"I admit that Lord Lin, Han Dashubiao, the "strange three-person combination" of Japanese monks went out of the city to meet with Emperor Guo Wei of the Great Zhou, Li Gu, and later Emperor Zhao Kuangyin. The defense position of the city wall I was at was just not far from the wooden platform. The same doubt came to my mind with the brothers around me: Should I negotiate the conditions for surrender with the Great Zhou, what should we do?

In just half an hour, we could see the sharp and changeable expressions and slightly strange moves of the six people on the wooden platform, but we could not hear their words. The anxiety, fear and other emotions deeply grasped us.

However, the negotiations were obviously not going well. As soon as Lord Lin returned to the city, he issued a first-level warning order. At the same time as he received the order, my brothers and I couldn't help but breathe a long sigh, but instead looked forward to the future war.

In the following three days, there was no movement in the enemy camp, which made us who had been conducting strong and high-level exercises hesitate. The waiting for unknowns was so tormenting.

On the morning of November 24, the enemy troops who had been closed for three days finally left the camp. When the sound of the attack drums sounded, we knew it was a hard battle, but no one expected that this offensive and defensive battle would be so tragic. If I were asked to choose a word to describe it, then only "mountain of corpses and seas of blood" could be expressed in a little bit.

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,,The above is excerpted from "A Glorious Army of a Soldier", which was dictated by the Tang army's "Immortal Soldier" Hu Yan Chengrui when he was fifty years old.

Before the second offensive and defensive battle in Shouzhou City began, including Emperor Guo Wei, all Zhou army from top to bottom, especially the generals who arrived later believed that Shouzhou City was within their reach.

There are a total of 170,000 troops under the city, all of which are elite, good generals, and fierce generals. For a first-mover opportunity, all the generals can fight in front of the emperor; in addition, after the siege of the city some time ago, the siege equipment transported from the rear and various types of equipment made on the spot were piled up like mountains; not to mention the fact that the emperor was in charge of the expedition, all the soldiers were holding up a lot of energy and preparing to show their courage, blood and ability on the emperor.

Therefore, the three camps in the west, north and east of the Zhou army, which received the order of the general attack, all dispatched their troops to the west, north and east, and arranged the city of Shouzhou and took a striking posture. Naturally, the Xi camp where Emperor Guo Wei was personally in charge took the lead in launching the attack. However, the moment the sound of the Zhou army's attack drums sounded, the counterattack from Shouzhou City quickly knocked the relaxed smiles of Guo Wei and others away from their faces.

The catapults on the entire city wall seemed to have eyes, and the balls and stones were drew big arcs. The crossbows were walking straight, but their final landing range was small and accurate. They just wrapped the catapults and the catapults on the front and back, left and right sides, and instantly completely destroyed the first row of catapults. What is outrageous is that in the sky full of stone bullets, insignificant small stone bullets flew over, accurately hitting the soldiers who were carrying the siege ladder behind the catapult. In the blink of an eye, three rounds of rapid shooting actually plowed the front row of the Zhou army's battle formation into a pile of blood and flesh.

"Li Shuai, what's going on? Didn't it mean that Tang Bing's throwing range could not hit there?" Guo Wei didn't expect that Lin Feng would slap in the face loudly and immediately asked angrily.

"Returning to the emperor, the Shouzhou Army's trench plane was indeed the farthest before and could only hit the boundary stone in front of the trench plane." Li Gu was also dumbfounded, pointing at the row of boundary stones that had been completely covered in the range of Shouzhou crossbow arrows, and defended weakly.

"Prince, when we were crossing the river to attack, we had already discovered that the catapults in Shouzhou could move at any time and adjust the attack distance at any time. Perhaps Lin Feng had improved the range of these catapults during this period." Zhao Kuangyin stared at the stone bomb arrow feathers that caused great damage and stood up to defend the commander Li Gu.

Immediately afterwards, the second attack in Shouzhou began. The slightly smaller stone bombs jumped out of the city wall almost at the same time, landed on the ground at the same time, and then jumped up at the same time, smashing the battle formation at the already somewhat panicked Zhou soldiers. Just as the Zhou soldiers dodged, a new round of stone bombs came again, just missing the landing point of the first round, hitting many soldiers who were dodging, and cried and wailed one after another.

