Unparalleled Concubine

In the early years of Taikang, Pei Jin was the general of the Forbidden Army, and he was in charge of the two battalions of the Forbidden Army. He was also kicked out of this position under the design of Li Xin and Emperor Taikang, especially in the eighth year of Taikang. At that time, Pei Jin was ordered by the Emperor Taikang to march west, and wanted to completely destroy Hanzhou City. As a result, Tianlei made his official debut for the first time. Pei Jin's 10,000+ army was defeated. Emperor Kang was demoted to a common man!

That time was also the battle of fame for "Tianlei".

Pei Jin knew very well that the big loss he suffered in the eighth year of Taikang must be caused by Lord Jing'an behind his back. Since then, he has been very afraid of Li Xin.

Seeing Pei Jin open his mouth, the conservative Zhong Heng also breathed a sigh of relief. He said, "I also agree with General Pei's words. Lord Li Hou can't do such a stupid thing. If he dares to attack Xiangyang, there must be something for him." Reliance, we can't act rashly, let alone go out of the city to meet the enemy without knowing anything about the enemy."

"Xiangyang City is the great city of our Jin Dynasty. The ancestors of my family relied on this city to resist the Northern Zhou Dynasty for decades. We have no reason to abandon the city and fight the enemy head-on."

Speaking of this, Zhong Heng said in a deep voice: "Let's just defend for a while, first see what the Southwest Army has to rely on, and when we figure it out, it's not too late to make a decision."

"What else can the Southwest Army rely on? It's nothing more than thunder."

Xie Jing gritted his teeth and said: "General Pei has created a battle formation to restrain the sky thunder, we don't need to be afraid of this thing anymore, you two were frightened by him, Li Xin!"

Xie Jing and Zhong Heng are both generals of the next generation of the Jin Dynasty, and Pei Jin is the senior among the seniors. If he hadn't fought such a big defeat in the eighth year of Taikang, he should be in charge of the southwest of the court at this moment. business instead of discussing with these two juniors here.

The general frowned and looked at Xie Jing, and said calmly: "If Uncle Guo wants to fight, he will take the Hanzhong Army to fight. My Ankang Army will not leave the city alone."

After finishing speaking, Pei Jin turned and left, unwilling to stand with Xie Jing.

Zhong Heng sighed slightly, turned his head to Xie Jing and said, "General, take a look first before you speak."

In desperation, Xie Jing could only nod in agreement.

Just like that, the two continued to watch the movements of the Southwest Army with binoculars. They saw that the Southwest Army set up camp about ten miles outside Xiangyang City, and then began to wantonly cut down the surrounding trees to make catapults.

Heavy objects like catapults, with the transportation capacity of this era, are difficult to carry long-distance. They are usually obtained locally at the siege site. This is a compulsory course for all generals in this era. Every qualified general will make them for Siege catapults.

Xie Jing stood on the city wall and looked at the busy Southwest Army, pouted with disdain.

"No matter how many catapults they make, there are not many stones nearby. Even if there are, catapults can't threaten Xiangyang City. If they want to attack the city, they must use human lives to fill it!"

"I'd like to see how many of their Southwest Army's lives can die!"

Insufficient numbers are the key to the Southwest Army. Although the imperial court's standing army plus the frontier army is only 60 to 30, there is a huge number of people. In the southwest, there is no army of [-].

If it can be done, Southwest can't afford it.

In this way, the Southwest Army was busy outside Xiangyang City for three days, making catapults all the time. By the third day, twenty catapults were almost finished. He walked slowly towards Xiangyang City, and then he looked at the three generals on the city wall with a binoculars, only to find that they were all old acquaintances.

He stopped within a stone's throw from the top of the city, and then took a simple amplified iron horn from the horse, and shouted loudly at the top of the city tower.

"The people on the city wall are all acquaintances, and some of them are my old troops in the imperial army. Li can't bear to let everyone lose their lives, so open the city and surrender!"

The people on the city wall vaguely heard Li Xin's voice, and everyone had different expressions.

With a sneer on his face, Xie Jing said loudly to the city wall: "Could it be that Marquis Li is at the end of his rope? How can you say such stupid things? You [-] Southwestern Army are dead, and you won't be able to climb the city wall of Xiangyang City!"

"It's better for Lord Li to kneel and surrender now. For the sake of Princess Qinghe, His Majesty might give your family a way to survive!"

