There was a weed in the lush forest. It was obvious that the official road that few people walked in recent years was extending to the south. Suddenly, birds and birds rose everywhere, followed by these cyclists and rode past the road, and then the flags on the north side of the official road were everywhere, and a large number of people were walking along the road.

The general who was the leader of the white horse, the white face, big ears, bright eyes, and expressionless face was Liu Bei, the King of Linjiang. At this time, he was leading the army of Linjiang Kingdom gathered in Lingling to Yulin in the south.

During this expedition, Liu Bei brought the main generals Zhang Fei, Wei Yan and Huang Zhong, but he left his second brother Guan Yu in Jiangling to take charge of Bei Jingzhou. After all, Bei Jingzhou is his real foundation.

At this time, Liu Bei and Zhang Fei were in front, and Wei Yan and Huang Zhong were in charge of the rear army. As they walked, Wei Yan seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be asking Huang Zhong: "The king took us to Xinggu to defend the enemy. However, Xinggu County is a remote border county, and the Liang army did not have many troops to attack Xinggu, so why should we bring so many troops? In addition, if we really want to retreat to Xinggu County, we just need to mobilize some of the troops stationed in the south of Jingke County to go south, which can threaten the enemy's retreat, so that the enemy will retreat without fighting. Why should we transfer Jingke's defenders to Lingling, gather, and then go south to Yulin Lingfang County, and then head to block the invading Liang army? It's so puzzling."

The wrinkles on Huang Zhong's forehead were piled up and he grinned, "The king naturally has his plans. You and I are not military advisors, so don't worry about the king's general."

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Wanwen County, the capital of Xinggu County, is located in a river valley surrounded by mountains. The river flowing through it is Yushui. At this moment, the valley clearance outside Wanwen County is full of the camps of the Liang army's Xu Rong's army. There are many bamboo rafts on the surface of the Yushui River that transports food, grass and supplies for the Liang army. Although Xinggu County is still in the mountainous area, the terrain is much smoother than Yunnan County, so the rivers here can also navigate the shallow drift boat rafts like bamboo rafts.

At this time, Xiang Lang, the prefect of Linjiang Kingdom of Xinggu County, squatted behind the walls of the battlements, secretly looking at the Liang army under the city. The absolute number of the opponent seemed to be small, and only 3,000 people were about to be sent, but there were a lot more than the defenders in Wanwen City. Moreover, just from the armor, weapons and equipment, you can know that this is a tiger and wolf army. An enemy soldier launched an attack, and it is hard to say how many days the Wanwen City could last.

Xiang Lang had thought of using the terrain of Chongshan and Forest in Xinggu County to snipe the Liang army. However, some elite infantrymen in the Liang army seemed to be very suitable for fighting in the mountains, and repeatedly discovered and disintegrated the Linjiang army's ambush in the mountains and forests in advance.

These infantrymen can climb trees like monkeys, cross mountains and ridges, and not only have arrows, but they are generally equipped with mountain-chasing dogs. In addition, it is said that these infantrymen can survive in wilderness and forests for a long time without any supplies. In fact, the so-called elite infantrymen of the Liang army that Xiang Lang learned about was the mountain scout of the Liang army.

The sound of the horn suddenly sounded, Xiang Lang's body was shocked, and he said in his heart that Liang Jun was about to attack! Sure enough, the horn sounded for a moment. Xiang Lang heard a loud bang, and then he felt the bluestone slab under his feet tremble. He thought it was Liang Jun's giant crossbow bombardment on the pile wall.

But he was wrong. This was not a crossbow, but a counterweight catapult that the Liang army rarely used. The reason why the Liang army rarely used this device was because when they siege the city, they often used crossbows and bomb dropping Qiang Eagle to cover the hot bombs on the top of the city, covering the infantry ladders to climb the city, and then capturing the city towers up and down, opening the city gate, and a wave of siege tactics that rushed into the city.

But now, whether it is Yunnan County, Xinggu County, or most areas of the entire southwest, except for the main road connecting the Maritime Silk Road with the large and small Jinsha River waterways as the core, the rest are rugged and narrow roads that pass through dense forests and mountains, which are not suitable for large-scale transportation and replenishment.

Under this geographical environment, the limited supplies of Xu Rong's army, coupled with the civilians recruited at zero time, would be good enough to transport the entire army's rations to the front line. How could it be possible to ensure the continuous supply of resources such as hot bombs?

So Xu Rong finally decided to use a counterweight catapult to break into the city. Although it took some time to assemble this thing, once it was installed, it could use materials locally and continuously throw the large stones collected nearby to the city walls of Wanwen County.

The city wall was trembling constantly under the bombardment of huge rocks or bags of gravel packed with hemp rope net bags. The defenders on the city were even more frightened. They felt that the entire city wall would collapse in the next second.

This tormenting bombardment lasted for half an hour. With a loud bang, it collapsed halfway towards the wall ahead of Lang. The splattered sand and gravel hit his face, and immediately blood flowed.

After Xiang Lang rolled and crawled to another wall, he realized that Liang Jun was not using the crossbow they used, but the catapult. However, the catapult did not seem to be projected with manpower, but like the crossbow, which had some mechanism to accumulate power. After the machine was buckled, the loaded big stone or stone bag could fly out.

Xiang Lang thought, if this kind of bombardment continues, wouldn’t the city wall be destroyed in two or three hours? Once the city wall collapses, how can the more than 2,000 Linjiang soldiers and 2,000 civilians in the city be blocked?

Xiang Lang's original plan was to defend Wanwen City and wait for reinforcements from Linjiang Kingdom from the north. More than a month ago, Xiang Lang sent the news that Liang's army entered Xinggu and the request to obtain reinforcements to Jiangling Quick Horse. If calculated by time, the reinforcements should have arrived at this time.

Xiang Lang thought about it again, thinking that if he could only wait for death if he could continue like this, he might not even see the shadow of the aids outside the city, and the walls of Wanwen City would be collapsed by the opponent's giant catapult car.

The Liang army must be prevented from continuously bombarding the city wall, Xiang Lang thought to himself. However, the longest weapon in Wanwen City, the heavy crossbow, could barely reach the Liang army soldiers who operated the catapult, but it is hard to say the accuracy. Moreover, once the defenders used heavy crossbows to shoot, the Liang army would definitely use oar shields to cover their catapults. Xiang Lang thought of it and could only use one risky method to prevent the Liang army from delaying the bombardment of the city wall.

The stones were cracked and bricks were broken, and the dust filled Wanwen City suddenly fell down. It was said that it fell down instead of being put down because the suspension bridge really fell to the ground like a broken rope. At the same time, the city gate suddenly opened wide.

Xiang Lang gathered all the cavalry in the city to form a suicide squad. Leaded by Xiang Lang's most brave lieutenant, they rushed out of the city suddenly and directly rushed to the rows of Liang's chariots.

But as soon as they crossed the moat, arrows hit them, and the longbowman was shooting arrows...
Chapter completed!