Shi Dewa killed the army commander Wu Tao in one turn, and the army brought by Wu Tao was defeated without a fight.

Stonewa pointed the tip of his spear at the enemy and took the lead in pursuit.

Shi Dewa's war horse was guarded by the Luyang Mansion, and it was extremely fast, so he quickly caught up with the soldiers of the Maozhou Mansion.

The Maozhou Mansion guarded the city and saw Shi Dewa kill the military marshal Wu Tao in one round, and he was secretly glad that he did not go out of the city to face Shi Dewa. Next, the guard of the Maozhou Mansion saw that Shi Dewa was chasing after him, and he was afraid that the brave Shi Dewa would take the opportunity to rush into the city, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers at the city gate to pull up the drawbridge and close the city gate.

When the defeated soldiers of Maozhou Mansion saw the city gate closed, they ran to the other city gate while scolding.

When Stonewa arrived at the gates of the city, the archers of the city opened their bows and arrows, and Stonewa and his soldiers were forced to stay away from the city.

Shi Dewa sent someone to call the battle again, and the Maozhou Mansion guard was closed.

For two days in a row, Shi Dewa led people to the outside of the Maozhou Mansion to beg for the enemy, and the Maozhou Mansion guards were all closed.

Shi Dewa returned to the camp to discuss with the generals the strategy of breaking the city, if he wanted to catch Zheng Kai, the king of Qiulu, to avenge the innocent death of thousands of people in the Nine Desolate Mountains, he had to break through the Maozhou Mansion in front of him. However, the Maozhou Mansion wanted to defend the city with the high and deep water of the city, as well as the conditions of the city's large soldiers and sufficient food, to prevent Shidewa's troops from going north.

In the early morning of the fourth day when Shi Dewa came to the capital of Maozhou, after a full meal, Shi Dewa led 10,000 soldiers to the outside of the capital of Maozhou to storm the city.

When Shi Dewa occupied the city of Luyang Prefecture, he obtained all the military supplies in the city, including many ladder trucks, trebuchets, pontoons across the river, and rockets used in the siege of the city, all of which were used in the siege battle.

Shi Dewa gave an order, and the soldiers rushed to the capital of Maozhou.

The soldiers defending the city of Maozhou Mansion, who had been prepared for a long time, fired arrows and crossbows in unison, and a rain of arrows fell under the city.

The shield bearers in Shidewa's array were busy forming a shield wall in front of them to protect the other formations.

Observing the situation, Shi Dewa ordered his men to retreat beyond the effective range of their bows and arrows, and then ordered the crossbowmen to fire crossbow arrows at the archers at the head of the Maozhou capital.

The range of the crossbow was much greater than that of the bow and arrow, so Shi Dewa's crossbowmen killed and wounded many of the archers in the capital of Maozhou, while the crossbowmen were intact.

Seeing that his crossbowmen had suppressed the archers of the Maozhou capital, Shi Dewa ordered his soldiers to carry them onto the pontoon bridge across the river and pave a pontoon bridge on the moat.

The pontoon bridge was erected, but the archers at the head of the city used the arrow holes in the battlements of the city wall to cast cold arrows, and many of the soldiers fell into the moat and died.

Shi Dewa ordered the soldiers to throw stones with trebuchets to support, when twenty multi-bow bed crossbows on the head of the city of Maozhou suddenly fired a series of crossbow arrows.

Stoneva's crossbowmen were unprepared and fell to the ground when they were shot by arrows fired from multi-bow bed crossbows that had a longer range.

When Stonewa's troops saw some of their companions falling, they stepped up their siege. The soldiers who rushed ahead pushed the ladder cart under the city wall, got on the ladder cart, and rushed to the city.

The ladder truck is the most advanced siege equipment made by the Xurui Dynasty, equipped with shields, reamers, and grappling hooks, which are both offensive and defensive.

The soldiers at the head of the Maozhou Mansion began to throw down the wooden rocks and smash the soldiers on the ladder cart. Later, the soldiers at the head of the city poured boiling water on the ladder cart, and the soldiers on the ladder cart were so scald that they fell off the ladder cart and fell to their deaths under the city.

Seeing this, Shi Dewa hurriedly ordered the siege troops to retreat, and the soldiers at the head of the Maozhou Mansion took the opportunity to shoot arrows, and most of the fleeing soldiers were killed by arrows.

Shi Dewa was filled with grief and anger when he saw the loss of the army, but even if he was invincible in the world, he could not help the two-zhang high city wall guarded by thousands of soldiers.

Shi Dewa let out a long sigh and ordered the troops to collect their troops and return to the camp.

After returning to the camp, Shidewa counted the casualties of the soldiers: 470 killed and 150 seriously wounded.

Shi Dewa wept secretly, and vowed to break through the capital of Maozhou and avenge the death of the soldiers.

Thinking of breaking the city, Shi Dewa frowned tightly, thinking hard about the strategy of breaking the city. At this moment, the soldier lord Da Ran took Diedewa and led a division of the Second Army to the camp outside the city of Maozhou to meet Shi Dewa.

That night, Shi Dewa and the army lord Da Ran gathered the officers of the two armies above the regimental commander to discuss the strategy of breaking the city in Shi Dewa's big tent, and Diedeva also sat by Shi Dewa's side.

Shi Dewa first said that he had been defending the city of Maozhou for a few days, and he led the army to attack the city of Maozhou and lost his troops, and the lord of the army, Da Ran, couldn't stop sighing after hearing it. After sighing, the soldier master Da Ran said loudly: "Zheng Kai, the king of Qiulu, violated my Nine Desolate Mountains for no reason, and slaughtered thousands of my innocent people, we swear to catch Zheng Kai, the king of Qiulu!"

