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Chapter 144
It took a day and a night to renovate and start a family.

The offensive of the thieves has also changed. It is reported that the thieves are harassing every day, but in fact there are not many threatening offensives.

But the spies in the distance reported that there were big trees being felled in the forest, obviously the bandits were building siege equipment.

Li Chongjiu climbed to the top of the city and looked around, except for the Juma River surrounding Feihu County, most of it was covered with loess, and only the distant mountains could see the lush scenery.

If the thieves built siege equipment in the distance, it would undoubtedly take a lot of effort to transport it to the bottom of the city, but for the tens of thousands of puppet Yan troops, the most important thing right now is manpower.

Although there are many enemy soldiers, Li Chongjiu is not very worried about the situation under the city.

The cold winter is coming soon. For the thieves who lack clothing and food, if the heavy snow comes, there is no doubt that the number of people in the wild will be greatly reduced, and it is impossible to persist for a few days.

So as long as this period of time is supported, the enemy can retreat without fighting.

The next day, the bandits seemed to know that winter was coming, so they began to attack the city.

The siege of this era, according to the usual practice, has always been to encircle three ques and one. If they are all encircled, it will arouse the defense of the defenders, which will not be conducive to the siege side.

The same is true for the puppet Yan army, which surrounded the east, south, and north sides of the city, leaving the west side of the city alone for the defenders to escape.

Although surrounded on three sides, the enemy army did not launch a brutal attack at the same time, but distinguished the primary and secondary, taking the north of the city with a flatter terrain as the main direction of attack, while the south and east of the city were used as harassment and containment.

So in front of the north of the city, the enemy's siege lineup appeared, and the equipment of the bandits was as simple as ever.

Except for a few leaders who wore leather armor, the rest of them were dressed in sackcloth and jackets in tatters, just like a gang of beggars going on tour.

As for the weapons in the hands of the thieves, they were holding crude long knives and bamboo spears, but many people still used hoes and hatchets.

In the distance, the big flag with black characters on a white background is the flag of the mighty Mantian King, Wang Xuba.

Now the general flag is slowly moving forward, followed by the army of thieves holding ladders, big wooden hammers and other siege equipment, also began to move forward.

The thieves began to attack the city like ants gathered.

There were a thousand archers in front of the thieves. According to the siege practice, they came to the front line and raised their bows to face the defenders at the top of the city, preparing for a round of arrows to cover them.

When Li Chongjiu saw Gao Chu, the lord of the North City, and the enemy archers approaching thousands of times, Li Chongjiu asked in amazement, "Why don't you let the brothers raise their shields, or use their bows and arrows to reflect!"

Gao Chu laughed, and said: "Master Hou, two hundred armored cavalry are invincible in field battles, Gao admires it, but when it comes to defending the city, Gao is confident that he has some strengths, Master Hou will wait and see."

Li Chongjiu knew that Gaochu was very capable of resisting the siege of Wang Xuba's army for two months as an isolated city in Linghu County, so he decided not to ask any more questions.

The enemy's [-] archers were divided into two groups. When they approached the city for [-] steps, they were blocked by the plum blossom piles under the city. They raised their bows and shot at the top of the city.

The enemy archers shot upwards, and the arrows were [-] steps away, and they shot towards the city wall more than three feet high.

Occasionally, when they hit the city wall, they couldn't penetrate the armor of the village soldiers, just like scratching an itch.

Seeing the scene, the Sui defenders on the top of the city all laughed.
Gao Chu said to Li Chongjiu in a somewhat ostentatious way: "This is the plum blossom pile I set up to block under the top of the city. It can not only divide the enemy's formation, prevent them from rushing to the city, but also prevent them from attacking the city. The enemy army used the wall-breaking hammer to dig into my city wall."
Li Chongjiu couldn't help but nodded when he saw it.

The enemy archers were [-] paces away, and they fired twice, but they had no effect. The enemy general felt helpless when he saw it, and quickly ordered these archers to withdraw and replace them with fresh troops.

At this time, Gao Chu's face became more serious.

Hey!Hey!Hey!
The healthy soldiers of the enemy army, carrying ladders and ramming hammers, cheered loudly.Before going into battle, everyone drank a bowl of farewell wine, knowing that this trip would probably be death, so taking advantage of the smell of alcohol, they simply took off their clothes and went into battle shirtless.
There was a brigade of less than a hundred rural soldiers stationed in Beicheng, while three hundred civilians were brought in temporarily.

Seeing that the enemy was mainly attacking the northern city, Li Chongjiu also sent a team of cavalry to garrison the city. At the same time, he dispatched a team of township soldiers and a hundred civilians from the west of the city where no enemy troops appeared.

Therefore, here in the north of the city, there are also six or seven hundred people. Seeing the enemy army carrying the ladder and preparing to climb the city, the village soldiers and cavalry all raised their bows and arrows at the same time, and started shooting arrows at the city!
Unlike the hunting bows and short bows that the enemy cannot reach far, the defenders are equipped with at least infantry bows that can kill two stones with one stone.

In addition, due to the favorable location, there is no way for the condescending bandit army to escape.

Therefore, every time a round of arrow rain falls, there will be a lot of blood under the city.

Relying on the advantage of having a large number of people, the rogues were still approaching the city wall.

"rise!"

"rise!"

"rise!"

The enemy shouted loudly.

The newly built ladders were erected one after another high, and they were placed on the top of the city like falling from the sky.

As soon as each ladder was erected, some thieves immediately bit their knives, grabbed the ladder with both hands, and began to climb the city using all four limbs.

Behind each ladder are more than 20 thieves, densely clustered behind, climbing up from the ladder.

Seeing that the enemy army started to climb the city, Gao Chu gave an order, and immediately the villagers began to come out of the cave, picked up the stones piled up on the side of the female wall, and smashed them towards the battlements.

The stone that was shaped like a washbasin fell from the top of the city more than three feet high, and it almost killed and injured.

There were screams under the city wall.

Taking this opportunity, three or four Minzhuang picked up the hook and pushed it towards the end of the ladder.

"fall down!"

"fall down!"

"Run away!"

Hearing the exclamation from the city, the ladder fell from the top of the city, knocking down a large group of thieves.

As for the direction of the city gate, it was naturally the place where the fiercest fighting was, and thieves with battering hammers in their hands swarmed in.

Although the arrows shot from the top of the city were as dense as rain, the strong men of the bandits moved forward desperately, and no one dared to retreat.

If it was a retreater, the row of supervisors standing behind the thief, with the knife shining in their hand, would never show the slightest mercy.

After each thief fell to the ground with an arrow, another person immediately took over the other's position, facing the rain of arrows on the top of the city, and bravely charged forward.

"Put nails on it!" Seeing this scene, Gao Chu had a cruel smile on his face.

Each nail rack is about one foot in size, several feet wide, and weighs more than a hundred kilograms. The thick wooden boards are covered with rusty iron nails.

With the sound of iron chains rattling, more than a dozen spikes were lowered from the gate of the city in one go, and smashed into the densely packed enemy army at the gate.

(End of this chapter)