In the early morning of Dingwei in May, it was still a lewd rain, and the rain hit the canal that hung at the head of Jingzhou City, and then merged into a turbid stream along the canal, splashing down on the female wall and outside the female wall, and they finally flowed out of the city wall, flowed through the firewood under the city, and flowed into the moat full of fine ripples.

The gate of Jingzhou City was closed, and on the north tower of the city, including Tengqi, the generals either used the Lu Lijing or looked far away, looking at the Chu army warships slowly sailing in the drizzle. Looking at it, they found that there were so few warships in the Chu army - according to the standard establishment, the warships with wings were one by one, but this one was not only two hundred and twenty-five spearmen, but also archers, knights, officers, shipmen, drummers, etc., and the cavalry-type wings could carry three hundred and fifty people per boat.

The first division had only 16 soldiers, plus command, baggage, grain, weapons, and medical care, and a division had only 18 cavalry-type pawn wings, plus six transport-type war boats, a total of 24 ships. One division has twenty-four ships, and four divisions are ninety-six. There were eight more guards, shogunates, servants, kings, artillerymen, and transporters, totaling no more than one hundred and twenty-four.

The flood did not recede, and in the drizzle, I saw only one hundred and twenty-four warships, four in a row, and four in a row, and when I counted to the thirty-first row, they were gone. The generals looked at each other, and the county lieutenant looked at Yang Xiong in frustration: "Why are there so few Jing people?" ”

"I don't know. When the tomb was in the tomb, the Jingren boat was far away, and there were more than 1,000 ships. Yang Xiong looked embarrassed at this time, in fact, he couldn't tell how many Jing people there were, but King Jing appeared in the army, and there were more than 100,000 people.

"There are less than 30,000 Jing people, and our army can fight in one battle." Du Wei Ke counted and counted only one hundred and twenty-four boats, and the two hundred people were only twenty-four thousand, and the number of light boat divisions in the city exceeded this number, and there were also 12,000 foot soldiers and more than 10,000 Qianshou who had just been recruited. Your 50,000 men can go out of the city to fight the enemy.

"No." Yang Xiong changed color. "The Jing people's formation is mysterious and unpredictable, and you must not fight in the wild."

"The Jing people have thousands of iron horsemen, and they really shouldn't go out of the city to fight." I haven't seen the changes in the queue of the Yingshi, and all the generals despise Yang Xiong's words, but those war horses on the war boat are intimidating, this is not a five-foot-eight-inch Qin horse, these are thousands of miles of horses purchased by King Jing from Xizhou, which are a foot taller than the Qin horse.

The Iron Rider is an intimidating force. In the battle of 30,000 versus more than 200,000 that Wang Ao saw at the head of Linzi City, the victory of the Jing people relied on the iron cavalry. Although the real battle of the Qi people is 50,000 people, who can guarantee that their 50,000 people can defeat the 50,000 halberd-wielding men of the Qi country?

After Teng Qi said that he could not fight, he looked at the county lieutenant Zuo Fu, and then at the other generals, and saw that everyone did not speak, so he calmed down.

At this time, the Chu army warship at the front had already docked, but because there was no trestle bridge, the warship with a deep draft was still more than three zhang away from the water's edge. At this time, the knight on the deck of the war boat has already mounted his horse, he first hit the horse to the tail of the boat, and began to ride the horse after the tail of the boat, the war boat is more than 30 meters, the war horse is first slow, then fast, the last section is already running, before the jump, the body of the horse is short, and then the same as flying over the distance of more than three zhang, and landed on the shore steadily.

"Shenma." Tengqi exclaimed, he didn't dare to exhale.

"Qin Mafu Ruye!" The general beside him sighed when he saw this. One knight came ashore on a leaping horse, and the rest of the knights followed him ashore. More than 100 riders quickly galloped around the city and inspected the whole city. At this time, everyone's thoughts of going out of the city completely subsided, the cavalry was not as good as the Chu army, once the Chu army's iron cavalry charged the formation or hooked the formation, even if they could retreat into the city, the losses would be heavy. It is better to resist the city and wait for reinforcements.

No one on the city tower said anything more about fighting, and the warships under the city dropped anchor one after another. War horses can cross a distance of more than three zhang, and the soldiers simply jump off the war boat and wade ashore. Even the king of Chu, who was dressed in Wei Ben's suit, jumped into the water and landed ashore with the Chu soldiers. The king of a country can share weal and woe with the soldiers, and the morale of the Chu army can be imagined.

Everyone was attracted by the King of Chu who waded ashore, and Fan Kuan suddenly shouted: "I haven't seen the Jingren Cloud Ladder!" I didn't see the arrival of the car! ”

The Chu army under the city was marching in a flowing array, and only a few rushing cars were seen when they landed behind, and they didn't see the siege weapons such as ladders and vehicles at all, and Fan Kuan's discovery made everyone stunned.

"I haven't seen a city-breaking weapon!" What everyone was most worried about was the weapon of breaking the city, but they couldn't see it after seeing one hundred and twenty-four boats.

"It's ......," said a lieutenant, pointing to the trestle that had just been erected, on which horses were pushing, a kind of four-wheeled carriage that no one had ever seen. Or it should not be said to be a car, but a simple frame. There was only a two-foot-sized wooden box between the two wheels in front, and there was no carriage at all, only a shining iron pillar. Six horses dragged the four-wheeled frame ashore one after another.

"Report to the king, the Qin army will not fight with me." The four divisions lined up sixty-four small phalanxes, and the eight guards formed eight phalanxes around the royal banner. When Xiong Jing was using Lu Lijing to take a closer look at the North City Tower, the scout said.

