On June 17th, Yang An and Murong Chui, the brothers in distress, finally built four floating bridges in the moat hundreds of steps across the four cities.

These two are good at fighting, and they are laying off roads. They have always been in different camps. Yang An was originally the powerful arm of Wang Meng's faction, and Murong Chui has always been unwelcome to Wang Meng. If Fu Jian had not protected him, Wang Meng would have long found an opportunity to deal with this ambitious surrender general of Yan State.

But this time, the two of them cooperated for the first time. Fu Pi ordered the two to build a floating bridge. No matter how unhappy they were, it was a military order. If the commander's military order could not be completed, no matter if you are a founding father and a great military achievements, this place is not Chang'an, and there is still some place to reason. Fu Pi, a fool, could kill the two of them with just a mouth; so the two of them thought about it. Although Murong Chui looked handsome and fair-faced, but his skin was much thicker than Yang An, and took the initiative to discuss with Yang An how to build a floating bridge with such a wide river.

After discussing, the two finally came up with a plan; simply setting up a bamboo and wooden pontoon bridge is definitely not possible, and trampling the pontoon bridge back and forth will definitely lead to accidents; in the end, the two decided to go to the surrounding mountains to cut logs.

After cutting logs for three days, forty thousand people and locusts cut all the tall logs surrounding Xiangyang. Not only that, the vines and bamboo forests in the mountains were also swept away; except for the grass and dwarf bushes, almost all the trees above four feet of the mountain were lost.

Next is pile driving, one end of the log is sharpened, inserted into the bottom of the moat to compact, the top is flat at the river water, and then woven bamboo mats and rattan mats are laid on the surface, and finally scattered rammed earth on the surface to compact. The four avenues standing on the surface were built with great imagination and were stable and flat, and the surface was like flat ground.

The four roads were still picked up the narrowest river channel to build. Even so, it took more than ten days. Forty thousand people worked hard. The results were quite satisfying. Yang An and Murong Chui. They actually felt a sense of satisfaction outside of the war. Although this satisfaction made both of them start to despise themselves, it has to be said that the joy of completing the task still eliminated the depression in their hearts.

On June 18, all the siege equipment was rushing to the open space between the outer city and the inner city. The outer city and the inner city were about two thousand steps apart. Although there was not much depth, Fu Pi originally had the idea of ​​attacking at the same time from all sides. The team was very open and it had little impact.

After the siege equipment was in place, Fu Pi began a large-scale siege battle in the afternoon; Shi Yue led 30,000 people to attack the Xicheng, Gou Qian led 30,000 people to attack the Nancheng, Yao Qian led 30,000 people to attack the Beicheng, and even the candid Murong Wei was able to lead 30,000 people to attack the Dongcheng; Yang An and Murong Chui were idle again, and the 40,000 troops in their hands were merged into the central army led by Fu Pi to use as a reserve team; Fu Pi did not intend to let these two fight at all.

Before afternoon, Fu Pi gave the order, the four cities launched a crazy attack at the same time. Crossbow arrows and stones from all directions poured towards the city, piled up two or three feet thick stones on the top of the city. The soldiers guarding the city had no place to stand. They could only hold their heads and hide in the grooves left behind the solid battlements of the city, waiting for the air strike.

Taking advantage of the suppression, Qin soldiers from all directions began to charge. They pushed the ladder truck and the city rushing car, held a big shield and rushed to the city wall, shouting and shouting. The defenders at the city could only emerge after the enemy's air strikes stopped. As soon as they emerged, they found that the Qin army was within ten feet of the city, and the archers had no chance to shoot arrows. There was only one way, that was, to pick up the stones at the city and smash them down. Anyway, there were so many stones, and they were all sent by Fu Pi.

The city wall is too high, and the stone thrown off seemed to fall from the clouds, with amazing force. A big fist stone smashed down from the top of the city wall more than three meters high. When the soldiers hit the body of the soldiers, they could smash the helmets into one. Most of these helmets were just conical dome hats made of iron, and they were not like later generations, and the protective layer was added in the middle. The powerful vibration of the stones could shake the soldiers to bleeding from their mouths and noses and make them dizzy.

