Under the order of King Zhao, the Zhao army immediately took action. The Zhao army, which took all parts of Xiyongzhou and besieged Chang'an City for half a month without action, launched an operation again.

As soon as Zhao Jun moved, the general of the city guard was naturally trembling, and while reporting to his superiors, he began to drink the soldiers under his command who also had drastic changes in their faces, preparing to face the battle.

When Luo Dingyuan and Lin Shucheng, the commanders of Chang'an, heard that the Zhao army was attacking the city, they put down their affairs and hurried to the south to investigate. After Zhao Jun took Xianyang, he had not moved for half a month, and there was no other action. Attacking now is naturally not trivial, and they can't help but be nervous.

"Catapults? Zhao Jun used catapults to suppress us again? Without footmen, aren't they ready to attack the city? ”

Luo Dingyuan's face turned pale, and he said coldly: "Zhao Jun wants to use this sharp guy to completely destroy the fortifications outside our city, and wants to smash several passages between the moats. ”

"Our moat is living water, and it's not easy to block it." One hesitated.

Luo Dingyuan snorted coldly and said hatefully: "Don't forget, Zhao Jun is a catapult, their improved giant catapult, a few hundred catties of boulders smashed over, and it will soon be able to block several passages." ”

"Then wouldn't the city defense we repaired after the last Zhao army attack ......," Luo Qing muttered to himself.

The last time the Zhao army smashed the city defense outside the city with a catapult, and also shocked the defenders with earth-shaking thunder. However, after the Zhao army did not continue to attack the city, but watched from afar, the defenders in the city organized people to repair the city defense, but it took a lot of effort. During the repair process, the cavalry of the Zhao army also attacked and harassed many times, so that the people, young and strong soldiers and defenders suffered a lot of losses. Now it seems that this is all useless work, and it will consume Zhao Jun for a while at most. However, does Zhao Jun lack time?

"General, why don't we let our catapults fight back, we live above the city, and we should be able to cause damage to Zhao's catapults." Luo Qing looked at the falling boulders on the moat and said solemnly.

"It's useless, the Zhao army has more catapults than ours, although we occupy the advantage of the city, but we still can't attack the Zhao army's catapults. In front of their catapults, there are obstacles in the way, and even if our catapults throw the boulders and rely on the force of the boulders to roll, they will not be able to cause damage to the opponent's catapult array. Instead of wasting it here, it is better to wait for the Zhao army to attack the city. ”

"Lord Lin, what can you teach me about the current situation?" Luo Dingyuan looked at Lin Shucheng again.

Lin Shucheng smiled bitterly: "Passively stubborn, what else can you say?" Let's fight to the death, the Zhao army is determined to attack. When the moat and the moat outside the city were smashed flat, the Zhao army's catapults would cover the city, and the Zhao army would attack. ”

As Lin Shucheng expected, on the evening of the third day, Zhao Jun's catapult smashed the outside of the city into a thoroughfare. The ditch outside the city has been filled in, and the moat has become a smooth road. Of course, although there are some grievances, for the army, the siege is not affected.

Outside the city, Zhao Jun Zhongjun, Zhao Xun and others also paid attention to the situation outside the city, and when they saw the change of road outside the city, everyone was happy.

"Let's act!" Zhao Xun said coldly.

In the continuous sound of horns, groups of Zhao Jun infantry soldiers began to line up, began to surge forward from the rear, and gradually marched towards the Chang'an city wall. The soldiers of the Han army defenders at the head of Chang'an City saw that they were all soldiers of the Zhao army in black armor and red helmets, foot soldiers and cavalry gathered, and countless moving human heads, horse heads, and dazzling horse chopping knives converged into a magnificent picture, which made people tremble from the depths of their souls.

"Uh......h Woo...... Woo......"

"Knock...... Boom...... Knock ......" After the extraordinarily loud horn sound of the three links, a fierce drum suddenly sounded between heaven and earth.

"Kill...... Kill...... Kill ......"

In the place of the Chinese army, a roar erupted, and all this roar spread out in all directions, spreading throughout the entire army formation, and the voices of tens of thousands of people converged into a uniform shout, wave after wave, the violent sound was like a stormy wave, reverberating and raging fiercely between heaven and earth, brutally rushing the defenders' will to resist.

