The Dark and Foolish King: The Fierce and Crazy Concubine Has Infinite Strength

Lu Xiuyuan looked down at him with a mocking and provocative sneer on his face, "Attack the city? Come and try!"

Hu Tianda's head was buzzing, and he was so angry that he saw stars. He forgot Ye Beimo's instructions and raised the command flag and shouted loudly, "Attack the city! Attack the city immediately!"

"Marshal, His Highness has instructed us not to..."

"Shut up and attack the city immediately! A general in a foreign land is not subject to military orders. I will make this green-eyed boy taste my power!" Hu Tianda kicked the person who tried to dissuade him aside and shouted angrily to attack the city.

Upon hearing this, the soldiers of the three armies immediately rushed towards the city gate shouting and climbed up the city wall with ladders.

Lu Xiuyuan sneered and slowly ordered the soldiers on the wall, "Get on the rolling log!"

The soldiers immediately went to get the rolling logs that were with them and rolled them down along the ladders set up by the enemy.

A rolling log is a round log of a certain length, weight and shape, with iron nails on it and ropes and chains at both ends.

The defenders rolled the log down the ladder, and the enemy soldiers who were climbing the ladder all fell off the ladder one after another, like cutting melons and vegetables.

Hu Tianda's eyes widened as he continued to command, "Keep going, the climbers hold shields, and the archers shoot arrows to provide cover."

As soon as he finished speaking, the crossbowmen behind him began to draw their bows and arrows, shooting towards the city wall.

Lu Xiuyuan didn't even frown as he continued to order: "Enter the battlements of the city wall and put up stones for defense."

A stone is a stone that has been hammered by stonemasons, has a moderate shape and weight, is suitable for throwing, and is specially used for defending a city.

The soldiers defending the city did not have to show their heads and risk being killed by the enemy's arrows. They could hide behind the battlements of the city wall, aiming only at the place where the enemy's ladder hooked, and swing their arms to throw stones down along the hook of the ladder.

Seeing this, the enemy soldiers who were climbing up the ladder raised their shields to block the stones. However, stones are not like wood. The huge impact force caused by stones hitting shields would make it impossible to keep their balance, and they would eventually be knocked off the ladder by the stones.

The second wave of attacking soldiers were all knocked down with screams before they could even climb halfway.

"Marshal, we can't get close." The defeated soldier confided to Hu Tianda with wounds all over his body.

Hu Tianda was so angry that he blew his beard and shouted with a red face and thick neck: "There is always a limit to the number of rolling logs and stones. Keep charging at me! Also, use the battering ram! Break the city gate open for me."

"Yes!" The soldiers continued to climb the ladders, and several teams carried battering rams to hit the city gate.

Rolling logs and rocks rained down, and the soldiers on the ladders fell down in waves like dumplings in a pot, hitting the ground with broken limbs and spitting blood.

But it was just as Hu Tianda said. After only half an hour, there were no more rolling logs and stones falling from the city wall. It was obvious that they had run out of ammunition and food.

"They have run out of logs and stones, warriors, hurry up and continue to climb the clouds...

Before Hu Tianda could finish his excited words, the smile on his face froze.

Without the rolling logs and stones, the enemy actually raised more than a hundred weapons hanging on the city wall!

The weapon was made of a piece of wood, inlaid with hundreds of wolf-fang steel nails. At this moment, the tips of the hundred wolf-fang steel nails, which were flashing with cold light, were pointing downwards!

When the soldiers attacking the city climbed up the ladders, someone pressed the throwing mechanism, and the wolf-tooth bat smashed down with a tremendous force.

"what!!"

The soldiers attacking the city suddenly let out heart-wrenching howls. They were all knocked off the ladders by the wolf's teeth and pierced by the steel needles on them, leaving them covered in blood.

What’s even more terrifying is that this weapon is not a consumable.

