?Wuchang City, Chen Jun, who recaptured the city again, is repairing the city defense. In order to prevent the Zhou army from attacking again, they have been constantly "patching" since the day they entered Wuchang. The important land that has been lost twice cannot be lost again. ⊙Dingdian Novel,...

After the first loss of Wuchang, the north wall was destroyed by the Zhou army, and after the second loss of Wuchang, most of the city wall at the north end of the east wall was destroyed. Because there was no time to build kilns and make bricks, Chen Jun could only set up wooden fences and dig trenches as a defensive means in these places.

After Chen Jun "recovered" Wuchang again, he inspected the collapsed city wall according to the description of the defeated soldiers and found that the foundation of the wall had been hollowed out. This was the first time that the Zhou army captured Wuchang, and then hollowed out the foundation of the wall with wooden stakes and bamboo, and then covered the tunnel exit with soil. It was impossible to see it outside.

As a result, on the day of the siege, the Zhou army rushed under the city wall with a pointed wooden donkey and lifted the barrier of the tunnel entrance and pulled the mechanism. The city wall suddenly collapsed. Not only did the Chen army soldiers above and the soldiers waiting to defend the tunnel exit in the city behind the wall were also crushed to death.

The "treacherous plan" that made people sweat in a cold sweat, the Zhou army arranged a backup plan after the first capture of Wuchang, which was easily taken to Wuchang after more than a month. Now it is facing the third attack of the Zhou army, so Chen Jun is worried about whether the other party has a backup plan.

It was checked that there would be no similar mechanisms in the city and outside the city. So the army was stationed in the city with confidence. After all, with the city walls as protection, it was much more reliable than the temporary wooden fence. If you had a city, you would not dare to go in and station it would hurt your morale.

After being heavily guarded for more than half a month, everything was normal. What was abnormal was that Wuchang became an isolated city. Most of the whistle forts along the way were destroyed under the attack of the Zhou army in Jiangbei. Whether it was Xisai, going east to the downstream or Xiakou, going west to the upstream, it was no longer well-informed.

The most troublesome thing is the problem of transporting grain. After the small-scale grain transport team was intercepted continuously, the Wuchang defenders began to worry. Fortunately, Xiakou sent a large-scale grain transport team to escort the grain transport team to solve the urgent problem. The Zhou army took the boat to harass the Wuchang defenders by boat but were helpless.

It takes time for our own naval army to restore its strength. Before that, Chen Jun could only grit his teeth to guard Wuchang City, or hoped that the Zhou army would attack the city. Now that Wuchang has more than 30,000 troops, it cannot be captured casually.

Then their wish came true, and the Zhou army was indeed at the city.

The Zhou army landed on the Yanji River controlled east of Wuchang and then advanced westward to the city of Wuchang. Chen Jun originally thought that the Zhou army was playing a trick of hitting more with less, but then found that the other party was indeed a large army besieging the city.

The guards of Chen army looked at the Zhou army gathered outside the city with a serious expression. Since the official army recovered Wuchang again, they thought about it for a long time and finally waited for the Zhou army who was sieging the city: It is better to have a short pain than long pain. More than 30,000 officials were guarding Wuchang and waiting for you to die!

"They have a similar number of people as our army, so they want to attack the city..." A general murmured to himself, but he didn't say anything later, but everyone knew that it was "Is it stupid?"

Of course, the Zhou army was not stupid. The Zhou army that attacked the city last time Wuchang fell and the last time it was said that its troops were less than 30% of the defenders, but the opponent really took it down. This time, no one dared to take it lightly if the opponent wanted to attack the city again.

These Zhou troops outside the east and the west of the city were only part of them. There were also Zhou troops on the official road on the southern foot of Fanshan Mountain in the west. Because Fankou camp had been razed to the ground, the Chen army also retracted its troops back to the city to prevent the division of troops, so the Zhou army calmly landed in Fankou and "surrounded" Wuchang from the west. However, even so, the total strength of the Zhou army was only half a pound of pounds and eight taels of pounds with the Wuchang defenders.

