After the initial embarrassment, Zheng Jing also realized the unreasonableness of his military order just now, and immediately turned his attention to the inner side of the city wall piled up like a hill of wood and stones, these are all things to deal with the defense of the city, he stepped forward to take a look, but there was a little drum in his heart.

How long can you keep it with these woods and stones? Zheng Jing turned his head again and looked at Feng Changqing, who was ashen, and the entourage around him, and couldn't help but feel a little more confident. These people were able to pack up the military spirit in Fanyang City in a short period of time, and their ability was still visible.

"Drumming!"

Qiu Bai suddenly shouted, which startled Zheng Jing, his current identity is the chief of the prison guard, and he was entrusted with a heavy task by Shi Chaoqing, so he naturally "has the right" to command the defenders of the city. Zheng Jing smacked his lips, and suddenly found that his position was very awkward, and he was inferior to these people in terms of ability and courage, rather than fighting for performance and being embarrassed, it was better to honestly shrink back and wait for a ready-made victory.

The war drums on the city walls rumbled and hammered, and the soldiers under the city were not given much hope as a flesh wall to fill their lives, although at the beginning of the battle, a large number of people scattered and fled, but the small part that remained still broke out with unprecedented combat effectiveness.

At this point, even Feng Changqing was a little surprised, it seems that the strength of Youyan's soldiers is really the best in the world. He was secretly thinking: If the soldiers and horses he led could have this level when he was guarding Luoyang, I am afraid that he would not have been defeated so badly.

The sound of war drums on the city wall further stimulated the will of the soldiers under the city to fight, and the resistance began to become fierce and tragic. Groups of soldiers who had no way to escape either died in battle or were forced into the trenches behind them and jumped down.

The besieging rebels of Shi Chaoyi attacked in sections, only breaking through to the dry moat at key points and dumping earth and stones to fill in the trenches formed after the moat had dried up. At the same time, a large number of siege equipment was pushed to the edge of the moat, including the bed crossbow, whose arrows were the thickness of an adult's arm, and the bowstring was tightened with a winch, and then shot straight into the rammed earth wall.

In this way, one after another bed crossbow arrows were inserted into the rammed earth city wall of Fanyang City, the city walls of this era were all made of rammed earth, and the walls were hard and comparable to iron and stone after being built, but there was a fatal weakness, that is, they were afraid of water, once they were soaked in rain or river water, they would be in danger of collapsing over time.

Anyone with a little common sense of war knows this, and they are puzzled when they see the city wall under their feet being nailed by a hedgehog with crossbow arrows from the bed. This year seems to be a year of great drought, and there has not been a single rain so far. And what do you expect to flood the walls?

If there is a torrential rain, combined with water blisters, the crossbow arrows that are deep in the wall will introduce water into the wall, accelerating the process of the city wall collapse. However, there is not even a drop of rain now, even if the wall is full of arrows, it will not have much impact on the wall of Fanyang, at best, it is a little ugly, and it looks a little scary.

It seems that Shi Chaoyi's rebels will act according to a certain routine every time they attack the city, and although Zheng Jing is only a general of the town army, he also knows a little about the combat methods of some elite soldiers.

"After the moat is filled, the siege battle will officially begin, and the herald will be ready at any time!"

Qiu Bai gave an order in a deep voice, don't look at him as just a small Sima in the Hedong Shenwu Army, but since the fifteenth year of Tianbao, he has participated in fifty defensive battles of large and small subordinates. Because the Hedong Shenwu Army has always been mainly defending the city, he is also extremely experienced in defense.

The soldiers sent to the various sections of the city wall to understand the situation also returned one after another, and the direction facing the greatest siege pressure was located in the north of the city. The group left the western section of the city wall and drove to the northern part of the city wall. As soon as we turned to the northern part of the city wall, we could hear the unusually fierce shouts and shouts, and it was clear that the battle here was much fiercer.

