Qiu Feng, the commander of the Jin army, sat on his horse and looked at Luo Jingcheng, who was still smoking. Behind him, the Dead Sea-like array of Jin troops stood silently.

A man dressed as a civilian official rode slowly towards Luojing City from the Jin army, and there was a guard on horseback behind him who waved a flag for him, neither of them was carrying weapons, it seemed that they should have come to persuade him to surrender, Qiu Feng planned to persuade his old friend for the last time before attacking.

However, Li Mao didn't want to admit his feelings, and he didn't bother to make noise with the people of the Jin Kingdom who came over, so he walked under his own big bow, took his strong bow from the hand of the guard beside him, and put on a carved wolf tooth arrow, holding the bow in his left hand and leading the string with his right hand, and the waist horse calmly carried the strength on the shoulders and arms, and slowly pulled a ten-stone strong bow like a full moon, he squinted and looked at the opposite side, and the bow in his hand adjusted an angle up and down to loosen the thumb of his right hand, and with a "hum" sound, the sharp bowstring almost cut the leather wrapped around his thumb.

Arrows go like shooting stars!

The civil official of the Jin State who came to persuade him to surrender was still worried in his heart, complaining that Qiu Shuai should not let him do this fruitless errand, that Li Mao Lao'er was stubborn, the last time Qiu Shuai's handwritten letter didn't even look at it, he shot it back directly, and almost shot the person who wrote the book to death, Qiu Shuai also complained that the person who wrote the book was reckless, and pulled the arrow out of the flesh directly, almost killing the person who wrote the book. Now it's his turn to be unlucky, the bad guy Li Mao is also a famous general of Liang Guo, where is he who can talk with a weak red mouth and white teeth, I don't know how to save my life after defeat, and I am cheap to be beaten by dozens of military sticks.

Suddenly heard the loud shouting of his own people behind him, and he didn't hear what he was shouting behind for a while, and when he was about to turn his head to look, he caught a glimpse of a sharp edge coming straight to him, and he was about to shout in horror, and he saw that the sharp "click" sound went straight into the head of the war horse under his crotch, and the half of the arrow and the tail of the arrow eagle fluttered hideously, like a poisonous snake eager to completely burrow into the horse's head.

The horse immediately stood up, and its two front hooves kicked in the air like a madness, and with a neigh, it fell with a bang. The civil official's face turned pale, and he clung to the horse's neck, and as the horse fell, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in one of his legs and a faint "click" from fear.

This Laoshzi's errand can finally be explained, but it would be nice if he could faint at this time, but damn it, he was sane and clear, and he could only savor the pain that went straight to the bone marrow, while shouting "Help me" in a voice that changed tone in pain! ”

At this time, a Jin man had already rushed out, moved the dead horse away, and carried the colorless official who was pressed down back to the army for medical treatment.

"General Marksman!" There was a thunderous cheer above the city.

Li Mao shouted: "The two countries are fighting each other, and they will not be killed!" Let's leave him alive and take it later, the sons and daughters are ready to fight, don't let the children of the Jin Kingdom underestimate my Liang warriors! As soon as he finished speaking, the sergeants at the head of the city burst out in unison with a "no"!

Li Mao handed over the longbow in his hand to his soldiers, and when the arrow was shot, he felt the blood in his chest surge, "It's old!" He sighed with some sadness in his heart. When he was young, he could fire eight arrows in a row, and let the enemy general give the head in the army, and now he feels a little soreness in his arm when he shoots an arrow, and he can't accept old age. Before he could clean up his feelings, he saw his grandson Li Jian looking at him eagerly, his eyes were full of admiration, and he reached out and stroked Li Jian's head with a wave in his heart.

Qiu Feng saw all this arrow in his eyes, and muttered to himself: Don't reduce the year, don't reduce the year! Then he said to one of the generals next to him, "Let's start!" ”

The dark and heavy horn sound sounded from the Jin army array, continuous and long, dull and coercive, enveloping the entire Jin army array. At the sound of the horn, in front of a giant drum more than two people high, a Jin army general slowly removed his armor, and walked up to the wooden frame of the drum with two drumsticks like war hammers, and the surrounding soldiers looked in awe at the knotted muscles on the general's body and the staggered scars. As the horn fell, the general of the Jin army shouted and smashed the drumstick on the drum surface.

With a "bang", the army stood solemnly.

"Bang" sounded again, and the mountains and rivers shook.

With the third sound of "bang", the heavens and the earth changed color.

After the general slammed the drumstick more than a dozen times, dozens of big drums followed under the wooden mallets of the Jin army, and the slow and dull drum sound came out of the Jin army array like a cow's roar before the sky fell.

A heavy drum beat like a big iron mallet forged into the hearts of all the soldiers, smashing away the fear and hesitation in their hearts one by one, and forging the hearts of the soldiers hard and resolute one by one.

