The wind and thunder are agitating in the sky above the Tiger Prison Pass, and the Tiger Prison is also covered by flags, the smoke and dust are in the sky, the gongs and drums can be heard for dozens of miles, and the murderous spirit between the people shouting and the horses neighing goes straight to the clouds.

The king of the East China Sea had long wanted to demonstrate in front of the king of the river, and at this moment he immediately commanded the army to start attacking the city, and the siege troops pushed all kinds of siege equipment, and fought out of the battle in a mighty way, and went straight to the tiger prison.

The defenders of Tiger Prison Pass were careless for a while, and they only cared about the rebels below, and they didn't pay attention to the arrows flying sideways in mid-air, roaring loudly. Several soldiers were unable to react and fell to the ground under the dense barrage of arrows.

Thousands of elite infantry of the rebels advanced first, covering the men carrying weapons, preparing to build an improvised bridge over the river outside the city, so as to build a way for the army to prepare for the siege.

The soldiers who rushed to the river put down the logs, nailed them to the planks, and laid them horizontally on the river to open a passage for the following men. The soldiers behind shouted and rushed across the Bishui River from the flying bridge, approaching the city.

Sima Yue, the king of the East China Sea, and Sima Yue, the king of the river, sat in the Chinese army, and then transferred the rushing car and crash car that had just been built, and slowly pushed across the city along the wooden bridge erected on the city, aiming at the tiger prison to close the city gate and the city wall desperately impacted. The "boom" crash sound was like thunder, and the east gate of the Tiger Prison Pass was smashed into dirt and crumbling.

This was followed by a large number of ladders being pushed down the city. One of the skilled craftsmen in the rebel camp came up with an idea for the king of the East China Sea: the bottom frame of the ladder was made of wood, with six wheels under it, shielded on all sides and reinforced with raw cowhide, and a movable "secondary ladder" was added to the main ladder, so that the ladder could move up and down freely along the city wall without the need for people to carry it.

Sima Yue greatly appreciated the suggestions of the craftsmen and stepped up to make them. Sure enough, as soon as the new type of ladder arrived at the city, the infantry commanded by Zhang Fang, Wang Jun, Xun Kai and others not only saved the trouble of setting up ladders in battle, but also effectively avoided the attack of arrows. The soldiers quickly piled up the city, and as soon as they saw the ram stretched out from the city to collide, the soldiers under the ladder immediately pushed the ladder to avoid it.

The city was defended and attacked, and the atmosphere became very tense.

The rebels recently said that they had built twenty cloud chariots in the camp, and at this time they were also neatly arranged outside the city, each of which was about a dozen zhang high, straight into the blue sky, and was a lot higher than the Hugao Pass city wall! At the top was a square carriage that could accommodate a dozen soldiers. Standing in the cloud car, like a bird, you can clearly see the situation in the city.

Xun Kai commanded the soldiers to push the twenty towering cloud cart wells to the front of the city. The archers climbed into the top carriages and shot arrows into the city to cover the siege of the army, and rows of hard crossbows shot out a dense stream of arrows, so that the defenders of the city did not dare to raise their heads.

Seeing that the situation was critical, Sima Shu personally led his troops to resist the enemy's attack with sassags, gunpowder packs, and feather arrows. Even though the defenders forgot their lives and fought hard, the rebels under the city still climbed to the top of the city one after another.

Sima Shu saw that the army of the king of the East China Sea under the city was attacking the city in a hurry, and some enemy soldiers had already climbed to the top of the city, so he roared, holding a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, and took the lead in cutting melons and vegetables, and cut down a few rebel soldiers who climbed up to the top of the city.

Li Te, Zu Yue and others also led their soldiers to stick to the heads of each city, just like Sima Shu's side, the soldiers were determined to die, and they braved the rain of arrows, jumped out of the city, and fought to the death with the enemy army that climbed up. For a time, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and corpses were everywhere.

Archers and musketeers concentrate on shooting the rebels on the cloud car well railing, and the rebel archers must be suppressed, otherwise the defenders will be greatly passive. Sima Shu had a big headache at the archers on the rebel well, and in his eagerness, he suddenly thought that the explosives bag might work, so he hurriedly picked up a gunpowder bag, lit it, and threw it at the nearest cloud cart.

With a "boom", the gunpowder bag hit the cloud car, and a tall cloud car suddenly fell under the tiger prison. The soldiers above were also thrown and screamed, and even the attacking troops below were affected. Sima Shu succeeded, suddenly woke up, and shouted loudly: "Attack it with a gunpowder bag!"

This voice reminded the defenders at the head of the city that the powerful soldiers did the same as Sima Shu and attacked the rebels' Yunche well fence with gunpowder packs; Those with less strength threw the ignited gunpowder packets at the rebels with crossbows and bows. In an instant, the rebels turned on their backs, and those rebels were frightened, shouted, and turned around and rushed to the camp outside the city!

Sima Shu's move caught the rebels by surprise, and as a result, those rebels who were frightened and ran for their lives neither listened to the call of the officials, nor did they follow closely behind their own people, and they all broke into the rebels in a disorderly manner, and suddenly disrupted the rebels' formation.

The rebels only knew how to flee into the camp, and they did not care about the fire on their bodies, and as a result, many tents in the rebel camp were on fire. The wind borrowed the fire, the fire helped the wind, and dozens of rebel camps suddenly became a sea of fire!

Seeing that the situation was not good, the king of the East China Sea hated the failure, so he had to withdraw his troops and put out the fire.

