"Boom"

Hongze City, densely packed with siege soldiers, trebuchets with red-hot stones, thrown up.

"Boom" exploded, gunsmoke rose everywhere, and flesh and blood flew sideways.

"Shoot!" arrows flew through the air like locusts.

"Prepare the stone, put it!"

The stone was thrown from the city and smashed down the ladder with a scream.

"Golden juice ready!" At this time, a large number of people carried a cauldron, which was boiling dung, and the stench was overwhelming, but now these people guarding the city completely ignored it.

They were all scarred, their eyes were bloodshot, and they saw an order: "Let go"

Hundreds of pots of boiling dung juice poured down like waterfalls, and almost instantly, a batch of terrible cries came from below.

At this moment, hundreds of enemy soldiers climbing on the ladder suddenly let out a terrible howl, and they fell directly from the ladder on it, and the people below were watered with boiling dung juice, and their whole bodies were sneering and smoking, and a few of their faces suddenly melted, and even the white bones inside could be seen.

The men rolled on the ground and screamed.

With a trumpet, the enemy retreated like a tide, and another wave of attacks was resisted.

Du Ran stood up at the mouth of the city wall, gasping, staring at the rising sun in the sky, the sun was shining, sprinkled on the city, and there were only three or four hundred people around him in the city.

For the first time, he felt an incomparable fear, a wonderful premonition, which made him suddenly understand that if there were no more reinforcements, Hongze City would be broken, and he was afraid that he might not even be able to see the rising sun tomorrow.

On the temporary viewing platform, the main general Wei Cundong stared at Hongze City, on the city, tattered military flags were fluttering, Hongze City's resistance was very resolute, but in the eyes of the famous generals, it was at the end of the road.

Standing majestically on the left and right, although Wei Cundong is old, the minions have not faded from sharpness at this time.

"Won't you surrender?" said as he turned to a counselor.

"Exactly, Du Gongzhen is afraid that even if he surrenders, he will not be spared. The counselor said casually.

"Really?" Wei Cundong sighed, did not deny it, and asked again, "Where is Wang Hongyi?"

"Lord, three hours ago, that is, in the early hours of the morning, I received the news that I had arrived in front of Liuzi County. ”

"Hmph, Wang Hongyi'er, the soldiers are fast but they don't know, how many days will it take to break Liuzi County, and how many days can this Hongze City resist?"

"If the old man gets this Hongze City, he will have most of Hongze County, even if you take away Changshou and Liuzi and Two Counties?" Speaking of this, he commanded: "The city is broken today, and the martial arts are on the right." ”

The flag officer has to order him out.

Almost at the same time, at the gate of Liuzi County, a large army gathered, and 20,000 troops were all over the field, and the red air rushed straight to the clouds.

In Liuzi County, the commander Zhang Shiming was staring down, and he was also terrified in his heart, but when he remembered the information he had just received, he was sure in his heart.

The marshal clearly ordered that as long as he could hold on for one day and one night, it would be a victory.

The army of 20,000 is indeed very powerful, but in Liuzi County, the city is thick and the walls are high, the ditch and the river are moat, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if there are only 3,000 soldiers, it is not difficult to hold it up for one day and one night.

Thinking of this, the commander made Zhang Shiming's heart settle.

At this time, Zhang Youzhi was a little worried, and stepped forward and said: "Lord, the latest information, Hongze City can't last much time, if there is any more delay." ”

Wang Hongyi stared at the city, sneered, and said: "It's okay, I said that half of the city is half of the city, maybe it won't be half of it." ”

As he spoke, he said to a special person, "How's the situation with the thunderbolt?"

"General, the five cars are here, but the volume is huge, they can only be disassembled and run, and they are still being assembled. The officer bowed his head and said.

"How much more time?" Wang Hongyi asked.

The official showed a hesitant look, and at this moment, a flag was waved in the distance, and he was immediately overjoyed: "Lord, the assembly is complete." ”

"Pass my order, push it up, knock down the city wall, and the whole bounty is ten taels!" Wang Hongyi said.

At this time, in front of everyone's eyes, five thunderbolts with a height of ten meters had been assembled, and according to the order, they were pushed up, and the thunderbolt was framed with large wood, and the joints were connected with metal parts.

On the gun carriage, there is a transverse gun shaft that can be rotated, and the long rod fixed on the shaft is called "slightly", which acts as a lever, and there are fifty gun ropes on it.

Each rope was pulled by one person, so the Thunderbolt was pulled by fifty people, which happened to be a team, and one car was a team.

At this time, the commander Zhang Shiming stood on the city wall, and also saw it, only to see that there were 50 people padding the rolling wood, and hundreds of people were used to pull the fiber together, pulling a tall machine to the front of the city.

Seeing that there were 200 people waiting for a strange car, shouting slogans and dragging it to the front of the formation, the commander Zhang Shiming suddenly had an ominous premonition and asked, "What is this?"

"It looks like a trebuchet, but why is it so huge?" someone asked hesitantly.

At this time, I saw that in front of the formation, the five giant cars were already in place, but they stopped two hundred meters in front of the city.

