With Wei Jing's order, the soldiers of the engineering battalion, under the cover of the long shield hand, advanced to a distance of seventy or eighty meters from the city, climbed the arrow tower that had been built more than ten meters high, and began to fire fire bombs at Songyang Pass in turn with a bamboo tube several meters long.

But frustratingly, seven or eight out of ten fireballs only hit the outer edge of the wall, posing no threat to the enemy on the wall. Although the rest of the fire bombs hit the city wall, and only one place was ignited with firewood and grass, but it was quickly extinguished by the other side.

Li Yi saw all this from the telescope, and he could only shake his head secretly. It seems that the distance of the arrow tower is still too far from the city wall, and if it continues to advance, it will already fall completely within the range of the enemy's arrows. Under the fire of the two sides, the enemy occupies a favorable position, and there is no one standing on the arrow tower.

But now it seems that the enemy is calm about Yunnan's action, and he looks like he doesn't care, neither retaliating nor making other corresponding moves, which can be said to be too calm. The next step can only be to count on attacking Songyang Pass with a rushing car.

Li Yi led everyone to within 200 meters of the city wall, and used a telescope to observe the city, and found that the other party was waving flags and trumpets, but the number was not very large.

From this, it can be seen that the defender of the other side is a very calm person, and it is possible to divide the officers and soldiers into several groups and take turns to defend the city, which is not only conducive to allowing the officers and soldiers to take turns to rest, but also shows that the siege troops are not taken seriously.

Li Yi was observing, but found that the enemy had a new move, after the front of the city wall dodged, several huge bed ballista carts were pushed out, and they were nervously adjusting the angle. Li Yi hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat 500 meters to avoid the range of the enemy's bed crossbow.

When he retreated back about two or three hundred meters, the long crossbow arrows that he saw in the sky had already shot towards this side, and several arrow towers that had been erected the day before yesterday were instantly shot down, and even a long crossbow arrow crossed the top of Li Yi's head, only to hear a muffled snort, and dismounted a personal soldier behind him with a chest belt, and knocked over several foot soldiers who were retreating, which showed that the power of the bed crossbow was amazing.

As the bed crossbow arrows continued to diffuse, the soldiers on Li Yi's side were instantly pierced by the long crossbow arrows, and even the long shield in the hands of the soldiers was not spared, and it was directly pierced.

As a result, the panic in the crowd spread rapidly, causing the entire formation to suddenly disperse, and some soldiers began to run backwards in a disorderly manner, and the originally orderly retreat turned into a rout, until they slowly stabilized their positions after retreating for hundreds of meters, and the enemy also stopped firing bed crossbows.

When the military cadets gathered their ranks and straightened out their formations, Li Yi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. This is too fucking bullying, is this directly here to siege the city? It's like waiting in line for people to wear meat skewers.

Looking at it like this, the range of the bed crossbow is at least five or six hundred meters, and if the siege troops do not have a way to deal with it, it will be difficult to even get close to the city wall, and it will be even more difficult to capture Songyang Pass. No wonder people say that siege is not an easy task, under normal circumstances, the siege is the mainstay, and only when forced to do so will a meat grinder-like siege be launched, what a price to pay!

Li Yi's depressed expression had already been looked at by Jian Zheng, and he comforted him indifferently: "Don't worry, the commander, although the enemy's bed crossbow is very powerful, it can't last." Moreover, it takes time and effort to install long crossbow arrows, and they cannot be fired several times in an hour, and if the defenders of the city only rely on bed crossbows, their passes have already been captured by us.

I think it's the plan for now! The protection of the rush should be immediately strengthened to prevent the rush from being pierced by the enemy's bed crossbow. After the moat is cut off, immediately throw rocks to fill the moat, so that it is convenient for the car to approach the city gate. Once our rushing car enters the city gate, it will be easy to capture Songyang Pass. ”

While he was talking, the soldiers sent to intercept the water source upstream of the moat reported that the water flow in the water source had been successfully cut off, and he was only waiting for the commander to give the order to attack the city.

Li Yi was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately confessed to Jian Zheng, first throwing stones at the moat with a stone-throwing cart, and when the moat was almost filled, he pushed the newly invented cart over, and hit the city gate with heavy wood hanging in the cart, or poured fire oil on the city gate and set it on fire. If that didn't work, dig a tunnel under the city gate and plant enough explosives to blow it up.

After listening to Li Yi's instructions, Jian Zheng immediately passed down the order, and Wei Jing immediately arranged for the rushing team to get ready. There were 30 strong and sturdy soldiers in each of the two rushing cars, led by two brave and skilled captains, carrying fire oil, explosives and other items, and ambushed in the rushing cars to prepare for the advance.

Seeing that everything was ready, Li Yi, under the cover of the long shield hand, climbed a watchtower and looked in the direction of Songyang Pass. However, after carefully observing the boss for a while, he found that the water level in the moat still showed no sign of declining.

However, this should not happen! In the past two months, a detailed investigation has been carried out on Songyang Pass, and the location of the water source of the moat of Songyang Pass has been understood, and no other sources of living water have been found.

And through the in-depth observation of the scouts, the internal and external topography of Songyang Pass has been well understood, this pass is long and narrow inside, facing the city wall on this side is only more than 100 meters long, and it is not a parallel city wall, five battlements stretched outward, forming a horn trend, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

With no more than 1,000 soldiers and no permanent residents, Songyang Pass is a military fortress, and it is almost impossible to surround it. But once this city wall is captured, the entire Songyang Pass will be in no danger to defend, which is equivalent to taking the entire pass.

But what makes Li Yi wonder now is that the water source has been cut off, why is there still no sign of slowing down in the moat?

After thinking about it, Li Yi suddenly realized. There must be more than one source of living water in the moat of this Songyang Pass. For a general who is good at defense, how can he allow the enemy to cut off his water supply? So! There must have been more than one water source in Songyang Pass to prevent the enemy from cutting off the living water in the city and making it impossible to defend it for a long time.

Li Yi told Jian Zheng and Wei Jing about this idea, and the two of them also deeply agreed. But the matter has come to this point, if you want to go deep into the Songyang Pass to find another water source, it is even more difficult than climbing to the sky, and time does not allow this.

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