Shen Yifeng was thinking silently when a general walked up to him: "General Shen, when will we attack the city?"
"No rush." Shen Yifeng frowned: "Let me think about it!"
"Do you think it's useless for us to attack the city like this?" The deputy general suggested beside him: "Actually, if we want to reduce casualties, we can try to use trebuchets to attack the city!"
"Although the trebuchet does have a certain degree of lethality against the soldiers defending the city wall, the attack speed of the trebuchet is very slow. Even if someone is hit by a stone in the enemy's army, there will be others to supplement him immediately." Shen Yifeng He said with a frown.
"But... we can't not take any siege measures at all!" The deputy general was a little anxious: "Listen, the other two city gates have already started fighting!"
"If we can make the enemy troops on the city wall unable to defend themselves in a short period of time, our people can attack the city as quickly as possible!" Shen Yifeng thought silently in his heart, unknowingly thinking of what he just thought. The trebuchet the lieutenant mentioned.
The trebuchet is a relatively clumsy long-range attack weapon. Under normal circumstances, the effect of using the trebuchet on the siege soldiers outside the city is more obvious, while the effect of using the trebuchet on the siege soldiers outside the city is very small. .
The most important thing is that trebuchets are bulky, inconvenient to move, and cannot be concealed at all. If people in the city use trebuchets to deal with trebuchets outside the city, the trebuchets outside the city will soon be destroyed.
Shen Yifeng thought of the trebuchet at this time, but he didn't want to use the trebuchet to throw stones to attack the city. He thought of a possibility.
In his previous life, he had seen a lot of acrobatics, one of which was the ability to use a springboard to throw people up high and to a fixed position far away.
Shen Yifeng felt that if a trebuchet was used to throw people into the city as stones, it should be possible.
Of course, the people thrown into the city by the trebuchet must be absolutely strong and must be able to withstand the enemy's crazy attack in a short period of time.
"The soldiers in this world have all cultivated the power of heaven, and their own strength is not weak. If we find some very strong people and use trebuchets to throw them onto the city top to attack the enemy on the city head, then they will definitely be able to attack the enemy in a short time. Control the top of the city within a short period of time. With this short time, the siege soldiers can use the long ladder to attack the top of the city!"
Shen Yifeng thought silently in his heart and felt that this idea was very feasible.
"Instead of engaging in such a war of attrition, it is better to try this idea of mine!" He thought silently in his heart, turned to look at the general and said seriously: "Give me the order, the whole army retreats, we will not attack the city today, go back rest!"
"But...it was General Wang who ordered the siege!" The general looked at Shen Yifeng with a troubled expression.
"I will explain to General Wang!" Shen Yifeng said with certainty: "We will withdraw our troops immediately!"
"Yes!" Seeing Shen Yifeng's determined expression, the general had no choice but to accept the order and withdraw his troops.
Back at the military camp, Shen Yifeng went directly to see Wang Meng.
Wang Meng sat in the military tent. After listening to Shen Yifeng's idea, he frowned and thought for a while before looking at him with a puzzled expression and said, "Is it really okay to use a trebuchet to throw soldiers up the city wall?"
"Absolutely!" Shen Yifeng said with certainty: "As long as we practice for a period of time, I believe this plan can definitely be implemented!"
After walking back and forth in the military camp twice, Wang Meng felt that Shen Yifeng's idea was indeed very feasible: "Your idea seems feasible... Well, I'll find some stronger people to try it first. If If it’s really possible, then just do as you say.”
"I think we need to modify the trebuchet to make it more stable. At the same time, the accuracy of the trebuchet also needs to be more precise." Shen Yifeng said: "I think that in order to cooperate with the upcoming attack plan, we need to For a few days, you can let the selected soldiers train on the trebuchet while continuing to attack the city according to a fixed routine!"
"You are right." Wang Meng guessed what Shen Yifeng wanted to explain, looked at him and nodded: "In this way, I will do the manpower selection, and you will complete the specific implementation plan!"
"Yes!" Shen Yifeng nodded hurriedly and said, "That's what I think. In the past few days, we have led soldiers to attack the city every day. However, we only attacked the enemy's east gate and west gate, leaving the south gate and north gate empty. Move, so that the main force of the enemy army and those stronger generals will stay at the east gate and west gate. After we have trained the soldiers who use the trebuchet, we can suddenly attack the south gate or the north gate. This way we have a better chance of winning. It will add a lot!”
