Without the support of trebuchets, the casualties of the Qin army soldiers on the city wall were greatly reduced!
Because the rebel soldiers of Xiang Liang who attacked the city lacked strong bows, they could hardly do any harm to the soldiers of the Qin army who defended the city! More importantly, the Qin army deployed countless weapons such as rolling stones, wood and gold juice to defend the city!
The rebels below the city were crowded together and could not get to the top of the city!
In order to kill the rebel soldiers as much as possible, the Qin army ignored the ladders on the city wall and let the rebel soldiers climb up the ladders. Since then, the rebel soldiers who climbed up the ladders basically died.
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The entire occupation suddenly fell into a state of anxiety!
Zhang Liang looked at the sky and saw that the sun would set in half an hour at most! He walked to Xiang Liang who had stopped beating the drum and whispered to Xiang Liang!
"Zifang, so..." Xiang Liang's expression suddenly changed after hearing Zhang Liang's words, and then he hesitated!
"General, if you don't act like this, I'm afraid we won't be able to capture Chengwu City in three, five or even ten days, not even today!" Zhang Liang pointed at the city.
The battle-scarred Chengwu City Wall shouted loudly!
Xiang Liang is also extremely anxious about the current situation!
Meng Tian's army is rushing to rescue Hu Hai! I'm afraid they will reach Chengwu in less than three days! If they can't capture Chengwu by then! I'm afraid my army of hundreds of thousands will have to flee overnight!
Not only did Chen County, which was finally captured, have to be lost, but the entire Si River must be lost and retreated to the south of the Huaihe River!
Xiang Liang's expression changed, and he suddenly ordered: "Send the order to the army. Anyone who retreats privately without me, the general, will be killed without mercy!"
More than a hundred catapults rumbled out from the camps on all sides! What followed were no longer ordinary rebel soldiers, but tens of thousands of hundreds of Yue barbarians who had been acting as rear troops!
This time, Chengwu was besieged on all sides. Xiang Liang personally led an army of 150,000 to the southern camp of Chengwu. Sima Ang led an army of 50,000 to attack the northern city wall. Tian Du led an army of 50,000 to attack the east wall, and Xiang Zhuang led an army of 50,000 to attack the northern city wall.
Wan Dajun is responsible for attacking the west wall!
Among the four camps, in addition to the 30,000 elite veterans and 50,000 Baiyue barbarians in the Xiang Liang camp, the other three camps each had 20,000 Baiyue barbarians!
And these 20,000 Baiyue barbarians are Xiang Liang's elite soldiers who can overwhelm Chengwu County in one fell swoop at the critical moment! Of course, it would be best if the Baiyue barbarians on these three sides can really defeat the city in one fell swoop!
If the city cannot be broken, at the end of the day, the most elite 30,000 armored veterans in Xiang Liang's camp will attack them and break the city in one fell swoop!
What Zhang Liangfu'er just told Xiang Liang was to divide his troops and attack continuously in turn, and while attacking, all catapults, regardless of whether they are enemy or friend, should keep throwing stones to kill the Qin army!
The reason why Xiang Liang began to hesitate was precisely because the performance of the catapult was obviously not very stable. If he kept throwing stone bombs all the time, he could certainly kill a large number of Qin soldiers, but he was afraid that his own siege army would also suffer a lot of casualties!
This is obviously an act of killing ten thousand enemies and damaging eight thousand! It will also greatly damage the morale of the army!
However, Zhang Liang's last words made Xiang Liang completely determined! At this moment, he really had no way of turning back! It would be better if he could capture Chengwu before Meng Tian arrived. If he hadn't captured Chengwu before Meng Tian arrived, he would be captured alive.
Or if Hu Hai is killed, then Xiang Liang will have no choice but to retreat south of the Huai River in embarrassment!
And there will never be such a good opportunity from now on!
Because Hu Hai himself secretly went north, but he came all the way to ambush Hu Hai. Anyone who is not a fool knows that there are high-ranking officials in Daqin who tip off the news for him!
It's okay to say that Hu Hai is dead. It is estimated that there will be no further investigation of this matter at that time. After all, Hu Hai means that the Qin Dynasty will definitely experience chaos within the country! If Hu Hai is not dead, then the first step back to Xianyang is obviously to arrest this betrayer
He went north to send news to senior officials!
In this way, that person will no longer be able to hide within the Qin court to provide him with information! I am afraid that when he retreats, the person will also flee Xianyang!
The losses at that time were definitely not as big as usual!
It was precisely this that made Xiang Liang make up his mind! Zhang Liang also knew who was providing information to Xiang Liang within the Qin court! Of course, this was done by Xiang Liang to win Zhang Liang's trust!
Xiang Liang's death order was quickly and quietly conveyed to Tian Du, Sima Ang and Xiang Zhuang in the other three camps!
Although they were horrified, when they saw the dozens of Xiang Liang's personal guards who came with the letter and stood holding their swords, everyone knew that if the order was not carried out at this time, Xiang Liang and his personal guards would be the first to capture him!
Chengwu County is not a big city. In the first wave of attacks, 10,000 troops were mobilized with large camps on all sides and it was already hard to stand!
Now, as Xiang Liang's military order is issued, wave after wave of rebel soldiers are ready, ready to take over and fight at any time!
The movements of Xiang Liang's army were quickly reported to Hu Hai, who was waiting for news in the city!
At this time, why did Xiang Liang dispatch more than a hundred catapults again?
