The next morning, Zheng Cong-yi led 20,000 central troops to finally arrive and set up a military formation under Shanyang City.// Visit and download the txt novel //

After hearing that Tuoba Sigong and Helianduo suffered a great loss last night, Zheng Congqi couldn't help but raise his vigilance and sent several cavalry to search within a radius of 30 miles to prevent Shatuo cavalry from ambushing. In addition, he rejected the proposal of Tuoba and Helian to immediately siege the city. Instead, he sent two messengers to urge Li Jing and Yu Qin to arrive. He was preparing to attack Shuozhou City after the troops arrived, and prepare to fight a real siege.

The soldiers retreated and went downstairs ten miles from Shuozhou City. While waiting for the arrival of Li Jing and Yu Ju's troops, Zheng Congyi ordered the soldiers to cut down trees and make large wooden shields, ladders, catapults, siege rams and other equipment needed for siege.

After a whole day, there was no movement. After another day, Yu Wen's 14,000 rear troops finally arrived with food, grass and supplies. In the afternoon, Fu Wenda, Fu Wentong, Gao Wenshun, and Gao Wenji led 10,000 infantrymen, and Li Jing's military supervisor Zhang Chengye arrived.

"Why didn't General Ji Yu arrive?" Zheng Congzi couldn't see Li Jing and three foreign soldiers among the soldiers, so he couldn't help but ask strangely.

Zhang Chengye explained: "My general said that the cavalry was not very effective. He had led the cavalry into Shuozhou. Li Zhen Guoren said that recruiting troops was enough. When he was in a critical condition, he would naturally lead the army to appear."

Regarding this explanation, Zheng Congqi nodded slowly. Li Jing was not the kind of person who used war as a joke. "I understand."

With 50,000 troops in his hand, the army has made a lot of simple equipment in the past few days. After another day of rest, Zheng Cong-sei started to attack the city.

Compared with the last time Tuoba and Helian's siege, the troops in the towns commanded by Zheng Cong-sei were more prosperous.

In units of battalions, dozens of square arrays were arranged neatly and stepped forward together. Each infantry square array had their own military flags flying, and countless spears lit up, forming a spike forest.

"Rise the shield!" Located under the purple slate in the zhongyang army, there is a huge moving building car. Zheng Congyi stood on the moving ten-foot cloud car, commanding high, and seeing the entire battlefield situation. On the cloud car platform, sixteen flag soldiers and sixteen drum trumpeters stood.

With Zheng Cong-sei's order, a flag bearer immediately waved the flag on the cloud car, and a cavalry under the cloud car was instructed to watch the cloud car at any time. After seeing the order, he immediately sent orders to each formation. "Rise the shield!" The generals in front of the formation shouted loudly. The shield hands in the front row immediately raised huge wooden rafts on one side, which were as high as one person. The shield hands in front could hide completely behind. These wooden rafts were made temporarily. They were thick and heavy, and each raft must be carried together. The wooden rafts made of newly cut trees did not even need to be covered with cowhide, and they were neither afraid of arrows nor fire attacks. It was very simple and easy to use when using materials on the spot.

Countless rafts of wood rose up, and a wooden wall immediately formed in front of the various square formations that were advancing. The soldiers of each battalion shouted rhythmic trumpets and advanced neatly, holding weapons and slapped shields, making huge sounds, and finally gathered into a neat and unified loud sound, leading the army forward like drum beats.

Accompanied by the shouts, the various square formations were in uniform steps, and the huge drums of the dong dong hundred-faced cowhide drums moved forward like a mountain. Suddenly, mountains were constantly pushing the city walls, and the clouds were seen above the city. Within the eyes, there were slowly pushing the officers and soldiers everywhere, and the passionate cry resounded throughout the world!

"Tang Dynasty!Tang Dynasty!Tang Dynasty!"

Between the square array, there were also a large number of siege equipment, including thirty catapults, five hundred cloud ladders, one hundred moving arrowheads, thirty building cars, thirty cloud cars, and three hundred floating cars.

Xing used so many siege equipment at one time, which was quite rare in the Tang Dynasty in recent years. In order to make these equipment, tens of thousands of Tang troops took about five or six days.

The attacking troops were like mountains and seas, the sound of cars was shining, the iron armor was clanging, and the war horses were roaring.

The heavy steps were as unified as thunder. Such a huge attack made Tuoba Sigong and Helian Duo feel that Zheng Cong-sei was too brave. Facing the small number of defenders who could not conceal, they actually used such a formation. It was simply to kill a chicken and use a ox knife, and it was not a martial arts victory.

Generals Li Youjin and other Shatuo, who were hiding behind the soldiers on the top of the city, saw that Zheng Congyi did not underestimate the enemy at all. Instead, they took out all their strength to attack as soon as they came up, and their faces were extremely ugly. They thought that posing for this weakness should allow Zheng Congyi to directly underestimate the enemy to attack the city, so that they could kill an unexpected opponent. Who would have thought that Zheng Congyi was not tempted at all.

It seems that this battle can only be a bloody battle.

"Are you ready?" Li Youjin asked.

"Everything is ready, kill with the Tang army and never stop!" Kang Junli and others shouted in unison.

"Okay, send an order, fight back in full!"

When the black soldiers poured into two hundred steps away from the city, the counterattack of the Shatu people began.

