Heifu did not guess wrong, the posture of the Qin army to encircle Shouchun in all directions, its troops were neat, and the soldiers were elite, which really scared the king of Chu.

He wanted to defend the country and die, but Wang Jian expected that he might move the capital again and fled, so he deliberately did not cross the Huai to give him hope, but let Meng Wu, Li You and others cut off the escape route and trapped the king of Chu in Shouchun.

Although he hid in a deep palace separated by a high wall and the inhabitants, even in his dreams, he seemed to hear the sound of the Qin army cutting down trees on the mountain on the other side of the river, and saw that the siege equipment was being built day by day, and was spread out on the west and south sides, ready to attack at any time, and he felt more and more that his time was running out.

Sima, Youtu and others also persuaded him: "Although the state of Chu is in danger at the moment, it is better to be in Jinyang than Zhao Wuxianzhi and Qi Tian to keep Jimo alone!" Huainan and Jiangdong still have the division of King Qin, as long as they hold on for a few months, there may be a turnaround......"

They hoped that the king of Chu would personally ascend the city tower to encourage the soldiers to fight to the death, and the palace women would be arranged in the ranks to disperse the treasures and food in the palace.

However, he said with some despair: "The elite of Chu State has been buried by Xiang Yan in Huaibei, and Changping Jun has not been able to send out the matter of King Qin of Jiangdong for a long time, and the soldiers in the city are less than 50,000, how can they resist the more than 100,000 troops of Qin State?" ”

Zuo Tu and others persuaded him to surrender, but considering that Han Wang'an, Zhao Wangqian, and Wei Wangqian, who had previously surrendered to Qin, did not end well, he was still hesitating.

Just when he was in a dilemma, the witch spirit, who had always been favored by the king of Chu, suddenly ran out of the temple like crazy, laughed, bowed down in front of the king of Chu, and when he raised his head, there was a trace of madness in his eyes.

"King, Shouchun is saved, Chu is saved!"

The ministers and nobles looked at each other, but the king of Chu hurriedly and anxiously walked up to the witch spirit, helped him up, and asked expectantly, "The ghosts and gods have responded?" ”

"There it is!"

Wu Ling pulled the King of Chu to the outside of the palace, pointed to the sky in the distance, which was cloudy and cloudy, and thundered and said, "King, please look, the gods are in the middle!" Its body is full of brilliance, and it is not clear! ”

King Chu's eyes widened, but he could only see a bunch of ordinary dark clouds, how could there be any gods?

"Yun Zhongjun is gone again." The witch spirit sighed regretfully: "The king, you must bathe for three days, and then let a hundred witches wish to do it at the head of the city, and the king of the clouds can return to the ......."

"Gentleman in the clouds...... Can you really save the state of Chu, can you save the state of Chu (gǔ)? The king of Chu didn't know what to believe anymore, he was like a drowning man at the moment, and he could only try his best to grasp every straw.

"Yes!"

Wu Ling swore and said: "Although Yun Zhongjun often appears in human form, but his body is a dragon, and his dragon drives the emperor's clothes, and the sun and the moon shine together, as long as the king's sacrifices are enough, the minister will attract Yun Zhongjun, so that it will rain thunder and rain from the sky, and wipe out 100,000 Qin Kou outside the city!" ”

……

When the king of Chu pinned his hopes on ghosts and gods, the head of Shouchun City, but the Chu people were still saving themselves, and their resistance was extremely tenacious, and they even blocked several waves of attacks in a row......

On the Qin army's side, in addition to the traditional moth and holding a shield to break through the door, Heifu also saw almost all the siege methods of this idea: tens of thousands of people brought earth and stones from afar, built five earth mountains in the west of the city, even higher than the city wall, and then ordered the crossbowmen to live on it, and fired arrows and crossbows into the city to cooperate with the siege.

However, the Chu people completely blocked the gates, even if they destroyed the city gates, it was useless, and they had to move the solid earth and stones inside, and the Qin army would not be able to kill them for a while.

And the people who attacked the city wall could not stand firm, and were repeatedly driven down by the mourning soldiers of the Chu people.

