After hearing another panicked exclamation from the Jiehu defenders at the top of the city, Hu Yanmo and others turned to look back.
They also saw an even more horrifying sight.
I saw dozens of projectiles roaring with flames and black smoke. The size and weight of these projectiles were obviously much smaller than the stone projectiles just now, so they could be thrown farther.
These flaming projectiles crossed the city wall and smashed into Zhongqiu City with a series of 'rumbling' sounds.
One of the flaming projectiles just landed in a yard next to Huyanmo.
"boom"
After a dull sound, a large hole was smashed through the roof of the yard, and then the broken wood and debris inside were ignited.
The Jiehu soldiers in the yard started shouting in panic after seeing the fierce fire falling from the sky.
"Let's go!"
Huyan had no time to care about the situation in this small courtyard, so he pulled Zhang Yue, the Jie man next to him.
The most urgent thing now is to mobilize all the soldiers in the city. Not only must they be prepared to seal possible gaps in the city wall, but now it seems that they must also be prepared to put out fires in the city.
Nowadays, it is a freezing cold winter. If all the houses in Zhongqiu City are burned down, there is no need for the Qingzhou Han army outside the city to attack. Just the severe cold can kill them.
After just two trebuchets, trumpets were blaring loudly in Zhongqiu City, as if the Han army had already begun to seize the city.
After hearing these horn sounds from Jie Hu, all the generals around Liu Yu showed very proud expressions.
"Haha, Jie Hu in Zhongqiu City seems to be panicking!"
"If this attack lasts three days and three nights, there will be no need to attack the city at all!"
Some of Jizhou's generals turned red, as if they had seen another brand new method of warfare.
After hearing these words, Liu Yu smiled softly in his heart.
Facing the city, even if it takes ten days and ten nights to hit the city with a trebuchet, it is impossible to kill the defenders.
This kind of trebuchet has a long range, but as long as it is avoided well, it is impossible to suffer too many casualties.
The decisive force to truly capture the city must be the infantry.
Thinking of this, Liu Yu turned his head and his eyes fell directly on a general.
"Zhang Jackal, now the Jie slave in Zhongqiu has become a turtle in the urn. He will make atonement for his sins in this city!"
There was a chill in Liu Yu's words, instead of being as kind as before.
Zhang Jack and others were all former subordinates of Jiehu Shile, and they were powerful men in Jizhou. After surrendering to Liu Yu, they were not only appointed to official positions, but also basically retained their troops as an important force to suppress the local area.
However, when the powerful vassal troops like Zhang Jack were besieging Fangfang City a few days ago, they were defeated by the Jieren Kongtu who broke out. If Yuwen Xianbei cavalry had not been deployed in advance, those Jiehu troops might have really been defeated. The cavalry had fled.
Zhang Jack and others all knew that Liu Yu's military laws were harsh, and this opportunity to "atone for his sins" was very precious.
"Your Majesty, don't worry. I will seize this city. Even if it is bloody, I will never back down!"
Zhang Jack immediately knelt down and responded to the order, and several powerful men from Jizhou who were his companions behind him also followed closely behind him.
After a few words of encouragement, Liu Yu asked Zhang Jack and others to return to the camp first and prepare to start seizing the city tomorrow or the day after.
Now that Youzhou and Jizhou will soon be completely under his control, Liu Yu no longer plans to use them to make knives for such an "untrustworthy" powerful man as Zhang Jack, and will not keep them anymore. military strength.
However, before that, Liu Yu decided to weaken their strength in this operation to conquer Jiehu.
Liu Yu raised his eyes and looked into the distance. At this time, Zhongqiu City was surrounded by Han army camps scattered on all sides.
The elite Chinese army and Zhang Zhen and other powerful tribes mainly attacked the north, and the soldiers from various states and counties attacked the east side. As for the west and south sides where Jiehu might break out and flee, they were surrounded by military soldiers and Yuwen Xianbei cavalry.
In this battle, Liu Yu didn't need any "surrounding three but missing one". He had enough strength to kill all the Jiehu in Zhongqiu City.
Liu Yu immediately ordered a fire attack on Zhongqiu City from this moment on.
The Han army's trebuchets outside Zhongqiu City continued to throw mud balls filled with rosin oil into the city.
Until the colder nights, these trebuchets continued to throw flaming projectiles into the city.
At this time, in Zhongqiu City, there were no intact houses near the city wall. They had either been smashed into sky view rooms or burned down.
Just before nightfall, the Jiehu army in Zhongqiu City launched two sneak attacks out of the city in an attempt to destroy these trebuchets.
However, under the vigilance of the sentry horses, these Jiehu people went out of the city for a sneak attack, except for throwing away a dozen corpses, and found nothing at all.
By the third watch in the middle of the night, there was no light from the fire in Zhongqiu City, and even the shouting had stopped.
The Han army outside the city knew that this must be because all the houses near the city wall in Zhongqiu City had been destroyed, and there was nothing left to cause a fire.
Wait until the next morning.
Liu Yu, who had hurriedly finished his morning meal, immediately came to the front of the formation.
As soon as he arrived in front of the formation, the general who had been on duty last night immediately reported it.
"Your Majesty, Jie Nu went out of the city last night to attack in a sneak attack, but he was killed by the men and was defeated!"
After that, he pointed with his hand at the stacked Jiehu heads next to him.
Liu Yu saw surprise, fear and helplessness on the faces of these beheaded heads.
These dead Jiehu people, at this moment, completely lost their former cruelty, and all looked like "poor people".
"Savages are always brave when they are sure there is no danger."
Liu anticipated the cruelty of these Jiehu and couldn't help but mocked.
The generals next to him all looked at each other. They didn't hear the meaning of Liu Yu's words, but they didn't dare to ask more.
Liu Yu withdrew his gaze and looked at Zhongqiu City in the distance.
The black smoke in the city has long since disappeared, leaving only the smell of burning in the air.
"Send these heads back to Jie Nu!"
After Liu Yu gave the order, more than twenty heads of Jiehu were thrown far into Zhongqiu City by trebuchets.
A moment later, a faint roar came from Zhongqiu City.
"The enemy's wails are often the most beautiful music."
This ancient Roman proverb immediately appeared vividly in Liu Yu's mind.
"Siege the city! I want to enter Zhongqiu today to feast on the soldiers!"
After a day and night of preparation, the Han soldiers had prepared enough stones to smash down the wall of Zhongqiu City.
Starting from the launch of the first stone bomb weighing more than 100 kilograms, more than 20 trebuchets began to continuously bombard the city wall in the middle hill.
"boom!"
"Bang!"
Whenever a stone bullet hit the rammed-earth city wall, bursts of cheers broke out among the Han soldiers who had already been waiting in formation.
In that voice, there was no fear on the battlefield at all. Instead, there were just early cheers of victory and the joy of drinking the enemy's blood.
Finally, these rammed earth city walls could not withstand the continuous bombardment, and large areas of rammed earth began to peel off, and even sunken cracks appeared.
Both the offensive and defensive sides already knew that the collapse of the Zhongqiu City wall was not far away.
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