The fire in Shuizhai continued until the evening of September 27.

With the obstruction of this wall of fire, the Zhou army who came by boat swaggered to clear the barrage iron rods and barrage stakes in front of the water village, and waited for the fire to be extinguished and invaded Shouzhou.

However, when Li Gu, the commander of the Zhou army, came to the remnants of the water village by boat and wanted to set foot on the land of Huainan for the first time, he and all the generals were dumbfounded - five or six meters behind the water village turned out to be a fortress that climbed the stairs. The whole recessed fortress has a total of five layers, and the thick walls in front of each layer are built to look like a city, the walls are gray, but they look heavy, and each layer is full of Shouzhou soldiers in full armor. The entire fortress and the two unusually thick and tall guard towers on the river embankment on both sides constitute a defensive position of "two city gate towers + multi-layer city walls".

Li Gu looked at it for a long time, and then snorted coldly: "Layer by layer blocking!" Lin Feng is nothing more than that, it's just a little skill! ”

Shi Detong, who rushed over from the downstream in the afternoon, helped beside him and said: "In front of my 200,000 army, everything will be powdered!" It's just a pity that we couldn't even detect such a situation in advance! ”

This sarcasm with a pun caused Zhao Kuangyin to snort coldly and turn his head silently.

Li Gu stared at Shi Detong's eyes dissatisfied, and ordered to hurry up and make small trebuchets and siege crossbows at night, and transport them to the two-cart warship early tomorrow morning, and continue to bombard, I don't believe that I can't bomb this nasty monster castle!

On the 28th of September, eight two-chariot warships of the Zhou army rushed to the front of the water village in a twisted and oblique route, and slowly stopped, and eight huge siege crossbows were immediately fired, and three trebuchets also threw stone projectiles made overnight.

Siege bolts as thick as a child's arm whizzed, carrying away the remnants of the stake of the water village in front of them, and slammed viciously into the fourth layer of the fortress. However, the bombardment effect was disappointing, and the sharp iron crossbow arrows only hit the walls with white dots, and the shaft was shattered! The three stone bullets that followed were not much better, except that they had made a shallow pit in the fortress wall, splashing some dust fragments.

This attack effect made all the officers and soldiers of Zhou stunned, what is this thing built for, it is so strong?

Zhao Kuangyin was the first to react and shouted loudly: "Dodge, be careful of trebuchets!" ”

The warships in the middle reacted and hurriedly moved their positions. However, the warships on the two sides of the edge were not convinced, and fired a crossbow arrow at each of the two guard towers next to it, and the hull adjusted a little slower, and was found by two revenge stone projectiles of the Shouzhou army, one was smashed through the surface of the ship, and the other coincidentally, the mast was broken.

The commander of the eight warships was not stupid, and immediately commanded his warships to retreat to the north of the site where the pontoon bridge was smashed yesterday, to guard against the moving trebuchets of the Shouzhou Army.

Li Gu, who was sitting outside the safe range of the command boat, looked at the generals who were silent around him, and knew that everyone had no good way, so he had to give his own order: use the three large ships with damaged hulls to open the way in front of the big bow as a cover, and the other assault soldiers all took small boats to assault and strive to get down in one fell swoop.

The three large ships were still twisting forward, and they set off with fear. Sure enough, the Shouzhou Army's stone bomb trebuchet began to exert its power again, but this time, only one ship was grazed by the stone bullet, and there was an extra big hole on the side of the ship.

The three warships accelerated forward in unison, and when they were only thirty meters away from the water village, they no longer saw the stone bullets falling, and their hearts were settled, and the Zhou army on the ship cheered in unison and continued to attack.

The three warships crashed into the remnants of the water village, slowed down, and docked sideways in front of the fortress, and the soldiers on the hull had already erected dense shields to resist the arrows fired from the fortress, and at the same time began to shoot arrows to suppress the defenders of Shouzhou. The small boats of the Zhou army that followed either docked their ships behind the big ships, or passed through the gaps between the big ships, and ran directly to the bottom of the first layer of fortresses.

