The element of the city offensive and defensive battle is how to give full play to the advantages of their own geographical advantages, at this point, Zhang Mingwu obviously has a lot of experience, he did not put all the troops on the city wall, but only put a thousand troops on the city wall, but let two thousand people Zhuang go to the city to assist in defense, five hundred shield knife hands each stand next to two people holding a long wooden fork, the rest of the people are in the back row, ready to throw the wooden rolling stone, when the long ladder of the Yue Wang army is thrown on the city, first by two people holding wooden forks to resist the long ladder, twist hard, Easily push the long ladder down, as for the shield knife hand, it is responsible for killing the dead soldiers of the Yue Wang army who slipped through the net and rushed to the head of the city, while the rest of the five hundred Donggong guards who originally stood in the shield array put down their shields and killed the Yue Wang officers and soldiers gathered under the city with a chain of crossbows.

"Ladder, up, up!"

Seeing that the striker was full of casualties, he rode his horse and rushed to Gan Zhuang Wuden under the city, his eyes were red, and he roared angrily to urge the siege ladder that was not moving fast to move forward.

Li Zhen dared to delay the siege under huge pressure, relying on sharp weapons such as siege ladders, but saw that there were three layers of ladders as high as more than 20 zhang, and there were three-foot-high baffles on the top floor, and there were ten archers on the elk, relying on the advantage of being a large section higher than the city wall, they could easily suppress the defenders at the head of the city, and the second layer was basically flush with the city wall, and there were fifteen shield swordsmen standing on it. The warriors who follow the side of the ladder can rush into the bottom layer, and rush to the first two layers along the channel of the bottom floor to maintain the continuity of the attack, such equipment is undoubtedly a weapon in siege warfare, of course, the siege ladder is not without defects, first of all, the manufacturing process is quite complicated, and it is also very cumbersome, and it must be pushed to the city by a large number of people, but once it is on the city wall, it can immediately exert great power, which is not comparable to leisure.

"Prepare the oil bomb, throw!"

As soon as he saw the cloud ladder rumbling coming, Zhang Mingwu couldn't help but smile, not for anything else, just because of this kind of raw cowhide, it seems that the big guy who can set fire to it encountered a fire oil bomb that does not burn, it is simply a dead target, purely a role to send credit, for this, Zhang Mingwu has long been prepared, and after the cloud ladder swayed along the embankment and crossed the moat, before it leaned against the city wall, Zhang Mingwu had already roared and gave the order.

"Boom, boom......"

Zhang Mingwu gave an order, and there were thirty strong men in the army who struggled to throw the fire oil bombs that ignited the fuse to the behemoth siege ladder, and the three of them waited for one, although a few missed, and a few soldiers were shot on the spot by the crossbowmen on the top of the ladder, but most of the fire oil bombs hit the target accurately, and the explosions hit again and again, and the fire was raging in an instant, even if the officers and soldiers of the Yue King on the cloud ladder fought desperately, but how could they suppress the fire, but they set themselves on fire, but only a moment of effort, The siege ladders that had finally approached the city wall had all been burned into huge torches, and the soldiers on top of them were burned and jumped down like dumplings, not only killing themselves, but even worse, the fire was drawn to the officers and soldiers under the city, and the whole city was suddenly in chaos.

"Pour oil!"

Although the Gan Zhuangwu Department under the city was already in chaos, Zhang Mingwu did not intend to stop there, but seeing that he smiled and waved his hand, he roared again, and the soldiers who had already prepared rushed to the city with oil drums, regardless of the hot oil that had just been poured downward, only for a moment, the entire city was already a sea of fire, and the poor nearly 5,000 Yue Wang troops who rushed to the city were burned to the ground crying wolf, and they had to rush out of the sea of fire, and the ten pavilions had already lost more than seven pavilions, and only more than 1,000 remnants of the soldiers were lucky enough to escape back to the main formation.

"Attack, attack again, don't stop!"

Looking at the raging fire under the city, Li Zhen's full of hesitation and ambition instantly turned into a bubble, first stunned and stupid, and then his body suddenly trembled, and he roared angrily, and he was really angry.

Li Zhen lost his temper like this, and Li Su, who was ordered to attack in the second wave, was afraid in his heart, but he didn't dare not bite the bullet, but this time he was obedient, and he didn't dare to take the extremely heavy siege ladder directly against the city wall, but put all the ten ladders under his command on the side of the moat and used as an arrow tower, and the heavy task of rushing the city was handed over to the three thousand foot soldiers who carried the long ladder to rush to the city, so that the pressure on the defenders suddenly increased a lot, and the casualties began to gradually increase. In particular, the people who did not have armor to cover were shot and killed by the crossbowmen on the cloud ladder of the city, and the battle situation seemed to be faintly tilted in favor of the Yue Wang army.