Although the Thunderbolt is not as powerful as the legendary return cannon, it can throw half a ton of boulders with a range of up to 300 meters, but it also reaches a range of 200 meters and can throw 500 catties of boulders.

I saw a group of people, shouting, unloading the boulder from the small rolling cart and loading it onto the thunderbolt cart.

At this time, everyone in Liuzi County had already seen the intention clearly, and the commander Zhang Shiming suddenly turned pale, and muttered: "How can there be such a trebuchet...... No way!"

At this time, five thunderbolts, sighters measured the distance and rays back and forth.

The official in command was also drenched in cold sweat, and finally gave an order: "Launch!"

At this time, even Wang Hongyi held his breath and looked up, only to see a thunderbolt, pulling the cannon rope and sneering, and five huge stone bullets flew out.

The morning sun was shining, and tens of thousands of people watched in silence.

"Boom!" There was only a loud bang, five boulders, two boulders were deflected, one crossed the city wall and fell into the city, and one did not hit the city wall and fell under the city wall, and the powerful impetus made the falling one explode and become countless flying stones.

But at this time, no one was in the mood to look at it, only to see the remaining three boulders fall on the city wall, boom, everyone present felt the city wall move, as for the soldiers near the boulder, all of them suddenly turned into meat foam, and they didn't even snort.

When the smoke dissipated, the county seat of Liuzi County did not collapse immediately, but there was obviously a hole, showing great power, which made the commander Zhang Shiming's face suddenly pale.

"General, what should I do?" said one person who couldn't stand it anymore.

Before the words fell, he heard a "poof", and a long sword pierced into his body, splashing a field of blood.

Drawing out his long sword, Zhang Shiming's eyes quickly swept over the left and right generals, his eyes flashed, and he shouted: "Even if the enemy army has a siege weapon, I have been favored by the commander for a long time, only to die in battle, never surrendered, whoever dares to shake will be killed first!"

When the generals heard this, they had no choice but to make a loud promise and decided to fight to the death.

At this moment, there were loud "booms" and "booms!" again and again, and I saw a city wall that had been hit hard, under more than a dozen key blows, shook violently, and then fell down in the dust.

The generals who were shouting rolled to the ground together, losing their proper demeanor.

Everyone present was stunned and stunned for a moment, and the army outside the city cheered for a while, deafening, and rushed into the sky.

"Kill, kill into the city. Wang Hongyi issued an order without hesitation.

With the command, the war drums were beaten, one after the other.

The army of the capital, moving like a tide, headed for the breach, and at this moment the thunderbolts did not rest, they moved with difficulty, and headed towards a wall.

"Release!" another boulder flew into the sky, and in a blink of an eye, there was a "boom" sound.

Flags flew, and other armies rushed in along the gap.

Suddenly, the city was full of murderous sounds.

Three gaps, 20,000 troops, against 3,000 people in the city, this victory is a sure victory.

Listening to the sound of killing in the city, only listening to the fire rolling in the city, it may not be Wang Hongyi's army, but some are the fire set by the enemy army itself, in the flames, there are shouts and screams from time to time, and fierce hand-to-hand combat.

After moving, Wang Hongyi looked at Zhang Youzhi and said, "How is it now?"

Zhang Youzhi was stunned by this scene, he never thought that a city like Liuzi County would be broken in a moment, and after hearing this, he came to his senses and bowed down and replied: "Lord, the current situation is just a death struggle, and the 20,000 army will wash the city, and it only takes an hour to wash it clean." ”

"I can't say that, my army can't be delayed, after an hour, order the army to be assembled, I will leave you a guard, appoint you as the county commander of these six sub-counties, and you will give me a good home. ”

"Rest assured, after an hour, even if there are scattered enemies in the city, there are only dozens of outlaws, and the lord gives me six hundred people, and I can't take them, which is really incompetent. ”

"Well, what are you going to do?"

"My lord, after an hour, it will be nothing more than a sporadic enemy resistance based on the fortifications, and when the time comes, as long as the various districts are divided and the people are ordered to put out the fires, there will be no mistakes. Please rest assured!"

Wang Hongyi said "um" again, although this method is simple, but it is very effective, he looked up at the sky, and said with a smile: "Recently, there are a lot of recruits, although they have been trained, but they have not experienced hard fighting, and now this washing of the city is a big training, and it will not make them tired, order the soldiers in the back, immediately provide food, and after an hour the whole army will gather, after lunch, go directly to Hongze Town." ”

"By the way, what's the reaction of Red Ze City?"

"Lord, Du Gong is really nothing more than watching the decisive battle between our army and Wei Cundong according to the city, but our army has won a big victory, the momentum is like a rainbow, just a decisive battle with Wei Cundong, as long as it crosses it, Du Gong will really surrender, even if he does not surrender, the lord has this siege weapon, and the Hongze City of Ming is now called Liuzi County!"

When Wang Hongyi heard this, he laughed, and then gave an order: "Listen to my order, the soldiers will make food, and the cavalry will immediately go to spy on the situation!"

"No!" the barracks was suddenly busy.

(To be continued)