Wancheng.

Two hundred and fifty thousand Qin soldiers swarmed from all directions and launched wave after wave of offensives against Wancheng, which was occupied by the Chu army.

Countless Qin soldiers shouted and roared, stepped across the muddy snow, and rushed towards the head of Wancheng with their shields and ladders.

The soldiers of the Chu army above the city responded sharply to the soldiers of the Qin army with a dense rain of arrows and stones, and many of the soldiers of the Qin army were shot down on the way to charge, and many of them were directly smashed by the stones falling from the sky and fell from the ladder.

But even so, there were still hundreds of ladders set up at the head of the city by the Qin soldiers, and then a Qin soldier quickly climbed up.

In addition to the archers still shooting at the head of the Chu army, there are many soldiers holding Changge, pushing the top of the ladder away from the city, and when each ladder is pushed out of the city and falls to the ground, you can hear a cheer of the Chu soldiers on the city.

Even so, there were still many brave old Qin soldiers who dodged the rain of arrows, continued to climb among the countless stones falling from the sky, and soon approached the city.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!" In a burst of cheers, dozens of Chu soldiers hurriedly carried a mouthful of cauldrons to the city, these cauldrons emitted a pungent stench, and inside was a hot, still boiling "golden juice" mixed with human and animal dung.

The soldiers of the Chu State lifted the cauldron to the top of the ladder and poured the gold juice in the cauldron directly towards the Qin soldiers who were climbing.

The incomparably hot golden juice fell on the heads of the Qin soldiers from the sky, instantly scalding these Qin soldiers to the point of screaming.

Many Qin soldiers had to let go of their grip on the ladder and fell directly from the air to the ground under the severe pain.

Many of the unlucky ones fell to their deaths on the spot, and some of the lucky ones did not fall to their deaths immediately, but rolled around on the ground and crawled and screamed, but they couldn't get up.

After boiling, these gold juices can not only enter the skin through the cracks in the armor, but also contain a large number of harmful substances to the human body, almost equivalent to a poison that is both corrosive and penetrating, and the killing effect is extremely amazing.

There were even more Chu soldiers who poured up, and simply threw the cauldron down directly after pouring the golden juice, and killed and injured several Qin soldiers on the ladder on the spot.

Although this kind of behavior was cool all of a sudden, it immediately attracted a roar from the officers and generals of the nearby Chu State.

"Stupid baby, the kettle is lost, how can you burn gold juice in the future?"

From a distance, the Qin army on the cloud ladder is like a black ant, although it keeps falling from the city, but it has not stopped climbing the head of Wancheng for a moment.

But even so, the Qin army's first wave of cloud ladder siege tactics still suffered a very significant setback under the walls of Wancheng.

However, of course, the people of the Qin State who had been prepared for a long time could not expect to capture this important military town defended by hundreds of thousands of Chu soldiers and civilians just by relying on a few hundred cloud ladders, and it was even more impossible for Wang Di, who was already a general of the Qin State, to make such a stupid mistake of underestimating the enemy.

So soon, another killing move of the Qin people began to appear in front of the defenders of the Chu State.

A whistling sound suddenly sounded in the air.

"Stone bullets, dodge, dodge!"

In the frightened screams of the Chu army at the head of the city, dozens of boulders ranging from dozens of catties to hundreds of catties fell from the sky and fell heavily on the city.

The rumbling sound instantly resounded throughout the city of Wancheng, and even in winter, it still stirred up a large cloud of smoke and dust, mixed with countless screams.

The smell of blood slowly spread across the city.

Although this round of bombardment did not cause too many casualties, it dealt a great blow to the morale of the Chu army at the head of the city.

Not every stone bullet landed on the city head so accurately, and many stone bullets flew directly over the city head and landed in the city, smashing the streets near the city wall into potholes, and smashing several houses.

Before the soldiers of the Chu State could react to the astonishing power of this boulder bullet, someone suddenly screamed again: "It's the Qin people's slight!" (轒輼, pronounced grave temperature.) ）

In the exclamation of the soldiers of the Chu State, huge wooden chariots appeared in the sight of the soldiers of the Chu State.

Ten Qin soldiers pushed and pulled vigorously around and behind the chariots, carrying these monster-like chariots towards the head of Wancheng.

Hundreds of chariots marched towards the head of Wancheng at the same time, and the huge wheels crushed the ice and snow and slowly advanced in the snow, giving people the illusion of a concentrated charge of tanks at first glance.

The commanders at the head of the city of Chu were shocked when they saw these chariots, and hurriedly issued an order: "Crossbowmen, shoot these swords quickly!" ”

When the crossbowmen of the Chu army heard this, they had already prepared, and they aimed the bows and crossbows in their hands at one by one.

