Yu Jin could not react in time." What do you mean continue?”
Xiahou Yuan turned to Yuan Jun and pouted." They're putting out the fire, and the crowd is very dense. Should we try again?"”
"Woo!" He almost vomited.
Yu Jin withdrew his hand from Xiahou Yuan's shoulder and covered his mouth forcefully. He swallowed the food in his stomach again.
"How can we let go of such an opportunity! Strong crossbowmen, longbowmen, catapults, aim at the enemy gathering point in front of them, and fire continuously at the maximum distance!”
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Cheng Pu looked at the not-so-tall city walls of Xinye in the distance and felt unusually angry!
The battle during the day could be said to be extremely cowardly. He had already suffered a crushing defeat before he even started. He had actually lost 2,000 people and injured nearly 3,000.
His hands were also burned when he rescued the catapult. Now, they were still covered in thick herbal medicine. In the short term, he could forget about using a knife to cut people!
Fortunately, he managed to save them in time yesterday and pulled out more than 20 catapults from the sea of fire. Although they were somewhat damaged, they could still be used. This gave him at least a chance to recoup his losses!
No matter how many soldiers were killed or injured, he would not feel any heartache. After all, they were all soldiers recruited by Yuan Shu.
The troublesome thing was that these people had died while following him. This was a huge blow to his prestige, and it would be difficult to explain to Yuan Shu and Zhang Xun.
Ever since the eighteen vassals met Chu Huan when they attacked Dong Zhuo, he and his lord had been defeated repeatedly. Was Chu Huan really the destined nemesis of the Jiangdong generals?
"Demou, it's late at night and the dew is heavy. Why aren't you resting?”Someone behind him asked with concern.
Cheng Pu turned around when he heard Huang Gai's voice.
"Is it Gongfu? How could I sleep? I shouldn't have been impulsive when I went to see Zhang Xun yesterday. I forgot what you reminded me not to say too much. Now I have caused such heavy casualties but I have no achievements. If this continues, let alone avenging my lord, I'm afraid that Yuan Shu will use me to vent his anger after this battle!”
"Since things have come to this, I can only try my best to remedy it.”
Seeing Cheng Pu so worried, Huang Gai immediately told him about the suspicious points of the battle over the past few days.
"Just now, I carefully recalled the process of the battle over the past few days and discovered something. On the first day, Xinye City could throw hundreds of stones at once. At that time, we all thought that the enemy's catapults should have the same number.”
"However, during the day, the enemy only threw out dozens of those fireballs. If there were really hundreds of catapults in the city, I'm afraid that even if we don't die today, we will be beaten to pieces!”
"Oh?" Cheng Pu thought about what Huang Gai said." What if the other party has a limited number of Fireballs?”
Huang Gai continued to explain," That's unlikely. While we were rescuing the wounded and the catapults, the other party threw another round of fireballs. If we say that there are only a limited number of fireballs, then if we concentrate on the first round, we will probably have very few catapults left. The other party threw them twice, which gave us time to rescue the catapults.”
" The enemy general should know the threat of the catapults to Xinye's city wall. He gave up the opportunity to wipe them out. Judging from the methods of the garrison general Yu Jin these two days, he shouldn't have made such a low-level mistake. This means that there are only dozens of catapults in the city!”
Cheng Pu thought about it and was still a little confused." Then how did the other party send out hundreds of stones?”
"I asked the soldiers who survived the stone rain on the first day. According to their description, the stones thrown by the enemy were much smaller than the ones we usually threw. This meant that the enemy must have chosen the rocks that were too heavy for the shield to withstand. Each vehicle must have fired several rocks at a time, resulting in the effect of throwing hundreds of rocks at a time!”
Hearing this, Cheng Pu's brows finally relaxed. Gongfu's words have untied the knot in my heart!”
Seeing Cheng Pu so happy, Huang Gai must have thought of a plan to defeat the enemy. He could not help but ask curiously," What's the plan?"”
Cheng Pu was already in a good mood. He replied happily," I thought they had hundreds of catapults, so even if I split up our catapults, they would be able to deal with one of us in ten. No matter how low their accuracy is, we wouldn't be able to counterattack. Moreover, if we split up and attack the city wall, it wouldn't be very effective.”
"That's why I wanted to attack the city wall in a loose formation and try to break the city wall in a few rounds! Now that we know that there are only a few dozen of them in the city, we'll split up and bombard the city, slowly wasting our time with the other party!”
Huang Gai recalled the terrifying giant arrows during the day and immediately raised a question." But the enemy also has a giant arrow with an extremely long range. Its accuracy and range are far higher than the catapults. Even if they are scattered, they will still be greatly threatened.”
"It doesn't matter. I've observed it carefully. Those giant arrows are almost direct, while the catapults are projectiles. We just need to dig a hole where the catapults are placed.”
"If we dig a hole in the enemy's range, we will suffer heavy casualties!”Huang Gai's eyes lit up when he saw Cheng Pu still smiling at him.
"I know. We can dig diagonally outside the shooting range and dig in a curve until we reach the shooting range! Not only could they dig a tunnel to protect themselves, but they could also dig all the way to the enemy's moat. The enemy's traps would be useless! But how should he solve the problem of the moat? That's the water that flows into the Yu River!"
"Easy! He could ask Zhang Xun to move the troops to the river and divide them into three parts. One part would defend against the Jing State Navy, the other part would defend against a surprise attack from within the city, and the middle part would fill up the water channel! If we draw the water out of the moat through the tunnel, Xinye's city wall will be directly exposed to us.”
"And by then, Xinye's city walls should have been riddled with holes!”Seeing that Huang Gai had already revealed an understanding smile, Cheng Pu turned his gaze to Xinye in the distance again. Let's see how you can stop my army!"
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