At this time, Li Chongjin and Hou Zhang, the main attacking generals of Beicheng and Dongcheng, sent people to report that the situation they encountered was similar, and they could not get close to the city wall at all, so they all sent people to ask for advice. Especially Hou Zhangbu, the newly killed Qiu Hongchao and other generals were assigned to the east gate to help, they tried to attack once, and only more than 200 people came back from a thousand elites, and the bloody fact made them no longer dare to underestimate the defense of Shouzhou City.

"Lin Feng, this is going to fight with us with Jiancheng!" Guo Wei's face was like frost, staring at the city and frowning.

"Or, we all use siege engines, repeatedly attack back and forth, and lose arrows and stones in the city?" Yao Yuanfu suggested next to him.

Li Gu took the lead in shaking his head, pointing to the empty surroundings and said with a wry smile: "Lin Feng has already been prepared, and he will cut down the big and small trees outside Shouzhou City in advance, and there are mountains in Bagong Mountain that are about to be hollowed out!" We also had brothers who attacked the city before, and found that there were mountains of arrows and stones in the city, and they were not afraid of Lang Fei at all. ”

"What does Li Shuai mean?" The left compartment lined up to make Chen Sirang frown and asked.

"Li has been defeated for a while, and he has a little understanding of Shouzhou's defense. I don't think that the casualties of a hard attack at this moment will be large, and the only way to gather manpower to build a slope in many places and attack the city at the same time is to kill the city first, and then kill the defenders with the advantage of troops. Li Gu replied.

Coincidentally, all the generals immediately threw this suggestion to the back of their minds. Joke! The Holy Lord is sitting here, everyone will go back and spend time and effort to find a large number of people to carry the soil and attack the city, where will the faces of our group of generals go?! Where are the faces of the 170,000 brothers?

Subsequently, the generals said their own siege methods, but they were also vetoed by Li Gu one by one - digging tunnels to attack the city? I have already tried it, and there are traces of groundwater in the shallowest place outside Shouzhou City, four or five meters down, and the soil is wet and soft, and it can't support the tunnel at all!

Pure siege engines? Li Gu pointed to the stone bullets of different sizes in front of the formation, and shook his head helplessly.

The generals were also annoyed, and one of the generals said in a low voice: "Didn't you say that Lin Feng loves the people like a son?" Go to the surrounding area and get some Xiao Tang people to open the way! I don't believe he dares to shoot! ”

Li Gu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This general doesn't know something, then Lin Feng is a madman!" Listening to the nearby villagers, Lin Feng had said in the surrounding villages and towns in advance that if anyone enters Shouzhou to defend the city, there will be a heavy reward; If anyone stays, once they are taken hostage, the Shouzhou defenders will never be polite! However, as long as someone is injured or injured, he will definitely pay a lot of money to his family! Now, many old people who stayed behind are eager to take the initiative to ask us to capture and attack the city!

Besides, that Lin Feng is a man who will be repaid with his teeth, and he has already let it go, and whoever kills a soldier and a person in Shouzhou will be repaid tenfold! No, there is still a 'Shouzhou Enemy Record' that is updated every day in that city! As long as there are siege soldiers who have killed the Shouzhou soldiers, almost none of them can come back from the city alive! ”

The generals were immediately annoyed by Lin Feng's bad tricks and ruthlessness, Guo Wei next to him couldn't hear it, snorted coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Lin Feng is falsely called benevolent and righteous, how can our Great Zhou be defeated?!" This kind of offensive method that violates the harmony of heaven must be mentioned again! ”

So what to do? We have to attack the city! So, in the next day and a half, the Zhou army began to try all kinds of siege tactics:

The three battalions attacked on three sides, and at the same time sent more than a dozen teams of two or three hundred men to carry out a tentative attack, hoping to induce the city to attack. However, there are absolutely no rabbits or eagles in the city. As long as these teams do not cross the middle line of the firing range, they will not pay attention to them at all, but once they cross the line, the ballista and stone bullets will be merciless, chasing them and fighting, basically there is no return.