After several rounds of smashing, the city was covered with corpses, and no less than a few thousand soldiers siege the city died. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Qin army was both determined to suppress the archers. Through the Qin soldiers who were charging forward, they shot a large number of feather arrows at the top of the city. The archery shot at the top of the city can imagine that the soldiers on the top of the city could almost ignore these feather arrows. However, the feather arrows shot into the inner city and injured many people under the city who assisted the city to transport things.

What's even more terrible is that the Jin soldiers moved the thunder crossbow to the top of the city. Ten thunder crossbows and dozens of ordinary bed crossbows were on each side to shoot the ants-like Qin soldiers below. It's okay if the ordinary bed crossbows arrived, the thunder crossbows actually added leather pockets behind them. Every time, dozens of feather arrows were placed in the leather pockets and shot them out at one time. They spread out like rain in the sky, covering a large area, and died standing in the middle. The archers under the city were emptied in large numbers and fell down like wheat.

"Where is our bed crossbow? Bombing at these crossbow chariots." Fu Pi yelled in anger.

The soldiers quickly pushed the crossbow forward, and shot the high earth platform built by the crane at the top of the city. The thunder crossbow chariots immediately changed to thick crossbow arrows and shot at the crossbow points. The distance of 600 steps was the time when the thunder crossbow arrows were at the peak. The Qin soldiers' crossbow chariots exploded on the top of the earth platform. The soldiers who were serving these crossbows flew down from the earth platform, looking like fireworks scattered, and looked beautiful in an instant. But the Qin soldiers would not think so. They were frightened and quickly put the crossbow chariots down the platform and dragged them back to the enemy's range.

"What's that fucking thing?" Fu Pi forgot the identity of the royal nobleman and cursed.

"General, have you forgotten? When we first attacked the outer city, this thing destroyed the floating bridge we built and took the lives of hundreds of brothers. It was the thunder chariot of the Jin army." A personal guard said.

"Oh, I'm so angry. These Jin pigs will use these methods, but they dare not go out of the city to fight head-on with our great Qin soldiers. They are cowards." Fu Pi said hatefully.

The guards around them all thought to themselves: Do you think the Jin people are idiots? They let the city not defend, and they ran to fight 20,000 people head-on with 170,000 people. It seems that you are not very smart.

"Retreat the troops, retreat, this is impossible to fight, there will be too many casualties." Fu Pi roared, and his personal guards hurriedly sent orders. The Qin soldiers in the four cities sounded the trumpet and stopped and ran back.

The battlefield was quiet, and there was a tragic situation of death everywhere. There were a thick layer of dead bodies piled up within five or six feet of the city. There were also thousands of corpses on the way to charge. They were shot and killed by bed crossbows and thunder crossbows. The death figures were terrified by Fu Pi. A total of more than 8,000 people were killed. If this continues, his 170,000 soldiers were exhausted in twenty days. The battle was so miserable.

The Jin soldiers only died in battle, and the people were killed and injured, and 1,600 people were replaced by 8,000 people. This transaction was a big profit, but Zhu Xu was not very happy. It was really not necessary for the people to die so many times. It was all because he was not considerate and did not arrange the evacuation and organization of the logistics in advance. He decided to assign individual personnel to organize the support team of the people.

After the war, the Qin soldiers negotiated, saying that they would send two thousand people to carry away the bodies and wounded soldiers in four cities. A large number of dead bodies would emit poisonous gas in the hot weather, causing a plague. This was not good for both sides. The bodies all over the ground would also hinder the Qin army's future siege. Carrying them away, burning and burying are things that both sides would like to see. So under the eye of the archers on the top of the city, the bodies were carried away one by one. The Qin soldiers did not forget to wipe the dying wounded soldiers on the neck to end their pain.

This battle brought confidence to the military and civilians of Xiangyang. They fully believed that they had the ability to persevere until reinforcements arrived. Jingzhou was only more than ten days away from here, and the preparation time was more than twenty days. This city could persevere even in two months.

Fu Pi began to feel depressed again. He thought that Xiangyang could be taken down in one fell swoop, but he kicked the iron plate barefoot so hard that he was so painful that he was going to have a meeting again. He knew almost nothing about siege. Such a siege routine was just about to be crammed with the generals in the court before he came. When this simple and crude method of relying on the strong to bully the weak did not work, Fu Pi could only seek help from the wisdom of the generals again.
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