'Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! ’

The quiet morning did not last long, and when the morning sun began to turn red, the drums of the Wei army camp rumbled and beat, which was the order of Li Jinjie's soldiers.

"Dong, Shengshang, the Wei army has begun to attack the city." Yang Qinfang, who was watching from the top of the city, rushed to the city square, she was also wearing a set of armor, and she looked heroic, but it was the first time to experience such a big scene, and she was a little nervous.

Yang Tong said angrily: "Be calm, it's just a siege, not a broken city, if Li Mi doesn't attack the city, where will the soldiers get their merits?" Do you think so? ”

"Yes!"

Yang Tong has boosted his morale to the extreme, and even this general, who has always been a motivating character, also felt his blood boiling after listening to Yang Dong's words! When everyone heard Yang Tong's question at this time, they all responded violently.

"General Du!"

"The last general!" Du Fuwei came out of the ranks with his fists in high spirits.

"I'm here to see the soldiers of the 10th Army fighting, how you fight, I don't care!" Du Fuwei is the commander of the Eleventh Army, and he has been with Li Mi for so long, so Yang Tong naturally will not command indiscriminately.

"Whoa!" Du Fuwei also knew that it was not the time to be polite, so he saluted, turned around and shouted: "You quickly return to your respective ranks, pass on my orders, and prepare to meet the battle." The brothers of the Holy Lord and the Xiaoguo Army are watching, don't disgrace our Eleventh Army. ”

"Whoa!"

The generals responded and quickly dispersed.

'When! While! While! ’

The bell to gather the army in the city rang, and a group of Sui troops quickly rushed to the city, and the city wall that was five or six miles long was densely covered with Sui troops, with swords and spears shining, bows and arrows densely, and the Sui character banner fluttering in the sun.

The offensive of the Wei army was very fast, when Yang Tong climbed the city tower, he saw that the overwhelming Wei army had been completed in formation, with the defeat of most of the month, Shan Xiongxin was also red-eyed, and he could not take Xiang'an County today, which would directly affect his position in the Wei army.

Shan Xiongxin put his heart into the battle, and invested 50,000 troops at one time, and threw the last 250 ladders, 100 catapults, and 50 well carts into battle.

He stared at the drawbridge raised high, turned to look back at the camp, and a heavy battering ram had appeared in the army behind him, which would be his last kill.

"Attack!" Shan Xiongxin waved his war lance and roared.

The drumbeat of the Wei army began to become tighter, this was the drumbeat of the attack, and the 50,000 Wei troops gathered around 250 ladders, 100 catapults, and 50 well carts, and slaughtered Xiang'an City like a tide. From the top of the city, it looks like a huge black carpet, covering the entire field.

There are also dozens of catapults for defending the city on the city of Xiang'an, when the enemy army reaches the attack range, one arm and pole are thrown out in turn, dozens of boulders are smashed into the dense enemy group like an ant colony, each boulder falls down, there will be a gap on the 'carpet', blood bursts out, and the sound of wailing resounded through the world, but the gap will be closed in an instant, and it will be drowned by the attacking enemy army.

'Boom! With a bang, a well cart was hit by a boulder, and the sawdust was splashed everywhere, and dozens of soldiers on the nest car fell down screaming.

The well is spliced with giant wood, the outside is covered with cowhide, the inside is empty, there is a wooden platform with stairs leading to the top, the large well platform can be full of more than 30 soldiers, the front end of the platform is covered with a thick arrow plate covered with cowhide, which can effectively resist the bow and arrow of the Sui army. The bottom is equipped with four wooden wheels, dragged by ploughing oxen, and pushed by hundreds of soldiers on the left, right and rear, the whole thing looks like a moving house.

The Well Cart is a mobile arrow tower that can attack the siege weapons of the enemy army on the city wall. With it, it can be used to suppress the bow and arrow on the head of the city, and as long as it is not damaged by the boulder, it can also transport the soldiers on the platform directly to the city, which is sharper and more convenient than the ladder, but it is bulky and does not move fast, and it is easy to become a target for catapults.

"Boom!"

Another nest car was smashed at the bottom, and a wooden wheel was torn apart, and the nest car suddenly staggered and lost its center of gravity, and collapsed as the soldiers below fled.

The 50,000 Wei army attacked like a tide, and the boulders shot out by the catapult wheels on the city seemed to splash blood-colored waves in the ocean, and under the morning sun, it looked poignant and charming.

Yang Tong found Du Fuwei, who commanded the soldiers to defend against the enemy on the city tower, and Kan Ling, who was beside him.

"The Wei army is crazy today, and they started attacking the city directly without any temptation!" Kan Ling gasped fiercely and scolded.

