On the seventh day of October, Guan Shuo, the commander of Changsha's righteous division, and his generals Huang Kang and Liu De attacked Kunyang on three sides again.

Unlike the previous ones, this time there were a few more behemoths in their army, which aroused the suspicion of the guards in Kunyang.

"What's that?"

On the south gate tower, Liu Tuyao pointed to the behemoths in the rebel ranks outside the city, and asked others curiously.

At this moment, most of the people around him didn't recognize him, but Chen Mo, Sun Xiu, and Ju Sheng changed their faces.

Just when Chen Mo was still squinting his eyes and wondering if it was the siege machine he knew, and when Ju Sheng looked around privately if anyone could recognize it, Sun Xiu had already said the name of the siege machine with an ugly face: "Ladder car ......"

He walked up to Zhao Yu in a few steps, and clenched his fists with anxiety to tell the matter: "Leader Zhou, this thing is called 'Cloud Ladder Car', it has been a sharp weapon for attacking the city since ancient times, and I should try my best to destroy it, otherwise I Kunyang will not be able to protect ......"

“……”

Zhao Yu pressed his hand and signaled Sun Xiu to be restless.

Of course, he also knew the siege weapon of the 'ladder car', and even knew the improvement process of this siege weapon.

In fact, the ladder car, and the building car in Guan Shuokou, and even the well car, are actually similar siege equipment, and the structure is roughly a square wooden house with a few wheels for movement, with a shield in front and a ladder above, and a grappling hook on the ladder, which is specially used to hook the city wall.

The predecessor of these three siege equipment, the 'hook reinforcement', which is said to have appeared as early as the Xia and Zhou dynasties, was specially used to deal with the towering city walls and assist the city's soldiers to climb the city walls.

When it came to the Warring States Period, the famous craftsmen of the Lu State lost the class, and this thing was improved and renamed 'Louche'.

The ladder car and the well car are actually an improved version of the 'building car', or an enhanced version - the ladder car is a 'climbing and strengthening' version, which is equipped with a stronger and larger ladder that can deal with those city walls that are four or five zhang high, or even six or seven zhang high; The Shaft Cart is a 'Shot Plus' version, which takes into account the ladder that allows foot soldiers to climb over the city wall, and strengthens the observation deck on the original building car, so that it can stand as a crossbowman, so that the besieging party can suppress the city wall with crossbow arrows, which is equivalent to a movable arrow tower.

And the building car built by the rebels outside the city today is actually a climbing and enhanced version of the building car, that is, the ladder car that Sun Xiu said.

What's so amazing about this ladder truck?

Take Kunyang's city wall, which is only more than two zhang high, as an analogy, as long as the rebels' ladder truck approaches, put down the ladder board on the ladder car and hook the city wall, then the city wall of Kunyang, which is more than two zhang high, is equivalent to becoming a two-zhang high dirt slope, and the rebel soldiers can follow the ladder board on the ladder car and directly rush to the city wall as long as one charge, without having to climb the ladder as hard as before, which greatly strengthens the strength of the rebels to storm the city wall.

In this way, it is no wonder that Sun Xiu looks anxious.

After all, as a partial general of the Nanyang Army, Sun Xiu knew very well how much of a threat the siege equipment had to the defenders.

At this time, Ju Sheng saw that Zhao Yu didn't say a word, and also came to Zhao Yu's side, and hugged his fists to support Sun Xiu's point of view: "What General Sun said is extremely true, this thing is a great threat to my Kunyang, so we should collect the things that cause fire as soon as possible, and destroy them all when the rebels attack the city." ”

Setting fire to it is indeed one of the best solutions to deal with all siege equipment, but the problem is that Kunyang, which has held on to this day, has almost no oil.

Of course, there is no oil, you can refine the oil, and there are still some pigs and sheep in the city, after killing, take their fat and put it in the pot, you can also fry the oil, and this fried oil can barely be used for burning, although there will be a lot of black smoke when burning.

"Let's do it."

Under the persuasion of Sun Xiu, Ju Sheng and others, Zhao Yu ordered: "Send someone to inform Li Xiancheng that the city wall is short of oil, and ask him to immediately start refining the oil and let the brothers of the Brotherhood transport it to the city wall......"

Although the order was issued, Zhao Yu himself was not optimistic about this fire attack strategy.

First, the opposite side is not a fool, and it will definitely defend against fire attacks; second, to use animal fat to refine oil, which itself is a way to do it; And the most critical third point is that since the rebels outside the city have mastered the construction of ladders, even if these ladder trucks are burned, they can still build more ladder vehicles.

Is there a way to 'cure the root cause'?

Yes!

That is to move the battlefield to a place where the ladder cart cannot be used, or the ladder cart is not that harmful.

For example, street fighting!

『…… Let's keep watch and see if we can get through.'"

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhao Yu gave up the idea of street fighting for the time being, after all, that move was more risky, and it could only be said that it was the last way to fight.

"Send someone to the east and west walls to see if there are any such ladder carts outside the city on those sides."

"Yes!"

Under Zhao Yu's order, Liu Tu immediately sent people to the east and west city walls to inquire, and after a while, there was a result.

"Great Leader, there are two ladder carts outside the east city wall."

"Great Leader, there are also two ladder carts outside the west city wall."

Looking at the six ladder cars outside the southern city wall, Zhao Yu frowned thoughtfully.

Suddenly, he spoke: "Send someone to inform Li Xiancheng again, and after the oil is refined, order him to give priority to the east and west city walls, and ensure that the east and west city walls must destroy the wells and ......carts outside the city."

Liu Tu was stunned when he heard this, and asked puzzledly: "Great leader, there are only two ladder trucks on the east and west sides, but here, there are six ......."

