Around Dongfu City, Liang soldiers were preparing siege equipment, and they were obviously going to attack the city from all sides at the same time. On the top of the city, the rebel soldiers also began to make corresponding preparations.

A few days ago, the Liang army attacked Dongfu City, but in the end it only burned the outer wooden fences. Therefore, the rebel soldiers believed that the Liang army had only one end to attack the city this time, that is, the Mingjin retreated the troops due to heavy casualties.

Previously, the rebels attacked Dongfu City, but they could not capture it for several days. Later, some of the defenders acted as internal supporters, and finally they were able to break the city.

Now no one in the city is an insider, so it is useless to attack many times in the Liang army.

On the southwest side of the city, on the high ground by the Qinhuai River, Xiao Si, the prince of Poyang who was supervising the battle on the spot, felt a little embarrassed under the gaze of the generals.

Next to him, Pei Zhigao, the governor of Xiyuzhou, glanced at the team preparing to attack the city in the south of the East City and said to Xiao Si:

"Mr. There is no joke in the army. If you cannot take over Dongfu City today, then Li Li must be dealt with by military law."

Now that things have come to this point, Xiao Si, who is unsure, can only pretend to be calm: "Don't worry, Mr. Pei, please do not worry, Li Jianzuo will definitely help our army break the city."

Pei Zhigao wanted to say something, but he felt that it was useless. He looked at the soldiers who were ready to siege, and looked at the strange siege equipment prepared by Li Li, and felt that there was little hope.

Li Li, the Dongye Supervisor who came out from somewhere, actually told the Prince of Poyang to send troops to attack Dongfu City again, and it was captured on the same day. Pei Zhigao felt that this was impossible.

If it was so easy, my side would have captured the fierce attack a few days ago.

Seeing that Li Jianzuo was about twenty years old, Pei Zhigao said with confidence that he could destroy Dongfu City in one day, and he couldn't help but think of his back then.

Back then, when he was in his early twenties, he followed his father to fight and was eager to make contributions and took no dangers at all. His father thought it was difficult to conquer the camp, so he volunteered to fight.

Thinking about it now, Li Li is probably full of energy and blood and is eager to make contributions, so he said he will defeat Dongfu City today.

However, the methods of siege are only counting over and over again. Which one is not time-consuming and labor-intensive? What else can you make?

Pei Zhigao thought that he had fought for decades and had never seen any storms, including siege battles. He had never seen a head-on siege and could break the city on the same day.

Unless the defenders were cowardly, the traitors who were guarding Dongfu City were not cowardly, they would have captured it a few days ago.

Pei Zhigao thought about it and looked at the team preparing for the battle in the south of the city.

Li Li recruited some people, which was said to be basically Dongye craftsmen, prisoners, and some people. Thinking that Li Li was good to them when he was in Dongye, and now he has food and accommodation, he came to join us.

It is called "Dongyeying", with a number of more than 1,000.

Li Li wanted to take the "Dongye Camp" to assist the official army in combat. Pei Zhigao believed that the mob could only be used as coolies, and the equipment that will be used for siege is probably what these people did.

Like other generals, Pei Zhigao thought that breaking the city today was a joke.

Countless doubtful eyes gathered on Li Li who was supervising the battle on the spot. Li Li didn't know how many people were waiting to see him laugh, but knew that if he couldn't break the city today, he would lose all his face and be able to clean up and go back to Poyang to fish.

However, Li Li is not in a hurry. Since he dares to issue a military order in front of the Prince of Poyang, he will definitely be able to do it.

Looking at the busy subordinates in front of him and the siege equipment that was about to be prepared, Li Li was full of confidence.

In this era, defense is greater than attack, so even if it is a small city, as long as the terrain is suitable and the guardian will be firm and responded properly, the attacking side must break the city, and the time is determined by months, and casualties will not be small.

Fortunately, the Dongfu City in front of me is an inner city in Jiankang City. The terrain is not dangerous and it is flat. Only by guarding the city can you rely on high walls, and the moats outside the city are just a big deal.

Next to him, Zhang Ying, who was also wearing armor and a buckle, was worried that Li Li would be too nervous, which would lead to his confusion and unable to command the battle. He wanted to ease the tension, so he told Li Li about the origin of Dongfu City.

The location of Dongfu City was the residence of the ruling powerful people in the Jin Dynasty. Because it was east of Taicheng, it was called "Dongfu".

At the end of the Jin Dynasty, Liu Yu, the later Emperor Wu of Song, built a large-scale construction in the East Palace, built a mansion, built a city wall, and trained troops. He built the East Palace into an East Palace City, and the mansion became a small city.

Since then, Dongfu City has often been the governor of Yangzhou, and sometimes also served as the prime minister's office.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, before Xiao Daocheng received the Zen, Dongfucheng was used as the palace of the Qi royal palace.

Because Dongfucheng is located in the north of Qinhuai and east of Qingxi, whenever there is a war in Jiankang, whether it is a mutiny or an internal and external offensive and defense, Dongfucheng will become a stronghold for the two sides to compete for.

Therefore, after more than a hundred years of continuous reinforcement, the city walls are towering and solid. As long as the defenders do not show any internal ghosts, the siege will pay a lot of money and take a lot of time.

