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Chapter 210 Giant Catapult Siege
On that day, the battle was unfavorable, Feng Yao ordered the siege troops to retreat temporarily, because tomorrow, the four buildings under construction will be completed.

These four buildings are seven feet high, one foot higher than the city wall of Langling City, and the base is more than three feet. Ascend the city from the building car!

After resting for one night, the next day when the sky was bright, Feng Yao immediately ordered the siege soldiers to have enough food. There were hundreds of people hidden in the building car, and Xiong Wei was also ordered to assist and push forward.

Each building car is seven feet high, assembled from hundreds of trees, and all of them are freshly cut wet wood, weighing tens of thousands of catties.

Without the support of Xiong Wei, even a hundred soldiers would not be able to move!

On the left, right and behind each building cart, more than a hundred bear guards were wearing heavy armor, with large all-steel shields in one hand forming a dense shield wall to defend against the crossbow arrows shot down from the city, and holding the building cart tightly with the other hand.

hey hey hey! !

Every time they roar in unison, the building car can move forward a distance of more than a foot!
From the building car to the bottom of the city wall, there is a distance of more than [-] feet, which means that they must roar at least [-] times in unison.

Although there were only four high-rise cars, there were nearly a thousand soldiers manipulating them, and the roars in unison resounded through the air one after another.

At the same time as the construction of the building car, in order to facilitate the command of the siege, Feng Yao ordered the handymen to build a wooden platform nearly ten feet high!From the wooden platform, you can see the general situation in the city from a distance.

After the high platform was built, Feng Yao immediately led Xu Shu and others up to the high platform, and the vision immediately widened a lot. The originally tall Langling City seemed to be trampled underfoot at this moment.

The people in the city were not as calm as Li Tong's defenders, but were running around in the city or hiding in their homes. From time to time in the city, soldiers could be seen beheading the people they captured on the spot. Force the people to stay in the city!

On the inner side near the city wall, the people in the city were forcibly recruited to serve the defenders.

"Hahaha! Yuan Zhi, if this situation continues, I'm afraid Li Tong will lose control soon!" Feng Yao said.

Xu Shu nodded and said, "Master, it seems that our strategy is successful. The people and soldiers of Langling have been shocked by the precedent of Yang'an City!"

When the four building carts pushed forward and approached the city wall, they were blocked by the ditch. Xiong Wei took tools again, while defending, he filled up the ditch, and finally laid planks.

Pushing the building car again, when it was a few feet away from the city, Li Tong ordered dozens of defenders to lift up a giant log together to support the building car.

Although the four buildings couldn't enter the city, they couldn't be damaged. Feng Yao saw them from the high platform, and ordered the archers to enter the buildings, condescendingly, and first threw the fuel tank towards the top of the city, and then shot arrows from the air, and shot them dead after a while. Dozens of city guards were mobilized.

Xiong Wei wanted to move the building car away again, but Feng Yao suddenly thought of a clever plan and ordered Xiong Wei to retreat.

"Build four more building cars. I will use the building cars to build a movable wall outside the city!" Feng Yao said loudly.

On the third day, although the four building cars could not get close, they kept shooting at the defenders at the top of the city with bows and arrows, and killed hundreds of enemy soldiers. However, because the building cars were higher than the city wall, only a few people were killed or injured. This was due to carelessness. Caused.

However, there is an arrow tower in front of the four building cars, which is about the same height as the building cars, and is very close to them, which poses a great threat to the building cars.

In the past two days, Ji Ling and Wei Yan of the East Gate also built three building vehicles. Feng Yao ordered the East Gate to suspend the attack and transported the three buildings to the North Gate.

On the fourth day, Gong Du, who was in charge of building the siege equipment, came to report that three giant catapults had been built, and four building catapults had also been built.

Feng Yao was overjoyed and immediately led the generals to the experiment.

Catapults were also built when they attacked the city before, but they were not very powerful, and the stones they threw were not big enough, and the accuracy was not enough. Although the momentum was amazing, but they wanted to hit the wall behind the parapet of the city head, and they were still wearing a shield. It can only be said that it is too difficult for the defenders, unless hundreds of catapults are built at the same time for intensive bombardment.

Because the stones used to be small and difficult to damage the city wall, Feng Yao changed his strategy this time and only built three catapults, but these three catapults were several times the size of the previous ones, and at the same time more than 100 people were needed to make full use of the catapults. Power, the stones thrown must be at least one hundred catties or more.

Feng Yao laughed loudly after seeing the three Giant Macs as high as four feet high: "After tomorrow, I will let Li Tong know what, no matter how strong the city is, defending it is a dead end!!"

Seeing this catapult, Gan Ning was secretly startled, looked at Feng Yao with a trace of fear, and said in his heart: "Fortunately, I am not in Langling City at this time, but on the side that is attacking the city!"

"Take a fifty-jin stone and try it first!"

Feng Yao personally led his entourage as the first test shooter, standing under the giant.

The handyman loaded a stone in response, shouted together, Feng Yao yanked the rope, only heard a sharp whistling sound, the stone cut through the air and disappeared into the distance.

Another stone of about [-] jin was taken. Although it was not as good as the first time, it was still thrown a distance of more than [-] zhang by visual inspection.

"Come again! Two hundred catties of stones!!" Feng Yao shouted excitedly.

Several handymen struggled to lift the stone onto the catapult.

Push hard, launch! !Although it felt several times heavier, the stone weighing two hundred catties still flew out steadily, and with a terrifying bang, it landed fifty feet away. The boulder rolled all the way, plowing the ground out. A ditch was formed.

"it is good!!"

All the generals cheered in unison, their eyes full of excitement.

Feng Yao was very satisfied with the results of the test, and said: "The distance is still a bit close, first double the number of people in the catapult, and use a hundred catties of boulders to destroy those archery towers first!"

When the three huge catapults were pulled under the city, the defenders at the top of the city screamed loudly, trying to find a good place to hide.

"Attack the arrow tower at the same time!"

Three catapults were pulled by 600 people at the same time, and with a loud drink, three burning boulders wrapped in tarpaulin roared and flew towards the top of the city.

"Ah!! Run!!" The archers in the tower were so frightened that they lost their minds and fled. However, they had just fled to the bottom floor when they heard a bang from the arrow tower, and a big hole was blasted out by the burning boulder. The four of them had no time. The avoiding archers fell to the ground and died before they had time to shout. Two of them had their heads crushed by the boulder, and the other two had their sternum completely shattered.

"pity!"

Outside the city, Feng Yao, who was watching the battle from a distance, said softly.

Only one of the three boulders hit the target, and the other two were thrown into the city one by one, hitting a temporary camp in the city for the handymen to live in, and one was thrown on the city wall, shaking the city wall. The outer wall rolled down without causing any casualties to the enemy.

The people in the city also fell into panic at the same moment. Several men and women rushed out of the house that was hit, screaming loudly, and fled in the opposite direction.

After the catapult was fired three more times, the arrow tower standing on the top of the city finally fell down completely with a bang, and at the same time, a fire was ignited.

"My lord, as long as we continue to attack in this state, Langling City can be breached tonight!!" Dai Ling exclaimed excitedly.

All the generals also nodded in agreement, and Gan Ning asked for orders: "My lord, under such an attack, Li Tong will definitely not be able to sit still. He must either flee or go out of the city to fight to the death!! Please allow three thousand soldiers to lie down at the west gate. Tong escaped from the west gate, I will personally take Li Tong's head and return!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Cang said, "I would like to go together. Li Tong and I have a hatred of killing my father and my family. I swear to kill Li Tong and never let him escape!"

(End of this chapter)