Travel through troubled times and escape famine with the system

How can it be?

Hearing the word "Jin soldiers", Lu You was startled, then he jumped over the table and ran straight to the right side of the city gate and ran towards the stairs leading to the city wall.

"Stop whoever comes!"

The two soldiers guarding the stairs shouted loudly at Lu You.

But Lu You ignored them completely and didn't even walk out of the stairs.

He just ran a few quick steps and then jumped up with force. Then he stomped heavily on the grain cart next to him, easily rising more than two meters and directly climbing up the stairs.

Leaping onto the city wall, Lu You frowned and looked around.

The top of the city wall is extremely wide, more than three meters wide, and is spacious enough for two carriages to pass each other.

However, at this time, nearly one-third of the width near the outer wall was filled with various utensils.

Knives, spears, halberds, bows and arrows, gravel, wood...

There were dozens of things, and Lu You couldn't name most of them.

"Hurry up! Hang up the Yaksha Spear and set it up!" a soldier shouted.

Following the soldier's shout, the soldiers on the city wall automatically divided into groups and began to work together to prop up the thick pillars that had fallen to the ground.

dong dong dong...

As the beat of the war drums grew faster and faster, the pillars were inserted into the pre-prepared holes on the city wall.

The pillars were erected against the parapet, with a windlass behind them and a strong beam nailed across them, extending out of the wall.

After a few soldiers have straightened the beam, they will begin to shake the windlass vigorously to tighten the thick rope on it.

The thick rope passed over the beam and connected to the wooden beam that was nailed all over. As the soldiers tightened the winch, the thick wooden beam weighing two or three hundred pounds was slowly lifted up.

"This is called Yaksha-gō."

Wen Chengjie's voice suddenly came from behind.

Lu You turned around and saw Wen Chengjie striding towards him in armor.

"This Yaksha is specially designed to break siege ladders."

"If the enemy uses a ladder to attack the city, they only need to release the mechanism on the windlass at the back, and the 200-pound wooden beam will fall directly along the ladder, knocking down all the people on the ladder."

Standing next to Lu You, Wen Chengjie said with a smile.

Lu You could see that when Master Wen talked about knocking someone down, his eyes were full of fighting spirit.

This guy is indeed a warmonger!

"Ms. Lu, come with me and take a look!"

Wen Chengjie said this and took the lead to walk towards the women's wall, and Lu You followed silently.

Standing on the top of the city wall, Lu You looked west.

The Qingzhou city is located on a flat land. Outside the city, within a few miles, there are flat and fertile fields.

Looking from the top of the city wall at this time, one could just see a large mass of cavalrymen galloping on their horses in the direction of the official road due west, like a black torrent rushing towards the city.

"Stop the drums!"

Wen Chengjie gave instructions to the men beside him.

Upon hearing this, the man immediately shouted an order, and the sound of the war drums stopped immediately.

"Why did it stop?" Lu You asked curiously.

"That's not the Jin army."

Wen Chengjie said calmly.

"In a siege, there is no need for horses to charge into battle. If the Jin army were to attack, they would never send cavalry to lead the charge."

"And when two armies are facing each other, the deployment of troops is very particular."

"Look at the terrain five miles away. The terrain is high on both sides and low in the middle. Although it can't be considered a pass, it still occupies some terrain."

"If a large army attacks the city, the Jin soldiers will definitely send large troops from both wings to occupy the high ground on both sides first in order to prevent us from launching a surprise attack from the high ground on both sides."

"What we should see is a huge army that stretches for miles and pushes forward like a block of tofu."

"But look at those cavalrymen now, running wildly along the official road without any rules at all."

"They are obviously chasing someone!"

Chasing someone?

Standing on the city wall, Lu You looked intently in the direction of the Jin soldiers' leader.

"Control a small portion of the energy in your Dantian and move it to your eyes, then you will see more clearly."

Looking at Lu You's confused look, Wen Chengjie reminded him in a low voice.

"Do I need you to remind me?" Lu You said with a snort, and then did as he was told.

Sure enough, the moment the energy in Dantian flowed to his eyes, Lu You felt a swelling and pain in his eyeballs, and at the same time, his eyesight increased greatly.

At that moment, Lu You felt that the scene in the distance seemed to be quickly brought closer.

The Jin soldier, of whom only an outline could be seen originally, now began to become clear.

The Jin cavalry were indeed chasing and killing some people.

Those people were also wearing Jin soldiers' armor, but each of them carried a shield on his back to block the arrows from behind.

A man was hit by an arrow while riding a horse and fell to the ground, but he just rolled a few times on the ground, then stood up, raised his sword and rushed towards the Jin soldiers behind him, trying to buy time for others.

"The people in front are from our Wu Kingdom!" Lu You shouted in a deep voice: "Do you want to rescue them?"

"Of course not."

Wen Chengjie replied with a smile.

"The practice of self-torture is very common."

"Not to mention chasing a dozen riders, there were also many who were suppressing thousands or even tens of thousands of refugees to block the arrows in front of the battle."

"If I were to sacrifice the safety of everyone in this city just for the lives of these few people, then I would be truly crazy."

Lu You's face turned solemn when he heard that, but he could only turn his gaze back to the cavalry team that was still galloping at full speed.

At this time, those people were still three or four hundred meters away from the city.

Although he could see the other person's clothes clearly, Lu You still couldn't see the other person's face.

The team being chased by the Jin cavalry lost two more people, leaving only five people still galloping on horseback.

"Don't worry, as long as they run within 200 steps of the city wall, they will be safe."

"The Jin soldiers' cavalry dare not approach. The crossbows on my city wall are not to be trifled with."

Hearing Wen Chengjie's confident words, Lu You looked to the left and right.

However, he saw that the archers standing behind the parapet were already in position, each holding a bow and arrow, but without drawing the string, all waiting for orders.

"The ancient tree they are passing now is exactly 250 steps away from the city wall."

Wen Chengjie pointed to an ancient tree beside the official road and said.

"Xu Heng, shoot!"

Following Wen Chengjie's order, a burly general beside Lu You drew out a longbow from behind.

"call out……"

Before Lu You could even react, the general named Xu Heng had already drawn his bow and shot two arrows.

The sharp sound of breaking air quickly faded away, and two hundred steps away, the two Jin cavalrymen who were chasing in the front fell to the ground.

"With these two arrows, the Jin soldiers will know that they have entered the range of our bows and crossbows."

"They will stop the pursuit immediately..."

"They didn't stop!" Lu You interrupted Wen Chengjie coldly, "They are rushing towards the city!"

Upon hearing this, Wen Chengjie suddenly turned his head and looked outside. At this moment, a man on horseback fleeing in front of him looked at the top of the city and shouted loudly.

"Release the arrows!"