For a while, the 10,000 officers and troops led by General He suddenly boiled like boiling water, and they carried a long ladder and began to attack the city. Waves of soldiers shouted, carrying shields and struggling to climb the towering walls. There was no suspense at all in the initial siege, and the first side threw rolling logs and stones under the city walls. The smashed soldiers screamed and rolled to the ground, bleeding from the seven holes.

Rihito, who was on the castle tower, was looking out from the observation hole, and everything in front of him was similar to the one in the movie in his previous life, but the difference was that now it was bloody, and the number of attacking and defending soldiers was gradually decreasing, and they did not fall to the ground and then turn over and get up, but they all became corpses and were placed at the foot of the city wall.

More than half of the first wave of besiegers became manure and piled up at the foot of the walls. The besiegers in the back saw that there were already heavy casualties in front of them, and they did not dare to take a step forward.

At this time, Li Ren looked at the big tent of the Chinese army in the distance, and asked the subordinates next to him: "Is their camp tent within our firing range?" ”

"Back to the lord, their camp tent is within our firing range, and we can guarantee that we can kill the Chinese army tent with one shot." Zhang Hu said excitedly to Liren in the back.

"Hmmm! Very good, but there is no hurry now, their large army has not yet arrived, and now it seems that it should be the vanguard force. Speaking of this, Liren turned to look at Zhang Lei and asked, "Are all the preparations ready?" ”

Zhang Lei looked at everyone on the left and right, and said with a mysterious smile: "Please rest assured, the lord, we have been ready for a long time, and now we are just waiting for their large army to arrive, and they will definitely have no return." ”

"Why are you laughing at such a thief? Will they build their tents according to our pre-arrangement? Liren joked about Zhang Lei.

Zhang Lei suddenly smiled and said: "Please rest assured, my lord, we have prepared everything possible in advance, and we will kill him as soon as possible no matter where their Chinese military tent is." ”

Li Ren nodded at this time, and suddenly heard another shouting and killing sound outside, he turned around and looked out of the observation hole without hurrying and said, "Okay, now look, the official army is attacking the city again." Will the people on the walls be able to withstand it? Rihito didn't look back and asked the people behind him.

Zhang Hu said at this time: "Please rest assured, the rolling wood and stones on the city wall have already been prepared, and there are still iron rackets ordered by the lord to be made have not been used, so it will not be a problem to keep it." ”

"Hmm!" Li Ren looked at the officials and soldiers attacking the city outside the city, who had just shouted to kill Zhentian, but now they all stopped five hundred paces away, and they were followed by a large group of people, all of whom were carrying thick wooden sticks on their shoulders. After a while, watching them gradually assemble something with this pile of wooden sticks, Liren's nerves immediately became nervous, and he didn't have time to turn back and said, "Quick, go out and order, let them all hide, the enemy is going to use catapults." ”

"Catapult?" The subordinates suddenly looked out from the observation hole next to them, and saw that at a distance of 500 steps from the city wall, the officers and soldiers had already assembled tall wooden frames with wooden sticks, and there was a long tree stick that could be rotated on the wooden frame, and now the officers and soldiers seemed to be oiling the rotating shaft. I saw that there were dozens of long ropes at one end of this stick, which were pulled all the way to the back of the catapult. At the other end was a basket made of iron bars, and some officers and soldiers were reinforcing the connection between the basket and the stick.

The subordinates who had never seen such a thing were talking to each other after reading it, and by this time Rihito had already observed that the officers and soldiers were preparing to test fire (because the catapult was manually pulled, it did not have its own crosshairs, and it was generally just left to experience and judgment, so the catapult generally had to be tested before the attack). I turned around to see if my subordinates were going to let the soldiers hide, but I could turn around and see that they were all whispering. Immediately, Liren was a little angry and said to them sternly, "What did you let you do just now?" You still haven't let me go, and you're still stunned here? Zhang Hu and the others reacted immediately, immediately looked at Liren and smiled, and then quickly ran out of the city tower.

Rihito looked at these subordinates, frowned and blamed himself deeply: 'Did you lose them too much?' Why is this so? ’

At this time, Fang Ning saw what Li Ren was thinking, and stood in front of him with a smile and hugged his fists: "Hehe~!" Lord, you should relax, Zhang Hu They just know the solidity of our city, and they are a little taken lightly. ”

"Take it lightly, yes, they know that our city is not something that ordinary people can attack, but the more this happens, the more careful we must be. We all need to remember that every city is breached from within. Rihito was vaguely worried about the safety of the soldiers.

