Twenty siege ladders rushed towards the city wall amidst the shouts of the Qin army. The body of the siege ladder stood up under the city. The soldiers of the Qin army quickly climbed onto the city wall and started close combat with the Korean army.
The crossbows of the Korean army at the top of the city had to retreat, leaving the position at the top of the city to Pao Ze who was holding a weapon. However, while the crossbows of the Korean army could not continue to attack the Qin army below the city, the strong bows and crossbows of the Qin army could no longer attack. The Korean army at the top of the city carried out indiscriminate fire coverage.
Qin soldiers climbed up the siege ladder to the top of the city one after another to fight fiercely with the Korean army. The lights of swords and shadows intertwined on the top of the city to form a chaotic battlefield.
Figures were entangled on the city wall, and the sound of metal clashing between sword blades was endless. Blood dyed the stone bricks at the top of the city red, and corpses fell on the ruins. Each cold corpse witnessed this cruel battle.
The soldiers of the Qin army tried their best to fight for every inch of land on the city wall, while the soldiers of the Han army tried their best to defend the city wall, waving their weapons and facing the Qin army's attack.
The fighting on top of the city filled the air with the smell of rust, and the choking smell of blood assaulted his nostrils.
Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and the city head shook violently.
That was Potu Saburo waving his sharp claws like a giant axe, hitting the city gate heavily, one after another, making a rumbling sound. Each hit brought a strong shock, and the shaking city head once made many people The Korean soldiers thought that the city was about to collapse, and countless Korean soldiers looked panicked.
"What kind of monster is this? Is it possible that it wants to blow up the entire city?"
A Korean soldier desperately asked the Korean doctor beside him, but did not receive any answer.
In other words, no one could answer him. They didn't want to see Poto Saburo attack the city gate, but they knew it was inevitable.
As for whether the city will be blown to pieces?
Is there any point?
The dull thumps made the morale of the Korean soldiers lower and lower, as if they were hit in the heart. The soldiers of Qin Army watched Potu Saburo's action of bombarding the city gate, and a feeling of awe surged in his heart.
As the morale of both sides changed, the number of Qin soldiers killed increased more and more slowly.
Normally, during a siege, the casualty rate of the siege team will be much higher than that of the defenders. If an elite defender faces a ragtag group of people, the casualty ratio between the defenders and the siege team can even reach an astonishing level. Compared with twenty, at this moment, even the Qin army, which has been fighting for a long time and has high morale, faces the Korean army with a casualty ratio of about one to three.
However, as more and more Qin troops climbed onto the city, the growth rate of the number of Qin soldiers killed in battle also began to decline sharply.
The reason why the casualties of the siege were so high was mainly because they were killed while rushing to the bottom of the city and climbing up to the top of the city. When the number of Qin soldiers climbing up a certain wall exceeded a hundred, , then the Han army at the top of the city would find it difficult to have the energy and leisure to take care of the Qin army below the city.
Even the Han soldiers who were hypnotized by Canglong Qisu's power began to gradually become panicked, but the Qin army remained calm.
They were sure that the city would not collapse, because Zhang Ji would never use them as cannon fodder, the elite Qin army who had arrived first.
Under the organization of several generals, the panicked Korean soldiers covered the crossbowmen and rushed to the city wall. They picked up their crossbows and aimed at Potu Sanlang at the city gate.
But before their bowstrings could be drawn, with the crisp crackling sound, Potu Saburo's sharp claws had already pierced into the city gate.
The sharp claws that had penetrated the city gate were suddenly pulled out. The Qin soldiers below the city saw the faces of the panicked Han soldiers through the holes in the city gate.
Gongshuqiu, who was standing on the carriage with Zhang Ji, breathed a long sigh of relief. He gently stroked the short beard of the goat and squeezed out a smile on his wrinkled face. It was obvious that Potu Sanlang's performance made the patriarch of Gongshus family quite a lot. for satisfaction.
Gongshu Qiuyao pointed at Potu Sanlang at the foot of the city, his brows revealing the confidence of victory: "Commander You, next is Potu Sanlang's real method of breaking the city."
"My father-in-law's ancestor Gongshuban once went into the mountains to cut down trees. He accidentally slipped and his hand was scratched by a leaf of a weed, which oozed blood. The ancestor took off the leaf and touched it gently. He found that the leaf that cut his hand had sharp teeth on both sides. He used these dense teeth to lightly scratch the back of his hand, and actually made a cut easily. So he invented a cutting tool, and This is also a powerful weapon for Saburo Poto to break through the city gate."
"This thing is called 'saw'!"
I saw Potozaburo's sharp claws slowly retracting into the forelimbs under the operation of the mechanism, and stretched out the sharp claws with small teeth.
