Before dawn on the third day when the Guangjun army camped outside the city, the first round of tentative siege had already begun.
Not a single soldier tried to get close to the city wall for a close fight.
Relying only on long-range attacks continued to wear down the will of the defenders on the east wall.
Catapults were assembled one after another, and large stones and scattered stones were continuously thrown towards the top of the city, as if rain were falling, weighing down all the defenders on the city wall so that they did not dare to show their heads.
The defenders didn't have any ideas. They just hid their bodies behind the walls and listened to the vibration in their ears and the whistling of stones across the sky.
But after the sky had just turned white, the defenders discovered something strange. It turned out that among the whizzing stone throwing, there were sacks of gravel that were thrown into three locations of the moat!
The Guangjun army secretly used this method to fill the moat!
Therefore, the defenders in the city naturally carried out the first wave of counterattacks. Only a few khaki rays of light quietly left the city and shot into the distance close to the ground. Although they were discovered by the attacking army in time, the missed ray of sword light still succeeded. Five or six brand-new trebuchets were destroyed, slightly suppressing the attacker's momentum.
But just when the sun rose, more trebuchets were assembled. This time, it was impossible for the flying swords in the city to easily destroy the siege equipment. They could only retreat to the next best option and choose to be piled up in the moat. Paths should be destroyed as much as possible.
However, the cost of this kind of behavior is very high, and the loss of the practitioner's true energy may also become a weakness of the defender in a subsequent attack.
The difference between victory and defeat is often just a hair's breadth.
As time passed by, the atmosphere of war began to envelope the sky above Roucheng.
People living in areas closer to the city wall had to be evacuated closer to the city center and became "refugees", making the environment in the city more tense and unpredictable.
The whole day, Guangjun was just testing, and the trebuchets did not stop working until night. Many of the first batch of completed trebuchets had been scrapped due to overload, but even with such a high-loss investment, Guangjun seemed No matter what.
That night, everyone in Roucheng had to fall asleep amidst such piercing whistling sounds, and then be awakened by the huge noise at a certain moment, and so on. When the sun rises again the next morning, everyone will either More or less some discomfort.
Then, the defenders noticed that the number of stone throws seemed to be decreasing. When some of the more daring defenders went to look, they saw several huge siege vehicles being pushed out of the camp outside the city.
It was an instrument made of huge logs. From the front, it looked like a carriage that was taller than the city wall. It was covered with thin metal, making it look extremely heavy. From the back, If you look at it, it looks more like a huge ladder divided into several sections!
Once such a device is put up on the city wall, the long queue of soldiers behind the siege vehicle can continuously climb the city wall through the ladder at the rear!
Then, naturally, there is a struggle between these huge siege engines.
The light of various flying swords in the sky swirled around, constantly colliding around the siege vehicle!
The loud and frequent explosions made the soldiers driving the siege vehicles dizzy. Occasionally, the shock wave caused by a strong impact would even knock them to the ground!
At the same time, the defenders of Roucheng took the initiative to open the city gate for the first time. Two thousand cavalry rushed out. As soon as they left the city, they detoured to the north and south. Finally, they staggered behind the siege vehicles, and the two thousand cavalrymen rushed out. The soldiers who lined up in a long line were killed to pieces, and then they launched an attack on several siege vehicles. Just a few waves of arrows caused the soldiers pushing the carts to fall in large numbers. Combined with a wave of rockets, three siege vehicles were set on fire. The cavalry returned to the city after the siege vehicle.
After going back and forth several times, Guangjun pushed two siege vehicles onto the city wall after sunset, and launched the first real siege battle since the army was assembled that night.
The first battle is a bloody battle!
The toughness of the attackers was completely different from the casualness of the trebuchets that day and night. The moment the two sides came into contact, the defenders on the city wall knew how decisive the opponent wanted to achieve in the first battle. Although there were only two battlefields, these two The battle situation is very anxious, and both sides continue to increase their chips on these two points, so that the number of cultivators concentrated on these two points alone reaches more than a hundred!
