the enlightener says

Compared with Tang Jun's trebuchets, the ones built by the public losers are heavier and more precise. The stones thrown out weigh hundreds of catties each time, and when they are lifted into the air and then fall down, they are almost like a catapult. As terrible as a meteorite!

The first Tang army formation that was hit disintegrated almost instantly. Those shields could not withstand such a heavy stone at all. Blood and flesh and stumps flew around, which inspired the defenders at the top of the city, and their morale suddenly increased. .

Up to now, what happened just now has made them understand that even if they escape, there will be no good results at all. Rather than being slaughtered after the city is broken, it is better to die a heroic death at this moment.

Naturally, everyone refused to retreat, but looked at the formation of the Tang army that was approaching, and almost couldn't help but let go of the bowstring.

However, Gongshucha still didn't give an order, so they could only wait until the moment when he actually spoke.

In fact, Gongshucha has been calculating the distance from the Tang army to the top of the city. The Tang army currently attacking the city has a total of three phalanxes. Order was restored.

It has to be said that Xiang Chu's ability in training soldiers is enough to be called the rare one in the world. Even a miscellaneous army can be tempered into an iron army after a few years under his command.For this, Gong Shucha felt ashamed, but at this moment, it was not the time for him to feel sorry for himself.

At that moment, he watched Tang Jun's formation finally approaching him, and then he roared: "The enemy is approaching! Five hundred steps! Shoot!"

Almost at the moment when he finished speaking, everyone let go of their bowstrings, and countless arrows soared into the sky, almost forming a black cloud in the air, but when they fell, they were already armed with sharp arrows. The sound of breaking through the air.

Tang Jun's phalanx raised their shields at the same time, as if building an iron wall in the flat ground.It's just that the arrows in the city are condescending, and the heavy force of falling is added to the projectile. When the two collide, it is almost like a heavy rain hitting bricks and tiles, and the sound of "click, click, click" can be heard endlessly.

Quite a few people couldn't even hold their shields because of the shock of such power, and in the gap, countless arrows pierced through and hit the soldiers' bodies.

In a round of salvo, at least ten people fell from the three phalanxes.

But in Gongshucha's eyes, he clenched his fists. He knew very well that compared with the more than 1 people in the three phalanxes, such a loss was nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

Under his orders, the archer drew the bowstring again and aimed it into the air.

"The enemy is approaching! 450 steps! Shoot!" Gongshucha slapped suddenly on the top of the wall, and another black cloud rose into the sky, and fell towards the phalanx like raindrops.

If the effect of the first round of salvo just now was not enough for Gongshucha, this round of salvo has already made Gongshucha slightly relieved. There was still a gap in the formation, and the second round of salvo fell into the square formation, taking away many Tang Jun's lives.

What's more coincidental is that a big rock fell from the sky just at this moment, and fell into the square formation in the middle with a bang, and broke the square formation with a bang, causing a commotion.

The opportunity was not lost, Gong Shucha decisively commanded the archers to shoot arrows round after round, and the rain of arrows was like an endless torrential rain, pouring down on Tang Jun's head one after another.

Along the way, I don’t know how many Tang Jun were killed by arrows. Some people who were shot in the legs or hands by the arrows have not died yet. Because of the pain, they screamed in pain on the ground, but no one cares about them anymore.

As they entered within four hundred steps of Jinzhou, the huge bed crossbow also shot deadly arrows under the control of the defenders at the top of the city.

The mechanism technique of the public loser is one of the best in the entire Mohist school. Even the orthodox mechanism technique of the Mohist school sometimes has to be inferior. Naturally, these bed crossbows that have been placed on the top of the city for many years are far superior to ordinary bed crossbows. With a loud sound, more than a dozen crossbow arrows as thick as long spears were shot out, with a sharp whistling sound, straight into the Tang army's formation.

Tang Jun finally survived another round of arrow rain, lifted his shield a little, and wanted to see the situation at the top of the city, but his pupils shrank suddenly, and his mouth opened.

However, that crossbow arrow had already arrived in front of them, piercing straight into their bodies, one, two, three... until the body of the fourth person was pierced, the power on the crossbow arrow finally slowed down, but it was still deep. It plunged deeply into the ground, and the tail trembled non-stop.

The defenders at the top of the city cheered. For so many years, they had never seen an arrow fired from the bed crossbows at the top of the city, and they had long forgotten how powerful these things possessed.