"Uhh......h......h This soldier was frightened by Zhao Jun's shouts of killing, and he didn't know whether he fainted or was directly scared to death, so that he fell to the head of the city.

"Damn......" Luo Dingyuan took a deep breath of cold air, and looked around, except for Luo Qing and a few battle-hardened battlefield generals and Lin Shucheng, a literati who had seen too many battlefields, almost all the defenders and soldiers were already pale like dirt, especially those new soldiers, who were even more timid, and even their bodies began to tremble slightly, if this fear was allowed to continue to spread, then I was afraid that before the Zhao army began to attack the city, the soldiers under his command would have collapsed.

"General, we must change this unfavorable situation, and we must find a way to boost the morale of the soldiers. Otherwise, without a fight, we will already lose! Lin Shucheng said coldly.

"General Ben knows, but what can we do?" Luo Dingyuan said with a hideous face.

"Let the catapult on the city wall project the boulder handle, although it can't play its due role, but it can kill the enemy in front of the Zhao army's army, and in this way, it can also save our current situation." Lin Shucheng said lightly.

Luo Dingyuan's face hesitated, he knew that since then, his own catapults would definitely be frantically attacked by the Zhao army's catapults outside the city, and maybe in a few moments, they would be broken into pieces by the Zhao army's huge number of catapults.

"General, after the soldiers of the two sides are connected, the effect of this catapult will be ineffective. In particular, Zhao Jun's catapults, when their soldiers came into contact with us, they would not have appeared. Therefore, it is worth it to save morale now, even if it is to reduce our catapults to pieces. Otherwise, I am afraid that the soldiers will collapse immediately. Don't forget, many of these soldiers are related to the big clans in the city, and it would be really bad if they broke down. Lin Shucheng naturally understood what Luo Dingyuan was worried about, and immediately said lightly.

Luo Dingyuan is indeed worried that after his catapult is destroyed by Zhao Jun's catapult, he will not be able to suppress the other party's catapult, and at that time, they will be restrained everywhere.

Immediately, Luo Dingyuan let his own catapult attack. Sure enough, as Lin Shucheng expected, his own catapult smashed in front of the Zhao army's formation, which also brought a lot of casualties to the Zhao army, and suddenly made his morale rise a lot. Of course, the consequence was that after some projection, the catapult was hit by the covering blow of the Zhao army's catapult, and after a while, more than 20 of his catapults were turned into pieces.

For the defenders of the city, because they are trapped in the city, all kinds of equipment are not as good as the Zhao army outside the city, and they can be built at any time. Gone is gone, in the last battle with the Zhao army's catapult, most of it has been destroyed, this time, the defenders have completely lost the catapult. Of course, there may be some in the other three gates, but they are also responsible for the other three sides. Even if it is transferred, it is not so easy to transport it in time.

After destroying the catapults of the defenders on the city wall, the Zhao army's catapult team continued to carry out the final assault on the city wall, assisting the besieging soldiers to approach the city wall. In the process of attacking the catapults of the Han army on the city wall, the catapults of the Zhao army were also damaged by more than ten aircraft. However, the number of catapults of the Zhao army is far more than the number of catapults defending the city, so the Han army on the city wall still needs to face the attack of the catapults of the Zhao army.

With hundreds of wrestlers roaring, one after another huge arms were violently lifted into the air, throwing the boulders in the basket high in the air, and the boulders followed an irregular trajectory in the air. With a terrible scream. tumbled and fell towards the head of Chang'an City.

"Dodge! Don't run around, don't panic! "The defending general gave this military order in a terrible manner. The attack speed of the catapult is slow, and the city is wide, so the boulder thrown by the catapult can still see the direction of landing.

"Boom!" , There was a loud bang, and a boulder smashed the city wall, and in the smoke and dust, the originally flat city wall had been smashed out of a big hole.

"Boom, boom!"

