Chapter 410 Siege Equipment

After another two days of preparation, Lu Zhi led an army of 2 million troops from the headquarters, plus nearly 1 million reinforcements from various departments, and finally marched towards Guangzong.

After the end of the Yellow Turban Army's fortune, Ma Teng finally brought the Liangzhou Army!

Together with more than 100,000 supporting troops from nearby states and counties, a total of 3 million troops marched mightily towards Guangzong City.

Along the way, all the Yellow Turbans fled, and the cities captured by the Yellow Turbans in Julu County were recovered one after another. Shang Ji invited himself to be the forward, earning a lot of merit points!

Although there are some elements of trickery involved, this is still considered a feat for capturing the city, but because the Shang Ji army did not act independently, it will be judged according to the system, and Shang Ji can only get part of the merit.

But Shang Ji was overjoyed by this kind of harvest similar to the pie in the sky. In just ten days, Shang Ji gained nearly ten million merit points by virtue of this kind of siege.

But it is a pity that because the war is not over yet, the exchange of large amounts of merit has not yet started. Shang Jikong has tens of millions of merit points, but he cannot turn them into strength.

But not long after Shang Ji's good life, he encountered a hard stubble.

Quzhou, one of the big cities in Julu County, is located to the west of Guangzong, and it is the only way for the bandit army to enter Guangzong. But now, Qu Zhou has turned into a huge military camp, and countless Yellow Turban troops are stationed in it. In addition to the main force of the 500,000 Yellow Turbans, there are also several times the Yellow Turban miscellaneous soldiers who gathered from nearby counties and previous cities.

Shang Ji took Zhang Xi, Zhao Yun and others to investigate the general situation of Quzhou City from a distance. The arrow towers, wide moats, thick and solid walls, and dense yellow soldiers on the walls immediately captured Shang. Try to test the siege plan.

Obviously, this time is different from the past. In the past, it was not so much Shang Ji who recovered the city, but the Yellow Turban Army who gave up the defense on its own initiative. Today, the Yellow Turban Army does not intend to continue to retreat.

The Shang Ji army was all cavalry and had no siege equipment, so naturally they couldn't attack the heavily defended city. Seriously speaking, if there were only the Shang Ji army, the only way to face this kind of situation was to besiege. If you doubled the strength of the Shang Ji army, it would be impossible to break through Quzhou without siege equipment.

But fortunately, Shang Ji was only acting as a forward this time, there was no need to fortify such a fortified city, to investigate the enemy situation, Shang Ji decisively reported to Lu Zhi.

"Grand Lu, the moth bandits in Quzhou are heavily guarded and the city walls are thick. They will eventually lack sharp weapons to attack the city. There is nothing we can do. Please punish them!"

In Lu Zhishuai tent,

Shang Ji first apologized.

"Hahaha, there is no need for Yuewu to feel guilty. This old man has long expected that this moth thief will fight stubbornly. Yuewu's troops are all heavily armed with cavalry. Naturally, fighting the enemy in the field is your strong point. You have to rely on me to attack the city!"

Lu Zhi laughed, stroked his long beard on his chest and said with a smile.

"We'll wait and see!" Shang Ji said with a slight smile and bowed.

The city in the beacon fire is tens of meters high and tens of meters thick at every turn. The material is not ordinary stone, but extremely strong basalt stone. Without powerful siege weapons, it is simply a nightmare for the attacker.

Lu Zhi's ability to hold out against the onslaught of Zhang Jiao's millions of troops before also took advantage of the Yellow Turban Army's lack of siege equipment.

So far, all the cities above the giant cities have been lost due to internal reasons, and there has never been a giant city that has been captured directly.

And so far, all the powerful siege equipment in Huaxia District are under the control of the Han court. The status of this thing is comparable to that of ballistic missiles in reality!

Previously, Shang Ji saw the blueprints of warships that could be exchanged in the exchange list of the Youzhou Merit Office, but the blueprints of siege equipment did not even have a hair, which shows that the imperial court attaches great importance to siege equipment!

As Lu Zhi's subordinate is the Central Army of the Han Dynasty, naturally there will be no shortage of siege equipment. It's just that Handan was besieged before, so of course the siege equipment was useless. Now that the situation has reversed, these powerful weapons can finally show their style.

"Pass down the order and order the general Zongyuan to immediately lead the C-shaped Tunnel Battalion to break through the city wall of Quzhou. In addition, order Liu Bei, Gongsun Zan, Lu Bu and others to lead the troops of the headquarters to help General Shangji break the bandits!"

"yes!"

Following Lu Zhi's order, the army mobilized. Lu Bu and others led their troops to Quzhou, and Shang Ji also returned to the front line, waiting for the arrival of the tunnel troops led by the clan members.

Lu Bu and Gongsun Zan arrived one after another and joined forces with Shang Ji. One day later, Liu Bei led his army to escort the clan members and led the tunnel camp troops to arrive late.

At the east gate of Qu Zhou, hundreds of thousands of troops gathered, most of them were cavalry. The Yellow Turban Army is also ready for battle. There are many soldiers on the city wall, defensive rings, rolling stones, bed crossbows, giant shields, hook guns are all over the city wall, and even a catapult can be seen not far away.

Under this kind of defense strength, a strong attack is tantamount to seeking a dead end.

"General Zong, the thieves' defense is very tight, and you need to look at the power of General Zong to defeat the thieves!"

"It's easy to say, it's just a moth thief, it's not worth mentioning!" The sect member looked at the city defenses of Quzhou, and then said confidently: "Look, generals, the east city of Quzhou will be broken within an hour!"

"Pass down the order, deploy the city-breaking dragon cannon and torch stone chariot, and smash the Quzhou city wall within an hour!" After issuing the order, the clan member said proudly: "Are you generals interested in admiring the imperial weapon up close? style"

Naturally, Shang Ji and the others would not refuse, and quickly accepted the invitation of the clan member, and joined him in the camp.

At a distance of more than ten miles from Quzhou City, Tunying stopped its progress. The mysterious city-breaking dragon cannon revealed its true face.

The so-called City Breaking Dragon Cannon is cylindrical in shape, as its name suggests, and looks like a crouching dragon. It is more than ten feet long and one foot in diameter, and there are wheels underneath to help drive it. The front of the car is the head of the dragon, which is majestic and majestic.

Compared with the Breaking Dragon Pao, the Jushiche has lost more than one notch to the Breaking Dragon Pao both in appearance and inside.

Soon the siege equipment was set up, ten city-breaking dragon cannons were lined up, and there were hundreds of torch stone chariots on both sides, aiming at Quzhou City.

Although there were also catapults in Quzhou City, their range was obviously not as good as that of the Han army, so they could only watch helplessly as they deployed siege equipment.

"Report to the general, the city-breaking dragon cannon and torch stone chariot are ready, please give instructions to the general!" A member of the small school trotted over to report to the Zong member.

The Zong member smiled slightly, waved his hand and said, "Start attacking the city!"

Then regardless of the small school, the Zong member turned his head to look at Shang Ji and the others and said with a smile: "Don't blink, all generals!"

Shang Ji clasped his fists as a response to the sect member, and stared at the ten city-breaking dragon cannons without blinking. The Zong member didn't mind, and also turned his attention to the City Breaking Dragon Pao. Although he had seen it many times, every time the City Breaking Dragon Pao fired its power, the Zong member's mind was swayed and he couldn't help himself.