As soon as the sky brightened, the sound of horns sounded in Luoyang City.

Immediately, a team of "Han Army" with obvious armor and armor continued to open the West Gate that had been demolished, these are of course not the real Han Army, just the Chu Army wearing the clothes and armor of the Han Army, Xiang Zhuang didn't care about the color of the robes at all, and he didn't have time to dye the robes of the 20,000 army all yellow.

After a day and night of high-intensity training, the 20,000 strong men finally had some appearance.

There is no need to think about the increase in combat effectiveness, but at least the marching line is quite like that.

More than 20,000 troops, lined up in a five-way column, made a mighty march out of the west gate of Luoyang, and then surged along the spacious gallop road towards Hangu Pass, which was 300 miles away.

Immediately after the 20,000 strong men went out of the city, there was a towering well.

More than 20 wells are eight zhang high, the top is a huge watchtower, the watchtower is divided into three floors, each floor is enough to accommodate 50 people, the middle is a slender tower, the front part of the tower and the left and right sides are thick wooden boards, the surface is also covered with cowhide, the inside of the tower is a ladder that zigzags upward, and the bottom is two rows of twenty huge pulleys on the left and right.

Each well weighed tens of thousands of catties, and it took 200 Han prisoners of war to drag it forward.

Immediately after the well was more than twenty ladders, which were much shorter and lighter, and could be dragged forward by only fifty prisoners of war.

The ladder is followed by siege engines.

The siege vehicle conceived by the bus transport car, the whole is a hollow tower-shaped wooden frame, the tower is suspended with an iron cable with a huge impact wood weighing tens of thousands of pounds, and a whole cast iron mallet is installed on the tip of the impact wood, which can easily smash the ordinary city gate, even if the surface is covered with iron sheets, it can not withstand several impacts.

The bottom side of the siege vehicle was also equipped with dozens of pulleys, which could be dragged forward.

Immediately after the siege car, the three thousand pro-army of Xiangzhuang went out of the city, the real elite of the Chu army!

Along with the pro-army, there were 800 craftsmen of the bus and hundreds of blacksmiths who had been captured.

In Xiang Zhuang's view, these craftsmen are simply treasures, once they have a stable rear, the role they can play will be immeasurable!

In particular, the public loss car is not only the descendant of the craftsman master Gong Lose class, but also the contemporary giant of the Mo family!

However, it is a pity that because the Mo family pursues too strict rules, resulting in increasingly scarce believers, at the end of the Warring States Period, the Mo family has lost the pomp of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Xiang Zhuang straddled the black horse, waist with a horizontal knife, majestically out of the west gate of Luoyang, to this day, the injury on his left shoulder is almost healed after all, but, as a last resort, Xiang Zhuang is never going to take the lead, charge into battle, fundamentally, Xiang Zhuang is a war faction, not a brave war faction.

Looking at the wells, ladders and siege vehicles slowly moving in front of him, Xiang Zhuang couldn't help frowning.

At this pace, a maximum march of more than 50 miles a day, and at least six days from Luoyang to Hangu Pass!

Six days?! Will the Chu army still have six days? Last night, although the Liang army temporarily stopped attacking, but with Peng Yue's trust in Liu Bang, the Liang army will definitely not stop there, Peng Yue is mostly waiting for the baggage troops, once the follow-up baggage arrives, the Liang army will definitely attack again, and then it will be the real test.

At that moment, Xiang Zhuang asked Gongsun to call the bus to him and asked, "Mr. Gong, how fast can you imagine that the wells, ladders, and siege vehicles can go at the fastest?" ”

Bus lane: "It depends on animal power or manpower." ”

Xiang Zhuang said: "In other words, how fast can people or mules and horses run, how fast can they go?" ”

Bus lane: "Yes." ”

Xiang Zhuang said again: "Won't it fall apart?" ”

"Uh......" the bus said in surprise, "General, you are too underestimated and decrepit, aren't you?" ”

After saying this, the bus said: "These machines are strong, if they are so easy they will fall apart, how can they withstand hundreds of soldiers fighting on them, and how can they withstand hundreds of soldiers stepping on them to seize the city?" It's not a rumbling boast, as long as you don't face the bombardment of catapults, these machines will never fall apart! ”

Xiang Zhuang was overjoyed when he heard this, as long as these instruments would not fall apart, it would be enough.

Because the road from Luoyang to Hanguguan is in very good condition, this is thanks to Qin Shi Huang, who built the road leading from Xianyang to Guandong to be wide, flat and straight, even if it is a towering well, it will not easily overturn.

At that moment, Xiang Zhuang turned back and instructed Gongsun Sui: "Gongsun Sui, order the prisoners of war to add degrees!" ”

"No!" Gongsun then suddenly agreed, and turned back to the more than 100 cavalrymen behind him and shouted, "Follow me." ”

Hundreds of cavalry responded to the promise, urged their horses and whips, and followed Gongsun to catch up with the Han prisoners of war in front.

"Increase, increase!" Gongsun then pulled out his horizontal knife and roared loudly in the sky, "The general has an order, all of them will be increased, and those who violate the order will ...... No mercy! ”

The next moment, more than 100 Chu cavalry had already swarmed up.

