Chapter 51 Desperate Liu Bei and Ji Hao's Next Move

This artillery cart is naturally not the two-wheeled cannon that came later, but the "cannon" in chess, one of the three great weapons on the ancient cold weapon battlefield, the catapult!

It has appeared in ancient wars in China and abroad and is the most powerful weapon on ancient battlefields, without a doubt.

It was not until the "Caliber Series" of cannons came out that it was eliminated.

"Although the city wall can defend against the enemy, it only has an advantage. There are too many things that the city wall cannot resist. This cannon cart will let that thief Ji know that the city wall he built with great effort and expense is nothing but a pile of wasteland!"

Liu Bei stood on the top of the city wall and said with great passion.

At the same time, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei gave an order and personally led the soldiers to launch the hurling attack.

A huge stone weighing more than ten pounds flew three hundred meters and landed on the city wall.

It was as if they were really "firing" and there were bursts of roars. There were also huge rocks loaded with kerosene that flew into the city and created a ball of fire when they landed.

For buildings of this era, most of which were made of wood, it had an extraordinary destructive power.

However, Ji Hao didn't care about this at all: his military camp was located in a corner behind the city wall, and unless a huge rock fell vertically from above, it was impossible for it to hit anyone.

When Liu Bei launched the catapult, he had already ordered the withdrawal of the soldiers guarding the city wall.

Only a few sentries were left in the "bunker".

Are you afraid that Liu Bei will throw stones?
Not afraid at all!
Not only that, he also held up a loud speaker to make his already loud voice even louder, provoking Liu Bei, "No way? No way? Could it be that someone really thinks that I only know how to build city walls and have never considered that others might use trebuchets to break into the city?"

These sarcastic words are a psychological attack.

Liu Bei's heart tightened when he heard this, and Jia Xu's expression suddenly changed.

"My lord, is it possible that his city is not only tall but also extremely strong?"

"Absolutely impossible!"

Liu Bei didn't believe it and ordered a fierce attack, sending all ten catapults to smash the city gate tower.

Every few breaths, a stone would be thrown over. Occasionally, a stone would go astray and even make a half-meter deep hole in the mud. It can be seen that the power is definitely not small.

However, when it hit Ji Hao's city gate tower, it was like an egg hitting a stone.

Shattered into pieces.

However, there was nothing wrong with the city gate tower.

Still holding strong.

Even one of the transparent "glass windows" could withstand the huge rocks, which made Liu Bei feel incredible. He gritted his teeth and said, "What on earth is the wall of the thief Ji made of?"

After saying that, he, not wanting to believe in evil, focused his fire along the city wall.

Look for weak spots.

But how could a bridge-level building that could withstand floods and even reinforced concrete walls that were difficult to blow up with explosives be shaken by the catapults of the old times?

It went on for three days and three nights.

Not even a single gap was made, and there was no obvious damage - the only places that were damaged were the "cement boards" used to deal with the ladders, because no steel bars or high-strength cement were used.

The city wall itself cannot be shaken at all.

"Impossible! I don't believe there is a wall in this world that cannot be broken!" Liu Bei refused to accept and continued to order: "Get on the 'cart' and break open the city gate for me!"

This big cart is the one in “chariots, horses, elephants, soldiers and generals”, pronounced “ju”.

Like ladders and catapults, it is a "magic weapon" on the cold weapon battlefield and can be called a tank of the old era. It is called a chariot: a huge log is sharpened and tied to a cart.

It was pulled by cows or horses on both sides, or pushed by people from behind.

Use inertia to hit the city wall.

It was the main means of siege in ancient times, and it was also an invincible behemoth when the army charged!
After Liu Bei gave the order, hundreds of horses immediately pulled a siege chariot with hemp ropes and rushed towards the city gate, crashing the logs into the city gate.

The next moment, there was a loud "bang".

The large iron gate made of fine steel...didn't move at all, there was no reaction at all! Why did Ji Hao build a ten-zhang-high tower?
Of course it’s not just for showing off!
In the city gate tower, he got a "cement block" that was ten feet long, twenty feet wide, and five feet high, and placed it just inside the city gate!

When there is no fighting, hundreds of pulleys are used to lift it with large iron chains, and then a bracket is placed underneath.

Leave aisles for entry and exit.

But once a war breaks out, the support can be removed and the "cement block" can be lowered - with the weight of the cement block, it is impossible to pass through the city gate without occupying the city tower.

But how can we occupy the city tower without passing through the city gate?

This is an endless loop!

"Come again!" Liu Bei ordered, letting the chariots continue to attack.

It's no use at all.

The door didn't move at all.

"I don't believe it. No matter how strong the city gate is, it will not remain undamaged when it is hit. Keep hitting it!" Liu Bei didn't believe it and ordered the soldiers to keep hitting it.

Anyway, there were no soldiers on the city gate tower and they wouldn't shoot arrows down, so he just kept ramming it.

I always feel like it will be able to be opened soon.

And it was indeed knocked open: around the tenth day, the steel gate finally couldn't bear the weight, and along with the door frame, it was knocked down by Liu Bei's chariot and fell at the city gate.

However, what greeted Liu Bei was not an aisle but a concrete wall.

"Ji Chengtian, you are playing tricks on me!"

Liu Bei was completely furious.

He didn't know about the existence of the "Dragon-Breaking Stone" at Ji Hao's city gate, and he couldn't imagine hundreds of pulleys and large iron chains lifting the huge stone. He just thought that Ji Hao had built a fake city gate that was sealed from the inside.

It’s no wonder that Ji Hao hasn’t left the house once in all these days.

"How can this be possible?" Guan Yu was stunned.

Never seen the "fake door" in action.

"Hit somewhere else! I don't believe there is not a single weak spot in his city wall!" Liu Bei refused to believe it and ordered his men to continue hitting it, but it was of no use after ten days of hitting.

After that, he used the trebuchet for a few days.

Just as useless.

"Dig! Dig underground!"

"Go around and attack from both sides!"

"It's raining. Many city walls are afraid of water. Once they encounter rain, they will become soft. Keep going!"

"Set it on fire!"

For two months, Liu Bei tried various methods, but to no avail. Apart from some peeling of the wall caused by fire, other methods could not even cause any obvious damage.

Compared with the tall city walls, the fallen wall paint is nothing to mention.

So in the end, even after the city wall on the Dongguan side was repaired, Cao Cao and Ji Hao joined forces, but they were unable to break even a corner of the wall, which made Liu Bei feel despair.

"If the county wall is so strong, how amazing is the ten-meter-high 'Great Wall'?"

Thinking that the entire Qingzhou was surrounded by the Great Wall and was already unbreakable, Liu Bei suddenly had a feeling that even if he eliminated all other princes and pacified the world outside Qingzhou, he would still be unable to do anything about Qingzhou.

That state no longer belongs to the Han Dynasty!
"Let's defend the city!" Finally, Liu Bei sighed and said, "We can't let him advance any further. Otherwise, we will lose as much as he advances, and we will never be able to take it back!"

……

On the other side, after Cao Cao arrived, Ji Hao discussed the next steps with everyone else.

"I suggest that we leave two thousand soldiers and one general to garrison there, and everyone else should withdraw!" Cao Cao said with a sly smile to Ji Hao, "Go to Le'an, enter the sea from the mouth of the Yellow River, sail along the coast, land at the mouth of the Yangtze River, attack them from behind, and attack Guangling County!"

(End of this chapter)