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Song Jingang, who got the order, hurriedly waved his hand to signal the archers to withdraw, but Hu Sizheng kept explaining the order to the flag bearer at this time, asking him to wave the flag again and again according to his instructions.

A moment later, the horn sounded "Hey, Hi. Yo". I saw thousands of soldiers pushing fifteen towering "wooden towers" slowly towards the city wall.

This "wooden tower" looks like an enlarged well railing, which is higher than the wall of Jindi Pass. The walls of the tower on all four sides were nailed with hard wooden planks. Another layer of cowhide was laid on the surface. Thick ropes are pulled from the top and bottom of the tower.

Each rope was connected with more than a dozen Zhou soldiers, and many more Zhou soldiers gathered behind this "wooden tower" and struggled to push this siege weapon forward.

Every time these Zhou soldiers took a step forward, they raised their heads to the sky and shouted a trumpet, and the wooden tower that stood tall moved forward more than two feet with the trumpet.

Zu Junyan saw this "wooden tower" clearly, and he was also puzzled in his heart, secretly wondering what this "wooden tower" was? What is Zhou Jun doing with such a bunch of things?

However, although he didn't know what it was, he knew that it must have been used for siege. And this thing is made of wood, and he can see it clearly.

All wooden instruments are afraid of fire, so Zu Junyan immediately shouted: "Hurry up and strike the gong!" Hurry up and play the drums! Tell all the personnel to go up to the city wall to defend! ”

Immediately, he turned back to his lieutenant and shouted, "Fire oil! Get the oil up! We're going to attack with fire! ”

"In addition, the rolling stones and sassal trees are also quickly brought up, the enemy is about to attack the city!"

"Woo woo"

Trumpets also sounded in the Zhou barracks.

The fifteen towering "wooden towers" began to glide forward, getting closer and closer to the walls of Jindiguan.

There was no moat in Jindi Pass, and there was a ditch in front of the pass, but it was filled in by the Zhou army a few days before, so these "wooden towers" could move forward unimpeded.

One foot!

Eighty zhang!

Fifty zhang!

It's getting closer.

At this time, Zu Jun Yanfang shouted: "Where are the archers? Don't hurry up and shoot arrows against the enemy! ”

More than 1,000 archers hurriedly rushed up the city wall, and then shot sharp arrows at the fifteen slowly approaching "wooden towers".

However, these sharp arrows could not stop the advance of the "wooden tower" at all. At the foot of the "wooden tower", all the soldiers of the Zhou army who were pulling this huge siege equipment were blocked by the infantry who walked in the front, raising a large shield to block most of the sharp arrows.

Even if some arrows came through the gaps, only a few unlucky ones were wounded and killed. The "wooden tower" was followed by many Zhou soldiers, and they could be replenished immediately. Therefore, this "wooden tower" is still getting closer and closer to the wall of Jindi Pass.

Zu Junyan was anxious, but there was nothing he could do.

If he has enough soldiers, for example, a strong cavalry unit, then he can open the city gate, kill all the Zhou soldiers who pulled the "wooden tower", and then set fire to the "wooden tower".

But he now only has 10,000 horses in his hands, and most of them are recruits who have just been conscripted, so it is quite good to be able to stand on the city wall with trepidation. How dare you go out of the city? And look at Zhou Jun's lineup under Jindi Pass. The troops are complete, and there are many people. I'm afraid that even if all my thousands of horses are killed out of the city, they will only be sent to death.

Therefore, he could only watch as the fifteen towering "wooden towers" slowly advanced.

At this time, Zu Junyan's lieutenant general Fang reminded: "General, we can use rockets!" ”

A word woke up the person in the dream, Zu Junyan nodded as if he had grabbed a life-saving straw: "Yes!" Right! Right! The fast man prepares the rocket...... By the way, the oil tank is also used! Burn down these 'wooden towers'! ”

The defenders on the Jindi Pass hurriedly pushed out the rockets and oil canisters in the warehouse, and then the archers used sharp arrows wrapped in gauze soaked in fire oil to nod their heads and shoot at the "wooden tower" one by one.

However, due to the well-prepared Zhou army, there were baffles on the front and sides of the "wooden tower" to protect them. Therefore, although those rockets nodded to the baffles around the "wooden tower", they failed to nod the "wooden tower" itself, and the "wooden tower" still continued to move forward.

"This thing seems to have been designed to protect against rockets for a long time! But I'll throw the canister in with a trebuchet, and see what you do? Zu Junyan also calmed down at this time.

"Tom! Tong! Tom"

The trebuchets at the head of Jindi Pass finally launched a counterattack, throwing one oil tank after another into the air, and then smashed into the advancing "wooden towers". As soon as it hit the tower, the oil tank exploded, and the oil soaked the tower.

And those baffles could only prevent rockets fired in a straight line, and they could not prevent the oil cans smashed from the air at parabolic angles, and suddenly the "wooden tower" was soaked in oil and shiny, as if painted with a layer of black.

