Dozens of giant trebuchets lined up in a row threw dozens of pounds of large stones at the head of the city, and the outer wall of Zhuojun wrapped in stones was scarred under the blow of the boulder, and with every blow, the entire city wall seemed to be shaking.

Under the city, the 3,000 foot soldiers led by Li Bo held shields, carried ladders, hit trees, and rushed to the city in front of them again with a shout.

Behind them, a group of crossbowmen under Chen Changfu's department, who was in charge of covering, surged up, and when they were more than a hundred steps away from the city, accompanied by a golden drum, they collectively sat down, the crossbow machine was raised, and with a muffled buzz, thousands of crossbow arrows rushed towards the city like a dark cloud.

"Crossbow!" Chen Changfu stood in the middle of the line, beating the drum vigorously and roaring.

The soldiers hung down the crossbow machine, took out the crossbow arrows from the arrow box, put them on the crossbow machine, stretched out one foot, kicked hard, turned to the side with the help of waist force, and with a click, the crossbow arrow was wound again.

This kind of crossbow arrow that needs to be wound with leg power and waist strength is much stronger than the average bow and arrow, and the bow and arrow are not very destructive to the armor, but this kind of crossbow arrow can easily break through the iron armor.

From time to time, people from the top of the city screamed and fell to the ground, or fell from the city. But when the crossbow bolts below were wound up for a while, after the battlements, rows of archers suddenly stood up, condescendingly shooting at the crossbowmen who were more than a hundred paces away.

Chen Changfu faced the rain of arrows but did not move, at most he just lowered his head, raised his arms, and blocked his face, and the other feather arrows shot on his armor, making a clanging sound, some slid weakly to the ground, and some were embedded in the gaps of the nail leaves, and in a short moment, several arrows were inserted in his body, which looked extremely scary.

For this kind of bow and arrow attack, Wuwei soldiers don't care too much, even ordinary soldiers, are wearing iron helmets, wearing plate armor, since Wu Wei began to use water to drive the stamping machine to make plate armor, this kind of look is two thin iron plates are punched holes, like a vest on the body and then tightened with a rope of simple armor, but it is very popular with soldiers.

In the past, the armor was extremely expensive and costly, and the cost was also high, like the kind of heavy armor worn by the Mo swordsmen, in the later generations, it was probably a tank.

This is also the reason why there are not many armorers under the command of each section town. If you want to build a completely ironclad army, the cost of which ordinary people simply can't afford.

Li Ze couldn't afford it before, until he was able to easily make this kind of plate armor in large quantities.

It looks ugly, but it's practical. The two extremely thin iron plates that were stamped together weighed no more than ten catties, and they were inlaid with leather or cotton and linen inside, and tied tightly, without affecting the running and fighting of the soldiers at all.

This kind of armor is nicknamed tortoise shell in Wuwei, because it only protects the chest, abdomen and back and other vital places, but the limbs are stretched out but it does not matter, if people lie on the ground and open their limbs, it does look like a turtle.

Of course, the armor on Chen Anfu's body is not plate armor, but the generals' own customized full-body armor, and this kind of bow and arrow does not pose a threat to their lord at all.

But under the rain of arrows, there are still many soldiers injured, legs, feet, and even unlucky people who are hit in the face, and those who are shot in the face are basically confessed, and the rest can only be regarded as minor injuries as long as they do not hurt the bones, but as long as they can still put arrows on the crossbow, the soldiers will not retreat.

What reassured them was that behind them, there were groups of auxiliaries dressed in white with a big red cross printed on their chests busy, and there was a field hospital in Shi Zhuang's department. These people are specially selected people, who search for wounded people on the battlefield who can no longer fight, and then carry them to field hospitals for treatment.

This small change has raised the combat effectiveness of Wuwei's soldiers by more than one notch. During the truce, whenever they saw the red crosses fluttering outside the rows of large tents, the soldiers of Wuwei felt inexplicably relieved.

The two sides fired at each other, and soon the city had the upper hand.

The rain of arrows at the head of the city became more and more sparse.

The speed of the soldiers approaching the walls became faster and faster.

With a clanging sound, a series of ladders leaned against the city wall, and the barbs at the top of the ladders were hooked to the city wall, and a soldier climbed up the ladder.

The soldier carrying the striking wood let out a shout, and the striking wood with an iron cone in front of the thick mouth of the bowl rumbled against the city gate, and the city gate made a muffled sound, and the dust fell in a flurry of shaking.

The defenders could no longer dodge the bows and arrows from below, and risked the thousands of crossbow arrows that would fly in every few breaths, and they leaned out without hesitation, bending their bows and pulling arrows, but the target was the Wuwei soldiers who were climbing the city.

Stones fell.

Buckets of boiling water filled with manure juice were poured down.

One by one, the logs rolled down the ladder.

