On the third day of the battle, before the day was completely light, the trebuchets of the state army had already begun to bombard the walls of the city of Gauntau. At this point, the real attack and defense of the gall pottery city kicked off.

For Wang Rong, if he can hit the other party through the crushing of technology, he will never fight for that senseless casualty.

At the head of the entire gall pottery city, smoke and dust were billowing out, and there was smoke and dust from stone bullets and fire oil everywhere. One after another, the overwhelming stone bullets slammed into the city, and the entire city was filled with screams and chaos.

Although the Ji soldiers in the city of Gaunt Tao yesterday saw the power of the trebuchet of the Bingzhou army, but today they personally felt the power of this devastating and decaying, and Zhao Gang finally understood why the camp outside the city only lasted less than two hours before it was lost.

The catapult on the head of the gall Tao City had been well covered, but Zhao Gang did not dare to order the catapult to return fire, because he was afraid that after exposing the target, the catapult position would become the prey of the state army.

He could only order half of the Ji defenders at the head of the city to find cover and hide behind the city wall; Half of them went down and hid in the cave of the city gate. As for fighting back, it is simply impossible.

Under the continuous bombardment of the catapults of the Bingzhou army, the city walls of the city of Gaunt Tao have become a sea of fire.

I saw the banner of the middle army of the Bingzhou Army waving, and thousands of people in front of the formation carried flying ladders, pushed cloud ladders, and rushed to the gall Tao City to kill.

These infantry soldiers who were attached to the siege of the city were not the Bingzhou army, but the Ji *** soldiers who surrendered to the Bingzhou army before, about 20,000 people. Wang Rong handed over these people to Yuan Tiangang for command, because in the siege of the city, General Xiandeng Lang and Xiandeng Brigade were the most professional in the Bingzhou army.

Of course, these surrendered Ji soldiers did not have an official identity, they only existed as servant troops. The reason why they were not released after their surrender was, on the one hand, considering that after all, they had undergone complete military training and had higher combat skills than ordinary people, and their rash release would bring serious security problems to the local government; On the other hand, they are afraid that they will flee back to the Ji army and take up arms again, which is a disguised enemy

In order to deplete the strength of the servant army, this kind of ant-attached siege work was naturally carried out by them. Wang Rong promised the servant soldiers that as long as he made meritorious service in the process of attacking the Ji State, he would be able to enter the military status of the state, and he could also receive the title of knighthood and become a real person from the state.

The household registration and official titles of the state are still very attractive to these people, especially some ordinary people in the Hebei country. Since he can serve the state, who can look down on the Ji country on the verge of extinction.

At this time, the ditches, fences, and obstacles in front of the city had been destroyed, and the moat had been filled out of the channel to cross the river. Therefore, the servant sergeants carried the flying ladder, pushed the ladder and rushed all the way forward, and soon set up the flying ladder and the cloud ladder at the head of the city of Gaunt.

Wang Rong looked at the servant army that had climbed the city wall, and did not order the catapults to stop attacking, but ordered the catapult soldiers to extend the attack into the city of Gaunt.

At the same time, he also ordered the dispatch of dozens of wells to assist the servant army in attacking the city, and the crossbowmen of the Bingzhou army on the wells could effectively suppress the archers of the Ji army at the head of the city.

Among the various units of the servant army, the first to attack was the Zhongshan County Surrender Army, which formed a brigade led by Zhen Chongren. Since the surrender and annexation of the state, the Zhen family of Wuji County has been completely tied to the chariot of the state, and Zhen Chongren's opponent has become Xue Tingshan, the general of Changshan County, who is also a general, and he wants to compete with the other party for Wang Rong's attention every moment.

At this time, Zhen Chongren's subordinates have climbed the city from flying ladders and cloud ladders, and the defenders at the head of the city of Gall Tao City have no time to resist because they have avoided stone bullets before, and many servant soldiers have already climbed up the city along the ladder.

Guarding the head of the city was Zhao Gang's henchman Song Mingbu, who hurriedly ordered his subordinates to enter the city, and then fought a bloody battle with the Bingzhou servant army who ascended to the head of the city.

The head of the city is wide, and there is still a difference between it and the flat bottom, and if you squeeze two or three hundred people, it will become very narrow here. Song Mingbu ordered his subordinates to stand on the side of the wall with a spear in their hands and form a spear array. As long as there are soldiers who climb to the top of the city, they will kill each other in a dense formation. After all, the soldiers under Zhen Chongren's command who climbed to the top of the city were limited, and they soon retreated.

The first to enter the city was Zhen Chongren's cousin Tong Can, who carried a ring in one hand

The first sword, with a round shield tied to his left hand, after ascending to the top of the city, he gathered a dozen servant sergeants and soldiers, personally served as the vanguard, and turned into an arrow to open the way. Those who dare to block will swing their knives and slash indiscriminately. Where the ring head knife slashed, the spear was broken, and the person turned over on his back, and the Ji sergeant couldn't resist it at all, but let him protrude a gap into it.

At this time, Song Mingbu also discovered the brave Tong Can, so he mobilized a team of archers and shot at him regardless of whether he was or killed. The people around Tong Can, whether they were servant soldiers or Ji soldiers, were all hit by arrows, Tong Can waved the ring head knife in his hand and dialed back and forth, and the round shield on his left arm was even more pitted. Tong Can did not retreat at this time, but advanced, grabbed the corpse of a Ji soldier and blocked it in front of him, he actually carried the corpse to the front of the Ji army archers.

Tong Can exerted all his strength, threw the corpse directly onto the opponent's body, and then slashed at this group of archers with the ring-headed knife in hand. The archers were caught off guard and were quickly killed. c

Tong Can can be described as a man in charge of the city, invincible, brave and invincible, and gathered a lot of soldiers behind him, which brought a small climax of a wave of counterattacks.

