At noon, a trumpet sounded, and the siege began.

Fifty zhang away, the strong bow was suppressed, and the besieging rebels carried wooden planks on their heads, holding ladders in their hands, and quickly approached under the city gate.

The defenders of the city first shot with random arrows in an attempt to stop the rebels from advancing, but the feathered arrows were blocked by wooden shields and could not effectively prevent the siege rebels from approaching the city.

The defenders of the city obviously did not have much combat experience, and there were also mistakes in the estimation of the combat effectiveness of the rebels.

In less than a quarter of an hour, two or three thousand siege rebels slowly advanced to the city of Zizhou and came to the moat.

Zizhou is located between Yidu Mansion and Jinan Mansion, close to the mountains and waters, from the geographical location, it is not very important, so the city is not big, the moat is not wide, less than three zhang.

Dozens of ladders on the ground, straight on both sides of the moat, three or three twos of the ladders gather, and then the long wooden plank is placed horizontally on the tiled ladder, not long time, the city gate left and right six paved with wooden planks of narrow bridges erected.

The moat, the passage is unimpeded, the siege rebels stepped on the bridge, and soon came to the city wall, dozens of people joined forces to erect a ladder to the city.

In less than a moment, dozens of ladders under the city set up the head of the city at a height of two feet.

However, at this moment, the rolling stones and trees on the city poured down, because of the inability to dodge, for a while, dozens of people were killed and wounded, and the besieging rebels were forced to retreat several feet before they could climb the ladder, temporarily leaving the root of the city wall.

The two sides held each other for a long time, but they were never able to climb the ladder and climb the city.

Before long, the rear Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the first group of siege rebels quickly retreated, retreated to the other side of the moat, and returned to the camp to rest.

The first group of siege rebels had just returned to the camp, and the horn of attack immediately sounded among the rebels.

At the sound of the horn, the second group of siege rebels, also with planks on their heads and ladders in their hands, cautiously pressed towards the moat.

A quarter of an hour later, the ladder was straight on both sides of the moat, four or five gathered together, and the besieging rebels quickly laid the long planks under the cover of each other, and in a short time, several simple wooden bridges were built on the moat.

Braving the rain of arrows on the city, the soldiers of the righteous army lifted the ladder to the city and stepped on the bridge, and more than a dozen people from each ladder worked together to quickly put the ladder on the city wall, preparing to attack the city and seize the city.

At this time, rolling stones and skulls fell from the city again, preventing the rebels from climbing the ladder.

As soon as the soldiers of the righteous army went up the ladder, the city fell down the rolling stone and the tree, and the righteous army immediately jumped off the ladder and retreated, and when the city stopped, they approached the ladder again, and tried to climb the city, and the city greeted the rolling stone and wood, and had to go down the ladder to avoid it.

The two sides could not hold each other under the city, and the city attacked on the back, unable to exert strength, and the rolling stones and trees on the city could not hurt the soldiers of the righteous army who did not have a strong will to climb the city.

As soon as half an hour arrived, Mingjin in the rear collected his troops, and the siege rebels calmly retreated.

As soon as the former army returned to the camp, the horn of attack sounded again, and a rebel army with siege equipment reappeared between the city of Zizhou and the camp of the Shandong rebel army, and slowly pressed towards the moat.

Then the ladder bridge, the wooden plank paved the road, crossed the moat, and the ladder to the city was erected and the head of the city was built.

The siege rebels were under the city, and once again engaged in a tug-of-war with the defenders of the city, using speed and alertness to consume the materials of the defenders of the city, as well as their energy and physical strength.

When the time came, Mingjin withdrew his troops and the siege rebels retreated.

The horn of attack was raised again, and the next rebel army appeared in front of the formation, forcing down the city with siege equipment.

After six such attacks, the hundred-zhang long moat in the west of the city disappeared, and all of them were covered with wooden planks, and the soldiers of the rebels came and went, as if walking on the ground.

Under the city walls were stairs full of ladders, one end on the head of the city, and the other end buried on the side of the moat, two or three hundred.

And these three-zhang long ladders were designed and supervised by Shen Jin, the envoy of the Shandong Righteous Army, and the march was divided into several sections, and they were merged during the war, and there were many small organs, which could not only prevent the defenders of the city from drawing ladders to the city, and take away the ladders to climb the city, but also to avoid the city from overturning the ladders.

In short, once the ladder is erected and the head of the city is mounted, the defenders of the city have no way to take the ladder but to wait for the opponent to ascend the ladder and launch an attack, while they can only defend passively.

From the seventh group onwards, the rebels who attacked the West Gate no longer carried siege equipment, but only wooden planks and shields, and then began to try to attack the enemy in the city.

At the same time, the righteous army in the east of the city also launched a siege battle, and began to take the old road of the righteous army in the west of the city, the first six siege rebels built bridges and paved roads, built ladders to climb the city, and tried to climb the city by the way, attracting the firepower of the defenders, consuming their materials for defending the city, and when the wooden bridges were all erected and the ladders were erected, the seventh group of rebels began to attack.

By the time the seventh group of rebels in the east of the city began to attack, it was already midnight.

The east of the city and the west of the city, above and below the city, are brightly lit.

The city was defended with all its might, not daring to rest, the rebels under the city had already arranged the order of attack, each army to attack, one hour in advance into the forward position to wait, the others could temporarily rest in the camp, and the army that had just withdrawn from the city to the camp could rest for several hours.

