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"Blow the trumpet!" Sun Ji said to one of the soldiers behind him.

A horn was taken out, and a quaint and distant sound sounded, from above, transmitted, and filled the battlefield.

They had reached the front of the high wall, but they couldn't find the way to climb, and they didn't know what to do with the rebels, and they were taken aback, and their intuition told them that something was wrong and that something had changed.

Hearing this at the same time, there were also Wei Gui and Wang Xiansong, their faces changed, the battle situation has always been very smooth, could it be that the other party deliberately set up a game, they were fooled

But no matter how much they thought about it, they couldn't figure out what way to reverse this situation, they couldn't see above the fortress, let alone know what was above the fortress.

Hearing the signal that had been prepared for a long time, the interior of the fortress was the first to act, 150 ladders, almost every one, there was a greeting, at least four or five, as high as the 40-meter-high fortress, there were many ventilation holes, at least behind each ventilation hole, there were 20 people.

The special long pole, coming out of the ventilation hole, directly stabbed to the top of the ladder, this elaborate, super heavy ladder, there are at least 20 people on it, adding up to more than a ton of weight, but in the face of the joint efforts of everyone, at least 50 people deal with a ladder, or push outward, the soldiers on the ladder can only watch the ladder and be pushed away.

This is not a small city wall of six or seven meters, this is a 40-meter-high city wall, at least more than 10 meters, it is quite dangerous, not to mention that these soldiers, who are also wearing heavy armor, have no place to be forced, and almost watch the ladder being pushed down.

150 ladders were pushed almost at the same time, but this manpower used most of the strength of the fortress, and the whole scene was very spectacular, the ladders were like flowers, falling in all directions, but in the hearts of the rebels it was terrifying.

On the ladder, there are at least nearly 1,500 people, among these people, only a small part, they are below, see that something is wrong, jump down, the rest, can only follow the ladder to fall, dozens of meters high, plus the weight of the armor on the body, so fall, but seven meat and eight vegetarian, 1500 people, except for a small number, everyone is injured, directly fell to death, there are also hundreds of people.

This is just the beginning, Wang Xiansong has not realized the danger yet, but he just feels that why the opponent has such a method, and he is still hiding it, and he has not used it until now.

Wei Gui understood, because the opponent was waiting for enough people.

If it is an ordinary city wall, a little better, a little stronger, you can jump down from the city wall, there is a ladder without a ladder, the effect is not great, after all, there must be a ladder, the bottom is different, six or seven meters high, a little against the wall, you can jump down, this is for a soldier with good physical fitness, it doesn't matter, a lot of siege battles are like this, the ladder is destroyed, the fierce general kills the soldiers above, and then jumps down and escapes alone.

But the 40-meter-high wall, which in itself is a moat, no one can jump down, and they can't cross it without a ladder.

This is the crux of the matter, the three or four thousand people above, they are equivalent to cutting off the back road, and they have no way to help them until the ladder is taken here.

Sure enough, above, dozens of tree cannons were turned on again, in the face of dense crowds, tree cannons can exert the greatest effect, and the lethality is more than double that of before, at least more than doubled, 120 tree cannons, in just a few dozen breaths, are fired in turn, 2400 steel balls are raging above the fortress, how can manpower be able to resist the powerful power brought by thermal weapons, they can't even dodge.

On the top of the 3-acre fortress, three or four thousand people were concentrated at once, and there was no choice but to jump down.

The corpses are in the field, which is the portrayal of the present, and there are at least 2,000 casualties in a wave, and the miserable howls and blood are filled on the top of the entire fortress, and some people even can't stand this cruelty and jump down directly from the top of the fortress.

Jumping down, of course, there is no good fruit to eat, 40 meters high, and he is not a superman, he is wearing heavy armor, but this gravitational acceleration will kill people, at least seriously injured.

The people below, of course, knew that the upper part was under attack, because the business of the tree cannon was quite recognizable, and they didn't care about helping the robe, they had to open a passage, a passage to communicate with the above.

150 ladders, only a small part of them, because they were broken, can not be used, the rest, can still be built on the fortress, but this time, how can they give them a chance, before the ladder comes up, on the outside, it is supported by the long stick to the pillar, can not reach the fortress, and from the ventilation hole, there are also some spears and knives and the like, these things against the heavy infantry, maybe not, but for the wooden ladder, it is a little terrible, sharp blades, can cut the ladder, very soon, Quite a few ladders were destroyed.

After the 120 tree cannons were fired, Sun Ji and they took the initiative to withdraw, and there were more than 1,000 people on the fortress, but these people had lost their unified command, and they didn't know what to do.

At this time, on the top of the fortress, 12 entrances were opened at the same time, more than a thousand people, hitting the top of the fortress, it was still not easy to deal with, only by introducing it into the interior of the fortress, dividing and surrounding, it was the best way, this time, even Sun Ji and others would shoot.

The black hole is hollow, and there is no clue to the entrance, which scares people all of a sudden, they don't know what to do, some look down, see the ladder being pushed away again and again, and also see what happened to other people, so do it.

It might have been a trap, but they had no choice, as long as it wasn't for the tree cannons, they should be fine, and maybe they could take the entire fortress.

The illusion, that's how it arose, and after a short period of melancholy, four junior officers, with a part of them, entered these entrances, and they took eight or nine hundred people with them at once, and there were less than 300 people left, above the fortress, and continued to think of a way.

Height and distance, isolated from observation, Wei Gui didn't know what was happening on it, he could only order, continue to increase his efforts, and establish a passage, the ladders were in such a struggle, they were destroyed one by one, and when there were only thirty or forty ladders left in the end, they gave up such a futile method, looked at the 40-meter-high fortress, and sighed.

