When planning in Yuan Xingwei's prison, Chen Wu didn't know that he had an inexplicable subordinate in Wu'an City, and he was trying to cooperate with the righteous army. He only knew that without investing in the real elite, the offensive of the coalition forces had reached the point where it was exhausted and unsustainable.

The army of displaced people has no potential to tap in a short period of time, and more than a dozen other small forces have also suffered heavy losses.

Even Wang Huifang of the Good Friends Association was a little out of breath at this time.

"Starting tomorrow, the Taiping Army will invest in the Volunteer Battalion, the Infantry Bow Battalion and the Engineering Battalion!"

Faced with such a shape, Chen Wu finally made up his mind.

He knew very well that once he put those hole cards on the table, there was no chance of leaving. Either you win big or you lose all the chips you have accumulated without a third result. However, if you want to take Wu'an, there is no choice!

In the evening of the same day, the Taiping Army held a mobilization meeting on an unprecedented scale.

From the captain to the rank above, all the senior officers of the rebels attended. After explaining the current situation, Chen Wu made a brief but effective general offensive mobilization. For the sake of secrecy, he did not give the tasks of the ministries in advance. In this way, even if the officials and soldiers may have planted spies among the displaced people, they will not get any useful information.

Around the same time, there was also a large-scale mobilization on the part of the Good Friends.

However, the sky is unpredictable!

Seeing that the general attack on Wu'an was about to begin, the gloomy sky finally rained at this time. Late that night, starting from Ganding Mansion in Chidi, it rained lightly in almost the entire territory of the four prefectures of Taiping County. This is the first rain in Taiping County in more than half a year since the drought in early summer!

Almost all the people who were not affected by the rebellion cheered for the belated night rain.

The drought can finally be alleviated.

The officers and troops of Wu'an were also cheering for the rain, and they had been stormed by the displaced people for four days, regardless of their losses, and their bodies had fallen to a dangerous point. This was just the right amount of timely rain. It undoubtedly brought a rare opportunity to recuperate. In addition, the rainfall, which lasted for nearly a day, also affected the depth of the moat and the mound platform.

For this rain, which ruined their plans, the Good Friends Association and the Taiping Rebels hated it very much, but they were helpless.

In addition to the delays, the rains have had a more profound impact.

The so-called autumn rain and cold. It's almost mid-November, and although the rain is not too heavy, the temperature is still four or five degrees lower overnight. Due to the lack of warm clothing, the homeless people outside the city soon developed a large-scale typhoid fever disease. Add to that poor hygiene and physical health, and the slightest mishap could lead to an outbreak of unprecedented scale.

If it really appeared, what kind of terrible impact it would bring, Chen Wu knew it in his heart.

However, the siege reached this critical juncture. He can't take care of it anymore and can't spare the manpower time to deal with it. Anyway, the camp of the Taiping Army has always been independent, and there is a distance from the people, and there are doctors in the camp who regularly clean and disinfect according to his method on weekdays. As long as the main forces of the Volunteer Battalion and the Taiping Battalion are not affected, the more than 100,000 displaced people around them can only ask for more blessings for themselves.

………

Finally, the sky cleared up again.

After a two-day delay, Chen Wu could no longer tolerate the slightest delay from the coalition forces. Before the ground was completely dry, he joined forces with Wang Huifang and gave the order for the general attack to begin.

2,000 people from the Volunteer Battalion, 1,000 people from the Taiping Camp, 3,000 people from the Dharma Protector and Buddha Soldiers, and a large number of believers in the Fuhu Camp......

The most elite forces in the hands of the coalition forces have all been assembled.

Those siege engines hidden by Chen Wu. It's finally time to see the light of day again. The rebel soldiers of the engineering battalion took off the rain-sheltering coats and pushed them to the front one by one.

Every time it appears. There will be commotion, surprise, and finally cheers in the ranks of the coalition and the outcasts.

They forgot to ask the leaders why they hadn't used them before, only to know that each of these huge and ingenious siege machines had terrifying lethality. With their help, Wu'an City is no longer an impenetrable fortress.

"That's ...... What the? ”

The officers and soldiers at the head of the city were surprised to see the first stone thrower. To the disbelief of the second one, and then to the appearance of more and more stone throwing machines, completely fell into a state of shock and speechlessness.

"How can there be so many!"

Witnessing this scene with his own eyes, Kang He couldn't help but let out a pitch-changing exclamation.

The thieves broke through Wu'an City, and they must have some siege weapons in their hands. The officers and soldiers who fled back from the first battle in Xiayang Valley. This is also indirectly proven. hid a hand of hole cards from the thief, and Kanghe was also mentally prepared. However, no matter what, he didn't expect that Chen Wu would hide so much!

A full twenty-six large torsion stone throwers are lined up!

From the time the rebels conquered Yicheng, Chen Wu had always paid attention to recruiting carpenters, blacksmiths and other craftsmen, and invested amazing resources and energy for this. Since then, the construction of various siege equipment has not stopped. Especially in the comfortable time of a month after the capture of Longshan, the influx of a large number of materials made the siege weapons in Chen Wu's hands reach an astonishing scale.

