Extravagant Feixiong, Deng Yu and Wang Hui climbed to the top of the city, only to see that behind the trenches, thousands of Huaidong soldiers had come out of the camp and lined up.

On the long trench that was empty before, the Huaidong Army also used the trench bridge car to temporarily build more than ten trench bridges with a width of more than three zhang, thinking that it was a passage for troops.

Extravagant flying bears built a river to prevent blockage, and did not dig an outer trench. Once the outer trench is dug, the protection of the fortress is actually very limited, and the defenders cannot have any other counterattack channels except for the city gate, which is actually more conducive to the Huaidong army to directly advance to the city.

There was no outer trench in the Jiahe defense, and the Huaidong army approached the city, but built a trench to surround the Jiahe defense blockade inside, so as to restrict the defenders from attacking and counterattacking.

Due to the range of the heavy stone-throwing crossbow at that time could be 400 paces or even longer, the Huaidong army's trench to attack the Jiahe defense could only be built 400 paces away.

Behind the trenches were several fortified villages, and a small number of elite soldiers were stationed in case the guards of the river were guarded against sneaking over the trenches at night, or driving people to fill the trenches.

The main force of the Huaidong Army entering the forefront was mainly stationed in the front base camp more than 1,000 steps away from the trench.

The Huaidong Army wanted to attack the Jiahe to defend the blockage, and the soldiers and horses had to be transferred out of the rear and front camps, and advanced to the entrenchment to line up to make the final preparations before the attack.

They were only more than 400 steps away from each other, and the situation behind the trench was clearly seen by the extravagant flying bear.

When they arrived at the head of the southern city, thousands of soldiers and horses in Huaidong had already lined up after leaving the camp and going to the trench. The shield carts were in front to cover the arrows and stones, and the front flanks of the infantry formation, and the sword and shield men, the sword and shield men, the spearmen, and the crossbowmen were arrayed behind the trenches.

Different from the traditional formation method, the Huaidong generals gathered as a combat unit with 60 soldiers of the First Capital Brigade, so it can be quickly calculated that the soldiers used by Huaidong to attack the city this time are about 3,000 soldiers, which is the establishment of the first brigade of Huaidong - they mainly protect the moat bridge used to send troops to the city at this time.

Behind the battle, there were still nearly 2,000 soldiers pushing more than 100 wagons with small wheels on the base, withdrawing waterproof paint cloth, revealing arrow grooves or twisted strings, bed crossbows from cannon tips, scorpion crossbows and other combat weapons. The weapons were still carried by soldiers, and the heavy carts laden with stone bullets and crossbow arrows were dragged by oxen and horses, leaving deep ruts in the rain-soaked mud.

About 20 heavy catapults of the Huaidong Army had been erected in the fortified village behind the trench before the day before yesterday, and were covered with waterproof paint cloth when it rained. At this time, the rain and wind stopped, the waterproof paint cloth was removed, and the five or six feet long poles pointed straight to the sky, like the treetops of a distant forest.

Only the generals who have seen the power of Huaidong's heavy stone-throwing crossbow know the hideous erection of the pole.

The Huaidong army was on both wings, and there were hundreds of war horses in armor arrays, and the sound of neighing of war horses came in the wind. The Huaidong war cavalry came out to line up, mainly to prevent them from sending troops and horses out of the jam to counterattack.

The Huaidong army was in the military formation behind the trench, and for the time being, it did not carry ladders, city climbing vehicles, nest cars and other attached city weapons out of the camp, so that the luxury flying bear knew that Huaidong would not directly push to the foot of the city to carry out a bloody siege with ants before using the advantage of weapons to destroy many of their defensive facilities at the head of the city!

But it's not easy for the bear.

Weapons have a service life, like those that have to throw forty or fifty pounds of stone bullets to a distance of four or five hundred steps of the stone-throwing crossbow, its operation is extremely worn, except for the calibration range, no one wants to be so luxurious that they have nothing to do to send two stone bullets to play.

Flying Bear knows how big the gap between the two sides is in terms of weapons.

The large weapons above the bed crossbow of the Huaidong army can have an effective range of 300 steps, and the large scorpion crossbow and tip crossbow can directly attack the head of the city after the trench.

