Dense arrows like locusts in the sky of the head of the city of Qu County, the defenders of the city of Qu County and the young marshal soldiers behind the long shield under the city, all tried their best, desperately to the opposite enemy to shoot arrows, of course, the shooting target of the young marshal army is of course the Qu County defenders behind the arrow stacks, the feather arrows of the Qu County guards are mainly concentrated on the young marshal army siege team that is approaching the city wall, and suddenly sent out a wave of rockets, focusing on shooting the ladder car that poses the greatest threat to the city wall of Qu County.

Xiang Sui's due diligence provided the possibility for the young marshal's army to attack the city, before four large-scale sieges, although Xiang Sui had already retreated, but in order to prevent just in case, Xiang Sui still did not dare to stop the young marshal soldiers to stop building siege weapons, so the young marshal army still has three ladder vehicles with the same height as the city wall available this time, and there are as many as six relatively easy to make crash cars, so even if it is temporarily decided to fight with all its might, the young marshal soldiers will not rely on simple flying ladders to attack the city. But......

"Throw the torch!"

As the ladder car of the young marshal army gradually approached the city wall, like the previous sieges, the city wall of Qu County suddenly threw out a large number of torches, concentrated on the slow-moving ladder car, and the torches thrown by the defenders of Qu County were different from the torches thrown by other enemies encountered by the young marshal army before, with a double hook made of pig iron at the tail, shaped like a swallowtail, it was easy to hook the ladder car when smashed into the ladder car, and it was nailed to the car to continue to burn. And this kind of dovetail torch that the defenders of Qu County learned from the Mohist writings is also a key reason why the young marshal's army failed in the first few sieges.

Like the previous times, after being attacked by the concentrated throwing of the dovetail torch, the ladder car of the young marshal's army soon ignited a fire, the fire was scorching, and the smoke was smoking, which made the young marshal's soldiers who pushed the ladder car miserable, and the speed of travel was greatly affected, and the fire on the ladder car was getting more and more vigorous, and it had not even completely crossed the moat that had been hard filled before, and the ladder car of the young marshal's army had gradually turned into a huge fire ball, and gradually lost the ability to siege the city.

The situation on the side of the crash car was even more serious, and the county order of Qu County, who had studied the Mohist works, had people rush to build a square rammed earth mound between the moat and the city gate, blocking the road where the crashing car was directly approaching the city gate, forcing the young marshal's ramming car to only bypass the mound of earth before launching an attack on the city gate. As a result, the defenders of the Qin army in the city naturally had more time to smash stones and set fires, destroying the young marshal's army crashing car, and the sheep's head stone fell like haildrops, and the young marshal soldiers who were advancing with the shield cart screamed continuously, and before they could touch the city wall, they were already suffering heavy casualties and paid a heavy price.

The progress of the siege was as bad as the previous times, of course Xiang Sui was anxious, but Zhong Liwu, who had just become a hundred generals, came to make trouble, and asked Xiang Sui to allow him and the death squad led by Long He to decide the time of the attack at their own discretion, Xiang Sui asked the reason, Zhong Liwu arched his hand and said: "Du Wei forgive the sin, the last general is presumptuous, I feel that you did not grasp the rhythm when investing troops and wasted the fighter, so the last general wants to ask you to allow us to attack on our own and seize the fighter for you." ”

If it was replaced by Xiang Bo and Xiang You when they heard this, they would definitely be able to slap Zhong Liwu directly in the face, and angrily scold Zhong Liwu for what kind of thing, and dare to judge his own soldiers? Fortunately, Xiang Sui and his father and brother's tempers were completely opposite, although they were a little angry, after careful consideration, they still nodded and said, "Okay, just this time, I want to see how you can grasp the fighter for me." ”

Zhong Li thanked him and left, and Xiang Sui also ordered the second ladder truck to step forward and attack the city wall of Quxian County again. As a result, to Xiang Sui's surprise, the second ladder car had just approached the moat with the defenders' rockets, and before it could even enter the range of the defenders' torches, Zhong Liwu and Long He had already made a decisive attack and rushed forward with the flying ladder. Xiang Sui was surprised in his heart, but he still ordered the Chinese army to beat the drums with all their strength to cheer for the two death squads, Zhong Liwu and Long He.

