Qingji's military deployment is very interesting and can be described as of profound significance.

What is the purpose of letting Zheng Jun and Zhou Shi capture the cities of Wei, Zhi, Linghu, and Dong that border the Qin and Jin countries?

This can be seen from the place name.

These places are all fiefs of the Zhi family and the Wei family, and they were originally the fiefs of the Linghu family and the Dong family.

Qingji also asked Zihu to lead the Qin army and the Rongdi coalition army to attack the land of southern Jin bordering the Zhou royal family......

Aren't you afraid that these people will have conflicts in the future?

Don't worry.

Anyway, Qingji doesn't care.

If the land is lost, the people and the land are lost; If people lose land, people and land will survive.

Now Qingji has little interest in the cities and lands of the Jin Kingdom.

The main thing is that these cities and lands were captured by the Wu army, and it is unlikely that they can be defended in the future......

Why should Qingji find himself boring?

Moreover, Qingji was also to prevent the war from being unfavorable, so the Qin army and the Zheng army would each divide up part of the Jin kingdom's cities and lands, and then go home.

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The time entered the nineteenth year of King Qingji of Wu, that is, in 495 BC, at the beginning of the seventh lunar month.

Under Qingji's orders, the coalition army attacked the city all the way, quickly conquered the cities of Wei, Zhi, and Anyi in the south of the Jin Kingdom, and surrounded the capital of the Jin Kingdom.

More than a dozen cities south of the muddy water have been captured by the coalition forces.

However, Qingji did not rashly give the order and launched an attack on Jiangdu.

Qingji chose to send soldiers and horses along the Fenshui River to the north, all the way to occupy Pingyang, Jia, Kundu and other cities along the coast, in order to cut off Jiangdu's contact with the outside world.

Jiangdu, that is, Xintian, is the current capital of the Jin Kingdom.

Since the establishment of the Jin Kingdom, the capital has been moved several times, and in the past, the king of the king Feng Shu Yu Yu Yu was in the Tang Dynasty, and his son Xie (also known as "Xie's father") migrated to Jinshui, and the country name was also changed to Jin.

When the Marquis of Jin Xiao, the capital was moved to Yuyi.

After Quwo Daiyi, Jin Xiangong moved the capital to Jiang, and Beidu Quwo.

To the generation of Jin Jinggong, the capital of Jin was moved to Xintian, and Xintian was ordered to be the capital of Jiang, and the original "Jiang" was renamed "Ji County".

"Kill!"

After completing the siege of Jiangcheng, Qingji finally gave the order to siege the city.

"Winter! Winter! Winter! ”

Tens of thousands of soldiers of the coalition army, under the urging of the sound of war drums, rushed to the city wall of Jiangdu with high faces.

The coalition soldiers all over the mountains are like a vast ocean, and like black clouds crushing the city and trying to destroy it!

"Shoot the arrows!"

The soldiers of the Jin army, who had already been at the head of the city, immediately opened their bows and arrows, and threw waves of arrows at the attacking enemy.

"Hugh Hugh!"

The dense number of arrows, like locusts crossing the border, quickly obscured half of the dome, and then fell together.

"Ahh

"Poof!"

For a while, blood splattered everywhere, and the screams were endless.

The soldiers of the coalition army, who could not be guarded, fell in a pool of blood after being hit by arrows one after another.

Some of the soldiers who were lucky, or who reacted quickly enough, picked up their shields to resist, barely able to block the mortal wounds.

It's just that the Jin army's arrows are still sharp, and even if some soldiers are not shot on the spot, they will be missed by the arrows in the eyes, arms, shoulders and other parts, wailing.

"Rush forward!"

"Kill!"

After surviving several rounds of arrow rain attacks of the Jin army, the soldiers of the coalition army finally set up a cloud ladder and began to climb towards the city.

However, the Jin soldiers were also proficient in defending the city.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Hugh Hugh!"

