After a few days of repairs, the imperial army outside the city began to attack the city.

The black-pressed soldiers walked out of the camp and began to line up, and the generals loudly emphasized military discipline:

"Those who retreat without Ming Jin will be killed!"

"Those who don't listen to orders will be killed!"

"Greedy for life and afraid of the dead!"

"Whoever discards the instrument is killed!"

"Reward for those who go to the top of the city first!"

"Take the first rank of the rebel Yu civilization and reward it!"

"Reward for the head of the rebel general!"

Cui Yanmu, the head of the march, looked at the black and oppressive soldiers in front of him with satisfaction, they had been recuperating for a few days, and now they were full of energy, all of them were extremely strong in heavy armor, and their eyes unabashedly revealed the desire to make meritorious contributions.

The Heart of the Army is available!

The drums sounded, and the besieging army began to move to the beat of a shocking drum.

The sturdy soldiers were in front of them with large shields, and the archers followed closely behind, standing outside the range of the defenders' bows and arrows, and behind them countless siege engines slowly approached under the propulsion of manpower.

The watchtower car raised the lookout tower high, and its function was to use the watchtower higher than the city wall to let the soldiers in it observe the movement of the defenders and direct the surrounding siege troops to adjust the direction of the main attack.

The first is the Linchong car, five or six floors high, pushed forward by the soldiers according to the wheels, the perimeter is nailed with thick wooden planks wrapped in raw cowhide, and there are a large number of archers on each layer of the car, ready to brave the defenders' arrows to march to the edge of the ditch under the city to stop and shoot at it, and also play a role in attracting the opponent's firepower.

The chariots were followed by folding moats, which were used against the moats outside the city, and had been found to be wider, so they were built to fill the trenches when the chariots attracted the defenders' bows and arrows.

The black-pressed armored soldiers followed behind the moat bridge against the ladder, mixed with countless man-powered catapults, which were pulled by humans and threw stones to attack the city. The army marched slowly beyond the range of the defenders' bows and arrows.

Terrible trumpets sounded everywhere, and the siege officially began.

The archers on the ground who were covered by large shields also rushed to the edge of the trench to draw their bows and release arrows, and the soldiers pushed the folding trench bridge under the cover and rushed to the trench.

The city wall suddenly stretched and continued to sound a huge "whoosh" sound, only to see countless giant arrows whistling towards the rushing car, "popping" several sounds, a rushing car was shot through several giant arrows, the giant arrow passed through and then stabbed obliquely at the ground soldiers, through several people and then nailed to the ground.

The siege soldiers had never seen such a terrifying giant arrow, and the comrades who were nailed to the shaft of the arrow were still struggling with blood and mouth, like a few grasshoppers strung on a straw rope.

A trumpet sounded in the city, and the stones rained down on the besieging army, and the rushing vehicles collapsed under the impact of the boulders, and the archers on them fell to the ground and were either killed or wounded.

Taking advantage of the defenders' attack on the rushing car, the new moat bridge rushed into the moat through the trench to build a passage, the soldiers ran across the moat bridge with ladders and rushed towards the city wall, the archers fired at the defenders behind to cover it, and countless manpower catapults also came behind them, and the soldiers loaded the stones and began to pull the ropes to prepare for the stones.

Suddenly, countless stone bullets roared straight over the city, shattering the big shields, and huge stones were thrown over and smashed the manpower catapults, and the surrounding soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Without the shield as a cover, the archers were shrouded in the ensuing rain of arrows, and the blood flowers bloomed intensively, causing countless screams, and the crowd of people rushing towards the city wall was condensed, and then continued to advance under the reprimand of the overseer generals.

The brave Death Warriors had rushed to the city wall, and just as they struggled to lift the ladder, they suddenly found that the archers on the city wall had withdrawn and replaced a group of crossbowmen, and the swishing sound continued to sound, and although they were heavily armoured, they were still shot by the crossbow arrows.

The crossbowmen were less effective in field battles due to their slow rate of fire and inability to bend their fire, but they were perfect for defending the city, and they could be wound up and aimed calmly, and now the archers covering the besieging army under the city suffered heavy casualties, and the defenders were even more unscrupulous and calmly shot without threat.

They methodically took turns firing crossbow arrows, and the first climbers suffered heavy casualties before they could reach the top of the city, and a large number of people had fallen behind them due to the rain of stone bullets and arrows just now, and the siege wave that should have been like a tide was broken.

Seeing the dead soldiers under the city wall being shot by the defenders one by one like lambs, the follow-up soldiers were cowardly, but the long knives of the generals were not vegetarian, and the soldiers approached the city wall with the cover of the big shield, and the new wave of archers also relied on the cover of the big shield to prepare to shoot at the defenders.

