The progress of Runzhou also affects Ding Deyu's heart. If Changzhou is not down, Runzhou is down first, then Changzhou will become a chicken rib, and whether it is fought or not has nothing to do with the overall situation. For Ding Deyu, the best situation is to go to Changzhou first, then join forces to attack Runzhou, and then attack Jinling, then he will be complete in this battle to destroy the country.

Therefore, Ding Deyu decided that he could no longer attack slowly, and he had to put pressure on the Changzhou army. Only tremendous pressure could make the Changzhou army lose the will to resist, thereby speeding up the progress of the Changzhou campaign.

That night, Ding Deyu ordered the left and right armies to withdraw from Luocheng, guard the moat outside Luocheng, block the contact between the Changzhou army and the outside of the city, and contain the Changzhou army with a feint; He also ordered the 10,000 people who had made a feint attack on Jiangyin to withdraw and participate in the siege of Changzhou. It was also agreed that the three tribes would take turns to attack the city, each limited to three days, and those who broke the city first were allowed to plunder for three days. At the same time, more than 1,000 Song troops under the department were used as the supervising team, and those who retreated without listening to the order could be killed on the spot.

After Ding Deyu's reward and punishment orders were both pronged, Wu Yuejun used his strength to eat milk. At this time, the Changzhou army had no place to retreat. This offensive and defensive battle suddenly became fierce.

Wu Yue's army attacked for three consecutive days, with nearly 1,000 casualties per day. Although the number of war dead is only about 200 per day, the wounded have a greater impact on morale. There were about 20,000 people in the Shangzhi army, and the casualties in the first 20 days were only more than 1,000.

However, the Changzhou army was also uncomfortable, taking advantage of the defense of the city, and the cumulative casualties in three days were nearly 2,000. Ding Deyu calculated the strength of the Changzhou army and believed that the Changzhou army had lost at least 5,000 troops. If this continues, the Changzhou army will not last more than ten days. He ordered the Left Army to replace the Shang Army and continue the attack.

The Changzhou Army replaced the Shangzhi Army with the Left Direct Army, and this kind of rotation before the formation was also common, but Jiang Xiangming, the deputy capital of the Changzhou Army on the city tower, was quite excited, and immediately hurried to find Li Congyi and Yu Wancheng.

Li Congyi and Yu Wancheng happened to be playing chess all the time. Playing Go, Li Congyi can't do it; But playing chess, Li Congyi took several routines from later generations, which could still make Yu Chengcheng busy. Hearing that Wu Yuejun couldn't stand it either, and changed the new force to come up, Li Congyi also said: "It's time to change the way of playing, so that Ding Deyu can also see our traps." Now everything is going according to the script of the General Staff Office of the Ningguo Army Division, and all the middle and senior officers in the Changzhou Army who know about it are also confident of the final victory.

The Shangzhi army attacked for three days in a row, and every day they hit the Yingchun Gate with a crash and a rushing car, and the copper-clad wooden door was already scarred, and there were several terrible cracks, and the Changzhou sergeant behind the door could almost be seen. Early in the morning, the Left Straight Army organized sharp soldiers to attack the city gate again.

The Wu and Yue army attacked the city in at least three ways, so that the defenders could not judge which way was the main attack and which way was a feint. Those who attacked the city wall also crowded the cloud chariots, and they climbed the wall with the cloud chariots, selected sharp soldiers to climb the city strongly, and quickly retreated in case of strong resistance, and then covered the shooting with crossbowmen under the city, causing great damage to the defenders. At the same time, it was used to cover the people's filling and piling up siege roads. There is also the city gate, then all kinds of crashes, rushing cars, repeatedly hitting the city gate, sometimes mixed with holes, cars, etc., hit the city gate and set fire to the door, the car is loaded with oil, it burns the copper wooden door black, there are also unlucky Changzhou sergeants across the wooden door, by the explosion of oil burned wow wow howl.

Xiong Yuanjia, the commander of the Left Direct Army, had the intention to pick up the leak of the Direct Army, so it was more than an offensive in the morning, and after three impacts, the East Gate Gate was crumbling. Xiong Yuanjia personally supervised the battle, and selected the personal guards, with Wang Yong, the commander of the personal guard battalion, with a hundred sharp soldiers as the vanguard, and Liu Yangze, the deputy commander of the left wing, as the commander, leading thousands of people to follow, to break open the city gate and attack the city in one fell swoop.