However, this time everyone saw their powerful deterrent power with their own eyes, and everyone was extremely relieved. Over the years, they have been maintaining these bed crossbows all the time, and all their hard work has not been in vain.

However, Tang Jun's footsteps did not stop because of this. They stepped on the corpse of their robes, kicked away the arrows stuck in the mud in front of them, and fiercely launched another attack...

Chapter 439 Siege

When they entered within a hundred steps of the city, the archers in the formation of the Tang army finally emerged from under the shields, and their bows and arrows that had been ready to go were all displayed at this moment. In the morning light, those arrows Going against gravity, they surged up to the top of the city, covering the sky and covering the sun.

A defender poked his probe out of the battlements, and was about to pull the string and shoot an arrow towards the bottom. An arrow immediately pierced his left eye with a sharp whistling sound, and penetrated his head. A defender weakly let go of the bow and arrow in his hand, his whole body went limp, fell straight from the top of the city, and was trampled bloody under the feet of Tang Jun.

The bed crossbows defending the city could no longer shoot so close. The top of the city and the bottom of the city became a battlefield for archers to fight to the death. It needs to be more powerful, and sometimes it can even directly pass through the thickest chest of Tang Jun's armor and take away their lives. However, Tang Jun has a large number of soldiers, and it feels like they can't kill them all.

The ladder was erected on the city wall, and the vanguard Tang soldiers risked being shot to death by feather arrows and being crushed to death by rolling logs and stones, holding up their shields and struggling to climb up, while the Tang soldiers below were constantly protecting their archers. Continue to go up and down to suppress the archers at the top of the city, creating opportunities for the robes.

After all, the number of people in Gongshucha's hands is still a little less, and it lacks the qualities that an iron army should have. Under such a fierce offensive by the Tang army, he suddenly felt a little afraid. Dare to stand up.

"Don't be afraid of fighting!" Gongshucha yelled, raised his leg and kicked down an archer who was squatting on the top of the city and holding his head, and kept begging gods and ancestors for protection, "It's no use begging anyone! On the battlefield, you must Life is death! If you want to survive, you can only rely on the weapons in your hands. Once they break through the city, none of you can survive!"

At this time, a Tang Jun climbed up from the ladder. Gong Shucha didn't take a closer look. The Zhanhu in his hand had already been unsheathed. As he turned around and slashed, the broad knife slashed into the Tang Jun's head. , Almost split Tang Jun in half from top to bottom.

Then he roared even more, turned the blade, and slashed down from top to bottom!

Although he is not an unstoppable great master cultivator among Nengchao's army, the energy and blood gained from years of practice should not be underestimated. With such a blow, the ladder broke immediately, and the crack extended four feet downward More than that, many soldiers of the Tang army who were still climbing on the ladder could not even hold the ladder because of the vibration, and fell straight to the bottom.

Seeing how mighty their commander is, the morale of the defenders has grown. Except for the archers who are still shooting arrows, the soldiers holding knives are constantly moving the stones that have been prepared at the top of the city toward the bottom. Smash it.

The stones thrown from top to bottom are not as good as the hundreds of catties of boulders thrown by the trebuchet, but they are far more accurate than the trebuchet. When they hit Tang Jun's head, even if Tang Jun was protected by a helmet, he would not be able to avoid being smashed. Their heads were cracked, and some people were hit in the chest and fell straight from the ladder.

When they were in the air, they were still a living person, but when they landed, they were already bones.

But the war drums were still rushing, and the Tang soldiers continued to climb until they rushed to the top of the city. Their ready-to-go knives came out with anger, and slashed straight at the soldier who was about to throw stones, killing him abruptly. under the knife.

Blood splashed all over Tang Jun's body. Holding the knife ferociously, he rushed to the top of the city, raised the knife and slashed suddenly, no one could stop him.

"Kill!" Countless Tang Jun roared together.

The entire city was filled with sword light and fresh blood. Looking down from the sky, it seemed that countless flowers of blood and fire were blooming.

When Gongshucha stopped shouting, the Zhanhu in his hand slashed out. Tang Jun in front of him didn't even have time to raise the knife, a big head flew into the air, and the headless corpse spurted blood, but was quickly kicked by Gongshucha. set aside.

No.2 Tang army soldier saw him so ferocious, subconsciously held up his shield to resist, but in front of Gongshucha's cultivation, such a move was meaningless, the tiger fell, the shield was broken, and the Tang soldier was chopped into pieces even with the shield two halves.

