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Chapter 241: Solid as a Rock (1)

Outside Liyang City, Zhou Yin and Zhou Huan and his son were standing on the hill to observe the Chu army's weaknesses and reality. Suddenly, they heard a huge noise from the head of Liyang City. The momentum was like the sky collapsed and the earth was broken. Jiujiang Camp was nearly ten miles away from Liyang, but it was still clearly heard. Zhou Huan couldn't help but change his expression: "Father, it seems that the morale of the Chu army is still very high."

Zhou Yin nodded with conscientiousness. After ten days of fierce battle, the 30,000 Jiujiang army was already exhausted. Jin Xu and Li Zuoche's 40,000 Han army were almost exhausted, but the Chu army at the head of Liyang City still looked high in morale. I don't know where the scoundrel in charge of defending the city came out. It was so difficult to deal with? [..com]

"Meng Yan!" Zhou Yin frowned deeply and said in a deep voice, "Where is this Meng Yan's origin?"

Zhou Huan smiled bitterly and shook his head. The Jiujiang Army's detailed work took great effort, but he only found out that the Liyang Guard General Meng's name was Meng's name. He didn't know what the specific origin was. However, one thing is certain that Meng's name was definitely not a general of the Chu army. He should have been recruited by Xiang Zhuang recently. Thinking of this, Zhou Yin was secretly shocked. Xiang Zhuang's command was really full of talents now.

When the father and son were speechless, their personal soldiers suddenly went up the mountain to report: "General, General Jin Xu and General Li Zuoche asked for a meeting."

Zhou Yin said without looking back: "I'll invite two generals to go up the mountain."

"Here!" The personal soldiers agreed and took the order.

In less than a moment, Jin Xu and Li Zuoche joined forces to climb the hill.

Before he could see the ceremony, Jin Xu said angrily: "Zhou Yin, the Chu army in the city is becoming more and more arrogant. Do you still have the mood to hide on the mountain and watch the scenery?"

Zhou Huan smiled coldly and said hungryly: "Jin Xu, if your troops had not fought effectively last night, the coalition forces would have long attacked the city of Liyang. What qualifications do you have to teach others a lesson here?"

"Children Zhou Huan!" Jin Xu was furious when he heard this, "How can you speak here!"

"What I said is the truth!" Zhou Huan did not give in. "Since the war started, our Jiujiang army has suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and General Li Zuoche's troops have also suffered four thousand casualties, but what about your troops? So far, there have been less than 2,000 casualties. If you hadn't yelled hard and deliberately preserved your strength, Li Yang would have captured it long ago!"

"Fart!" Jin Xi became more and more furious, "I lost all the elites, unlike your Jiujiang army. All the farmers, woodcutters, hunters, were just mobs. Zhou Huan, if it weren't for your father, I would have to twist your head today, Humph!"

"Broken my head?" Zhou Huan said coldly, "I'm afraid you don't have the ability yet."

Jin Xi could not hold back. He was about to draw his sword to chop Zhou Huan, but Li Zuoche tried hard to hold his right hand. Zhou Yin could stop and finally drove Zhou Huan off the hill.

Li Zuoche stomped his feet and said angrily: "When is it now? Are you still in the mood to quarrel?"

After saying this, Li Zuoche said again: "Do you know that Mei Jing's 150,000 Hengshan army has been defeated by Xiangzhuang's 20,000 elite troops, and Si Luoyao's Dongou army is also injured in Wu and defeated the Chu army!"

"Ah?!" Zhou Yin changed his mind when he heard this, "The plum blossoms are over, and Si Luoyao is also defeated?"

"No way?!" Jin Xu said incredible, "Mei Jing's 150,000 army is over like this? This is a 150,000 army, Li Zuoche, don't be terrified!"

"I heard the danger and the terrible words?" Li Zuoche said angrily, "I don't have that leisure time."

Zhou Yin was so shocked when he heard this, Jin Xu also frowned and said, "We are in trouble now."

"There's more than that." Li Zuoche paused and said, "Returned by meteor scouts, Yingbu's Huainan army also withdrew from Guangling and besieged the seven-way coalition forces in Jiangdong. Now there are only three of us left. Just wait for Xiangzhuang to return to the army, the Chu army will definitely cross the river next. By then, no one of us will think about it!"

"What should I do?" Jin Xu was shocked when he heard this.

In the Battle of Shouchun last year, Jin Xi really scared Xiang Zhuang, so when he heard that he was going to fight against Xiang Zhuang, Jin Xi was instinctively scared. Think about it, he and Li Zuoche led 30,000 people last year, but he could not defeat thousands of remaining soldiers in Xiang Zhuang. Now Xiang Zhuang has at least 100,000 soldiers. How can he fight this battle?

Zhou Yin was also worried, and there seemed to be no need to continue this battle.

