Under the gray day of the clouds,

Looking over from the head of Chaoyang City, you can see several behemoths towering on the ground, as well as the operators who are particularly small on the side, as well as those small box-like roof punches and thin door hammers in the phalanx holding big signs and long ladders.

Five large and one small, the largest of which had incomparably thick and long arms, and in front of them were pulled by long ropes of many hands, raising and lowering a little; The other, smaller machine, is a large roulette wheel that rotates like a waterwheel, and a number of humans and animals rotate together to slowly build up momentum to lower the clubhead.

The roof of the car is a wide triangular house with wooden planks and skin, and is also covered with a thick layer of wet mud and a layer of coarse cloth, which effectively protects the personnel holding the cart underneath and the blunt head battering hammer mounted on the large wheels; Whether it's a rocket thrown densely on it or a volley of throwing stones, hitting it is just a white smoke that goes out, or a bouncing slide to both sides of the trail trail traces.

There were more baffles on improvised wheels and carts full of earthen bags and mud sheets, which also slowly advanced towards the moats along with these siege equipment; And against the resistance of the city, little by little, the uneven dirt floor under the city, and the deer firewood, horses, and trenches intertwined with dogs' teeth, were crushed, filled, dismantled, and paved in the past.

"Big things are wrong."

But the defenders at the head of the city looked at each other and were shocked.

"What is the situation and the situation?"

"How can a grass thief have a stone cannon (trebuchet)?"

"This is a heavy weapon that can only be supervised by the imperial court ordnance superintendent."

"When did it fall into the hands of these grass thieves?"

"Could it be that it was transferred from Guangfu?"

"I just hate that the news on all roads has been cut off."

Then, with the heavy buzz in the distance, the stones that broke through the air and roared to the ground crashed into the half-dry moat full of silt under Chaoyang City in a blink of an eye, and suddenly splashed a large canopy of brown mud and water.

Those officers and soldiers who have seen a lot and are rich in experience are okay, and they can make a strong self-calm posture; But the larger number of the native soldiers who defected from outside, or who were recruited from the locals, and the people who were forced to go to the city to cooperate and act as a force, could not help but be unable to grasp the weapons and tools of the generation in all kinds of panic and panic;

Some people even took advantage of the lack of attention and wanted to sneak down the city wall, but they were driven back by the shocked generals who beat and scolded again, and cut off more than a dozen heads of people who "escaped from the battle", so that they could be regarded as re-stabilizing the position of the city.

It's just that after seeing the throwing stones thrown by these grass thieves fall in the empty space in front of the city wall in a row, and none of them hit, the defenders of the city breathe a sigh of relief, and let go of some worries a little.

"It's a good thing these grass thieves don't use anything if they have something."

Among the defenders, a small colonel known as "Lucky Sura" who was regarded as a fortune boy because he would lose every gamble forced his composure and shouted loudly to encourage him left and right.

"It's a waste of these things."

"It's God helping the puppets. Don't fall into your own ambition. ”

Not long after his words fell, suddenly a huge stone ball whizzed towards him, and with a loud bang, it bombarded the middle and upper part of the nearby city wall, and in an instant, it disintegrated and splattered out a large piece of earth and stone; Fragments flew and swept down the battlements at the top end, and the defenders, who had just leaned out to laugh and demonstrate loudly, fell down screaming and bleeding.

The smoke and sand that rose in the air were also shrouded in the defenders behind the nearby battlements, and suddenly turned the group of people, including the junior colonel surnamed Su, into mud monkeys.

Fortunately, the stone cannons, which had been fired for several rounds in succession, stopped, as if something was wrong with them, and they were disassembled again on the spot and stopped bombardment;

"I knew these grass thieves were useless."

After spitting out a few mouthfuls of mud foam, the junior colonel surnamed Su, who resumed his voice, praised again in an afterthought style.

"Isn't this just a fight. At the end of the day, it's all about the chickens."

"We are the kings of the court. He has his own destiny and qi in his body. ”

"It's a grass thief. It will only be a bluff. ”

However, what interrupted his rambling again were the several stone cannons that had been quickly reloaded under the city, and the stone bullets that flew in; This time, however, two stone bullets struck the walls of the city, one of which smashed straight into the hardened surface of the rammed earth, and shattered large shards and sand, revealing the yellowed inner billet of the wall in the cracked lines of the cobwebs;

The other smashed through the battlements of the city wall even higher, and the shards wrapped in the blooming shards covered the defenders hiding behind the cards and bows collapsed on the spot, and then bounced up and slanted into a makeshift wooden arrow tower; Suddenly, the sound in the shouting arrow tower completely disappeared, leaving only the thick blood that was smashed out of the breach, slowly flowing out.

