The wind carried the torrential rain and poured down in an instant. The sudden rainstorm seriously interfered with the attack of the soldiers of the Scorching Sun Country. The arrows fired, under the influence of the storm, lost their accuracy and shortened the distance they flew. They fell outside the fortress one after another, causing accidental injuries to the soldiers who were climbing the fortress walls.

Wang Yan carefully put the shield in front of him and looked through the battlements of the fortress. It was discovered that the army of the Sun Nation had stopped shooting arrows, and a large number of soldiers were gathering at the bottom of the fortress, trying to climb up the fortress along the ropes.

"Cut the ropes and stop the enemy from climbing up!" Wang Yan shouted loudly, waving the steel knife in his hand and cutting the five ropes in front of him in one go.

After receiving the order of Wang Yan, the general of the shooting sun, the soldiers guarding the fortress began to cut the ropes hooked to the city wall. Watching the strings of enemies fall down because of this, Wang Yan and the soldiers did not show a relaxed smile on their faces. A considerable number of enemy soldiers, unwound by this, often began to climb along other ropes immediately after falling.

On the fortress wall, which is only more than 500 meters wide, no less than a thousand ropes are hung. The ropes used to climb the walls were so strong that the soldiers could not cut them with a single sword. In order to ensure that the 5,000 elite soldiers led by Wang Yan could have continuous combat capability, he left only 1,000 soldiers on the city wall and assigned different tasks. At this moment, there are less than 300 soldiers who can actually participate in cutting ropes to stop the enemy.

Of course, the army of the Burning Sun Kingdom would not allow the soldiers guarding the fortress to cut the ropes at will, and the arrows that had been interrupted for a while began to shoot at the fortress again. In order to interfere with the actions of the defenders to cut ropes. They didn't care at all if they would injure their own soldiers.

The interference of the torrential rain, the interference of the enemy's arrows, and the broken ropes that were picked up by the enemy and thrown back onto the city wall, all this made the defenders gradually start to scramble, and the enemy army climbed higher and higher, gradually approaching the top of the city wall.

"Report to the general who shoots the sun, and the arrows have been collected. A soldier came to Wang Yan's side and reported loudly.

"Fight back immediately!" Wang Yan gave the order without looking back, and cut two more ropes as he spoke.

Five hundred soldiers lined up and pulled their bows with all their might. In the continuous sound of bowstrings. Those arrows that collect good hair. It was returned in the same way by the soldiers guarding the fortress. The difference is that this time they were shot out in a condescending manner by the defenders of the city, with unrivaled strength, mercilessly harvesting a large number of enemy lives.

The enemy forces outside the fortress began to cause a wave of confusion under such an attack. The arrows that interfered with the defenders' cutting ropes were broken again. The offensive of the enemy forces weakened slightly. The defenders of the fortress immediately seized the opportunity and sped up the action of cutting the ropes, which finally caused the enemy soldiers who had climbed to fall back to the bottom of the fortress.

But the army of the Scorching Sun Kingdom did not back down from this. Soon, they raised their shields high above their heads to shield them from arrows fired by the defenders of the fortress. The enemy troops once again poured under the fortress and began a new round of climbing.

"Quickly send the second group of soldiers to defend!" Wang Yan looked at the unabated enemy army, knowing that the first batch of soldiers defending the city no longer had the strength to continue to resist, he decisively issued an order to change the defense.

The second group of soldiers guarding the fortress quickly took over the defensive duties, and with sufficient strength they cut the ropes at a noticeable speed, and there were not many ropes left hanging from the fortress. The army of the Scorching Sun Kingdom looked helplessly at the fortress, but there was nothing to do.

"Your Majesty, the walls of the fortress are too high for the soldiers to climb and are blocked from the fortress. I hope that the emperor will quickly study countermeasures. An officer came to the side of Emperor Meng Tan of the Burning Sun Kingdom and reported in detail on the battle situation at this time.

"Gao, what kind of difficulty is that, you are all waste, you will not build a wooden frame under the fortress!"

The officer immediately felt the meaning conveyed by the emperor's cold eyes, that is, his future was ruined and there was no future for him. Cold sweat mixed with rain flowed down, the officer's legs trembled slightly, and an indescribable fear appeared on his face.

"What are you doing in a daze? If you can't break through the Tiger Mouth Fortress tonight, I will kill you first!" the words of Emperor Meng Tan of the Scorching Sun Kingdom were not to intimidate the officers, but to be absolutely true and reliable. The fortress is not broken, and the head moves.

"Yes!" the officer did not dare to be careless, and immediately led the soldiers to build a wooden frame at the bottom of the fortress high enough to allow the siege ladder to play its due role.

How could the actions of the soldiers of the Scorching Sun Kingdom be concealed from Wang Yan. When he saw that the enemy had temporarily given up climbing the city wall and instead were busy transporting wood, he immediately understood the enemy's next attack strategy.

"Hurry up and get the rolling wood to the city walls, the more the better. Wang Yan ordered at Li Zihao. For the original general of the Hukou Fortress and his vulnerable soldiers, Wang Yan really didn't dare to give them the task of defending the fortress, but he couldn't let them have nothing to do, so he handed over the task of transporting supplies and carrying the wounded to Li Zihao and his soldiers to complete.

