"Okay, Haning, since you want to resist to the end and insist on killing yourself, then don't blame our army for being rude!"

Seeing that Haning'a refused his persuasion suggestion with such strong teeth and teeth, Sun Shan's face turned black, and he stared at Haning'a at the head of the city hatefully for a few moments, and then immediately pulled out his horse and turned around and left.

Returning to Duan Shidi's side, Sun Shan immediately talked to Duan Shidi about Haning's attitude of refusal to surrender, and finally said: "Mayor Duan, Haning'a is stubborn and resists the heavenly soldiers, and he is really stubborn to the end!" From the point of view, the only thing our army can do now is to step up the siege of the city. ”

Duan Shidi frowned, and before he could speak, Hong Chengchou, who had newly returned from the city, smiled and said: "Mayor Duan, in Hong's opinion, Haning'a, the guard of this town's far fort, is not a complete stubborn person. If he was really determined to fight our army to the end, he would not have come to talk to Sun Shan after our army killed more than 100 Qing troops in the city, but directly ordered the whole army to hold the city and fight to the death with our army. “

"Oh, then, according to Master Hong's opinion, this Haninga still has the possibility of surrendering?" Duan Shi glanced at him and asked in a low voice.

Hong Chengchou nodded and said: "In Hong's opinion, this is exactly the case, but this person is still unwilling to surrender, because he has not yet realized the strength of our army, so he is so lucky." What our army has to do now is to completely break his illusions and make him realize that our army still has a powerful and powerful siege capability without siege artillery and siege equipment. And as long as such a strong and fierce siege ability is demonstrated, Haning Ah will be extremely shocked, so it is very likely that he finally decided to open the city and surrender. ”

Duan Shidi's eyes lit up, and he immediately understood what Hong Chengchou meant by what he said, and he immediately ordered in a deep voice: "Order all the auxiliary soldiers to speed up the production of simple stone throwing machines, and there is no rest at night, and the production will be completed after dawn tomorrow at the latest!" ”

"Order!"

After Duan Shidi issued this order, he ordered the whole army to camp and rest on the spot. However, he still arranged a large number of infantry cavalry to take turns to guard the south gate of the only exit of Zhenyuan Fort, so as to prevent Haninga from leading his troops to escape.

In a short time, the night darkened, and the snow finally came to a rare pause, and Haninga, who was still standing at the head of the city, had a face as gloomy as iron, and the wind blew his cloak to hunt.

He pretends to be calm on the surface, but in his heart he has mixed feelings. Haninga has been thinking about a question now, that is, what kind of means will the Tang army, which has surrounded Zhenyuan Fort, use to take this seemingly extremely lofty and difficult Zhenyuan Fort. Haninga has asked himself this question many times in his heart, but he has never answered it.

In the middle of the night, Haninga, who had never slept well, got up again and patrolled back and forth on the city wall, but he seemed to be able to faintly see that in the distant forest, a little torch was flickering, and it seemed that many people were busy in the forest.

Haninga quickly thought that this should be the soldiers of the Tang Army making siege equipment overnight, preparing to attack Zhenyuan Fort in the coming day, but he didn't know that these guys would need a few days to build all the siege equipment.

However, seeing that the Tang army was so busy, Haninga still comforted himself in his heart, and it would take at least ten days and a half months for the Tang army to build enough siege equipment in such bad weather. If this is the case, he still has enough time to arrange the defense and organize the whole fort army to defend it.

Even, in the course of such a long confrontation, it is impossible for the Tang army to be in a state of strict encirclement all the time, if it is lax, he will secretly arrange for people to sneak out of the city to report the news, and the siege of the town's far fort should be resolved.

The busy time passed quickly, and before I knew it, the next day, the heavy snow had stopped, but it was still thick and low, and the wind roared, and between heaven and earth, it seemed that there was an uneven shade of gray and white, which was obliquely inserted into the horizon as far as the eye could see.

At this time, Haning, who had been busy all night, thought that there was nothing to do for the time being, so after inspecting the third watch, he returned to his mansion to sleep peacefully. And at dawn, he was sleeping soundly in his house, when suddenly a soldier came to knock on the door to report.

"Oh no, my lord! The Tang army carried a strange-shaped thing and pushed it from the forest to the outside of the northern city wall! ”

Listening to the urgent report of this subordinate soldier, Haninga, who was still asleep, suddenly opened his eyes and jumped off the bed.