Then he stomped his legs, and the whole person took five steps forward out of thin air, the movement was as fast as lightning, the blade rotated, and the chest of one person was torn apart with one blow. When he exerted force again, Zhanhu sank into the belly of the other person.

Blood splattered all over his body, and he coldly pulled out Zhanhu, and continued to kill, no one could stop him.

It was already expected that Tang Jun's ascension to the city wall had already been expected, but under the ferocious momentum of Tang Jun, the casualties of the defenders were still far beyond his imagination.Every one of the Tang Jun who rushed forward was brave and fearless, with a knife and a shield, and they resisted the combined attack of the three of them.

On the other hand, Gongshucha's side, although Gongshucha is brave and brave, but 5000 of the [-] people under his command are organized by those disaster victims. These people have not been trained for a long time, and they have already forgotten when they fought The stabbing, piercing, chopping and other movements trained in the army only know how to attack, but it is difficult to produce obvious effects.

However, their fighting spirit is not weaker than that of Tang Jun. Some people even got a knife in their chest, bleeding profusely, but they still tried their best to rush up and hug that Tang Jun. During the scuffle, both sides had already thrown The weapons, nails, and teeth became their last means of fighting.

With a loud roar, the defender dragged Tang Jun down to the top of the city, and soon he was submerged in the formation of Tang Jun, so he couldn't survive.

Gongshucha led his elite troops to advance tens of feet, leaving at least one corpse of Tang Jun in every foot. With the flash of the knife, the splashed blood covered his vision. In a trance, he seemed to be Seeing a flash of sword light, he shouted loudly, and Zhanhu slashed out!

The man was obviously a little surprised, and in a hurry, he only had time to raise the long sword in his hand to resist, but the force on Zhanhu was so great that the man was forcibly chopped down.

And just when Gongshucha raised Zhanhu again, wanting to kill the man forcefully, he heard a familiar voice: "General Gongshu, wait a minute!"

Gongshucha was stunned for a moment, and finally realized that it was Bai Qi, who had just separated from him, who took his knife. In the chaos, he stretched out his hand to pull Bai Qi up, and said, "How are you. "

Bai Qi frowned, smiled wryly and said: "Fortunately, you gestured in time and missed..."

The two of them stood back to back, looking around, their eyes were full of knives, and their ears were full of shouts of killing. Naturally, it was impossible for them to continue chatting in this situation, but to charge out again.

The force of Bai Qi's subordinates can be said to be an elite group, including Mohists gathered from all directions, and a group of elite soldiers under Gongshucha's subordinates. His participation in the battle at this time can be regarded as a timely rain.

After they joined the battle group, the situation at the top of the city gradually stabilized. Although the Tang army on the top of the city was brave, they were weak after all and were killed for a while.

Under the city wall, there were still countless Tang soldiers struggling to climb up under the blows of arrows and rocks, but they were splashed with water head-on. Just as they were still hesitating, they saw a ball of flames falling from the sky.

The kerosene was quickly ignited in the flames, and spread to the entire ladder in an instant. Countless shrill howls sounded, and the whole ladder became a road of flames.

Under the command of Gongshucha, the defenders lit the hook trifoliate. This kind of weapon commonly used by the Mohists in defending the city is like a hook, but when it is thrown out, it can be hooked on the ladder , light the ladder.

As a result, many ladders also caught fire during this process, making it impossible to climb.

When the Tang army was in chaos under the city wall but had nothing to do, the defenders at the top of the city even carried straws, lit them with torches and threw them downward.

The straw was dry, fluffy and flammable, and it was already a big fire before it hit the ground. Tang Jun crowded below like ants. Seeing such a flame falling, there was nowhere to hide, and there was another wail.

But at this moment, the sound of gold ringing came from Tang Jun's side, and the drums finally calmed down from the rush. For a while, Tang Jun retreated like a flood, leaving behind countless corpses, retreating all the way out of the range of bows and arrows.

"Tang Jun retreated!" Someone shouted.

"Tang Jun retreated!" Such a scene was almost unbelievable. For a moment, everyone was rejoicing, holding up their weapons and laughing loudly.

The flag was gradually devoured in the fire, and the flagpole stood alone, looking a bit pitiful and dejected, surrounded by corpses, and many people were still wounded, but they were so happy, as if they had never been so happy in their life. Have a good time.

And Gongshucha stood on the top of the wall with a knife, supporting Bai Qi who was a little weak. After all, his cultivation was not as good as Gongshucha's. After all, he was still a little tired after killing people all the way. He looked into Gongshucha's serious eyes and said in a low voice: "What's wrong?"