The soldiers felt the heat in their hearts shaken by the sound of the drum, and a boundless murderous aura slowly rose from the bottom of their hearts. Every now and then there was an abrupt trumpet, high-pitched and agitated, like the last roar of a warrior before he fell to the ground. Every time the horn sounded, the soldiers felt that the murderous aura in their hearts was teased and raised.

The shield slapped by the soldier with the sword and shield, and the spear-wielding soldier raised his spear with both hands and fell heavily to the ground, all to the beat of the drum. Huge waves of sound drummed in all directions, but they could not hide the roar of the giant drum.

I don't know which general yelled the word "kill", hoarse and desolate!

Dozens of stone throwers were launched at the same time, and dozens of fire bombs rose into the air with black smoke in a "clang-clang" sound, and went straight to Luojing City in the air.

The soldiers in the first few rows held large shields, and the soldiers in the back followed closely. A tall chariot built by the craftsmen of the Jin army slowly moved forward under the rotation of the iron-clad logs, and one hundred and ten Jin soldiers desperately pushed it towards the gate of Luojing City. A large number of ladders to climb the city are surrounded by many soldiers, and they also have to use all their strength to make the ladders slowly advance towards the city wall, in addition to the ladders, there are countless long ladders carried by the soldiers and mixed in the queue.

The stone bullet landed at the head of Luojing City, and a "boom" sound was mixed with the screams of Liang Jun. I heard the "clang" sound of the stone throwing machine again, and the stone bullet swept overhead with a "whin" sound, and the soldiers in front had already raised their shields, walking more and more cautiously, and their eyes were fixed on the Liang soldiers at the pheasant moat at the head of the city.

The arrows of the Liang army suddenly poured heavy rain, on the broad city wall, with a command to rise up a piece of arrows, obliquely flew upwards and then fell obliquely into the dense Jin army, and deliberately staggered the first few rows of Jin troops holding shields, as the arrow rain fell, the sharp arrows broke through the armor and went straight into the flesh and blood, and the pieces of Jin soldiers were shot like hedgehogs without dividing their heads and faces, and the screams suddenly rang out.

At this time, the spear crossbow in Luojing City did not fire a spear-like giant arrow, but fired jackdaw arrows, and each time it was fired, forty or fifty arrows flew out, and when they fell, there would be no one standing in a small school-like land.

A Liang army general stood on a high place in the city, watching the Jin army, he took out a bull's horn from his bosom and put it in his mouth to blow, although the sound could not cover the sound of the fight, but it could be heard clearly everywhere in the city, this was the order to launch the stone thrower in the city. Suddenly, heavy fire bombs within the city wall rose from everywhere and smashed into the attacking Jin army in unison. Luojing City was already on the high side, and outside the city was a gentle slope, and the fire bombs fell into the Jin army, smashed the flesh and blood in all directions, and then rolled down the slope at high speed, and the limbs were broken and wailed in the place where they passed.

Finally, the Jin army approached the city wall, carrying a long ladder, which was the lightest of all siege equipment, and the rest of the rushing carts and ladders were still slowly approaching. The arrows of the Liang army were fierce, and the long ladder that was originally carried by a dozen people was now only five or six people left, and the rest all fell on the road.

These men began to work together to put a long ladder on the city wall, and the archers of the Jin army saw that they were building a ladder and shot arrows at that section of the city to suppress the Liang army on the city. After the long ladder was erected, a Jin soldier carried a long knife and climbed up, the first to climb the city is a great achievement, the reward is rich, and when he just showed his head on the city wall to observe, there was already a spear stabbed into the flesh of his face, and the Jin army who was in pain screamed and turned down. Without waiting for the Jin army below to climb up again, a long pole stretched out from the city and knocked down the long ladder in one fell swoop.

But as the first long ladder reached the city wall, soon the second and third long ladders began to be erected under the city wall, and finally there were brave Jin soldiers who jumped on the wall of Luojing City, they held shields and brandished weapons, and slashed and killed the surrounding Liang army, and finally they were either shot and fell down with arrows, or they were chopped into several sections by the Liang army who surrounded them, but in the end they bought precious time for the Jin army that continued to climb up the ladder below.

Li Jian saw that a weakly guarded city wall had climbed up the ladder, and several Jin troops cut down the Liang army guarding it, but there were still Jin troops on the ladder who kept climbing up, and without saying hello to Li Mao, he took a small group of Liang troops with him to recapture that section of the city wall.

Everyone in the Liang army knew the general Li Mao, and naturally they also recognized this half-grown child who was not far from Li Mao, and knew that he was the grandson of the general. The general personally lost the stone to command at the head of the city, and his grandson was not a bad breed, and the half-grown child actually carried a sword and rushed to the front to fight, and the Liang soldiers were greatly encouraged, and all the Jin troops who climbed the city wall were cut down after a fight, and the long ladder was also drawn up to the city by them. This time, Li Jian beheaded two Jin soldiers alone, and killed one with others, splashing blood.

