This time, they defeated the Wu army with only one army's strength and killed hundreds of enemies. This greatly increased the confidence of the Huainan army. Therefore, in the next two days of offense and defense, their performance became more and more mature. With the strong city walls and sufficient bows and arrows, they repelled the Wu army's offensive three times in a row, but their own casualties were negligible. This also made them more confident, and some people began to propose that they could take the initiative to go out of the city to break the enemy.

Of course, Peng Yongzhen, as the chief general of the first army, has not been so arrogant and confused. Even if a few reckless generals propose to him to fight, he rejected it with one sentence: "Silly! Do you think you can defeat the enemy in just a few small wins? There are still 100,000 troops outside the city, how can we deal with it easily? If it is so simple, the Shandong army will have already fought out, and it will be our turn?"

While he was talking, there was another thud of drums coming from outside. It was the enemy who launched an attack on the North Gate of Changshu again. Peng Yongzhen immediately stopped the topic and said with a serious expression: "The most important thing now is to guard the North Gate and don't think of anything else. Go up and see what tricks can the thieves play today!"

When he led his men to the top of the city and planned to order his subordinates to continue defending according to the arrangements they had made in the previous two days, he found that the soldiers' expressions were different. Many people looked outside with panic eyes, and Qiqi Aiai shouted: "Then...what is that?"

After Peng Yongzhen took the opportunity to go out of the city, his face, which was already full of confidence, suddenly turned white, and then he screamed: "It's a thunderbolt chariot!" He immediately knew that something was wrong, so he quickly shouted: "Hurry up, send all the shields! Archer, shoot me arrows, don't let the anti-army get close to the city!"

The north gate city was in chaos for a moment. Some people quickly went down to prepare shields, and a large number of archers leaned forward and kept throwing arrows to the enemy outside the city. However, the Wu army had already figured out the range of the Huainan army's bows and arrows in the past two days of siege, and had been moving outside the ground. At the same time, with the efforts of thousands of soldiers, several ancient catapults had been pushed to a distance of two hundred steps and stopped.

This catapult cart is the thunder cart mentioned by Peng Yongzhen. It is said that it was created by Yuan Shao's army during the Battle of Guandu. It has been a killing weapon for siege for nearly a thousand years. Because the stones it cast are extremely lethal, the big stones fell to the ground like thunder cart falling from the sky, so there is also the title of thunder cart in the army.

This was the clever plan to break the city that Pang Wanchun suddenly thought of with a flash of inspiration.

He was indeed a little confused before. He was just thinking about how to destroy the ice on the city wall and ignored his real purpose of breaking the city. Therefore, as long as the entire city wall is destroyed, it doesn't matter whether it is covered with ice and snow or gold nuggets. The words he said to use a catapult to burn the wall with a catapult to make him suddenly awaken. So he was preparing to pretend to attack the city a few days ago, but in fact he was sending people to build several large catapults in the rear.

Now, everything has been done. As the catapult car drove in front and many soldiers were busy for a while, with a command, the net bag that had originally landed behind the catapult car suddenly bounced up, and then it shot countless large and small stones that had been placed inside like raindrops and shot towards the north gate city.

Seeing this scene, the stones flew up with a sharp roar. The defenders on the city suddenly became even more confused and screamed and avoided them.

But this time the Wu army projected a large number of stones, but only the size of fists. A dozen thunderbolt chariots threw hundreds or thousands of stones at once, almost covering the entire city. How could they easily avoid it?

As the stone fell, screams rose from all over the city walls. Many soldiers were hit by the stones falling from the sky and their heads were broken, and their bones were broken... Without any preparation, especially without even preparing a shield, the soldiers here carried the stone rain completely with their bodies. The casualties were extremely miserable. If it weren't for the death to protect each other, even if Peng Yongzhen, the chief general in the army, would have been injured. Even so, he was so scared that his face was pale and he couldn't even speak for a while.

After a while, he reacted and shouted loudly: "Hurry up and hide in the city wall and feet..." Only by leaning against the city wall and seeking shelter can he withstand this terrible stone rain attack.

Of course, the Wu army outside the city could not stop just like this. With the ruthless orders, waves of stone rain continued to pour towards the head of the North Gate. In just half an hour, they threw seven or eight rounds of stones into the city, making the city a mess, and hundreds of casualties were killed and injured by the defenders.

And this is not the most terrifying thing. When the enemy's offensive stopped a little, Peng Yongzhen looked up from behind the wall under the protection of several personal soldiers, and was frightened to find that the inner side of the city wall was already bumpy and many places were cracked. Even the inside was like this, and the outside would only be even more unbearable. Without looking at it, you would know that the city wall and the ice covered on the outside must have been too damaged.

