The trebuchets in the Qianjun army outside the East City Gate were indeed less than half, and these trebuchets were all transferred by Su Ji to attack the North Gate, but the remaining trebuchets still exerted great power and destructive power.

The walls of the city were smashed and shook incessantly, smashing stone debris flying everywhere, and people were constantly being knocked down and killed.

Chen Xian went with a reserve of 500 people to reinforce the northern city wall, and brought a large number of oil canisters by the way.

Ye Tongzhang stayed on the east city wall, in fact, according to the division of labor between him and Chen Xian, everyone went to the city wall to guard for half a day, one to guard the day, and one to guard the night, so that both of them could rest, but it had been raining for the first two days, and the cadres did not attack the city, and they had been recuperating, and they were afraid that the siege would be very fierce today, so in order to prevent accidents, he still insisted on coming to the city wall to assist in commanding.

The east city wall was burned once by the cadres throwing oil bombs before, and the texture of the wall bricks became much more brittle, but now they were smashed by stone bullets, and many wall bricks were directly smashed, and a lot of dust and powder were dropped, and the wall buttresses that were smashed were shattered.

Several rounds of stone bullets fell in a row, and the already broken city wall became even more dilapidated, if the ordinary small county town, or even the county town, could not withstand such a smash, the city wall of this state city was much taller and stronger than the county seat and the county seat, and it could withstand destruction.

The lethality of the stone debris flying around is still relatively large, Ye Tongzhang only stayed on the city wall for a cup of tea, his face was scratched by the flying rubble, and the military uniform on his arm was also scratched, so he had to run down the city wall to hide, and the observation post could not observe at this time, the air on the city wall was full of dust, and the rubble splashed over at any time, they could only squat behind the wall and hold their heads to avoid being hit by the rubble.

Two moments have passed since several rounds of stone projectiles were smashed, Zhao Junsheng looked at the hourglass and felt that it was almost there, so he ordered: "Don't blow the horn of the attack, go and tell the siege camp that the cloud echelon will start to charge, don't shout when charging, tell their commander that after the siege soldiers start to attack, the trebuchet should not stop throwing for the time being, and stop throwing when the soldiers carry the ladder to the near city wall!" ”

"Send an order to the co-followers, let them follow behind the cloud echelon and start attacking!"

In later generations, there were infantry artillery coordination tactics, and Zhao Junsheng also engaged in a infantry and shooting coordination tactics here, as long as the coordination was appropriate, the pressure and impact on the defenders was quite large, and if the defenders did not react fast enough, they were likely to be rushed to the city wall by the siege troops in one breath.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The time for a cup of tea passed, and the attack began, because Zhao Junsheng ordered that the horn should not be blown, and he was not allowed to shout when charging, and the soldiers of the siege camp carried the ladder and trotted forward with their legs, and the siege soldiers followed closely with their swords and shields.

This silent attack really left the defenders unnoticed, and at this time the defenders, including the observation posts, were dodging the stone bullets, and no one noticed that the cadres had begun to attack.

When the soldiers of the siege camp rushed to the vicinity of the city wall with a ladder, the trebuchet stopped firing stone projectiles, and after the last stone bullet fell, a cloud ladder was just erected on the city wall by the soldiers, and a large number of footsteps were heard in a dull and scattered manner, and the observation post on the city wall carefully stretched out their heads to observe, first looked at the sky to see if there were any stone bullets flying over, and did not find any stone bullets flying, so they looked under the city wall, and saw that there was a cloud ladder just below, and a soldier of the assistant army had already climbed half, There were also eight or nine soldiers gathered under the ladder, and when he swept his eyes again, dozens of siege ladders were lined up under the city walls on the left and right sides, and a large number of co-followers gathered over, and there were people climbing on each ladder.

The observation post instinctively let out a loud roar: "The enemy is attacking, quickly arm, arm!" ”

"Dangdangdang······" The sound of a hurried gong sounded, and the defenders who were hiding under the walls of the city ran towards the stairs of the city wall.

"Hurry up, the enemy has rushed up, run fast for Lao Tzu!" Ye Tongzhang roared, brandishing his sword, and took the lead on the city wall.

When Ye Tongzhang ran up the city wall with some soldiers, several co-followers had already climbed up, and he immediately led people to rush over: "Kill-"

These assistants saw Ye Tongzhang, saw his outfit and knew that he was a general, so they immediately rushed over together, and the fight began.

As the defenders quickly ran up the city wall to defend, there were more and more co-followers who climbed the city wall, and the fierce battle for the city wall unexpectedly started in such a short period of time.

Ye Tongzhang was generally eager to commit suicide in battle, he hated why he was so scared that he ran down the city wall, if he was still on the city wall, he would have discovered the sneaky behavior of the enemy army in time, and he was also angry with those observation posts, if they risked their lives and stuck out their heads to observe, they would not be attacked by the enemy army.

However, no amount of anger at this time will help, and the top priority is to kill or drive down all these co-operative troops who have climbed the city wall.

The entire eastern city wall was full of hand-to-hand combat, and a steady stream of co-followers climbed ladders up the city wall, but from time to time people fell.

Today, the siege tactics commanded by Zhao Junsheng have opened the eyes of the high-level generals and ministers of the cadre army, but there is one thing that the ministers and generals can't figure out, why are the defenders so slow to react today, and they only found out when the assistant army climbed the city wall?

