“Take Zhenjiang City!

"

"The young commander has an order!"

“The first one to attack the city will be rewarded with a thousand gold coins and be granted the title of a thousand households!

!”

"brothers!"

"Kill the enemy and achieve meritorious service today!"

"Kill!"

"drink!

!

"

At this dawn, after hearing the long-awaited sound of the first drum, the invigorated front troops of the Ssangyong Army resolutely launched an attack.

Not long after!

As the first batch of soldiers braved the rain of arrows and flying stones to set up trench equipment on the trench studded with bamboo sticks, soon the following soldiers were pushing hard against the trench covered with thick wooden boards and cowhide.

The car quickly rushed to the city gate and began to hit the motionless city gate with wooden spines.

at the same time!

Wells, ladders and other siege equipment also rumbled towards the city wall amidst the deafening shouts of the soldiers. In the arrow tower camps on both sides of the rear, the archers and crossbowmen used the advanced weapons made by Lu Miaozi.

The crossbows had an advantage in range, and they began to shoot at the guards on the city wall, forcing them to dodge in a hurry and not even bother to defend themselves.

Just like that, amid the deafening shouts and sounds of fighting, the battle quickly became intense, and it seemed to be faintly beneficial to the development of one side of the Ssangyong Army?

But...

That kind of scene seemed to have been expected by Qin Wenchao, the guard of Wu State.

Soon, under the shouts of the defending generals, when the Shuangyong Army approached the city wall and began to climb using ladders, countless defenders appeared.

They began to use the big rocks they had prepared long ago and rolled them down at the city gate, hoping to block the hastily assembled rush vehicles. They also poured kerosene down on the surrounding rush vehicles.

Soldiers of the Ssangyong Army under the car fender.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Wu army on and within the city wall also used effective attack methods such as bows and arrows, flying rocks, and oil tanks to suppress the attacking Ssangyong Army in place, leaving those soldiers who bravely shouted forward to suppress the enemy.

He kept falling down under the city wall or on the ladder.

In an instant, as the two sides continued to fight, blood flowed into rivers, and corpses littered the fields began to appear, and the fighting situation between the two sides suddenly became more intense and anxious.

Especially the Ssangyong Army, which is the siege side, suffered losses at least two to three times that of the defenders, or even more!

"..."

Of course Xu Ziling, who was watching the battle from a distance, also saw that scene. For a moment, his heart was filled with anxiety and anger again, but he was helpless.

Because he knew that it was inevitable.

There is a saying in the art of war: the first is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the enemy, and the third is to attack the city.

Attacking the enemy's cities and fortresses is the best strategy for using troops, because that kind of attack often results in more gains than losses. In order to capture a city, it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to build equipment, not to mention a lot of food, grass, and time.

It's not cost-effective. Even if it ends up costing a lot of casualties in exchange for a ruined city, it can only be regarded as a miserable victory. That's not what their Double Dragon Army wants.

But he still continued to issue orders, allowing his own archers and crossbowmen who had the advantage of shooting range to continue to use the advanced crossbows improved by Lu Miaozi to shoot at the guards on the city wall, providing as much help as they could to the soldiers attacking the city.

Although, the effect is not obvious?

There was nothing that could be done, because due to the rush of time, the number of advanced crossbows of their Ssangyong Army was still too small, so that the defenders could still stick to the city wall and use their shields to block the arrows.

While firing crossbows, he frantically and condescendingly fought back against the siege soldiers of the Ssangyong Army who wanted to climb up.

In this way, the two sides continued to consume at the city gates and walls. Groups of soldiers from both sides began to fall, but groups of soldiers soon replaced them.

Fortunately!

I don’t know how long it took, but at this moment, air support from the Ssangyong Army finally arrived.

In the sky, a dozen human-powered wooden planes driven by the feet of martial arts masters began to appear staggeringly under the clouds above the Zhenjiang City Gate, with a height of at least several hundred feet!

They first circled like birds for a while, then began to swoop and drop each one of them with special chemical dyes amid the cheers of the Ssangyong Army and the frightened and unclear running of Li Zitong's Wu Army soldiers.

Burning oil can.

soon!

As the flames exploded, the city wall at the head of Zhenjiang City, the towers and many houses and material storage areas in the city began to fall into the sea of ​​fire. Then, the defenders who had never experienced that kind of aerial attack also began to

It became chaotic like a headless fly.