"Was the Zhou army set up some mechanism in the city again, thinking about reversing like last time?" Some generals speculated that the last time Wuchang City was broken in the half day with more than 20,000 defenders because the northern section of the East City Wall suddenly collapsed and the Zhou army rushed in. This time, the other party wanted to use the same trick again.

"This is impossible. Haven't it been checked all of them? There is no problem with the foundation of the city walls. They can't use the same trick again."

"Then why do they think they can capture Wuchang? Our army has more than 30,000 people!!"

"Who knows, maybe there are surprise soldiers..."

When it comes to it, no one wants to guess. Anyway, the official army has thought about all the possibilities and can't think of a reason why Zhou Jun can win, so they don't want to bother themselves. Anyway, the answer will come out after the battle begins.

Today, the Zhou army attacked and the Chen army was ready to gather troops in the city. Their forces were similar to those of the Zhou army, so even if there was another accident in the city wall, the opponent would not rush in. If it was just a simple attack, then after a stalemate was held for a while, a new force was sent in the city to defeat the enemy.

Just as the Chen army generals were speculating, several cloth curtains suddenly stood up in the outer formation of the Zhou army in the east of the city. The eight cloth curtains had large characters written on them. Many Chen army soldiers did not recognize the characters and had to look at each other. But when the literate generals saw it clearly, they cursed.

"Surrender and not kill, Xiancheng is a meritorious... He is really talking nonsense!!"

A commotion spread, and the soldiers of the Chen army were shocked by the Zhou army's arrogant attitude because they thought that the commander on the opposite side was crazy. The military strategy was as follows: Ten people surrounded him. Now everyone has a considerable force. This is how crazy people can think they can win.

It’s not that the cavalry rushes day and night to catch people off guard, nor is it that the water fights and sets a fire on the wind to set fire to the Red Cliff. This is the result of siege. You don’t have much force, but you think that each of them is a killing god who can defeat ten.

"A few days ago, a large number of food and grass were transported enough for more than 30,000 officials and soldiers to hold on for several months. Do they think they can stop the reinforcements?"

"The number of people fighting hand-to-hand is not afraid of them!"

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In the Zhou army formation in the east of the city, Yuwen Wen looked at the head of Wuchang with a Qianli Mirror. After a while, he put down the Qianli Mirror and looked back and ordered to prepare. He was not here to attack Wuchang this time, so he had already prepared all the preparations he should have.

His own troops were surrounded by Wuchang at the city. Although his troops were not much more than the defenders, he was very confident in taking down Wuchang City. He was assembled and ready to attack.

These catapults are optimized according to the modular design idea. They are easy to disassemble and assemble and transport in sections (shipping). The weight of a single component can also be carried by several soldiers. The assembly time is not long. Although the power and range cannot be compared with the catapults made on-site, they are also a must-have tool for home travel.

With this "portable" gravity catapult cart that reduces power but is easy to transport, the Zhou army attacked Chen Jun's sentry fort, which was mainly composed of wooden fences, without any disadvantages. According to a typical tactic, it is to besiege Chen Jun a sentry fort with forty portable catapult cars. All of them were assembled in less than half an hour, and stones could be seen everywhere and could be put into battle immediately.

The Chen Jun Shuai Fort garrison was at least two or three hundred or three hundred, and there were more than a thousand ordinary small groups of people who could not quickly conquer them. If there were no powerful siege equipment, they could only rely on their lives to push them. Now, Yuwen Wen relied on the convenience of boats and ships, and most of the Chen Jun Shuai Forts were established along the river, so he could concentrate his troops and "bully bully the weak" frequently with portable catapults.

