On the southern border of Liangzhou, the sky is filled with fog and sand. At this time, outside Lucheng, the siege was becoming more and more massive.
Rong Gong's face suddenly darkened. According to this appearance, the Shu people are already preparing to attack the city.
"General Rong, right at the north gate is the headquarters of the commoner thieves."
Rong Gong naturally knew that, but what he didn't understand was that at this time, the commoner thief Xu Mu ordered people to build several small sand cities.
This kind of small sand city is immovable and far away from the shooting range, so it is of no use at all.
"If commoner thieves don't do useless things, could these small sand cities be wolf smoke towers? Burning wolf smoke to lure reinforcements from Wenlang City?"
I have to say that Rong Gong's thinking is that he is really a calm general.
"But is it possible that the civilian thief is stupid? The beacon smoke in each state is different. The beacon smoke in Liangzhou is secretly mixed with the catkins of the sand willow and the night dung of the sand wolf."
A long time ago, after the collapse of the dynasty, there was no longer the concept of "the same book and the same article and the same track". For example, when it comes to signal transmission, most of them have their own methods.
Rong Gong was still deep in thought when he suddenly heard the beating of drums beside his ears and the radical sound of horn trombones.
"General, the Shu people have begun to attack the city!"
Rong Gong gritted his teeth and pulled out the sword from his waist with a clang.
"Inform the garrison of each gate. The forward battalion will defend to the death, and the defensive battalion will be on standby immediately. Anyone in the reserve battalion who leaves without permission will be killed without mercy!"
"Common people, please quickly prepare your supplies and equipment to defend the city. If you miss our military opportunity, you will be punished as a Shu spy!"
"Defend the city!"
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Riding on the horse, Xu Mu raised his hand coldly and pointed to Lucheng ahead.
Behind him, Wei Xiaowu was already leading the flag camp, condescendingly waving the Xu-character flag, flying in the sandy wind.
"The northwest wind is as usual." Jia Zhou raised his head. This kind of strategy is not a great plan, but at least for now, it is the best way to deal with the Lucheng defenders.
"My lord, we can start as soon as the siege phalanx approaches the city gate."
Following the direction of the wind, although the Shu army attacking the city will have some impact. But the biggest impact was on the defenders of Lucheng.
"Lord, the siege armies from the other two locations have also begun to attack the city."
The other two places were the armies of Fan Lu and Dou Tong. Of the four gates of Lucheng, only the west gate did not launch an attack. However, they arranged ambushes to kill the defenders who dared to escape from the west gate.
Surrounding three buildings, everyone from the general to the captain understands what it means. What is helpless is that sometimes the thought of escaping will cause the trapped soldiers to lose their fighting spirit due to the contagion of broken morale, and they can only panic and choose the way out.
Xu Mu nodded, raised his gaze, and looked at the north gate of Lucheng, his eyes full of fighting spirit.
Behind him, many veteran soldiers and generals of the Xu family army were already roaring, organizing their own phalanx troops, holding swords and shields, and pressing towards Lucheng step by step.
The range of the company's crossbow battalion is quite low. Only when the defenders are in chaos can they get close to the city gate and shoot effectively.
Instead, it was a long-range infantry. Shen Bu followed closely behind the phalanx. He raised his long bow high and held the string between his two fingers. When he got closer, he whizzed out a hail of arrows.
"Stone-throwing camp!" A veteran Xu Jiajun general with white hair shouted wildly while wielding a sword.
After seven or eight catapults opened in a row, leaving ruts in the sand, hundreds of soldiers began to fill the huge boulders into the animal skin ammunition pouches.
If you can have saltpeter, you can create fire rocks. It's a pity that up to now, there are no discoveries about saltpeter in the fourteen counties of Shuzhou.
Zhou Zun, the iron-mining master, had already apologized several times.
"Drum roll!"
"Shoot the stone!"
Woo, woo--
Under the mist, the sky above Lucheng seemed to be unchanged, but suddenly, there was a trace of restlessness, and the entire sky seemed to be cracking repeatedly.
Boom.
The first huge boulder directly shattered a section of the parapet, causing the several dazed defenders to be shattered into pieces in the blink of an eye, then smashed into pulp.
After that, more and more boulders came one after another, and they fell all over the north gate of Lucheng. For a time, they brought up the sky with sand and dust.
Some of the Liangzhou guards who had just entered the battlefield, probably not yet familiar with war, all coughed in the dust.
"Defend, defend carefully, and avoid the Shu people's long-distance attack!" Rong Gong, wearing a battle armor and guarded by many close friends holding up shields, kept pacing at the top of the city and issued orders.
"If the Shu people's siege formation gets close, fire back immediately!"
"Hoo, hoo."
Outside the city gate, under the cover of stone throwing, the marching Shu army formation was getting closer and closer to the city gate.
"Send the order, blow up the sand." Xu Mu ordered calmly.
"My lord has an order, above the sand city, blow up the sand quickly!" A scout on horseback, raising a flag, took the order and galloped back, announcing angrily.
There were seven hundred Shu soldiers on several sand cities. After receiving their orders, they raised countless pockets made of robes and armor.
After the sand was filled, many Shu soldiers began to float in the wind.
Not long after, under the direction of the wind, bursts of dust and smoke quickly drifted towards the north gate of Lucheng in the northwest direction.
For a while, the dust filled the air like crazy.
The guards at the north gate of Lucheng were nervously preparing to fight, but unexpectedly, sand and dust suddenly rolled in overwhelmingly, captivating people's eyes and choking their noses.
Many of the defenders' infantry who had originally raised their bows had to lower their bows and arrows, waving their hands desperately in an attempt to dust away the sand.
"Where did the sandstorm come from?" Rong Gong raised his face and resisted the urge to curse, spitting out several mouthfuls of sand.
Having been in Lucheng for a long time, it is not that I have never encountered sand and dust. But the key point is that ordinary sand and dust will not be so raging. The current one is clearly stuffing sand into the mouth——
Rong Gong paused and suddenly figured out something. He turned his gaze hurriedly, trying to see through the dust in the sky to see the temporarily built sand cities.
"General, General Rong! These Shu people are constantly blowing sand on those sand cities!" A useful general came to report in a hurry.
"Quickly, let the soldiers guarding the city cover their faces!"
The northern city wall of Lucheng began to show signs of panic. Under the cover of catapults and wind and dust, there was no moat and only some simple fortifications remained, which could not resist at all.
"Ascend the city!"
Countless Shu army formations began to build city ladders on the city wall. Behind them, three huge ladder trucks were getting closer and closer to the city gate.
In the mist and dust, like three giant beasts, they were so close.
"Defend the city, the Shu people are going to board it first!"
"Hurry and defend the city!"
Rong Gong's face was shocked, and he vaguely seemed to understand the Shu people's plan. He asked himself that he was cautious, but he never thought that he would fall into the Shu people's way.
