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Jiaozhi City, the last city of the scholar family has been surrounded by the Jiaozhou army for twenty days. In the nearly four years of competition for Jiaozhou, Liu Bei's army gradually moved from weak to strong, from being at the disadvantage to being the upper hand, and the sphere of influence was gradually advancing westward, and the army gradually increased from the initial more than 10,000 to more than 60,000.

Relatively speaking, Shi Xie's army was defeated repeatedly due to repeated battles, and the 70,000 people at its peak were weakened again and again, less than 10,000 soldiers, and the power was only one city left.

Zhuge Liang personally led an army of 50,000 to surround Jiaozhi City. Once the city was captured, Liu Bei would unify Jiaozhou.

On a hill outside the northern city, Zhuge Liang was looking at the largest city in Jiaozhou from afar. The hot sunshine in Jiaozhou made Zhuge Liang's skin very dark and several clusters of white hair grew on his head. However, he was very energetic and energetic.

He was wearing a white Taoist robe with pictures, wearing a lotus crown on his head, holding a feather fan in his hand, and looking at Jiaozhi City in the distance with a smile. He turned around and smiled at Chen Zhen, the army joined the army and said, "I have suggested that the lord move the capital to Jiaozhi several times. This Jiaozhi City is much larger than Fanyu City, with a population of more than 100,000, but the lord just refuses."

Chen Zhen pondered for a moment and said, "I guess the lord wanted to return north. From Fanyu, he could go directly to Lingling County or Guiyang County through the water. In comparison, Jiaozhi was far away from Jingnan."

"You're right, it's really easy to guess the lord's thoughts."

As he was speaking, a general rushed over, about sixteen or seventeen years old, Zhang Fei's eldest son Zhang Bao, he shouted loudly: "Report to the military advisor, the army is ready for attack and can launch an attack at any time."

Zhuge Liang nodded. In today's battle, they must take down Jiaozhi City. The victory or defeat will be here. He immediately ordered: "You can attack the city."

"Abide by the order"

Zhang Bao turned his horse's head and ran towards the army. Zhuge Liang looked at his back and sighed in his heart. He came to Jiaozhou back then, but he was just a child, and now he has grown into a general.

Guan Yu's second son, Guan Xing, is already sixteen years old, and there are talented people in the world. In a blink of an eye, the younger generation has grown up.

At this moment, the drums in the Jiaozhou army were loudly sounded, and the sound of drums shook the sky and the earth. After only two days of calm, Liu Bei's army once again launched a storm-like attack on Jiaozhi City. The main general Guan Yu invested 50,000 troops from the east, west and north directions, and launched a tide-like attack on Jiaozhi City.

The drums sounded like thunder, soldiers were like running tides, cloud ladders, nest chariots, and siege rams appeared one after another. On the top of the city, the captain's pole was thrown out, and huge rocks roared across the sky and smashed towards the dense soldiers. The dust was flying, blood mist was filled, and the soldiers' bones were broken, or they were smashed into meat pie...

But the huge rocks could not stop the overwhelming soldiers. The military advisor's promise seemed to echo in the soldiers' ears. Those who rushed into the city first had a reward of five taels, officials were awarded a tooth general, and killed an enemy soldier with a reward of five thousand yuan. Those who killed an officer had a reward of ten thousand yuan.

Under the heavy reward, Liu Bei's army was as crazy as crazy as they were. They were fearless and fought hard to attack Jiaozhi City...

On the top of the city, the eight thousand Shixie army fought to the death, and in the past twenty days, they repelled Liu Bei's army's attacks again and again. More than half of them were killed or injured, but they were still unable to completely defeat Liu Bei's army. The morale gradually became sluggish, the morale began to disintegrate, and the defeat was revealed.

The guard Xie shouted loudly at the top of the city, fearing that he had been guarding the city for twenty days, but he had no reinforcements anymore, and the city was about to be captured.

He knew very well that he had no other way except to die. Liu Bei would definitely get rid of the roots and would never let him go.

