Along this passage, the Shu army began to launch a fierce attack on the walls of Chang'an City. The bed crossbow was still being fired, and huge arrows roared over the heads of the Shu army, shooting towards the Wei army at the head of the city, providing strong cover for the Shu army besieging the city.

The catapult stopped attacking, as many of the stone projectiles that hit the wall would bounce back, and would likely cause damage to their own men. However, a large number of archers advanced to the edge of the moat, and the arrows fired from this position were just right to reach the city.

Siege warfare is not a single military operation, if it is just the infantry carrying a ladder to attack the city, it is no different from sending to death, in fact, the siege is a joint operation of many arms, the siege infantry in the strong archers, crossbowmen support cover, it is possible to get more living space.

"Whoosh", countless arrows flew towards the city like meteors, although their attack power is much worse than the bed crossbow, but the number is large, thousands of archers lined up on the opposite bank of the moat, a row of volleys, you can shoot thousands of arrows to the city, which played a vital role in suppressing the defenders of the city.

Under the rain of arrows, many Wei soldiers were hit by arrows, and more Wei soldiers retreated, trying to use the battlements of the city wall to dodge the arrows of the Shu army.

But in this way, on the first line of defense on the side of the city wall, there are naturally not many soldiers to defend, and now the Shu army has set up a cluster, but the Wei army has retreated, and there is no way to see the situation under the city. Such a situation is actually very dangerous, and the Shu army can completely take advantage of the blind spot of the Wei army to launch an attack, so as to break through the city defenses.

Sima Wang's brows furrowed, and he immediately ordered the archers defending the city to give priority to counterattacking the Wei archers under the city. The Wei army was condescending, and both in terms of range and strength, it was far stronger than the Shu army. Although in front of the bow and arrow phalanx, the Shu army was equipped with shield soldiers to protect it, but due to the angle, the role was still relatively limited. The frantic counterattack of the Wei army's archers still brought a lot of losses to the Shu army's archers.

In the midst of the non-stop firing between the two sides, the siege troops of the Shu army have launched an attack. One after another ladders were erected, Zhang Le was wearing heavy armor, personally supervising the battle under the city, he pulled the knife in his hand, pointed obliquely above, and shouted: "Attack!" ”

The soldiers of the Yang'an camp shouted, holding a shield in their left hand and a knife in their right hand, and climbed the ladder.

The walls of Chang'an City. It is much higher than the city walls of some county cities, not only high but also thick, two to three times stronger than ordinary city walls, and the longest ladder of the Shu army can only be barely built under the battlements. However, this obviously could not make the Shu army afraid, and the soldiers of the Yang'an camp took the lead one by one, stepping on the ladder and rushing towards the city.

The most effective weapon against the besieging infantry is the bow and arrow. There are also rolling wood and stones, boiling water and oil. These things are simple to use, easy to build, almost no technical content, can be prepared in large quantities in a short time, and in terms of power, they are also quite amazing. Rolling logs can sweep across a large area, rocks can easily smash ladders, boiling water and oil are deadly weapons, and these things are not something that shields can resist.

Sima Wang made careful arrangements for the city defense of Chang'an. All kinds of defensive equipment were piled up, and after the Shu soldiers began to attack the city, all these defensive weapons came in handy. The rolling log, which was cut into five feet long and about the thickness of the mouth of the bowl, was lifted up and rolled down the ladder, and if it was in the right place, none of the Shu soldiers on the entire ladder were spared, all of them were swept down, and after a log fell to the ground, it could almost be soaked in blood.

The stone is a stone of different sizes, the small stone can be picked up and thrown out by a single soldier, the large stone needs two or three joint forces to throw out of the city wall, due to the relationship of gravity, these stones are thrown out, the more down the power is amazing, once hit by the stone, either death or injury, if it is just smashed on the ladder, "click", the ladder will be broken into two instantly.

Ordinary things such as boiling lime were also used as weapons to defend the city, and the boiling water that had just been poured down was almost pervasive, and although there was armor and shields, it was splashed on the bare skin by the boiling water, and the painful taste was indescribable, and every time the boiling water was poured down, there would be a scream like tearing and tearing lungs. Lime is a sharp weapon to confuse the enemy's eyes, a large white lime scatters down, once hit, the eyes can no longer be opened in pain, and the blind soldiers completely lose their combat effectiveness.

The most powerful defensive weapon is boiling oil, and the boiling point of the oil is higher than that of water, and once such a high temperature splashes on a person's body, it will immediately burn off a layer of skin, which is simply a disfiguring weapon. Of course, the role of boiling oil is not only this, when the Wei army uses boiling oil, there is a ladder of the Shu army to splash there, a while, each ladder is drenched with oil, the Wei army only needs to throw out a few torches on the city, the whole ladder was ignited, and soon even the ladder was swallowed by the flames.

In a miserable scream, the ladder was burned, and in the first wave of attack, the Shu army suffered hundreds of casualties and dozens of ladders, and the losses were relatively heavy.

Zhang Le was furious outside the moat, urging the soldiers of the Yang'an camp to bring the ladder and attack again.

At this time, the sound of Mingjin came from the Chinese army.

"Withdraw!" Zhang Le glanced at the arrogant Wei soldiers in the city, and gave the order to retreat in a daze.

A sneer appeared at the corner of Sima Wang's mouth, today's battle is enough to teach Liu Yin a lesson, don't look at him sweeping the entire Guanlong in less than half a year, but Chang'an City will definitely be the end of his good luck, and it is a pipe dream to take Chang'an.

Zhang Le returned to the formation, and when he saw Liu Yin, he couldn't help complaining: "Big brother, it's only been two hours since the fight, why did Mingjin withdraw his troops, and I still want to attack the head of Chang'an City in one go." ”

Liu Yin said calmly: "Today's attack is tentative, I want to see how the defense capability of Chang'an City is." The defense of Chang'an City is indeed very strict, it seems that Sima Wang still put some effort into it, if it is attacked by force, our army will definitely pay great casualties, this method is not advisable. ”

Zhang Leqi said: "If you don't attack and take it hard, is there any other way?" Big brother, didn't you say that you would take Chang'an City within three days, could it be that you have other tricks? ”

Liu Yin smiled slightly and said: "Of course, within three days, I will conquer Chang'an!" (To be continued.) )