Chu and Han contend for the throne

Chapter 25 Siege
"Whoa, whoa, whoa..."

The rain of arrows finally fell from the sky, and the recruits immediately fell down one by one.

Just when the recruit who urinated outside the city was proud, a heart-piercing pain suddenly hit his crotch. When he looked down anxiously, he saw that his words had already been pierced by a feathered arrow, and the blood immediately flowed like a fountain As if gushing out from the wound, the recruit immediately screamed like a pig: "Ahhh..."

"Oh, damn it, my eyes, help, help me..."

The other recruit tightly covered his eyes, a feathered arrow stuck between his fingers, and dark red blood flowed out of it, and after only two screams, the recruit fell to the ground. In a pool of blood.

Not far away, another recruit was even more unlucky. He was directly shot through the head by the feathered arrows that fell from the sky. The sharp arrow clusters shot from the forehead, and then went straight to the back of the brain. The wounds opened by the three-edged arrow clusters gushed out, and the recruit didn't even make a sound before falling headlong on the top of the wall.

The other two recruits standing next to them were startled when they saw this, and turned around to run away. However, before they could take a few steps, another wave of arrows rained down from the sky, nailing the two of them to death on the top of the wall one after another. superior.

Soon, there was a continuous wailing sound above Shouchuncheng's head.

The recruits who had no armor, shields, and lack of self-protection experience were severely injured in the first two waves of arrow rain from the Han army archers. Of the more than 500 recruits guarding the city, at least 200 fell to the ground. In a pool of blood, at least 50 of them were shot and killed on the spot, forever losing the opportunity to grow into a veteran.

However, under the threat of death, the recruits also quickly learned how to protect themselves.

When the third wave of arrows rained down from the archers of the Han army, most of the recruits, except for those with muscular brains, were looking for places to hide. Those who couldn’t find a place to hide did not stand and wait to die. Instead, he dragged the recruits who had been shot to cover his body. Among them, one recruit was dragged away and used as a meat shield before he even died.

Seeing this cold and cruel scene, the veterans laughed silently.

There has never been only iron and blood on the battlefield, and there has never been any kindness or mercy. Only with a cruel heart and black hands can one survive the cruel war!

After shooting twelve arrows, the archers of the Han army began to retreat.

The veterans of the Chu army who had been counting in their hearts for a long time stood up from behind the battlements and under their shields. They all held their heads up and opened their mouths wide. The archers of the Han army roared wildly and demonstrated loudly, while a small number of archers of the Chu army took the opportunity to draw their bows and set arrows in return to the Han army.

The Han archers quickly retreated to the rear, almost unscathed.

The next moment, the soldiers of the Han army lined up in front of the formation spread out to both sides, and then thousands of light soldiers swarmed out of the formation. Each light soldier carried a sack, and each sack The walls were filled with soil, and after coming out of battle, they rushed towards the moat outside Shouchun City.

Although the archers of the Chu army tried their best to suppress the Han army, they could not stop the Han army at all. In less than half an hour, the light soldiers of the Han army filled in several passages on the moat. Among them, thousands of dead soldiers wearing kudzu clothes and slanted hair buns rushed out pushing six ladders and a siege engine.

At the head of Shouchun City, veterans of the Chu Army also drew their swords and rushed to the battlements.

The brutal siege battle finally began. The six ladders approached the city wall almost at the same time. Immediately after, dozens of strong and strong soldiers began to pull the cables of the ladders. Arrows, rolling logs and rocks rained from the top of the city. Down below, there were constantly dead soldiers of the Han army screaming and falling to the ground, but soon, more dead soldiers came up instead.

"Hey yo, la yo, hey ho, la ho!"

"Hey yo, la yo, hey ho, la ho!"

"Hey yo, la yo, hey ho, la ho!"

Amidst the chants of the dead soldiers of the Han army, the upper half of the movable ladder that was originally folded and pressed on the fixed ladder began to rise slowly around the top bracket as the axis. The ladder has been completely erected, and then it slowly slopes towards the top of Shouchun City, and finally presses down on the top of the city with a bang, and the upper and lower ladders are connected to form a sloping passage directly to the top of the city!

The next moment, hundreds of dead soldiers of the Han army rushed up the ladder like ants, howling and heading straight for the city.

On the high place, on the watchtower, Xiangzhuang, who was watching the battle, couldn't help marveling at the wisdom of the ancients. According to historical records, this ladder was invented by Gong Shuban (Lu Ban), a famous skilled craftsman in the Warring States Period. Since the invention of the ladder, China's siege battles have taken place Revolutionary changes were made, and the towering city walls were no longer an insurmountable obstacle.

The dead soldiers of the Han army swarmed up along the erected ladders, and the city was soon caught in a hand-to-hand melee.

Xiang Zhuang slowly pulled out the special horizontal knife made for him by Yu Ziqi himself, touched the cold blade, and immediately shouted: "Jing Qian, Gao Chu, let's go to the city!"

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At the head of the east gate of Shouchun, it has completely fallen into a melee at this moment.

"Kill!" Two dead soldiers of the Han army, holding daggers in their hands, galloped up the ladder. The next moment, more than a dozen cold halberds pierced like poisonous snakes, piercing the chest and abdomen of the two dead soldiers of the Han army in a flash.