The national teacher Dongfang Chen asked this question: "Your Majesty, the reaction of the defenders seems to be a lot sluggish today, why is this?" ”

Zhao Junsheng said with a smile: "It's not that they are slow to react, it's that they didn't realize that our soldiers had already started to attack the city!" It's more than two miles from the wall, you can't see what is going on on the wall, but when the trebuchet throws the stone bombs, the defenders all run to the inside of the wall and hide! ”

Dongfang Chen still couldn't understand: "Then they should also arrange an observation post, right?" ”

"The stone bullets we throw are not ordinary stones, but specially made, and once they hit the ground, they will be smashed, and the fragments will scatter and splash in all directions, and the observation posts will not be able to avoid being injured, so it is normal for them to hide! As soon as our trebuchets stopped throwing stone projectiles, the soldiers had already rushed under the city wall, and they even stepped on the city wall before the defenders, the difference is that the defenders have stairs to increase their troops a lot and quickly, and we only have cloud ladders, which can only climb up one at a time, and the speed of sending troops per unit time is not as fast as theirs! ”

Yang Lie said: "Your Majesty, this method of waiting for the soldiers to stop throwing stone bombs when they are about to rush to the city is really good, the enemy has no time to re-arm, our soldiers have already climbed the city wall, if you can increase the speed of sending troops, you can break through the city wall defense at one time!" ”

"Your Majesty, we should leave some telescopic wheeled siege ladders for attacking the east city wall, according to Your Majesty's way of playing just now, it really only takes one time to break through the siege city, and that thing can send a large number of troops to the city wall in a short time!"

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand and said: "This time it is mainly based on Su Ji's command, and our side is just a feint, try to attract their troops and attention, and strive to break the city at the north gate at one time!" ”

Next to him, Li Song arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty, in the opinion of the ministers, the combat effectiveness of these auxiliary troops is still a little worse, if we send thousands of infantry from our army, we can break the city in two or three days at most!" ”

Zhao Junsheng shook his head: "The infantry of our army is deployed in various parts of Sichuan and Shu to maintain stability in various places, and they must be ready to suppress the rebellion of the displaced people at any time, and they cannot be transferred. ”

When Zhao Junsheng's side was feinting to attack the east city wall, Su Ji's side also launched an attack after waiting for a while, and the trebuchet threw a large number of stone bullets at the north city wall at the first time, smashing the defenders on the city wall.

Previously, the main attack of the cadres was on the east city wall, and the north and west city walls were only feints to make a show, and there was not even a single trebuchet, but today there are suddenly so many trebuchets smashing countless stone bullets, and the hit rate is actually about half, which frightens the defenders.

The defenders who had not reacted at the beginning suffered heavy losses, you must know that most of the defenders' forces were concentrated in the east city wall, and the other three gates were only a few hundred people, and this successive rounds of stone bullets almost smashed the defenders into collapse.

Fortunately, Chen Xian brought 500 people to help in time, otherwise he was afraid that the northern city wall had been captured by the cadre army.

Guarding the north gate was a soldier named Wang Yue, who finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Chen Xian appear in time with five hundred people.

"General, you are here, you can rest assured now!"

Chen Xian returned to hack down a soldier of the Liaison Army, dragged the wounded Wang Yue to the city tower, and then quickly came out to command the battle.

At this time, a large number of co-servants had rushed to the city wall, and some of the co-servant soldiers had already climbed the city wall and were fighting the defenders.

"Concentrate your forces and kill all these people, keep them all for me, and cut those who take a step back!"

Chen Xian roared and joined the battle group, and under his leadership, the generals who brought reinforcements quickly killed all the co-contenders who had ascended to the city.

Looking at the outside of the city again, the cadres have already dispatched well railings and telescopic wheel siege ladders, and a large number of infantry are still following behind, once the well railings and telescopic wheel siege ladders of the cadre army are pushed to the edge of the city wall, the cadre army can put a large number of troops to climb the city wall, and then it will really be powerless.

"Get the oil tank ready, get the torches ready!"

As soon as Chen Xian finished deploying, the cadres of the city wall had already pushed the well fence and the wheeled telescopic siege ladder over, and the archers of the cadre army on the well fence began to release arrows on the city wall, and the defenders immediately blocked it with wooden planks.

Seeing that the commander of the archers of the cadre army was of little use and had wasted arrows to support the enemy, he immediately ordered the well fence to be pushed to the edge of the city wall to prepare for the infantry, and the wheeled telescopic siege ladder behind it was also pushed over.

"Ready, oil tank ready—"

With Chen Xian's loud roar, the defenders held a canister of fire oil and raised it to the well railing and siege ladder leaning against the city wall.

"Smash me!"

The soldiers smashed their canisters of fire oil on the siege ladders and well railings, "clang, clang, clang······" One by one, the canisters were smashed, and the oil was sprinkled on the siege ladders and well railings, as well as on the soldiers of the Auxiliary Army who were preparing to climb the city walls.

"Throw the torch!"

Torches were thrown out, and all the siege ladders and well railings were burned, and the fire almost engulfed the entire city wall, and many soldiers were also on fire.

Su Ji, who was commanding the battle from afar, looked at this scene blankly, "It's over, it's over!" ”