The next day, the Long Army and the Shu Army jointly attacked Lueyang again. This day's offensive was much stronger than yesterday. The main reason was that all the Long Army's large siege weapons had been transported, and the trebuchets posed a threat to the city defenders.
Especially big.
When the Long army began to use trebuchets to attack the Lueyang city defense from a distance, part of the Han army ran to the base of the wall, and part of the Han army hid behind the arrow stacks.
Listening to the roar of stones hitting the city wall, people's hearts trembled.
Brother and sister Li Chi and Li Chunyue came to Xicheng specifically. Before they could get close, they were stopped by soldiers.
Looking at the soldiers in front of him, Li Chi quickly saluted, pointed to the servant carrying the bucket, and said: "Now that the weather is getting cold, my little sister and I cooked some hot soup at home and sent it to His Majesty and the defenders of the city.
soldiers!"
A team leader stepped forward, opened the lid of the bucket, and looked inside. The steaming soup was fragrant and mixed with a strong aroma of meat.
The team leader couldn't help but swallowed his saliva. Now he has two meals a day. To be honest, his stomach has been empty and there is no oil or water. He was surprised: "This... this is broth!"
Li Chi smiled and said: "It's broth. There is an icehouse in the house, which stores a lot of ingredients!" After a moment, he immediately said: "If this brother drinks it, you can drink a bowl first."
"This... this is really..." The team leader rubbed his hands in embarrassment and said with a thick face: "Then let's have a bowl first!"
A servant of the Li Mansion filled a bowl of soup and handed it to the team leader. The latter thanked him and took it. He took a sip and felt that his whole body was about to float. A warm current spread from the outside to the outside.
Next, he drank up a large bowl of broth in two or three mouthfuls, wiped his mouth, and exclaimed: "It's so hot! I haven't had such delicious broth in a while!"
Li Chi said: "I plan to send it to Your Majesty and the soldiers on the city!"
The team leader nodded and said: "Leave the soup to us, we will help you deliver it!" As he spoke, he looked back and said: "Today the rebels used a trebuchet. It is too dangerous for you to go up the city wall.
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Li Chi said quickly: "Brother, I am not afraid of danger!"
The leader of the team is not a fool. He cooked so much broth just to show off in front of His Majesty and asked them to deliver it on his behalf. What the hell is going on!
He pondered for a moment and said: "Let me lead you there. Remember, follow my command. Don't run around and don't act without authorization!"
"Yes, yes, yes! It's really troublesome for this big brother!"
The team leader waved his hands disapprovingly, and headed straight for the city wall with Li Chi, brother and sister Li Chunyue, and a few servants carrying wooden barrels.
There was still some distance from the city wall, and I saw rows of trebuchets, guarded by Han soldiers. Going further, thirty steps away from the city wall, this was the hardest hit area. Looking up at the ground, everywhere
Scattered large rocks can be seen, and some houses have been damaged by falling rocks, leaving only ruins.
Continuing to move forward, I saw a large number of Han troops hiding under the city wall, each holding a shield high. The leader of the army hunched over and turned around and shouted loudly: "Follow me, don't fall behind!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he yelled hurriedly: "Get out of the way!" As he spoke, he moved sideways to the right, and Li Chi and others who were following him also hurriedly moved to the right.
Boom——
A falling rock fell from the sky and hit the ground beside them, and people felt their feet were shaken. Under the leadership of the team leader, Li Chi and his party finally climbed onto the city wall without any danger.
When we arrived at the city wall, there were more falling rocks, and the rumbling sounds were endless. People felt that the city wall under their feet was almost constantly trembling.
After all, Li Chunyue was a girl. She turned pale with fright and held her brother's hand tightly. The team leader led them all the way to the city gate tower and reported to the guards that Li Chi wanted to see His Majesty.
Not long after, the guards got out of the way, and the Li Chi brothers and sisters walked into the city gate building. After entering here, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, straightened their bodies, went up the stairs, and arrived at the second floor, where they finally saw Liu Xiu.
