Due to time constraints and the fact that the catapults of this era could not meet Dong Song's requirements, Dong Song spent 800 merit points to exchange for 80 catapults from the system.
"I heard that the range of a catapult is only two hundred steps, and this thing has no accuracy to speak of. This place was at least six hundred paces away from the Yellow Turban Army's camp outside the city. Could these catapults be of any use?”
Catapults were first used in war during the Spring and Autumn Period. However, due to their short range and the low accuracy of the stones they threw out, catapults were not very effective. So far, catapults had been used as auxiliary equipment for defending the city and had not been greatly developed.
In response to Dong Zhuo's doubts, Dong Song arranged for the craftsmen to disassemble and assemble one of the catapults before he said,"This is an improved catapult. Its range is about a thousand steps, although its accuracy is indeed not high. However, in the current situation, it seemed that the accuracy of the catapult was not high.”
The Yellow Turban Army thought that the Western Liang Army was about to attack, so they formed a very dense formation a hundred paces away from the Western Liang Army.
At this time, as long as the rocks thrown by the catapults were within a hundred steps, they could cause great damage to the Yellow Turban Army.
"Then let me see how good these catapults you fiddled with are. Can they make the Yellow Turban Army tremble in fear?”
Hearing Dong Zhuo's words, Dong Song turned around and waved at Zhe Bie.
Zhe Bie understood and pulled out the scimitar at his waist and raised him high above his head.
"Get ready!"
Following Zhe Bie's loud roar, a strong man immediately picked up the stone that had been polished into a ball in advance and placed it in a special net bag.
The reason why the stone was polished into a spherical shape was because the stone could cause secondary damage to the enemy while rolling.
With the sound of a capstan, the long arm of the catapult was bent to the extreme.
"Release!"
Zhe Bie roared again.
"Bang bang bang!"
An ear-piercing sound rang out, and then everyone saw the stone ball weighing dozens of pounds being thrown into the air and finally smashing toward the Yellow Turban army camp like raindrops.
At this moment, the Yellow Turban Army was on standby, and Zhang Bao was considering whether to launch an attack on the Western Liang Army.
The scouts had reported that nearly 30,000 government troops had left the Yellow Sun Pavilion in the morning and headed south.
If this information was true, then there were only 40,000 soldiers left at the Yellow Sun Pavilion.
One hundred thousand against forty thousand, the Yellow Turban Army had an absolute advantage in numbers.
On the other hand, Zhang Bao was not sure if this was a trap set by the government troops, so he did not dare to act rashly. He was afraid that the 30,000 soldiers would turn around and attack him from both sides.
In fact, the reason why Zhang Bao was indecisive was related to his personal ability.
Zhang Jiao, Zhang Bao, and Zhang Liang were the best at bluffing people, but when it came to leading troops into battle, they were all noobs.
However, just as Zhang Bao was thinking about whether he should attack or defend, a loud noise suddenly reached Zhang Bao's ears. The ground even trembled continuously.
Zhang Bao looked in the direction of the sound and saw a dozen stone balls falling from the sky and smashing into the crowd.
Although the dozen or so stone balls didn't kill many people directly, the stone balls rolled under the effect of inertia. It was as if they had knocked over hundreds of people in a row, leaving dozens of deep gullies on the ground before slowly coming to a stop.
"General Earth Duke, this is the official bandits 'catapult!”
"Catapults?"
Zhang Bao had already seen eighty catapults because they were too huge.
However, Zhang Bao did not take these catapults seriously before because in his opinion, the range of the catapults was very effective. The purpose of these eighty catapults was to prevent the Yellow Turban army from charging, not to take the initiative to attack.
Seeing that the second wave of stone balls had been thrown into the air, the Yellow Turban army couldn't help but break into a commotion.
Based on the trajectory of the stone ball, everyone could roughly tell where the stone ball would land. Therefore, in order to avoid the damage caused by the stone ball, everyone kept pushing and squeezing each other.
As a result, the number of people who were injured by the trampling even exceeded the number of people who were injured by the stone balls.
"General Earth Duke, the official bandits 'catapults are too powerful. We should rush up and destroy them.”
Zhang Bao shook his head when he heard his subordinate, Bo Cai.
"Don't attack rashly. Attacking is risky. As long as we can defend Qu Yang, the government troops will be helpless.”
After Zhang Bao finished speaking, he ordered loudly," All troops retreat to Qu Yang!”
"I don't believe that these catapults can destroy the high walls of Qu Yang.”
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