Several boulders followed, smashing into the city almost in no particular order. Two unlucky defenders were unable to dodge and were immediately knocked to the ground, one of the soldiers was directly hit by the stone and smashed his head, and the brain paddle and blood splashed in all directions, spraying the surrounding soldiers all over their heads, while the corpse that lost its head stood on its own, only blood kept spurting out from his neck.

One of the recruits had never seen such a terrible sight, and immediately fell to the ground and began to cry: "Mom, I want to go home, woo woo woo ......"

"Get up, you pig!" A veteran stepped forward and kicked the recruit viciously in the ass, "This is the battlefield, your mother can't save you, you have to rely on yourself, hurry up." ”

"Whew!"

Another boulder fell in the air, and the veteran instinctively flashed sideways, and the stone almost passed close to his ear, and just smashed heavily on the recruit's buttocks, only to hear a loud bang, the recruit's ass had been smashed into nothingness, and the waist of the entire torso was covered with blood, and the recruit struggled to turn over the upper half of his body, and began to howl heartbreakingly.

"Idiot! Lao Tzu told you a long time ago, this is a battlefield, your mother can't save you, what's the use of mourning? ”

The veteran's eyes were indifferent, and he took two steps forward and cut off the recruit's throat cleanly, and the recruit's miserable howl stopped abruptly, and he died with a crooked head.

"Kill, kill, kill!"

In the midst of the tidal shouts, the Zhao infantry that was slowly squirming forward suddenly began to accelerate.

"Shoot the arrows! Shoot them, quick! ”

"Xiu ......" Ten thousand arrows suddenly fired on the city wall, like a black dark cloud, covering the Zhao army under the city, and the Zhao army naturally resisted with a huge shield. A moment later, a rain of arrows also flew out of the Zhao army's army outside the city, reflecting on the city wall, bringing a wail and scream.

The battle entered a white-hot battle from the beginning, and the feather arrows of the Han army guarding the city wall were as dense as a storm, and the Zhao army siege foot soldiers who were rushing over the uneven and smashed by the catapults in the original defender city fortifications could not even raise their heads, so they could only hide behind the shield, while making their bodies as small as possible to avoid the rain of arrows, while advancing rapidly.

Of course, the archers, bed crossbows and catapults of the Zhao army did not stop moving. Although the defenders have the advantage of the city, the Zhao army has the strength of the armor. Arrows on the city wall rained down, and the Zhao army outside the city wall was not to be outdone, dozens of catapults continued to throw stone bullets on the city wall, not to mention, the Zhao army's crossbowmen and bed crossbow arrays also poured out of the nest, and the infantry desperately poured bows and arrows and crossbow arrows on the opposite bank, and above the outside of the city wall, feather arrows and flying stones came and went like rain, so dense that they almost covered the sky, accompanied by terrible screams and wails.

Finally, the infantry of the Zhao army at the forefront approached the city wall, and the soldiers carrying the ladder immediately began to erect the ladder and lean towards the city wall.

......In a series of crisp sounds, Zhao Jun's ladder began to lean against the city wall. At this moment, the catapults and bed crossbows in the rear of the Zhao army stopped moving. Because at this moment, this long-range weapon in the rear can injure your own siege soldiers.

"Come out, get ready to fight! Zhao Jun's catapult and bed crossbow have stopped attacking, hurry! Luo Qing and the other generals ordered the guards who were dodging the Zhao army's catapults and bed crossbows.

Under the leadership of the soldiers and the supervision of the warlords, the defenders began to rapidly launch a counterattack on the city walls.

"Throw the log! Fast! ”

With a command, the soldiers defending the city lowered their crossbows, lifted the log from behind the battlements, and smashed it down the ladder. The new pawn and the young man also trembled and carried the rolling log down with trepidation. Huge logs bounced and rolled on the green ladder, whizzing down.

A wail sounded one after another from below the city, and the soldiers who were trying to climb and the soldiers who were holding the ladder below were knocked down, and the fierce attack suddenly stopped.

"Chop the hook and loop on the ladder for General Ben!"

The defenders in front of the ladder immediately swung their short axes and smashed the barbs of the wall at the upper part of the ladder.

