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It was indeed mud. The refugees came rushing forward with loads of dirt. They dumped the dirt not far from the city wall, and then walked back with empty baskets, one after another.

Seeing this, Chen Xian and Ye Tongzhang both showed serious expressions on their faces.

The general Huang Zhuang next to him asked doubtfully, "What are they going to do?"

Chen Xian answered him: "Build a high platform with mounds of earth. Standing on the high platform of the mound, the enemy can shoot arrows at our army at any time, and even set up trebuchets and bed crossbows on it! Before the army used well rails, we put their The well fence was burned, and now they use this method instead, our fire attack method will not work!"

General Huang Zhuang wondered, "If the curb is burned, it can be rebuilt. Why should they bother?"

Ye Tongzhang shook his head and said, "Reengineering? You put it simply. Although they have craftsmen, it's hard for a clever woman to cook without rice! Manufacturing siege equipment, especially large siege equipment such as well rails and trebuchets, simply cannot use freshly felled wood. Old dry wood must be used, the wood must be tough, the wood with moisture is too heavy, it is inconvenient to move, it is difficult to operate, and the wood with too much water is not easy to build. The wood used to make siege equipment is specially prepared. If you want With fresh wood, you can only make simple equipment like siege ladders, but it is not easy to find suitable trees!"

General Huang Zhuang was a little anxious: "Then we can't let them build up a pile of dirt to deal with us like this? Two generals, I will take some people out of the city to disperse them!"

Chen Xian pointed to the southeast direction: "Look over there, if you take people out of the city, you may never return!"

General Huang Zhuang took a look and saw that there seemed to be a lot of cavalry hidden in the southeast. If he really led the troops out of the city, those cavalry suddenly rushed over, and they would be scattered and destroyed before they could enter the city in time.

Ye Tongzhang also said: "There is no way, we can only stare blankly! But there is no need to worry too much. After all, they only use earth to pile up high platforms, they cannot move, and they cannot project troops on the city wall at close range. They can only carry out long-range suppression. For this kind of long-range suppression, We still let the soldiers carry wooden boards, which can not only resist arrows but also collect borrowed arrows!"

At this time, Chen Xian said: "We can't let the army drive the people to play tricks under our noses, Lao Huang, go ask someone to prepare a few hair stone carts to hang on the city wall, and collect some small stones To launch it, throw it a few times first to frighten the common people, we must try our best to delay the time for them to build the high platform, the longer we hold on, the greater the chance of getting reinforcements!"

Huang Zhuang held his fists together and agreed, "Okay!"

Half an hour later, the four stone carts were assembled on the city wall. Under Chen Xian's order, the soldiers used the stone carts to launch stones at the refugees who were transporting soil outside the city.

The densely packed small stones were thrown from the city wall and fired three rounds in a row, killing and injuring more than a dozen people. The other people were so frightened that they dropped their poles and baskets and ran away. Dare to step forward.

A group of dry army cavalry rushed over with spears and knives to drive the people to continue to pick up the soil. The people knelt down and cried loudly, refusing to carry on with baskets.

The soldiers below reported the situation to Su Ji, who gritted his teeth and said, "This Chen Xian is ruthless enough, even the people under his rule are ruthless! Well, you are more ruthless than you! Come on, gather troops and forcibly Drive out the refugees and continue to pile up high platforms, if there are excuses and pretend to be sick and refuse, they will not be given food, if they still refuse, they will all be killed, I will see who can spend more than whom!"

The general clasped his fists and agreed: "No!"

A large number of soldiers and horses drove over, all of them were holding a cold light and bows and arrows in their hands, and the people were very afraid.

A military school lieutenant held a spear and said viciously: "From now on, continue to build high platforms with dirt. If anyone doesn't go, there will be no food!"

The refugees are actually not afraid of death. If they die, they will be done. But if they have no food to eat, the feeling of being hungry is not good. They would rather die than starve.

So the common people bravely continued to pick up the baskets filled with soil to pile up the mounds. Seeing this, the defenders continued to shoot stones and stones, killing and injuring many people, but the common people were not afraid of death, but of the army Without food for them, Chen Xian's idea of ​​threatening the refugees with a stone cart could not succeed.

Chapter 1019 Secretly crossing Chencang?

With the efforts of tens of thousands of refugees, time passed day by day, and the heights of the mounds outside the east city wall were increasing day by day. These mounds of mounds were arranged in a straight line parallel to the entire east city wall. If they were connected, they would become an earth dam. .

Standing on this earth dam, the soldiers of the dry army can shoot arrows at the city wall. If the earth dam is higher than the city wall, then the dry army archers will have a condescending advantage over the city wall.

There are still five days before the deadline given by Zhao Junsheng, and the earth dams and high platforms have finally been completely built. They are one foot higher than the city wall. Each high platform is three feet long and two feet five wide. In order to protect the archers, The edge of the top platform is also fenced with wet planks.

That night, Su Ji reported to Zhao Junsheng, requesting to attack the city the next day.

Zhao Junsheng did not declare to other ministers and generals, this siege battle is very important, the city wall must be breached once, and cannot be restrained by the defenders, so for the sake of confidentiality, no one else was present at the scene, only Zhao Junsheng and Su Jier people.

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Are all the soldiers ready?"

"Return to Your Majesty, the soldiers have already mobilized, the first step plan has been completed, and the second step is currently underway, and the second step will be completed by strong refugees!"

Zhao Junsheng asked: "Under the moat"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, the minister has made a special statement. When the time comes to use wooden boards as the roof and wood as the support, there should be no problem. However, there may be some water accumulation, but it is not a big problem. The minister has already sent people to block the source of the moat. Stop it, there will be no water seepage, and that piece is the highest location!"