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At this time, Liu Xiu was standing in front of the window of the city gate tower, looking at the enemy formations preparing to attack outside the city, with an indifferent expression and no nervousness at all.
He has experienced too many such scenes, and it really can no longer arouse his nervousness.
"Your Majesty!" Li Chi and Li Chunyue, brothers and sisters, both saluted Liu Xiu.
Liu Xiu turned around, looked at the two of them, and asked with a smile: "I heard that your brother and sister are here to deliver broth?"
Li Chi hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the weather has become cold. The common people and my sister-in-law think that we should send some broth to warm your Majesty and the soldiers."
Yao Qi frowned on the side. Li Chi and Li Chunyue were just ordinary people. Can their food be freely eaten by the emperor?
Before Yao Qi could say anything, Liu Xiu smiled nonchalantly, stretched out his hand and said, "Put a bowl in and let me have a taste!"
Brother and sister Li Chi looked happy and hurriedly filled a large bowl of broth and handed it to Liu Xiu. Luo You took it and was about to take a sip first to test how hot it was when Liu Xiu took the soup bowl from her hand and said indifferently.
took a sip.
After drinking the soup, his eyes suddenly lit up and he praised with a smile: "It's really well done!"
As he spoke, he took another big sip. His body felt warm, comfortable and clear. He carefully looked at the remaining soup in the bowl and saw ginseng whiskers. He smiled and asked: "
Is there some old ginseng added to this hotpot?"
Li Chi bowed to Liu Xiu and said, "When making the soup, the common people added one eight-liang ginseng!"
This eight taels of ginseng has its own meaning. As the saying goes, seven taels is a ginseng and eight taels is a treasure. If the ginseng reaches eight taels, it is a treasure. When it comes to life and death, it can be used to hang one's life.
Liu Xiu looked surprised, looked at the soup bowl in his hand, and drank up all the soup in it. Then, he returned the soup bowl to Li Chi and said, "Li Chi, this time, I want you to
Brother and sister are broke!"
Li Chi shook his head and said seriously: "I still have a lot of old ginseng at home. If the city is destroyed, it will be useless to keep these old ginseng!"
Liu Xiu looked deeply at Li Chi and said, "Li Chi, don't worry, since I said I would greet your brother and sister, I will be able to protect you two!"
Li Chi quickly bowed his hands and saluted, and said excitedly: "Thank you, Your Majesty, the common people!"
Liu Xiu looked at Luo You, Long Yuan and others, and said: "Distribute these buckets of scalding so that the soldiers can also warm themselves up. The bandit army came out early in the morning to cause trouble, and the soldiers are probably hungry too."
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"Yes! Your Majesty!" Luo You, Long Yuan and others agreed, called the guards, and carried the barrel downstairs.
Seeing Li Chi and Li Chunyue looking nervously outside the city, Liu Xiu smiled lightly, waved to them and said, "Now that we are here, there is no need to leave in a hurry. You can sit down and take a rest."
"Thank you, Your Majesty! Thank you, Your Majesty!" Li Chi saluted repeatedly. However, Li Chunyue on the side suddenly exclaimed: "Ah——"
Her voice made everyone in the city gate tower hold their swords and look at her.
Li Chunyue was seen looking at the stairs with a pale face, her body shaking non-stop. People followed her line of sight and saw that it was Heimao walking up the stairs.
Seeing this, people dropped their sword hands one after another, and glared at Li Chunyue with dissatisfaction. Liu Xiu smiled at her and said: "Miss Li, don't be afraid, this is the leopard I raised, and its name is Heimao.
, is quite understanding of human nature and will not hurt others at will." As he spoke, he squatted down and touched the top of the black-haired man who came closer.
Seeing this ferocious black leopard just letting Liu Xiu caress it quietly, Li Chunyue's eyes widened. Li Chi also swallowed hard. He admired Liu Xiu even more and couldn't help blurting out: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty,
All spirits surrender!"
