Under the city of Chengdu, the drums rumbled, the war horses neighed, and the thunderbolts were frightened.

In the earth-shattering shouts of killing, I saw tens of thousands of rebel soldiers holding high huge shields and galloping, rushing to the city wall of the east gate, which was three zhang high and about five zhang thick. This was followed by thousands of armor soldiers carrying ladders on their shoulders, quickly approaching the city wall, trying to set up the ladders and attack the city.

Behind the ladder brigade, there were two extremely heavy storming vehicles, as well as a well fence several feet high, which were pushed by more than 2,000 soldiers on their shoulders, slowly moving forward, shortening the distance from the city gate little by little.

On the way, a dense rain of arrows roared into the sky, falling like rain, all falling on the heads of the rebel soldiers who tried to get close to the city walls, giving the besieging soldiers a head-on blow, causing great casualties. Although they held their shields high and brandished weapons in their hands, they could not resist the rain of arrows and arrows, and in the terrible screams, they were planted in pools of blood, and became stepping stones for the soldiers behind.

And those siege soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the random arrow shooting, dodged the rain of arrows, but still couldn't avoid the head-on blow on the city. The defenders at the head of the city were already ready, just waiting for them to throw themselves into the net and run to their deaths.

At the moment when tens of thousands of siege soldiers rushed to the city wall, but seeing that the defenders at the head of the city suddenly became busy, a piece of dustpan-sized stones was pushed down from the female wall battlement, and the thigh-thick rolling logs tumbled and fell sharply, and the cauldron that was steaming hot and emitted a fishy smell was pushed to the side of the city wall and overturned and fell down.

Suddenly, I saw that the siege soldiers who climbed the ladder and tried to climb the top of the city were hit head-on by the rocks and rolling woods, and they were scalded and howled by the extremely smelly boiling water. Immediately. Thousands of siege soldiers were either smashed, burned, or dragged down by their companions, and tumbled and fell. While falling and rolling, he screamed in pain, and then fell to the ground with a "bang". After landing, more than eighty percent of the soldiers fell to the ground, blood splattered everywhere, and in the blink of an eye, a mountain of wreckage and corpses several feet high was piled up under the base of the wall, and within ten zhang were all broken arms and bodies, as well as steaming flesh and blood.

The end is extremely tragic. A river of blood!

However, the siege rebels under the city will not sit idly by and watch the defenders run rampant, let alone allow the defenders to kill wantonly without the power to fight back. Contrary. As of this moment, such an extremely tragic siege battle has been fought for half a month, and the offensive and defensive sides have fought more than ten times, and each other has long been familiar with each other's offensive and defensive routines. and develop highly targeted responses.

Just as the defenders of the city were struggling to push down the rocks and boiling water. With a "crunch" sound, the rebel soldiers besieging the city under the city launched heavy siege ordnance, catapults and giant crossbows. Immediately, hundreds of catapults were pushed to a distance of less than two hundred meters from the city walls, and crossbows were placed on either side of the catapults; Immediately, the oil clay pots the size of the wine jar were put into the cloth pockets of the catapults, and after the fuses were ignited, more than 200 catapults were thrown and launched almost simultaneously. The crossbows on both sides were much higher. Elevate the angle, 60 degrees of upward shooting. Then the sharp arrows were fired, and they went straight to the head of the city and screamed.

In an instant, I saw one after another roaring clay pots filled with fire oil roaring into the air, roaring like fierce beasts into the sky above the city, and then plummeting down and landing on the city tower with unmistakable accuracy.

Immediately, with a loud "bang" sound, one by one the oil cans exploded with a bang, and countless dotted iron filings and peanut-sized stones flew out of the crockpots, scattering and exploding, splashing out. In an instant, these iron filings and stones pierced into the bodies of the defenders of the city at a speed that was difficult to find with the naked eye, causing them to scream in pain, jump up and down or roll on the ground with their sore spots, and immediately lose their combat effectiveness, huddle in the corner of the wall and wail and wipe their tears.

In fact, the power of these canisters was not great, and eighty percent of the wounded defenders would not die, and only a few unlucky ones died on the spot. However, the destructive power (i.e., lethality) of the explosion of the oil tank is very amazing, and the radiation range is quite large, and everyone within three feet is within the impact range of scattered iron filings and stones; Often, a single crockpot explosion can injure more than a dozen defenders, or even more.

Immediately followed by the fire oil tank was the extremely penetrating and powerful crossbow arrows, taking advantage of the fact that the defenders at the head of the city were blown up by the fire oil cans, the crossbow arrows that came suddenly devoured hundreds of lives in an instant. Moreover, more than eighty percent of the soldiers who were shot by crossbow arrows would die on the spot, and only a few lucky ones could survive and escape death.

These specially made giant crossbow arrows are incredibly lethal. Within effective range, a single crossbow bolt is enough to shoot an extremely robust bull; If the distance is moderate, it can even pass through the body, and if two cows stand side by side, it is very likely that they will kill two cows with one stone (eagle). In the battle of Lulongsei in the past, there was an amazing scene of a crossbow arrow shooting two war horses, so that many generals who were keen on the use of ordnance had heard of it and remembered it deeply.

