The Yizhou Army began its first siege operation.

Ten counterweight trebuchets bombarded the city wall, hundreds of catties of stones were projected from nearly 200 steps away, and every time they hit the city wall, the naked eye could see the city wall shaking, but it had to be said that Cangxian County, as the seat of Henghai and Zhu Shou, the city wall was indeed not comparable to these small cities of Yongguang. Looking at the shaking of the city wall, but wrapped in stones, the blue brick city wall is still so tenaciously standing. Of course, the loss was not without it, and the wooden gate tower above the city head was hit by a boulder and collapsed into ruins. The female walls, retaining walls, and barrier walls in the upper part of the city wall have also been smashed a lot, and the city wall looks a little shorter.

The achievement of the first day, that is, the soldiers of the government filled the moat, which was about hundreds of paces long, under the cover of trebuchets.

Of course, the city will not be so stupid and not fight back, under the brutal blow of the counterweight trebuchet outside the city, the city has also organized several counterattacks, but whether it is cavalry or infantry, under the key care of the Chengde wolf cavalry and the Modao team, the horizontal navy out of the city is basically meat buns and dogs, and there is no return.

"Cangxian is an ancient city that has been strengthened for many years." At night, Cao Xin, who collected his troops and returned to the camp, explained to Li Ze: "Don't look at his rammed earth inside, but it is extremely thick, and the outer layer is mostly wrapped in stones. The outer stone and the inner soil, when hit by gravity, have some concessions, which greatly strengthens its ability to resist attacks. ”

"Is it the same with our Zhenzhou?" Li Ze asked curiously, if you do this, the money will be spent.

Cao Xin nodded: "Our Chengde is not comparable to the poor Henghai. Over the years, the festival marshal has been reinforcing the city wall, although the renovated city wall, although it is also rammed earth, but the requirement is a wrestler to make the sharp cone violently pierced, into the soil can not be more than an inch, too inch is unqualified. ”

"So powerful?" Li Ze was also surprised.

"And that's not all. The exterior wall of Zhenzhou is also wrapped in stones, not only with glutinous rice juice and other adhesives, but also carved rivets on the stones, which bite each other. In this way, the entire city wall forms a whole. Childe, your counterweight trebuchet is certainly powerful, but when facing a fortified city like Zhenzhou, the effect will not be too great. Cao Xin said a little proudly.

"How much does it cost?" Li Ze's eyes widened, Zhenzhou is a big city, and the stones needed to wrap the entire city wall are incalculable, and every stone has to be carved out of such a rivet, how much manpower and material resources are needed?

"So Zhenzhou is still doing this work until now." Cao Xindao. "How much does it cost millions?"

Li Ze shook his head and said, "How many useful things can you do with such money?" It's a shame to build such a wall. The wall of people's hearts, not the wall! ”

Cao Xinleng for a moment before he reacted to the meaning of what Li Ze said, and said with a wry smile: "What the son said is easy, but how difficult it is to do it!" But with such a strong city, everyone's hearts are always more stable. ”

"Let's make it, it's not my money anyway?" Li Ze spread his hands and said.

"In the future, it will be Childe's money." Cao Xin looked at Li Ze with a smile.

Li Ze was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "Yes, but when I enter Zhenzhou, I will probably be almost done, out of sight and out of mind, I won't do such a thing at such a big cost, but I am still very happy if I want to enjoy such a result directly." Cao Gong, how are we going to fight tomorrow? ”

"Cangxian is Zhu Shou's old territory, and the army is also his descendant. Looking at today's appearance, you can know that the siege of the city will be a bitter battle, but no matter how bitter it is, it must be fought. Tomorrow I'm going to dig up the hill. ”

"Another big project!" Li Ze said with a smile.

"Regular Operations." Cao Xin said with a smile: "No matter what other methods there are in Gongzi's place, these routine operations are still carried out step by step." Childe, don't underestimate the soil as a mountain. Cangxian here has a developed water system, the foundation is soft, and the soil is not only to obtain the same height as the city to suppress, when these earth mountains are built, it will form pressure on the foundation of the city wall, causing damage to it, if combined with the powerful trebuchet of Gongzi, it may be able to produce miraculous effects, and it may be possible to directly knock down a city wall. ”

"Makes sense!" Li Ze smiled: "You don't care about my side first, you can fight as much as you want, this is also a way to confuse Zhu Shou." Of course, it is also to put some additional pressure on some people in the city, so that they can see clearly that we have the strength to take Cangxian, so that they will not have unrealistic illusions. ”

Nothing was said all night.

The next day, Cao Xin really started his plan to build the earth mountain, tens of thousands of soldiers were busy digging the soil, and then transported the soil to the place two hundred steps away from the city to start ramming the earth and the mountain, the two earth mountains just sandwiched ten counterweight trebuchets in the middle, and the stone dug out of the excavation was just enough to be used as ammunition for the trebuchet.