"What do you say? What did Tang Jun push over? Haning's eyes were bloodshot and he shouted at the soldier.

"My lord, I have never seen this thing pushed by Tang Jun, I really don't know what it is, please forgive me." Seeing Haning's fierce appearance, the pro-soldier replied weakly.

Haninga frowned, he didn't think much about it, then put on his armor, and together with a group of personal soldiers, he hurriedly went out, and then climbed the city wall to check the truth.

Coming up the northern wall, Haninga was immediately shocked by what he saw.

He saw that, as the pro-soldier said, a strange-looking wooden instrument was being pushed by a large number of Tang Army auxiliaries shouting all the way to the north city wall.

Haninga saw that this instrument was all made of wood, connected with hooks and tenons, and all the joints were reinforced and tied with hemp rope, and the lower plate was filled with heavy solid wood, about five steps wide and nearly ten feet high, but it was a pitching rod made of thick and large logs, and on the top of the pitching rod, a huge wooden basin-like thing was tied with hemp rope.

This behemoth, which was still rudimentary, was pushed closer to the northern city wall step by step, and Haninga suddenly understood something, and his heart immediately tightened.

"it! What the Tang Army pushed was a stone thrower! ”

Haning's silent shout surprised all the guards next to him.

No, it turns out that this strangely shaped and ugly instrument is actually a trebuchet. Those Tang soldiers didn't sleep all night, they had been rushing to make this thing in the forest, could it be that they were planning to use trebuchets to throw stones to blast open the walls of this town's distant fort?

"Master, the city of my town is far from the fort, and the city walls are very strong, those Tang troops, if they want to throw stones, they will collapse my city, is it too impossible?" A soldier next to him asked cautiously.

Haninga listened to his question, although he didn't say a word on the surface, but in his heart, he also agreed with this person's statement. This town is so tall and strong, if the Tang army only relies on a stone thrower to throw stones, it would be too ridiculous to want to break through this town and far fort.

What's more, the trebuchet made by the Tang Army is very rough, and the length of the throwing rod is also insufficient, and it seems that the throwing power will never be too great, and it must not be compared with those powerful trebuchets such as the return cannon in history.

Thinking of this, Haning's mood suddenly relaxed, he coughed lightly, and said sharply: "The Tang Army's attack this time should be mainly based on intimidation, so don't panic, everyone should keep their own duties." ”

Everyone responded in unison, and then dispersed and took up their own guards. Haning'a, on the other hand, was still under the escort of several personal soldiers, almost without blinking, watching the Tang army in the distance shouting and pushing the stone thrower closer and closer.

Speaking of which, the main reason why Haninga and this group of Qing soldiers defending the city underestimated the Tang army's stone throwers so much was that their troops, over the years, had almost been stationed in Zhenyuan Fort and had never participated in the battle of entering the pass, so they were completely ignorant of the Tang army's trebuchets throwing earth-shattering thunder. Therefore, they didn't think at all that the current Tang Army was coming here, what they were going to do to them.

Just when Haninga and the others were stunned to see the Tang army pushing the stone thrower to the north city wall, another group of auxiliaries of the Tang army was doing something in a hurry.

That is, they used thin hemp rope to bundle up to nearly twenty hand-thrown sky-shaking thunderbolts together, and the leads of each sky-shaking thunder were all twisted together, and these usually loose individual sky-shaking thunders were uniformly bundled into a super-large cluster sky-shaking thunder.

Speaking of which, the earth-shaking thunder thrown by a single soldier is equivalent to one-tenth of the explosive equivalent of the 80-pound heavy siege earth-shaking thunder, but the amazing explosive power combined by more than 20 individual sky-shaking thunders is obviously twice the explosive power of a siege earth-shaking thunder, and it is obviously the best means to deal with the defenders of Zhenyuan Fort who are ignorant of the power of the earth-shaking thunder.

After a short time, the Tang army auxiliaries pushed the trebuchet and came to a distance of about 70 steps from the north wall of the town's far fort, and then stopped on the spot and began to prepare for loading.

Here, they squeaked down the throwing pole, and several Tang Army auxiliaries stepped forward and carefully placed the bundled earth-shaking thunder on the throwing box. Subsequently, another Tang army auxiliary lit the fire rope and pulled the throwing rod to the lowest at the same time.

