?After several days of repair, the imperial army outside the city began to attack the city.

The black soldiers walked out of the camp and began to line up, and the generals loudly emphasized military discipline:

"No one who retreats without permission from Mingjin is killed!"

"Those who do not obey orders will be killed!"

"Those who are greedy and afraid of death are killed!"

"The one who discards the equipment will kill!"

"Those who climb the city first will reward you with great reward!"

"Give the heads of the rebel Yu Wenming to a heavy reward!"

"Reward those who take the heads of rebels!"

The marching general Cui Yanmu looked at the dark soldiers in front of him with satisfaction. They had been recuperating for a few days and were now in full swing. They were all wearing heavy armor and extremely strong, and their eyes revealed their desire to make achievements without any concealment.

The morale of the army is available!

The drum sounded, and the army of siege began to move with the shocking drum beats.

The strong soldiers were in front of them with a large shield, and the archers followed closely behind, standing outside the range of the defenders' archery, and countless siege equipment behind them slowly approached with human push.

The watch tower car raised the watchtower high. Its function is to use the watchtower that is higher than the city wall to allow the soldiers in it to observe the movements of the defenders and command the surrounding siege troops to adjust the main attack direction.

The front is the rushing car. The wheels are pushed forward by soldiers under the five or six levels. Thick wooden boards are nailed around the perimeter and are wrapped in raw cowhide. There are a large number of archers on each floor on the car, ready to marche at the trench below the city with the arrows of the defenders and stop and shoot at the same time, which also plays a role in attracting the opponent's firepower.

The folding trench bridges are followed by the rushing trench bridges, which are used to deal with the trench outside the city. It has been discovered that the trench is wider, so it is built to build a folding bridge. When the rushing trench is attracted to the guards, they are ready to fill the trench when the trench is attracted to the guards.

The black and armored soldiers followed the trench bridge against the cloud ladder, and there were countless human-powered catapults. They were pulled and threw stones to attack the city by humans. The army slowly advanced beyond the range of the defenders' bows and arrows.

The shrill trumpet sounded everywhere, and the siege officially began.

The chariot was the first to approach the trench. During the movement, the archers on it began to shoot against the defenders. The archers on the ground, who were covered by a large shield, rushed to the edge of the trench to draw bows and shoot arrows. The soldiers who were like trenched under the cover, pushed the folding trench bridge and rushed to the trench.

Suddenly, a huge "swoosh" sound continued to sound on the city wall. Countless giant arrows roared towards Lin Chong's car. Several "swoosh" sounds were heard, and a Lin Chong's car was shot through by several giant arrows. After passing through, the giant arrow stabbed the soldiers on the ground diagonally, passed through several people and then nailed to the ground.

The siege soldiers had never seen such a terrifying giant arrow. The comrade who was nailed to the arrow shaft was still struggling with blood before she could breathe out, like a few grasshoppers strung on a straw rope.

A sound of sound in the city, and stones all over the sky were thrown towards the siege army like rain. Under the impact of the big stone, the chariots collapsed one after another. The archers on it fell to the ground either dead or injured.

Taking advantage of the attack of the defenders, the new trench bridge rushed into the moat through the trench to set up a passage. The soldiers carried the ladders across the trench bridge and rushed towards the city wall. The archers shot against the defenders behind them to cover them. Countless human catapults also came behind them. The soldiers loaded stones and began to pull the ropes hard to prepare for catapults.

Suddenly, countless stone bullets roared and shot straight towards the city to smash large shields, and huge stones were thrown over to smash the human-powered catapult cars, causing heavy casualties to be killed and killed by soldiers around them.

Without the shield as a cover, the archer was shrouded in the rain of arrows that followed. The blood flowers bloomed in large numbers and screamed countless times. The crowds of people rushing towards the city walls were condensed and then continued to move forward under the scolding of the generals of the supervising formation.

The savages of the death-climbing death rushed to the city wall. Just as they tried hard to lift the ladder, they suddenly found that the archers on the city wall were replaced with a group of crossbowmen. The sound of whizzing continued. Although they were wearing heavy armor, they were still shot by the crossbow arrows.

Due to the slow shooting speed of the crossbow, the ability to shoot in a curved manner has decreased the field combat effectiveness. However, it is most suitable to use it when defending the city. You can be able to aim calmly. Now the archers who cover the siege army under the city are suffering heavy casualties, and the defending crossbowmen are no longer threatened and shoot calmly.

They fired crossbow arrows in an orderly manner, and they climbed the ladder first and had to get on the city. After they had already fallen behind them, a large area of ​​siege shots had fallen and no one could catch them. The siege waves that should have been like a tide were broken.

