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There were ten defenders of the tower, and only one was literate and was responsible for reading the letters, but this man was so lazy that he caught the literate Ma Shun during his labor and asked him to help him write.

As the sun was rising, the temperature on the tower was so high that one could sweat when standing inside, and the ten defenders had already taken refuge in the shade at the bottom of the tower.

Ma Shun's clothes were already soaked, clinging to Ma Shun's body, the rough calloused palms wiped the sweat on his face, Ma Shun looked at the fluttering and flying pigeons, stretched out his arms, and the pigeons landed on Ma Shun's arms.

The pigeon's legs were wrapped in a layer of silk, and Ma Shun spread out the silk that was no more than the width of his little thumb, and four words were written crookedly on it: Yuwei Xiangyang.

Ma Shun's pupils shrank, and this feather character instantly reminded him of the majestic back that often held the green dragon glaive knife on the Xinye city wall and stopped to look at the distance.

"Guan Yu encircles Xiangyang. Ma Shun glanced back at the faintly visible outside the city, where General Zuo was attacking Jiangling in the past two days.

As a child who has read books and grew up in a cool area, Ma Shun is more or less knowledgeable about military affairs.

"Is General Zuo so strong now?" Ma Shun's heart suddenly became restless.

Ma Shun suppressed his excitement, stretched out his head from the window and shouted below, "There is news from Xiangyang."

At midnight, the heat of the day under the scorching sun gradually dissipated, and Ma Shun did not almost drag his body back to his residence as usual, but walked towards the residence with vigorous steps.

The dwelling consisted of twenty servants living in a large room, which was patrolled every night, and when the servants entered the room, the door of the room and the courtyard were locked to prevent the servants from escaping.

Ma Shun has been in a room of twenty people, and after nearly a year of getting along, he has established the status of the leader. The people of Liangzhou, who can read, read and write, are also good at martial arts, and are ruthless, except for being in the court, they can be like a fish in water anywhere.

The Eastern Han Dynasty court has always discriminated against people in Liangzhou, believing that they are border barbarians, and of course the court also discriminates against people from other border areas, but it discriminates against people in Liangzhou the most.

In the dead of night, snoring was everywhere, Ma Shun suddenly opened his eyes, jumped out of bed and woke up a few trusted people.

Several people came to a corner of the room in the dark, and Ma Shun said in a low voice: "Second and third sons, I want to make trouble." There

were four people in a circle with Ma Shun, and the four of them were all terrified.

"What's the matter, have you found your sister-in-law?" one of them asked in a low voice.

Ma Shun shook his head: "The camp over there is across the street and won't let us pass, although I know that your sister-in-law is over there, but I can't go to find it."

"Why did you suddenly have an incident?" asked one of them.

"General Zuo is attacking Gangneung and Xiangyang. Ma Shun said.

"Isn't it Jiangdong

people who are fighting Jiangling?" Ma Shun explained: "Jiangdong Zhou Yu died in battle, Jiangdong withdrew, and now it is General Zuo who leads the army to fight Jiangling, and several of us are Xinye people, and it is time to repay General Zuo's kindness." "

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The trebuchet has been built, Liu Chan looked at these heavy wooden mechanical structures, this is a machine that provides projectile power by a rope, the principle is very simple, the throwing distance is about five hundred steps, this is enough, the bow and arrow are thrown from a high place to a low place, and the farthest is two hundred steps to the sky.

"What should I do if the cavalry in the city comes out and destroys it?" asked Guan Ping, who was bare-chested.

Liu Chan said: "Seventy planes were made in three days, and I wish that the cavalry of the Cao army would come out to destroy it every day to see how many cavalry they could wear." "

The mountains around Gangneung, not to mention anything else, there are still quite a lot of towering trees, and it can be said that they are inexhaustible.

Liu Chan reacted that it was Guan Ping, and couldn't help asking: "How is the ditch dugging?"

Chen to the level of water discharge is outrageous, in front of the soldiers, the attack seems ruthless, Guan Ping also cooperated and shouted, the ten military sticks only let Guan Ping lie down for a day, and then Liu Bei scolded him to dig the ditch, which is also a punishment for him.

First of all, some soldiers were not satisfied that the ten military sticks were so light and fluttering, but they were relieved to see a proud man like Guan Ping digging a ditch with a hoe and a group of people, and there were many good people who ran over to see it, and laughed a few times by the way, but they were all beaten away by Guan Ping.

"The stream next to the barracks is dammed, and as long as you dig a channel to flow into the barracks, it will be done tomorrow, so I'll be lazy here. Guan Ping said.

