Under Chuqiu City, Dai Yandun has been here for more than three days. During this period, he had twice surrendered to Yueqing, the young master of the Le clan who was guarding the city, but Yueqing refused.

Sun Tzu's art of war has a cloud: the first army is to attack and strategize, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the next is to attack the city. Coming to this era, Dai Yan was deeply convinced of this theory of war. In his view, if something can be solved by strategy and diplomacy, why should it be solved by war, by killing?

However, at some point, when the plotting and the attack are ineffective, the problem can only be solved by cutting troops and attacking the city! Although Dai Yan didn't like to attack the city and use the flesh and blood of the soldiers to seize the land, Chu Qiu was in the way of his feet, and now he had to put the soldiers into this flesh mill!

He submitted a letter of surrender to Yueqing for the last time, telling Yueqing that as long as he was willing to surrender, he could still exist as a nobleman of the Song Kingdom, and the entire Chuqiu, Dai Yan could still make it Le's territory and retain Le's privileges here. It's a pity that Yueqing and the Le clan behind it are unwilling to accept such kindness, and Dai Yan had to show his strength in person and make Le succumb!

In the three days that he has surrendered, he has successively transported hundreds of ballistas and nearly a thousand bed crossbows from Taoqiu! When these things are lined up in the east, west, and north of Chuqiu City, there is a lack of one of the three around Chuqiu, which puts huge pressure on it and leaves it a way to live!

On the fourth day, as soon as the sky dawned, the entire Chuqiu City could feel a solemn atmosphere! Columns of soldiers began to fiddle with those war machines, and when they were all ready, under Dai Yan's order, these war machines began to move, and the attack of Taoqiu's army Chuqiu officially began!

For a city like Chuqiu, which was built with mud bricks, Dai Yan first used a ballista to attack the city!

When the powerful stone projectile smashed into the city wall made of earth, not only Yueqing, but even Dai Yan could feel the city wall trembling! Under such a crazy bombardment, almost all the female walls on Chuqiu City were swept away. And all the walls, under the short bombardment of the ballistas, are also full of devastation!

The power of the ballista made Yueqing and the Le clan soldiers tremble, but Dai Yan was not very satisfied with its power!

He wanted to use this ballista to collapse the city wall directly, but this kind of goal is obviously not so easy to achieve! Even the city walls, which are built with poor materials, follow the basic mechanics and are not so easy to collapse.

He then went on to use his other siege weapons: ladders and bed crossbows.

The Mo family is the best at making weapons to defend cities, and once they make siege weapons, they are not inferior! Under the planning of the high-level of the Mo family, the improved ladder invented by Lu Ban was displayed in front of the world!

The height of the cloud ladder made by the Mo family is more than ten meters, which is already more than the height of the Chuqiu city wall. The bottom of the ladder is equipped with numerous wheels that can be moved in four directions; In the middle of the ladder is a ladder, which can be placed on the city wall and allowed people to climb quickly; At the top of the ladder is a fast-firing and accurate repeater, which can be used to sweep away enemies on the walls from a high vantage point!

Although these ladders look no different from ordinary ladders, and its function is indeed no different from other ladders, its single function is so powerful that it is not at all comparable to ordinary ladders!

The wheels at the bottom of it are equipped with shock-proof devices, so that the entire ladder will not bump when encountering potholed terrain, and it will not be easily damaged, and it will run much faster. And its ladder uses an iron ladder directly at the very front, so that it can be directly embedded in the city wall through its own weight, plus the sharp bayonet at the front end, and cannot be easily cut or detached! And the position of the archer of its top crossbow is all wrapped in solid iron and wooden shields, leaving only the lookout and archery ports, which can allow the shooters above to perfectly dodge the attacks on the city wall!

When the first ladder cart moved to the vicinity of Chuqiu City and set up a ladder, it was immediately attacked by the Le clan soldiers on the city wall! The shooter on the ladder immediately began to fire back with his repeater, and the bed crossbow under the city wall also fired at the city wall frantically, and the two sides immediately fell into a tragic confrontation!

This kind of competition between long-range weapons allowed Leshi to see the powerful side of Taoqiu Technology for the first time!

The repeater at the top of the ladder was fast and accurate, which in itself was already difficult for the Le clan's soldiers to deal with; And the bed crossbow under the city wall, when shooting from the bottom to the top, was actually in the upper hand, which made the soldiers of the Dele clan even more unbearable!

And the bed crossbow under the city wall, when shooting at the city wall, can still accurately hit the shooter behind through a parabola, which makes Dele's completely fall into despair! They couldn't imagine how such a powerful and accurate crossbow could be shot so accurately!

In fact, it is indeed very difficult for the accuracy of the bed crossbow to achieve this step! This requires not only the manufacture of accurate bed crossbows, but also years of training to get to such a point!