Li Zuoche seemed to guess what Zhou Yin was thinking, and said coldly: "General Zhou Yin, it's probably a bit too late to withdraw the troops now. Even if you retreated, do you really think Xiang Zhuang would let you go? You have a mortal hatred with Xiang. If it weren't for your rebellion against Chu and return to Han, Xiang Yu wouldn't have been defeated at Gaixia, nor would he commit suicide in Wujiang..."

"Enough!" Zhou Yin said angrily, "Li Zuoche, you don't need to remind me of these!"

"It's good that you know." Li Zuoche nodded, his eyes turned to Jin Xu again, and said, "For the sake of the present, we can only abandon our past grudges, first try our best to capture Liyang, then set up defenses along the Wujiang River, or even block the Chu army in Jiangzuo. Otherwise, we will wait for the Chu army to come to the door and take your and my head to seek credit."

Zhou Yin nodded silently. At this point, it seems that there is only one way to go.

Jin Xu's eyes were fierce and said with a grim voice: "Well, my personal guards will be responsible for seizing the city this morning, but you don't have to hide your wealth anymore. What about the well railing, siege cars, and catapults, he won't take it out. I don't believe it. I can't take it down just Liyang City?"

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At the end of Liyang City, Meng Feng was sleeping soundly against the dove.

Last night, the siege continued until midnight. After the Han army retreated, Meng Feng was busy arranging the wounded soldiers and counting supplies such as rolling wood, rocks, and turbulent. He had to come to the city early in the morning to encourage the Chu soldiers and prisoners. Until just now, he had time to rest on the plate and fell asleep without thinking.

Suddenly, a distant and low trumpet sound suddenly sounded outside the city.

Meng Wuqi was startled and looked up quickly. When he saw that tens of thousands of Han troops had gathered in the wilderness outside the north gate, Meng Wuqi felt that in the back of the Han army, there were even a sharp wooden towers standing upright for the first time. Meng Wuqi couldn't help but take a breath of air conditioning. The well railing was actually the well railing!

No, there is a catapult behind the well railing, and there is a catapult!

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"Woo woo woo woo woo..." As the endless horns, tens of thousands of Han soldiers held oars and shields, shouting uniform horns, dragging dozens of well railings, and slowly crushing towards Liyang City. Looking at the towering well railings and catapults, the prisoners on the top of the city suddenly became turbulent.

In the suffocating waiting, time passes by little by little.

When there were still a hundred steps away from the city wall, more than a dozen catapults finally stopped.

Amid the sound of uniform trumpets, teams of Han military strongmen suddenly exerted force and pulled down hard. In an instant, more than a dozen huge swing arms had already bounced into the air. The hanging basket connected to the far end of the swing arms was roaring and thrown into the air through the iron chain. After rising to the highest point, the huge rock contained in the swing basket was suddenly thrown out in front.

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Amid the sound of Han army's powerful men's roaring like a tsunami, more than a dozen huge rocks roared from the Han army's back formation and rolled down towards the Liyang city. The prisoners guarding the city suddenly became chaotic, and they shouted and walked around to avoid each other. With the crowding of each other, several prisoners were actually squeezed down from the female wall and fell seriously injured.

However, even though these prisoners were panicked, none of them slipped down to the city wall and ran away.

Meng Fengqi suddenly looked up and saw a huge rock roaring down towards his head.

In the midst of lightning, Meng Feng suddenly flashed, and a huge rock weighing four or five hundred pounds fell to him. With a loud "boom", several prisoners were shocked to fly into the air, and then rolled and fell outside the city wall, and then thick smoke and dust rose from the top of the city.

After a while, the smoke and dust disappeared, and a huge gap had been broken into the top of the city. The veterans and more than 20 prisoners who were originally guarding Meng Fengyun were either shocked and fell off the city wall or turned into natives in a dusty manner. The two most unlucky prisoners were directly smashed into meat paste by huge rocks.

However, the remaining dozen huge rocks were all tilted, either falling into the city or hitting the city wall.

Amid the sound of Han military strongmen's horns, rows of huge rocks were thrown into the air and rolled down towards the head of Liyang City. However, there were very few huge rocks that actually hit the head of the city. Most of the stones fell on the towering city wall. While smashing the bricks, they also left shallow pits on the city wall.

The bombardment of the catapult car lasted for half a meal, and it was not until the well gate approached the city wall that the launch finally stopped.

When the Han army's catapult car stopped launching, the city of Liyang was already in a mess. Although there were few stones falling on the city, each huge rock caused great damage to the Chu army. In addition to the killing of personnel, it also destroyed a large number of rolling wood stones and fierce tinder oil. What's more serious is that the morale and confidence of the prisoners were greatly damaged.

When the smoke and dust enveloped the city disappeared, the prisoners huddled behind the basin stood up tremblingly, but their faces were all as earth-faced as earth, and they were as frightened as frightened birds! After all, these prisoners had not received formal military training, nor had they experienced real baptism of war. They were inevitably afraid of siege such as the catapult cart and the Jinglan.
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