Looking at Liu Bei's army that was coming from the sky, he felt his legs weak, and he held a long sword in his hand and ran down the city. He happened to meet the Ershi Hui, who was also the main general of the city.

He led the soldiers to continue to mobilize the civilians to defend the city, but the results were very little. Ten thousand civilians he mobilized had died in battle. The civilians in the city were no longer willing to work for the scholars. He ran for two days before he conquered less than a thousand civilians, and half of them were forced to conquer.

This made Shi Hui worried. Now that Liu Bei's army has once again attacked the city, can he still defend it? More importantly, their food is almost exhausted and they can only stay for two more days at most. This is their huge secret. Once the enemy sees it through, they will be completely finished.

"Father, what's wrong with you?"

Shi Hui found that his father looked wrong and hurriedly stepped forward to support his father. Shi Xie waved his hand, "I feel so painful, I want to go back and take a rest."

Shi Hui immediately ordered two personal soldiers to say: "He guard and go back to rest."

He watched the soldiers walk away and run up to the city again. At this time, Liu Bei's army attacked like a tide. Shi Hui bit his lip tightly and ordered loudly: "The enemy has attacked again, prepare for the catapult and prepare for the thunderbolt chariot."

"Kill"

Liu Bei's soldiers were like a tide, and the battles between Dongcheng and Xicheng gradually stopped, and the offensive turned to the north city.

The North City was the focus of offense and defense. Zhuge Liang invested ten thousand troops in the North City, and Shi Hui also invested nearly 6,000 defenders in the North City. The city that lasted more than ten miles was full of soldiers. Arrows were like rain, and wooden rocks were smashed down. Ladders were overturned, and countless casualties were injured.

Zhuge Liang obviously learned from the lessons of the failure of the previous siege. The ladders were reduced to ten, but the nest cars increased to fifty, and the rumbling was pulled by the ox and slowly headed towards the top of the city...

But the defenders were also prepared. The Shijia organized craftsmen in the city to create 80 large thunderbolt chariots in 20 days. The principle was the same as the crossbow, but they were fired not arrows but stones. Each thunderbolt chariot could shoot ten kilograms of stones out and take a long way, and within fifty steps, it had great destructive power.

This thunderbolt car is far less lethal to personnel than the boulders thrown by the trencher, but it is the nemesis of large siege weapons.

The target was shot out in a straight line within fifty steps, the target was accurate, the stones roared out, flying like a meteor, drawing a low flat parabola. With a bang, several stones hit a nest car at the same time from several directions, and the bracket suddenly broke, and the nest car broke one after another and collapsed, and more than one soldier in the car suffered heavy casualties, crying and screaming.

The Thunderbolt chariots of the defenders on the city were exerted great power. Within an hour, twenty of the fifty nest chariots attacking the North City were destroyed, and Liu Bei's army suffered heavy losses, killing and injured nearly 5,000 people.

At this moment, a huge rumbling sound came from afar. Several defenders on the southern city looked into the distance in horror. They saw that a black behemoth slowly approaching the city wall. It was four feet tall and ten feet long, and it was an incredibly huge broken city hammer.

The hammer is a thousand-year-old giant wood with a body of eight zhang long and one zhang in diameter. It is covered with fine iron at the front end and is conical. The wooden frame that holds this broken hammer is even more huge. The wood used is thicker than a person's thigh. Dozens of iron chains long pendants the hammer body. The chassis below is equipped with eighteen giant wooden wheels that are one person tall.

This is a successfully siege ram that Zhuge Liang spent a year making. It was to wait for this moment. It was a secret weapon to be used to conquer Jiaozhi City. It had just arrived in Jiaozhi from the water this morning.

The entire siege ram weighs tens of thousands of pounds and is controlled by dozens of elephants and thousands of soldiers. This is Zhuge Liang's surprise. He concentrated his troops to attack the North City. At this time, the South City was empty, which was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attack the city.

The alarm bell rang at the south city, and a soldier rushed to report to the main general, Shi Hui was a little shocked. He sat down tiredly, and an unprecedented sense of despair poured into his heart.

Although there were no troops to be sent, Shi Hui still drew 1,000 people from the North City defenders to go to the South City to fight.