"Keep dropping the rocket!" Zu Junyan roared loudly.

"Whoosh! Sou! Sou! Rockets were fired, and as soon as they landed on the "wooden tower", a large fire broke out. Since the "wooden tower" had already been filled with fire oil, the fire immediately burned violently, and the fire rose to the sky. There is simply no extinguishing of it.

The soldiers of the Zhou army hiding in the "wooden tower" could only scream and jump off the "wooden tower" with flames. Many of them fell to the ground and broke their legs and feet.

The soldiers who were still pulling the "wooden tower" were also startled, and hurriedly let go of the rope and ran around to avoid the remnants of the burned "wooden tower".

It's just that all the trebuchets on the Jindi Gate were also exposed, and they were targeted by the trebuchets that had been prepared by the Zhou army under the city, and then threw huge stones and smashed them to pieces.

As the war continued, the Zhou army surprisingly did not arrange for soldiers to attack against the ladders, and seemed to only intend to attack with these fifteen "wooden towers".

But under the blow of the fire pots thrown by the Wei army, they could only burn one after another, and finally turned to ashes.

It's just that there are gains and losses, and the Wei army had very few trebuchets, and they didn't dare to withdraw because they had to keep firing oil canisters to hit the "wooden tower" of the Zhou army. Therefore, under the counterattack of the Zhou army's trebuchets, they also suffered heavy losses. By noon, all 15 "wooden towers" of the Zhou army had been destroyed; And the trebuchets of the Wei army were all lost.

"Fortunately, these 'wooden towers' of the enemy have finally been destroyed! Otherwise, as soon as they get close to the wall, a large number of soldiers will leap up from it and kill our warriors. Zu Junyan also breathed a sigh of relief.

But at this moment, his lieutenant suddenly shouted: "General, what do you think it is?" ”

After hearing this, Zu Junyan hurriedly followed the lieutenant's finger and looked forward, only to see that in front of the city gate, a huge giant ladder appeared.

It is like a long and diagonal ladder, all made of bamboo, higher than the walls of Jindiguan, and is slowly approaching the city gate.

"Fortunately, I have expected that the enemy may use fire to break the well fence, so I ordered Hu Sizheng to build this siege ladder, otherwise it will be difficult to capture Jindi Pass today." Yu Ming also said to himself happily at this time.

This giant ladder is made of a large number of bamboo poles, the base is 12 zhang wide, the top is 9 zhang wide, the height is more than 15 zhang, the length is about 25 zhang, the front is leaning forward, the back is a slope, the slope is not very large, ordinary people can go up smoothly.

At the top of the entire ladder is a huge platform that can accommodate more people, and there is even a bamboo railing at the edge of the platform to prevent people from falling from it.

The slope behind the platform, as well as the supporting skeleton of the platform, are made of bamboo. It's just that the base is equipped with dozens of wheels to slide.

Through the gap of this giant ladder, the Wei soldiers on the Jindi Pass could see clearly that there were more Zhou soldiers gathered under this ladder than the fifteen "wooden towers" just now, and there were thousands of people.

It was these Zhou soldiers, who worked as hard as ants, who dragged this huge ladder with ropes, and slowly moved forward, and every time they took a step, they let out a neat and loud trumpet.

Such a huge siege ladder is simply unheard of. And even more frightened all the Wei soldiers and soldiers, inexplicably. Such a huge ladder can still be pushed forward by a person. In the face of such a terrible siege ladder, the high advantage of the city wall of Jindi Pass has long been gone, and what does it rely on to hold on?

"Quick! Attack with a canister of fire oil! Zu Junyan shouted, he wanted to repeat the old trick again.

But at this time, his lieutenant said with a sad face: "General, our trebuchets have been completely destroyed, and the oil tank is almost used." There's no way to burn this ladder at all! ”

"What? How so? Zu Junyan's face suddenly turned white.

"Look, General! The Zhou army of the brigade has moved forward! Both cavalry and infantry! ”

When Zu Junyan didn't know how to deal with this terrifying ladder, the lieutenant general next to him shouted again, making him more and more distraught.

He took a deep breath at this time, and then looked behind the huge siege ladder, and sure enough, he saw a large group of black and oppressive Zhou army arrays moving forward slowly, with hoplites in the middle, cavalry in iron armor on both wings, and the armor of all the soldiers emitted a shining cold light, from their solemn expressions and neat military appearance, it could be seen that it was definitely a war division, and it should be the most elite unit in the Zhou army.

An atmosphere of slaughter permeated mercilessly in front of the Jindi Pass.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Yu Ming's mouth, and at this moment, the majestic wall of Jindi Pass had been shrouded in the huge shadow of the siege ladder he had created. This world-famous Xiongguan is about to be broken by him.

History will tell you that he was able to break through such a strong fortress with very few casualties. The 10,000 Wei soldiers in the Jindi Pass will fall under the iron hooves of the Zhou army and groan.

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