In the nearly four-year battle for Jiaozhou, Liu Bei's army from weak to strong, from the inferior force to the upper hand, the range of the force of the force gradually advanced to the west, and the army slowly increased from the initial more than 10,000 people to more than 60,000 people. 32

Comparatively speaking, Shixie's army was weakened again and again from 70,000 people at its peak to less than 10,000 soldiers due to repeated defeats.

Zhuge Liang personally led an army of 50,000 to surround Jiaozhi City, and once he took this city, Liu Bei also unified Jiaozhou.

On a mound outside the northern city, Zhuge Liang was looking at the largest city in Jiaozhou from afar, the blazing sun of Jiaozhou made Zhuge Liang's skin very dark, and a few tufts of white hair grew on his head, but he was very good and radiant.

He was wearing a white robe painted with a Taiji diagram, wearing a hibiscus crown, holding a feather fan, looking at the Jiaozhi City in the distance with a smile, he turned back to Chen Zhen and smiled: "I have suggested several times that the lord move the capital to Jiaozhi, this Jiaozhi city is much larger than Panyu City, and the population is more than 100,000, but the lord just refuses." ”

Chen Zhen pondered for a moment and said: "I guess the lord wants to return to the north, and from Panyu he can go directly to Lingling County or Guiyang County by waterway, while Jiaozhi is too far away from Jingnan in comparison. ”

"You're right, it's really easy to guess the lord's thoughts."

As he was talking, a general, about sixteen or seventeen years old, Zhang Fei's eldest son Zhang Bao, rushed over, and he shouted loudly: "Qi Qi military division, the army is ready to attack and can attack at any time. ”

Zhuge Liang nodded, in today's battle, they must take Jiaozhi City, and the victory or defeat is in this battle, he immediately ordered: "You can attack the city!" ”

"Obey!"

Zhang Bao turned his horse's head and ran towards the army, Zhuge Liang looked at his back, and sighed in his heart, when he came to Jiaozhou, he was just a child, and now he has grown into a general.

Guan Xing, the second son of Guan Yu, is also sixteen years old, and there are talented people in the country, and after a few years, the younger generations have grown up.

At this moment, the drums in the Jiaozhou army sounded, 'Boom! Boom! Boom! After only two days of calming down, Liu Bei's army once again launched a stormy attack on Jiaozhi City, and the main general Guan Yu threw 50,000 troops from the east, west, and north directions, and launched a cháo water-like offensive on Jiaozhi City. 2

The drums beat like thunder, the soldiers ran like cháo, the ladders, the nest carts, and the battering rams appeared one after another, and on the top of the city, the trebuchet long rod was thrown, and the boulders roared across the sky, smashing into the dense soldiers, dusty, blood mist, and pieces of soldiers' bones were broken or smashed into meatloaf

But the boulder could not stop the overwhelming soldiers, and the promise of the military advisor seemed to echo in the ears of the soldiers, 'Whoever rushes into the city first will be rewarded with a reward of five hundred taels, and the official will be crowned with a reward of five thousand for killing an enemy soldier, and ten thousand for killing an officer.'

Under the heavy reward, Liu Beijun was like crazy, they were not afraid of death, and they fought hard to attack Jiaozhi City

At the head of the city, the 8,000 Shixie army resisted desperately, and in the past 20 days, they have repelled Liu Beijun's attacks again and again, they have been killed and wounded more than half, but they have never been able to completely defeat Liu Beijun, morale is gradually declining, and the army's morale has begun to slacken, and it has shown defeat.

Taishou Shixie shouted loudly at the head of the city, and his heart was extremely afraid, he had been defending the city for twenty days, but he had no reinforcements, and the city was about to be captured.

He knows very well his fate, he has no other way but to die, Liu Bei will definitely cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and will never let him go.

Looking at Liu Bei's army, which was overwhelming, he only felt that his legs were weak, and he stumbled towards the city with a long sword in his hand, and happened to meet his son Shihui, who was also the chief general of the defense of the city.

He led the soldiers to continue to mobilize the people to defend the city, but with little success, he had mobilized 30,000 people before 10,000 people had died in battle, and the people in the city no longer refused to work for the scholars, he ran for two days to recruit less than 3,000 people, half of whom were still forcibly recruited.