Fang Ning just wanted to make it easier for Liren, but who knew that it would be self-defeating. He looked at Chen Lin and Yang Zhiwen with a wry smile, wanting them to come forward to relieve him. Yang Zhiwen has always been engaged in the ideological work of the Vermilion Bird Army, looking at Fang Ning's wry smile, he immediately nodded to him, and then walked in front of Liren and looked at the officers and soldiers observing Kong Wai and said: "Yes, all of us know that cities can only be breached from the inside, but Liren, you also have to think about it, every army is not born to fight, they have to go through countless tests and training." What you are worried about is certainly what we need to focus on at the moment, but now that the war is imminent, there is no need to worry about these things. On the contrary, what you have to do now is to give full play to the abilities of each of us, let the plan of the official army be aborted this time, and let Shi Mi look at the city and sigh~! ”

Li Ren looked at Yang Zhiwen, who was older than himself, and knew that he was for his own good, so he was relieved when he thought about it carefully. Nodding at Yang Zhiwen and smiling slightly, he said, "Yes, Rome can't be built in a day." ”

When Yang Zhiwen heard this, he didn't know what the so-called Rome meant, so he looked at Liren strangely and asked, "I don't know what Rome you are talking about?" Could it be a mule that we use a lot? ”

Li Ren regretted a little when he said this, and when he heard Yang Zhiwen really asking, he immediately laughed and said: "Rome is not the mule we use, but a country. ”

"Oh! Country? How come I haven't heard of a country in Middle-earth called Rome?? Yang Zhiwen wanted to figure out these things, and by the way, he distracted some of Liren's attention, so that his brain could relax.

Li Ren just wanted to explain the so-called Rome to his brother Yang Zhiwen in detail, when he suddenly heard a loud noise of "tom ~" outside, which shocked people's hearts. Rihito immediately knew that his fears had come true, and immediately looked out through the observation port. I saw that the chosen city wall on my side was surrounded by a puff of smoke, and the smoke looked like it was caused by the burning of gunpowder.

Li Ren said to himself at this time: "Sure enough, it seems that Shi Miyuan and the Northern Yuan people have a deep collusion." ”

The remaining three strategists all heard what Rihito said, and immediately looked at each other and didn't know why. Yang Zhiwen still asked Liren first: "Oh~!" Liren, why do you say that Shi Miyuan and Yuanren are in deep collusion? ”

Li Ren turned to look at Yang Zhiwen and said, "Did you see the champion just now assembling a catapult?" ”

Yang Zhiwen nodded.

Li Ren asked again: "Have you seen the catapult assembled by the officers and soldiers in the past wars?" ”

Yang Zhiwen had never seen the Song army fighting, so he just shook his head. At this time, Fang Ning stood up and said, "My lord, we have mentioned to me more than once along the line that the Song army and the Jin army were fighting, as well as fighting against the Northern Yuan people. But I didn't hear them talk about catapults appearing in siege battles, so I thought they should have just appeared. ”

"Hehe, none of you have ever experienced a real war. The wiped out Jin people had already used catapults to fight, but catapults were not easy to make, and once they were damaged on the battlefield, they could become a burden. Now you look at the catapult of the Song army, which has been improved. They are simple to assemble, easy to carry, and are already suitable for long-term operations. Li Ren looked at the three curious babies with a smile and continued: "Originally, the catapults in the Song army were the same as those in the Jin army, but the catapults that appeared now are obviously not the skills that the Song army can have. Also, as far as I know, there is a kind of catapult in the Northern Yuan, which is easy to assemble, easy to move, and has a long range, and it is already the most advanced existence in siege warfare. ”

"If the people of Beiyuan are not fools, how can they easily pass on this technology?" At this time, Chen Lin asked on the side.

Li Ren nodded at him and said, "Yes, the Northern Yuan will definitely not spread this technology, but the catapults you see now are only the earliest ones used by the Northern Yuan, and the catapults they use now are double the range of the catapults used by the Song army now." ”

"It's no wonder." Yang Zhiwen seemed to understand something.

At this time, the catapults of the Song army began to attack again, and explosions rang out, accompanied by bursts of smoke covering the land. Yang Zhiwen asked Liren loudly at this time: "Liren, why is the Song army also using gunpowder?" And the explosion is so alarming? ”

After listening to it for a long time, Li Ren finally heard what Yang Zhiwen said clearly in the earth-shattering explosion, and he replied with a slight smile: "Oh! You are asking this, I don't need to explain, you can see for yourself their powder bullets. ”

Yang Zhiwen took the telescope with crystal lenses and saw the ammunition loaded by Song Jun, and according to the comparison, he finally understood. After handing back the binoculars, Zhang Hu rushed in from outside and said loudly: "Lord, you see that the official army is attacking fiercely now, you should hide with the three gentlemen." ”

Li Ren didn't answer his question at all, and asked directly: "What are the casualties of the sergeants outside now?" ”

"Oh! Lord Qi, because our walls are too high, their bombs have not yet been able to reach the walls, so there are no casualties so far. After Zhang Hu answered Liren's question seriously, he hurriedly said to Liren: "Lord, you still hide with the three gentlemen." ”

"Haha~! What to hide, with the amount of their gunpowder, they can't blow through our wall at all, at best, it is louder and dusty. The most important thing now is to protect the soldiers and not let them get hurt for no reason. Li Ren said this very confidently, then patted Zhang Hu's arm and looked at his blackened face and said, "After the soldier is safe, you must protect your own safety." Because you are on the front line. ”