In the application of the bed crossbow, there is a kind of stepping arrow, that is, the bed crossbow needs to be accurately shot at various positions on the city wall, so that the soldiers can climb. And the crossbow arrows that can shoot directly at the city wall are reached by shooting at the top of the city wall with this kind of stepping arrow!

After using powerful crossbow arrows to suppress Le's, the bottom bed crossbow soon began to shoot treadmill arrows, which hit the earthen city wall, and immediately formed several foot piles that could be climbed, through which the soldiers could climb to the city wall on their own!

As for the soldiers who participated in the siege, Dai Yan sent the bravest standing army of all armies, and these soldiers, all dressed in light armor and carrying large swords on their shoulders, climbed the city wall from the ladder and the arrows on the ramps!

With the support of long-range crossbow arrows with absolute superiority, Le's archers did not dare to take the lead at all, and the Taoqiu soldiers quickly climbed the Chuqiu city wall! And a small place like the city wall has completely become a flesh mill that consumes soldiers!

In such a place, Dai Yan did not dare to spare the lives of the soldiers, and regardless of the cost, he fought with Le's at all and spent the lives of more than a thousand soldiers, and even the brigade commander killed two before he completely occupied the city wall!

For siege warfare, as long as you completely occupy a city wall, then you are not far from breaking through the entire city! When Dai Yan took the city wall and wanted to continue to send troops to follow, something unexpected happened: Le's changed the flag and surrendered.

Dai Yan was a little puzzled by this, if Leshi wanted to surrender, why wait until this time? However, under the premise that everyone was a Song person, and Dai Yan did not want to consume the strength of the entire Song State, he agreed to Le's surrender.

And when Dai Yan suspended the attack and was about to accept Le's surrender, something unexpected happened to him: Yueqing personally took the main force of Le's in Chuqiu City from the north gate, rushed to the shore of Danshui, and escaped by boat!

As a country that stresses faith and righteousness, Dai Yan was shocked by the fact that such a thing happened in the civil war. For Yueqing's escape, he himself had already made preparations, and the lack of one of the three was to prevent them from escaping, but when the Taoqiu soldiers pursued, they soon returned.

Le's was on Danshui, and he had already prepared a sufficient number of ships, and hid a large number of soldiers on board. As soon as the team led by Yueqing came to the shore of Danshui, they could be protected by the sailors on board!

And for this long-planned approach, the entire Taoqiu really doesn't have a very good way to deal with it. Danshui flows through the entire Song Kingdom, and the right along the road is almost the territory of Le's, which is almost equivalent to the inland river controlled by Le's. Even if the sailors of Taoqiu are strong, if they don't pass through Daliang and Pengcheng, they will not be able to enter this river at all!

Although Yueqing led the remnants of the Le clan to successfully escape from under Dai Yan's nose, he was still excited to take Chu Qiu through a strong attack! And after capturing Chuqiu, he issued an ultimatum to the nearby Guanqiu and Steroid Qiu, ordering them to surrender immediately!

These two cities were a little twisted at first, and they didn't want to "betray" the Le clan like this, but after Dai Yan moved his troops to the city and threatened again, these two cities immediately opened their doors and ate pot pulp to welcome the king!

In this way, the northern part of the Song Kingdom, the north of Danshui all the way to Jishui, all belong to Taoqiu!

Since Chuqiu was breached, and Guanqiu and Yongqiu, although twisted, surrendered, Dai Yan also adopted a completely different way of ruling these three cities.

For Chuqiu, Dai Yan uprooted the entire bureaucratic system, deprived the nobles of all power, selected civil and military officials from Taoqiu University, sent them here, and established a direct centralized rule, and Chuqiu became the first county in Dai Yan's territory!

For Guanqiu and Steroid Hill, Dai Yan is not so domineering. In order to show his benevolence, he retained the power of the nobles, and only selected civil officials from Taoqiu University to participate in the governance of the city. And this kind of participation is only an auxiliary nature, not a complete replacement!

For Dai Yan, he naturally wanted to completely turn these cities into his own counties, but he knew that at least at this stage, he couldn't do this! The Song State was a country with strong aristocratic power, and the aristocracy had deep local power, and it was impossible to completely eradicate the local power of the aristocracy by launching a peasant war!

Depriving the Chuqiu nobles of their power and turning them completely into counties under their own jurisdiction was actually just a punishment, a punishment that made the Song nobles fear themselves. And Guanqiu and Steroid Hill are to set an example for the nobles of the Song Kingdom, telling them what kind of choice they make, what kind of results they will get!

Such a punishment can make Dai Yan a deterrent in the subsequent civil war! Otherwise, he would attack city by city, and sooner or later, he would let the soldiers in his hands be killed and wounded, and his strength would be completely consumed!