Liu Xiu smiled and said, "This sounds familiar!"
Li Chi blushed and hurriedly explained: "Your Majesty, the common people are feeling this!"
Liu Xiu waved his hand and said no more. He straightened up, put his hands behind his back, and continued to look outside the city.
Boom! Boom! Boom——
The sound of falling rocks became louder and louder, and after a while, all the sound stopped. Liu Xiu said with a deep look: "The enemy's attack is about to begin. Send the order, all soldiers in the army, prepare to fight!"
"Here!" the messenger on the side responded and ran down the city gate tower.
After a short time, the soldiers of the Han army who had been hiding under the city wall rushed to the city wall with their backs bent. The archers twisted their bows and set arrows one by one, and the crossbowmen installed crossbow arrows into the crossbow machines.
People crouched behind the arrow stacks, ready to fight back.
"Positioning arrow——"
With a shout, an archer stood up on the top of the city, fully drew his bow, and shot an arrow into the air. The arrow was tied with red silk and drew an arc in the air with a snap.
, nailed to the ground outside the city.
The arrow stood on the ground, and the red silk danced in the wind, which was extremely eye-catching.
This arrow is exactly one hundred steps away from Lueyang City. When the enemy's formation advances to this arrow, it means that the enemy has entered within a hundred steps of Lueyang. This distance is exactly where the defenders' bows and arrows are.
Hand range.
Looking into the distance, the formations of the Long army and the Shu army were advancing from the left and the right. Soon, the phalanx passed the positioning arrow. The generals on the top of the city shouted: "Archers, prepare."
Shoot the arrow!"
"One hundred steps! Shoot the arrow——" "Set the arrow——"
Amidst the shouts and shouts, a group of arrows flew out, followed immediately by another group, and the whistling sound of the arrows piercing the sky came one after another.
Snap, snap, snap——
The array of arrows flying down hit the square array with a crisp sound. Most of the arrows were blocked by the shields, but some arrows still penetrated the gaps in the shields and shot into the crowd.
Among the advancing soldiers, some were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
The phalanx continued to advance against the Han army's arrow array. At the same time, arrow towers were pushed onto the battlefield one after another.
On the top of the archery tower, there were many Long Army archers and Shu Army archers standing there, twisting their bows and setting arrows one by one, aiming their arrows at the defenders on the top of the city.
Seeing this, Liu Xiu turned his head and said, "Let the trebuchets in the city prepare!"
He gave the order, and the messengers immediately conveyed it to the generals. The trebuchets arranged in the city pushed forward one after another. After being fixed, they loaded the stones upwards.
The enemy formation was getting closer and closer, and the archery tower was getting closer and closer to the city wall. At this time, the archers on the archery tower also shot arrows one after another. The Han troops on the top of the city either hid behind the arrow stacks or raised their shields.
Block arrows.
The archers on both sides started shooting back and forth. Seeing that the archery tower was only thirty steps away from the city wall, Liu Xiu waved his hand forward and said: "Trebuchet attack!"
Buzz, buzz, buzz! Stones flew out from Lueyang City one after another, crossed the city wall, and whizzed towards the outside of the city.
The crowd in the phalanx screamed when the stone fell. The stone hit the arrow tower with a crashing sound, and the thin and tall arrow tower collapsed suddenly.
As the phalanx advanced to the city wall, the Long and Shu armies set up ladders one after another and climbed to the top of the city. However, what greeted them were arrows, rolling logs, stones, and hot kerosene with green smoke.
Lueyang's city defense is so complete. There are hundreds of trebuchets in the city as auxiliary defense. In addition, a large number of arrows, rolling logs, stones, kerosene and other city defense weapons are stocked.
These things have now dealt a heavy blow to the attacking side.
In this siege, the Long Army and the Shu Army did not hold back, and both used their full strength.
But the most terrifying thing is that even though they used all their strength, the defense of Lueyang City was still impregnable. The soldiers of the two armies attacked fiercely all morning, but not a single soldier climbed to the top of the city.
