Outside Ningling City, in order to ensure the advantage of the Song army in the city, Gan Ping led two troops to cross the river from the northern part of the Yellow River fork to join Chen Xun.

Including the auxiliary army, nearly 60,000 Chen family troops gathered outside Ningling City.

On May 27, the siege officially began.

The troops of the Fifth Battalion were sent up, and tactics were the most standard siege combat method, while the other Chen family troops stood behind to watch the battle.

All the officers who did not go to the front line were asked by Chen Xun to stand at the forefront of the preparation army, and could clearly see the battlefield ahead.

Chen Xun and some senior officers stood on the artificial high platform, condescending to the heights, and the corners of the battlefield were all in sight.

When the Chen family army of the fifth battalion approached the Ningling City Wall, officers at all levels began to reorganize their troops to ensure that the military formation was neat.

Ningling City is just a county town with no moat, making this siege much easier.

Three types of siege equipment, the tower car and the ladder are at the front, while the infantry are behind the two siege equipment, just like the later generations of insurgents and tank coordination, and the artillery position is set at the last place.

As they approached a hundred steps to the city wall, the musketeers and crossbowmen on the chariot began to shoot, and the artillery positions in the rear also began to shoot.

The cloud ladder continued to approach. After approaching the city wall, the giant wooden ladder folded back began to rise, and the iron hook in front was tightly grasped at the top of the Ningling City wall.

The entire ladder plus the transportation and rotation structure below, the weight exceeded 600 kilograms, which made the defender's putter directly lose its effect.

The ladder surface of the cloud ladder is wide and the slope is low. The Chen family army who was sieging the city can directly hold weapons in both hands and run upwards on the ladder.

A bulge will be set up every three or four feet on both sides of the ladder. If a bulge is thrown down on the city wall, the soldiers who are climbing the ladder only need to climb down, and the bulge will bounce the bulge away.

The only weapons that could threaten the soldiers on the ladder were rolling stones, gold juice and tinder oil.

However, in the rear stairs, under the cover of musketeers, the defenders on the city walls could not organize effective defenses at all.

Soon, nearly half an hour after the siege began, the soldiers of the Chen family attacked the top of Ningling City.

The most tragic battle officially began at this moment.

The musketeers in the rear threw rats and were afraid of weapons. In order to avoid hurting their own people, they could not shoot at the city point. The Chen family army who climbed to the city could only rely on themselves.

The long spear, Miao sword, grenade and other weapons took turns to fight, and more and more Chen's soldiers climbed up the city wall.

As a result, the defense force of the defenders became increasingly stronger.

A large number of defenders were chased into the city wall and attacked the Chen family army on the top of the city, trying to drive the Chen family soldiers down.

The defending generals were even more crazy and directly ordered the archers to shoot at the melee site, regardless of whether their own people would be shot by the bows and arrows.

"Ming Jin, withdraw it." Chen Xun ordered.

As the order was issued, the soldiers who were attacking the city head in front began to retreat, and the siege equipment was also pulled back by tow ropes.

"Governor, we have all attacked, why should we retreat?" asked a general.

"There are still many enemies. If we attack like this, we will suffer a lot of losses. We will consume it slowly first and then attack the city in large quantities." Chen Xun replied.

The biggest advantage of the Chen family army, which is taking the initiative, is that they can choose combat time, and the defenders can only passively respond. With this, the defenders are far greater in preparation time than the Chen family army.

"Let the five battalions retreat to rest, and those who are injured should be treated quickly." Chen Xun ordered: "Don't stop siege, change to five battalions to continue."

"Yes, the governor!" Gan Ping received the order and then ordered his Sixth Army to send out the soldiers of the Fifth Battalion to form an array to attack the city.

Round after round, Chen Xun stood behind and watched the uninterrupted siege in front of him, and estimated the effectiveness and losses of this actual combat training.

From Chen hour in the morning to Shen hour in the afternoon, for five hours, lunch was rotated, and all 40,000 people from the entire Xuzhou Army took the battle once.

Although the number of sieges each time remains at 5,000, these 5,000 people are concentrated in attacking the West City Wall, as well as the bonus of gunpowder weapons such as cannons, muskets, grenades, etc. The siege intensity is even greater than that of 20,000 or 30,000 people at the same time.

The continuous eight waves of high-intensity siege battles have made the defenders on the city reach their limits.

During the last two or three waves of siege, the defenders no longer had the equipment for defending the city such as Rolling Stones and Mu, and even the archers' shooting became sparse.

It was still one hour before dark, and Chen Xun felt that the time was up.

"Miao Dao strengthens the camp!" Chen Xun ordered.

This Miaodao Strengthening Battalion was expanded on the basis of the previous Miaodao Battalion. All soldiers were selected by the entire army. Among them, the five hundred attackers were wearing two layers of heavy armor, the inner layer of shark leather armor, the outer layer of fish-scale steel armor, a helmet on his head and steel boots on his feet, and were fully armed.

"In!" Watching the battle for one day, the battalion commander was already eager to strengthen the battalion commander.

"This time you attack the city, your camp will first come to the camp!" Chen Xun ordered.

"Receive the order! Governor!" The battalion commander saluted and immediately went down to prepare.

"Ganping, a city wall in Ningling County can allow up to 10,000 people to fight. If you get veterans from the fifth battalion, I get veterans from the fourth battalion, plus Miaodao Camp, and strive to take it down in this wave." Chen Xun said.

In the veteran camp here, the proportion of veterans in the Chen family army is only 10% higher than that of other battalions, reaching 20%. However, the proportion of veterans such as the King's Army, Zhang's Army, and Rebel Army in the camp exceeds 30%, and the pure new recruits are less than 50%.

"Don't worry, the governor, Ningling City is powerless." Gan Ping responded.

After a short rest for a quarter of an hour, the siege battle started again. The number of people in this siege was twice as large as before, and the reserve ladder and the tower car were also pushed up.

When the defenders saw this scene, they also pulled all their reserve troops up and stuffed the city walls to the west.

The Chen family army has added a new siege weapon: blasting rockets.

This was moved from the Navy Station ship, and it was very lethal to wooden buildings and personnel.

The battle begins!

First, artillery and blasting rockets opened the way, and the powerful blasting rocket immediately made the defenders on the city walls chaotic.

The cart and the ladder pressed up again, the ladder hooked up the city wall, and the Miaodao camp, wearing heavy armor, began to climb.

He held a knife in one hand and a floating wooden staircase in the other hand. He quickly stepped on his feet. In less than a breath, the city wall more than two feet high was stepped on by soldiers from Miaodao Camp.

The defenders used their old tricks again, and the rain of arrows shot towards the melee between the two armies, but this time it took a counter-effect.

Arrows had almost no effect on the soldiers of the Miao Dao Camp, but they helped the Miao Dao Camp clear the defenders in front, and the climbing point expanded sharply, and more Chen's army climbed the city walls.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Artillery bombarded the city gate tower in densely, and the city walls were filled with the roar of grenade explosions.
Chapter completed!