This morning, Ma Xiaozheng and a group of miscellaneous servants carried the parts of the bed crossbow to the city tower, but under the city wall they encountered the dark yaksha who had not been seen for a long time, at this time she was leading a team of people to lie down in the shaft under the city wall to listen to Weng, Ma Xiao knew that this was to let the people with sensitive ears check whether the enemy army was secretly digging tunnels outside the city. At this moment, the Black Yaksha is dressed more like a man, his figure has lost a lot of weight, he is wearing the leather armor issued by Wu Changcai, the red forehead scarf tied on his head, the fat on his face has disappeared, but there are more traces of knives and axes, it seems that after entering the barracks, Zhang Tong has trained her in martial arts, and now the relationship between him and Zhang Tong is really unpredictable.

The busy Yaksha felt that someone was looking at him, and followed the gaze that found Ma Xiao in the crowd, he didn't recognize it at first sight, and he saw for a long time that he was stealing her alkali wheat cake in the stone city, and he didn't see him grow taller and stronger for half a year, and he was wearing a military uniform like a dog, and he squinted at Ma Xiao and sneered, so frightened that Ma Xiao was beating the drum in his heart, and quickly lowered his head to get busy with the work in his hand, he asked himself that he was also a man who had killed people, even if he was on the battlefield now, he was not afraid, but he knew very well in his heart that such a woman could not be provoked, and must not be provoked。

After carrying the parts up to the city tower, Ma Xiao suddenly found that the soldiers and miscellaneous servants who were originally busy on the city tower all threw down their work, looked outside the city and pointed, and after putting down the things, he also ran to the female wall outside, only to see that the Chu army that was originally standing still was now lining up to approach the city wall, less than ten miles away from the city wall, the black pressure of the Chu army was like a flood overflowing the embankment surging towards Taizhou City, the front of the army was the foot soldiers of the siege, and the cavalry of the pressure was behind, the pennant was displayed, the military formation was uniform, the momentum was magnificent, seeing the army pressing, the patrol on the city tower immediately blew the hornCountless soldiers poured up to the city tower, and several east gate guards, including Zhang Tong, climbed the city tower to observe the movements of the Chu army.

The black military array approached the city wall unhurriedly in the sound of the horn, and more than a dozen huge siege equipment in front of the city gradually entered people's field of vision, like a four-story small building, the Lu bus slowly moved forward under the impetus of everyone, and the catapults that were several zhang long were also supported at several points under the city wall little by little, and the dense siege crossbows appeared from the military formation, and at this time, the south and north of the city also rose from the wolf smoke of warning, obviously the army on three sides marched at the same time.

Peijun also lined up under the command of the generals, set up small stone throwers and bed crossbows, rolling stones and sassalwood were pushed to the side of the female wall and the enemy tower, the crossbowmen were all in place, ready for battle, Ma Xiao and other miscellaneous servants hurriedly carried the remaining bed crossbow parts up the city tower, the craftsmen hurried up the time to install and reinforce, just when everyone was busy preparing for the war, the horse thief secretly raised his head to look at the city, only to see that the army of Chu had advanced to the city less than five miles, the army was facing the city gate, a team of armor soldiers suddenly launched a large four-wheeled wooden cart, covered with red cloth, Pei Jun on the city tower pointed to the four-wheeled cart and discussed again, and after a while, the four-wheeled wooden cart stopped, more than a dozen Chu army foot soldiers pulled off the red cloth covered on the wooden cart, revealing a huge blue and yellow copper gun, seeing the copper gun, the soldiers defending the city let out an exclamation, Ma Xiao has never seen this kind of thing, I don't understand why the soldiers defending the city made such a sigh, at this time someone in the army shouted, "It's a siege cannon, it's a siege artillery", the people who knew the siege cannon in the army were suddenly full of sadness, and many soldiers who heard this name for the first time like Ma Xiao were all at a loss.

A young soldier behind him asked the veteran next to him what a siege cannon was. The veteran lamented and said, "The siege cannon is a siege weapon that uses gunpowder to load cannonballs, and even the heavy city gates and city walls can collapse, and the capital of Peiguo, which has stood for hundreds of years, was broken by this siege artillery."

The young soldier looked incredulous, "There is such a sharp weapon, it looks inconspicuous, why don't we have this thing?"

It is rumored that Chu took the initiative to marry Qi in order to get the siege artillery, and also accompanied the sky-high dowry to exchange a few siege cannons, hey! This battle in Taizhou is worrying!" The veteran sighed and shook his head incessantly, the young soldier was said by the veteran, and a cloud also gathered on his green face.

Ma Xiao was also very surprised in his heart, and thought that relying on this towering city wall could deal with the besieging army, according to this veteran's statement, Taizhou was afraid that the city would be broken today.

After all the equipment on the city tower was installed, all the miscellaneous servants went down to the city tower, and the deputy general below divided the miscellaneous servants and people in the east of the city into several groups, Ma Xiao was divided into the medical group, and the medical group had hundreds of people, who were arranged under the city wall in the east of the city, a team of four people, jointly carrying a stretcher made of vines and bamboo poles, mainly responsible for carrying the wounded soldiers to the hospital for treatment, Ma Xiao was arranged closer to the east city gate, and the other three people in the team were miscellaneous servants of the same age as him.