Or after the ladder car entered the torch throwing range of the defenders of Qu County, Xiang Sui found that Zhong Liwu's choice of fighter was indeed very ingenious, because Zhong Liwu and Long He The two death squads had also charged into the range of bows and arrows, in order not to give the young marshal army death squad the opportunity to rush directly to the city, the city defenders were forced to divide their men and shoot the young marshal's army daredevils with bows and crossbows, and the number of torches thrown was obviously not as numerous and dense as before, and the pressure was greatly reduced. Of course, the ladder car of the young marshal's army advanced faster than before, and at the same time, relying on the cover and attracting firepower of the ladder car, the resistance faced by the death squad of the young marshal's army was obviously smaller than that of a direct siege. Then Xiang Sui immediately patted his forehead and regretted it, regretting why he hadn't been able to think of this method before.

The rhythm and fighters are well grasped, but the pressure of the young marshal army on the front line is still very huge, the ladder car is still on fire in many places, and no one dares to guarantee how long it can last, and at the same time, after Zhong Liwu and Long He rushed to the city, countless stone ash bottles immediately fell on the city wall, smashing the flesh and blood of the young marshal army, the dust around them was filled, and the eyes were red and swollen and tearful.

The critical moment to test the quality of Zhong Liwu and Long He, the two future famous generals, came to the risk of being smashed at any time, one after another young marshal army flying ladders took the city head one after another, Zhong Liwu and Long and the two generals did not hesitate, both stepped on the ladder and took the lead in impacting the top of the city wall, and the high-morale recruits of Qi County also roared like thunder, scrambling to climb up. The defenders of the city also shouted incessantly, constantly smashing the stone ash bottle at the death squad of the young marshal's army, and also successfully smashed many young marshal soldiers off the ladder.

Let the young marshal soldiers cheer, but also let the defenders in the city chill, no matter how much their stone ash bottle smashed, there was no way to stop the pace of the young marshal army daredevils, wearing rhino armor Long and Zhong Li, even if they were hit by the sheep's head stone several times, they gritted their teeth and grabbed the ladder, insisting on climbing up. The dragon, who was obviously different from ordinary people in terms of physique, was about to rush to the city wall, grabbed a spear that was stabbed from a high and stabbed it hard, and directly pulled the Qin soldiers who were holding the spear off the city wall, screaming and breaking their tendons, and the young marshal soldiers immediately broke out into cheers.

Still Long He led down to the top of the flying ladder, at least three Qin soldiers directly stabbed at him, Long He was a little arrow buttress on one foot, roared, and flew forward with a front flip, not only dodging the Qin soldiers' assassination, but also jumping directly into the crowd of Qin soldiers, the steel knife swept through, and directly cut off the head of a Qin soldier who was caught off guard. The surrounding Qin soldiers screamed, but they still subconsciously slashed their knives and stabbed at Long He's body.

There is no way to describe how fast Long Ge's movements are, seeing the gap between the enemy's attacks, Long He first dodged and hid between the two Changge, and then returned with a knife, cutting down a Qin soldier Ge, and his left hand tightly grasped the other Changge, not giving the enemy a chance to hang himself, and then the body rose again, and with two legs in a row, he kicked a Qin soldier with a knife all over his face, and the teeth and blood in his mouth gushed together, and after landing on the ground, he grabbed Changge with all his strength, and slammed another enemy behind him into the air. smashed over two more enemies, and the fierce momentum made the Qin soldiers around him shout in despair, completely unable to believe that there were such fierce generals in the world.

At the same time, Zhong Liwu also rushed to the top of the city wall, first used his knife to resist the Changge Hengzhi stabbed by the enemy on the opposite side with all his strength, swung it horizontally, and then took the opportunity to jump on the arrow stack, rushing into the crowd before the enemies on both sides attacked, fighting to suffer a slight injury, using the rhinoceros leather armor he was wearing to resist the sword stabbed on the side, slashing the enemy on the opposite side with a knife, and then returning the knife to cut down the enemy on the side who had stabbed him, roaring left and right, fighting with the enemy around him in close quarters.

The 100 people of the two young marshal army will successfully ascend the city one after another, but the Qin soldiers on the city are not too panicked, because in the previous few siege battles, there have also been cases where the young marshal soldiers rushed to the city wall, and then it didn't take long for the warriors of the young marshal army to be cut into pieces by the Qin soldiers who were outnumbered, so the Qin soldiers firmly believed that Zhong Liwu and Long Ji's performance was destined to be just a flash in the pan, or it would not be long before they would be chopped into meat sauce by themselves and their companions, and let them die a miserable death.

