Zhan Chengyin said: "Chen Wu, the Qin Nu team is on standby, ready to ignite the explosives!"
"Yes, General!"
Chen Wu went down to deploy.
When the enemy approached to five kilometers, they were already standing within the range of the explosives, but more troops were still behind.
When they were three kilometers away from the city wall, Zhan Chengyin met the Chu general, Ling Xiaofeng.
He was over fifty years old and was the most famous general in the Great Chu.
He became famous at the same time as Zhan Chengyin's father.
There was a legend in the army of the six countries that there was Ling Xiaofeng in the south and Zhan Tianyi in the north.
Countless people wanted to fight with them to see who was more powerful.
Unfortunately, his father was killed by the barbarians, and the two never had the chance to compete on the battlefield again!
Ling Xiaofeng was wearing black armor, with a full beard on his face, and he was tall and burly.
Beside him were his two sons.
Ling Yunzhe and Ling Shichen are of the same age as Zhan Chengyin.
However, these two men went to the battlefield in their teens, but they are not as well-known as Zhan Chengyin.
Ling Xiaofeng rode a tall horse, stood under the city tower, and shouted with full energy.
"My dear nephew, open the city gate and surrender. How can your 50,000 soldiers stop an army of 350,000?"
"Give up all the water and food in the city, and this general will definitely protect you from death!"
Zhan Chengyin took a step forward, his dark eyes were cold, looking down at the Chu army below.
The soldiers were dark and thin, with chapped lips, and they had not drunk water for a long time.
He sneered at the corner of his lips: "Why don't the Chu army surrender to my Daqi, and this general will let every soldier drink water and have food every day."
"What do you think, General Ling?"
Ling Xiaofeng's eldest son, Ling Yunzhe, stood up, and he was so angry that he cursed.
"You only have 50,000 men, and more than half of them are new recruits who have never been trained. How dare you fight my Great Chu army?"
"I respect you by asking you to surrender. Otherwise, I will destroy the city today and make you die without a burial place!"
Zhan Chengyin sneered and raised his hand.
The Qin Nu team drew their bows and prepared!
Below, Ling Xiaofeng shouted: "Attack the city..."
The war drums were beating.
Countless soldiers below shouted, "Charge!"
They swarmed and pushed more than a dozen siege vehicles to the city gate.
Zhan Chengyin shouted: "Shoot..."
Countless arrows broke through the air.
Not only the Qin Nu, but more compound bows shot towards the city gate.
The compound bow has a range of only 150, but the distance to the tower is only more than ten meters. The arrows are accurate and can shoot continuously...
Qinnu is long-range, and the compound bow is short-range.
With two-pronged approach, the first wave of besiegers died under the bows and arrows.
But there are too many enemies.
After one batch fell, the second batch continued to attack the city.
The third batch...
came in an endless stream.
There were two or three siege vehicles that had been pushed to the edge of the city wall. The Chu soldiers climbed up the siege vehicles and wanted to occupy the city wall.
Below, archers shot arrows to cover the distance.
However, everyone was wearing a full set of bulletproof vests, and even their arms were protected.
The other party could not break the helmet at all.
Five siege vehicles were close to the city wall, and two vehicles of soldiers climbed up.
Zhan Chengyin ordered: "Pour coal balls!"
A soldier poured a large bucket of red-hot coal balls onto the siege vehicle.
In an instant, the soldiers on the siege vehicle were burned and fell down.
The wooden siege vehicle was ignited by the high temperature.
Below, Ling Xiaofeng looked at them with eyes red with anger.
He never expected that the other side had so many tricks despite having so few people.
Long arrows, short arrows... fired at the same time.
There was actually charcoal burning on the city wall.
The red-hot charcoal fell down and the siege vehicle burned directly.
What was even more infuriating was that his soldiers were wearing black military uniforms that covered their entire bodies, but the arrows could not break through their protection.
Their shields were shot into more than a dozen pieces.
The other side was not equipped with shields, but none of them died.