In the assault team, it was still Zhao Kuangyin who still led Zheng En and other tiger guards to play the striker, protected himself with a big shield, jumped over the wall more than one meter high, and directly entered the first layer.

Strangely, the defending Shouzhou soldiers did not contact the battle at all, and immediately turned back to the second layer through the three passages to the upper part of the road to continue the defense.

After Li Gu saw that the attack of the three assault warships was going well, Da Lu laughed a few times, and immediately sent six more two-car warships and dozens of small warships to attack with all his might.

Because the two sides were caught in a contact battle, archery was stopped on the upper part of the fortress and on the Zhou army's warships. Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En, like two leading tigers, led the tiger guards to sweep the three-story fortress in a row, and as soon as they rushed to the fourth layer of the fortress, they heard a continuous rapid whistle.

As soon as the "invincible" Shouzhou defenders heard the whistle, they all turned around and ran to both sides of the fortress on this floor and slid down the ramp. The Shouzhou troops on the sentry towers on both sides evacuated at the same time!

Zhao Kuangyin and the others easily attacked the fifth layer, and they were extremely puzzled, Lin Feng tossed such a strong fortress, and he actually gave up directly after a charge?

Zheng Eun, who was the first to rush to the top of the fortress, looked south, and the people were immediately stunned. Zhao Kuangyin hurried two steps, and also rushed to Zheng En's side, looking forward, the person was also frozen, and immediately turned around and roared to the rear: "Hurry up and ask Li Shuai to come over!" ”

Li Gu, who was sitting in the middle of the river commanding the boat, was watching the second batch of warships move forward for reinforcements, and when he found the victory flag coming from the warship, he immediately laughed loudly: "Lin Feng! It's so big, and that's it! Anticlimactic! He immediately got up and excitedly directed the boat forward.

Soon, Li Gu and a group of generals rushed to the top of the fortress, and when they saw the scene below, a group of people were all stunned.

Ten meters to the south directly below the fortress, a trench five meters deep and five meters wide surrounded the entire fortress and the watchtowers on both sides. Three hundred steps in front of the trench, the Shouzhou army was lined up into three formations on the left, the middle and the right, each with no less than 10,000 people, arranged in the shape of "product". In front of them was a trap 200 meters wide and 20 meters deep, with blades, spikes and other objects hanging from the horizontal and vertical logs. On the high pole in the middle, a long white cloth fluttered, with six big black characters written on it: "Li Gu, dare to attack?" ”

Li Gu was laughed angrily all of a sudden, this Lin Feng was really crazy, and he even looked like he wanted to fight with himself.

Li Chongjin laughed first, pointed to those woods and said with a smile: "In the end, it is a southern child, I don't know how powerful I am in the north!" With these, you want to stop my Great Zhou Wushuang cavalry? ”

Shi Detong followed with a smile: "Sure enough, it's Nanban, there aren't many things that can be handled!" They are all as arrogant as Yelang. ”

Zhao Kuangyin, who had been silent all the time, spoke, and reminded in a low voice: "Li Shuai, please pay attention to the enemy flanks. ”

Li Gu moved his gaze to both sides of the Shouzhou army, and immediately discovered an abnormality in the Shouzhou military formation: on each side, there were more than a thousand soldiers in the black military uniforms of the Great Zhou Dynasty kneeling on the ground, their heads on the ground, their arms behind their backs, and behind each of them was a Shouzhou army carrying a steel knife, gesturing from time to time, as if looking for the best place to make a knife.

Li Gu sneered again and again: "Lin Feng spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and wants to use this method to force me to fight, then I will fulfill him!" ”

Zhao Kuangyin then pointed to the position in the middle of the Shouzhou army in the distance and said: "Li Shuai, please see, although the Shouzhou army formation is mainly black, there are sometimes messy costumes among them, most of which are brightly colored, and they look very similar to the Nanban costumes of Chudi in the south of the Yangtze River. ”

Could it be that Lin Feng brought reinforcements from Chudi? Li Gu immediately calmed down and watched intently.