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Chapter 1519 Catapult

As a veteran who had experienced many battles, Yang Lin naturally knew the origin and power of the Queyue Formation. This was the secret weapon that Liu Yu, the founding emperor of Liu Song, used to defeat the Northern Cavalry and make them flee in panic. However, Yang Lin never expected that the other party would actually use the Queyue Formation to take care of himself first.

After all, the Yingyang Army was, after all, an infantry force, and ten thousand elite cavalry were only a minority. As a result, the enemy seemed to have anticipated that they would use cavalry to charge the formation first, so they pulled a large number of chariots to the rear of the army early on, and even rehearsed the process of setting up the Queyue formation in advance, catching them off guard.

The opposing general seemed to have figured out his own arrangements.

"It's just a Que Yue Formation. It can be used against cavalry, but it can never be a match for my elite Ying Yang Army!" Yang Lin's face turned cold. Fortunately, cavalry was not the main force of Ying Yang Army. The powerful infantry was the real reliance of Ying Yang Army. Otherwise, with only cavalry, Yang Lin would have no way to deal with these infantry!

"Someone come, push the catapult up!" Yang Lin immediately gave the order.

In Yang Lin's original plan, he needed to attack the city instead of fighting the enemy here, so Yang Lin also brought a large number of catapults. Fortunately, the Yingyang Army was stationed in the suburbs of Chang'an, and there were wide roads connecting them. Otherwise, it would probably take an extra day just to transport these catapults.

However, Yang Lin did not expect that this catapult was not used to attack the city first, but was used to smash the enemy's Queyue formation first.

That's right, the best way to deal with something like the Queyue Formation is to use a catapult to smash it directly. The Queyue Formation can certainly stop cavalry, but it is also like a self-imprisonment, trapping oneself in a small area, which is the best target for the catapult, and one hit will hit it accurately.

It just takes time to prepare and build the catapult, so the entire battlefield has temporarily returned to calm. Yang Lin looked at the seemingly silent army and said to himself, "I'm waiting for my own catapult to be pulled up, but what are you waiting for? Can't you guess that I can build a catapult?"

Yang Lin turned his gaze towards the Chang'an City not far away. He seemed to be able to see many people standing on the city wall of Chang'an City. Not far from the battlefield, there were also a large number of horsemen who were watching carefully.

These were not the armies of the two sides, but the confidants sent by the Guanlong noble group and officials of all sizes inside and outside the court. These people had only one mission, which was to watch the battle between the two armies carefully and then tell their masters which of the two was the real strong one.

Thinking of this, Yang Lin felt that he could not delay any longer and must defeat the Zhou army immediately and let them see the strength of the Yang family. Otherwise, even if he pacified Yuwen Chan, who knows how many more ambitious people would emerge in the world.

However, no matter how Yang Lin urged, the installation of the catapults always took time. It took nearly two hours, and more than 30 large catapults finally took shape. At the same time, the craftsmen had begun to debug. It would only take another hour at most, and these catapults would be able to blow the so-called Queyue Formation into pieces.

Then, Yang Lin saw that in the enemy camp, there seemed to be a number of tall objects erected.

"This is..." Yang Lin's eyes almost popped out at this moment, because the things erected from the enemy camp at this time were clearly catapults like his own.

Moreover, it seems that these catapults had been set up long ago, but were deliberately covered up, waiting until their own catapults were almost built before being pulled out.

"Retreat quickly, order the troops in the front to retreat and get out of the range of the catapults!" Yang Lin ordered hurriedly. In fact, this order was a little late. A large number of boulders fell from the sky and landed in the Yingyang Army's formation.

To be honest, the killing power of these boulders is not that great. After all, there are only dozens of catapults and dozens of boulders falling from the sky. Anyone with eyes can avoid these stones. But the fear of human beings will not disappear. When they see the boulders falling from the sky like raindrops, the originally neat Yingyang Army begins to fall into chaos.

A large number of boulders wreaked havoc throughout the army, causing everyone to flee in panic.

Fortunately, the reloading time of the catapult is relatively long, and the range is not that terrifying, so as long as they can survive one or two rounds, the two-legged people can escape from that terrifying range.

Therefore, the number of casualties of the Yingyang Army was not high, only a few hundred unlucky people. But what really made Yang Lin's eyes burst was that all the catapults that he had spent more than two hours to build were gone.

It turned out that the enemy's real target was not people, but those catapults. Apparently, the opponent had already calculated that they would use catapults, so they simply deployed catapults in advance and used catapults to hit catapults, directly smashing all of their own catapults to pieces... Once these catapults were built, they were not so easy to dismantle, and they could only stay where they were and serve as living targets. However, after more than a dozen rounds of bombing, there was not a single complete catapult left in the entire camp.

The loss of all the catapults finally made Yang Lin realize the thorny situation. The Yingyang Army only had so many catapults... It was not that Yang Lin did not know how to prepare in advance, but a large number of catapults were actually in Changan's own arsenal.

The fact that you have more than 30 catapults in the Yingyang Army stationed near Chang'an shows that Yang Jian trusts you immensely. Otherwise, if you have hundreds of catapults and can threaten Chang'an at any time, I, Yang Jian, will not be able to sleep.

Now that the catapult is gone, Yang Lin is faced with two choices.

One is to set up camp on the spot and fight with the enemy.

The second is to order the infantry to launch a forced attack and break through this damn Queyue formation.

The former is safe, but it can make the onlookers believe that the strength of the Sui Dynasty is no longer enough, and that they, as veteran generals, cannot defeat a young boy. Once this news spreads, the people of Chang'an will be in chaos.

What was even more fatal was the garrisons in other surrounding cities. Yang Jian was dead, and the Great Zhou was restored. Most of the generals in those cities had served as ministers of the Great Zhou. If he was on par with Yuwen Chan, they might still wait and see.

But if he and Yuwen Chan were to be in a stalemate, and if they also sided with Yuwen Chan, everything would be over.

The probability of this situation occurring is extremely high, because Yang Jian is dead, and there is no other hero in the entire Yang family who can hold up the situation. Why would others obey your Yang family again?

Is this the case with the Sui Dynasty, which was established only a few months ago?
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(End of this chapter)