Sitting on the horse, Li Xin shook his head helplessly, threw the tin horn aside, and waved behind him.

Then he turned his horse around.

Mu Ying, who was behind her, saw Li Xin's gesture, her face flushed, and she roared fiercely.

"Catapult, hit me!"

"Hit more accurately!"

Chapter 1046

Seeing this action of the Southwest Army, several court generals on the top of the wall showed surprise on their faces, and even Xie Jing, who was not very proficient in military affairs, also showed disdain.

Catapults are certainly a sharp weapon for siege, but as we all know, this kind of thing is only an auxiliary device. purpose of the city.

Since ancient times, no one can capture a city simply with a catapult.

What's more, there is a shelter about half a person's height on the city wall. If you are short and hide behind, you can avoid the arrows shot by the enemy and the stones thrown by the trebuchet.

Zhong Heng was the first to react, turned his head and shouted: "Everyone is low to avoid the stones, half of the people evacuate from the city wall, and the other half pay attention to the enemy's movements, and be careful that the enemy will take the opportunity to attack the tower!"

This order is very wise, because although withdrawing the city tower can avoid almost all trebuchet attacks, once everyone withdraws, it will be difficult to see the enemy's movements. If the Southwest Army takes this opportunity to attack the city, it will be very difficult It is easy to pass through the "arrow attack area" of the city wall and get close to the city wall.

Although Zhong Heng came to Xiangyang not long ago, he was quite prestigious in the Hanzhong army, and after he gave the order, everyone ducked down to dodge.Then every three people separated one person to spy out the enemy's situation through the arrow holes on the city wall.

In the past few months, both Mu Ying and Li Shuo have strictly trained the accuracy of their slingers. They used stones that were about the same weight as clay pots to train these slingers day and night, so the first round of throwing Almost all of the thunder fell on the city wall!

At first, the people in the court didn't pay much attention to these stones.

But when the stone was only a dozen meters away from the city wall, he had been paying attention to the balance of the enemy's situation, and suddenly his pupils dilated, and his face was full of panic.

Because he saw that these "stones" thrown by the catapult were actually burning with fire!

As the eldest grandson of the Zhong family, he has naturally had some knowledge about Tianlei. This General Xiao Zhong reacted immediately, turning around and roaring: "Everyone get down!"

However, time was running out.

The first batch of twenty thunders fell on the city wall almost at the same time.

The fuse that had been accurately calculated by Lin Hu and the others for several months exploded almost just as it was about to hit the ground!

In just a split second, the ears of everyone on the west wall of Xiangyang City were so shaken that a huge roar exploded in their ears!

Then, the pottery fragments scattered all over the sky!

I don't know how many exclamations came over at the same time!

After the smoke from the "rock" dissipated, the entire city wall was covered with blood. Some unlucky people who were hit by the thunder were directly blown to pieces by the impact, and their limbs and arms flew far away!

Even Zhongheng on the city wall was sprayed by a few pieces of pottery because he was too close to watch the battle. There were no areas on his body covered with armor, and he was cut with several wounds that were not deep or shallow!

Zhong Heng's eyes were wide open, and he glanced at the Southwest Army in the distance with surprise and anger, and then vaguely saw that the second round of the Southwest Army's catapult had been reloaded. He took a deep breath and gritted his teeth: "Everyone, take down the city wall!" , Take down the city wall!"

At this time, the soldiers guarding the west city wall of Xiangyang were all Hanzhong soldiers. After hearing what Zhongheng said, some soldiers who could still move struggled to climb down the city wall!

While they were evacuating, the second round of "rocks" arrived!

The raging and ruthless thunder and fire once again flooded the west city wall of Xiangyang.

After the thunder and fire this time, the Hanzhong army who had not yet evacuated on the west wall suffered heavy casualties!

The most vicious thing about sky thunder is its pottery shards. This kind of thing is scattered on the battlefield, and its lethality is too terrifying. What is even more terrifying is that in this "throwing version of sky thunder", Lin Hu still A few pieces of iron were added to each piece. Once exploded, the power of the pottery pieces might not be able to break through the armor, but the power of these pieces of iron was enough to penetrate armor and could threaten the lives of almost everyone!

The third round of "bombing" is coming!

Zhong Heng on the city wall trembled when he saw this scene and then at the Southwest Army below the city.