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The reinforcements we were waiting for didn't come, and the enemy soldiers were the Donglai Army, which is known as the best in the world, what's the point of fighting!
Xiang Yu held the Overlord's Halberd in his hand, and he also felt sorry for him. Why didn't the reinforcements from Wu County come? If this continues, there will be no morale to fight. I'm afraid that if a charge is made, the Donglai Army will charge up.
Why!If you don't meet the Lord, it will be a disaster in the end.
"Get ready!" Xiang Yu closed his eyes and sighed. He opened his eyes, shook his head, and ordered to prepare for a counterattack. Seeing that most of Gan Ning had rushed to the bottom of the city, Xiang Yu was about to wave his hand to let the archers release their arrows. A fast horse rushed to the steps of the female wall, shouting repeatedly: "Stop the war! Stop the war! Don't fight against the orders of the adults, surrender and sacrifice the city..."
Chapter 393 Liu Ye's Catapult
Huaipu!
"Strange! Weird!"
Liu Ye faced the east, staring at the calm surface of the Huaishui River, murmuring constantly.
Zhang Ying came over and said, "Mr. Ziyang, what are you looking at?"
Zhang Ying and the others were greatly puzzled, Liu Ye Ganma kept staring at Huai Shui, and kept chanting the word "blame".
Liu Ye asked, "Don't you think it's strange? Why haven't Donglai's navy come over from the Huai River?"
"Mr. Ziyang, maybe they want to attack along the water. After all, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin are in Qu County, and they successfully recaptured Haixi." Zhang Ying thought for a while and said:
"But what's strange is why they didn't move in Haixi, and didn't take the opportunity to attack?"
Liu Ye explained: "Xu Ding has more than one navy team. This week, Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin were only subdued in the last six months. Before that, he also had the navy Ganning Department, and the old department Lu Qian and Wu Dun. Logically, they They should also be dispatched to help Tao Qian regain Xiapi and Guangling County."
"Mr. Ziyang, it is possible that the other navy generals that have been promised have not been arranged in Yuzhou Mountain Island in advance, so it will take time to arrive from Weiyuan Island." Zhang Ying shared his opinion.
Although Liu Ye didn't agree very much, he reluctantly accepted this explanation.
However, based on his analysis of Xu Ding, Xu Ding, who planned and decided, should have other backers.
Now the mysterious Dongnae army has not advanced, which makes people very uneasy.
But the uneasiness was quickly diverted by a piece of news.
Xu Ding led troops to Tan County, and stabilized the morale of the army and the people for Tao Qian.
Then Yuan Shu's soldiers and horses advanced quickly, passed Surabaya, and claimed to be surrounded by 20 people in Tan County. Xu Ding and Tao Qian were unable to move, and asked Liu Yao to quickly break through from the right wing and take Qu County and the eastern part of Donghai County. Eliminate Xu Ding.
Liu Yao sent a letter to ask for Liu Ye's suggestion.
After careful consideration, Liu Ye replied: "If Xu Ding is really besieged in Tan County, then we must advance troops as soon as possible, and try to capture Qu County before Yuan Shu captures Tan County and kills Xu Ding, occupy the eastern part of Donghai County, and cut off Yuan Shu's eastward The expansion of the sea makes it impossible to prevent the connection between Yangzhou and Qingzhou and Yanzhou in the future."
Liu Ye's letter had just been sent to Liu Yao, asking him to send a large army to guard Huaipu, and let Zhang Ying return to swimming and start attacking north.
Re-attack Haixi, this time Zhang Ying brought Liu Ye's secret weapon - trebuchet.
This was restored by Liu Ye according to the description in an ancient book. As soon as he arrived in Huaipu, he was intensified to make a rush. He originally wanted to use it to defend Huaipu, but he didn't expect that the first time he used it was to attack Haixi.
Zhang Ying was not Zhou Tai's opponent in the water battle, so before arriving at Haixi, Zhang Ying ordered [-] soldiers to land, and all the soldiers went overland to the city of Haixi.