Seeing this, Song Mingbu knew in his heart that he couldn't let the other party wreak havoc in the city, so he ordered the spear team behind him to kill Tong Can. The spear team was in a dense formation, and Tong Can was wrapped in it and couldn't enter left and right, so he had to retreat, and was forced to the wall by the other party.

Tong Can leaned against the female wall to fight, and the other party stabbed with a spear, although it was not stabbed, but it was stuck in the armor leaf on his waist. Tong Can twisted his body and couldn't break free, and slashed the other party with a swing of the knife.

The soldiers of the Ji State on the side saw that Tong Can was restrained, and they raised their spears and stabbed over, Tong Can raised his left arm and clamped a few stabbing spears under his armpit, and broke them abruptly.

The soldiers of the Ji army, who were without spears, threw away the broken spear shaft in their hands and stepped forward to hug Tong Can. There was also a Ji sergeant in the back who raised a spear to stab, right in Tong Can's shoulder.

Tong Can couldn't move at this time, he slashed back at the front and back, and the shoulder was stabbed by a spear. Tong Can stumbled and turned out of the battlement.

Zhen Chongren, who was supervising the battle in the back, saw his cousin fall off the city, and the whole person was stunned.

I don't know how long later, Tong Can actually stood up from the pile of dead people. It turned out that there were too many corpses piled up under the city walls, and he didn't even fall to his death, but just fainted.

Without Tong Can's sharp knife, Zhen Chongren's attack was immediately hindered, and the servant army that climbed to the top of the city gradually fell into disadvantage.

At this time, Zhen Chongren's troops suffered heavy casualties, and the corpses piled up in a circle above and below the city were all the corpses of his servants. But Zhen Chongren had no choice, gritted his teeth and held on, he couldn't let Xue Tingshan, who was on the side, see the joke.

Wang Rong has been observing this offensive and defensive battle from the watchtower car, Zhen Chongren and his troops are mostly the poor people of Zhongshan County, the so-called horizontal are afraid of being stunned, and those who are stunned are afraid of dying, and the poor people of Zhongshan County have only one life left, in order to be able to let their wives and children have a bite to eat, most of them are not afraid of death, and they can be regarded as a strong army in front of them.

He saw Tong Can's bravery, but later Tong Can was overturned and fell into the city, and he was still very sorry. Later, news came that Tong Can fell into the pile of dead people, except for the fall of a little confused, there was nothing to do, so he sent someone to Zhen Chongren to give an order, rewarding Tong Can with five baht and 100 yuan to strengthen his bravery.

Although he had the intention of consuming these Ji troops, Wang Rong knew very well in his heart that if he wanted others to work for him, he had to reward and punish them clearly, and give them enough what they wanted, so that they could only flutter in their own rules.

At this time, seeing that Zhen Chongren's subordinates were losing and retreating, Li Sujie suggested: "Zhong Ming, let the catapult come again, directly bombard the city, destroy these Ji soldiers who dare to fight back, and strike at the momentum of the defenders of the Tao City."

Li Sujie's suggestion, he never thought about what would happen to Wang Rong Zhen Chongren's subordinates, and Li Sujie didn't care about these soldiers.

Wang Rong shook his head and said, "You can't do this, let the catapults focus on the back of the city wall, and block the support of the Ji army to the city head."

Wang Rong didn't want to treat these pawns as disposables, just use them once. If you want to make the soldiers sell their strength, they can't do superfluous actions to make them think that the state army is deliberately trapping them.

Sure enough, it didn't

After the catapult of the state army adjusted the target of the bombardment, Zhen Chongren was taken aback, his troops were still in the city, why did the catapult come again, it wouldn't be to strike at the enemy and me.

He looked up and saw that these stone bullets had crossed the city and smashed into the streets and houses behind the city walls, and he was relieved that the state army finally regarded them as human beings.

On this day, the Ji army of the servant army and the Ji *** team fought repeatedly at the head of the city, and finally the strength was weak, and a stable area was never established at the head of the city.

On the second day after the servant army attacked the city, on the fourth day of the battle of Gauntloo, Wang Rong asked Yuan Tiangang to take the first brigade to replace the servant army and continue to attack the city.

Yuan Tiangang, as an old man in the Bingzhou army, led the Xiandeng Brigade to be the elite of the Bingzhou army. Instead of rushing like a servant army, they formed a straggler, running and dodging arrows. From time to time, there was a "do-do" sound from the shields in their hands, which was the sound of arrows hitting the shields.

When he was only more than two hundred meters away from the city wall, Yuan Tiangang roared, "Charge!" Behind him, the first group of dead men, supported by catapults, began to charge.

In yesterday's siege battle, Yuan Tiangang observed for a day, and finally found that the defenders of the Ji State at the head of the city could not raise their heads at all under the suppression of the catapults, so the garrison at the head of the city at this time was the weakest.

The servant army waited until after the artillery bombardment before starting the attack, and the originally bombarded scattered defenders had no stone bullet threat at this time, and had a chance to breathe and have the ability to counterattack. By the time the servant army had landed in the city, the two sides were at war. The Ji army is more numerous, and the servant army certainly can't win.

After careful consideration and discussion with Wang Rong, Zhang Yunshu and others, Yuan Tiangangshan decided to attack the city simultaneously when the catapult launched a bombardment.

It was not until the first of the dead men reached the top of the city that the catapults stopped bombarding. At this time, the defenders of the Ji State came out to defend again, and they were faced with the tortoiseshell formation established by the first dead soldiers at the head of the city, and the offensive and defensive situation was different at this time.

As for whether the constantly bombarded catapult will hurt his soldiers, Yuan Tiangang is not unconcerned, but how can there be immortals in a war, and some sacrifices are unavoidable.