Lu Bu's army had already arranged the bed crossbow troops in the ambush area. Although Lu Bu's army was also injured a lot during the recent days of catapult shooting, Liu Bei's army on the top of the city suffered even more damage, because The target of the Yangzhou Army's projectile was a city, and Liu Bei could only rely on his character to shoot at Lu Bu's ballista troops, or to shoot at Lu Bu's camp.
That's why Liu Bei couldn't take it anymore. Liu Bei didn't know if there were enough Lu Bujun stones below. He only knew that if this continues, his Runan City would definitely not be able to bear it. There are already many places on the top of the city. After going down, the morale of the people and the army in the city is high, so Liu Bei will definitely go out of the city to eliminate this biggest threat.
The only thing that can get close to the ballista without being noticed is the speed of heavy armored cavalry. Lu Bu's army also knew that Liu Bei would come, so they set up an ambush. Because of the fast speed of Liu Bei's cavalry, Lu Bu didn't want to pursue them at night. The crossbow came in handy.
The bed crossbow is so powerful that it can penetrate the armor of heavy armored cavalry. Similarly, the bed crossbow's continuous firing and its range can catch up with the high explosive speed of Xiliang iron cavalry.
"Swish, swish!" The bed crossbow's throwing speed was very fast, and the huge arrow vacuum formed in such an instant, basically no one could withstand the impact of the giant arrow, and a giant arrow could penetrate several heavy armored cavalry. "There is an ambush, there is an ambush, retreat quickly, retreat quickly!" Liu Bei's Xiliang iron cavalry general shouted loudly. He wanted to let his robe be discovered in time to recover the loss, but everything was in vain. The bed crossbow had already been set. When the bowstring is put on, their heavy cavalry is fast, but they can outrun flying arrows.
Some people were shot to death on the horses. Some people were turned into candied haws. What is tragic is that those war horses were shot to death. Their horses stopped in the middle of the road, and the cavalry was thrown out directly, and Bao Ze, who was fleeing for his life, was trampled on the city.
"Three hundred steps?" The young man looked at the power of the bed crossbow over there. He was the one who calculated the three hundred steps in the first place. It was measured by human life. of power.
But today he saw that this is not the case. "Four hundred steps!" Four hundred steps still have power, and this power has not diminished at all. Even without a giant shield, the thickness of the heavy armor is not fake.
"Five hundred steps! Six hundred steps." The young man felt that his breathing was a little short. "Seven hundred steps!" He said firmly, and at seven hundred steps, there was not much harm. Seven hundred steps, just like that, those giant arrows still shot and killed several Xiliang cavalry.
The ground was covered with corpses of Xiliang iron cavalry, and the screams of those surviving war horses, blood stained the ground.
The young man swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
"How is it?" Lu Bu's two guards nearby looked at the young man proudly.
"Those bed crossbows!" They thought that the young man was frightened by the scene in front of them. After all, the blood was all over the ground, the corpses all over the ground, and the wailing voices of the undead made people feel horrified on this big night. .
But what I didn't expect was that the young man's expression of astonishment just now changed in an instant, and his eyes shone with light. The green color made the Bingzhou wolf riding guards around Lu Bu feel that they were not wolves. And this young man is too.
"Those bed crossbows!" The young man didn't care about the corpses, and rushed towards the bed crossbows over there.
How could he care about the corpses on the ground? Even if those pieces of meat were stained with shoes and trousers, and his legs were covered with blood, he still had no fear at all, as if he was on a muddy road. Just walk.
"Oh!" Lu Bu's guards couldn't help being shocked when they saw the young man running over.
"Ah!" A Xiliang iron cavalry who fell off his war horse was not completely dead, and he was struggling to fight, and this young man really relied on him as the closest one. , with all eyes full of ferociousness, he rushed towards the young man directly. The sword in his hand was about to be swung down.
"Be careful!" shouted Lu Bu's guard over there, but the young man was unmoved at all, watching the dying Xiliang cavalry's saber about to fall.
