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People shouted, horses were neighing, and chariots were rippling, and hundreds of thousands of Wei troops were getting closer and closer to Pinglu City.

"parking!"

Pang Juan, who was fully armored, squinted his eyes on the chariot, and his black robe and cloak were clattering in the wind. He looked majestic and imposing, and his posture was very similar to a wizard in mythology.

As a major country second only to the five powerful countries, Wei State has not slowed down its development speed. It has now owned 13,000 chariots, and has become a country second only to Qi and Qin in the whole world.

As the most respected general by Weiss, Pang Juan loves chariots. All day long, he thought about how to invent new chariots, and he wanted to use chariots to wipe out nearby enemy countries and then unify the world.

"Since the enemy country has given up its chariots and turned to develop cavalry, if our Great Wei also develops cavalry, it is unpredictable who is stronger and weak. And if we continue to develop chariots, our Great Wei's chariots will definitely be far better than other countries. With my strengths and weaknesses, why worry about not being able to defeat them?"

Pang Juan used this speech to convince Weis and the civil and military officials of Wei in the hall of Yecheng, which led to Wei adopting a strategy of using chariots as the main and cavalry as the auxiliary, and continued to build chariots on a large scale and train chariots.

Pang Juan has a lot of experience in the research of chariot soldiers, and even claims to be the strongest chariot general in the world: "I am not as good as Bai Qi when it comes to commanding large corps to fight, and I am not as good as Meng Tian when it comes to using troops in the mountains. But when it comes to commanding chariots, if I, Pang Juan, would be the second, no one in the world dare to be the first!"

"Where is Sun Bin, the military advisor of Qi?" someone asked Pang Juan.

Pang Juan showed a contemptuous smile: "I really don't understand why Mr. Qi valued a guy who could only talk big? Sun Bin was just a scholar who was powerless. He met my master by chance. After learning military tactics for a few years, he came out to cheat. I will expose his liar's face sooner or later, and let Mr. Qi see that he relied on military advisors is simply an idiot!"

Under the leadership of Pang Juan, the Wei State's chariots in addition to ordinary two and four chariots, even invented unprecedented six chariots, and improved siege vehicles, grain transport vehicles and other models, making the Wei State's chariots huge in scale and extraordinary momentum.

Among the 100,000 troops dispatched by the Wei State this time, there were 3,000 chariots, two of which were 800 chariots, responsible for launching a tentative attack on the vanguard. Four-carriage chariots were 1,800 chariots, responsible for crushing the enemy during the decisive battle in the front. Finally, there were 400 chariots, specially used to restrain the enemy's chariots and bully the small.

With Pang Juan's order, the 100,000 Wei troops quickly stopped moving forward, and seemed to be well-trained and neatly handsome.

"Have the Tang army in Pinglu City fled?"

Pang Juan sat upright in the handsome car with a full momentum, supported his hands on his knees, and asked with his eyes narrowed. He liked to speak to his subordinates in this posture, thinking that this would make him look very imposing and mysterious.

The scout knelt on one knee and replied: "If you go back to the general, the four gates of Pinglu City will be closed, and the Tang army will all go to the city wall to defend, and there will be no sign of abandoning the city and escaping!"

Pang Juan slowly opened his eyes, stood up straight and looked at Pinglu City several miles away: "Oh... the officials of the Tang Kingdom are a little bit backbone. I thought this newly established country was a mess!"

Deputy General Le Yang rode his horse to Pang Juan's chariot, stroked his sword and said, "Brother Pang, it seems that the Tang people are prepared, and soldiers are very fast. We must attack the city as soon as possible and strive to take down Pinglu before Zhou Yu returns to rescue."

Pang Juan nodded and glanced at the two military generals on both sides: "Zuo Si, Deng Lu, I ordered you to lead a 10,000 mixed corps to launch a tentative attack on Pinglu. How powerful is the Tang army in Pinglu City?"

"Here!"

The two generals of Wei agreed, and each lit up a mixed formation of shields, bows, and force soldiers. With the cheers of horns and war drums, the smoke and dust rolled on Pinglu City.

The remaining 80,000 Wei troops were arranged on the hillside five miles away from Pinglu, divided into eight formations, with chariots in the center, led by Pang Juan himself, and Le Yang was responsible for leading the cavalry and archers.

"Kill, rush!"

"The Great Wei Xiong Army has arrived, but the door has not opened to surrender?"

