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Chapter 389: Immediate decision

"here we go again!"

Hearing this panic shout, he looked up and saw a heavy huge rock flying towards this side. Several Zhao Jun crossbowmen who were loading arrows were scattered. They subconsciously squatted down and used the action of avoiding bows and arrows under the city to hide their bodies into the shooting dead corners behind the arrows.

Unfortunately, the counterweight catapult was shot by the counterweight catapult, but a heavy stone bullet weighing about 150 kilograms. The rock bullet seemed to have eyes and hit the location of these unlucky Zhao army crossbowmen. It easily smashed the arrows into pieces like destroying the sand castle on the beach, and then smashed the Zhao army crossbowmen hiding behind the arrows, making all the flesh and blood flying, their brains burst, and their bodies almost turned into meat sauce.

A nearby Zhao soldier was so scared that he cried out loud that he cried bitterly, crying with his comrades who had just been together to stop the Han army soldiers from filling the river. He was also glad that he had escaped from death. Fortunately, he did not hit the huge rock that was close to him. The other nearby Zhao soldiers also beating their hearts together, and they were scared to move for a while.

Similar scenes continued to appear on the front positions at the east gate of Julu. Under the control of the Han army's thirty counterweight catapults, thirty counterweight catapults bombed the head of Julu, constantly smashing heavy rocks on the head of Julu, killing and injuring the Zhao soldiers who could not avoid it. They also smashed the most critical protective facilities on the city wall and arrows, which collapsed and shattered continuously, revealing protective gaps of varying sizes. At the same time, they also left gentle slopes on the rammed earth city wall. However, the defenders on the city had no way to counterattack the Han army's counterweight catapults, and there was no way to resist the huge stone bombs falling from the sky. They could only run south and north on the city wall, avoiding the bullets in a mess, and prayed tremblingly that they would not be hit by the huge rocks.

During this period, with the efforts of the auxiliary soldiers of the Han army, countless bags of earth and straw were thrown into the moat outside Julu East Gate City, gradually paving two paths of advance that were several meters wide. Then they changed their positions and seized the time to open up new crossings. Although the defenders on the city kept firing arrows to stop them, under the influence of the huge psychological pressure caused by the Han army's stone catapult, the results were not very effective. In any case, they could not stop the Han army soldiers from constantly filling the river.

During this period, the Qi army, which established a camp in the northeast corner of Julu, sent three more troops to attack the Han army's catapult fleet position, and the Han army Zheng Bu's troops, who were responsible for attacking the aid, sent troops to intercept each time. However, the Qi army retreated every time and quickly retreated into the camp to hide, luring the Han army to pursue the enemy near the camp, and let the companions on the camp take the opportunity to shoot arrows and kill the enemy. The Han army soldiers were furious, but they had no choice but to curse far away outside the Qi army camp, and while wasting their physical strength, they inevitably gradually became slack.

During this period, the fourth force on the Julu battlefield, the Western Chu army, was in a rare leisure time and could hide in the self-army camp far away from the battlefield to rest and watch the show. However, in case, under Xiang Guan's strong request, Zhou Yin, the commander of the Western Chu army, organized an army to gather Housing, so as to send troops to rescue allies at critical moments.

Although there is no protection of the city bricks, the rammed earth wall is a gravity wall with a narrow top and wide bottom. Of course, there is no possibility of completely crushing the catapult. Whether the catapult can be broken through Julu City, it will still have to rely on the ant to attack the city and seize the city gate. So by nearly half noon, the female wall on Julu East Gate had been severely damaged. At the same time, the auxiliary soldiers of the Han army successfully filled the four moats. Xiang Kang, who personally directed the battle, decisively ordered the stop of the catapult. While asking the catapult fleet to replace the incendiary bombs and prepare to set fire to the houses and streets in the city to disrupt the enemy, he asked the chandler, who volunteered to launch the ant to attack the Julu East Gate, to lead the army forward.