Yang Tong looked at the battle array from afar, and the Wei army under the city tower was surging like an ant tide, and all the places outside the city that could release people were already full.

"Shengshang, looking at the position of the Wei army, it seems that he intends to break through Xiang'an City at all costs." Du Fuwei, who was watching the battle, frowned and said when he saw Yang Tong coming.

"This style of play can give full play to the numerical advantage to a certain extent, and the allegiance is more significant than the slow attempt, and it is very difficult to have a long pain as a short pain!" Yang Tong glanced at the dense Wei army, and said: "Actually, all the armies of my Great Sui attacked the city like this, but the ones used to act as dead soldiers were generally alien slave soldiers. ”

"......" Du Fuwei and Kan Ling were speechless.

Dare to love is that the imperial court has changed the siege tactics.

"What the saint said is that they will not be killed, the casualties caused by the catapults are very small, and the arrows will not stop their speed, and if this continues, the Wei army will soon be under the city. This will cause great casualties to our army. Du Fuwei said with some worry.

Yang Tong saw that there were also a few catapults on the city tower, and said, "General Kan, you can replace the stone bullets with gravel and try it." ”

Kan Ling glanced at the catapult, and immediately ordered someone to replace the stone bullet with gravel, and it took a moment or so to replace the huge 'spoon' that originally pulled the stone bullet with a bag, and put pieces of fist-sized gravel into it.

"Launch!" After seeing Yang Tong nodded, Kan Ling waved his hand fiercely and shouted.

"Crunch~"

"Whew~"

With a dull sound, the whole sky seemed to darken, and the rubble fell with a sharp scream, like a heavenly maiden scattering flowers.

Although it is not as earth-shattering as the previous giant, it is several times more lethal than the boulder, and under the power of the catapult and the gravity that falls from the sky, the power of a fist-sized gravel can even penetrate the shield.

In the area covered by rubble, patches of Wei troops fell, their wooden shields could defend against the shields of sharp arrows, but under the sudden impact of the rubble, they were shattered in a moment, hitting people, and immediately a huge blood hole appeared on the body, even if it was not critical, but it was enough to make people lose their combat effectiveness.

It's just that in an instant, the difference between being hit by gravel is empty, stumps and broken arms can be seen everywhere, and the entire battlefield instantly turns into a purgatory on earth.

"This ......"

Not only was Wei Jun frightened, but Du Fuwei and Kan Ling were also taken aback by this blow.

"Pass the order down and let all the catapults be replaced with gravel." Kan Ling yelled with some excitement.

"Whoa!" The soldier on standby, who had witnessed the miracle, quickly descended the stairs.

After the Sui army changed to gravel, the killing effect was doubled.

"Catapult fires back!"

Shan Xiongxin, who was in charge of the command, watched the rain of rubble that bloomed in the crowd and killed a large area, and his heart was extremely resentful.

He waved the command flag, the catapult in the rear was pushed up, although the moat has long been leveled, but until now the drawbridge has not been knocked down by them, the drawbridge does not come down, there is no way to bombard the city gate, just rely on the ladder to attack the city now, it is simply to fill in the life of people, the war continues until now, there are few soldiers who rushed to the city wall, their own side has suffered countless casualties, and the other party has few casualties, and if it goes on like this, the Wei army responsible for the first round of attack must be lost.

"Crunch~"

In the piercing sound of the machine, the catapult was slowly pushed to the front line, accompanied by a sound of tooth aching, and a hundred stone bullets thundered towards the city with a terrible roar with the roar of the catapult, a distance of more than a hundred paces.

"Boom~Boom~Boom~"

In the huge bombardment, many stone bullets fell on the city wall, and the soldiers who could not dodge were smashed into a blur of flesh and blood.

A stone bullet that broke through the air, coincidentally, flew in the direction of Yang Dong, Yang Tong's eyes were fixed, and he reached out to hold the Sky Splitting Lance, but before he stepped forward, he saw that it was dark in front of him, Kan Ling was already in front of him, looking up at the stone bullet falling from the sky, Kan Ling let out a loud shout, holding a Mo knife in his hand, and slashed at the huge stone.

"Boom~"

The stone bullets were shattered, turned into countless gravels and were swept to the outside of the city wall by Kan Leng's knife, and many Wei troops suffered an unwarranted disaster, and were beaten by the gravel that fell from the sky.

"Good!"

Yang Tong's eyes lit up, this Kan Ling seemed to be even stronger than Wang Xiongdan, which made him feel like he had picked up a treasure, and laughed: "Our army has a brave general like General Kan, I don't have to worry about it!" ”

At this time, the frontal battle has entered the most brutal stage, the city is like a rain of arrows, people continue to fall down with arrows, one after another cloud ladder set up the city wall, the Wei army soldiers climbed up like crazy, they held a shield in one hand, and the Sui army fought fiercely with spears and knives in the other, and the rolling wood stones above their heads smashed down, there were always soldiers screaming and falling down the ladder, but immediately someone swarmed up.

