The war finally came, and the six thousand soldiers on the city of Lushui Cang were waiting solemnly, watching the rapidly moving black shadows on the west bank of Lushui and the vast wilderness in the north, but the south cang gate was also opened, and Li Jing personally greeted the arrival of five thousand soldiers to support the Sui army. ”

Li Jing hurriedly helped him up, "General Zhao, please hurry up, it should be the old man who salutes the general to show his gratitude!" ”

Li Jing was indeed very grateful to Zhao Liang for his support, he didn't expect Zhao Liang to come so quickly, and rushed to Lushui Cang before he could grab Luo Yi, although he hoped that Zhao Liang could go to support Yuyang County, but now that people have come, it is not good for him to mention the matter of Yuyang County again.

Zhao Liang seemed to understand Li Jing's thoughts, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, general, the main army of my marshal has already gone north, and there are waterway armies in Beiping County and Yuyang County, which will definitely be able to contain Gao Kaidao's army." ”

Li Jing was immediately overjoyed, and asked anxiously, "I don't know where His Royal Highness King Qi has arrived?" ”

"River-gun!"

Not only Li Jing at this time, but all the soldiers next to him were overjoyed, the main reinforcements were coming, what was Luo Yi's army afraid of?

Li Jing is worthy of being a veteran of a hundred battles, he immediately understood Zhang Xuan's strategy, and secretly shouted in his heart that if Luo Yi knew that Zhang Xuan's main force had been killed in Hejian County, I am afraid that he would not come to attack Lushuicang's idea.

He nodded immediately, "In that case, we will only strictly guard Cangcheng and drag Luo Yi in Lushui Cang." ”

The sky is getting brighter, Luo Yi's 20,000 troops finally killed under the city of Lushuicang, the walls of Lushuicang are all rebuilt, the city wall is three zhang high, there is a moat several zhang wide under the city, it is not easy to attack this city wall. However, Cangcheng is not a male city after all, although the city wall is very high, but the width is insufficient, and even a little thin, the thickness of the city wall is only one zhang, and it cannot accommodate large throwing weapons. And if Luo Yi carried a heavy trebuchet and battering ram, the powerful impact could easily break down the city walls.

Luo Yi also knew the weakness of Lushuicang, but he had no way to use it, whether it was a giant trebuchet or a battering ram, he had no way to carry it, he only brought a hundred ordinary siege ladders, but Luo Yi could still use a certain soil method, when he crossed the north bridge, he cut down two hundred-year-old poplar trees on the east side of the north bridge, each of which required two people to hug each other. About ten zhang long, he sharpened one end and made two huge siege rams.

Luo Yi rode on a horse and stared at Lushui Cangcheng a mile away, he could see hundreds of huge warehouses in Cangcheng, one by one, containing the food and armor he had longed for for a long time, Luo Yi gritted his teeth, waved his knife and shouted: "Prepare to attack the city!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums of the earth-shattering offensive were beaten. Luo Yi's brother Luo Shou led an army of 5,000 for the first round of attack, and slaughtered Lushui Cang like a tide.

There was no tentative attack, Luo Yi directly plunged into the siege battle, the Youzhou army was completely different from the army of Lu Mingyue, Dou Jiande and others, it was a strong force with strong combat effectiveness, they were well-equipped, and each soldier was equipped with a short spear and shield helmet. It is more suitable for fighting in the city.

The morale of the soldiers was high, and the attack was very orderly, with more than 1,000 people carrying long planks in front of the city to lay the moat, followed by fifty siege ladders. Behind them were thousands of attacking Sui soldiers, each wearing a shield helmet.

The shield helmet is a kind of protective helmet specially equipped for siege soldiers, that is, the shield is embedded in the helmet, this equipment is very clumsy, due to the thickness is not enough, the protective effect is not good, but it is barely feasible to use to siege the city, the soldier climbs the ladder with one hand, holds the spear in the other hand, and there is no way to raise the shield to protect, so the shield is put on the head, which can resist the arrows shot above the head.

As soon as the attacking soldiers rushed into a hundred steps, the city immediately fired arrows in unison, and the overwhelming arrows rained down on the soldiers of the Youzhou Army, and the soldiers were constantly shot by the arrows and fell, but they did not stop the soldiers from running, with the rumbling war drums, a piece of long wooden planks were put on the moat, and the nails at both ends were deeply nailed into the soil, so that bridges appeared out of thin air on the moat.

This is an effective means of restraining the moat that almost all siege armies will use, and as a countermeasure, the best way is to widen the moat to more than ten zhang, but in this way, the other side can also use the method of building pontoon bridges to crack it, and there are tricks to break it.

