The recapture of Divine Arm City was too important to the current battle situation, so Liu Cheng personally stood in front to supervise the battle. Because of the heat, he was shirtless, and beside him stood a sword and axeman, also naked. In fact, there was no need for the Overseer to do anything, and his soldiers screamed and crawled towards the first wall. In last night's battle, Liu Cheng's 2,000 men lost more than 400 men, and there were more than 1,500 left. This point of soldiers and horses does not seem to be much, but they are all elites of a hundred battles, and their combat power is more than a little bit stronger than the other new annexes under Niu Lu. At that moment, Liu Cheng divided the 1,500 people into five groups, preparing to attack the Divine Arm City in turn in the form of wheel warfare. It is said that the east gate of the Divine Arm City is not wide, and the attack surface is also very narrow, which is already crowded for three hundred people.

These new annexed troops under Liu Cheng were worthy of being elite soldiers, and in a matter of moments, they had climbed over the first city wall and rushed straight to the second wall. As soon as they jumped into the clearing between the two walls, the Thunderbolt soldiers on the walls threw a dense array of grenades. After a series of explosions, the newly clad soldiers in light armor fell in large numbers. Luckily rushed to the bottom of the second city wall, the fate was even worse, and the planted mines exploded directly into the sky. At this time, there were still dozens of soldiers of the new annex army standing on the first wall, and when they stood still, they drew their bows and crossbows and shot at the second wall. Caught off guard, more than a dozen Thunderbolt soldiers fell to the ground with arrows. After the initial panic, the Thunderbolt soldiers hid behind the battlements, erected the large shield on the wall, hid their bodies behind it, and continued to throw grenades. It's just that after such a pause, the firepower suddenly weakened a lot. Seeing this, the morale of the attacking new annex soldiers suddenly soared, and they took advantage of the situation to pounce on the second wall.

The first wall was covered with a lot of thrown stones, and there were a lot of crossbow arrows nailed to the walls, and with the ropes and long ladders carried by the soldiers of the new annex, it was very quick to climb. However, the second wall was about a person higher than the first, and there was no accumulation under the wall, and most of the long ladders carried by the new annexed army were placed next to the first wall. It was very difficult to climb the second wall by ropes alone, not to mention that the Perak soldiers at the top of the wall were not vegetarians. Although they were suppressed by the archers, they were able to stab through the gaps between their shields with spears, which made it very difficult for the new annexes to climb the second wall, while the people behind them kept coming, so that for a time the open space between the two walls was crowded with nearly a hundred new annexes. They erected long ladders and shields against grenades, stones, and clay pots thrown from the walls. Just as most of the new soldiers wondered why clay pots were thrown on the wall, the broken clay pots flowed with pungent liquid. The familiar smell caused the two new soldiers to cry out: "Fire oil ......."

Before he could finish speaking, several more torches were thrown from under the city walls. Suddenly, a raging fire rose from the clay pot and spread everywhere with the flow of oil. Where the fire passed, more than half of the new annex soldiers between the two walls turned into fire men, and the rest screamed and scurried around. At this time, it was the height of the summer in August, and the weather was already very hot, and the fire ignited to the sky, making the air very hot and hot, and even baking the two city walls to the point that people did not dare to approach. Under the high temperature, the new annexes on the flat ground between the two city walls, even if they were not burned to death, were burned to the ground, and they fled desperately back. However, most of the long stairs that retreated back to the first wall had already caught fire, and the evacuation route was extremely limited. In addition, at this time, the musketeers of the Thunderbolts also began to return fire fiercely at the new annex crossbowmen standing on the first wall, and in the dense rain of muskets, those new annexes and crossbowmen who were trying to escape the fire fell to the ground, and the wooden shields they held could not stop the muskets from firing at close range.

The first wave of attacks by the new annex army was menacing but futile, and less than 200 of the 300 people fled back, which can be described as heavy casualties. In the era of cold weapons, a casualty rate of more than 30 percent means that the army has lost its combat effectiveness, because under the huge casualties, even the defeated soldiers who flee back intact will have a huge shadow in their hearts, and they need to rest before they can fight again. Although Liu Quan's subordinates are strong, they can't escape this fate. At that moment, he sent the defeated soldiers back to rest, and replaced them with a second group of 300 men to attack. In order to prevent the recurrence of the previous mistake, he ordered people to bring a huge iron-clad shield, increased the proportion of crossbowmen, and ordered people to push trebuchets and ballistas to continue forward, preparing to attack the second wall by projectile.

Just as the new annex was pushing trebuchets and ballistas towards the first wall, the Thunderbolts in the city of Godarm began to move. Silently, they opened the second city and dived to the first wall, and suddenly threw dozens of grenades downward. At this time, nearly 100 new annexed troops were clustered more than 20 meters under the first city wall, using the shields in their hands to cover the craftsmen to assemble siege equipment. At this distance, the grenades on the second wall could not be thrown, and although the musket bullets could be fired, they could not penetrate the iron-clad shield because of the long distance. The Thunderbolts' deliberate abandonment of the first wall paralyzed the new annexes, who thought that the defenders would only be beaten up and beaten up, but they did not expect to suddenly run to the first wall and throw grenades. The grenades crossed the parabola and landed among the siege engines, knocking down a large area of the new annex and the assembly of the siege equipment. The main parts of the siege equipment are very tough wood or iron, and the explosion fragments are helpless, but the core of the force is made of ox tendon and other materials, which can be easily blown up.

The Thunderbolt soldiers quickly threw out their grenades, and before the new crossbowmen could react, they ran back to the second wall, and even had time to re-plant the mines under the second wall. It's just that the Thunderbolt Army also knows that this kind of surprise attack will only succeed once, and the new annex army will inevitably take full precautions in the future. Therefore, after returning to the second wall, they also blocked the gate of this wall with a huge stone. The new annexes will attack fiercely, and the most vulnerable gates will inevitably be the main target. The fire had already burned the gate to a crisp, and if it was hit by a stone thrown by a trebuchet, it would disintegrate, and even a giant axe could split it. Of course, there is the first wall to block it, and it is not easy for the trebuchet of the new annex army to hit the second wall, and it is even more difficult to hit the city gate.

The grenade raid of the Thunderbolt army just now only delayed the attack of the new annex army, after all, there were only a dozen siege weapons that were blown up by the grenades just now, and the siege technicians only suffered dozens of casualties. In the Mongolian army under the Divine Arm City, both the new annex army and the Mongol Han army have a large number of siege techniques, and there is no shortage of siege weapons. When Yu Xing was defeated, there were many siege equipment, and only hundreds of them were intact, including heavy trebuchets and bed crossbows. suffered two setbacks in a row, which made Liu Cheng anxious and angry. He first sent people to transport dozens of heavy trebuchets and more than a dozen large bed crossbows, and then asked Niu Ling to transfer siege technicians from the Mongol Han army, preparing to use long-range fire to clear the three city walls before sending troops to attack the city. Thinking that as a former defender, Liu Quan knows better than anyone else about the defense of Shenjian City. He knew that if he didn't completely suppress the city, no matter how many troops were sent to attack the city, it would be a head. Just a month ago, wasn't Yu Xing's 20,000 army helpless with his own 3,000 defenders? Thinking of this, Liu Quan's heart couldn't help but feel a burst of pride, but this smugness was fleeting, replaced by a chill. Now that the offense and defense are transposed, the other party is the undefeated Thunderbolt army, could it be that he has to follow in the footsteps of Yu Xing's defeat?