As soon as Niu Lu Ezhen said that, someone pushed over a vehicle full of chisels, hammers and other tools. Niu Mantun was relieved when he heard that Niu Lu was the task of digging the city.

Niu Mantun had studied with Gan Deleng, and he hadn't broken off contact in the past few years, so he knew that if he was assigned to the team of climbing the city at the beginning of the siege war, it would be miserable! That's a high mortality rate! I'm afraid that I won't be able to escape death! But if it's a city, it's much easier.

Because the people in charge of digging the city have archers to cover them, and the people who climb the city attract firepower for them, the chances of survival are much greater. So Niu Mantun also put a hammer in his waist, and then beckoned everyone to hide behind the cart and wait to charge. However, Niu Mantun had many eyes, relying on his fast hands and feet, and grabbed a cart in the center to the right to hide.

As the drums sounded, the first to go out was the cart, followed by the hook ladder. The gun carriage and the arrow tower followed. Finally, there are a large number of archers. Xiao Xiucai and another Aha are also in the ranks of the carts. Both men also had hammers and chisels stuck in their waists.

It seems that the Houjin side also understands that a fortified city like Ningyuan is difficult to overcome, and the Houjin army itself is not good at attacking cities. So they directly focused their siege on digging the city.

In ancient times, the city walls were made of two bread bricks, with rammed earth in the middle. It is much easier to knock down or break the bricks to reveal the rammed earth, and then dig holes in the rammed earth. With enough time, it's easy to dig a hole in the wall. Then you can dig holes in the walls directly into the city, or dig down this section of the wall.

But the difficulty is how to break the bricks of the city wall! Those bricks are finely crafted and very solid when they are fired. The brick joints are blended with glutinous rice milk, egg whites and other things, which are extraordinarily strong. Even now, there are many remnants of the city walls in China, which are still indestructible after thousands of years of wind and rain, which shows how strong they are!

What's more, the soldiers guarding the walls are not wooden people, and they will do everything to prevent the enemy from approaching the walls. And the soldiers who carve the city are the most dangerous after they get close to the city walls! Because they had to stay where they were in order to dig the city, they were the best targets. Whether it's a firebolt bow, a rolling wood thunderstone, or even a golden ash bottle, you can find them accurately!

So at this time, the soldiers who dug the city were required to move quickly! Find a breakthrough in the city wall as soon as possible, and break the bricks of the city wall with points and faces. Then dig a hole in the rammed earth of the city wall and hide yourself in the hole. At this time, it is barely safe. But in the process, there will definitely be a large number of casualties!

The cart kept pushing forward, and after Niu Mantun stretched out his head to look at the distance, he said to the Ahabs who were pushing the cart: "You don't have to be anxious, and you don't have to be afraid!" It's still far from the city walls! Steady cart, don't push too hard. Finally, there's a time for you to exert yourself! ”

When the cart Ahabs heard Niu Mantun say this, and saw that his face was calm, they couldn't help but feel a lot calmer. The cart was also pushed smoothly by them. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Niu Mantun explained his thoughts to his companions behind the squatting car, and said: "When the city is shelled in a while, it will be better to see if our lives are good!" If you don't get hit by a cannon, let's not say anything! If we don't get hit, when we get close to the city, everyone remember, we must turn the car over and put it on top of our heads! Otherwise, few people will survive under the random arrows! Do you understand everything? ”

The soldiers of the Han Army Banner behind the cart saw that what Niu Mantun said made sense, and they all nodded in agreement. After all, life is one's own, there are smart people to guide you, and those who don't listen are fools!

Niu Mantun continued: "There is one more thing. Even when I shouted hard for a while, we who copied the guys also had to help push the cart, so that we could run into the dead end of the artillery early! Anyway, we don't need to attack the city today, so don't spare your strength! ”

Everyone also nodded their heads in agreement. Ahabs were originally shocked, but when they saw Niu Mantun commanding Ruoding, they felt a little relieved. In fact, Niu Mantun is also playing a drum in his heart! These things are all figured out by Niu Mantun on weekdays, but I didn't expect to really use them! That's the way it is, everything is foreseen, and everything is lost!