Both the offensive and defensive sides began to tacitly get busy with each other. Under the walls of the fortress, huge wooden frames are being built layer by layer, and the height is almost thirty meters, which is just right for placing siege ladders. On the walls of the fortress, piles of boulders and long, thick logs were neatly arranged, because it took more effort to put these rolling logs and stones, and Wang Yan mobilized 2,000 soldiers to go up to the city walls.

It was completely dark, and the torrential rain left no hope for anyone to light the torches. The Tiger's Mouth Fortress was shrouded in darkness, and it was about to reach the point where it could not see its fingers. This situation was very unfavorable to both the army of the Burning Sun Kingdom and the army guarding the fortress led by Wang Yan.

The army of the Scorching Sun Nation outside the Hukou Fortress suddenly fell silent, and the only sound of the rain could be heard in the entire fortress, and the 'ding' sound of the rain hitting the soldiers' armor.

This strange phenomenon. Immediately aroused Wang Yan's vigilance, and he knew that the enemy had already set up a wooden frame.

"Immediately smash the rolling wood and stone at the enemy outside the fortress!" Wang Yan did not wait. He knew that if he wanted to wait until he discovered the ladder erected by the enemy and then defend it, it would be too late. Because the enemy can take advantage of the darkness to lower the height of the ladder appropriately, so that the defenders in the fortress cannot be noticed, so that they can tiptoe up the fortress. Once the enemy does succeed, the fortress will be completely lost in a very short time.

A stone that was one meter square was pushed down by the combined efforts of six soldiers, and after a loud "boom", there was the sound of the wooden frame breaking and collapsing, mixed with the screams of a large number of enemy soldiers.

The loud sound of this boulder triggered a chain reaction, hundreds of stones and logs fell from the walls of the Hukou Fortress, and the sound of "boom" was connected, and the huge impact shook the ground, and the defenders standing on top of the fortress clearly felt the fortress walls shaking under their feet.

The situation of the soldiers of the Scorching Sun Army gathered under the walls of the fortress can be imagined, and the incomparably miserable cries for help that echo in the air alone can make the discouraged people feel creepy to hear.

"Help me, my leg is crushed by a boulder!"

"What about my arm, who saw my arm?!"

"Ahh

"Help me! The broken wooden frame pierced my body, and I couldn't move!"

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Countless cries for help intertwined, repeated over and over again, until the soldier who shouted out was killed.

A bolt of lightning streaked across the sky at the right time, bringing an instant of light and exposing the bloody scene to the eyes of everyone. The shattered wooden frames were staggered, and some were completely debris. A large number of soldiers were crushed under boulders and logs, some still dying, others reduced to pulp. It was no longer just rain that flowed on the ground, but a large amount of blood pooled in it, exuding a bewitching crimson color.

The soldiers of the Scorching Sun Nation, who were lucky enough to escape, had moved away from the land beneath the fortress that had slaughtered their comrades. A handful of soldiers suffered a nervous breakdown and fled into the distance screaming, only to be mercilessly killed on the spot by the officers in charge.

"Stop the attack and rest in place!" Wang Yan's order was immediately strictly adhered to by the soldiers. The enemy is far away, and throwing the rolling wood and stone is not only a waste of physical strength, but also a waste of valuable weapons to kill the enemy.

"Your Excellency, the soldiers are seriously overdrawn. A soldier who was in charge of delivering the message told the guard about the condition of the guard.

"Change the guard, change the guard immediately!" Wang Yan hurriedly made a decision. Although the enemy forces temporarily stopped attacking, who can determine the time of the next attack of the enemy army. In front of them, these soldiers are already exhausted, so they must rest in peace, and the only way to do this is to send soldiers on standby to replace the defense.

As Wang Yan expected, after learning the news of the heavy casualties of the army, the Emperor of the Scorching Sun Kingdom, Shangmengtan, still issued a death order to attack the fortress at all costs.

"Whether I have thousands or tens of thousands of soldiers dead, even if the corpses are piled up, I will break through this fortress!" Meng Tan, the emperor of the Scorching Sun Kingdom, broke the horsewhip in his hand and threw it to the ground hard. He didn't believe that the Tiger's Mouth Fortress would be able to withstand the attack of his 500,000-strong army. And what he doesn't care about is the lives of the soldiers, not to mention that only 30,000 soldiers have died so far, even if another 130,000 or 230,000 die, as long as he can break through the fortress and occupy the palace of the July Kingdom, he will not have any distress.

"Your Majesty, now that it is dark and rainy, the materials for building the wooden frame are all destroyed, and the Tiger Mouth Fortress is easy to defend and difficult to attack. And the soldiers were so frightened that they were no longer fit to attack. Another officer, because he felt sorry for his soldiers, began to admonish.

With a "poof", blood splattered, and the officer's chest was pierced by a sword. The Emperor of the Scorching Sun Kingdom, Meng Tan, held a blood-dripping sword and looked around at the other officers and generals around him: "Anyone who speaks to stop me from attacking the fortress will be beheaded!"

Fleeting lightning bolts, from time to time cast brief bursts of light. The soldiers in the rear of the army of the Scorching Sun Kingdom, carrying cloth bags full of earth and stones, replaced the soldiers in front of the fortress who had not been able to take the fortress for a long time. These soldiers in the rear, with solid steps, approached the bottom of the Tiger Mouth Fortress step by step. (To be continued......)