Departing from the capital on November 25, Li Bin took the Cavalry Camp for 16 days and finally arrived at the first pass of the Great Yan, Langya City, also known as Langya Pass, on the afternoon of December 12.

Langya City was built between two steep mountains, and the northern wall near the grassland, which just connected the two steep mountains, blocking the only passage from the grassland to Xiongzhou Prefecture.

The north wall of Langya City is about ten miles long and has a height of more than twenty meters. The narrowest part on the city wall is also more than eight meters wide, and the widest part can reach more than twenty meters. The walls on the other three sides of Langya City are much shorter.

On the northern wall of Langya City, there are also many guardian equipment arranged, including many powerful crossbows and a large number of rolling wood stones.

At a welcome banquet held by the Langya Guardian Mansion in Langya City, the head coach of the Langya Guardian, Xie Zhifeng, smiled and said to Li Bin: "My elder brother has already sent me a letter to tell me about your situation. Since you are the son-in-law of the Xie family, we are not outsiders. This time, the credit for repelling Jinle and the 400,000 troops of the Capricorn tribes will not be missing yours."

Li Bin hurriedly said, "I'm thankful to the Grandmaster for this. What's going on with the Jinle tribe and the Black Capricorn tribe now?"

Xie Bozhao, the head coach of Xiongzhou Guard, immediately spoke: "The Jinle tribe and the Heige tribe each sent troops to attack the city once, and the total losses were five or six thousand. After that, they kept calling outside the city and did not send troops to attack the city."

Xie Zhifeng, the head coach of the Wolf Tooth Guard, said confidently: "Li Bin, you don't need to worry. The barbarians of all races on the grassland are not good at siegeing the city. There are enough food and weapons in Wolf Tooth City. The Jinle tribe and the Heike tribe even fill in the 400,000 troops, so they don't even think about capturing Wolf Tooth City!"

Li Bin thought about it for a while and said, "Before this time, Lord Shangshu told me that the Xiaoqi Camp should attack appropriately and achieve some results from the Jinle clan and the Heijie clan. Otherwise, Lord Shangshu would not be able to operate the expansion of the Xiaoqi Camp."

When Xie Zhifeng and Xie Bozhao heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other, and their brows frowned slightly.

Xie Bozhao, the head coach of Xiongzhou Guard, hesitated for a moment and said, "Our Xiongzhou Guard and Langya Guard are mainly infantry, and the cavalry together have only a few hundred cavalry. It is okay to guard Langya City. If hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen from the two tribes go out of the city and Jinle and Heike tribes engage in field battles, it is likely to be a crushing defeat."

Li Bin immediately smiled and said, "The two generals misunderstood. I mean that the Knight Camp went out of the city alone to fight Jinle and Capricorn. There is no need for Langya Guard and Xiongzhou Guard to leave the city. Besides, if the Langya Guard and Xiongzhou Guard took the initiative to go out of the city and fought, resulting in the loss of Langya City, I, Li Bin, will be very responsible, and even if I die a hundred times, I will be blamed."

When the wolf-fang guard coach Xie Zhifeng heard this, his brows were still frowning, "But your cavalry camp has at most 3,000 people. The Jinle and the Capricorn tribes have hundreds of thousands of cavalrymen. If you just take the cavalry camp out of the city, you will almost hit the stone with your eggs."

Xie Bozhao, the head coach of Xiongzhou Guard, followed and said, "Li Bin, you have to think clearly that it not only concerns your own life, but also the lives of all the soldiers of the Knight Camp."

"Haha, I'm not going to fight the hundreds of thousands of cavalry of Jinle and Capricorn tribes. I just want to rely on Langya City to slash the spirit of the barbarians."

After pondering for a while, Xie Zhifeng said to Li Bin with a serious expression: "It is okay if the Xiaoqi Camp wants to leave the city, but after the Xiaoqi Camp leaves the city, the city gate must be closed immediately. Only when the cavalry of Jinle and Heike tribes cannot take advantage of the situation to rush into Langya City, will I order the city gate be opened and you will be allowed to enter the city."

"It should be so. I will never let Jinle and Capricorn cavalry take the opportunity to seize the city gate!"

Just when the two coaches of the Langya Guard and Xiongzhou Guard held a welcome banquet for Li Bin, in a giant felt bag of Jinle and Black Kagami, the Black Kagami Khan Xirilai held a glass of wine and sighed to the Jinle Khan Humusa, "If you want to enter the Xiongzhou Prefecture of Yan State, our two tribes can only enter by cutting the Langya Pass, but the Langya Pass is too difficult to attack. Can the siege equipment made by Yan craftsmen really conquered the Langya Pass? Ben Khan felt that it would be better to use the stupid method of transporting soil to build a mountain!"

Khan Humusa, the Khan of Jinle tribe, drank the wine in his wine glass and then spoke: "I bought those Yan craftsmen for a lot of money. They not only know how to make cloud ladders and well railings, but also create stone catapults. It is precisely because of these Yan craftsmen that Khan dared to join forces with your Heike tribe to come to Langya Pass. Building a soil mountain is too time-consuming, and the Langya Pass is almost seven feet tall!"

The bottom frame of the cloud ladder is made of wood, with wooden wheels underneath, and the ladder body is fixed on the chassis at a certain angle. A movable secondary staircase is added outside the main staircase. When the army attacks the city, it only needs to park the main staircase under the city, and then climb the secondary staircase on the main staircase to directly rush up to the city wall.

