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The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the battle was imminent.

On July 27, Zhao Junsheng issued a decree, appointing Su Ji as the former army capital to command the army to attack the city.

In the early morning of this day, [-] cavalry, [-] infantry, and [-] Congregation troops took up positions outside the east gate, west gate, and north gate. The soldiers and craftsmen of the battalion erected and assembled them.

The army outside the city was busy quickly and nervously, and the defenders on the top of the city were not idle either. Soldiers set up trebuchets and bed crossbows at the top of the city. Every three feet on the head, a pot is set up to boil boiling water or boiling oil.

The craftsmen of the Qianjun built a super-large imperial chariot. The imperial chariot has a roof to shade the sun, and there are curtains on the four sides, which can be raised and lowered. It can drive the horses to turn freely, and the steering is flexible.

Zhao Junsheng was wearing a battle armor and holding a sword in his hand, sitting on a large imperial chariot. The imperial chariot was higher, and sitting on it had a wide view, allowing him to have a panoramic view of the whole situation.

Zhao Junsheng turned his head to look at the rising sun, then looked at the hourglass next to him, and told the imperial guards: "Go and tell Su Ji that it's getting late, start attacking the city!"

The imperial guards bowed and agreed, turned around and walked down the imperial chariot quickly to convey the will to Su Ji.

Su Ji got the order, drew his sword and pointed forward, shouting: "Siege——"

The trumpeters who received the order took a deep breath, puffed their cheeks and blew the horn, "Woo—————"

The siege troops had been given combat missions earlier, and they all had corresponding regulations and deployments.

With the sound of desolate horns, the craftsmen and generals of the siege battalion began to operate the catapult, the heavy gravity frame was pulled up, and the strong wooden pegs were stuck on the groove to support the weight of the gravity frame.

Four soldiers carried a stone bomb and put it in a net bag made of iron sheets. The flag bearers of each catapult saw that the bomb was loaded, and each raised a small flag to indicate that they were ready.

The commander glanced over and saw that all the flag bearers of the trebuchets had raised their small flags, and immediately drew out their sabers and yelled at his subordinates, "Talbusters, launch—"

The messengers around the commander waved down the flag vigorously. Seeing this, the launchers of each trebuchet smashed the wooden pegs with their heavy hammers, and the gravity frame fell suddenly without the support of the wooden pegs.

The strong gravitational acceleration is transmitted to the net pocket of the bullet bag through the arm, and the net pocket is driven into lightning-like anger. The stone bullets in the net pocket fly to the sky at an extremely fast speed and hit the distant city wall.

The stone bullets made a terrifying whirring sound during the flight, and the defenders standing on the top of the city saw countless stone bullets falling from the sky, and their faces were ashen.

Chen Xian did not change his face, and stood calmly by the parapet wall and shouted: "Don't panic, just stand where you are, General, this thing is too heavy, and you may not be able to hide it if you stand on it. It doesn't necessarily hit you here!"

The soldiers didn't have the courage of Chen Xian to face the collapse of a mountain in front of them without changing their face. Before a large number of stone bullets fell, many soldiers were already screaming and running.

There is no one who is not afraid of death. In the face of this kind of attack like the power of the sky, the soldiers who are ordinary people are so frightened that they instinctively want to escape here.

Soldiers who have been trained and have strict military discipline are better. They haven't run away, but instinctively hide under the parapet. Only those recruits are scared and run around.

However, even hiding under the parapet is not necessarily safe, and the parapet may not be able to withstand the impact of huge stone bullets.

"Boom boom boom..." The rain of stone bullets finally fell, creating a terrifying momentum the moment it collided with the city wall.

Some made dull noises, causing quite a shock; some stone bullets fell on the city wall and shattered, breaking into countless tiny pieces and flying in all directions, causing heavy casualties to the surrounding defenders.

Some unlucky ghosts were hit by stone bullets and died on the spot. Their eyeballs bulged out due to the tremendous pain before, their bodies were smashed flat, and their intestines and internal organs were all shattered into minced meat.

Some defenders were smashed to the ground by the flying gravel, and some lost their combat effectiveness by smashing their limbs.

Regarding the use of siege equipment, especially trebuchets, the artisans of the dry army and the siege troops have long thought about how to maximize the power of trebuchets.

There are two kinds of stone bullets, one is a solid ball, the surface is rough, and the shape is not too regular. This kind of stone bullet will be a hole when dropped, and the wall bricks that are not strong will definitely be smashed; The ball, but the surface of the sphere was cut with many deep lines by the craftsmen with tools. This kind of stone bomb will be broken into countless pieces in an instant when it is hit, and these pieces will cause great casualties to the defenders.

The power of the stone bullets fired by the Ganjun trebuchet greatly exceeded the estimates of Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang. In their impression, the stone bullets fired by the trebuchet were all solid bullets. Generally, when they fell down, they would be a crater. Countless pieces, such a stone bomb caused too many casualties after it shattered and exploded.

Countless screams came from the city wall, and the huge momentum caused by the landing of the stone bomb made the city wall tremble.

Chen Xian yelled: "Don't panic, hide behind the parapet!"

