August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival, morning, the air is slightly cool! But there is no festive atmosphere inside and outside Shouyang City today, only bursts of depression and tension, and even the air is filled with the smell of gunpowder, because Xiao Yao is preparing to attack the city!

From July 23 to August 15, Wu Mingche organized no less than ten sieges of the city, and suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, but he was still unable to climb the city wall of the inner city! The current city wall is in tatters, and there are even more blood stains on it, which shows how cruel the previous siege battle was!

On Chen Jun's side, a group of soldiers were busy carrying wood, and the musket captain He Fu was directing the soldiers to build two wooden towers with a height of more than ten meters less than fifty meters from the city wall, which was several meters higher than the city wall!

At this time, at the head of the east gate of the inner city, Wang Gui, who was tired of stabbing history, looked at the busy Chen Jun and said suspiciously: "General Wang, it seems that the Chen army is preparing to attack the city again!" But what are they doing now? Was the wooden tower built so high intended to be used as a tool to climb the city? But the base of these two wooden towers has no wheels, so how will they push them to the edge of the city wall when the time comes? If they were to be used as arrow towers, they would be so far away from the city walls, what would be the effect of the bows and arrows they fired! ”

Wang Lin also looked tired, his eyes were bloodshot, and defending the city for half a month almost made him ten years old and lost ten pounds, but his eyes were still deep and sharp, and he also revealed bursts of killing intent, staring at Chen Jun who was preparing to attack the city outside the city, and did not pay attention to Wang Guixian's question, but muttered to himself: "Wu Mingche, Wu Mingche!" In the past half a month, you have launched more than a dozen sieges, killed and wounded so many soldiers, and now you are ready to send your soldiers to death! You just want to avenge the defeat to me ten years ago, and now you are attacking the city at all costs, just to take Shouyang City and take my head as a shame, you are too selfish for people who are not sympathetic to your subordinates! But yes, from the fact that you have brought water into the city, and caused the defenders and the people in the city to suffer from dysentery and die of disease, you can see that you are the kind of person who will do whatever it takes to achieve the end! How can a person like you care about the lives of those soldiers! Hum! However, even if all the soldiers and civilians in Shouyang City are killed and sick in battle, we will still not surrender! ”

"The brave soldiers and civilians of Shouyang City! Chen Jun came to die again! No matter what tools they are doing to climb the city, they can't climb the sturdy Shouyang city wall! We don't have to be polite to them, just like before, kill them all under the city walls, and never let a single Chen army climb to the top of the city! All troops on alert! Kill! Wang Lin drew his sword and shouted at the defenders.

"Kill! Kill! Kill! The defenders on the city wall were inspired by Wang Lin and suddenly became murderous.

The simple wooden tower was built in a few moments, and Wu Mingche immediately ordered the whole army to be on alert and prepare to attack the city!

I saw He Fu leading more than 100 musketeers to climb the two wooden towers respectively, and then stretched out more than 100 muskets from the square hole in the middle of the baffle on the top of the tower, this is the shooting table that Xiao Yao specially asked He Fu to build for the siege of the city! The firing table, which is higher than the city wall, can be condescending, so that the musketeers can easily aim at the defenders on the city wall, and the baffle in front of the firing table can easily block bow and arrow attacks from a distance of 50 meters!

The artillery led by Li Nong, under the protection of the shield soldiers, advanced under the city wall, adjusted the muzzles, aimed at the battlements on the city wall, and prepared to fire.

Therefore, when Wang Lin saw the black musket sticks sticking out from these two wooden towers, as well as more than a dozen iron pillars sticking out of the middle of the shield soldiers under the city wall, his heart couldn't help but tighten, and he was suddenly shocked: These are muskets and artillery! They are Xiao Yao's infantry battalion!

Wang Lin had seen the power of the infantry battalion's firearms, but this attack on Shouyang was only after the explosion of gunpowder on the night of the breakthrough of the outer city, and in the next half month, the Chen army's attack lacked the participation of the infantry battalion, Wang Lin also felt very strange, how could Wu Mingche not use such a powerful force?

