On the seventh day of the 10th month, Guan Shuo, the commander of Changsha's righteous army, and his generals Huang Kang and Liu De, once again attacked Kunyang from three sides.

Unlike the previous episodes, this time there were several more giants in their army, which aroused the suspicion of the guards of Kunyang.

"What is that?"

On the south gate tower, Liu Tuyao pointed at the giants in the rebels outside the city and asked others curiously.

At this moment, most of the people around him didn't recognize him, except for Chen Mo, Sun Xiu and Ju Sheng's expressions changed.

Just when Chen Mo was still squinting his eyes to wonder if it was the siege equipment he knew, and when Ju Sheng looked around privately, someone could recognize this object, Sun Xiu had already expressed the title of the siege equipment with an ugly expression: "Ladder truck..."

He walked to Zhao Yu a few steps and reported the matter with anxiety: "Captain Zhou, this thing is called the 'ladder truck'. It has been a powerful weapon to attack cities since ancient times. We should try our best to destroy it, otherwise I, Kunyang, will not be able to protect..."

“…”

Zhao Yu pressed his hands and signaled Sun Xiu to be calm.

Of course, he also recognized the siege weapon of the "ladder truck", and even knew the improvement process of the siege weapon.

In fact, the ladder truck, the building truck in Guanshuokou, and even the well railing truck, are actually similar to the siege equipment. The structure is roughly the same as a square wooden house with several wheels for movement, with anti-shield shields in front, ladders above, and grab hooks on the ladder, which are specially used to hook the city wall.

The predecessor of these three siege equipment, which is said to be the "hook support" that appeared in the Xia and Zhou dynasties, was specially used to deal with towering city walls and help soldiers on the siege to climb over the city walls.

Waiting for the Warring States Period, the famous craftsman Gongshu squad in Lu made improvements to this item and was renamed "Loft Car".

The ladder truck and the shaft truck are actually the further improved versions of the "story truck" or the enhanced version - the ladder truck is the "climbing and strengthening" version, which is equipped with a stronger and larger ladder that can deal with the city walls four or five meters, or even six or seven meters high; the shaft truck is the "shooting and strengthening" version. While taking into account the ladders that can allow infantry to climb over the city wall, it strengthens the observation deck on the original tower truck so that it can stand up crossbowmen so that the siege can use crossbow arrows to suppress the city wall, which is equivalent to a movable arrow tower.

The tower car built by the rebels outside the city today is actually an enhanced version of the tower car, which is the ladder car mentioned by Sun Xiu.

What's so magical about this ladder truck?

Take Kunyang's city wall, which is only more than two feet high, as an analogy. As long as the rebel ladder is approached by the rebel ladder and put down the ladder board on the ladder bus and hook the city wall, then the city wall of Kunyang's city wall, which is more than two feet high, will become a dirt slope two feet high. With just one charge, the rebel soldiers can follow the ladder board on the ladder bus and directly rush up the city wall without having to climb the ladder as hard as before, greatly strengthening the rebel's efforts to attack the city wall.

In this way, it is no wonder that Sun Xiu looked anxious.

After all, as a side general of the Nanyang Army, Sun Xiu knew very well how threat this siege equipment posed to the defending party.

At this time, Ju Sheng saw that Zhao Yu did not say a word, and also came to Zhao Yu and clasped his fists to support Sun Xiu's point of view: "What General Sun said is extremely true. This object poses a great threat to my Kunyang. When the fire-driven objects are collected as soon as possible, they will be destroyed when the rebels attack the city."

Setting fire is indeed one of the best solutions to deal with all siege equipment, but the problem is that Kunyang, which has been persisting so far, has almost no oil left.

Of course, there is no oil, and oil can be extracted. There are some pigs and sheep in the city. After killing it, take the oil and put it in a pot, you can also fry it out. The fried oil can barely be used for burning, although a large amount of black smoke will appear during burning.

"Just do it like that."

Under the persuasion of Sun Xiu, Ju Sheng and others, Zhao Yu ordered: "Send someone to inform County Chief Li that the city wall is short of oil, please ask him to immediately refine the oil and let the brothers of the brothers transport it to the city wall..."

Although the order was issued, Zhao Yu himself was not optimistic about this kind of fire attack strategy.

First, if the opponent is not a fool, they will definitely be prevented from fire attack; second, if you use animal oil to refine oil, this trick itself is impossible; and the most critical third point is that since the rebels outside the city have mastered the creation of ladders, even if these ladder trucks are burned, they can still build more ladder trucks. It can only be said that they can cure the symptoms but not the root cause by simply burning these siege equipment by fire attack.

So is there a way to "treat the root cause"?

have!

That is to transfer the battlefield to a place where ladder trucks cannot be used, or the ladder trucks are not that harmful.

For example, street fighting!

...Prevently guard and see if you can get through.

After weighing the pros and cons, Zhao Yu temporarily gave up the idea of ​​street fighting. After all, that move is more risky, so I can only say the final strategy of fighting.

"Send people to the East and West Walls to see if there are such ladder trucks outside the two sides."

"yes!"

Under Zhao Yu's order, Liu Tu immediately sent someone to the city walls on both sides of the east and west to inquire, and after a moment the result was achieved.

"The leader reported to him that there are two ladder trucks outside the east city wall."

"The leader has reported to him that there are two ladder trucks outside the west wall."

Looking at the six ladder trucks outside the southern city wall, Zhao Yu frowned and thoughtful.

Suddenly, he spoke: "Send someone to notify County Chief Li. After the oil is refined, he will give priority to the city walls on the east and west sides to ensure that the city walls on the east and west sides must destroy the well railings outside the city..."

