At this time, Kong Youde came to report that all the military supplies on the battlefield were ready. Yi Tusheng nodded and said that he could not help but look at this traitor with admiration. This person is really meticulous and worthy of being a first-class general.

Zhao led the sect to drive the army and prepare to rush, Yi Tusheng said: "The first step in filling the trench is to repel the enemy's counterattack first. Send people to kill the archers on the archer tower."

The Vajra Buddha waved his hand behind him, and immediately four swordsmen stood out, quickly exerting their light skills and flew towards the arrow tower, crossing the trench in three steps and two steps. When the soldiers on the arrow tower saw someone running towards him, they immediately shot arrows to block the attack. However, the enemy's speed was too fast and the arrow could not be captured at all. Between the two or three rises and falls, they had already climbed up the arrow tower built by a wooden frame. The soldiers were panicked and began to shoot down. The Xuanyi swordsman drew out the sword, and shot down, and rushed up like flying. The sword in his hand spread out, four or five gathered, assassinated five archers, and occupied the arrow tower steadily. She Chongming looked at the city walls with numbness and his lips were blue.

Yi Tusheng waved his hand, and Zhao Rujiao had already led the first team of troops to kill out.

The trenches that lie in front of Zhao Shujiao were two miles long, a distance of three deep trenches apart, two feet wide and one trenches deep, each with a gap of about 10 feet wide, and the enemy could lead from the gap to the other side of the trenches. The twelve arrow towers were three feet high, and four were already in Yi Tusheng's hands. Starting from the second trenches, there were sand and mud bags that could reach people under the arrow tower. The soldiers of the Daliang Kingdom guarded day and night under the cover of the sand and mud bags, deploying catapults and heavy crossbows, becoming a solid defense point and being impeccable in defense.

Under the red sun, the enemy's movements were frequent on the city, and the cavalry and infantry patrolled in turn. The floating bridge outside the city was raised high, making it difficult for birds to enter the city. The city was shrouded in an atmosphere of war.

At this time, the defenders in the city reacted and put down the suspension bridge at the city gate. The five thousand spearmen rushed out first and formed a formation outside the city. Then more than three thousand shield soldiers rushed out. Each of them held a spear and arranged the array behind the third suspension bridge at the city gate. The shield was probably used to block arrows, and it could also provide cover for the shooters. The spear was used to stab the cavalry, and at the very least, it could also defend the third trench. But they did not expect that Yi Tusheng had no intention of attacking the third trench. As long as he broke through the second level, he would have to attack the city with cannons.

Then the archers left the city, and the two thousand five swords and spearmen on the left and right were neatly moved forward a hundred steps as the soldiers shouted, allowing five thousand archers to rush out and concentrate behind the oar and shield soldiers, forming a pattern of oar and shield soldiers in front and archers behind.

The army of Zhao Rujiao had already reached the edge of the first trench. The beam soldiers lurking in the middle of the second trench immediately responded. The crossbow and stone generators started to move at the same time, regardless of the thirty-one, and shot at the Ming army. Zhao Rujiao divided 25,000 people into three teams and filled the trenches in three groups. At the command, the three armies launched one after another. First, the wooden donkey cart and the toad cart rushed towards the huge rock and bows and arrows.

As soon as the battle started, there were signs of tragic signs. Some of the enemy troops in the third trench rushed up to support, while some of them remained silent and ambushed behind the sand and mud bags of the second trench quickly surged to tens of thousands. Because they were on the defensive side and had sand and mud bags as cover, the vanguard army of Zhao Shujiao quickly suffered losses and injured dozens of people. The Liang troops hid behind the sand and mud bags, fired huge rocks, and shot cold arrows, and arrows were killed. Fortification soldiers commanded by Kong Youde continued to transport sand and mud bags and quicklime to the battlefield for supplying them to the soldiers who filled the trench.

She Yin personally led his troops out of the city and commanded the cavalry to the front line to resist the Ming army. The cavalry lined up at the end of the third trench, waiting for the Ming army outside the city to jump into the trench, and then he could give a head-on attack. Of course, this was all his own wishful thinking. Whether Yi Tusheng gave him this opportunity is still unknown.

Zhao Ruijiao used his excellent command tactics to divide the conflicting hands and spearmen into two formations, each formation was divided into four fronts and backs. The first team was the half-squat Lu Shield soldiers, the second team was the rapier, the third team was the archer, and the fourth pair was the crossbowmen. Although Yi Tusheng did not understand the reason for doing this, he roughly understood at a glance that the first team of slalom soldiers used slalom shields that were reaching the humans to cover the rain-like arrows shot from the opposite side. The slalom soldiers half-kneeled and poked the spearhead out of the gap between the shields to block the sudden arrival of the cavalry. The archers with a relatively close range of the third row used the shield to shoot arrows outwards. The 4th row of slalom soldiers with a longer range were completely standing and fired. When the arrows in the current formation were shot or the casualties were too heavy, they would be filled in the next period. This cycle was indeed extremely exquisite.

For a moment, both sides suffered casualties, screams and screams were shocking, and the clanging sound of arrows broke through the air was endless.

Qi Bingzhong pointed to the enemy formation outside the city and said, "Shi Chongming put forward this defensive formation, which clearly means that we must attack the city and put all the elite soldiers in the city. This is to give up the triple trenches!"

Yi Tusheng smiled and said, "He did this more beneficial to us. He was afraid that he would suddenly wake up as he fought. Is there any way to convince him that we really want to attack the city, not to seize the trenches as a springboard!"

Qi Bingzhong pondered for a moment and said, "This is simple. Yi Shuai can send all his troops to attack his north gate, just a feint attack, so as not to cause too much casualties. She Chongming must have believed it."

Yi Tusheng smiled and said, "It's better to invite generals than to send generals, so please invite Brother Qi to come." Qi Bingzhong said excitedly: "Thank you for your trust, I will bring 10,000 troops to the end."

Yi Tusheng said: "Go and go quickly, and I may need support."

Qi Bingzhong bowed and led his troops to the north gate.

The battle here became even stronger. The horns were everywhere outside the city, and the drums were roaring. The sound of the charge was played. The shouts and kills were shaking the sky, and the battle was fierce. Countless bows and arrows were inserted into the first trench, and almost all of the four arrow towers were destroyed by the stone launcher of the Daliang Army. Of course, they were trying to deal with the Ming Dynasty masters hiding on the arrow tower, not destroying the city itself.

After nearly two hours of repeated struggles, the fortification soldiers finally filled the first trench, but the siege army still could not kill them, and both sides suffered casualties. A large part of the reinforcements led by She Yin still stood in the inner circumference of the third trench without any movement, and only a part of the crossbowmen rushed to the second trench if they fought. The enemy soldiers in the second trench used bows and arrows to resist the siege army outside the trench. The siege army could not advance, nor could they fill the trench.

In addition, thousands of Daliang sabers, led by the general, rushed from the gap in the first trench with swords and guns to the first trench that had been filled with hand-to-hand combat with the Ming army, shattering wave after wave of offensives of the Ming army.

Yi Tusheng looked behind him and cursed, "I didn't expect that they were still very tenacious. Vajra Buddha, go up and press them down on me, and immediately capture the second trench."
Chapter completed!