The sky gradually brightened, and the rebels who had slept soundly all night were in good spirits, and the soldiers began to bury the pot and cook food, and after a while, the whole camp was filled with smoke, and it was also magnificent from a distance. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The soldiers of the Sui army stood all over the city wall at this time, as Fu Gongqi expected, Song Hao really concentrated most of the troops on the side of the north city and the east city, especially the north city, the city wall here suffered a major blow yesterday, so he also arranged an army in the city, if the rebels collapsed the city wall, these soldiers would immediately plug this gap and prevent the rebels from rushing in.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

The dull drums of war were finally beaten, and after eating, the anti-king army put on a posture, set up three large formations, and leaned towards the city wall little by little.

However, they did not attack the north city today, but first launched an attack from the west city and the south city, Wu Tianxi and Wu Yunzhao each brought 20,000 soldiers and horses, and launched an attack from these two places, the Sui army was insufficient, and the number of troops stationed here was not much, so at the beginning of the battle, they fell into a disadvantage, and the morale of the anti-army under the leadership of Wu Tianxi and Wu Yunzhao was like a rainbow of offensives, and their dense bows and arrows suppressed the defenders on the head of the city and couldn't raise their heads, and Wu Yunzhao and Wu Tianxi also quickly seized the opportunity, He led his soldiers to climb up the ladder and launched wave after wave of fierce attacks on the Sui army.

A lot of anti-army soldiers surged up on the two city walls in the southwest, the Sui army could not resist, so they could only ask Song Hao for help, Song Hao had no choice, so he asked the deputy general to take the army out and rush to the rescue on both sides, and as soon as the troops on his side were dispersed, the rebel army outside the city immediately dispatched and began to launch an attack on the northern city.

In the era of cold weapons, the weapon that poses the greatest threat to soldiers is the trebuchet, which can throw stones weighing hundreds of pounds to hundreds of meters away, and under the power of gravity and kinetic energy of the stone itself, the soldiers who are touched by it will break their tendons at least, and the bones will be lost at worst.

This weapon is the most commonly used weapon on both sides in both siege and siege warfare.

At this time, both sides began to bomb each other hundreds of paces away, the Sui army's military manufacturing level is very developed, the trebuchet they made can easily throw stones weighing 100 catties out of 400 steps, and the level of craftsmen on the anti-army side is much worse, their trebuchet is smaller than the Sui army, the weight of the launch is lighter, and the range is 50 to 100 steps farther, which means that the Sui army can attack them during the period of time when the anti-army enters their range, Of course, the Sui army did not miss this opportunity, and large boulders roared and smashed into the anti-army formation, they mainly aimed at the anti-army's trebuchet, but because of the limited accuracy, most of them smashed into the infantry phalanx on the side.

Since the rebel soldiers entered the range of the Sui army's trebuchet, they began to take the initiative to speed up, wanting to speed up and run through this dangerous area, and after moving forward a hundred steps with difficulty, dozens of trebuchets of the rebels finally began to counterattack, and one after another boulders circled out of a huge arc and were thrown out of the net bag of the trebuchet.

Boom!

After a loud bang, another boulder hit the already cracked city wall, Song Hao immediately understood the other party's intentions, and hurriedly ordered the trebuchet to target all the other party's trebuchets, and must destroy the other party's trebuchet, and they can't let them continue to attack like this, otherwise the city wall of the northern city will be blown down.

The difference in the number of trebuchets between the two sides is not very large, but because the trebuchets of the anti-king army are concentrated, and the trebuchets of the Sui army are scattered everywhere, so only in the north gate, their number is far inferior to that of the anti-army.

And just when the trebuchets on both sides started a big battle, the infantry phalanx of the anti-army had already rushed to a range of less than a hundred steps from the city wall, and for a time the arrows on the city wall were like flying locusts, pulling, controlling, and shooting, and the archers on the city wall were like mechanized and kept firing arrows at the black pressure crowd below the city wall, they didn't have time to aim, and they didn't need to aim at all, because there were almost dense crowds of people under the city wall. Every arrow you shoot is sure to make a difference!

"Raise your shield!"

Xiong Kuohai did not ride a horse, but chose to be like an ordinary soldier, holding a shield and rushing to the front, at this time the defender's bow and arrow is very dense, there are soldiers around him who are constantly falling to the ground with arrows, most of these people are not directly dead, although the leather armor they wear cannot block the bow and arrow, but it can remove part of the strength of the bow and arrow, so the bow and arrow are not deep, but if they do not get timely treatment, they will still die on the battlefield because of excessive blood loss.

After hearing Xiong Kuohai's order, the rebel soldiers raised their shields one after another to protect the top of their heads, because the bows and arrows were shot from the top of the city, so as long as they could protect the top of their heads, they would basically not be hit by arrows.

Suddenly, a large piece of shield brushed horizontally, and from the city wall, it looked like a lin's armor on a piece of armor.

After the shield was erected, most of the bows and arrows shot at the shield only made a clanging sound before being bounced away.

At this time, the defenders also began to notice the difference between this army and other anti-king armies, not only did they look taller, but each soldier's equipment was basically very sophisticated, two crotch armor, chain mail and even plate armor, which is difficult to appear, they were equipped, each soldier was equipped with a round shield, a horizontal sword, they moved quickly, and soon gathered under the ladder and began to climb up.

"Stop them!"

When the commander of the Sui army noticed that this group was menacing, he called in more than 300 archers and fired arrows at their flanks, intending to shoot them down the ladder.

This trick really worked, a large number of anti-army soldiers were shot by bows and arrows when they climbed up the ladder, screaming and falling down and breaking their bones, but the leader of the man was very strong, he did not hold a shield to stop the flying arrows that came from one side, and at the same time raised the knife in his hand to dial the bow and arrow shot from the other direction, his speed was also very fast, and he kicked a few times on the ladder, and he had already jumped on the city wall several feet high, and there was a huge hole in the defense of Yangzhou City.

The defenders were taken aback, obviously not expecting this man's speed to be so fast, and before they could react, they had already been slashed by this man.

This person is Xiong Kuohai, after he climbed the city wall, he immediately fell into the siege, but what the entourage never expected was that this person was still difficult to stop under their siege, he protected the battlement behind him with a knife and a shield, so that the Sui army could not drive him down at all, and more and more anti-army soldiers also climbed the city wall from this breakthrough. (To be continued.) )