A large number of Zhou troops had landed on the banks of the Yangtze River in the northeastern suburbs of Wuchang City, and their advance troops repelled the attack of the Chen army, allowing the follow-up troops to gain a firm foothold.

The city is impregnable, and there are more than 20,000 defenders, so they are not afraid of the Zhou army to attack, some soldiers have been arrayed outside the southeast corner of the city and the city to have a corner, if the Zhou army is attacking the city, then the Chen army in the southeast corner can flank the other party, if the Zhou army attacks the Chen army in the southeast corner, then the defenders of the city can condescend and shoot the opponent with arrows.

At the head of the city, the generals of the Chen army looked at the Zhou army that was assembling in the distance, and they were a little surprised, as soon as the other party landed on the shore and showed no signs of camping, it looked like they were going to attack the city immediately, which made them very disdainful.

A mere five or six thousand troops dare to attack the city, are you like tens of thousands of officers and soldiers?

In order to resist the Zhou army from attacking Wuchang City again, the Chen army had already arranged the city defense very well, although the demolished city wall on the north side was too late to rebuild, but a tall wooden fence was erected, and there was a deep trench behind it, which was not afraid of being breached.

The remaining three city walls were originally there, and Chen Jun dug three trenches outside the east and west cities, except for the city gate, the drawbridge can be passed, and there is no road to come directly to the city wall, these trenches have a person deep and wide, and the inside is filled with water, and the Zhou army besieging the city has to make a lot of effort to break through, so there is no return to such an eager siege.

Although Chen Jun did not think that the Zhou army could capture Wuchang, he also did not think that the other party was an idiot and would attack the city with his bare hands.

These are commonplace ordnance, as long as it is a siege, it must be seen, the moat bridge is a temporary bridge across the trench so that the besieging soldiers can pass over the bridge without climbing over the trench, and the ladder is used to climb the city wall. The pointed wooden donkey is a four-wheeled bottomless wooden cart with a pointed tip, covered with cow skin, and resisted the arrows of the city. The soldiers hid in it, pushing the cart forward and attacking the city walls.

Many shield carts followed. These were the weapons used to cover the archers approaching the city and the defenders to shoot at each other, and it was a little strange for the soldiers of the Chen army at the head of the city to see that the other party had made such siege equipment as if they were conjuring up a trick.

The Zhou army has landed for about an hour now, and I haven't seen any timber or the like from the other side, or after the landing, I cut down trees and cut down trees to get so many siege equipment, some people say that these are not built by the Zhou army in advance, and the people with good eyesight say that the warship can not see these things when it docks.

"Maybe it's to be shipped to Jiangnan and then loaded after being shipped ashore?" Some people speculated like this, and everyone felt that what he said was reasonable, otherwise the Zhou army would not have attacked the city so quickly, but then they were all disdainful.

Where is the temporary assembly of things, and you still want to capture Wuchang City with these things? The head of Wuchang City has long been full of rolling logs, stones and other items that should be defended the city, there are enough arrows, and even the flammable things and torches that set fire are a lot, how many you come, how many you die!

Do you think that the pointed wooden donkey is dressed in raw cowhide to protect against arrows and fire? At the head of the city there are also stones with grinding plates, which are specially designed to deal with these pointed wooden donkeys digging tunnels close to the city walls!

Suddenly, a horse approached the city in the Zhou army, and shot a letter up the city tower before the archers at the head of the city released their arrows. The letter said that the Great Zhou Army, Weifeier and others could resist it, and if they were interested, they should surrender as soon as possible, and the treatment would be preferential, otherwise they would not regret it after the city was broken for a while.

"I actually said that after the city was broken for a while, I won't regret it, hahahaha!!"

"What a big breath! Don't look at how many of them dare to attack the city! ”

There is a cloud in the art of war: ten rules of siege, this year, how to besiege the city, the strength of the army is obviously more than the defender, and now the Zhou army under the city is not even half of the strength of the defenders of Wuchang, if it is not for the previous tired strategy, so that the defenders have no time to react, otherwise it will be five or six thousand people rushing over to beat the Zhou army back into the water.

