Lu Bu's army rushed to build a large number of siege equipment under Shouchun City. On the morning of that day, just as the sky was dawn, Lu Bu's army came out with the surrendered army and approached the city of Shouchun. The first one was to show their might, more than a hundred catapults. In the huge roar, large stones flew towards the city wall like raindrops. A loud bang, some stones hit the crowd, and immediately became a terrifying scene of flesh and blood flying everywhere!

At the same time, more than 10,000 attacking troops slowly approached the opponent's city wall with shields. When less than an arrow away from the city wall, arrows began to fly down the city wall, and hit the shield curtain, making a loud sound like rain hitting banana leaves! In the flying rain of arrows, there was also a series of powerful guns and arrows roaring in the wind and roaring to break the shield. Then one or more soldiers were knocked to the ground by terrible guns and arrows, and there was nothing to stop the powerful power! They were the guns and arrows fired by the bed crossbow, and the power was amazing! Fortunately, the bed crossbow took a long time to reload and shoot each time, and the number of bed crossbows was limited. Therefore, although the guns and arrows fired by the bed crossbow pose a great threat to the attacking troops, they could not stop the attacking troops from constantly approaching the city wall!

The attacking troops braved the rain of arrows from the defenders to approach the moat beside the city wall. The moat in Shouchun is two feet wide and ten feet deep, and the scale is no less than the moat in defending Luoyang. It is the first huge problem faced by any army attacking Shouchun. If the problem of hindering the moat cannot be completely solved, then it is simply a delusion to break through Shouchun City.

The attacking troops stopped by the moat and then changed their formation. The originally huge shield curtain turned into a passage protected by a long shield. At the same time, many shields were erected to form a shield wall on the moat! Then thousands of officers and soldiers used the wheelbarrow invented by Ailang to transport mud and stones from behind the shield passage, and under the cover of the shield to the moat, and then poured trucks of mud and stones into the moat! There was a constant sound of water splashing in the moat, but the mud and stones thrown into the river disappeared without a trace!

Ji Ling, who was guarding the city wall, urgently ordered the crossbowman to shoot. The crossbowman kept pouring arrow rain towards the Lu Bu army in the west. However, under the cover of the opponent's tight shield, Yuan Shujun's crossbow shooting effect was very bad! Seeing that the Lu Bu army was like a earth dragon swimming in a cave, more and more stones and mud were dumped into the moat!

At the same time, hundreds of arrow towers that were almost higher than the city wall had slowly advanced to a place less than an arrow from the city wall. The crossbowmen on the arrow tower began to shoot arrows at Yuan Shu's army on the city wall. The arrows were like locusts. The Yuan Shu's officers and soldiers were shot one after another, some fell on the city wall, and screams came one after another. The Yuan Shu's officers and soldiers hid behind the female wall, while the crossbowmen on the arrow tower shot at the crossbowmen on the arrow tower. The arrow rains fired by both sides flew intertwined in the air, and officers and soldiers on both sides were constantly hit by arrows and fell down.

At this time, the attack troops by the moat took advantage of the opportunity when Yuan Shujun was attracted by the arrow tower and transported all their strength to the earth and stones, and only water splashed in the moat.

Seeing this, Ji Ling was extremely anxious and asked the shield's hands to come forward to build the shield on the top of the city as much as possible to protect the city. Then he ordered the officers and soldiers to lift the crossbow up and put it on the wall, then lifted the tail, and shot the attack troops that were filling the moat at a 45-degree angle or even steeper. The huge guns and arrows roared and flew straight to the opposite side of the moat. A soldier holding a shield was knocked out by the huge force and the people and shields. The screams sounded from time to time! However, the screams were not all from the city, and screams came from the city wall. It turned out that the crossbow was not an ordinary single crossbow machine, with strong force and shocking recoil. After shooting, the entire crossbow suddenly shook backwards, and as a result, he knocked over many shooters who pulled the trigger behind the crossbow.

Lu Bu's army made every effort to fill the moat, while Yuan Shu's army tried its best to stop it. In one day, both sides spent it on it. Seeing that the sun was falling, the loud sound of the golden bell came from Lu Bu's army, and the attacking troops stopped their attack and slowly retreated. The originally noisy battlefield returned to peace.

Ailang returned to the tent and couldn't help but curse: "Damn it, hundreds of people were injured and killed in the whole day, and the moat was still a surface!"

Jia Xu thought, "Shouchun's moat is very vast and the river is very deep. It seems that it is impossible to fill a path that is enough for a large army to attack without ten days and half a month!"

Ailang said angrily: "Ten days and half a month? Then I will suffer thousands of casualties just by filling the moat!"

Jia Xu looked thoughtful.

"Or why don't we just attack and fight. Isn't Yuan Shu short of food? I'll just wait for ten days and half a month, and I guess the people inside are almost hungry!"

Jia Xu smiled and said, "If this is the case, wouldn't the lord finally get a dead city?"

Ailang uh, then said angrily: "Then it takes me ten days and half a month to fill a moat. After I get in, will the people inside still die almost?"

At this time, in Yuan Shu's palace hall, Yuan Shu was very happy when he heard the news of Lu Bu's attack being frustrated, and laughed: "With him, Lu Bu's ordinary man, you will never want to break into the city in your life!"

General Yang clasped his fists and said, "Your Majesty, our food and grass can only last for seven days at most. If we don't solve this problem quickly and don't fight Lu Bu, we will all starve to death!"

Yuan Shu frowned and became worried.

General Yang clasped his fists and said, "Now only Hefei has a lot of money and food. Please immediately send the prince to escort the grain and grass to support him." The so-called prince is Yuan Shu's eldest son, Yuan Yao, who is currently leading the army to guard Hefei. Yuan Shu thought for a long time and could not think of a better way, so he had to agree to General Yang's suggestion. In fact, Yuan Shu did not have no food or salary, but was just unwilling to take it out. He hoarded the money and food in Hefei for personal purposes. If the situation was not as critical as it was a last resort, he would not have taken out the money and food hoarded in Hefei no matter what.

Yuan Shu's fast horse messenger quickly left the city with Yuan Shu's edict and ran straight to Hefei in the south under the cover of night.

Yuan Yao, the prince guarding Hefei, received his father's edict, and immediately did not dare to delay. He immediately ordered people to collect 20,000 troops while loading money and grain. On that day, he personally led the 20,000 troops to protect the carriage carrying a large amount of food and grass and left Hefei northward and headed towards Shouchun.
Chapter completed!