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Volume One: Entrance Chapter 123: Mountain of Corpses and Sea of ??Blood (2)

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    At this time, Li Chongjin and Hou Zhang, the main attacking generals of Beicheng and East City, sent people to report. They encountered the same situation and could not get close to the city wall. They all sent people to ask for advice, especially Hou Zhang, who was newly killed.  Qiu Hongchao and other generals were assigned to the east gate to help out. They tried to attack once, but only about 200 of the 1,000 elites came back. The bloody fact made them no longer dare to underestimate Shouzhou City's defense.  "Lin Feng is going to fight us with the fortified city." Guo Wei said with a frosty face, staring at the city head and frowning.  "Otherwise, we can use all siege vehicles and attack repeatedly, destroying arrows and stones in the city." Yao Yuanfu suggested from the side.  Li Gu took the lead and shook his head, pointing to the empty surroundings and smiling bitterly: "Lin Feng had already prepared and cut down all the trees outside Shouzhou City in advance. Some of the mountains in Bagong Mountain were almost hollowed out. We also had them before.  The brothers who attacked the city found that there were mountains of arrows and stones in the city, and they were not afraid of wasting them. ""What does Li Shuai mean?" Chen Sirang frowned and asked.  "Li has been defeated for a while, and he has some understanding of Shouzhou's defense. He thinks that a hard attack at this moment will cause heavy casualties. The only way is to gather manpower to build Tushan ramps and attack the city at the same time. This stupid method is to kill the city first.  , and then kill the defenders with their superior strength," Li Gu replied.  In unison, all the generals immediately threw this suggestion to the back of their minds. What a joke, the Holy Spirit is sitting here. Let's go back and waste time and effort to find a lot of common people to carry the soil to attack the city. Where can we put our generals' faces?, 17  Where to put Brother Wan's face.  Afterwards, all the generals came up with their own strategies to attack the city, but Li Gu rejected them one by one.  We have already tried digging tunnels to attack the city. There are traces of underground water four or five meters down at the shallowest point outside Shouzhou City. The soil is so soft that it cannot support the tunnels at all.  On the pure siege vehicle, Li Gu pointed at the stone bullets of different sizes in front of the formation and shook his head helplessly.  The generals were also annoyed. One general said in a low voice: "Didn't he say that Lin Feng loves the people like a son? He went to the surrounding areas to get some little Tang people to clear the way. I don't believe he still dares to shoot." Li Gu smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This guy  The general did not know that Lin Feng was a lunatic. I heard from nearby villagers that Lin Feng had told the surrounding villages in advance that whoever entered Shouzhou to defend the city would be heavily rewarded; whoever stayed behind would be taken as a hostage and Shouzhou  The defenders will never be polite, but as long as there are casualties, they will definitely compensate their families with large sums of money. Now, many old people who are left behind are eager to ask us to capture them and attack the city. Besides, Lin Feng is a ruthless person.  He has long let go of his words. Anyone who kills a soldier or a citizen of Shouzhou will be repaid tenfold. No, there is a "Shouzhou Enemy Record" updated every day on top of the city. As long as he kills someone who has killed Shouzhou,  Almost none of the siege soldiers from the state army came back alive from the top of the city." The generals were immediately angered by Lin Feng's damaging moves and ruthless energy. Guo Wei next to him couldn't stand it and snorted coldly.  He said: "Lin Feng pretends to be benevolent and righteous. How can we, the Great Zhou Dynasty, be at a disadvantage? There is no need to mention this kind of attack method that goes against the harmony of heaven." What should we do? We have to attack the city. So, in the next day and a half,  Within a few days, the Zhou army began to try various siege tactics: the three major battalions attacked on three sides, and at the same time sent more than ten teams of 200 to 300 people to conduct trial attacks, hoping to induce an attack on the city head. However, the city head was definitely missing.  As long as these teams don't cross the center line of the shooting range, they will ignore them at all. However, once they cross the line, the ballistas and stone bombs will chase them without mercy, and they will basically never return.  