When the rain stopped, the weather returned to its heat, and the sun scorched the earth mercilessly, and the potholes that had been waterlogged one day were hard enough to kill the next day. The heat wave on the ground is rolling, and there is no legged thing running around, Tian Fan thinks that even wild dogs should lie under the trees and stretch out their tongues and pant for breath in this kind of weather. If you look around, the trees are hanging with their leaves, the grass is wilting, and a few of them are listless when they know it.

Tian Fan was dressed in armor, and the leaves of the armor were steaming hot, and it was estimated that he could fry eggs. He felt like he was in a microwave oven, his blood was boiling, his heart and lungs were like being scorched by fire, and this was not a human sin!

After taking a sip of water, he wiped his sweat again, and turned his head to see that Lu Bu, Gao Shun, Zhang Liao and others were also like himself, as if they had been fished out of the water. He has a lot of balance in his heart, who made you have to choose such weather to fight? Isn't this death?

This siege was different from the past, even if Jiang Yiqu was two hundred and five, he could see it.

Early in the morning, countless Xuzhou soldiers came out of the camp with strict steps, and then the soldiers divided into three roads and went straight to the east, south and north walls of Dongping'an. They had a very good grasp of the distance, just outside the range of the crossbow. These soldiers did not plan to attack the city immediately, and with the help of countless people, they set up a shelf. In front of them were huge cars, with nothing on them but huge shields.

Jiang Yiqu didn't know what the hell they were doing, so he ordered the ** crossbow to be fired. **The crossbow accurately hit the big shield on the cart, but the big shield did not shatter as Jiang Yiqu thought, but only shook back and forth twice. Looking at the long crossbow arrows trembling on the big shield, Jiang Yiqu couldn't help but scratch his head. How thick a shield does this have to be? **The crossbow is so domineering that it is the most powerful distance at a position of three hundred steps, and it can't even shatter these wooden shields? Forget it, the crossbow arrows of the ** crossbow are rare, let's wait for the first time, anyway, when it comes to attacking, they will inevitably move the shield car away.

As the shelf slowly came out, Jiang Yiqu smiled. He could see that the Xuzhou army was assembling a trebuchet, but at a distance of nearly three hundred steps, could the trebuchet work? That's an exaggeration, isn't it?

An hour passed in a blink of an eye, and the three-way soldiers finished building the trebuchet and came to the east of the city to report.

Tian Fan nodded, wiped his sweat, and said, "Okay, let's start!" Zhengqing, you are in charge of the southern city, Wenyuan, you are in charge of the northern city. ”

The two of them were given the order and led the soldiers away.

Tian Fan said to Lu Bu: "Feng Xian, today's goal is to completely abolish Jiang Yiqu's water army first, and then consume the strength in the city, so you can't be in a hurry." ”

Lu Bu nodded and said, "I know, how many times have you said it, rest assured, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, I'm not a gentleman, but I can wait for a few days." ”

Tian Fan said, Fengxian, you are an undefeated myth, so at the moment of non-necessity and non-victory, you can't personally lead the team to attack the city, in case you can't succeed, it will be a big blow to the morale of the army. Although Lu Bu knew that Tian Fan was coaxing him, this sycophant made him feel comfortable, so he no longer shouted that he was going to lead the team to attack the city.

With Tian Fan's order, dozens of big drums of the Chinese army roared in unison, and hundreds of trebuchets outside the three city walls began to roar. To Jiang Yiqu's surprise, the shield cart in front of the trebuchet did not dodge the position, which made his head sweat. In this way, won't you always be beaten passively? However, these trebuchets are too far away, right? Jiang Yiqu remembered the two ballista trucks that the soldiers fished out of Zishui a few days ago, and he was even more emotional, he had heard that the Xuzhou army was very ordnance, and when he saw it today, it was really extraordinary.

These trebuchets with a range of 300 paces of the Xuzhou Army are different from common trebuchets. This is a counterweight trebuchet, and there is a section on the top of the throwing rod that is softly attached, similar in shape to a return cannon. This new trebuchet saves time and effort, has a fast launch speed, and only requires a few people to operate, and the range is much longer. It's just a pity, Tian Fan doesn't know much about this kind of equipment, the craftsman battalion is still in the experimental stage, although the range is long, but unfortunately it is not accurate enough, and it can only be projected within ten steps of the planned target of one hundred and fifty catties...... Moreover, many parts of the trebuchet have not been thoroughly studied, and the maximum number of projections that each trebuchet can cast is limited.

But even so, Jiang Yiqu was also sweating profusely. More than 100 catties of stones crackle and shoot non-stop, and the momentum is much more shocking than that of ordinary trebuchets. The stone is too big, such a stone is high in the air, and its power is quite terrifying, shaking the city wall with a bang, and debris flying around. He saw with his own eyes a stone striking the arrow tower, which rumbled loudly and fell into the city.

