According to the information provided by Luoyang, two days ago, Sima Shi had built pontoon bridges on the Yellow River, and built more than one, and built ten at the same time, and once these pontoon bridges were successfully built, Sima's army would continue to march from the south of the Yellow River to Jizhou.

Time was pressing, and Yanghu immediately ordered the siege of the city, and it was necessary to take the city of Xindu in the shortest possible time.

The height of the inner and outer walls was the same, and the distance between the two was exactly a stone's throw away, and Yanghu originally planned to send some archers to the outer city walls that had not collapsed, and carry out suppressive fire on the inner city walls to provide cover for the besieging troops.

However, after on-the-spot inspection, it was found that although some strong archers could shoot arrows at the opposite city, the strength of the crossbow could not penetrate the reckless, and this distance was already the largest range, and even if they were shot through, they would not pose any threat to the defenders.

It seems that this distance was carefully calculated during the construction of the inner and outer walls, and it was also deliberately prevented from the opponents from taking advantage of the outer walls, and as long as the combined state army entered the open space between the inner and outer walls, it was constantly threatened by the bows and arrows of the defenders.

As for the archers of the Bingzhou army, they can also shoot to the top of the city, but that is to attack from the back, this kind of attack, I'm afraid not everyone likes it, compared to from top to bottom, the difficulty of attacking from the top is more than a little bit.

But no matter what the difficulty is, Yanghu has already made up his mind to attack the city, and he must take Xindu City despite all difficulties and dangers.

Such a large pile of ruins is quite in the way, basically there is no way to bring in large equipment, and the state army has no time to clean it up now, so the siege troops can only use simple ladders to fight.

The state army was soon put into battle, and the first troops to charge were naturally sword and shield soldiers, because the siege vehicles could not enter, and the besieging troops needed defense and protection, so only the sword and shield soldiers could be qualified for such siege tasks.

The sword and shield soldiers provided cover for the crossbowmen, who formed a phalanx under the city and fired suppressively at the head of the city, so as not to give the Jizhou army a chance to poke their heads out.

However, the crossbowmen of the Bingzhou army can shoot arrows into the city, and the Jizhou army on the city can also shoot arrows down for counterattack, so when the besieging troops have not yet attacked, the archers of the two sides have already started a contest and shoot at each other.

Compared with the back attack of the Bingzhou army, the Jizhou army is condescending, naturally more relaxed, but the quality of the archers of the Jizhou army is much worse than that of the state, and the Jizhou army in addition to the archers, but also arranged a lot of crossbow soldiers, in terms of fire suppression, the crossbow is simply a big killer, continuous dense arrows, it is difficult to raise the head of the Jizhou army in suppression.

For a time, on the contrary, the archers of the Bingzhou army, who were in an unfavorable situation, had the upper hand.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the siege troops of the state army have been fully dispatched, they carry the ladder, quickly run towards the city, this open area, is a dangerous area, the faster the pass, the more the danger can be reduced, so the sword and shield soldiers of the state army almost trotted all the way, and soon arrived at the city.

There is no moat in the inner city, which also provides convenience for the attack of the state army, if there is really a wide and deep moat to block, just filling the moat, it will take a lot of effort, and the defenders of the city will not watch the state army to fill the river, they must be trying all means to stop it, so every time the moat is filled, it will cost a considerable number of casualties.

For example, the army just used catapults to collapse the outer wall of Xindu to fill the moat, which is completely extreme, and this way of filling the river with zero casualties and no cost is really unprecedented.

The state army rushed to the bottom of the inner city wall, and the ladders were erected, and the sergeants swarmed up, holding the ring-headed knife and the shield on their heads, and climbed the ladder with all their might.

Seeing this situation, Lu Zhao was a little anxious, compared to the well-trained and fast-moving Bingzhou Army, the ability of the Jizhou Army was indeed a big step behind, and it was half a beat slower than others in terms of response.

It stands to reason that the Jizhou army is equipped with a lot of archers, only from the point of view of numbers, it is still far higher than the state army, and they are condescending, should have occupied the geographical advantage, but in fact, this advantage does not exist, the archers of both sides shoot each other, the Jizhou army is obviously at a disadvantage, and the scene is very passive.

And the state army reflects the characteristics of tacit understanding, the archers are covering, and the sword and shield soldiers on this side will take the opportunity to rush up and seize the city, if the Jizhou army can not make an effective response, it is not surprising that the inner city wall will be lost.

The loss of the outer city wall has already made Lu Zhao very angry, if the inner city wall can no longer be defended, won't Xindu fall? With him personally supervising the formation, this will definitely not happen.

Lu Zhao immediately ordered all the soldiers defending the city to go to the front line, and they must not retreat because of the archers of the Bingzhou army, and all the people must go all out, and they must block the Bingzhou army under the city at all costs, and they must not be allowed to step on the city for half a step.

At this time, if there are those who escape from the battle, they will not cower and shake the hearts of the army, and they will be killed!

Lu Zhao is the Jizhou pastor and leads the name of the general of Zhenbei, the general of the festival, there is a bamboo section specially given by the Son of Heaven, you don't underestimate this thin bamboo pole, it represents the authority of the Son of Heaven, and has the power to cut first and then play, not to mention these small soldiers, even officials below 2,000 stones, Lu Zhao has the right to cut first and then play.

Usually when Lu Zhao went out on patrol, he himself rode in a car, and the bamboo pole was also specially placed on another car, and the thorn history with the knot is called the leader thorn history, which is with the title of general, and the thorn history without bamboo knots is called the bicycle thorn history, not only the rank is lower than the leader thorn history, but the power cannot be compared.

Lu Zhao has such a bamboo, and his waist pole is much tougher, if someone dares to disobey his orders, the knife and axe hands who implement the military law behind him are not vegetarians, whoever violates the military order, these knife and axe hands will use whoever to open the knife, without mercy.

Therefore, even though there was a dense rain of arrows overhead, these soldiers defending the city did not dare to disobey Lu Zhao's orders, and they worked hard to defend the city.