The day before yesterday, when we set up camp, there was a large amount of timber left, and now it is ready to build a trestle, and two thousand strong crossbowmen lined up fifty paces behind the river bank to fire arrows to cover, and three thousand infantry held shields, escorting their fellow guards to carry timber to the river, and then put it down after erecting it together, and the other end just hit the other side of the river. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

When the soldiers saw it from the top of the city, they all lowered their arrows, but they did not have the long-range shooting ability of a strong crossbow, so they could only occasionally show their heads out and release a round of arrows, so they quickly retracted, and if they stayed at the battlement for a little longer, they would be shot by the crossbowmen below.

The soldiers kept harassing them with arrows, and even threw stones and logs, but they all rolled into the river. Some fell on the trestle and were rushed to carry away by the soldiers of the Zhou army, which was simply a food delivery. And as soon as someone showed up at the battlement, the Zhou crossbowmen immediately rained arrows. After several rounds of harassment, the soldiers had no choice but to hide, watching the trestle gradually take shape.

Half an hour later, the trestle bridge of a hundred paces on each side of the city gate and on each side was erected, and the flat large wooden dense horizontal frame was almost peaceful, but there was still a gap in it, and the soldiers would step on it if they were not careful, so that it was covered with a layer of felt and a layer of sand, so that there was no problem at all.

Knock knock knock...... The drum rumbled, the Zhou army infantry formation of 10,000 troops lined up on the river bank for a mile, the front formation is the five infantry regiments of the first brigade of the Changyi Army, and the first regiment of the Zhenyuan Army, a total of 6,000 soldiers are divided into three teams, carrying a large wooden ladder and starting to move forward slowly, of which each team has two regiments, each equipped with two ladders, and stops and stands by after advancing to two hundred steps.

Behind them are the four infantry regiments of the Zhenyuan Army of the Xuanchongwen Department, and the long projectile rods of a hundred light counterweight trebuchets have been hung with stone projectiles, like a squatting giant beast dragging a long tail, and it is in a state of readiness.

"Report! The elevation angle is calibrated! Please tell me if you want to launch or not! A soldier came over and asked.

It was Xue Wenqian who commanded the trebuchet, seeing that the soldiers in the front were already in place, and the two rows of trebuchets had already been placed, but he was still a little uneasy, walked to the side of the trebuchet in the front row, stretched out his hand and gave a thumbs up to observe, and felt that it should be about the same, so he nodded and returned to the command position in the back, and shouted: "Release!" ”

The herald waved down violently with a small red flag in his hand, and a row of soldiers who had been standing behind the trebuchet and had already been on standby raised their sledgehammers and struck them hard at the iron tips, with a series of loud "bangs", a long row of projectile rods "whirring" raised, and 100 stone projectiles weighing 100 pounds flew towards the head of the city at 250 paces.

Bang bang bang...... In a burst of earth and stone explosion, the city raised a cloud of dust, many battlements collapsed and cracked under the blow of stone bullets, and soil and stone particles splashed everywhere, so that the soldiers hiding behind were caught off guard, and they were hit one after another, and let out a miserable scream.

There were even stone bullets that fell on the stone slabs on the ground at the head of the city, jumping and smacking into the crowd again and again, causing a great chaos among the soldiers, who scattered and fled to find a place to hide. But then the second round of stone bullets fell again, and the crowd that was running around collided and trampled on each other, and suddenly fell down.

"This way! This way...... Hide under the battlements here! Wen Fan had heard of this kind of trebuchet, and many years ago the Tibetan army also had it, but now no craftsman would do this, and he couldn't help but shout in a hurry, but the Tibetan soldiers had never seen such a battle, and they were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they were panicked, and no one listened to his command.

The two rows of trebuchets continued to fire ten rounds alternately, and when there was no longer a single figure in the city, Xuan Chongwen ordered his soldiers to beat the drums, and the three teams of 6,000 people in the front were under the leadership of Shi Chenghong in the south, Han Zhiping in the middle, and Zhang Quanyi in the north, and trotted forward at the same time.

As soon as the trebuchet stopped, the crossbowmen continued to take cover, and the three teams rushed up to the trestle with a large wooden ladder with 1,000 people each, and a thousand people behind them held shields and slowly moved forward with the ladder. The two of them carried a light wooden ladder and ran fast, and set up the wall in rows, and a hundred people behind each ladder climbed the ladder to the city in small teams.

At this time, the front was in a horizontal line of two people, holding a large shield and climbing quickly, and the soldiers in the following rows climbed the ladder with one hand and the other hand held up the armor cone, waiting for the enemy to attack it.

Soon, the soldiers were back in the city, pushing and pulling the ladder with their hooks or stabbing down with their spears, but they were once again hit by the close-range cone of armor. The soldiers were not good at defending the city, but the soldiers of the Zhou army were also very disadvantageous in attacking from the back.

The soldiers carried the boiling horse urine and dung up to the city, and threw large wooden barrels downward, and many soldiers were so scalded that they tumbled down the wooden ladders, and some accidentally brought them down.

The ladder of six large wooden wheels finally pushed over the trestle to the bottom of the city in a creaking sound, and on the slope of the cowhide canopy coated with grease, the wide wooden ladder turned upside down like a lever, and the two big iron hooks at the top were on the head of the city, and fifty soldiers in the small wooden layer below rushed out with a shout, and quickly climbed up the two-folded wooden ladder.

The ladder was much wider, and could stand in a horizontal row of three people at the same time, and the great shields held high were spliced together for defense, and the stones that fell from the city were all catapulted, but it was difficult to block all the boiling horse urine, and the soldiers were so hot that they screamed and roared to climb faster.

The battle was very fierce at the beginning, and the soldiers were very tenacious, but with the assistance of the cloud ladder, the soldiers under Shi Chenghong in the south took the lead in climbing the city, and Han Zhiping's troops in the middle also climbed to the top of the city gate, and they began to stand in defense and respond to the follow-up troops.

Almost at the same time, Li Hui's Jingnan army on the northern city wall also ascended to the top of the city, which made the soldiers panic and panic. But soon Wen Fan increased his troops, and there were still some Ding Zhuang in the city, which finally stabilized the soldiers and tried to counterattack and drive the Zhou soldiers who landed in the city.

Wen Fan stood in front of the city tower and commanded, seeing that several battle groups were killing very fiercely, but he was quite calm. At this time, Wen Nai, who was fighting in Beichengtou, rushed over and shouted anxiously: "Father! The Zhou army outside the north gate has also attacked, give the order quickly! ”

"How many people! Is it two thousand? Wen Fan asked unfazedly.

"Not yet! But if you wait any longer, the Zhou army will come up more, and they will fight in small formations, and the cooperation will complement each other, and the soldiers will not be able to withstand it. ”

"Herald Yingchengsky! A moment later, a hundred barrels of fire oil were brought up, and fifty barrels were brought up on each of the two walls, and they fell from the head of the city! Wen Fan couldn't stand his son's request and finally gave the order.

Wen Nai was overjoyed, and hurriedly ran back to the north of the city, where the head of the small thousand households who commanded the battle was mobilizing troops to try to encircle and annihilate the more than 1,000 soldiers of the Jingnan Army who had landed in the city. Not long after, a group of soldiers in the city carried large wooden barrels along the road, and Wen Naiwei sent his own soldiers to help, and poured fifty barrels of fierce fire oil down the big wooden ladder and cloud ladder of the Zhou army. (To be continued.) )