In fact, to put it bluntly, although he just said the truth about the outcome, the war still depends on which side is strong. Even if there are many ways to tell, the key to the matter is whether he can defend Luocheng before the reinforcements arrive. If he is not able to defend the city, even if he talks about it, it will be useless.

There are only 5,000 national guards in the city, 500 knights in front of the palace, 1 or 2,000 guards in the house, and 2,000 or 3,000 Zhongyi Army recruited around Luocheng, a total of only about 10,000 people.

It is still a bit difficult to fight against 60,000 with 10,000, and Zhang Luochen is not very confident.

Fortunately, Luocheng's city walls are tall and there is sufficient food and supplies, which is indeed a big advantage, at least some are still fighting.

The enemy generals obviously knew the reason why soldiers were so fast. While setting up camps, they had already dispatched thousands of troops to start a tentative attack on the city walls.

This ancient city guard was not as simple as in movies and TV dramas. The city guard stood down the city wall and threw stones and arrows, while the city attacker was silly climbing up the ladder.

In fact, war is often very complicated. The first thing the siege party has to do is to fill the trenches and moats outside the city, and to knock down obstacles outside the city wall so that subsequent siege equipment can reach directly under the city wall.

We will conduct some tentative attacks to find out the weaknesses of defense. As long as we open a gap, we can send the army into the city and complete the final kill.

The defender of the city usually does not defend the city gate, but uses various tactics to prevent the enemy from acting. War is often dynamic and cannot be explained clearly in just a few words.

Zhang Luochen's understanding of ancient wars mainly comes from various film and television dramas and superficial historical novels.

He saw rows of militia below starting civil engineering under the cover of archers, and arrows began to rain on the city walls, and shot at them. He was not in a hurry to gain experience. They were all cannon fodder vagrants, and they had no experience in killing them. And they were too far away, and the hit rate might be a little difficult. And if the spell is revealed now, it will also arouse the other party's vigilance, so he should wait for more people in the future before taking action.

Although he did not take action, Zhang Luochen thought in his heart.

In addition to being a fixed turret, do you have any other ways to control the situation?

The ditches were gradually filled, and some buildings outside the city wall were also pushed down. In the distance, you can see that the craftsmen of the Central Zhou Kingdom were orderly building the camp. Outside, they were building war equipment such as building cars and trenchers.

His eyes suddenly lit up, thinking that he could get the counterweight trencher.

This thing can be said to be standard in historical novels. If the protagonist does not know how to build cannons, he will usually make a substitute for this thing.

After reading so many ancient war movies and historical novels, he still knows how to solve the general principle of this counterweight trencher.

He immediately called the officer in charge of the city guarding the equipment, "Who, is there a catapult in the city?"

"I have reported to the national master, of course there are scattering machines. I don't know what the national master asked about this."

"I thought of a way to improve the catapult. You can find some craftsmen for me and make some improvements while the enemy has not yet attacked the city."

After all, he was a national teacher and his words were quite important. Soon the officer found dozens of craftsmen. Zhang Luochen explained it a little to the craftsmen and explained the matter clearly.

The principle of this counterweight catapult is actually very simple. It is just that if you break the window paper. These craftsmen also know the technology and quickly understand the magical use of this counterweight catapult.

Immediately began to transform the original catapult.

After the transformation, it was tested and it was indeed much more convenient.

Zhang Luochen was not idle either. He went back to Yuque Tower to pack up his things, and arranged a way out for the old Taoist, Yang Baichu, and Qin Zi'ang. If he really couldn't defend the city, it would be smoother when he ran away.

At the same time, he made a lot of talismans, elixirs, and food supplies. Although they were all relatively low-level products, they were of some use and distributed some to all three of them.

The next day, the siege finally officially started.

Early in the morning, Zhang Luochen climbed to the north city wall. At this time, the army of Zhongzhou had surrounded Luocheng on three sides, leaving only the south gate, and surrounded the three palaces and one.

However, although the siege equipment built on three sides was limited in less than a day, the main attack direction was only at the North Gate.

As the army of the Central Zhou Dynasty gradually approached the city wall, the first thing that fired was the catapults of both sides.

A few hundred steps away, the catapults of Zhongzhou were lined up and began to project stones frantically. The catapults of Zhongzhou were still relatively primitive traction trenchers. More than a dozen or even dozens of people pulled the rope together and would use the lever principle to throw the stones out.

The power is not bad, but it consumes a lot of manpower. The more people the trencher is, the more people it needs. The smallest one also requires more than twenty people to pull ropes together, the large one even requires hundreds of people, and more than fifty trenchers, which requires three or four thousand people to operate.