Seeing that the Chu people in the city broke out in a desperate effort when they lost the country, Wang Jian was not in a hurry, but let the soldiers enter the city with smoke arrows at night, and in the night sky, the smoke arrows fell into the city like fireworks in the sky, but the people in the city have demolished the buildings close to the city wall, and the waterways in the city are vertical and horizontal, it is easy to put out the fire, so it can only play a harassing role.

But this is enough, the siege of the city is physical strength and patience rather than brute strength, ten are surrounded, and many times are attacked, the Qin soldiers outside the city are twice as many as the defenders at the head of the city, as long as they take turns to harass, so that they are physically and mentally exhausted, their morale falls, and sooner or later they will show flaws, Wang Jian does not want to be in a hurry and let himself suffer heavy casualties.

He asked the people to cut down a large amount of timber on the mountain and transport it to the other side of the river, and Qin Mo and other craftsmen such as Jun Sikong and Cheng Shang led craftsmen to make "flying stones", that is, trebuchets.

Flying stone is the invention of Wu Yue when he fought for hegemony, it is said that it is made by Fan Li, put the stone on the big wood, start the machine to hit the enemy, the flying stone weighs 12 catties, after the full strength, can be more than 200 steps to hurt the enemy! The disadvantage is that it is too bulky and the accuracy is touching.

In fact, in Hef's view, trebuchets are more effective against Western masonry walls, and they are not very useful in the face of integrated rammed earth walls, mainly used to destroy corner towers and arrow towers, and the stones that constantly fly overhead also have a certain psychological intimidation effect on people.

On this day, the trebuchet was built, the throwing arm was made of the trunk of an old tree, an iron hoop to prevent breakage, and there were wheels under the base frame that could be pushed along the flat ground to adjust the distance and angle of the attack. The appearance is rough and rich in the beauty of wooden machinery, and after Qin Mo's transformation, the power is stronger than the "flying stone" in the south more than two hundred years ago, and it can throw a stone projectile weighing twenty or thirty catties two hundred steps away!

In a moment, the men were to be pushed out from behind the dirt mountain, and the black men were ordered to stand guard in front of them.

But at this moment, the sharp-eyed Xiao Tao came to report that there was a commotion in the city!

"Riots?"

Heifu followed him to the front of the array, a stone's throw away from the city wall, and sure enough, he saw that the city head was indeed a little chaotic, different from the solemn garrison in the past, but a little noisy, and finally, the soldiers with blades and armor left the city wall and replaced them with a group of people wearing colorful feathers and crowns......

"Wu Zhu!?"

Heifu rubbed his eyes, yes, he was indeed a wizard, very similar to the witch who danced on the boat during the Gangneung Sangsi Festival.

Is this to curse Qin Jun? Heifu knew that when Qin and Chu turned their faces and went to war for the first time, the kings of Qin and Chu ran to the ancestral temple, offered sacrifices, carved stones as curses, and asked the gods of all walks of life to curse the enemy.

But now, the Qin people are all in the city, and it's useless to hold your feet temporarily, right?

After the group of witches blessed the head of the city, they first solemnly bowed down to the clouds in the sky, and offered some sacrifices such as cows, beans, and sheep, all of which were cooked food, and the aroma was fragrant in the big ding, not to mention the Chu pawn who had only drunk gruel for many days, even the well-fed Qin soldiers swallowed their saliva one after another.

After a burst of chatter, the protagonist appeared, a sorcerer wearing a sacrificial robe, a lotus robe, a ribbon, a blue crown, and a five-colored face painted walked to the head of the city, scanned the black and oppressive Qin army under the city with contemptuous eyes, and then struck the chime as a trumpet and began the sacrificial dance......