The Zhao army also responded quickly. As soon as he saw the Han army stop throwing stones, Zhao general Benhao, who was guarding the east gate, immediately understood that the Han army was about to start ant attachment, and quickly ordered the soldiers to return to their posts to prepare for battle. At the same time, the reserve team in the city was drawn to the city to strengthen the weakened defenders' forces, and waited for the Han army to launch an attack with anxiety.

After a while, just as the army was ready, Xiang Kang immediately issued an offensive order. While the flag was waving, the Han army soldiers immediately carried the ladder and pushed the city car to trot forward. The Han army's catapult fleet immediately started to attack and smashed thirty pottery jars filled with charcoal and tung oil into Julu City. Immediately afterwards, with the original incendiary bombs landed one after another, many fires appeared in Julu City. Even though the Zhao army had already used the method of dealing with rockets to prevent fire from the city's houses, they still could not resist the violent flames caused by the burning of tung oil. Many houses ignited huge fires, forcing the people and soldiers in the city to rush to put out the fire quickly, shouting and chasing, and the morale of the army was seriously affected again.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the catapult fleet's desperate setting fire, the Han soldiers who were gradually charging quickly rushed to the next side of the moat. Among them, the Han soldiers carrying the ladders crossed the river through the newly filled section of the river, and the city-killing car crossed the strong bridge that directly led to the city gate and directly hit the east gate of Julu.

Seeing this scene, Xiang Kang in the flag formation couldn't help but yawn again heartlessly, knowing that the next time would be a stalemate for a long time, and it would be difficult to make any major breakthroughs for a period of time. However, Xiang Kang underestimated the bravery of his own soldiers and overestimated the combat effectiveness of the Zhao army that had lost all the elites. After only ten minutes of fierce battle, Han army warriors rushed to the top of Julu City with stone dust bottles, and won a good start for the Han army's Ant Attack.

"Yes, it's much faster than I expected. The Chongda is really a brave general!" Xiang Kang said happily.

"Kill the thief! Hurry up! Kill the thief for me!"

At the same time, the general of the Zhao army, Ben Hao, who was lucky enough to have never been hit by a huge rock, was yelling with red eyes, but he was unable to do so. The soldiers of the Zhao army finally leaned on the large crowds and stabbed the Han army warriors who had first climbed the city down the city wall. Now several Han army warriors rushed up the city wall from the gap in the female wall in other sections, and almost stood firm on the city wall, forcing the Zhao army to rush to block the gap in a hurry. In the panic, there was also a chaotic scene of the Zhao army soldiers standing unsteadily and falling off the city wall from the gap in the female wall.

At this time, the Qi army also began its fifth feint attack on the camp, and still pretended to attack the Han army's catapult position and lured the Han army to intercept. Then, just as the commander of the Qi army expected, after being tricked one after another, the Han army who saw the Qi army turn around and run away. As expected, the Han army, who attacked and intercepted, did not want to waste their energy to pursue too close as a living target. As soon as they chased a hundred steps away from the Qi army's camp, they stopped chasing and swearing. At the same time, most of the soldiers of the Zhengbu corps of the Han army were sitting on the ground to rest, and their morale was obviously deteriorating.

"The opportunity is coming soon." Tabe said to himself in his heart, and said to himself: "If you play with the thief like this a few more times, the thief should be completely relaxed."

Perhaps he was too careless and underestimated the enemy. Seeing that Zheng Bu's corps were repeatedly fooled and obviously had slack off, whether it was the final boss of the Han army, Xiang Kang, or the resourceful Uncle Zhou, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping and others, none of them said a word, allowing Zheng Bu's corps to mess around for several miles, and patiently only observed the situation of the city head at Julu East Gate.

Xiang Kang was a little disappointed. Although he started very well, the first Ant Suo attack successfully rushed to the top of the city. However, in the following fierce battle, the Ant Suo Han army never made any new breakthroughs. Even though Han warriors rushed up the city wall from time to time, they never stood firm on the city and defended the position space. At the same time, the Han army's city-hit car was also stubbornly resisted by the defenders in front of the city gate. They were smashed by huge stones and yakshas so that they could not get close to the city gate at all, and they were also in a stalemate.

