Country and Beauty

In the midst of the rain of arrows, the Bashu army began to launch an assault. Nearly a thousand soldiers roared. Carrying ladders, they surged towards the walls of the Mingyang Pass. There were also many soldiers who pushed their way through the city and charged towards the Mingyang Pass's city gates. The arrow tower, flying tower and other heavier and sharper siege equipment did not appear on the battlefield. These heavy equipment were currently on their way from Bashu to Mingyang Pass.

Under the rain of arrows, the soldiers on both sides fell to the ground. From time to time, Qin soldiers who had been shot by arrows would roll down the city walls; soldiers who had formed soldiers carrying ladders would be continuously shot down to the ground, and the soldiers that followed closely behind would quickly fill the gap. A series of ladders rose up along the wall, and the soldiers began to climb up the wall while biting their weapons.

Rocks and logs rained down from the city walls. Many of the climbing soldiers were thrown into the air, and the rocks and wood fell into the crowd of people beneath the city, their flesh and blood splattering everywhere. Another Qin soldiers carried a pot of boiling oil to the city wall and poured it down. The sound of water splashing and fried meat pieces squeaking filled the air with a nauseating aroma.

An army soldier climbing up a ladder was about to reach the city wall, but a cauldron suddenly appeared above his head, and before he could recover his wits, boiling oil poured down on him like a waterfall, filling his entire body from the top of his head. He felt as if all the skin in his body had been peeled off. The unbearable pain stimulated his nerves, and he screamed at the top of his lungs. Subconsciously, he jumped off the ladder and fell to his death.

At the same time as Qin soldiers poured the oil, there were also soldiers throwing torches at the city walls. Many soldiers were howling and struggling in the fire, running around like headless flies or rolling on the ground, hoping to extinguish the raging flames on their bodies. This scene was truly miserable.

With the Qin Army Guard holding the scythe spear in their hands, they coordinated with each other to pick up the ladder on the city walls. Then, with a roar, they pushed the ladder outwards, causing it to flip backwards and smash onto the ground like a flyswatter. At the same time, several soldiers fell onto the ground with their mouths and noses bleeding.

The archers kept firing arrows at the city walls from behind their shields, and one after another, the Northern army soldiers fell to the ground. Some of them were preparing to pour the boiling oil into the city, but a few arrows were already whistling through the air, and two of them fell to the ground. The oil immediately fell onto the city walls, causing a small disturbance among the Northern army soldiers who were caught off guard.

The attack of wood, stones, bows and arrows, and boiling oil had caused the entire city to suffer. After a quarter of an hour of fierce fighting, the army had paid more than a thousand men, and they had not yet reached the top of the city. However, the losses sustained by the Qin Army were not small. There were nearly a hundred casualties, which were mostly caused by the formed army. One must know that there were only about four thousand Qin Army in the entire Mingyang Pass. According to this ratio, there was a possibility for the formed army to win. Cheng Jun only needed to pay the price of forty thousand people to take over Mingyang Pass.

Li Qi, who was under the command of the commander in the middle, looked at the scene in front of him. The current situation was extremely normal, and if his men suddenly charged to the top of the city walls, he would have suspected that there was something wrong.

"Haven't you eaten? A bit louder! " Li Qi shouted to the war drum hands.

The drummers felt their hearts tremble as they mustered up all their strength to strike the drums. The rumbling drum sounds reverberated in the air and the entire ground seemed to tremble. The morale of the army that was attacking the city had already started to wane, but when they heard the sound of the drum, they all felt as if they had been injected with stimulants. The beast-like howls instantly became a bit louder, and the rhythm of their attacks also increased.

Zhang Li frowned and ordered Yang Xian, who was standing beside him, "Send orders for the third group to come up the wall! All the wounded and wounded are to be removed from the city wall for treatment. "Order the first regiment to act as the main reserve, to be prepared to accompany us in the battle to support the city walls." Zhang Li could already feel the impending war.

… ….

Ming Guanyang's battle continued for three days. Although the army didn't manage to reach the city walls after paying the price of ten thousand people, the number of people killed in the battle of Mingyang Pass was more than a thousand. There were also hundreds of injured people.

