Chapter 262 Bloody Battle 4

It was already dark, and the attacking and defense were like two tired beasts, licking the wounds on their bodies while staring at each other's actions. The battlefield became quiet. A team of Zhenhai soldiers came out of the gate to the outside of the city and began to bring the bodies of the dead on their own side back to the city. Not far from them, a team of Huzhou soldiers looked at them quietly, but did not launch an attack. After the Zhenhai soldiers collected the bodies and retreated to the city, they also began to carry their bodies. The defenders at the top of the city did not act any hostile. In this matter, both sides reached a tacit understanding.

But under this quiet appearance, there was a busy scene on the inside of the city wall. A large hole under the city wall was so gloomy that it was unknown where it led. A load of soil was constantly transported out of it. Gao Xu stood by, his face was gloomy, and he kept urging his subordinates to speed up. At this time, the hourglass placed on the side had flowed out. A lieutenant shouted twice to the inside. After a while, seven or eight men covered in mud crawled out of the cave, who had been waiting for a long time, jumped in and then started to do it. Gao Xu grabbed the arm of the man in the lead anxiously and asked in a low voice: "How many feet have you dug in?"

The man was extremely thirsty, his lips were opened and closed for a few times, but he couldn't speak. Gao Xu quickly snatched a gourd containing water from the side and handed it over. The man poured two mouthfuls hard before answering: "It's been about a meter more. Fortunately, there is no rock in this section, and it's all about soil. In this way, you can dig the siege tower tomorrow morning." After answering Gao Xu's question, the man picked up a Hu cake from the side, chewed it a few bites, and jumped into the hole, while vaguely saying: "Some family will go down and keep a little eye on it, so that these bastards will dig the wrong direction, but will miss the big thing."

It turned out that after dark, since Huzhou soldiers had no advantage in numbers and defenders, Lu Fang did not attack overnight, but the two huge siege towers were still leaning against the city wall, and there were hundreds of elite soldiers guarding them inside. These two siege towers were like two fish bones, stuck in the throat of the defenders, making him extremely uncomfortable. Because the siege tower was very huge, it was impossible to overturn it with a push rod; although it was made of wooden, it was covered with plaster on the outside and covered with cowhide and other fire-proof objects, so it was difficult to attack fire. If you want to seize it with your troops, if you can invest too little from the city wall, you will get out of the city.

Fang could also shoot with crossbows from the earthen mountain. Secondly, the soldiers were depressed after they left the city and were defeated. They were afraid that they would be defeated if they were slightly frustrated at night. So Gao Xu planned to dig out a tunnel from the city to the underground of the siege tower, and then dig its ground into the air. At that time, its huge weight would naturally crush itself. Just a tunnel not far from the place where one of the siege towers was located, there was an authentic tunnel from the city to the outside of the city. You only had to dig four or five feet horizontally. So Gao Xu selected an experienced lieutenant and commanded the soldiers to take turns to the battle. He must dig the tunnel under the siege tower before the next morning.

The next morning, it was the fourth wing led by Niu Zhijie to prepare for the siege. The Huzhou soldiers in the brigade were about to push the siege machinery toward the city wall, but a terrible scene appeared in front of them. The siege tower on the right was slowly and firmly tilting to the left. The soldiers in the siege tower shouted in despair, madly trying to rush out of the narrow tower entrance, but the siege tower tilted faster and faster, and finally turned into a stolen. The entire huge tower body fell heavily on the ground, splashing a large piece of dust. Although it was far apart, the soldiers of Huzhou soldiers could feel the violent fall from the vibrations from the ground. The desperate shouts of the soldiers in the tower seemed to have been cut off by a quick knife, replaced by the thunderous cheers of the defenders in Hangzhou.

"Bastard, go and check, who is the general guarding the city? He actually used this trick to hurt me more than 200 heroes." Lu Fang was almost out of breath. Since the time travel, he has been plotted against him. He has just used technical means to harm him. As a time traveler, it is really incredible.

"General, the enemy must have dug the bottom of the siege tower with a tunnel and then dug the foundation. As a result, the siege tower fell down. It's better to let the remaining sergeants retreat first to avoid being damaged in vain." Chen Yun, who was standing beside him, immediately came up with the correct reason and made suggestions.

"Well, please order Xu Er to lead the troops back quickly, and ask Foer and others to dig quickly, and to treat the person with the same method. Also, please order Fan Nie to set fire to the Buman on the city with the remaining oil bombs, and then use the crossbow to shoot the defenders. I want them to see a little color." Lu Fang ordered viciously, all the veterans in the Liufang in the two siege towers, and they lost so much at once, which made him feel so painful.

