(Because it's nearly 8,000 words, it's a bit late. There's still another chapter in the early morning.)

Outside the Bow City, there are no more beacons everywhere igniting the fire of peace.

The Beimang vanguard army was approaching the city.

The strong winds, yellow sand, barren land, and the strong winds blow the dry loess into the air and hit the flags. In front of the Beimang battle formation outside the city, elite cavalry continued to rush to convey military orders. Lying on the top of the city, large beds and crossbows were ready to go, and all the generals on the city subconsciously clasped the hilt.

A loud and sharp horn suddenly rang!

If Beimang used to siege the city in the south and downstream of Beimang, it would mostly drive the people and surrendered soldiers to rush forward at this time. Not only did they fill the soil trenches, but they could also consume a large number of arrows from the defender. At most, they would be supplemented with auxiliary soldiers to push the chariots forward. Infantry and cavalry flocked out. After the city was approached, tens of thousands of arrows could be shot at the same time, which could achieve the effect of "the battlements arrows were like rain, and the hanging cards were like hedgehogs". As long as the guards were unstable, they would be defeated after climbing the city with the courage of the Beimang military soldiers. However, today this time the soldiers were approached by Wonggong City. Under the leadership of commander Yang Yuanzan, the military service of Beimang Eastern Front showed a completely different siege style from the previous two hundred years of invasions and plunders of the Northern Barbarians. While three thousand cavalry guards on the left and right wings began to charge, there was a kind of heavy weapon that rarely appeared in the northwest border in previous years. It surfaced in a large-scale assembly and cast stone cart!

Yang Yuanzan set up no less than 600 catapults almost overnight. The biggest one needs two hundred people with outstanding strength to pull hands, and a huge rock weighs 100 kilograms! The six hundred catapults not only carried a considerable number of huge rocks when the chariots were heading south, but also searched all the big rocks north of Wogong City after entering the Hulukou. At this time, all the soldiers who remained still could not help but look up and quietly waited for the spectacular scene. Countless huge rocks would throw them into the sky together, and then hit hard on the walls of Wogong City, or land on the military roads around the city and climbing the city.

The six hundred catapults seem to be facing the city of Waigong. If you look from the other side of the city, you will know that you have a arc. The strong ones are placed at the center of the arc farthest from the city, while the weak ones are placed on the left and right, and so on.

I don’t know who was the first to shout “The wind rises from the north”, and the Beimang army near the catapult car tried their best to yell out these four words.

When the first hundred pounds of flint that were specially wrapped in oil cloth was lit, it flew high and was thrown towards the Wagong City.

That scene was like a fire spirit in the heavenly court landing on earth.

Hundreds of huge rocks followed the flint and smashed the first city at Youzhou Hulukou. All the soldiers of Beimang were shocked by this strange siege.

A huge rock fell on the top of the city, fell inside the city, or rolled into the moat because of the city walls.

Inside and outside the city, the sound of wind and thunder are everywhere.

Everyone seemed to feel the tremor of the earth, and the city of Bow was sobbing silently.

The six thousand miraculous cavalry that had been before throwing stones but slower than hitting the city by rocks, of course, did not attack the city directly. Unless it was not absolutely necessary, the commanders of the army who had great achievements would not be able to afford this pain. The role of these cavalry was only to escort the infantry and advance two hundred steps outside the city, helping the infantry to suppress the bow and crossbow on the top of the city. The two wing cavalry, which had pulled a distance from the infantry, no longer drove forward after a rain of arrows at the top of the city, rushed out, but quickly galloped outward to make room for the cavalry behind them. Therefore, the two cavalry were like a flood that encountered a reef, but did not collide with it, and dispersed left and right. A leading cavalry general turned around and glanced back when he turned around.

At the front of the city, as the commander of Yang Yuanzan's direct subordinate army, he knew that the existence of 600 catapults, and he knew the power of the catapults earlier than the ordinary captain. In his opinion, he did not need two cavalry guards. The defenders of the Wogong City would be so scared that they could not raise their heads and allowed the infantry outside the city to advance all the way out of the trench. However, during the charge, casualties continued to appear in front of him and behind him. The crossbow on the head of the city shot violently, and two cavalry were directly beaten by a huge crossbow.

