks, wooden donkey trucks, and siege trucks, are difficult to push to the base of the city wall. Only then can the defense have the confidence to rely on this 16-meter-long short city wall to hold on.

To deal with the rafts and the bumps carried by manpower, this little city defense fortification is enough!

The Xiling Guardian Bei Yu also thought so.

Therefore, Guan Yu decided to get on the catapult car directly: anyway, those heavy equipment at close range could not be pushed up, so he just pushed it with his gender.

A catapult can show off its power between two hundred steps without pushing it to the vicinity.

Of course, you should pay attention to confidentiality during use.

Because the counterweight catapult and the traditional human-powered catapult are both leverage principles. As long as the counterweight and firing parts of the force part are replaced with the traditional cap, other warlords can imitate it. If they are open to use it on a large scale, other warlords will imitate it in less than a year or two.

Now, there is still at least a few years left before Liu Bei completely came out of Guandong to draw the world. It is obviously not good to expose himself too early for such a small town.

Therefore, Guan Yu strictly controlled the scale of use and only built two counterweight catapults. The non-technical sensitive part was built according to the structure of the old catapults and made on-site materials. He only used the counterweight force mechanism transported from the water warship to replace the cannon tips, and then dismantled and transported back after use.

The weight of the catapult car is only based on the counterweight of 1,400 kilograms of Chinese kilograms, simulating the traditional catapult car of seventy people to pull the cannon tip, fifty kilograms of stone bullets, with a flat shooting range of 300 steps. Xiling, a battlefield with low hits and highs, can shoot 200 steps.

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November 3rd, night.

The defenders at the head of Xiling City were very relaxed because the days after Guan Yu's army arrived, they had not launched a harassing attack, and they did not even act to suppress the enemy's defense facilities while damaging the surrounding city defense facilities.

Moreover, Xiling City was built on the high slopes by the river, and its height brought advantages, which also led to no moat outside the south city and no moat was needed. The siege side would not fill the river in advance.

Therefore, after the initial nervousness, the guard general Bei Yu was sure that Guan Yu was here to siege the city and needed to prepare slowly.

For ordinary generals, the rhythm of siege battles in this era is either to launch a raid immediately as soon as they arrive, and to catch the defenders off guard by simply hitting the ladder, so as not to react.

Or you can stand firm and slowly build heavy equipment.

Few people will calm you down for three or four days after coming, and then suddenly exert force.

As a result, that night, Bei Yu was awakened by the roar from the city.

Bei Yu was not on the city tower at that time, but in the county government office in the city. He heard the noise of the south city and hurriedly led his troops to strengthen the defense. By the time he arrived, the roar had lasted for almost half a quarter of an hour.

The two catapults fired twenty or thirty rounds of stone bombs at a speed of 1.5 rounds per minute, each of which was 40 or 50 kilograms of stone bombs. The range of the three or five rounds was not calculated well at the beginning, and the stone bombs were far and near, but as the torches on the top of the city were shining, the defenders strictly prevented the ants from secretly attached. The catapult had lighting guidance, and the more they shot, they became more and more accurate.

However, the defense did not think anything was wrong with "providing lighting for the enemy", because other catapults in the same era had a random range and could not be accurately controlled. Even if you were given lighting, you could only aim at a general direction, but you could not control the distance.

The trencher used to pull the cannon tip fired with human force, the strength of the gun arm selected each time is wrong, and the moment of force is simultaneous and burst concentration are different. Therefore, it is normal for human force to pull the cannon tip to fire two hundred steps away from the front and only one hundred and fifty steps away from the second.

After using the counterweight, saving effort is one aspect, and more importantly, "standardize and remove errors". If you have to shoot two hundred steps, it is 200 steps. If you find that the shooting is far after shooting two hundred steps, you will be able to reduce the range.

The range is reduced as much as the weight is removed, which is accurate and controllable. Even if there is an error of more than ten steps, it is because the shape of the stone bullet itself is irregular and there are subtle differences in aerodynamic resistance, but the error is definitely an order of magnitude lower than that of its peers.

