On the ladder, the soldiers of the Jin army rushed up and quickly climbed towards the head of Suzhou City. The defenders at the head of the city fought desperately to defend the city, smashing them with stones, throwing them down with rolling logs, and pushing them away from the walls with long wooden poles against ladders, using all means to withstand several rounds of attacks.

At the same time, the second echelon of the Jin army, 15,000 soldiers and horses, also rushed to the city of Suzhou, they brought more ladders, but also brought more opportunities to break through the city wall.

After adding more than 100 siege ladders, it was obvious that the number of defenders at the head of the city was seriously insufficient. Less than an hour before the siege was underway, the first Jin soldier climbed to the top of the city. Although he was quickly slashed by the soldiers defending the city, his breach of the walls signaled that the defenders were no longer able to defend the walls.

Li Yuan stood upright on the tower of Suzhou City from the beginning to the rest of his life, and his eyes took in all the situations above and below the city.

The first Jin soldier to attack the city is a sign, that means to take strong action immediately to repel this wave of attack, otherwise it will not be long before more and more soldiers will attack the city wall, and the situation will become uncontrollable, and looking at these dense soldiers climbing up the city wall like ants, this is also the time to use secret weapons.

"Tell them to taste the mallet." Li Yuan ordered in a deep voice.

The herald hurriedly spread the order all over the city, but seeing that Li Yuan personally got up and came to the top of a battlement, he slowly drew the long sword at his waist. There was a flash of cold light, and a thick cable tied to a battlement was severed.

At the same time, there was a loud scraping sound along the city wall, and a large wooden stake about a foot long began to sweep along the outer wall of the city wall like a pendulum, which had been hanging on the outer wall of the city wall and tied to two ropes as thick as a millstone on the two ends of the battlements.

Like a huge wooden hammer, the power of the giant wooden swing swept through all the ladders built on the wall within its range, sweeping away several lice-like ladders that covered the besieging Jin army, and the soldiers on it flew into the air with screams. Those who were directly hit by the giant tree broke their tendons in the air and lost their lives, and those who were not hit also fell heavily under the city of Suzhou with the slide of the ladder and fell into the crowd.

The pendulum-like giant tree was not the only one in front of Li Yuan, there were hundreds of such giant trees hanging on the battlements of the outer city wall, and after Li Yuan cut the rope of a giant tree, the ropes everywhere were cut one after another.

Suddenly, hundreds of giant trees on the city wall began to fall one after another, and hundreds of hammer-like bells swept and swayed on the outer wall of the city wall, and then there was a jaw-dropping moment. These giant trees flew hundreds of ladders on the city walls horizontally, turning thousands of besieging Jin soldiers into trapezes with no place to stay.

The next moment, the screams were endless, and thousands of Jin soldiers flew up like mud pills, falling directly from the cloud ladder to the bottom of the city, smashing the Jin soldiers who were attacking the city below with a roar, thousands of people broke their tendons and fractures, and hundreds of people died instantly.

In this short period of time, the squirming and crawling siege Jin soldiers and horses on the city wall and countless ladders seemed to be erased by a big hand, instantly making the Suzhou city wall become refreshing and clean, and only a dozen siege soldiers on the ladders who had escaped sporadically stood on the ladders and watched all this trembling.

The casualties fell second, and the key was that at the important time when the siege was about to succeed, almost all the ladders were knocked down at once by this sudden pendulum-like wooden hammer, which made people a little overwhelmed.

The defenders at the head of the city took advantage of the chaos under the city to frantically smash a round of rolling wood and stones, smashing the soldiers of the Jin army who were in chaos below. The already critical situation was eased in an instant. If the Jin army wants to organize the siege again, it will take at least half an hour to reorganize.

Due to the limited time, the power of these giant trees is actually not strong enough, in fact, according to Li Yuan's idea, it is necessary to nail iron nails on these giant trees to make the shape of a huge mace.

In that way, as long as the soldiers of the Jin army who come into contact with the giant trees will not be able to survive, there will be deep blood holes on their bodies, and after nailing the pointed iron nails, these giant trees can also form a thorny barrier on the outer edge of the city wall, making it difficult for the siege soldiers to cross.

All of these assumptions failed due to the time constraints, but even so, the terrifying effect of the giant wooden pendulum still stunned everyone

Tongue-stuttering. The flames of passion that the Jin army sparked by the imminent collapse of the city walls were ruthlessly extinguished by these monsters, leaving the ground full of broken soldiers and endless panic.

"Stoned these *** guys!" The morale of the Wuyue defenders at the head of the city was greatly boosted, and they roared and shouted to smash the rolling wood and stones under the city.

The Jin army under the city wall was smashed to the point that there was nowhere to stay, and some of the siege soldiers began to turn around and run back, which made the Jin army's military spirit even more shaken. Many soldiers stood bewildered at the bottom of the city, not knowing whether to run back or continue the siege.

On the other side of the moat, thousands of archers stood in formation, facing some of the besieging Jin soldiers who fled head-on, and they used their bows and arrows to tell them that no deserters were allowed in this battle. The arrows whined, and the fleeing Jin soldiers were all killed by the oncoming arrows, and they escaped the destruction of the rolling wood and stones at the head of the city, but they could not escape their own bows and arrows.

"Xu Dashuai has an order, there is no advance or retreat in the siege today, and those who dare to retreat will be killed!" A Jin general who led the archers shouted.

The Jin army began to understand their situation, and they knew that today's battle was either to die or to invade Suzhou, and there was no third choice. These thousands of archers are not only a powerful force to suppress the enemy, but also a retainer of war, and any opportunistic greed for life and fear of death will be punished, and they have no choice but to turn around and fight again.

In the Jin army, the war drums rumbled again. After witnessing the huge defeat of the siege, Xu Ruchang made a desperate bet and ordered the last nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses to be thrown into the siege. This was not only to strengthen the force of the all-out siege, but also to convey to everyone that the battle must be won.

Soon, the last group of Jin soldiers and horses swarmed with ladders, and there was no need to maintain any square formation to bluff people, what to do now was to rush to the city as quickly as possible, and reorganize the siege with more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under the city.

More than a dozen city-rushing vehicles were also rumbled towards the city gate, and dozens of bed crossbows also approached the city gate and began to shoot fiercely up and down the city tower. After being swept away by the siege soldiers and horses by the means of the Wuyue defenders' giant wooden pendulum, the Jin army successfully organized a more ferocious attack.

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