The dark red smoke rose into the sky, striking against the blue canopy, visible even miles away on the north shore. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Jiang Du and the others quietly crouched in the ditch of the wheat field, watching the enemy troops on the opposite bank leave the camp in waves and kill towards the Red Dragon Fortress.

The endless beacon smoke, like a silent call, made the hearts of the generals around him burn like fire, and their eyes were like frost.

"My lord, it's time for us to do it, right?" A brigade commander couldn't help but ask in a low voice.

Now, Jiang Dang's appeal among civilians is unmatched, and his power is growing, and before he comes, Zheng Xiong has a strict order, and Jiang Dang is fully responsible for all actions on the north shore. So, even though he was only a small commander, no one dared to treat him as a commander.

"Wait!" Jiang Du's eyes were focused, looking at the enemy soldiers on the other side of the river, and replied in a deep voice.

He had heard Zheng Xiong introduce the distribution of the strength of the fortress, so the opponent's first attack, I am afraid that he would not send too many manpower, and its main purpose was to find out the location and distribution of the trebuchet of the Red Dragon Fortress through a feint, and then destroy it.

Jiang Du guessed that this morning's battle should be a duel between the trebuchet forces of the two sides. The participation of ordinary troops in the war should only contain harassment and play a limited role. If they rashly attack at this time, not only will they not have much effect, but they will startle the snake and lead the large army in the company camp out in advance.

All they have to do now is be patient.

Sure enough, in this battle, the Triple Alliance Army only sent 100,000 troops, and the remaining 400,000 people did not move.

Seeing this, Jiang Du left Zhang Tiaoyue and several scouts to continue to monitor, and returned to the hard labor camp with the others.

In front of the fortress, shouting to kill the heavens, the war horses neighed.

The Assyrian soldiers who were responsible for suppressing the city's head suffered heavy losses, and the corpses of men and horses were scattered everywhere. But they were like crazy, and under the cover of heavy shields, they kept attacking the city with bows and arrows.

Under the harassment of the Assyrians, the soldiers at the head of the Red Dragon Fortress, including the trebuchet troops, began to suffer casualties one after another. In this regard, Beiyan's soldiers were no longer surprised, they seized this temporary advantage, calmly aimed, adjusted, and fired, ignoring their own casualties, three rounds of attacks, destroying a large number of trebuchets and city vehicles.

This advantage was not long in coming, and the Assyrian storming carts and trebuchets were assembled.

Large trebuchets lined up under the city, like tall giants, constantly waving their long arms, throwing huge stones at the head of the Red Dragon Fortress.

Soon more than a dozen trebuchets were smashed to pieces by the roaring boulders, and the skeletons were separated, and the Beiyan soldiers who gathered around were also not spared, and the screams and wails sounded one after another on the city, and blood meandered on the ground, coating the city walls.

The Assyrian rush is an eight-wheeled, five-story tower-shaped cart with a height of about 12 meters, a width of 6 meters, and a length of 10 meters. The lowest level is for soldiers in carts, and the other four levels can hold 100 siege soldiers.

The exterior of the city truck is covered with heavy armor, which is difficult to hurt by ordinary arrows, and the soldiers in the car can make full use of the height of the car to shoot directly at the city with crossbows and longbows to attack the soldiers on the city walls. If it is allowed to move close to the city walls, the force of this impact can cause serious damage to the wall structure.

Now, 300 meters below the city, these huge storming caravans have lost the threat of trebuchets, and they look extremely leisurely below, like heavy monsters, with hideousness and oppression, slowly approaching the walls and gates of the fortress.

Distances from 300 meters to 200 meters, to 100 meters, to 50 meters......

At this time, nearly half of the trebuchets on the head of the city had been destroyed, and part of the city wall was also hit by boulders, causing a collapse, but the Beiyan soldiers who had taken precautions quickly filled the collapsed gaps with sandbags one by one, providing new cover for those soldiers armed with bows and crossbows.

When the autumn wind was howling, the generals in charge of commanding the battle at the head of the city were constantly roaring. The rest of the trebuchets continued to throw boulders methodically as he shouted.

Bang Dang! Bang Dang! The thick pole arm seems to be tireless, again and again, swinging hard, even if it will be hit by an oncoming boulder at any time, it does not give up the attack.

The boulders poured on the Assyrian trebuchet positions, destroying the tall trebuchets and shedding the same blood five hundred meters from the fortress.

Jiang Liao's face was resolute, holding an iron gun, always sticking to the city wall, at this time, he had long forgotten the identity of his uncle, just a division commander of the Lieyang Army, Zheng Xiong on his side, at this time his expression was serious, but he did not see the slightest panic, he looked at the closer and closer rushing car, and waved his hand violently:

"Signal, heavy crossbow attack!"

With a sharp chirp behind him, an extremely dull bowstring trembled suddenly from the peaks on both sides of the fortress.

Airplanes! Airplanes! Airplanes! It's like an angry cow roaring.

Thick crossbow arrows, with an astonishing low roar and a bit of gravity, shot at the rushing carts that were approaching the fortress.

Boom! Boom! Boom! The storming carts were too slow to dodge the powerful bed-heavy bolts.

Crash! Rumble! The crossbow arrows with thick arms hit the huge and bulky body of the rushing car one after another, and under the impact of the huge force, several rushing vehicles disintegrated instantly, and the soldiers inside fell down, one by one, and their bones were broken.

This bed crossbow relies on the combined force of several special longbows to shoot the crossbow arrows, requiring 12 people to turn the axle to pull the bowstring, although it is bulky, but it is hugely powerful, and the range can reach more than 500 meters. The 50 bed crossbows in Zheng Xiong's hand were the secret weapons of the fortress, which had never been used in the previous encounters, and today they finally appeared and took the Assyrians by surprise.

In the blink of an eye, the dozens of storming carts that the Assyrians had managed to assemble were severely damaged by these powerful bed crossbows and turned into a pile of waste.

When the Assyrian generals in the rear found out about this, they turned blue with anger, and he immediately ordered 100 trebuchets to adjust the direction and angle to destroy these bed crossbows hidden in the jungle.

However, the Assyrians did not know that in order to protect these complex bed crossbows, Zheng Xiong spent a lot of thought, and he asked the blacksmiths in the army to make a batch of huge iron cages and cover the bed crossbows to prevent the attack of trebuchets.

So, when hundreds of boulders covered the hills on both sides of the fortress at the same time, these bed crossbows were rarely damaged because of the obscuration of the iron cages.

Seeing that the opponent's trebuchet was attracted by the bed crossbow, the attack became scattered, and seized the opportunity to launch two more rounds of attacks on the Assyrian position. The Assyrian generals were furious, but they could only let the 100 trebuchets continue to suppress the bed crossbows, while using the remaining 200 trebuchets to attack the head of the fortress.

In this way, relying on 50 bed crossbows and a few trebuchets, 100,000 Assyrians attacked all morning, and did not taste much sweetness.

However, Zheng Xiong, Jiang Liao and others all knew that this battle had just begun, and a more fierce attack was about to come. (To be continued.) )