After half a month of continuous attack, Zhenjiang City has become a hell on earth.

Under the city walls, the corpses of the two armies were piled up into a mountain, and those corpses were trampled into inhuman shapes, stacked together in strange and terrifying shapes, emitting a foul smell. The corpse water was mixed with blood, dyeing the area under the city wall for a mile into a strange purple black. The city walls are also of this color, like the castle of the legendary demons.

Under the onslaught of more than half a month, the city wall of Zhenjiang has been cut off by the Han Wangjun for several feet, tattered and pitted, like a sand castle washed by the tide, crumbling.

After all, it's late autumn, and even Jiangnan can't rain all day. In fact, a rain that evening seemed to exhaust the fortune of the prince's army, and not a single drop of rain fell in the following half a month. Heaven is beautiful, and the Han Wang Army will naturally not waste the opportunity, and from the next day, their offensive will be higher and higher. The siege equipment prepared was burned by the red molten iron of the prince's army, and Zhu Gaoxu didn't even want to wait for the effort to mobilize the equipment again, so he drove the soldiers of the Han army to rush to the city wall with a simple ladder.

A famous general like King Han can naturally see that the army defending the city has reached its limit, as long as he maintains a strong offensive and does not give them a chance to breathe, he can fight quickly!

So in the following days, the Han army launched a round-the-clock wheel war, they set up hundreds of ladders, went to the head of the city with ants, densely climbed the entire section of the city wall!

The defenders of the city shot arrows desperately, desperately threw rolling stones and woods, and with terrible screams, a piece of the Han army was smashed down the city! There were many lucky soldiers who fell from a height and were not injured...... Because there are so many corpses piled up under the city, it is enough to provide a strong buffer.

But before they had time to rejoice, pots and pots of boiling oil poured down from the city, and many soldiers were splashed squarely, rolling in the corpses like crazy, and the terrifying screams were several times louder than before!

Zhenjiang is a big city with prosperous commerce and trade, and the material reserves in the city are extremely rich, which gives great support to the defenders! In addition to splashing it with boiling vegetable oil. To deal with those terrible siege vehicles, it was all up to the blacksmiths in the city, who set up a blast furnace under the city, burned the pig iron into molten iron, lifted it to the city, and poured down at the siege engine!

The ultra-high temperature of nearly 1,000 degrees instantly burned a big hole in the siege vehicle, and some soldiers were directly burned out of the bones when they touched the molten iron......

Buckets of molten iron were poured down to take out the indestructible siege engines! Otherwise, with these big guys here, the defenders won't be able to hold out for long......

The people of the city had been fully mobilized, and under the command of the prince's family, they shouldered all non-combat tasks such as treating the wounded, providing food, and producing ordnance. If it weren't for their full support, the prince's army would have run out of ammunition and food and manpower......

Of course, the biggest sacrifice came from the defenders at the head of the city, and after so many days of bloody battles, Mo Wen had already played all the cards! All the armies had fought at least five times at the head of the city, and more than half of the troops had been reduced, and the rest of the troops who could still fight were wounded. The soldiers were covered in blood, their eyes were red, their expressions were in a trance, and their movements were stiff, like ghosts crawling out of hell, where was there still a little human appearance?

However, it is such an army that has reached the limit, in the past half a month, it has repelled nearly a thousand onslaughts of the Han army, and has always held the city wall in his hands.

As the attacking side, the losses of the Han army were more than three times that of the defenders, but Zhu Zhanji had no interest in the casualty figures, he sat under the banner day after day, looking at the Zhenjiang city wall with a blank face, as if it was filled with blood corpses! No matter how tragic the scene is, it will not make King Han fluctuate slightly, and he is full of only one thing in his heart, that is, he is calculating how many lives to fill in and how much time it will take to defeat the prince's army, which has reached the limit tomorrow morning.

To this day, Zhu Gaoxu has to admit that his judgment has been overturned again and again under Zhenjiang City. He once thought that he could break the city in three days at most! However, three days passed, and Zhenjiang City was still in the hands of the prince's army. He thought it would be six days, nine days, fourteen days at most...... However, after the deadline passed, Zhenjiang City still could not be attacked for a long time......

The bombed-up tattered Zhenjiang city wall is like an ugly smiling face, mocking His Royal Highness the King of Han presumptuously!

The Zhenjiang city wall has been forcibly cut off by the cannons of the Han army, and the rest of the city is also crumbling. In particular, the section facing the river in the north was intensively shot by the sailors of the Han King, and a large section of dozens of zhang collapsed eight days ago!

That's dozens of zhang, more than 100 meters, and hundreds of princes at the head of the city were directly buried under the ruins!

The hearts of the soldiers fell to the bottom - this situation meant that the city defenses were broken, and the enemy's fleet would soon land for battle, so they had to abandon the city walls and retreat to the streets of the city......

