In the early morning, the morning sun is rising.

Twelve trebuchets and twenty-six ballista wagons had been erected four hundred paces southeast of Zhenzhou.

This row of siege equipment is very spectacular.

Attacking the city first, Li Qi selected dozens of soldiers with loud voices in the army, holding a big iron horn in his hand, and shouted at the city head before the siege, trying to shake the military heart of the defenders.

However, most of Zhang Yanlang's subordinates were soldiers of the Liang State, and it seemed that the Shanxi dialect shouted by the Jinyang army was difficult to impress the Henan people defending in the city.

"Let's get started, it's useless to keep these people anymore!" Li Qi, who was riding on the jujube horse, said coldly.

Rumble! Boom!

Huge boulders streaked across the sky, flew over a distance of 100 zhang, and then slammed down on the towering walls.

The walls shook violently, and crumbling masonry and mud splattered everywhere. Some of the stones cut through the walls and fell into the city, smashing down some of the houses near the walls, causing horrific casualties.

On the city wall, the garrison of the town army was trying to escape, and was driven to the head of the city by the officers and the overseers.

The soldiers defending the city have not experienced the power of siege equipment for a long time, and the various siege equipment launched by the Jinyang Army makes people look novel, but it makes the defenders on the city feel infinite fear. Trebuchets, ballistas, bed crossbows, the Jin army does not seem to want to enter the city at all, but is testing the lethality of various long-range siege weapons.

No one can know whether the isolated city of Zhenzhou will be able to hold out after the Jinyang army begins to launch a fierce siege.

At the same time, in the camp of the Jinyang Army, the construction of siege equipment was still going on non-stop.

The experiment took three days.

"Why don't you give the order to attack the city, the town army on the head of the city has been reduced by nearly half?!" Yuan Xingqin looked at Li Qi very puzzled and asked.

"What's the hurry, isn't it easier to wait for no one in the city?" Li Qi replied lightly, "Now the morale of the defenders is still maintained, and their courage to resist must be completely dispelled!" I'm just very strange what method did that Zhang Yanlang use to let these people die for him? ”

"What's that, the overseer team below is staring, and retreating is a death!" Yuan Xingqin said disdainfully.

"That's not easy, it's a talent, it's a pity!" Li Qi sighed, "None of the Zhang family and the servants will be left, if you don't kill one example this time, this kind of thing will happen in an endless stream in the future!" ”

"Then what are you doing with so many siege engines? Not afraid of waste? ”

"Hehe, I still have to attack a strong city, in case Wang Yanqiu doesn't come out, he can only smash it." Li Qi smiled bitterly and said, this time the other party will be destroyed in his own hands.

In war, there is no room for mercy.

In the evening, the sunset in the sky seems to be faintly soaked in the color of blood. After being attacked by various siege equipment for three days in a row, the city of Zhenzhou was already drowning in blood. The walls of the city were crumbled, thousands of houses were smashed and thousands of people were killed and wounded.

Until now, the Jinyang army has not yet begun to attack the city.

This kind of state of being beaten and unable to fight back is the most desperate!

In addition, every night, the Jinyang army launched a surprise attack on the city head from time to time, and the siege weapons were fired together, and after the defenders were awakened and all rushed to the city head, they retreated. This disturbs people all night without a good night's sleep, and it is enough to make people collapse.

It seems that the northern army is not willing to lose too many troops under the city of Zhenzhou, and the cannons, giant arrows, and throwing stones of the Jinyang army beckoned like hail to the city and the city, so that the high-intensity battle lasted for three days, and the fighting would not stop until the night, and the soldiers defending the city could ease down a little.

As for the city, there were countless corpses and broken walls, and the wounded were wailing and moaning underground, and in the pool of blood, it was a tragic scene that was unbearable to see.

"It should be almost, start the siege tonight, starting from the North City!" Before dark, Li Qi stood on a high platform that had been erected, looked at the scene in the city and whispered.

"Your Majesty's tactics are really clever, deliberately weakening the offensive in the northern city so that the defenders can relax their vigilance, but I didn't expect that we would choose the farthest point of the breakthrough." The old fox Bai Chengfu slapped a sycophant casually.

"Okay, let's prepare!" Yuan Xingqin said and prepared to walk down the tower.

"You are not allowed to go, the personnel have already been arranged, and your pro-army will be led by Wang Xian!" Li Qi stopped in front of him and said loudly.

What are you kidding, if a general like you dies, Lao Tzu won't toss it in vain?!

The death rate in siege warfare is actually quite high, although the morale of the defenders has been hit hard in the past few days, who knows how many people will choose to resist desperately?!

Zhang Yanlang still decided to resist to the end!

When the offensive of the Jinyang army stopped for a while, Zhang Yanlang personally led the soldiers waiting under the city to the city to change guards and count the wounded.

The tragic situation of casualties at the head of the city and in the city also made him feel frightened, but there was no turning back when he opened the bow, and if he didn't resist, it would be a dead end after all!

Li Qi will not let go of these rebels, especially since he also killed the king Li Cunji with An Chongzhi!

At dawn, a waning moon hung in the western sky, which really made people feel extremely desolate!

In the middle of the night, the trebuchets erected by the Jinyang army outside the city were set up again, and the routine harassing attack continued.

Zhang Yanlang, who got up early to patrol, stood on the south gate tower, looking at the sparse siege team carrying the ladder and feeling a little ridiculous.

The Northern Army is really a little indomitable, it's been three nights in a row, do you think a certain family will let it go?

In the overwhelming rain of arrows and stones, some people set up ladders and tried to climb the city amid shouts.

The defenders above the city walls were not negligent and reacted in a timely manner to each attack of the Jinyang army. However, it is no longer necessary to wake up the personnel on rotation to go to the city.

Before, you have never seen so many and varied siege machines.

“…… But we have to hold on, I want to live, if the city is lost, no one wants to ......live" After getting off the city, Zhang Yanlang gathered his cronies and continued to cheer him up.

However, why did the shouting and killing in Beicheng suddenly become louder?

……

Before dawn, Zhenzhou Beicheng.

The four building carts were slowly pushed closer to the city wall, and the Jin army crossbowmen on the arrow tower were suppressing the town army defending at the head of the city with all their might, and the arrows rained down. The defense of the city, which was already only left with patrol personnel, became even more scarce.

The first ladders have been built on the walls.

This time, the Jin army's trebuchets threw a ball of grass that had been set on fire, a mixture of grease and gunpowder, and when it landed in the city, it immediately burst into flames, forming a burning wall of fire. In this era, most of the houses near the city walls were poor families, and there were many thatched houses, and many houses were set on fire in an instant, which caused even more chaos.

"Beat the drums and besiege the city!!" Li Qi, who was watching the battle from a high place on his horse, ordered loudly.

Boom! Boom! Boom! ……

The earth-shattering drums of war began to sound in a hurry.