Three stones weighing fifty kilograms were thrown at the army in front of Qiuchi and Dayue.
With the enemy forces so densely packed, there was no need to adjust the launch angle.
All three stones fell accurately into the crowd.
One of the pieces even hit a catapult directly.
boom!
Accompanied by a loud bang, there was a sound of shattering from the catapult.
Immediately afterwards, the catapult began to shake and was about to fall apart.
"Run! The catapult is about to fall apart!"
"Scatter, scatter..."
“Run quickly…”
...
...
The soldiers operating the catapults panicked, shouted in panic, and fled in all directions.
As they ran away, the catapult began to fall apart.
With a series of "cracking" sounds, the catapult gradually fell apart and finally collapsed with a loud bang.
Fortunately, the soldiers operating the catapults ran away in time and no casualties were caused.
Of the other two stones that fell into the crowd, only one killed one person, and the other almost hit the gap between two cavalrymen, scaring several cavalrymen around where the stone fell.
Looking at such results, Yun Zheng on the high ground smiled helplessly.
Just as he thought, one round of projectiles did not cause heavy casualties to the enemy.
It is indeed unrealistic to expect to kill a large number of people with a trebuchet.
After all, a fifty-pound stone is only that big.
You can't kill a group of people with a stone unless you fill it with gunpowder.
However, using one's own trebuchet to destroy the enemy's trebuchet is quite effective.
Besides, it would be nice to create some chaos among the enemy troops.
While Yun Zheng was thinking secretly, the soldiers of the Northern Army operated the catapult again.
"put!"
With an order, three stones flew out again.
Faced with the flying stones, the enemy army, which was already in some confusion, became even more confused.
There are so many people crowded together that I don’t know where to hide.
The projectile effect seems to be pretty good this time.
Three large stones killed two people, and a cavalryman hurriedly stood up his horse the moment the stones hit him.
Bang!
A stone weighing about fifty pounds hit the warhorse's head hard.
“Wheeze…”
The warhorse let out a mournful cry, then fell to the ground and twitched continuously.
"beep……"
Just when the soldiers of Qiuchi and Dayue were in chaos, a low and long horn sounded suddenly from behind them.
This is an order to retreat.
Upon receiving the order, soldiers from both countries immediately began to retreat.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Northern Army fired another round of projectiles, killing two more unlucky guys who were retreating.
The catapults of the Northern Army disrupted the original battle plans of Qiuchi and Dayue.
Lou Yi and Yu Tai had to order the soldiers on both sides to retreat.
However, they did not need to withdraw too far, they just needed to withdraw from the attack range of the Northern Army's catapults.
"General Yu, what do you think we should do in this situation?"
Lou Yi frowned and asked Yu Tai for his opinion.
This result was something they had not expected before.
He had vaguely seen the piles of hay before, but he thought they were weeds stored by the enemy, waiting to use them as fire when they launched an attack.
Unexpectedly, under the piles of weeds there were catapults hidden by the enemy.
Now, the enemy not only has catapults, but the attack distance of their catapults is also greater than that of theirs.
Their previous combat plan of using catapults to consume part of the enemy's manpower was obviously no longer feasible.
The enemy doesn't need to launch a forced raid to destroy their catapults. They can just smash them with their catapults!
Faced with Lou Yi's question, Yu Tai couldn't help but start to worry.
what to do?
How does he know what to do?
When attacking a city, if the large siege weapons are unreliable and the enemy cannot be lured out of the city to engage in battle, what else can be done except for a violent attack?
But at the moment, the enemy's troops suffered no casualties.
Even if the enemy's strength is far less than theirs, and they rely on these sections of the city walls to block them, if they attack forcefully, there will definitely be heavy casualties.
After a long while, Yu Tai sighed weakly and said with a worried look on his face: "All I can think of is to attack regardless of casualties. I wonder if Your Highness has a better idea?"
Lou Yi frowned, "I do have an idea, but it can only cause some trouble to the enemy. If we want to defeat the enemy, it seems that we have no choice but to attack violently!"
"What is the solution?"
A look of anticipation instantly appeared on Yu Tai's face.
At this time, any method that can cause trouble to the enemy is a good method!
The more disorganized the enemy is, the greater their chances of breaking through the enemy's defenses.
Correspondingly, there will be fewer casualties!
Lou Yi's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he said in a deep voice: "We will order people to collect weeds and tie them to the horses, then pour kerosene on the weeds, and then light the weeds and drive the horses to charge into the gaps between the enemy's walls..."
Um?
Hearing Lou Yi's words, Yu Tai's eyes suddenly lit up.
“Good idea!”
Yu Tai clapped his hands and laughed, "Your Highness is very resourceful. Under such circumstances, you can actually come up with such a brilliant plan to defeat the enemy. I really admire you!"
Lou Yi smiled modestly, "This is also a last resort. I'm sorry to have embarrassed General Yu."
In fact, this was not the solution he had thought of.
When he was on a diplomatic mission to Guifang, he heard from the Guifang people that Jia Yao had once defeated the defenders of Beiyuan Shallows by using the method of fire bulls charging the formation, and Yun Zheng had also used the method of fire horses charging the formation to deal with Jia Yao in the pasture grassland.
However, he would not let Yu Tai know that he had learned this trick from somewhere else.
"Your Highness is too modest!"
With this solution, Yu Tai felt much better, and immediately added: "We can also tie spears to the horses to create as much chaos as possible for the enemy!"
"General Yu is right!" Lou Yi nodded and smiled, "If we want to use this method to attack, we need to wait until dark. We cannot let the enemy see through our plan in advance, otherwise it will be difficult to implement this plan!"
"good!"
Yu Tai agreed, "We can press on first..."
Next, the two began to discuss the specific details of the operation.
They would take advantage of darkness and secretly tie weeds on the war horses.
You have to catch the enemy by surprise to make this plan work to its maximum effect!
After agreeing on the specific details, the depression in both of their hearts dissipated a lot.
Although the enemy army has the city wall for support, the enemy's city wall is not a complete wall after all!
As long as their strategy succeeds, it will definitely cause great chaos to the enemy.
At that time, if their follow-up troops charge forward, they will definitely have a chance to break through the enemy's defense line.
As long as they break through the enemy's first line of defense, they will be able to defend it.
Relying on the first line of defense to gradually erode the enemy's strength, there is definitely a great chance of defeating the enemy!
At this moment, the two seemed to have regained their confidence and smiled again...
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