The rebels were in the middle of a fierce battle, and when they heard the sound of gongs in the camp, they had to withdraw their men and horses, and in a moment, only the sound of gongs was left on the battlefield that had been full of killing just now, low and dull, fluttering in the vast field.

After a great battle, the Tiger Prison was full of weeping. Accompanied by Li Teh and Zu Yue, Sima Shu patrolled around the Tiger Prison together, and everyone looked sad and had a heavy heart.

At this time, another soldier rushed to the head of the city to report, "Hundreds of soldiers have defected out of the city!" ”

Sima Shu was taken aback, and was about to order a strict and thorough investigation, but Zu Yue pulled Sima Shu's sleeve and whispered mysteriously to him: "Your Highness, don't panic, they are all sent by the Intelligence Agency to do internal response, and this matter should not be publicized!" So as not to let the enemy know! ”

However, Sima Shu and they obviously underestimated the vigilance of the rebels, you must know that with the help of the local families, the city in the Tiger Prison Pass can be said to be full of rebel eyes, so the news quickly reached the ears of the King of the East China Sea and the King of Hejian!

"Are these soldiers really surrendering?" The king of the East China Sea will be skeptical.

Zhang Fang was convinced, and said angrily: "The prince is in the city, this person is scheming, most of these surrenders are the prince's strategy!" Last time, Ben almost died in the Tiger Prison, and he still hated it. This time they want to infiltrate our tent and cause trouble, so don't be fooled. What's more, my army is hundreds of thousands, and it is more than enough to capture the Tiger Prison Pass, and it is useless to ask for these troops! ”

The king of the East China Sea waved his sleeves, threw the arrow, and said coldly: "Cut!" ”

Pity those soldiers who were supposed to make great achievements, who knows that the rebels are not stupid, they lost their lives before they could play a role!

Sima Shu saw that there were heavy casualties in the city, and the rebels outside the gate were strong! Fortunately, Sima Shu copied a lot of grain by rectifying the Sizhou world, and with the support from Guanzhong, he did not have a food problem.

On the second day, the king of the East China Sea continued to gather various battalions of men and horses under the Tiger Prison Pass to prepare for the siege. At the front row is a row of box trucks. The cart was propelled on four wheels, covered with iron sheets, and the front was covered with sharp disc spikes and spikes, which the soldiers hid to propel the cart forward. This is followed by shield soldiers.

Thousands of shields lined up, and the soldiers bent slightly to pull shields in one hand and hide behind them with swords in the other. The pikemen followed closely behind the shieldmen, looking for gaps in the walls of the shields, and stretched out the spears. There was also a column of soldiers holding a ladder with a knife in one hand and a ladder in the other, placing the ladder sideways, also hiding under the rows of shields, and slowly advancing forward.

Thousands of shields lined up in the back, with pikemen and ladders in between. In the middle of the infantry battle array, there are also dozens of restored cloud carts, box carts and stone throwers, like fierce monsters, wriggling and moving, towards the tiger prison.

What worried Sima Shu the most was that a giant siege vehicle appeared in the rebel army. This kind of car was also created by the rebel craftsmen, the car was several zhang high, dozens of zhang long, the roof of the car could be as high as the city wall, and the soldiers could rush to the city through the overpass to fight the defenders.

"The family's heritage is really not simple, and they have provided so much material and technical support to the rebels, which is probably the first time I have ever experienced it in the world. The craftsmen provided by these rebels are really good at thinking things out, and they actually come up with a lot of new things! Sima Shu admired the profound heritage of the family, but also felt a headache.

Sima Shu frowned and looked closely, it seemed that there were several layers in the car, enough to carry hundreds of soldiers. From the outside, the car is also equipped with machine crossbows, poison arrows, guns, halberds, knives and spears and other weapons and equipment to destroy the city wall facilities, and there is a group of people holding bows and arrows on the roof of the car as cover. When the soldiers of the city saw this, they were all terrified.

Sima Qian looked at the rebel army array under the pass, and the black pressure was like an ant, which was even more terrifying than yesterday. Seeing this, Sima Shu thought that he couldn't be discouraged first, so he beat a few drums and encouraged the soldiers: "Although there are many thieves, the ears of the rabble will not give in to each other, and defeat will not save each other!" There is no such thing as a war and death, and the righteous are also! Today, it is said that the autumn of the marquis, the monarchs are reluctant. ”

The soldiers of the defending army were surprised to see that the prince was plain and gentle, and now said that he was actually arrogant. For a time, the people's feelings were indignant, their morale doubled, and the whole army was bent on fighting the enemy like iron and steel.

As the army of the King of the East China Sea approached the city, Sima Shu shouted loudly and commanded his soldiers to brave the rain of flying stones and arrows, pouring down rolling logs, rocks, and hot oil. Although the rebel army box cart was strong, it had to get out of the cart and climb the ladder to the castle tower during the siege. Once it was stained with oil by the wood and stone at the head of the city, or overturned by a crash, which soldier still had the reason to survive, he wailed again and again for a while. The besieging soldiers fell from the ladder at the head of the city like paper kites, slamming heavily to the ground, flesh and blood shattering!

After yesterday's battle, the number of soldiers in Sima Shu City was sharply reduced by 1,000, and only more than 13,000 remained. Although there are young and strong people in the city who go to the city to assist in defense, these young people have not been in battle after all, and their combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced. Sima Shu had no choice but to risk the arrows and stones himself, take the lead, and take the example to inspire the soldiers and civilians in the city to stick to the Tiger Pass with one heart. (To be continued.) )