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Chapter 762 Shura Field

After half a month of continuous attacks, Zhenjiang City has become a hell on earth.

Under the city wall, the corpses of the two armies piled up into a mountain, and those corpses were trampled and inhuman, stacked together in a weird and terrifying shape, emitting bursts of stench.The corpse water was mixed with blood, dyeing the area of ​​one mile below the city wall in a strange purple-black color.The city wall is also this color, just like the castle of the devil in the legend.

After more than half a month of onslaught, the city wall of Zhenjiang had been forcibly cut off several feet by the Hanwang army.

After all, it is already late autumn, and even Jiangnan cannot rain all day long.In fact, the rain that evening seemed to have exhausted the prince's army's luck, and in the following half a month, there was no more rain.The heavens are beautiful, and the King of Han army will naturally not waste the opportunity. From the second day onwards, their offensive has been wave after wave.The prepared siege equipment was burned by the prince's army with red molten iron. Zhu Gaoxu didn't even want to wait to mobilize the equipment, so he drove the soldiers of the King of Han Army to rush towards the city wall with simple ladders.

A famous general like the King of Han can naturally see that the army defending the city has reached its limit. As long as they maintain a strong offensive and don't give them a chance to breathe, they can win the battle quickly!

So in the next few days, the King of Han army launched a round-the-clock wheel war. They set up hundreds of ladders, and the ants attached to the city head one after another, densely climbing the entire section of the city wall!

The defenders on the city were desperately shooting arrows and throwing rolling stones and trees. Accompanied by shrill screams, pieces of the King of Han army were smashed down the top of the city!There are quite a few lucky soldiers who fell from a high place without being injured... because there are too many corpses piled up under the city, enough to provide a strong buffer.

But before they had time to rejoice, pots and pans of boiling oil were poured from the top of the city, and many soldiers were splashed straight, rolling around in the pile of corpses like crazy. times!
Zhenjiang is a big city with prosperous commerce and trade, and the city's material reserves are extremely rich, which gives great support to the city defenders!Except pouring it down with boiling vegetable oil.To deal with those terrifying siege engines, it all depended on the blacksmiths in the city. They set up blast furnaces under the city, burned pig iron into molten iron, raised it to the top of the city, and poured it down on the siege engines!

The ultra-high temperature of nearly [-] degrees burned a big hole in the siege vehicle in an instant, and some soldiers were burned out of the bones when they touched the molten iron...

The indestructible siege engine can only be killed by pouring down buckets of molten iron!Otherwise, with these big guys around, the defenders wouldn't be able to hold on for long...

The people in the city have been fully mobilized. Under the command of the Prince's family, they shouldered all non-combat tasks such as treating the wounded, providing food, and producing ordnance.If it weren't for their full support, the prince's army would have run out of ammunition, food and manpower long ago...

Of course, the biggest sacrifice came from the defenders at the top of the city. After so many days of bloody battles, Mo Wen had already played all his cards!All the armies have fought at least five times in the first round of the city, and more than half of the army has been reduced, and the rest who can still fight are all wounded.All the soldiers were covered in blood, their eyes were red, their expressions were in a trance, and their movements were stiff, like ghosts crawling out of hell. How could they look human?

However, it is such an army that has reached its limit. In the past half a month, it has repelled nearly a thousand onslaughts from the King of Han's army, and has always held the city wall in its hands.

As the attacking side, the loss of the King of Han army was more than three times that of the defenders. However, Zhu Zhanji was not interested in the number of casualties. Filled with blood corpses!No matter how tragic the scene is a hundred times, it will not make the king of Han fluctuate a little. He only thinks about one thing, which is to calculate how many lives and how much time it will take to get the prince who will reach the limit tomorrow morning. The army was defeated.

To this day, Zhu Gaoxu has to admit that his judgment has been overturned time and time again under the city of Zhenjiang.He used to think that at most three days, he could break the city!However, three days later, Zhenjiang City is still in the hands of the prince's army.He also thought that it would be six days, nine days, or fourteen days at most... However, after the time limit passed, Zhenjiang City was still unable to attack for a long time...

The bombed and tattered city wall of Zhenjiang looked like an ugly smiling face, mocking His Highness the King of Han wantonly!
The Zhenjiang city wall had already been cut off by the cannons of the King of Han's army, and all the arrow stacks were cut off abruptly, and the rest was also crumbling.Especially the section facing the river in the north was intensively shot by Hanwang's navy, and a large section of dozens of feet collapsed eight days ago!

That is tens of feet, more than a hundred meters, and hundreds of princes on the top of the city were directly buried under the ruins!
The hearts of the soldiers fell to the bottom - this situation means that the city's defenses are broken, and the enemy's fleet will land and fight immediately, so they can only abandon the city walls and retreat to the streets of the city to fight...

"You can't give up the city wall!" Faced with the suggestions of several lieutenants, Wu Wei flatly refused: "Otherwise, if we withdraw, the other three sides will be unable to defend!"

