It was indeed a painful thing to march in a piece of iron armor in the scorching heat of early summer, the helmet was heavy, the hard iron pieces were like knives on the chest, and the leather used for the pad not only made people sweat, but also emitted a choking stench. This is the result of rushing work, and the military officials said when they issued the huge armor that this is the huge armor that was just cast last month, and there are less than 1,000 sets in the entire Chu country.

Thinking that there were less than a thousand sets of things to wear in the entire Chu State, Lu Chan's mood couldn't help but feel better. At this time, he was in the second row of the military formation, and the person next to him was Lu Gao, both of whom were determined to become honorary soldiers, so they joined the army without a crown.

"Stop!" The sound of the bracelets that accompanied the advance stopped, and the dust from the trampling of the army came from behind, and some people began to cough.

"Sit down!" The commander behind him shouted, and the army formation was only four hundred steps away from the moat of Jucheng.

'Wow——! With the military order, more than 10,000 foot soldiers sat down, and their neat movements made a 'whooshing' sound. The foot soldiers sat down, and hundreds of cavalry on both sides of the army formation also stood still. Some of them were also dressed in armor, and the horses under their crotches were clothed in armor, and although they stopped, the horses kept snorting and panting.

The distance of 400 paces is actually more than 500 meters, which is far beyond the distance of engagement. The coach is not worried that the Qi people also have a weapon to throw fire, but to vacate the place for the Qi people to play in the formation.

"I am the Chu general Quguang, since you dare to occupy my Jucheng, do you dare to go out of the city to fight with me?" Wang Zhizhi Qu Guang personally stepped forward to invite the battle, this is the fastest way to pull out the city, the two sides fought a battle, and the city was taken back after the battle.

"General Tian has an order, I won't fight you today." A voice came from the castle tower. The Chu army only had more than 10,000 people, and they did not carry siege equipment, so the choice of war was in the hands of the Qi people. Jucheng will never be lost without fighting, but Jucheng may be lost after fighting.

"Why not fight?" Refractive on the car took a few steps forward and asked. "Are the Qi people afraid, they are all cowardly like mice?"

"General Tian has an order, but he will not fight." The person who answered was just a company commander, and he spoke awkwardly Yayan.

"Since the people of Qi are as timid as mice, then General Ben is going to attack the city." Refractive looked at the head of the city carefully, the female wall was high, and there was no Qi soldier at all, and some were the corpses of the Chu army hanging outside the city wall.

The car turned a corner under the south gate of Jucheng, and the refractive light deliberately drove forward for a while, just when he thought that the Qi army was slacking, there was a sound of 'Du', and a feather arrow was nailed to the carriage, and several other arrows passed by. The right side of the car was startled and hurriedly raised his shield, while the left side of the car shot an arrow in the direction where the arrow came from. It's a pity that this arrow was blocked by the canal on the female wall, and there was no result.

"Up!" Seeing that the invitation failed, the foot soldiers advanced again. The sound of neat footsteps rose again, and the military formation slowly advanced to a distance of two hundred paces from the south gate of Jucheng. At this distance, the commander again ordered the soldiers to sit on their knees, and the riders on either side simply dismounted, so that the horses could breathe.

Only the boatmen and artillery soldiers on the building boat were busy: the boatmen quickly and accurately dropped anchor, so that the catapult boat was as close to the city wall as possible, but was not hit by the crossbow on the city, and the artillery soldiers began to observe and calculate before the stone, and their job was to smash the city wall.

The location of Jucheng is on the west side of Mushui, there is no door in the east, and the city wall is only 100 steps away from Mushui. After the twenty catapults dropped anchor, it was the eastern part of the city wall that had to be smashed.

The Qi people on the city wall, the Chu pawns who were sitting, both looked at the twenty catapults. The building ship was busy, but within two quarters of an hour, the trebuchet was in a state of readiness, and only a few shouts were heard above and below the city, and after 'ready', it was shouted "Release!" ”

With a 'creak', the boom was quickly picked up, and when the leather pocket flew to the highest point, the buckshot in the pocket was thrown out.

"Bang ——!" A hundred kilograms of lead bullet swept through the women's wall 200 meters away, smashed through the women's wall, and then continued to fly inside. The general county has only two layers of city walls, but Ju County has three layers of city walls: the outer city, the inner city, and the sub-city. The lead bullet smashed through the female wall of the outer city, and its momentum was unabated, and it hit the inner city wall before falling under the city.

"Hooray!" The Chu soldiers who were sitting on their knees saw that the female wall of the outer city was smashed to pieces by trebuchets, and immediately shouted long live. This is a mysterious power that they cannot comprehend, a power that breaks through cities and is invincible.

"That's the fire-throwing weapon?" Tian Yingren was in the Nancheng Tower, but he also felt the power of the blow just now.

"General, that's the instrument of fire, but I don't know why I don't throw fire anymore." The strategist never imagined that the fire-throwing weapon could throw stones into the city, looking like a victim.

"The Chu people smashed the city with a fire-throwing weapon, how should this be good?" Tian Ying soon heard a second 'bang——! The order given to him by the King of Qi was to defend Jucheng, but looking at the current posture, it is no longer enough to just defend the city.

'Bang, bang...... twenty trebuchets, firing every three minutes, are frighteningly dense. Let's not talk about whether the city wall can hold it, even if the city wall can hold it, the soldiers on the city wall can't hold it. Every bullet is shattered, mud and debris are scattered, and if a person is smashed hard, it will either be broken in two or smashed into minced meat.

Tian Ying asked, and the strategists looked at each other. No one could have imagined that the Chu people's fire-throwing weapons were so powerful, and the rammed earth city wall was not strong, and if it was really smashed like this, Jucheng City would be destroyed.

