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"Yes, this Chen Xian is not an ordinary general!"

The monarch and his ministers talked for a while, and a knight galloped over and reported, "Your Majesty, General Su's side is ready!"

Hearing this, Zhao Junsheng got up and walked to the front of the imperial chariot platform and waved his hands: "Let the siege battalion and siege soldiers get ready, and attack on time in a moment!"

"promise!"

The catapults were loaded with stone bullets, and the launch slots on the bed crossbow were loaded with arrows. The soldiers of the echelon team were ready, and the soldiers were gearing up and their morale was high.

When a moment's time came, Kang Yide came over to remind Zhao Junsheng, "Your Majesty, the time has come!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded to the herald, "Start!"

The herald shouted: "Your Majesty has an order, start attacking the city!"

The messenger stood on a high place and used the flag to play the semaphore, and the siege battalion immediately received the order.

As the commander drew out his saber and pointed forward, stone bullets from the trebuchet were fired.

The stone bullets made a terrifying whirring sound in the sky, and there were screams of panic from the city tower. Under Chen Xian's order, the defenders ran down the city wall to avoid the stone bullets. The stone bomb exploded as soon as it hit the ground, and the broken stones flew randomly. The lethality was too great. The defenders could only go down to the city wall to avoid it, and waited for the army's catapults to finish smashing before going up the city wall.

Chen Xian didn't go down the city wall, he was still standing on the tower.

A large number of stone bullets fell on the city wall and its surroundings, and there was a huge vibration in my ears.

"It's not right, the number of stone bombs fired by the army today has decreased a lot!"

Ye Tongzhang was taken aback by Chen Xian's words, and he observed, "Indeed, you can see that the opponent's trebuchets have decreased a lot, but it's been raining for the past two days, and it's normal for the army to not make enough stone bombs!"

Chen Xian nodded, although this point was a bit suspicious, it didn't explain anything, but he suddenly discovered something abnormal, "Look, has the number of infantry in the Qianjun formation decreased by more than half? To be precise, the number of their allies has been reduced by more than half!"

Ye Tongzhang glanced at him, "Hey, that's true! The uniforms and armor of the Allied Army are the same as ours, just to distinguish between the enemy and us, they wear red scarves on their arms, and the uniforms and armor of those infantrymen are different from those of the Allied Army. of!"

Chen Xian said in a deep voice: "There is a problem, there is definitely a problem!"

Ye Tongzhang suddenly thought of something, and he said with a surprised face: "Could it be that they have changed the direction of the initiative? Is this just a feint to attract our main force?"

Chen Xian thought about it quickly, and immediately made a decision: "I guess their lord's direction should be at the north gate, General Ye, leave this to you, and I'll take people to reinforce the north gate!"

"Okay, be careful!"

Chapter 1016

It is true that more than half of the trebuchets in the army formation outside the east city gate were missing. These trebuchets were all dispatched by Su Ji to attack the north gate, but the remaining trebuchets still exerted great power and destructive power.

The city wall was smashed and kept shaking, and the smashed stones and debris flew around, and people were knocked down and killed.

Chen Xian went to reinforce the north city wall with a reserve team of 500 people, and brought a large number of fire oil tanks along the way.

Ye Tongzhang stayed on the east wall. In fact, according to the division of labor between him and Chen Xian, everyone went to the wall to guard for half a day, one guarding the day and the other guarding the night. It has been raining, the army has not attacked the city, and has been recharging their energy. Today's attack on the city may be very fierce, so in order to prevent accidents, he still insisted on coming to the city wall to assist in command.

The east city wall was burned once before by the kerosene bombs thrown by the dry army. The texture of the wall bricks became much more brittle. Now it was hit by a stone bomb, and many wall bricks were smashed directly, leaving a lot of dust and powder. The wall stacks shattered as soon as they were smashed.

Several consecutive rounds of stone bombs were thrown down, and the dilapidated city walls became even more dilapidated. If ordinary small county towns, or even county towns, could not withstand such smashing, the city walls of this prefecture city were much taller and stronger than county towns and county towns Many, but also withstood the devastation.

The stone fragments flying around are relatively lethal. Ye Tongzhang only stayed on the city wall for a cup of tea, and his face was scratched by the flying gravel, and the military uniform on his arm was also wiped. It was broken and had to run down the city wall to avoid it. The observation post could not observe at this time. The air on the city wall was full of dust, and the gravel flew over at any time. They could only squat behind the wall and hold their heads to avoid being caught. Gravel hit.

Two quarters had passed since several rounds of stone bombs fell down. Zhao Junsheng looked at the hourglass and felt that it was almost done, so he ordered: "Stop blowing the attack horn, and tell the siege battalion that the cloud echelon team has started charging. Don't shout when charging. Tell their commanders that after the soldiers attacking the city, don't stop throwing the trebuchet for a while, and wait until the soldiers rush to the city wall with their ladders before stopping throwing!"

"Send an order to the Allied Forces to follow the Cloud Echelon Team and start attacking!"

There are infantry and artillery coordinated tactics in later generations, and Zhao Junsheng is also developing a coordinated infantry and artillery tactic here. As long as the coordination is proper, the pressure and impact on the defenders will be considerable. If the defenders do not react quickly enough, they may be killed by the siege troops. Rush to the wall.

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The time for a cup of tea passed, and the attack began, because Zhao Junsheng ordered that horns not be blown, and no shouting when charging. The soldiers of the siege battalion carried the ladder and trot forward muffledly. and the shield followed.

