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The western city wall of Jinyang Castle.

The Youzhou army slowly advanced the three-story high, almost flush building car on the city wall. On the third floor of the building car, covered with thick cowhide on all sides, and iron shields were hung outside, and a dozen crossbowmen hid behind the building car, aiming at the inclined arrows on the city wall.

In order to deal with the dense building cars of the Youzhou army, the Tang army in the city temporarily built three war tents here, and the soldiers hid behind the war tents to confront the Youzhou army.

The ballista of the Youzhou army under the city, the stone-throwing cart constantly smashed the huge arrows and stones on the city wall, and the Tang army on the city wall also used stone-throwing and ballista to deal with it.

The earth and the walls were soaked in blood.

"General Wei Chi, if you follow this speed, I'm afraid you won't be able to break the city immediately."

Yan Yelie and Wei Chi Gong talked, such a siege battle, the nearly 10,000 cavalry under his command could not send troops, so they could only wait in the air, so it seemed a little relaxed.

Wei Chigong glanced at Yan Yelie, his dark face sank, and he snorted softly, but he didn't speak anymore.

Yan Yelie saw Wei Chi Gong's expression, and continued to say in a provocative voice: "The defenders in the city are less than 5,000, but our army has 50,000 troops under the city, if ten times the number of men and horses can't capture this Jinyang City, wouldn't it be a loss of face for our Youzhou army." ”

Wei Chigong glanced at Yan Yelie and said: "Don't use words to provoke the general, today let me know, see, my Youzhou army has been building secret weapons under the city for a month." ”

"Li Shuzuo! Zhou Shuzuo! ”

"No!" The two people next to Wei Chigong came out of the ranks, and these two people were the two craftsmen who were promoted from the head of the craftsman to the soldier Cao Shuzuo from the Youzhou master craftsman not long ago.

Wei Chigong asked, "Zhou Shuzuo, are your eight cannons ready?" ”

"It's ready, there are three gates in total, please use it to attack the city!"

Wei Chigong nodded, and then said, "Carry it out." ”

Zhou Shuzuo heard that his eight-tip cannon finally had a place for bravery, and he was overjoyed at the moment, after his Zhuge crossbow was rejected by Li Chongjiu last time, this time he worked hard to develop a siege weapon.

Yan also lined up to see Wei Chi Gong like this, and he couldn't help but look forward to seeing what kind of weapon he was preparing to break through this Jinyang Jiancheng.

Immediately, the rain cloth in the rear was removed, revealing three large objects.

This thing is like the orange tree used by the farmers to draw water at that time, a wooden pole is one high and one low, but in Yan Yelie's eyes, he is not very shocked and said: "This is not your stone thrower?" But it doesn't seem to be as huge as these three. ”

Zhou Shuzuo on the side listened to Yan Yelie mocking his achievements, and couldn't help but say: "This eight-tip cannon is not big enough, otherwise it won't take a month, we will build it in a month." ”

Yan Yelie showed a mocking look, he could also be regarded as having seen the Han army's stone thrower, indeed this siege weapon, which can throw a boulder straight on the top of the city from a hundred steps away, is indeed good. But if he wants to rely on this thing to break through this tall Jinyang City, he still doesn't believe it.

Seeing Yan Yelie's expression, Zhou Shuzuo also had the intention of fighting for a breath, and said in his heart that he would let you see how powerful my eight-pronged cannon was for a while.

The three eight-tip cannons were slowly pushed forward, and at this time, Li Chongjiu's banner also moved from the north of the city to the west of the city. Yan Yelie, Zhou Shuzuo saw that Li Chongjiu was also here to watch the battle, obviously to see the power of these eight guns.

Zhou Zuojiang and Li Zuojiang glanced at each other, obviously trying to stretch out their hand in Li Chongjiu's Great Exhibition to show the achievements of their Zhuojun master craftsman workshop over the past few months, in return for his huge investment in the Zhuojun craftsman's workshop, and the two of them had been promoted.

When the craftsman next week suddenly shouted: "Stop! ”

The three-door and eight-pronged cannon stopped at a distance of two hundred paces from the city.

On the side, Yan Yelie asked, "Why do you have to call this stone thrower eight cannons?" ”

Zhou Shuzuo immediately put on a look that you just don't understand, and said: "It's very simple, this tip is a wooden pole, you see that other stone throwers in our army only have one or two wooden poles as long poles, so they are all called single-tip cannons or double-tip running." And my eight-pronged cannon is a full eight wooden poles. ”

As he spoke, several big men threw a half-human-high boulder into the leather pit of the eight-tip cannon together.

Yan Yelie was surprised and said, "This stone is about to weigh a horse." ”

Zhou Shuzuo showed a smug look, and explained to Yan Yelie like a show-off: "Less than a horse, to be precise, is a hundred and fifty catties of boulders, and our stone-throwing machine-like single-tip cannon only puts twelve catties of stone bullets, which can reach a hundred steps, but these eight cannons are enough to place one hundred and fifty catties." ”

Yan Yelie finally looked at the eight-tip cannon with some positive colors, only to see that before this cannon tip, there were as many as 100 hanging artillery cables, and each cannon rope was pulled by one or two people.

With Zhou Shuzuo's shout, the eight cannons were aimed at a city tower in the west of the city, and more than 270 Youzhou sergeants pulled the artillery cables.

"One!"

With the drinking order, all the soldiers tightened the cannon rope and made a gesture with both hands!

The generals, the soldiers, and Li Chongjiu, who was watching the battle on the mountain, all focused their eyes here.

The eight-tip cannon showed its power for the first time, and Zhou Shuzuo showed a somewhat smug smile on his face.