They were hung by ropes, and the ropes above were wrapped around a kind of wheel. When the wolf-fang hammer was smashed down, the soldiers defending the city would turn the wheel to retrieve it, and then loosen the rope and smash it down again. This method was used continuously, preventing the attackers from climbing up the city wall at all.

Under the heavy blow of the Wolf Fang Bat, not only the people climbing up the ladders, but even those attacking the city were affected and were almost smashed into pieces.

For a moment, there were corpses everywhere and blood flowing like a river under the city wall. For two hours, the city gate and the city wall did not move at all, and no one climbed up to the city wall.

"How on earth...how on earth did he get so many novel weapons? I have never seen them before. What kind of person invented them?" Hu Tianda was frightened and his face looked extremely ugly.

"Marshal, we can't attack! They have too many weapons and their lethality is too strong. We can't even get close to the city wall.

"And have you forgotten the instructions of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince? Why would you sacrifice so many soldiers in vain when you can trap them to death without sacrificing a single soldier?"

Hu Tianda looked at the corpses piled up like a mountain in front of him, took two steps back, and felt a little uneasy.

This strategy was devised by Ye Beimo in order to lure the enemy into a trap, to surround them without attacking them first, and then to annihilate them in one fell swoop when they ran out of ammunition and food and were exhausted in the city.

The reason why they didn't fight directly was that they had consumed too many soldiers in the previous battle. Now the hundreds of thousands of people attacking the city were drawn from the surrounding cities.

Now the number of troops in their Zhujing Kingdom is already precarious, so they must save wherever possible.

Thinking of this, Hu Tianda couldn't help but regret that he had acted on impulse just now and lost several thousand soldiers in vain.

"Stop the siege!" He raised his arms and shouted, ordering the attacking soldiers to withdraw.

Lu Xiuyuan on the tower raised his eyebrows when he heard this, looked at the soldiers who brought boiling water and fire bombs soaked in poison, smiled and shook his head, "What a pity, these are not used."

Hu Tianda did not dare to attack the city again, but he was not convinced and shouted at Lu Xiuyuan: "Lu Xiuyuan, just wait, all the edible food in the city has been withdrawn, and the military rations you carry with you will not last for a few days.

"Soon, you will be defeated without even a fight! I am waiting for you to open the city gates and surrender to our country!"

Lu Xiuyuan snorted coldly, ordered the soldiers guarding the city to defend strictly, turned around and pulled Xia Youyou away from the city wall.

After returning to the city, Lu Xiuyuan found a mansion to stay in, and then ordered the soldiers to search for supplies in the city.

As expected, the soldiers turned the entire Fuyang City upside down and did not find anything edible.

As for the water source, there was one, but Lu Xiuyuan was worried, so he asked someone to test it, and was shocked to find that they had put a deadly poison in the water.

Lu Xiuyuan acted promptly and ordered the soldiers to dig wells and get water again.

"How long will the military rations we bring last?" Lu Xiuyuan asked his subordinates worriedly as he sat in the hall, stroking his forehead with his hand.

The forage officer replied, "It's enough for all of us to eat for half a month. If we reduce the normal amount, we may be able to barely last a month."

Lu Xiuyuan nodded and sighed, "Not bad. I am 100% sure that I can defend Fuyang City within a month."

"What about a month later?" someone asked.

Lu Xiuyuan thought for a moment and replied, "The news that we are trapped in Fuyang City will soon reach Tang Guojing. I don't think he has the most power, so he should be able to send troops to support us in time."

Su Yu pursed his lips and thought for a moment, then leaned over to Lu Xiuyuan's ear and whispered, "Your Highness, Tang Guojing has always been dissatisfied with you for taking away his seal of command. What if he takes revenge on you and doesn't come to rescue you?"

Lu Xiuyuan's heart skipped a beat, thinking to himself that he had 70,000 soldiers and horses on his side, and Tang Guojing would not just leave them alone.

If he really doesn't come by then, then he can only fight his way out.