Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

In Ji Ling's mind, those elites could be used as long as they could, because once they were used, they might be able to defeat Li Yi a few times, but after that, they might not be far from breaking the city.

Ji Ling was absolutely loyal to Yuan Shu, but Ji Ling did not become arrogant because of his loyalty, thinking that he could always keep Li Yi out of the city, unless something unpredictable happened, Shouchun would not be able to bear it sooner or later , Therefore, he has been looking for opportunities to attack Li Yi's formation with surprise soldiers. If he can risk his life and hurt Li Yi, he is willing to do it.

However, although Li Yi's camp layout is not the best in the world, but in terms of defense alone, it is basically the ultimate. During the siege before, Ji Ling couldn't find a chance at all, but today, Li Yi attacked the city Well, Shouchun City is indeed dangerous, but Ji Ling is also waiting for Li Yi's flaws. If he is lucky, there may be a chance to turn things around.

Just as Ji Ling was thinking, she heard footsteps behind her, and when she looked back, it was Yang Hong walking up.

Yang Hong is a scribe, in his forties, with excellent knowledge and bearing, but under the torment of the siege for the past few months, Yang Hong's hair has turned gray, and even his back has bent a lot. He was more than ten years older, and much worse than Ji Ling.

"Yang Changshi, what's the matter?"

Ji Ling asked about the other three city gates and the situation in the inner city.

Today, when Li Yi attacked the city, although it was clear early on that the chariots and horses were going to attack the Dongcheng Gate, Ji Ling had led troops for many years as a general, and after several confrontations, he knew that Li Yi was very cunning and could not act according to common sense Inferred, therefore, although Ji Ling placed the focus of defense on the east gate, he did not neglect other directions. Otherwise, if Li Yi took advantage of it from other directions, the east gate would be gone no matter how good the defense was. significance.

Yang Hong let out a little tired breath, and said: "Don't worry, General Ji, although there are only a thousand guards in the other three gates, there are no less than two thousand soldiers and horses in the city. If Li Yi wants to take advantage of the situation, he must Can give it a head-on blow!"

Ji Ling nodded. Although there were not many people arranged at the other city gates, if Li Yi made a sneak attack, there would not be many people who could use them. 3000 people on his side were enough to resist Li Yi for a long time.

Ji Ling calmed down a bit, hesitated, and asked in a low voice: "Where is the lord?"

The muscles on Yang Hong's face twitched, and then he said in a sour tone: "My lord knew that Li Yi was attacking the city, so he said he would come to supervise the battle at the top of the city, but he just got up, just, just alas!"

Although Yang Hong didn't say clearly, Ji Ling knew about Yuan Shu's situation, and he couldn't help feeling a pang in his heart, but he didn't want to make his jealousy so obvious, so he took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "I will try my best in today's battle. But why, I just ask Yang Changshi to prepare for the worst. In case I mean in case, I will delay Li Yi at that time, and you should take the opportunity to lead the lord and the eldest son to break through. In any case, the lord cannot be humiliated by that villain !"

Yang Hong looked at Ji Ling with complicated eyes, and nodded, but he didn't have any hope for Ji Ling's words in his heart.

To break through, if they could break through, they would have taken Yuan Shu and left here long ago. Now, they can only do their best and obey the destiny.

When the two of them were thinking about something, they saw that Li Yi's men and horses were all in place, and they became quiet, but the feeling of killing brought by the quiet tens of thousands of soldiers became more dignified , the defenders on the top of the city were affected by the atmosphere, and they were also silent for a while.

Ji Ling took a step forward subconsciously, and stretched out his hand to press on the female wall. At this moment, a man from Li Yi's side rode to the bottom of the city, and shouted at the top of the city: "General Ji Ling, and many soldiers on the city! , my lord Li Xianghou can't bear to cause more slaughter, and give you one last chance, there is still time to surrender, otherwise"

Before the man could say anything, Ji Ling waved his hand, and seven or eight arrows shot at the man. Fortunately, the man was better than Ji Ling, and he was already wary of cold arrows, so when he saw this, he beat his horse and walked away, using a wooden shield to cover At the critical point behind him, he did not forget to shout: "Ji Ling, if you want to die for Yuan Shu, why bother to drag the whole city's soldiers to be buried together? Don't you cherish the lives of the soldiers!"