A quarter of an hour later, the trebuchet was half broken, and Tian Fan saw that the arrow tower on the city had been damaged a lot, so he ordered the siege of the city.

The shield cart in front of the trebuchet dodged the road, and the three armies set off at the same time, pushing the ladder and carrying the high ladder, and rushed towards the city wall under the cover of several rows of sword and shield soldiers in front.

The intensity of the battle exceeded Jiang Yiqu's expectations, from the very beginning, the Xuzhou army did not intend to stay behind, and directly invested tens of thousands of troops, and the soldiers were also desperate, one by one baring their teeth and screaming, almost like crazy. He hurriedly ordered his soldiers to release arrows, and at the same time mobilized reserves to be ready to come to Chenggen'er at any time, and the water gate in the west of the city was wide open, and more than 200 warships rushed out.

Although the trebuchet projection time just now was not long, the arrow tower on the city wall was half dumb, and a few unlucky ones collapsed directly, and more were damaged to varying degrees, the soldiers were killed, the ** crossbow was smashed, or the ladder on the arrow tower was broken. Anyway, nearly half of the towers are temporarily out of service.

Feathers and arrows flew together, piercing the Xuzhou army like a plague of locusts, splashing countless bright blood flowers, beautiful and bewitching, making people's hearts throb. The soldiers behind the ladder were better, they were protected by tall ladders, but the soldiers carrying the ladders were miserable. The soldiers carrying the high ladder are the key objects of care of the Yuan soldiers, they carry the high ladders, and there is no too high protection in itself, with a rain of arrows, one by one the Xuzhou soldiers were shot and killed, the soldiers fell, and the high ladder fell to the ground. The sword and shield soldiers guarding the side immediately dropped their shields, picked up the ladder and continued to rush forward. The soldiers of the city shot at the ladder again, and the cycle began.

The ladder has a large target and is the favorite of the ** crossbow. The ** crossbow on several arrow towers was aimed at a cloud ladder at the same time, and more than a dozen huge crossbow arrows were shot up the cloud ladder at the same time, and the carriage of the hidden soldiers in the lower part of the cloud ladder was directly shot through, and several miserable screams came out. A cloud ladder collapsed under the continuous bombardment of several ** crossbows, and several soldiers next to it had no time to hide and were pressed underneath, bleeding from their mouth and nose and convulsing all over their bodies, seeing that they couldn't survive.

The battle was fierce, and it was tragic from the beginning.

Half an hour later, the first wave of soldiers carrying the ladder finally ran under the city wall. The soldiers gritted their teeth and lifted the heavy ladder and set it up on the city, and a long-prepared sword and shield soldier flew up the ladder, and his footsteps quickly alternated, and he galloped towards the city wall. Two steps further up to the city wall, the soldier's eyes lit up, and his heart was excited, but a stone falling from his head hit him hard, and he fell from the city with blood flowing from the corner of his mouth with an unwilling face.

Below him, several soldiers also struggled to climb up, and when they saw the robe falling, they knew that there was no possibility of survival if they fell from a height of more than five zhang, but they did not think of saving him, even if the person below was his own brother. Because they couldn't save him, they just wanted to climb to the top of the city. Climb to the top of the city, you can kill the enemy soldiers, and you can open the gap.

A few Yuan soldiers came out with their heads holding the stones, and before they could throw them down, several archers under the city wall shouted, and several feathered arrows hit them accurately. The soldier on the high ladder let out a roar of excitement and climbed even faster.

Just as they were about to go to the city, a fork slammed into the top, and the ladder stood upright, and then slowly fell. The soldiers on the high ladder screamed a few times and jumped down one after another.

This situation is very common on the battlefield, and siege warfare gives you hope and ruthlessly deprives you, which is cruel but very real.

In Zishui, when Jiang Yiqu's sailors set up a position and began to shoot arrows frantically, the casualties of the soldiers in the south and north of the city began to increase. Jiang Yiqu's navy adopted the method of taking turns to shoot arrows, and some of the ships that went down the river from the east bank of Zishui shot arrows frantically, and the ships that went upriver from the west bank of Zishui did not shoot arrows, but only prepared. If viewed from the air, these ships form a circle in Zishui, circulating in an infinite counterclockwise direction.

Zhang Liao and Gao Shun ordered the soldiers to turn the undamaged trebuchet and advance towards Zishui for a while, desperately throwing stones into Zishui under the protection of the shield cart, although the trebuchet was off the crosshairs. But the power is great, from time to time to hit a ship, either smashing a big hole, or directly disintegrating, these half-hung sailors after falling into the water after the miserable screams really make the robes frightened, most of their water nature is not very good. can't help but have a considerable part of the energy of this group of sub-water troops concentrated on the top of their heads.

After fighting for nearly half an hour, the water army in Zishui had been powerful for a quarter of an hour, and Tian Fan was a little anxious. The losses brought to him by those half-hung sailors in Zishui were too great, and Tian Fan was distressed, because these losses were not necessary. However, he remembered his duty and did not show it on his face.

