After the Xianhezhai defenders surrendered, Wang Jing's border army, Xiang Xun's guards, the imperial guards and the Hei Diao Army encircled the Huangniu Village. Under the strong pressure of the Zhou army, the Baijian Village guards opened the village to surrender, and the Mumen Village guards also surrendered. Only the Huangniu Village guards Zhang Cun refused to surrender.

Zhang Cun is different from other guards. The other guards are all from Qin, Cheng, Feng, and Jie. Zhang Cun is from Chengdu Prefecture, and his family is all in Chengdu. He is a veteran of the Shu army and has good military achievements. If he had not offended Zhao Jili, he would not have been demoted to be a guard. Zhang Cun knew that if he surrendered, no one of the whole tribes in Chengdu Prefecture would be spared. He had to do his best to delay and wait for the main force of the Shu army to arrive. Zhang Cun made up his mind to defend Huangniu Village to the death, but the deputy general was willing to surrender and repeatedly persuaded Zhang Cun to surrender. Zhang Cun pretended to think about it, but took advantage of the unpreparedness of the deputy general and killed him in the camp. Zhang Cun expressed his determination to defend the soldiers in the village and placed the head of the deputy general in the village.

In addition to caring about the family in Chengdu, Zhang Cun is still very confident in defending Huangniu Village. Huangniu Village is the largest village with the most military forces and the most complete defensive facilities among the eight villages. Although the troops are now damaged, there are more than 2,000 people. There is water source in the village and food can last for two months. These are the capital for Zhang Cun to fight the beasts.

The Great Zhou army failed to persuade the surrender, and the battle against the last fortress began. After Xiang Xun's command of the Guards Office arrived at Fengxiang Mansion, the Black Diao Army had not made any achievements, and the Black Diao Army had broken through five villages in a row. Xiang Xun took the initiative to ask for battle, and the Imperial Army of the Guards Office mainly attacked Huangniu Village, and Wang Jing's border army and Hou Dayong's Black Diao Army assisted.

After Wang Jing's general Zhou Jun was frustrated, after several days of preparation, he transported the crossbow and stone throwing cart to the position. Because the mountain was steep, the large stone throwing cart could not be transported, so he transported three light stone throwing cars. This light stone throwing cart could only throw ten kilograms of stones. It was originally used in field battles, and the siege was slightly insufficient. Each stone throwing cart was operated by twenty people, ten people pulled ropes, five people loaded stones, four people stabilized the body of the car, and one person gave a command.

After Zhou Jun gave the order, three stone throwing cars fired one after another, and large stones smashed into the village. All the Shu troops in the village raised their heads and watched the direction of the stones flying in dodge east and west. The stones did not cause much damage to the Shu army, but had a great psychological impact on them.

The guard general Zhang Cun sneered, "Three stone throwing cars, I want to attack Huangniu Village." The order was: "Prepare to launch the wooden sponge crossbow." After the Shu army soldiers received the order, they used a winch to put on the wooden sponge crossbow. With the rumbling sound, the wooden sponge crossbow flew unstoppable into the Zhou army formation. The Zhou army soldiers lay on the ground to avoid the wooden sponge crossbow. All the soldiers shot at the shot were broken. The worst was a sergeant who could not dodge. They were shot into the chest by the thick wooden sponge crossbow arrows. The wooden sponge crossbow pierced the sergeant's body, and the strong thrust carried him and hit another sergeant. The two strung together and were nailed to the ground. The scene was terrifying.

Zhou Jun said: "Drip the oil arrows." The oil arrows used by Zhou army were specially made, and there was a small scoop at the tip of the arrow, which was filled with oil. After the oil arrows shot to the village, the scoop was defeated and the oil was dispersed. The village soon was filled with oil. Then, ignited rockets shot into the village.

The Shu army was prepared for rockets. The wooden houses were covered with five inches of soil and were not afraid of water burning. There was mud and sand everywhere in the village. The Shu army braved the rain of arrows, carried mud and sand, and put out the fires one by one. Shu soldiers who were shot directly by rockets kept rolling on the ground howling.

When Zhou Jun commanded the border troops to attack the enemy with stone throwing chariots and rockets, Guo Jiong brought a thousand Black Eagle Army crossbowmen to approach the wall of the village and stood within the range of the crossbow arrows. One thousand crossbowmen were divided into three rounds and attacked the military camp in turn. Arrows flew in the military camp for a while, and the soldiers of the Shu army could not show their heads at all.

Seeing that the Shu army was suppressed, Xiang Xun raised his long sword and ordered: "Attack." The first wave of attack was initiated by the Imperial Army of the two battalions. The two battalions had a total of 1,000 people, carrying more than 20 long ladders. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the Shu army in the military camp could not raise their heads, they rushed to the bottom of the village wall, put the long ladder on the village wall, bit the knife, and climbed up. The Shu army stood on the village wall, and used a hook rod to lift the wooden ladder outward. The overturned wooden ladder hit the ground heavily, and the soldiers on the ladder also landed on the ground. The ground outside the village was covered with iron diamonds, bamboo ladders and other objects. After the soldiers fell down, the iron diamonds and bamboo ladders penetrated their bodies. The soldiers were either dead or injured, and they kept crying.

