Dawn is approaching, and the stars and moon are dim.

At the coldest time of the day, the generals on both sides of the attack and defense began to drink ginger soup to warm up their bodies and prepare for the coming fierce battle.

Li Jie and others once again ordered all guards and teams to inspect their weapons and equipment and all kinds of city defense equipment, and strive to be foolproof.

The people in the city, the foreign merchants who temporarily lived here sent Tang envoys, and the imperial ministers in the imperial city all turned their eyes to the south, a towering city wall about eighteen miles long, containing various emotions.

The cold wind was still blowing, and soon after the east was white, the sun jumped out in a hurry, and the southern suburbs of the city were already covered with black-pressed soldiers and siege equipment.

Except for the neighing of war horses, everything was quiet, and the solemn and spoignant atmosphere was extremely depressing and tense, just waiting for the moment to launch the order.

It seemed that there was a tacit understanding, and the two sides beat the war drums at the same time, and the dull and long sound of the bullhorn echoed in the sky over the entire Chang'an City.

Huang Chao squinted his eyes at the city wall with countless flags fluttering, and drew the golden knife at his waist,

"Siege the city, after the city is broken, you can plunder for three days!"

"Roar~"

As the vanguard, the 30,000 rebels struck the shield with swords, made a "bang" sound, formed dozens of phalanxes, and approached the set goal of Mingdemen step by step!

"Crunch"

The tooth-sour sound of the winch was very abrupt in the drum and horn, and with the "put!" With a shout, a cloud (stone thrower) ignited a stone soaked in sackcloth and threw it into the air, smashing it into the gate of Yanxing Gate.

Subsequently, I don't know how many clouds threw out a blazing fireball, like a meteorite flowing fire, and the battle officially started in the firelight.

"Flags!"

A lieutenant waved his hand and held Li Jie's iron horn, and waved a black flag, and countless curtains were immediately erected above the city.

Also known as the curtain curtain, it is a tall curtain wall made of wood, leather, wet straw and other messy things, similar to the equipment of later construction sites.

The function is to block and cushion this lightweight fireball projectile and reduce your own losses.

The curtain played a significant role, stopping most of the burning fireballs, and a few falling into the streets of the city's houses, setting many houses on fire.

But the people here have long since moved away, and there are no casualties, but they can only watch the fire spread.

After a round of fire, there were all kinds of stones of different sizes, which sank with great force.

In this regard, the role of the curtain is very limited.

One side fell, and the Tang army had already suffered casualties.

Fortunately, the rammed earth wall is still quite strong, although it has been smashed out of many large pits, but it is only tickling for six or seven meters thick.

Huang Chao saw that the trebuchet had little effect, so he no longer insisted, and the flag officer waved the yellow flag, as a tentative 30,000 soldiers holding huge shields, carrying a large number of ladders, buildings and other objects, crossed the moat that had been filled, and finally stepped into the Chang'an defense circle.

Almost at the same time, arrows rained down on both sides.

In an instant, the shadow formed by locust-like arrows covered the sky and the sun, almost making Li Jie, who was standing behind the battlements, unable to see the rebels under the city.

The guards held a strong iron shield to protect Li Jie and other Wenchen, listening to the sound of arrows hitting the iron armor on the shield on their heads, Pei Che and other Wenchen almost all turned pale.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this place is extremely dangerous, please take shelter in the city for a while!"

After all, this group of people is still weak, and they still can't stop the fear in their hearts in the face of being on the front line.

Li Jie is the same, his heart has not been tempered in the real war, and he was just an intern a few days ago.

But he couldn't retreat.

The whole army almost took him as a banner, and the brave King Shou had established great prestige in his heart.

When the two sides almost shot empty of the quiver, the first group of daredevils carried the heavy money given by the Yellow Nest in their arms, and rushed under the city wall with a roar.

Then, the first group of warriors suddenly began to wail and jump, and many of them even sat under the city walls, holding their feet and began to cry out in pain.

The city has long been covered with thistles, which has an unexpected effect.

But this thing can only be regarded as a sneak attack, once exposed, then it will be of little use after that.

"Huha, huha!"

With a loud "crunch" sound, the five-story ladder that made people feel the most palpitations, almost the same height as the city wall, was finally pushed under the city wall!

The ladder is a siege weapon, which is almost a nightmare for the defenders. It is equivalent to erecting a staircase that leads up and down outside the city wall, and several ladders are together, if it is stronger, I am afraid that it will be able to run a horse.

And the role of a building car a stone's throw away is simple and effective.

First, it is conducive to observing the deployment of defenses in the city and finding out the weak points of defense.

The second is that as a mobile battery, seven or eight crossbowmen stood on it, firing arrows in the gaps of the shutters erected in the front, playing the role of high ground suppression.

And the way to deal with these two things, apart from the fire attack and the bed crossbows protruding from the corner towers on both sides, he can be considered to have understood what a real rolling wood stone is.

This is not as casual as throwing stones and logs under the city in film and television dramas.

The soldiers in charge of this area hung a huge piece of wood like a large mace from a huge stone grinder or a large mace-shaped wooden nail, tied the ends with ropes, and rolled down the steps that had been attached to the ladder of the city wall.

Use the huge downward inertia to either kill the siege soldiers on the ladder directly, or force them to jump and fall half to death.

The rope is connected to the winch, and after rolling down, the people behind can pull it back to the city wall and use it again.

If the rope is cut by the other party, then replace it with another one, and so on.

The war of any era is the embodiment of the highest technology of the time, and both sides will do everything they can, and they will use all the methods they can think of without hesitation.

Li Jie smelled the unpleasant mixed smell of fire oil, barbecue, blood, etc., and looked at the dead and wounded soldiers under the city, and sighed in his heart.

"This is the cruelty of the era of cold weapons, people are not directly cut off their heads and happily reincarnated, they are often painful to death, modern civilization, a grenade, people are blown up..."

At this time, a large number of sturdy women came up from the rear carrying wooden barrels, which contained freshly boiled boiling water, and the hair removal drama was officially staged.

The ancients were wise!

No one stupidly poked out of the wall with a basin bucket and splashed it, it was no different from a live target.

Instead, boiling water was poured into a trough behind a small waterwheel, and the same manpower wrenched the small waterwheel and scattered the boiling water on the enemy troops outside the city.

And with wheels and wooden rotors, he moved freely on the wall path that was nearly ten meters wide, and he was shocked to see that he could push wherever there were many people.

It's winter now, in fact, it is more suitable to use cold water, which can not only form an ice slope under the city, break the role of the ladder against the wall, but also make the opposing soldiers cold and sick.

However, the inner city canal that is being excavated is afraid that it will not be able to be dug here for the time being, so it can only be done with boiling water.

He stood upstairs and watched the battle for a long time, and saw a wide variety of defensive techniques and gadgets, such as sheep's horn stones, flails, limes, mullions...

However, in the end, he was dragged into the city tower by his personal guards, which greatly disappointed him.