Xie Zhi shaded his eyes with his hand, gazing at the city walls of Kucha, then shouted to the messenger, "Order fifteen catapults to lower their angles and only bombard the city walls; adjust the other fifteen catapults and only bombard the interior of the city..."
"yes!"
The messenger responded loudly and immediately rode away.
Upon receiving the order, the soldiers began to take out the blueprints for the catapult and started adjusting the launching distance and height.
Before long, the adjusted catapults were ready to fire again.
"Boom!!"
Fifteen stone projectiles slammed heavily against the city wall, producing a deafening impact that sent stone chips and bricks flying everywhere, and cracks appeared on the wall.
The other fifteen stones flew over the wall and fell into the city.
The Kucha garrison, hiding behind the wall, looked up at the stone projectiles flying overhead with fear and helplessness in their eyes, and then watched helplessly as those stone projectiles hit the houses in the city.
Large numbers of houses collapsed, and countless people in Kucha were killed or injured by the falling debris.
However, the nightmare had only just begun.
Following Xie Zhiyu's orders, 1,500 soldiers were divided into 30 groups, with 10 groups of soldiers on each catapult taking turns to bombard the walls and interior of the city of Kucha.
Three hours later, until the last wave of attacks ended, Xie Zhiyu had fired all nine hundred stone projectiles he had prepared.
At this time, the city wall of Kucha had already developed more than a dozen cracks, each about a meter wide.
Inside the city, buildings within a hundred paces of the city wall have also been razed to the ground.
Tens of thousands of civilians and more than two thousand soldiers died in the attack.
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