Jiaozhi City is more than twenty miles in circumference, and it will take as soon as a quarter of an hour for reinforcements from the North City to reach the South City. Liu Bei's army fought a time difference like this. By the time they arrived, it was too late.

The young general Guan Xing commanded the army to push the attack ram. The huge attack ram slowly advanced like a mountain, only fifty steps away from the city gate. Dozens of pulling elephants had been taken away, and Qian Liu Bei's army pushed it forward on both sides.

Several defenders on the top of the city were like rain, shooting on the siege ram, making a sound, but it was meaningless. Liu Bei's army on both sides was prepared, and several people raised huge shields to cover other soldiers to push the siege ram.

The target of the city ram is not the city gate. The structure of the border gate is different from that of the Central Plains. It is a single city wall. The widest part of the city wall is only two feet long, which is very thin. Therefore, the target of the city ram is the city wall, and its cone-shaped head hit also determines its huge power to break the city.

A thousand reinforcements were still running on the city, and the nearest reinforcements were still several miles away from the Nancheng, but the huge siege ram had reached the city and stopped, as if time had stopped at this moment. The soldiers on the city stopped shooting without effect, and smashing them with stones was useless. The soldiers stared blankly at the siege ram body slowly pulled backwards.

Two thousand Liu Bei soldiers pulled the iron chain under the leadership of Guan Xing. Huge drum sounded, and the thick hammer body, eight feet long, was getting taller and higher. Suddenly the drum sound stopped and the iron chain loosened.

The dark hammer body blew up with a strange sound of wind, rushed down, and violently hit the city wall with a shaking momentum...

There was a dull loud "dong" sound, and the sound spread throughout the city. Many people felt the soles of their feet tremble. Tens of thousands of kilograms of force were instantly transmitted to the city wall. The southern city wall shook violently, and more than a thousand defenders on it were unstable and fell one after another.

The outer shell of the city wall was shattered, and the body of a thousand kilograms of hammer and a potential energy of several feet high. With the fierce rushing, a shock of tens of thousands of kilograms was formed, all concentrated on dozens of wall bricks. They could not withstand this force that shook the sky, and were hit into the city's belly, and a black hole that was five feet wide appeared.

Another shout, the body of the 10,000 jin hammer was creaking and raised. Two thousand soldiers suddenly let go, and the earth-shaking impact hit the city wall again. With a rumbling sound, the city bricks collapsed, and the mud and sand inside poured out, instantly flooding the chassis of the siege hammer, revealing a large hole several feet long and wide.

The section chosen by Liu Bei's army was the narrowest part of the city wall, and the city was only one meter wide. When the attacking ram was pulled up again, the soldiers on the city felt a sense of fear of death. They threw down their weapons and ran down the city. Even the soldiers who came to support fled. The situation was hopeless and no one was willing to work for them anymore.

"boom"

Another violent impact, but this impact was no longer dull, but a sound of breaking the city that penetrated thousands of pounds. Thousands of wall bricks on the city wall were broken and gravel splashed everywhere. The hammer head, like a giant dragon's head, had penetrated into the city. The wall bricks completely collapsed, and a gap of meter wide appeared in an instant.

The camp outside the south city suddenly shouted and killed the sky. The 20,000 elite Liu Bei troops rushed out from both sides of the east and west. A thousand cavalry were flying in front under the leadership of Zhang Bao. The 20,000 army rushed into Jiaozhi City like a rushing wave.

On the Feixiang Tower of the Shi Family Mansion in the city, Shi Xie threw the torch into the pile of wood in despair. The fire ignited, and it became more and more fierce. Finally, it swallowed up the entire building. The Shi Family finally ended their rule in Jiaozhou for more than ten years.

The capture of Jiaozhi City by Liu Bei's army also means that Liu Bei finally unified Jiaozhou, and Liu Bei began to enter the cultivation and rest. At this moment, news of Liu Jingjing and Sun Quan reaching a compromise came, and the four counties including Guiyang County, Hengyang County and Jingnan were about to belong to Jiangdong.
Chapter completed!