Under such circumstances, Antioch III and his soldiers did not care about the catapults at all. They did not think that these catapults could cause any substantial damage to their city. Instead, they were waiting for the catapults to have no effect and the morale of the Daqin soldiers was greatly frustrated.

At this time, if Zhang Kai knew that the Seliu people looked down on the catapult that he had worked hard for nearly a year to modify, he would probably be furious. In order to test the power of the catapult, with Ying Gao's permission, Zhang Kai and his men almost destroyed the wall of a city that was not small around Xianyang City.

The soldiers of the Qin Dynasty set up camp forty or fifty miles away from the city where Antioch III was. After resting for a day, they slowly sent troops to approach Seleu's city.

In fact, Han Xin and Meng Tian took a certain risk when sending troops this time. Although the Qin cavalry who came with the catapult was no different from the previous 100,000 people, these people were not the previous 100,000 people. They did not have so much formation training. The focus of their usual training is how to operate the catapult, and how to cooperate with the catapult to fight.

If Antioch III was a little more natural and refused to give in, and this time he would lead his army to attack the Qin camp like the last time, he would at least be evenly matched with the Qin soldiers who came to attack them this time. However, since the last defeat, Antioch III had completely cut off the idea of ​​head-on confronting the Qin cavalry, whether this time or any time in the future.

Therefore, even in this case, Antioch III ordered all the defenders to hide in the city and rely on a series of defensive techniques outside the city walls and a series of defensive techniques outside the city walls to block the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty.

There is a winding river outside this city, which looks like a moat outside many cities in the Qin territory. It is precisely for this reason that Antioch III gave up the previous city and placed his defense here.

The moat was originally a natural barrier for the cavalry. In addition, around the moat, the Seleu people also placed a large number of pits and tripping ropes. In this way, once a large number of cavalry intend to attack the city gate directly, even if they do not send troops, the attacking party will pay a lot of price.

There are many arrow holes on the city wall, which are covered with dense archers. It can be said that under such a layout, this city is really like a copper wall.

The team of trenchers moved slowly to the other end of the moat. Moreover, this time Han Xin used a trencher to open the way in front, and the soldiers followed behind the trencher. Because the trencher was very strong and his figure was very large, although it also triggered many pits and tripping ropes, it had little impact on the advancement of the trencher.

"Can the other end of that moat endanger their walls and the sergeants standing on them?"

This question is what Han Xin cares most about. He really didn't participate in the test of the catapult around Xianyang City because he was busy with other things. So at this seemingly long distance, he really had no clue in his heart. He thought that if the formation on your side was set up and did not cause any damage to others in the end, then his face would be a bit too much today, right?

"Don't worry, General, at this distance, our Daqin trencher will definitely make them regret despise us!"

The general who answered Han Xin's question was the one who had been in charge of training trenchers in Fahrenheit City. He originally thought that training the soldiers to use trenchers was a very boring and useless task, but now when he saw the city of Seleu, the general's confidence came out, and he thought that this time he had to open his eyes to his coach and his enemies.

With the guarantee of his generals and thinking that Ying Gao had already admired this catapult before, Han Xin felt relieved.

This time, the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty who followed the trenchers were escorting the trenchers, while the other part was transporting the stones needed for the trenchers.

What no one could imagine is that in order to cause maximum damage to the enemy, the catapult developed by Zhangkai no longer picked up some stones of similar size underground and fired them as before.

Therefore, a large part of the soldiers responsible for the trench were polishing stones of shape and size required for the trench. This work was undoubtedly boring, but this was a hard requirement ordered by Ying Gao himself. Therefore, people have been doing this in Fahrenheit City, and a considerable number of stones have been accumulated over such a long time.

After the catapult arrived by the river, he didn't want to cross the river, so he arranged neatly by the river. The crossbowmen of the Qin Dynasty were protecting him from behind, in case some enemy troops suddenly rushed out of the city.

"The Qin Dynasty's catapult was just a river and wanted to attack our city walls. It was really a dream!"

When Antioch III saw the arrangement of Daqin, he said something very contemptuous in his mouth, but he himself didn't know why. These seemingly not big or powerful catapults actually made him feel a little uneasy.

"What the emperor said is that I see that the generals of the Qin Dynasty are obviously afraid that once they enter the other side of the river, the archers in our city will make their catapults into our bags! This can only stay in a place that our archers can't reach across the river."

"Yes, let's continue to instruct the archers in the arrow hole to cheer up. Once an enemy enters our range, you must shoot them as soon as possible. If all the catapults enter their appropriate range, it will be very unfavorable for us."

After Antioch III gave this command, he still stood in the center of the city, staring at the situation under the city without turning around.

