Chapter 74 Start the Siege

Huan Wei did begin to guard against Guo and Feng.

At first, he listened to Sima Diao's plan and asked Guo and Feng to lead the troops first, but after that, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became. He and Huan Shisheng held Guo and Feng's men. It seemed that they could monitor or urge them. In case they jumped off the wall and bit him, would they really want to fight with them under Jiangling City? Question mark If so, who might be cheaper? Such a retarded thing can never be done.

So after Huan Wei led the troops to Jiangling, he immediately joined forces with Huan Shisheng's men and horses. With 60,000 troops in hand, he suddenly felt that his waist stiffened again.

I didn't have time to rest, so I immediately found Huan Shisheng to discuss the siege tomorrow. Sima Diao, Guo and Feng were directly ignored. The old soldiers are enough. When they take Jiangling, they will come to deal with you.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid this Jiangling City is not so easy to attack!"

After Huan Shisheng met Huan Wei, he directly expressed his worries.

Huan Wei smiled coldly and said, "You don't need to worry. Within three days, Jiangling will come into my hands, but in the past two days, you must give me a momentum to let the soldiers and civilians in Jiangling City know my determination. Only in this way can you force them to abandon the thief of the road."

Huan Shisheng's eyes lit up: "Has the king sent someone to contact the city?"

"Hey! You're a good boy. It's not in vain for me to cultivate you, but it's better to kill him directly. How dare Jiangling people support the boy surnamed Lu? I must make them regret it."

Huan Shisheng nodded and just wanted to say that there was no problem. Suddenly, he remembered Lu Qiang's earth-shattering archery and said, "Have you ever seen the archery surnamed Lu?"

Outside Wuling City, Huan Wei didn't even dare to go out of the city, let alone see Lu Qiang's archery. After listening to Huan Shisheng's words, he couldn't help nodding and saying, "I really don't know he still has this ability, hum! What's the use of his arrows? The army swarmed up and let him shoot hard. How many can they kill? Don't be afraid of him. Tomorrow, we will make a meal and start to attack the city after dinner. At the same time, tell the soldiers of the battalion that the first person to enter the city will be rewarded with tens of thousands of money, and there will be a strong person who kills the road. He will be sealed and rewarded 100,000 yuan."

"Obey the King's Order"

"In addition, we have to send more people to nearby counties to collect food and fodder, and also control the supply of military supplies of Guo and Feng, hum! If you are not the same as me, don't blame me."

"It is not a problem to control the military supplies of Guo and Feng, but it may be difficult to collect grain in nearby counties"

"Hmm?"

Huan Wei immediately understood that his army was like a dog gnawing bones, and almost all the counties were empty. Is there any food and fodder to adjust? It seems that only by taking Jiangling as soon as possible, otherwise nearly 100,000 troops will eat horse chewing, how much food and fodder will they get a day?

Hey! If you don't stay at home, you don't know how expensive firewood is!

As soon as the day was dawn, the Huan army camp moved. After breakfast, a team of soldiers lined up in the horns of the expedition, and then gathered together under the leadership of their respective generals.

This time, Huan Wei dispatched 30,000 troops, and he was personally in charge of the rear army, and Huan Shisheng was responsible for commanding the siege of the city.

The war drums rumbled, and the 30,000 Huan army was like a dark cloud that could not be looked at, slowly pressing towards Jiangling, and the war was imminent.

Jiangling is also ready to fight early. Soldiers and people are responsible for their respective duties, and tools such as rolling wood and stones are also ready to defend the city.

Lu Qiang hung his armor and stood upright like a statue. Behind him stood two captains, Wang Kai and He Guangsheng, one carrying the overlord's bow and holding Fang Tianqi.

This is the first time that Lu Qiang has fought against the enemy according to Jiancheng. It is false to say that he is not nervous, but this kind of tension must not be seen, otherwise there will be no need to fight this battle.

However, nervousness and fear are completely different. He will not be afraid of any kind of enemy, but now he can't defend the city alone.

30,000 Huan troops are lined up under the city, and there is no end at a glance. Under the rising sun, the armor is bright and the knives and guns stand.

Looking at the momentum alone, it is indeed enough, but not all the army went to war. 20,000 horses pressed the battle, and Huan Shisheng led 10,000 horses to attack the city.

The Huan army was obviously prepared this time. Giant siege weapons such as catapults, siege vehicles and hammers were slowly moving towards Jiangling City under the impetus of soldiers.

The horn sounded again, and 2,000 soldiers with shields and long ladders and wooden boards in the other hand flashed out of the brigade, surrounded by 2,000 archers in charge of covering them.

Obviously, the role of these soldiers is to build a simple bridge over the moat to facilitate the soldiers behind them to charge. However, as the first echelon, these soldiers are no different from cannon fodder. Once they set foot on the moat, they will enter the bow and arrow range of the soldiers in the city.

