On the south bank of the Yangtze River, the tide of Chen's army surrounded the Zhou army camp under Yanji, and today they gathered tens of thousands of troops and a large number of siege equipment, vowing to uproot the only stronghold of the Zhou army in the south of the Yangtze River.

This was originally an ordinary beacon fort of Chen Jun, because Yanji is located on the south side of the bend when the Yangtze River turns to the southeast, so the beacon is set up, and other sentry forts along the river are generally used to guard the river surface to form a long chain, since the Jiangbei states fell to the Zhou army three years ago, it has become the front line of the north-south confrontation, so the responsibility of vigilance is heavier.

But at the beginning, the Yanji Beacon was also an ordinary sentry fort based on the beacon tower, in addition to the beacon transmission, another task was to keep an eye on the movement of the Zhou Guoshui military camp at the mouth of the Bakou on the other side of the river, and warn in time, so there were not many garrison troops, but the originally inconspicuous Yanji is now like a fish in the throat, making Chen Jun restless.

When the Zhou army invaded Yingzhou for the first time, Yanji naturally did not survive, not only dozens of defenders were either killed or wounded and taken away, and even the camp was flattened, tossing for more than a month, it was easy to rebuild, and was captured by the Zhou army that invaded south again, but the other party did not leave.

Not only that, but also the frantic expansion of the original small sentry fort expanded several times, now the Yanji camp is run by the Zhou army like a hedgehog, surrounded by several layers of trenches, and the wall has become a brick and stone structure, very solid, and some ponds scattered around Yanji have become easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Chen army was unable to gnaw on this stinky and hard Yanji after several attacks, and after carefully summing up the lessons and preparing carefully, they gathered their forces to attack again today, although the expected decisive battle between the naval army and the Zhou army in Wuzhou was not unexpected, but they also decided to act according to the plan.

Yanji is located on the riverside, in the previous battles, the Zhou army warships are leaning to the river to release arrows and artillery, resulting in the Chen soldiers on the river can not advance or retreat, in view of this, the main direction of today's attack avoided the east and west sides of Yanji and spread out from the south side, and the Zhou army also expected that they had this hand, so the south side of the camp was strengthened in advance.

The Nanzhai built by the Zhou army cut the official road at the south end of Yanji in half, and the ponds on both sides of the official road became the natural moat of Nanzhai, so it could only be carried out along the official road, and it built many brick and stone arrow towers in the places on both sides of the official road, together with other facilities, which increased the difficulty of the attack, but this was not a reason to avoid the battle in the eyes of the generals of the Chen army, so everything was ready to start the attack.

The Chen army sounded a continuous horn in the array, and the soldiers pushed the shield cart and the trench bridge east and west to advance towards Nanzhai, and the pointed wooden donkey followed closely, because there was a trench dug around the south village and hooked up the pond as a moat, so it was necessary to build a temporary bridge, first use the trench bridge to build a good passage, and then let the pointed wooden donkey pass, this is the attacker must use tactics, and the defender will definitely use all means to stop.

The Zhou army's counterattack method was very sharp, and he directly used a catapult to throw dozens of pounds of large stones to beckon Chen Jun, and its throwing distance was about sixty or seventy paces, just outside the trench, which was also within the effective range of the bow and arrow, but it happened to smash the Chen soldiers who were using the shield cart to release arrows.

The shield cart that is very effective in defending against arrows has been specially thickened, and it was thought to be very strong, but it was instantly disintegrated by the heavy flying stones, and the soldiers of the Chen army, who had gone through several attacks and defenses, were uneasy when they saw such a powerful catapult of the Zhou army for the first time.

Some of the shield carts were hit by stones, and together with the Chen soldiers behind them, they were smashed to pieces, and the shield carts couldn't resist, let alone the trench bridge, although the trench bridge was installed with wheels, and moved very fast under the hard push of the soldiers, but some were unlucky and were hit by the stones and disintegrated directly.

The soldiers who dodged the stone rain and rushed to the trench were waiting for the Zhou crossbowmen on the wall, and without the cover of the archers, they suffered heavy casualties under the rain of arrows.

Chen Jun was a little caught off guard by these catapults that Zhou Jun put into use for the first time, as we all know, catapults are all pulled by people, and Chen Jun also prepared a large number of catapults and manpower for the siege of Yanji this time, but they dare not imagine that they can throw dozens of catties of stones out of a distance of sixty or seventy steps: how many people will be pulled by such a catapult!