However, the Qin soldiers soon found out that the situation was wrong, they were outnumbered, but the two enemies who rushed up were so fierce that they didn't look like people at all, they were just like two fierce tigers that rushed into the flock, killing people was like chopping melons and vegetables, and they were crazy to slash their companions every time they were injured, and they were rampage in the crowd of Qin soldiers, invincible, and the panicked and screaming Qin soldiers tried to surround them several times, but they were easily defeated every time, on the city wall, Soon lay down a dozen fallen soldiers of the Qin Army.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of Long Ji and Zhong Li's two generals to fight and cover, the warriors of the death squad under their command of course also rushed to the city wall one after another, and the same unstoppable desperate slashing and impact, covering more companions to rush to the city wall on the flying ladder, and gradually occupied a position on the city. At the same time, the ladder car of the young marshal's army also relied on the cover of the death squad, and rushed to the city wall before it was burned, and the young marshal soldiers who were sweeping the battle outside the city cheered, and Xiang Sui did not hesitate, and immediately sent a team of 500 people to help the battle and join the ant-attached battlefield.

The reserves of the Qin army appeared on the city wall almost at the same time, and they also rushed directly to the location of Zhong Liwu and Long Ji and others, but the reserves of the Qin army quickly found that they were facing a group of enemies who had entered a state of madness this time, seeing that they were killing so vigorously that not only did they not retreat from defense, but also roared and charged at them in turn, rushing into their crowd with blood and broken flesh all over their bodies, killing and slashing when they saw people, and attacking with fatal knives, completely ignoring their own safety and just blindly slashing and killing, He kept roaring in his mouth, "Tyrannical Qin! Die! ”

Xiang Sui did what he said before, and promised to equip the young marshal army daredevils with the best weapons and armor without any discount, so the two generals Long He and Zhong Liwu held in their hands were all good steel knives made of carbon-mixed steel, which were both sharp and tough, but at this moment, these two good steel knives had been cut everywhere, and they were already stained with blood foam and broken meat, but this did not affect the death and fear they brought to the enemy under the wave of their master, just like peeling apples and splitting rotten wood, Constantly chopping off the heads and limbs of the Qin soldiers on the opposite side, and under their drive, more high-quality steel knives also cut down and chopped down more Qin soldiers like chopping melons and vegetables, leaving countless mutilated corpses and rolling human heads and limbs on the battlefield.

It's not that the Qin soldiers don't work hard, it's not that the quality of the individual soldiers of the Qin soldiers is poor, they also grew up by the sea, and they live a life of farming and fishing all year round, and the Qin soldiers who are also the main force of the Quxian people have all experienced a good figure, mainly because the two fierce generals Long and Zhong Liwu are too crazy, and the death squads under their command are also crazy one by one, and the Qin soldiers who lack this terrifying and murderous aura naturally can't resist, even if the number still occupies an absolute advantage, was still defeated by Long Ji and Zhong Li's army, and was forced to the female wall facing the city.

There were more and more warriors of the young marshal army who climbed the city wall, and the 500 young marshal army who set off later also rushed to the front line in time, either charging up to the city on the ladder cart that could barely be used, or putting the flying ladder brought by the army on the city wall and climbing up the city on the flying ladder. However, the Qin army on the city wall still showed no signs of collapse, the reason is that the quality of the Qin army in Qu County is indeed relatively high, and the second is that in the previous several siege battles, the Qin army in Qu County has killed too many young marshal soldiers, afraid of retaliation after the young marshal army breaks the city, these Qin army soldiers of course hope to create another miracle and block the attack of the young marshal army again.

It's a pity that the Qin army has no chance to create a miracle this time, and the young marshal soldiers who have burned the camp by themselves in order not to be tormented by the cold wind and sea breeze in winter, they rushed to kill far more than the previous siege of the city, and the follow-up team of five hundred people, more than half of the soldiers rushed to the city wall in a blink of an eye. At the same time, the third ladder car of the young marshal's army was also pushed by the soldiers, slowly and unshakably advancing towards the city wall of Quxian County.

The defenders of the Qin army of the other three gates are rushing to the west gate of the main attack of the young marshal army, the city wall of the west gate is crowded with people, people are oppressed, the battle is dark, the sun and the moon are dark, the fierce shouts and the roar of the battle converge into one, straight into the sky, the intensity of the battlefield also directly exceeds the first hard battle of the young marshal army that Xiang Sui's army fought on Yishui Road before.

The sky is getting dark, but the fierce battle on the city wall is still continuing, the Qin army and the young marshal's army have repeatedly tug-of-war, almost inch by inch to compete for the position on the city, and it is difficult to insert a needle into the narrow city wall position, so that after the third ladder car of the young marshal's army leaned on the city wall, the follow-up army could not step on the almost intact ladder car to go up to the city, and it was too crowded.

