Wancheng, Nanyang County, Jingzhou.

Just when Huangfu Song continued to order people to build siege equipment, Zhu Jun here launched a fierce attack on Wancheng. Yes, although the Spirit Emperor Liu Hong, under the persuasion of Sikong Zhang Wen, did not remove Zhu Jun in the end, but in the holy decree issued, he still revealed a very big dissatisfaction. And Liu Hong's dissatisfaction really made Zhu Jun feel frightened.

Zhu Jun came from a cold family, the so-called Han family or Shu people, in this era is actually a quite interesting group. Because their identities are uncertain, some people are landlords, some people are just ordinary people, and some even have poor families who can't survive, but they all belong to the poor family.

So what is Hanmen? In fact, it is very simple, that is, someone in the ancestors has been an official! And more than one! At the same time, the so-called official here must have a certain status, in terms of the official rank of this era, it is an official position with an official rank of more than 1,000 stones.

For example, the county orders in various places, the county orders here are not the kind of magistrates who casually follow a county, but only large counties with more than 10,000 people will have county orders. Others, such as the ministers of the vassal states, the long history of the three dukes, the long history of the Taifu, and so on.

These people either held great power at the local level, or they once had a say in the court. However, because he could not maintain the career path of future generations for a long time, and he could not climb the standard line for a long time, in the end, it turned into a poor family.

To put it more simply, when Hanmen chatted with ordinary people, Hanmen could tell who his ancestors were, but ordinary people couldn't say it.

And Zhu Jun's family is a poor family, or a poor family, which also makes Zhu Jun cherish his current status very much. After all, seeing that the revitalization of the family was just around the corner, how could he not cherish it? Therefore, after knowing that the Spirit Emperor Liu Hong had an opinion on his strategy of besieging Wancheng without attacking it, Zhu Jun finally ordered the attack to start after thinking about it all night.

Of course, Zhu Jun is not a brave and unscrupulous person, and he can't really give up his designated strategy because of Liu Hong's holy decree. After all, what he wants is to be promoted to glory and glorify his ancestors, and make Liu Hong angry, but he may lose his official position, but if he loses the battle, he will definitely lose his official position and may even lose his life.

And after besieging Wancheng for so long, Zhu Jun didn't do nothing, he passed through the surrounding county towns and made a large number of various siege equipment, just for this moment, although this moment was slightly earlier than he expected.

The ladder trucks slowly drove towards Wancheng, indicating that after nearly a month, the war had begun again. Seeing this, although the Yellow Turban Army on the city wall was shocked by the sudden attack of the officers and soldiers, they still beat the war drums quickly. Soon, a large number of Yellow Turban troops hurried to the city wall.

They seemed a little flustered, not only because of the sudden attack of the officers and soldiers, but more importantly, because they themselves had no discipline to speak of.

"Archers! What about archers?! A strong man who appeared to be a small boss shouted.

"What about Qu Shuai? Hurry up and inform Qu Shuai! Let's just say that the officers and soldiers are attacking in a big way and need crossbow arrows to support! Another small leader shouted. As an easy-to-operate weapon, crossbow arrows have always been kept by people sent by Qu Shuai in the Yellow Turban Army, and no one can take them without Qu Shuai's orders.

While the Yellow Turban Army was preparing to defend the city, the first wave of attacks by officers and soldiers had arrived.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Dozens of stones of more than 10 catties fell on the city wall, making a chilling sound. The trebuchet, with a distance of about half a mile, allows it to safely throw outside the range of the bow and arrow. Since the appearance of trebuchets in the Warring States period, they have been used as a great weapon for siege.

In this era, after improvements, trebuchets can throw 3 or 4 stones at a time, and once they hit a person's head, they can kill people in an instant, but the power is quite good. Of course, more important than power is the sense of intimidation it brings to the enemy. After all, which kind of arrows and stones are flying in the sky? Apparently stone.

Compared with the officers and soldiers, the Yellow Turban Army's counterattack from Wancheng was a little cold, because they were afraid of flying stones, many of the Yellow Turban Army soldiers did not even dare to take the lead. Although a large number of archers were subsequently transferred, with the protection of various shields, the counterattack of the Yellow Turban Army improved, but at this time, the ladder cart had already traveled to the edge of the moat of Wancheng City, and the ladder was firmly set up on the city wall.

Countless officers and soldiers rushed quickly along the ladder truck to the city wall of Wancheng, yes, it was rushing. Unlike ordinary ladders, ladder carts stretch diagonally, and the gap on the ladder is very small, which allows soldiers to run. What's more, unlike ordinary ladders that only lean on the city wall, the top of the ladder car has a barb, and after being erected on the city wall, the barb will also firmly hook the city wall, and it is basically impossible to break it.

Arrows continue to shoot from the city walls, and even if they rush in front of the walls, they will be greeted by spears, swords and shields, and although the ladder cart makes the siege look a little easier, it is only for the sake of seeming. After all, it still has to be piled up with human life. But that's always how wars are, aren't they?

In this battle, until almost dusk, the two sides did not distinguish a winner. Although the officers and soldiers are stronger as a whole, the Yellow Turban Army has finally occupied a favorable position, and compared with the officers and soldiers, the Yellow Turban soldiers know that if the city is broken, they will definitely have no way to live, how dare they not fight hard?

It's just that Zhu Jun was not worried about this result, but he was still happy, because in the reports that came back from various doors, he clearly knew that his plan was very successful.

"Wentai, you lead people to attack the northeast corner!" Zhu Jun shouted loudly, he was also from a poor family, so that although Zhu Jun knew that it shouldn't be like this, he still couldn't help but want to take care of Sun Jian, but Sun Jian didn't disappoint him, every time he fought, his exploits were very gratifying.

"Now most of the enemy has been attracted by our army to the south and west gates, although the east and north gates are also resisting, but because our army has not invested many troops, so the corresponding defensive forces are also very small. You go, rush directly to the city wall with a ladder car from the northeast corner, and then open up the situation in one fell swoop! Zhu Jun's tone was unusually serious, because whether he could take Wancheng or not depends on it.

Strictly speaking, Zhu Jun's offensive method is not very clever, but he has not attacked for about a month, and it is very likely to have an unexpected effect if he suddenly comes like this. In fact, most of the time, it is to use all kinds of means to avoid falling into a strong attack, so as to reduce the losses of Party B.