During the whole day, the Henghai army went out of the city once in the morning and afternoon to attack the government soldiers of Zhuyi, but the Yizhou army was well protected, and the Henghai navy out of the city was brave, but under the strict defense of the Yizhou army, the army out of the city was defeated and returned with nothing.

The energy of more than 10,000 soldiers is quite amazing. In just one day's effort, the two earthen mountains were uprooted two zhang high on the spot, and if they were used for another day, they were afraid that they would exceed the height of the Cangxian city wall.

"Tonight, I'm afraid that Henghai will jump off the wall in a hurry." Standing in the camp, looking at the two dirt mountains that had grown up in one day, Li Ze smiled.

"I'm afraid they won't come, I've prepared a feast, as long as they dare to come, I can let them enjoy it well." Cao Xindao.

"They have to come, even if they know there is a trap, they will still come and try it, the dirt mountain can't be dug up, but they will try to see if they can kill the trebuchet. After all, such a big trebuchet really allowed him to get rid of a few, and I really didn't have a place to replenish it for a while. Li Ze said: "It looks like there will be a storm tonight!" ”

"Tens of thousands of troops are waiting for the day." Cao Xin waved his fist.

This night, the three large camps in Yizhou seemed to be quiet and silent, but no one slept. It was Li Ze, who also dragged a chair and sat outside the big tent.

In the early hours of the morning, just as Li Ze was drowsy, the sneak attack began.

At least more than 10,000 people went out of the city, from the only east city of the Yizhou army that did not have a garrison, the rank of the person, the mouth of the Mahler, and the hooves were also wrapped with soft cloth, after leaving the city, one left and one right outflanked from the two wings, and the attack began with the large battalions on the left and right wings.

The battle between the sneak attack and the counter-sneak attack was much more intense than during the day, and when the sky was dark, the Heng Navy seemed to feel that he could not get the victory he wanted, and immediately turned and fled, still circling the city to the east, preparing to return from the east gate.

Li Ze still stared at the North City Gate facing him with wide eyes.

Sure enough, when the horizontal navy on both flanks retreated, the north gate was opened in an instant, and about 2,000 cavalry rushed out of the inside, heading straight for the counterweight trebuchets between the two dirt mountains.

Zhu Shou is really a talent.

The so-called sneak attack on both flanks is just to cover this real attack, for the average person, after defeating the enemy's first sneak attack and obtaining a lot of results, the victor will have a period of relaxation, and he will seize this period of time.

It's a pity that from the very beginning, Li Ze and Cao Xin identified the real purpose of the other party, which can only be these trebuchets and Li Ze's Chinese army camp, no matter how hard the two wings fight, the Chinese army seems to have mobilized a lot of troops to the two wings, but in fact, they are all the elite main forces pretended to be by the government soldiers, and the real elite is not moving.

Zhu Shou's 2,000 cavalry originally wanted to build a large battalion of horses, not to defeat the German army, even if it was to cause a certain amount of chaos and force the enemy's Chinese army to retreat, they would have the opportunity to destroy the trebuchet, dig up the earth and collapse the mountain, and so on.

They ran into Min Rou's Chengde wolf rider and Tu Lichun's copycat version of the wolf rider, as well as Li Ze and Cao Xin's personal guard battalion.

These two thousand cavalry came with the belief that they would die, but they really died outside the city, and there were few Liao Liao who fled back at dawn when the sky was bright.

When the sun rose, Zhu Shou stood on top of the city with a pale face, part of the enemy outside the city was cleaning the battlefield, and the other part was still building the earth mountain in an orderly manner, and those huge trebuchets, every once in a while, would burst out with a huge roar, smashing more than ten huge stones on the city wall.

Needless to say, the pits on the northern wall are even more shocking, and some of the cracks are widening.

When Zhu Shou stared out of the city with some despair, Li Ze, who was about to catch up on sleep, had to cheer up his spirits to meet someone.

This man was a night raider, and of course now he was a prisoner.

The officer looked covered in blood, but his movements were neat, but he was not scarred at all. It's just that the armor on his body has been stripped off, and it looks like he was groped all over his body before he came in. Now Tu Lichun was standing beside him, holding the knife tightly in his hand. And beside Li Ze, Li Yu stared at each other without blinking.

"Childe, this person is hiding in a pile of dead bodies, we found it when we were cleaning the battlefield, he said that he was from the Bai family in Cangxian County, and on the order of the head of the family, he took advantage of the opportunity to attack out of the city this time to ask to see the head of the family." Tu Lichun said.

"The villain Bai Qiuren came to see his son on the order of his father." Bai Qiuren squatted down, and under Tu Lichun's gaze, he took off his shoes, tore off the soles, pulled out a letter from inside, and held it above his head with both hands.