This made Shihui extremely worried, and now that Liu Beijun is attacking the city again, can he still hold it? What's more, they are running out of food, and they can only hold on for two more days at most, which is their great secret, and once the enemy finds out, they will be completely finished.

"Father, what's wrong with you?"

Shi Hui found that his father's expression was wrong, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support his father, Shi Xie waved his hand, "My heart hurts, I want to go back and rest." ”

Shi Hui immediately ordered the two pro-soldiers: "Fu Taishou go back and rest!" ”

He watched the soldiers walk away and ran up to the city again, at this time, Liu Bei's army was attacking like cháo, Shi Hui bit his lip tightly, and ordered loudly: "The enemy army is attacking again, prepare trebuchets, prepare thunderbolts!" ”

"Kill!"

Liu Bei's soldiers were surging like a big cháo, and the battles between the east and west cities gradually stopped, and the offensive moved to the north city. ""Whole Site, Fast Update, No Mistakes"

Beicheng is the focus of attack and defense, Zhuge Liang invested 30,000 troops in Beicheng, and Shihui also invested nearly 6,000 defenders in Beicheng, the city head of more than ten miles is full of soldiers, arrows rain down, rolling wood and stones are smashed, a cloud ladder is overturned, and countless casualties are killed.

Zhuge Liang obviously learned the lesson of the previous failed sieges, and the ladders were reduced to ten, while the number of nest cars was increased to fifty, and the rumbling was pulled by the Jian Niu and slowly marched towards the city

But the defenders were also prepared, and the Shijia organized the craftsmen in the city to make one hundred and eighty large thunderbolts in twenty days, the principle is the same as the chuang crossbow, except that the shè is not arrows, but stones, and each thunderbolt can take thirty catties of stones out of the shè a hundred paces away, and within fifty steps, the destruction power is extremely great.

This thunderbolt is far less lethal to people than a boulder thrown by a trebuchet, but it is the nemesis of large siege weapons.

Within fifty steps, a straight line shè out, the target jīng accurate, the stone whistling shè out, flying like a meteor, drawing a low flat parabola, 'Boom! With a bang, several stones hit a nest car from several directions at the same time, and suddenly the bracket broke, and three nest cars fell apart and collapsed, and more than 100 soldiers in the car were killed and wounded, crying and screaming.

The thunderbolt chariots of the defenders at the head of the city exerted great power, and within an hour, twenty of the fifty nest chariots attacking the northern city were destroyed, and Liu Beijun suffered heavy losses, with nearly 5,000 dead and wounded.

At this moment, there was a loud rumbling sound in the distance, and hundreds of defenders on the southern city looked into the distance in horror, only to see that hundreds of miles away, a swarthy behemoth was slowly approaching the city wall, it was four feet tall and ten feet long, it was an incredibly large city breaker.

The body of the mallet is a thousand-year-old giant wood, the body length is eight zhang, the diameter is one zhang, the front end is wrapped with jīng iron, which is cone-shaped, and the wooden frame that bears this broken city mallet is even more huge, the wood used is thicker than a human thigh, dozens of hundred-zhang long iron chains are pendant on the mallet body, and the chassis below is equipped with eighteen giant wooden wheels one person high.

This is Zhuge Liang's successful battering ram that took a year to make, just to wait for this moment, and it is a secret weapon to be used to conquer Jiaozhi City, which has just arrived in Jiaozhi by water this morning.

The whole siege ram weighs tens of thousands of catties, controlled by dozens of elephants and 3,000 soldiers, this is Zhuge Liang's surprise, he concentrated his forces to attack the northern city, at this time the southern city is empty, it is a golden opportunity to attack the city.

The bell rang at the head of Nancheng, and a soldier rushed to report to the chief general, Shi Hui, who was a little stunned, and he sat down tiredly, and an unprecedented sense of despair poured into his heart.

Although there were no more troops to send, Shihui still drew 1,000 men from each of the defenders of the northern city to rush to the southern city to fight.