A siege ladder was erected, the front end of the big iron hook on the city wall, the soldiers swarmed to climb up, above the city, the general Duan Xianda led two thousand soldiers to smash countless rolling wood and stones like hail, the siege soldiers were constantly smashed down the ladder, screaming and falling off the city wall.

There were also soldiers at the head of the city who used iron forks to lift the siege ladder, and the long iron forks overturned the ladder, and more than a dozen soldiers on the ladder screamed and fell down with the ladder.

And a thousand Qingzhou crossbowmen are also at both ends of the arrows, they have been more than a year of intensive training, the speed of loading crossbows is fast, the archery is accurate, there are constantly soldiers on the siege ladder screaming arrows rolling down, they from the side to the siege ladder on the Youzhou army soldiers brought great threat, many soldiers have to take off the shield helmet, raised in their hands to resist the strong crossbow arrows from both sides.

Seeing that the city head was counterattacking sharply, Luo Yi immediately ordered: "The crossbowmen suppress the enemy army, and the battering ram is ready to attack the city!" ”

Five thousand crossbowmen rushed forward, and in a hundred paces they lined up a powerful formation of crossbow arrows, and the overwhelming array of crossbow arrows shot at the head of the city, and a large number of casualties began to appear on the head of the city, and hundreds of soldiers were shot by the crossbow arrows and fell on the head of the city.

The powerful crossbow bolts quickly suppressed the Sui army's counterattack at the head of the city, and the soldiers under the city began to accelerate their climb to the city, just when they were about to reach the head of the city, the arrow array under the city also lost its meaning, and the arrows shot up also quickly decreased, giving the defending soldiers the opportunity to counterattack, at this time the soldiers on the siege ladder and the soldiers defending the city started a bloody battle for the head of the city.

At this time, fifty soldiers rushed towards the city wall with a huge siege mallet, and there were hundreds of soldiers on both sides raising shields to protect them, and Zhao Liang at the head of the city saw this team like a hundred-legged centipede, and he immediately shouted: "They are not allowed to approach the city wall, shoot them with arrows, and smash them with stones!" ”

Five hundred Sui crossbowmen raised their crossbows together and shot at the rushing soldiers, and the dense arrows suddenly shot the dozen or so people in front like hedgehogs, and as the soldiers in front fell down one after another, revealing a long mallet head.

But this siege ram did not stop running, they continued to increase the number of men, fill the soldiers who were shot down, and gradually resisted the arrows and rushed to the city wall, the top of the city wall fell with stones, the soldiers under the city were smashed to the head and blood, screaming wildly, they turned around and fled, in the chaos, two planks on the moat were broken by the rocks, more than 100 soldiers fell into the moat together with the battering ram, and were soon killed by the arrows shot from the city.

At this time, the casualties of the siege soldiers have exceeded 2,000, and most of the fifty siege ladders have been damaged, leaving less than ten siege ladders left.

'When! While! While! The bell rang to collect the troops, and thousands of Youzhou soldiers rushed back like a receding tide, leaving behind more than a thousand corpses that died in the city, and the city suddenly resounded with cheers

The reason why Luo Yi suspended the attack was not because the siege was unfavorable for a while, but because he found that the hundred siege ladders he carried were far from enough, and he lost half of them in the first attack, so that he would soon be exhausted, although the nearest forest was ten miles away, but it was imperative to replenish the siege ladders, Luo Yi immediately sent three thousand people to the woods to cut down trees and make improvised siege ladders.

At noon, Luo Yi stood on the hill and looked at Cangcheng not far away, his expression was very solemn, at this time, his brother Luo Shou stepped forward and said in a low voice: "I think the best way is to build a heavy trebuchet, which can directly destroy the city wall, what does the eldest brother think?" ”

Luo Yi glanced back at him, slowly shook his head, Luo Shou was stunned, "Big brother thinks he can't make it?" ”

"It's not a question of whether it can be made, as long as it is built, it will definitely be built, but time!"

"When?"

Luo Shou asked with some puzzlement: "Is the eldest brother worried about Zhang Xuan going north?" ”

Luo Yi said worriedly: "I don't know why, I always feel that the Sui army of Hejian County rushed to support a little bit wrong, I can't say clearly, but I have a hunch that Zhang Xuan's army is likely to have gone north, and we are here to attack Lushuicang, but Jixian County is empty!" ”

At this moment, a soldier rushed to report, "Lord Qiqi, General Jin sent someone to deliver a letter, saying that Zhang Xuan's army has arrived in Jixian County, and the situation is critical!" ”

Luo Yi's eyes widened, he suddenly screamed, a mouthful of blood spurted out, he fell to the sky, and fainted on the spot. (To be continued.) )