The soldiers who climbed the city fell down like dumplings, and the defenders above the city were also shot down by crossbow arrows and stoneballs in rows. The worst thing was that Lu Longbing, who had just stood up with a bucket of dung juice, was shot by a crossbow arrow as soon as he stood up, and the boiling dung juice fell and poured on his own body, and on the body of his companions, the person who was drenched immediately screamed and rolled around.

From time to time, Wuwei soldiers climbed the city wall sporadically, but they attacked the city wall on a small scale, but they could not pose any threat, and soon these warriors were knocked down the city wall.

The drums did not stop, the follow-up troops were still pressing, Li Bo carried a horizontal knife, walked at the forefront of the line, to his left and right, more than a dozen strong crossbow machines were carried by the soldiers, and behind these crossbow machines, some soldiers carried a roll of hemp rope like something close behind.

The drums don't stop, and the attacks don't stop.

Although the casualties on the front line were extremely heavy, the soldiers were still sacrificing their lives to storm the city walls and gates. In the cave of the city gate, the thick city gate has begun to gradually deform, and the cracks are getting bigger and bigger, and from these cracks, you can even see the Lu Long soldiers inside, who are using pillars one by one, trying to stand against the city gate.

Retreated, stood firm, and then accelerated, and with a shout, dozens of soldiers threw their arms at the same time, and the iron ropes stretched straight in their hands, and the iron cone before hitting the wood slammed into it again.

From time to time, soldiers carrying the striking wood fell, but immediately, the nearest Wuwei soldier would drop his shield and horizontal sword to replenish it, repeating the previous operation again.

With a loud rumbling sound, the city gate finally shattered, and the soldiers carrying the striking wood rushed in with inertia, and in front of them, there was a Weng City, and above the Weng City, another gate appeared in front of their eyes.

After a short strangulation between the Wuwei soldiers who rushed in and the Lu Long soldiers in Weng City, they immediately ushered in the rain of arrows above Weng City.

In a short instant, the city was filled with corpses of both the enemy and the enemy. These Lu Longbing soldiers in Weng City were also abandoned.

When Lu Long's soldiers were about to attack the next city gate again, on top of Weng City, piles of lit firewood and grass were thrown down, and buckets of grease were dumped, and the flames in Weng City were instantly raging.

The Wuwei soldiers who besieged Weng Cheng could only retreat.

Li Bo stood still, at this time, he was already standing in front of Chen Changfu's crossbow array, one after another strong crossbows were quickly installed and fixed, and rolls of hemp rope were tied to the crossbow arrows one by one, until this time, these hemp rope bundles revealed their true faces, and they turned out to be rope nets about ten zhang wide and about ten zhang long. The front end of the rope net is about the rest of the zhang, densely packed with long or short iron hooks, eight-claw hooks.

"Shoot!" Li Bo roared.

Dozens of crossbow machines were launched at the same time, and an extremely spectacular scene suddenly appeared on the city of Zhuozhou, with crossbow arrows flying up with rope nets. The rope net spreads out in the air, almost obscuring the sky.

And as the rope net flew up, Li Bo also rushed forward, and the 1,000 most elite troops under his command also rushed forward with Li Bo.

The city wall of Zhuozhou is more than three zhang high, this is in the state city, it is already a rare tall city wall, although the city wall is rammed earth, but the outside is wrapped with a stone, the defense facilities are extremely perfect, this is also the reason why the Wuwei soldiers attacked for many days, and did not make progress.

These rope nets were made by Shi Zhuang two days ago.

In the sound of the seizure, the rope net was nailed to the top of the city, and the upper half was about two zhang more than two zhang almost the entire city head was netted, and even the lower part of Lu Longhou was covered under the net, but the lower part was hanging under the city. The soldiers under the city shouted, pounced, grabbed the end of the rope net, and pulled down hard, and the various hooks within the range above the city head immediately straightened, hooking everything they could hook, and the city screamed again and again, and some waved their knives and slashed, hoping to cut these hooks, or rope nets, but these hemp ropes were also mixed with some other things, extremely tough, and eagerly, it was cut continuously.

And the Wuwei soldiers were already climbing along the rope net, densely climbing towards the top of the city.

And this time, the damage they have received has been minimal.

When Li Ze was the first to climb the city wall, in front of him on his left, a Lu Long general was struggling to swing his knife to cut a piece of rope in front of him.

However, this is of no use, because the front of the net is densely packed with hooks.

"Kill!" Li Bo sneered, ran through the rope net in three steps and two steps, and slashed forward, while behind him, the Wuwei soldiers surged up.

In the distance, Shi Zhuang saw that the strange method worked, and he was overjoyed, raised his horse lance, and shouted: "The whole army attacks, the whole army presses, breaks the city, breaks the city!" ”

The final general attack of the Wuwei army was immediately launched, and under the command of Chen Changfu in front, the crossbowmen carried the crossbow in front, pulled out the horizontal knife at their waists, and followed Li Ze along the rope net to climb up.

When more than 2,000 Wuwei soldiers climbed to the top of the city, Zhuozhou City could actually be declared to have fallen.