As soon as the offensive and defensive battles began, it seemed that they had already entered a white-hot stage.

The Jin soldiers, who were good at archery, stretched out their bows and arrows, constantly aimed at the enemy, and then shot them one by one.

At the head of the city, some Jin soldiers were lifting stones and rolling logs, and smashed them down at the enemy on the ladder.

"Ahh

"Poof!"

The soldiers of the coalition who were hit by the rocks and rolling logs screamed without exception, and the whole person fell down and was smashed into a meat pie!

There were even some unlucky soldiers who suffered and fell down the ladder themselves, either dead or injured......

At the head of the city, the Jin army boiled pot after pot of boiling water, and once they saw the enemy climbing up the ladder, the soldiers around them would pick up the pot and spoon and pour a spoonful of hot water head-on.

"Ugh!"

The results are predictable.

The coalition soldiers who were doused with boiling water let out a terrible scream like killing a pig, and then the whole person fell like a kite with a broken string.

"Peng! Peng! Peng! ”

Under the head of the city, the soldiers of the coalition army were already pushing the ram of the city, and they were slamming the gate of Jiangcheng again and again.

They shouted trumpets and pushed the ram with all their might, as if they were going to smash a hole and break through the gates of Jiangdu.

"Hugh Hugh!"

A burst of arrows came indiscriminately, and many of the soldiers had already fallen in a pool of blood and died of exhaustion.

More soldiers were not afraid of death to go up, took over the handle of the ram, and continued to pound the city gate hard.

The resistance of the Jin army was extremely strong, but the coalition army was not vegetarian.

Under the Chinese army of the coalition army, Qingji stood on top of the chariot, looking at the tragic battle situation in Jiangcheng, he couldn't help frowning.

It is worthy of being the capital of an old hegemonic power, and the solidity of Jiangcheng is no less than that of Yingdu of Chu in the past......

Previously, the combined forces of the Fan clan, the Zhongxing clan and the Rong Di clan had attacked Jiangcheng, but they could never conquer it, which shows that Jiangdu is indeed a city that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

However, the Wu army has relatively sharp siege equipment, can't it conquer Jiangcheng?

"Let the trebuchet get on!"

"No!"

With Qingji's order, the coalition soldiers who were still besieging the city suddenly retreated like a tide as if they had been amnestied, leaving only hundreds of corpses behind......

The trebuchet of the Wu army was also pulled to the battlefield.

To be precise, not only the trebuchets of the Wu army, but also the rest of the countries have imitated the trebuchets of the Wu State and created their own trebuchets.

Now, a full 300 trebuchets have been placed outside Jiangcheng, where the Jin army's bows and crossbows cannot reach.

The trebuchet was invented by Qingji, and like the crossbow machine, it was introduced in advance.

The trebuchet of this era belongs to the human trebuchet.

Use manpower to pull the tips attached to the crossbar at a place far away from the catapult, and throw the stone projectile, which is divided into single and multiple pins.

The tip of the cannon is erected on a wooden frame, one end is tied with a rope to hold the holster containing the stone projectile, and the other end is tied with many ropes to facilitate human pulling.

The maximum is thirteen, and a maximum of 500 people are required to cast it.

Of course, the streamlined trebuchet does not require so much manpower.

"Put!"

"Hugh Hugh Hugh—"

For a time, the rocks pierced the air.

Three hundred trebuchets threw a large number of stone projectiles, and the dense stone projectiles quickly smashed on the city wall.

"Boom!"

Stone projectiles flew, and the smashed city wall was pitted and crumbling.

On the top of the city, the panicked soldiers of the Jin army hurriedly raised their shields and tried to resist the impact of stone bullets, but they were also either dead or wounded, and mourning was everywhere.

"Wow!"

"Peng!"

The powerful impact of the stone bullet directly distorted and deformed the shield, and the soldier holding the shield couldn't help but wail, and his arm was almost crushed and fractured......