The heavy stone-throwing crossbow in Huaidong only needs more than a dozen people to operate, and it can throw forty or fifty pounds of stone bullets as far as 500 steps away, which is the biggest threat to the defense of the river.

If the Zhejiang-Fujian army wanted to throw such a heavy stone projectile 500 steps away, the stone-throwing crossbow built was bigger than expected, and even two or three hundred people needed to operate it at the same time. In order to place such a stone-throwing crossbow to kill the enemy, there is also a need for space two hundred steps deep.

Even if such a stone-throwing crossbow can be made, it cannot be placed on the city wall, and there are not a few behind the anti-blockage city wall; There were as many as twenty heavy rubble crossbow poles exposed in Huaidong's several small camps behind the trenches.

The Huaidong soldiers who went out to fight lined up behind the trench, and there was a section of fence wall erected behind the trench itself, which was the most basic protection for the Huaidong army array behind the trench in advance.

At such a distance, in addition to the four large stone-throwing crossbows behind the city wall, the only thing that could be attacked by the defense guard side was the ten three-bow bed crossbows placed under the battle tent at the head of the city.

In any case, it is not yet time to show weakness.

With a wave of his hand, he ordered the defenders at the head of the city to temporarily take refuge under the tent to avoid the stone bullets and giant arrows that Huaidong was about to throw, but at the same time, he also pushed the few bed crossbows and other weapons to the battlements, and then ordered the stone crossbows behind the city wall to remove the waterproof paint cloth and prepare to counterattack.

At this time, the sun is slightly slanting, and the sky reveals a rainbow after the rain, and after the trench, the stone bullets are like the rain that will rise, first throwing them at the Jiahe anti-blockade, and then gradually intensifying.

The accuracy with which the catapults began to be projected was limited, with only a few stone projectiles falling exactly at the head of the city, and more falling on the inside and outside of the city or directly on the city walls.

Before falling on the city walls, muddy water splashed.

Hitting the front of the city wall, Xuan Feixiong and the others stood under the battle tent, and could feel the city wall trembling and howling in pain under their feet. It makes people suspect that if the stone projectile called Huaidong throwing crossbow at the same landing point is smashed down several times, the city wall will be completely cracked.

The stone bullets weighing more than dozens of catties smashed on the head of the city and smashed on the top of the war shed, and the war shed made of rows of wood could only support one or two hits before it fell apart.

The stone bullets that fell behind the city wall could cause a large part of the house in the fortified area to collapse at once; If a person is unlucky, he can be directly smashed into a pulp if he is hit with a stone bullet.

Only two rounds of stone bullets passed, and a stone-throwing crossbow placed behind the city wall was completely smashed apart!

"The city is dangerous, the young marshal still goes to the watchtower behind to count on the war!" Seeing that there was a war shed on the left side that was smashed by stone bullets, and dozens of guards were killed and injured at once, Deng Yu felt that the war shed made of rows of trees was also very unsafe.

The Huaidong stone-throwing crossbow falls on the weight at the end of the tip as the power of the tip, and the weight is constant, so it can be calibrated and adjusted when it is fired - there will be more and more, more and more dense stone projectiles, which will hit directly on the city.

Deng Yu will not be greedy for life and afraid of death, but if the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, he and Extravagant Feixiong really have to stand at the head of the city to gamble, and the stone bullets from Huaidong will definitely not fall on their heads.

Between the stone bullets, clay pots were also thrown, and one of them landed on the tent above the head of the extravagant bear.

The pot was broken and leaked, and a few drops fell on Wang Hui's helmet, Wang Hui reached out and touched his nose to smell it, and said in surprise: "Is it water?" ”

"It's not good, the Huaidong Army is calibrated with water cans, and then it will inevitably throw oil cans intensively, young marshal, you can't stay here anymore!" Deng Yu was about to signal Hu Wei to forcibly drag the extravagant flying bear down the city.

Although in order to deal with Huaidong's fire oil tank tactics, the city prepared some wet blankets and piles of river sand, but the protection was still insufficient.

They could see that the Huaidong soldiers and horses were firing clay pots for scorpion crossbows - the Huaidong scorpion crossbows were more accurate than their heavy catapults, as long as the firing distance was calibrated, if they saw that the extravagant flying bears were here to supervise the battle, there would be a dense canister of fire oil thrown next.

