"Dong!Dong!Dong!..."

With a series of dull sounds, black smoke rose from the muzzle, and the pungent smell made the people around them frown.

Not far away, the few local soldiers who had mocked Han Daocheng for the past had long disappeared, and there was only a pile of debris left in the wood building.

This small cannon is not very useful to face the real city wall, but it is accurate to use this simple city wall.

Han Daocheng rode on the horse, smelling the smell of gunpowder coming, and looked at the military camp not far away with ease.

The village usually has dozens of local soldiers. The situation has been tense these days and has increased its manpower. Now there are estimated to be more than 100 people. After receiving the news of the Song army, the soldiers in the village are mobilizing, and people are coming and going.

Suddenly, before the manpower was gathered, the village gate was knocked down.

The local soldiers in Jiadong in the village were stunned for a moment. Looking out from the collapsed gate, you could see the neatly lined up Song army brigades outside the village. The cavalry swords and guns were shining in the sunlight, which made people feel heartbroken.

"The village was broken, run away!"

Someone shouted, and it seemed like a spoonful of water was poured into a hot oil pan. The village suddenly exploded, and the Jiaozhi soldiers gathered in the city ran out of the village like headless flies.

Cao Yang stretched his head and looked at the Jiadong earth soldiers running wildly in the village in front, and asked Han Daocheng beside him: "Command, the Jiaozhi soldiers are in chaos. Should we go up and chase them?"

"Wait a minute, let them all run out of the village. These two-legged birds can't run away from our four-legged horses. Are you afraid that you can't catch up?"

Han Daocheng's expression was very relaxed, as if he was watching the scenery.

The cavalry under his command are best at chasing from behind. How could he enter the village now and face the local soldiers of the Jiadong who are fighting trapped beasts? When they escape from the village, they can do whatever they want.

Xu Ping also felt tired, and when he arrived at the accommodation he arranged for him, he ate something casually and went to bed to rest. When he woke up, night had already fallen.

After dinner, Xu Ping turned to the living room and saw that there was already a sand table with nearby terrain on the table, so he stood by the table and observed carefully.

Liangzhou City in Jiadong is less than five miles away from the valley entrance of Shenglong Mansion, and is slightly tilted to the left. It is not directly opposite the valley entrance. The valley entrance is quite wide, and the mountains on both sides are not high, but they are all stone mountains, with steepness in the north and gentle in the south.

With the current strength comparison between the two sides, it is not difficult to break Liangzhou City. What Xu Ping has to consider is how to face the reinforcements from Jiaozhi after breaking the city.

Zhang Rong hurried in from outside, saluted Xu Ping with his hands, and said, "Officials, the equipment for siege has been shipped. When will the siege be siege be attacked?"

"Tonight, let the commanders of the siege eat early and rest early. Get up early tomorrow and siege the city as soon as the day goes by! Also, what you should prepare is ready tonight!"

Zhang Rongying promised.

Xu Ping smiled and said, "We rural soldiers have been in the sugar sugar business for the past few years. Although they have become unfamiliar with the battle, they have learned the ability to get up early and go to bed late. When doing farm work, they always leave before dawn. Now when fighting, they have to choose the morning time. Others are still sleepy, and our people are already full of energy."

The busy officials around him heard this and laughed. The farming seasonality is strong. When I get busy, I really get up early and go to bed late. It is much more nervous than when I am in the army. Of course, it is much more comfortable during the slack season.

After Xu Ping finished speaking, he looked down at the sand table on the table and sighed in his heart. Tomorrow will be a real bloody battle. Although he has been fighting all the way from Ruhe County in recent years, he has no real opponents, and victory does not depend on bloodshed. Fighting Liangzhou will be completely different from other wars, because he still wants to use the complete Liangzhou City to resist the troops coming from Jiaozhi, so he had to fight with his flesh and blood.

In the Jiadong Yamen, the official hall has been changed to the Central Army tent. Jia Jirong has been sitting in the position of the commander for a whole day, and even if he eats, he will be sent in.

In the basin, Zhoucheng was the highest point. Jia Jirong also knew that in just one day, the outer rejection points had been swept away, and the Song army would inevitably start to attack the city.

Unlike Xu Ping's thought, Jia Jirong knew what his local soldiers looked like and never thought of fighting with the Song army. His only hope was to use the city of the state to entangle with the Song army. As long as it was delayed for a long time, either the Song army could not bear the losses and retreat, or wait for the reinforcements from Jiaozhi, or God helped him, and the rainy season would arrive early. If these things could not be waited, then it would be fate.

Listening to the military information reported by his subordinates, Jia Jirong's face was gloomy and said to his confidant guarding him: "Tell me my military order. The soldiers guarding the city take turns at night. There must be two hundred people guarding each side of the city wall! Who dares to delay the military plane and kill immediately!"

The confidant whispered: "Yanei, there are no Song troops in the south of the city."

"Hmph, so what? Surrounding three que 1, have I seen the military tactics of the Han people? They have always siege like this! There is no Song army outside the city, and the defenders on the city wall must not be missing! Tell them that anyone who dares to escape from the southern city gate will be killed!"

Seeing Jia Jirong's murderous look, his confidant dared not speak anymore.

Jia Jirong said again: "Also, the leaders who went to the patrol will strengthen their manpower in the past few days. As long as they delude the morale of the army and incite the escape, no matter who they are, they will take action first and then report!"

The confidant replied to his promise and left in fear.