"Yulan soup is fragrant, and the clothes are beautiful. The spirit is curled up, and the rotten is not clear. ”

Heifu couldn't figure out what Chu Ren wanted to do for a while, so he said to Ji Ying: "Go, find Chen Ying." ”

When Heifu's guide, Chen Ying, came, the wizards at the head of the city happened to sing in unison: "The Spirit Emperor has descended, and the biāo (biāo) is far away in the clouds." ”

When Chen Ying saw this posture, his face froze, and he said in disbelief: "They ...... When I asked Yunzhongjun to descend (yì), I probably wanted to ask Yunjun to help. ”

"Yun Zhongjun, isn't that asking for rain?" Heifu is inexplicable, the Chu people want to borrow the power of ghosts and gods, and they also misunderstand the gods, why don't they find the big secretary to order all the Qin people outside the city?

Chen Ying explained: "In Huainan, Yun Zhongjun is not only the god of clouds and rain, but also the god of thunder and lightning, or he wants to cause heavenly thunder and defeat the Qin army......

"Heavenly thunder?"

Heifu couldn't help but laugh out loud, after so many years, he had been convinced that he was not in the Fantasy Immortal Plane, but in the real history, except for the unbelievable crossing of this matter, everything else was normal.

But the Chu Wu in this city thinks that he is the demon Zhuge Liang in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and he can borrow the east wind to spread the gossip array, and he also wants to light the seven-star lamp for the Chu State***?

At first, I thought it was ridiculous, but when I laughed and laughed, I felt sad and lamentable.

He looked at Chen Ying with a complicated face: "Do you believe it?" ”

"I don't believe it......" Chen Ying lowered his head, he admired his mother's foresight very much, the king in the city was actually so confused that he would rather let the city head soldiers go hungry, but also let Wu Zhu sacrifice the best meat to the ghosts and gods, it was really not worth dying for him.

Smart people naturally don't believe it, but this posture still makes many people feel that it is a bad thing.

Heifu found that many Chu people in the city bowed respectfully, and seemed to pin their hopes on the practices of the wizards, indeed, when people fall into despair, pinning their hopes on supernatural powers, isn't it normal?

If I remember correctly, when the Jin soldiers came to the city, the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty also wanted to break the enemy by relying on the tricks of charlatans to scatter beans into soldiers, but they left a joke for the ages, but if you look at the tragic image of Jingkang's shame, it makes people laugh......

"Sure enough, the kingdom is about to die, and there will be demons!"

It is not the real demon, but the fear in the hearts of the people, so that the demons can take advantage of the evil and be abducted.

And there are also many honest superstitious Qin people in the city who raised their heads worriedly, looking at whether the clouds in the sky really gathered and turned black, and they were silent for a while, and the wizards at the head of the city thought that their method worked, and the dance and singing became more energetic.

"Dongmen Leopard!"

Hefu shouted out to his second battalion commander.

"Let Zhang Sikong and Cheng Shang pull up all the made trebuchets!"

He drew his sword and pointed it at the demons at the head of the city.

"Aim at this group of witches! Come on a few shots, the true god is a false god, a human or a demon, just try it! ”

……

Half a moment later, just as the witches were about to complete their sacrifice, their long-awaited heavenly thunder really came!

With a dense and dull crashing sound! Those tall and rough trebuchets under the city, with the power of the people's rally and rebound, threw out stones all over the sky, and after crossing the apex, they fell rapidly, and dozens of black dots fell towards Shouchun City!

According to Hef's request, they all aimed at the wall where the witches were concentrated, and although the accuracy was too bad, or they fell into the moat with a bang before they reached the position, or fell into the city over the city wall, there were still a few lucky flying stones, which fell directly into the witch blessing because they could not interrupt the long dance and séance......

These more than ten or twenty pounds of stones are not comparable to arrows, but in an instant, the muffled sound of the stones hitting the city wall and the screams of the crowd became one, and the altar in the center collapsed after a beating.

After a few people died, the witches couldn't care about the dancing god, and regardless of the witch spirit's stopping, they all fled with their heads in their hands, like a bunch of flies that were slammed and scattered by the fly swatter when they were buzzing......

On that day, the sound outside the city was like thunder, stones fell from the sky, the demons were silenced, the gods retreated, and the city was turbulent, all of them were shocked!

And the Qin army, also taking advantage of this moment, launched a full-scale attack on Chu Capital, and Shouchun Waiguo fell!