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Volume One: Entrance Chapter 124: Mountain of Corpses and Sea of ??Blood (3)

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    The trebuchets and ballistae at the top of Shouzhou City and in the city immediately began to fire at fixed points, knocking back several Zhou army teams that were preparing to step forward to meet their own siege vehicles.  During the gap between launches, oil jars were thrown out one after another and hit the siege vehicles in front of the moat. Rockets were also shot out and nailed to the thick wood where the vegetable oil was splashing, igniting fires everywhere.  .  The situation is pressing. If reinforcements are not sent in time, these siege vehicle formations that have become "battlefield islands" will soon be burned out.  Zhao Kuangyin, who was standing in front of the formation, ran to a pile of bags filled with soil, threw the two bags on his back, howled wildly, raised his arms and shouted: "How can I, Zhou Ying'er, just sit back and watch my brothers being trapped?  , follow me and support the brothers." After saying that, Zhao Kuangyin held up the big shield, highlighted the battle formation, and ran in the direction of the siege vehicle in an irregular route.  Li Chongjin also went crazy. He roared loudly, grabbed medicine according to the prescription, put an earth bag and a big shield on his back, and ran out of the battle formation.  Zheng En and several elites became furious at the same time and rushed out of the battle formation.  If someone takes the lead, there will naturally be followers. Many elites in the Zhou army immediately rushed out of the array and formed a skirmish line to support them. Stone bullets and crossbow arrows were immediately fired from the top of the city, but they were unable to hurt these agile masters.  , had to carry out coverage strikes, but this situation was a bit like anti-aircraft guns hitting mosquitoes, with little effect.  Seeing this scene, more elite soldiers poured out of the battle formation, and Sayazi ran forward wildly. The falling stone bullets, crossbow clouds, and arrow rain became a gorgeous background for their brave attacks.  Seeing this scene, Emperor Guo Wei, who was sitting firmly on the high platform, happily touched the short beard under his chin and nodded with satisfaction.  As the nominal commander-in-chief, Li Gu certainly would not sit back and watch the show. He immediately ordered the soldiers behind him to carry the half-finished siege vehicle and speed up the attack. At the same time, he used the remaining thick wood to urgently nail a "jie"-shaped room-shaped frame.  Try to build a protected passage behind the siege vehicle as quickly as possible.  Zhao Kuangyin, Li Chongjin and others quickly rushed to the siege vehicle and immediately climbed up. With one hand holding a large shield, the other hand dumped the soil in the bag on the slope of the siege vehicle. The following soldiers also poured the soil on their backs.  As the bags were passed up, the wet soil rolled down, breaking each rocket and suppressing the fire everywhere until it was destroyed.  Lin Feng, who was on the top of the city, saw the move and immediately ordered the special soldiers to man the crossbows himself, specifically to shoot at those Zhou soldiers who dared to stand up with their shields. The straight-line distance between the attacking and defending sides was less than 20 meters, and the crossbow arrows in the process of powering up were merciless.  , constantly flying those Zhou soldiers who were accidentally exposed above the siege vehicle one by one.  Zhao Kuangyin knocked away two crossbow arrows with his shield one after another, lowered his head slightly, turned around and roared: "Earth bags, I want more earth bags." Finally seeing a glimmer of hope for attacking the city, the Zhou army went crazy and even more  A large number of soldiers carried earth bags and ran towards the siege vehicle. Some soldiers carried the house-shaped frames that had been nailed urgently, and quickly transported them to the siege site despite the rain of arrows and stone bullets.  Lin Feng, who was on the top of the city with a frosty face, pointed at the ever-growing wooden passage and roared: "Concentrate your strength and blast away those logs for me." The trebuchets on the top of the city and inside the city immediately followed the instructions pointed out by the big flag at the pheasant ultimatum.  position, concentrated shooting, and a dense rain of arrows and bullets hit the passage line.  However, the Zhou army, which had suffered numerous small losses, was extremely cautious. Some of the soldiers who had reached the siege vehicle separated and dug two deep trenches along the two pillars of the room-shaped frame to transport them directly.  