At this time, it was not Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin who were in charge of the war in Haixi, but Lu Su and Xu Ding's disciple Tian Yu.
The two came from Weiyuan Island and arrived in Xuzhou faster than Xu Ding. At the same time, Lu Qian, the commander of the navy, also came over.
Lu Qian was in Qu county. As for Zhou Tai and Jiang Qin, they went to carry out a surprise attack as Liu Ye had expected.
However, the target of the sneak attack was different from what Liu Ye had guessed.
Because they didn't follow the Huai River to fight Huaipu, but turned into Jushui from the middle of the water, went around Quyang City, and went to attack the Xiangxiang.
After losing their prime, they can go south to the Huai River and occupy the upper reaches of Huaiyin.
This bend is a bit long and long, and it takes a lot of time to complete.
So this is also the reason why the Donglai Navy did not move and did not go to Huaipu for a long time, just to keep Huaipu to attract the attention of Liu Ye and Liu Yao.
This plan was proposed by Lu Su, and with Lu Qian's approval, Zhou Tai and others were also willing to try it. The risk factor is not small, but once it succeeds, Liu Yao's [-] troops can be completely surrounded in Huaiyin and Huai Pu.
"What is this?" Lu Su had never seen a trebuchet before, so he didn't know what it was.
But Tian Yu knew, because he knew who invented Donglai's trebuchet, so he explained: "Zijing, that's called a trebuchet, be careful, the stones thrown by this thing are quite powerful."
"The trebuchet! Could it be that this is the catapult that was passed down during the Warring States Period?" Lu Su was not illiterate, he had read a lot and had enough knowledge.
Tian Yu said: "That's right, it's that thing. At the beginning of the year, Master used it to smash the North City built by Yuan Yin in Pingzhou. It is said that the power is amazing. If the enemy has this thing, we may not be able to defend this city very well. "
Lu Su asked curiously: "Why did the enemy obtain such a sharp weapon from our side? Is it because of a traitor?"
Tian Yu shook his head and said, "It's unlikely. We are very strict internally, and the control is also beneficial. Generally, it is difficult to cross the sea without an identity token."
If it wasn't spread internally, where could it be?
Lu Su was puzzled.
"It doesn't matter, since the enemy has this thing, we have to suppress it. Let the bed crossbow aim first, shoot when it gets close, and destroy them directly." Tian Yu knew from Xu Ding and other seniors that this throwing stone The projection distance of the machine is not far, and it can be suppressed with a bed crossbow at the top of the city, so it is necessary to deal with it as soon as it is discovered.
So Tian Yu mobilized the operators, immediately pushed out all the bed crossbows, and then pulled the strings to the bed crossbows.
Under the city!
Zhang Ying looked at the low Haixi City and smiled triumphantly. The people in this city have been shot down with a throwing machine. Now that they have this kind of artifact, they might not be able to hit it down.
"Someone pushes forward, shoots at me, and smashes down the city wall. Let the Donglai army have a good taste of the stone bomb, and let them understand that our Yangzhou army is the strongest."
The elite soldiers came out of Danyang, and Wujun was close to Danyang. Liu You sent many people to Danyang to recruit soldiers, and there were still many brave soldiers under his command.
It's just that the generals who train and command troops are really not very good.
People like Zhang Ying, Fan Neng, Yu Mi, and Chen Heng can only be said to be worthy of use, and they are all from aristocratic families. There are many disadvantages in using them.
At Zhang Ying's order, the soldiers pushed the catapult out of the battle and pulled it forward in a row. They just stopped and were about to load the catapult when they heard a buzzing sound.
Then there was a whistling sound, the sky screamed, and then several long sharp arrows pierced over.
With a bang, a catapult was hit, directly breaking the supporting log, and then collapsed.
Several other guns shot straight through and hit the Yangzhou soldiers who were operating.
Long arrows pierced through, and human arrows stuck in the ground.
"Okay! Keep shooting arrows and kill all their trebuchets for me."
Both Tian Yu and Lu Su were overjoyed.
Zhang Ying's face turned cold, and he hurriedly counted the catapult to fight back immediately.