Before he could come up with a countermeasure, the sound of the thunder chariot suddenly came from outside again, which scared them to find the ground to hide again. This time, the sound of the whistling stones was even louder than before, but only a few dozen times broke through the air.

Before they could understand, there were loud noises on the city wall, and even the defenders above felt a tremor, as if the earth dragon turned over and wanted to shake the entire wall. It was not until this time that everyone realized that the anti-army was bombarding the city wall with big rocks.

This is the case. After all the prepared small stones were put out, Wu Jun threw the collected rocks, such as desktops and millstones, and immediately caused great damage to the city wall. You can see cracks from afar, and you can see cracks continuously generated from the city wall. As long as you go on a few rounds in a row, the small Changshu city wall will be completely destroyed!

Faced with such a situation, the Huainan Army was completely helpless. Putting aside the chaos in the morale caused by a large number of soldiers' casualties, the enemy's tactics alone are not something they can deal with. After all, when manpower is exhausted, ordinary bows and arrows or throwing stones have the longest range, and the enemy puts the Thunderbolt cart outside the range and hits you at a longer range, which is a completely passive side to be beaten.

For the current Huainan Army, the only way is to send an elite force to kill himself and kill him out of the city to destroy the enemy's stone throwing cart. But even Pang Wanchun has considered this. There was a team of thousands of people waiting there next to the Pili chariot. As long as the Song army dared to leave the city, it would definitely be a return!

Fear and despair spread across the city in an instant. Even Peng Yongzhen, as the main general, had no choice but to whisper, and he would only whisper: "It's over, it's over now..."

Fortunately, the stones prepared by the Wu army had been used up at this time and did not continue to bombard the city. Moreover, after several battles with great casualties, even Pang Wanchun did not dare to take too radically and risk the situation, so he did not take the opportunity to launch an offensive. Instead, he planned to collect a batch of stones tomorrow and completely blow the city wall in the north of Changshu, so he no longer had to risk his life to attack the city head.

It was not until the enemy did not intend to continue to attack the city that the Huainan Army, who had broken their courage, felt a little relieved, but everyone was at a loss and looked at each other, not knowing what to say. After a while, someone said, "Why would you like to ask the Shandong Army to come and help..."

"It's all like this. Even if the gods come, there is no help. What's the use of them?"

Pessimistic words continued to permeate, and the entire army had completely lost confidence, which made Peng Yongzhen become more and more anxious, but helpless.

Just when the entire army was in fear, a group of people finally rushed over, which made Peng Yongzhen feel moved and quickly came forward to greet him: "Qinjung Sun, you are here, we... we are incompetent, we really can't defend the North Gate..." At this moment, he was so anxious that he was the subordinates of Mr. Peng.

Sun Tu's face was also very bad, because he had seen everything in the North City just now in the distance. Seeing the North Gate defenders were so embarrassed and could only be beaten passively, Sun Tu was really angry at him for not fighting, and even more sad about his incompetence.

Although even if the other sects were attacked in such an attack, the morale would be shaken and the losses would be considerable, they would not be as helpless as they were. Moreover, if others were facing such a crisis, they would definitely fight to the point of sending troops to attack the enemy's castle formation, and at least they would bite off a piece of meat from the enemy.

But what about the Huainan Army? Their cowardice really made Sun Tu unable to see it.

But he couldn't blame everyone too much at this time, otherwise it would only make the morale of the army even more depressed. So he just glanced at them lightly: "The enemy's methods this time were indeed beyond my expectations, but there was always a way to remedy them. Let's go to the city first to see the situation of the city wall."

When he arrived at the top of the city and saw the messy appearance there and the degree of damage to the outer city wall, Sun Tu felt heavier. He knew very well that the North City was already in danger, and maybe the Wu army would be able to destroy the entire city wall after another round tomorrow.

And beside him, Peng Yongzhen once again said the heartfelt words: "Sun Qian, what should I do?"

"You don't have to panic. I, Changshu, haven't fallen yet?" Sun Tu said, and then squinted his eyes and observed the Thunderbolt car that had not been withdrawn. This car is powerful, but it has a problem. It is too bulky, so at this time, it can only stay in place and be guarded by all the troops.

After pausing for a moment, he said in a confident voice: "The biggest threat is the catapult cart outside the city. I believe they cannot prepare too many such powerful siege weapons. As long as they destroy it, they can save the North City."

This made Peng Yongzhen and others dazed. What he said was so easy. It was not easy to destroy these thunder cars? But after seeing Sun Tu's confident look, they actually believed it.

After the incident of blocking the entire North Gate with ice, Chief Sun really convinced the Huainan Army!
Chapter completed!