When Yuan Shao's army was still five hundred steps away from the city, they would not block the dense pits. These pits were five feet wide and three feet deep, and the distance between each pit was less than one meter. Not to mention siege equipment such as rushing vehicles and well railings were impossible to pass, and even the formation of cavalry and infantry would be disrupted when passing through.

Seeing Yuan Jun blocking his way by a pit, Han Zhan, who was standing on the city tower, couldn't help but smile proudly. He turned his head and said to Guo Jia: "Fengxiao, if Yuan Shao's army wants to get close to the city, they must first find a way to fill the pits. However, we have already moved the digging of soil to other places. It is not easy for them to find soil to fill the pits."

Just as Han Zhan was complacent, he suddenly heard Gao Lan shouting loudly: "Lord, look, what is coming out of Yuan's army?"

Han Zhan hurriedly looked at Yuan's army and saw that the originally neat queue suddenly gave up more than twenty passages. Groups of soldiers pushed wooden siege equipment more than one person tall, walked out of the passage and stopped in front of the team.

"Fengxiao, what is this?" Han Zhan looked at the other party's siege equipment and asked Guo Jia with some confusion: "Is it Jinglan? But it's too short, right?"

Unexpectedly, Guo Jia's face turned pale when he saw the siege equipment launched by Yuan Jun. He rushed to the city wall quickly, stood in front of the chassis, looked forward with his hand on the awning, and murmured: "My God, the catapult cart is actually a catapult cart. Yuan Shao's army actually had a catapult cart!"

Zhao Yun walked to Guo Jia and asked him with a side face: "Mr. Guo, have you seen it clearly? Is it really a catapult?"

"You can't be wrong," Guo Jia nodded with a serious expression: "I have seen a catapult before, and that's it."

When Han Zhan heard that Yuan Jun had a catapult, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. There was no such thing as the defensive equipment he had prepared during this period. When he thought that the opponent could throw the overwhelming stones onto the city wall, his legs began to tremble constantly.

The soldiers and Min Zhuang, who were standing around, also pointed at the catapult cart in the distance and began to talk in a low voice. Because most people saw catapult carts for the first time, they were not sure about the power of such siege equipment, so they were very calm. Some people even bragged to their companions that when such siege equipment reached the foot of the city, they would definitely be able to smash several of them with wooden rocks.

After the catapult cart was in place, the loading hands with large arms and round waists picked up the round stone bullets piled beside them and put them into the wooden basket. With the order issued, the thirty soldiers standing in front pulled the rope down at the same time, and used the lever principle to throw out the stone bullets in the wooden basket. More than 20 stone bullets drew a beautiful arc in the air and flew towards the city wall.

But because the distance was too far, the stone bomb was still twenty or thirty steps away from the city wall. It fell down hard and hit the ground hard, smashing pits on the ground. Although the stone bomb did not hit the city wall, the soldiers and civilians on the city were still frightened by the powerful stone bombs, and they stared at the catapults in the distance.

Feng Ji, who was standing next to Yuan Shao, saw that the stone bullet could not hit the city wall, and quickly explained to Yuan Shao: "Lord, we are too far from the city wall. Just push the thrown cart forward one hundred and fifty steps, and the thrown stone bullet can hit the target."

Yuan Shao nodded and ordered Yan Liang to say, "Yan Liang, lead three thousand infantrymen and escort the catapult cart forward one hundred and fifty steps." He looked at the Guantao City Wall in the distance and said gritting his teeth, "Stop the Han children from rushing to jump over the wall and send people to grab the catapult cart."

"I will obey the order!" Yan Liang agreed, then urged him to go forward and lead someone to protect the catapult.

Although the earth pits everywhere caused trouble for Yuan Jun's catapult car to move forward, Yuan Jun's soldiers were very powerful. In less than two incense sticks, they moved the catapult car forward by 150 steps and were ready to shoot.

Seeing that the catapult car had already been in place, Guo Jia hurriedly shouted to the left and right: "Yuan Jun is about to throw a stone. Everyone, find a place to hide, find a place to hide!"

When Guo Jia started shouting, Zhao Yun dragged Han Zhan back to the city gate tower. No matter what, it was safer than staying on the city wall. As soon as Han Zhan stepped into the house, the stone bullet shot by Yuan Jun's casting car roared. Hearing the loud sound of the stone bullet hitting the city wall from outside, the screams of soldiers and Min Zhuang, Han Zhan grabbed Zhao Yun's arm and ordered incoherently: "Big...Brother, Feng...Fengxiao is still outside...Outside, you... go and save him quickly."

Zhao Yun knew in his heart that Guo Jia was Han Zhan's right-hand man and he would never make any mistakes. Therefore, he nodded and said, "Second brother, please rest assured, brother, let's rescue Mr. Guo!" After that, he rushed out without looking back.