Arrows penetrated! The bodies of the two riders were hung on crossbow arrows and nailed to the ground on the spot. If you had heard of the sharp crossbow of Beiliang, then when the huge rocks exploded and stomped the walls, the rain of arrows on the Wogong City was still orderly, which made the thousand-man master's mind complicated. He had seen two Youzhou soldiers hit by the huge rocks, and the nearby city archers still shot out feather arrows above the level. The thousand-man master curled his lips. Are these Youzhou people really not afraid of death? There are pools of rotten meat at their feet.

After the huge rock smashed the city and the cavalry on the Beimang wings, the crossbows and arrows of the wing bows were increasingly concentrated on the siege infantry of the Beimang Central Army. Infringements and chariots were constantly penetrated by bed crossbows. Some infantry were even shot directly into the chest with a crossbow. They were led by the huge inertia force and slipped out for more than a dozen steps, which made the siege soldiers and shield soldiers in the rear fall to the ground. They were more shot and killed by the bows and arrows on the top of the city. Especially when the infantry front line was uneven, the most brave and brave soldiers and auxiliary soldiers who were rushing to the front began to be deliberately targeted by the archers on the top of the city.

The rain of arrows is not weak, but it falls into the dense swarm of locusts, like a drop in the bucket of water, and it is still endless to kill.

The infantry, which was like a dark locust, ignored the bodies and injuries under their feet and continued to rush forward.

A burly armored archer in the city pulled his bow like a full moon. He was about to shoot a leader of a Beimang man who was loudly ordering to fill the trenches when he was shot through his throat by a feather arrow.

His body was pulled randomly into one place, and soon the archers behind him quickly filled the seat.

Continuous bow pulling, especially full bows, killing the enemy, the most damages the arm. In the Youzhou army, there are strict military orders for the draw amplitude of several steps away from the enemy. When to use a bow when to use a crossbow is deeply rooted in people's hearts. The crossbow first and then the crossbow is the iron law of Northern Liang. Among them, "first crossbow" is mainly composed of bed crossbows, waist-pulling crossbows and foot-step crossbows. As one of the three cities in Youzhou Hulukou, the number of bed crossbows is not as exaggerated as Liang Beihutou City, but this is not because the general Yan Wenlulu would not have a bed crossbow, but the size of the Bow City limits the number of bed crossbows.

The previous mutual shooting still caused huge casualties to the Beimang Central Army. The enemy troops were directly killed and injured under the crossbow with a hardwood as iron piece and feather. There were as many as 100 people under the observation. Two of the Beimang Central Army generals who were in the forefront were accidentally shot and killed by the big crossbow on the spot. I think this would definitely make two thousand men who were already far from the city to die with their eyes closed, because their Southern Dynasty officials always said that their large crossbows were no less than Beiliang in terms of range and muscle strength. But when they really got on the battlefield, they realized that this was not the case at all!

Before the two wing cavalrymen covered with arrows, and even before the various bows and crossbows on Beimang were shot out earlier, the bed crossbows and waist-induced crossbows of the Wagong City had been shot out from the front of the city.

If the huge rocks of the catapult cart had suppressed the crossbow rain at the top of the city to a certain extent, I am afraid that the central infantry even died near the moat. Dismounting the horse and siege fighting in the city was the worst thing that Beimang soldiers were the ones who were fighting with the Beiliang cavalry on the back of the horse, they would not be afraid even if the battle was at a disadvantage. However, if they had no horses to ride, it would be a big deal. Fortunately, the infantry responsible for siege this time were all from the border towns of the Southern Dynasties, and they were always inferior to the Beimang army. Their life and death, such as the elite cavalry on both wings, were not very concerned about it.

A bearded Beimang siege general waved his hand and the six hundred catapults began to advance forward, preparing for the second round of throwing stones, not to destroy the city head, but to try to block the vitality that supports the head of the city head.