So on this night, a brief and rapid battle broke out suddenly between the attackers and defenders. After causing huge casualties to the surrounding soldiers, the two siege vehicles were finally destroyed!
It was only at this moment that Guangjun ordered the troops to retreat, allowing the nearly 10,000 soldiers who were waiting to attack the city to withdraw to their camps...
The siege seemed to have reached its first pause.
But everyone knows that after a short pause, Roucheng will usher in a bloody battle on a larger scale...
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On the night when Roucheng and the Guangjun army in Anling were facing each other head-on, Zhengcang City, which was far away in Sancang, also had its first direct contact on the city wall with the Guangjun army from Xiucheng.
Almost the same as the Roucheng side, the Guangjun side only launched an siege with more than 10,000 soldiers.
But compared to Roucheng's offensive momentum, which is advancing step by step, Zhengcangcheng's offensive and defensive sides have shown great aggression.
Only when the forward troops of the Guangjun Army had just arrived near Zhengcang City, Shen Cheng, the defender of Zhengcang City, took the initiative on a large scale and took advantage of the short-term local strength gap to give the Guangjun Army a moderate defeat. But perhaps this proactive attack by the defenders angered the generals of Guangjun. Before dawn the next day, Guangjun had completed the assembly of several trebuchets and began to suppress the city with all-round stoning. The number of trebuchets that were assembled and put into use increased day by day, and the pressure on the city walls increased.
Zhengcang City has more complete defensive equipment than Rou City. It has also assembled some large trebuchets to try to destroy the trebuchets outside the city, but the number is much inferior.
But even so, the stones roaring back and forth above the city wall are quite spectacular.
This continued until night, when the Guangjun garrison took advantage of the darkness to launch siege engines and forced their way up the city wall despite huge casualties.
What followed was a bloody close-quarters battle.
Shen Cheng, the defender of Zhengcang City, was not fully recovered yet, but he still insisted on climbing the city wall and fought bloody battles on the front line with a group of generals and soldiers, which greatly boosted the morale of the defenders.
At the same time, Captain Jiuge, who was led by Shen Cheng's bold decision to attack, also progressed smoothly, causing confusion on the attacking side's formation outside the city.
With the combined efforts of the two parties, the Guangjun soldiers who once attacked the city wall were quickly repelled.
When Jiuge returned to Zhengcang City and climbed onto the city wall again, Shen Cheng was still standing on top of the city holding a bloody long knife.
"General Shen Pi, how are you?" Jiuge asked, leaning towards Shen Cheng with a smile.
Shen Cheng did not respond to his show off, but just stared at the camp in the distance, "I feel something is wrong..."
Jiu Ge was stunned and asked, "What's wrong?" He followed Shen Cheng's gaze and looked at the Guangjun Camp in the distance. It was a place with higher terrain. Even if they stood at the top of Zhengcang City, they couldn't see clearly. , "The casualties on both sides in this siege are not small. Obviously the other side is not joking. What do you think is wrong?"
Shen Cheng shook his head, picked up the long knife in his hand and pointed at the camp in the distance, "Look at the size of the camp, there must be at least 40,000 to 50,000 people. Today's first battle is of this scale. It seems that Guangjun is really determined to win. I can’t do it in Zhengcang City, but...why not Anling’s Roucheng City?”
Jiuge frowned and said, "It is easy for Guangjun to capture Anling, but when it comes to the importance of Lijun, Anling is not as important as the current Sancang. You must know that these three The flat terrain of Cangchang is an extremely rare grain-producing land in Sanqiong County, and what Li County lacks most today is food."
"Having said that, it is very difficult to attack Sancang, which is backed by Li County..." Shen Cheng thought for a moment and put the long sword back into its sheath, "No matter what, we still have to take it." "The Military Affairs Office and General Chen know about the battle situation in Zhengcang." He paused and then said, "Send a copy to Chen Shaoxiong in Tongcang and Li Mu in Liangcang. There is something strange about Guang County this time... ..We all have to be more careful..."
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