"Don't panic, it's just an accident."

The little colonel surnamed Su continued to shout.

"Grass thieves are all mud-legged, and they can't all have such good luck."

A moment later, another bomb struck the city, but it landed on the side wall of the gatehouse, and in an instant the projectile shattered on the wall, turning into countless fragments and splashing on the heads of the nearby defenders, knocking down and knocking over several figures;

As the frequency and speed of the fire under the city shortened, even the most dull people could clearly feel that these grass thieves who operated the stone cannons began to gradually become well-trained and skilled.

"That's all there is to it."

The little colonel surnamed Su couldn't help but shout again.

"There are so many of us guarding it, we can't fight at all."

"If you break one place, we'll fix it."

At this time, the siege array, which had become somewhat crippled under the desperate resistance of the city, especially the heavy equipment that had almost no loss, also filled in the aisles along the front road, and finally arrived at the position under the city.

Then, I saw that behind the wheeled baffles and the big car signs, there were many dense wooden shelves that were flying in the middle, and as the messenger shook the handlebars vigorously, the huge pebbles that were as dense as raindrops were thrown diagonally upward.

Although most of them fell on the wall of the wall, leaving only a few small bits of sand peeling off from the pits, there were still many that smashed into the wall and passed through the gaps in the battlements; Suddenly, in the midst of exclamations and screams, the defenders who couldn't dodge were smashed into flesh and limbs.

Although these pebbles are at most the size of a bowl, and they have been castrated after being thrown more than two feet high, the remaining heavy weight is still unstoppable once it is directly smashed on the person.

Even if it hit the wooden arrow tower, the debris jumped down and cracked and mottled, and the people inside were even more busy retreating; Because just now, another arrow tower was intensively beaten and the support was broken, and the people directly took the panicked archers inside, broke down the city and overwhelmed the dozen or so people who were tight.

"Don't panic, we still have..."

This little school surnamed Su wants to say something more.

"Drag this dog down"

An angry voice rushed over not far away. Suddenly, several equally disgraced sergeants rushed over, and they set up the little colonel with all their hands and feet, and escorted him to an invisible place under the city, leaving only an abrupt aftermath.

"Du Wei spare, I'm a duke... Ahh ”

At this time, the grass thief archers behind the large platoon under the city also began to shoot at the chaotic city head, and suddenly in the flying figures and blood splashes, the city head was quickly covered with a layer of variegated tail feathers.

And with the first vehicle-mounted ladder under the city, it was broken with a reinforced iron head climbing claw, and the moment it hit the head of the city, in the boiling sound of the city above and below the city, the brutal bloody attack and defense of the hand-to-hand soldiers also kicked off at this moment.

Although this ladder, together with the first few people who had just climbed it, was thrown out by the city in the blink of an eye with a few pieces of sassal wood thrown out by the rain of arrows, and was chased into several pieces and shapeless flesh and mud; But more ladders, climbing frames, and climbing ropes have been set up on the city wall one after another in the overwhelming frequency and quantity, and the climbers who are attached to the ants have many licensed swordsmen, and they are led by ash bottles, throwing stones, and rolling logs.

Whether someone was knocked down, and someone came up one after another, along the edge of the city wall that was red by countless sections of reciprocating battles and battles, forming a blood-colored death line of corpses falling like rain.

And at the position under the city gate, like a turtle crawling, slowly advancing the house-shaped rushing car finally arrived, and in the sound of dust and splashing, it began to bombard the city gate full of stuffed materials again and again; Then he struck a dozen blows, and was shrouded in coals, cannon stones (oiled stones), and boiling oil, and lost all noise in the midst of a large expanse of rising fire and hot smoke.

But more soldiers rushed out from behind the big cards, and stepped on the scattered flames all over the ground, and re-entered the car to push out many inhuman-looking corpses, and in a moment let the car re-scuttle.

。。。。。。

and not far from the city in a requisitioned and demolished courtyard; Zheng Zhao Yinggong, the former cavalry team who was released again and had been treated and recuperated, was also expressionless, listening to the lobbying of a brigade commander Zhao Gongfan, who was familiar with old acquaintances and nicknamed "Zhao Caution".

"General Cui Ya has already said it."

"As long as you can come out and continue to contribute..."

"You can get over the work, and you won't blame the past."

"Now that the city's employment is in danger, if you can make another contribution,"

"Even if I look at the adults again, I'll talk about it for you."

"What's so difficult to even let you face your name directly."

(End of chapter)