I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 262 Yuan Shu Attacks
During the first round of stone bombardment, a stone hit the battlement of the city wall, breaking off a small piece of rubble. This small piece of rubble flew out and hit Wen Mu's left leg.

At that time, Wen Mu only felt his left leg go numb, and then he fell directly to the ground, followed by a piercing pain.

He lowered his head in horror and saw that his left leg had been rotted into a mess, with flesh and bones all shattered together, and only a small tendon connecting the upper and lower parts.

Wen Mu was relatively lucky, because several of his personal soldiers were also hit. Some were shot through the body, while others had their heads blown off. They died miserably.

He howled and screamed in pain, asking people to rescue him, but in the chaotic situation on the city wall, how could there be a calm person who could notice that he was a general and was seriously injured?

Then when the second round of flying stones came, Wen Mu's luck was not so good. He watched a large rock flying towards him rapidly. He was so frightened that he couldn't even make a sound. He opened his mouth wide, but no sound came out.

The next moment, he was hit by a stone.

There was a loud bang, with gravel flying and dust rising. Some unlucky soldiers nearby were also hit by the gravel and were covered in blood.

Yuan Shu couldn't see Shura Purgatory on the top of the city wall clearly, but after two rounds of volleys from the catapults, he found that the accuracy was indeed not very good.

They aimed at the city walls, but only about 30% to 40% of the bullets hit the walls or the towers. The rest either flew to other places or missed, or flew over the towers and directly hit the city.

But there is no way around it. If this kind of equipment is to become more accurate, it will require a long period of debugging, which is directly related to the equipment itself, materials, and the quality of the operator, just like later artillery.

At present, it is enough to be able to use it, to reproduce its effect on the battlefield, and to bring greater deterrence to the enemy.

The rebels on the city walls were hit by huge rocks and their heads were bleeding. The death toll was not many, but compared to death, the lethality of fear to the living is no less. Fear can also cause a chain reaction, causing more people to be afraid and thus lose their combat effectiveness.

So at that time, the rebels on the city wall had already collapsed.

It’s much the same below the city.

Because the catapults were not accurate enough, many stones flew over the city walls and landed directly inside the city. For the reserve troops and servants who were carrying supplies and preparing to go up to the city walls to provide support, it was like a nightmare come true.

Large pieces of rocks flew from the sky and hit them, crashing to the ground with a bang, shattering rocks and raising huge clouds of dust. It felt like the end of the world and easily broke down their psychological defenses.

Not to mention that some unlucky guys were smashed into a pulp by the stones, or were injured by the gravel and bleeding all over. The impact force was so terrifying that it was difficult to describe.

Not to mention the ordinary soldiers and the forced conscripts from the city, even the officers and elite rebels supervising the battle were equally terrified.

After a round of heavy rocks smashed them into pieces, after the second round they all ran into the city screaming, shouting things like "The imperial army knows witchcraft" as they ran.

The panic then spread further at an extremely fast speed and soon reached the top leaders such as Liu He.

Liu He, Wang Ji and others did not know that Wen Mu had changed from a three-dimensional creature to a two-dimensional creature. They just heard that the Han army could use sorcery to throw huge stones into the city, which then crashed to the ground, killing many unprepared people.

Now the defenders on the city wall have collapsed, and the people under the city wall have also collapsed. Everyone is fleeing to the core of the city, approaching the core position where Liu He is, trying to avoid those terrible flying stones.

As a relative of the Han royal family, Liu He had been studying since childhood and was considered a well-informed person. When he heard about the "flying stones", he immediately thought of the siege equipment from the Warring States Period that he had read about in ancient books. However, this thing had not been seen since the revival of the Han Dynasty, nor had it been equipped in the army. How come it appeared now?

He didn't know what was going on, but the collapse of the defenders on the city wall made him realize that something was wrong.

"Immediately arrange for the troops to enter the city! Quickly enter the city! Otherwise, the imperial army will rush in! We are all doomed! Go quickly! "

Liu He's face was distorted and he was roaring at the top of his lungs. He looked around and saw Wang Ji, whose face was pale. He immediately pushed Wang Ji out.

