Now after fighting for a while, Zhang San found a phenomenon, after the ballista was ignited, it was extinguished much faster than usual, and after carefully observing for a while, it seemed that someone was extinguishing the fire, and it turned out that the Song army on the opposite side finally thought of a way to deal with it, maybe Song Jun already knew, but it was not necessary to use it during the day.

Zhang San didn't expect it at all, he originally thought that a simple offensive and defensive battle would be fought so anxiously, the Song army showed no signs of retreating, and the three directions were desperately filling in the trenches.

The archers on the city wall can indeed shoot through the iron armor, but they do not wear heavy shields, and the Song army builds a passage with shields, and the van army behind pushes the carts loaded with soil directly into the moat.

For this point of vehicle loss, Song Jun has not seen it, and filling in a few more cars and the moat is faster, originally Zhang San thought that it would really be like a TV series, one person carried a dirt bag to the moat and fell closer, and then went back to carry it.

Who knew that in the face of the real war, Song Jun was much smarter than the screenwriter, at least more rich than the director, after a night of hard fighting, several paths on the moat had been filled, but the width was not enough.

After the sky gradually brightened, the accuracy of the ballista began to increase, and the front-line troops of the Song army began to slowly retreat, Zhang San felt that the battle should be over, but he didn't expect that the Song army didn't stop at all, but just changed a wave of people to come up.

Seeing this situation, Zhang San also began to replace the defensive troops in batches, and finally after a simple count, the Ryukyu Army lost more than 500 people in the First World War last night, Zhang San looked at the arrow tower that was slowly pushed up below, and his mood was a little heavy.

The Song army's arrow tower was also strengthened, and a large cowhide cloth was hung in front of the arrow tower, so that the ballista could be shot to the ground when firing fire oil bombs, and then it was quickly extinguished, so that unless the ballista shells were accurately concentrated on the top of the arrow tower, they could be destroyed.

Zhang San shook his head, the ballista shot a few shots and sure enough, they were all shot down, and then replaced with stone bullets had no effect, and replaced with crossbow arrows, it was just a hole shot, which had little effect, Zhang San looked at Xu Guanzhong on the side, Xu Guanzhong shook his head and frowned.

Zhang San thought about it and gritted his teeth and said, Then a few ballistas attacked an arrow tower, and kept burning it for me, burning until the other party didn't have time to put out the fire, and roasted the people above to death, in the absence of a good way, Xu Guanzhong had no choice but to accept this suggestion.

It's just that in this way, the efficiency has been reduced a lot, and the suppression of the Song army's bed crossbow has also been relaxed a lot, and the river reclamation has also started again, and the heavy shield hand has also advanced to the river, and the archers leak behind the shield hand to suppress the fire on the city wall.

The action of everyone to avoid the rain of arrows affected the efficiency of the attack, and some soldiers who could not dodge hung up, and when the other side of the city wall fired at the opponent, the opponent hid behind the shield and did not show his head, and the result was very effective.

The war was only carried out on the second day Zhang San felt the unprecedented pressure, Zhang San thought about it and realized that the previous attack was just a temptation of the Song army, this time with all his strength, if he could withstand it, then the opposite Song army would definitely be poor in donkey skills, if he couldn't withstand it, then the city would be broken.

Zhang San felt that he wanted to defend Yangzhou City with 40,000 people, maybe if there were 200,000 foreign cavalry on the opposite side, Zhang San might be able to deal with it more calmly, but on the opposite side was his own people who also had thousands of years of experience in attacking and defending the city wall.

After dozens of arrow towers were advanced into place, they immediately began to suppress the ballista firing points on the city wall, and the Ryukyu army also ordered the ballistae to attack the opponent's arrow towers with all their might, and at this stage, the arrow towers were the biggest threat to their side.

After seeing that the Ryukyu army was focusing its main energy on dealing with the arrow tower, the Song army below immediately began to drive part of the army across the river, and after crossing the river, they did not charge to the city wall, but stopped by the moat.

Zhang San looked at the simple version of the bridge laid by the Song army, and asked strangely: "Since there is such a ladder bridge, why do you have to desperately fill the moat?" ”

Xu Guanzhong glanced at it lightly and said: "The Cloud Ladder Bridge cannot be used to cross troops and siege equipment on a large scale, and it is easy to be destroyed, while the heavy infantry who fill the moat can raise their shields to cross the river to provide protection for the soldiers under the city." ”

Seeing that it seemed that there was no much value in guarding the city river now, the ballistas on the city began to continue to destroy the arrow tower, and finally when the ladder bridges of the Song army were all ready, a large number of Song soldiers began to push more ladders to cross the river with a roar.

On the other side of the river, a group of archers also continued to suppress the city wall, because the ballista on the city suppressed the bed crossbow of the Song army, and the arrows shot on the city of Yangzhou were not enough for the soldiers under the city to climb directly, so some of the soldiers also brought ropes.

The next step is the battle between the ladder and the pusher, the battle between the flying claw and the claw knife, although the city is not prepared with boiling oil, boiling water, golden soup and the like, but there are a large number of fire oil bombs in the city, as long as there are Song soldiers trying to take the ladder to the city, immediately ignite a fire oil bomb and throw it under the city, and immediately get a few minutes of peace.

Under this kind of anxiety, the ballista finally cleaned up the last arrow tower, Zhang San looked at the sky and it was already afternoon, if he didn't teach the Song army a lesson, I am afraid they would still attack the city.

Xu Guanzhong also had the same idea, so Zhang San took out the secret weapon he had prepared for a long time, which was improved from the Great Song Dynasty fire extinguishing water dragon, similar to the hand-pushed watering can of later generations.

A pipe was inserted into the oil drum, and the soldiers on the other side pushed hard, and the fire oil was sprayed out, and it could be sprayed thirty meters from the city wall, and immediately the soldiers under the city were drenched, and the smart ones immediately ran backwards and jumped into the moat without crossing the bridge.

But most people only know that they are scurrying, and after a burst of spurting, a burst of rockets, and then an unforgettable scene appeared, along a line of fire along the city wall of Yangzhou, and then the screams moved today, and a large number of burning people jumped into the moat.

The attack of the entire Song army stopped, and the battlefield fell silent, and the Song army and the Ryukyu army were isolated for a short time by this arson belt, to say that those who were far away from the city wall could still jump into the moat to escape, but those who were within thirty meters of the city wall were miserable.

Either take the courage to jump over the fire, or roast alive under the city, and at least 30,000 people are trapped under the city walls, and most of them choose to jump into the fire when they can't stand it anymore, and most of them choose to hide behind people, like boiled frogs in warm water and are burned to death.

The Song army's offensive finally stopped, and after the Song army hastily withdrew its troops, Zhang San also began to count the casualties of the battle, and after two days and one night of fighting, Zhang San's side lost more than 3,000 people killed and wounded more than 8,000.

The Song army on the opposite side is expected to lose more than 60,000 people, and after this battle, the Song army should not be in Yangzhou before thinking of a new way, but just this battle consumed half of the fire and oil bombs in Yangzhou City's reserves.