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Chapter 701
On the city wall, the Zhao army stood ready.The brave soldiers of the Tang army jumped onto the ladder cart one after another. At this time, the sound of rumbling drums sounded in the center of the Tang army, and the middle army also beat drums to cheer for the siege soldiers.

The crossbowmen in the Tang army also began to shoot arrows towards the top of the city, suppressing the crossbowmen of Zhao Jun hiding behind the crenel.

Soldiers of the Tang army used their shields to fire the incoming arrows, and the arrows on Zhao Jun's head were fast and dense, and the protruding horse-faced walls on both sides also formed a cross-fire attack.The soldiers of the Tang army could not protect their whole bodies with shields, and only halfway up the ladder, four or five people were shot down by arrows.

However, the soldiers of the Tang army had already ascended the city with the heart of death. Although the robes were shot down one after another, they were still ants attached to the city.

The first soldier of the Tang army to climb the city wall had five or six arrowheads stuck in his cowhide armor. He took a step on the crenel before he was thrown down the city with random spears by more than a dozen Zhao soldiers.

But with the precedent of this first person, the follow-up soldiers of the Tang army still went to the city in an endless stream.On the left and right of the ladder cart, Tang Jun also carried bamboo ladders, and more than a dozen bamboo ladders were erected on the city wall at the same time.The soldiers of the Tang army held their knives and climbed up the bamboo ladder with both hands, but the soldiers of the Zhao army took the long hook and hooked it to the bamboo ladder that had just climbed up the city wall, and then pushed it out with all their strength.

The bamboo ladder fell backwards at once, and then there was a series of screams on the bamboo ladder, and the soldiers of the Tang army who were climbing on the bamboo ladder rolled down from the top like falling beans.

On the top of the city, people kept screaming and rolling down, hitting heavily on the half of the boat below the city wall that was covering the wall-digging soldiers.

Hearing a slap, the soldiers of the Tang army who were digging the wall looked back, only to see that half of the forehead of a robed Ze was dripping with blood, and his eyeballs were protruding.This tragic scene caused a dozen soldiers of the Tang army who were digging the wall with shovels to have a meal, swallowed their saliva, and turned back to continue digging the wall.

With the continuous efforts of the soldiers of the Tang Army, part of the city wall has been dug three feet deep, exposing the strongest wall embryo in the city wall. The difficulty of excavation here has been greatly increased. When a shovel goes down, only a white mark is drawn.Soldiers of the Tang army continued to dig the wall with shovels, iron sticks and other wall-digging tools.
At the city gate, Tang Jun's crashed car slammed into the fighting board, which effectively offset the impact of the crashing car on the city gate.As a result, the effect of Tang Jun's collision on the city gate was greatly reduced.A few brave soldiers of the Tang army jumped onto the fighting board and tried their best to chop the iron chains hanging on the iron board, but the iron chains were all thick with the mouth of a bowl, so how could they be cut with a few strokes of a big knife.

When several Tang soldiers were struggling to cut the iron chains of the fighting board, several iron hooks suddenly protruded from the top of the wall, hooking these Tang soldiers into the air, and some Tang soldiers were directly inserted into the abdomen by the iron hooks, and died instantly.Some were pulled by the waist and hooked their stomachs. They would not die for a while, but were hung alive in the air, struggling to die.

Liu Dewei, who was supervising the battle at the side, saw that in just one hour, more than 300 people were killed by the Tang army attacking the city, while the Zhao army on the city suffered very little casualties except for the loss of a bunch of arrows and stones.

Liu Dewei knew that it wasn't that his soldiers were not brave, but that the siege weapons he had hastily built were too crude, and that Zhao Jun had been preparing for battle in Heyang City for so long, and he had already turned the city into an iron barrel.It is a big taboo for military strategists to count less and not win.

Liu Dewei saw that the morale of the soldiers was exhausted, and when he was about to order a temporary retreat, the arrows of the Zhao army on the top of the city suddenly stopped.

The soldiers of the Tang army who had been suppressed by Zhao Jun's arrows couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and then they were all overjoyed, thinking that Zhao Jun must have run out of arrows.This is also, from the start of the war to the present, the arrows on the head of Zhao Jun's city have been shot downwards as if they don't need money.I have never seen a guard who is so generous. You must know that bows and arrows are the most important weapons in defending the city. Generals will not use them so casually to cause a waste of arrows.

In the past, when there were generals defending the city, they ran out of arrows, and then at night, the straw men pretended to go down to the city, misleading the attackers into thinking that the defenders were attacking the city and shooting arrows at the top of the city.Later, the defenders borrowed arrows from straw men.

Seeing that Zhao Jun had run out of arrows and Tang Jun was elated, Liu Dewei clearly saw more than a dozen large oil drums coming out from the top of the battlements, and the oil drums were filled with hot oil.

"Not good!" Liu Dewei lost his voice.

He saw with his own eyes the soldiers of Zhao Jun on the top of the city dump the hot oil barrels towards the bottom of the city, and there was a wailing from below.The soldiers of the Tang army who climbed the city wall were all torn from the hot oil and fell from the ladder.

Immediately, the Zhao soldiers on the top of the city replaced their arrows with oilcloth wrapped around the arrows, and a fire was lit on the oilcloth.The soldiers of Zhao Jun stood directly on the crenel and shot directly below the city wall with their bows.

Hot oil was poured over, the rocket fired again, and then a raging fire ignited under the city.

The soldiers of the Tang army who were planing the wall under half of the ship discarded their shovels and shovels, and rushed up screaming loudly, rolling under the mud. The sharp roar made people shudder.Half of the ships, ladders, crash cars and other siege equipment were also caught in the raging fire.

Seeing this scene, Li Jiancheng changed his color slightly and said, "Zhao Jun still has this skill."

On the side, Li Yuanji said to Li Jiancheng: "Don't worry, Your Highness, how many fire oil throwing stones and arrows can be found in a mere Heyang City. Zhao Jun has used it this time and it is almost the same. When the next time the city is attacked, there must be very few left." At that time, our army will be able to break through the city directly."

Hearing what Li Yuanji said, Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "That's right, if the defenders have an inexhaustible supply of arrows, kerosene, and stones, then this city will be difficult to attack."

Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji were slapped in the face as soon as they finished speaking.

It turned out that on the Heyang pontoon bridge, hundreds of civilian servants were carrying piles of arrows and rolling wooden stones, and they were continuously transporting them from the Yellow River to Beizhongcheng.After the civil service, there are hundreds of new troops who came from the south bank and are entering Heyang City with the civilian husbands.In the city, the wounded soldiers were transported on stretchers across the river from the pontoon bridge.

Seeing this scene of Li Jiancheng, Li Yuanji and Li Yuanji were both dumbfounded.

"You mother, how can we beat this!" Li Yuanji couldn't help but cursed.

Li Jiancheng also lost his face and said: "I finally know why Chen Qingzhi was able to defeat Erzhu Rong's 30 troops with [-] white-robed troops in Beizhong City. With the Heyang Floating Bridge, our army can't cut off the back road of Heyang City. In this way, the city is really difficult to attack. What strategy can the generals have to break the city?"

When Li Tangzhong heard what Li Jiancheng said, they all showed helplessness.Even Qu Tutong, Chai Shao, Liu Hongji and other famous generals looked helpless.

Just when Li Jiancheng was at his wit's end, a well-mannered scholar came out and said, "Your Highness, don't panic, I have a plan to break Heyang City!"

Li Jiancheng looked away, but he saw that this person was Liu Lan, a minister and wailang.

(End of this chapter)