One dead soldier of the Han army was killed on the spot, but the other dead soldier did not die immediately. With a howl like a wild animal, the dead soldier of the Han army threw the short sword in his hand vigorously, and a Chu in front of him The recruit from the Chu army couldn't dodge in time, hit his throat, and couldn't even make a sound, the recruit from the Chu army fell into a pool of blood.

Taking advantage of the gap that the first two dead men sacrificed their lives for, the latter two dead men finally set foot on the top of the city.

These dead soldiers of the Han army obviously had the will to die. After they set foot on the top of the city, they didn't seek to protect themselves, but to kill. They didn't pay any attention to the swords and halberds stabbed at them by the Chu army. They just waved them frantically. With a sharp sword, slashing wildly, even if you have several swords in your body and several halberds on your body, as long as you have a breath, you will fight endlessly!
The momentum of the Chu army was immediately suppressed, and many veterans were also timid.

The old soldiers were like this, but the recruits were even more unbearable. The dead soldiers of the Han army quickly cleared a few pieces of land at the top of the city, and then more dead soldiers of the Han army swarmed up on the ladder. Soldiers are like an endless colony of ants, waiting to climb the ladder, waiting to set foot on the top of the city, the situation is already in jeopardy.

Seeing that the east gate of Shouchun was about to fall, Xiang Zhuang's tall figure suddenly appeared on the top of the city.

When the two dead soldiers of the Han army saw a general of the Chu army in heavy armor suddenly appearing in front of them, they immediately showed a fierce look, and rushed forward screaming.

"die!"

Xiang Zhuang just swiped with a horizontal knife in his hand, and the two dead soldiers of the Han army were cut in half on the spot. With a broken body, he tried his best to raise his dagger to stab Xiang Zhuang, but he was beheaded by Jing Qian and Gao Chu who were behind Xiang Zhuang.

"what!"

Xiang Zhuang made another straight stab, and immediately pierced the Han Army Colonel in front of him.

The two dead soldiers behind the Colonel of the Han Army took the opportunity to assassinate Xiang Zhuang, but were beheaded by Jing Qian and Gao Chu on the spot.

At the same time as drawing the knife, Xiang Zhuang took advantage of the situation and gave a heavy kick. The body of the Han army captain immediately flew backwards, knocked over several Han army dead soldiers, and fell to the top of the wall tumbling over .

Xiang Zhuang grabbed the top of the city in two more steps, raised his knife and slashed it on the ladder.

The iron sheet covering the ladder couldn't block the blade's edge at all. The cutting power of a horizontal knife weighing twenty catties is almost as powerful as that of a heavy axe. How can the thin iron sheet stop it?

With just two knives, the ladder has been cut into two sections from the top.

Without the restraint of the barbs at the top, the upper half of the stepladder quickly slid down against the city wall. Dozens of dead soldiers of the Han army who climbed on it also screamed and fell down, crowding at the foot of the ladder. The dead soldiers of the attacking Han army had no time to dodge, and dozens of people were crushed and seriously injured immediately.

Xiang Zhuang chopped off the ladder with two sabers, and immediately jumped onto the battlements, raising his saber and howling: "Roar..."

Behind Xiang Zhuang, Jing Qian, Gao Chu and more than a hundred soldiers also raised their sharp swords and roared to the sky.

"The general is mighty!"

"The general is mighty!"

"The general is mighty!"

Encouraged by Xiang Zhuang, the morale of the Chu army at the top of the city was immediately boosted, and they immediately turned around and launched a fierce counterattack against the dead soldiers of the Han army who stepped on the top of the city. With the advantage of numbers, the Chu army will soon reach the top of the city The dead soldiers of the Han army were all beheaded, and the blacksmiths of the Chu army who came to help after hearing the news also swung their big hammers one after another, smashing all the other five ladders hooked on the battlements.

The situation on the battlefield suddenly took a turn for the worse, and there was a continuous sound of bull horns outside the city.

Amid the distant and desolate sound of horns, the dead soldiers of the Han army who were crowded under the city wall turned around one after another, pushing the dilapidated ladder and the severely damaged siege vehicle back slowly, and the heavily armored soldiers who were originally protecting the front of the formation also Suddenly they surged up, protecting the light soldiers who were retreating with their thick shields.

So far, the first siege of the Han army has been completely repelled.

All of a sudden, the soldiers of the Chu army who were crowded on the top of the city roared up to the sky. The huge noise almost shattered the eardrums of the Han army on the opposite side. Peeing outside the city, or sticking up buttocks and swaying from side to side, are extremely provocative and insulting.

In the distance, in the formation of the Han army, Li Zuoche looked like iron.

This Xiangzhuang is really not simple. With him and without him, the bravery shown by the Chu army is simply incomparable. For a moment, Li Zuoche even suspected that Xiang Yu was reborn!It seems that the battle of Shouchun really needs more effort, but it doesn't matter, Xiangzhuang only has a lone army, how long can it last?
What's more, Li Zuoche still held a big killer in his hand, which was Xiang Yu's head.

Li Zuoche was really looking forward to it, what kind of expression would the remnants of the Chu army see when they saw Xiang Yu's head?How will it behave?I'm afraid it will fall apart in an instant! ##########PS: Today is Sunday again, and we are going to hit the rankings in the early morning.But the swordsman still can’t make the rankings, he has to go to bed at nine o’clock, so I can only ask the book friends, but I will add a new chapter regularly after midnight to show my gratitude, thank you for staying up late to help the swordsman make the rankings, please everyone .

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