Although such a stalemate is very common in ant war, Xiang Kang certainly would not be satisfied with it. After smiling, Xiang Kang asked Uncle Zhou: "General Zhou, why? If he is stalemate, he doesn't think of a solution?"

"Please wait patiently, lord." Uncle Zhou replied with a smile: "At this time, the traitors of Zhao State are still very strong, and all kinds of materials to defend the city are also very sufficient. It is not the time to exert force. Please give me some time, and I will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation."

Xiang Kang smiled. No matter how he didn't say anything, Uncle Zhou did not take any action. He just allowed Chongda, who volunteered to be the vanguard, to dispatch troops and generals in the front, continuously strengthened his attack, consumed the enemy's physical strength and city defense supplies with a fierce offensive, and waited patiently for a good fighter to appear.

Perhaps it was too boring. After a while, Zheng Bu's flag left his flag formation and led a team of guards in sharp clothes and armor to carelessly come to Tao Xi's army, which had sent troops to intercept the Qi army several times before. He also stopped as if he was personally pacifying the soldiers. Seeing this situation on the high ground in the camp, Tian Bu's heartbeat could not help but accelerate, and he said to himself: "Do you have a bet?"

At the same time, when he saw Zheng Bu's flag appearing in his army's front lineup, Uncle Zhou laughed and said, "What a delicious bait, it seems that it is difficult for the Qi traitor army to not be able to take the bait this time. Okay, we should make efforts and help General Zheng by the way."

After saying that, Uncle Zhou pointed at one of his personal soldiers and said with a smile: "Go and ask Chongda for me. Are you tired after not rushing up for so long? Do you want him to come back and have a rest and eat, and change Ling Jing to attack the city?"

Before he finished speaking, Xiang Kang, Chen Ping and others next to him had already laughed out loud, and then as the treacherous rats such as Xiang Kang and Uncle Zhou expected, the personal soldiers brought Uncle Zhou's original words to Chongda. After finally robbing the vanguard from many Han army generals, Chongda, who had finally robbed the heavy responsibility of vanguard, and roared wildly: "Report to General Zhou! I'm not tired! Beat the drum and attack me!"

After the roar, Chongda jumped off his war horse, threw his spear, grabbed a sharp axe, and rushed to the front, and personally led the army to charge. Seeing this, the remaining soldiers under Chongda were of course roaring like thunder, rushing to follow with big strides, and rushing towards the anxious Julu East Gate battlefield with red eyes, with their heads surging like a tide.

Uncle Zhou's aggression scheme achieved a satisfactory effect. Inspired by Chongda, the Han army ladder that followed rushed up was like undulating waves, one after another, and the Han army generals led by Chongda climbed first, charging up against the stone gray bottles like raindrops and hail. Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Han army who could not capture for a long time also forgot about their fatigue and hunger, and red eyes and exerted force again to launch a more violent charge towards the Julu City.

At this time, the Zhao army soldiers had already lost their physical strength very much. Ben Hao reacted a little slower. The order to mobilize the reserve team to go to the city to reinforce was a little late, which caused his new force to fail to rush up to the city wall to reinforce in time. Of course, the tired soldiers could not withstand such a fierce attack. So in just a moment, dozens of Han soldiers rushed up to the city wall one after another. Then, with a red Han army flag rushing to the city, a shocking cheer immediately broke out on the battlefield of Julu East Gate.

At this time, seeing that the Zhao army was in a critical situation, the Tian army could only make up their minds and send a team of troops to lure out of the camp for the sixth time, pretending to reinforce the battlefield in Julu East Gate, and trying to lure Zheng Bu, the Han army's regiment-level commander who happened to be in front of the team, personally led the army to intercept it. At the same time, a large number of Qi soldiers were already ready to attack.