But...

boom!

!

At this moment, when the morale of the Shuanglong Army was greatly boosted and they wanted to take down the city wall in one fell swoop, while Li Zitong's defenders were panicking, a loud noise broke the state between them.

It turned out that at this moment, I don’t know what happened, but a wooden plane that was hovering in the air and throwing oil cans suddenly lost control and fell down?

As the wooden thing whirled, it fell straight to the top of the city wall, smashed into pieces, and detonated the oil can that had not been completely thrown. After igniting a fire, it seemed that the mysterious weapon high above was not invincible, and its front and rear were not the same.

After just throwing away a hundred oil cans and flying away, the defenders' originally low morale suddenly rose again.

And this unexpected incident inevitably caused the troops of the Ssangyong Army to fall into silence.

Especially when they saw the planes that flew away quickly after dropping the oil cans and the city walls that did not seem to be seriously damaged, the originally high morale inevitably fell again.

"..."

Similarly, as the coach, Xu Ziling also has complicated emotions.

Especially when he saw that one of the two parachute pilots landed on the top of the city and was cut into pieces by the Wu army, while the other luckily landed outside the city but was still injured by several arrows and was barely carried away by the soldiers attacking the city.

Afterwards, he knew that today's probing attack could not continue like this.

"Ming Jin!"

"withdraw troops!

"

Therefore, Xu Ziling immediately cut off the situation, and without waiting for the stern-faced military advisor to make a fuss or the other generals to speak, he waved his hand and gave the order.

Dang! Dang! Dang!

Just like that, as bursts of rapid golden sounds spread across the entire battlefield, the siege battle that lasted for less than half an hour came to a hasty end.

When the exhausted Ssangyong Army retreated like a tide, there were only corpses on the ground outside the city wall and at the city gate, as well as various wooden siege equipment that ignited fire and black smoke.

On the other hand, the guards on the city wall, although black smoke and fire were still rising from the top of the city and inside the city, and even the city tower was still burned by the fire, they looked in high spirits and waved their hands excitedly as if they were mocking the Ssangyong Army.

They held weapons and flags and cheered loudly, and Xu Ziling heard those vicious words and taunting and mocking curses from far away.

"Let's go!"

"Go back to camp!"

After losing at least hundreds of thousands of soldiers, as well as a valuable aircraft and a skilled pilot, Xu Ziling was certainly not in a good mood.

But it was not easy to return, so he had no other choice. He had to turn his horse's head with a dark face, and before the siege troops had completely retreated and counted the battle damage, he led the people to leave the former army camp and turned towards the distance.

They rode away from the Chinese army camp which was further away from the city and at a higher position.

…

And just when the Shuanglong Army stopped its first confrontation with Li Zitong's Zhenjiang garrison and took the initiative to retreat, on a high mountain in the west, a man wearing a blue long gown and carrying a simple long sword behind his back,

The woman with a bamboo hat on her head and a pretty face, who explained vividly that 'clear water brings out hibiscus and naturally removes the ornaments', also witnessed the whole process of the battle.

Then, when he saw the Ssangyong Army withdrawing its troops, and when he saw the dozen or so rickety magical 'flying machines' flying towards the tightly defended camp behind the Ssangyong Army and circling and landing one after another,

With twinkling eyes, she hesitated for a while before slowly turning around and leaving.

And if Xu Ziling were here, he would definitely be able to recognize him at a glance:

That woman was not the one who wanted to "choose the Ming Lord" for the world in Luoyang. In the end, she failed to snatch the "He's Bi" and was severely spanked by their master Anne. Then she got angry and joined forces with all the forces to try.

Who is Cihang Jingzhai’s concubine Xuanshi nun who secretly attacked his brother Kou Zhong on the river and tried to kill Kou Zhong?

And now, the descendant of Cihang Jingzhai, the disciple of Cihang Jingzhai who appears to be compassionate on the surface, but secretly has evil intentions, has come to this crucial Zhenjiang battlefield again.

As for what she wants to do, it is still unknown.

But anyway, she would definitely not be here to help Xu Ziling or the Ssangyong Army attack Zhenjiang City this time, nor would she be a mediator.

Quite the opposite!

She was probably here to sabotage the Ssangyong Army this time, that is, to assist Li Zitong's Wu army in defending Zhenjiang or even to defeat the Ssangyong Army.

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Chapter completed!