In the melee, Zhong Li, who was born to be a general, found an opportunity to get close to Long and loudly invited Long and himself to attack the West Gate Tower of the Qin Army, and after Long and agreed, the two armies then rushed to the city tower together, and after a hard and bloody battle, the young marshal army death squad finally repelled the Qin soldiers who were standing in front of the city tower, and set fire to the city tower. The young marshal army under the city tower also found an opportunity to hit the city car, and struggled to open the city gate, opening the way into the city for the main force.

It must be praised, even at this point, the Qin army of Qu County still did not break up and flee for their lives, and still resisted hard above the city wall and in the city, forcing Xiang Sui to send almost all the troops into the city, leaving only 500 soldiers around to defend the flag array, which finally occupied the upper hand on the battlefield.

In this battle, more than 1,200 Qin troops in Qu County were killed in battle, less than 100 people laid down their arms and surrendered, and there were even fewer who escaped from the city. ——Because in the rich township of Jianghuai, there are really not many brave and tenacious soldiers like the soldiers of Qu County.

It was still at dawn the next day, after the overall situation in the city had been decided, the death squad led by Zhong Liwu and Long He returned to Xiang Sui to give orders, but the two hundred death squads they led were only a hundred people left at this time, and Zhong Liwu and Long He were even more bloodstained all over their bodies, and what flowed on their bodies was not all the blood of the enemy.

Xiang Sui stopped Long and Zhong Li's salute in time, took their hands and said excitedly: "General Zhong, General Long, I am inferior to you, I am inferior to you, my position should be for you to sit!" Don't worry, I will definitely tell the young marshal the truth about your two performances, ask him to reward you, and ask him to reuse you! ”

Zhong Liwu hurriedly humbled himself, but Long Ji rubbed his belly and laughed dryly, and said, "Du Wei, in the future, will you talk about it later?" Can you give me a little wine first, I'm hungry and thirsty, and I can't hold it anymore. ”

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Hundreds of miles away, Xiang Kang certainly didn't know that his army had already joined Zhong Liwu and Long He, two fierce generals and generals in the history of the late Qin and early Han dynasties. In order to take Pengcheng, the largest city in Surabaya County, as soon as possible, after taking the small city of Fuyang, the main force of the young marshal army personally led by Xiang Kang did not even enter the city, and immediately went south after a short rest, and drove to Pengcheng along Qin Chi Road, but it was a pity that Xiang Kang was still a step slower, and when the main force of the young marshal army was still twenty miles away from Pengcheng, there was an urgent report from the front, saying that Zhao Zhuang, the old opponent of the young marshal army, had rushed to Pengcheng with more than 4,000 people, and had already set up camp directly at the Surabaya ferry. blocked the way for the young marshal's army to march under the city of Pengcheng.

"Old horseman, it's coming so fast." Xiang Kang scolded, scratched his head and said: "It's troublesome, Zhao Zhuang is guarding the Surabaya ferry, and it is clear that he wants to attack it halfway, even if we attack and grab the ferry, or find other ferries to cross the river, he is likely to fully retreat to the city, and when the time comes, the defenders in the city are sufficient, and if we want to take Pengcheng, it will definitely not be so easy." ”

"What is the young marshal going to do?" Zhou Zeng asked.

Xiang Kang, who has always been resourceful, is rarely a little helpless, originally with the current strength of the young marshal army, whether it is forcibly rushing to cross, or dividing troops to cross the river from other ferries, there is no small certainty of rushing through the Surabaya natural danger, but if Zhao Zhuang's main force cannot be annihilated in the field battle, Zhao Zhuang retreats to Pengcheng City, and it will definitely be difficult for the young marshal army to take Pengcheng again. Forced to be helpless, Xiang Kang could only give a negative answer, saying: "Go to the scene to see the situation first, and then find a way." If there is really no way, you can only follow the step-by-step process, cross the river first and then find a way to attack the city. ”

As Xiang Kang expected, the old opponent Zhao Zhuang really got the idea of withdrawing to the city to garrison if the situation was not right, and asked Pengcheng County to order Wang Yong to prepare a camp for himself in the city, and after receiving the report that the main force of the young marshal army was approaching, Zhao Zhuang smiled so cruelly: "Dog thief, hurry up and let the horse come!" Rushing to the front, the official will attack halfway, even if he can't kill you, the official will knock out a few of your teeth. Divide the troops to cross the river at other ferries, and if you can beat the officer, you will fight, and if you can't beat the officer, you will enter the city immediately, and see what you can do with the official?! ”