In the afternoon of the same day, Yu Lan ordered the second and third brigades to line up neatly, ready to attack the city again, this time with the carriage built by Zhang Xun in hand, Yu Lan looked confident.

Zhang Xun looked at the wall of Hongxian County, and always felt a little strange, he turned to Ji Zheng and said, "Xiao Ji, do you think it's strange." ”

"It's so quiet."

"Yes, it's too quiet, there is no human figure on the city wall, and there is no sound, I really don't know what the hell Chen Guoren is doing?"

"The generals of Chen Guo are very powerful, and I always feel that the generals of Shu County and Hong County are the same person, compared with the last dense forest siege and this time in the Inner Urn City, the two fighting styles are very similar, and the style is the same."

Zhang Xun suddenly realized, "As soon as you say this, I also found out that the style is indeed very similar, they are all to lure the enemy deep, and then surround the fire attack." ”

"That's right, this person is very skilled in fire attack, and now I suddenly remember, the battle of the dense forest seems to have considered the factor of wind direction."

Hearing this, Zhang Xun was shocked with goosebumps, "Yes, I only cared about solving the siege at that time, but I didn't notice it, but now when you say this, I also remember, the upwind direction is easy to break through, and the downwind direction is easy to ignite the upper body, so the encirclement at the upwind was very tight at that time, but there was almost no defense at the downwind." Awesome, awesome! Twice less wins. ”

"Well, this guy is not easy to deal with."

It didn't take long for Yu Lan to give an order, and the second brigade slowly drove towards the city gate with the carriage, and the third brigade followed.

Unlike before, this attack was not met with any backfire, no rain of arrows, not even the shadow of archers. Wu Bing was also confused, and under the tight shield array, several brave soldiers even moved their shields slightly and followed the gap to see the situation on the city wall. The city walls were so calm that even the few flags didn't bother to flutter.

Soon, the soldiers pushed the cart to the city gate, and the city was silent without a sound. The soldiers who operated the carriage stepped on the mechanism to reduce the size of the carriage, and then pushed it into the corridor, where the soldiers used the collision wood to knock the rock pile that was originally blocked inside.

Only then did the soldiers see the situation in the city clearly, two thousand charred corpses were still exposed in the city, the air was full of pungent stench, and the entire Hongxian County was empty, like a dead city.

Yu Lan looked at it from a distance and saw that there was silence in the city, so she felt very strange, so she asked Zhang Xun: "General Zhang, why didn't Chen Guoren fight back?" ”

"I don't know, but please General Yu must order the front-line soldiers to enter cautiously."

Yu Lan nodded hurriedly, he was just about to order the herald to send an order to the front line, when the soldiers on the front line rushed back to report the news.

"General! Hong County is empty, the corpses in the city have not been cleared, and there are dead people everywhere! ”

"Empty?! Can you be sure?! ”

"Sure! We were not attacked by chariots and did not see a single person, and now we have entered the city and have not seen a single living person, only the bodies of a brigade of brethren in it. ”

"Strange, what's going on?" Yu Lan muttered to herself.

Zhang Xun surrendered his hand and asked for his life, "General Yu, don't rush in now, order the soldiers to collect the corpses of our soldiers and soldiers, and wait for me to go and have a look." ”

"That's fine, then there will be General Lao Zhang."

Zhang Xun saluted Yu Lan and went to Hong County with Ji Zheng. When the two arrived at the city, they found that the city was unusually quiet, and there was no one in the vacuum.

Passing through the city gate, the two saw corpses everywhere, these corpses included the soldiers of the State of Wu who were besieging the city, and the soldiers of the State of Chen who were defending the city, they all maintained the posture before they died, but after a few days of exposure, the corpses at this time were already extremely foul.

The scene in front of him was 10,000 times worse than the picture Zhang Xun imagined, corpses, stained blood, broken arrows, stumps, dead wood, scorched bones, these residues after being devoured and chewed by the war mixed with the overflowing stench was disgusting. Zhang Xun was deeply shocked by everything in front of him, he endured his nausea, and ordered the soldiers to collect the corpses of the soldiers and bury them nearby.

Ji Zheng walked to an earthen wall, rubbed the soil and stones on the wall with his hand, and sighed: "It turned out to be such an inner urn city, amazing!" That's amazing! ”

Hearing Ji Zheng's words, Zhang Xuncai withdrew from the strong shock, he raised his head, looked around, and then sighed deeply, and said: "This opponent is too powerful, I originally thought that Hongxian County was originally an inner urn city, who knew that it was actually an inner urn city that was temporarily renovated by using houses and earthen walls, I really can't imagine such a method." ”

"Well, in this way, Hongxian County is indeed just an empty city."

"Yes, such an earthen wall cannot hold back any organized attack, and if there are siege engines, it is even more vulnerable. Judging from the intensity of the previous attack, the number of defenders of the city will not exceed five hundred, and they may have detected our siege carts and knew that they would not be able to hold it anyway, so they all withdrew from the city last night. ”

"You're right, but for the sake of safety, we still have to let the soldiers search the whole city, carefully inspect every corner, and in addition, search the tunnels to prevent Chen Guoren from attacking at night."

Zhang Xun nodded, and ordered the soldiers to report to General Yu and search the whole city.

Three days later, the Wu army attacked the city of Beiyang County, which was different from the previous Hongxian County, which was a standard outer urn city, with a wide city wall protruding outward, and if you look down from the sky, the whole city is like an inverted "convex" character.

The county seat of Beiyang is stronger than Hongcheng, and the defense is also stronger, and it is clear that the people of Chen will do whatever it takes to defend this important town in the hinterland.

