Because the city wall was too high, Ma Shixiu and they had no way to climb the city wall, so they could only use bows and arrows to shoot at the palace guards on the city wall for a while.

Although it was a disadvantage to shoot at the city wall from below, fortunately, they were enough to crush the palace guards on the city wall, so although the casualties were relatively large, they also suppressed the guards on the city wall for a while.

However, after waiting for more than half an hour, Hu Zhong and the others, who were hiding in front of the palace gate, still couldn't wait for the city gate to open.

By this time, Ma Shixiu had already realized that something was wrong.

"The bunch of rubbish that went in must have been discovered, and they can't be counted on."

Ma Shixiu looked at the casualties of his subordinates, couldn't help gritting his teeth, and then opened his mouth and ordered: "Go find the ladder, if you can't find it, tear down the beams of the house and make it, and let people make a few battering rams." ”

"Today, it is a pile of human lives, and it has to be taken down by the Chu Palace."

Ma Shixiu, who was ruthless, asked his subordinates to build some relatively simple siege ladders in the shortest time, and then dismantled a roof beam and combined it with the carriage to act as a battering ram.

Looking at the rain of arrows still shooting down from time to time on the city wall, a trace of anger flashed in Ma Shixiu's eyes, he originally thought that it would be easy to take the Chu Palace, especially since he also mentioned that he had arranged dozens of people in the Chu Palace.

These people are all good hands who crawled out of the pile of dead people, and with those waste guards in the Chu Palace, it is impossible to stop them from opening the palace gate.

But now, those dozens of people have been quietly heard from directly, as if they have all been solved, how can they be solved with those wine bags and rice bags in the Chu Palace.

Ma Shixiu's intuition told him that something was wrong today, but he didn't know what was wrong, and the good battle to capture the city turned into a siege battle, which made him extremely irritable for a while.

When the number of siege ladders was almost there, Ma Shixiu didn't come up with any clues, so he simply didn't wait.

"Siege the city, take this wall."

Ma Shixiu, who was full of anger in his heart, didn't bother to care about Zuo Liangyu at this time and asked him to leave a bloodline for the King of Chu, and said directly: "After the city is broken, all personalities will be killed." ”

After more than a dozen siege ladders, the battle between the two sides immediately entered a white heat.

Although they only built some simple siege ladders in a hurry, the problem is that the guards defending the city are also rookies who have never fought before, and they don't know how to defend the city at all, and there are no equipment to defend the city.

And after seeing the siege ladder come up, their first reaction was not to attack the person who pounced on the ladder below, but to try to lift the ladder down.

But the moment the siege ladder hit the city wall, more than a dozen people immediately pounced on it, and with only the little contact point above, how could it be possible to push the ladder.

So after working for most of the day, except for the connection of these two siege ladders that were not tied up and broke directly, the rest of the siege ladders were soon full of soldiers.

"Don't push any more, shoot them with arrows!"

When Zhang Yong saw this scene, he shouted loudly on the city wall, "Go and bring a few people to bring fire oil and vegetable oil and burn them with fire oil!" ”

"In addition, let people demolish a few houses and get some rolling wood and stones up, it's really not good, first demolish the king's rockery."

Unlike those pampered guards, Zhang Yong was also a person who had been on the battlefield in his early years, although because of insufficient preparation, many methods of defending the city could not be used, but he still knew the most basic fire attack.

As for the oil, there is no shortage of this saying in the Chu Wangfu at all.

"The archers don't care about the rest of the place, and knock the people down on the ladder first."

Seeing that those soldiers had already climbed half the distance on the ladder, Zhang Yong knew that the top priority was to shoot down these soldiers who had climbed up first.

Otherwise, once they are allowed to rush up, these guards will surely suffer heavy losses in hand-to-hand combat.

And these guards, who had never been to the battlefield, were now supported by the bounty he had just promised, and if the casualties were too great, I am afraid that they would flee in an instant.

Under the fierce rain of arrows on the city walls, most of the soldiers on the siege ladder were quickly shot down.

But because of the cover of bows and arrows under the city, and there are a lot of siege ladders, it is inevitable that some soldiers will climb up.

Because he was shooting arrows downward on the top of the city just now, and the sky was dark, he couldn't see clearly, so the guards at the head of the city didn't have any psychological pressure.

At this moment, seeing a soldier covered in blood crawling up from the city with a hideous face, looking like a demon asking for his life, the guards at the head of the city were immediately frightened.

"Poof~"

Zhang Yong, who was supervising the battle at the head of the city, took advantage of the soldier's unstable foothold and stabbed him to the ground with a knife.

"What are you doing standing stupidly? Do it!

！ ”

Zhang Yong looked at the guards who were almost stupid, and suddenly felt that his brain hurt.

This group of old soldiers, on weekdays, rely on the majesty of the palace to show off their might, but today they were scared when they only saw a little blood.

But there is no way, the defense of the city still has to rely on them, Zhang Yong was angry, but he still opened his mouth to encourage morale and said: "The prince said, the reward for killing the enemy will be doubled, and if you are unfortunately killed, you will also have a pension of fifty taels of silver!" ”

"Please join me in killing the enemy, or we will all die here after the city is broken."

