Chen Tai was just appointed as General Zhenbei by Sima Shi, making up for the lack of Lu Zhao's death. General Sizhen has always been an important general in the army, especially at this critical moment, General Zhenbei was more like a heavy burden, pressing on Chen Tai's shoulders, making him feel a little breathless.

In this battle of Jizhou, the Sima army suffered great losses. Lu Zhao was defeated and died. Xindu was lost. The northern part of Jizhou fell. Even Sima's army advanced north but failed to win, but was hit by the Bingzhou army.

Therefore, Sima's army now needs a victory to boost morale, and everyone's hope is pressed on Chen Tai's shoulders. It is impossible to miss the attack on Jingxing Pass.

The defenders at Jingxing Pass were only 15,000, and Sima's army dispatched him 50,000 infantry, which had the advantage of crushing forces. Obviously, Sima's army had high hopes for Chen Tai, hoping that Chen Tai could take Jingxing Pass and reverse the current unfavorable situation in one fell swoop.

Cao Liang avoided fighting, which made the Sima army, who had arrived in Zhending, fall into difficulties. Now the only breakthrough is Jingxing Pass. The purpose of Sima's attack on Jingxing Pass was to force Cao Liang to appear and send troops to rescue Jingxing Pass, so that he could achieve the goal of besieging the city and attacking aid.

Of course, if Cao Liang did not send reinforcements, Sima Shi would not mind taking down Jingxing Pass and then attacking Weize Pass, completely opening the passage of merger. Sima Shi would not believe that Cao Liang could remain indifferent to this move.

Now the Sima army has already set up a net to the east of Jingxing Pass. As long as the Bingzhou army dares to appear, you will have no negotiations on destroying it.

Of course, the prerequisite is that Chen Tai must give enough pressure to Jingxing Pass. The defenders of Jingxing Pass cannot resist, so they may ask Cao Liang for help. Therefore, Chen Tai's attack is the key. The more fierce the Jingxing Pass fights, the greater the chance of Bingzhou Army appearing.

Chen Tai had already made a general plan in advance to attack Jingxing Pass. Because the terrain of Jingxing Pass was dangerous and dangerous, the road in front of the pass was very narrow. Even though Chen Tai was holding heavy troops in his hand, he could not detour behind the enemy and could only use a frontal attack method, which made him feel that he could not be used.

When the attacking force cannot be increased, it can only be changed to improve the efficiency of the attack by changing the intensity of the attack. Before Chen Tai arrived at Jingxing Pass, he personally checked the terrain and terrain of Jingxing Pass and specially formulated an attack plan, which is to organize 50,000 troops into several attacking teams, each of which is about 5,000 people, and takes turns to attack Jingxing Pass, day and night.

Only in this way can we exert our advantages in military strength. Otherwise, the Bingzhou Army would not have any effect even if the Sima Army attacked for the past year.

Sima Shi didn't give Chen Tai much time, so he asked him to take down Jingxing Pass as soon as possible. Even if he couldn't, he had to give the defenders of Jingxing Pass a certain sense of crisis. Let them take the initiative to ask Cao Liang for help and besiege Jingxing Pass. This is just a means. The real purpose is to lure Cao Liang's main force out.

Of course, Chen Tai could understand Sima Shi's intentions, so he developed such a set of offensive plans that were constantly on the go. Sima Jun had an absolute number advantage. While attacking, each group of troops was resting. The attack time of each team was no more than two hours. This would ensure the maximum physical strength and energy of Sima Jun, so that they could be energetic and full of fighting spirit when they were engaged in the battle.

It seems that Chen Tai also gained some inspiration from the large-scale use of catapults by the Bingzhou army when it attacked Lecheng and Xindu. Before the infantry army launched an attack, Chen Tai also tried every means to concentrate dozens of catapults and prepare to launch a catapult attack on Jingxing Pass.

Sima Jun's catapult was still the old human-pull catapult. This catapult was used on a large scale in the Battle of Guandu, and has been used all the time. However, it has never been innovated for decades, and it is still like that. There is no wheel installed at the bottom, so it can only be carried forward by humans, so it can only be called a catapult instead of a catapult.

Each of these treblers requires hundreds of treblers, and dozens of treblers requires thousands of treblers. As soon as the treblers appear, they are submerged in the sea of ​​people.

In the past, the Wei army used stone catapults, which was mostly an auxiliary means of siege, which was a strong and powerful infantry corps that siege the city, and interfered with the defenders at the top of the city. They never expected these stone bullets to collapse a city wall.

But the Bingzhou Army's catapult car did it. It not only collapsed the city walls of the county city, but also collapsed the city walls of Xindu, the city. Its power was so powerful that it shocked the world. Many people felt incredible after hearing this. It turned out that the siege could still fight like this?

The battle examples of Lecheng and Xindu seem to show that no matter how strong the city wall is, it cannot withstand the attack of catapults. Perhaps the offensive and defensive battle of the city wall will enter a new era in the future, and the pattern of offensive and defensive battles in the city will be completely changed.

Of course, Chen Tai did not expect his stone-capping functions to achieve the effect of destroying Jingxing Pass. Just looking at the city walls made of stones at Jingxing Pass, these stone bullets can not easily shake them.

Moreover, Sima Jun's catapult and Bingzhou Jun's catapult are completely different concepts. In terms of range and power, both are far apart. For stone bullets alone, Sima Jun's stone bullets are nearly half lighter than Bingzhou Jun's stone bullets, so the attack effect is naturally far worse.

The biggest reason why Chen Tai insisted on using the catapult first was that he was inspired by the Bingzhou Army. Even if these catapults could not be compared with the catapults of the Bingzhou Army, they could still destroy the defense facilities on the top of the city and violently suppress the defenders to clear obstacles for the siege troops.

Just when Sima Jun was urgently deploying a catapult under the city, Qian Hong had already seen it clearly on the top of the city. He originally thought that Sima Jun would launch a large-scale attack first, but he didn't expect that he would play with the catapults first.

Qian Hong couldn't help but sneer. When he was in Luoyang, Qian Hong had seen a catapult in the central army. He might think it was quite majestic, but since the Zuowei Camp was equipped with a counterweight catapult, it was really a witch. Compared with the catapults of the Bingzhou Army, the catapults of the two were like children's toys. There was no comparison between the two.

Since Sima Jun took the lead in launching a catapult, this gave Bingzhou Army a chance to give them some insight into what is the real catapult!
Chapter completed!