Sure enough, an insurmountable obstacle, they didn't expect that a city wall, just after increasing in height, would be able to produce such a perverted defense.

At this moment, inside the fortress, there are pieces of silent killing, the labyrinth-like terrain, the entrances and blockages that appear everywhere, everything follows the script here, when the personnel are divided, the result is doomed, Sun Ji and Xue Yu with some of the strongest warriors, the equipment of both sides is the same, one side is stronger, and at the same time there is a stronger leader, the result is doomed.

After half an hour of fighting, the rebels who entered the fortress were either killed or captured, and only 300 people remained, facing the fortress that could not go down, as well as the reloaded tree cannons, and in the end, they reluctantly chose to surrender.

An hour passed, even if he didn't know what was going on above, Wei Gui knew that everything was over, and he counted the personnel, this time the losses were heavy, and he lost 4,800 people at once, including those who were pushed to the fortress, and there were about 3,800 people who climbed on the top of the fortress.

These 3,800 people, not only 3,800 elite, powerful warriors, but also 3,800 sets of equipment, this time, it is above the opponent's castle, and the other party will definitely not let them clean up the corpses and equipment again, in this case, this means that this equipment must be lost.

There are only 8,000 sets in total, and there was a loss of more than a hundred before, and now with the addition of these 3,800, it is equivalent to a loss of more than half, and this is an absolute elite.

Those who can be sent to the front line, and the first batch to capture the fortress, are definitely the most elite kind, most of them are family members, they are stronger, and now, they have lost most of them, plus continuous losses, a total of more than 6,000 people, that is, 13,000 troops, the loss of more than 4 percent, of which, the elite forces, also lost more than half.

This is a huge blow, the loss is so great, even Wang Xiansong can't bear it, let alone Wei Gui, he almost looked at all this, not knowing what to do.

At this moment, Wei Gui still couldn't figure out why, it became like this, obviously everything was according to his script, they also successfully crossed the moat, crossed the 40-meter height of the castle, and saw the victory, but in the end there were variables.

What to do with the entire rebel army, the morale is taken away, even those elite family members, they are not machines, in the face of nearly half of the losses, they will be afraid, this seemingly ordinary fortress has devoured more than 5,000 people, but they haven't even touched a single hair, and even they are not sure how much damage has been caused.

In the previous battle, it was mainly the longbowmen and tree cannons, and in the end, only a few people were injured by themselves, and the others had no losses, but this time, there were really casualties.

Even if they have an advantage, they are acting in their own preset battlefield, but in the era of cold weapons, it is really unavoidable, after all, group training is a group training, and their weakness of insufficient training and innate quality is not strong, which was seized by some higher-level family members, causing certain casualties.

It's a pity, that's all, Sun Ji, Xue Yu such a hundred enemies, a thousand enemies, in the narrow, complex terrain is simply incomprehensible, they led the regimental training, the soldiers who broke into the inside of the fortress, divided and surrounded, like a sharp knife, cut through the opponent's camp, and in the end, achieved a hearty victory.

In this battle, there were a total of 27 casualties, and 2 were killed, both of which were killed by direct hits to the face with weapons, and most of the rest were minor injuries.

The war of real swords and guns, especially this kind of face-to-face, is completely a bayonet battle, so that these regiments practice, grow quickly, and even some soldiers who see blood, they have grown up greatly, which is also the fundamental reason why Sun Ji took them out of the horse, which has caused such results, and some casualties are acceptable.

After this battle, in addition to dealing a heavy blow to the rebels and almost eliminating the viable forces of the rebels, the greater gain was confidence.

More than 10,000 rebels, entrenched outside Miaojiazhuang, said not nervous, said not afraid, that is a lie, expelled the people to attack the city, slightly relieved their emotions, they know that in this castle, they can also use the help of the castle to resist the opponent, but after going out, they are those helpless people.

But deep down, they are still worried about what to do if these group exercises can't resist, although there are city defenses, but there are too many people on the other side.

After this battle, all the mentality was wiped out, and the rebel army, more than ten times more rebels than them, was defeated by their 800 regiments, lost four or five thousand people, and basically the strength was reduced by half, that is, the city defense that 13,000 people could not capture, and there were only seven or eight thousand people left, can it be captured?

Some worries and doubts are no longer there, Zhao Xin is in the fortress, his prestige has risen again, and the rules and regulations of the entire fortress have been strictly complied with again, so that the management has alleviated a lot of trouble.

On the other hand, it has been stabilized, and all the unstable factors have been resolved, except that there are a few hundred more prisoners, and there is a little trouble, but on the other hand, in the camp of the rebels, it is gloomy.

Wei Gui and Wang Xiansong sat together, they were a little anxious, especially Wang Xiansong, who received this task and urged Wei Gui to rebel, not only controlled the seven or eight thousand troops of the entire Baozhou City, but also transferred 6,000 elites from elsewhere, plus the equipment left in advance, on the frontal battlefield, against the same number of Song troops, they were not worthy.

But just by the way, they ran into this fortress, to be honest, until now, they haven't measured the strength of the fortress, in the end, how much strength the fortress has exerted, all, half, or a little.

It's all impossible, looking at the strength of the fortress again and again, it seems that there are still a lot of hidden powers, at least the last one, the thing that pushes the ladder, is never revealed, and it is also something they didn't expect, but this is difficult to solve, not to mention, the tree cannon, the fortress itself, just in a short period of time, killed three or four thousand heavy armored infantry, let them be vigilant.

They all had the idea that they would never be able to break through the fortress, but at this moment, it was difficult to retreat.

"Otherwise, wait a minute, I'll report first!" Wang Xiansong finally expressed his opinion, Wei Gui of course agreed, at this time, there is no other support, if they attack the fortress, the result will definitely be miserable, and it is also a good choice to have Wang Deyong to make a decision.