Zhou Jun's catapult is located in the camp, because the wall is blocked, only the upper half of the body is exposed, just looking at the shelf, it seems to be slightly larger than the ordinary catapult, but Chen Jun really can't imagine how long it can be supported by manpower.

"Keep attacking, they don't have many people who can pull the cannon all the time!"

The momentum of the offensive only stalled for a moment and then continued, not only on the official road, with shield carts, moat bridges, and pointed wooden donkeys approaching the Zhou army camp, but also on the surrounding ponds, where Chen soldiers rowed bamboo rafts towards the wall.

They held shields and long bamboo ladders were placed on the bamboo rafts, although there were not many people on each bamboo raft, but there were countless bamboo rafts that approached the Zhou army camp at the same time, and they waited like ants to cross the pond and land, using the bamboo ladder to climb the wall.

The Chen army on the east and west sides of the south village at the same time to besiege the Zhou army, to rely on their own strength to rush up to the wall, taking advantage of the Zhou army in the village archers can not be busy, rushed to the wall, for a time the ponds everywhere are crowded, the soldiers like crossing the river like the Qing attacked with arrows.

Many large crossbow figures were exposed on the camp, and with the sound of a huge bowstring, countless arrows like short spears flew towards the Chen soldiers on the bamboo raft, and some of the unlucky ones were nailed to the bamboo raft by the arrows, while more soldiers were struggling to paddle forward.

Wanjun Divine Crossbow, this is a name that comes to the minds of the soldiers, this thing Chen Jun also has because it is quite heavy and inconvenient to move, so most of them are used in the city or on warships, and the power of one shot and multiple arrows is huge, but it is precisely because of this that the winding time is long, and the interval between each launch is not short, so they were not frightened by Zhou Jun's Wanjun Divine Crossbow.

By the time you're done, we've rushed to the other side of the pond and arrived under the wall!

However, it backfired, and the Zhou army's crossbow was only silent for a moment before it came back to life, and the sound of the bowstring sounded one after another, and countless arrows were poured at the approaching Chen soldiers, and white or red water splashed one after another, and the screams came and went.

The firing speed of the Zhou army's crossbow was so fast that the Chen soldiers were caught off guard, and they thought that the opponent's crossbow could maintain such a speed a few times before, but they didn't expect that they could keep it all the time, and the Chen army suffered heavy casualties under the rain of arrows.

The soldiers who were lucky enough to dock were first held back by the pointed wooden stakes inserted diagonally, and as they crossed these wooden stakes, some people were constantly shot by the Zhou army's crossbowmen, and when they were lucky enough to climb over the wooden stakes and carry the ladder to rush to the wall, they found that they could not stand on the slope.

The Zhou army camp is located in a higher place, so Chen Jun needs to climb the slope to attack close to the wall, the slope is not steep, if it is not on weekdays, it is not much more difficult to walk than the flat ground, but now the ground is covered with large and small stones, as soon as you step on it, it will slip, and a stumbling good way to stand firm, but the Zhou army on the wall of the Zhou army meowed and took his life with an arrow.

The first siege ended in heavy casualties among Chen's soldiers, and the Zhou army's rain of arrows and the blocking effect of various ponds made it impossible for Chen's army to approach smoothly, and the originally conceived strategy of relying on a large number of people to rush up was completely ineffective.

"Fill in the pond and fill it all in!" The shouts sounded one after another, in order to capture Yanji Chen's army, many plans have been drawn up, since the strong attack can't work urgently, then take your time,

What about the reservoirs? We've filled them all in! When the time comes, go straight to the bottom of the camp wall to see if you have more arrows or if there are still many of us!

A flying bird swept over Yanji from east to west, it looked down at the earth, first saw the dense crowd of people carrying soil and filling the pond by the pond, and when it came to see the sky above the camp, it saw the bundles of arrows piled up in the mountain, and after flying over the camp, it saw a large number of people also carrying the soil and filling the pond towards the camp, and there were many teams marching towards the camp on the official road in the distance to the west.

Yanji is like a huge cooking cake attracting countless ants to come around, the more the ants surround the more black and press a large piece to bite the cooking cake, the bloody air rises to the sky, the birds chirp several times, flutter their wings and fly north.

Countless warships were heading towards Yanji on the wide river, and the deck was full of heavily armed soldiers in black uniforms and countless arrows, and the sunny sky began to darken with clouds, and a storm was coming. (To be continued.) )