The wooden shelves were planted inside, and then the soil was quickly backfilled and compacted. Those wooden shelves that were close to each other supported each other, and the stone bullets could only shake them violently, but they could not knock them over.  Zhou Jun, who was no longer afraid of falling rocks, cheered and worked harder. The passage was set up faster and faster. Although Lin Feng commanded the trebuchet to drop more rocks along the west side of the passage, they were all blocked.  Zhou Jun at the bottom of the passage quickly pried it open.  At nearly noon on November 26, the Zhou army's nearly 200-meter-long "safe passage" was finally completed. The generals of the Zhou army were in high spirits and directed the cheering soldiers to stand in four rows in the passage and move them one by one.  The earthbags were delivered to the siege engines, and then they were thrown out across the siege engines, falling into the moat one by one, causing water splashes to jump up high.  At the same time, thick logs nearly ten meters high began to be erected on the north and south sides of the siege vehicle formation. The Zhou army's intention to set up commanding heights to suppress the city's attack was very obvious.  Several rounds of stone bullets and two rounds of rockets were fired at the top of the city. After discovering that the attack was no longer effective, they immediately stopped shooting and fell into silence.  At less than three quarters in the afternoon, the Zhou army, which had set up two wooden siege towers, began to send out archers to suppress and shoot. However, because the top of the siege tower was narrow, the number of archers that could be accommodated was very small, and the top of the city was fully armed.  ofThe Shouzhou soldiers paid no attention to their shooting, and focused their shooting on the soldiers who were throwing sandbags.  As more and more sandbags were piled up in front of the siege vehicle formation, it was no longer enough to throw them with arm strength, but as long as they leaned out, they would almost be killed, so Zhou Jun had to suspend the sandbag throwing movement.  The battlefield became calm again.  Around midnight in the afternoon, the Zhou army made another move. Five small wooden house-shaped wooden frames of different lengths shot up from behind the siege vehicle array, and then landed heavily on the east end of the moat. This time, these wooden house-shaped wooden frames were nailed.  At the bottom, before the dust stirred up by the wooden frame hitting the ground had cleared up, bags of soil slipped from the wooden frame and fell to the ground.  After vomiting out a dozen or so soil bags, the wooden frame would move the body with difficulty, and then change places to "vomit".  Lin Feng held up a large shield and carefully observed these "spitting" wooden frames. He retracted and hid behind the city wall. He wanted to smile but held back. Since the soldiers of the Zhou army could not reveal their bodies,  This is also an effective way to build passages outside the city.  Later, Lin Feng protected Feng Jingyun and tried to attack the city with rocks and rockets. He found that the stones that could be moved by ordinary manpower could not break through the wooden frames. After the rockets were shot up, the flames were quickly extinguished. The wood was obviously  After being soaked in water, Lin Feng then tried to smash down a jar of oil and fired rockets again. He found that the effect was still not obvious, so he ordered everyone to stop.  Lin Feng clearly knew that it was wishful thinking to keep an enemy force that was three times his size out of range. The inevitable result was that the two sides would fight head-on on the wall. However, rather than allowing the enemy to attack at the same time, it was better to let them go.  Just break through from this point.  The five wooden "earth dragons" frequently vomited earth. Before the night turned dark, a ramp about three meters wide was built between the siege engine formation and the city wall. It was higher in the west and lower in the east. During this period, the top of the city was  The Shouzhou defenders on board only occasionally poked their heads out to observe the situation, and no longer wasted an arrow or a crossbow.  As piles of bonfires were lit in front of the Zhou army's formation, the sound of attack drums resounding throughout the world exploded below the city. Lin Feng, who had been leaning behind the pheasant with his eyes closed to rest, jumped up and blew a shrill warning whistle:  The enemy finally attacked the city wall, and the life-and-death battle officially began.
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