As soon as the location was found, the siege began, only to hear a long horn outside the city, this horn sound seemed to be able to penetrate the soul of people, many civilians and miscellaneous servants listened to the frightened legs, and then the city tower also sounded the horn and drum sound, listening to the heavy drum, the rhythm of not hurrying and not slowing down the people in the city to calm their hearts.

Suddenly, the sound of "bang, bang!bang!" kept coming from the city wall, thinking that the Chu army outside began to use catapults, and it didn't take long for stones the size of a basin to fall into the city, many houses were smashed out of the pits, and a lot of burning wooden balls fell in, several thatched houses caught fire, and the firefighting teams in the city were in place to put out the fire.

After the stones and fireballs are the arrows in the sky, the people in the city hurriedly find a sheltered place to resist and dodge, some miscellaneous servants and people can't avoid being injured by the arrows, crawling on the ground and wailing, and the real attack outside the city has also begun, at this time the sound of trumpets and drums is drowned out by the attack of the soldiers, as if there are tens of millions of people to rush into the city, the city wall and the ground began to tremble gently, although the people in the city did not stand on the city tower to resist the enemy, but the heart was suppressed by this vibration can not stand it, Ma Xiao is one of them, has never felt such a big battle, through the city wall can also feel the pressure, he began to worry inexplicably whether the city wall can withstand the army outside, as if there was a stone pressing on his chest, he was almost unable to breathe normally, and soon the siege arrows continued to shoot over the city wall into the city, and it was obvious that the enemy army had attacked the city.

Not long after, there are wounded soldiers on the city tower were put in the basket down, the miscellaneous servants and the people under the root of the wall hurriedly carried the wounded soldiers to the city's infirmary for treatment, the people who were wounded at the beginning were all arrow wounds, most of them were ordinary bow and arrow arrow wounds, and saved, a few people were shot by the giant arrows used in the siege crossbow, basically they were cut off, one of them was actually inserted into the shoulder ribs by a javelin, Ma Xiao was shocked after reading it, this Taizhou city is an important town, the city wall is not only wide, the height is ten zhang high, such a high city wall also has someone who can throw the javelin up, Ma Xiao himself has also practiced the javelin for a long time, see that this person's injury has penetrated the shoulder ribs, indicating that the bidding man is fierce, it was so shocking that they suppressed the fear in their hearts, and a group of four of them carried a wounded soldier on a stretcher and hurried to the infirmary.

Just ran out a few steps to hear someone on the city tower shouting to the city, "Attack the ---- city ---- cannon!", just after shouting a loud bang, like a thunder explosion in the flat ground, the soldiers blocking the city gate were knocked down, a row of soldiers stuck to the city gate fainted on the spot, and the rest were bleeding from the mouth and nose, the injuries were not light, the city gate was crumbling, but it was still not opened, and the soldiers behind hurriedly rushed forward to resist the city gate.

Ma Xiao and the people of the same team were relatively close to the city gate, and they were shocked by the huge roar, and all four of them sat down on the ground, with a scream in their ears, and the wounded soldiers were also thrown on the ground and screamed in pain, now he finally understood why the veterans on the city tower were worried about this siege cannon, this is not manpower at all, it is simply divine power, and when he turned his head and saw that the city gate had not been broken, he felt a little at ease, but he already doubted how long the city gate could be guarded.

There are also several groups of people around who were shaken down, among them, a few relieved handymen and civilians threw down the wounded soldiers and ran to the city, they were so frightened that they left it alone, after the roar, Ma Xiao and several other handymen quickly got up and carried the wounded soldiers to continue to run to the hospital, after being baptized by the loud sound of the siege artillery, the pressure on the chest seemed to disappear, and he no longer did unnecessary worry, and now the task was to quickly transport the wounded soldiers to the city.

There are more and more wounded soldiers from the city tower, and the miscellaneous servants below are all at trot to barely transport over, less than a quarter of an hour, there are soldiers with knife wounds and gun stab wounds are tied down, and even soldiers fall directly from the city tower, there are Pei soldiers, there are also Chu soldiers, it seems that there have been Chu soldiers with siege ladder ants attached to the city tower.

Ma Xiao didn't care so much, he carried away the wounded soldiers of Peiguo when he saw them, and when he saw the wounded soldiers of Chuguo, he pulled out his dagger and mended the knife, even if he was motionless, so as not to suddenly "cheat the corpse". In this increasingly chaotic battle situation, Ma Xiao's group of people ran back and forth between the city wall and the hospital to transport the wounded soldiers, and after a while, more than 30 wounded soldiers were transported, and more than a dozen enemy soldiers were mended, but just after carrying the wounded a few times, the three young miscellaneous servants in the same group with him finally couldn't withstand the pressure and collapsed, leaving the wounded soldiers and running back to the city, Ma Xiao had to re-team with the remaining miscellaneous soldiers, and only two people in a group, the chaotic situation made Ma Xiao's brain gradually blank, and his hands and feet gradually began to weaken, and he slipped his hands several times and fell the wounded soldiers, but he couldn't stop, he was like a puppet that was lifted on the line and didn't know how to stop, his limbs moved mechanically, but it became more and more difficult。