It is worth mentioning that these twenty-six torsion stone throwers, which Chen Wu regarded as trump cards, were not the small models that dealt with Mo Guohao in Yicheng, but the large stone throwers he built specifically for the capture of Wu'an. Because it was used for siege, the ammunition that Chen Wu equipped it with was not a stone bullet weighing two or three catties, but a boulder weighing between seventy-five and one hundred catties.

With a range of nearly 200 paces, it can be guaranteed that even if the city shoots at the official army, it will not suffer too much loss.

Putting aside the level of the rebel soldiers who are manipulated, the scale and power of these siege equipment alone are comparable to the same emperor's main battle force!

Kang He could never have imagined that Chen Wu would have a full set of drawings for such a national important weapon, and invest so many resources for it!

In addition to these twenty-six large torsion stone throwers, the products of the emperor who were moved down from the head of Longshan City and the small stone throwers he built earlier were also there, scattered around the large stone throwers. In contrast, this small machine is still equipped with stone bullets, which are responsible for striking and suppressing the officers and soldiers at the head of the city.

"Oh my God!" Some officers and soldiers gasped.

The people who had been laughing at Longshan Mansion's ineffective suppression of bandits had to retract their previous ignorance and arrogance, and sighed: "No wonder Longshan Mansion can't hold it!" These thieves, where did they get so many stone throwers? ”

"Wu'an is in danger."

Pushing out so many stone throwers in one go not surprisingly shocked the defenders at the head of Wu'an City. After resting for two days with the help of heavy rain, the morale of the officers and soldiers had already recovered a lot, but seeing this terrifying scene, almost everyone's faces turned pale, and their morale dropped to freezing point again.

They know that the thieves are coming!

"Attack!"

With a loud shout, the war drums of the coalition army beat on all sides at the same time. In the sound of passionate drums, these siege weapons that suddenly appeared in front of the officials and troops without warning were pushed step by step to two hundred steps below the city.

"Stop them! Trebuchet Attack! Destroy their siege weapons! ”

Kang Ho finally recovered from his shock and stupor, and roared with all his might. His eyes were almost bulging out of their sockets because of his overexcitement, and they looked bloodshot. Although he had a hunch that the thieves were brewing an unprecedented wave of attacks, he did not expect that this wave of attacks would be so terrifying.

What's even more terrifying is that with such amazing preparations, the thief was able to hold back and not use it before.

This forbearance and uncompromising means to achieve the end made Kang He's heart chill. Now, the only thing he is glad about is that the rain two days ago interrupted the thieves' long-planned conspiracy, and gave the officers and soldiers a good opportunity to recuperate. If not......

He couldn't even think about it!

As the order was issued, the soldiers defending the city also realized that the life and death crisis was coming, and began to act in their own duties. Soon, a terrible whistling sound sounded, and the city defense weapons of the officers and soldiers began to strike fiercely.

The first batch of more than ten bed crossbows was the first to start the salvo!

Javelin-like arrows cut through the air and shot at the rebels' engineering battalion. Seeing this, a group of well-trained rebel soldiers, in groups of four, joined forces to raise a heavy shield with two layers of iron on the surface. Ordinary bows and arrows can't penetrate this kind of heavy shield at all, and even the giant arrows fired by the bed crossbow are greatly reduced in power after penetrating this heavy shield.

Although it was difficult for the soldiers with such heavy shields to move, they did not need to move at all, and their duty from the beginning was to stay in front of the formation, to protect the engineering battalion and trebuchets as much as possible.

Although the unfortunate man with the shield was soon shot with the heavy shield, he was soon replaced by a reserve soldier.

"Damn it!"

Seeing that the thieves were so heavily guarded, Kang He's face couldn't help but become embarrassed.

He was well aware that the giant arrows of the bed crossbow could kill, but it was difficult to destroy trebuchets. But with the protection of the heavy shield, the impact of the rebels of the engineering battalion was minimized, and the angle of the trebuchet was being quickly erected and adjusted. If they can't do as much damage as possible before the other side can complete it, then once these trebuchets are put into battle, the officers and troops will face unprecedented losses.

Every officer and soldier in the southern wall prayed that their own stone throwers would destroy the thieves' stone throwers.

Finally, after the bed crossbow, the officer's stone thrower corrected the parameters and also joined the attack.

Dense stone projectiles are smashed!

The officers and soldiers didn't expect the thieves to have so many siege equipment, so almost all the preparations were stone bullets. In this first round of stone bullets, some of them were lucky to be bounced off by the heavy shield because of the angle; Some of them fell into the rebel soldiers, causing tragic casualties, and some did hit Chen Wu's stone thrower, but the effect was not as good as expected. Unless it happens to hit the weak point of the trebuchet, even if a stone projectile weighing two or three catties hits the base, it is difficult to really cause damage.

In the interval between the first round of trebuchets, carpenters from the Craftsman's Bureau, escorted by the rebels, came forward with various tools and prepared materials to repair the only stone-throwing machine that had been damaged by ordinary Cheng dù. (To be continued.) )