This is not over yet. The third round that followed was a powerful crossbow, which beat the soldiers who escaped the first two rounds of shooting. The uniform shouts of "kill" by the soldiers from the Nantang in Shouzhou City, integrated with the sound of breaking through the air in the sky, forming a fearful melody of harvesting life.

"The entire army retreated one hundred steps immediately." Guo Wei changed his color and stood up and shouted wildly. He turned his head to look at the Shouzhou city that had been calm for a while. He couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart: Is it that Lin Feng has been surrounded for so many days and can still have such a sharp and precise defense? Is this the will and technology that Lin Feng preached, and how many secret weapons are hidden in Shouzhou city?

The entire Zhou army retreated quickly as if they were fleeing. The originally uniform formation immediately became chaotic. The six rounds of attack made all the soldiers' high moods as if they were poured with six basins of cold water, and the atmosphere was suffocated.

Li Gu called out two deputy generals and whispered a few words in his ear.

The two deputy generals bowed to Guo Wei and rushed down, leading 500 soldiers to carry giant wooden shields and set out from the north and south directions respectively.

The battlefield became even quieter, and all Zhou Bing watched these two outbreak troops carrying out tentative attacks.

Both teams moved forward carefully, twenty steps away from the stone-catted line, and there was no movement in the city; there was still no movement after forty steps; the team had just reached the middle line between the stone-catted line and the city wall, and the terrifying whistling sound came again.

The two teams changed their formation urgently. The deputy generals in the north shouted "retreat". All the soldiers immediately carried the shield to their backs and ran back desperately; the deputy generals in the south issued the order to "scatter", and all the five hundred soldiers scattered and ran wildly to both sides.

However, the fact of blood proved that although their choices were different, their ends were exactly the same: before the soldiers in the north fled to the safe area, the stone bombs that covered the attack instantly caught up with them, knocked them down ruthlessly and knocked them away. In the end, less than a hundred lucky people escaped the death disaster, but almost everyone was injured;

The situation in the south was even worse. The crossbow chariots that were sequel to the side did not pity the simple crossbow arrows, chasing the soldiers as if they were shooting targets. Looking at the tragic consequences of the soldiers escaping from the north, these poor soldiers didn't know whether to advance or retreat, whether to retreat, whether to go left or right. Many soldiers ran around like headless flies. Two soldiers watched their brothers fall one by one in pool of blood, and then looked at the crossbow arrows flying around them. Their spirit suddenly collapsed, threw down their weapons, cried loudly, shouting "Mom" wildly, and then shouted twice. The two were penetrated by crossbow arrows at the same time, and they suddenly became silent.

Seeing his brothers being massacred, Zhao Kuangyin was so angry that he clenched his teeth and made a "clang" sound. As soon as the whistling sound started, he jumped off the podium and waved his arms to push a team of soldiers to push a huge siege car over.

When a very small number of soldiers from the north ran to the stone-catted line as soon as possible, the siege car, which was a sharp blade, rushed out from behind the formation. Zhao Kuangyin used his shield to protect his whole body, led the way in front of his head, and rushed towards the soldiers who were still running around.

Arrow stone was merciless. In just a moment, at least 300 soldiers in the sudden front team in the south were shot down.

Seeing the siege car leaving the line, the catapult on the top of the city quickly adjusted the target, and the large and small stone bombs were concentrated on hitting the siege car.

Zhao Kuangyin hit each other with two shields, making a loud noise, and a roar was roaring. He first attracted the attention of the panicked soldiers in the field, and then roared: "Get out of the car."

The soldiers finally woke up, shouted in their mouths, and ran towards the siege car. Zhao Kuangyin exerted force under his feet, grabbed the front few steps, and his shields flew, knocking the chasing crossbow arrows away, covering several soldiers back under the siege car.

After receiving three consecutive soldiers, Zhao Kuangyin was reminded by the shouts of the soldiers under the chariot. He found that there were many stones piled around the siege car. He knew that he would not retreat, and even the siege car could not leave. He immediately circled his hands and covered the two lost soldiers under the shield and took them to retreat quickly.

Seeing the siege car retreating quickly, the catapults and crossbow arrows were bounced away by the heavy siege car's shells, and the attack on the top of the city immediately stopped.
Chapter completed!