"It's best not to fight!" Xiong Jing was looking forward to the street fight, which meant that he could also go into battle. "Order, the whole army will change shields!"

"The whole army changes shields!" Spears in field battles, shields in street battles. Xiong Jing ordered, and all divisions rushed back to the war boat in an orderly manner to exchange for swords and shields. Taking advantage of the change of shields, Xiong Jing ordered one after another that only two of the four divisions remained at the north gate, and the other two divisions went around to the east gate and the west gate respectively.

The Chu army under the city changed its formation, from gathering in one place to dividing into three places, and the Qin soldiers at the head of the city and the watchtower kept their voices loud, and they reported the enemy's movements to the commander. Teng Qi and Zuo Fu were puzzled by this, they now saw the Chu army's rushing car, and the kind of transit car similar to the Qin army's crossing of the river, and there were no other siege equipment. While a few people were still speculating about Jing Ren's intentions, 'Boom——! A thunderclap suddenly came from under the city, and the dense firewood on the inner side of the moat suddenly shattered and splashed, and the Qin soldiers in the firewood screamed repeatedly.

"What is it?!" Tengqi's heart was shocked, he thought it was thunder, but the sound was obviously coming from the city.

"Yes, yes......" Zuo Fu's color had changed, his eyes were staring straight at the city, and he saw what was making this roar.

'Boom ......, Boom ......, Boom ......' A battalion of 16 men and 15 catties was 300 meters away, bombarding the firewood on the inner side of the moat and the wooden stakes that were buried obliquely under the city to prevent the ladder carts from approaching. These are the fruits of the labor of tens of thousands of people who dismantled beams and unloaded pillars for a day and a night, but now they have been shattered by artillery.

"Jing people have such a ......" thunder continued, this is a weapon that no one has ever seen, and the generals don't know what to call it for a while.

"If you allow the Jing people to attack me, all the soldiers will die, and you should withdraw to the city." Yang Xiong was a defeated general under the Chu army, but he was not as panicked as the generals, and only rationally considered the problems in front of him.

The trebuchet in the city can prevent the enemy from entering within 50 paces, and the range of the crossbow can reach more than 100 paces, but the enemy can only hit me and I will not attack the enemy if they are 200 paces away. If the Chu army is allowed to attack along Chaibo, the soldiers in Chaibo will be wiped out.

"No, you can't. If all the soldiers of the city retreat to the city, the firewood will be destroyed. "Left frustration opposed.

"Now it's all in ruins." Yang Xiong said again. At this time, there was a burst of cheers in the west and east of the city, and thunder also sounded there. The thunder in the three places was constantly staggered, and the shouts of the Chu soldiers became more and more neat. At this time, they were sitting in the drizzle, expecting that there would be some time before the city was broken, Xiong Jing ordered the weight to distribute half a catty of beef and mutton jerky and a portion of Chu Li.

It was supposed to be drinking wine and eating meat while watching the artillerymen shoot. Seeing that the firewood under the city was shattered by the artillery, and the Qin soldiers and ghosts in the firewood were crying wolf, they couldn't drink or eat excitedly, and shouted long live with their throats. Battles have never been so exciting, and they have been reduced to irrelevant spectators.

"Eat meat quickly!" After shouting long live, the pawn commander saw that some people had not finished eating the jerky, and immediately reprimanded him loudly. Although half a pound of jerky is not enough to make people swollen in battle, it is always bad not to eat it quickly.

The city debated whether to withdraw the soldiers in the city under the city, and the Chu soldiers under the city shouted loudly, but the cannon sound gradually stopped. Four turn-off vehicles appeared behind the artillery array, followed by three rush cars. When the cannons stopped, the Qin army in the city also noticed, and the commander on the watchtower shouted loudly: "Report to the general, Jing people want to cross the city!" ”

There was no need to report, and the generals also saw the transit car slowly moving forward, and the four cars were divided into two columns, one in front of the other and one behind the other by the soldiers. When they reached a hundred paces, the crossbows in the city began to fire arrows, but the soldiers were all behind the chariot, and the arrows could not hurt them at all.

"Order the corporal of the city to stop it." No sooner had such a proposal been made than the thunder roared again. The two sides of the previously shattered Chai Fan breach were bombarded again, and the soldiers in Chai Fan could only retreat farther away, and it was impossible to order the city soldiers to stop crossing the pool.

"What do the Jing people want?" The generals were helpless, and Tengqi saw some Mingtang. The function of the thundering weapon is to break down obstacles and intercept soldiers to ensure that the Chu army builds bridges. But what about the bridge? The Chu army did not have a car, there was no ladder, how to attack the city?

"I don't know." The generals looked at each other again. At this moment, the Chu army's transfer bridge has been pushed down the moat and is turning in the water. The arrows in the city finally hit the Chu pawn in the water, causing the first casualties.

However, the bridge was still unfolded and built, and the three rushing cars in the rear quickly crossed the bridge, and the mirage, charcoal, rolling wood, and stones at the head of the city were thrown down by the soldiers and smashed on the roof of the rushing cars that were clinging to the root of the city, and there was a rumbling sound. No one noticed that a few of the stopped guns turned their muzzles and aimed at the female wall above the rushing car.

'Boom——! With just one cannonball, the half-human-high female wall was blown down, the debris was splashed everywhere, and Qin Shudu, who was throwing rolling logs and rocks, was knocked down. The first cannon hit, and the remaining three guns that had been adjusted to shoot at Zhu Yuan immediately aimed at the head of the city and bombarded it. The women's walls, which were more than ten zhang long, all collapsed in an instant, and the soldiers scattered and fled, and a few jumped into the city in a panic.

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