On the night of November 24, the three battalions took turns to organize night attacks and fraudulent attacks, but as soon as the sky was dark, they would shoot down one after another of the lighted oil-soaked crossbow arrows on the city, and when the fire was extinguished, they would shoot again, forming two surveillance lines that crossed the front and back at the center of the firing range and the moat. As for the harassing raids of the Zhou army, the city was not thrown at all, and a small number of people were patrolling during the day and night, and only when a large number of troops were found attacking, the whistle would be blown, and the reserve soldiers would go to the city to defend.

On this night, the West Battalion also tried a large-scale raid under the west city wall, and then sent an elite team to lurk and raid from the garbage heap in the southwest corner, and they proved a fact with their own blood: the defense of the south gate of Shouzhou will only be tighter and stronger than the other city gates, and will never be half a point weaker than the other gates!

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After various attempts failed, Li Chongjin, Zhao Kuangyin and others jointly wrote a suggestion: assemble all the siege vehicles, and concentrate on the West Gate for fixed-point attacks after modification. Guo Wei, who had no other way, had to agree.

On November 26, two kinds of siege equipment that had been urgently modified began to "shine":

The way was opened in front of a long siege vehicle with only four long pieces of wood side by side on the top and six wheels underneath, which could be pushed by only sixteen soldiers. Followed by the "long version" of Han Lingkun's siege vehicle, the top is a three-meter-long thick wood tightly placed horizontally, with a length of ten meters, a sharp and long wooden slope in front, and all sides are thick horizontal logs obliquely under the luge, the lower end is basically hanging to the ground, and the rear is a staircase made of short thick wood, and nearly two hundred soldiers are hiding below and pushing this behemoth forward.

On the city wall, Lin Feng had already seen it through the telescope, and immediately gave the order: "All trebuchets will not attack the siege vehicles, and quickly build three stone walls on the west side of the moat!" ”

So, when the sixteen siege engines were divided into eight columns and charged forward one after the other, the trebuchets at the head of Shouzhou City began to exert their might, smashing stones one by one on the west side of the moat.

The soldiers of the Zhou army, who were shouting and rushing forward, rushed to the moat without danger, only to find that things were difficult to do—stones of different sizes were lying in front of them, and if they wanted to cross the river, they had to move them away!

Columns of siege engines slowly stopped, and new instructions soon came down: "Detachments attack, move them!" The soldiers had to be divided into groups of four according to the order, two of them were shielded and two were ready to carry stones.

However, as soon as their figures poked out of the range of the siege engines, the trebuchets on the city began to attack again, stone bullets and crossbow arrows roared, and those solid wooden shields could still resist one or two attacks, but the soldiers behind could not resist! After three groups of soldiers were smashed to the point of vomiting blood or smashed into meatloaf, all the groups quickly retreated under the siege engine.

As a result, the Zhou army's original plan to build bridges over the moat through long siege vehicles and then let heavy siege vehicles directly attack the city was declared bankrupt.

Soon, the soldiers under the siege vehicles received a new order: the long siege vehicles got out of the way, let the heavy siege vehicles go straight into the moat, and after clearing the stones, they formed a wooden wall side by side.

The eight heavy siege vehicles started slowly again, overtook the light siege vehicles, and slowly merged together, aiming at the area fifty meters away from the south side of the city gate for concentration. The soldiers under the siege wagon worked together in twos and threes, throwing those stones into the moat, or carrying them to the rear. Half an hour later, they successfully cleared a section of the moat's stone formation, and all the siege vehicles were planted side by side by the river, forming a sloping wall about three meters high.

At the head of the city, Lin Feng stared coldly at these city guards and passed a new order: "Regardless of these siege vehicles for the time being, don't let go of the Zhou army or equipment that is fully guarding against the attack in the rear!" ”