Many soldiers on the top of the city looked at Ji Ling subconsciously, but Ji Ling had a dark face. He felt that it was a bit late for him to order the arrows to be released. The people on Li Yi's side were all cunning and ghostly, and every word he said They're all for disgusting people.Computer side:

Li Yi stood on the handsome platform and saw that his messenger was driven back by Ji Ling, he was not angry, but just looked back at the position of the sun, and then slowly spit out two words: "Siege!"

"Siege!"

"Siege!"

Li Yi's voice wasn't loud, and he didn't have much momentum, but after the fluttering words came out, there were messengers riding fast horses one by one, and began to convey the order to attack the city to the whole army, followed by, The eight battle drums on both sides of Li Yijun's formation also thumped. At first, the sound was low and the drums beat slowly, but after just a few breaths, the drums became louder and faster. The muffled sound was like a beating on someone's heart, making people's blood gushing!

As the rhythm of the war drums stabilized, the first movers in Li Yijun's formation were the five hundred or so catapults that had lined up beside the moat earlier. After the bag was jammed with a machine expander, it was loaded with stone bombs. After these actions were completed, more than 3000 people looked at the handsome platform.

Xu Huang, the highest military officer under Li Yi, drew out his long sword fiercely, pointed at the top of the city, and shouted loudly: "Let go!"

Following this shout, five hundred catapults made a muffled sound of "bang bang" almost at the same time, and then saw hundreds of stone bullets roaring like splashing water, crossing the moat, and smashing towards the opposite tower .

During this period of time, although Li Yi used catapults to harass Shouchun City every day, and the soldiers in the city were even a little accustomed to this kind of operation, even the veterans with the strongest minds suddenly saw these five hundred catapults. In the scene of Qiqi launching, I still couldn't help but feel a little weak.

And it's not just them, even Ji Ling is no exception.

Ji Ling is a man with high martial arts skills. He has sharp ears and eyes, and quick movements. Although he can't block the stone bullet with his body, it is not difficult to easily dodge it after concentrating on it. Li Yi bombed indiscriminately, and he just strolled in the courtyard, using such a relaxed posture to infect the defenders and boost morale.

But Ji Ling didn't expect Li Yi to be so frenzied. Hundreds of stone bullets came up in a volley, and he only felt it roughly. Among them, no less than twenty of them were running towards him, and there was no way to hide!

"Everyone get down!"

Almost instantly, Ji Ling made a decision, and without hesitation, he crouched under the female wall, and at the same time, he did not forget to remind some startled recruits loudly.

"bang bang bang"

A series of impacts created a large cloud of smoke and dust at the top of the city. At the same time, there were some sounds of the parapet breaking or collapsing. The creaking and whining of the heavy burden, but compared to these things, there are more people's screams and screams.

Feeling that this round of stone bombs had passed, Ji Ling hurriedly got up to observe the situation. Fortunately, although the miserable noise was loud, the damage to the personnel was not much, and for this kind of attack, it was easy to suffer at the beginning. Once you get used to it, it's nothing.

"Order all the generals to appease the soldiers and let everyone avoid them carefully, but pay attention to observe, and don't let Li Yi take the opportunity to touch the top of the city!"

"Quickly investigate the situation of the other three doors, and tell me all the changes!"

Ji Ling was giving orders to the messengers around him, but his eyes were watching the movement on the other side without blinking. He knew that it was just the beginning.

Sure enough, after only a few breaths were paid, Li Yi had the second round of stone bombardment, and then the third round. After the third round, Li Yi's bombardment was no longer fired uniformly, but began to change. It must be scattered, but for the defenders at the top of the city, this kind of scattered launch is not as good as all together. After all, they dared to look outside before, but now no one dares to do that. Who knows Could there be a big rock running towards his head?

Under the city, Li Yi's army saw that the female wall on the top of the city was constantly cracked and even collapsed under the impact of stone bullets. There was a burst of cheers that resounded through the sky, but Li Yi was very calm, with no expression on his face, because although the lineup of five hundred catapults is powerful and can smash the city wall and destroy the suspension bridge, they are still cold weapons after all. Although it was shocking, for him, it was still far from "washing the floor".

After bombarding the city for a while, guessing that every catapult had fired seven or eight stone bombs, Li Yi gestured to Xu Huang, Xu Huang nodded, waved the command flag a few times, and then saw that some of the catapults were better The catapult gave up the stone bombs, and put clay jars mixed with kerosene and sawdust into the bullet bags, which were incendiary bombs designed by Li Yi himself.