One sharp roar after another flew over the sky below the city, and small black dots rose up from the top of the city, as if they were swarms of locusts that suddenly flew over. One by one, they threw stones rapidly expanded in the Tang army's vision, and countless sharp roars came from the ears. Dozens and hundreds of fist-sized stone bullets were rushing from the sky with huge momentum, just like a meteor shower hitting the Tang army's attack formation. The stone bullet smashed the shield, hit the soldiers, and splashed bright blood flowers.

The slashes mixed with some big heads were even more amazing. Even the huge wooden raft in the front row was hit and shattered. They smashed into the military formation and killed several people, and even bounced a few times. Each time they bounced, they had to bring the lives of several soldiers.

The entire team was slightly stagnant and a little confused. But under the call of the army, there was only a slight stagnation amid the sound of Xiong's war drums. The 50,000 troops continued to advance. The soldiers in the back row advanced along the bloody corpses in the front. The entire square formation was moving forward like a huge wheel, slowly but firmly.

On the top of the city, Li Sizhao's face was as deep as water, and Tang Jun's reaction made him feel heavy. Faced with such a fierce attack, Tang Jun was completely different from many opponents they had encountered before, and they were not afraid at all.

Maybe the Tang army was like this because of its number advantage. Li Sizhao comforted himself. He turned his head and waved his hand sharply at the crossbowman who had already prepared: "Come on the crossbowman!"

"put!"

Crossbow arrows passed by like a meteor, and countless arrows fell down from the city. Even if there were shields in the front row, soldiers still fell one after another. The front army on the left was the array of Zhongwu Army, and Zhongwu Ba Du set up eight large square formations. The eight square formations were led by Zhongwu Ba Du General.

The eight generals were Lu Yanhong, Han Jian, Wang Jian, Li Shitai, Zhai Cong, Zhang Zao, Li Jian, and Jin Hui.

He was a private salt dealer and later accepted the imperial court to recruit the eight kings of the thief Wang Jian, who was in charge of the Zhongwu Army in Xuzhou. Because he had been cruel to sell many friends who used to sell salt, he made many letters of vote. After killing these brothers in the Tao, he seized a lot of private salt and the family wealth of his brothers, so he obtained the position of head of the Dumai General. Later, Cui Anqian took over as the governor of the Zhongwu Army. Because of the reason why the Zhongwu Army was too arrogant, he reorganized the eight capitals of Zhongwu, and most of the people used were new people. Wang Jian was promoted to one of the eight capitals because of his bravery and outstanding performance. Although he was only the eight capitals of the lower ranking, his subordinates also led a thousand brothers.

Now no one calls him a thief again. The older brothers in the army call him a turtle, while the others respectfully call him General Wang. Sitting on the horse, Wang Jian was very brave and was very rich and fame immediately. The more he fought, the more he had a chance to be promoted.

Just as he turned around and called on the thousand brothers in Bendu to move forward, a sharp whistling sound came, and a man who woke up from his crotch stood up and neighed. Wang Jiancuo was not in a hurry to defend and was directly dropped off his horse. He was angry, but he heard two consecutive whistlings passing by. His war horse lies past the first crossbow arrow, but then two crossbow arrows fell down. One of them fell one foot in front of him, and the other passed directly through the horse's neck. He was already dead and could not die anymore.

He said intimidatingly that it was so dangerous, Wang Jian quickly got up and simply retreated directly into the wooden shield and walked to command.

At this time, less than a hundred steps away from the city, but a moat that was ten feet wide was blocking the front.

Wang Jian waved his spear and shouted: "Brothers, rush!"

"Kill!" All the soldiers wrapped in yellow turbans on the head of the Eighth Capital of Zhongwu, shouting desperately to cheer themselves up and let themselves forget the flesh and blood on the battlefield. Under the leadership of Wang Jian, the soldiers of the Eighth Capital rushed to the edge of the moat first, and then the seven-foot-long wooden rafts in their hands quickly played an important role. The wooden rafts began to connect, and a connection interface was left on the wooden rafts in advance. At this time, the wooden rafts were connected to each other, and then at the joint, two wooden boards and a few large iron nails were added, and then tightened with a rope, and a simple long bridge board was immediately formed.

The simple bridge boards made of stones were pushed to the moat in the rain of arrows under the city, and a simple bridge that could accommodate a person was immediately set up. The yellow-headed army started to clamor, and Wang Jian held a round shield in one hand and a long spear in the other. The first step was on the shaking simple bridge, and the first to rush across the moat. The soldiers of the Eighth Capital also rushed up, with the Eighth Capital taking the lead, and the other seven Zhongwu were also driven and swarmed up.

Zheng Cong-sei of the Central Army was so brave in the cloud car. He couldn't help but be amazed and asked the Central Army to step up the drums. The war drums rumbled, and the entire army suddenly lifted up like water and drowned straight towards the city.

The Shatuo defenders on the city immediately launched a fierce counterattack. Arrows poured out like rain, and stones continued to roar. At this time, the largest casting carts of Shatuo people even smashed dozens of kilograms of stones into the Tang army formation. The huge stones hit the ground and made people feel like the earth was shaken. No matter how well-equipped the Tang army was, as long as they were hit, they would immediately become a pool of flesh and blood.

However, amid the high-pitched war drums, the Tang army was very brave at this time, just pounced forward without any concerns about casualties.
Chapter completed!