Lu Qiming stroked the long beard under his jaw and stared at the city gate tower in front of him. The strong horse under his crotch was restless, as if he was stimulated by this suppressed aura.

It has been a long time since I experienced such a battle. Even Lu Qiming, who has always been low-key and forbearing, seems to have a little more intense aura in his bones, looking forward to the arrival of this battle.

Wuning left army was responsible for the south gate. This gate was not big, but it was also the focus of the attack.

According to the strategy agreed at the beginning, the east gate and the south gate were the focus of the attack, while the west gate and the north gate were used as feint attacks and support, especially the west gate, which directly retained only the cavalry and one army's infantry as surveillance.

All magician power and equipment only guarantee the East Gate, South Gate and North Gate. The reason why the North Gate is considered is because the terrain of the North Gate is slightly lower. If the Pinglu Army is under too much pressure at the East Gate and South Gate, the feint attack at the North Gate may be transformed into a breakthrough.

"General, time is up." Qin Han, the deputy behind him, reminded Lu Qiming.

"Okay, order, heavy crossbows and stone cannon vehicles are ready to advance, big shields protect, protect and follow up!" Lu Qiming took a deep breath and ordered decisively.

Almost at the same time, in the fields outside the four gates of Qingzhou, a rumbling drum sounded. The masters who followed the team began to carry the earth bags with some shrunks, and silently followed the erected shields in front of them.

Manpower is the most important. Of course, it can be sacrificed at critical moments, but necessary protection is provided to maximize its role. This is Jiang Feng's principle. The preparations should be done to the extreme and losses should be avoided as much as possible.

This kind of car shield is designed by the material officer and is constructed in a modular manner, and can be freely disassembled and flexibly assembled.

In fact, the principle is very simple. It is a three-wheeled wooden car with a large arc-shaped shield on the front. It is built with leather and wooden frames in a special way. After testing, no matter which angle the stone hits the shield car, it can effectively reduce the impact force and avoid excessive force and damage to the shield car.

Moreover, the shield car uses a very advanced steering method, and the wheels in the front can rotate flexibly and freely, which is quite convenient.

The use of this kind of shield car can effectively improve the protection power and greatly improve efficiency, providing good protection for the soldiers and masters behind the shield. In addition, magic is also used on the surface of the cowhide, which has excellent fire resistance.

Dozens of shield cars were arranged in trapezoidal arrangements, and necessary distance was reserved between each shield car. Dozens of masters surrounded the shield car, and behind the shield car there were catapults and heavy crossbows to follow, suppressing the attacks of arrows and rocks above the opponent's city wall.

It should be said that the scouts in Qingzhou City had done some reconnaissance before, but what made Qingzhou scouts a little desperate was that there was no clue at the beginning of the equipment of the entire Huaiyou Army. They only started to assemble and build them when they arrived at the city of Qingzhou. In other words, they knew that the Huaiyou Army must have siege equipment, but they had no way of knowing the level of these equipment and equipment.

So when the shield cart stood up and swarmed towards Qingzhou City, both Wang Shouzhong and Zhang Junyue realized the seriousness of the problem.

The moat in Qingzhou City is not too wide. Due to years of severe drought, the entire Pinglu Army was deeply affected. The moat water has also dropped a lot, but it can still play a role. This is also the first line of defense in Qingzhou City in a short time.

The catapult car and rocket immediately began to show their power as soon as the shield car entered the attack range. With the help of the height advantage of the city wall, crossbow arrows and huge rocks all fell on the head of the shield car like raindrops.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The stones as big as a bowl were constantly being knocked down densely towards the steadily forward shield cart. This was obviously the intentional task of Pinglu Army on the city wall. We wanted to test how strong the shield cart was.

No matter how powerful a shield is in this era, it cannot withstand the repeated impact of such huge power. This is determined by the technology or magic level of this era.

Under the impact of gravity, this defensive weapon, which is mainly composed of wooden structures, has reached the extreme strain and stress of the tenons of each support point, and naturally collapses.

Zhang Junyue's eyes were like torch, staring at the rapidly approaching shield car.

He was already silently counting the blows suffered by the shield car in the middle.

More than ten rockets shot into the shield car, and several of them were still on fire on the shield car's shield, but they could not ignite the shield car at all.

It is obvious that this shield car has undergone special magic processing. I have heard that Huainan has prospered its magic. It seems that the Huai Youjun has also made these aspects to the pinnacle.