So when Bei Yu came to the city, he saw a very strange scene.

The school guarding the city gate cried and complained: "Ship Bei, Guan Yu's trencher is so evil! More than a dozen stone bullets have been smashed almost as far away! They all happened to hit the west side of the city gate twenty or thirty feet, and the wall is about half to two-thirds high! The wall has collapsed hundreds of buckets of rammed earth!"

Following the guidance of the primary school, Bei Yu witnessed with his own eyes that the city wall had collapsed six or seven feet high. The key is that the collapsed soil also piled up a gentle slope of three or four feet high outside the wall.

As one goes up and down, the city wall of one and six feet is only seven or eight feet away from that weak position, which is equivalent to the height of a strong man. He can rush up with a few ladders.

Near the cracked gap, there were more than a dozen bloody corpses. At first, these soldiers followed the orders to block the leak and strengthened the gap in the city wall with earth and stone. When the order was first issued, the morale of carrying out the mission was quite good, because the soldiers were told that "two stone cannons would not fall into the same pit, so it was safe to fill the location where the pit had been smashed."

But who knew that Guan Yu's catapult cart didn't follow the rules at all! Even if it was not in the same pit, it would only have only a few ten steps of error, and it still killed many emergency repairs. As a result, morale was so blew up and no one was willing to repair them anymore. At most, it would be easy to pick up some soil next to it.

"Hold on! Hold on! Don't relax! The more you are like this, the more you will send someone to charge to the city!" Bei Yu is a heroic and handsome man in the sect at least. He has a little experience in the battlefield. Looking at his own decadence, he knows that things are going to be bad.

Sure enough, Guan Yu felt that the gap between smashing the city wall into such a "three-stage" was perfect, and immediately launched a charge.

If you smash it down, you can certainly smash the gap lower, but the gap when you want to climb from the gap to the normal city wall next to it will also become larger.

The most perfect way to smash a wall is to smash a section of 1000 feet into a "stairs" with three equal parts, each with five or six feet high!

The three deputy generals under Guan Yu were wearing strong and holding sharp edges, and personally supervised the formation to rush to the city.

Xu Huang was responsible for leading the people to hit the impact of two stone bombs, which was a bit broken city gate, and attracted the main firepower of the enemy. At the same time, the troops he led were equipped with large shields, mainly to withstand the firepower at the end of the city and suppress the breaking goal.

Zhou Tai and Gan Ning were responsible for leading people to mount the flight ladders to impact the two city walls on the left and right wings.

As usual, Zhou Tai held two large iron shields on his face, holding an ancient ingot knife. Gan Ning held the shield in one hand, waved the shackle in the other hand, and carried an iron halberd on his back.

Guan Yu personally led a crossbow team, and one thousand crossbows were suppressed by the city, while the rest used bows and arrows.

The Jingnan Sect thieves never saw a scene of a thousand scattered crossbows. In the first wave of arrows, many archers on the city were caught off guard and fell to the ground with arrows, screaming endlessly. Then they were suppressed so that they did not dare to show their faces to observe, and they only dared to shoot blindly.

Xu Huang's team of rattled the door was shouting, which was very confusing in the dark, attracting most of the firepower. Moreover, the sound of hitting the wooden hammer door was indeed very majestic. Eighty percent of the bows and arrows on the top of the city greeted Xu Huang's soldiers with large shields and iron armor, with little effect.

In contrast, Zhou Tai and Gan Ning's attacks can be described as "quiet hunting". The Danyang soldiers under their command were silent, but their eyes rushed up with cold eyes. In order to rush quickly, they would not wear iron armor to seek a leap. Twenty or thirty sets of flying ladders were set up at once, in order to distract the enemy's attention and prevent the enemy from blocking the shortest gap.

With such a little delay, Gan Ning, who was eager to make contributions, was the first to come to the city - Zhou Tai was more stable than Gan Ning. After all, it was not the first time he had achieved such a first-time merit. He knew how difficult it was for every wound on his body, and if he could, he would be stable.