Lu Bu is nothing, he looked at the siege army, scolded a few words of waste from time to time, and called a few words of pity from time to time, that look of spitting flying together, Tian Fan, who was irritable in his heart, wanted to beat him.

Finally, the news that Tian Fan was waiting for came. A small school came on horseback, hugged his fists and said, "Governor Qiyu, it's begun!" ”

Tian Fan nodded and said, "Okay, pass the order, wait for the enemy's naval army to be defeated, and attack the city with all your might!" ”

The little colonel shouted a promise and rode away on horseback.

In Zishui, Jiang Yiqu's water army, which was still infinitely powerful just now, and killed and injured a large number of Xuzhou soldiers, let out bursts of frightened screams, and the fleet that was very regular just now became chaotic.

Just now, the ships in the entire fleet located in the upper reaches of the Zishui River suddenly collided violently, and several small boats directly capsized. The Xuzhou soldiers who were watching the siege just now and the water soldiers above their heads looked at Zishui and were suddenly startled. I saw countless logs more than one zhang long in the Zishui, rushing rapidly along the surging Zishui, floating and swaying. The number of logs is innumerable, it is simply terrifying, and the soldiers of Jiang Yiqu's water army only feel dense and endless, as if the whole river is full of logs.

Immediately afterwards, there was a constant crashing sound, and the log drifting had no fixed direction, one would be horizontal and one would be vertical, but no matter what kind of attitude, as long as it hit the boat, it would definitely not be light. In order to facilitate the shooting of arrows, the sailors slowed down the river, and the boats going up the river were exactly in the opposite direction of the logs, which gave the logs more power.

For a time, countless small boats were knocked horizontally, and then another log would hit it, countless small boats were knocked out, knocked over, and countless soldiers fell overboard. This is not the most terrifying, the most terrifying thing is that there are too many logs too dense, the soldiers who fall into the water because they are wearing armor, they are afraid of drowning and grab a log, so they are often squeezed to death by two huge logs, many soldiers who are not very good at water hold the logs until they are hit and their sternums are broken, and they still dare not relax.

Some of the soldiers, who were afraid that the boat would be hit, were about to jump off the boat and swim to the shore, and they were terrified when they saw such a scene. Many of the soldiers were better water-minded and had good sailing skills, so they sailed quickly to escape from this place. There were large shields on both sides of the boat, and there were many soldiers, the boat was heavy, the draft was not shallow, and the speed of flowing in the water was not much faster than that of logs, and if you wanted to escape, you had to speed downstream.

These experienced sailors knew this, and they also knew that after a long period of physical exhaustion, being knocked over by these dense logs was the only end of the ship. The water gate of Dong'anping was open, because some ships had been fighting for a long time and needed to be replenished with arrows. These skilled sailors saw the wide open water gate, as if they had seen a savior, and drove the boat towards the water gate.

People are so strange, if they line up one by one, they may be able to enter the water gate, at least some people can enter, but everyone wants to enter first, so they huddle together. Countless ships collided in front of the water gate, and the soldiers were so anxious that their faces were red, and they screamed, eager to kill each other to clear the way for themselves, but the ships that killed people were even more uncontrollable, and they didn't have the kung fu to see that the logs and the overturned ships were about to collide with them. No one wants to give up the opportunity to get out, and the watergate is in chaos. Just like the people who are choked to death by the smoke in the doorway during the fire, everyone will not give in to each other, and everyone will not survive.

A soldier shouted, ran a few steps and jumped into another boat, and then accelerated and jumped into another boat, after a few boats passed, he jumped into the water without hesitation, this is the city, it shouldn't be hit by a log, right?

Pang Tong is a smart man, Tian Fan's emotion without any special meaning was processed by him, and he had this simple and practical method. The trees on Yishan Mountain are too dense and the water storage capacity is too strong, so there is no flash flood.

Since the trees are dense, you might as well cut some of them. One zhang long, more than one foot in diameter of the log, weighing hundreds of catties, fresh wood density, after throwing into the water only a little bit of exposure on the water surface, from the upper reaches of the water rushing quickly, if you don't pay attention to watching, I'm afraid it's difficult to find.

After the supplementation of Zhuge Liang, Yang Shu, Fa Zheng, and Lu Xun, this plan was slowly improved, and finally had today's power. Countless logs were cut down first, then cut into a zhang long and piled up on the edge of the water. When Tian Fan began to attack the city within the agreed time, Pang Tong and others commanded the soldiers to push all the logs into the water. In order to increase the density of the logs, they divided into several groups and worked at the same time, so this effect was achieved.

After the first battle leveled Jiang Yiqu's water army, Tian Fan was finally relieved after receiving the news.

Nodding to Lu Bu, Lu Bu smiled and shouted: "Beat the drum and cheer, attack the city with all your might!" ”