"Change the bomb, target: rush the city ladder, put!"

As soon as he saw that he was under the suppression of the ladder to the city, he gradually became passive, and Fang Xiaoshan, who was in charge of commanding the trebuchet at the head of the city, was in a hurry, and quickly rushed down the urn city, roaring and giving an order, and then saw a group of people who operated the trebuchet carrying huge stone bullets, and quickly adjusted the projectile angle of the trebuchet, and in the sound of the slogan, one by one was two circles larger than the original, and the stone bullets weighing more than 100 catties rose into the sky, crossed the city wall with a parabolic trajectory, and crashed heavily into the city ladder by the moat. Although the quasi-head is really difficult to compliment, but the victory is in the number, thirty heavy trebuchets threw more than a dozen rounds in a row, and finally destroyed most of the ladders arranged by the Yue Wang army on the side of the moat, and the remaining three storm ladders are still intact, but the crossbowmen on them are frightened by the power of the defenders' trebuchets, no matter how the officers scold, they refuse to go up the ladder to die, the Yue Wang army's originally smooth attack momentum has fallen into a state of stagnation again, and can only rely on the long ladder to fight to the death of the ants, under the heavy casualties, Gradually, it was no longer able to stand it.

At noon in the battle, Li Su's troops in his hands had been lost more than half, seeing that the fortified city was difficult, the morale had been completely lost, and he had to retreat back to the main position again in embarrassment, and the second round of strong attack ended in failure, but the state and results were obviously much stronger than the first batch, killing and wounding hundreds of people, not to mention, even the strong Donggong guards also had more than 200 casualties, and what encouraged the Yue Wang army was that the troops who rushed to the city had killed the city several times, although they failed to gain a foothold, they were killed by the defenders, But at least let the Yue Wang army see a glimmer of hope for victory.

"Father, the child please rush to the city, don't break this city, and swear not to collect the army!"

Seeing that the two groups of Chongcheng troops were defeated and returned, Li Chongzi could no longer hold his breath, so he immediately stepped forward, bowed down, and shouted for battle.

"Okay, my son dares to fight, and for my father, I should personally beat the drum to cheer for my son!"

Although after the two battles, the loss of troops has exceeded 7,000, but Li Zhen did not relent, just because in the previous battle, he had seen the hope of victory, and was thinking about who to send to the third group.

"The child obeys!"

Li Chong has always regarded Li Xian as an imaginary enemy, and dreamed of defeating Li Xian on the battlefield, but now he finally has the opportunity to compete with Li Xian.

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Li Chong's department had just moved, and Li Zhen, who was in high spirits, had already taken off his helmet and held two drumsticks, but he beat the drums vigorously, and in the rumbling war drums, the horn roared violently, and the battle spirit soared into the sky for nine days.

"Go, ask Wang Fangming to send all the cloth bags I confessed to the city!"

Seeing that it was Li Chong who led the troops out, Li Xian's brows couldn't help frowning, and then took a closer look at his military appearance, and immediately judged that this group of troops was definitely the most elite troops in the Xiangzhou army.

Li Chong's department rushed very quickly, and the tactics still followed the previous set of Li Su Chong's city, the difference is that Li Chong has as many as 20 cloud ladders in the city, and the combat effectiveness of his department is also significantly higher than that of Li Su's department, although Zhang Mingwu has transferred a reserve of 1,000 people, and the trebuchet position has been launched with all its might, but it is still difficult to completely contain Li Chong's department wave after wave of strong attacks, and several flaws in the city defense have been exposed. Dozens of brave men desperately guarded the two long ladders at the breach, in order to cover the follow-up troops rushing up the city along the breach, and the situation was quite dangerous for the defenders.

"Okay, go up, keep up, kill the city, there is one who kills Li Xian, the reward is ten thousand, and the marquis of ten thousand households is sealed!"

Li Chong was originally commanding about a hundred paces away from the city, and when he saw that his soldiers had already established themselves on the city, he was in a mood of 120,000 excited, and he led his guards to the moat, shouting loudly and giving a heavy reward order, as if the city had been completely conquered.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has brought the cloth bag, please make it clear to Your Majesty!"

The fierce battle on the head of the city was in full swing, but Li Xian was always unmoved, standing like a mountain at the city gate, except for the occasional shot to drive away the stray arrows that shot over, he did not interfere with Zhang Mingwu's command at all, even if the Yue Wang army had occupied a small section of the city wall, Li Xian still stood lightly, as if nothing happened, until Wang Fangming led several servants to hurry in the air, Li Xian's expressionless face showed a faint smile......