"Put!" Countless identical voices rippled on the city walls, whistling sounded, countless stone bullets shot straight at again, shattering the shields one by one, and without cover, the nurses and soldiers greeted the pouring rain of arrows with their flesh and blood in the clearing.

"Ahhhh The blood flowers bloomed again, countless people fell from arrows in the bloody wind and rain, and the lucky survivors no longer had the courage to continue to move forward.

Hundreds of meters away, Cui Yanmu, the head of the march, coldly ordered: "Mingjin, let them retreat first, and then go up after adjustment!" ”

The first round of siege is unfavorable but reasonable, with the defenders well prepared for the first few days of siege casualties, but after a period of time, the defenders run out of ammunition and food, and the difficulty of attacking the city decreases a lot.

This time, the defenders of the city responded appropriately, cutting down all the trees in the suburbs outside the city to prevent them from being used as siege equipment, and all the houses outside the city were demolished. There is a moat on the edge of the city, and a circle of moats is dug around the periphery.

"It's kind of present." Cui Yanmu looked at the city defense and nodded slightly, and then sneered: "Look at how much strength your men have to throw stones!" ”

Behind him, a dense mass of rushing carts, catapults, and trenches were pushed forward by the soldiers, and countless large shields were mixed in between.

Cui Yanmu, who had been in battle for a long time, judged that the other party also laid a large number of catapults, but this catapult required a lot of manpower to pull, and he didn't believe that there were so many people in the city after two or three rounds of projection density!

Half an hour later, the trumpet sounded, and the second round of siege began!

In response to the previous defenders' stone projectiles, a wooden mantle cart was added, which supported a large plank with a lever, and the defensive area was much larger than the large shield carried by a man.

With a "bang", the watchtower car lookout was hit by falling stones, and the soldiers on it fell like a broken kite, and the wooden curtain carts approaching the trench were smashed to pieces with the rain of stones poured from the city wall, and the archers who lost the protection of the wooden curtain were slaughtered by the rain of arrows that followed.

Several Linchong cars stood on the edge of the trench, the archers and crossbowmen on it were shooting at the defenders of the city, only to see more than ten strange-looking crossbows at the head of the city firing stone projectiles at them, the "bang" hit sound continued to sound, the Linchong car did not last long in the stone rain and collapsed one by one, and the archers and crossbowmen standing on each floor of the car wailed and fell to the ground.

Without the cover of archers and rushing vehicles, the first dead soldiers carrying the ladder to attack the city were exposed to the fire range of the crossbowmen at the head of the city.

"What's going on!" Cui Yingmu, the commander of the marching army commanding in the rear, looked at the generals in front of him with a blue face, according to the news from the siege troops everywhere, the second wave of siege losses were heavy, all the rushing vehicles were destroyed, and there were not many catapults left, as for the ladder

The ladder on the wall is still the same as the first round, not a single one!

"The defenders threw stones like rain, the stones were heavy and far, and there were huge arrows like spears," one of the generals was shocked.

"Go on." Cui Yanmu coldly ordered, and the generals gritted their teeth and asked the generals to give orders, withdraw the soldiers to rest and reorganize, and wait for the next round of attacks.

Half an hour later, the third round of siege began!

However, the firepower of the defenders of the city did not diminish in the slightest, and the fate of the besieging soldiers remained unchanged as the previous two times.

"Let the watchtower car look at the city to the end"

Cui Yanmu's voice did not fall, only to hear the sound of "bang", and the watchtower car not far away was crushed by two giant arrows, and everyone was dumbfounded:

It was four or five hundred meters away from the city wall, how could there be a powerful crossbow with such a long range, could it be an accident?

Before everyone could react, they only heard the sound of whistling coming towards them.

"Lord Lang be careful!" Cui Yanmu was knocked down by the soldiers around him, only to see a huge arrow flash of blood flashing past him, and nailed the two soldiers behind him to the ground diagonally.

He got up in shock, and was shocked to find that there were several other huge arrows pierced nearby, and one or two people were strung on them, and even one shot pierced three people in a row!

"What's going on!" Cui Yanmu gasped as he looked at the victim who had not yet lost his breath and was thrown into convulsions, "How can they have such a powerful giant crossbow!" ”

At the same time, with the city of the city.

"How? Did it hit? Sima and a cadre of generals from the Governor's Mansion gathered around Yu Wenming and asked expectantly.

Yu Wenming is holding a retractable and adjustable metal cylinder on his right eye and looking out of the city, it is said that this thing is called a "clairvoyant mirror", which can see people who cannot be seen by the naked eye in the distance.

