"Chong-" The drum beat was still in the first pass, and the Wei soldiers three hundred steps away from the west city carried the wooden boat ladder straight to the bottom of the city. Many people held torches alof, and the fire shook as they ran, and the light of the fire reflected either spears or human faces. Many county guards still wanted to take a closer look, and a rain of arrows struck ...... 'Xiuxiu', and all the people who poked their heads out of the canal were hit by arrows, and the screams continued for a while. The rain of arrows was so dense that the entire canal was shot into a hornet's nest.

The county in the city was hit by an arrow, and if the county soldiers in Chai Fan under the city did not raise a shield to refuse, most of them were also hit by arrows, and the queue was suddenly scattered. One hundred and ten steps and a pawn commander, when the pawn shouted that everyone wanted everyone to defend the chai fan, a pile of fireballs suddenly flew over on the other side of the city. LIKE THE FIRE BOMBS BEFORE THE CHU ARMY, THE WEI ARMY'S FIRE BOMBS WERE ALSO FILLED WITH GREASE IN WINE URNS, BUT THIS KIND OF FIRE BOMBS WERE LESS THAN TWENTY CHU JIN (5KG), AND THE WALLS WERE EXTREMELY THIN.

The moat was about four zhang (about 9.2 m) wide, and most of the fire bombs thrown fell on the firewood at the edge of the city, and a few were thrown into the firewood. The fire oil splashed everywhere, and the firewood suddenly burned, because it was the west wind, and the fireworks smoked the city. The city was only two feet away from the root of the city, and the county guards in Chai Fan were immediately smoked so that they could not stand at all, and could only retreat to a place without fire.

On the other side of the city, the tall Wei soldiers who threw the fire bombs rushed to the edge of the city and threw the fire bombs, and after throwing them, they ran to the sides again, and then returned to 300 steps away to pick up the bombs and throw them again. There may be arrows shot by crossbows flying in the city, but the city is full of Wei pawns, and one arrow may kill two or three, but there are still countless people running with fire bullets.

"Withdraw! Withdraw to the city! Seeing that nearly half of the firewood under the city was on fire, he knew that the city could not hold it, so he had no choice but to order the county guards in the firewood to withdraw to the city. In the sound of gold, more than 2,000 county guards hurried to the three city gates, and everyone retreated into the city through the moat and braved the rain of enemy arrows.

"Be careful!" There was a burst of exclamations in the city, and the short soldiers on his side pushed violently, poked his head out of the canal and answered, and looked at the city Chen Dang pushed a stumbling. It was too late, and several rockets stuck in his skin and hit the ditch above the female wall to block the arrows.

The canal was made of bamboo curtains, and it burned as soon as it caught fire. At this time, the city under the city of Chai Fan City on the canal answered, up and down a fire, the city head is very bright. Fortunately, Chen Ying is a thirty-mile city, the head of the city is more than two zhang wide, although the county officials in the city cannot withdraw to the city, but they only need to squat, hold a shield, and lean against the other city wall to avoid fire and arrows. What the enemy army is doing under the city can only be glimpsed from the watchtower at the corner of the city and the urn on the west middle gate.

"Report ——!" In the Sima Mansion in the city, all the generals who are not worth the change have risen, including the sanitation generals. The military reports came one after another, and in less than half an hour, another military report came.

"What?" Chen Bu was dressed in military uniform, with all the armor, he pressed the sword in his hand and shouted loudly.

"The Wei army carried countless small boats to cross the city." The officers came from the corner towers, sweating profusely.

"Boat building? This time it's really going to be a siege...", the crowd whispered to each other. Previously, the Qin and Wei armies had attacked the city, but instead of building a pontoon bridge to cross the moat, they ordered the soldiers to fill the moat with soil. In fact, there is no surprise to build a pontoon bridge to siege the city, the pontoon bridge has been there for a long time, and the poem says that 'build a boat for a beam', that is, a pontoon bridge, if the moat is wide enough, it is not uncommon to use it for siege.