The sharp claws re-explored into the hole that had been shattered just now. As the gears inside Potu Saburo began to rotate at high speed, the small teeth also began to rotate at high speed, like a chainsaw, a sharp saw. The body cut through the city gate, and the hole in the city gate expanded rapidly under the sawtooth claws of Potozaburo. Sparks from the metal collision flickered and splashed on the ground.
The Korean soldiers looked at the expansion of the cave entrance, filled with despair and powerlessness. Their sporadic arrow counterattacks seemed to have become meaningless.
As the hole expanded, Han's soldiers stood on the top of the city and watched the gradually expanding hole on the city gate, filled with reluctance and despair.
"withdraw!"
Several generals of the Korean army issued the same order at the same time, ordering the Korean army on the top of the city to retreat. If they were blocked at the top of the city by the Qin army who had breached the city gate, it would be a real life-and-death situation.
Potu Saburo's sharp claws stopped again, and the opening of the city gate was large enough for Qin soldiers to pass through.
Yang Wengzi, Su Jiao, Ren Xiao, and Huan Jue, who were respectively ordered to attack the four city gates, all ordered to blow the horns for the general attack and play the drums for the attack.
When the soldiers of the Qin army in the rear heard the sound of horns and drums, they began to rush towards the city gate, waving their weapons, rushed towards the breached hole in the city gate, and launched a fierce attack on the Korean army in the city.
Especially at the west gate, which was the main attack point, Teng led thousands of soldiers from the dead camp to rush towards the entrance of the cave.
Despite the fear in their hearts, under the hypnosis of Canglong Qisu's power, the Han soldiers guarding the city gate still rushed towards the Qin soldiers who rushed towards them through the opening of the city gate, trying to block the Qin soldiers in the city. The door opening.
The sounds of the clash of swords, shouts, and the sound of weapons entering flesh were intertwined to form a tragic symphony of death. The soldiers of the Han army fell, and the soldiers of the Qin army continued to suffer casualties. However, the bad breath held in their hearts for half a month made the Qin army's offensive as unstoppable as the strong wind.
Moreover, even if the power of Canglong Qisu strengthens the physical fitness of these Korean soldiers, there is a fundamental difference in physical fitness between the Qin army and the Han army. The Qin army can eat meat from time to time and the Han army can barely eat a full stomach. The gap in physical fitness cannot be smoothed out by the incomplete power of Canglong Qisu.
Moreover, there is also a huge gap in the quality of weapons and armor between the two sides. Yiyang Iron Mine has changed hands for many years, and the Qin Army, which lacks iron ore, has long since advanced in the quality of weapons and armor through Qin Mo's technological improvements.
After years of fighting, the weapons and armor stored in South Korea have been exhausted. The soldiers are using weapons and armor forged after the loss of Yiyang Iron Mine. The quality is far inferior to the improved technology provided by the Mohist General Institute. The quality of weapons and armor has been greatly improved again.
After the swords of both sides collided more than ten times, the swords of the Han soldiers were often cut off by the swords of the Qin soldiers.
Losing a weapon on the battlefield means death.
The entrance to the city gate was stained with blood and corpses were piled up.
The soldiers of the Qin army withstood the stubborn resistance of the Korean army. As more and more soldiers entered the city, the last line of defense of the Korean army was torn apart by the death camp led by Teng. Tens of thousands of Qin soldiers came from four buildings at almost the same time. The city gates poured into Xinzheng City.
Zhang Ji stood on the carriage, looking at the cruel battlefield, and nodded with satisfaction.
Although the battle ended with the capture of the Han Palace, he knew that the battle had been won, and Poto Saburo was one of the keys to victory.
War is constantly changing, and the methods on the battlefield are also changing. The mechanism beasts affect the direction of the war to a great extent.
As the Qin army completely gained the upper hand, Zhang Ji also began to enter the city under the escort of his personal guards. Hearing the cheers of victory from the Qin soldiers echoed in the city, while in contrast, the Han soldiers were fleeing in all directions.
With the complete defeat of the Korean army, the hypnotic effect of Canglong Qisu seemed to have completely disappeared. The fear that was originally suppressed after hypnosis could no longer be suppressed and burst out, completely occupying Soldier Han's heart.
Zhang Ji was in a better mood this time when he entered the city.
Xinzheng City, which had been besieged for nearly a month, was captured, and the mood was naturally wonderful.
Moreover, the thinking of this Qin army is gradually changing. Many Qin army troops captured Han soldiers in an organized manner, and few Qin soldiers were seen looting. Obviously, Zhang Ji arranged for men to carry out the task in the army. The ideological transformation has achieved preliminary results.
In order to win over the people, Zhang Ji took Honglian and Han Fei into the city under the protection of his personal guards, and once again led the Qin army into the Han Palace.