"It's just a little bit, and I pushed the pro-soldiers away." Yu Wenming sighed regretfully, and handed the metal cylinder to Sima of the Governor's Mansion, "But the generals around him have suffered from the seedlings." ”

When the generals heard this, they were overjoyed, and only then did Shi Ziyu Wenming use this "clairvoyant mirror" to see that hundreds of meters away there were generals gathered in one place and pointing at the city, and everyone discussed that it was better to try their luck with the "towed three-bow winch crossbow of eight bull power".

There was no hope that the giant arrows would be aimed and shot together, but from a distance, the giant arrows actually shot into the group, although it was a surprise that they failed to take the general's life.

The chief manager Sima held the "clairvoyant mirror" tightly for fear that others would snatch it away, and after looking at it, he only heard him shouting excitedly: "That guy retreated with people and fell down, hahaha!" ”

Hearing this, the other generals tiptoed desperately at the figure in the distance outside the city, just a few hundred meters away, and looked at the "clairvoyant mirror" in their hands scratching their ears and cheeks, wanting to see but not daring to say anything.

After feasting his eyes, the chief steward Sima did not have the exclusive right to hand it over to the people around him, and the generals took turns to open their eyes like a treasure, and let out exclamations from time to time.

There was a trumpet sound from the opposite side, and the remaining soldiers under the city were relieved to stumble and retreat, and the defenders let out thunderous cheers, today's first battle, with the strange ordnance that Gongyu Wenwen, the second son of the chief manager, came up with, and the results were unexpectedly good.

What is the "Eight Bull Power Towed Three-Bow Winch Crossbow", the power of launching giant arrows is amazing, the range of archery at the head of the city is four or five hundred meters, and no siege equipment can withstand it.

There is also a "cross-era long-range gravity projectile cannon", which is a catapult that does not need to be pulled by manpower, although it is a "shrunken version", but standing at the head of the city, it can throw twenty or thirty pounds of stones to more than 200 meters away, the most important thing is to save manpower, and dozens of stones are thrown at the same time It is really a rain of stones.

In addition, there is a big crossbow that has never been seen before, called "extremely rare mule horse" and what "ox power" is aimed at the ballista.

"Let's call it a ballista." Yu Wenming corrected the general's words and rubbed his temples helplessly, the weapons made by his younger brother were really powerful, but he liked to take some awkward names that were out of tune.

He used a horsehair drum to make a crossbow cannon assembled from a "bull power stall yellow" with stone bullets that can shoot directly, hitting wooden mantle carts and large shields has a miraculous effect, it uses the same stone as the catapult, so that it saves a lot of arrows while maintaining its power, and now the stones in the city are piled up and cannot be consumed in a short time.

In today's battle, the opponent suffered at least thousands of casualties, and the defenders suffered slight losses and high morale, so it seems that it will be no problem to hold for a month!

Seeing that the generals were full of confidence, a stone fell to the ground in Yu Wenming's heart, he was on the battlefield for the first time, and he was burdened with a heavy responsibility, guarding the north gate of Anzhou here to block the imperial army from going south, and he was still tossing and turning for fear of not being competent, but now it seems that it is really "no problem to guard for a month!" ”

"Father, Erlang, I can bear it here, and the victory or defeat depends on your side." He looked at the southwest sky and muttered to himself......

Yingzhou Prefecture governs forty miles north of Changshou City.

The South Road counterinsurgency army stayed at the Han River and camped, while the atmosphere in the tent of the Chinese army was delicate.

"What do you say? Longevity lost?! Marching Marshal Wang Yi looked at a soldier in amazement, the soldier broke through from Changshou City last night and brought bad news: Changshou City was lost last night!

"How is that possible! Didn't it just be surrounded three days ago, how could it be breached in less than three days! The generals present were also incredulous.

For three days, how could it be possible to besiege a state with complete fortifications for three days! Of course, the defense of Changshou City is not as good as Xiangyang City, but it is also much stronger than the ordinary fortress, and the defenders are also prepared, how can it be broken so quickly!

The soldier was covered with bruises and grimace, and said with a sad face: "That afternoon, the rebels besieged the city, built siege equipment overnight, and began to siege the city the next day, and the city wall could not hold it that night. ”

"The assassin ordered me to break through in several ways to report the news, and now I escaped alone, and soon after I left the city, I heard the rebels rushing into the city with cheers."

"You're saying it took only one day for the rebels to break through the city?" The generals gasped, they wanted to say that it was impossible, but the fact was that Longevity City was lost!

The soldier only said that there were many tall catapults attacking the city, and they thought for a moment that the rebels must have requisitioned a large number of civilians to operate the catapults.

"Well, straighten out the soldiers and horses, and meet them in a dignified manner." Wang Yi loosened his brows, "Ben Shuai wants to see what ability Yu Wenliang has to face the army of the Imperial Court!" ”