This time, as the car crashed into the city gate, the city gate finally collapsed, and I saw that on the passage of the city tower, all the Changzhou soldiers were defeated and fled towards the city. Battalion commander Wang Yong took the lead and rushed out of the building, and as soon as he came out, Wang Yong was stunned. It turned out that the scene inside the city that I saw from the gate tower was actually a painting painted on the wall, depicting the street of the building, but it turned out to be a wall. The wall was a foot high to block the way, and in front of it was a ditch about six feet wide, and the wall and the ditch extended on both sides to form a small square at the city gate. Wang Yong couldn't move forward, so he looked left and right, there were also low walls on the left and right, and behind the low wall, the Changzhou army was holding guns and shields, and they were already in battle.

Not good, it's a trap! Wang Yong hurriedly wanted to warn Liu Yangze in the rear team. But at this time, Liu Yangze also rushed in, and immediately commanded the soldiers to attack the city tower along the stairs. The stairs are extremely narrow, and the Changzhou army is condescending, with shields in the front row, spears and stabs in the back row, and crossbowmen shoot freely from the city tower.

Wu Yuejun outside the city didn't know what was going on, more and more people rushed in, Wang Yong was squeezed into a position that couldn't stand, and he was in a hurry, so he could only organize a dozen armor soldiers to forcibly crash into the low wall. At this time, Wang Yong heard the dense sound of breaking the air, and when he looked up, he was frightened.

But he saw the crossbow arrows rain down from the sky.

It was really raindropping. More than 1,500 crossbowmen, divided into three phalanxes on the front and left, can fire 500 crossbow arrows at a time with every ten breaths. From the crossbowman, follow the instructions from the castle tower and make a projectile. Due to the fact that the elements had been calibrated in advance, there were almost no dead ends in the projectiles of all sides. As soon as Liu Yangze, the deputy commander of the left chamber, wanted to escape into the city gate tower, he was covered by a rain of arrows, and several blood holes burst out of his body on the spot, and he was hopeless.

Wang Yong is very close to the low wall, not in the key coverage area of the crossbow arrows; He squatted down in time, but he was unharmed. But after the twelve rounds of 6,000 crossbow arrows were launched, the small square was already full of corpses, and only Wang Yong and other more than 100 lucky people were already frightened. After seeing the low wall, the Changzhou army got up, launched a counterattack, and ran away immediately. There was an unfortunate ghost who stepped on the crossbow arrow, and the foot plate was nailed through, and fell to the ground screaming, and no one bothered to pull it. Wang Yong is also fatal, when he ran out of the attack range of the city gate tower, there were still people around him who were hit by an arrow in the back, screaming and falling on the road, but Wang Yong still didn't break a piece of skin.

Xiong Yuanjia's face was blackened by the command of the Left Direct Army, and he wanted to rush into the city to kill the Quartet, but he didn't expect to be caught in the urn.

Although crossbow arrows can be reused, if they hit hard objects such as iron armor and stones, the tip of the arrow will still be damaged, and the body of the arrow will be deformed and bent, and it will no longer be usable. The Changzhou army's crossbow trap is powerful, but it is difficult to sustain. And it's not for nothing that there is a way to crack it. It's just such a fiasco, and he also folded a deputy commander, but today it is difficult to organize a powerful offensive.

Ding Deyu also watched the score from the east gate tower. To understand the situation, it was also agreed that Xiong Yuanjia would take a break today and attack again tomorrow.

Zhu Wei, the deputy commander of the right wing, didn't want to enter the Shura field, but Xiong Yuanjia was two levels old, and the military orders were like a mountain, so he was helpless. It was just that Wang Yong, the commander of the pro-guard battalion, was familiar with the situation and asked to go along. Xiong Yuanjia also agreed.

Wang Yong is unwilling in his heart, and there is no way. The next day, he was the vanguard again and attacked the city again.

This time, Xiong Yuanjia almost gathered the iron armor of the Zuozhi Army and matched almost all of Zhu Wei's 800-man siege team; and collected all the cave cars that Wu Yuejun had recently built. At the same time, outside the city, a thousand-strong bow and crossbow team was concentrated, and they lined up outside the city to cover the city gate tower with all their might, in order to assist Zhu Wei in attacking the city tower.