Now there are more than 10,000 Chen troops in the city, and there are no less than 5,000 soldiers on the southeast side of the city.

"Look, this is Bazhou Thorn Shi Yuwen Wen, that one-legged bronze man!"

"It's so crazy, it's because I fainted from excessive sexual immorality last night, hahahaha!"

"I can't stop watching. It's eating human flesh and eating too much and losing your mind! ”……

In the Zhou army's formation, Bazhou Thorn Shi Yuwen Wen was looking at the head of Wuchang City with a clairvoyant mirror. It seemed that he was laughing and the laughter was faintly reaching his ears, he put down the clairvoyant mirror and turned to the generals next to him and said: "I just said that Chen Jun won't laugh and lose, remember the name, and go back, but there are no less people who want to run laps." ”

Fifth Brother Chen and the others couldn't cry or laugh when they heard this, and Yu Wenwen then added: "Let's bet next, did those birdmen scold the official for eating too much human flesh and losing his mind." ”

Zhou Sima Yang Ji coughed dryly and said that it is better to hurry up and attack the city, so as not to have many dreams at night, after all, the enemy is outnumbered, and it is not good to delay it for a long time, Yuwen Wen nodded when he heard this, and ordered the Chinese army to beat the drum and let the army attack.

He sent two army commanders to command more than 2,000 people in the southern flank with a spear array against twice his own Chen army, and the rest of the troops directly attacked the city, and the siege equipment was a modular design that quoted the 'advanced concept of the 21st century', which was easy to carry and assemble.

What's more important is durability, the key parts of the pointed wooden donkey made of fine iron is the best of them, not to mention rockets, oil and torches, what can be temporarily immune, even if the city head throws down a grinding plate-sized stone, it is not three or two strokes can be broken, if the defenders dare to underestimate these temporarily assembled things, then there is only regret.

The drums sounded, the Zhou army launched an attack, and the Chen army also moved, the Chen army array under the city pressed towards the Zhou army formation in front of the 'mantis arm as a car', in their opinion, the opponent's troops were barely half of their own side, if they couldn't beat it, it was really a headlong collision to death, although the Zhou army's spear array was majestic when it was by the river before, but the Chen army soldiers thought it was just an accident, and now is the best time to prove that it was an accident.

With the protection of the southern flank, the besieging Zhou army launched an attack on the east side of the city wall of Wuchang, they braved the flying stones thrown by the manpower artillery trucks in the city and the rain of arrows splashed at the head of the city, and advanced with the cover of the big shield, first used the moat bridge to build a temporary bridge in the triple trench in turn, and then more than ten pointed wooden donkeys advanced along the bridge to the corner of the city wall.

Each pointed wooden donkey had ten soldiers hidden in it, and they pushed the cart forward in unison, so even though the body was heavy, the speed of movement was not slow, and these pointed wooden donkeys crossed the triple trench along the moat bridge, braving the head of the city to shoot rockets, straight to the city wall.

The rocket hit the spire, but it failed to ignite, only smoke. The water-soaked raw cowhide has good fire resistance and can prevent rockets for a certain period of time. However, when the pointed wooden donkey reached the city wall, a more fierce attack followed.

Many torches and torches were thrown over the city. There was also fire oil poured on the pointed wooden donkey to ignite a fire, many pointed wooden donkeys' spires turned into torches, like a pile of bonfires thrilling, at this time the Zhou archers took advantage of the cover of the shield cart to the nearby city to release arrows to cover their own wooden donkeys.

Many of the Chen soldiers who leaned out and threw the rolling wood stones were shot on the spot, and the Zhou archers under the city also fell to the ground from time to time.

"They're digging!" In order to determine where the besieging enemy army is digging tunnels, the defenders of the city will generally bury large vats near the city wall and cover them with cowhide to let people listen to the movements, and these soldiers will take advantage of this to detect the movements of the Zhou army.