Seeing that the dead soldiers under the city wall were shot and killed one by one by the defenders like lambs, the successor soldiers were timid, but the long swords of the generals of the supervising formation were not vegetarian. The soldiers used the cover of the big shield to approach the city wall, and the new wave of archers also leaned against the cover of the big shield to prepare to shoot against the defenders.

"Let me go!" Countless identical voices rolled on the city walls, and whistling sounded countless stone bullets shot straight again and smashed the large shields to pieces. Without any cover, the soldiers used their flesh and blood to welcome the pouring rain of arrows in the open space.

"Ahhhh!" The blood flowers bloomed again, and countless people fell down in the bloody storm. Those who survived by luck no longer had the courage to move forward.

Hundreds of meters away, the marching general Cui Yanmu issued a cold order: "Ming Jin, let them retreat first, and then go up after adjustment!"

The first round of siege is not good, but it is reasonable. If the defenders are well prepared, they will suffer a lot of casualties in the first few days, but after a period of time, the difficulty of siege will be greatly reduced.

This time, the defenders of Suicheng responded properly. They cut down all the trees in the suburbs outside the city to prevent them from being used as siege equipment, and all the houses outside the city were demolished. There was a moat on the side of Suicheng, and a circle of trenches were dug around the city.

"It's quite a bit." Cui Yanmu looked at the city defense and nodded slightly, then sneered: "Look at how much strength your subordinates have to throw stones!"

Behind him, there were dense chariots and catapults. The trench bridge was pushed forward by soldiers, and countless large shields were mixed in between.

The defenders just now threw stones like rain. Cui Yanmu, who had been in the battle formation for a long time, determined that the other party had also set up a large number of catapults, but the catapult car needed a lot of manpower to control it. According to this projection density, he would not believe that there were so many people in the city!

Half an hour later, the horn sounded and the second round of siege began!

In response to the previous defending stone bullets, a wooden mantle chariot was added this time, which used leverage to support a giant wooden board, and the defense area was much larger than that of a large shield raised by a man.

With a "bang", a watchtower cart watchtower was hit by falling stones. The soldiers on it fell like a kite with broken strings. As stone rain splashed out from the top of the city wall, the wooden curtain chariot that was approaching the trench was smashed into pieces. The archers who lost the wooden curtains to cover were slaughtered by the subsequent rain of arrows.

Several chariots stood by the trench. The archers and crossbowmen on the top were shooting at the defenders on the city. They saw more than ten weird-looking big crossbows on the top of the city firing stone bombs at them. The "bang" hits kept ringing. The chariots collapsed one by one before they lasted in the stone rain. The archers and crossbowmen on each floor on the car wailed and fell to the ground.

Without the cover of archers and chariots, the first-dragon dead soldiers carrying cloud ladders to attack the city were exposed to the firepower range of the crossbowmen on the city. Although they were wearing heavy armor, they could not withstand the strong crossbow shooting at close range. They could not get a shield when resisting the cloud ladders, and they were all out of the city as if they were the first time.

"What's going on!" Cui Yingmu, the marching general commander in the rear, looked at the generals in front of him with a pale face. According to the news from the siege troops everywhere, the second wave of siege suffered heavy losses, all the siege vehicles were damaged, and there were not many catapults left. As for the ladder...

The ladder that set off the city wall is still the same as the first round, and there is not a single one!

"The defenders threw stones like rain, the stones were thrown away and far, and there were giant arrows like guns..." A general was still in shock.

"Continue." Cui Yanmu gave a cold order. The generals gritted their teeth and sent orders to the side generals, and took the soldiers down and rested and rectified them waiting for the next round of attack.

Half an hour later, the third round of siege began!

However, the firepower of the city defenders has not decreased at all, and the fate of the siege soldiers has not changed like the previous two times.

"Let the people in the car on the tower look at the end of the city..."

Before Cui Yanmu finished speaking, he heard a "bang" sound from the tower car not far away being knocked down by two giant arrows, and everyone was dumbfounded:

It is four or five hundred meters away from the city wall. How could there be a powerful crossbow with such a long range? Could it be an accident?

Before everyone could react, they could hear a whistling sound coming towards them.

"Be careful!" Cui Yanmu was knocked down by his personal soldiers, and a huge arrow flashed across his side, and he strung the two personal soldiers behind him together to nail them to the ground.

He stood up in a daze and was shocked to find that there were several other giant arrows nearby, with one or two people strung up on them, and even one shot was penetrated by three people in a row!

"What's going on!" Cui Yanmu looked at the victim who had not yet died of breath and threw it on the twitching arrow, "How could they have such a powerful giant crossbow!"

At the same time, follow the city head.

"How? Did you hit it?" Sima of the General Administration and a group of generals surrounded Yu Wenming and asked in anticipation.

