Lei Ding couldn't wait for the fire to be extinguished at all. After seeing that the fire had decayed significantly, he ordered Pingjiang Camp to attack Xiling City.

Some of the soldiers of Pingjiang Camp had already arrived ashore, but because the shore was too small and could not accommodate tens of thousands of people at all, the vanguard of only about 3,000 people landed on the shore. The subsequent large troops either soaked in the water or had not had time to get off the ship. This terrain seriously limited the performance of Pingjiang Camp.

However, the soldiers of Pingjiang Camp are in full swing. This eagerly anticipated actual battle has made them wait for a long time. Now they can finally show their skills, which undoubtedly makes the soldiers of Pingjiang Camp very excited.

At this time, with Lei Ding's order, the soldiers of Pingjiang Camp rushed towards Xiling City like a tide. Even though there were still remaining fires under their feet that had not been extinguished, these flames could not stop the Wei army's advance. The Wei army rushed in a rush, extinguishing the remaining fires on the ground.

They rushed to the bottom of the city wall. Xiling City had no moat. Xiling City itself was built on the edge of the Yangtze River. The wide Yangtze River was its moat. However, because the Wei Navy controlled the Yangtze River, the advantages of Xiling City became disadvantages.

However, the walls of Xiling City are quite solid. As a fortress city, the Wu Kingdom has always attached great importance to Xiling's defense, so under the leadership of previous Xiling Governors, the city defense of Xiling City has been repeatedly strengthened.

Unlike other cities, the city walls of Xiling City are not simply built with rammed earth, but are built with mixed earth and stone, which greatly improves the defense capabilities of the city walls.

The city walls of Xiling are not only solid, but also have an advantage in height than ordinary city walls. Therefore, for Pingjiang Camp, which participated in the siege for the first time, this will undoubtedly be the most arduous battle.

But the soldiers of Pingjiang Camp had a momentum of a newborn calf not afraid of tigers. No matter how strong and tall the Xiling City Wall was, in their eyes, it was just a piece of ruins still burning. Pingjiang Camp rushed up in one go, set up ladders, and began to climb to the city of Xiling City.

At this time, the Shu army also rushed to the top of the city and did not bother to put out the remaining fire on the top of the city. They immediately used bows and arrows and crossbows to counterattack the Wei army, and the two sides quickly fell into a fierce battle.

The Wei army used fierce oil fire bombs to destroy almost all the defense facilities in Xiling City, and even the rolling wood piled on the city walls were burned. It can be said that except for bricks, tiles, stones and other things that cannot be ignited, as long as anything that can be ignited is basically inseparable.

After the fire was burned, the city of Xiling was already full of devastation, but the fighting spirit of the Shu army did not seem to have been disintegrated. They risked being burned by the remaining remaining fire and rushed forward to resist the Wei army's attack.

Now that I want to defend Xiling City, I can only rely on human power. Only when all the troops of the Shu army work together and work together can I defend the city.

The destructive power of the Wei army's fierce oil fire bomb attack was too great. The south gate tower of Xiling City had been completely destroyed, leaving only some ruins burning with raging fires. The defense facilities on the city were destroyed, which had a great impact on the defense of the Shu army.

However, no matter how difficult it is, it did not shake Jiang Wei's belief in sticking to Xiling City. He led the way and went up to the city to supervise the battle. The various troops of the Shu army also stood back on their previous posts, using bows and arrows and crossbows to block the Wei army that was sieging the city.

The crossbow plays a very large role in defending the city. When this high-frequency fire rate weapon is intensively fired, it can form a dense cross-fire network. Although the Wei army will use shields as protection when siegeing the city, the shield's protection area is limited and can only protect the position directly above the head, which seems insufficient to protect the flanks.

The Shu army was quite experienced in defending the city. They also knew that it would be difficult to shoot through the Wei army's shield if they used crossbows to shoot from the front, so they used cross-firing to shoot the Wei army diagonally below, so that the Wei army would lose sight of one thing and be unable to resist.

This move was indeed very effective. The Shu army used a crossbow to strike the Wei army's siege ladder in a side direction.

A soldier of the Wei army could only use one shield, but when siege, he had to take into account attacks from three aspects. Such a combat difficulty was naturally far higher than that of ordinary land warfare.

That's why it is said that siege is the most difficult battle. Sun Tzu said that he surrounded him ten times the force, and there was almost no chance of winning against the attack on the city.

In history, there are many famous battles to defend the city with fewer ones. Not to mention anything else, Zhuge Ke led an army of more than 100,000 to besiege Hefei, which had only 7,000 people. After a hundred days of fierce battle, he never got it. In the end, the Wei army counterattacked and beaten to pieces.

Therefore, the siege battle often cannot determine the loss based on the number of troops. Although the Wei army is very morale, they are unable to advance in the face of the tenacious defense of the Shu army. Soon the Wei army's first attack ended in failure.

If the Wei army simply planned to use the method of ants to attack the city, it would be a completely impossible task.

Not to mention whether the Pingjiang Camp has practical experience in siege, even if it is replaced with the infantry battalion with the strongest infantry combat strength of the Wei army, it is not sure to use the ant support to attack the city to capture Xiling.

Therefore, when formulating the siege plan, Cao Liang had already considered this point clearly. If he wanted to take over Xiling City, the Wei army had to use his strengths.

What is the specialty of the Wei army? It is the catapult!

The catapult is a magic weapon for the Wei army to destroy cities and villages. It has played an extremely important role in countless siege operations. It is no exaggeration to say that Cao Liang can now occupy the world, and the catapult car has made at least half of the credit.

If there were no catapults, Cao Liang's process of unifying the world would be delayed for a long time. The powerful passes and strong cities would not take three times, five times or even ten times the time to capture them.

With the catapult, the most difficult siege of the city became like walking on flat ground. With such a magic weapon, it naturally accelerated Cao Liang's pace of conquest in the world. Now that he attacked Xiling, Cao Liang naturally had to make full use of this advantage and take down Xiling in one fell swoop.
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