Could it be?
A terrible idea suddenly appeared in Hu Hai's mind! The more he thought about it, the more it seemed possible!
"Order the catapults in the city to speed up. We must completely destroy the catapults in Xiang Liang's army!" Hu Hai stood up and said to Long Weida beside him!
If Xiang Liang kept attacking the city with catapults without distinguishing between ourselves and the enemy, although this would cause casualties to his own army, obviously more casualties would come from the soldiers of the Qin army defending the city!
At this moment, the number of catapults in Chengwu City has increased to more than 100! With Hu Hai's order, the speed of catapults throwing stone bombs in the city suddenly increased! The sudden concentration of stone bombs immediately caused Xiang Liang's catapult army to go into chaos.
A ball!
Terrifying channels of blood appeared around the catapult army!
"Order people to hurry up and make the catapult! We must not stop for a moment, and transport it up as soon as it is made!" Xiang Liang was also furious! His catapult could not hit the city, so he could only be beaten passively and rush to build as many as possible.
Catapult!
Xiang Liang's catapult army, which had just stopped a short time ago, started moving again under the guard of Xiang Liang's personal guards holding swords!
Stone bullets whizzed in the air and hit the Chengwu city wall. The sudden force of Xiang Liang's catapult soldiers caused the casualties of the Qin army defending the city to skyrocket! Although from time to time, rebel soldiers crowded under the city wall were killed by themselves.
The stone bullets thrown by the catapults were killed, but there is no doubt that with the force of the catapult soldiers from the rear, the pressure on Xiangliang's rebel soldiers who could only be beaten passively during the siege was greatly reduced!
In order to minimize the damage to his soldiers, under Xiang Liang's order, the catapult of Xiang Liang's rebel soldiers moved forward more than fifty steps again and stopped four hundred and fifty steps away from the city wall!
As a result, the accuracy of Xiang Liang's rebel catapults suddenly increased, but the damage to his own soldiers under the city wall was much less!
Although the stone bullets flying out of the city kept destroying the catapults of Xiang Liang's army, more catapults were shipped out from each camp and headed for the city wall every moment.
As a result, the catapults of Xiang Liang's army kept throwing stone bombs at the top of the Chengwu City Wall without interruption. Although the catapults of Xiang Liang's army suffered heavy casualties, the situation of the Qin soldiers defending the city wall was still at a loss.
Suddenly more dangerous!
Before the hot golden juice could be poured down, it was knocked away by the sudden concentration of stone bullets, causing more than ten Qin soldiers around to fall to the ground and die without a word!
With the addition of the Baiyue barbarian army, more ladders were put up on the top of the Chengwu City Wall. The Xiangliang rebel soldiers who had never climbed the city wall took the lead in climbing the Chengwu City Wall in front of the Xiangzhuang camp in the west.
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Although the soldier who climbed the city wall was smashed to pieces by a stone bullet falling from the sky before he could stand still, this has greatly boosted the morale of Xiang Liang's rebels!
Countless Baiyue barbarians passed over the soldiers from the Central Plains area who were originally crowded under the city, and climbed up the ladder with their harpoons and roars!
"Dong dong dong!"
Seeing the movements of the siege soldiers, the sound of war drums that had stopped for a while sounded again from Xiang Liang's camp!
Suddenly, more Baiyue barbarians rushed out from the four camps, roaring and rushing towards Chengwu City!
Every moment at the top of Chengwu City, soldiers of the Qin Army were smashed to death by stone bullets falling from the sky! The situation suddenly became precarious!
Hundreds of ladders were set up on top of the Chengwu wall, and each ladder was covered with Baiyue barbarians!
Xiang Liang has already said that whoever is the first to occupy a place on the wall of Chengwu will be rewarded with thousands of gold and a title! This is enough!
The large number of casualties among the Qin Army soldiers resulted in fewer and fewer Qin Army soldiers who could stand on the city walls! Dozens or hundreds of Qin Army soldiers were carried down from the four walls every moment!
These Qin soldiers either had their hands or feet cut off, or their heads were smashed!
The soldiers in the city, who were originally a reserve force composed of Chengwu commoners, had already marched 4,000 people up the city wall. However, the soldiers who had just rushed to the top of the city would turn into corpses and be carried down in less than a moment!
It seems that now the Chengwu City Wall has become like a monster with its bloody mouth open, constantly devouring the lives of Qin soldiers!
Hu Hai's heart was pounding when he saw that the soldiers and civilians who had just been alive and kicking for a moment would turn into bloody corpses and be carried off the city. He did not expect Xiang Liang's first attack.
Just go all in and use a lose-lose style of play!
Those Chengwu people who had never been on the battlefield before had just rushed to the top of the city and they had already turned into corpses before they even had time to fear! This has nothing to do with courage and equipment!
Xiang Liang is already competing with himself to see who has more people and who can afford it!
Seeing that the resistance on the city wall was getting weaker and weaker! Zhang Liang's face relaxed slightly and he nodded slightly towards Xiang Liang!
Xiang Liang felt happy and knew that the time had come!
The banner with the word "xiang" appeared on the battlefield for the first time!
Ten thousand armed Xiang Liang rebel soldiers marched out from the Xiang Liang Central Army Camp!
These ten thousand people are all veterans of the Six Kingdoms who have fought with the Qin army!
Xiang Liang wants to use them to capture Chengwu County in one fell swoop! (To be continued)
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