In front of each ladder, there are dozens of Sui soldiers fighting with the enemy, one of the most southernmost ladders, Wang Xiongdan has already killed the red eye, he led fifty Sui troops in the battle with the surging enemy army, he faced the Wei army is an elite soldier, a tall physique.

The spear sprinted, the sword slashed, the fight was extremely bloody, a Sui soldier in front of the ladder was cut in the forehead, blood gushed like an outpouring of blood, and he fell down to the city on his back, another Sui soldier immediately waved his spear and rushed up, the spear pierced the enemy's chest, picked him off the city, and re-withstood the gap.

A strong Wei soldier with a shield to push the Sui army above, the first to jump on the city, in an instant, dozens of spears from the Sui army stabbed from all sides, spears pierced through the body, the Wei soldiers screamed and rolled down, but it was the moment when the enemy army rushed to the head of the city, so that there was a short gap in the defense of the ladder, and the Wei army was suppressed on the ladder The Wei army seized the opportunity, and in an instant, more than a dozen fierce Wei soldiers rushed to the city.

"Let me come!"

Wang Xiongdan stepped forward angrily, his weapon was also a Mo knife, a sweep of thousands of troops, suddenly several people disemboweled, corpses and blood all over the city, he was wearing the heavy armor of the Mo knife hand, he didn't care about the spear that came from the stabbing attack, the unforgiving sweep, countless Wei troops were like a rushing river hitting the mainstay, the stumps flew sideways, blood gushed out, thanks to the fierceness of Wang Xiongdan, the Sui army soldiers immediately filled the gap, and suppressed the Wei army again.

"Knock knock—"

At this time, hundreds of drums sounded in unison, a huge size of the battering ram appeared in the Wei army ranks, the battering ram is also placed on a leather bucket car, the battering ram is made of hard Nanmu, the front end is equipped with pig iron to make the head, it takes two people to hug, the whole battering ram is nine zhang long, weighs thousands of catties, both sides are nailed with dense iron grippers, it takes two hundred soldiers to lift it.

Eight armored oxen slowly pulled the leather bucket cart, surrounded by 2,000 elite soldiers of the Wei army, they were the veterans of the 'Pushan Public Battalion', each wearing armor and shields from Yu Wenji, from the appearance, exactly the same as the Xiaoguo army.

However, their mission was not to attack the city, but to capture the eastern gate.

When it moved to the front of the city, the car slowly stopped, and two hundred soldiers stepped forward to hold the iron grip on the battering ram, roared in unison, and lifted the battering ram weighing thousands of catties.

Five of their soldiers were shielded to defend them against the stormy arrows from the city. A thousand soldiers were left behind, and for every shot down, someone immediately stepped forward to replenish them.

The cruel side of the war finally appeared at this time, and the Wei soldiers quickly paved a path of 100 paces with the corpses of their fallen comrades, so that the siege ram team like a thousand-legged giant worm could step on it smoothly.

This team is heavily armoured, and is not afraid of bows and arrows on their heads, or even rolling wood and stones.

At the head of the city, a partial general with hundreds of soldiers, threw thousands of pottery urns to the siege hammer team under the city, the pottery urns were broken, and the fire oil flowed out quickly, which was Du Fuwei's confidence not to be afraid of the enemy army attacking the city gate, and there were still thousands of cans of fire oil in Xiang'an County, which could play a crucial role in critical times.

Although some of the Wei soldiers realized that something was wrong, their siege hammer team did not have the slightest intention of stopping, but instead accelerated towards the city gate.

At this moment, the battering ram has become the focus of the entire battlefield, and the nearby Wei army did not continue to retreat when it retreated to a safe area hundreds of steps away, but suppressed the Sui army at the head of the city with a strong bow to escort this special team.

The drums on the battlefield were thundering, and Li Mi in the distance also personally beat the war drums, and whether he could succeed or not was hit here.

More than a thousand cans of fire oil had already been smashed at the head of the city, and when the siege hammer team was less than twenty paces away from the city gate, dozens of blazing torches were thrown from the city gate.

'Boom', the ground suddenly burned out one by one, and quickly spread to the surroundings, soon spread to the enemy's feet, the fire burned bigger and bigger, and there were cans of fire oil constantly smashed down from the city, some smashed into the Wei soldiers, and some also fell to the ground, increasing the fire.

All animals are afraid of fire, and humans are no exception, and when the fire was raging, the two thousand battering rams finally panicked, and many people were on fire, screaming and screaming.

