In the morning, the flags outside the city of Ruyin were like a sea, and the soldiers of the defenders at the head of the city couldn't help but feel uneasy when they saw such a spectacular scene, they didn't expect that there were so many enemies who came to attack, and they really surrounded Ruyin.

In the west of the city, Xi Chaluo used a clairvoyant mirror to observe the besieging enemy army, although his face was silent, but in fact he was surprised that the enemy army had so many soldiers, he thought that Yuwenwen, who led the troops to attack, had limited troops and could not besiege Ruyin to death, as a result...

A general next to him proposed: "Chief, why don't you lead the last general out and test it?" With so many flags, maybe the enemy army is just planting flags and bluffing. ”

Regarding this proposal, Xi Chaluo disagreed: "No need, just stay until the afternoon and see how much smoke the other party has." ”

"But yesterday there was a lot of cooking smoke in each camp on the other side, but I am afraid that this afternoon, it will be the same scene of cooking smoke."

"It can't be fake, it can't be fake." Xi Chaluo put away the clairvoyant mirror and said lightly, "It's them who are in a hurry now, no matter how many enemy troops there are, our army wants to hold Ruyin, and the existing strength is enough." ”

Xi Chaluo thought very clearly, Yuwen Wen is now sending troops to besiege the city, and it is the idea of a quick attack, because Qicheng east of Ruyin has a large number of soldiers and horses of the Chen army stationed, and the Chen army also wants to take Ruyin.

Huainan is an important barrier for Chen Guo, and it will be taken as long as possible, and the Yuwen clan has occupied Jiangzhou before, living in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which poses a serious threat to Jiankang, the capital of Chen Guoguo, and now he is coming to rob Huainan, where will Chen Guojun and his ministers tolerate such behavior.

Therefore, Xi Chaluo felt that under normal circumstances, the Yuwen clan should wait until after Luoyang was captured before considering using troops against Lianghuai, and now he hurriedly attacked Ruyin, which was too big.

Perhaps after a series of big victories, the Yuwen clan got carried away and thought that there was no longer a need to unite with Chen Guo, so they were so eager to send Yuwen Wen to take Ruyin, wanting to have both fish and bear's paws.

The bear's paw is Henan, the fish is the two Huai, and the Yuwen clan probably wanted to sweep the area south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River after the victory in Shaoling, but Xi Chaluo thought that this was beyond his own strength.

He thought that Yuwenwen wanted to quickly attack Ruyin, create a fait accompli, and then bargain with Chen Guo, Xi Chaluo would not let him succeed, although the casualties of the official army after the defeat of Guangling were not small, but the loss of his troops and horses was not large, and there was no problem at all in guarding Ruyin for several months.

Ruyin city defense facilities are complete, the city defense equipment is complete, there are enough rolling wood and stones, and trebuchets are sufficient, although there are fewer thunderstorms, but Xi Chaluo does not think that Yuwen Wen can have more thunderstorms in his hands than him.

The grain and grass in the city can't be said to be sufficient, but it's no problem to support it for a few months, and Xi Chaluo has no reason to be pessimistic, so he wants to see what tricks Yuwen Wen can play to quickly attack Ruyin.

A general came to report that the trebuchets in the city were ready, and Xi Chaluo looked back into the city, only to see that many trebuchets that had already been erected were indeed ready to throw stone projectiles, so they waited to approach the enemy trebuchets outside the city, and then hurled stones at the enemy trebuchets.

It is difficult for the trebuchet outside the city to destroy the trebuchet inside the city because of the wall, and it is also difficult for the trebuchet to destroy the trebuchet outside the city, but the defenders can observe the landing point at the head of the city and help the trebuchet adjust its direction.

Therefore, Xi Chaluo was not worried about the defeat of his own trebuchet in the counter-fire, and the enemy army outside the city had only about 20 trebuchets, as long as they entered the range of his own trebuchet, they would be destroyed sooner or later.

