Jingzhou, Fancheng, and millions of Xia troops were approaching. To the north of the Han River, except for this lonely city, the rest of the cities, such as Xinye City, were all occupied by four legions of Sun Ce, Xie Xuan, Zu Ti, and Zhang Xutuo.

The four major armies gathered in Fancheng, Hanshui and Lumen Mountain areas to attack the power of Emperor Wu of Song Liu Yu.

Liu Yu deployed heavy troops in Xiangyang City and Fancheng to block the four major legions sent by Zhang Hua to attack him.

Between Xiangyang City and Fancheng, there is a floating bridge across the Han River.

Guan Yu's northern expedition to Xiangfan was because he could not break through these two cities that were mutually supportive, and he eventually failed.

During the Song and Yuan War, Xiangyang City and Fan City blocked the Mongols for a long time.

The Xiangfan defense line is as solid as a soup.

But this is just theoretically impregnable.

Zhou Yu and Xie Xuan's navy were no less than Liu Yu's Jingzhou navy, so Liu Yu's Jingzhou navy might not be able to stop the troops from the north.

Sun Ce ordered Zhou Yu and Xie Xuan to command the navy, attack the floating bridge above the Han River, and block the soldiers from Jingzhou from Jiangxia. Sun Ce himself, along with Zuti, Zhang Xutuo and other legion commanders, led troops to attack Fancheng from land.

The guard of Fancheng is Tan Daoji, the general of the New Taipei Prefecture Army.

Tan Daoji was good at strategy and possessed the high-level army of the Northern Mansion Army. He relied on Fancheng's strong fortifications to defend himself and was responsible for consuming the Xia army's forces in Jiangbei.

Emperor Wu of Song, Liu Yu, was in charge of Xiangyang City and sent reinforcements to support Fancheng, allowing Fancheng to stay for a long time.

Liu Yu knew the importance of Fancheng, so within three years, he built thousands of arrow towers in Fancheng and hoarded tens of millions of crossbows and arrows, and the food and grass were enough for the defenders to spend two years!

Not only that, each city gate in Fancheng has a structure of Weng City, and it is divided into inner and outer cities. It can be said to be a fortress.

Thousands of arrow towers in Fancheng were like rain, and the arrows like black clouds fell one after another, falling on the heads of the Xia army that was sieging the city. The Xia army was corpses everywhere under the city, just like a purgatory on earth.

Sun Ce and Taishi Ci, two powerful generals, took Zhou Tai, Ling Tong, Han Dang and other Wu generals to attack Fancheng personally, hoping to break through this solid barrier, tear open the Xiangfan defense line, and annex the entire Jingzhou.

However, Fancheng, guarded by generals such as Tan Daoji, Wang Zhene, Wenpin, Huang Zu, Xiao Yan, Gao Aocao, etc., is not an easy town to attack. These generals lead their troops to defend with all their strength. The courage of generals such as Sun Ce and Taishi Ci cannot open a gap.

Only by working together with Sun Ce and Taishi Ci, can Sun Ce fight Gao Aocao, a powerful general in the Southern and Northern Dynasties who was compared to Xiang Yu.

What made the attacking side desperate was the thousands of arrow towers, thousands of bed crossbows and hundreds of thousands of powerful crossbows established in Fancheng!

The dense arrow tower and crossbow suppressed the Xia soldiers who were sieging the city. Before these Xia soldiers approached the city wall, they were nailed to death by the terrifying arrow rain. The bodies were piled up one after another. Even if Sun Ce brought the generals to the city and the subsequent troops could not arrive in time, then Sun Ce and other generals had to retreat in the face of a large number of defenders' besieged.

Zhang Xutuo's Sui army was even more fierce. Zhang Xutuo personally led Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Han Qinhu, and He Ruobi to break through a Weng City.

But Zhang Xutuo's soldiers were shot and killed by a large number of arrow towers like hedgehogs, and fell to the ground. Then Tan Daoji sent troops to besiege Zhang Xutuo and drove Zhang Xutuo and his group out of Weng City.

Fancheng's terrible defense system made Sun Ce, the head coach who attacked Liu Yu's forces, worried.

Sun Ce's central army has continued to attack Fancheng for more than a month, killing and injuring more than 100,000 soldiers, but Fancheng has no intention of falling.

Sun Ce was able to take charge because of Sun Shangxiang. If he lost in Fancheng, the influence of the Sun family in Jiangdong in the future would undoubtedly decline.

For military generals, a huge defeat will have too much impact on their careers and may even become a stain on their lifelong career.

Haven't you seen Yu Jin flooded the seven armies by Guan Yu's waters, and his reputation plummeted.

"If I continue like this, even if I sacrifice 300,000 soldiers and spend half a year, it will be difficult to conquer Fancheng. Siege is not my strength."

Zhou Yu analyzed the situation for his friend Sun Ce, but Zhou Yu was not good at siegeing the city. The strategy speed of Jingzhou's important towns such as Fancheng, Xiangyang, Jiangling, and Jiangxia is calculated in the years.

But Zhang Hua obviously didn't want Sun Ce's central army to delay in Jingzhou for too long.

Especially Han Xin's attack on Shu made progress soon.

If Sun Ce did not make timely progress, it would not be acceptable to the generals who attacked Jingzhou.

Moreover, Yue Fei of the Eastern Army encountered the soldier Sun Wu in Pengcheng, and his situation was not very good. Zhang Hua meant that if Sun Ce and Zhou Yu made progress, captured Fancheng, Xiangyang, Jiangling, and then went down the river and took Jinling, no matter how strong Zhu Yuanzhang's ability was, he could not change the situation of being in a safe place.

So Sun Ce and Zhou Yu were all trying to find ways to break through Fancheng as soon as possible and eliminate Liu Yu's forces.

Sometimes, to eliminate an entire force, you don’t have to break through every city. Perhaps with just one battle, the opponent’s new force will be wiped out, which will cause a chain reaction and cause the opponent’s cities to descend.

"It will naturally not work if you adopt the commonly used siege method. Maybe you can use the Huihuan."

When Sun Ce and Zhou Yu summoned Xie Xuan, Zhang Xutuo, Zu Ti and other military generals to discuss how to attack Fancheng, the Gongshu team with domineering mechanisms came to Sun Ce's army and offered a strategy for Sun Ce.

"Rui Hui Cannon?"

Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Xie Xuan, Zhang Xutuo, Zu Ti and other military generals before the Yuan Dynasty all showed confusion at this time.

They have never heard of this kind of siege weapon.

Zhou Yu knew the fame of Gongshuo and realized that perhaps this was a way to break the deadlock, so he bowed to Gongshuo and said, "I would like to ask for advice from sir."

"This is a trencher invented by later craftsmen. It adopts the principle of leverage weight. Its firing power is great, so it is also called a giant stone cannon. After my improvement, its power is even greater and its hit rate has also been improved. It can be used to destroy the arrow towers and walls of Fancheng, and forcibly break the city."

The Gongshu class has absolute confidence in its domineering mechanisms.

The Gongshu Ban communicated with craftsmen from other dynasties, learned a lot of knowledge from later generations, and then used their own talents to improve and upgrade the Hui Hui cannon, making the Hui Hui cannon a more powerful siege weapon.

"It's this!"

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's eyes lit up.

Fancheng is as solid as a sturdy city wall and thousands of arrow towers.

If the Hui cannons improved by Gongshu Ban can destroy the city walls and arrow towers, then Fancheng will no longer be a fortress.

"It's a pity that my improved bronze cannon has not had any obvious effect yet, otherwise any city in the world would be fine."
Chapter completed!