I, who plundered the heavens, had a hundred thousand dead men

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Outside Jiangning City, as tens of thousands of troops from the Wu Dynasty were preparing for war, the roaring of war drums also filled the sky.

Immediately afterwards, huge shields and numerous siege equipment were pushed to the front.

Each of these huge shields is equipped with wooden wheels, like a wooden carriage with a huge shield on top, and the surface of these shields is sealed with a layer of iron.

At this moment, as the war drums sounded, each shield was pushed by more than a dozen Wu Dynasty soldiers and gradually charged towards Jiangning City.

Under these shields, there were more than a dozen people carrying ladders for siege and hiding behind the shield vehicles.

In addition to these shield vehicles, the Wu Dynasty army also pushed out large and heavy crossbows.

The crossbow arrows produced by these crossbows are very huge, and each fine iron crossbow arrow they shoot can easily penetrate into the interior of the city wall.

If these crossbow arrows are fired densely on the city wall, some skilled soldiers can even climb directly onto the city wall using these crossbow arrows.

Obviously, Dong Daofu was very well prepared during these days in order to defeat the numerous arrow rain attacks in Jiangning City.

Soon, as the siege army led by Dong Daofu pushed a large number of siege equipment into the crossbow range of the Death Soldier Legion, densely packed heavy spear-like crossbow arrows poured down as if they were free.

Although these waves of crossbow arrows are not as numerous as the original arrow-like crossbow arrows, their power is many times greater.

In addition, these heavy crossbow arrows were thrown down from the city wall, and with the weight of them, these crossbow arrows, which were like spears, would be directly penetrated by any shields or siege equipment on the Wu Dynasty's side.

The Wu Dynasty soldiers hiding behind these shields would also be directly killed by the piercing crossbow arrows.

However, this wave of arrows did not cause too many casualties to the Wu Dynasty army. Unfortunately, only dozens of soldiers were pierced by crossbow arrows and died.

Only a few shields and siege equipment were damaged by several crossbow arrows, thus losing the ability to continue fighting.

A moment later, after several waves of arrows were fired from the city wall, the Wu Dynasty army finally rushed under the city wall at the cost of hundreds of soldiers, and began to set up ladders to climb up the city wall to seize the city.

Door control.

However, just when these Wu Dynasty soldiers rushed to the bottom of the city wall, although they were lucky enough to escape the attack of arrows, they were greeted by the attack of kerosene and rolling stones pouring down from the top of the city wall.

As a large amount of kerosene and rolling stones fell from the city wall, the entire city wall immediately turned into a sea of ​​​​fire, and there were screams one after another.

At the rear of the army, Dong Daofu watched the scene happening under the city wall in the distance with a sullen face and said nothing.

Soon as time passed, although the Wu Dynasty's siege army suffered serious casualties, the army behind them kept climbing up the city wall without stopping.

For a time, many soldiers of the Wu Dynasty climbed up the city tower through ladders and crossbow arrows nailed to the city wall, and then started a fierce close combat with the dead soldiers on the city wall.

A few hours later, although there were a large number of corpses piled under and above the walls of Jiangning City, neither the Wu Dynasty army attacking the city nor the army of dead soldiers defending the city stopped at all.

Most of these fallen corpses were left behind by the Wu Dynasty army.

As for the Death Soldier Legion, after several hours of continuous fighting, although hundreds of casualties were paid, thousands of corpses were left on the towers of Jiangning City.

Under the city wall, more soldiers of the Wu Dynasty turned into piles of charred corpses.

Behind the Wu Dynasty army, Dong Daofu became a little anxious as he looked at Jiangning City, which had been unable to be conquered for a long time.

Because he knew that if he failed to capture Jiangning City today, he would have to mobilize more soldiers and horses to succeed in the next siege.

However, when Dong Daofu thought of Qin Siyuan's entrustment to him, his heart changed and he decided to take a desperate gamble.

As long as he wins the bet, he will not only be able to destroy Jiangning City, but also gain the right to speak for Qin Siyuan in the court, and then the plan of the Northern Expedition can be implemented smoothly.

Therefore, Dong Daofu felt a sudden change in his heart and directly issued the order for the entire army to charge.

Immediately, Dong Daofu was seen taking the lead and rushing towards the tower of Jiangning City with the army.

On the city wall of Jiangning City, Zhao Jun, who was in charge of the Death Soldier Corps, looked at this scene and looked unusually calm.

The Death Soldier Corps under the banner were also not affected in any way, and continued to fight with all their strength against the Wu Dynasty soldiers who had rushed to the tower.

Soon, as Dong Daofu personally led the army to attack the city, more and more Wu Dynasty soldiers boarded the tower.

Zhao Jun, who commanded the Corps of Dead Soldiers, also personally took all his guards to join the hand-to-hand combat on the tower.

Since none of these dead soldiers under Li Yang are afraid of life and death, their combat effectiveness and fighting will are much stronger than those of the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty.

Therefore, although the number of Wu Dynasty soldiers ascending the tower was increasing at this moment, the Dead Soldiers Corps still fought with all their might and did not retreat even half a step.

For a time, the Death Soldier Legion and the Wu Dynasty army were locked in an even more intense and desperate battle on top of the city tower.

As for the Wu Dynasty army, after several hours of fierce fighting, its casualties had exceeded 20,000.

Although the casualties on the Death Soldier Corps' side were much less, there were still nearly 2,000 casualties.

This is equivalent to a battle loss ratio of more than ten to one.

Although the nearly 2,000 casualties is an extremely huge number for the Death Soldier Corps, the overall impact on the Death Soldier Corps is not great.

Because a total of 15,000 dead soldiers gathered in Jiangning City.

So even though there are nearly 2,000 dead soldiers injured and killed, Zhao Jun, who is responsible for commanding the dead soldiers in Jiangning City, still has more than 10,000 dead soldiers who are not afraid of life and death.

On the other hand, the Wu Dynasty army on Dong Daofu's side currently only has less than 20,000 people.

Although the number was still much larger than that of the Dead Soldiers, it was absolutely impossible for Dong Daofu to attack Jiangning City with this number of soldiers and horses.

After all, the combat effectiveness of Li Yang's army of dead soldiers far exceeded those of the soldiers of the Wu Dynasty.

Even a first-level dead soldier can fight one against two without losing.

And those second-level dead soldiers who serve as centurions, captains, and corps commanders in the dead soldier army are even more capable of defeating dozens of masters.

On the other side, just as the battle between the Wu Dynasty army and the Dead Soldiers Corps on the towers of Jiangning City was heating up, bursts of killing cries suddenly came from the Wu Dynasty army camp outside Jiangning City.

The thousands of men and horses from the baggage camp that Dong Daofu left in the main camp were being slaughtered crazily and wantonly by hundreds of dead knights wearing black armor.

At the same time, a large number of tents and provisions in the entire camp were also set alight by the dead cavalry with torches.

For a moment, the camp where tens of thousands of people were originally stationed was filled with smoke and flames.