"Go! Go! General Wang! Take the troops quickly! You must defend the city wall! You must!!!"

Wang Ji was pushed so hard that he fell down. Before he could react, Sun Zun immediately stepped forward and helped him up.

"General! Go quickly! If we don't go now, the imperial army will climb the city wall and we will all be finished! If Puyang City is lost, we will all die!"

Only then did Wang Ji realize his situation. He looked back at Liu He who was yelling at him, gritted his teeth, turned around and rushed out.

But Wang Ji's action was a little late.

The Han army outside the city had already launched the fourth round of stone-throwing attacks. The sight of huge flying stones all over the sky made generals such as Duan Xing marvel and feel the wisdom of the ancients and the power of technology. At the same time, they also saw the chaos of the rebels on the city walls.

They were very excited about this. However, soon, during the fifth round of launching, three manpower catapults collapsed, important pillars broke, and one machine was directly scrapped. The situation that the craftsmen had been worried about became a reality.

Seeing this, Yuan Shu immediately came to Duan Xing and reported the matter to him.

When Duan Xing learned about this, his expression turned serious and he quickly made up his mind.

"In that case, let's attack with our army. We can't wait until all the catapults are broken. Send out orders, all camps, prepare to attack the city walls!"

Duan Xing gave orders to the messenger beside him.

When Yuan Shu heard this, he immediately asked for a fight.

"General, please allow me to lead our troops to attack!"

Duan Ying glanced at Yuan Shu and saw that he had a determined expression. After hesitating for a moment, he nodded.

"Be careful."

"Here!"

Yuan Shu was overjoyed and immediately returned to his headquarters, ordering the 3,000 soldiers who had never operated the catapults to complete the formation and prepare to attack the city wall.

Ladders, crash machines, etc. are also all ready.

After the sixth round of flying stone attack, another seven or eight manpower catapults were damaged. At this time, Duan Xing also issued an order to the commander-in-chief, urging the entire army to attack the city wall!
The rumbling sound of drums and trumpets followed, and the order for the entire army to attack spread throughout the battlefield. Yuan Shu drew his sword and pointed it forward.

"Follow me!!!"

The Han army siege troops, which had already formed into a military formation, marched forward step by step with death steps, issued deafening war calls, and carried large shields.

The huge siege equipment and military formations advanced synchronously in an orderly manner without any sign of panic.

Although the rebels on the city wall had collapsed and were almost unable to put up an effective resistance, the Han army archers on the earth wall outside the city continued to shoot arrows at the city, taking over from the catapults to provide fire cover for the siege troops, trying to reduce their resistance as much as possible to prevent it from causing too much hindrance to the Han army below the city.

The Han army under the city quickly approached the city wall, pushing dozens of ladders forward and moving the ladders closer to the city wall. The elite soldiers climbed up with swords in their mouths and large shields in one hand to increase the possibility of successfully climbing the city wall.

If it were a normal time, the defending army would use rolling logs, stones, boiling water, gold juice and other things to attack the attacking enemy troops at this moment, but now is not a normal time. The rebels on the city wall were hit by flying stones and arrows and collapsed directly. Most of them fled into the city, and there were only a few people left on the city wall.

The Han soldiers climbed to the top of the tower with almost no hindrance, jumped into the tower, and scanned the surroundings with red eyes. Whenever they saw any living rebel soldiers, they would roar and chop at them with their swords.

Soon, the Han soldiers swept onto the city wall.

Yuan Shu was originally protected in the army formation by his personal guards holding large shields, but seeing that the Han army was climbing up the city wall smoothly, he could not help it. He held his sword in his mouth, took a large shield and was about to climb the ladder.

Xu Chong quickly grabbed him.

"Boss, don't go! It's too dangerous!"

Yuan Shu was furious.

"Am I not a real man? If I don't even dare to go here, why would I go to the battlefield?! Get out of my way!"

Seeing this, Xu Chong had no choice but to grit his teeth and take a large shield himself.

"Then I'll go first! Boss, you follow me!"

Yuan Shu stomped his feet.

"Okay! Come on!"

(End of this chapter)