"Digging? Do you want to dig a tunnel? What is the use of them digging tunnels now? A general of the Chen army sneered, under normal circumstances, the siege of the city and the digging of the tunnel must be concealed from the defenders, so that they do not know where the tunnel enters the city, the first condition is to be far away from the city, but now the Zhou army is digging under the city wall, that is a fool can guess where the tunnel mouth is.

There are three trenches dug outside the city of Wuchang and flooded to prevent the enemy from digging tunnels to approach the city and then bypass the city wall into the city, and now the Zhou army is digging tunnels under the city wall, even if the follow-up soldiers want to come, they have to bear the arrow rain of the defenders at the head of the city first. Not to mention that after the Zhou army entered the tunnel, Chen Jun was able to calmly stand guard at the tunnel exit in the city, waiting for the rabbits to come and kill as many as they wanted.

"They're digging tunnels now to find death, I think they want to dig under the foundation of the wall and collapse the wall!"

"If you want to be beautiful, they just can't dig for another two hours, throw stones, throw those big stones down and smash them!"

Chen Jun aimed the stones as big as a grinding disc at the pointed wooden donkey below and pushed it down, thinking that the heavy falling stone could crush Zhou Jun's pointed wooden donkey in one fell swoop, but he didn't expect that after the other party ate hard, it was only a shallow pit on the top, but it was still fine.

Seeing such a scene, the soldiers of Chen Jun were amazed: these pointed wooden donkeys are made of full materials, but they can't be made of iron!

"Throw, keep throwing, see how many times they can hold up!" The general of the Chen army shouted loudly, the enemy's pointed wooden donkey can carry it, but there are also many big stones at the head of the city, since it can't be done with one big stone, then there will be another one. If that doesn't work, then a third one.

A large number of soldiers had gathered behind the city wall, and the only end for the Zhou army to dig a tunnel to get in was to be hit by them, hoping that one person would get out of the ground alive. For the generals of the Chen army, the pointed wooden donkeys under the city were no different from the Zhou army digging tunnels and working in vain.

Even if the wall foundation is dug and the city wall collapses, it is not possible to do it so quickly, judging from the height of the Wuchang city wall, the wall base will not be shallow, so if the Zhou army really wants to dig it, the pointed wooden donkey will not be able to withstand it at that time.

Just when the Chen army transferred many boulders to smash the pointed wooden donkeys under the city, he heard the horn sound in some of the pointed wooden donkeys, and after a while, the horn sounded in the Zhou army's camp, and then a large number of soldiers rushed towards the city with shields in one hand and knives in the other.

"The Zhou army is going to enter the tunnel to attack the city!" "Get ready, let them have no return!"

The cries rang out one after another, although Chen Jun at the head of the city was still wondering how the other party could dig through the city wall so quickly, but still let the comrades in the city get ready, at this moment, the pointed wooden donkey outside the city retreated back to reveal several earth pits under the corners of the city wall, and these soil pits all had wrist-thick hemp ropes that stretched out tightly until they reached the pointed wooden donkey.

"Open the door, open the door, open the door!"

The soldiers of the Zhou army who rushed to the city wall suddenly shouted loudly, and the Chen army at the head of the city saw that the other party was about to enter the firing range, and they bent their bows and arrows, just when they were about to release the arrows, they only heard someone in the wooden donkey at the tip of the city shouting "one, two, pull", and then a series of piercing sounds sounded.

The sound was like many wooden stakes breaking one after another, and then the soldiers on the head of the city only felt a sudden tremor under their feet, and then there was a roar from all over the city wall, and they actually leaned back, and the large number of Chen soldiers who were ready to besiege and kill the Zhou army from the envisioned tunnel behind the city wall watched in horror as the mountain-like city wall fell to them with the force of Mount Tai.

The screams of countless people sounded, and then a huge roar resounded over Wuchang, and the loud noise attracted the attention of everyone on the battlefield with the dust rising into the sky.

The soldiers of the Zhou army rushed to this sudden gap, they were originally charging towards the city wall, just in time for the collapse of the city wall and the gap appeared, so they took advantage of the situation to enter the city, and then the drums of the Zhou army shouted loudly in the sky:

"Broken city, broken city!" (To be continued.) )