The same daily loss of 1,000 people, but the Shangzhi army suffered 1,000 casualties, and the daily battle casualties were only more than 200. The Left Direct Army attacked for two days, but nearly 1,000 people were killed every day. Moreover, when the Shangzhi army attacked the city, it also caused considerable casualties to the Changzhou army, but in the past two days, the left direct army lost troops and generals, but the Changzhou army suffered very little losses, which dealt a big blow to the morale of the left direct army.

Xiong Yuanjia lost his previous sharpness, and on the third day, he was just perfunctory, only ordering people to hold their positions, and then transferred thousands of people to dig the mound. Wu Yue's army forcibly recruited people in Changzhou to fill the city. In other words, Li Congyi didn't expect Wu Yuejun to make such a move. In fact, this is also Li Congyi's habitual thinking caused by the influence of history books. The Northern Song Dynasty invaded the Southern Tang Dynasty, under Cao Bin's strict order, it can also be said to have the demeanor of a king, and this kind of forcible capture of the people's husbands cannot be done. But Wu Yuejun is different, there is no such thing as Wang Shiguangfu who needs to consider the people's will, and Ding Deyu is a military general after all, and in terms of political sensitivity in this regard, Cao Bin is 108,000 miles behind.

At the beginning, thousands of people were captured by Wu Yue's army, and at this time they were almost consumed. After that, a large number of people east of Changzhou either hid or fled, and it was difficult for Wu Yuejun to arrest the people. Wu Yuejun had no choice but to let the soldiers also go up and be the people's envoys. However, after all, the soldiers were well-trained and in good physical condition, and the efficiency of the pile of tunnels was greatly improved.

However, even Ding Deyu didn't expect that the Changzhou army, which had been cowering within the city walls, would take the initiative to attack this time.

The Changzhou army was dominated by ironclad soldiers, and more than 1,000 soldiers from each of the two divisions suddenly came out of the holes in the North Pole Gate and the new city wall in the southeast. The Left Direct Army had more than 1,000 people on guard in each of these two places, and there were also improvised military bases, but the Changzhou Army only advanced along the moat, and the two alert troops could only come forward to intercept them. This is exposed to long-range weapon strikes on the walls. Wu Yue's army fought with the Changzhou army on the one hand, and had to endure the bed crossbows and crossbows on the city wall, and held out for a quarter of an hour before retreating.

The Changzhou army attacked the armor soldiers, with heavy armor warriors in front, holding armor-breaking sharp weapons such as Mo knives, spears and axes, or armor-breaking combat equipment such as iron maces and hammers. The Changzhou army's attack team was extremely resolute, and the iron armor of the Left Direct Army suffered too heavy losses, and the ordinary armor and paper armor soldiers could not resist it at all.

The siege road could not be effectively destroyed, but the nest carts, cloud carts, and trench carts on the side of the moat, including a few small trebuchets that were relatively close, were quickly destroyed by the Changzhou army. Before Xiong Yuanjia gathered the main force and wanted to come up to fight, the two departments were instructed by the city to speed up their pace and avoid entering through the wide open Spring Gate. Zuo Zhijun looked at the swarthy city gate hole, but he didn't dare to chase it in after all.

The Changzhou army went out of the city to counterattack, and suddenly hit Zuozhi by surprise. Zuo Zhi suffered heavy losses, not only losing almost all the weapons of Wu Yue's army, but also losing more than 2,000 soldiers. And the losses of the Changzhou army were minimal.

Ding Deyu scolded Xiong Yuanjia so much that he was squirting blood. Xiong Yuanjia's face turned purple, after all, he was too careless, but he couldn't refute it.

In this counterattack, Jiang Guogong and Changzhou Assassin Shi watched the battle on the city wall, and the deputy commander of the Changzhou army deployed Jiang Xiangming to personally command, and the deputy commander of the left and right sides personally led the troops out of the city, one from the north and the other from the south to the center, and unexpectedly beat the Wu Yue army along the moat battle line, and almost did not encounter strong resistance.

