Chapter 258: Lost Xiang City

Zhang Wushu saw that there was such a black and oppressive area under the city wall, and his heart was also extremely shocked: "I said, although this Sima Yunlong is like a god with soldiers, what does this action mean now? 200,000 troops gathered here, just to take Xiangcheng? You know, we have nearly fifteen cities in this Jiuyuan County, if he attacks a mere Xiangcheng and uses 200,000 troops, then what about the later cities?"

Seeing this, Wang Ba also sighed helplessly: "These so-called masters are probably like this. Now that the 200,000-strong army has arrived in the city, what should we do, Your Majesty? Do we have a choice? No, we only have normal defense. ”

Seeing this, Zhang Wuxian was also extremely impatient in his heart, and immediately waved his hand to Wang Ba, signaling Wang Ba to look at it, after all, Zhang Wuxian knew in his heart that if Sima Yulong had a little brain, it would be impossible to launch an army of 200,000 to attack such a tiny city. He knew in his heart that Sima Yulong probably already knew that his sister-in-law was in his hands, so he sent troops to explore the truth.

But when he saw this, Wang Ba swept down and exclaimed: "The army of 200,000 is lined up! It is so domineering!" After a pause, Wang Ba said aloud: "The three armies are here! The archers are in position quickly, and the crossbow archers are in place quickly! The ignition is in position! The rolling wood and stones are pushed up to the city, and the whole army is on alert!"

At this time, Jiang Nan, who was at the front of the 200,000 people, looked at the top of the city wall, and then said lightly to a soldier next to him: "Send the order to go down and arrange the siege vehicles vertically, with ten people pushing each siege vehicle and fifty escorting people." The person who pushed died, and the escort immediately took over. The soldier hurried away.

Subsequently, Jiang Nan heard the sound of running water one after another, and after listening to the sound, Zhang Wuxian hurriedly looked towards the ground, but saw that the water level had gradually lost the horse's hooves. It seems that Jiang Kun has successfully channeled the water from the moat. Seeing this, Jiang Nan saw that when the time came, he turned around and looked behind him, the siege vehicles had been lined up in a row, and there were siege people on both sides, making every effort to maintain the siege personnel in the middle.

Jiang Nan saw that the river had arrived, and when he said loudly: "The three armies have an order, and the whole army will attack the city!" Suddenly, the soldiers who brushed the brush raised the red tassel spear in their hands together: "Order! Order! Order!" Suddenly, the rumbling siege vehicles began to dispatch.

In this, it needs to be mentioned that the land outside the city is all land, so after the water of the moat is drained over, the land suddenly becomes thin muddy water. Sima Yunlong didn't expect that after the land turned into thin mud, it would hinder the speed of the siege vehicles. As a result, the siege engines became heavy.

At the same time, Wang Ba on the city wall saw the high morale of the enemy army, and immediately had a fighting spirit in his heart, and hurriedly shouted: "Archers prepare!" Suddenly, he saw that the archers had drawn their bows one after another. The torchbearer behind the archer then lit the bow with a torch. Then, Wang Ba shouted again: "Release!"

Suddenly, the fire of Qi Brush shot down, Wang Ba hurriedly lay on the edge of the city wall, looked down, and then the rocket continued to shoot downward, the fire would glow, so some bows and arrows that did not shoot people fell on the ground The moment they fell inside, they were extinguished, or some bows and arrows fell on the soldiers, and the soldiers rolled on the spot. Seeing this, Wang Ba frowned, and immediately shouted: "Quick, quick, push down the rolling log!" Immediately, the soldiers behind pushed up a clattering rolling log, and then put it on the edge of the city wall.

Wang Ba personally brought a torch and lit the rolling wood, when it was impossible to say that it fell directly, but when the rolling wood came down, he directly smashed the people on the ladder, but when the rolling wood fell to the ground, the huge fire suddenly disappeared. The log didn't roll down, but stayed where it was.

And just now, Wang Ba also saw the situation below clearly, but saw that at this time, there were all traces of water below. Like a small pool, Wang Ba was stunned when he saw this, and immediately ordered someone to invite Zhang Wuxian again. After Zhang Wushu came to the top of the city wall, he looked down and found that all the things with fire would suddenly extinguish when they fell to the ground, and he was immediately taken aback, and then as if he suddenly realized something, he frowned and said: "Sima Yulong, he is really smart, he has drained the water from the moat next to Xiangcheng nine times out of ten." ”

After a pause, Zhang Wuxian said: "Since the city wall can't be prevented, the ..... below" Before Zhang Wuxian finished speaking, suddenly there were clusters of arrows swishing in the distance. Seeing this, Zhang Wushu dodged one sideways, and when he looked back again, thousands of bows and arrows were already shooting towards this place at the same time.