Under the leadership of Zuo Si and Deng Lu, two Wei generals, 20,000 Wei troops attacked Pinglu's East City Gate and North City Gate.

The Wei army, which was charging quickly, rushed to the front with a shield on his head and holding a long spear in his hand. The strong soldiers carried clouds and ladders, followed by bowmen, held bows and arrows, quickly crossed the moat and rushed straight to the foot of the city wall.

In order to resist the attack of the Wei army, Shen Pei divided the 15,000 defenders in the city into four groups, with 4,000 people on each wall, and the remaining 3,000 people were used as mobile troops to rush to the dangerous city wall at any time.

"Cum hard!"

Liao Hua, who was responsible for defending the east wall of Pinglu, shot down a Wei soldier and shouted loudly.

With Liao Hua's order, 1,300 crossbowmen on the city wall fired arrows at once, pouring down the rain of arrows like locusts.

The other soldiers smashed the equipment prepared in advance such as rolling stones, rapiers and other equipment on the wall, aiming at the top of the Wei army, without any mercy. For a moment, screams came one after another, and the Wei army fell to the ground with arrows.

Zuo Si held a shield in one hand to protect the vital points, and waved his sword and directed loudly: "The archer pushed me forward ten feet, will he hide behind and watch the fun?"

The three thousand Wei army archers could only advance forward again. The front line had even hung its toes on the river surface, bent their bows and arrows, and shot upwards on the city wall.

In an instant, arrows were like rain, and countless feather arrows drew arcs, falling on the walls of Pinglu with the whistling wind.

The Wei army's bows and arrows were transformed by Pang Juan and were very powerful, and the number was more than twice that of the Tang army's archers. Although the force was weakened due to the upward shooting, it still effectively suppressed the Tang army on the city wall. Many people avoided everywhere, creating opportunities for the Wei army shields who were sieging the city.

"attack!"

Zuo Si crossed the moat with a shield and personally laid the first ladder on the wall of Pinglu.

Immediately afterwards, the sound of "du,du,du" came one after another, and one four-meter-high cloud ladder after another leaned against the city wall. The Wei soldiers like an ant colony began to climb up with their shields.

"Call quickly, shoot hard!"

The Tang army was a little panicked, and the crossbowmen bent down to explode at the Wei Zhu on the ladder. However, the results were very little, most of them were blocked by shields, and few were shot in the arrow.

"Silly, shoot me in the distance!"

Liao Hua turned his head and dodged a wave arrow, raised a rolling stone and smashed hard at the top Wei Zhu. He immediately burst into pieces and fell down the cloud ladder. "Rolling stones, pounding the wood to smash the enemy on the cloud ladder, and crossbowmen gathered to shoot at the Wei Zhu on the moat!"

With Liao Hua's order, the archers on the top of the city changed their target and shot the bows and arrows aimed at the ladders at the Wei army's archers on the moat.

Although the archers can shoot from a long distance, their defense ability is relatively weak. At this moment, the Tang army's archers were shot from a high position and suddenly became in chaos, with heavy casualties. At least more than 200 people were shot dead and injured, and their formation was in chaos.

"Use bamboo poles to support the ladder!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity that the Wei army's archers were suppressed, Liao Hua shouted loudly, touched a bamboo pole and supported it hard towards the cloud ladder. Three or four people pried it hard at the same time, and the cloud ladder immediately fell.

Although the cloud ladder at this time was called a cloud ladder, it was incomparable to the improved cloud ladder later. Its sturdiness and safety cannot be compared with it. It is better to be called a high-rise bamboo ladder than a cloud ladder.

Under Liao Hua's command, the Tang army on the city wall worked together, and the archers shot at the Wei army's archers under the city wall. Other troops retreated to the ladder with bamboo poles and smashed the Wei soldiers who climbed with boiling water and pounding wood, successfully repelling the Wei army's first attack.

Just when Liao Hua defeated Zuo Si, Ji Ling also blocked the attack of Wei general Deng Lu on the northern city wall, causing 20,000 Wei troops to return in vain, at least nearly a thousand lives under the city wall, and the Tang army also paid the price of two hundred casualties.

Pang Juan saw the unfavorable attack on the city wall, his face turned pale, slowly swept towards Le Yang next to him, and said in a deep voice: "It seems that the Tang army is still somewhat combat-effective, so I can only trouble General Le to personally command the siege!"
Chapter completed!