Watching the Changzhou sergeants avoid entering the city gate, and Wu Yue's army did not dare to enter. Li Congyi said to Yu Wancheng at this time: "The generals of the Changzhou army are brave and invincible, and our army will win this battle!" ”

Yu Wancheng laughed: "This battle is all thanks to the good command of the adults!" Besides, if it weren't for the fact that the adults gave the Changzhou army a thousand sets of iron armor, my Changzhou army would not have such a 2,000 iron armor heroes! ”

The Left Army retreated in disarray. and the right direct army to attack. It's just that the siege weapons are seriously damaged, and there are no nest cars, cloud carts, etc. to suppress the crossbowmen in the city, and the damage to the landfill siege road will rise sharply. On the one hand, the right direct army made the armor pawn hold a shield to cover, and on the other hand, the crossbowmen and the city shot at each other, but the city made the bed crossbow to shoot the armor pawn, although the bed crossbow shooting was not accurate, but the Wu Yue army facing the bed crossbow, the psychological pressure was quite large. Therefore, if you insist on it for an hour, you have to rotate the way.

The Right Direct Army dug trenches on both sides of the east city wall, and also built a wall barrier, intending to block the North Pole Gate and the southeast city wall with bed crossbows and heavy arrows to prevent the Changzhou army from another assault. At the same time, the Right Direct Army demolished a large number of houses opposite the Yingchun Gate, wanting to demolish a vacant land, and at the same time began to build and assemble trebuchets, intending to use trebuchets to smash the East City Tower, and at the same time knock down the high wall in which the City Tower entered, so as to open the passage for the centripetal attack of the army after entering the city.

There is a lesson from the Left Direct Army, and the Right Direct Army is in command so that Liang Zhengrui can calm down very much. Ding Deyu urged, and Liang Zhengrui asked for another seven days to rotate. In this way, Ding Deyu now understands that the main force of the Changzhou army has not been damaged, and it cannot be reduced quickly, and the battle in Runzhou has not changed much, so he has no choice but to encourage Liang Zhengrui.

Wu Yuejun's trebuchets are all the kind of manpower or animal power trebuchets, which are pulled by manpower or animal power, so that the area is very large. Because of this, most of Wu Yuejun's trebuchets were outside the city and were not damaged in the last counterattack of the Changzhou army. This kind of trebuchet does not matter when it is deployed outside the city, but inside the city it is necessary to tear down the house and destroy the wall. It took several days for the Right Army to open a large open space outside the Yingchun Gate, and it took another day before they were ready to stop. At this time, there were also several siege roads piled up to the city wall.

Liang Zhengrui still felt that he was short of manpower, so he borrowed 5,000 people directly from Ding Deyu to prevent the Changzhou army from counterattacking. Only then did an all-out offensive be launched on the ninth day of the main attack on the right.

On the one hand, more than 40 trebuchets bombarded the front of the east gate, and on the other hand, they gathered soldiers to speed up the landfill speed of the siege road, and even filled the cave cart with soil, pushed it up along the siege road, and then erected it between the city wall and the wall to speed up the landfill speed of the road.

In one day, Wu Yuejun added six more roads in Waizi City to reach the head of the city. The Changzhou army piled up wooden walls at the head of the city where the road was located, inserted spear blades, and then built wall barricades on the city walls on both sides of the road, and prepared a counterattack with armor soldiers, not allowing the Wu Yue army to gain a foothold on the city wall.

On the tenth day, the east gate tower of the Changzhou army and the left and right city walls were smashed beyond recognition by trebuchets. Through the hole in the city gate, you can also see that the high wall inside has also been smashed by throwing stones, and part of the wall has fallen horizontally, revealing the real street houses behind.

Liang Zhengrui did not rush to attack the city, but only moved the trebuchet forward, wanting to smash all the buildings behind the East Gate Tower, and then ordered the soldiers to attack on all fronts. In only half a day, the area near the east gate of Waizi City was smashed into ruins by Wu Yuejun's trebuchet. As long as the troops can be spread out after rushing in, and the soldiers are not densely packed together, the crossbow arrows and trebuchets of the Changzhou army will not have so much lethality.

After lunch and a short rest, Liang Zhengrui ordered the whole army to attack.