Han Zhan was so confused when he heard the movement outside. He was about to walk to the door to see what was going on outside when a stone bullet hit the eaves of the gatehouse. Seeing broken wood and tiles falling from front of him, Han Zhan was so scared that he quickly retreated back into the house.

Zhao Yun came to the city wall and saw soldiers and Min Zhuang hiding behind the doves. Everyone had a panic expression on their faces. Yuan Jun's stone bullet either hit the city wall, making a huge rumbling sound; it flew over the city wall and landed in the residential area behind. Zhao Yun looked around and saw Guo Jia hiding behind a doves, trembling all over. He rushed over, grabbed his arm, and said loudly: "Mr. Guo, my second brother asked me to save you, come with me!"

Although Guo Jia was afraid, he still politely said to Zhao Yun: "It's a blessing for General Zilong!"

Zhao Yun dragged Guo Jiagang into the city gate tower, and a stone bullet hit the bay where Guo Jia had just been hiding. With a "boom", it smashed it to pieces. The gravel splashed everywhere beat the soldiers hiding nearby to the point of bleeding, and fell to the ground and rolled back and forth, screaming.

Another heavy stone bullet hit the city wall, shattering the bricks on the wall. Dozens of blue bricks fell to the city with the rising smoke. Gao Lan, who was hiding not far away, secretly shouted that it was not good after seeing this situation. He rushed into the city gate tower and reported to Han Zhan: "Lord, Yuan Jun's catapult cart is powerful. If you continue to fight like this, our city wall will soon be smashed. Yuan Jun soldiers will be able to rush in later."

One after another, stone bullets fell on the city wall, smashing the city guarding equipment placed on it to pieces, and also smashing the soldiers hiding next to the equipment to break their bones and tendons, and blood flowed into a river.

"Lord," Gao Lan said to Han Zhan anxiously when he saw this situation: "The general is willing to lead one hundred cavalry out to smash these catapults. Please agree!"

When the catapult was advancing forward, Han Zhan saw Yuan Shao sending heavy troops to escort. Not to mention Gao Lan bringing 100 people to attack, even if he leads 1,000 people, he may not be able to get close to the catapult.

Guo Jia had recovered at this moment, and he sighed and said, "Yuan Jun's catapult car is indeed sharp and poses too great a threat to our army. We must send someone to destroy him."

"Mr. Guo, Yuan's army may have guessed that our army would attack the catapult cart, so they sent heavy troops to guard the situation." Zhao Yun said this and stared at Gao Lan, "Not to mention a hundred cavalry, even a thousand cavalry, we may not be able to get close to the catapult cart. You must know that in order to prevent Yuan's army's well railing from approaching the city wall, it is not conducive to the cavalry's galloping."

Hearing Zhao Yun say this, Han Zhan suddenly felt like he was trapped in a cocoon. He originally thought that digging more pits outside the city would prevent Yuan Jun's well railing from approaching the city wall, but now he wants to send cavalry out to destroy the catapult cart, and these pits inevitably affect the mobility of the cavalry.

Seeing that Han Zhan was not expressing his opinion for a long time, Gao Lan repeated his words again and finally emphasized: "Lord, the situation is critical, so you can't hesitate anymore. Please make up your mind early."

Using one hundred cavalry to destroy the catapult cart, they not only had to deal with the three thousand infantrymen of the Yuan army lined up in front, but also tens of thousands of people who came to support at any time. No matter how Han Zhan looked, he thought that Gao Lan's move was a moth to the fire. Even if all of them died, it would not necessarily destroy the catapult cart. He even turned his head to look at Zhao Yun, thinking that even if his elder brother took action, the situation would not be optimistic.

Although he knew that Yuan Jun’s stone bomb could not be infinite, if they were not stopped as soon as possible, the morale he had finally boosted would collapse. Therefore, Han Zhan gritted his teeth and asked, “Wang Xiao, what are you good ways?”

Guo Jia knew in his heart that Gao Lan's move to destroy the catapult cart was a life-and-death death, but if he let it go, it was unknown whether the frightened soldiers and Min Zhuang, who were scared to fight when they began to climb the city wall, was a terrible idea. Therefore, after hearing Han Zhan's question, he thought for a long time before speaking: "College Captain, I remember that there seems to be a lot of tincture oil stored in the city, right?"

"Yes, there is indeed a batch." Gao Lan nodded and said, "It is used to defend the city, but it has not been used yet."

Guo Jia looked at Gao Lan and said, "College Captain, ask each cavalry to bring a can of tincture oil. When approaching Yuan Jun's catapult car, throw the can of tincture oil over. Then shoot the rocket and ignite the catapult car."

Guo Jia said it was quite simple, but Han Zhan knew very well that this task was not easy to complete. Not to mention whether a hundred cavalry could break through Yuan’s defense, even if they rushed over, they threw the pot on the catapult. However, whether it could be ignited with a rocket is still unknown.