To be fair, if it is a fortress with rammed earth and bricks, it may not be able to solve it quickly. After all, no matter how sharp the catapult is, it cannot compare to the artillery. However, Chen Jun’s fortress had been swept by the Zhou army before, so the quality of the rebuilt construction is very easy to attack with the catapult.

Soon after, the catapult was assembled, and the fragrance of cloth bags were placed next to the catapults. The shells used to attack Wuchang this time were not conventional stones but sesame oil cloth bags.

Sesame oil, also known as sesame oil, is the sesame oil of later generations. In this era, the main purpose of sesame oil was to ignite ignition, such as lamp oil or arson, but it was secondarily consumed. Yuwen Wen burned the bags that were soaked with sesame oil today, and actually used it as an arson bomb.

The bag contains a certain amount of soil and a large amount of flammable objects as counterweight to ensure that the arson bomb can be successfully shot by the throwing cart to the target. When countries are fighting, they often use flammable objects to make arson bombs when using human-powered throwing carts to attack the city. However, the arson bomb prepared by Yu Wenwen this time is extremely powerful.

After the catapult was ready, the horn in the Zhou army formation rang and then the three rightmost seats on the left, in the middle, and the rightmost seats began to test the shooting. Two of the bags of similar weight were thrown out and hit the city wall in the south end of Wuchang. One of them crossed the city head and fell into the city.

Because the arson bomb is lighter, its shooting distance is farther than that of commonly used stone bombs. The operator of the stone caster adjusted their respective counterweights according to the test firing situation and then began to shoot.

The scene of the lit sesame oil bag arson bomb flew towards the Wuchang city like a meteor. Most arson bombs hit the wall at the southern end of the city wall and made a "puff" sound. Because the bag was filled with broken soil, they did not bounce off after hitting the city wall but slid down to the corner and burned.

With the second round and the third round, the Zhou army dropped more and more arson bombs at the corner of the city wall. The accumulated arson bombs ignited the fire and burned the southern end of the city wall on the east side of Wuchang to a heat wave.

The defenders on the city wall looked at this strange scene for some reason: If you want to smash the city wall, you have to use stones. Are you throwing these arson objects over to burn the city wall?

There are indeed cases of attack and defense of the city. There are indeed cases of fire burning the city walls through fire, but that is also extremely rare. Not only does it set fire to the walls, but it also requires water to splash so that the city walls suddenly collapse and collapse. Now, under the cover of the shield chariot, the Zhou army soldiers approached the city walls but did not see anyone holding a bucket or something trying to splash water.

"Did they think our army would splash water to extinguish the fire and cause the city wall to collapse? It's so ridiculous!" A general cursed with a smile. His words caused laughter from people around him. The Wuchang city wall was covered with rammed earth and bricks, which was very strong. It could be burned by burning it with fire.

The sound of horns outside the city rang out. The defenders looked like Zhou soldiers began to push the trench bridge, and they seemed to be preparing to build on the newly dug three-layer trench under the city and then siege the city. But no one was pushing the ladder, pointed wooden donkey and other siege equipment. This made people feel confused no matter how you look at it.

The Zhou army's throwing cart that was not pulled by humans kept shooting arson bombs. The southern end of the city wall on the east side of Wuchang became hotter and hotter, and even the soldiers standing on the city were squatting beside the stove were sweating all over. A general of Chen looked at the Zhou army outside the city and looked at the city that was burned by the fire and suddenly changed his face:

"No, there must be something wrong with this city wall!"

"What's wrong with it? It's just that I want to burn down the city wall." Another general shouted and cursed, "It's useless to burn for a day!"

"No, what if the city wall..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw a huge smoke suddenly emerged from the crack of the wall not far from the ground. Before the defenders on the city could react, they heard several loud noises and then a huge force threw them into the air from bottom to top.

They saw their broken hands and feet in the air, their broken limbs and arms, and they saw the ground with fire lights below and a large stream of smoke. A pungent smell came, and the originally towering city wall has now turned into ruins.
Chapter completed!