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Chapter 238: Climbing the City

Li Chongjiu looked down on the top of the mountain. In the northeast corner of Liucheng, he was dressed in gray clothes and had a soap scarf on his head. Thousands of Cangtou Han soldiers carried earthblocks on their shoulders, and rushed toward the city of Liucheng like a gray tide.

On the top of the city built with yellow rammed earth, hundreds of Luo Yi soldiers gathered to defend the city. The defenders moved the three battle sheds over and used them as enemy towers. The archers guarding the city hid in it and shot arrows. The North Gate Tower dismantled a three-arrow crossbow, and pushed it up from the distant city road. After the crossbow was fixed, several crossbowmen hugged the winch, and the three-arrow crossbow made a terrible clamor, and the three-arrow crossbow was like a half-man high iron arrow, emitting metal light.

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When Ke Mulun carried the second earthblock and was ready to go, he saw the head of a Han army soldier dozens of meters ahead, bursting with a thud. The plasma on his neck spurted three feet high, like a blood flower, and the yellow and white brain mass spread all over the floor. A young man from Xi tribe beside Ke Mulun, his legs trembled, and he threw the earthblock in his hand, and suddenly jumped up and suddenly started crying loudly.

Ke Mulun held his breath and his legs were trembling. He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid of death so miserable. He closed his eyes slightly, and Emu's appearance appeared in his mind. After opening his eyes, there was still an arrow like rain around him, just like hell on earth.

"Everything is pressed up on the building, use arrows to suppress the enemy's crossbow chariots and throw stone soldiers!" At this time, he saw the head of the army, rode his horse, holding a scimitar in his hand and shouted loudly.

Ke Mulun saw the soldiers under the chariot on both sides and the left and right, and also exerted force. More than a dozen rough and powerful men with muscular graves each pushed a chariot forward. The six wooden wheels supporting the chariot down the chariot slowly moved. The wheels rolled over ruts on the mud and carried the crossbows on the chariot on the chariot on the chariot. The archers and crossbows on the chariot on the chariot were struggling to spread arrows to the top of the city as the chariot advanced.

Then the tower car advanced to a distance of one hundred steps from the head of the city, and the power of the archer arrow increased. Ke Mulun saw a crossbowman holding an iron arrow behind the enemy crossbow car, and an arrow was caught in his chest. The iron arrow in the opponent's hand fell to the ground, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his forehead, and then fell straight from the battlement's gap from the battlement.

Seeing this scene, Ke Mulun couldn't help but shouted "Good" words. However, before he could shout halfway, the commander-in-chief waved the red flag and signaled that he would prepare to fill the river.

Ke Mulun spitted into the palm of his hand, and at the same time, he saw the enemy's counterattack behind the battle shed, which became more and more intense. The crossbowmen on the tower car had to approach and shoot with arrows, pressing them with arrows, which was simply a breaking building. The defenders were not willing to be outdone. A row of crossbowmen stepped onto the city wall, soaked cotton cloth in tung oil, and then wrapped arrows and fired at the defenders. The arrows were like streaming fires passing through the front, and after shooting into the tower car, they got stuck on it and burned. In just a blink of an eye, flames were already ignited on the five or six tower cars.

The carriage on the building caught fire, and the soldiers up and down all exclaimed. The soldiers of the Cangtou Army below quickly took off their clothes, swung their clothes desperately, and slammed the flames on the carriage on the building.

Bang bang! The war drum behind him urged, and the red flag in front suddenly shook off.

Ke Mulun stretched out his legs, and his body carrying the earthbowl rushed away like a stringed arrow. Rockets whirred over his head, and the sound of arrows breaking through the air in his ears, and the screams of the dying people. Ke Mulun's confidant archers and crossbowmen in Fanglou's car were almost using their lives to buy time for them.

Ke Mulun was very fast, and the mud buns on his shoulders were shaking. A brother in front of him was shot into his right leg by a rocket. The fire immediately ignited his clothes. He fell to the ground and rolled on the ground and screamed. The arrow was originally shot at Ke Mulun, but somehow it was blocked by the other party, but he didn't feel anything in his heart and was not afraid at all.

Ke Mulun rushed forward with his head buried, and threw the screams of the brother who blocked the arrow for him far behind him. This time he reached the moat in less than a few steps. With the efforts of the robes, the moat was already half filled. The earthblocks smashed into the moat, and with a thump, mud and water splashed his face and his clothes. Ke Mulun loosened his body and ran back to the starting point quickly.

In the southwest corner of the city, the earthy mountains built by the Wugunai warriors were several feet higher than the top of the city. The defenders were obviously insufficient in their troops, and the towers in the northeast corner restrained the defenders' attention. Therefore, there were only a few dozen defenders in the southwest corner, and Wugunai's advancement was very fast.

After the earth mountain was higher than the city, the archers of the Martial Mountain climbed the earth mountain, from high to low, and used bows and arrows to suppress the defenders. At the same time, using the cover of the tall earth mountain, the Martial Mountain soldiers pushed dozens of large stones and giant trees. The Liucheng was surrounded by mountains and stones, and they were covered with dense forests. The most fortunate thing was huge stones and big trees.

