At noon on the same day, about 2,000 of the people who promised Liu Yi to come to help last night were called into the army, and the number of the entire contingent increased to nearly 20,000.

The rest of the people did not sit idly by, they helped transport materials and pick up stones that could be used to smash people, there were not many stones that could be used to smash people in the city, so many people took out the stones of the cylinder when they were pickled, and even broke the stone grinding disc, and in the end the stones were taken out, and I don't know who started it, and the people began to send all kinds of heavier iron tools to Liu Yi, what hoes, plows, kitchen knives, etc., if Liu Yi didn't stop it in time, I am afraid that after a while, even if the enemy does not attack, the people in the city will starve because they have no cooking utensils to cook.

Liu Yi looked at the mountains of stones and iron in front of him, and he was very moved.

According to Cheng Yu, the enemy has a large number of people, so it is impossible to attack only one side, so Liu Yi divided his more than 20,000 people into four teams according to Cheng Yu's suggestion, Liu Yi brought 8,000 people to defend the front, Zhang Fei, Cheng Yu, and Wang San each led 4,000 people to defend the remaining three sides, of which 800 2,000 archers were here with Liu Yi, the remaining three were 400 each, and 1,000 javelinmen were arranged with 250 people each.

Because of the previous lesson, Liu Yi specially instructed Li Blacksmith and others of the Arsenal Division to stop the construction of the rest of the equipment these days, and the entire Arsenal Division specially built arrows and javelins, and after several days and nights of hard work by Li Blacksmith and others, 100,000 arrows and 20,000 javelins were finally prepared.

Not only that, Liu Yi deliberately dispatched a thousand strong militiamen in his team to resist the main entrance, the iron door cast by molten iron was rigidly resisted by a log with the thickness of a child's waist, and there were four latches between the two iron gates, and the groove of each latch was placed with an iron plate ten centimeters thick, twenty centimeters wide, and half a meter long, and the entire gate was firmly locked.

Anyway, Liu Yi and the others also thought about it, either they would defend the city, or they would all die under the enemy's sword, and they would not be able to escape, because there was nowhere to escape if they wanted to.

In the next two days, everyone was nervous and paid attention to the situation outside, but what made everyone a little fortunate was that the two teams of Zhiyuan and Sun Fei did not make much movement in these two days, and the 50,000 Yellow Turban Army did not show that they were going to attack aggressively except for advancing under Sun Fei's drive every day.

After another day, Liu Bei and his remaining 10,000 men joined Sun Fei, and Cheng Zhiyuan's army finally came to a place less than two miles away from Liu Yi and the others.

In the past three days, Liu Yi and the others have spent most of their time on the city tower except for eating, not only to monitor the enemy's movements, but also to look for traces of friendly troops.

"My lord, depending on the bottom, the enemy will definitely attack tomorrow at the latest!"

Cheng Yu stood beside Liu Yi and said, while his nine-year-old son Cheng Wu was standing behind Cheng Yu at this time.

Liu Yi turned his head, looked at Cheng Wu, who was slightly immature and a little timid on his face, pinched Cheng Wu's face with his hand, and said calmly, "Those who should come will always come, and you can't hide!" I said, sir, why did you bring it back to Xiao Chengwu, how dangerous it is! ”

Without waiting for Cheng Yu to reply, Cheng Wu on the side raised his head and replied crisply, "My father often taught me that ambition is not in old age, and I am nine years old this year, the lord does not have to worry about Wu'er, Wu'er hopes to contribute to the lord, and please ask the lord to agree!" ”

After Liu Yi heard this, he looked at Cheng Wu in front of him, who had not retreated, and laughed happily.

"Hahaha~ Okay! What a tiger father without a dog! But since you have called me my lord, you should obey my orders as well as your father, and I now order you to pour bowls of water for my uncles behind me!" ”

"Wu'er commands!"

Cheng Wu's serious appearance caused everyone around him to laugh.

Looking at Xiao Chengwu who ran down the city tower, Liu Yi couldn't help but admire, "It's the heir of Mr. Think about when I was a child like Cheng Wu, I still fucking rode the door to play with mud! ”

Liu Yi's self-deprecation with swear words suddenly caused everyone to laugh again, and the tense atmosphere was diluted a lot at once.

On the fifth day, as Cheng Yu expected, Cheng Zhiyuan led the army to press up after breakfast.

Seeing that Cheng Zhiyuan's army was coming, Liu Yi stood on top of the city tower, raised the ring-headed knife in his hand, and started the pre-war mobilization with great emotion.

"Soldiers, if we can't defend against the enemy's attack today, then it is not only us who will die but also our dearest relatives, look at the defenseless relatives behind you, you must remember that you are not fighting for me, nor for yourself, but for those relatives behind you who cannot fight, so for our loved ones, even if the last drop of blood is shed, we must hold the city!"

"People are in the city ~ people are in the city ~"

After Liu Yi's mobilization, morale was raised to the extreme.