The head coach Yang Yuanzan is determined to win the attack on Wogong City, which has less than 6,000 troops this time, and the old general's request is to capture this city in one day! There are many objections in the general's tent. Some say that the terrain outside Wogong City is not conducive to siege, and the infantry formation is too narrow and long. Whether to send 10,000 or 8,000 is actually not much different. It is better to proceed in batches and give Wogong City a steady stream of continuous pressure. Even if it cannot be captured in one day, it can still be captured at most two days, so that casualties can be reduced sharply.

It was the son of the parents who followed the catapult cart and went forward. In front of them, there were crossbows made by the Southern Dynasty, ladders and city-beating trees, and towering tower cars that had not yet been entered by archers.

The seedlings sitting on the horse's back raised their hands to cover their foreheads, and the beak city finally had to start using a light crossbow.

Zhongtan listened to the constant message coming from a roar, and his ears were filled with cold numbers, how many died and how many injured he was.

In just half an hour, more than a hundred cavalry and a thousand infantrymen died, but this was still not the case.

It was death. They all died outside the moat, and at the farthest they were only dead under the walls of Wogong City.

However, in Beimang, he was even surprised that he was not in much mood, but he thought of many interesting things, just like when he heard his father's general's magical powers talk about the early Spring and Autumn War. During the Nine Kingdoms, it was said that Li Yang dispatched 60,000 cavalry to attack a heroic city in the southern neighbor Dongyue. After three days of fighting, he returned without success. Afterwards, the whole country of Dongyue celebrated and regarded the guard who guarded the country's gate with only more than 10,000 troops as a god. The emperor of Dongyue urgently appointed the man as the Grand Tutor for 500 miles. Many years later, the world suddenly realized that the defeat and victory of the two sides had a total of 70,000 troops. After three days of battle, the two sides finally died in total less than 600 people.

Zhong Tan sighed softly and looked at the city of Youzhou. It can be said that it was the old master of Wogong City who stripped the clothes and skin of the Eight Kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn Period step by step, making the war that was still warm and verbally lingered in the early years turned into a bloody tragedy from beginning to end. The number of deaths in battle became higher and higher, from thousands of deaths in battle to more than ten thousand casualties, and then to tens of thousands of people, until the battle of the Western Wall where there were dead people and soldiers poured in every day. If Xu Xiao taught the Eight Kingdoms of the Spring and Autumn Period what cavalry war was, then can it be said that after Xu Xiao died, he would still teach Beimang what was the Central Plains defending city?

Zhong Tan narrowed his eyes and his infantry finally began to climb the city.

The walls of the lying bow city are like moths tied up or ants attached to them.

On the top of the city, the rolling stones and wood are burning oil.

Ladders were pushed down by long hooks.

A soldier named Beimang Pancheng was shot by the rain of arrows close at hand. After falling, the wounded soldier who was unfortunately not dead was also trampled to death by the subsequent siege army.

The Youzhou archers and light crossbowmen who blocked the Beimang infantry from climbing the city on the top of the city were also shot and killed by the archers who were almost as high as the top of the city, and fell backwards.

In this kind of intensive shooting, those with high martial arts and no martial arts will actually die. Several archers at the top of the city who still have strong arm strength were targeted by the archers in the car, and they were shot into hedgehogs with feathered arrows.

Beimang's siege was in every way. In the stalemate situation, he could be said to have a chance to point the crossbow at the blanks of the city walls, and shot out a series of pedal arrows that were no different from the large javelins. He nailed them into the city walls in rows, helping Beimang infantry to climb the city. And the Beimang infantry, which were like agile monkeys climbing the arrows, were all brave soldiers carefully selected by Zhong Tan. Zhong Tan listened to the front-line military situation from the Xinqi, and sent orders from him without any haste from his mouth, although it was a costly death attack.

However, the siege method is not rigid and rigid. Just like the defense change of the defender of the city, Zhong Tan will also cause the troops to lose their troops and "cross the boundary" to retreat. As for the specific boundary, Zhong Tan's mind is temporarily set to be killed or injured in the early stage of the siege. When the 20 thousand infantry leaders of the 20 thousand men have experienced a group of sieges, the second round will increase to 150 people. If you have not crossed the line, if you are the general who leads the army, the surname Yelu or Murong, you have to continue to bite the bullet. If you cross the line, no matter how hard you want to fight to the death, you have to retreat obediently.