He did not believe in evil, so he took out a heavy bow and arrow and shot at a soldier's head.
Ding~
The arrow clearly hit the target, but only pushed the soldier back several steps, and then
he continued to draw the bow and shoot arrows. The helmet on his head did not break.
Instead, Ling Xiaofeng's arrow broke.
What was even more hateful was that the black protective plate in front of the helmet could cover the face, so they could not shoot at the center of the eyebrows!
Ling Xiaofeng shot the man in the chest again.
Ding, a string of sparks and lightning, Ling Xiaofeng's heavy and sharp arrows broke!
He had never seen such strange equipment with a high level of protection.
These equipments have increased Zhan Chengyin's combat power by three times.
Otherwise, the tower would have been captured long ago.
Just when the Chu army could not break through the city wall.
The Qi army also had a bad start. Chen Kui, Chen Wu, Bian Ziping and Li Yuanzhong were dealing with the 200,000-strong army of Qi.
They never expected that the monarch of Qi would personally go out. He sat in the carriage and watched the siege calmly.
At first, he didn't care, thinking that it was only a matter of time before the attack was taken.
When Qin Nu appeared, the arrows shot his horse to death.
It almost hit him, and his face changed drastically, and he went directly into the carriage.
Countless shields were erected around to resist.
He thought that more than a dozen siege vehicles could climb up the Zhenguan city wall.
However, countless red-hot coal balls fell down.
The siege vehicles were scrapped on the spot.
What's more infuriating is that Chen Kui and Chen Wu waited until everyone arrived under the city wall before ordering the composite bows to shoot.
The composite bow has a short range, but it is very accurate.
One arrow shot through a soldier.
The equipment of Qi was worse than that of Chu. Anyone shot would basically fall off the city wall and become a dead body.
Just when the two countries were unable to attack, more and more soldiers died.
When the city wall was almost filled,
something even more terrifying came.
Chen Wu ordered people to ignite the explosives, hang them on Qin's arrows, and shoot them in the center of the crowd.
Bang, there was a loud bang.
Countless people were blown away. They were unprepared and died just like that.
The lethality of hot weapons is far greater than that of cold weapons.
Countless explosives exploded in the crowd of Qi.
Several times, the explosives exploded next to the monarch of Qi.
Without the shield, the King of Qi would have been injured.
The soldiers' morale gradually weakened after the siege.
The explosives that exploded among the soldiers made many of them want to retreat.
When most people stood on the explosive line.
Chen Wu raised his hand and ordered, "Ignite the explosives!"
"Bang~"
A huge sound shook the earth.
The explosives buried five kilometers around the city wall exploded in succession.
Many soldiers stood on this line.
All were blown away!
This explosion caused the loss of tens of thousands of people.
It became the biggest straw that broke the camel's back in the siege battle.
If it were the barbarians, they would have retreated at this time.
But the soldiers of Chu and Qi, without the order of the generals, no one retreated a step.
Zhan Chengyin saw that the corpses under the city wall had piled up higher than the city gate.
The fierce attack continued below!
More than a dozen siege vehicles, six were burned, and five were close to the city wall.
Countless people climbed onto the siege vehicles.
The coal had been burned out.
Zhan Chengyin ordered: "The Modao team is ready..."
The Modao team put down their compound bows, drew out their long swords, and blocked the top of the siege vehicle.
Go up one, kill one.
Go up two, kill a pair.
No matter how many people climbed up, they could not see through the equipment of the Mo Dao team, and it was futile.
This battle was extremely difficult.
Both sides were clinging to each other and refused to give in.
The attack lasted from noon to dark.
More and more people died below. Many people attacked the city wall.
However, they were helpless against the high-protection armor of the Zhan family army and were killed on the city wall.
Until, when it was close to dark, the Zhan family army used fire attack.
That's right, they didn't know where they got the kerosene with a strong smell.
They burned all the dozen siege vehicles.
Countless soldiers were burned to death.
Seeing that the siege was hopeless, Ling Xiaofeng ordered a retreat...