The trebuchet can throw stones weighing dozens of catties, and the range is about 200 steps, Xi Chaluo entered the strong wooden shed built at the head of the city, and watched the enemy trebuchet approach the city, before the official shooting, the head of the city was safe.

But the enemy's trebuchet stopped at a distance of about 250 paces from the city wall.

Everyone thought that the trebuchet made by the enemy had a longer range, but when the enemy threw a stone bullet at the city, the size of the stone bullet was obviously half the size of the ordinary stone bullet.

The speed of the stone projectile was very fast, it swept over the city wall and landed on a house in the city, and it did not cause much damage, and Xi Chaluo, who was familiar with the process of using trebuchets, knew that this was a test shot before all the enemy trebuchets threw stone bombs, in order to determine the distance, direction and counterweight.

He pondered that the other party was deliberately reducing the weight of the stone projectile to increase the range, so as to hide out of the range of his own trebuchet, which was a good idea, but in this way, the weight of the stone projectile would also lead to a decrease in power.

If you want to destroy the city wall of Ruyin, it will only take a lot of time.

The enemy trebuchets fired two more tests, and then fell silent, and the defenders, knowing that this was a sign of the beginning of an attack, turned into the caves, leaving only some of them to observe the enemy in the sturdy wooden huts at the head of the city.

A moment later, more than 20 stone bullets roared and all landed in Ruyin City, but the stone bullets did not stir up a burst of dust, and there was no such hard muffled sound when they hit the houses and the ground.

It's more like the movement of a bucket when it falls to the ground.

Xi Chaluo thought so, he waited in the cave for a while, and after a few rounds of stone bullets were thrown outside the city, he felt more and more strange, so he walked outside the cave to check the situation.

There seemed to be some fluffy fat sheep in the air, and the air was filled with the smell of dung, but the smell was not the same as human manure and horse manure, Xi Chaluo couldn't smell it, but the soldiers on the side smelled it: "It seems to be.... It seems to smell of! ”

"? Enemy troops throwing in? ”

"General, this stink is really!"

Xi Chaluo felt a little inexplicable, if Yu Wenwen wanted to use a trebuchet to throw feces into the city, then a large amount of human feces and horse manure produced every day in the military camp was the best "dung bomb", how could the other party think of throwing chicken feces into the city?

Where did Yu Wenwen get so much?

No matter how much chicken poop there is, can there be more human feces?

Xi Chaluo couldn't figure out these questions, but he probably guessed Yuwenwen's intention of throwing feces into the city: polluting the city, including polluting water sources, grain and grass, bedding, and so on.

It's a very dirty method, but how can the effect be good, if you want to cause a plague in the city, you should throw rotting livestock carcasses, and try to capture a city by throwing dung, this is simply whimsical!

Xi Chaluo was thinking about it, when suddenly there was a muffled sound above his head, and when he looked up, it turned out to be a 'dung bomb' that hit the city, and a large amount of fishy feces mixed with fluff fell on his head, so he was at the entrance of the cave, and quickly retreated.

The generals and soldiers standing outside were not so lucky, and their bodies were more or less stained with some fishy and chicken feathers, although these would not be fatal, but the armor and military uniforms were sticky and there was a fishy smell.

Of course, there is also a fishy smell of human blood, internal organs, and brain flowers sticking to the armor, and for the soldiers who have been in battle for a long time, is not a big deal.

However, many people then twisted their bodies, their hands kept scratching somewhere on their bodies, and the scene was chaotic, and Xi Chaluo, who was in the cave, was about to speak when he saw this, and suddenly felt that something was crawling up his boots and armor, and it was extremely itchy.

Immediately, he involuntarily scratched the itch on his body, but he was wearing armor, and it was more troublesome to scratch than to scratch through his boots.

A soldier outside the cave, while constantly tickling, looked at the '' on the ground, suddenly his face changed, and he kept jumping, as if he was hiding something.

"Chicken lice, a lot of chicken lice.... Yes!! ”