"Hurry up, don't fucking be slow, I didn't sleep well last night or didn't eat in the morning, eh?!"

"Just you, how dare you the fuck glare at Lao Tzu? Believe it or not, Lao Tzu slaughtered you with a knife, hurry up and follow. ”

"Hurry up, run for Lao Tzu, run fast Lao Tzu will give you dry food to eat and water to drink, but if you run slowly, Lao Tzu will cut off your heads, don't think that Lao Tzu is talking to you, hurry up!"

Accompanied by the shouting and angry scolding of the cavalry of the Chu army, it was a rain-like whip.

A Han prisoner of war who was obviously old fell to the ground from exhaustion as he walked, and the two Chu cavalrymen immediately turned over and dismounted, and couldn't help but say that the Han prisoner of war was carried to the side of the gallop, and then one of the Chu cavalry pulled out a ring knife and stabbed it into the left shoulder and neck of the Han prisoner of war, reaching the chest and abdomen.

The Han prisoners of war did not say a word, and fell in a pool of blood.

The two Chu cavalrymen turned over their horses again and waved their whips at the rest of the Han prisoners of war, but the Han prisoners of war were silent one by one, and under the authority of the Chu army, they all accelerated their pace, and the wells, ladders and siege vehicles that were originally moving slowly began to rumble forward......

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Outside the Tiger Prison Pass, the Liang army camp.

Just after noon, the Liang army's baggage finally arrived at the camp.

In addition to the tent equipment, there are hundreds of ladders, wells and siege vehicles, as well as hundreds of large catapults, which are enough to throw hundreds of pounds of boulders to a hundred paces away!

In an instant, the entire Liang army camp became a noisy construction site.

Thousands of Liang army light soldiers unloaded a large amount of equipment from the ox carts, and then began to build ladders, wells, siege vehicles, and catapults one by one, and in less than half an hour, hundreds of tower feet had been erected in the Liang army camp, and the defenders on the Tiger Prison Pass were several miles away, and they all saw it.

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The tiger prison was closed, and the recruits didn't know how powerful they were, they talked and laughed, and they looked relaxed.

On the contrary, the five hundred light soldiers brought by Jing Qian, as well as the hundreds of veterans of the Chu army under the command of Huan Chu and Ji Bu, all showed a solemn expression, as veterans, no one can know better than them what the towering tower in the Liang army camp means, it is a sharp weapon to kill!

Especially the towering well and the catapult, which are simply the natural enemies of the city!

In front of the towering well, the defenders on the wall will no longer be in danger to defend, can only be in the unfavorable situation of being beaten passively, as for the catapult, it will be more and more terrifying, hundreds of pounds of boulders falling from the sky, it is not at all human power can resist, when the time comes, whether it is a veteran or a recruit, life and death can only be in their own destiny.

Jing Qian sighed lightly and said to Pang Yu, "Pang Yu, this is trouble. ”

Pang Yu nodded, and said in a solemn tone: "Although the catapult has a huge ability, it is more of a psychological deterrent, in fact, the real personnel killing is still quite limited, only the well is the real threat, thousands of Liang army archers hide on the well and drop arrows, our army is guarding the city, there will be nowhere to hide, and the last general is very worried......"

Considering that there were many recruits around, Pang Yu's second half of the sentence did not come out, but Jing Qian knew very well what Pang Yu was worried about, Pang Yu was worried that once Jing Qian advanced to the front of the pass, when the recruits guarding the city found that they could only be shot one by one by the Liang archers like live targets, it was likely that the whole army would be defeated.

"yes." Jing Qian nodded, frowned, and said, "I'm just as worried. ”

Pang Yu pondered for a moment and said, "General, the last general has a solution. ”

After that, Pang Yu whispered a few more words to Jing Qian, Jing Qian's eyes lit up, and he immediately turned around and shouted to the few Sima and military marquis standing behind him: "You, you, and you, hurry up and take people to the arsenal and collect all the hemp ropes that can be found for Lao Tzu, the more the better, quickly!" ”

"No!" Several Sima and military marquis agreed and took the order.

Jing Qian snatched another javelin from a veteran, and then took Pang Yu to the edge of a bed crossbow, and then put the javelin into the groove of the crossbow machine to try, the size was just right, that is, the length of the javelin was longer than the giant arrow of the bed crossbow, and the iron spear head with a length of five feet at the front end was almost completely exposed.

"General, it shouldn't be a big problem." Pang Yu patted the bed crossbow and said in a deep voice, "Since there is no catapult on the close, most of Liang Jun's well guards will advance to within twenty steps, such a close distance, shooting at such a big target, the hit rate of the bed crossbow can still be guaranteed, not to mention that it is still five arrows fired at once, it should be no problem." ”

Jing Qian nodded and said in a low voice, "Okay or not, that's it." ”

Pang Yu was silent when he heard this, the Liang army was already building siege equipment, and the Chu army didn't have to be lucky, and in the next vicious battle, if the Liang army's well was not cracked, the Tiger Prison Pass would indeed be impossible to defend.