Cao Zhi also solved the problem of lack of technical backbone in the first time. The technicians who are familiar with manufacturing catapults have not yet arrived, so wouldn’t he still be there? Don’t forget, the catapult can make its debut again in this era, and several days in advance.
Years ago, Cao Zhi was the first technical backbone in the history of this weapon.
Making wooden troughs, large wooden wheels, looking for ready-made leather strips, etc., Cao Zhi's camp, like Yuan's army camp, was busy all night under the bustle of people. In the early morning, Cao Zhi and more than a hundred sergeants finally completed the construction
Three catapults, pulled by three large horses, arrived at Xiying.
At this time, through the efforts of thousands of soldiers overnight, the bamboo raft shield on Cao Jun's camp has been initially completed.
Cao Zhi and others did not close their eyes, but they still excitedly climbed up the wall of the village and took a quick look at Yuan Jun's camp through the gaps in the bamboo raft shield. Sure enough, everything was as Cao Zhi expected. Yuan Jun had also passed the emergency construction overnight.
In front of all the camps, a series of connected sand and stone camps were built, which were almost as high as Cao Jun's camps.
Behind those camps are the improved version of the watchtower "Gao Lu". At this time, although Yuan Jun has not connected them into one so quickly, dozens of them have been erected there. There are sergeants working hard to reach the five-foot-wide
They were transported on the earth and stone base of the stronghold. Only by allowing them to exceed the height of Cao's army's camp could they launch an effective high-altitude attack on the interior of Cao's camp.
The officers and soldiers of Yuan's army who hurriedly climbed up to the base of the stronghold looked up and were stunned. They were surprised at the changes in Cao's army overnight, and they began to discuss the function of the bamboo raft shields used by Cao's army for targeted defense.
Soon the noise attracted the more senior generals of Yuan's army. When they were surprised that Cao's army had changed like them, they quickly informed Yuan Shao of the changes in Cao's camp.
When Yuan Shao arrived to check out Cao Jun's new changes, Cao Zhi saw the "high oar" that Yuan Jun was carrying and immediately decided to take action first.
After lifting the grass thatch covering the catapult, three cold behemoths appeared in front of Cao's soldiers.
"Aim your long arm at the enemy's west city head, give me a few hard shots, and tell these bastards that my invincible catapult is coming!" Cao Zhi waved his hands and shouted loudly at the camp.
Several soldiers turned the long-arm-like slinging wooden trough, aiming it at the hazy figures of the enemy soldiers with high oars outside the camp. Then they worked together to turn the big wooden wheel to stretch the leather strap. When it was stretched tightly, they heard
Cao Zhi stood on the wall and gave the order: "Launch!"
The sergeant controlling the catapult shouted at the same time and let go. The big wooden wheel quickly reversed under the drive of the leather strap. The leather strap quickly contracted, and the horse-head-like stone bullet suddenly shot out under the strong elastic force.
The wooden trough flew away from the huge body of the catapult, flying faster and faster into the sky, roaring across the sky like a tiger, drawing a beautiful arc, and with a loud bang, the rocks hit
A "high oar" that had just been transported to the foundation of Yuan Jun's stronghold was built.
Because the attack was too violent, several large pieces of Yuan Jun's "high oar" and dust smoke on the west city fell. Several Yuan Jun sergeants who were shot were followed by the falling fragments and were smashed like eggs.
His brains burst apart and he screamed in agony.
"Hit! Hit!"
The soldiers of Cao's army were so happy that their hard work all night was not in vain. They jumped up and made noises.
Yuan Jun's high oar, which had not yet been connected into one piece, also swayed and creaked, and half of it collapsed. It was considered that the night's work of dozens to hundreds of Yuan Jun's sergeants was wasted.
"Haha, Yuan Benchu, you lost to me again!" Cao Zhi laughed proudly towards the military flag with the word "Yuan" embroidered high outside the camp.
But he never thought that before Cao Zhi's laughter ended, Yuan Shao's yelling came back.
"Cao Zhi, you despicable villain, you dare to destroy my high oar, you, you...I want you to pay back double..."
Yuan Shao was obviously very angry, and he spoke intermittently. It was as if he was in the air, and his voice was filled with a sense of emptiness.
Cao Zhi and his generals quickly searched for the place where Yuan Shao made his voice. They lay down in the gap between the bamboo rafts and shields and searched for Yuan Jun's camp for a while. Cao Zhi and others who did not see Yuan Shao suddenly raised their eyes and saw
A watchtower with a height of more than ten meters slowly appeared behind Yuan Jun's camp.
It turned out that in order to climb up to see the changes in Cao's army, Yuan Shao climbed up to the tallest watchtower in the army, which had not yet been converted into a tall oar, on the way. Dozens of sergeants pushed it slowly from the bottom to the camp.
But before Yuan Shao could see Cao Jun's new arrangement, Cao Jun ushered in Cao Jun's first stone-throwing test. Although the three methods only hit one shot, he saw that the high oar he had designed with his imagination was easily destroyed by Cao Jun.
In an instant, Yuan Shao was so angry that he couldn't even mention it.
In the end, Yuan Shao couldn't help but yelled and cursed at Cao Zhi's camp, regardless of his own danger. Yuan Shao had never heard Cao Zhi's laughter and sarcastic remarks before. After all, there was still a certain distance between the two parties, but they just happened to catch up.