In the morning, the battle began, thousands of Wu soldiers rushed to the Beiyang City Gate, and the top was the carriage built by Zhang Xun, only to see that the carriage was like a steel-armored beast with teeth and claws, passing through the dense rain of arrows, all the way unscrupulous, unscathed.

Soon, Wu Bing drove the chariot to the city gate, and used the chariot as a stronghold, and Wu Bing launched a fierce attack on the city gate. Although the defense of the Chen people was extremely tenacious, and the fire oil and rolling stones continued to attack, the casualties of the Wu soldiers were much lower than before.

Wu soldiers manipulated the carriage to hold the gate of the outer city tightly, several Wu soldiers pulled up the huge crashing wood, when the collision wood accumulated to the maximum energy, the soldiers let go at the same time, and the collision wood smashed towards the gate, only to hear a loud bang, the gate shook and shook. For a while, sawdust and dust flew all over the sky, and the rivets on the gate were loosened one after another, and even the soldiers of Chen Guo in the city felt the resonance coming from under their feet.

The bumper wood slammed into the city gate again and again, and soon hit a huge gap in the city gate, and the Wu soldiers took advantage of the situation to storm and completely capture the outer city gate. Then, according to the previous training, Wu Bing stepped on the mechanism, pushed the chassis of the carriage to the center, and then retracted the arrow plate, and the entire carriage suddenly became half the size of the original.

So, Wu Bing pushed the carriage across the Yongdao and entered the urn city. This time, Wu Bing did not advance rashly, but took it step by step, steadily and steadily. The Wu soldiers fixed the chariot and erected a ladder on it, and fiercely attacked the inner city wall. Chen Guoren defended desperately, and the resistance became more and more stubborn.

After half a day of fierce fighting, the Wu army finally captured the inner city and occupied all Beiyang County.

At night, Zhang Xun led people to repair the car, and he climbed on his masterpiece and wiped the dirty blood and rotten flesh that stuck to it with his own hands.

At this time, Ji Zheng came over and asked, "It's so late, why don't you go to rest?" ”

Zhang Xun jumped off the carriage, feeling depressed and uneasy, he slapped the huge wheels of the carriage, and said lamentingly: "I have successfully built a war machine, General Huang is very satisfied, and plans to report to the king after returning to China and build a large number of carriages." Hey, I don't know how many more people will die under this smelly crash in the future. ”

Ji Zheng patted Zhang Xun on the shoulder and comforted: "Don't think so, if it weren't for the carriage you built, we would have sacrificed more brothers today." ”

"I heard that the last few Chen soldiers committed suicide and martyred their country."

"Yes, all the soldiers of Chen Guo died in battle, and none of them surrendered, which can really be described as a brave and loyal soul and iron bones."

"But why are so many loyal souls unable to defend their homeland? Why is it that we are united and hateful, but we are still weak? ”

Ji Zheng shook his head and sighed: "I checked the battlefield, although the city walls of the Chen Kingdom are tall, the city defense facilities are in disrepair, and even the city gate is rotten, moldy, and fragile, so the carriage can easily break through the gate." In addition, the soldiers of the Chen State are generally thin, their weapons are outdated, and they are stained with green rust, and even the most ordinary light armor can be equipped to the rank of captain, and ordinary soldiers are tantamount to going into battle shirtless. Such a gap in reality cannot be bridged by mental strength alone, and we must know that the fundamental reason that determines the success or failure of a war is the strength of the country. ”

Zhang Xun suddenly recalled the tragic situation when he was six years old, and how similar the Shen State at that time was to the Chen State today. Zhang Xun let out a long breath, raised his head and looked at the copper horn that hit the wood, and said, "I hope that after the Wu Kingdom becomes stronger and stronger, it will not attack wantonly." ”

"Hehe, now it's the Chen State, then the Lu State, the Qi State, and finally the overlord of the world. King Wu still has a lot of battles to fight and a lot of people to kill. Brother Xun, don't think about this anymore, you and I are already in it, and we can only accept such a fate. If the world is like this, who can control it? ”

"What if we fight for peace in the world? You and I, as well as Brother Gonghui, the three of us brothers are together, for the peace of the princes and the peace of the people! ”

"Is it possible? For two hundred years, the princes were constantly in dispute, and the people were miserable. Qi, Jin, Chu, Qin, the rise of the princes, the replacement of the overlord, but who really brought peace to the world? Is King Wu okay? He's just another lord in pursuit of hegemony! ”

"Don't you want to help the Zhou Room and pacify the world?! If we work towards this goal, why can't we restore the peaceful and prosperous era of hundreds of years ago?! ”

"Brother Xun, we used to be very naïve, and it was inevitable to say nonsense, but now I am more and more aware of the cruelty of reality, many things are not something we can change, and many things are not something we can control. Maybe in 30 years, we will all be the people we once despised, rotten for the rest of our lives. ”

"No, I don't believe it, I know you're not that kind of person. Xiao Ji I know will never give up the ideal in my heart! The search for faith will never be extinguished! I used to know the meaning and purpose of life, but it was because I met you that I knew the value of ideals and what I should do. Brother, I will always follow you! ”

Ji Zheng's cheeks were a little red, he pushed down Zhang Xun's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Really? I didn't know I could be so tall in your mind. ”

"Hmph, I'll casually say that you believe it too, bah......" Zhang Xun smiled and stuck out his tongue.

After that, the Wu army attacked the city with the help of the chariot, and quickly conquered Baji County, but the Chen army still resisted stubbornly, making the Wu army pay a heavy price.