With the dull beat of drums, these people who had arrived in the camp first began to rush down to Longshan City, carrying sacks on their backs, bamboo guns, wooden shields, and ladders.

"The thieves are besieging the city!"

The officers and soldiers at the head of the city had been vigilant against the movements of the Taiping Righteous Army, and when they saw the people who had ascended the camp first, they immediately shouted loudly. The officers and soldiers operating the bed crossbows and the stone throwers were ready to attack as soon as the thieves came into range. The rest of the army were also waiting behind the battlements, but most of them looked optimistic.

After all, this group of attacking thieves seemed to be unorganized, and the weapons in their hands were only bamboo spears, which were difficult to pierce their leather armor, and the only thing that could attack the city was a rudimentary ladder. Facing the walls of Longshan Mansion City, these thieves really didn't pose a threat.

What's more, there are stone throwers and bed crossbows at the head of the official army city!

Due to the longer range, the four-bed crossbow was the first to attack. Yesterday, these officers and soldiers were very hesitant to deal with the people of Longshan who filled the river, and they really held their breath. Now they are not the slightest bit merciful in dealing with the real thieves. With the sound of the machine starting, as many as a dozen javelins roared out with terrible force and shot into the crowd of people who had arrived first.

Almost immediately, screams rang out.

However, this group of attacking soldiers who were in the first camp were told in advance to widen the distance as much as possible. With only four bed crossbows, the threat is really not big. Although some of the rebels were indeed killed and wounded after a few rounds, they were quickly rushed to within one hundred and fifty paces by those who had ascended the camp first.

The trebuchets of the officers and soldiers were immediately activated.

They had already set the angle in advance, and after receiving Molun's order, they immediately released the winch.

Suddenly, pieces of stone bullets that were enough to smash a person's head fell from the sky, like a hail rain of super-powerful power, blooming in a relatively dense place of the rebel army. Due to its larger scale, this trebuchet is far more powerful than a bed crossbow. At least twenty or thirty volunteers were killed and wounded in this round of strikes, and there were almost no minor injuries, and their bones and muscles were broken at every turn.

Such a blow is too terrible for a group of displaced people to improvise the first camp.

It's just that these homeless people who are doomed to the fate of cannon fodder know in their hearts that the overseers are watching from behind, and they will never show mercy to their subordinates. The previous battle in Lushan also let everyone know that there might be a way to survive if they fought hard, so no one retreated, and rushed forward one by one gritting their teeth.

In the crowd, Liang Si was wearing a set of paper armor with some damage on his shoulder, and he struggled to carry a small bag of soil with at least thirty pounds on his back, and ran forward without raising his head.

As the lucky man who participated in the first camp in the first battle of Lushan and also killed an official army, Liang Si unexpectedly received preferential treatment this time. Although the paper armor on his body was obviously used, and there were dried dark red blood marks on the knife edge, it was much stronger than wearing nothing at all. In addition to this set of paper armor, Liang Si also remembered what the leader of the rebel army preached to them before leaving: "The angle of the official army's stone thrower is more troublesome to adjust, as long as you pay attention to avoid the first round, you just rush forward, and it will be basically safe when you get out of that range!" ”

This in itself is true.

But in fact, even if they rushed to the city, they would still have to face the blow of rolling wood and stones, and they would have to attack the city. As far as the dangerous process is concerned, it may not be much better. But these displaced people who went to camp first couldn't care so much, and they didn't have time to think about it. Under the threat of the catapult, they had only one thought in their minds, which was to dodge the stone bullets first.

Maybe it was good luck, or maybe Liang Si's own position was relatively biased, and after several of his companions fell one after another, Liang Si rushed to the edge of the moat.

Last night, the officers and soldiers tried to release people from the city with rope baskets to clear the mud and sandbags of the moat, but after Chen Wu's infantry archers shot indiscriminately, killing and wounding several people, no one dared to come down, and it has remained as it has been. Due to the scorching heat, many of the corpses of the people of Longshan who fell here yesterday have begun to stink, and their appearance looks extremely miserable and terrifying. Liang Si didn't dare to look at it, hurriedly threw the small bag of mud on his back into the river, stepped on the water that could not reach his calf, rushed to the city wall, and set up a ladder with a few people who came up.