The siege chariot is a giant siege chariot. The siege chariot can reach several meters high and dozens of meters long. There are wooden wheels installed at the bottom. The siege chariot is divided into several layers. Each layer has a ladder for up and down. The siege chariot can be carried by hundreds of soldiers. When attacking, the siege chariot is pushed to the foot of the city wall. The roof of the siege chariot can be as close to the city wall. The soldiers can rush directly to the city wall through the overpass on the top floor of the siege chariot and fight against the enemy.

The stone caster is a long-range weapon that uses the lever principle to shoot stone bullets. Its structure is a huge lever. The long end is a stone loaded with a leather case or a wooden basket. The short end is tied with dozens of ropes. When the order is issued, dozens of people pull the rope at the same time and throw the stones out using the lever principle.

Xi Rilie, the Khan of the Black Grace tribe, sighed again, "The drought this year is too severe. If we cannot get food from Yan State, perhaps our Black Grace tribes will starve more than 100,000 people to death this winter."

Khan Humusa of the Jinle tribe darkened, "The situation of our Jinle tribe is similar, so since the Yan people refuse to give us food, we can only enter Xiongzhou Prefecture at any cost to steal the food from the Yan people!"

Xi Rilie, the Khan of the Black Grace clan, hesitated for a moment and said, "There is one thing I have never understood. Why do our two tribes have to attack Langya Pass? I heard that the Southern Qiang and Wurong clans captured Jingyuan Pass in Qizhou Prefecture of Yan State last year. If our two tribes attacked the border of Qizhou Prefecture of Yan State, it should be much easier to fight than Langya Pass."

Khan Humusa of Jinle tribe shrugged and said, "There are four prefectures in Yan State bordering the grasslands, and the territories adjacent to these four prefectures of Yan State were divided into their respective spheres of influence seventy years ago. If we want to go to Yan State to grab things, we can only go to Xiongzhou Prefecture. The Qizhou Prefecture of Yan State is from the Nanqiang and Wurong tribes, the Hengzhou Prefecture of Yan State is from the Gaoheng tribe and the Dangfan tribe, and the Haozhou Prefecture of Yan State is from the Diqiang tribe."

Among the nomadic peoples on the grassland, the Gaoheng tribe and the Dangfan tribe are in the middle, similar to the Southern Qiang tribes and the Wurong tribes. The Diqiang tribes, the Jinle tribes and the Heijie tribes are both relatively strong clans on the grassland. Their strength is just between the Jinle and Heijie tribes.

The Qiang tribe was once the overlord on the grasslands, but at the beginning of the establishment of the Dayan Empire, the Dayan army marched north to attack the grasslands and defeated the 1.3 million cavalry of the Qiang tribe. Then, under the planning of the Dayan Empire, the Qiang tribe was split into the Eastern Qiang tribe, the Southern Qiang tribe, the Western Qiang tribe, the Northern Qiang tribe and the Di Qiang tribe.

However, after more than 600 years of rest and recuperation, the five branches of the Qiang tribe are now not weak. Even the weakest Southern Qiang tribe can gather more than 200,000 cavalry. Among them, the strongest Eastern Qiang tribe has even become one of the three current overlords of the grassland, and can gather millions of cavalry at any time.

The Black Capricorn Khan Xi Rilie frowned and said, "Why did you set such rules? You have to divide the territory by grabbing things!"

Khan Humusa, the Jinle tribe, had a little embarrassed face, and coughed and said, "It is mainly to avoid attacking each other in order to grab things."

It turned out that more than 70 years ago, when the Great Yan Empire attacked the Jinluo Kingdom for the third time, the Gao Heng tribe and the Dangfan tribe formed a coalition force to attack the border of Hengzhou Prefecture of the Dayan Empire. As a result, Gao Heng and the Dangfan tribes captured a military fort and opened a passage to enter Hengzhou Prefecture.

Gao Heng and the cavalry of the two clans immediately robbed the northern part of Hengzhou Prefecture, robbed a large amount of property and population. At this time, the Jinle clan suddenly appeared and wanted to get a bargain, but also wanted to get out of the fort that Gao Heng and the two clans conquered the fort and entered Hengzhou Prefecture to rob.

The Jinle tribe entered Hengzhou Prefecture at this time, which was equivalent to robbing Gao Heng and the two tribes of the Party. Of course, Gao Heng and the two tribes of the Party did not agree.

When the Jinle clan saw that it was too soft, he actually made a tough move and forcibly captured the military fort from Gao Heng and the two tribes. The 200,000 Jinle cavalry immediately entered Hengzhou Prefecture.

Gao Heng and the two clans immediately gathered 250,000 cavalry and 200,000 Jinle cavalry. A major war broke out in Hengzhou Prefecture. After both sides lost tens of thousands of cavalry, the army of the 300,000 Great Yan Empire suddenly appeared, defeating the remaining hundreds of thousands of cavalry of the three tribes in one fell swoop.

Fortunately, the three tribes were all cavalry, and in the end most of the troops fled back to the grassland.

Later, the nomadic peoples whose territory borders the northern part of the Great Yan Empire, in view of the great battle between Gao Heng, the Dangfan tribes and the Jinle tribes, jointly formulated their respective scopes for the plunder of the Great Yan Empire.

The Khan of the Black Capricorn tribe seemed to remember something, and did not continue to get entangled on this issue. "How long will it take for those ladders, well railings and catapults to be built?"

"In three days, we can almost build thirty ladders, eight well rail cars and forty catapults."

"Okay, let's wait for another three days to see if these siege equipment can help our two tribes to build the strong city of Wolf Ya Pass!"
Chapter completed!