Zhao Kuangyin personally walked up to the head of the city that was fighting fiercely, looking down at the city, the soldiers and horses were like a vast ocean! The tall ladder trucks look like monsters of ant colonies. The noise is like a wave of sound, and people's ears are "buzzing" all the time. The stones thrown by the catapults and the crossbows of the ballistas flew down one after another, and the rockets flew brilliantly in the air, and the battle was very large, but it was like a small pebble falling into the East China Sea, and not even a single wave could stir up.

At this moment, he imagined that a huge mountain fire could burn from the wilderness below the city, or a tornado howling by, and surely so many people and horses open to heaven and earth would be wiped out! But no one has the power of the gods, and mortals only have mortal weapons to attack the mighty army without pain.

Even the unexpected "catapult cannon" used by blacksmith Guo was terrifying, but it could not reach the power of divine power.

However, attacking and defending a city is an ancient method of warfare, and sometimes a small advantage can affect the balance. What amazed Zhao Kuangyin was the morale and combat strength of the Zhou army's siege army! It stands to reason that the ants will not send the most elite men and horses to attack the city, and he heard the shouts under the city in the Shu dialect, and probably judged that the siege here was the surrender of the Shu army...... Descending troops dare to climb the wall to attack? The courage and morale required for this kind of attack are no less than those of a field charge!

Zhao Kuangyin is an experienced military general, of course he knows that even if there are 100,000 troops in battle, most of them are just marching and arranging in the rear following the orders of the generals, and they rarely need to face the situation of desperately fighting as if they were dead, so if they have strict military discipline and can obey military orders, they are considered a powerful army...... How can it be so easy for someone who really has the courage to charge in front, and it tests the single qualification of the soldier.

He had to re-examine the combat strength of the Zhou army.

Arrows flew wildly overhead, shouting killing at his feet, and Zhao Kuangyin's personal soldiers were holding shields in front of them, nervously guarding.

At this moment, not far away, "Hey! Hey" shouted to attract Zhao Kuangyin's attention, and when he looked sideways, he saw three soldiers lifting a heavy hundred-pound round stone together! The ** artillery of the Zhou army was thrown, and the Northern Han army should use stone bullets to smash the Zhou army.

In front of them was bare, and the women's wall had collapsed by bombardment, and a ladder had spotted the gap. Suddenly, there was a scream of "ah", and one of the soldiers carrying the stone was pierced through the chest by an arrow! The weight of the stone immediately lost its balance and fell to the ground, and there was another cry of "ah", and the other soldier fell to the ground, and the "wow" screamed, and the heavy stone hit his feet.

The generals behind shouted: "Push the stone down!" ”

But after some tossing, a Zhou sergeant had already climbed up from the ladder, and he shouted: "I'm the first to go up the wall!" "According to the military merit decree of the Zhou army, the first person to attack the city and survive will be credited with great merit, and the small soldiers will also immediately rise to be the deputy commander of the command, effective immediately! And such a person will get into the sight of the emperor.

As soon as the words fell, a group of Northern Han soldiers with cherry guns poured into the gap, and the cherry guns stabbed the Zhou soldiers indiscriminately, and the sound of "clanging" metal impact, several cherry guns pierced him without piercing the armor! But the stabs of many people lifted the soldier back, and the man stumbled, and was overturned and fell backwards, and suddenly there was a cry of terror, and then a muffled "bang" was heard.

A moment later, another soldier jumped up, and when he saw a large group of pikemen guarding the wall, he shouted with red eyes, "Long live the Great Zhou!" The soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty shouted and surrounded them, holding knives and guns to the feet of crazy stabs, "Ding Ding Bang" There was a sound, only to see blood splashing in the crowd, and some soldiers were full of flesh and blood.

Two more Zhou soldiers rushed forward one after the other, and both sides slashed desperately, slashing their swords and spears on the armor like the sound of blacksmiths striking iron.

At this moment, a soldier came up with a black oil drum. A military general of the Northern Han Army personally took the black oil drum and poured it down! As a torch was thrown, the flames and black smoke rose together, and a miserable cry rang out from below!

The fire oil is very good against the ladder, because it is very sticky. Whether it is tung oil or sesame oil, most of it will flow away from the gap between the ladders, just like water; But the fierce fire oil is different, it sticks to the ladder and flows down the wood...... It's just a pity that there are too few to consume. These things were shipped thousands of miles from the south to Youzhou.

Rolling logs and masonry were smashed up and down the city walls, and fires burned on many of the ladders, and the smell of blood and burnt paste was diffused in a shout.

Not long after, the soldiers of the Zhou army under the city finally dropped the broken ladder by the city wall and retreated like a tide. The soldiers of the Northern Han Dynasty on the city wall shouted and celebrated.

Seeing this, Zhao Kuangyin said, "Let's go down to the city first." ”

Then he took a few generals and his own soldiers down from the inner side of the city. As he expected, after a while, he heard the sound of "boom, boom, boom, ......boom" cannon outside the city, and large stones rolled and flew up to the city. A large stone smashed right into the densely guarded crowd of defenders, and immediately blood and flesh splattered, and a group of people panicked and ducked. There are also stone projectiles flying up and hitting the female wall, which is even more lethal! Although the city wall is also spacious, but the place is still limited, just now the soldiers who are still desperately resisting the siege of the Zhou army are very dense, the masonry of the female wall was hit by violent force, flying in all directions, some soldiers covered their faces and screamed, blood soaked out from between their fingers.

A large number of dense infantry were shouted by the generals to evacuate to the city. Several earthen stoves and pots where the "golden juice" was burned were also destroyed by stone bullets, and the "golden juice" flowed on the ground. The floor tiles on the walls were smashed and splashed, and there was a mess on the top.

The stone bullet array was very large, and one might not be able to kill a person, but it couldn't withstand hundreds of doors round after round of indiscriminate bombardment, and Zhou Jun didn't know how many people were used to dig the stones.

Occasionally, one flew over the city wall from the wall. Zhao Kuangyin looked up and saw a round stone tumbling down and flying into a two-story attic. With a "boom", the heavy stone smashed straight through the roof, and as soon as the beams broke, the entire roof collapsed, and the wood and soil fragments fell down the street, and a large amount of dust rose up.

Zhao Kuangyin looked back at the neighborhood near the city wall, many houses were smashed, and it was like an earthquake here, in ruins!

Shi Shouxin said: "The tactics of the Zhou army seem to be to consume the Jinyang defenders, first attack the city, and then bombard it with artillery. ”

Zhao Kuangyin pondered for a while, shook his head and said, "It seems that this is the case at present...... But I think Blacksmith Guo is a very savvy person, never sticks to the rules, if I guess correctly, he will soon reformulate his tactics. ”

"What other tactics are there for siege?" Shi Shouxin frowned.