Li Mao was worried and relieved when he saw it, and he hurriedly selected a few capable ones from his personal guards to let them protect Li Jian closely.

A group of Liang soldiers were transferred from the city, holding spears and shields, making it even more difficult for the Jin army to gain a foothold.

The Jin army under the city covered the arrows shot from the city with a shield wall composed of three or four layers of shields, and when the clanging sound stopped for a while, the shield wall separated, and the Jin army archers behind shot towards the Liang army in the city with a bow and crossbow, and then hurriedly hid back under the cover of the shield and re-drew the arrows to wind, and so on.

Suddenly, heavy stone bullets flew out of the city in a row, and fell into the most dense place of the shield without warning, rolling all the way to destroy the decay in the Jin army, and the Jin army's soldiers were shocked and the formation was suddenly chaotic, dodging in all directions, and then a rain of arrows fell on the head of the Jin army in a panic. After the stone bullet passed, the Jin army who came up behind immediately picked up the shield with flesh and blood from the pile of corpses and raised it in his hand to continue to block the rain of arrows.

The Liang army reloaded the spear and crossbow with spear-like giant arrows, heard a sharp trumpet, and shot at the shield like the iron wall under the city, a salvo almost opened the shield protection of the entire Jin army's forward, countless people's limbs were firmly nailed to the ground together with the shield, often a giant arrow nailed three or four people, in the Jin army's miserable howl that was not like a human voice, the Liang army archers seized the opportunity and shot a dense rain of arrows, shooting down a large area of the Jin army that had lost its cover.

The Jin army's ladder to the city was finally pushed to the bottom of the city, and it is difficult to know how many batches of soldiers pushed the ladder along the way. After the ladder stopped, a Jin soldier drew out a long knife to cut off two thick ropes on the ladder, the front end of the ladder was full of arrows on the erection of the wooden baffle and fell on the city wall, the whole ladder was built into a slope that can go up to the city, the Jin army near the ladder cheered, was shouting and jumping up the ladder to the head of the city, when I saw a few Liang soldiers carrying a piece of log to the ladder to put a push, and suddenly rushed in front of the Jin army in horror and shouted, "Rolling wood!" ”

The heavy rolling wood was full of blade iron thorns, and the place where it rolled was a blur of flesh and blood, and before the Jin army could use the ladder to enter the city again, several canisters of fire oil smashed on the ladder in the city, the jars were shattered, and the fire oil flowed everywhere, and then a torch was thrown over, and suddenly the whole ladder was boiling and burning.

There were still Jin soldiers who were not afraid of death, taking advantage of the fact that the ladder had not been burned, rushed to the city from the flames, and fought with the Liang army with a body full of flames.

A general of the Liang army looked coldly at the more and more Jin troops gathered under the city, and under his order, the Liang army smashed countless small jars, and after the jars broke, countless fine white powder spread, and the Jin army who was recruited covered their heads and eyes and kept screaming in pain.

The rushing cart of the Jin army finally approached within a few feet of the city gate, and the ridge-like baffle was covered with a thick layer of animal skin, covered with wet cloth and mud, and naturally it was also full of arrows. Countless Jin soldiers rushed over, holding the shield in their hands to block the arrows and falling rocks on the city for the soldiers who pushed the rushing car, and after the rushing car and the city gate were aligned, the Jin soldiers under the baffle worked together to push the heavy hitting wood backwards, until the iron chain hanging the hitting wood made a "creaking" sound and then let go together, and the impact angle of the iron at the front end of the collision wood hit the city gate heavily, and the city gate shook endlessly. After a few strokes, I saw that there was a viscous liquid poured down in several holes in the city gate, and the city smashed down the cans of fire oil as if it didn't need money, and as a few torches fell, a fire broke out at the city gate, and most of the soldiers in the car could not run out and were scorched inside.

Qiu Feng looked at the battlefield expressionlessly, the car had already burned, dozens of ladders were already in the flames, and most of the soldiers sent out to attack the city had also been damaged, and now he could only climb up the city with a long ladder, striving to rush to the city and cut a knife or two before being shot to death.

On this first day, it was impossible to break through Luojing City, which Qiu Feng knew in his heart, and it would not be possible to change to other Liang generals to defend the city, not to mention that it was the general Li Mao inside, forget it, anyway, there was still time, seeing that the sky was approaching evening, Qiu Feng sent an order to the generals around him to let the soldiers besieging the city retreat.

When the Liang army in the city saw the Jin army retreating, they immediately cheered at the head of the city, and shouted fun and insults to the departing Jin army, while the Jin soldiers returned with hatred.