Hearing the cheers behind him, Gongshucha shook his head slightly: "In my opinion, we are too happy. This is just a trial by the Tang army. The Tang army seems to have suffered a disastrous defeat, but the casualties are not particularly heavy. What's more More than half of the [-] troops have not been moved, maybe Xiang Chu just wants to see what Jinzhou is capable of."

Hearing this, the smile in Bai Qi's eyes also subsided slightly. He knew that what Gong Shucha said was right. Tang Jun's retreat now was only because he had lost his sharpness, and it would be difficult to win if he continued to fight, so he retreated and regrouped .

And when the Tang army attacks the city again, I'm afraid the offensive will be more violent than it is now.

Although he believed in Wang Xuanwei's words, Tang Jun's offensive really didn't look like he didn't plan to break the city.Perhaps for Xiang Chu, taking advantage of the trend and breaking the city is not a big deal, is it?

"But this time we defended, didn't we?" Bai Qi looked at Tang Jun who was still eyeing him, and could only shake his head helplessly, "Let's make them happy first, at least we can repel the enemy. Morale is a big help."

Gongshucha nodded: "That's why I didn't pour cold water on it. Compared with the Tang army, our Jinzhou army is just a miscellaneous army. The gap in combat power is too big. If the morale is still low, I'm afraid it will be defeated before the battle. .”

Bai Qi looked into his eyes and nodded slightly: "Fortunately, we still have the defense equipment of the public loser, so we should be able to hold on for a while."

Gongshucha nodded.

After that, Jinzhou began to take care of everything in the city.

This battle of defending the city seemed to be Jinzhou's victory, but after a calculation by Gongshucha, he felt that their losses were not small. Among the chaos, six bed crossbows were forcibly hacked, and only one was still alive. It can be repaired, but it will take a lot of days, so it can only be unloaded and transported into the city.

And the army in his hands lost nearly [-] people in this round of attack. This kind of battle loss is really shocking. You must know that the entire Jinzhou now has only [-] soldiers. Nearly [-] people died in battle, which is really not good news.

The defenders in the city kept moving the corpses back and forth to clean up the chaos at the top of the city. Because they were afraid that the Tang army would take advantage of the situation to attack again, everyone was nervous and doing their own things quickly.

However, Gongshucha also found the person he had been waiting for.

"Fourth Uncle." Qin Ke walked up to the top of the wall, seeing the situation around him, his heart was also not very peaceful, and when he saw Bai Qi who was leaning on the top of the wall with his eyes closed as if asleep, he was even more shocked, but Looking at the slight movement of his chest and abdomen, I knew that he was just tired and resting, so I didn't bother.

"Have they all been shipped?" Gongshu Cha asked.

"Yes." Qin Ke replied, "Yinxue asked me to hand over all these to you, mainly borrowing cars and crossbow carts, which are already all the stocks of the public loser. Yinxue went to the south of the city in person. Send it, there are people in the east and north of the city, and it will probably be delivered in a short time."

Gongshucha nodded, and said: "It's still timely. It's not easy to do this in such a short time... You thanked Yinxue for me."

4 Chapter Forty

Qin Ke smiled slightly: "Where is this? The fourth uncle is the one who is really not easy." He said, he walked a few steps towards the top of the city, and saw countless corpses under the city overlapping each other, some of which had already been killed. The kerosene was scorched, and the face was painful and mutilated, which was unbearable to witness.

Qin Ke has seen this scene before.

On the way to escape from the famine, they happened to be involved in the chaos. Countless soldiers held weapons and charged down the hillside like an iron tide.Countless shouts of killing and the sound of flesh being torn apart covered the crows in the valley, and the flying flesh covered the sky and the earth.

If it wasn't for his father carrying him on his back, running wildly all the way, and finally accidentally fell into the ditch of the battlefield, avoiding the shadows of swords and swords all over the sky, I'm afraid he would have died long ago, and everything that happened after that would never happen again.

But now, he came to the battlefield again, and found that he was still full of disgust for things like fighting.

Holding the Bodhisattva sword in his hand, he always thought that he used it to take some people's lives time and time again, in order to protect more people, for the sake of morality in his heart, not simply to kill someone, for some kind of desire or hatred.

"Is it really worth letting so many people die just to fight for the world?" Qin Ke whispered.