Cheng Zhiyuan is a pragmatist, before and after coming to the city, he did not talk away like Deng Mao before, but directly divided 50,000 people into four teams, he brought 20,000 people to stand in front of the city, and the remaining three sides sent 10,000 people, and the four teams are all equipped with all kinds of troops, the front is the shield soldier holding the wooden shield, the shield soldier is followed by the archer, behind the archer is several siege ladders, and after the ladder is the army.

The ladders that Cheng Zhiyuan ordered people to build were different from the ordinary ladders used by Deng Mao and others before, these ladders were combined with wooden carts, and the bottom was equipped with wheels that could be moved; The ladder that makes full use of the principle of leverage, the ladder body can be tilted up and down, and it can be leaned on the city wall by manpower; In addition, there is a hook at the top of the ladder to hook the edge of the city, which can protect the head of the ladder from being pushed and destroyed by the defenders. Each ladder is also equipped with a shield against bows and arrows, which can protect the soldiers in the cart during the journey.

Cheng Zhiyuan saw that the soldiers in all directions had finished arranging, and then with a wave of his hand, the trumpeter beside him raised the horn made of beast horns and took a sharp breath.

"Woo~"

The loud and long sound of the horn suddenly resounded through the four fields.

"Archer prepare!"

Liu Yi and the four people on the city tower saw that the enemy sounded the order to attack, and hurriedly asked the archers defending the city to prepare with arrows.

In Cheng Zhiyuan's army under the city, the first to move was the shield soldiers at the front of the team, these shield soldiers were nearly a meter high wooden shield in front of them, and then quickly came to the edge of the moat, after arriving at the edge of the moat, the first row of shield soldiers squatted down and then stood the wooden shield on the ground, and the shield soldiers in the second row followed closely behind and stacked the shield on top of the wooden shield in the first row, and suddenly erected a wooden wall nearly two meters high on the side of the moat.

After the wooden wall was built, a large number of Yellow Turban soldiers ran out of the team, each of these Yellow Turban soldiers had more than a dozen small cloth bags tied to their bodies, these cloth bags were made by Cheng Zhiyuan to make sandbags for filling the moat, these people ran to the shield soldiers and then untied the sandbags on their bodies and threw the sandbags into the moat under their feet, and ran back to the team after throwing the sandbags.

Liu Yi and the others on the city tower saw that the enemy under the city had filled up the moat in an orderly manner in front of everyone, and they were furious in their hearts, and they ordered their archers to shoot at the city, and at once countless arrows shot at the enemy who was filling the river.

Although Liu Yi's team had plenty of arrows, most of them were shot at the enemy's wooden shields at this time, and only a few arrows hit the enemy, some of them passed through the gap of the wooden shield, and some flew over the shield wall and shot at the soldiers who were running up.

At this time, in order to cover the soldiers who filled the river, the archers in Cheng Zhiyuan's army also drew their bows and shot towards the city. Although it is difficult to shoot to the position when shooting from below to the city, there are inevitably some strong and far-reaching enemies, and after several rounds of mutual shooting, Liu Yi and others on their side, some archers were caught in the city and fell to death on the spot because they couldn't dodge.

On the other hand, on Cheng Zhiyuan's side, as long as a shield soldier is shot by the arrows of Liu Yi and others, there will be a new shield soldier blocking it immediately, under the cover of many parties, the moat is being filled little by little, and the two-meter-high shield wall is gradually moving forward.

Liu Yi saw that he couldn't break through the enemy's shield wall for a while, so he ordered everyone to use the projectile to shoot the Yellow Turban Army behind the shield wall, the so-called projectile is not aimed at the enemy but shot into the sky, and the trajectory of the arrow is parabolic when it falls, so that you can cross the enemy's shield wall and shoot directly to the enemy behind, but the shortcomings are also obvious, some people don't shoot the arrow at all after the arrow falls because the angle is too high.

Although the accuracy of everyone's projectile method was very poor, the damage to the enemy was much higher than just now, and I saw that many Yellow Turban soldiers behind the shield soldiers were shot to the ground one after another.

Seeing this, Cheng Zhiyuan ordered his soldiers to speed up the filling of the river.

After about an hour, the last moat was filled, and the shieldmen had completed their mission, retreating with their shields flat on the sandbags at their feet, so that they would be more secure to step on the wooden shields than on the loose sandbags during the siege.

Cheng Zhiyuan, who was in the distance, saw that the road had been paved and issued an order to attack the city, and the Yellow Turban Army on all sides of the city suddenly sounded war drums, and more than a dozen ladders quickly attacked the four sides of the city at the same time, and tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops behind him followed closely behind the ladders. At the same time, a wooden cart carrying a battering ram twice as large as that used by Deng Mao and others was also pushed out.

Zhang Fei, who was guarding the north, saw the enemy attacking densely, and scolded, "Damn, shoot me hard, see where they are hiding this time!" ”