"Let the Chu army retreat, I will fight with it!" In the continuous 'bang' sound, Tian Ying shouted angrily.

"Do you want our army to stand back?" Lead bullets flew sideways, the city wall was crumbling, and the refractive who saw Zhengle didn't want to pay attention to the Qi people's request to fight, so he wanted to smash the city and then attack it, but what the Great Sima Mansion wanted was speed, and the sooner he took Jucheng, the more the Chu army would take the initiative.

"Good. Our army will retreat two hundred paces, and wait for you to wait for the formation before fighting. Qu Guang didn't say a word, and immediately ordered the Chu sergeant to retreat to four hundred steps away, and the two armies would die here to decide the ownership of Jucheng.

Watching the trebuchet fire artillery shells, the continuous smashing of the wall is a pleasure, the boss suddenly ordered to retreat and fight with the Qi army, and the originally cheerful atmosphere immediately became tense. Because of the heat, the suffocating helmet was taken off by Lu Gao, and now he had to put it back on, and then got up with the military order and began to slowly retreat.

When the Chu army retreated, the trebuchet stopped dropping bombs, and after a while, the south gate of Jucheng was opened, and the suspension bridge was also lowered. The first to come out were the cavalry of the Qi army, and unlike the Chu army, these were only light horses, the horses had no vests, and the riders wore leather armor; Then came out the foot soldiers and chariot soldiers. The Qi army had 200 soldiers per pawn, and one pawn and one chariot.

The smoke and dust were billowing out, and as soon as the Qi army's foot soldiers left the city, they set up a wide formation three hundred paces away from the Chu army. Unlike the previous intelligence of Zhibisi, the number of Qi troops was not fifteen thousand, but nineteen thousand. The depth of its army formation is also twenty rows, excluding the rear army, the width is seven hundred columns. This width greatly exceeded the five hundred columns of the Chu army, plus the Qi army array was actually a goose marching array in the end, and the momentum of the hook attack could not be concealed, but at this time, the Qi army had already beat the drum, and the entire goose marching array was advancing rapidly.

Arrays are mutually reinforcing, so the generals always try to disguise their intentions and thwart the opponent's intentions. Tian Ying's heart kept mentioning when he was arraying just now, for fear that the other party would see his intentions, but fortunately, the generals of the Chu army did not move, just waited for themselves to line up. At this time, the army was advancing, and he had the pleasure of succeeding in his plan, and victory seemed to be at hand.

"The warrior is hazy, and the state is stubborn. He also holds the halberd, and ...... for Wang Weixi"

The Chu army, who had no action, suddenly sang the Chu song when the Qi army was striding forward, and Tian Ying's heart trembled as soon as the song was heard. He knows what kind of army this is, this is the king of the Chu people! Only they are qualified to sing 'For the King's Guard'.

"The warrior is brave, the king is shy, and he also holds a spear, and he is ...... for the king."

The drums sounded, and the soldiers of Chu also began to stride forward. At the time of the battle, Lu Gao, who was about to explode in a heartbeat and was cold all over, sang Chu Ge and finally felt the warmth of the early summer sun again, and the breeze blew from the water, bringing a burst of coolness.

"Kill ——!" Without waiting for the foot soldiers, the cavalry of the Chu army on both sides of the army formation had already rushed towards the Qi people. As a cavalry general, Fei Jing held a huge blade and killed the oncoming Qi army riders. The arrows hit his huge armor, bounced off one after another, and when the two horses staggered, the huge blades swung like white light, and the Qi people not only cut off the bronze sword in their hands, but also cut the people in two.

Weapons, armor, stirrups, although the cavalry of the Chu army were not all battle-hardened Qin military knights, the huge advantage brought by the equipment allowed them to suppress the Qi people in the first round. The Qi cavalry was horrified to find that the Chu people could actually stand on horseback and use long blades without falling off their horses.

"Kill!" The impact of the Chu cavalry was messy, but the Qi cavalry was even more messy, and after the first round of confrontation, they didn't have the courage to engage in the second round with the Chu cavalry, and they all rode their horses and ran away.

"Look at your feet!" As soon as his own cavalry appeared, he dispersed the Qi cavalry, and Lu Gao stepped on his comrades in the first row without paying attention.

"Yui!" Lu Gao stuck out his tongue, and while agreeing, he didn't dare to relax anymore, but looked ahead.

"General, the cavalry of our army ......" Tian Ying was also watching the cavalry battle between the two sides. Under the rule of Qi, Dongyi had cavalry, and the Shang Dynasty, which was also a Yi people, had a cavalry establishment, and there were cavalry officers and horses. It can be said that the cavalry of the Qi State is much longer than the Hufu cavalry of the Zhao State, but such a cavalry was actually driven away by the Chu cavalry, which is the most ungood at riding, which is an extremely abnormal thing.

"Don't worry! Our army will win. Tian Ying turned his head to look at the front of the military formation, the two armies had entered a hundred steps, and the exchange was imminent. Shoot the arrows! ”

"Shoot the arrows!" The commander shouted, and at the front of the military formation, the crossbowmen of the Qi army standing in three rows fired wildly.

The Qi people released arrows, and the Chu army also released arrows. The difference is that the Qi army is a crossbowman in front of the battle to release arrows, and the Chu army is an archer behind the battle to release arrows. In the rain of arrows, there were people from both armies who fell to the ground, but there were no casualties among the people in huge armor in front of the Chu army. Although the ring armor can only protect half of the body, there are shin armor on the calf and a small round shield on the thigh, and the arrows of the Qi people can shoot the giant armor with a tinkling sound at most.

"Ready! Ready......" After three waves of arrows, in the beat of the drums, the tone of the first row of honors became higher and higher, to remind the comrades behind them that a fierce impact was coming. Lu Gao also shouted, the iron spear in his hand clenched tightly.