The ladders, wheeled ladders, well railings, and the arrows nailed to the walls were all knocked down and destroyed by the swinging horizontal wooden cranes.

The huge pendulum-shaped giant tree also lifted heavy loads, and the siege weapons such as ladders, wheeled ladders, and well railings were almost all vulnerable in front of it, and all of them were knocked down, causing heavy casualties among the cadres and soldiers.

The screams under the city wall were so loud that the soldiers who had retreated dozens of steps back wanted to come forward to rescue the wounded soldiers who had not yet died and the comrades who were surrounded on the city wall, but they did not dare to approach at all.

Some of the brave generals figured out the rules of the pendulum swing, and took advantage of the interval between the back and forth, quickly stepped forward and dragged the wounded soldiers back, and the other generals saw this one after another.

The wounded soldiers under the city can be rescued for the time being, but the cadres and soldiers who were divided and surrounded on the city wall can not get any reinforcements, and the ladders and wheeled ladders are all knocked down, and the soldiers can not snatch the ladders back, and the wheeled ladders and well railings have been knocked apart and can no longer be used.

Even if there is a ladder, as long as the city wall will be hit by the pendulum pendulum, although this thing will not swing back and forth forever, and it will gradually lose kinetic energy after a long time, but the defenders tied a thick rope at the end of the pendulum, the thick rope is connected to the enemy building winch, every once in a while, the pendulum loses most of its kinetic energy and then the defenders use the winch to pull it back to the highest place to give it new potential energy, the pendulum falls again and begins to swing, and the potential energy is converted into kinetic energy.

The soldiers of the cadres under the city wanted to rescue the comrades trapped on the city wall, but they couldn't get close and couldn't climb the city wall, so they could only stand on the city wall and look up at the comrades on the city wall being killed one by one.

"Brothers, we have no reinforcements, no way out, we can't go back!"

A cadre commander shouted, slashed to death a Liu Song soldier who rushed up, and shouted to all the cadres and soldiers trapped on the city wall: "But we can't kill us by the neck, we can't wait for death, Liu Songjun wants to kill us, we have to make them pay!" We have a pension for the war dead, the bones can still return to their hometown, the family will be glorious for a lifetime, even if we die on the battlefield, it is worth it, long live the king! ”

"Hooray!"

"Kill—"

The more than 1,600 officers and men of the cadre army, who had no hope of escaping, regarded death as if they were at home, and burst out with great combat effectiveness.

These were originally the generals brought by Wang Huilong from Xingyang, although they were the Northern Wei army, but they were not Zhao Junsheng's descendants, they were only loyal to Wang Huilong, but since Sima Chuzhi surrendered to Zhao Junsheng, Wang Huilong also became Zhao Junsheng's generals, and the generals he brought naturally became cadres and enjoyed the same treatment as other cadres.

Trapped beasts are still fighting, dogs jumping over the wall is the current situation of these more than 1,600 cadres and soldiers trapped on the city wall, Wang Huilong was in a hurry under the city, he ran to Gao Xu and begged: "General, please send reinforcements, otherwise these more than 1,600 people will be finished!" The last general brought 5,000 men and horses from Xingyang, and now there are only 3,000 people left, and if these people are lost here, there will be few 5,000 people left, general, please! ”

Gao Xu took a deep breath and turned to face Wang Huilong, "General Wang, calm down, why doesn't General Ben want to save them?" But look, how to save it? The ladder can't get closer, and the soldiers can't get closer, and once they get close, they will be smashed to pieces by those hanging pendulums! ”

Wang Huilong was so anxious that he jumped to his feet: "Then what should I do?" Could it be that the last general watched them being annihilated by Liu Song's army at the head of the city? ”

Gao Xu took advantage of Wang Huilong's inattention, waved his hand and slashed at Wang Huilong's neck, Wang Huilong's eyes were stunned, and he fainted.

"Someone, carry him back to the camp, send someone to take care of him, collect his weapons, don't let him find a short time!"

"Yes, General!" Several soldiers stepped forward to carry the unconscious Wang Huilong back.

All the officers and soldiers of the cadres and soldiers watched from outside the city, those who participated in the siege, those who did not attack the city, those who attacked the city, and the cavalrymen, all quietly watched their comrades being besieged on the city wall, fighting to the death.

After the battle lasted for two full hours, the officers and men of the cadres who were trapped on the city wall took advantage of the narrow characteristics of the city wall to maneuver with the defenders, cooperate with each other and support each other, and always persisted, striving to kill and wound more defenders.

More than 1,600 people lost more than half, and only more than 800 people remained, and although the Liu Song defenders had an advantage in strength, the terrain restrictions did not give much play to the strength advantage, and the Liu Song army also lost more than 600 people.

This is the first time that so many days have passed since the initial siege battle!

It's been two hours, Zhao Junsheng's brows have been locked, he is trying to find a way to solve the situation in front of him and want to save the soldiers and generals trapped on the city wall, but he has no clue.

If you want to save people, the prerequisite is to solve those large tripods and hanging pendulums, without solving these sharp weapons to defend the city, the cadres and soldiers will not be able to get close to the city wall at all.

How to solve these tripods and slings?

Zhao Junsheng temporarily called the generals of the various armies, the staff of the army, and the officials over.

