In the winter of the eleventh year of Jian'an, a sparse row of soldiers stood at the top of Luocheng City.
Some of them kept pacing their feet in the cold and humid air and rubbing their hands to prevent frostbite.
You held the weapon in your arms and put your hands into your sleeves to keep warm.
Suddenly, a soldier suddenly took out his hand from his sleeve, pointed his finger into the distance and shouted: "Look what that is."
The soldiers around him followed his direction and saw that at the end of the road outside the city, a large group of troops were emerging one after another, more and more, with flags flying.
"It's Lu Bu's army from Hanzhong.
Lu Bu's army from Hanzhong is attacking.
Sound the horn quickly."
The sergeants began to shout in panic.
Then, the horn began to whistle.
Not long after, Lu Bu's army set up a military formation under the city.
Behind the formation, large catapults were lined up.
On top of the city, three thousand soldiers were also prepared for defense.
Over the past few days, they had been practicing defending the city almost every day, and today they finally used real swords and guns.
Arrows flew from under the city like locusts, and the Shu soldiers guarding the city were well-trained and crouched behind the battlements to avoid them.
The sword player holds the shield to his head.
The arrows caused almost no damage to the defenders.
However, the Shu soldiers at the top of the city were temporarily unable to launch crossbow fire at the city.
Taking this opportunity, Lu Bu's army began to fill up Luo's moat.
The moat of Shangluo is not wide.
In fact, it is just a ditch about as wide as a foot.
There is a suspension bridge in front of the city gate.
Unless a way can be found to lower the suspension bridge or completely destroy it, the city-breaking machine used by Lu Bu's army cannot get close to the city gate and will not be effective.
When the suspension bridge is hoisted, it hangs diagonally in front of the city gate.
The hammer of the city-breaking machine cannot destroy the suspension bridge.
The defenders at the top of the city thought that Lu Bu's army filled the moat in order to attack the city with ladder ants.
They were confident that if Lu Bujun used a ladder to climb up the ants, they would suffer heavy casualties.
Therefore, the Shu soldiers at the top of the city didn't pay much attention, and they just shot cold arrows from the city wall at the Lu Bu soldiers filling the trenches from time to time.
When a section of the moat that is about a hundred miles long is basically filled.
Lu Bu rode his horse to the array of trebuchets, raised his hand in the air, and then swung it down hard.
The general commanding the trebuchets then issued an order, and all fifty large counterweight trebuchets were unbuckled.
The huge potential energy of the counterweight box quickly swung the long arm of the lever.
When one end of the long arm was swung, the rotation of the long arm stopped abruptly.
At the end of the long arm, a huge boulder of several hundred kilograms wrapped in a hemp rope net was suddenly thrown out at high speed and rushed towards the city wall.
With the huge impact, the defenders at the top of Luocheng City felt the floor under their feet shaking violently.
Huge boulders weighing hundreds of kilograms hit the city wall, and some city bricks were shattered by the impact.
City bricks around the impact point peeled off from the city head like an avalanche.
Soon the rammed earth wall core inside the wall was exposed.
Some boulders were hit too high and did not hit the outer wall of the city wall, but fell on the top of the city, hitting a leader of the Shu army and turning him into a puddle of flesh in an instant.
As for the suspension bridge hanging diagonally in front of the city gate, it had been smashed to pieces by huge rocks and turned into pieces of wood falling to the ground.
Only a few iron cables hung empty in the air.
"Stop throwing stones, continue to cover with bows and crossbows, and attack the city."
Lu Bu ordered again.
The frightening boulder attack finally stopped, which made the defenders at the top of the city breathe a sigh of relief.
Then, the brave ones among them accidentally discovered a huge creature approaching the city gate while firing cold arrows at the enemy troops below the city.
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"Battering ram, Lu Bu's army is going to use a battering ram to break the city."
The soldiers at the top of the city began to roar.
Battering rams are not unusual, but this is the "battering ram" of Lu Bu's army.
They were told how powerful this thing is.
The military advisor also gave defensive strategies.
With a burst of intensive gongs and drums, sacks of loess and gravel that had been prepared were pushed on trolleys to the city gate and piled up.
With a "boom", the city gate of Luocheng was instantly torn apart by the city-breaking machine hammer, but behind the door was a thick wall of sacks piled up, filling the entire city gate hole.
Arrows, rolling wood and stones, and kerosene rained down from the top of the city.
If Lu Bu's soldiers wanted to remove these sacks, they would have to endure huge casualties.
With the sound of gongs, the city-breaking machine slowly withdrew under the escort of soldiers.
"Continue to throw stones and attack until the city wall is completely destroyed."
Lu Bu gave the military order coldly.
Another volley from fifty large trebuchets followed by free fire.
Hundreds of kilograms of boulders were thrown at the city wall one after another.
The Shu soldiers at the top of the city once again fell into fear on the trembling city wall.
Several cracks began to appear on the adobe of the city wall, and the cracks became larger and larger.
"The city wall is about to collapse, run!"
Someone shouted, and a large group of Shu soldiers suddenly fled towards the city.
A general saw something bad and drew his sword and beheaded the person who led the escape on the spot.
He shouted loudly: "Anyone who escapes from the battle will be killed without mercy."
This temporarily suppressed the collapse of the Shu army.
Another boulder hit the city wall.
This time, the Shu soldiers at a certain section of the city didn't feel trembling, but they felt like they were trapped in a trap, with no foothold.
It turned out that this section of the city wall had really collapsed, and a cloud of dust rose into the sky.
Nearly a hundred Shu soldiers were buried under the ruins of the city wall before they even had time to hum.
The boulders continued to hit the city wall, and the garrison soldiers at the top of the city once again fled towards the bottom of the city and the other two walls.
This time, there were no generals who were brave but not intelligent enough to stop them.
Not long after, the entire city wall collapsed and fell to the ground, forming a mound of ruins about a mile high.
Lu Bu's Huben Sword and Shield heavy infantry and Mo Dao soldiers formed an attacking formation and drove towards the city.
They quickly crossed the ruins and spread towards the streets and alleys of the city.
With absolute superiority in troops and equipment, the Shu army in Luocheng was defeated without any decent resistance.
All four gates were blocked and they could not escape.
Almost all of them became prisoners of war.
The day after capturing Luocheng, Lu Bu's army marched to Chengdu City.
Li Yan did not expect that Lu Bu could capture Luocheng in one day, but he was not worried about Chengdu's defense.
Chengdu's tall, thick and solid city walls are second only to Tongguan, Wuguan and other big cities like Chang'an.
Lu Bu's powerful trebuchet can smash the walls of Luocheng, but it may not be able to turn it into a city wall.
At this time, Lu Bu looked at the tall and majestic Chengdu City Wall, and was also thinking about how to conquer Chengdu at the minimum cost.
Chengdu's strategic location is not important, but it has extremely important political significance.
Occupying Chengdu is one of the symbols of the Lord of Yizhou.
Only by capturing Chengdu can it be possible for the counties in the northwest of Yizhou that are still defended by Liu Bei to surrender to themselves.
Lu Bu circled Chengdu City twice and found that it was impossible to break through such a wide and thick city wall with a trebuchet, let alone a city-breaking machine.
Since Luocheng has already thought of ways to deal with the city-breaking machine, Chengdu will certainly not be an exception.
As Lu Bu walked to the bank of the Minjiang River next to Chengdu City, a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind
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