This kind of incendiary bomb may not be worthy of the name, but as long as it hits the right position, it is not a big problem to burn more than ten square meters.

After the incendiary bomb was thrown into the battlefield, the opposite city wall was quickly ignited, especially after the city gate tower was hit one after another. Although the defenders hiding under the female wall were terrified, they had to risk their lives Come out to put out the fire, because many of the utensils used to defend the city are made of wood. If those things are burned, they will not have to defend the city.

Not long after the chaos broke out at the top of the city, a thousand Xiandeng from Li Yi's army ran out quickly, carrying the wooden boards for the bridge, and pushing the siege ladder towards the city gate, because the top of the city was busy putting out the fire, They had no time to take care of them, so they quickly laid the planks on the original suspension bridge, and then pushed the engineering ladder closer to the city wall. With the cover of the firepower of the catapult, their initial progress was very smooth, but after a certain distance, those who would The catapults focused on the main entrance had to stop launching in order not to hurt their own family members. After a short adjustment, the defenders on the top of the city also fought back under the dispatch of the defenders. Li Yi's party finally began to appear casualties.

Not long after the hand-to-hand combat at the east gate began, Huang Zhong, who was stationed in the west of Shouchun City, also came outside the west gate with [-] soldiers.

Huang Zhong was very straightforward. Without further ado, he asked someone to tear down the earthen wall and threw wooden boards on the deep ditch. Then Huang Zhong took the lead and was the first to cross the deep ditch, followed by a thousand soldiers who had been prepared for a long time. Immediately after, they held their shields above their heads one by one, striding towards the city gate.

Huang Zhong's movements were so fast that the defenders of the west gate were a little caught off guard, but the defenders were not too flustered, because the road outside the west gate was uneven, and Huang Zhong couldn't use too many people, let alone large siege equipment. The strength is definitely limited.

However, after Huang Zhong arrived at the city gate, the city gate guard knew that he was wrong, because Huang Zhong and his soldiers under the city were all lunatics. The city wall poses too much threat, but those soldiers are all very brave. Even if they die, they will often pull the defenders to back them up. Even the archers below the city are desperate to shoot at the people on the top of the city. It was because of that madness that the morale of the defenders at the top of the city was greatly reduced, and the siege of Ximen entered an extremely tragic stage of life-threatening from the very beginning.

Chapter 557

Because the tragedy of Ximen's battle was far beyond normal, Ji Ling, as the general of Shouchun, quickly received an emergency message from Ximen.

According to the people who came to ask for help, when Huang Zhong attacked the city, he used his life for his life. In less than a quarter of an hour, there were three hundred casualties on the city. Although there were more casualties on Huang Zhong's side, he couldn't stand it. So soon, danger appeared on Ximen's side, and was even attacked on the top of the city.

This emergency gave Ji Ling a strong sense of unreality, because sieges are rarely fought like this, let alone a strong city like Shouchun. It is easy for one party to collapse on its own.

As far as the east city in front of you is concerned, although Li Yi's offensive is rigorous enough, it can only be regarded as average in terms of threat. The casualties on both sides are less than one-third of that of Ximen. Trembling.

According to common sense, the current situation is basically that Li Yi feinted at the east gate, and then used the west gate as a breakthrough to arrange the main force to attack, but Ji Ling already knew that Li Yi was cunning. Although he made this judgment, subconsciously, he thought Li Yi's arrangement will not be so simple.

"Also ask the general to send troops, Ximen is about to lose its hold!"

While Ji Ling was still thinking, the cry of the soldiers asking for help changed his thoughts. Ji Ling hesitated for a moment, and ordered: "Allow a thousand reserve troops to garrison the west gate. Go back and tell General Gao that you have persisted." At noon, Huang Zhong will definitely find it difficult to continue, don't let the lord down."

When the soldier heard that there were only 1000 people, he felt that this was too few, but Ji Ling had already spoken, and he didn't dare to answer even a single soldier, so he hurried down to select soldiers and horses.

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Just when Ji Ling received Ximen's emergency, Li Yi also received the battle situation from Ximen's side. At this moment, although there were only a few dozen words on the wooden slip in Li Yi's hand, it was extremely heavy for Li Yi, because What was written on it was the casualties of thousands of people.

Ever since Li Yi started to stir up troubles in this world, he has never had the experience of paying such a price as soon as a war started, even if the casualties were within his expectations.