The soldiers in Jiangling are also veterans. They used to serve the Huan family, but now they not only fight for Lu Qiang, but also for themselves and their families.

The enemy has not yet entered the range, so Zhao Lunwen, the commander in charge of defending the city, did not order to launch.

Lu Qiang is the general, but he knows what he should do and shouldn't do, so he will not interfere with Zhao Lunwen's command.

At this moment, there was a shout under the city, and then the Huan soldiers suddenly accelerated to the moat, first carrying the long ladder on the river, and then laying wooden boards.

This is a crazy and helpless move. Everyone knows that when laying wooden boards, they will face stormy blows in the city, but what can they do?

The ladder soon densely mounted the moat, which seemed to be very smooth, but just as the Huan army laid the boards, the defenders in the city also launched. At Zhao Lunwen's order, countless sharp arrows were sprinkled like rain, and immediately shot down a large area of the Huan army.

At this time, the archers in charge of covering also began to shoot up to the city, but the success rate of this shooting method was not great. After all, there were walls on it.

But casualties were also inevitable. Many soldiers who could not dodge were shot down, and then they were quickly replaced. For a moment, the killing in the city was shocking.

Huan Shi was afraid of Lu Qiang's divine arrow and hid behind him from the beginning. The handsome flag did not move forward, which made Lu Qiang's teeth itchy. However, after all, he was not a god. Beyond his ability, there was nothing he could do.

Soon, Huan Jun finally built the wooden bridge after paying the price of more than 1,000 people. Huan Shi behind him gave a ferocious smile, and with an order, 5,000 soldiers rushed to the wall again against the ladder.

Zhao Lunwen looked cold and was not affected by the loss of function of the moat at all. Seeing the enemy kill, he shouted again: "The first team shot, the second team rocket, launch"

The city wall is condescending, and you can shoot arrows farther with shooting, but there is no accuracy. However, in this case, there is no need for accuracy. Five thousand enemies rush up like a swarm of bees. In such a dense situation, it is difficult not to shoot.

The charging Huan army was immediately shot down again, but this did not affect the impact behind. Under the cover of the archers, the Huan army soldiers resisted the shield ladder, stepped on the bodies of their comrades, and quickly rushed up the moat.

Zhao Lunwen's methods are more than these? At this time, the rocket of the second echelon had landed on a temporary wooden bridge.

At that time, the rocket tied the flammable object to the arrow pole and then ignited the arrow and shot it out. Such a rocket may not be effective alone, but tens of millions of rockets are launched, which is a disaster.

Not shot by the arrows fired from the city, the Huan soldiers were secretly glad that even fast-legged people had rushed across the moat, but the back found that they could not cross it, because the wooden bridge they had just built had become a fire bridge.

The ladder is made of bamboo, and the boards are flammable, not to mention the rocket. In a blink of an eye, the fire on the wooden bridge is getting stronger and stronger, and it soon breaks off, separating the Huan army on both sides of the moat.

The Huan army who crossed the river couldn't help howling desperately, and the Huan army who didn't cross the river had to retreat.

In the first attack, Huan Jun laid down nearly 3,000 corpses, which can be said to have suffered heavy losses.

Huan Shisheng didn't feel anything about such a big loss, because he had reservations from the beginning. It can also be said that this was a tentative attack, but he didn't expect Jiangling's counterattack to be so sharp.

After withdrawing the men and horses, the flag was launched, and more than a dozen catapults were slowly pushed up.

In this round of attack, there were also hundreds of casualties in the city. Although the casualties were small, it was still a heartache for Lu Qiang. Huan Wei could afford it, but he couldn't afford it!

Seeing Huan Jun pushing out the catapult, Lu Qiang's heart couldn't help but rise again. He was facing such an offensive and defensive battle for the first time. It can be said that every way of attacking the city can affect his nerves. I can't help looking at Zhao Lunwen again. I don't know how he will use to meet the enemy.

However, Zhao Lunwen commanded the soldiers to carry dozens of bed crossbows to the stack and asked the crossbowmen to aim several bed crossbows at a catapult.

In fact, Lu Qiang also knew that this kind of crossbow was cumbersome, and there was nothing to say. However, at that time, this thing was undoubtedly a heavy weapon for long-range attack. One aim may not work, but after firing together and hitting the target, there was a tendency to kill. Not to mention the wooden catapult, it can also shoot through even if it is wrapped in iron armor.

The city and the city almost reached the designated position at the same time, and almost shot at the same time.

While more than ten huge stones rolled towards the city wall, dozens of thick crossbows were also fired.

Lu Qiang has only seen this attack method on movies and TV. Although he knows that the boulder can't hit him, his heart has been hanging.

After a few loud noises, the wall under his feet seemed to shake, stabilizing his body and looking elsewhere.