This silent attack really made the defenders unaware. At this time, the defenders, including the observation posts, were avoiding stone bombs, and no one noticed that the dry army had already started to attack.

When the soldiers of the siege battalion rushed to the city wall carrying the ladders, the trebuchet stopped firing stone bombs. After the last stone bomb fell, the soldiers just set up the ladders on the city wall. The sound of footsteps came, and the observation post on the city wall carefully stretched out its head to observe. First, it looked at the sky to see if there were any stone bombs flying over. No stone bombs were found, so it looked down the city wall, and saw that it was just below the city wall. There was a ladder, and a soldier of the Allied Army had already climbed halfway, and there were still eight or nine soldiers gathered under the ladder. He swept his eyes again, and there were dozens of siege ladders lined up under the walls on the left and right sides, and a large number of allied soldiers Come together, there are people climbing on every ladder.

The observation post instinctively let out a loud roar: "The enemy is attacking, quickly arm, arm!"

"Dangdangdang" the rapid sound of the gong sounded, and the defenders and generals who were avoiding stone bombs under the walls of the city ran towards the stairs of the city walls.

"Hurry up, hurry up, the enemy has already rushed up, hurry up for me!" Ye Tongzhang roared, waving his sword, and climbed onto the city wall first.

When Ye Tongzhang ran up the city wall with some soldiers, several Confederates had already climbed up, and he immediately rushed over with his men: "Kill!"

These allied troops saw Ye Tongzhang, saw his attire and knew that he was a general, so they rushed over together immediately, and the fighting began.

As the defenders quickly ran up the city wall to defend, more and more allied troops climbed up the city wall. The tragic battle for the city wall started in such a short period of time.

Ye Tongzhang usually wants to commit suicide in battle. He hates himself for running down the city wall in fright. If he is still on the city wall, he will find out the sneaky behavior of the enemy in time. He also hates those observation posts. You will not be attacked by the enemy.

But no matter how annoyed they are at this time, it won't help. The most urgent task is to kill or drive away all the allied troops who climbed up the city wall.

Hand-to-hand combat was taking place everywhere on the entire eastern city wall, and a steady stream of allied troops climbed the ladder to the city wall, but some people fell down from time to time.

The siege tactics commanded by Zhao Junsheng today opened the eyes of the senior generals and ministers of the Qianjun Army, but there is one thing that the ministers and ministers can't figure out, why the defenders are so slow in responding today, and the allied troops climbed up the city wall Did they find out?

The national teacher Dongfang Chen asked this question: "Your Majesty, the reaction of the defenders seems to be quite slow today. Why?"

Zhao Junsheng laughed and said, "It's not that they were slow to respond, it's that they didn't realize that our soldiers had already started attacking the city! It's more than two miles away from the city wall, and you can't see the specific situation on the city wall. They are actually throwing stones from the trebuchet. When the bullet was fired, the defenders all ran to the inner side of the city wall to hide!"

Dongfang Chen still couldn't understand: "Then they should also arrange observation posts?"

"The stone bombs thrown by our side are not ordinary stones, but specially made ones. Once they hit the ground, they will be smashed, and the fragments will scatter in all directions. The observation post cannot avoid being injured, so it is normal for them to hide! Our As soon as the trebuchet stopped throwing stone bombs, the soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city wall. They even climbed up the city wall before the defenders. The difference is that the defenders have a large number of stairs to quickly increase their troops. We only have ladders and can only climb up at a time. One, the speed of projecting troops per unit time is not as fast as them!"

Yang Lie said: "Your Majesty, it's a good way to stop throwing stone bombs when the soldiers are about to rush to the city. Before the enemy has time to re-arm, our soldiers have already climbed the city wall. If we can increase the throwing force The speed is enough to break through the city wall defense in one go!"

"Your Majesty, we should save some telescopic wheeled siege ladders for attacking the east city wall. According to your Majesty's method of attack just now, it really only takes one time to break through the siege ladder. That thing can be delivered in large quantities in a short time. Troops to the walls!"

Zhao Junsheng waved his hand and said: "This time, Su Ji's command is the main one. Our side is just a feint attack. Try to attract their strength and attention, and try to break the city at the north gate once!"

Next to him, Li Song cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, in my opinion, the combat effectiveness of these allied troops is still a bit weak. If we send thousands of our infantry over, we can break the city in at most two or three days!"

Zhao Junsheng shook his head: "The infantry of our army is deployed in various places in Sichuan and Sichuan to maintain stability in various places, and we must be ready to suppress the rebellion of the refugees at any time. They cannot be dispatched. If these allied troops are sent to replace them, I am a little worried. Don't underestimate these The Concord Army, they still have no problem in attacking the city!"

When Zhao Junsheng was pretending to attack the east wall, Su Ji waited for a moment and then launched an attack. The trebuchet immediately threw a large number of stone bombs on the north wall, smashing the defenders on the wall. Hugging his head and running like a mouse.

Previously, the main attack of the dry army was on the east wall, and the north and west walls were just feigned attacks. There was not even a trebuchet, but today there are so many trebuchets throwing countless stone bombs, and the hit rate is unexpectedly About halfway through, this terrified the defenders.

The defenders who hadn't reacted at the beginning suffered heavy losses. You must know that most of the defenders were concentrated on the east wall, and there were only a few hundred people in the other three gates. The successive rounds of stone bombs almost smashed the defenders to pieces.

Fortunately, Chen Xian brought 500 people to help in time, otherwise the northern city wall may have been captured by the Qian army.

The one guarding the north gate was a soldier named Wang Yue. When he saw Chen Xian showing up in time with 500 people, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.