"Probe!" Chen Bu's face was unwavering, and when the military officials retreated, he asked left and right: "How is the trebuchet?" ”

"The general said that the city could not see the enemy and failed to fire the artillery...... "The trebuchet and the thorn crossbow were Chen Ying's outer defense line, and the hateful thing was that the Wei army chose to attack the city at night, and the artillery soldiers were afraid that they would not be able to hit the enemy.

"Miao!" Chen Bei shouted angrily and threw a feather shelf over. "There are enemy troops outside the city, and the general will be ordered to fire artillery immediately, and the violators will be dealt with by military law."

"Yui!" Left and right picked up the feather and ran out.

"Why doesn't the Qin army move?" The sanitation garrison is an inner city, and even so, Yang Yu also felt that it was a little strange for the Wei army to suddenly attack the city. This time the Wei army was just a foil, why did the Qin army move without moving the Wei army.

"Report ——! The Wei army burned all the firewood of the Jing people, and it was already a boat beam, and it immediately attacked the city. "The Qin army shogunate, the news is one step ahead of the city, and Xin Wu learned that the Wei army is about to attack the city.

"Good!" Xin Wu Dayue. He thought that the Wei army was weak, but after Xiang Bang Ziji entered the camp, he killed more than ten soldiers in a row, and the Wei army suddenly became resolute. "Drumming, we need to help the Wei people attack the city."

"The general has an order, beat the drum!" The military order was passed out of the tent. The drums outside the tent were immediately beaten, and the sound of the drums spread throughout the camp, and 200,000 Qin soldiers shouted in unison, 'Long live, long live, long live', and the sound shook for ten miles.

"The Qin people are coming, the Qin people are coming." The county guards in the city heard the change of color, but the right Sima Chen Bu shouted excitedly. Just like the previous West City, the north city was also full of fire, one after another fire bombs smashed into the firewood on the inside of the moat, and the head of the city was suppressed by a rain of arrows. In the shouting, you can indeed hear the Qin people's army leading the firing orders from time to time, and after each 'shot', the arrow rain pours down. This should be the Qin army's crossbow, and the crossbow arrows can shoot more than a hundred steps away.

"Shoot the arrows!" Arrows were released outside the city, arrows were also released inside the city, and three-quarters of the archers in the city were already ready to shoot. This is also a blind shot, because the arrow has to fly over the wall more than nine meters high, and only land within 50 steps outside the city.

Every time the rain of arrows fell, the muffled screams of Qin's arrows would be heard outside the city, and the fire bombs in their hands also smashed to the ground, instantly raising a ball of fire. If they are unlucky, the grease splashes on the Qin soldiers, and they will scream fiercely when they are dying, or they will run a dozen steps and fall to the ground, or jump into the moat, and be stabbed to death by the spikes in the water.

"Putting ——!" The trebuchets lined up, and Chen Buyu had to order the trebuchets to open the cannon. This time, all the bullets were used. This was also a blind shot, and as soon as there was a 'clatter', the boom flew up, and a 100-kilogram stone projectile was thrown. The 'boom' smashed a hundred paces away from the city, and the sound of stone bullets falling to the ground could be heard, but it was impossible to know how many enemies were killed when they landed.

The north of the city is the focus of defense, but the firewood that the city loves is still ignited by the fire bomb, and the county guards in the firewood also retreat into the city like the west city.

"Report ——!" Another shout. The person who came didn't wait for Chen Bu to drink and asked, and said: "The Qin people pushed out the transfer and wanted to cross the city." ”

"Report ——!" This time it was two people who came. "Sima, the Wei army is erecting a ladder and wants ants to attack the city......"

"Leave the Wei people alone!" Like Chen Bu, Chen Bu understood that the Wei army was only an assist, and the real main attack was the Qin army in the north. "Quickly dispatch 5,000 people to the northern city, and the Qin people must not be allowed to enter the city."