Gongshucha shook his head, and said disapprovingly: "My child, if the world is not unified, the war will not stop for a day. Any country that puts down its weapons and soldiers will only become fish on the chopping board of others. The Mo family inherited the previous dynasty The emperor's will should be the master of the world. Two generations of giants worked hard to overwhelm several princes and conquered the largest territory in the world today. If we stop, what face will we people have when we meet our ancestors a hundred years later? giant?"

He said coldly again: "However... This time the Tang State slaughtered tens of thousands of our Mohist soldiers and civilians. If there is a chance, I will definitely ride my horse into the capital of the Tang State and pull down Li Qiuhuang who is sitting on the chair. Fight to the death!"

"I..." Qin Ke opened his mouth, but finally couldn't say a word. He didn't understand what Gongshucha said about the last emperor's will and the unification of the world.

As for what kind of face to use to meet the ancestors, he is noncommittal. Whether there is a hell in this world, and whether people can meet again after death is impossible to figure out. After all, everything he has heard about the afterlife world so far is too mysterious... Besides, If it is true as it is said in the scriptures, why do people in the world want to live hard no matter how difficult they are, instead of wishing to die and reunite with their relatives underground?

But he also knew that Gong Shucha was a different person from him, so it was pointless to argue.

He walked down to the top of the wall in silence, and started to help the wounded soldiers who were still screaming in pain to deal with their wounds.

Although he is not as good as a doctor, when he was in Daoxiang Village, he made medicine for his master every day, and he also carefully read the "Hundred Herbs Collection", and knew a lot of herbs, and people who practice qi and blood are more familiar with the human body than Others are also familiar with the acupuncture points and meridians for hemostasis.

The doctors in the army are already very busy, so of course he is very grateful to have someone like him to help, and he will not say anything more.

Due to the shortage of manpower, many people were slightly injured, their heads and hands were wrapped in gauze, but they continued to fight on the top of the city, and Qin Ke knew very well that many of them might never be able to leave this place again. The head of the city...

But Jinzhou is their only place of survival. In order to defend Jinzhou and their homeland behind them, they have no choice but to fight to the death.

Qin Ke couldn't help thinking of the group of people guarding the Great Wall in the north, and gradually outlined their solemn and firm backs under the bleak afterglow of the setting sun in his mind.

They are not for the country, not for the family, but to build an iron wall of flesh and blood, silently guarding the thousands of Li people behind them... Unfortunately, when they were fighting with those evil beasts and their lives were hanging by a thread, Could it be imagined that those people whom I have fought bloody to save are now attacking the city for the so-called "righteousness" and "unification", with swords facing each other...

Two hours later, Tang Jun attacked again.

Different from the first time, the momentum of the Tang army was stronger this time. The tens of thousands of troops not only attacked the city gate where Gongshucha was located, but also attacked the east gate and west gate at the same time.

The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were numerous and powerful, and the sound of killing was loud. The shields reflected the sunlight showing a dazzling white of death. On top of the rushing car surrounded by soldiers.

The outside of the car was covered with a layer of cowhide wood. Ordinary arrows fell on it and couldn't penetrate it at all, and could only get stuck on the surface. Under the impetus of Tang Jun's shouts, the car rushed forward at a very fast speed.

"Aim at the rushing cars! Aim at them!" Gong Shucha yelled, seeing the three rushing cars approaching like three raging bison, his heart also tugged.Perhaps his shouting had an effect, and the already nervous soldiers finally shot at the chariot. Three sharp crossbow bolts were ruthlessly embedded in the top of the chariot, and the arrows almost fell on the sharp battering ram.

Although this handle is not enough to tear apart the shell of the entire car, the force attached to the crossbow bolt is far more terrifying than Tang Jun imagined. A rabbit on fire.

It's just that it's not as light as a rabbit. After the creaking sound, there was the sound of the whole car overturning. Several soldiers of the Tang army were unable to react in time and were overwhelmed by the heavy car, and then the huge battering ram smashed their heads and covered their faces. When they got down, several people's brains were cracked on the spot, and their flesh and blood flew all over the place.

The defenders on the city cheered for a while, and then fired arrows several times, overturning another chariot, but Gongshucha frowned, and in just a dozen or so breaths, the last chariot had finally arrived at the bottom of the city.

"Gongshuliang!" Gongshucha called out the name of his junior, "Take your men and go hold the gate!"

At this time, the heavy vehicle had already started to slam into the city gate violently, and a huge force almost caused the entire city to vibrate with a bang.

However, Gongshucha also knew that Jinzhou's city gates were not that fragile, and it would not be easy to break through the city gates with a ram.