Suddenly he took out a small object from the sleeve of the young man, and a cold light shot out from the small object, the saber that was about to fall over there was stopped at once, and the dying Xiliang cavalry, Now he fell down and couldn't get up again.
"Are you okay!" Several guards over there ran over and asked the young man.
"I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me." The young man took out the item in his sleeve, which turned out to be a small crossbow.
"Who cares about you? We are afraid that you will rush over. The bed crossbow over there is a secret of our army. Your task now is to look at the ballista, not the bed crossbow." These guards said to the young man , bed crossbow Liu Mang is very strict management, he will not let Liu Bei or Cao Cao get it. What these guards were afraid of was that the young man would touch the crossbow on the bed.
"Okay, okay!" At this time, although the young man's eyes were fiery, he was a little more sober, bed crossbow? It's better to deal with the ballista first, and then deal with the bed crossbow later, anyway, there is plenty of time.
The young man nodded and ran towards the ballista, "Come on, take me to meet your lord!" The young man said to the guards.
The guards asked the young man suspiciously, "Is the problem solved?"
"Solved!" The young man said very calmly.
"Okay, let's go!" Although the guards were puzzled, they took the young man and left, arriving at Lu Bu's place.
"What? It's that simple?" Lu Bu looked at the young man in front of him with a strange expression on his face.
"Yes, it's that simple." The young man waved his hand. Lu Bu hid his face and didn't know what to say. It turned out that the answer the young man gave after going for so long was to ask Lu Bu to pull the ballista down five hundred steps. Because the trebuchet designed by this young man for Liu Bei only has a range of 500 meters.
"What's your idea, we don't have many stones!" Said an impatient general beside him.
"There are not many stones?" The young man frowned, and he asked Lu Bu to pull the ballista towards the back. Because the ballista can be powerful even at five hundred steps. But he didn't expect that Lu Bujun's stones were running out. It's no wonder that the high-intensity projectiles these days are inevitable.
"Okay!" The young man thought for a while, "How many stones do you have left?" He asked Lu Bu.
"It's only enough for half a day tomorrow." Lu Bu replied.
"Enough!" The young man nodded. "Do you have any ink?" He asked Lu Bu.
"En?" Although Lu Bu was puzzled, he still brought a pen, ink, paper and inkstone to this person.
"So and so!" The young man scribbled on the paper.
"What are you drawing, brush us, this is it!"
"Slow down!" Although Lu Bu next to him couldn't read it, he could see a general frame. Isn't this the general structure of a ballista? Even the young man even drew some details inside. Out.
"That's it, raise his elevation angle. Adjust his angle, that's it. Just these few angles are fine. Your ballista just needs to be installed at a distance of five hundred steps from the city wall, according to my angle It will definitely make you destroy all the trebuchets on the city wall." The young man was very confident.
Lu Bu didn't understand these things, so he could only take out this blueprint and gave it to the launching officer.
The captain was also very surprised, but seeing the young man full of confidence, he didn't say anything.
On the second day, the Yangzhou army once again appeared under the city of Runan and above the towers. Lu Bu clearly saw that Liu Bei's expression was very bad, very gloomy.
This is no nonsense. No matter who this is, it will be sad if thousands of heavy armored cavalry are taken away by the enemy. And this is still not even the shadow of the enemy, so Liu Bei's face today is extremely ugly, but in order to boost morale, Liu Bei still stood on the city wall.
"Get ready, attack the city!" Lu Bu gave an order, and the war drums roared. Ballistas started loading boulders one by one.
"My lord, go down the city wall, it's dangerous here!" Liu Bei's gatekeeper captain in Runan City said to Liu Bei, the next thing is to shoot at the stone catapult, and it is inevitable that there will be huge boulders bombarding the city wall.
"No, today I want to live and die with Runan City." Liu Bei said resolutely, the look of death on his face is admirable, and it has greatly improved the morale of the people below.