This makes people shudder, which also means that the Rockets, which are the most threatening weapons to all kinds of siege equipment, are invalid for Huaiyou, at least the threat has dropped significantly, which is shocking.

In the past, there were no vassal lords who used fire-proof siege weapons such as shield cars, city rushing cars, nest cars, and wooden donkeys to deal with them, but most of them were treated in a crude way such as mud and soaking in water.

These methods not only increase the weight of the siege weapon itself and reduce efficiency, but also have not been very effective.

But now the situation is completely different. These siege weapons processed through magic are basically immune to the rockets. If more than ten rockets had been replaced before, they would have burned a rushing car, but now they are ineffective.

If there is no rocket's lethality, you can only rely on the catapult.

What made Zhang Junyue breathe a little relieved was that the shield car in the middle could not stand it after being hit by the catapult car in succession. The mortise at the support point on the left arm finally broke, and half of the shield fell down, exposing the Master behind to the crossbowman on the city.

The crossbowmen who had been depressed for a long time finally found a hole to vent, venting in this gap like a storm.

Screaming in succession, more than twenty masters carrying earth bags had almost no time to react, and were nailed to the position by dense rain of arrows. Only the shield cart was pulled by soldiers hiding behind the remaining shield cart and retreated backwards from the reserved gap.

This action made Zhang Junyue on the city wall even more frightened.

This also means that even if the shield chariots of the Huai You Army were damaged, they could still drag them back easily and flexibly. After a little repair, they might be able to fight in the next war. This is terrifying.

Originally, Wang Shouzhong and Zhang Junyue also considered that the Huaiyou Army had come from a long journey, and the logistics of the logistics of the logistics of the logistics of the Huaiyou Army would definitely be affected. They also knew that it was said that the siege equipment in Huaiyou was quite sharp, but the siege equipment was consumable, and it was the same in all vassals, whether it was a catapult, a rushing car, a nest car, a wooden donkey, a siege hammer and other equipment.

First, it is easily destroyed by the defensive equipment of the defensive party, and second, it is also easy to be damaged during the movement and attack process. Once these things are destroyed, they are difficult to restore and use, and most of them are abandoned on the battlefield, but now it seems that Huaiyou is not much the same.

Once this fearful recycling and repair mechanism is available, it means that Huaiyou can easily repair these originally useless equipment and equipment and quickly re-enter the battlefield. This is often the most difficult problem for the siege party in the past, and it was solved in this way.

In the late stage of the offensive and defensive war, the attacking party's equipment would have to launch an attack through the accumulation of manpower advantages due to insufficient equipment. This would also bother the defending party, but that would be much better. After all, relying on the city to defend is easier on the one hand, and on the other hand, the city itself is a huge logistics support base, and the city's craftsmen can quickly repair and create more equipment.

Now this advantage has been made up for by the attacking party, and Huai You seems to have been prepared for it for a long time, which is quite dangerous.

This phenomenon continues to occur, from the first round of shield car propulsion to the Masters completing the first wave of earth bag river filling off the river, a total of three shield car were damaged, but they were successfully dragged back.

At the same time, with the experience of the first shield car being destroyed and the Master was killed, when the second shield car was destroyed, the Masters quickly moved to the surrounding shield car, and only a few of them were killed, which also made Zhang Junyue on the city wall feel cold.

What made Zhang Junyue feel even more exhausted was the enemy catapult car and heavy crossbow that accompanied the shield car forward. Every distance there was a catapult car and heavy crossbow behind the shield car. They also advanced under the cover of the shield car, but they did not advance under the city wall, but after reaching a certain distance, they began to stop and prepare.

The distance was 250 steps, which made the Pinglu Army's catapult car on the city wall unattainable. Even the crossbow on the city wall had a range of only about 300 steps. This was originally the most powerful long-range strike weapon of this era, but now it was almost caught up by the catapult car that was usually less than 100 steps. It was impossible to prevent the Pinglu Army on the city wall from being dumbfounded.

"General, what's going on?" A general under his command pointed at more than ten catapults and heavy crossbows with pale faces and began to stop. He couldn't help but shout, looking disbelief, "Why did they stay so far? This is at least three hundred steps! How is this possible?"

"Uh, are they going to prepare first before they can continue to advance?" Another deputy general couldn't help but mutter to himself, "It doesn't seem like it. They are all starting to pull the brackets. So what is that? It's a bit like a crossbow cart. The question is how can the crossbow cart rise? How is it possible?"
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