In an instant, the two hundred paces long and one hundred and fifty steps wide city gate turned into a sea of fire, there were fire people running everywhere, and the people who fell subconsciously fluttered and rolled, burning more Wei soldiers with oil on their bodies like a fire, and the terrible screams resounded through the sky.

The huge battering ram fell to the ground with a bang when it was only a few steps away from the city gate, and then rolled down the small slope in front of the city gate, crushing countless soldiers below into a pulp, and finally it was also engulfed in flames, turning into a huge pillar of fire

The wails of the Wei soldiers before they died, the smell of meat in the air, and the unshapedly meat mud made the outside of Xiang'an County like a purgatory on earth, and many Sui soldiers couldn't bear to look at it, so they covered their noses and turned their heads.

The drumstick in Li Mi's hand fell to the ground, knowing that the failure of the siege hammer team was also the last straw that crushed the morale of the Wei army, and it would be a senseless sacrifice to fight any longer, so he sighed, "Pass my order, the army retreats!" ”

'Boom! Knock ......' Amid the drums of the retreating army, the Wei soldiers began to retreat.

The Sui army in the city thundered with joy.

Yang Tong saw Yang Qinfang beside him covering his mouth and nose, looking uncomfortable when he wanted to vomit and couldn't spit out, his eyes couldn't help but roll, and he smiled at Du Fuwei and said, "General Du, do you know this person Yu Xin?" ”

Du Fuwei was also greatly relieved to see the Wei army retreating, although he didn't understand why Yang Tong asked Yu Xin, who had been dead for more than 80 years, but he still said honestly: "Back to the saint, the last general has been in Jianghuai for many years, and I heard that this Yu Xin is a writer. His family's 'Seven Generations Juxiucai', 'Five Generations Have Anthologies', and his father Yu Beiwu was the Southern Liang Zhongshu Ling, and he was also famous for his literary talents. ”

"When Yu Xin served as the assassin of the Zhou State, he was brief and quiet in government, so that the officials and the people were peaceful, and he made great achievements. After his death, Emperor Wen deeply mourned, gave his own position, and gave Jing and Huai Erzhou Assassin History, and his son Yu established a hereditary title. This Yu Li is also a great character, an authentic talent, and the article is first-class. It's a pity that his ability to defend the city and fight is a layman, after he surrendered to the puppet Tang Dynasty, Xue Rengao broke his city in only one day, and Yu Li was also captured alive, Xue Rengao admired his talent and wanted to accept him for his own use. Who would have thought that such a talented literati as Yu Li would have the best face, not only did not appreciate it, but scolded him. ”

"A loyal man." Yang Qinfang covered her mouth and praised.

"What kind of loyalty?" Yang Tong said angrily: "If he is loyal, he will not rebel against Sui." This is not just a routine, you persuade you to surrender, I scolded you a few words, and then back and forth, and finally I was moved by your sincerity, I had to join, and in the end everyone was happy. ”

Du Fuwei sneered: "These literati are too shameless. ”

"And then?" Yang Qinfang was anxious to know what was going on.

"Yu Li's routine may be useful for Xue Ju, but Xue Rengao is irritable, and he endured it at first. But Yu Li, this guy doesn't know what to do, and the more he scolds, the more powerful he becomes. This finally provoked Xue Rengao, and in a fit of anger, Xue Rengao asked Yu Li to put him on the fire, roasting him alive like roasting a whole sheep, and after a while, Yu Li was roasted on the outside and tender on the inside, and the fragrance was bursting. Xue Rengao personally sprinkled salt, chopped green onions, and condiments, and then personally cut the meat and invited his courtiers to eat it! ”

"I didn't expect Xue Rengao to be this kind of demon." Du Fuwei sighed: "When Zhu Cang's army was short of food, he asked the soldiers to cook women and children to eat, and said to his subordinates, 'There is no better food than human flesh, as long as there are people in other towns, why worry about starvation!'" He also said, 'Eating the meat of a drunkard is like eating pork on sake lees'! ”

"I said that when I heard Xue Rengao eat Yu Li, he was still very particular, he first cut the meat from the thigh, then the abdomen and then the arm, but the brain was eaten by him with pepper. Yu Li, a famous genius in the world, was eaten only a skeleton. ”

"Uh-uh-uh"

Yang Qinfang's stomach churned when she heard this, she had never heard that there were such demons in the world, and there were so many exquisiteness in eating people, is this still a human? Smelling the smell of meat from the city, she was about to vomit out bitter bile.

Looking at Yang Qinfang, who was colorless, Du Fuwei laughed and laughed, and unconsciously, he himself became Yang Tong's accomplice.

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Happy Dragon Boat Festival!

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