Yu Wenming held a retractable and adjustable metal tube in his hand and looked out of the city on his right eye. It is said that this thing is called the "Qianli Mile Mile" and can see people who cannot be seen from a distance without the naked eye.

"It's almost a little bit, I pushed it away by the personal soldiers." Yu Wenming sighed regretfully and handed the metal tube to Sima of the General Administration, "But the generals around him were hit by the fermentation."

When the generals heard this, they were overjoyed. Just now, Prince Yu Wenming used this "thousand-mile mirror" to see that there were generals gathered in a place and pointed at the city hundreds of meters. It was better to use the "Eight Ox Powers: Drag-type Three Bows and One Winch Crossbow" to try their luck.

Just now, the few of them were guessing that they had no hope of shooting the giant arrows, but from a distance, the giant arrows actually shot into the group. Although they failed to take the general's life, it was a surprise.

The general manager Sima held the "Qianli Miles" tightly, as if he was afraid that someone would take it away. After looking at it, he heard him shouting excitedly: "That guy took the man back and fell down, hahaha!"

When the other generals heard this, they stood on tiptoe and looked desperately at the figure far outside the city. They only looked at the "Thousand Mile Miles" in their hands. They scratched their ears and heads, and wanted to see it but didn't dare to say anything.

After feasting his eyes, Sima, the generals did not enjoy passing it on to the people around him. The generals took turns to open their eyes as if they had found a treasure and exclaimed from time to time.

The sound of horns came from the opposite side, and the remaining soldiers under the city retreated with relief when they heard the sound. The defenders cheered like thunder. Today's first battle, the strange military battle thought out by Yuwen Wen, the second son of the general manager, Xiyang County Gong, was unexpectedly good.

That's what "Eight Cow Powers: Dragging Three-Bow Combined One Winch Crossbow" is the powerful launch of giant arrows. The range of archery on the top of the city is four or five hundred meters, and no one can afford to live in the siege equipment.

There is also a "long-range gravity-type projectile gun across the ages", which is a catapult that does not require human power. Although it is a "shrinkable version", it can throw 20 to 30 kilograms of stones more than 200 meters away, which is mainly to save manpower. Dozens of catapults at the same time are really a rain of stones all over the sky.

There is also a big crossbow I have never seen before, called "Very Rare Mule and Horse" and "Cow Power" direct aiming crossbow cannon.

"Just call it a crossbow." Yu Wenming corrected the general's words and rubbed his temples helplessly. The weapons he made with his brother were really amazing, but he just liked to take some untouched names.

The "Niuli Tanhuang" he used a horse-hair drum to create a "Niuli Tanhuang" that can be directly shot with stone bullets. It can hit the wooden mantle chariot and big shields have miraculous effects. It uses stones like a catapult, which saves a lot of arrows while maintaining its power. Now the stones in the city are piled up like mountains and it is impossible to consume them in a short time.

In today's battle, the opponent suffered at least thousands of casualties. The defenders suffered minor losses and morale was high. It seems that it would be fine to defend for a month!

Seeing that the generals were all confident, Yu Wenming's heart fell into the ground. He was responsible for the first time when he went to the battlefield. He guarded the northern gate of Anzhou here to prevent the imperial army from moving south. He had been unable to sleep before, for fear of being unable to compete. Now it seems that "it's okay to guard for a month!"

"Father, Erlang, I can withstand it. The victory or defeat depends on your side." He murmured to himself at the southwest sky.

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Yingzhou Prefecture is located forty miles north of Changshou City.

The army of rebels on the southern road stopped to camp on the Han River, and the atmosphere in the central army's tent was subtle.

"What did you say? Changshou is lost?!" Marshal Wang Yi looked at a soldier in amazement. The soldier broke out from Changshou City last night and brought bad news: Changshou City was lost last night!

"How is it possible! Didn't it be surrounded three days ago? Why was it broken in less than three days!" The generals present were also disbelief.

In three days, how could it be captured in a state-owned city with complete fortifications in three days? Of course, Changshou City Defense is not as good as Xiangyang City, but it is much stronger than ordinary fortresses. The defenders were prepared for a long time, so how could they be broken so quickly!

The soldier was covered in dust and said with a sad face: "That afternoon, the rebels surrounded the city and built siege equipment overnight. They began to attack the city the next day, and the city wall could not hold on that night."

"The governor ordered me to break through several ways to report the news. Now I am the only one who escapes. I just heard the rebels cheering and rushing into the city shortly after leaving the city."

"You mean the rebels broke the city in just one day?" The generals took a breath. They thought it was impossible, but the fact is that Changshou City was lost!

The soldier just said that there were many tall catapults constantly attacking the city. They thought for a moment that the rebels must have recruited a large number of people to operate the catapults to achieve such an effect.
Chapter completed!