Chapter 831

Hearing Ren Fang say this, Nie Ze questioned: "Does General Ren think that our army can't break through Baguan?"

Ren Fang blinked, then smiled, and answered irrelevantly: "Attack the city, not my forte, tomorrow's battle, I will have to rely on General Nie more."

His implication was that he thought there was nothing wrong with Nie Ze's command of the siege, and tomorrow he would be responsible for commanding the entire army to attack the city.

This made Nie Ze's depression and embarrassment much less, and he said politely: "General Ren is too modest, who doesn't know that General Ren is a famous general who is invincible and invincible?"

Ren Fang smiled up and said nothing more.

After leaving the central army tent, Nie Ze walked towards his own camp and said to his subordinates proudly: "Ren Fang is just seeking fame. When it comes to a tough battle, we will have to command the battle."

The generals of the Zhen army also laughed and said flatteringly: "I guess Ren Fang has long admired the general's reputation!"

Nie Ze was even more proud when he heard this and laughed loudly.

On the other side, the generals of the Sichuan army were very puzzled by Ren Fang's decision. In their opinion, Nie Ze's siege strategy had no skills at all. It was a head-on attack, which resulted in heavy casualties on his side. Deputy General Jin Zhuo asked curiously: "Why didn't the general command the battle himself?"

Ren Fang sighed softly and said: "Baguan is strong. Even if I command it, the result will be the same."

The generals looked at each other, and no one said anything.

The next day, the Sichuan-Zhen coalition army went out of the camp again and launched a siege.

After the lesson of the previous day, Nie Ze also learned his lesson. He no longer attacked fiercely, but pushed all the thousands of catapults of the army onto the battlefield. Without the personnel, he first used dense stone bombs to attack Baguan.

Thousands of heavy catapults continuously fired stone bombs, which were so powerful that the earth shook and the sky was dark. No one could stand on the top of the Baguan city wall opposite. All the soldiers of the Feng army hid in the city or behind the city wall. Listening to the continuous rumbling sound of the impact above their heads, people's faces were pale.

Such a dense attack made it almost impossible to find a good place on the narrow and long city wall. The ground was full of holes. The city defense facilities such as rolling logs, pounding stones, and oil pots that were originally piled on the city wall were also greatly damaged. Rolling logs and pounding stones were scattered all over the ground, the oil pots were overturned and broken, the army-breaking crossbows and city-breaking crossbows turned into a pile of rotten wood, and bundles of arrows were smashed into several sections...

The city wall was riddled with holes and was completely torn apart by the impact of stone bullets, but the enemy's catapults had no intention of stopping. The Fengjun soldiers in the city even doubted whether the enemy would continue to fight like this for a whole day.

The continuous catapults lasted from morning to noon, and it finally came to an end at this time, but then the siege team of the Chuanzhen coalition began to move forward.

Like the first day, the main force of the Chuanzhen coalition was divided into several groups, one group after another, maintaining a strong offensive.

As the firing of stone bullets stopped, the Feng Army hiding under the city wall also rushed to the top of the city. When people came up and looked carefully, they were dumbfounded. The city wall was full of broken stones, rotten wood, and pits. There was no place to stand.

However, the generals of the Feng Army reacted quickly and immediately issued orders, asking the whole army to quickly clean up the city wall, collect the usable ones together, and push down the unusable ones. At the same time, they asked the rear to immediately move new city defense weapons to fill the gap.

The Feng Army on the city and inside the city was extremely busy. When the enemy troops attacking the city entered the range, the archers of the Feng Army were already in place. Under the orders of the generals of each corps, people twisted their bows and arrows and fired at the enemy troops outside the city.

Most of the crossbow beds on the city were destroyed, and the Feng Army hurriedly moved a batch from the city. At this time, the city wall was extremely lively. The Feng Army in the front row was shooting arrows, and the soldiers behind were pushing the crossbow beds from time to time. In addition, the soldiers holding rolling logs and hitting stones were also shuttling back and forth.

After a whole morning of stone bombardment against Baguan, Nie Ze thought that the resistance of Fengjun would be weakened a lot, but he was wrong. The counterattack of Fengjun was still fierce. The arrows shot down from the city were as dense as raindrops, and the stone bombs fired from the city were as numerous as hail. All these brought huge casualties to the Chuanzhen coalition.

The Fengjun hated the enemy's catapults, and the Chuanzhen coalition also hated the Fengjun's catapults. This weapon was too powerful and could not be defended. The lethality was amazing. Nie Ze sent the cloud car of the Chuanjun to the battlefield. The cloud car was similar to the arrow tower, with a smaller size but a higher height of up to four or five feet. It was specially used to spy on the situation in the city during the siege.

Nie Ze asked the soldiers on the cloud car to find the direction of the Fengjun catapult, and then move his own heavy catapult forward to attack the catapult in the city with the advantage of range.

But the cloud car was relatively fragile, and it was not so easy to get close to Baguan and spy on Baguan.

The Sichuan Army dispatched a total of five cloud vehicles, but only one of them was intact on the battlefield. However, they finally fulfilled their mission and found out the location of the trebuchet in the city. After obtaining accurate information, Nie Ze immediately ordered his trebuchets to move forward one mile and launch stone bullets into the city one mile outside Baguan.

