Before he finished speaking, he saw three more flying boulders, slamming into the south gate tower. The sound of beams and columns breaking, like the sound of fractures, spread in all directions, accompanied by a "squeak" sound. There was a sound of "Yeah, yeah", and many people a hundred steps away from the city were shouting: "It's fallen, the tower is going to fall, spread out quickly, spread out quickly!"
Before these words fell, I saw the city tower emerging from the smoke and dust. It was different from the ordinary smoke and dust that cleared away. This time, most of the broken city tower, with twenty or thirty stones, came out of the city. The head fell with a crash.
In the process of falling, the last bit of the shape of the city tower also disintegrated in the air. Splintering into pieces is not enough to describe the degree of fragmentation after the collapse of the city tower. To say that it was broken into thousands of pieces, it turned into hundreds of broken pieces of wood. Dozens of large rocks fell at the same time, causing the ground to shake. Broken wood and stones were scattered everywhere within a radius of forty or fifty steps.
Murong Lan sighed softly: "I really have to admire you, brother. If you hadn't ordered the timely evacuation of the soldiers and horses behind the city gate, I am afraid that the collapse of this city tower would have killed thousands of people. "
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw those four-wheeled vehicles outside the city bouncing up with another wave of throwing poles, and a rain of falling rocks that covered the sky and poured heavily on the area three to four hundred paces behind the city gate. Many stones even splashed and collided on the ground, but bounced into the hidden soldier caves in the city walls, beating dozens of sergeants who were waiting at the door with bruises and bruises, and thousands of soldiers suddenly ran out of the caves. The shield bearers held up wooden rafts and blocked the entrance of the cave, as if they were blocking the hundreds of caves where soldiers were hiding, just like a city gate.
The black robe sneered: "This is Liu Yu. He obviously wants to attack the city gate, and he is attacking with concentrated rocks and throwing poles. A normal general, even if he receives such a heavy blow, will judge that the direction of attack will be the city gate." , he can only bite the bullet and invest in the reserve team to continue to defend the city gate, and this time is his chance to adjust the direction of attack and break the city in one fell swoop."
Murong Lan's beautiful eyebrows frowned: "Could it be that he wants to attack the city with ants?"
The black robe waved his hand: "That was the time for the final attack. Now I think he is still mobilizing our troops and looking for our weaknesses. The attack on the city gate was the first real trial attack. He thought he could A large number of our city gate defenders were killed, but we can’t be sure, so we won’t launch a general attack in this direction immediately. I think his next move will be in the direction of East City and West City.”
Guanggu, Dongcheng, Jiangtai.
Zhuge Changmin, with his big horse and golden sword, was sitting on the bed with a smile on his face, looking at the more than thirty catapults here, which were constantly raising and lowering their arms to throw piles of stones. Towards the city head, the ashes from the burning curtains have piled up a layer of black ashes several inches thick under the city. From here, the broken parts of the crossbows and catapults at the city head are everywhere, with only a few remaining. A few more catapults were still feebly firing stones at the catapults of the Jin army outside the city. However, just a few stones were often thrown, and they would be hit by ten times more flying stones. Soon, it turned into a pile of broken wood and scrap metal.
Zhuge Limin held his spear and walked around Zhuge Changmin like a wild beast. He muttered: "When will I attack the city? When will it be my turn?"
Zhuge Youmin smiled and shook his head and said: "Second brother, you are so impatient. Didn't the eldest brother say, don't rush, don't rush, wait until all the city fortifications are destroyed. Look, there is Zhang Gang who gave us The defense map doesn’t just mean where to attack!”
Zhuge Changmin waved his hand: "The last time we attacked the city, our troops suffered a lot of losses. In the previous battle at Linqu, we also suffered a lot of losses. Since we sent troops to Nanyan this time, we have lost tens of thousands of veterans. Although More than 20,000 people were newly recruited locally, and more than 10,000 Yan soldiers were captured. However, these newly attached troops are not as effective as our veteran veterans. This time, do not take advantage of the false reputation of being the first to attack the city. Casualties come first.”
Zhuge Limin said angrily: "It's okay if we don't fight, no one will die. However, if you don't shed blood and sacrifice, you will get nothing after the battle, so don't expect to get anything."
Zhuge Changmin smiled and said: "Second brother, you are so impatient. This attack on Guanggu is not delicious meat, but it is probably the hardest bone our Beifu Army has faced since the founding of the army. In the city The Xianbei soldiers and civilians have a deep hatred for us and would rather die than surrender. If we want to capture it, we will have to pay tens of thousands more casualties. Jinu refuses to retreat and insists on attacking the city, so let him attack it."
Zhuge Youmin was also a little surprised: "Brother, then why do you insist on asking for the post of commander in charge of attacking the city from the east? If there is a fierce attack from the other two sides, we will not be able to explain where to go afterwards."
Zhuge Changmin sneered and said: "Even that boy Da Shitou was arranged to go to the North Gate to be the general. I kept staring at him. Why do you think it was? Da Shitou, Wang Zhene, and even Shen Tianzi, these later My boy, the slaves are more important than us. If they get the opportunity to be alone this time, do you still want to keep your current power in the future?"
Zhuge Limin's eyes flashed coldly: "Just them? Whether it's qualifications or experience, you are still far behind my eldest brother. You are one of the four giants in Beifu. When our brothers defeated the Qin army at Feishui, , these boys are still wearing crotchless pants!"
Zhuge Changmin frowned: "Second brother, not to mention the bravery of the heroes, I was one of the four giants when Jingkou was founded, but we failed in Liyang. Although we saved our lives, the three giants have been gone since then. I, the last time I followed Liu Yi in his western expedition, we were also arranged to act as a rear guard. Although we were given the remaining Beiqing Province of the rebel generals, everyone knows that our three Zhuge brothers have been increasingly sidelined. If not this time If you make great contributions, the position of a frontier official like this will be snatched away by others in the future!"
"So in this battle, I have to fight for a general. But after Zhinu gave me the military power, I made it clear to him that I have less than 8,000 veterans. If I don't have the ability to main attack, I can only play auxiliary. This just leaves something to say. Even if he doesn't attack with all his strength, he can't say anything. In fact, Ji Nu also wants to make contributions to his young people. These boys were brought up by him. Listen to his words, unlike us. We are colleagues and comrades-in-arms with him, and we have the same status, so it is impossible for us to obey him like the boys!"
Having said this, Zhuge Changmin paused: "So, this battle must not be fought without fighting, and must not be fought too quickly!"