However, at this time. Under the control of Li Qi's banner of command, numerous large charging vehicles (which were invented by Zhuge Liang when he attacked Chen Cang Guan in the past, and were also used as important war chariots by previous generations when he attacked the city, and were broken by Hao Zhao when he used a ball shaped millstone to attack the city) stopped over 200 m away from the city walls, and slowly raised towers and slabs of clouds. Inside the tower, there were over a dozen archers hiding with tight shooting covers, and the walls of the tower house were all smeared with oil and mud.

When the height of the wooden tower reached higher than the city wall, a Academy Officer gave a loud shout, causing the archers hiding on the cloud deck and the opening of the tower to shoot towards the city guards, the soldiers pressing on the city walls were unable to focus their attention to deal with the enemy soldier who was climbing up the tower.

Between each of them, there were several more catapults, which were also throwing boulders into the city. When the rock attacks stopped, the crossbows and archers in the back rows took turns to fire, covering the soldiers below the city walls as they slammed their doors shut and climbed up the city walls.

The battle had already persisted for four hours. The Qin Army had the advantage in terms of terrain, looking down from above, relying on the sturdy city walls, they had only suffered over five hundred casualties. Li Qi's side, on the other hand, had about two to three thousand casualties. The warriors who had ascended to the top of the city walls had been annihilated by the defenders of the city walls. So, they repeatedly seized the defensive line of the city walls, and the corpses inside and outside the city walls were piled up like mountains. Looking at the reserve troops behind them caused their blood to boil.

Zhang Li could not take it anymore, and pulled out his sword: "I will personally command it, we cannot let the enemy soldier take over the city, otherwise it will be a huge problem!"

At this time, the deputy general Yang Xian said to Zhang Li: "General, this is not the way to go on, the impact of the charging car on our army is too great, our brothers cannot even lift their heads up from the city wall, let alone fight back, only by destroying the enemy's car can the Mingyang Pass defend this way."

Facing the army's frontal assault, Zhang Li had no better idea. He nodded and said, "That's true, but how can we destroy the siege machinery? "If I were to have three thousand elite cavalrymen, I could open the city gates and fight to the death. But right now, my army has troops in the pass, and as for cavalry, it's even more insignificant."

The deputy general Yang Xian was obviously very confident, he lightly smiled and said, "How could the general have forgotten the great killing weapon in our hands?"

Zhang Li was startled, and quickly understood that the big killing weapon that Yang Xian mentioned was the Heaven Bombing grenade, but Zhang Li quickly shook his head and laughed bitterly: "The Heaven Bombing grenade is a good thing, but sadly, the car is too far away from the city wall, so even the bravest warrior in the army can only place the Heaven Bombing grenade at a distance of 150 meters, and now that the car is more than 200 meters away from the city wall, we can't even reach it."

Yang Xian said, "Although we can't invest that much manpower, we can still use it to our advantage."

"Borrowing power?" Zhang Li was also a little excited. "How?"

Yang Xian said: "There are two catapults in Mingyang Pass's Inner Mansion, although they are of the smallest type, able to throw stones weighing twenty Jin at a distance of one hundred steps. But it's enough to use it to cast Heaven Bombing grenade. "

At the same time, the soldiers started to attack even more fiercely, and below the city, rows after rows of soldiers were stepping on mountains of corpses, holding up a few Zhang long ladders as they walked towards the wall. As the ladders landed on the ground, they started to charge arrows and stones, and some of the nimble elite warriors began to swing their lashes to grab onto the battlements at the top of the city, and then use the ropes to climb up.

The defending troops at the top of the city wall were also abnormally brave, even when they were faced with the incoming crossbow bolts and giant rocks, they would still change their color. The boiling oil, rolling wood and stone slabs would rain down and smash down, knocking down the ladder to the battlements and using their horses' swords to cut off the ropes, tenaciously killing and exterminating the enemy soldier who charged up again and again.

On the far general's platform, Li Qi's expression was solemn as he watched the battle below the city. He sighed in his heart: "I never thought that the warriors of the Qin Army were so stubborn, to actually be unable to advance, it seems like the defenders are really bewitched by Xie Fei, up against enemies, up against enemies, down against enemies, down against enemies, down against enemies … Unfortunately, they are currently attacking against an impregnable fortress, from time to time, surrounding the city. As a result, many of their plans to besiege the city are difficult, and the enemy is determined to defend."