But the besieged Wang Lin is now basically isolated from the world, and he has no idea what has happened outside Shouyang City in the past ten miles! He didn't know that Xiao Yao had left Shouyang with the infantry battalion and went out for a spin, and by the way, he returned to Shouyang after capturing Xuyi City. He didn't even know that the reinforcements he was looking forward to day and night had come to Shouyang, but they were only stationed thirty miles away, and they had no intention of attacking Chen's army and relieving the siege of Shouyang.

The musketeers have already boarded the firing platform to prepare, and under the city walls, the artillery team has also aimed at the target, and the phalanx of the army leading by Ren Mannu behind them is also ready!

Although Wu Mingche asked that Xiao Yao's infantry battalion be the main force for this siege, Xiao Yao was not willing to let his soldiers climb the city wall and engage in white-knuckle combat with the defenders, so he proposed that he was only assisting in the siege, and as the main force of the city to cut each other with the defenders, these desperate jobs should still be handed over to experienced veterans such as Ren Mannu and Zhou Luo, and let them continue to attack Shouyang as the main force, which can also comfort their self-esteem that was hurt by the infantry battalion.

"Prepare the artillery team, aim at the battlements on the city walls, destroy them all, and open a gap for the brethren who will ascend the city!" Li Nong ordered loudly.

Boom boom, a burst of artillery bombardment, a city wall was blown into dust, only to see that the battlements of this city wall have all been destroyed by artillery, and those defenders hiding behind the battlements are even more bloody and flesh blurred by artillery, and stumps are everywhere.

"Siege!" Taking advantage of the fact that the defenders were stunned by the artillery and at a loss, Ren Manu gave an order, and the besieging troops immediately set up a long ladder and rushed towards the city wall under the protection of the shield soldiers.

On the city wall in the distance, the defenders who had not been bombarded had also come to their senses, and were about to use the previous method of resisting the siege of Chen's army to shoot at the besieging soldiers with bows and arrows, but before they could set up the arrows, they suddenly heard a "bang bang" sound, and the defender archers were all knocked to the ground by the musketeers, and only a terrifying blood hole appeared on the brain!

"Don't take the lead! That's Xiao Yao's musket, which can kill people in the air! Wang Lin shouted, telling the defenders to continue hiding behind the battlements.

"General! If we don't fight back, will we just wait for the Chen army to attack? Archers, shoot at the opposing wooden towers! The others have all the stones ready, and when their long ladder comes over and is ready to climb, they will smash it down for me! One lieutenant shouted.

But when the archers came out again and were about to shoot at the wooden tower, there was another burst of gunfire, and dozens of people fell, so frightened that everyone on the walls crouched under the battlements.

The artillery team did not stop, and after several rounds of shelling, the city wall was blasted out by the artillery with a hole more than ten meters wide, and without the obstruction of the battlements, the soldiers who climbed the city quickly set up a long ladder, and then climbed the city wall one after another.

Seeing that Chen Jun was already climbing the ladder, the lieutenant immediately lifted a stone and prepared to throw it at Chen Jun on the ladder, but he forgot that his action had exposed him to the muzzle of the musketeer, and when he heard a gunshot, he was hit by the musket, and the stone in his hand could only be smashed on his own corpse.

"Don't show your head, wait for Chen Jun to come up, and then fight with them!" Wang Lin shouted helplessly, he knew that as long as Chen Jun provoked the city wall, it would have a serious impact on the psychology of the defenders, but now as long as he stood up, he would be shot by the musketeers in the air.

With the cover of the musketeers, more and more Chen soldiers successfully climbed to the top of the city, and the defenders immediately raised their long lances to stab at them, but the Chen soldiers who had already climbed to the top of the city were at this time when their morale was soaring, and they all raised their shields one by one to block the stabbing long lance, and shouted loudly: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! Then he raised his big knife and slashed at the other party, and the two sides immediately entered a white-knuckle battle!

On the side of the east gate of the main attack, the troops who ascended the city of Ren Manu, with the assistance of the infantry battalion, had successfully climbed to the top of the city and engaged in a melee with the defenders! On the side of the West City Gate, Xiao Yao, as the commander-in-chief of the siege front, personally led the cavalry of the infantry battalion and Zhou Luo's infantry team, following behind the demolition soldiers, preparing to wait for them to blast the city gate, and then rush into the city in one fell swoop, catching the defenders by surprise!