Yao Chang has been observing the battle situation on the front line since the first siege army appeared, and when he saw the moat disappearing and the ladder hanging all over the city wall, he knew that if he didn't take the cost, in half an hour, the rebel army would be enough to take Zizhou City.

But in his opinion, it is not a very urgent thing to take the city, 50,000 rebels want to take Zizhou, they can take it at any time, and the rebels have not many opportunities to accumulate siege experience and combat experience, if there is no siege experience, I am afraid that if you want to take Jinan Mansion in the future, you will have to pay a heavy price, so the current Zizhou City is a good time to train troops.

Yao Chang hopes that every rebel army can have the opportunity to attack the city, it is best to attack more than once, attack more often, have more experience, and wait for the next time to attack the city, and will not be afraid of the same situation, nor panic, it is very beneficial to the growth of the rebel army who has not fought a battle, maybe the siege of the city for three days, many times in the dangerous situation, can retreat intact, they can become veterans who are not in a panic, and they can be of great use in the future.

The siege of the city in one night did not have many results, and there were no rebels on the top of the city, but there were many more rolling stones and oaks under the city.

Now there are rebels attacking the city, climbing the ladder, there are few rolling stones and wood on the city, and the means of attack are only bricks and stones except bows and arrows, and the defenders of the city are exhausted after a night.

The east and west gates, the siege battle is endless.

When the clouds sprinkled towards the city, another rebel army outside the west gate rushed to the city with swords, guns, bows and shields.

This army was different from the others, they climbed from hundreds of ladders at the same time, one after the other, and there was a great tendency to climb the city in one fell swoop and take the top of the city.

Seeing that hundreds of rebel soldiers were climbing up the ladder, and the defenders of the city had no other fortification materials in their hands except bows and arrows, spears and some small bricks and stones, which could effectively prevent the rebels from ascending the city, they were immediately frightened and at a loss, so they could only desperately draw their bows and shoot.

But almost all of those feathered arrows were shot at the shields and planks held above the heads of the rebels who climbed up, and it was difficult to kill and injure the rebels who climbed the ladder.

They want to overthrow the ladder, but the ladder has a special design, and it is difficult to shake, seeing that the rebels are getting closer and closer to the city, they know that what awaits them is hand-to-hand combat, and then the city is broken!

The head rebel soldier who climbed up, five feet near the head of the city, suddenly raised his hand outside the range of the sword and gun attack, and three crossbow arrows flew up to the city in an instant, taking the lives of the defenders in front of him, and then hurried up a few steps, waving his knife to block the spears and swords that the defenders next to him hurriedly stabbed, and took the opportunity to take a few more steps and climb to the top of the city in one fell swoop!

Two or three hundred ladders, almost at the same time, hundreds of people rushed to the head of the city, instantly disrupting the formation of the defenders, and fighting with the defenders of the city.

The rebels who had lost their bows and arrows climbed up to the city and joined the melee.

As soon as the rebels under the city saw someone ascending to the top of the city, they immediately rushed to climb the ladder and rushed towards the city.

As hundreds of rebel soldiers landed in the city and fought the defenders in close combat, the defenders completely lost their suppression of the city.

Seeing this, Yao Chang couldn't help sighing, after all, he still couldn't let the whole army turn two rounds of siege, if he didn't land in the city so early, how much combat experience would the whole army have accumulated, but unfortunately, the soldiers of the righteous army have been earned.

At this point, it was no longer possible to withdraw the troops, and the soldiers who had climbed to the top of the city could climb down again, so they could only launch a full-scale attack.

"Fate, go all out to attack the city and take Zizhou City!"

Yao Chang gave an order, and a loud attack horn sounded, and the three rebel armies that had been waiting in front of the battle, six or seven thousand people, immediately set off and quickly rushed towards the city.

As more and more rebels climbed to the top of the city, after a night of fighting, the exhausted defenders retreated, leaving behind many corpses, and then retreated from the city into the city.

After a short time, the city gates were occupied by the rebels.

Some of the soldiers opened the gates, lowered the drawbridge, and took over the gates, while most of the rebels pursued the retreating defenders.

The west gate was opened, the drawbridge was lowered, and the six or seven thousand soldiers of the righteous army who had been waiting outside the city gate swarmed in and killed inside the city.

Yao Chang had ordered earlier that if the defenders did not surrender, they would not take prisoners after the city was breached, and the unarmed civilians would be spared death.

So the rebel soldiers who rushed into the city of Zizhou pursued the fleeing defenders in all directions, vowing to destroy them all.

The defenders were very familiar with the city, and they disappeared from the sight of the rebels as they ran, and then took advantage of the unnoticed efforts of the rebels to suddenly kill and catch the pursuing rebels off guard.

The defenders of Zizhou took advantage of the familiar environment to engage in street battles with the soldiers of the rebel army, although there were many rebels, but they were also somewhat passive, and the casualties in a short period of time were greater than the siege.

But since they entered the city, it was another battle that could not be stopped without destroying the opponent, and the rebels had a huge advantage in strength, so there was no reason not to continue the pursuit.

The west gate was broken, and the east gate was quickly taken, and the east and west gates, tens of thousands of righteous troops, marched together.

An hour later, the defenders were all wiped out.