"Alas, for whom are the tears of troubled times falling? When I wake up from a daydream, butterflies fly far away; the vast sea is vast, and the other shore is boundless; at a glance, thousands of mountains, white horses are glimpsed; high-rise buildings are dangerous, quicksand is against the scales; beacon fire suddenly breaks out, and cold rain will come. night."
Han Fei looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar Han Palace. Although South Korea was facing a crisis, it had money plundered from Ye Mu. In order to make Han Cheng's enthronement ceremony look more solemn, Wei Zhuang ordered people to repair the palace. royal palace.
The Han Palace in front of them was very different from what Han Fei and Honglian remembered.
And just as the brother and sister were sighing, a sneer came.
An uncontrollable smile appeared on that devilish blue face.
The poisonous snake formed by the chain floated in the air, and suddenly flew towards Honglian, who was somewhat separated from the guards of Zhang Ji and Han Fei, and was only followed by a few personal guards.
Two chain snakes quickly rushed behind Hong Lian, trapping her body. Hong Lian let out a sweet cry, and her whole body was involuntarily pulled in the direction of Tianze, the deposed prince of Baiyue who had not seen him for a long time.
Wushuang Ghost jumped from the roof of a palace, splashing rubble all over the ground, uprooting the stone pillars in the square in front of the main palace of the Han Palace and throwing them at everyone.
On the other side, the well-prepared exorcist also appeared behind Tianze, gently waving the soul-calling bell in his hand, and a cloud of green smoke exploded in the air, instantly hiding Tianze, Honglian and him. And the figure of Wushuang ghost.
"Where do you want to go?"
In the green smoke, Tianze, who was holding Honglian hostage and was about to escape, just turned around when he felt a chill surge into his heart, like maggots clinging to his bones.
This was different from the feeling when facing Bai Yifei. Bai Yifei's cold air froze him physically, but this cold air... was formless and invisible, freezing him from the bottom of his heart.
Tianze's body was trembling, and the fear brought to him by the blurry figure blocking his retreat prevented him from even taking a step forward.
"Tianze, you have really refreshed my understanding of Baiyue people again and again."
Zhang Ji fiercely waved the Zhanlu Sword in his hand, and a sharp black sword energy was projected from the black sword, blowing away the green mist in an instant.
Honglian was robbed for the second time under his eyes, which suddenly cast a layer of gloom over Zhang Ji's originally wonderful mood.
The guards on the side were even more angry. Honglian was protected by them, but was kidnapped by Tianze in front of their eyes. This was a great shame and humiliation for these guards.
Tianze looked at the familiar figure in front of him in horror. Zhang Ji's appearance had not changed much from two years ago, but the aura around him had become extremely fierce. With a biting chill and overwhelming murderous intent, he shot towards the sky. Ze swept over.
He didn't understand why Zhang Ji broke through from the first-class realm to the master realm in just two years. Whether it was a genius from Baiyue or the Central Plains countries, it would take decades of practice to cross the realm between first-class and master. and accumulation of foundation, but Zhang Ji only took two years.
Fear and shock almost occupied Tianze's heart, but the deposed prince of Baiyue, who was still obsessed with reintegrating the Yues and rebuilding the Baiyue Kingdom, still made the only reaction he could make at the moment.
A chain snake swallowed the snake letter and pressed its sharp snake tail against Hong Lian's white goose neck. As long as Zhang Ji dared to take a step forward, he would directly pierce Hong Lian's neck.
In the dense forest on the outskirts of Xinzheng, a young man with white hair and another young man as handsome as a woman emerged from a tunnel. The two were the former leaders of the rebels in Xinzheng City, General Wei Zhuang and Situ Zhangliang. .
However, although the two of them were still wearing gorgeous clothes at this moment, they were no longer as sparkling as before. Wei Zhuang's brocade robe was stained with dust, and Zhang Liang's hair was messy, just like a refugee fleeing from danger. with her hair disheveled.
"Brother Wei Zhuang, do you think Tianze and the others can succeed?"
Zhang Liang looked in the direction of Xinzheng City and asked while running with Wei Zhuang.
"They're dead."
Wei Zhuang's voice was still cold, and he looked warily at the woods around him.
"Tianze is too weak."
"A weak person is arrogant, challenges a strong person, and offends the strong person's inverse scale. The only possible change in his fate is the way the weak person dies."
"Then why..." Zhang Liang opened his mouth to speak, but then shut up.
He understood Wei Zhuang's intention and asked Tianze to act as a dead ghost to delay the Qin army's actions and eliminate an old enemy in South Korea.
Tianze can certainly be used to deal with Qin, but that is only because Wei Zhuang and Zhang Liang promised to restore the country for Wei Zhuang in the future. Tianze does not have any deep grudges with Qin. On the contrary, he hates South Korea. It is not a good idea to seek refuge with Qin in the future. impossible.
Therefore, this kind of unstable factor is not as good as waste and can be disposed of by the Qin army.
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