"I know." Zhao Yu said irrefutably: "That's it." …… In addition, send someone to call Chen Cai over, and I will wait for him in the city gate tower. ”

As he was talking, suddenly the rebels outside the city sounded the horn of "Woo Woo", which meant that the rebels were about to attack the city. Nine-zero look

Glancing at Zhao Yu, who had already walked towards the city gate, Chen Mo stroked his palm and said, "Okay, you should concentrate on guarding the city, and the rest of the affairs are considered by the big leader." ”

As he spoke, he made a gesture of invitation to Sun Xiu, after all, Sun Xiu was the guard on this side of the southern city wall.

Nodding kindly towards Chen Mo, Sun Xiu made a serious deployment: "In this way, please ask Commander Chen to be in charge of the eastern section of the city wall, Liu Tu, you are in charge of the western section, and as for the Ju Ying Shuai......"

He glanced at Ju Sheng, a few hints of suspicion flashed in his eyes, obviously he was still a little wary of Ju Sheng.

Fortunately, Chen Mo took the round for Ju Sheng: "Ju Yingshuai, it's better to go with Liu Tu, this guy is brave and unscrupulous, I'm afraid that he will kill and ignore other ...... How is Ju Ying's handsomeness? ”

"The last will obey."

Ju Sheng glanced at Chen Mo gratefully.

By the time everyone had arrived at their respective defensive areas, the rebels outside the city had already pushed the six well carts into the firing range of the southern city wall.

Seeing this, Sun Xiu unceremoniously ordered: "Release the arrow!" ”

With his order, on the dozen or so arrow towers on the inner side of the southern city wall, a black tiger thief crossbowman with a black scarf on his head began to shoot outside the city.

These are all the soldiers of the Black Tiger Village Brigade Battalion, that is, the 'first battalion' soldiers under Chen Mo and Wang Qing, who are basically drawn from the Brotherhood militia.

During this period, the Black Tiger Thieves also had rounds of army expansion, and similar to the process of increasing the number of county troops, the Black Tiger Thieves no longer directly selected from the civilians in the city, but directly from the Brotherhood militia, in other words, the Brotherhood militia was equivalent to the Black Tiger Thieves and the reserve of the county army, and was part-time responsible for the selection and training of new soldiers.

As for joining the Black Tiger Thief or joining the county army, in fact, the people of Kunyang today don't have much idea, after all, the Black Tiger Thief and the county army are the two main forces defending Kunyang.

The only difference is that the county army is in a sense Kunyang's 'regular army', while the black tiger thief still bears the notoriety of 'thief' and has not yet been accepted by Yingchuan County, but the problem is that the black tiger thief ...... He's handsome!

Those young people who admired the style of the Black Tiger Thief, and even admired Zhou Hu himself, knew the notoriety of the Black Tiger Thief in the past, but they still joined the Black Tiger Thief without hesitation and wore a black turban that was very 'handsome' in their opinion.

"Whoosh-"

"Whoosh-"

Kunyang's arrows desperately vented on the heads of the rebels outside the city as if they didn't want money, although they may not be able to shoot many people, but they still brought great psychological pressure to the rebels outside the city.

Of course, the crossbowmen of the rebels outside the city also launched a counterattack, and the neat crossbowmen phalanx launched a salvo at the Kunyang city wall with several times or even several times the strength.

"Watch out for arrow strikes!"

"Watch out for arrow strikes!"

On the western section of the southern city wall, Liu Tu reminded the black tiger thieves on the city wall with a serious face, but he was ridiculed by the latter.

"Benme, we're not new pawns, don't we know how to dodge the arrows?"

"Haha."

Yes, at the moment, on the southern city wall, they are basically brigade wolves of the brigade camp.

The brigade wolf is a special branch of the brigade battalion, which is neither subordinate to the first battalion of Chen Mo and Wang Qing, nor is it subordinate to Ju Sheng's second battalion, they are only temporarily under the command of the first battalion.

These people are the old men of the Black Tiger Village, among them, such as Xu Bai, Wang Ping, etc., are Liu Tu's old subordinates, so that even when the rebels outside the city have launched an offensive, these people still have the leisure to laugh with Liu Tu.

"Shut up!"

Liu Tu scolded with a straight face: "Whoever says any more nonsense, all the merits will be deducted!" ”

As soon as they heard that they were going to deduct their merits, the brigade wolves finally quieted down, muttered quietly one by one, and calmly covered their bodies with shields, so that the shooting of the rebel crossbowmen outside the city had little effect.

Even the new pawns who were newly transferred into it knew what to do and what not to do in this atmosphere, and there were almost no casualties.

"Bang!"

While the Black Tiger Thief Crossbowmen and the rebel crossbowmen outside the city were still firing at each other, the first huge ladder cart approached the city wall, and under the operation of the rebel soldiers, the ladder board on the cart smashed into the wall battlements with a bang, and grabbed the city wall with a built-in grappling hook.

"Attack!"

A rebel general jumped on the ladder cart first, pointing his weapon at the city wall ahead.

Under his order, the rebel soldiers, who had already braved the rain of arrows from both sides and rushed to the city wall, immediately boarded the ladder cart in a steady stream, and shouted along the ladder board, which was about four or five people wide, and launched a shout towards the city wall.

Seeing this, even the brave and resourceless Liu Tu immediately realized that today would be the most difficult battle since they defended the city, so he pulled out the sword at his waist and rushed forward first.

"Kill ——!"

For a while, in the area where the ladder board hooked the city wall, the brigade wolves fought with the rebel soldiers who rushed up the city wall.

The roars, roars, screams, and the sound of the jingo from the violent collision of the weapons were deafening.

Thanks to the rebels' ladder trucks, the battle was heated from the start.