"The enemy is attacking, and the soldiers are killing me fiercely." Hua'an loudly boosted morale. After saying that, he wielded a big knife and slashed several enemy soldiers who climbed up the ladder in succession.

The surrounding soldiers fought hard against the enemy, even if they were injured by arrows, they insisted on fighting, and none of them were willing to retreat from the city wall.

At the bottom of each ladder of the enemy army, a large group of soldiers gathered, especially the sword and shield soldiers, who held their shields high to form a shield net under the city to protect the other soldiers beside them.

Against these shields, bows and arrows naturally do not play a big role, only rolling wood and stone and fire attack can be effective, the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army on the city wall clenched their fists and rolled wood and stones to the enemy army under the city, and every rolling log and stone caused a lot of damage to the enemy.

All kinds of oil stored in the city were also heated on the city walls, and as long as the heated oil was poured under the city, it would definitely cause great damage to the dense enemy soldiers.

"Brigade commander, the oil is boiling." A soldier reports to Huaan.

When Hua An heard this, he glanced at the city, and saw that the enemy army was gathering densely under the city, a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth, and he said loudly: "Bring it over, prepare to bathe the enemy army." ”

Several strong soldiers immediately carried a pot full of boiling fire oil to the edge of the city wall, and suddenly, a suffocating heat wave rushed towards Hua'an, and the cheeks of several soldiers who were responsible for carrying fire oil were also steamed red by the heat wave, and beads of sweat the size of beans flowed out of their foreheads, cheeks, and necks, and even the wooden shelves they held were extremely hot.

"Big brother, it's so hot! Pour it down and let the enemy enjoy it. Iron Bull quipped loudly.

Thunderstorm followed and said, "That's right, just this pot can burn at least dozens of enemies." ”

"Brigade commander, iron spoon." The soldier in charge of heating the oil handed a large iron spoon into Hua'an's hands.

Hua An put the iron spoon in his hand aside, shook his head and said: "With this iron spoon, it is not enjoyable to pour too much spoonful, and even the pot will be poured down." ”

"Haha! That's right, it's enjoyable. Iron Bull roared.

When the soldier heard the urgency, he pointed to the dozens of clay pots behind him and said loudly: "No! Brigade commander, if the pot is poured down, what will happen to the rest of the oil. ”

Hua An glanced at these clay pots, glared at the soldiers, and said loudly: "What a fool, can't the clay pots be burned, just put these clay pots filled with fire oil on the fire and roast." ”

The soldier was stunned when he heard this, then touched his head and smiled, and quickly turned around to heat the clay pot filled with fire oil.

"Big brother, I'll leave it to us to bathe the enemy, thunderstorm, take a hand." Iron Bull broke away a few soldiers and said loudly.

Thunderstorm raised his gun and stabbed an enemy soldier who had climbed up to the top of the city, then turned and responded, "Okay." With that, he leaned his spear against the city wall, walked to the side of the oil pot, and held the wooden stand with the iron ox, and lifted the boiling oil pot.

"Okay, face the position of the ladder and fall." Huaan shouted.

"...... Uproar"

The thunderstorm and the iron bull pushed hard, and a whole pot of boiling oil, together with the black oil pot, poured down the ladder erected by the enemy.

An enemy soldier who was climbing up the ladder saw the boiling oil pouring down, and his eyes were about to pop out in fright.

"......"

Suddenly, the sound of boiling oil frying food came from the city, and the enemy soldier who bore the brunt of it just now was burned beyond recognition by the boiling oil, and he died in an instant.

Dozens of soldiers gathered under the ladder, due to the cover of shields, only a few soldiers were directly scalded to death by the enemy, most of them were scalded by different Cheng dù, and heart-rending shouts were frequently heard among the enemy troops under the city.

Hua An glanced down at the city, and saw that the enemy army had suffered heavy casualties, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, he would not have the slightest sympathy for the enemy army.

Soon, the fire oil in dozens of clay pots was boiled one after another, and the hot fire oil was constantly poured on the enemy soldiers under the city, causing great casualties to the enemy troops besieging the city.

After half an hour of fierce fighting, the enemy still failed to attack the city wall despite paying heavy casualties, which made the peach leopard in the Chinese army's large array extremely dissatisfied.

The peach leopard glared at the Yin Ling City in front of him, his chest rising and falling violently with anger, and his cheeks were also red.

"General, our army's heavy siege vehicles have been modified, and they can be directly extended to the city wall outside the moat set up by the Jin army." A small soldier reported to Peach Leopard.

Peach Leopard was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately ordered: "The siege vehicle will attack and capture the Yin Tomb." ”

"Click......"

Four heavy siege vehicles, driven by hundreds of soldiers, slowly marched towards Yinling City.

"Siege engines, enemy siege engines are coming." One of the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army defending the city shouted loudly, with a slight hint of fear in his words.

Suddenly, almost all the soldiers defending the city saw the four behemoths slowly pushed in front of them, and they all showed frightened looks.

Chen Xiong, the deputy general of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who was responsible for defending the east gate, also gasped when he looked at the four siege vehicles that were slowly pushed in.