After pushing the giant wood and stone from the bottom of the earth mountain to the earth mountain, the big stones rolled down from the mountain to the bottom of the city. The warriors shouted loudly, and the huge stones and big trees rolled down from the mountain, and the scene was very spectacular. After the earth and stones rolled down the mountain, they fell into the moat. The river water splashed and high splashes were thrown. An hour passed, and the moat was finally filled with earth and stones.

On the northeast city wall, the drum sound turned high. The soldiers of the Xi army of the Han army advanced together when they heard the drum.

Half of the more than thirty building cars that were siege in the city were destroyed by throwing stones or burning. A battle shed on the opponent's city wall was also trapped in a fire, and a stone throwing machine was tilted in half. On the yellow earth wall, blood was hanging vertically like ink. The bodies of more than a dozen city soldiers were crooked and pillowed on the battlements.

Now six cloud ladders are surrounded by hundreds of soldiers, climbing over the moat and reaching directly under the city wall. This siege ladder is not an ordinary bamboo ladder. There is a carriage under the ladder with rollers built in. The carriage is completely closed and covered with cowhide. The soldiers who moved the cloud ladder hide inside and are not afraid of bows and arrows when they arrive at the city.

After reaching the city wall, the ladder stretched out and bit the female wall with a hook, and firmly hooked it on the city wall. The soldiers of Xi from the van came out of the van, holding a leather shield and holding a steel knife, climbing the city to fight with the defenders. Ke Mulun was already the first to take the lead, picked up his big knife, followed a Xi soldier with his Ai Bow on his back and climbed the ladder.

Ke Mulun raised his head and saw a row of archers guarding the city behind the battlements and their bows and arrows coming, and they shot arrows down. His current brother, the skin shield, was not covered by a shield, and was shot down the head of the city with an arrow. Ke Mulun flew to the arrows in front of him, raised his skin shield and quickly climbed up the ladder.

After the archers retreated, more than a dozen hooks were extended from the warhead of the female wall, and the wood was poked onto the ladder, pushing it, and solving it with all kinds of tricks. Ke Mulun was waiting for them to destroy it, but after walking a few steps, he threw his body and jumped onto the battlement like a big bird. As soon as he landed, two defenders stabbed him with guns.

Ke Mulun twisted his body to avoid these two robberies and jumped to the battlement of his right hand, but the brother behind him was not so lucky and accidentally stabbed him in the belly with a shot. The brother screamed to the sky and grabbed the bar of the gun. The two defenders pushed him hard and pushed him out of the wall. The blood threw a bloody flower on the outer wall. The brother's eyes were extremely unwilling to do so, and he rolled down from the top of the city in mid-air, making a muffled sound when he landed on the ground.

Ke Mulun saw the defenders standing in a row with swords and shields behind the city walls, and arrows shot out ruthlessly from behind the swords and shields. Ke Mulun protected his body with a leather shield and jumped in suddenly.

Under the ladder, Qia Shu took dozens of Xi soldiers and quietly approached the city wall with various tools in his hand. The city wall was made of rammed earth, and even though it was exposed to the wind and sun for many years, it was very hard. Qia Shu pulled out a scimitar from his waist and cut it off, leaving only a white mark on the wall blank.

Qi A Shu snorted, waved his hand, and his subordinates began to work.

Dozens of Xi clan soldiers first used shovels to dig a half-person-high soil pit under the city wall, stacked the excavated soil behind them, then covered it with wooden boards, then covered it with a layer of cowhide on the wooden boards, watered it on the cowhide, and then covered it with a layer of soil to build a wooden shed that can prevent arrows, fire attacks and hide.

Under the wooden shed, the soldiers of the Xi clan took off their clothes, sweat hung on their noses, and tried hard to chisel the earth wall with a chisel hammer. The rammed earth layer peeled off bit by bit, and Qi A Shu also came on stage in person. He knocked it on his left and right dozens of times, and then he pulled it out with all his strength, and a large lump of earth that was as big as a face was stripped off.

Qia Shu nodded with satisfaction and continued to lay his head.

Looking from the mountain, dozens of Han Xi soldiers on the city wall at the northeast corner had gained a foothold for the siege soldiers. At this moment, the sky was already dark, and there were pine lights under the city, which was irritating to the wind, and the cold stars in the sky were flashing, which was as murderous intent as the sky.

Both armies fought at night, and the walls of Liucheng were bright and clear.

Wugunai in the southwest corner was very anxious to attack the city, restraining some of the defenders' forces, and the horses rushed back and forth to report the military situation. Li Chongjiu knew that although they had gained a foothold on the city wall, the progress was slow. In the northeast corner, he had already dug two large holes under the city that could allow one person to enter and exit. When the defenders discovered it, it was too late, so they could only drag a female wall from the city, blocking the rammed earth wall, and setting up a second line of defense to resist stubbornly.

However, as the foothold of the city wall stabilized, the earthwork under the city wall expanded the rammed earth cave inch by inch. The two hustles in the northeast and southwest corners became increasingly louder. Li Chongjiu's attack deliberately chose two corners of the city wall and avoided the city gate, taking into account the nail patrols, crossbows and stone throwing machines of the defenders on the city tower.

Therefore, the troops were deployed on the city walls on both sides, which reduced casualties, but the progress was a little slower.
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