These 800 men were a heavily armed army, and the armor soldiers rushed into the small square in the city tower around the cave car, and then immediately divided into two roads and directly attacked the low walls on both sides. However, as soon as Wang Yong came in, he found that something was wrong, it turned out that the Changzhou army had thrown a batch of rejected horses intensively in front of the low wall, and the cave car could not rush up, and some soldiers wanted to move the rejected horses away, but found that each rejected horse was connected together by several thick ropes, and some people cut it with a knife, but the rejected horses were connected together, although the rope was broken, the rejected horses were still entangled together, and some people stepped forward to move, and then they heard the sharp wind coming, a javelin flew at close range, and immediately pierced through the iron armor, and the others hurriedly hid back under the cave car. Wang Yong organized the cave car, planning to rely on the cave car to carry out a forcible impact to see if he could break away from the rejection horse. On one side, the Changzhou soldiers behind the low wall with bows and firing at each other. Wu Yuejun's army relied on the cave car and had iron armor, so they entered the small square in the city one after another, but they were blocked by the low wall, and they could not attack it for a while.

Zhu Wei, the deputy commander of the right wing, learned to be obedient, and only commanded in the city gate hole, and with the cooperation of the crossbowmen outside the city, the two teams of soldiers who feinted to attack the city tower made relatively smooth progress, and even the bold archers of the first team also passed through the gate of the city tower and wanted to enter the city gate to support.

At this moment, there was a strange sound of breaking the air.

Zhu Wei looked up, but his face was pale. I saw bags of stones wrapped in fishing nets falling from the sky and smashing densely towards the small square. If you smash someone, the flesh and blood will be blurred; If the car is smashed, the car will be broken; When he landed, the gravel was splashed, but when he was hit, the tendons broke and broke. In the square, those cave carts that were originally used to defend against crossbow arrows could not be protected from the blows of trebuchets. Zhu Wei saw with his own eyes a small group of soldiers hiding around a cave car, the cave car was hit by stones and shattered on the spot, the broken wood pierced the iron armor of several people like a javelin, and several people were swept by the gravel, and the iron armor was dented like a piece of paper.

There were screams in the square, and the soldiers of Wu Yue had nowhere to escape. Some people tried to hide under the high wall in front of them, but there was a trench under the wall, so they screamed and fell into the trench, and were crushed and unable to move.

Zhu Wei knew that this wave of attacks was the end of the annihilation of the whole army. Regardless of the situation of the soldiers who were feinting to attack the city gate, they fled with a few guards. This time, Wang Yong's luck was still good, and when he saw that the Changzhou army had changed from crossbow strikes to trebuchet covering, he immediately fled along the low wall and city wall to the city gate building.

Behind the low wall, the Changzhou army has archers who put cold arrows. The archer had already aimed at Wang Yong, who was fleeing with his head. The first arrow, Wang Yong, happened to stumble, and as soon as he lowered his head, the arrow swept over his head with a whoosh. In the second arrow, Wang Yong's armor happened to be hooked by the horse on the side, Wang Yong's figure was stunned, and the arrow swept in front of him again. The archer didn't believe in evil, and seeing that Wang Yong was about to run under the wall, he shot another arrow at the back of his heart. At this time, a bag of stones hit a cave car more than 20 steps away from Wang Yong's side, and several stones shot over, knocking down several people behind Wang Yong, and one of the stones flew over by a ghost, hitting the third arrow shot by the archer, and the arrow disappeared. The archers of the Changzhou army were dumbfounded, watching this person who looked like a military officer of Wu Yue flee into the dark and secluded gate of the city tower.

The attacks were even worse, and fewer people escaped. Last time, more than 100 people escaped, but this time, more than 30 people escaped, and some people also lost their armor. On the one hand, this is because after the Wu Yue army entered the city this time, it entered deeper, and on the other hand, because they generally wore iron armor, which was not conducive to escaping. There are also a few people who see the opportunity quickly, and they can escape with a glimmer of life after taking off the iron armor.

There weren't many people lost this time, but a lot of ironclad and cave cars were lost. Xiong Yuanjia almost vomited blood, and there were 15,000 people in his department, and the armor rate was nearly thirty percent, but the real iron armor was more than one percent. This time it's almost gone!

With two consecutive heavy defeats, Zuozhi was almost unable to organize an offensive again. Xiong Yuanjia pleaded with Ding Deyu to rotate by the Right Direct Army.

"It is said that there will be a rotation every three days, and Zuo Zhi will be rotated on the second day after the attack, how can there be such a reason in the army?" Ding Deyu said coldly, and said after a little slowdown, "Tomorrow, the whole army of the left will fill in the siege road." Our army climbed over the city wall and entered the city, and then saw what traps the Changzhou army could set up. ”