"We can't just do this and watch the soldiers being surrounded and annihilated alive, we have to do something! Think of a way to see if you can break those tripods and pendulums! ”

Before Zhao Junsheng summoned them, these generals and officials had actually been thinking of a way, but they had thought of all the ways they could, and none of them could cause substantial damage to these large tripods and hangings.

"King, do you want to stop smashing with trebuchets, or try with a bed crossbow?" Li Bao saw that everyone was silent, so he spoke his thoughts first.

Zhao Junsheng shook his head: "It's not that I haven't tried it, the hit rate of the trebuchet is too low, I smashed so many stone bullets, and none of them hit; The crossbow arrows of the bed crossbow were of limited power, and the bolts nailed to the thick pillars of the tripod did not respond at all! ”

Everyone fell into deep thought, the atmosphere around them was a little depressing, and the discomfort in their hearts was indescribable to see those soldiers trapped on the city wall and be surrounded and annihilated.

After a long time, a voice suddenly broke the silence, and the supervisor of the siege camp said: "King, the minister has thought of a way, and I don't know if it is feasible······"

Zhao Junsheng was in a bad mood, raised his hand and said, "If you have something to say, don't grind!" ”

"Uh, yes!" The supervisor of the siege camp froze and said, "King, didn't the craftsman battalion send a batch of oil canisters a few days ago?" Xiao Chen thought that he could use a wheeled trebuchet to aim these fire oil bombs at those triangular brackets and hanging pendulums and launch them, according to the craftsmen of the craftsman battalion, those fire oil cans would catch fire as soon as they hit the ground and smashed, if they were smashed on those triangular brackets, would they catch fire? ”

Cui Hao was puzzled: "Oil tank? If you smash it, it will catch fire? Impossible, you splash the oil on the ground and throw another torch over to see if the oil burns? Fire oil can be burned, but it needs to be ignited to burn! ”

Zhao Junsheng has a different opinion, a few days ago he personally went to the craftsman camp to watch the craftsmen throw the fire oil can, the fire oil tank is not only pure fire oil, the craftsmen in the fire oil mixed with sawn wood ash, silk wool and other flammable igniters, in advance on the oil immersion lead on the oil tank, the oil tank was thrown out and then smashed to the ground, the oil splashed out and was ignited by the burning lead after the ground, and soon burned a large piece.

If you don't have flammable materials such as sawn wood ash and silk wool, the oil will not burn after splashing to the ground, but it will be easily ignited if it is mixed with these things.

Thinking of this, Zhao Junsheng thought that this was indeed a good way, but ······ Once the triangular brackets and pendants on the city head were ignited, and the surrounding walls were engulfed in flames, wouldn't the trapped generals not be spared?

The supervisor of the siege camp said: "The canisters of fire oil sent by the craftsman battalion can be smashed and burned on the ground, but once the city is on fire, then the soldiers trapped in the city will probably also die in the fire!" ”

Zhao Junsheng looked left and right and asked, "What about Wang Huilong?" Today's attacking soldiers will be his men, where has he gone? ”

Gao Xu clasped his fists and replied: "King, General Fangcai Wang's emotions are a little out of control, and the last general is afraid that he will do something, so he knocked him unconscious and sent someone back to the camp!" ”

Zhao Junsheng groaned for a while, and ordered: "Gao Xu, go and give an order to those trapped soldiers, pass on the military order of this king, let them jump from the city to get out of trouble, if they are injured and disabled, the government will support them for the rest of their lives, and support their children until they are eighteen years old, if they are unlucky······ This king also commemorates their families with their deaths! ”

Gao Xu clenched his fists and agreed: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

He quickly turned and mounted his horse and galloped away in the direction of the city wall.

The herald conveyed Gao Xu's order and repeated Zhao Junsheng's original words aloud to the soldiers who were trapped on the city wall and were still fighting desperately.

"Hahaha······ The king is benevolent and righteous, but we can't survive! A soldier should die standing up, how can he spend the rest of his life paralyzed in a hospital bed? I will thank the king for his kindness, and I will be loyal to the king in the next life! Kill me, brethren! ”

"Kill—"

At dusk, the battle ended, and all the more than 1,600 cadres and soldiers trapped on the city wall were annihilated, but the defenders of Liu Song also paid a heavy price of 1,500 people, which the defender Xue Tong did not expect at all.

At night, outside the city, the camp of the cadres and the handsome tent.

The butter in the oil lamp crackled, and the generals and the staff officials of the army stood on both sides, each concentrating and calming, not daring to speak out loudly.

Zhao Junsheng is on fire, and no one wants to make trouble for himself.

Seeing this, Hua Mulan knew that only by speaking could she break this silence and not be shipped by Zhao Junsheng, so she opened her mouth and said: "Today's battle is a crime of non-war, so many brothers have been killed, and no one is uncomfortable in the big guy's heart, neither General Gao's unfavorable command, nor General Wang's negligence, I think so, since there is already a way to deal with the enemy's pendulum, I will use it tomorrow!" If the oil canisters were not enough, they ordered the artisan battalion to rush to make a batch overnight! ”

At this time, the colonel outside the door walked in and reported: "King, General Wang Huilong has woken up and asked to see him outside the tent!" ”

"Let him in!"

Wang Huilong's face was sad, and as soon as he came in, he knelt down in front of Zhao Junsheng and cried loudly: "King, the brothers died a heroic death, the last general is incompetent, killed them, please punish the king!" ”