In a big battle a few days ago, the enemy army used this kind of heavy siege vehicle to attack the wall of Yinling City many times, causing great losses to the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army defending the city, and the city wall was almost lost many times.

This time, in order to defend against this terrible behemoth, Han Qian deliberately asked the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army to dig a moat as wide as one zhang outside the city.

"General, the ladder of the enemy's siege vehicle seems to have been lengthened a lot, and it should be able to reach directly to the city wall, and the moat we dug is useless." A subordinate general said in Chen Xiong's ear.

Chen Xiong sighed slightly, and said with a straight face: "Let the five thousand men and horses on standby under the city immediately prepare for battle and be ready for reinforcements at any time." ”

"Yes, General." The subordinate turned to deliver the order.

Hua An looked up at the four behemoths that came slowly, although he had never seen it before when he was defending the city, but when he looked at this posture, he was a very powerful guy, especially the ladder that stretched out far away, it looked very powerful, and the ladder was four feet wide, and a layer of wooden planks was laid on it.

Looking at the height of the ladder stretched out, it was about the same as the city wall, or even higher, Hua'an suddenly understood that the enemy army was going to erect the ladder directly to the city wall, so that the soldiers could rush directly to the city wall along the ladder, and start a short encounter with the Jin army defending the city, so that the defenders' condescending terrain advantage was gone.

"Big brother, what kind of guy is this, such a big guy. The soldiers looked scared. Iron Bull also suddenly became interested in this behemoth.

Hua An smiled indifferently and explained: "It's the enemy's siege vehicle, you'll know how powerful it will be later." ”

"What's so powerful, that big guy is a pile of firewood in my eyes, and I'll have to smash it later." Iron Bull raised the blood-stained axe in his hand with disdain on his face.

"Iron Bull, be careful." Just as Iron Bull squinted triumphantly, an enemy officer who had climbed to the top of the city raised his ring knife and slashed at Iron Bull's neck.

Hua An, who was directly in front of the Iron Bull, didn't have time to think about it, and immediately raised his big knife to block it.

"Bump." With a bang, the enemy officer's ring-headed knife slashed at Hua'an's broadsword, and the huge force made the two knives smash into Tie Niu's neck at the same time.

Tie Niu suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, hurriedly took a step back, turned around and saw that it was an enemy officer who attacked him, and immediately said angrily: "Boy, eat me with an axe." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he swung his big axe with both hands and violently slashed at the head of the enemy officer.

The enemy officer did not dare to slack off, and immediately raised his shield in his left hand to cover it.

"Boom." With a bang, the shield of the enemy officer's left hand was shattered by the iron bull's big axe, and at the same time, the huge impact force from the axe made the officer's left arm instantly painful.

"Ahhh......h

The enemy officer's left arm ached, and instinctively held his left arm and groaned.

"Die!" Iron Bull picked up his big axe with both hands and slashed at the neck of the enemy officer.

The axe was so swift that by the time the enemy officer's pain subsided and he reacted, the blade had already cut his neck.

"Ugh." The enemy officer stared at him and died in terror.

Iron Bull stepped forward and kicked the corpse of the enemy officer, then lifted it up and threw it under the city.

"Kill, kill, kill, kill ......"

The morale of the enemy troops under the city was suddenly boosted, and the siege became more violent.

Hua An cut down an enemy soldier, looked left and right, it turned out that the enemy's four siege vehicles had been erected on the city wall, and countless enemy soldiers were running to the top of the siege vehicle, along the two-zhang long hanging ladder, towards the city wall.

Because the ladder stretched out by the enemy's siege vehicle was higher than the wall of Yinling City, and even higher than the height of the female wall, the enemy soldiers besieging the city could be said to be condescending, and they were higher than the Northern Expeditionary Army in terms of geography.

Not long after the ladder of the enemy's siege vehicle was erected on the city wall, a large number of enemy soldiers followed the ladder to kill the wall of Yinling City.

"General, the enemy has already killed the city wall." One of the generals of the Northern Expeditionary Corps shouted.

Chen Xiong naturally saw it a long time ago, he frowned, and said loudly: "Let the five thousand soldiers on standby under the city immediately go to the city for reinforcements, and the east gate must not be lost." ”

"Yes, General." The general responded, and immediately sent an order with a banner to let the soldiers under the city go to the city for reinforcements.

The reinforcements of the Northern Expeditionary Army continued to climb the city wall, and the enemy soldiers followed the heavy siege vehicles, and more and more attacked the city wall, and the not very wide city wall was filled with soldiers from both sides of the enemy.

Thirty steps to the left of Hua'an's position, the enemy's heavy siege vehicle was set up, and soon dozens of enemy soldiers jumped onto the city wall along the ladder of the siege vehicle.

Dozens of enemy soldiers held shields in a circle, and continued to kill the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army who counterattacked on the city wall, and the follow-up enemy soldiers continued to jump on the city wall.

"Big brother, the enemy soldiers have killed the city wall." Wang San roared.

Hua An clenched the big knife in his hand and said loudly: "Leave half of the men and horses, and the rest will come with me." ”

Suddenly, Thunderstorm and Iron Bull followed behind Hua An with less than a hundred soldiers and killed the enemy soldiers thirty paces to the left.