No matter how many centuries of the thousands of men do not understand, they actually don’t need to understand them at all. He has already asked the commander Yang Yuanzan to kill the generals in front of the formation. Whoever is not convinced is capable of using his head to disobey the military order. Zong Tan subconsciously reached out and stroked the soft mane on the back of the war horse under his crotch. This method of commanding troops, which is "scrupulous and compelling, is like an arm instructor" was taught by the white general to the world, but there are many things

Most of the generals who learned the example had to be superficial but not the essence. First, they could not be as familiar with the combat strength and resilience of each of the commanders under their command as that person. Second, the battlefield changed rapidly. If they deliberately pursued perfection in detail, they would easily pick up sesame seeds and throw watermelons. Furthermore, before the army could decide the outcome, the main general would be as tired as a dog. Not to mention the main general himself, the flag soldiers and the commander cavalry would also have to wave their hands and run and run.

I think I have learned more than the skin, but I haven’t grasped the essence yet, but I don’t have to hurry to grow my sandals. There are two cities of phoenix and cranes and rays that need to be fought at the mouth of Youzhou alone, and the city is larger and there are more guards.

The sitting posture of Zhongtan is always as stable as a rock, but occasionally he will ask Liu Daoxiang, the maid who is wearing armor, to moisten his throat, otherwise his throat will have smoked.

Twenty thousand commanders of the central army had seen the scenery of the city wall up close, and two of them were almost successful in standing firmly at the top of the city. One was stabbed by seven or eight iron spears, smashed the body on the pile, and fell into a mess. After getting up, he saw seven or eight arrows inserted straight into the body not far from his feet. If he hit it, even if he was not poked out, he would definitely not want to hit Luanhe City.

Another man had just stood at the top of the city and had even cut off several spear heads with a battle knife. He was about to step in. As a result, he was shot under the ribs by a tricky angular raid. When he staggered down, he was hooked fiercely by a flying hook called the iron owl. When the soldiers of Youzhou pulled him up, the commander of the Qianma, who had hit the city wall in the back, quickly raised his arms and chopped them randomly, and then cut off the iron chain. After he landed in a mess, he rolled in with all the momentum, and shot five or six feather arrows behind him. It was obviously his dazzling bright armor that "had aroused the public's anger". This made him still feel scared when he led his troops back to the rear of the central army to rectify. He almost became the first commander of the Qianma to die in Youzhou. No wonder the annoying military gangs before the war reminded them that they could add layers of armor and wear heavy armor, but never wear too fancy and eye-catching armor.

The foot slugs in the Wogong City that could be retracted by winch have been broken, and the wolf teeth that were powerful and powerful were destroyed were all destroyed. The Beimang infantry who slapped the dead on the head was the most miserable. There was no good piece of meat on his body, just like a piece of pork shaved by a plane, and the body was terrible.

At about noon, a particularly majestic horn sounded across the battlefield.

The offensive that had not been stagnant on the battlefield rose.

Head coach Yang Yuanzan led his horse to the vicinity of the pioneer general Zong Tan, and followed a group of cavalry generals and five or six military men in brocade clothes and jade belts. They found that there were many young civil servants sitting in front of several cases, writing like flying, constantly recording various offensive and defensive details. Yang Yuanzan did not go to politely greet Zong Tan, but walked to a young official named "Jidu Lang" by Taiping Order, bent down to pick up a portion of ink

The paper with untie, the handwriting is a bit sloppy, "There are several types of mud bricks and bricks behind the wooden slugs in the city, and the power is slightly weak." "The iron head of the hardwood and iron heads destroyed our army and hit three cars in the city. The front of the object is more than a foot long, which looks like a wolf's teeth. It is hidden behind the high wall of the city gate, and it falls like thunder." "It is reported that the arrows of the city of Wogong City have their own ages. It has been forged for seven or eight years for the elderly. It was built in the fourteenth year of Yonghui. The arrows have always been as sharp as new as our army."