The Tianbu was ecstatic. Seeing that the Qi army went out of the camp again, Zheng Bu, who was repeatedly fooled, led the front team to launch a charge, facing the Qi army tempting and attacking head-on. Most of the soldiers of the Zhengbu corps were still sitting on the ground to rest. It was obvious that they had already slacked off to an incurable opportunity. Seeing this, Tianbu gritted his teeth and still shouted with red eyes, "Beat the drum! Attack! Kill Zheng Bupi!"

The earth-shaking sound of war drums suddenly sounded in the Qi army camp. The three gates in the south were wide open at the same time. The elite Qi army troops who had been preparing for power for a long time shouted and rushed towards Zheng Bu, the Han army's corps-level commander who personally led the army to intercept. However, at this moment, the favorite general Yu Ling suddenly rushed to the front of Tianmen and loudly dissuaded: "General, it's too risky! Zheng Bup's personal visit to the front team may be luring the enemy!"

Tianbu was stunned, but when he saw the soldiers of the main brigade of Zheng Bu Army in the distance, he was just hurriedly getting up and urgently reorganizing the queue. Tianbu still said: "War is a risk! Anyway, it is necessary to attack. It is better to bet that we can kill Zheng Bupifu directly!"

Facts proved that Tianbu must have had a bet right this time. After seeing the Qi army suddenly launched a large attack, Zheng Bu, who personally led the army to fight, found something wrong. He could only lead Tao Xi to retreat quickly and quickly escape back to the main lineup to meet the main force. The Qi army finally caught such a god-given opportunity, of course no one would let it go. He shouted that the Qi army front team, who rushed even harder than the other and attacked first, was still around the inside and outside the Zheng Bu army brigade, and bit the tail of the Zheng Bu army front team.

Once again, the Tian army and the Qi army soldiers were ecstatic. Seeing the Qi army approaching, Zheng Bu made a quick mistake and actually led the Han army front team to fight back and stopped escaping. The Qi army soldiers attacking behind cheered and rushed faster and more fiercely. In a blink of an eye, they chased them close and won the opportunity to fight directly with the Han army front team.

"There is a chance!" Tabe Kuang liked to shout.

"Beautiful job." Xiang Kang also praised the Han army flag formation.

As Xiang Kang expected, after luring the Qi army brigade to the nearest of the self-army brigade, Zheng Bu's flag soon disappeared from the front of the Han army. The other spare Zheng Bu's flag suddenly reappeared in his flag formation. After a grim smile, Zheng Bu yelled again: "Beat the drum, attack! Kill all the Qi thieves in the camp!"

When the war drums sounded, the Zheng Bu army brigade immediately sent three troops, two of them left and right, and rushed out of the left and right wings of the camp Qi army. The third rushed directly to the Qi army camp and cut off the way back to the camp Qi army. As a result, seeing this in the camp, Tianbu immediately turned pale and screamed: "I've been trapped! Zheng Bupi is deliberately seducing the enemy with his flag!"

"The last general has said it long ago, but you don't listen to it, General." Yu Ling smiled bitterly and complained.

"Stop talking nonsense, what should we do now?"

The roar of Tianmen made Yu Ling subconsciously look behind her back. However, it was a pity that the fellow soldier who really helped Yu Ling make the most of the show during this period was not qualified to follow Yu Ling and talk to Tianmen. He was not behind Yu Ling at this moment, so of course he could not make any good suggestions in time to help Qi Jun resolve the current critical situation...

This is of course a pain for the poor Qi army soldiers who went out of the camp. The combat effectiveness was not as good as the Han army, and their equipment was only second-rate. Now, they met the Zheng Bu corps of the Han army who was in a furious state in the field. Of course, the Qi army was not even an opponent. After a moment of fighting, the Qi army was killed by the Han army soldiers who were out of the cage and like tigers, and they were sobbing and howling. They had to quickly escape to the self-camped camp. The Han army team that rushed forward and faced each other without hesitation, joined forces with the self-camped soldiers, attacking the poor Qi army soldiers from front to back, and their eyes were red, and they cut fiercely than the other.