Slowly. The front line of the Houjin army was getting closer and closer to the city walls. Niu Mantun was about to poke his head out again to look at the distance, when suddenly he heard the drum and trumpet in the city! And then there was the sound of artillery!

Niu Mantun subconsciously shrunk his neck, bowed his waist, and raised his shield. But then he lowered his shield again. Because he knows that if a cannonball hits the cart, it doesn't matter how big a shield you raise! When the cannonball hits the cart, the broken wood and sawdust will sweep through everyone behind the cart, and not a few will survive! This is what Niu Mantun has seen and experienced before!

The last time he was able to come back alive behind the cart, on the one hand, it was because he was lucky that no artillery hit the cart he was in. On the other hand, because the caliber of the artillery used to bombard the truck at that time was relatively small, the damage caused to the car was limited.

Now Niu Mantun is facing heavy artillery on the city wall, not comparable to ordinary artillery that can be pushed! Once those few pounds of heavy shells smashed on the truck, the people behind them would never be lucky!

After the sound of artillery on the battlefield sounded, the front of the chariots was suddenly a little uneven. Some people subconsciously pause, while others accelerate forward. Niu Mantun's chariot stabilized under the shouting of his shield and kept moving forward at its original speed.

Niu Mantun had considered this situation in advance. He didn't dare to let the car accelerate. Once you push the cart with all your might, it will definitely attract the artillery of the city! You may be able to avoid it once or twice, but you can't get away with it forever. At the same time, Niu Mantun didn't dare to let the cart stop, it would be remembered by the people behind him, even if he got off the battlefield alive, he would be unlucky! Therefore, Niu Mantun wanted to stabilize himself and let the other fast-running cars attract the attention of the city head, so as to cover his advance.

The cart is heavy and laborious to push. And they still had a long way to go before they approached the walls, so they had to withstand the shelling of the city in the meantime. However, it seems that there are not many heavy artillery on the head of Ningyuan City, and the accuracy is very poor. So in the first period of time, not a single car was hit.

After withstanding several rounds of shelling, the artillery wagons of the Houjin army also began to counterattack the city. However, in terms of distance, it doesn't play a big role, at most, it is to give the people behind the car a strong courage. However, it caused panic on the city walls, and there was a slight pause in the firing of artillery.

Niu Mantun took the opportunity to stick his head out of the side of the cart and estimate the distance again. As soon as he retracted his head, Niu Mantun saw that a cart not far from his right had been hit by heavy artillery!

The heavy shells completely shattered the entire car! Broken logs and broken pieces of wood burst everywhere! Only seven or eight of the more than 30 people behind the car could stand, and some of the others fell to the ground and died! Some of them can still lie on the ground and wail! However, their chances of survival are low. Even if they survive now, I'm afraid there is a better chance that they will be torn off in the near future.

The car was destroyed, but it caused a chain reaction in the other cars. Everyone became more frightened, and even the speed of the car decreased! Feeling the speed of the chariot dropping, the soldiers of the Han Army Banner immediately reacted, and several people in the front row, including Niu Mantun, raised their knives one after another, and slammed the Aha in front with the back of the knife, urging them to speed up! This allowed the car to maintain its previous speed.

By this time, most of the vehicles had already entered the range of ordinary artillery. The sound of artillery on the top of the city is obviously much denser! However, fortunately, a few of the sudden carriages attracted the attention of the city's artillery, and Niu Mantun and they were safe for the time being.

After more than two hundred steps forward, Niu Mantun poked his head out and found that the city wall was already in sight. He retracted his head and shouted, "Cart! Cart! ”

Hearing Niu Mantun's roar, everyone, regardless of whether they were soldiers of the Han army flag or Ahha, pushed the cart desperately. The speed of the chariot suddenly increased, and it rushed towards the city wall.

Niu Mantun glanced behind him and shouted, "A little to the right!" A little to the right! We're a little further away from the hook ladder! ”

Niu Mantun didn't want to be crowded with hook ladders and cloud ladders. These siege machines are the key defense targets of the defenders, and will rain the most buckshot and bows on them! So if you stay away from them, you can have a better chance of surviving. Hearing Niu Mantun's roar, everyone understood what he meant, so the chariot turned a little to the right with everyone's efforts, and ran towards the city wall in a diagonal line.