When these arrows came into range, countless arrows and crossbows rained down from the sky and fell towards each other.

However, to the disbelief of the people of Chu, after a round of almost full-coverage arrow rain, none of them stopped at all, but continued to move forward with determination.

There is a thick layer of protection on the top of the chariot, which is made of raw cowhide, and each chariot is covered with the raw cowhide of at least five cows, and ordinary bows and arrows cannot penetrate this layer of protection at all, let alone kill and wound the Qin soldiers under the protection of these chariots.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

One by one, the chariots began to approach the city, and stood firm under the walls.

The soldiers of the Qin army in the chariot began to get busy, and they laboriously pulled out a large bag full of dirt from the mezzanine of the chariot, and then poured the dirt to the ground.

In a matter of moments, more than a dozen large bags of dirt were dumped under the city walls.

Hundreds of chariots were working at the same time, but in a short time, a small slope appeared under the city wall.

Although this small slope is somewhat ridiculous compared to the tall walls of Wancheng, anyone with a little brain can see that as long as these chariots fill in the earth here repeatedly, then sooner or later the height difference between the two will be smoothed out, and a large slope will be created that is enough to make the defenders of the city tremble!

The Chu army at the head of the city was in chaos for a while.

"Damn Qin thief, quick, go and move the golden juice to deal with these shits!"

"Stones, go get the big rocks and smash them!"

It was at this time that another round of stone bullets from the stone throwing machine fell from the sky, making the soldiers of the Chu army, who were already a little messy at the head of the city, scream again and again.

At the same time, another piercing friction sound began to reach the city, and the Chu army, who had managed to escape from the stone bullets, let out a cry of surprise again after seeing what was in front of them.

"The Arrow Tower, it's the Qin thief's Arrow Tower!"

Under the protection and promotion of hundreds of Qin soldiers, dozens of arrow towers almost as high as the city wall began to slowly approach Wancheng, and the Qin army crossbowmen on the arrow towers launched a frantic confrontation with the Chu army crossbowmen on the head of the city after entering the firing range.

There was a fierce battle above and below the city, and the sound of killing shook the sky, and countless soldiers on both sides died tragically at the hands of each other's stone bullets, bows, and golden juice at every moment.

Countless drops of warm blood fell from the sky and fell onto the muddy ground that had been trampled by many footsteps, adding a disturbing red color to the winter land.

In the county guard mansion of Wancheng, Shangzhu Guojingyang, the commander of the 200,000 Chu army, had a grim face, listening to one urgent report after another from all defense lines.

"Shangzhu Country, the southern city wall is in an emergency! The Qin army had several sharp soldiers climb the city wall and almost break through! ”

"Shangzhu country, the north city wall is in an emergency! The stone bullets of the Qin army have damaged the northern city wall, and craftsmen urgently need to repair it! ”

"Shangzhu Country, the death toll in the wounded barracks is increasing, and the military doctor has asked for more manpower!"

"Shangzhu Country, the military rations are already in short supply, and the quartermaster asks if the rations should be reduced!"

"Shangzhu ......"

Finally sending away the messengers who would not bring good news at all, Jingyang rubbed his temples a little tiredly, and sighed slightly.

Compared with the ambition and high spirits before the expedition, Jingyang now looks ten years older.

All this is caused by this extremely rotten war situation on the Eastern Front.

Due to the surprise attack of Wang Ling's troops, Jingyang, who had been confronting Wang Di, had to give up all the defense lines outside the city and retreated to Wancheng to defend it.

But even if it is trapped, Wancheng is now on the verge of wind and rain.

The defeat on the eastern front once made Jingyang almost completely desperate, but fortunately, the successive arrival of Wei and Zhao's reinforcements and the convening of the Luoyi meeting gave Jingyang a chance.

Jingyang was silent for a moment, and then suddenly spoke: "How many days has the messenger sent to Luoyi departed?" ”

Someone on the side replied, "Three days." ”

"Three days." Jingyang repeated, if he hurried up in three days, he should be able to reach Luoyi almost immediately.

In the letter three days ago, Jingyang informed Chu Wangyuan, who was far away in Luoyi, that he estimated that he would be able to last for about a month.

But three days later, Jingyang changed his mind.

According to such a fierce offensive of the Qin army, in ten days at most, Wancheng is likely to be lost, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Wancheng will also be slaughtered by the Qin people!

As soon as he thought of this, Jingyang couldn't help gritting his teeth and said fiercely: "Continue to send messengers tonight and continue to ask for help from Luoyi!" ”

Wancheng has really reached the moment of stormy and survival!