The two siege roads in the north and south are located, and as soon as the Wu and Yue troops move, there will be a surge of people in the city, and the two sides will shoot each other with bows and crossbows to open the curtain of the war. But at the East Gate Tower, the Changzhou Army was silent. Liang Zhengrui concentrated 3,000 soldiers at the east gate, and wanted to rush into the city in one breath to expand, so he took Lu Zhiyong, the commander of the Xiangdu, as the commander, and entered the city to command the battle.

As soon as Wu Yuejun's trebuchet stopped, Lu Zhiyong commanded the battalions to swarm into the city in order. However, as soon as the vanguard rushed out of the gate of the city tower, he screamed and stopped, only to see a large trench in front of him that was one zhang wide and almost two zhang deep suddenly appeared at his feet, and there were sharpened bamboo stakes and wooden sticks standing at the bottom of the ditch below. There were also several cave carts in front of the head, so they hurriedly pushed into the ditch, but the ditch was wide and deep, and it was useless in a hurry. The battalion commander shouted for the trench to be pushed up, but the crowd was in a hurry in the gatehouse, and the battalions behind were crowded one after another, and it was crowded for a while.

Lu Zhiyong also noticed that there was something wrong ahead, but he didn't know what was going on. He ordered the follow-up battalions to wait in a small square at the gate of the city tower. At the same time, he hurriedly ordered the front to rush into the city. At this time, after the ruins in the city, the Changzhou army carried out the bed crossbow, and then the crossbow was wound, and a crossbow arrow was fired, and the bed crossbow more than three feet long pierced the first person, and the person fell into the ditch with a bang, and then penetrated the second person, and then pierced the ground with the third person. The second person died on the spot, and the third person did not die for a while, but screamed incessantly.

This time, it was like a pot of boiling water bubbling for the first time, and the crowd began to boil. As soon as someone squeezed, the soldiers in the front row fell into the ditch one after another, and the people behind loosened, thinking that the passage had been opened in front, so they stepped up and squeezed forward, and the front side could not support it, so they only planted it in the ditch. Lu Zhiyong, who was outside, did not know the situation inside, and thought that the obstacles ahead had been broken, so he ordered the battalions to continue to enter the city, and at the same time ordered all units to speed up their movements.

At this time, the mutation was abrupt.

The trebuchet that Li Congyi brought to Changzhou is the so-called counterweight trebuchet. That is, the counterweight iron block is hoisted by the pulley group, and the iron block falls freely when launched, and the lever is driven to throw the stone out. The advantages of counterweight trebuchets are a small footprint and stable ballistics.

The trebuchet in Changzhou had already marked the Zhuyuan, and at this time, it moved not far from the bottom of the city wall and fired stones into the open space outside the east gate. In the open space, in addition to Wu Yuejun's trebuchet, there were 3,000 troops led by Lu Zhiyong.

Under the attack of nearly 100 trebuchets of the Changzhou army, this open space is like hell on earth. The visual impact was much more intense than the effect of a small empty field in the city that was attacked by more than 30 trebuchets that day.

The first round of stones fell, not only did nearly half of the trebuchets in this clearing be destroyed, but even the attacking soldiers suffered hundreds of casualties. Wu Yue's sergeant exploded and fled in all directions, and Lu Zhiyong could only take care of himself at this time to escape from this Abi hell.

Wu Yuejun, between this clearing and the east gate, was stunned for a while, some ran along the moat in the north-south direction, and some squeezed into the city because they were panicked or had the courage to die and live. In the city, the Changzhou army has moved dozens of crossbows, but they keep shooting into the hole in the city gate, and the crowd is surging, and they don't even need to aim.

The corpse fell into the deep ditch with the living people, and in only a quarter of an hour, the ditch was almost filled, and someone rushed out of the gate of the city tower with the corpse, and was greeted by a rain of arrows. When the trebuchet of the Changzhou army threw ten rounds of stone projectiles, and after a short pause, Wu Yuejun, who was crowded at the east city gate, could no longer stand it, and immediately broke back and retreated.

Then the trebuchet of the Changzhou army threw another wave of stone bullets at the right time, taking dozens of lives. The Right Straight Army, which was feinting on the city wall on both sides of the east gate, was also affected by this side, and the offensive was suspended. For a moment, there was a rare silence on the battlefield.