The winter night comes early and goes late, and there is no moon at the end of the moon. Even the stars in the sky are blocked by thin clouds that are scraped from somewhere.

The Liangzhou Basin south of Qiongqi River is terriblely quiet in the dark night, and even the sound of chickens and dogs cannot be heard, as if it suddenly became a dead place.

Charcoal fires started to drive away the ubiquitous cold.

Jia Jirong sat in the official hall and fell asleep at some point. At this time, he couldn't be at peace even in his sleep. The moment before was the pleasant time before, with gorgeous clothes and delicious food, leaning against the red and green, suddenly it became a nightmare, with the sound of killing shook the sky, and the sea of ​​corpses and blood.

It has been passed down for hundreds of years and generations. The Jia family has achieved its current status after working hard. Did it suddenly disappear in his own hands? Jia Jirong, who was asleep, only felt that he was in the sea of ​​suffering and never had time to turn over again.

"Yanei, the Song army has captured the city!"

Jia Jirong woke up from his sleep, looked blankly at the soldiers rushing in from outside, with panic-looking reports, and murmured: "The Song army has captured the city? Where did the Song army come from?"

The cool morning breeze blew from outside the door and rushed to Jia Jirong's face.

"The Song army has captured the city? Hurry up, take me to see!"

After a sudden shock, Jia Jirong woke up and strode around the case, almost kicked the charcoal basin, and raised his hand and grabbed the arm of the report soldier.

The sunlight just emerged from the darkness, and there was only a touch of blue and white in the sky, and the world was still hazy.

Jia Jirong climbed to the north city tower and saw a huge outline suddenly coming out of the north at a glance. He couldn't see clearly in the dim light, and he could only see that he was as tall as a city, moving slowly towards him.

"What is that?! The Song army built a city overnight?"

Jia Jirong asked the guard beside him with a hoarse voice.

"We don't know, the monster is outside the city as soon as it dawns-"

The guard looked embarrassed, and while speaking, he looked carefully at Jia Jirong's face.

The guardian of the city must leave the city to harass him at night. If the city gate is closed and guarded, this is the result. As soon as the sky is dawn, you don’t know what will happen outside the city, and you don’t even have time to react.

With a gloomy face, Jia Jirong watched the monster outside approaching gradually.

It was getting closer and the sky was getting brighter. Only then did Jia Jirong see the monster outside clearly. In fact, it was not a monster, it was just a shelf built with a bamboo pole. However, this shelf was too big, with the top being basically flush with the city wall, wider than the city wall, but it was hard to see clearly on the other side of the shelf.

There should be wheels under this frame, and the Song army must be pushing it to the city wall.

Jia Jirong looked at the bamboo frame getting closer and closer to the city wall and couldn't help but frown.

What the hell is Xu Ping doing? Others use cloud ladders to attack cities, but he made such a big bamboo rack. It seems that a bamboo rack can make hundreds of cloud ladders. What do you want to do?

Use this shelf instead of cloud ladder? What is this person thinking in his mind!

Xu Ping did want to use this frame instead of cloud ladders, and the one who bullied Jiadong was afraid to leave the city. In theory, this was not an ingenious invention. The basic principle was similar to the commonly used siege equipment, the well railings. However, Xu Ping did not use it as a mobile long-range shooting platform, but directly connected the city wall out from the other side to climb the city.

This rack is not done casually. Xu Ping built it according to the scaffolding in his previous life. The scaffolding looks simple, but to be safe and practical, you also need to have mechanical knowledge and some design tips. The truly practical mobile rack Xu Ping has only been promoted for decades in his previous life, and this era is still very advanced.

"Oil! Fire! Set a pan to cook oil!"

Jia Jirong looked at the behemoth getting closer and closer and ordered at the top of his lungs.

There are many mature city-guarding equipment for dealing with cloud ladders, such as poles and special twigs. Of course, the most direct way is to pour hot oil into the cloud ladders. When dealing with the well railing, it has always been emphasized to take the initiative to attack and destroy.

Faced with the monster that was fitted with the well railing and the cloud ladder, Jia Jirong was in a hurry.

Unlike the cloud ladder, the Song army did not climb up from this shelf. Is it useful to pour oil? Jia Jirong didn't know.

Zhujia is most afraid of fire, but how could Song Jun not expect that? Jia Jirong was also unsure.

On the hill two miles away from Zhoucheng, Xu Ping looked at the huge bamboo rack slowly approaching Zhoucheng not far away, and was also uneasy.

The most deficient thing for sugar is money, and the most deficient is people. Xu Ping will never use his life to fill in the places where he can use money. This huge siege is the product of Xu Ping's idea.

This shelf looks inconspicuous, but there are thousands of parts. It took a lot of manpower and material resources when it was built. The money spent was really amazing when transporting it from Taiping County to here.

But as long as the casualties of subordinate soldiers can be reduced, in Xu Ping's opinion, everything is worth it. Money can be easily earned after spending sugar services. As long as people are kept, the money will flow to sugar services like water.

As for burning oil?

The front part is covered with lead, which cannot be burned for the moment, but it is burned, and there is an isolation layer in the middle. As long as the speed of propulsion behind is greater than the speed of burning, it will not delay the attack.

It would be even more useless to pour oil. The soldiers who siege the city ran up directly from the other side.

Let’s see how Jiadong faces this monster.

Xu Ping looked at the rising sun in the sky, and exhaled to calm his mind.
Chapter completed!