On the evening of November 24th, the three battalions took turns organizing night attacks and deceptive attacks. However, as soon as it got dark, lit oil-soaked crossbow arrows would be fired from the top of the city. When the fire was out, they would be fired again.  The center line of the firing range and the moat formed two criss-crossing surveillance lines. As long as anything was found to be amiss, the crossbow arrows would be fired with a sharp whistle. As for the harassing sham attacks by the Zhou army, they were not thrown away at all on the city walls, day and night.  A few people are patrolling, and only when they see a large group attacking will they blow the whistle and reserve soldiers go up to defend.  That night, the West Camp also attempted a large-scale false attack under the West City Wall, and then sent an elite team to lurk and raid from the garbage dump in the southwest corner. As a result, they used their own blood to prove a fact: the defense of Shouzhou South Gate  It will only be stricter and stronger than other city gates, and will never be even half weaker than other gates.  ¡­ After various attempts failed, Li Chongjin, Zhao Kuangyin and others jointly submitted a letter suggesting that all siege vehicles be assembled and modified to focus on the west gate for fixed-point attacks. Guo Wei, who had no other option, had to agree.  At midnight on November 26, two siege equipment that had been urgently modified began to "make their debut": The one in front of the head opened the road with only four long thick logs side by side on the top and six wheels on the bottom.  A siege vehicle that only requires sixteen soldiers to push?, followed closely by the "long version" of Han Lingkun's siege vehicle. At the top is a three-meter-long thick log placed tightly horizontally, up to ten meters in length. In front of it is a sharp and long wooden slope, on both sides.  They were all thick beams diagonally downward, with the lower ends basically hanging to the ground. Behind them were stairs made of short, thick wood. Nearly two hundred soldiers were hiding underneath and pushing this behemoth forward.  On the city wall, Lin Feng had already seen it through the telescope, and immediately sent an order: "All trebuchets should not attack the siege vehicles, and quickly build three stone walls on the west side of the moat." So, the sixteen siege vehicles were divided into eight columns.  , while charging forward one after another at the same time, the trebuchets at the head of Shouzhou City began to exert their power, smashing stones one after another on the west side of the moat.  Those Zhou soldiers who were shouting and rushing forward ran to the moat without any danger, only to find that things were difficult. There were stones of different sizes lying in front of them. If they wanted to cross the river, they had to move away.  they.  Rows of siege vehicles came to a slow stop, and new instructions came quickly: "Attack in teams and move them away." The soldiers in front of the attack had to be divided into groups of four according to the order, with two people guarding them with shields.  The two were ready to move rocks.  However, as soon as they stepped out of the protection range of the siege vehicles, the trebuchets on the city began to fire again, with stone bullets and crossbow arrows roaring towards them. Those solid wooden shields could still withstand one or two attacks.  But the soldiers at the back couldn't resist. After three groups of soldiers were beaten until they vomited blood or were smashed into meat pies, all the groups quickly retreated under the siege vehicles.  As a result, Zhou Jun¡¯s original plan of using long siege vehicles to build a bridge on the moat and then letting heavy siege vehicles directly attack the city went bankrupt.  Soon, the soldiers under the siege vehicle received a new order: the long siege vehicle moved out of the way, allowing the heavy siege vehicle to go straight into the moat. After clearing the stones, they formed a wooden wall side by side.  The eight heavy siege vehicles started slowly again, surpassing the light siege vehicles, and slowly came together, aiming at the area fifty meters south of the city gate to concentrate. The soldiers under the siege vehicles cooperated in twos and twos.  Throwing the stones into the moat or carrying them to the rear, half an hour later, they successfully cleared the stone array on a section of the moat. All the siege vehicles were parked side by side by the river, forming a slope wall about three meters high.  .  On the top of the city, Lin Feng stared coldly at these siege vehicles and passed on a new order: "Ignore these siege vehicles for the time being, and make every effort to guard against the Zhou army or equipment attacking from behind. Don't let any soldiers come over.  "
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