From April 6 to April 9, catapult troops in the Wei army launched an indiscriminate bombardment of the western city wall of the Chu king's capital, Shouying. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, the Wei army only had 600 catapults, but after hearing that the Wei army in the western suburbs had an absolute advantage, Lu Xi, the king of Qi, actually sent the general Zuo Zizhang to lead 9,000 Mu Ling troops to help.

Of course, the 9,000 Mu Ling Qi soldiers were actually nothing, and what shocked Zhao Hongrun was the entire 900 catapults escorted by this army - this is already half of the number of all the catapults of the Qilu coalition army!

"Your Majesty King Qi isn't afraid that General Tian Tan will be furious when he learns about this?"

When meeting with Zuo Zizhang, Zhao Hongrun asked jokingly.

After all, his gambling contract with Tian Tan is not a secret among the high-level generals of the coalition army, and even some good people still set up a gambling game in private to bet on the victory or defeat of Zhao Hongrun and Tian Tan.

It can be seen that Zuo Zizhang may have a good relationship with Tian Tan on weekdays, and replied with a smile: "Tian Tan, in the past, he always showed off his power in front of my generation, if Run Gongzi can severely frustrate his arrogance, it is also a good thing." ”

Zhao Hongrun laughed, and set up a banquet to entertain Zuo Zizhang that day.

After all, the generals of the Qi State generally have a high cultural quality, and sometimes when they take off their battle robes and look at their gentle appearance, you can't imagine that this is actually a general with military power in his hands.

Zuo Zizhang is like this, the image of this person faintly coincides with the Confucian general in Zhao Hongrun's memory, so Zhao Hongrun has a good impression of this general.

The 600 catapults of the Wei army, plus the 900 catapults brought by Zuo Zizhang, Zhao Hongrun's army had 1,500 siege weapons.

When the whole 1,500 catapults bombarded indiscriminately towards Shouying, the king of Chu, I have to say that this was an extremely spectacular scene.

I saw that the rumbling sound was endless, and hundreds of stone bullets, as if it were a rain of stones, smashed down towards Shou Ying.

Not to mention the others, even Zhao Hongrun, his heart was pounding excitedly.

However, Chu Jun's strange response always made him feel puzzled.

Even, with the bombardment of Shouying day after day, the generals of the Wei army and the newly arrived general of the allied army, Zuo Zizhang, also noticed the strangeness one after another: they bombed Shouying like this, and the Chu soldiers in Shouying City did not fight back?

"Let's find out, after Gongsun Po died, who is in command of the Chu army now?" Zhao Hongrun commanded left and right.

It didn't take long for the former army to reply: It is the veteran general of the Xiang clan, Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yan?

Zhao Hongrun muttered in his heart.

You must know that the Xiang clan of Chu State, although there are many generations of tiger generals, but the people are not prosperous, this may be their self-protection means to avoid being suppressed by the Xiong clan.

Therefore, judging from Xiang Yan's age, he should be the uncle of Xiang Mo, the general of Xinyang Jun, and Xiang Jiao, the general of Zhaoguan, it is difficult to imagine that such an experienced veteran is actually choosing the stupid tactic of defending the city.

What puzzled Zhao Hongrun was that he had continuously sent the northern Sichuan cavalry to investigate the surroundings in the past few days, but he did not find any ambushes in Xiang Yan's ambush outside the city.

Could it be that he is old and confused?

With a skeptical mentality, Zhao Hongrun watched Shou Ying be bombarded indiscriminately by his Wei army's catapults day after day, until finally a section of the city wall was collapsed by the Wei army's catapults.

Shouying's city wall was blown down, and the Wei army was naturally surprised, but Zhao Hongrun, Zuo Zizhang, Wu Ji and others looked at each other.

After being stunned for a long time, Zuo Zizhang said with a strange expression: "If it weren't for the status of the Xiang clan in the Chu State, the last general would really have some doubts about whether Gongzi had rebelled against that Xiang Yan ......"

"Actually, this king can't figure it out." Zhao Hongrun inhaled, and he couldn't figure it out.

On April 11, the Wei soldiers, who had destroyed the section of the western city wall of Shouying, were full of morale and launched a full-scale siege of Shouying.

For this siege battle, Zhao Hongrun simulated it in his mind for a long time in advance, whether it was the suppression of the crossbowmen in the city by the cavalry of northern Sichuan with cavalry, or the route of the Wei infantry to seize the city wall.

Even, in order to cooperate with the siege of the city, Zhao Hongrun also sent the black crows to sneak into the city a few days ago to hunt Chu soldiers in the city to create chaos.

It is no exaggeration to say that for this siege battle and to win Tian Tan's general flag, Zhao Hongrun can be said to have done his best.

But the truth made him stunned.

Why? Because the Wei army actually attacked the west city wall of Shouying on the first day, and planted the banner of the Shang Shui Army in the city gate tower for an hour.

Since ancient times, the first day of siege warfare has made such progress, which is simply unprecedented.

Chu Jun...... In the water? Or did that Xiang Yan see that the battle situation was not good, and deliberately sold me a good one, so that he could defect to my Great Wei in the future?

No matter how Zhao Hongrun thought about it, he felt that this matter was a bit strange.

After all, no matter how strong the infantry of Wei is, it should not be able to break through the enemy's city on the first day, you must know that it is the royal capital of Chu, not a small border county.

However, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that there was really no need for the Chu army to release water, and besides, according to the status of the Xiang clan in the Chu State, it was absolutely impossible for that Xiang Yan to defect to the Wei State.