As the sun slowly set, in the sound of "ding ding", this extremely tragic siege battle slowly stopped. Immediately, the attacking and defending sides unanimously died down, and each withdrew its troops, and the defenders at the head of the city saw the Zhao Wei rebels under the city supporting each other and staggering away. It wasn't until they returned to the rebel camp a few miles away that the defenders were truly relieved, and then leaned limply against the wall and gasped greedily, secretly glad they were alive.

The night slowly opened, and the city of Chengdu, which had been noisy all day, finally quieted down.

Many of the wounded soldiers hid in the night to lick their wounds, desperately hoping that the sun would not rise tomorrow, preferably in a heavy downpour, so that they could rest for the day tomorrow and not have to fight.

?????? This was the sixteenth day of Zhao Wei's army besieging the east and north gates of Chengdu.

In this half month, except for a heavy rain in the middle of the way, which caused a truce between the two armies for two days, the rest of the time was spent in offensive and defensive battles, so the fierce battle that had just ended was the fourteenth offensive and defensive battle between the two sides.

The more than ten battles before this were also very tragic. After each battle, both sides had to lose many soldiers and horses, ranging from 3,000 to tens of thousands of casualties, every day, without exception. Under such a tragic battle, the corpse remains caused by a single battle can block the moat outside the east gate and the north gate, so that Zhao Wei's rebels can directly attack the city gate.

It is worth mentioning that it is summer, and the weather is extremely hot, and the corpses blocking the moat only need to be soaked for two or three days before they will decompose. The disgusting smell of the fish spread everywhere, so that the people living in the eastern and northern cities lived in the pungent stench of corpses all day long, and they were really miserable, but they had no choice but to pity themselves and lament in vain. Not only could the people in the city near the moat smell the fishy smell, but even the rebel camp of Zhao Wei, which was miles away, also smelled an unbearable smell of corpses.

As a last resort, in order to avoid the outbreak of plague after the corpses decomposed, the commanders of the two armies, Zhao Wei and Zhang Ren, discussed in front of the battle, and took turns to clean up the corpses and wreckage in the moat every night. During this period, the two sides were not allowed to attack, attack or shoot the sergeants who were clearing the river, so the commanders of the two armies swore an oath in public before the battle to show their sincerity. In order to reach this agreement, Zhang Ren had to make concessions and allow Zhao Wei's rebels to erect four bridges over the moat, so that Zhao Wei would allow the defenders to clean up the corpses and dredge the moat.

What is obvious is that Zhang Ren gave in because the city was dead and could not be moved. Once the plague breaks out, more than 100,000 people and tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the city will not be spared, and the entire city is very likely to become a dead city, with no people and animals left, and more than 100,000 people will be wiped out. In contrast, Zhao Wei's rebels had no worries about this, and they could advance and retreat freely, and once they found that the situation was not right, they could retreat and hide far away. Therefore, Zhang Ren had to compromise and could not help but give in; And Zhao Wei is not a person who has lost his conscience, not to mention that he has lived in the city for nearly ten years before, so he finally agreed to Zhang Ren's request after careful consideration.

After half a month of desperate fighting, both sides knew each other's strength very well. Although Zhao Wei has superior troops, he is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of geographical advantages; On the contrary, the defenders of the city occupied the advantage of the city, but they did not have enough troops. In this way, the two sides will fight fiercely for half a month, but they are still undecided and stalemate.

Today's battle, however, is very different.

The defenders were obviously much more fierce than before, and the troops were sufficient, so that the rebel soldiers repeatedly climbed the city, but they were never able to gain a foothold, and they were killed and retreated by the defenders. At this point, the rebel commander Zhao Wei did not notice anything unusual about the defenders at first, but as the casualties of the siege soldiers became more and more serious, he thought that reinforcements had arrived in the city.

Surprisingly, Zhao Wei didn't care about this, but was happy to see it. This is because he knows the soldiers and horses under Liu Zhang's account well, and knows that Liu Zhang has long been out of soldiers, and even if there are reinforcements, there will definitely be no more than 10,000. And he has three times the powerful military power of Liu Zhang, and he is really fearless, and he is not worried about Liu Zhang's reinforcements participating in the war, and he does not take these reinforcements into account at all.

It is precisely because of this that when Zhao Wei found that there were reinforcements on the head of the city to participate in the battle and defend the city, he did not change the siege strategy, and still used the original strong attack tactics to attack the city as always.

However, Zhao Wei would never have thought that the reinforcements at the head of the city were deliberately let by Zhang Ren to see, and Zhang Ren had already expected that Zhao Wei would not take the reinforcements of more than 2,000 people in his eyes. As Zhang Ren expected, after a whole day of fighting, Zhao Wei did not change his siege strategy, and still attacked the city.

In the night, with a "squeak" sound, the East Gate Suspension Bridge slowly fell, and then the city gate slowly opened, and out of it came out a cavalry of more than 1,000 people, all of them with torches, illuminating the city gate as bright as day. This is the team that went out of the city to salvage the remains of the corpses in the moat, and tonight it is the turn of the defenders to clear the river.

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