Qu Xiong looked at his subordinates with a pale face, holding a wooden slug, carrying a earth bag, rushed to the moat of Huang County one by one, and fell down one by one. This is the sad thing about surrendering people. He knew it was a behavior of dying, but he could only bite the bullet and drive the subordinates to do it.

Qu Sheng hand held a big halberd and muttered dissatisfiedly: "If you leave the trench to the public, why bother us to die in vain?"

Qu Xiong frowned when he heard this and glared at him fiercely. Qu Xiong's wife's brother-in-law Song Lin was even more shocked and hurriedly said to Qu Sheng: "Bo Ling is careful. If this is heard by others, his brother-in-law will also be implicated."

Qu Sheng said unpleasantly: "A real man should do whatever he wants to fight on the battlefield. In order to seek fame and fortune, he should do whatever he wants, but dying like now is really a coward!"

Song Lin glanced at Qu Xiong beside him and said, "Although we surrendered a little later, the north will definitely need us if we want to govern Jingnan... Kuai Zhang will not sit idly by and ignore us..."

Qu Sheng snorted coldly and said, "I hope so."

Song Lin guessed correctly. In Kuai Yue's eyes, surrendered soldiers, even the strong people and weak soldiers, were all insignificant consumables, but they were all dead. Who else could fill the moat? Therefore, Kuai Yue naturally could not watch Liu Jingjun slaughter them wantonly.

Kuai Yue ordered the generals to work as Deng Fang, and first ascended the captain Feng Xi to supervise thousands of bows and crossbows, and went straight to the moat to suppress Liu Jing's army on the city and minimize casualties of soldiers and strong people.

Liu Jingjun won the advantage of geographical advantage. Whether it is the female walls on the city, the towers, or even the heavy pavilions and houses above the city gate, they can provide sufficient protection for the soldiers.

The Jingzhou army is winning because it has a numerical advantage and has a wide terrain outside the suburbs, which is by no means possible with a narrow city wall. The Jingzhou army can easily arrange a square formation composed of thousands of crossbows to suppress the enemy troops in the city in terms of density.

However, although Liu Jing cannot compare with Jingzhou Army in terms of projection number, don’t forget that Liu Jingjun has a large number of bed crossbows and catapults, both of which are long-range killing weapons.

When the Jingzhou army's crossbow array was arranged in tightly, they arrived at the city, and before a single arrow was emitted, their nightmare came...

With dozens of steps within the city wall on the south side of Huang County, all the buildings have been demolished, forming an open area, and now dozens of catapults are scattered on it.

At the top, the small trenchers operated by less than ten people. The more people you need, the more you need, and finally there were super large trenchers with as many as hundreds of people pulling together.

Many short-brown men and women were standing at the front of the catapult, and their eyes were looking at the flag-holding officers on the side without a moment. They were so nervous that they could hardly breathe. Their hands, holding the cannon cables, were covered in sweat.

"put……"

The flag-holding officials and soldiers in their respective areas waved the flags in their hands in turn from front to back.

"Bang...bang...bang..."

No matter how small trenchers operated by a few people or even large trenchers operated by a hundred people, they all make huge sounds like thunder.

Stone bullets of different sizes were thrown into the sky by a catapult, crossed the city, crossed the moat, and fell into the Jingzhou army formation. In just a blink of an eye, the Jingzhou army formation was smashed into pieces.

In fact, there were only dozens of catapults put into battle. Even if they were amazing, they would not cause too much damage to the Jingzhou army, at least far less than the damage caused by bows and crossbows.

The key is that the catapult is like a slap, and it is not something that humans can fight against. The catapult has a deterrent effect on the soldiers of Jingzhou Army, ten times or a hundred times the casualties of its own...

In addition, the crossbow with equally amazing killing and injury, it will die when it hits, and the soldiers of Jingzhou are all shocked and their hearts are broken and their hands are cold. Some people are panicked for a moment, not caring about the strict military law, and turn around and flee to the rear.

"Rearrange the array...Rearrange the array...If anyone dares to retreat, kill him!" Deng Fang led his troops to supervise the battle behind him. For the fugitive, he first ordered him to return to the team with words. If the other party ignores his orders, he will immediately execute him on the spot.

Feng Xi's approach is no different from Deng Fang. Both of them are people who treat soldiers well and can win the hearts of the people, but in such critical moments, they will raise a butcher knife to the soldiers without hesitation. The so-called "kindness is not in charge of soldiers" is nothing like this.

However, although the two of them temporarily suppressed the soldiers' commotion, this was by no means a long-term solution. Using flesh and blood to fight large warriors such as flying stone chariots and crossbows is tantamount to hitting stones with eggs. The best way to deal with it is naturally "to use the way of others to treat them."

Unfortunately, there is no technology for making flying stone cars in the Jingzhou army. Even if some are forced to be made, their power will probably not be ideal.

As for the bed crossbow, the navy captured some of it before, but the bed crossbow also had extremely high requirements for the production process and even materials, and it was difficult to successfully imitate it within ten months.

In order to appease the soldiers, Deng Fang and Feng Xi had no choice but to stretch the queue and increase the distance between the soldiers to reduce the threat of stone bullets and giant crossbows. In this way, the density of the crossbows will inevitably be reduced, and there is no way. The two can only "relatively compare the two harms."

The soldiers on both sides were on the city and under the city, and they were coming and going, shouting and killing Zhentian.

As time goes by, the moat of Huang County, about one mile long and five feet wide, is being filled at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At the cost, the moat was densely filled with corpses of the soldiers and soldiers of Jingzhou, and the river surface was almost silted. The moat was also covered with corpses, with casualties and wounds.

Kuai Yue stood in a cloud car towering down to overlook Huang County, looking at the soldiers below. The civilians suffered heavy casualties and were filled with sorrow. At the same time, he also strengthened his idea of ​​"not wanting to attack forcefully".

The defense of Huang County is already solid and has the advantages of combat equipment. The cost of a strong attack is too high. Unless there is no way to do it and it is absolutely necessary, Kuai Yue will never choose to strong attack.

Before sunset, Kuai Yue sent a visitor to explore the terrain around Huang County and returned with a few followers. After a discussion, the two decided to dig the tunnel tonight. In order to conceal Liu Jingjun in the city, Kuai Yue transferred a group of soldiers from the rear, and the civilians kept the soil all night to fill the trenches to cover the enemy's eyes.

Of course, authentic tunnel excavation is a big project after all, and the noise will never be small. It is not realistic to completely hide it from Liu Jingjun. Kuai Yue only wants to hide it for a few more days. The later the other party knows, the more convenient it is for him.

That night, the soldiers of Jingzhou and the civilians continued to fill the trenches under the city, and secretly drilled tunnels elsewhere. Liu Jingjun did not know the details, so he used fish fat as torches on the city, making the city walls bright as daytime.

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