What's going on?

Zhao Hongrun was puzzled.

Happily, he won his bet with Tian Tan, although he won a little inexplicably.

On April 13, the Wei army began to intensify its siege of Shouying.

It may be that the morale of the Chu army was generally low due to the repeated attack on the city wall by the Wei army, so that the momentum of the Wei army became more and more ferocious, and they actually attacked the city and started street battles with the Chu army in the city.

When the news reached the ears of Tian Tan of the Eastern Route Army, Tian Tan was so shocked that his eyes were about to pop out.

You must know that he has not broken through the joint blockade of the general Shen Tufang of the Chu State and Diyang Jun Xiong Shang on the battlefield in the eastern suburbs, but the Wei army on the west road actually attacked Shouying City?

So when did Ji Yun become so violent?

With his mouth open, Tian Tan couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.

In fact, not only him, but even Lu Xi, the king of Qi, was pleasantly surprised when he heard about this, and immediately ordered the Qilu coalition army under his command to launch a fierce attack on the northern suburbs of Shouying with the momentum of the friendly Wei army.

In Shouying City, due to the Wei army's invasion of the city, the nobles in the city were greatly frightened.

Ignoring the repeated orders of Xiong Xu, the king of Chu, these people fled from the south gate with their clansmen and family wealth and fled to the south.

The escape of the nobles in the city suddenly discouraged the military and civilian troops in the city and panicked the people, so that within two days, the two battlefields in the northern suburbs of Shouying and the eastern suburbs of Shouying were successively attacked by Lu Xi and Tian Tan, the kings of Qi.

Finally, the coalition forces completed the strategy previously formulated by King Lu Xi of Qi: storm Shouying on three sides!

On 15 April, the allied forces launched an unprecedented onslaught on Shouying from the west, north, and east, and hundreds of catapults were put into use, and an incalculable number of stone projectiles were tilted on the walls of Shouying, causing Shouying, the capital of the Chu king, to crumble.

Finally...... Finally......

Lu Xi, the king of Qi, sat on a BMW and watched the battle in person.

Suddenly, there was a cheer far ahead.

"Got in......"

"Kill in!"

Qi King Lu Xi's eyes suddenly widened, and a thick smile appeared on his face.

He knew what that cheer meant, it meant that the soldiers of the Qilu army under his command had finally broken through the wall of Shouying!

"Hehehe, hahahaha, hahahaha......"

Qi King Lu Xi couldn't help laughing.

Good! That's great! …… Shouying's attack is imminent, and when the city is broken, and then the army is waved south, even if the state of Chu is not destroyed, it is difficult to have ......

As soon as he thought of this, Qi King Lu Xi suddenly felt a burst of colic in his heart.

What's going on? Am I just laughing out loud, am I angry?

Lu Xi, the king of Qi, raised his left hand and pressed his heart tightly, hoping to press down this colic.

However, instead of subsiding, this colic became more and more intense, and even the scene in front of me began to spin around.

He opened his mouth and wanted to shout, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make a sound.

"Uh...... Uh......"

Just when hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the two armies of Qi and Lu were overjoyed because the king of Chu, Du Shouying, was about to break through, no one noticed that Lu Xi, the king of Qi, was holding his heart with his left hand, and his right hand tremblingly grabbed Shouying in the distance, as if he wanted to grasp the enemy kings in the distance.

In the dark, Lu Xi, the king of Qi, seemed to realize something, and there were bursts of unwillingness and bitterness in his eyes.

No...... It's still ...... It's not ......

With his trembling right hand, he grabbed the city in the distance, and the pain on his face grew thicker and thicker.

Eventually, the scene in front of me turned completely dark.

"Puff ......"

The sound of a heavy object falling sounded.

At this time, Ji Zhao was looking at Shou Ying in the distance happily, and suddenly heard a strange noise from around him, subconsciously turned his head to look, and suddenly, he was dumbfounded and his face was sluggish.

"Big ...... King? ”

With Ji Zhao's soft shout, the soldiers and generals who were paying attention to the siege battle in the vicinity turned their heads one after another, and they realized that the most outstanding king in the history of their Qi Kingdom had fallen off his horse in full view of everyone.

The thousands of soldiers in the vicinity of the camp were silent, looking at their king in disbelief, and fell from their horses to the ground, and did not move for a long time.

"The King?!"

"King!"

"King!"

After a period of sluggishness, the main formation of the two armies of Qilu was in chaos, and tens of thousands of sergeants and soldiers heard the shouts behind them, and they were also stunned.

About half an hour later, the news that King Qi had fallen off his horse and fainted quickly reached Zhao Hongrun's ears.

At this time, Zhao Hongrun was listening to the battle report from the Wei army in front, after all, at this moment, the army under his command had already attacked Shouying City, and it was no exaggeration to say that Shouying, the royal capital of Chu State, was already in the pocket of the coalition army.

But at this time, Zongwei Lu Mu came out of nowhere, hurriedly came to Zhao Hongrun's side, and whispered a few words to the latter.

After a few breaths, Zhao Hongrun opened his mouth wide and his face was sluggish.

He looked at the Chu King Du Shouying who was about to fall in front of him, and then looked at Lu Mu with a solemn face, the expression on his face was indescribably wonderful.

At a time like this? …… Are you kidding me?!

"Intensify the attack! Take Shou Ying for this king today! ”

Dropping a strict order, Zhao Hongrun's face turned pale, and he turned his horse's head and headed in the direction of the two armies of Qilu in the northern suburbs. (To be continued.) )