When the heavy trebuchet was two miles away from Baguan, the crossbows on the top of the city could not shoot it. Now it is one mile closer, which is within the range of the crossbows. The soldiers of the Feng Army did not know why the enemy commander suddenly got crazy and why he pushed the trebuchet so close to them, but this opportunity was too rare, and it was a good time to destroy the enemy's heavy weapons.

The Feng Army adjusted the position of the crossbow bed that had just been moved to the top of the city to let the enemy's siege phalanx pass, and aimed their arrows at the enemy's heavy trebuchet.

Before the Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces fired stone bullets into the city, the crossbow arrows from the city came over first.

The crossbow arrows of the city-breaking crossbow are said to be arrows, but in fact they are wooden stakes wrapped in iron sheets. When this kind of thing hits the wooden frame of the trebuchet, it can be smashed into pieces in one stroke. As the crossbow arrows continued to fly towards them, dozens of heavily-equipped trebuchets were instantly damaged. Nie Ze, who was watching from behind, was so frightened that he ordered quickly to withdraw his own trebuchets.

Sichuan's heavy trebuchets went back and forth like this, and hundreds of them were damaged and destroyed by shooting. This boring meal made Nie Ze feel as if he had swallowed a fly and got stuck in his throat. However, knowing the power of the crossbows in Baguan City, he basically gave up the idea of ​​destroying the opponent's trebuchets.

The siege battle lasted from noon until dark, and then Nie Ze ordered the entire army to retreat.

Two days of fierce attacks yielded no results, and Baguan was still firmly in the hands of Feng Jun. At this time, Nie Ze, who was originally full of confidence, began to be at a loss. He knew in his heart that if he continued to consume like this, even if his side could finally capture Ba Pass, the price paid would be too high. How many soldiers would be killed and injured in the battle!

Now, Ren Fang still had no intention of taking over the command. He even went to the battlefield to watch the battle on the first day of the siege. On the second day of the siege, he did not even leave the camp and left it completely to Nie Ze. This made Nie Ze feel more pressure. At this time, he wanted to return the command to Ren Fang, but he couldn't say it, so he could only bite the bullet and continue to be the commander-in-chief of the siege.

After two days of fierce fighting, the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Forces suffered considerable casualties, and the soldiers were exhausted. On the third day, although the main force of the Sichuan-Zhenren Allied Forces came out of camp again, they no longer moved forward. Nie Ze just Let your own heavy-duty trebuchets continuously fire stone bombs to attack the Baguan city defense.

With the lessons learned the day before, Feng Jun also gained experience this time. Most of the city defense weapons were not left on top of the city, but were all moved inside the city. There were only some rolling logs and stones left on the city wall that were not afraid of being hit, even if they were destroyed. It’s something that doesn’t hurt even if it’s gone.

This time the trebuchet attack by the Sichuan and Zhen Allied Forces lasted longer, lasting from morning to afternoon. When it was almost evening, the siege troops of the Sichuan and Zhen Allied Forces entered the battlefield. Seeing that Baguan's counterattack was still very fierce, Nie Ze He hastily ordered to withdraw his troops and return to camp.

Three days passed, and a million troops were isolated outside Baguan City, unable to cross the thunder pool. This made Nie Ze as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, restless and unable to sleep at night.

Seeing the appearance of their commander, the generals below were also helpless. Someone suggested to Nie Ze that they simply return the command of the siege to Ren Fang. After all, Ren Fang was the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces. It was Ren Fang's right to capture the overlord pass. Responsibilities and tasks, why should we take this problem on ourselves?

Nie Ze was an arrogant man, and he was afraid that he would be compared to others, or that others would be better than him. After hearing what his subordinates said, he became furious and gritted his teeth and asked, "Do you think I am not as good as him?"

The general Zhen shrank in fear, how could he mean this? However, seeing Nie Ze grinning and looking like he wanted to eat someone, General Zhen lowered his head and did not dare to explain more.

At this time, a counselor named Guo Song in the Zhen army chuckled, shook his head and said: "General, how difficult is it to break through the tyrants?"

Oh, what a loud tone! The Zhenjun generals looked at Guo Song like a monster, including Nie Ze. The latter said: "Mr. Guo Song, what do you say?"

Guo Song chuckled sinisterly and said: "I have a plan. If the general acts according to my plan, our army can easily conquer Ba Pass in a month at most and capture the Fengjun in the city alive!"

Nie Ze suddenly became energetic. His eyes widened and he ejaculated. He quickly asked: "What's the plan? Mr. Guo Song, please tell me!"

Guo Song asked back: "General, don't our army have many corpses of fallen soldiers?"

"That's right!"

"Soak these corpses in stagnant water. After a few days, they will rot and breed plague. Then use trebuchets to throw all the corpses into Baguan City. Within a few days, the plague will spread in Baguan. The general imagined that by the time How could those sickly Feng troops resist the attack of my million-strong army?"

Guo Song said it in an understatement, but the generals around him broke into cold sweat. Like the Feng Kingdom, the people of the Zhen Kingdom favored martial arts, and the status of military officers was obviously higher than that of civilian officials. At this time, people looked at Guo Song and cursed secretly in their hearts. Only civil servants like this could think of such a vicious plan to cut off their descendants.

After hearing this, Nie Ze also took a breath and stared at Guo Song with his wide eyes for a long time, then slowly closed his eyes and lowered his head in silence.