When Shu general Zhang Cun saw the Zhou army gathered outside the village wall, he ordered the soldiers to lift the prepared building blocks and throw them down. The building blocks were five feet long and one foot in diameter, and were covered with wooden nails and iron nails. There were many soldiers outside the village, and each building block was thrown away, screaming. The soldiers in the Guards were in the field fighting, but they were not good at siege. Facing the high wall of the village, they could only be beaten passively. Xiang Xun saw that he could not attack and suffered heavy casualties, so he called out the gold to withdraw his troops.

Wang Jing kept pressing the formation and said to Xiang Xun: "Concentrate on the bed and shoot the village gate to see if it can be broken."

Xiang Xun's face turned pale, his eyes were blazing, and he ordered again: "All the crossbows were aimed at the village gate and shooting, Zhao Wu led the soldiers of the two battalions to prepare for a second attack."

Zhou Jun concentrated the crossbow and fired it at the village gate. The crossbow arrow shot into the village gate, making a loud rumbling sound, but after the village gate, it was still intact. Huangniu Village gate was made of three layers of thick wood, and it was coated with thick mud on it, which could prevent fire and buffer. Therefore, the thick crossbow arrows failed to break through the village gate.

The sound of the attack came again, and Zhao Wu led the soldiers of the two battalions to rush towards the wall of the village. Like the last time, the Shu army was completely suppressed by crossbows and did not dare to look up. When Zhao Wu led the team to the wall of the village, there were basically no casualties. However, after the long ladder was leaning against the wall, the Shu army began to counterattack. In response to the long ladder, the Shu army used two weapons of the fork rod and hook rod. The horizontal blade on the fork rod was pushed down along the long ladder. Many soldiers' hands holding the ladder were cut off by the horizontal blade and fell down. The hook rod could hook the ladder and push outward, so that the guards could not go up and down, and were completely passively beaten.

Zhao Wu was at the village, holding a knife and urged the soldiers to climb up. There was a layer of the body of the guards' corpses outside the village wall, and the air emitted a strong smell of blood. The screams and moans of the undead soldiers made Zhao Wu feel scared. He most hoped to hear the order to withdraw troops, but the order was delayed. He pretended to supervise the battle, ran back and forth, avoiding the stones and building blocks thrown in the village.

Seeing that she could not attack the wall of the village, Xiang Xun had to withdraw his troops again. The bodies of the soldiers of the guards were densely covered under the wall of the village. The Shu army inside the village was also killed and injured by stone cannons and crossbows. More than 300 Shu soldiers were killed and injured in the military camp, more than 700 were injured, and more than half of the Shu army suffered casualties. Zhang Cun held the determination to fight the Zhou army to the end. The Shu army soldiers knew that the Zhou army suffered heavy casualties, and now they could not escape death after surrendering, and were also prepared to fight to the end.

The next day, the morale of the Guards Army was low and did not attack again. Wang Jing's border army launched a new round of offensive.

Zhou Jun fired the stone cannon first and fired fiercely at the village with a bed crossbow. The Sichuan army had eight bed crossbows and fought back with all their might, which gave the Zhou army a great threat. Fortunately, the Black Eagle Army's crossbows were very harmful and completely suppressed the Shu army. Otherwise, the Zhou army would suffer more casualties.

Zhou Jun launched this attack as a cover. His real purpose was to cover the soldiers who broke the village gate. Wang Jing's border army brought a turtle cart. The turtle cart had four wheels, with logs as the backbone, covered with rhinoceros leather, which could hide ten people. The turtle cart came to the village gate under the cover of stone cannons and crossbow arrows. Four Zhou army strongmen slashed at the village gate with giant axes.

The Shu army soon discovered the intention of Zhou army and threw down the swallowtail torch from the gate of the village. The swallowtail torch was made of Weicao oil-filled wax, which was shaped like a swallowtail. After being thrown down, it burned on the turtle cart. The black eagle army crossbowmen shot fiercely above the gate of the village to protect the soldiers who split the gate below. The Shu army raised the building blocks and smashed them outside the gate of the village. The turtle cart played a good protective role for the soldiers. However, when the fifth building block was smashed, the turtle cart was also smashed, and seven of the ten soldiers were killed.

The Great Zhou army used all their strength but still could not break through Huangniu Village, and the morale of the Great Zhou army was greatly affected.

The soldiers of the Black Eagle Army were secretly shocked when they saw such a fierce offensive and defensive battle. Shi Hu said to Guo Jiong: "The defense envoy is unwilling to attack Huangniu Village, which is really foresight. The Black Eagle Army broke through five military camps and lost less than one-third of the one-day attack. The defense envoy often said that it is reasonable to fight a skillful battle in war. You and I will lead the troops alone in the future, and think more about the battle in Huangniu Village."

For the past two days, Hou Dayong has been thinking about a strategy to defeat the enemy. He fought with the Huangniuzhai defenders. Knowing that the defenders did not have many crossbow arrows, he slowly thought of a safe way to fight, so he came to the big tent and offered advice to the commander.
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