Chapter 555: The Way to Crack the Eight Arrays
When Chen Rang saw clearly what was on the chariot covered in tarpaulin, Chen Rang's face turned green.
Damn it to your seventh uncle!
Lu Bu, you are so grandson too!
You didn't give birth to a son, you!
Those chariots turned out to be a catapult.
Not only that, there are stones of all sizes being pulled on the chariot!
Chen Rang made a lot of calculations, but he didn't think that Lu Bu would use a catapult car.
There are shield soldiers in the Eight Formation Diagram. The shield is made of large and thick wooden boards and requires two or three shield hands to cooperate.
When he first encountered the Eighth Formation Map, Lu Bu used the method of shooting with long-range bows and arrows.
However, when the shield defense in the eight formation diagram failed to achieve results, Lu Bu had to give up this breakthrough method.
But it’s different now. Now they have changed to a catapult car, Lao Tie!
Can these shields resist flying stones? The answer is no, and you will definitely not be able to defend.
However, at this time, Chen Rang didn't have much worry.
Because the catapults of this era can throw only seventy or eighty meters away, and now they are a hundred meters away, so they will definitely not reach their formation.
Chen Rang took it for granted that Lu Bu would definitely let the catapult car continue to approach, at least close to about fifty meters away from them before launching.
Because this catapult is not a bow and arrow, it is quite difficult to continue moving after fixing it.
Bow and arrow shooting can be stuck at an extreme distance, but the catapult car must be stuck at an extreme distance, so the effect will not be too great.
What Chen Rang thought now was that he would limit Lu Bu's catapult to eighty meters away no matter what, and he would never be allowed to get close to the Eight Formation Map.
Once you get close, it will be a nightmare for them.
Chen Rang quickly issued orders, and the archers in the Eight Formation Map moved quickly, ready to block the people's soldiers.
Not only were archers, but also the cavalry on the periphery were also ready to charge and could attack at any time.
However, what surprised Chen Rang was that the stone throwing cars had no intention of rushing forward, but directly loaded the stone bullets and were ready to launch them.
Nani?
Are they projecting at such a long distance?
Are they going to use this method to scare us to death?
A bad pen!
Although Chen Rang had a vague feeling that the people's soldiers would definitely have their intentions when doing this, and they would definitely not play house here.
But Chen Rang really couldn't guess what the people's soldiers were thinking.
No matter what, the soldiers come and the generals come and the generals come and cover the soil. Let’s act according to the opportunity!
The next moment, with Zhao Zilong's order, the projection vehicle in the People's Army suddenly launched.
Suddenly, stones shot out from the sky, making a shrill sound in the air.
At this time, Chen Rang's expression changed drastically and finally realized something was wrong.
This, this-
How is that possible?
How could the stone bombs fired from their catapults be so far away?
Although it was difficult to estimate the specific distance of the stone bomb fired by the projector for a while, Chen Rang had a foreshadowing that it would definitely fall into the Eight Formation Diagram.
Is this their dependence?
The next moment, stone bullets all over the sky fell into the Eight Formation Map.
Each stone bullet weighs eighty or ninety kilograms, and it is falling from the sky again, with an extremely terrifying impulse and smashing it down quickly.
The thick and thick shield broke directly under the blow of stones. The shield soldiers under the shield, as well as archers or other troops protected by them, were immediately smashed into meat pie, fuzzy and terrible.
For a moment, this area became a purgatory on earth!
Damn you, your seventh uncle!
Their catapult can throw at least a distance of 170 to 80 meters! (In ancient times, the distance was calculated by step, and for the sake of easy understanding, it was converted into meters)
The catapult was relatively rough during the Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period.
It was not until the Sui and Tang Dynasties that further improvement was achieved.
By the Song Dynasty, the technology was quite mature. According to the "Wu Jing Zongyao", the Song Dynasty's catapult cart could throw about 90 kilograms of stones, and the distance to a ninety-step was about 140 meters.
According to later generations' research, "Wu Jing Zongyao" may be for the purpose of keeping the secret or deliberately misleading the enemy, greatly shortening the range of the catapult.
Some people estimate that the maximum throwing distance of the catapult car reached an astonishing five hundred meters!
Well, okay, it's a bit bragging, and looks like a slut.
However, the catapult made by Lu Bu according to the style of the Song Dynasty could still be thrown to a distance of about 200 meters.
A distance of two hundred meters is enough to form a perfect blow to the eight formation diagram.
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At this time, Chen Rang's heart had already sunk to the bottom.
Unexpectedly, this was the second time that the Jiangdong army encountered the Eight Formation Diagram, and he had already thought of the most unsolvable way to crack it.
This is the most violent, the least technical, but it is also the most unsolvable solution.
Faced with this simple and crude method of cracking, no matter how awesome the commander is, he has no choice but to do anything.
Faced with this scene, Chen Rang couldn't help but be anxious and quickly ordered his cavalry to attack the team of catapults.
At the same time, one of the eight formations was ordered to attack in full swing, and it was extremely necessary to kill all the catapults from Jiangdong.
Otherwise, there would be no way to fight today's battle!
But since you dare to set up such a formation, how could Jiangdong be without any preparation?
Once Chen Rang's soldiers came out of the turtle shell of the Eight Formation Map, how could the Jiangdong Army take them seriously?
With Zhao Zilong's order, the cavalry of Shenji Camp had already run away and met the cavalry sent by Chen Rang.
The last time they faced the Eight Formation Map, the Shenji Camp was so frustrated. This time, it was finally time for them to be proud and take revenge!
Faced with the attack of one of the soldiers in the Eight Formation Map, Jiangdong came out to fight directly with a thousand fully armed soldiers in the Cang Camp!
When he was confronting the Eighth Formation Map this time, Lu Bu finally sent out the trap camp!
Even after the camp, there were still soldiers from the Thousand War Gods Camp responsible for protecting the safety of the catapults and the soldiers who operated the catapults.
This time, Lu Bu spent a lot of money and must defeat the enemy in one battle, crack the eight formation maps, and completely defeated Chen Rang's 30,000 army!
After capturing this area, the infantry team led by Zhang Fei and Guan Yu had already culled along the gap.
The team of catapults was not idle either. After pushing for 100 meters in the front direction, they continued to project.
After a truck of stones is thrown out, a truck of stone bullets will follow immediately.
There are soldiers who specialize in transporting stone bombs.
During these three days, Lu Bu's army did nothing else, and went to the wild to collect stone bombs.
This also directly led to the fact that there were no decent big stones in the area outside Xiangyang City.
These stones are enough to deal with the 30,000 troops in Xiangyang!
Chapter completed!