"Well, just do what you said!" Wang Meng agreed very much with the strategy proposed by Shen Yifeng: "Now you go and see how to modify the trebuchet, and I will select a thousand elite soldiers for trebuchet training!"
"Yes!" Shen Yifeng responded solemnly, then strode out.
The modification work of the trebuchets was completed in one day. Wang Meng selected 2,000 elite soldiers and modified all 2,000 trebuchets at the same time.
In the next few days, Shen Yifeng took these two thousand carefully selected soldiers to a secret place for training in using trebuchets. Wang Meng followed Shen Yifeng's previous ideas and continued to attack the east gate of Dral City. Launch an attack with Ximen.
Time passed day by day, and a week passed in the blink of an eye.
Under the training of Shen Yifeng, the two thousand people selected by Wang Meng have become more proficient in mastering the technique of balancing in the air after being thrown by a trebuchet. Moreover, the accuracy of throwing the trebuchet has also improved a lot.
The preparations are basically ready.
At ten o'clock that morning, the shouts of killing were heard once again from the east and west gates of Dral City.
A hundred meters away from the south gate and the north gate, as usual, a group of soldiers stood there but did not launch an attack on Dral City.
The sound of killing was loud, and the attacks on the east gate and west gate were fierce.
Time passed slowly, and in a blink of an eye it was twelve o'clock noon.
At this time, a hundred meters away from the south gate, Shen Yifeng was about to order an attack on the city.
A hundred meters behind him, 50,000 soldiers were ready to attack with ladders to attack the city, and the trebuchets had been placed upside down not far behind, covered by weeds.
"I hope my plan will succeed!" Shen Yifeng took a deep breath and then gave the order to the two lieutenants standing beside him: "Prepare to attack the city!"
"yes!"
Several lieutenants agreed, and soon erected the hidden trebuchet and moved quickly towards the front of the south gate city.
Although the enemy troops at the top of the city saw these trebuchets, they did not think anything more. They just spread out their combat formations. This was the most effective way to prevent trebuchet attacks.
Two thousand trebuchets were soon ready.
"Use stones to attack for the first ten times!" Shen Yifeng ordered. After the ten attacks were completed, the siege soldiers started to attack with ladders, and at the same time, two thousand soldiers used trebuchets to throw them up the city wall!"
"Yes." The lieutenants responded loudly.
The preparations were completed quickly and Shen Yifeng was already preparing to give the order to attack.
"Ready!... Release!"
Following Shen Yifeng's order, two thousand trebuchets threw countless large rocks onto the city.
When the enemy troops defending the city saw the stones flying towards them, they hurriedly retreated to avoid them. Only a few enemy troops were hit by the stones.
Shen Yifeng didn't care whether the stones thrown by the trebuchet could hurt the enemy. He just did this to paralyze the enemy and make the enemy think inertly.
"Ready!... Release!"
Two thousand trebuchets once again projected countless stones.
Still not many enemy soldiers were hit by stones.
At this time, the enemy army was already preparing to move the trebuchets to deal with Shen Yifeng and the others.
If the enemy's trebuchets are transferred over, then Shen Yifeng's trebuchets will definitely be within the attack range of the enemy's trebuchets, and then Shen Yifeng's two thousand trebuchets are likely to attack in a short time. All were smashed within a short period of time.
However, the trebuchet is a relatively clumsy weapon, and it takes time to transport and place it. It is impossible for the enemy to transport the trebuchet quickly in a hurry.
Shen Yifeng just needs to grasp this period of time well.
Next, following Shen Yifeng's orders, two thousand trebuchets continued to project huge boulders onto the city.
In the blink of an eye, ten times passed.
For the eleventh time, the trebuchet has been replaced by people, but these people are wearing clothes of the same color as the rocks. At first glance, they look similar to the rocks.
"Siege the city!"
Shen Yifeng ordered loudly.
"Kill...!"
"Go ahead...!"
As his order sounded, the soldiers behind him rushed up the south gate wall with ladders.
At the same time, two thousand trebuchets threw two thousand trained elite soldiers into the air and flew towards the top of the city.