If possible, ghosts would be willing to stay on this city wall. Liu Bei is no longer the vigorous young man he used to be. Now Liu Bei has entered middle age. What he thinks of is to save his life and cherish his life. It's better to conquer the world, isn't it? You must know that Liu Bei has no heirs yet.
The reason why Liu Bei went to the city wall was not only because the morale in the Runan city was too low, but also because he had already considered it in the past few days. But very few hit the tower, so the school captains put the trebuchet on the edge of the tower.
Liu Bei also saw this, so he took the lead.
Don't say that Liu Bei's master effect is really good. If you fight there, the morale of the Runan army below will greatly increase. Even the accuracy of the trebuchet has become much higher, but on the other hand, the ballista in Yangzhou has lost its aim all of a sudden. It has already been two rounds, and they are all thrown into the city. I went, and even the joker didn't even meet Runan City.
"This is Your Excellency's method?" The mocking voice was beyond words.
"Huh!" The young man snorted coldly, and he went forward to calibrate the angles of these ballistas. "Okay, try again!"
"Boom!" A huge boulder flew out, and at this time, the boulder was directly thrown to both sides of the tower.
The sound of 'Boom' surprised Liu Bei on the city tower, "What's going on! "
Soon someone from below came to report that it turned out that a trebuchet was knocked down by the ballista of Lu Bujun below.
"Don't worry, my lord, it's just bad luck," the captain next to him comforted Liu Bei, and Liu Bei also nodded, because the ballistas of the other Yangzhou army who were shooting together were still like birds, and they all shot sideways. Messy thin.
Liu Bei felt relieved, while the young men below began to adjust the ballista one by one.
"Boom, boom, boom!" Liu Bei on the tower finally realized that something was wrong, because one or two huge boulders fell on the tower from the beginning, which was a piece of shit luck, but now they bombarded one after another on the tower. What is this above? Did it fall into the shit pile
"It's not good, it's not good, my lord and general!" A soldier ran up the tower in a panic and shouted loudly.
"Why panic!" Seeing his subordinates making fools of himself, the captain of Chengmen shouted a little angrily. "Didn't I tell you to calm down, calm down!"
"Yes, it's the general." The soldier took a deep breath to calm down his emotions. "Over there, the general, our trebuchet has been destroyed by more than half."...
"What!" It was the lieutenant's turn to be restless. "Can you say that again!"
"General, more than half of our trebuchets have been destroyed by the enemy, and now there are only a few left."
"Okay, okay!" There was an excited shout from under the city wall, and the captain found out with a sad face that the remaining trebuchets had also been destroyed, and he hadn't had time to grieve yet. there.
"Wow, boom!" The voice sounded.
"What's the matter, what's the matter." The ground shook, and Liu Bei panicked. It turned out that their current city tower has completely become the main target of the ballista.
"My lord, hurry up and go down the city tower!" It's no longer possible to stay above the city tower, and if you continue to flow down, you will be dead.
"Haha, haha!" The soldiers of Lu Bu's army below looked at Liu Bei's distress on the city wall and laughed loudly.
"Okay, now there are no stone catapults on the city wall, and half of the threat has been removed. It is said that our army has ordered the whole army to attack after the boulders are thrown, capture the city wall, and take down Runan!" Now Liu Bei's morale is at its lowest. The whereabouts of the master Hongta is unknown, and his trebuchet was defeated again.
It can be said that after the last round of catapult bombardment, once the ladder is used to climb the city wall, Runan City will almost be attacked.
"Report, report to the lord, a letter from Yangzhou." A messenger rushed to Lu Bu suddenly and taught Lu Bu a letter.
Lu Bu picked up the letter and read it. His face was very complicated, with struggles and anger, and more of a worry.
"What's the matter, my lord?" Zhang Liao asked the lord Lu Bu beside him.
"Wen Yuan is preparing to withdraw his troops."