The remaining siege tower was already in chaos, and the soldiers staying on the upper level rushed down to the lower level, hoping to rush out as soon as possible to escape a life. Xu Er shouted loudly at the door: "You all stand for me, so you can only be a living target for the guards when you go out like this. How many people can escape alive? They may not have dug down our tower." While shouting loudly, he kept cutting the shoulders and heads of the people in front with a scabbard.

, It was finally quiet for the people. Seeing the soldiers' panicked eyes, any random movement would make them snatch the door out, Xu Er had an idea, picked up an iron hammer from the side, jumped out of the door, and slammed the ground with the hammer twice, and shouted: "Look, if you dig the bottom, the sound will definitely be 'empty' and will not be as dull as it is. If you don't believe it, you can try it."

The soldiers heard it right, and three or four people came out to hammer the ground with iron hammers. As Xu Er said, the sound from the ground was dull. Now the army was very determined, and the soldiers in the tower returned to their posts. Xu Er also sent more than ten people to hold the big shield on their heads to check the overturned siege tower.

After the distribution was stopped, the soldiers in the tower were ashamed of their panic just now, and they shouted to climb the city to avenge the robes who died in battle, and their morale increased a little. Xu Er was very happy to see it and was about to inspire him. When the army arrived and attacked the city together, the personal soldiers on the side whispered: "There is a banner coming from the Tushan Mountain, and we are ordered to abandon the siege tower and retreat."

Although the voice of the personal soldiers was not loud, the terrain inside the tower was small, and many people heard it. They suddenly became quiet. Dozens of eyes stared at Xu Er, waiting for him to make a decision. Xu Er pondered for a moment, and looked up and said loudly: "Everyone finally pushed these two siege towers to the edge of the city wall. I don't know how many brothers had already died for it, let alone once they were discarded, there would be no materials to build such large equipment in the camp. At that time, the brothers would attack the city with arrows and boiling oil. The walls of Hangzhou were high and thick, and even if the corpses were piled up as high as the city wall, they might not be able to capture it. Instead of doing this, it would be better to let us take the risk of staying in the tower, and would rather die in the battle than be shot by the enemy soldiers on the wall when they retreated. You replied to your lord and said that Xu was willing to fight to the death in the tower, and you would also siege the city quickly."

When everyone heard Xu Er's decision, they replied in unison: "I hope to fight to the death with the arch master and break this city together!" Although there were only two hundred people in the tower, they were determined and had awesome. The sound made the dust on the beams and woods on the top of the tower fall down one after another.

On the earthen mountain, the personal soldiers loudly reported: "The envoy, Xu, reported to him that he did not want to withdraw his troops and was willing to fight to the death in the tower. He also asked the lord to attack the city quickly, so he did not have to think about their safety."

Lu Fang was stunned when he heard this, and then sighed: "Xu Er can get the soldiers to die and have no selfless thoughts. Lu has such a good general. Even if the Hangzhou city is ten times stronger, what's the point? Fan Changshi, the shelling begins."

Fannie, who had been waiting aside for a long time, quickly accepted the order loudly. After a while, the dirt mountain was filled with shocking "bang, bang". At this time, the sound of the teeth of the torsion spring crossbow was released.

Seeing that Huzhou army on the earthen mountain began to shell the Huzhou army, the experienced defenders did not wait for Gao's orders, and the extra guards and civilians had begun to retreat to the dead corners under the city wall. The soldiers left under the city wall also began to gather in the relatively complete area of ​​Buman. The civilians under the city also transported the prepared Buman to the upper city passage to replace the broken Buman. However, the bombardment time was very short, and only forty or fifty rounds stopped. The guards also found that the shells fired this time were not like stone bullets, hard mud eggs, or spears in the past, but some clay pots. After these clay pots were broken, a large amount of viscous liquid flowed out of them, and it was flowing everywhere. A guard who had participated in the battle at the dock a few days ago wiped the liquid splashed on his robe and put it in front of his nose and smelled it. A familiar smell appeared in his mind.

"Be careful, these things will burn!" the soldier suddenly shouted loudly, running down the city while taking off his splashed robe. The terrible scene more than ten days ago appeared before him again: warships floating around on the water without a man, and the fired sailors and soldiers jumped into the river, but the flames could still burn in the water; and there were more than 100,000 stones of grain on the dock, the brigade of civilians, the solid trestle bridges, everything was burning. In the terrible poisonous smoke emitted by the flames, people rolled and struggled on the ground until they breathed their last breath in pain.

"Bastard, what are you calling? Don't you know that fifty-four and seventeen were killed?" The soldier was suddenly slapped to the ground. When he woke up, he saw his trooper standing in front of him. Although his face was fierce, his eyes showed a light of concern.
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