Surrounded by guards, the extravagant bear had no choice but to retreat from the city. As soon as he walked to the bottom of the city, and before he had climbed the watchtower behind the city wall, seventy or eighty canisters of fire oil were thrown at the head of the city where he had just stood, and they were all shattered; There were also many canisters of fire oil that crossed the city walls and smashed them on both sides of the city.

Looking at the black viscous oil flowing out of the can, the extravagant bears frowned slightly-this kind of oil, they also worked on it for a long time to know what it was.

The Huaidong army dug a kiln to smolder the coal, and in addition to the smoldering coal, it also produced black viscous oil. Huaidong takes the light and calls it coal paste, not to mention that the fire is difficult to extinguish, and the smoke is also toxic, irritating the eyes and throat.

Huaidong uses a large amount of smoldering coal, so the output of coal paste is also very large, so that Huaidong uses the oil tank without control, and it has also become the most headache of the Zhejiang and Fujian army - when the luxury flying bear and so on to go up to the watchtower, there are more than a dozen Huaidong archers under the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, to the foot of the city, fire rockets to ignite the ointment sprinkled on the city, and burn the city head more than ten zhang wide into a sea of fire.

The guards at the head of the city took sand to extinguish the fire, but the Huaidong army continued to throw fire oil ointment to set fire to the fire after the trench, and there were still dozens of soldiers who unfortunately stained the fire oil, burned and burned, and wailed.

The billowing black smoke from the fire enveloped the entire city inside, irritating the pawn to cry and cough, and also blocking the vision, making it more difficult to dodge the stone bullets and mud bullets thrown in the air, and the more casualties there were, the more difficult it was to control.

Extravagant Fei Xiong was crying blood in his heart, and he could only ask more soldiers to withdraw from the city for the time being, and then go up to the city to resist when the Huaidong soldiers and horses pressed down to the city.

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Ao Canghai stood on top of the specially made high car, and could look at his own position and the head of the garrison at a glance.

The mouth of the upstream dam is closed today, and after the river is cut off, the water level will drop, and it is undoubtedly wishful thinking if the guards in the river defense are not aware of it.

There are three choices that can be made within the flood prevention of the river.

The first is to go out to defend the fortress and counterattack, and the front trench defense line of the Huaidong Army will be collapsed, and the dam of the river interception in the upper reaches of Shanxi will naturally be exposed before the attack range of the Zhejiang and Fujian Army. If the dam is destroyed in advance, the river will no longer be threatened by the hanging lake upstream. It's just that the Huaidong army filled with 30,000 elite soldiers behind the front trenches, and the Zhejiang-Fujian army only had 20,000 troops in the Jiahe defense fortress.

The second is to strictly guard against stubborn defense, gambling on the hanging lake created by the construction of the dam in Huaidong, which will not be able to cause too much impact on the prevention of the Jiahe River. Zhejiang-Fujian army in the south of Hengshan Jiahe defense is hastily built, although the later period together to reinforce, but mainly to strengthen the Huaidong army from the direct attack of the south city and the two wings, the river wall is in the Huaidong army can not directly attack the dead corner, the inside, has been the Zhejiang and Fujian army to strengthen the blind spot of the city defense, but it is precisely the front of the water.

Even if the Jiahe River is impregnable and can block the water attack, but the Shanxi River is cut off and the riverbed is bottomed out, the ordinary generals in the defense of the fortress will know that Huaidong is damming the upper reaches to build a hanging lake to rush the city with water, and they are worried all day long, how can they defend the fortress with peace of mind?

The third choice that Luxury Flying Bear can have is to take advantage of the time when Huaidong is dammed and impounded, and decisively abandon the Jiahe River and retreat to Hengshan and Shangrao. Although this move will also severely damage the morale of the Zhejiang-Fujian army, it can at least preserve its strength, use Shangrao, and even use the long inner line from Shangrao to the banks of the Ganjiang River, and entangle and delay with Huaidong, waiting for the situation on the northern line to change.

The people of Huaidong are not afraid that the extravagant flying bear will lead his troops to fight a counterattack or defend the Jiahe defense, but they are afraid that the extravagant flying bear will see the wrong opportunity to give up the Hengshan defense line, and there will inevitably be an offensive to stick the defenders in the Jiahe defense fortress, and at least one of the arms of the extravagant flying bear will be cut off, so as to reduce the pressure for the subsequent battle.