Yang Yuanzan sneered: "What an arrow that has been going on for a long time! I will have the chance to bring this sentence to the officials of the Ministry of War in Xijing! Let them stare at them carefully!"

The Jishulang, who was affected by the fish in the pond, stopped his movements with a look of fear, fearing that the old man, who was one of the thirteen generals of Beimang, would vent his anger on him, a little man who had no official fame for the time being.

The general gently put the paper back and smiled and said, "It's not your business. You have done a good job. After taking down Wogong City, I will personally help you Jishulang record his merits."

Even the general who could be among the top 40 people in the power of Beimang was dismounted, and Zhongtan did not have the shamelessness to continue sitting on the horse's back. Although Yang Yuanzan was not as highly valued as Liu Gui, compared to Zhongtan's old master's magical power, regardless of the ability to dispatch soldiers and generals, Yang Yuanzan was far beyond Zhongtan's magical powers in terms of trust. Besides, Zhongtan was making a living under the old man's nose and hurried to the head coach. Yang Yuanzan and Zhongtan walked side by side intentionally or unintentionally. Zhongtan whispered: "I heard a certain adult who held the throne in the Xijing court before. I was quite excited at the time, but I was a little uncertain when I remembered it."

Yang Yuanzan, who had just arrived from the wounded camp, was a little displeased and frowned and asked, "What sentence?"

Zhong Tan smiled and said, "Beiliang is known to be the strongest gallbladder in Liyang, so let's destroy their courage and suck them all."

Yang Yuanzan asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhongtan pointed at the Wogong City from afar, "Of course this city cannot become Xiangfan City, which was firmly sitting in Diaoyutai in the Central Plains for more than ten years, but even the phoenix and Xiaguang cannot become, but in the territory of Youzhou, we Beimang really won't accept one surrendered soldiers and one soldiers? Even if Xiangfan City does not appear in Youzhou, what about Liangzhou, which has the most stable defense line? Do we really have to kill all the two million households in Beiliang before we can stop?"

Yang Yuanzan sneered: "You haven't noticed who are the first and second leaders of the Fort Village north of Wogong City? What age are the main generals and deputy generals of Wogong City?"

Zhong Tan thought a little, and laughed and said, "They were all old soldiers who had been to Hexi Prefecture, the hinterland of Beimang in their early years. Zhu Mu and Gao Shiqing from Wogong City are almost 60 years old. From this point of view, although the troops reaching Wogong City are few, the people and horses placed here are all truly dying. No wonder the more than a thousand brave refugees who migrated from Liuzhou to outside the city at the end of last year, even if they have good combat power, they were brought back to the area south of Luanhe City."

Yang Yuanzan sighed: "Yan Wenluan's move is to retreat as advance. The refugees in Liuzhou were suspicious and wait-and-see at the beginning. Once the defense line of Youzhou Hulukou allows them to die first, they will not need our Beimang to surrender. They will explode the camp and mutiny, which will affect their whole body, and even implicate all refugees leaving Liuzhou and the situation in the entire Liuzhou. But they will first lie in Gongluan and He and even let the refugees retreat again and again at that time, and retreat directly to Xiaguang City. Put themselves in their shoes. What would you think if you are a refugee? Do you dare to fight? The answer is obvious. After so many Youzhou troops died, it is their turn to go to the battlefield. Since they have all been to Youzhou thousands of miles away, why should they die?

Planting sandalwood is also where Yan Wenluan uses military skills.”

Zhongtan nodded.

Zhong Tan suddenly smiled and said, "The Qiang and Rong troops were particularly brave and unexpected in siege."

Yang Yuanzan said calmly: "After the Taiping Order threatened that after pacifying Northern Liang, the Beimang people who were originally divided into four levels would have more Liang people, and the fifth-class Qiang and Rong tribes, which are currently at the bottom, will finally be 'better'."

Although Zhongtan knew about this, he still looked incredible and asked, "This is really OK? Can this make people feel ready for death?"