On the other hand, in Luocheng, due to the transformation of counterweight catapults, only hundreds of people were required to operate forty catapults. In addition, with the protection of the city walls, the stones on both sides flew around, and the defending city was not at all inferior. The catapults of the central Zhou army obviously occupied an overwhelming number and people, but they could not completely suppress the firepower in the city.

Liu Qingyun, who was in charge of defending the city, couldn't help but exclaim when he heard about the catapult, "The national teacher is indeed extraordinary. But this small change has doubled the power of the catapult. It seems that the chance of defending the city has a little more points."

"Where is it, it's just a trick of carving insects." Zhang Luochen said nervously, looking at the huge stones flying over his head. Although he had put a spiritual armor technique on himself, and his vitality was several times that of ordinary people, he was completely unsure whether he could withstand the bombardment of siege weapons. If he was unlucky to be shot by a few hundred kilograms of stones, it would be a big deal.

So I was particularly nervous. Fortunately, the stone caster was just a primitive siege equipment after all, and there was no accurate point at all. The stone flew around, and many houses in the city were smashed. In fact, not many people were killed. The main reason was to hit morale.

At this moment, seeing that the cannon battle could not be won, the Zhongzhou army sent out another building cart and ladder.

First, there were black infantrymen, carrying cloud ladders and shields, and then there were rows of archers, shooting arrows behind to cover them. Then behind were more than a dozen huge building cars, each ten meters high, pushed by people below and slowly moved towards the city wall.

The ladder was quickly raised, and the soldiers began to climb up the city wall. The archers lined up in a row, throwing arrows onto the city wall under the cover of the shield soldiers.

For a moment, arrows were flying on both sides.

Zhang Luochen hurriedly put a magic weapon on himself and continued to watch the fun. He did not rush to do it, but stared at the cars.

At this moment, not only the people on the city wall felt nervous, but outside the camp of the Central Zhou army, Ji Xuan, the Central Zhou king, also had a tense expression on his face. Seeing the defeat in the artillery battle, a hint of anger appeared on his face.

"How come it happened? Why are the enemy's stone cannons so fierce? Isn't it that the defenders in the city are weak?"

A deputy general next to him hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, this use of stone cannons will occupy a large amount of manpower. If there are too many people using cannons, the troops on the city wall will definitely be scarce. As long as the tower car reaches the city wall, you can break through Luocheng in one go."

At the same time - the head of Luocheng City.

"Concentrate stone cannons, and don't let those building cars approach the city wall." Liu Qingyun ordered the officer in charge of the cannon.

The officer hurriedly turned around and sent the order, but the stone cannon was limited in accuracy and had shooting dead spots. Despite trying hard to adjust the angle, he only smashed two tower cars in one go, and the remaining tower cars gradually approached the city wall.

The soldiers guarding the city were all nervous, but Zhang Luochen smiled. The cars were ten meters high and divided into three or four platforms, linked by stairs. Each platform was filled with soldiers, almost fifteen or sixteen people. The three platforms combined had forty or fifty people. If one of them could be knocked out, it would be very powerful.

Locked the closest car and pinched the magic trick - the Heavenly Thunder Curse!

With a bang, a lightning flash fell out of thin air. Although there was cover on the side of the main entrance of the building, there was an open air above. The soldiers inside were crowded and were thundered from their heads. They were just enough to be electric. These soldiers were elite soldiers, covered with armored weapons, but they were the best conductive bodies. With a bang, more than a dozen soldiers on the top platform were blown away and flew across the four sides. Some flew out, and some were smoked and collapsed. In an instant, more than a dozen people were given their heads.

System prompt: You kill the elite knife player and get 120 experience points.

System prompt: You kill the elite sword player and get 110 experience points.

System prompt: You kill the Tiger Warrior and gain 145 experience points.

System prompt: You kill the knife player and get 75 experience points...

With more than a dozen prompts in a row, Zhang Luochen felt so comfortable.

Come again! The Sky Thunder Curse - Boom! Boom! Several Sky Thunder Curse bombarded over, and the car was slashed and lit by the sky thunder. The smoke rolled, and the soldiers on the two floors below also fled to death.

Zhang Luochen did not stop and ran directly to the city wall facing the second tower.

Another thunder fell, and the second floor was also blown off the top floor...

The other soldiers on the chariot noticed the movement here. There was no way. Who had seen such things as thunder during the day, it was so scary.

But the car was ten meters high and was full of crowds inside, so I couldn't run away. Zhang Luochen trotted all the way, thundering after thunder, harvesting experiences frantically, which was so satisfying.
Chapter completed!