"Do you think the city wall is tall? Very high?" Li Li looked at the city wall in front of him and disagreed. Zhang Ying didn't know where Li Li came from and said that the city wall in Dongfu was short, so he explained:

"The walls of Dongfu City are only shorter than those of Taicheng's outer walls, so they should not be underestimated."

"How high can Taicheng's wall be?" Li Li looked at Zhang Ying and smiled: "I know that Taicheng wall is full of materials, it is a brick-packed rammed earth wall."

Then he pointed to the Dongfu City in front of him: "The wall of Dongfu City is a rammed earth wall, without bricks. Therefore, according to the structural characteristics of the rammed earth wall, since the base is not wide enough, it is not much taller."

"It's amazing that it's five feet tall, only four floors tall. Is it very high?"

The various buildings in later generations were called high. According to his impression, Li Li estimated the height of the Dongfu City Wall in front of him, and felt that the height of the four to five floors in later generations was just the height of the four to five floors.

You can't conquer such a small low building? You have a problem with your thinking!

Li Li thought so and said to Zhang Ying: "There are no more than three types of siege to break the city. One is to break the door; the other is to break the wall; the third is to climb the wall."

"The gate of Dongfu City must be blocked from the inside, and it will not work if you break the wall. If you want to dig a tunnel, it will take a lot of soil and take time and effort. Don't say it's a day, it won't be possible for a month."

"So if we want to climb to the wall, we must first suppress the defenders on the city."

Seeing the foreman... his subordinate came to report to him and said that he was ready, he said to Li Lang, who was supervising the battle and coordinating next to him: "General Li, you can start."

Li Lang supervised the battle on behalf of the Prince of Poyang on the siege and heard the message: "Beat the drum and attack the city!"

After a while, the drum sounded, and the Liang army, who was besieging the city in the west, began to move. However, according to the arrangement before the war, there were feint attacks on the east, west and north sides, restraining the defenders and dispersing their forces. Only the south side was the main attack.

The south is where Li Li is, and the first thing he dispatched was a large crossbow.

This is a large bamboo crossbow. The crossbow arms are made of two bundles of bamboo left and right, tied together at the tails, and the whole arm is about two meters long.

The crossbow body is also made of bundles of bamboo, with thick hemp ropes as strings, with simple height adjustment devices, and two wheels, pushed forward by soldiers and strong men.

The whole crossbow looks simple, like a shoddy product, with more than 40 pieces in total. It stops at a hundred and fifty steps south of the city, and is divided into two rows, with a dispersion in front and back.

At a distance of 150 steps, only arrows shot from strong bows can reach, but they have no lethality. Soldiers wearing armor are not afraid of stray arrows at this distance.

Each bow is served by ten people, and eight of them are dragging hemp ropes to wind the big crossbow through a special "pulley set".

The remaining two people are responsible for adjusting the launch angle of the large crossbow. Because the large crossbows are made according to the fixed size provided by Li Li, the shooting angles of the forty large crossbows are easy to be unified.

After each crossbow was turned up, the large crossbow in the middle of the first row tested the shooting, shooting a pottery jar a hundred and fifty steps away. The city of Dongfu hit the bottom of the arrowhead, and shattered with a "bang".

The craftsmen...the former craftsmen who are now soldiers of the "Dongye Camp" shouted loudly: "It's appropriate, put on the bullet!"

Clay pots of similar sizes were placed on the nest of large crossbow arrows by soldiers, and then ignited. With a command, they were fired one after another, and more than half of them hit the spots near the wall and arrow piles.

The burning pot burst, splashing out the burning tincture, igniting the city wall and turning it into a wall of fire.

The soldiers guarding the city thought that the Liang army was going to use a large crossbow to fire stones. In response, they built a battle shed to prevent arrows and stones, but they did not expect that it was a fire attack.

The oil was on fire and the water could not be extinguished. The battle shed on the top of the city burned like a bonfire. Some people tried to extinguish the fire with sand, but the fire was too fierce, and the defenders could not gain a foothold at once and retreated one after another.

There was no one on the city wall, so a short "window period" appeared. What Li Li wanted was this effect: suppressing the projected firepower at the city wall, so that Dongyeying could build the city-climbing equipment on site.

The soldiers in Dongye Camp are some Dongye craftsmen, prisoners and people. They have no combat power. If they fight in person, they will give them heads, but they are good at building construction.

After all, when I renovated the Dongye dormitory and built hydraulic facilities, I had exercised civil engineering construction technology, had experience and a certain degree of organization.

However, a relatively safe environment is needed to carry out civil engineering construction, so Li Li chose to set fire on the city wall so that the defenders could not stay on the city wall and strive for a safe construction period.

Zhang Ying pointed to the flames on the top of the city and asked, "Li Lang, what kind of tincture is this? It burns so violently?"

"The overseas turbulent oil that Dongye had in stock was a tribute from the Nanhai Fanbian. Someone transferred some of it with official documents, forgot?" Li Li replied. Zhang Ying knew it in his mind: It turns out that you had already 'borted' it.

"When this hot oil burns, it smells smelly and smoke, so the palace is not happy to use it, so it is transported to Dongye Factory for lighting oil, but the quantity is not large, so I can't just order Dongfucheng."

After Li Li finished speaking, he smiled: "So I always say that Dongye is a good place and has a lot of fun."

As the horn sounded and the second wave of attack began, Li Li wanted to show the generals who watched the battle what was "fast siege".
Chapter completed!