The officers of the formation in the big tent listened to the words of the soldier master Da Ran, and they were all excited, raising their arms and shouting: Swear to catch Zheng Kai, the king of Qiulu!

The soldier lord Da Ran looked at the generals and said, "Generals, I have brought three weapons to help us break through the city. The first is a huge shield: made of thick hardwood planks one zhang high and eight feet wide and two zhang wide, with wooden wheels under it, which can be carried out, and can cover the soldiers rushing to the city. The second is a giant trebuchet: the boulder thrown will fall rapidly, which can smash the city's head arrow tower, bed crossbow and other city-defending equipment. The third is the siege tower: the crossbowman can shoot at the defenders at the head of the city in the combat area at the top of the tower, and can also build a wooden plank to rush directly to the head of the city. ”

Shi Dewa asked the soldier lord Daran, "Soldier master, where did these three kinds of city-breaking weapons come from?"

The soldier master Da Ran said: "This is what I have secretly developed in the Nine Desolation Mountains for many years. ”

Shi Dewa said, "How many of these three instruments did the master bring?"

The soldier lord Da Ran said: "There are thirty giant shields, ten giant trebuchets, and two siege towers. ”

According to the number of the three types of city-breaking weapons, Shi Dewa redeployed the opponents and prepared to storm the capital of Maozhou again.

After the generals left the big tent, only Shi Dewa, Diedewa and the soldier lord Daran were left in the big tent, and the three of them discussed for a while before they dispersed.

On the afternoon of the next day, Shi Dewa and the army lord Da Ran led 15,000 troops to attack the capital of Maozhou.

The soldiers rushed to the front with thirty huge shields, covering the crossbowmen.

The bows and arrows shot at the head of the city with shields in the formation are more difficult, and they cannot resist the attack of multiple bows and crossbows on the head of the city of Maozhou Mansion, so it is inevitable that there will be heavy casualties when the city is forcibly attacked. And the giant shield completely protected against the attacks of the multi-bow bed crossbow.

With the cover of the giant shield, the crossbowmen in the formation exerted great power.

Crossbow arrows are much more powerful than bows and arrows, and crossbow arrows also have a higher hit rate than bows. However, the cost of crossbow production is too high, and the firing speed of crossbow arrows is much slower than that of bows and arrows, which is not convenient for mobile combat, so most of the armies of the Xurui Dynasty use bows and arrows.

All the soldiers in the Nine Desolations Ridge Formation used were crossbows, and the number of crossbowmen exceeded 10,000. The crossbowmen are formed in three horizontal rows, the first row of crossbowmen fires their arrows, and then retreats to the last row to fire their arrows; the crossbowmen who originally stood in the second row immediately stand in front and fire their crossbow arrows when the first row of crossbowmen retreats, and then retreat to the third row to fire their crossbow arrows; then the crossbowmen who originally stood in the third row step forward to fire their crossbow arrows, and at this time, the crossbowmen in the first row have already loaded their crossbow arrows.

The 5,000 crossbowmen of the formation fired crossbow arrows in succession, completely suppressing the archers at the head of the Maozhou Mansion.

At this time, ten giant trebuchets also came to the city to participate in the battle under the cover of giant shields. Large stones were thrown on the head of the capital city of Maozhou, some arrow towers were smashed, and two multi-bow crossbows were also smashed to the point that they could not be used, and some soldiers at the head of the city were smashed and fled in all directions.

The soldiers took the opportunity to push more than a dozen ladder carts under the city walls of the city, and the soldiers climbed from the ladder carts to the top of the city.

When the soldiers guarding the city saw that the soldiers were about to go to the city, they splashed boiling water on the ladder carts, and then poured the oil prepared in advance on the ladder carts, and then lit the ladder carts.

The ladder car is equipped with a shield to protect against bows and arrows and stones, but it cannot avoid boiling water, and the soldiers cannot go to the city in the face of boiling water.

Some of the ladder carts caught fire, and the soldiers jumped off the ladder carts with fire on their bodies and fell to their deaths on the spot; some of the soldiers saw that the ladder carts were on fire, so they ran down the ladder carts and ran to the giant shield, and as soon as they ran to the moat, they were shot to death by the archers at the head of the city; and some of the soldiers swam across the moat, which was not too wide, but most of them were shot to the ground by the archers at the head of the city.

The soldiers behind the giant shield hurriedly came out to take cover, and the multi-bow bed crossbow at the head of the city took the opportunity to fire, and some of the soldiers were killed on the spot.

At this time, the two siege towers were pushed and pulled in front of the city walls.

Huge siege towers move slowly and need to be erected on wooden stakes with pulleys and moved forward in a push-pull fashion. Especially when crossing the moat, it takes a lot of time. Fortunately, the defenders at the head of the city were busy dealing with the siege of a row of ladder trucks, and there was no time to block the formation, and the moat was not wide, so many soldiers moved the two siege towers across the moat little by little.

When the two siege towers were moved under the city walls, it was when a row of ladder carts was frustrated in the siege and the soldiers fled from the ladder carts.

Seeing that the siege tower was in place, Da Ran, the commander in charge of the battle, hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen and giant trebuchets to release crossbow arrows and large stones at the head of the city, and ordered the soldiers to re-enter the ladder cart to attack the city.

This is the strategy of breaking the city discussed by the soldier lord Daran and Shi Dewa: use the ladder car to attack the city to cope with the attack of the siege tower.