After the hundreds of trenchers from Daqin were arranged neatly on the riverside, there were carriages coming, and they arrived neatly next to each trencher. The soldiers of Daqin, calmly moved bags of stones from the carriage and placed them next to the trencher. This series of actions made Seliu's defenders stunned. Until this time, they still did not believe that these trenchers could attack their city walls or gates from the opposite side of the river.

If there were people who came from that era with Ying Gao, especially if those who studied physics saw the shape of the stone, they would say, "Isn't this a solid shell?" Didn't this aerodynamic principle? Isn't this just BC? Where did the talents come from?

In fact, the stone of this shape can greatly increase the power of the trencher, which is naturally Ying Gao's contribution, but if it is actually discussed, Ying Gao will at most half of the contribution.

Ying Gao even almost finished his physics subject in high school in his previous life. At most, he only understood some superficial principles, but it was only these superficial principles that Zhang Kai could not know how many times he could understand after listening to it.

Ying Gao unconsciously proposed that the shape of a stone should have a lot of impact on the power of the catapult. After drawing a rough shape of a shell on a piece of hemp paper, Zhang Kai and his team went through countless experiments within a few months, and finally combined the shape of the simple strokes on Ying Gao's drawing with the stone that can truly enhance the power of the catapult into one. It is the stone of this shape today.

Even after determining the shape of the stone, the trench was opened and many parts of the trench were modified according to the shape of the stone, so that the trench could better adapt to the shape of this somewhat sharp cylindrical stone, so the trencher was created at this time.

Only Ying Gao knew about the hardships and countless experiments, because whenever Zhang Kai made progress, he would invite Ying Gao to the site of their experiments to observe. Even Han Xin and Meng Tian didn't know how many times the small trencher had undergone polishing, let alone Antioch III.

"General, we are ready to shoot stones at Seleu's city. And judging by this situation, the Seleu people did not intend to leave the city to face it!"

The general in charge of the trench was already ready to wait because he knew that once the machines he commanded launched the first wave of stones, it would be the time when the Qin trenchers became famous in this world.

"Okay, launch a round at their walls and the people above the walls, and let's see the effect first!"

Han Xin was obviously still somewhat reserved about the catapults he brought. He fired it first and took a look. Obviously, he didn't know what the effect would be.

"good!"

After receiving Han Xin's order, the general gave the order, and the soldiers who had been waiting next to the catapult quickly put the stones that had been arranged underground into the catapult with quick movements.

When it was about to be launched, the general touched the back of his head, ran to Han Xin happily and asked in a low voice: "General, I have a request, don't you know if it should be said?"

"Tell me quickly!" Han Xin looked at it and thought to himself that you have wasted all this time. Can I still say that I can't say it?

"After capturing this city, please allow the general to allow the soldiers under my command to find these fired stones under the city wall or in the city, otherwise it would be too much effort to polish such a qualified stone."

The question raised by this general made Ying Gao smile a little bitterly. He thought to himself that this guy was quite confident. Before the battle began, he thought about what happened after the city was broken.

"This matter is okay, but we still have to wait until when I, Daqin, conquered Seliu's city!"

After receiving Han Xin's affirmative answer, the general shouted to his soldiers: "Soldiers, General Han Xin has promised that if we can capture this city, we can retrieve these fired stones. Don't be stingy with the stones, just attack their city walls and the people on the city walls with all our strength!"

After shouting out this voice, even Han Xin didn't know why. The soldiers who controlled the catapult seemed to have been injected with chicken blood and directly fired the stones in their hands.

At this time, Antioch III was still standing on the city wall watching what the Qin soldiers were doing.

"General, they seemed to have launched something, and they were indeed heading towards our city wall. How could this small catapult cart..."

"ah!!"

A general of Seleu had just reported to Antioch. Before he could finish a sentence, a Seleu defender not far away suddenly screamed in a very miserable cry. When Antioch III turned his head to look at the general who had spoken halfway before, he saw that the soldier had fallen under the city wall. The place where he was standing was already a pool of blood.

Before they could react, a few similar screams came from the surrounding area, and then the sound of the city wall being bombarded heavily.

"Your Majesty, hurry up and go down the city. Their catapult can really project stones from the river to our city walls. It's dangerous here!"

The general didn't care about saying such words, and was slapping his big face. While saying this, he pulled Antioch III to run down.

At this time, Antioch III was completely confused. He originally wanted to watch the lively Qin Dynasty, but now, he was not able to keep up with the pace of others. He brought a hundred inconspicuous things and actually put them on it. This was just like the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty who could skillfully use formations before, which made Antioch III feel very powerless.

After being supported by his subordinates, Antioch III took a long time to come back to his senses. What he knew was that although all kinds of unfavorable situations had already happened to his side, Seleu had not yet perished so far. Seleu had not perished, so he had to find a way. After all, there were millions of Seleu people behind him, right?

"So quickly check the situation of the city wall and see if the stone they launched can damage my Seleu's city wall!"
Chapter completed!