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Chapter 268

Ou Xiong watched with a livid face as his subordinates rushed to the bank of the moat of Ling County one after another, holding wooden poles in their hands and pushing carts with dirt, and another batch fell down.This is the sad thing about descending people, knowing that it is an act of sending people to death, but they can only bite the bullet and drive the trilogy to do it.

Ou Sheng held a halberd in his hand, and muttered dissatisfiedly: "For things like filling the ditch, leave it to the peasants, why let me wait in vain to die."

Ou Xiong frowned when he heard this, and gave him a vicious look. Song Lin, Ou Xiong's wife and younger brother, was even more taken aback, and hurriedly said to Ou Sheng: "Bo Ling be careful. If this word reaches other people's ears, brother-in-law will also be implicated.”

Ou Sheng still felt unjust and said: "A man who fights in the battlefield, for the sake of fame and fame, he should not hesitate to sacrifice himself, but to die like this is really useless!"

Song Lin glanced at Ou Xiong beside him, and said, "Although we are a little late to surrender, if the north wants to govern Jingnan, we must be needed... Kuai Changshi will not just sit idly by..."

Ou Sheng snorted coldly and said, "I hope so."

Song Lin's guess was correct. In Kuai Yue's eyes, soldiers, even minzhuang and weak soldiers were insignificant consumables. But if they were all dead, who would fill the moat?Therefore, Kuai Yue naturally couldn't just watch Liu Jingjun on the city slaughter him wantonly.

Kuai Yue ordered the army to oversee thousands of bows and crossbows from Deng Fang and Feng Xi, the captain of Xiandeng, and went straight to the bank of the moat to suppress Liu Jing's army on the city and minimize the casualties of the soldiers and civilians.

Liu Jing's army is superior in its geographical advantage. Whether it is the female wall on the city, or the oars, or even the heavy pavilion above the city gate, they can provide sufficient protection for the soldiers.

The Jingzhou army is superior in numbers, and the suburban terrain is vast, which is by no means comparable to the narrow city walls. The Jingzhou army can easily form a phalanx composed of thousands of bows and crossbows, suppressing the enemy in terms of density. .

However, although Liu Jing can't compare with the Jingzhou Army in terms of the number of projections, don't forget that Liu Jing's army has a large number of bed crossbows and trebuchets, both of which are long-range killers.

When the Jingzhou Army's bow and crossbow phalanx arrived at the city, before firing a single arrow, their nightmare came...

Within dozens of steps of the city wall on the south side of Ling County, all the buildings and buildings have been demolished, forming an open area, and now dozens of trebuchets are dotted across it.

At the bottom of the queue are small trebuchets operated by less than ten people. The further forward, the more people are needed, and at the front there is a super-large trebuchet with hundreds of people working together to pull the rope.

Numerous men dressed in short brown and swollen hands lined up at the front of the catapult, staring at the flag-bearers on the side for a moment, almost out of breath with tension, all hands holding the catapult rope Sweaty.

"put……"

The flag bearers in charge of their respective areas waved their flags in turn from front to back.

"Kuu...kuu...kuu..."

Whether it is a small trebuchet operated by a few people, or even a large trebuchet operated by a hundred people, they all make a loud noise like a thunderbolt.

Stone bombs of different sizes were thrown into the sky by the trebuchet, over the top of the city, over the moat, and fell into the Jingzhou army formation.But in the blink of an eye, the Jingzhou Army's phalanx was riddled with holes, and the screams were endless.

In fact, Liu Jingjun invested only dozens of trebuchets. Even if the power was amazing, it would not cause too much damage to the Jingzhou army, at least far less than the damage caused by bows and crossbows.

The key point is that the trebuchet is like a pole, and it cannot be confronted by manpower at all. The deterrent effect of the trebuchet on the soldiers of the Jingzhou army is ten times or a hundred times the casualties...

Coupled with the bed crossbow, which was equally astonishing in its killing and wounding, it would kill you if you touched it, or you would die if you touched it.

"Rearrange... Rearrange... Those who dare to retreat, behead!" Deng Fang supervised the battle behind him with his steps. For those who fled, he first ordered them to return to the team with words. If the opponent ignored his order, He would immediately kill him on the spot.

Feng Xi's approach is no different from Deng Fang's. Both of them are people who treat soldiers well and win the hearts of the people, but at critical moments like this, they will not hesitate to raise the butcher's knife against the soldiers. The so-called "kindness does not control soldiers", probably No way.

It's just that although the two of them suppressed the commotion of the soldiers temporarily, it was by no means a long-term solution. Fighting such large war tools as flying stone carts and bed crossbows with flesh and blood was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.The best way to deal with it is, of course, to "treat the person in the same way".

It is a pity that the Jingzhou army does not have the craft of making flying stone chariots. Even if some are forced to be made, the power may not be very satisfactory.

As for the bed crossbow, the navy captured some of them before, but the bed crossbow also has extremely high requirements on the production process and even the materials, so it is difficult to successfully imitate it within ten months.

In order to appease the soldiers, Deng Fang and Feng Xi had no choice but to widen the queue and increase the distance between the soldiers to reduce the threat of stone bullets and giant crossbows.As a result, the density of bows and crossbows will inevitably decrease, and there is no way around this. The two can only "comparing the lesser of two evils".

The soldiers of both sides were on the top of the city, and the other was under the city. You came and went, screaming and killing.

With the gradual passage of time, the Lingxian City Moat, which is about one mile long and five feet wide, is being filled up at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As a price, the moat was densely filled with the corpses of Jingzhou soldiers and Minzhuang, and the river was almost silted up.And outside the moat, there were also corpses strewn across the field, with a mess of dead and wounded.

Kuai Yue stood on the cloud cart that was so tall that it overlooked Ling County, looking at the heavy casualties of soldiers and civilian husbands below, and the tragic scene of mourning, he couldn't help feeling sorry for him.At the same time, it also strengthened his idea of ​​"not wanting to attack by force".

The city defense of Ling County was already solid, and it also had the advantages of war tools. The price of a strong attack was too high. Unless there was no other way and it was absolutely necessary, Kuai Yue would never choose to attack by force.

Before sunset, Kuaiyue sent a group of retainers to explore the terrain around Ling County and returned with a few followers. After a discussion, the two decided to start digging the tunnel tonight.

In order to deceive Liu Jingjun in the city, Kuai Yue dispatched a group of soldiers and civilians from the rear to fill the moat with soil all night to cover the enemy's eyes and ears.

Of course, tunnel excavation is a big project after all, the movement will never be small, and it is unrealistic to completely hide it from Liu Jingjun. Kuai Yue only wants to be able to hide it from the other party for a few more days. The later the other party knows, the more convenient it is for him.

That day and night, Jingzhou soldiers and Min Zhuang continued to fill the trenches under the city in full swing, while secretly digging tunnels in other places.Liu Jingjun didn't know the details, so he burned fish paste to illuminate the city wall, which was as bright as day.

(End of this chapter)