"One hundred and seventeen dead and three hundred and ninety wounded."

Yi Hong reported the number of battle losses of the right army.

"Many of the arrows coming down from the city have been soaked in dung!"

When he said this, his face turned pale.

In addition to being killed on the spot, a large proportion of the wounded soldiers were disabled to death.

In fact, because of the inability to deal with wound infection, the number of dead in the war of Dahua was often higher than that of the wounded.

In this regard, Hong Fan can't do much.

He didn't know how to prepare antibiotics, and simple operations such as boiling sterilization had long been known from experience.

"According to the statistics of several military marquis, the cumulative number of arrows in the city does not exceed fifty, and the casualties are probably only one-tenth of ours."

Yi Hong continued.

"I'm not afraid of war, I'm really not worth ......"

The voice fell in Hong Fan's ears, about three points of sadness and seven points of anger.

It seems to mean something.

"Go on."

Xu Yuntao glanced at him lightly, his face expressionless.

Yi Hong had no choice but to suppress his mood.

When he was in the Tianfeng Army, he was Xu Yuntao's confidant lieutenant, and his obedience to the latter was already engraved into instinct.

"Xu Shuai, the exact statistics of earthwork handling have not yet come out, but they can be roughly estimated."

Yi Hong used his fingers to gesture on the siege sand table of Hong Fan's new work.

"From the rear to the front line, it takes half an hour for the auxiliaries to walk back and forth, and considering the final sprint, they can only carry twenty catties of sand at a time."

"I have successively handed over and replaced three thousand people, promising that each person only needs to make four round-trips, so it can be seen that the total amount of earthwork transported is about 240,000 catties."

Twenty-four thousand catties, which sounds like a big number.

However, after conversion, it is actually only 120 tons, almost 48 cubic meters, which is equivalent to filling a four-meter-wide city.

And that's not even counting the waste of loose soil that is carried away by the water - the moat is not a source of water, and there are stone valves at the culverts that adjust the amount of runoff in the water system.

There was a moment of silence in the tent.

All of us here are old in the military, and at a glance we know that if we continue to fill in the 60-meter-wide offensive deployment surface in the current way, we will need to pay dozens of times the current casualties.

At least a thousand lives, many more disabilities.

Just to complete the preparations for the siege.

The price is hard to accept.

"Xu Shuai, why don't you let Brother Gu protect me?"

Hong Fan took the initiative to ask.

Xu Yuntao pondered for a moment, but still shook his head.

"The horse trench is shallow and narrow, and it is just a matter of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall."

"But the amount of earthwork of the size of the moat must be brought in from the rear formation, otherwise even if you even out a steep slope of water, the heavy equipment may not be able to pass."

As he spoke, he pressed his fingers on the Chenghao River on the sand table, leaving a noticeable tilt.

After all, the sand world cannot create matter out of thin air.

"And the river is too close to the city, 'Tiemuzi' will definitely try his best to gather elites to go down to the city to besiege and kill when he sees you two staying for a long time."

"You can't take that risk."

Xu Yuntao made a decision.

"Tiemuzi" is Li Xiqi's nickname in the Tianfeng Army - although his cultivation is also "Easy Introduction", his martial arts style is very different from his peers, and he is known for his fierceness in attack and killing.

Hong Beom was convinced.

In the past few days, he has participated in all military meetings, carefully pondered every decision made by Xu Yuntao, and gradually had feelings.

In the Great Chinese War, the use of warriors was extremely cautious.

Because it is strong, fast, and precious, once it grasps a local area, it can quickly change the situation by fighting more and fighting less to form a war of annihilation.

As Xu Yuntao himself said, no matter how many mortal soldiers there are, they will only be the flesh and blood of the army; The warriors above the Piercing Realm are the bones.

It is precisely because of this that he would rather let mortals fill it with their lives than take risks with Hong Fan and Gu Yixin.

After another discussion, a resolution was gradually reached.

"Our army's manpower is precious, and we can't follow the old path of the Tianfeng Army."