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "Okay, let's do this, and start the siege tomorrow morning!"

"The minister obeys the order!"

In the middle of the night, under the order of Su Ji, teams of soldiers carried the parts of a bed crossbow and a stone cart to the high platform of the mound. They assembled and erected the parts in the dark, then covered them with tarpaulins, and at the same time carried the A lot of stones, arrows, and kerosene cans went up.

In the early morning of the next day, the dry army marched out of the camp to form an array outside the city. Under the command of Su Ji, the soldiers continued to attack the city. Since there were no well rails and wheeled telescopic siege ladders, the dry army could only use There are still many siege ladders, but the speed of projecting troops is too slow, but now there are high platforms built of earth for archers to provide long-distance support, which is also a huge pressure on the defenders, which can effectively serve as a climbing platform. Soldiers on the walls provided cover.

At the same time, the dry army is still urging the refugees to continue to pile up the high platform and extend it to both sides, as if they want to use the high platform to surround the entire city, so that it is convenient to attack.

This time Su Ji came to the front line in person and boarded one of the high platforms facing the dilapidated city tower. He observed it, and the defenders set up many bed crossbows and stone carts on the opposite city wall.

Su Ji immediately gave an order: "The infantry stands by for the time being, and orders the bed crossbows on the high platforms to take the lead in destroying all the bed crossbows of the defenders!"

"Yes!"

The messengers conveyed the order with semaphore and the sound of the horn, and the bed crossbow operation soldiers who received the order immediately removed the tarpaulin covering it, and thick crossbow bolts were installed in the launching grooves, and the bowstring was pulled by the soldiers shaking the winch winding.

Chen Xian, who was commanding on the city wall, didn't like it. He realized that the Qianjun used the bed crossbow to kill his bed crossbow, so he immediately ordered: "Order all the bed crossbows to prepare to attack, attack!"

At this moment, a flag on a high platform opposite suddenly waved down. This was a signal to launch, and the bed crossbows on each high platform immediately fired crossbow arrows.

"whoosh whoosh"

"Boom boom boom" the bed crossbow operators on the city wall were a step slower after all. Before they had time to fire the crossbow arrows, the crossbow arrows on the opposite side shot over, and the powerful penetrating and destructive power destroyed their bed crossbows one by one.

But not all the crossbows hit the target or destroyed the target. Some of the crossbows destroyed the target, some missed the target, and some hit the target but did not destroy the target. The bed crossbows of these defenders immediately began to fight back.

After the defenders counterattacked, the bed crossbows of the dry army also began to suffer losses. Soldiers on both sides were shot to death in the bed crossbow battle. The crossbow arrows were almost equivalent to a spear. The speed and destructive power of this thing were astonishing. , if he was shot, he would either die or be disabled, and there would never be any minor injuries or other injuries.

Su Ji saw that the opponent's bed crossbow also started to fight back. He observed it. At present, the defenders are at a disadvantage. After all, the dry army is located at a high place and has the advantage of being condescending. The bed crossbows and other equipment on the city wall are exposed to blows. Under the ground, and the defenders are located in the ground, it is difficult to shoot high objects.

Su Ji didn't care about the comparison of the battle damage between the two sides, he continued to order: "Send the order, get the launcher ready to launch!"

At this time, Chen Xian on the city wall was also ordering the defenders to use the stone carts to deal with the enemy's bed crossbows on the high platform outside the city. After a series of preparations, the stone carts of both sides were launched almost at the same time. The gravel and stones were thrown into the sky and then fell. The people above hurt each other, and each screamed miserably.

The defenders used the stone carts to destroy many bed crossbows of the Gan army, but the Qian army used the stone carts to destroy many of the defenders.

Both sides fired at each other, arrows, crossbow bolts, and stones shot at each other, people were killed and injured constantly, screams kept coming and going, and the sound of war drums never stopped from the beginning.

The shooting lasted for a whole morning, and the stone chariots, bed crossbows, and archers on both sides suffered heavy losses. The dry army had more troops, but the defenders had fewer troops. The dry army could afford to lose, but the defenders could not afford to lose.

Chen Xian was very anxious, but he couldn't think of a way to disrupt the enemy's attack. Up to now, the number of troops he could use was less than 2000, and he had to guard four gates. The average number of troops deployed on each wall was less than [-]. Defense forces are too weak.

Su Ji saw that the defenders were suppressed, and immediately ordered the infantry to attack the city.

A drum sounded, and a large number of allied troops appeared from behind the high platform of the mound with swords and shields and rushed towards the city wall. The front was carrying a wooden ladder, and the other infantry followed. They flew all the way, the distance was not far, only five 60 meters, and soon rushed to the city wall, the wooden ladder was erected against the city wall, the infantrymen held swords in their mouths, held shields in their left hands, and climbed with their feet in their right hands.

"Defense with swords and shields!" Chen Xian roared loudly.

The archers in the defenders were pinned down by the archers of the dry army on the high platform on the opposite mound. Chen Xian could only let the sword and shield soldiers defend the opponent's infantry from attacking the city.

When the soldiers of the Confederacy Army were still climbing the ladder, the defenders put down their weapons, picked up stones and smashed them down. People smashed down.

No matter what, the Cong Congjun was still under intense attack when they climbed the ladder. Many people fell halfway through the climb, and were either killed or injured. The defenders jumped onto the city wall and started fighting with other defenders.

The battle lasted all afternoon, and at dusk, under the order of Su Ji, the Consortium retreated to the camp to rest, but still occupied the high platform of the mound.