Then, a loud shout came from the Tang army formation in the distance, and Haning'a and others saw that a person who looked like a member of the Tang army squad had the red flag in his hand held high.

"Ready!"

He shouted, and an auxiliary soldier next to him immediately lit the firewire in his hand and ignited the cluster of earth-shattering thunder fuses. The blue flames burst out, emitting a blurry and dazzling light.

"Put!"

With this order, several Tang Army auxiliaries who were gritting their teeth and holding down the winch immediately released the winch, only to hear a series of sounds, the winch returned violently and quickly, and the thick and long throwing rod immediately jumped up, and the burning cluster of earth-shattering thunder immediately flew towards the north wall of Zhenyuan Fort in the distance like a cannonball.

Seeing this huge ball glowing with blue light, rushing towards the north wall of Zhenyuan Fort at a rapid speed, Haninga and the guards all changed their faces in an instant.

Exercise! It turned out that what the Tang army threw was not a simple hard object such as stones, but a sky-shaking thunder that could cause serious damage to the city wall!

"Withdraw! Get out of town! “

Haninga roared loudly, and as the main general, he took the lead in turning around and running towards the horse crossing, and behind him, a group of guards also fled in horror.

With the Lord's example, the rest of the guards on the northern wall also fled in terror and howling, and even two or three of them, because they had been pushed and slippery, jumped over the women's wall, fell upside down from the wall, and fell into meatloaf.

However, Rao is Haninga and the others reacted so quickly, and the roaring cluster of earth-shaking thunder was already lightning fast, and it slammed into the pheasant moat on the north wall.

At this moment, the huge impact force made the entire northern city wall tremble violently, and Haninga and others, who were rushing down the city wall to escape, stood unsteadily, and many Qing soldiers slipped under their feet, all screaming and falling off the city, standing into a blur of flesh and blood.

And this ferocious collision defeated the main general, Haninga, who was fleeing from the horse road in a hurry, could not stand, he staggered on the road and fell a dog to eat, but fortunately his men hurriedly supported him, so as not to roll down the road from the horse road to the city.

It's just that Haning'a was lucky enough to be able to prevent the first blow, but it was difficult to dodge the second blow, and after the entire cluster of sky-shaking thunders hit the northern city wall, a red light flashed, and the dazzling yellow fire flashed immediately, and more than 20 sky-shaking thunderbolts also exploded at the same time.

The earth-shattering explosion almost shattered the eardrums of the Qing army at the head of the city, and the entire city wall trembled violently like a tuberculosis patient coughing violently. Where it was hit, a terrible hole with a diameter of several meters suddenly appeared, broken bricks flew like rain, and the yellow earth mist formed by the rammed earth inside was mixed with the white smoke of the earth-shattering thunder, and along the edge of this big hole, many shocking, like dense spider webs of huge cracks stretched out in all directions, from a distance, it looked like a strange and terrifying abstract art.

However, by this fierce bombing, the remnants of the Qing army at the head of the city were miserable, and the Qing army closest to the explosion site, under the action of the strong shock wave, was like a piece of paper blown up by the wind, flying down from the city, crossing a long or short parabola, and falling into a blur of flesh and blood.

And Haninga himself, who had just gnawed a mouthful of slush, finally got up from the ground in embarrassment with the support of the guards, but he was also shocked by the violent explosion and fell to the ground on his back again, together with the two guards who supported him, and rolled straight down the stairs from the top of the road.

Fortunately, the snow was so thick on the road that they were not seriously injured as they rolled down the road, but their faces and skin were broken, and only a few of the unlucky ones broke their bones.

Haninga rolled until he almost reached the foot of the city wall, he stood up tremblingly, wiped a handful of slush and blood from his face, but immediately shouted and ordered: "All the defenders of the northern wall should withdraw from the city, so as not to be accidentally injured by the enemy's mines." ”

In fact, in such a critical situation, there was no need for him to mobilize at all, and the remnants of the Qing army defending the city were like a group of terrified rabbits, wailing and rushing down from the city wall, and its momentum was unstoppable.

Speaking of which, they fled this time, and the speed was quite fast, just when the second cluster earthshaking thunder of the Tang Army was being loaded and launched, the northern wall of the entire Zhenyuan Fort, the Qing army had run away without a single shadow.