However, everyone in Cao Jun's camp, including Cao Zhi, was stunned for a long time by Yuan Shao's sudden reply, and then burst out into a burst of earth-shattering laughter. At this time, through the almost shouting method, a few words could still be heard clearly.
Yuan Shao didn't expect that his yelling would really elicit a response from Cao Zhi. While Yuan Shao was even more furious, this could be regarded as the two sides had established a communication channel between the generals until now.
"Yuan Benchu, don't stand so high, be careful I'll knock you down with a stone bullet!"
"Hahaha……"
Cao Zhi's words triggered loud bursts of ridicule from Cao's army.
Although Yuan Shao in the watchtower could not see exactly where Cao Zhi was standing, he could still find the general direction. In response to Cao Zhi's ridicule and ridicule, Yuan Shao was so angry that he drew out his sword and violently slammed his body.
Looking outside the watchtower, he waved his sword vigorously towards the watchtower and roared: "Cao Laoer, wait for me, wait... Jushou... Jiang Qi, it's my turn to fight back, fight back..."
"Huhu..."
After Yuan Jun camped, they launched a decent counterattack under Yuan Shao's order. Moreover, their counterattack method was similar to Cao Jun's stone attack.
However, Yuan Jun was not yet able to build a catapult with the same outstanding performance and long range as Cao Jun. They also understood part of the catapult principle through stealing, peeping and other means. They created a catapult that used the leverage principle as used by Gongsun Zan's army.
A simple catapult.
This kind of catapult does not use leather straps as the source of traction like Cao's army. Instead, it uses a heavy object to suddenly press down on one end and then eject the stones on the other end.
This kind of catapult can only be fired in one direction, and it takes a lot of trouble to adjust the direction, and the range of each shot cannot be controlled. If the catapult is hit well, the rocks can be shot very far, but if the hit is not good, the rocks cannot even fly out of the camp.
, is a primary catapult that cannot control the landing point.
"Crash..."
Under Yuan Shao's order, Yuan Jun's catapults in the camp fired a round of decent fire, with sporadic crashes, varying heights, and a lot of stone bullets with different arcs flying out from behind Yuan Jun's camp. But it was disappointing.
Yes, there was no one. One of them effectively hit the Cao Jun camp in front of him. Either it fell to the ground without accumulating power, or it flew too far and hit an empty area behind Cao Jun's camp.
There were two or three Yuan Jun's stone bullets and stones. Although they hit Cao Jun's new bamboo raft shield, because the quality of the selected stones was not good, when two of them hit Cao Jun's bamboo raft protective net, they broke into pieces.
It was broken into countless sand and stones of different shapes and sizes, which did not even penetrate Cao Jun's bamboo raft. Another piece was about to hit Cao Jun's camp, but in the end, due to lack of strength, it only missed an inch and fell to the ground.
, it just made a small hole under Cao Jun’s camp.
"Hahaha……"
Yuan Jun's counterattack project initially caused Cao Jun's conditioned reflex to lie down on the spot and other standard evasive stone-throwing postures. But soon they discovered that Yuan Jun's threatening counterattack was not very effective, and it was simply an attack on Cao Jun's camp defense.
.Then bursts of louder jeers filled the world unscrupulously.
These ridicules not only made Yuan Shao even more angry, but also aroused the indignation of Yuan Jun's officers and men. But when they were trying hard to launch the next catapult, it was the three-door Shenwu catapult behind Cao Jun's camp that roared with power again.
With the sound of "Dong Dong, Bang Bang!", Cao Jun's three hurled stones either hit the crowd behind Yuan Jun's camp, or caused another "high oar" to collapse.
I don’t know if Yuan Shao was able to get down to his watchtower, but Cao Jun couldn’t really hit that watchtower. Then there was another retaliatory counterattack by Yuan Jun. This time, the quality of Yuan Jun’s projection was obviously much better than before. Not only
The stone bullets successfully hit Cao Jun's camp, and the number thrown into Cao Jun's camp increased significantly. They also dealt the first round of stone-throwing damage to Cao Jun who failed to lie down in time.
After all, Cao Jun was much smaller than his opponent in terms of the number of stones thrown. Although he was able to form an effective blow every time, it could not be compared with Yuan Jun's indiscriminate bombing, which used quantity instead of quality. At this time, Yuan Shao, who was angry and angry, issued a new order. He asked for return.
All the unfinished "Gao Lu" were pushed to the front line and put into battle.
The archers of the Yuan Army who ascended high began to launch point-and-shoot attacks at Cao Jun's camp in a wide range. Then came the Yuan Jun soldiers standing on the "high oars" who responded with sarcasm to the creeping Cao Jun soldiers.
"The turtles below, the turtle shells with bamboo rafts on your backs are really ugly. Your grandfather rewarded you with this arrow... Whoosh..." Then the soldiers of Cao's army below were hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
"Boom!"
A row of stone bullets landed unevenly on the newly built bamboo shield in Cao Jun's camp, followed by scattered arrows shooting down at the prostrate figure.
Yuan Jun also started a counterattack not to be outdone. The protective shield made of bamboo could block some arrow attacks. However, it could not block the huge and highly penetrating real stone bullets that hit it. Several of them were penetrated.
A sharp scream immediately came from under the bamboo raft shield.