As soon as the three of them came out of the tent, Li Xiaofeng turned his head and asked Li Jian, "Uncle Li, what do you think of the idea that my brother-in-law just said?" ”

Li Jian was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Lin Feng, hesitated for a moment before saying: "Eighty percent win rate, eighty percent dangerous!" One of the most important variables is in Fengzhou, it just so happens that Fengzhou is now led by Huang Chao with an army of 80,000, don't forget, Huang Chao can attack Chang'an, it is by no means accidental, but has a certain military ability! ”

After finishing speaking, Li Jian shook his head slowly, and said to Lin Feng: "Master Hou, I just said my personal opinion, and I didn't mean anything about you, I hope you understand!" ”

"Yes, I understand!" Lin Feng nodded and said, "What General Li said is not unreasonable! Originally, it was to discuss together, express their opinions, and speak freely! ”

"Hehe, what Master Hou said is true!" Li Jian said with a slight smile.

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Early the next morning, the whole army began to move, and the battalions gathered their men and horses to prepare for the siege.

After a simple breakfast, I went to the handsome tent with Li Xiaofeng. At this time, Uncle Li Huang had already put on a golden armor, holding the seven-star Longquan sword in his hand, and stood in the tent with high spirits.

Seeing that Lin Feng and the two arrived, Uncle Li Huang nodded and said, "Okay, just wait for the two of you, the rest of the battalions have been prepared!" Let's go! ”

Then he followed Uncle Li out of the tent, rode on a war horse, and rode out of the barracks surrounded by a group of pro-guards.

When he arrived at the front line, Lin Feng was surprised to find that the craftsmen in the original battalion had built countless large and medium-sized catapults overnight.

As Uncle Li came to the front of the army, waiting for the generals of each battalion to come and report one by one, Uncle Li Huang turned his head and nodded slightly to Li Jian behind him and said, "Give the order!" ”

As Li Jian stretched out his hand and waved it vigorously towards the rear, the hand of the flag commander on the command tower sank down with all his strength, and then he heard the voices of the heralds of each battalion one after another: "Load, prepare, fire!" ”

With the sound of "squeak" around them, hundreds or thousands of large trebuchets slowly began to operate.

Immediately after that, there was a burst of sound of breaking the sky, and huge stone bullets were thrown by large trebuchets.

A moment later, with a dull sound, accompanied by the shaking of the ground under his feet, the first stone projectile smashed on the walls of Liangdang City, and from a distance, you could see the large and small stones shattered by the violent collision flying in the air with a puff of dust and smoke.

With the first, the second, and the third followed. Due to the bursts of dust and smoke raised by stone bullets on the city wall, from a distance, the Liangdang City at this moment seemed to be being blasted.

After about forty minutes, the trebuchets of the battalions slowly stopped, and by this time the eastern wall of Liangdang City had become potholes, and even smashed out of the gaps in some places. Although it seems to be extremely tragic, in fact, Lin Feng personally thinks that it has no actual lethality, and at most far-fetched can be considered to have caused psychological deterrence to enemy soldiers.

With Uncle Li Huang's outstretched right hand swinging forward, the second wave of attacks was about to proceed again.

I saw that the soldiers of each battalion were neatly arranged and dispersed in an orderly manner, and then a series of medium-sized catapults slowly appeared on the front line.

Lin Feng took a general look, each medium-sized catapult was equipped with twenty people, twelve of whom were to push the catapult in order to move, four people would turn the arm of the catapult to aim in the direction, and the other four were carrying stone projectiles. As for the 12 men who pushed the catapult, after the catapult stopped, they all took on the important task of pulling the tip of the rear of the trebuchet attached to the crossbar. (To put it simply, the pins, also known as the cannon pins.) The gun ends were erected on a wooden frame, one end of which was tied to a holster containing the stone projectiles, and the other end was tied with a number of ropes for the force to pull and throw the stone projectiles. ）

This second wave of attacks was really large-scale, with about 1,500 medium-sized trebuchets dispatched, about 200 in each row, and as many as six rows in a full row!

Just when Lin Feng thought that these were also for siege, the medium-sized trebuchet in the front row stopped when it was still five or six hundred meters away from the city wall. Immediately afterwards, it began to change the formation, slowly merging from six rows to three rows!

Just when Lin Feng was a little confused, those medium-sized trebuchets used practical actions to solve the doubts in his heart. The trebuchets in the front row fired the first wave of stone projectiles, but their target was not the Liangdang city walls, but the moat surrounding the city.

Immediately afterwards, I saw all kinds of siege equipment appearing in each battalion, three siege towers that were ten meters high, a giant ramming vehicle that was almost twenty meters long, and ten giant wooden shields about five or six meters long and wide.

As soon as the siege tower appeared, a large group of soldiers ran out from behind, each holding a thick plank in their arms, and skillfully ran to the front of the siege tower and began to pave the road. Lin Feng suddenly realized that because the siege tower was too huge, it had to be erected on a wooden stake with pulleys, so that the soldiers could push and pull it to move forward. For various reasons, it is necessary to prepare on the ground in front of it before the operation, so as to ensure that the siege tower can move forward smoothly.

Four of the giant wooden shields were placed in front of the ramming vehicle under the control of their respective soldiers, and were used to protect the soldiers around the ramming vehicle. The remaining six giant shields, in groups of two, were shielded in front of the three siege towers, intended to provide cover for the soldiers who paved the way and pushed and pulled the siege towers.

In the battlefield, everything is proceeding slowly and orderly, like a huge machine. After the medium-sized catapult had finished the stone bullets it carried, it had filled up the moat, which was not very wide, and the road to the three siege towers had been almost paved to a distance of 150 meters from the city walls.

The battle space in front of the top of the siege tower has begun to appear ** crossbowmen, and at this distance, the enemy army on the opponent's city wall has entered the attack range, so the crossbowmen of the two sides launched a life-and-death battle of archery.

Obviously, the siege tower is slightly inferior in this situation, because the enemy army not only has crossbowmen attacking, but also small catapults on the city wall to concentrate fire on it, although the firepower is not strong enough, but the stone bullet attack still plays a certain role in the crossbowmen of **. This can be seen from the continuous transport of wounded from the siege towers to the ground.

And during this period, the enemy's counterattack on the ground was somewhat insignificant. The narrow walls of the two cities could barely accommodate some small trebuchets for counterattacks, and they were basically attracted by the three siege towers. The rest of the archers can only inflict some senseless blows on the giant shields and siege towers that can only be within range.

After a long distance, only half of the arrows fired by the crossbowmen were able to nail to the giant shield, and most of them fell to the ground weakly due to the lack of penetration. There are very few who can cross the giant shield and cause damage to the ** soldiers. Only the occasional stone projectile from the small catapult happened to land behind the shield, occasionally inflicting some smashing wounds on the soldiers hiding behind the shield, but the wounded soldiers were quickly carried back to the rear, and the vacant positions were immediately filled by the personnel in the rear.

Seeing that the battle line had been pushed not far below the city, under the order of Uncle Li Huang again, the ladder soldiers of each battalion were dispatched.

Groups of soldiers resisted ladders more than ten meters long and left the camp, and rushed up at a trot.

At this point, the official siege has begun...