"Two, put!"

After a loud shout, everyone exerted their strength together, but only heard a click!

Zhou Shuzuo's face changed suddenly, and in his eyes, he saw that because he couldn't bear this force, the tip of the eight-tip cannon broke abruptly, and the 150-pound stone bullet had already flown out of the stone nest for more than a dozen zhang, half of it flew and fell to the ground, smashing a shrimp truck of the former army to pieces.

More than a dozen corpses in the shrimp truck were lying on the ground.

"Idiot!"

The commander of the front immediately stepped forward and shouted, and the attacking front army was also stunned.

When Zhou Shuzuo saw this scene, his face turned pale, and he immediately sat down in place.

"I'm going to kill you." The commander of the former army, the general, rode his horse back from the front line, and was furious when he saw his soldiers die at the hands of his own people.

Zhou Shuzuo, who was already triumphant, hurriedly said: "The general spares his life, spares his life, I deserve to die, but it doesn't mean that these eight cannons can't be used, it's that this stone bullet is too heavy, I will exchange it for one hundred and twenty catties, and I will be able to succeed." ”

"Bastard, do you want to risk my brothers' lives again?"

"If it doesn't work this time, I'm willing to take my head for the crime." Zhou Shuzuo immediately knelt down and kowtowed, he knew that his future future was all bet on this eight-tip artillery, if the eight-tip cannon failed, he would have no shame to continue to take on the position of soldier Cao Shuzuo, so the future was bleak, it was better to die.

"I am also willing to guarantee, please give the general a chance." The old Li Zuojiang also knelt down.

"Give you another chance, if you can't die!" Wei Chigong had a black face and appeared in front of Zhou Shuzuo.

"Thank you, General, thank you, General." Zhou Shuzuo and Li Shuzuo are grateful together.

This time, Zhou Shuzuo and Li Shuzuo, who escaped death, went back to drink the order immediately, and replaced the 150 catties of stone bullets that were originally placed on the other two eight-tip artillery stone nests, and this time replaced them with slightly smaller 120 catties of stone bullets.

Knowing that his life is fighting here, Zhou Shuzuo is also a little ruthless, being able to worship an official from a craftsman is something he has never thought about in his life, and now his future is fighting here, if it doesn't work, blame him for his bad life, and die here.

The soldiers of the craftsman's workshop also felt the murderous aura on Zhou Shuzuo's face, and they suddenly did not dare to slack off.

"The stone bullet is ready."

"Ready!"

"One."

"Two, put!"

Under the efforts of everyone, the cannon rope was pulled heavily, and the boulder of one hundred and twenty catties flew two hundred steps away, drawing an arc in the air, and everyone raised their heads together, looking at the stone bullet, and smashed it directly on the West Gate Tower.

I only heard a bang on the ground, the beam broke, and half of the city tower collapsed suddenly!

"Good!"

Yan Yelie, everyone saw it and raised their arms and shouted.

"Second shot, ready!" Zhou Shuzuo's face froze, and he was not affected by the success of the second shot, his mentality relaxed, and he continued to roar.

"One!"

"Two, put!"

In a moment, a huge stone projectile pierced the sky.

There was a loud bang, and sand and gravel flew above the tower.

"It's done!" Zhou Shuzuo is crazy, dancing with his hands.

And with his call, the cheers of the Youzhou army broke out like a landslide and tsunami on the entire battlefield.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

The three armies shouted in unison.

I saw that the three-high Xicheng City Tower, after hitting two stone bullets, collapsed.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Hundreds of giant drums beat, thousands of banners and hedgehogs gathered to move under the city, and 20,000 cavalry of the Youzhou Army, together with the rhythm of the war drums, pressed under the city wall of Jinyang City.

In the blink of an eye, the flag waved, and I saw that the sky was dark, and the ballista stone throwing machine, three thousand crossbowmen and ten thousand arrows fired together, and suddenly covered the sky and the sun.

As the rain of arrows fell, a large number of enemy troops fell at the head of Jinyang City.

"What castle tower has been blown down!"

After receiving the news of the guards, Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, suddenly weakened his legs and fell to the ground.

The guards looked at Li Yuanji's face left and right, and one of them boldly stepped forward and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qi, under Li Chongjiu's heavy troops, Yin Kaishan fled without a fight, this Jinyang City will definitely not be protected, rather than this, His Royal Highness the King of Qi should stay in the green mountains, no matter how you say it, you have to go back to Xijing, and fight this lawsuit in front of the Son of Heaven." ”

Seeing that Li Yuanji didn't speak, everyone was happy, obviously His Royal Highness King Qi was not opposed to escaping.

Another person said: "Yes, the loss of Jinyang is not the crime of King Qi, but the despicable villain Yin Kaishan." The Son of Heaven will not blame His Royal Highness the King of Qi. ”

Li Yuanji listened to the words and said: "Now that the enemy army is heavily gathered, can you leave?" ”

Another person said: "How can we not go, the enemy army only has infantry cavalry, but there is no naval army, we can go along the Fen River and go south by boat, and Li Chongjiu will definitely not be able to intercept it at that time." ”

When Li Yuanji heard this, he said: "Just listen to you, immediately inform Liu Shaoqing and Li Hujun, and let them go with us." ”

When the subordinates heard this, they said: "But as soon as the king of Qi leaves, the army in the city will be in turmoil, and if there is no general left, it will inevitably be taken advantage of by the enemy." ”

Li Yuanji said: "Confused, Yin Kaishan escaped from the battle, and I also need Liu Shaoqing, Li Hujun and others to testify for me, otherwise my father will not listen to my words." ”

When everyone heard this, they suddenly realized. (To be continued.) )