Seeing this, Zhang Wuxian's heart suddenly became discouraged, if he let his archers ignore these attackers, but still deal with the endless cloud ladders, then the archers will be shot to death one after another. But if the archers defend themselves against the attack, the ladder will soon have an enemy army coming up. Such a dilemma is really difficult to choose.

Immediately, Zhang Wuxian looked at the piled up bows and arrows and the mountains of rolling logs, and suddenly paid attention to it in his mind, and hurriedly shouted: "The whole army has an order, withdraw quickly!" Suddenly, the archers on the city wall pushed down the ladder they were now on, and they all hurriedly descended from the east and west steps to the city wall.

After the people came down, Zhang Wushu immediately jumped to the top of the city wall, and directly faced the rolling wood like a mountain, but saw that the rolling wood was impartial and just smashed at the exit of the city wall, and then, Zhang Wuxian drew a torch and threw it directly. Suddenly, those rolling logs ignited a sky-high fire together. Seeing this, Zhang Wuxian hurriedly jumped to the place where the bow and arrows were located again, and directly hit these bows and arrows to another exit with a palm wind, and it was also a fire that ignited, because the number of bows and arrows was very large, so the size of the ignited fire was also comparable to that of rolling wood.

After finishing it, Zhang Wuxian jumped to the bottom of the city wall again. At the same time, those soldiers also came to the city wall through the ladder, but the soldiers came to the city wall, and saw that the two intersections had been sealed by fire, and they were helpless immediately, but there were still people coming up behind them.

Seeing this, Wang Ba laughed and said: "This Sima Yunlong has calculated everything, after all, he just counted the city wall, I didn't expect our majesty to be so smart, since you like the city wall, I simply gave the city wall to you." In this way, Jiang Kun's soldiers will be useless.

Zhang Wuxian glanced at Wang Ba helplessly: "Don't be poor, after the fire is extinguished in a while, it will be the same as just now, why don't you hurry up and catch turtles in the urn now?"

Wang Ba nodded, and then said aloud: "Trebuchet ready, ready!" Suddenly, one after another trebuchet was pushed from afar.

"Release!" Wang Ba ordered, and suddenly twenty trebuchets smashed towards the city wall at the same time. The soldiers did not slack off, and after the stone was thrown out, the soldiers behind hurriedly replenished the ammunition. At this time, looking at the city wall, there were only some melee fighters rushing up, and there was not a single long-range attacker like an archer. Therefore, they can only accept slaughter.

But he said that after just a few waves, the city wall was already full of flesh and mud, and Jiangnan found out about this problem, and immediately ordered to stop the cloud ladder on the city wall. But despite this, the enemy was still attribution of nearly 5,000 men. Wang Ba saw that although someone was stoned to death on the city wall, he still kept rushing to the front, and he just kept laughing.

At this time, Zhang Wuxian and the others were all standing under the city wall, but the corners of Zhang Wuxian's mouth had already shown a slight smile, "Bang!", Zhang Wuxian's quiet heart was broken, but it was the siege vehicle that had come to the city gate and hit the city gate.

Before everyone could react, the siege vehicle behind rushed up again, bang Looking at the city gate at this time, it was already crumbling. Since Jiangnan has these siege engines arranged vertically, it is not the kind of collision that needs to be pulled back for some distance and then collided. Instead, after the siege vehicle in front of it has been hit, it will turn left directly to leave the platoon to the rear, so that it will save a lot of time and reduce a lot of losses.

But this time, Jiang Nan never thought that Zhang Wuxian would give up the city gate. As a result, there were no guards on the city gate, so there was no one to block the siege vehicle attacking the city, and soon the gate of Xiangcheng was knocked open. At this time, after the Jiangnan cadres knocked open the city gate, they found that there was no one in the city at all, and as far as the eye could see, everyone had already run to Hangzhou behind Xiangcheng.

Immediately, Jiang Nan was angry and hateful, he never thought that this time his loss would be on top of Zhang Wuxian's loss, and he didn't put Zhang Wuxian in a dangerous situation at all, let alone see if Zhang Wuxian would take out his sister-in-law's trump card to beg for mercy.

Everything happened not as perfect as Jiangnan expected. How could Jiang Nan be convinced? Immediately ignoring the three-seven-twenty-one, he stubbornly led the army inside. However, it is said that Jiangnan led the army to occupy Xiangcheng first, and took Xiangcheng as his temporary foothold.

At the same time, Jiang Nan ordered someone to send a message to tell Sima Yulong about the situation here, and explained that the matter had suffered heavy losses. After the letter arrived in Sima Yulong's hand, he saw that the plan he had arranged had gone wrong, and he was angry and hateful in his heart, and even scolded Jiang Kun angrily: "You really acted according to my plan?"

Jiang Kun nodded innocently, paused and said: "This time, our army was defeated by giving Zhang Wushu a way back, even if he lost Xiangcheng, he could still retreat inside." After all, we can't keep fighting and force the new dynasty to the last city, and by that time we will have an estimated 400,000 troops left. ”

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