The circumference of Jiaozhi City is more than 20 miles, and it will take a quarter of an hour for the reinforcements from the northern city to reach the southern city at the earliest.

The young general Guan Xing commanded the army to push the battering ram, the huge battering ram slowly advanced like a mountain, only fifty steps away from the city gate, dozens of dragged elephants had been taken away, and three thousand Liu Beijun pushed it forward on both sides.

The hundreds of defenders on the head of the city rained arrows, shè on the battering ram Ding Ding dang, but it was meaningless, Liu Bei's army on both sides had already prepared, hundreds of people raised huge shields, covering other soldiers to push the battering ram.

The target of the battering ram is not the city gate, the structure of the frontier city gate is different from the Central Plains, it is a single city wall, the widest part of the city wall is only two zhang, very thin, so the target of this battering ram is the city wall, and its conical head also determines its great power to break the city.

A thousand reinforcements were still running and galloping on the city, and the nearest reinforcements were still a few miles away from the southern city, but the huge battering ram had already reached the city and stopped, as if time had stopped at this moment, and the soldiers in the city had stopped their ineffective shè strikes, and it was useless to smash them with stones, and the soldiers watched blankly as the battering ram slowly pulled back.

Under the leadership of Guan Xing, two thousand Liu Beijun soldiers dragged the iron chain, and a huge drum sounded, and the thick mallet body eight zhang long was pulled higher and higher, and suddenly the drum stopped, and the iron chain was loosened with a bang.

The swarthy mallet blew a strange wind, rushed down, and slammed into the city wall with a earth-shaking momentum

"Boom!" There was a dull loud noise, the sound spread throughout the city, many people felt that the soles of their feet were trembling, tens of thousands of catties of force were transmitted to the city wall in an instant, the south city wall shook violently, and more than a thousand defenders on it were unstable and fell one after another.

The shell of the city wall was shattered, and the body of the 10,000 jin mallet plus the potential energy of a few zhang high rushed down, forming an impact force of more than 100,000 catties, all concentrated on dozens of wall bricks, they could not withstand the power of shaking the sky, and were beaten into the belly of the city, and a black hole five feet wide appeared.

There was another shout, and the body of the 10,000-pound mallet was squeaked and raised, and the two thousand soldiers suddenly let go, and the earth-shattering impact smashed on the city wall again, and with a 'boom', the city bricks collapsed, and the mud and sand inside poured out, instantly submerging the chassis of the battering ram, revealing a large hole several feet long and wide.

Liu Beijun chose this section is the narrowest width of the city wall, the width of the city is only one zhang, when the battering ram was pulled up high again, the hearts of the soldiers in the city are welling up with a fear of impending death, drop their weapons and run to the city, even the soldiers who came to support have thrown off their armor and fled, the Shi family has gone, no one is willing to die for them.

"Boom!"

Another violent impact, but this time the impact was no longer dull, but a piercing sound of breaking the city, thousands of wall bricks on the city wall cracked, rubble splashed everywhere, like the head of a dragon mallet had penetrated into the city, the wall bricks completely collapsed, and a gap of a hundred zhang wide appeared in an instant.

The big camp outside the southern city suddenly shouted and killed the sky, and the 20,000 Liu Beijun who came from the east and west rushed out, and the 1,000 cavalry galloped in the front under the leadership of Zhang Bao, and the 20,000 army rushed like a wild wave, pouring into the Jiaozhi City from the big hole in the collapsed southern city

On the flying elephant tower of the Shijia's mansion in the city, Shixie desperately threw the torch into the pile of wood, and the fire ignited, burning more and more fiercely, and finally swallowed the entire small building, and the Shijia finally ended their rule in Jiaozhou for more than ten years.

Jiaozhi City was captured by Liu Bei's army, which also meant that Liu Bei finally unified Jiaozhou, and Liu Bei began to enter recuperation, and at this time, the news that Liu Jing and Sun Quan reached a compromise came, and the four counties of Jingnan such as Guiyang County and Hengyang County were about to belong to Jiangdong.

Liu Jing actually gave up most of Jingnan and gave it to Jiangdong, which made Liu Bei's heart eager to return to the north burn again.