The veterans are more experienced. After seeing the power of the dry army trebuchet, they squatted behind the parapet. The recruits are still panicking. The casualties caused by stone bombs or stones during the scurrying process are rising sharply. .

The iron pots that were boiling water on the city wall were knocked over and pierced one by one, and a large amount of boiling water splashed, scalding the soldiers and screaming. 8

Chapter 1010 tit for tat

As more and more stone bombs were thrown on the city wall, the defenders suffered more and more casualties. This made Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang very shocked and anxious. Why is the hit rate of the army's catapults so high?

In Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang's understanding, although the stone bomb attack of the trebuchet is powerful, the hit rate is very low. It is very good if two of the ten stone bullets hit the city wall, but the one thrown by the army Except that the hit rate of the stone bullets was not high in the first one or two rounds, the more hits, the better the hit rate. Later, the hit rate reached half, which is terrible.

"It can't be done, staying on the city wall will cause too many casualties. General Ye, order the soldiers to quickly go down the city wall to avoid it, leaving only a few observation posts on the city wall!" Chen Xian hid under the female wall and covered his head. roared.

"Okay!" Ye Tongzhang agreed, and immediately ordered several soldiers around him: "Send the order, except for the sentry, everyone else will go down the city wall one by one to avoid the stone bullets and stand by!"

The messengers braved the rain of stone bullets to shuttle on the city wall, loudly conveying orders, and the defenders who received the orders quickly went down the city wall and squatted at the base of the city wall, shivering.

Everyone was in a state of disarray. The defenders looked at me and I looked at you. Many people suffered minor injuries. Some had their faces scraped by debris, and some limbs were cut by the flying gravel.

There is a high movable watchtower in the army formation outside the city, which is higher than the city wall and has a good view. There are two soldiers on the platform, one of whom has good eyesight and can clearly see the situation on the city wall, and the other is The flag bearer is responsible for flagging.

"Tell me, the defenders on the city wall have all retreated to the city, and there are only a few observation posts on the city wall!"

Another companion immediately used a flag to send a semaphore to the communication soldier below. After reading the semaphore sent by the other party, the communication soldier immediately ran to Su Ji to report.

After hearing this, Su Ji pondered for a while and gave an order: "Give the first siege echelon an order to make them prepare for the siege! Once the soldiers of the siege battalion dispatch the siege equipment such as ladders, well rails, bed crossbows, etc., the first The soldiers of the attacking echelon will rush out behind the siege ladders and well rails!"

"promise!"

Afterwards, Su Ji sent someone to ask if the siege ladders, well rails, and bed crossbows on the siege battalion were ready. After receiving a clear reply, he immediately ordered the siege battalion to dispatch.

The soldiers of the siege battalion carried a ladder in groups of several, a dozen of them guarded a well fence, and several of them guarded a ballista.

Yuntizhuang straightened his helmet, picked up a shield in his left hand, pointed forward with his right hand, and shouted: "Brothers in Yuntizhuang, carry the ladder and charge with me, charge!" After speaking, he turned towards the city wall run away.

"Come on!" the soldiers roared, holding shields in their hands and carrying ladders on their shoulders and rushed out.

Building general rushed for a while, stopped and turned his head, waving his saber and shouting: "Come on, don't be discouraged, don't stop, go for me!"

When the soldiers of the ladder team carried the ladder and passed the soldiers at the front of the formation, the commander of the first siege echelon took out his battle and shouted: "Soldiers follow the ladder team, follow me! There is no order, and those who take a step back ,cut"

"kill"

"Kill!" The Allied Army generals are also soldiers who have experienced regular drills. Although they surrendered and were reorganized into the Allied Army, their morale was a little low, but their military quality is still there. Siege is their strong point. Under the leadership of the officers, They carried their shields and swords and rushed towards the city wall behind the echelon team.

For more than two months, the moat has been gradually filled up by the allied troops, but the defenders have nothing to do. In the beginning, they shot and killed many allied troops, but later they had to save arrows. If left alone, the moat will gradually be filled.

After the Gan army launched the siege, the drums were thundering, which had already alarmed the defenders who were avoiding the stone bombs, but at this time the Gan army's stone bomb attack had not stopped, so they could only wait patiently.

When the Qianjunyun echelon rushed to the vicinity of the city wall, the trebuchet attack stopped, and if it didn't stop, it was likely to hit its own people.

"The trebuchet attack has stopped. Soldiers, follow me to the city wall to set up defenses!" Chen Xian yelled, and he was the first to charge up the city wall with his saber in hand. He ran to the side of the female wall to take a look, and immediately ran up behind him. Soldiers command and dispatch, deploy and defend.

The Xie Congjun rushed quickly, and the various ministries cooperated closely. As soon as the ladder team rushed near the city wall, the trebuchet stopped firing stone bombs, and they just rushed under the city wall to set up the ladder.

The individual quality of the soldiers of the Confederacy Army is comparable to that of the defenders in the city. The tacit cooperation between the various ministries is not because the soldiers are skilled in tactics, but because most of the generals and officers in charge of command are officers drawn from the dry army. Their command allows the various ministries to cooperate with each other tacitly.

"Let the arrows, let the arrows go!" Chen Xian yelled, and while directing, he took the bow and arrow from his back and shot at the soldiers and generals in the city.