But Gan Ning, after joining Liu Bei's camp, had never gained the first-level achievement of breaking the city. Before that, only the water battle made achievements, the young Gan Ning was very eager to prove himself.

He swung the meteor hammer on the head of the flail and whirled like the wind, and pushed away seven or eight arrows that shot at him. He was wearing only a set of light leather armor used in water warfare, and jumped up like a parkour master, leaping upwards as a gap on the wall.

Two guards' spears stabbed towards Gan Ning. He swung the chain of the meteor hammer upwards, and the iron chain wrapped around the spear. Gan Ning used all his strength to drag the chain shackle down. The two guards were unstable and fell down the city wall with their spears.

But Gan Ning had already stood firm at a high place with the reaction force of kicking the enemy down.

However, his shackle was wrapped around the spear of the dead man and could not be shaken away for a while. In order to prevent him from being dragged down, Gan Ning had to abandon the chain and instantly pulled out the iron halberd on his back and continued to fight, killing more than ten bandit soldiers in succession.

Before Gan Ning reached the city, Bei Yu noticed the crisis here, and hurriedly brought his personal soldiers to plug the leak. When he was still dozens of steps away from the battlefield, he saw Gan Ning throwing his weapons with an iron chain inertia locking weapon.

Although shocked by Gan Ning's agility and ferociousness, Bei Yu was also happy: this enemy general should be a master who is good at using soft weapons! But his shackles were forced to give up! Now there is only one-handed iron halberd.

Maybe this is not his most advantageous weapon, and it is more likely that he was originally a master of dual-heldness, but now he can only have one hand!

When will you wait for this opportunity to get a bargain?

"While you have only one-handed halberd to kill you!" Bei Yu took a chance and assassinated with a spear.

Humph, how can a double-held man fight against a long-term soldier only if he is one-handed!

Gan Ning felt the strong wind blowing, and knew that he had encountered an enemy general, so he flashed his mighty force to the side, and the iron halberd was cut horizontally and opened his spear, so he could see clearly the person coming.

Gan Ning made a quick decision and abandoned the broken shield in his hand. He picked up a ring-headed sword thrown by another soldier who died in battle, and fought with Bei Yu in both hands.

Bei Yu felt relieved: "Haha, the person who uses hammers and halberds will temporarily use a knife? The weapon will not be able to take advantage of it. Kill you first, and then block the powerful general in the west who rushes to the city with a knife with a ring head!"

Unfortunately, after just three or five moves, he became clumsy and was shocked: It’s not right! This enemy general clearly used a weapon that was not suitable for help! How could it be...

"Uh..." With Bei Yu's scream, his throat was cut by Gan Ning's knife, and blood surged like a spring. He grabbed his throat weakly with both hands, and his eyes fell down unwillingly.

"Hmph, the short sword is indeed not the weapon I am best at, but it is still more than enough to kill you." Gan Ning added a knife and said a hypnotic word to help Bei Yu rest his eyes as soon as possible.

The unwillingness in Bei Yu's eyes turned into a godless person at the last moment and closed his eyes.

While Gan Ning shouted to fight fiercely, the soldiers beside him also shouted that the thief generals were given their heads. They quickly swept across the city and helped Zhou Tai on the other side. The more than 3,000 remaining thief armed forces in Xiling City were soon completely killed and surrendered within half a stick of incense.

"In one hour, the attack will be taken down. Remove the counterweights on the catapult cart and smash them into the river." Guan Yu stroked his beard with satisfaction, while instructing the evidence to destroy the evidence. Anyway, the catapult cart can no longer be used in the subsequent battle, otherwise it would be impossible to keep it confidential.

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PS: It has been more than 4,000 words. The previous chapter has been revised, and Ma Liang's role is temporarily transferred to Xiang Lang. The person who defected to Guan Yu has also changed from Ma Liang to Ma Liang's eldest brother, second brother, Ma Xuan and Ma Kang, because Ma Liang is still young now.
Chapter completed!