"Hook up!" The order rose again, Luo Dingyuan's tone did not have the slightest emotion, as if it came from some inanimate existence, but it was extremely timely and deadly! At this moment, Luo Dingyuan incarnated as a general who thought he had experienced a hundred battles. Even Lin Shucheng also had a great change in Luo Dingyuan's senses. Lin Shucheng has been with Situ Lei for many years, and he also knows how the generals of the First Army should deal with the situation at this moment. The more calm the general becomes, the greater the impact on the soldiers below, and the more he can calm the panicked hearts of the soldiers.

After the order was issued, those Hanzhong reinforcements immediately put down the rolling logs in their hands, picked up the hook behind the battlements, and together with a few comrades, hooked the end of the ladder, roared, and pulled diagonally along the direction of the city wall. The ladder that couldn't hook the city wall slowly fell in the direction of the hook, knocking down a large number of soldiers under the city.

"Crossbowmen, hold me down the defenders on the walls! Marksman, shoot those veterans for me, for recruits and young men, you only need to be wounded, not killed! General Zhao Jun outside the city ordered coldly.

A rain of arrows poured down on the city walls, shooting some of the bravest Hanzhong reinforcements on the city walls, and preparing to wound the young men and make them let out a miserable wail to affect the morale of the defenders.

"Brothers, the destruction of the city is today, follow me!" A burly officer's counterattack suddenly weakened, and he immediately waved the horizontal knife in his hand and took the lead in killing upward. Encouraged by the officers, the soldiers of the Zhao army flocked up, and the first few people held iron shields and relied on the cloud ladders that were connected to form a shield wall. In addition, in order to prevent the ladders from being pulled down, several ladders were also trapped together by the soldiers with ropes, forming a suggested continuous passage.

The defenders of the city soon noticed the movement, and almost at the same time as the shield wall was formed, a huge rolling log roared down and slammed into the shield wall with a dull loud noise. The shield wall trembled violently, some of the shield bearers broke their mouths, some spurted blood, and some of them could not grasp the ladder steadily, and together with the rolling logs, they fell down and fell into the crowd below. But this round of attacks was resisted after all!

"Good! Give it to me! Seeing that the soldiers around him cooperated with him to knock the rolling logs that had fallen from the city wall diagonally overhead, the officer who led the team was immediately overjoyed, and immediately turned over, crossed the city, and appeared on the city wall.

Immediately after that, several Zhao soldiers climbed over the wall, crossed the women's wall, and entered the city, where they soon made a clear space for the follow-up soldiers to hurry to the city.

There was a dangerous situation on the city wall, Luo Dingyuan, who personally commanded it, naturally saw the problem, and saw that the situation was critical, so he immediately sent a reserve of more than 500 people that had been prepared to launch a counterattack, trying to drive dozens of Zhao soldiers out of the city and retake the city wall. But it's a pity that although Luo Dingyuan's tactics couldn't be more correct, he didn't let the defenders who had been fighting hard for a long time go to meet the battle, but let the recuperated reserves go into battle. However, its reserves were not included in the Zhao army, and the armor and equipment were not as good as the Zhao soldiers.

Especially when the soldiers of Zhao used the fire pit on the city wall to heat the oil to ignite several earth-shattering thunderbolts and threw them into these reserves, and burst into a powerful explosion, these reserve soldiers began to fight without a fight. Although they are the soldiers of Hanzhong's reinforcements, they are still far inferior to the earth-shattering thunder of the Zhao army.

Not only that, the explosion of the earth-shattering thunder also made the other soldiers defending the city tremble, and many of the soldiers collapsed on the spot, causing almost the entire line to collapse. If it weren't for Luo Dingyuan's supervising team killing dozens of people in a row and pressing these defenders back, I am afraid that the city wall would have been occupied by the soldiers of the Zhao army.

Of course, Zhao Jun's earth-shattering thunder is not something that these soldiers can easily use in close combat, this thing, when it is close combat, it can hurt others and hurt oneself. Therefore, the soldiers of Zhao who attacked the head of the city still relied on their own soldiers to fight against the defenders. However, after the Zhao army occupied a corner of the city, they quickly used their shields to stabilize their positions here, so that the follow-up men and horses continued to go to the city, continuously expanding their advantages, and making more and more of their own soldiers in the city.