?On the south bank of the Yangtze River, Chen's army surrounded the Zhou army camps under Yanji. Today, they gathered tens of thousands of troops and a large number of siege equipment to remove the only stronghold of the Zhou army in the south of the Yangtze River.

This was originally an ordinary beacon fortress of the Chen army. Because Yanji was located on the south side of the curve when the Yangtze River turned southeast, the beacon fortresses were set up. It was usually used to guard the river surface to form a long chain. Since the prefectures in the north and north were captured by the Zhou army three years ago, the vigilance here became a front line for north-south confrontation, and the responsibility for warning was even heavier.

But at the beginning, Yanji beacon tower was an ordinary sentry fortress dominated by beacon towers. In addition to the beacon transmission, another task was to keep an eye on the movements of the Zhou Dynasty's water army camp at the Bakou across the river, so there were not many garrison troops. However, Yanji, which was originally inconspicuous, is now like a thorn in his throat, making Chen Jun restless.

When the Zhou army invaded Yingzhou in the south for the first time, Yanji naturally failed to survive. Not only did dozens of defenders either died or were injured and were abducted, but the camp was also wiped out. After more than a month of hard work, it was finally rebuilt and was captured by the Zhou army that invaded the south again, but the other party refused to leave.

Not only that, the expansion of the originally narrow siege fort has expanded several times. Now the Yanji camp is managed by the Zhou army like a hedgehog, surrounded by several layers of trenches and the village walls have become very solid. In addition, some ponds scattered around Yanji have become easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Chen's army had no way to chew off this stinky and hard Yanji after several attacks. After careful summary of experience and lessons, they gathered forces to attack again today. Although the expected decisive battle between the Wuzhou and the Zhou army was not launched, they also decided to act as planned.

Yanji is located by the river. In the previous few battles, the Zhou army warships were all leaning against the river and fired arrows and shot arrows, which caused the Chen army soldiers in the river to advance and retreat. In view of this, the main direction of the attack today avoided the east of Yanji, and the west sides were unfolded from the south. The Zhou army also expected that they had this trick and strengthened the camps on the south side in advance.

The Nanzhai, which the Zhou army rushed to build, cut the original official road at the southern end of Yanji in half. The official road was surrounded by ponds, so it became the natural moat of Nanzhai. If you want to attack, you can only unfold along the official road. It built many brick and stone arrow towers in places with relatively large terrain on both sides of the official road, and together with other facilities, it increased the difficulty of attack. However, in the eyes of the Chen army generals, this was not a reason to avoid war, so they started to attack after everything was ready.

The continuous sound of trumpets sounded in the Chen army's formation. The soldiers pushed the shield chariots and the trench bridge and the east-west towards Nanzhai, and the pointed wooden donkey followed closely. Because there were trenches dug outside the Nanzhai and connected the pond as a moat, the bridge needed to be built. First use the trench bridge to build a passage and then let the pointed wooden donkey pass through. This is a must-use tactics for the attacking party and the defensive party will definitely use all means to stop it.

The Zhou army's counterattack method was very sharp and directly used a catapult car to throw out dozens of kilograms of stones to call the invaders of Chen Jun. The shooting distance was about sixty or seventy steps, just outside the trench. This was also within the effective range of the bow and arrow, but it just smashed the Chen Jun soldiers who shot arrows with the shield cart to a huge splash.

The shield chariot used to defend against arrows was specially thickened and thought it was very solid, but it was hit by the heavy flying stone and collapsed instantly. The Chen army soldiers who had experienced several attacks and defenses were uneasy when they saw Zhou Jun's powerful catapult car for the first time.

Some shield chariots were hit by stones, together with Chen Jun soldiers behind, were smashed to pieces, and even the shield chariots could not resist the trench bridge. Although the trench bridge was installed with wheels and moved very quickly under the force of the soldiers, some unlucky ones were hit by the stone and disintegrated directly.

The soldiers who rushed into the trench bridge that escaped the stone rain but pushed the trench bridge were waiting by Zhou's crossbowmen on the village wall. Without the cover of the archers, they suffered heavy casualties under the rainy arrows.