The Qi army was soon in chaos. The attacks from all directions were like storms, killing them so hard that they were overwhelming and screaming. The soldiers of the Han army who had been suppressed for a long time were all brave, everyone was fighting for the first place, roaring wildly and constantly greeting the enemy. The spear pierced the body of the Qi soldiers and knocking the heads of the Qi soldiers. The sword spears stabbed and pecked, and kept splashing blood on the Qi soldiers' bodies. The elite Han army holding steel knives were even more unstoppable. They waved their sharp steel knives and cut the enemy's heads and arms like chopping melons and vegetables, venting the anger that had suffered consecutive losses before to the poor Qi soldiers.

Unable to withstand the crazy offensive of the Han army, countless Qi soldiers fled in scattered their lives. However, the Han cavalry led by Guan Ying had long been watching Dandan on the outskirts of the battlefield, constantly wandering around and killing the defeated Qi army, blocking the front and chasing the back, chasing the hunting, just like a group of hungry wolves catching the poor lambs and rabbits.

There was no way to force it, so the Tian army could only send troops out of the camp again and fully responded to the attacking army back to the camp to escape. However, the Tian army did this to be destined to give Zheng Bu more and better opportunities for revenge. Under Zheng Bu's personal leadership, the Han army brigade quickly launched an attack and entered the battlefield to fight with the Qi army that had left the camp one after another. It was like a tide and sea of ​​tides, quickly swallowing up the trapped Qi army and also greeted the Qi army's rescuers who rushed out of the camp to respond. For a moment, there were swords and swords everywhere outside the Qi army camp, and there were soldiers of the Han and Qi army who were fighting for their lives, as chaotic as a pot of boiling rice porridge.

At this time, relying on the brave attack of the Chongda troops, the Han army soldiers had already firmly stood firm in Julu City and seized a certain position space. No matter how the Zhao army dispatched the reserve team to the city to fight back, they could not drive the Han army back to the city. The Han army soldiers under the city went up to the city one after another with the cover of their companions, accumulating enough troops on the front of the city, and constantly competed with the Zhao army to compete for position space in size.

The second team of the Han army, Ling Jing's troops, had already gathered Hou Ming outside Julu City. However, Xiang Kang and Uncle Zhou were not in a hurry to join the rear army to strengthen the offensive, because Xiang Kang and Uncle Zhou knew very well that the most ideal attack time for Ling Jing's troops should be when the Qi army completely collapsed and fled back to the camp. At that time, the morale of the Han army was even greater, and the morale of the Zhao army must have been more affected. At that time, the best results can be achieved by taking action to strengthen the attack. Therefore, Xiang Kang and Uncle Zhou and others calmed down and waited patiently for Zheng Bu to make a breakthrough.

The Julu battlefield, which has four forces at the same time, was too complicated. Xiang Kang had to consider the reaction of the Western Chu army. After a moment of calculation, Xiang Kang suddenly took out a silk pen and quickly wrote a passage on the white silk - General Zhou Yin, you know my brother's temper. Even if you can go back, you will be dead! Take the army to surrender to me, give you a marquis, and give you a thousand households! King Xiang Kang of Han!

After writing this letter in a hurry, Xiang Kang didn't even have a seal, and immediately handed it to Chen Ping, and ordered: "Send someone to the camp of the Western Chu thief Army. As long as you see the Western Chu thief Army sending troops to reinforce the Qi and Zhao thief Army, you will immediately send it to the camp of the Western Chu thief Army to Zhou Yin! I bet that if the Western Chu thief Army sends troops to reinforce the Qi and Zhao thief Army, it must be my brother Xiang Guan who commanded the troops. Without him making trouble, it is the best opportunity for us to surrender Zhou Yin, and we must not miss it!"
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