"But my lord," the lieutenants persuaded, "We have no city walls to rely on, and the enemy's warships can attack us from a high position, and they can't stand it at all!"

"Then build the city wall!" Wu Wei's answer shocked everyone.I thought how could this be possible, even if there were no enemies, it would take ten days and a half months at the fastest to repair this section of the city wall!What's more, the King of Han army is still eyeing it!
"Build a temporary city wall with wooden railings first to block their attack!" Wu Wei insisted on his own opinion and was not open to negotiation: "I will personally go to the top of the city to supervise, or stop the enemy! Or I will die at the top of the city! "

"Yes!" With the general's attitude, what else could the lieutenants say, and they hurried to prepare the wooden fence.

The so-called wooden fence is a frame tied up with wood, similar to the scaffolding for building a house.After being bombarded by artillery every day, Wu Wei had long been worried that the city wall would not be able to support it, so he ordered the peasants to build many wooden fences, and he was prepared for this kind of moment!
It's just that no one thought that the city wall of Zhenjiang would collapse dozens of feet at once. After all, the artillery shells of this era don't have such power!But obviously, the defenders unfortunately encountered the tofu dregs project...

But now there is no time to pursue who is responsible. Wu Wei personally led the soldiers, braved the artillery fire and arrows of the warships of the King of Han, lifted sections of wooden railings to the gaps in the ruins of the city wall, and barely fixed them. The iron chains were tied into a string, and then wooden planks were laid, and a simple temporary city wall was built!
At this time, the landing troops of the King of Han Army were also ready. They took small boats, rushed under the city wall, and then jumped onto the ruins, screaming and climbing up!

Wu Wei led the prince's army and launched an attack on the temporary city wall made of wood!The defenders of their section of the city wall suffered the least losses before, because there was no hand-to-hand combat before, and the fleet of the King of Han's army just kept washing the city wall with artillery fire, after all, they couldn't kill many soldiers.

Therefore, while Wu Wei was organizing the defense, he also divided half of the troops into repairing the city wall with the peasant husband with a masonry knife!After all, the wooden fence is only temporary, and it is hard to say how long it can last. If the city wall is not well repaired, it will not be able to withstand the enemy's attack sooner or later.Therefore, we must race against time, and we cannot wait for the enemy to be defeated before repairing it!
Thus, such a strange scene appeared on the battlefield. The soldiers in front stood on the wooden railings like scaffolding and fought desperately to resist the enemy's attack.The comrades behind them were carrying masonry knives and moving bricks, working in full swing.

What's rare is that under Wu Wei's command and deployment, such a chaotic scene of combat and construction can be organized in an orderly manner, and the two fronts even support each other... The broken bricks cleaned up by the construction team don't need to be transported away at all, they are delivered directly in baskets The soldiers guarding the city threw bricks down the wooden railings, smashing the heads of the King of Han soldiers...

However, Zhu Gaoxu is a famous general after all, and he soon discovered that this is the best place to break through the city wall. He ordered the navy to attack with all his strength!Also let the newly added [-] troops take sand boats, drive to the north wall, and all go into battle!

Under the strong attack, the pressure on Wu Wei's side increased sharply, and the number of casualties also skyrocketed. One after another, the wooden fences were blown up and cut down, but he possessed the most valuable quality of a city defender - tenacity!Wu Wei didn't care about casualties at all, he commanded the officers and soldiers to carry new wooden fences to the top of the city to replace the destroyed ones!He will make up for as much as it is destroyed!Unless the King of Han army kills all his men, there is no way to break into the city wall!
Wu Wei even organized a team of spears to attack the enemy through the wooden fence with a temporary Zhangba spear.Some people desperately tried to grab the spear, but when they touched it, it bounced away with a scream, like touching a red-hot soldering iron!Looking at the hand that touched the spear again, it was muddled!Really touched the soldering iron...

It turned out that Wu Wei had expected this a long time ago. These spears were heated before they came out!
The King of Han army attacking this section couldn't figure it out. They clearly had an absolute advantage, but why were they blocked by these simple fortifications and couldn't advance an inch?

They didn't know that what stopped them was not the simple fortifications, but the defender's determination to not give an inch!

This section of the northern city wall became the focus of contention between the soldiers of the two armies in the next few days. The two sides fought with their lives, and the casualties were extremely heavy!The King of Han's army continued to reinforce him, but Wu Wei didn't have a single reinforcement... It's not that Mo Wen didn't support him, but that he had no soldiers at all...

"My lord," there was only one of the four former lieutenants left, and the other three were all killed in battle. "Our troops can't withstand the enemy's next attack!" The only remaining lieutenant general was also injured, with one arm hanging, reporting hoarsely.

"Let the engineering team stop first," Wu Wei sighed. It was really an extravagant hope for him to want to repair the city wall while fighting. "Defend the city with all your strength..."

(End of this chapter)