Maybe it was the silver that worked, or maybe Zhang Yong's death threat was listened to by these guards, in short, after Zhang Yong said this, a powerful combat power suddenly broke out among the guards.

The dozen or so soldiers who had already established themselves at the head of the city were forced to go down by these outburst guards.

As the people behind sent fire oil and other things, and as the flames ignited on the siege ladder, the soldiers who were climbing the siege ladder were directly burned into a mass of coke, and the pressure on the entire city wall was suddenly relaxed.

However, the good times did not last long, although Ma Shixiu and their siege vehicles failed to break through the city gates, the siege ladders were being built in a steady stream.

And the main thing is that the guards of the palace are only guards, not the army, and they do not have so many weapons reserves.

Or in other words, they run out of arrows.

Although Ma Shixiu didn't have many bows and arrows, but in close combat, how could these guards be the opponents of these veterans under Ma Shixiu.

Seeing that the time was approaching the fourth watch, this bloody battle, which lasted for nearly three hours, finally reached the most intense moment.

Countless soldiers followed the siege ladder and killed the city wall, and the guards on the city wall were also red-eyed at this time, desperately slashing at these soldiers who rushed up, and the corpses of both sides were quickly spread on the ground.

Seeing that because the palace guards on the city wall were not strong enough, coupled with the disadvantage of numbers, they had fallen into a disadvantage in this bloody battle, and they were about to be defeated.

In the group of mysterious people who had not moved since they had destroyed Ma Shixiu's internal response at the beginning, someone suddenly said, "The time is almost there, right?" If the fight continues, the palace may really be taken by them. ”

"Well, almost."

The person at the head bowed slightly, and through the faint light on the city, this person was Ding Xiu, a thousand households of Jinyi Wei, "Let the brothers gather, drive down this group of wine bags and rice bags, and let Ma Shixiu and Zuo Liangyu kill each other." ”

In order to be sure, Ding Xiu and the others actually arrived at the Chu Wangfu half a month ago, and then they took advantage of the holy decree to find an excuse casually and stayed directly in the Chu Wangfu with dozens of brocade guards.

Although the king of Chu felt a little strange, he didn't care, after all, there was a holy purpose, and it was impossible for him not to give the emperor's face.

But what he didn't know was that in addition to the dozens of brocade guards on the surface, there were also hundreds of brocade guards, who had infiltrated in various names, both openly and secretly.

It can be said that the nominal ruler of the Chu Wangfu is the King of Chu, but in fact it is controlled by these brocade guards.

Jinyiwei, who has the emperor's order and has no taboos in doing things, is definitely a terrifying existence when he really does things.

The things in the entire palace of the King of Chu, what they want the King of Chu to know, the King of Chu knows, what they don't want the King of Chu to know, the King of Chu will not get any news at all.

And at this moment, seeing that the guards in the Chu Palace's mansion were almost consumed, and the last obstacle to their control of the Chu Palace's mansion was also cleared, they no longer planned to stand idly by.

After all, it was impossible for them to really let Ma Shixiu enter the Chu Palace, in that case, not only would the situation become uncontrollable, but in the end, there might be nothing left of the people in the Chu King's lineage.

All in all, the King of Chu and their Jinyi guards can be killed, but Ma Shixiu and they can't interfere.

Therefore, Ding Xiu directly summoned about 300 Jinyi guards in the palace of the king of Chu and directly killed the city.

Whether it is strength or equipment, the Jinyi Guard is not comparable to the guards in the Chu Palace.

After going up, a short crossbow was fired, and the soldiers who rushed to the city suddenly fell into a large area, and then a group of people stayed behind to load the crossbow arrows, and the rest of the people directly pulled out the embroidered spring knife and killed the remaining soldiers on the city head.

With the addition of this new force, the situation in the city was stabilized in an instant.

And Ma Shixiu, who was under the city, saw that the soldiers were about to take the city, but they were driven down again, and he was immediately furious.

He just wanted the rest of the soldiers to continue to press up, to take down the city wall at any cost, when Hu Zhong, who had been hit by an arrow in his shoulder, suddenly ran over.

"Boss, something is wrong!"

"Huh?"

Ma Shixiu couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, then immediately looked at Hu Zhong and said sharply: "What nonsense are you talking about, what's wrong?" ”

"Something is wrong in the city, something is wrong in the city."

Hu Zhong pointed in the direction outside the palace and said, "We have been fighting for so long, and there is no movement in the city at all, this situation is very wrong, boss." ”

Just now, when Hu Zhong was bandaging his wounds, one of his soldiers suddenly came over to remind him of this.

They attacked the Chu Wangfu with such fanfare, and it was impossible for the defenders in the Wuchang Mansion to have no reaction.

Even if they were stopped by Zuo Liangyu and others, there would definitely be shouts of killing, instead of a silence outside as now.

Coupled with what his soldier told him, Hu Zhong became more and more suspicious that they might have been calculated.

So after thinking about it, he didn't delay at all, and immediately came to report to Ma Shixiu.