Compared with the cloud ladders in Lushan, these newly built cloud ladders have been pointed out by Chen Wu, and more claw hooks have been added to them. Once the position is stuck and fixed to the head of the city, it is almost impossible to push it away without cutting off the hook, which undoubtedly adds a lot of trouble to the officers and soldiers defending the city.

"Roll the wood and get ready!"

Seeing the ladder of the thief army set up, the officers and commanders above shouted loudly.

Soon, a group of soldiers of the city defense battalion worked together to lift the rolling logs that had been piled up on the top of the city and smashed them out. Because there are no slings and brackets that can be lifted and lowered on the side of Longshan, the efficiency of manpower handling and throwing logs is somewhat low. But even so, these logs, which weighed at least a few hundred pounds, still caused a lot of damage to the siege of the first to the city.

Most of the first rebel soldiers who climbed the ladder were smashed down by rolling logs.

With the experience of attacking Lushan before, Liang Si was a lot more cunning this time, and deliberately rubbed for a moment when he went up the ladder. Waiting for the gap where the first round of rolling logs fell from the officers and soldiers, they began to climb with their spears.

As one of the few preferential treatments, he not only has a set of paper armor on his body, but the weapon in his hand is not an ordinary bamboo gun, but a spear made by himself after the rebels captured Yicheng. Although the quality is slightly worse than that captured in the armory of the officers and soldiers, it is much better than the batch at the beginning of the incident. This set of "sophisticated" equipment immediately attracted the attention of the officers and soldiers at the head of the city.

"Shoot that bandit leader!"

I don't know who shouted, the infantry archer at the head of the official army city turned the target, and after aiming for a while, an arrow shot over.

The defense of the paper armor could not stop the bow and arrow from penetrating at such a close distance.

Liang Si only felt a violent shock in his body, and then there was a heart-piercing pain in his right hand, and he couldn't even hold the spear in his hand, and he fell down with a snap, almost hitting the others under the ladder. Perhaps it was Fu Ling's heart, an idea suddenly popped into Liang Si's mind, and he leaned back with the help of the arrow's force, looking as if he had turned over and fell because he was shot, without the slightest unnaturalness.

Rolling down the ladder that has climbed to a height of four or five meters, still wearing hard paper armor, of course, will be very uncomfortable. Even if he secretly adjusted the posture of falling, Liang Si still felt as if his whole body was falling apart, and he was dizzy.

But no matter how uncomfortable it is, it's better than continuing to climb up and die, isn't it?

Taking advantage of the chaos of the battlefield, Liang Si, who pretended to faint, secretly rolled on the ground a few times, and finally plunged into the moat.

Safe for now!

………

The official army of Long Son Province is very strong!

Or rather, the first camp that these homeless people hastily put together is too weak.

In the face of Lushan's already eroded city defense camp before, he could barely pose some threats. Now in the face of the real second-line troops of the empire, the essence of powerlessness is revealed. Under the multiple blows of catapults, bed crossbows, foot archers, and rolling logs and stones of officers and soldiers, these cannon fodder who arrived in the camp first suffered heavy casualties, but they hardly had any effect.

Three waves of attacks pounced on it, and in the end, it was like hitting the waves of the reef, and they were blocked back without any suspense.

Even, from the beginning to the end, no soldier who had been in the camp first could actually attack the city.

Seeing that these homeless people suffered heavy casualties, even if there was a team of warlords staring at them, Chen Wu knew that this wave of tentative feints was almost over. With the sound of the gong, the rebels gathered their troops in the array. The soldiers of the first battalion, who were struggling to support them, were so amnesty that they couldn't even take care of the ladder, and fled in panic by throwing down what they were doing.

Liang Si, who was mixed in the crowd, covered the wound of the arrow wound, dragged his sore body, and limped back.

The paper armor on his body looked a little deformed, and it was much heavier and more stuffy after being soaked in water. After exiting the range of the trebuchet and making sure that he was basically safe, Liang Si immediately took off the paper armor. Glad that he had saved his life, he was ready to go back to receive food first, and then go to the doctor to treat his injuries.

Thankfully, the previous arrow missed the vital point and blood vessel. Otherwise, after half a day, the blood loss alone would be enough for him to die.