Chen Jun was a little caught off guard by the catapults that Zhou Jun put into use for the first time. As we all know, catapults are all required to pull them. Chen Jun also prepared a large amount of catapults and manpower for the besieged Yanji this time, but they could not imagine that they could throw dozens of kilograms of stones at a distance of sixty or seventy steps: how many people would pull such a catapult!

Zhou Jun's catapult car was located in the camp because it was blocked by the walls. Only the upper part of the body was exposed. Just looking at the shelf seemed to be slightly larger than ordinary catapult car, but Chen Jun could hardly imagine how long it would last if he used manpower to pull it down.

"Continue to attack, not many of them can keep pulling the gun rod and firing the gun!"

The momentum of the offensive stopped for a moment and then continued. Not only were there shield chariots on the official road, trench bridges, and pointed wooden donkeys approaching the Zhou army camp, but there were dense Chen army soldiers paddling bamboo rafts towards the village wall.

They held their shields and there were long bamboo ladders on the bamboo rafts. Although there were not many people on each bamboo raft that could approach Zhou Jun camp at the same time, there were countless bamboo rafts. They were waiting like ants to cross the pond and land on landing and climbing the wall with bamboo ladders.

The Chen army also rushed to the Nanzhai, which was besieging the Zhou army on the east and west sides, and rushed to the wall of the village when the Zhou army archers were too busy. For a moment, the ponds everywhere were crowded and the soldiers attacked with arrows like crossing the river.

Many large crossbows were revealed in the camp. With the sound of huge bowstrings, countless arrows like short spears flew towards Chen Jun soldiers on the bamboo raft. Some of them were unlucky and were nailed to the bamboo raft by arrows, while more soldiers were striding forward.

Wanjun divine crossbow, this is a name that soldiers came to their minds. Chen Jun also used this thing because it was heavy and inconvenient to move, so it was mostly placed on the city wall or on warships. One shot of multiple arrows is powerful, but it is precisely because of this that the winding time is long and the interval between each launch is not short, so they were not scared by Zhou Jun's Wanjun divine crossbow.

When you finish winding, we have rushed to the other side of the pond and arrived under the village wall!

However, things went against my wishes. Zhou's big crossbow was silent for a moment and then resurrected again. The sound of bowstrings sounded one after another and countless arrows splashed at the approaching Chen soldiers. White or red water splashed one after another, and screams came one after another.

The launching speed of the Zhou army's large crossbow caught Chen's soldiers off guard. He thought that the opponent's large crossbow could only maintain such speed in the first few times, but he did not expect that it could continue to maintain it. The rain-like arrows attacked Chen's army suffered heavy casualties.

A soldier who was lucky enough to be on the shore was first blocked by pointed wooden stakes that were inserted obliquely. When they passed through these wooden stakes, they were constantly shot and killed by Zhou army crossbowmen. When they were lucky enough to climb over the wooden stakes and carry a ladder to rush towards the village wall, they found that they were unstable on the slope.

The Zhou army camp is located at a higher terrain, so Chen army needs to climb up and attack the wall to get close to the village wall. The slope is not steep. If it is usually not too steep than flat ground, but now the ground is covered with stones of all sizes and big skids when stepped on it. He staggered and stood firm, but Zhou Jun on the village wall took his life with one arrow.

The first siege ended with heavy casualties from Chen's soldiers. Zhou's arrows were raining and the blocking effect of ponds everywhere made Chen's army unable to get close to them smoothly. The original strategy of relying on the crowded people was completely useless.

"Pile soil and fill the pond, fill all the pond!" One after another shouting sounded. In order to capture Yanji, Chen Jun had already formulated many plans. Since the strong attack could not work in a hurry, take it slowly.

So what about the pond? We have filled it all! Then we can go straight under the wall of the camp to see if you have more arrows or more people!

A bird flew over Yanji from east to west. It looked down at the earth and saw dense crowds of people carrying soil and filling the ponds by the pond. When it came to the sky above the camp, it saw bundles of arrows piled up like mountains. After leaping over the camp, it saw a large crowd of people carrying soil and filling the ponds and moving towards the camp. In the distance to the west, it was dusty on the official road and many teams were moving towards the camp.

Yanji was like a huge pancake that attracted countless ants to surround them. The more ants surrounded them, the black pieces were pressing down on a large piece to bite the pancake. The bloody aura soared into the sky, and the birds sang several times and flew northwards with their wings.
Chapter completed!