Liu Tu was stunned when he heard this and asked in confusion: "The big leader, there are only two ladder trucks on the east and west sides, but there are six on this side..."

"I know." Zhao Yu said without any objection: "Just do it... In addition, send someone to call Chen Cai over, and I will wait for him in the city gate building."

As he was talking, suddenly the rebels outside the city sounded a "wow-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo-wo

After looking at Zhao Yu who had walked into the city gate tower, Chen Mo stroked his hands and said, "Okay, please concentrate on defending the city. The leader will consider the rest of the matters."

As he said that, he made a gesture of inviting Sun Xiu, after all, Sun Xiucai was the guardian on the south wall.

Nodding kindly to Chen Mo, Sun Xiu made a serious arrangement: "In this way, please commander Chen is responsible for the city wall in the eastern section, Liu Tu, you are responsible for the western section, as for the coach Ju Ying..."

He glanced at Ju Sheng, and a few doubts flashed in his eyes. Obviously, he was still a little wary of Ju Sheng.

Fortunately, Chen Mo smoothed out the situation for Ju Sheng: "Ju Yingshang, why not just join Liu Tu. This guy is brave and unscheming. I'm afraid he will ignore the others when he kills him... What's the point of Ju Yingshang?"

"I will obey the order."

Ju Sheng glanced at Chen Mo gratefully.

When everyone came to their respective defense areas, the rebels outside the city had pushed the six well railing vehicles into the shooting range of the south wall.

Seeing this, Sun Xiu ordered without hesitation: "Shoot the arrow!"

With his order, a black tiger thief crossbowman with a black scarf began shooting outside the city on more than a dozen arrow towers inside the south city wall.

These were all soldiers from the Luben Camp of Heihuzhai, namely Chen Mo and Wang Qing's "First Battalion" soldiers, who were basically drawn from the Brotherhood militia.

During this period, the Black Tiger Thieves also expanded their troops one after another. What was similar to the expansion of the county army's number was that the Black Tiger Thieves no longer directly screened from the civilians in the city, but directly selected from the Brotherhood militia. In other words, the Brotherhood militia was equivalent to the reserve team of the Black Tiger Thieves and the county army, and was responsible for the screening and training of new soldiers as part-time.

In fact, the people of Kunyang now have no big ideas about joining the Black Tiger Thieves or joining the county army. After all, the Black Tiger Thieves and the County Army are both the main forces in defending Kunyang.

The only difference is that the county army is in a sense the "main army" of Kunyang, while the Black Tiger Thieves are still famous as "thief" and have not been accepted by Yingchuan County. But the problem is that the Black Tiger Thieves...he is handsome!

Those young people who admire the style of the Black Tiger Thieves and even admire Zhou Hu himself, knowing that the Black Tiger Thieves were notorious in the past, still joined the Black Tiger Thieves without hesitation and put on the black turban that they thought was very ‘handsome’.

"Swish--"

"Swoosh swish swish--"

Kunyang's arrows desperately vented their heads to the rebels outside the city as if they were not worth it. Although they might not be able to shoot many people to death, they still brought great psychological pressure to the rebels outside the city.

Of course, the crossbowmen of the rebels outside the city also launched a counterattack. The neat crossbowmen square array launched a volley at the Kunyang city wall with several times or even several times of force.

"Be careful of the arrow attack!"

"Be careful of the arrow attack!"

On the western section of the south wall, Liu Tu reminded the black tiger thieves on the city wall with a serious expression, but was teased by the latter.

"Benmu, we are not new soldiers, don't you know how to avoid arrows?"

"Ha ha."

Yes, at this moment, the people on the southern city wall are basically all the wolves from Lubenying.

The lewolves are a special branch of the Luben Camp. They are not affiliated with the first battalion of Chen Mo and Wang Qing, nor are they affiliated with the second battalion of Ju Sheng. They are only temporarily placed in the first battalion command.

This group of people are the old people from Heihu Village, including Xu Bai, Wang Pin, etc., and are also Liu Tu's old subordinates. Even when the rebels outside the city have launched an offensive, these people still have the leisure to joke with Liu Tu.

"Shut up!"

Liu Tu cursed with a stern face: "Whoever says anything nonsense will be deducted all the merits!"

When they heard that they were going to be awarded the merits, the wolves finally calmed down and muttered quietly, calmly protecting their bodies with shields, making the shooting of the rebel crossbowmen outside the city almost useless.

Even the newly transferred soldiers knew what to do and what not to do in this atmosphere, and there were almost no casualties.

"Bang!"

While the Black Tiger Crossbowman and the Rebel Crossbowman outside the city were still shooting each other, the first huge ladder car approached the city wall. Under the operation of the rebel soldiers, the ladder board on the car roared on the wall and grabbed the city wall with a built-in grab hook.

"attack!"

A rebel general jumped onto the ladder truck first and pointed the weapon in his hand towards the city wall ahead.

Under his order, the rebel soldiers who had rushed to the city wall braved the rain of arrows between the enemy and us immediately boarded the ladder truck and shouted and charged towards the city wall.

Seeing this, even the brave and unscheming Liu Tu immediately realized that today would be the most difficult battle since they defended the city. He pulled out the sword from his waist and rushed forward first.

"kill--!"

For a moment, in the area where the ladder carriage and the ladder boards hooked the city wall, the wolves fought with the rebel soldiers who rushed up the city wall.

The roar, roar, scream, and the sound of golden swords that collided violently, were deafening.
Chapter completed!