Chen Ying is thirty miles long, one mile is three hundred steps, that is, nine thousand steps. The law of defending the city, forty people in fifty steps in the city, and twenty people in the city to support, the whole city is more than 10,000. But this is how Jucheng was captured by the Qi people, Chengyang was also stationed at the head of the city with this standard at the beginning, and was almost rushed up by the Qin army, Chen Ke's experience is that the city must be equipped with two people at each step, and it is best to have three people per step for the sake of insurance, and the Qin army's real ants can also drive them off the city.

"Sima has an order, quickly transfer 5,000 people to the north of the city, and the Qin people must not be allowed to enter the city." The soldiers held their feathers and shouted as they ran to the north of the city. The drums and shouts outside the city, the flames that ignited in the canal at the head of the city, and the sporadic rockets fired into the city, ...... the soldiers and civilians in the city had already woken up at this moment, and heard the soldiers shouting '...... The Qin people ascended the city', and they were a little more frightened in their hearts. 'Tom tom ......', the five thousand county soldiers running seemed to step on their hearts.

"Quick! Hurry!! "A hundred steps down from the northern city, Li Xin, the right general on the chariot, ignored the stone bullets and the crossbow, and loudly cheered up the Qin soldiers.

Unlike the Wei army, the Qin army did not build boats as pontoon bridges, but erected transit passes. The bridge is folded, about two feet and five feet long, and placed on the car. When pushed to the edge of the moat, the two-zhang five-foot bridge above unfolded, and it became a bridge about five feet long. The bridge spans the moat and reaches the still burning firewood.

The besiegers are all veterans, and they cooperate with each other very tacitly. As soon as the turnaround was opened, the ladder truck behind pushed onto the bridge. A ladder is not just a ladder, but a car. The ladder on the car is also folded like a turnaround, and the ladder has been unfolded before crossing the bridge, and the iron hook at the front end of the diagonal ladder touches the city wall when crossing the bridge, rubbing against the rammed earth, making a 'whooshing' sound.

This voice was very small, but even if the county guards in the city had not experienced this kind of voice, they had heard the old soldiers or officers talk about it, and they were squatting and shouted in fright: "The Qin army has landed in the city!" The Qin army has landed in the city! ”

The Qin army did not begin to ascend the city, according to the angle calculated in advance, Chen Ying's four-foot and eight-foot high city wall, the ladder car must rush to a position about one zhang away from the root of the wall, the ladder can cross the city, the iron hook is hung on the female wall, but the defenders have already buried countless wooden stakes one foot away from the root of the wall, the purpose is to make the enemy ladder car unable to approach.

"The Qin army has landed in the city......" The county guards who were squatting to avoid the arrows could no longer be indifferent, they threw the stones and logs down, but they could only land on the shields of the Qin soldiers under the city. Under the shield, a Qin pawn wielded a giant axe, cutting through the wooden stake so that the ladder cart could be pushed to the intended position.

"Shoot! Shoot fast! "Outside the city, the crossbow army array, the army leaders shouted orders. The arrival of the city is imminent, and the Chu army at the head of the city must be suppressed with all its might. A rain of arrows flew out in the darkness. The county soldier who was throwing the rocks and rolling logs showed his body at the slightest negligence, and he would be shot like a hedgehog. The 5,000 newly reinforced county soldiers had to bow down and move forward, even if they were holding shields.

"Ascend! Mount! Mount!! After cutting the wooden stake, the ladder cart finally took place, and the rear commander immediately ordered his subordinates to enter the city. The pawns who ascended the city all raised their shields and climbed the ladder step by step.

Li Xin no longer shouted, only looked at the pawns who had ascended the city by the light of the unfinished fire at the head of the city - unlike the previous attempted attacks, this time the north city wall with a total length of more than 2,200 steps was erected with a thousand ladders, at first glance, the ladders and soldiers on the city wall were densely packed, and even if the stones and rolling logs could smash some people, it would be useless.