The slingers who stood on the wall of Xiyuan City one by one also followed their generals, and for several days, their whole expressions did not have any slackness.

Holding the monoculars, Zhao Pan looked at the military array opposite and squinted his eyes, "The number of troops has increased......

In the first few days, the opponent's strength was only about two thousand, but today, Zhao Pan glanced at it, and the number of troops gathered outside the city had risen to at least three thousand.

"Looks like this trip is coming for real." Realizing this, Zhao Pan shouted at the soldiers behind him while putting down the binoculars, "Everyone cheer up!" The slingers checked the slings in their hands and the number of stone bullets in front of them, and the crossbowmen in charge of controlling the three-bow bed crossbow checked the three-bow bed crossbow and the heavy crossbow bolts again to make sure that nothing was lost! ”

One order after another was issued quickly, and the change in the atmosphere on the city wall made the soldiers of the defending troops tense their nerves, and at the same time, at this time, a high-pitched horn sound came from a distance, and the huge siege army of Shangyuan City began to advance, Zhao Pan's eyes fell on the two huge siege towers for the first time, according to what they had discussed before, these two siege towers are undoubtedly the most important to guard against!

It is difficult to innovate in the routine of siege warfare, but this time, the siege army of Shangyuan City unexpectedly played a little different.

I saw that the other party directly gave up the use of the bed crossbow, there is no doubt that Zhou Dongnan was guarding against Luo Ji's three-bow bed crossbow, after seeing the range and power that far exceeded the ordinary bed crossbow, he pushed the bed crossbow out again, and the range was not comparable to the opposite side, wasn't that waiting to be sniped by the three-bow bed crossbow on the opposite side?

In addition, although this Songhe City is now captured by the enemy, it is his own city after all, and it will not benefit him at all to cause extensive damage to the city wall.

In this way, Zhou Dongnan quite simply launched his two siege towers, and the focus of the entire siege battle suddenly shifted from the common "breaking through the city gate" to "capturing the wall", making it clear that he wanted to rely on his two rough skin and thick siege towers, all the way up against the force, and then take down the city wall in one go.

In the face of this changed routine, Zhao Pan was very calm, after all, Luo Ji had already analyzed him quite thoroughly with this style of play, all in all, first confirm the opponent's propulsion configuration......

The shield and axe men were in the vanguard, followed by the halberd soldiers and the ladder troops, and as the highlight of this siege battle, the two siege towers were placed on the left and right sides of a whole army formation, and a large number of soldiers below were gathering enough strength to push the siege towers forward slowly.

In order to protect these soldiers from being killed by random arrows, Li Kuo, the general who commanded this siege battle, also specially arranged two large shield troops to form a shield wall, which accompanied them all the way to protect, and the center of gravity of the entire army array was there, which could be said to be clear at a glance.

At the same time, the offensive of the siege troops can be divided into two types: fast attack and slow attack, and on the opposite side, Li Kuo, the general who defended Shangyuan City, who was evaluated by Zhou Yi as a moderate faction, is obviously an expert who is good at fighting slow attacks.

The speed of the entire military formation was not fast, but that calm aura made Zhao Pan feel a trace of obvious pressure, making him fully aware that this battle would not be easy to fight.

"Huh-" Gently exhaled a long breath, adjusted his exhalation, and Zhao Pan, who was highly concentrated, swept his gaze over the advancing military formation on the opposite side again, and then ordered in a loud voice, "Three three-bow bed crossbows, after the opponent's siege tower enters the firing range, directly concentrate the fire on the siege tower on the left with all your strength, and aim at the wheel at the bottom of the siege tower as much as possible to hit!" The one on the right doesn't care. ”

After receiving Zhao Pan's order, the soldiers who were operating the three three-bow bed crossbows quickly adjusted the attack angle of the three-bow bed crossbows, and then, when the siege tower entered their range, with a series of muffled sounds, three huge heavy crossbow arrows flew out of the city wall one after another, blasting towards the siege tower on the left!

It's too late, it's fast, the moment the heavy crossbow bolts bombarded the bronze baffle of the siege tower, the three loud bangs in quick succession were simply deafening, and the power and range were obviously stronger than the three-bow bed crossbow of the ordinary bed crossbow, which made Li Kuo's pupils shrink at this time, even under the premise that Zhou Dongnan had already reminded him, the power of the three-bow bed crossbow still shocked him.

Then his eyes hurriedly swept away, after confirming that the siege tower was fine, Li Kuo's breath was completely relaxed, the opponent's first round of attacks attracted his attention, the three bed crossbows on the wall at the same time set fire to the siege tower on the left side of his army formation, but he didn't care about the siege tower on the right, the other party's desire to break through one by one was simply obvious, bringing Li Kuo a lot of psychological pressure.

Everyone knows that as the distance closes, the destructive power of the bed crossbow will become stronger and stronger, and he has fought so many battles in his life, but this is the first time he is worried about the safety of the siege tower.

On the other side, Zhao Pan, who was standing on the wall, was also shocked by the defensive power of the siege tower, although the first round of attacks of the three-bow bed crossbow was stuck at the limit of the effective range, but in the face of the bombardment of three heavy crossbow arrows in a row, the siege tower was able to perform basically flat and stable, and there were definitely a lot of things filled below, stabilizing the entire center of gravity, which is probably also the main reason why there are dozens of soldiers pushing, but still pushing so slowly, the weight is not light.

Originally, it was a direct attack on the wheels under the siege tower, and the wheels were blown up directly, so the siege tower was basically scrapped, but the problem is that in the era of cold weapons, long-range attacks are all with clear parabolas, and the long-range weapons with the highest hit rate are basically bows and arrows, and large instruments like bed crossbows are inevitably sacrificed in terms of hit rate, and you let the crossbowmen operate the bed crossbow to attack the siege tower, which is no problem, but you let them aim at the two rows of wheels under the siege tower, that is to make things difficult for people.

The battle continued, and as the enemy's siege army steadily advanced, the slinger troops, who had won by quantity, began to fire wildly, and the overwhelming rain of stone bullets formed a powerful suppressive force, further reducing the advance speed of the enemy siege army.

Li Kuo tried to command the archers to counter-suppress the slinger troops on the city wall, but the stone bullet rain on this side was too fierce, and the undisguised number of suppression was so overwhelming that the archer troops couldn't raise their heads, and with the blessing of Zhao Pan's gold-level slinger skills, the fierce offensive that erupted was enough to make a large number of people dumbfounded!

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