On the third day when the Guangjun army camped outside the city before dawn, the first round of tentative siege had already begun.
Not a single soldier tried to get close to the city wall for close combat.
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, doing whatever they were supposed to do.
But after the sky had just turned white, the defenders discovered something strange. It turned out that among the whizzing stones, sacks of gravel were thrown into three locations on 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 cultivator's true energy may also become a weakness of the defending party 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.
Throughout 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 to have no problem.
No matter what.
That night, everyone in Roucheng had to fall asleep amidst such piercing whistling sounds, and then be awakened by a huge noise at a certain moment, and so on. When the sun rises again the next morning, everyone may or may not be able to sleep.
There was more or less some discomfort.
Then, the defenders noticed that the number of stone-throwing seemed to be decreasing. When some of the more courageous defenders took a look, they saw several huge siege engines 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 comes the 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 engines 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, and two thousand cavalry rushed out. As soon as they left the city, they detoured to the north and south, and finally staggered behind the siege vehicles, closing the area there.
The soldiers who lined up in a long line were killed to pieces, and then they launched an attack on several siege vehicles. Only 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 ablaze.
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 practitioners concentrated on these two points alone reaches more than a hundred!
So on this night, a brief and rapid battle between the offensive and defensive cultivators suddenly broke out, eventually causing huge casualties to the surrounding soldiers, and 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 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 off head-on, Zhengcang City, which was far away in Sancang, also had its first head-on contact with the Guangjun army from Xiucheng on the city wall.
Almost the same as the Roucheng side, the Guangjun side launched an siege with more than 10,000 soldiers.
But compared to Roucheng's advancing offensive posture, Zhengcangcheng's offensive and defensive sides showed 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 to attack on a large scale, taking advantage of the short-term local strength gap to give the Guangjun Army a moderate defeat. But perhaps
It was this proactive attack by the defenders that angered General Guangjun. Before dawn the next day, Guangjun had completed the assembly of several trebuchets and began to launch an all-round stoning suppression of the city. As the day progressed,
The number of trebuchets that were assembled and put into use increased, 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 Guang County defenders took advantage of the darkness to launch siege engines and forced their way up the city wall despite heavy 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 made progress smoothly, causing chaos to the formation of the attacking party outside the city.
With the combined efforts of the two parties, they quickly repelled the Guangjun soldiers who once attacked the city wall.
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 sword.
"General Shen Pi, how are you?" Jiuge smiled and leaned next to Shen Cheng and asked.
Shen Cheng did not respond to his show off, but just stared at the camp in the distance, "I feel something is wrong..."
Jiuge 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 size. It seems that Guangjun is really determined to get it." You can’t take 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 Cang Land is an extremely rare grain-producing land in Sanqiong County, and what is most lacking in Li County today is grain."
"Having said that, it is very difficult to attack Sancang, which is backed by Lijun, with a frontal attack..." 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 department and General Chen knew about the Zhengcang war situation." He paused and then said, "Send a copy to Chen Shaoxiong in Tongcang and Li Mu in Liangcang. There is something strange in Guangzhou this time... ..We all have to be more careful..."