"Is this thing something that Cao Cao used to fight against Yuan Shao back then?"

"This is called a catapult, and Cao Cao's is called a thunderbolt, which is actually about the same. Liu Chan said.

Guan Ping touched his chin, he didn't have any beard on his chin, this is used to learning from Guan Yu, once he falls into contemplation, he habitually touches his chin.

"It's okay to break down the city wall with stones, but how can we have so many stones?" Guan Ping asked.

Liu Chan shook his head: "No, let's just throw something unclean into the city."

Guan Ping couldn't help but be surprised: "What is the reason for spending so much effort to build these things? It's better to free up these people to dig a ditch with me!"

Liu Bei gave the order, Guan Ping absolutely took digging ditches as a career.

If someone else asked him to dig a ditch, Guan Ping would definitely be able to use a hoe to make a hole in that person's head.

"It's more lethal than throwing a stone into the city. Liu Chan said mysteriously.

Guan Ping still wanted to ask, the drum of the gathering general had already sounded, Guan Ping ran when he heard the drum, and Liu Chan shouted: "Brother Ping, there is no battle today."

Guan Ping paused: "If there is no battle, what are the generals doing?"

"Try these trebuchets." Let's take a look?" Liu Chan said with a smile.

Liu Chan and Guan Ping together, followed by Chen Zhiyi, and the group walked towards the gate of the camp, probably because the drums of the generals sounded, most of the barracks were in a mess, some soldiers hurriedly put on armor, some soldiers looked for their weapons, some shouted who wore my boots, and there were dizzy people who couldn't find their own assembly team.

"Here. "Passing by a tent, a soldier was urinating on the open space with his pants pulled.

A personal entourage behind Liu Chan walked out and kicked the soldier's buttocks, the soldier screamed miserably and fell to the ground, got up and wiped the urine stains on his face, and was about to scold, when he turned his head and saw that it was Liu Chan and his party, he suddenly became a mess.

"Send it to the law enforcement team. Liu Chan said.

Since the announcement of the implementation of the health regulations two days ago, the whole army has wailed, but in the face of strict regulations and the unprecedented seriousness of the law enforcement team, most of these soldiers have honestly entered the newly built toilets to urinate, but there are still many who are unwilling to obey, and these people have become the target of the law enforcement team.

It will take some time to completely eliminate open defecation, but it is good not to drink raw water.

The water in the army has been uniformly distributed, and whoever wants to drink water has to go to the hundreds of drinking points distributed in the barracks to drink water, and these waters are boiled and boiled.

Today, the army is eliminating and isolating soldiers with symptoms, so Zhang Kai is the busiest today.

The sound of the drum also attracted Cao Ren's attention, Cao Ren climbed the city wall for the first time, and saw the slowly advancing army and the bulky and ugly catapult behind them, Cao Ren frowned, this kind of machinery Cao Ren is no stranger, he has seen it in the battle of Guandu.

"A lot of thunderbolts. Niu Jin exclaimed when he saw the seventy catapults.

"Is Liu Bei going to attack the city with this kind of thing?" Niu Jin wondered.

Niu Jin is Cao Ren's right-hand man guarding Jiangling, won Cao Ren's trust, when Zhou Yu besieged Jiangling, Niu Jin led his troops out of the city to fight, besieged by the army, Cao Ren risked his life to rescue Niu Jin, and he was also called a celestial man by Chen Jiao.

Cao Tianren's nickname also came from this.

Cao Ren said disdainfully: "The walls of Jiangling City are several zhang thick, how can they be broken by stones? "

Wow.

Liu Bei's army advanced slowly, stopping at a distance of five hundred steps from Jiangling City, and the people on and below the city wall could see each other's faces clearly.

The soldiers of Liu Beijun in the formation separated, and the catapults behind them were pulled forward by donkeys, horses, and manpower.

Seventy catapults were placed in horizontal rows, and the entire southern wall of Gangneung Fortress was shrouded in the range of catapults.

Cao Ren and Niu Jin were lying behind the female wall together, Cao Ren's eyes were exposed, he looked out of the city, and wondered: "Why didn't you see the stones? What are those barrel-like things? Could it be that Liu Bei plans to throw these things in?"

Niu Jin's eyes are good: "I see that there are still corpses..."Cao

Ren and Niu Jin glanced at each other, both of them are veteran generals who have been on the battlefield for a long time, if you don't understand what is going on, you will be stupid if you don't understand what is going on in this kind of scene.

"Liu Bei is really cunning. Cao Ren gritted his teeth and said.