Yang Yuanzan whispered: "There are many strategists in the Central Plains, and they are amazing. They do not fight against the enemy with the plotters they have devoted their efforts to assist. They have a style that we cannot imagine. Not to mention the imperial sected Yuan in the capital of Yangyang, not to mention Nalan Youci, far away in the southern border, only to say that Li Yishan, Tingchao Pavilion, had more than 100,000 refugees appeared, how did they surrender to Beiliang? How did the Hulukou Wubao rise up? How did they fight to the death to resist our army? How did the ranch, food, grass, military pay in Beiliang, and help Beiliang support the battle with one place?"

Zhongtan nodded and said in a deep voice: "Fortunately, we also have the Taiping Order!"

Yang Yuanzan suddenly lowered his voice and said, "When I think I can break the city, you can bring all the elite troops and enter the city in person."

Zhong Tan, who had never had this idea, was trying to refuse. Yang Yuanzan said in an undeniable tone: "Bei Mang needs a hero!"

After the loud trumpet sound at noon, the wall of Wogong City became a gate of hell.

People are dead anytime, anywhere, and the speed of death is getting faster and faster.

The Beimang siege infantry who had been replenished and maintained a total force of 20,000 troops, and the replacement speed of 1,000 and 1,000 people was getting faster and faster. Even if the generals and siege had already raised the boundary to 200, they could not stop this amazing speed. The only good news is that after experiencing the previous two or even three siege experiences, these siege soldiers became more and more clear about how to avoid mud bricks, and knew more and more about how to be more careful and pay attention to the arrows that were shot from the gang tower. Many Beimang soldiers who were inevitably weak during the first siege were selflessly carrying shield ants and attached themselves, and could not see the corpses under the city wall at all, and ignore the wailing and groaning of those dying people.

The most important thing is that under the continuous impact of their own side, they can clearly feel the decay of the offensive on the city.

There were constant troops rushing to the front battlefield of Wogong City, from the earliest 500 people to the replacement of defense, to the relatively bright army of 300 people, to less than 100 people with injuries, and finally to the point where thirty-four people had to run up the corridor with a command.

Before the Lord of Wogong City, who was in the middle of the tall city tower, arrived at the top of the city, the deputy general Gao Shiqing had been fighting on the front line of the city for more than an hour with two hundred personal soldiers. If it weren't for the old and white-haired but old-fashioned veteran, the iron spear was really powerful. If it weren't for the personal soldiers of this deputy general who was a hero from the world, there would be many skilled masters, the head of the city should have stood all over the Beimang barbarians. Under the inner city wall, there were corpses of robes that were not too late to be cured, and they were piled up randomly. Later, the guards of Wogong City could only throw their bodies down with tears in their eyes.

Stacked into mountains.

Zhu Mu personally led the three hundred elite troops who had been accumulating momentum to quickly support Gao Shiqing and killed all the more than 100 barbarians who had jumped into the city wall and fought in close combat. Zhu Mu had a cold knife in both hands and a hoist, and there were as many as seven or eight Northern barbarians who were cut off by him with one knife. However, even if the personal reinforcements pushed most of the ladders that had climbed more than a dozen enemy troops back to the ground, they could not stop the Northern barbarians who had been red-eyed from climbing the city one after another. Zhu Mu looked at the beautiful bearded man.

Gao Shiqing, who was named after the title, had his beard stained with blood and knotted like popsicles. He cut off the head of a centurion, and kicked the headless corpse. He took advantage of the situation and knocked a barbarian who had just climbed the city to lift his sword down the city. Zhu Mu sneered loudly: "Old man Gao, why is it so useless? Didn't you want me to come and help you pick up that gun when it's almost dark? It's more than an hour before it's dark!"

Gao Shiqing, who was covered in blood, kept silent and stabbed a barbarian to death with one shot. He swept across the iron spear and swept out another barbarian who jumped high from the top of the city.

Half an hour later, the only cavalry in the city was the first-class cavalry in Youzhou, where everyone had two horses. The four hundred people who had no chance to go out of the city to charge also began to climb the city.

Before climbing the city, the war horses that had been dependent on each other for many years were killed by them.
To be continued...