"Brother!" In order to destroy Yuan Jun's catapult car, Han Zhan decided to take a risk. He decisively ordered Zhao Yun: "Immediately transfer 500 crossbowmen, 500 sword shield soldiers, and 500 spearmen with me to leave the city to cover the college lieutenant and others to destroy Yuan Jun's catapult car!"

"No, lord, lord, lord!" As soon as Han Zhan said, everyone opposed in unison: "Lord is a body of gold, how can he take risks in person?!"

Zhao Yun also volunteered: "Lord, let Yun lead the army to attack and cooperate with the college captain to destroy the catapult cart!"

"Brother," Han Zhan looked at Zhao Yun and said sincerely: "This time you left the city, it is extremely dangerous. Once you have any mistakes, you can't defend Guan Taocheng by relying on my ability alone. So you should stay to defend the city and I will attack with you."

"Lord, if you have an accident, what's the point of staying at Guantao?" Guo Jia also expressed his opposition to Han Zhan's desire to lead his troops to attack himself: "I think General Zilong should lead the team to attack. He has rich experience in the battlefield. Even if Yuan's army has thousands of troops, he can escape unscathed."

"I have decided, so there is no need to argue anymore. Although there are many soldiers in Yuan, it is not that easy for them to hurt me." In order to avoid endless disputes, Han Zhan took out the majesty of his lord and said, "College Captain, immediately gather people and prepare to follow me out of the city."

Soon, the city gate was opened and the suspension bridge was put down. The soldiers who had become a little panicked under the attack of Yuan Jun's catapult, and when they saw Han Zhan wanting to lead them to attack in person, they immediately became motivated again.

The five hundred sword shields were opened in front, and they were divided into five rows and walked towards the front in neat formations; behind them were strong crossbowmen, also in five rows; behind them were Han Zhan, the five hundred spearmen, and the one hundred cavalry led by Gao Lan.

When Yan Liang saw that someone was fighting in the city, he hurriedly left some people to protect the catapult cart. He brought the remaining soldiers to meet him and prevented Han Zhan and the others from approaching the catapult cart.

When the two sides were still more than thirty steps away, Chu Ge, who was taking the powerful crossbow soldiers to fight, gave the order, and the 500 crossbow soldiers shot crossbow arrows at Yuan Bing who was rushing towards him. After the first row of crossbow soldiers were shot, the second row stepped forward; after the second row of shooting, the third group stepped forward again... After the fifth row of shooting, the first row of crossbow soldiers had already loaded the crossbow arrows and continued to shoot.

Yan Liang did not expect that there were so many crossbows in the troops leaving the city, so he brought the sprite soldiers who had no protective power to face the enemy. The sprite soldiers of the Yuan army fell down in pieces under the crossbows shot by the Han family army.

When Han Zhan saw Yuan's army fall into chaos, he quickly said to Gao Lan on the side: "College Captain, take advantage of the chaos of Yuan's army, hurry up and bring people up to burn their catapult cart." Gao Lan immediately rushed towards the catapult cart with his one hundred cavalry.

In addition to the sword and shield hands, Yuan Jun, who defended the catapult, also had many spearmen. Facing the rushing cavalry, they hid behind the shield and stabbed the soldiers riding on the horse with spears. Some cavalry were stabbed off by them, but more cavalrymen used the inertia of the horse's impact to knock off the shield blocking in front of them, rushed to the vicinity of the catapult car, and threw out the tincture oil tank in their hands. Yan Liang saw that the Han family cavalry threw the tincture oil tank at the catapult car, and wanted to come back to rescue, but was dragged by Gao Lan.

Seeing that all the catapults had smashed tinued oil tanks, the cavalry broke through the encirclement of Yuan Jun and shot the lit rockets at the catapult. In an instant, half of the catapults were wrapped in flames. The soldiers next to the catapults did not care about continuing to drop bombs and fled in all directions.

Seeing that there were still many catapults that had not been lit, Han Zhan ordered the team to continue to advance. After driving the Yuan army surrounded by catapults, he asked the cavalry to ignite all the remaining catapults. After doing all this, Han Zhan ordered the troops to slowly retreat to the city.

Although the reinforcements sent by Yuan Shao had arrived, when he saw Han Zhan and his team retreating without any confusion, he could only stop from afar to monitor and dare not take the risk of attacking them.

As soon as Han Zhan returned to the city, Guo Jia rushed over and said excitedly: "Lord, you finally came back safely. It really made Jia worry." He glanced at the team entering the city with his eyes, and then asked, "I don't know what the casualties are?"

"Apart from the cavalry of the college captain, more than fifty people were injured," Han Zhan replied proudly when he heard Guo Jia's question: "Only a dozen of people led by me were injured, and none of them were killed."
Chapter completed!