Xu Yuntao made up his mind.

"It's better to use a stupid method to build a wooden corridor from the back to the front."

"Slow down, slow down, Hengzhu Hong Shaoxia has already earned it for us for two days......"

In the afternoon, the sun was just reaching the zenith.

Tang Shengwang pressed his hand on the head of the city, and saw twenty single-tip artillery carts pushed out of the enemy formation.

This is the latest result of the craftsman's workshop.

Two hardwoods are erected on the four-wheel platform as a frame, with a groove at the top and a bastic wood as a shaft on the horizontal frame.

It's like a "door" shape.

After that, a long "tip" is fixed vertically to the center of the wooden shaft as a lever, and the core structure of the cannon is created.

When using, exert force on the short head on the front side to make the long head on the rear side rotate and accelerate, and the object is thrown into a cannon.

Tang Shengwang has seen a lot of artillery trucks, but they are all driven by human cables.

At this time, the Baisheng Army used a counterweight and a hair buckle device - this is the creation of the Guzhou Dragon Beard.

The rain has not yet arrived, and the wind has filled the building.

There was a commotion in the city.

First, the officers shouted to their subordinates to seek refuge from the female wall, and then from the corner tower came the low hum of the crossbow on the bed.

The front of the car formation is pressed to a hundred and twenty steps away, and the pile is fixed.

After a few school shots, the lieutenant of the mountain battalion shouted angrily: "Release!" ”

The sound broke through the wind and crashed into the city.

Tang Shengwang didn't move a single step, and the shuttle next to him drove away, and the sealing jar the size of a human head was blown into the air.

Xingshuo flew back, the blade was brown and yellow, with a smell of.

The face of the surnamed Tang darkened.

More things smashed into the city.

In addition to the clay pots that were sealed after being heated, there were also thistles and stones that were picked up yesterday, as well as a few thunder shocks.

The bombardment lasted half an hour.

Seeing that the city was sparsely populated, Xu Yuntao sent the first team.

The shield cart in front of you will open the way, and the crossbowmen on the left and right will cover it.

A hundred steps below the city, the first frame of the wooden corridor was quickly built.

It is three meters wide and two and a half meters high, and the top is covered with thick wooden planks coated with mud.

The wooden beams grew slowly, little by little, towards the city walls.

Li Xiqi ordered the rockets to be fired, but nine out of ten arrows were immediately extinguished, and the occasional stubborn flame was immediately extinguished.

Sunset, moonrise.

The Yum Army was lit by stars and moons and torches, and did not stop fortifications.

The defenders no longer waste arrows.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the wooden corridor was connected to the city.

The heavy armor first boarded the camp and crossed the city with a simple wooden plank bridge, and swept the sheep and horse walls.

Death and injury are inevitable.

But at least the auxiliaries were able to move earthwork back and forth, and there was a basic space to work.

One was filled in, and the wooden corridor was extended to both sides.

After that, the defenders of the city thought of many ways.

Heavy arrows pierced, tung oil was sprinkled, and stones were thrown.

But the fire was not large, the top plate was destroyed, and it was replaced in an instant.

In the early hours of the morning, Tang Shengwang and Li Xiqi personally led more than 20 penetrating and chaotic realm martial artists to destroy the city.

Who knew that Xu Yuntao had already prepared, so Qiu Yuankui and Gu Yixin's soldiers dressed up and led people to guard under the corridor in advance, and in turn killed several people, which made Tang Shengwang break out in a cold sweat.

Three days later, on the 10th day of September.

The front end of the wooden corridor did not know how many times it was destroyed repeatedly.

But after all, under the condition that the casualties were controllable, the Baisheng Army waded out of a flat ground on Duanli Chenghao.

Same day and night.

For the second time, there was a dragon and tiger thunder in Duanli City.

Duan Tiannan, who had recovered eighty percent from his injuries, shot again, and this time Tang Shaoyou fell more and more behind, and he coped a little reluctantly.

(End of chapter)