Tactics had Yin and Yang, the trick was to face the enemy with the truth, to confuse them, and then to lure them into an ambush, regardless of the strategy behind it, they had to do it in a positive way, paying attention to the control of the situation and the strength. Any trickery was useless in front of absolute strength.

For example, when we attack the Mingyang Pass right now, no matter what plan you use, the other party would just defend it with his life, so all thirty-six strategies would be useless. The crux was to use absolute strength to tear through the defensive lines and occupy the fortress.

"If this round of fierce attacks is still unable to break through the closed door and the morale is low, we can only temporarily retreat and think of another way." Li Qi thought.

"Stone Throwing Machine, get ready to fire!" Yang Xian shouted.

A Academy Officer immediately waved his command flag, dozens of Qin Army roared, and with a tug of force, the released Heaven Bombing grenade was thrown out through the change in movement energy and principle. With a strong force, it flew through the air in a parabola, and suddenly landed on the car. In a situation where the defenders were not sure of the situation, there were a few explosions, causing several pieces of the Heaven Bombing grenade to fly everywhere.

Right at that moment, "boom boom boom" sounds could be heard. Qin Army's catapult machine had accurately shot Heaven Bombing grenade into the hole, and in the car, dozens of archers were blown to pieces, their flesh and blood flying everywhere.

In just a quarter of an hour, before the army could react, the dozen or so cars outside the city were completely destroyed.

"Ahh …" Many soldiers who were on fire ran back and forth in fear. Some of them were rolling on the ground, while others directly fell off the city wall due to the burning pain.

Li Qi's face changed as he panicked: What is this? The other high-ranking officers were also shocked, the strategists were even more terrified, in the midst of the explosion, they almost fell down, the true fight was not scary, but the Qin Army's power and methods were not something they could handle.

"Get ready, throw!" Academy Officer waited for the soldiers to place the urn back before he shouted the order.

… …. "Oh …" The warrior below pulled on the rope and pulled with all his might, causing dozens of Heaven Bombing grenade s to fly out and collide with the attacking machinery. Another series of explosions occurred, causing the attacking machinery to ignite and quickly spread.

The Heaven Bombing grenade's attack succeeded, Zhang Li ordered the catapult to continue attacking deeper, as balls of fireballs rose up from the ground, many of the military catapults along with the nearby operators were all blown away. Although the Heaven Bombing grenade weighed five catties, as it was made using raw black gunpowder, it was not as powerful as modern infantry grenades. It could be used around 1700 years ago and was undoubtedly the most powerful weapon in the modern atomic bomb.

Li Qi squinted his eyes, it was also the first time he had seen such an attack method, he was secretly amazed at the power of the Qin Army, it was worthy of being called an enemy of the army, and suddenly said: "Quick, quickly tell the archers to aim for the flying urn, we must stop them in mid-air, if not we will be in trouble."

This time, all of the archers in the army changed their direction and shot towards the urns in the sky. They could not shoot even one arrow, but hundreds of arrows were shot at the same time, almost 30% of the urns were blocked, some exploded in mid air, while some directly fell to the ground and exploded. The archers became more focused, but the more than 2,000 archers in charge of defending the city mercilessly retaliated and shot all of the soldiers that attacked the city.

The army could not understand what was going on. Could it be that the God of Heaven was angry that he was struck by lightning on a sunny day? At this moment, the attacking Academy Officer's face was filled with fear. Academy Officer's body fell backwards as blood blossomed like a gigantic snow lotus.

At this moment, a strange scene appeared. Qin Army only relied on two stoning machines to throw thirty to forty Heaven Bombing grenade, scaring the army of close to a hundred thousand away.

Although Li Qi did not know what weapon the Qin Army was using, he knew that the morale was low. He ordered the retreat of the soldiers in order to scheme behind the scenes.

"The general has ordered that Jin Ming will withdraw his troops …" The messenger officer rushed out on his horse, traversing between the phalanx lines until he reached the front lines. At the same time, the golden gong sounded, the retreat drum slowly moved, and all troops were withdrawn.

Looking down, the battlefield was filled with thick smoke, the flames were bright, and corpses covered the ground. There were even layers upon layers of corpses piled up below the city walls, forming a river of blood, and the corpses, heads, limbs, corpses, and dead Ma Hun were in a mess. Everyone who saw it would feel nauseous, even the clouds above Ming Yang City had turned blood-red, and the army spirit would not disappear for a long time.