Traveling through troubled times, he fled with his stepson

The greetings from both sides aroused the emotions of the soldiers, and each of them was so angry that he could not express it in words.

The fuse was the siege ordered by Lei Hao.

The siege equipment started to move forward from behind the people, followed by countless people. These people were mainly equipped with siege equipment, hiding from the arrows that shot down from the sky.

The arrows from above soon stopped being fired, but the siege equipment below kept advancing, getting closer and closer to the city.

"City Lord, should we release them?"

Seeing the situation below, the person next to Jiang Shiping asked with a trembling voice.

Jiang Shiping tightened the sword in his hand and said in a normal voice: "Wait a little longer, let the people behind get ready. Once we reach the city, I will say release, and we will release!"

The surrounding soldiers followed the order, and some individual archers continued to shoot arrows. Their hit rate was high, but it was useless.

A little bit.

A little further.

Jiang Shiping estimated the distance. The palm of his hand holding the sword was wet and slippery, making his fingers slightly stiff.

"Tell the people behind to prepare the kerosene first!"

All the people on the city wall who had been motionless suddenly took a step back, letting the people behind them carry the things forward, and then threw the loosely tied bags onto the siege equipment.

Hundreds and thousands of bags were thrown onto the siege equipment, and the people below, who had been happy because there had been few casualties, suddenly became confused.

The bags fell onto the siege engines and immediately opened up, revealing the kerosene inside.

Some people with sharp noses have already smelled the pungent smell, and the experienced ones immediately said: "No, retreat--

They are going to set fire!!”

But it's too late.

The arrows in the sky were quenched with fire and shot straight at the siege equipment.

boom--

The scorching flames ignited from the siege equipment, and the tempered arrows shot not only at the siege equipment, but also at the people.

The people on the siege equipment were burned to death, and the people below were too far away from the siege equipment and too close to the city gate, so when they retreated, they were exposed to the archers' range.

The smell of something burning, the smell of a burning body, cries, and the sounds of fighting.

This is... a battlefield.

Yizhou's offensive forced these people to retreat step by step. Lei Hao issued a second order with a gloomy face: "Let our archers go to the front, and the shieldmen protect the archers!"

"Wait until they are suppressed so that they can't show their heads, then use the ladder to move forward!"

The drums continued to beat, and the shieldmen and archers moved forward as ordered.

Seeing their changes, Jiang Shiping knew that there would be another round of shooting.

"Shieldman——"

They placed the shields they had prepared in advance in front of them, and their archers continued to shoot through the gaps between them.

A bad smell wafted from everywhere.

The siege equipment was partly made of wood, and now smoke billowed from the fire.

The contest between the two sides started again.

Arrows kept falling on the shields above, and their arrows kept falling on the ground and were blocked by the shields of the people below.

In the stalemate, the people with the ladders had already reached the bottom of the city wall, and when Lei Hao's people saw the ladders, they put away their bows and arrows for fear of hurting their own people.

Jiang Shiping on the Yizhou city wall had already seen the ladder erected on the city wall.

"Tell the people in the back to bring the stuff up!"

His orders were passed down one by one and soon received a response, and something was transported up through the elevator.

If someone looked behind the city wall at this time, they would see the wooden barrels being transported over continuously.

There were not so many weapons stored in Yizhou City, so according to Li Yuan, they had to win by clever tactics.

Kerosene is used to attack siege equipment, while the contents of this barrel are used to attack siege ladders.

Ladders were built one by one, and the people climbing them moved very quickly, quickly climbing up to the middle. The people below followed one after another, strung together like candied haws.

These people may not be unaware that there is a high probability that they will die when they first go there, but they get what they want. They want a lot, most of which are to live a good life as long as they don't die.

But they were destined to end up here today.

Jiang Shiping saw someone who had climbed very high and raised his hand. Everyone on the city wall was looking at Jiang Shiping.

"fall!"

"fall--"

The sounds grew louder and louder, and then the soldiers followed the order and poured out the contents of the buckets.

One by one, they placed buckets on the city wall and poured them down the ladders.

wow——

The moment the boiling water touched the skin, the person climbing the ladder at the top felt as if he was thrown into a hell of fire.

As soon as he loosened his grip, he fell from a height of four or five meters.

Even though he almost got smashed to pieces after falling to the ground, the combined pain from the fall and the burns made him feel like he was dying.

People who have been through many battles suddenly have a feeling that since they have to endure this kind of pain, they might as well die as soon as possible.

No one cares about him.

No one even noticed him.

More and more people fell from the ladder, and the first person who landed on the ground had the last memory of another person falling from a high altitude and hitting him with a dull sound.

There were only a few people left on the ladder, and the first wave of boiling water had almost been poured out. In this short period of time, everyone was panting and looking at each other in embarrassment.

But no one below dared to step forward.

But soon, horns sounded from the rear and dull war drums pounded. The people below received the order to attack and could not help but look up.

On the city wall, the wooden barrels at the rear had already arrived, ready to attack again using the ladders.

Another battlefield of life-threatening game opens again.

Fighting, falling, screaming, and drumming.

Every sound makes one's heart skip a beat.

Lei Hao sat in the back, and battle reports came in frequently.

"City Lord——"

"The siege equipment is still burning, don't touch it!"

"The ladders can't be used to attack, Jiang Shiping ordered people to prepare boiling water to be poured down from the ladders!"

"Our men suffered heavy casualties."

This was the first time Lei Hao hit a wall. The look in his eyes grew darker and darker, and anger surged in his heart.

"storm!"

"City Lord, force the attack..."

Lei Hao looked at them with a sinister look, and his subordinates dared not make a sound anymore.

After the man left, Lei Hao ordered the guards around him: "Go! Check to see why Zuo Yun and the others haven't come back yet."

Lei Hao intuitively felt that there was something wrong with the left acetylene, and it was not just that.

Ever since this battle began, everything has gone wrong.

This was the first time that the food supplies were attacked and there was no news coming out of the city. However, Jiang Shiping actually went up to the city wall and advanced and retreated together with the soldiers. This was impossible before.

If Zuo Qing's plan to burn the food and water sources and poison them failed, then Lei Hao might have lost the initiative in this battle.

Jiang Shiping is a man who has some ambitions to be an official, but he is more cautious. He is not very talented and is a law-abiding person. It is impossible for such a person to think so comprehensively, as if blocking all the paths he wants to take.

Lei Hao realized that in this war, perhaps more than just Chenzhou and Yizhou were at stake.

Maybe there is someone else stirring up trouble.