"You can't give up the walls!" Faced with the construction of several deputy generals, Wu Wei categorically refused: "Otherwise, if we withdraw, the other three sides will not be able to hold on!" ”

"But my lord," the lieutenants persuaded bitterly, "we have no walls to rely on, and the enemy's warships can attack us from a high position, and we will not be able to withstand it at all!" ”

"Then build the walls!" Wu Wei's answer shocked everyone. The heart said how is this possible, even if there is no enemy, if you want to build this section of the city wall, it will take ten days and half a month at the earliest! What's more, the Han Wangjun is still eyeing it!

"Build a temporary wall with wooden fences to block their attack!" Wu Wei insisted on his own opinion, and said without negotiability: "I will personally go to the city to supervise, or block the enemy!" Or I'll die in the city! ”

"Yes!" With the attitude of the main general, what else can the lieutenants say, they hurried to prepare the wooden fence.

The so-called wooden fence is a frame made of wood, similar to the scaffolding used to build a house. These days under heavy artillery fire, Wu Wei has long been worried that the city wall will not be able to support it, so he ordered the people to make a lot of wooden fences, and this is the kind of moment to prepare!

It's just that no one thought that the Zhenjiang city wall would collapse dozens of feet at once, after all, the cannonballs of this era do not have such power! But it is clear that the defenders have unfortunately encountered the tofu scum project......

But there was no time to hold anyone responsible, Wu Wei personally led the soldiers, braved the cannon fire and bows of the Han Dynasty's warships, lifted the sections of wooden railings up to the gap in the city wall that became ruins, barely fixed it, tied it into a string with iron chains, and then laid wooden planks, a simple temporary city wall, and then erected!

At this time, the landing force of the Han Wangjun army was also ready, and they rushed to the city wall in small boats, and then jumped to the ruins, screaming and climbing up!

Wu Wei led the prince's army and launched a blockade on the temporary city wall made of wood! The defenders of their section of the city wall suffered the least losses before, because there had been no hand-to-hand combat before, and the fleet of the Han Dynasty's army just kept baptizing the city wall with artillery fire, and after all, it couldn't kill or wound many soldiers.

Therefore, while Wu Weineng organized the defense, he also divided half of his troops and the people together to repair the city wall with a mason! After all, the wooden fence is only temporary, and it is difficult to say how long it can be held, and if the city wall is not repaired well, it will not be able to withstand the enemy's attack sooner or later. So you have to race against time, and you can't wait for the enemy to be repulsed!

As a result, such a spectacle appeared on the battlefield, and the soldiers in front of them stood on the scaffold-like wooden fence and fought desperately, resisting the enemy's attack to the death. Behind them, their comrades were carrying masons and bricks, and they were in full swing.

What is commendable is that such a chaotic scene of combat and construction, under the command and deployment of Wu Wei, can be well organized, and even the two fronts support each other...... The broken bricks cleaned up by the construction team did not need to be transported away at all, but were directly sent to the wooden fence in baskets, and the soldiers defending the city took the bricks and threw them down, smashing the heads of the Han king's army and bleeding......

However, Zhu Gaoxu was a famous general after all, and he soon discovered that this was the best place to break through the city wall, and he ordered the sailors to devote all his strength to the storm! He also let the 20,000 newly reinforced troops all take sand boats to the northern city wall and enter the battle!

Under the strong attack, the pressure on Wu Wei's side increased sharply, and the number of casualties also skyrocketed, one after another wooden fences were blown up and cut down, but he had the most valuable quality of a defender - tenacity! Wu Wei didn't care about the dead and wounded at all, he commanded the officers and soldiers to carry the new wooden fence to the head of the city to replace the destroyed ones! He will make up as much as he destroys! Unless the Han army kills all his men, don't think about breaking into the city wall!

Wu Wei even organized a spear team, using a temporary Zhangba spear to attack the enemy through the wooden fence, and the Han army was caught off guard and fell to the city screaming! Someone desperately tried to grab the spear, but as soon as the hand touched it, it screamed and bounced away, like touching a red-hot soldering iron! Look at the hand that touched the spear again, and it's muddled! I really ran into a soldering iron......

It turned out that Wu Wei had expected this, and these spears were all heated before they were stabbed!

The Han Wangjun who attacked this section couldn't understand why they had an absolute advantage, but why they were blocked by these simple fortifications, and they just couldn't advance an inch?

They didn't know that it was not the rudimentary fortifications that stopped them, but the determination of the defenders not to give an inch!

This section of the northern city wall, in the following days, became the focus of contention between the soldiers of the two armies, and the two sides fought for their lives, and the casualties were extremely heavy! The Han army continued to reinforce, but Wu Wei did not have a single reinforcement...... It's not that Mo Wen doesn't support him, but there are no soldiers at all......

"My lord," only one of the four lieutenants was left, and the other three were all killed in the battle. "Our forces can't resist the enemy's next attack!" The only remaining lieutenant was also wounded, hanging from one arm and reporting in a hoarse voice.

"Let the engineering team stop first," Wu Wei sighed, he wanted to repair the city wall while fighting, it was indeed an extravagant hope. "Defend the city with all your might...... first"