In siege warfare, although the attacker will launch a full-scale siege when it has superior forces, it will still pick a few sections of the city wall as the key location for the attack. Obviously, the northern section of the city wall was chosen as the key attack position by the rebels of Shi Chaoyi.

Zheng Jing forgot to glance outside the city, and his soul was almost frightened out of his body, it turned out that an entire section of the moat had actually been filled. A large number of siege equipment has an endless posture at a glance, and many cloud ladders have even reached the city wall of Fanyang.

The rebels of Shi Siming's troops who were besieging the city shouted their trumpets rhythmically, like a tide, wave after wave, rushing towards the city wall of Fanyang.

Zheng Jing is just a small town general, how can he ever see such a terrifying scene, he can't help but be a little panicked, and said in a lost voice:

"How, how is this good?"

Qiu Bai is still a calm face, he has seen countless terrifying scenes over the years, and the Hebei rebels' siege routines have long been familiar with it, these large-scale siege equipment looks like a cow's hair, but this is only the beginning of the siege war, if you want to capture the strong city of the city high and deep, it is impossible to do it without ten days and a half months, or even three or two months. Unless, thinking of this, he looked at Feng Changqing, who was ashen beside him, he really couldn't understand why Luoyang City fell in just a few days, Luoyang as the eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty, its city walls are even higher and stronger than Chang'an, and the grain stored in the city including Jiacang is enough for the soldiers and civilians in the city to eat for more than ten years, even if the soldiers and horses defending the city are a rabble that is temporarily put together, it will not fall in just a few days, right?

However, those have become a thing of the past, and now the key is that Fan Yang must not fall in just a few days, or ten days. Qiu Bai secretly thought that he wanted to treat Fan Yang as a nail, nailed it to Hebei, firmly attracted the rebels of Hebei Zhulu under the city, and completely tortured these tiger and wolf armies into tired troops, and then when the Shenwu army arrived, he could calmly pick the fruit.

Thinking of all this, a strange smile flashed on Qiu Bai's face, but this fleeting smile was still discovered by Zheng Jing. Zheng Jing couldn't help but mutter, what is this Qiu Bai thinking......

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Thousands of miles away in Chang'an, with the continuous galloping of fast horses into the city, military newspapers from Hedong and Hebei were also sent to Qin Jin's desk one after another.

Yan Zhenqing's situation was expected by Qin Jin, a large number of displaced people would definitely flock to the Dezhou area in groups, as long as the Shenwu military and civilian forces were integrated and pacified step by step, even if some displaced people would be lost, there would always be results. The surprising situation is in the east of the river, to be precise, it is the remnants of Feng Changqing who are stranded outside the plug, which brings surprises. They actually succeeded in infiltrating Fanyang City, and successfully attracted the rebels of Shi Chaoyi's army to the city.

"Sure enough, God helped me Datang, and the thieves were infighting, so I could take this opportunity to recover Hebei in one fell swoop and completely exterminate the traitors!"

Fifth Qi smashed his desk excitedly and stood up.

Recently, in order to facilitate communication with the political affairs hall, Qin Jin has moved his office to the imperial city. Therefore, Fifth Qi would go to Qin Jin to sit here for a while every day to communicate the government affairs of the day. Today, just after taking a seat, the military report from Hedong arrived.

Everything went smoothly unexpectedly, and Fifth Qi excitedly circled back and forth in the room, even forgetting that it was rude to do this in front of Qin Jin.

Qin Jin has always been lenient with people, and he never took this kind of trivial matter to heart, only smiling and watching Fifth Qi turn around excitedly. However, after a few turns, Fifth Qi immediately calmed down.

"The war in Hebei Province can be decided within the year, and the war in Hexi Province can be put on the agenda!"

Qin Jin nodded.

"The troops of Henan and Hedong attacked from both sides, and the rebels of Hebei Province were not long in life. However, the dispatch of troops cannot be rushed for a while, and the displaced people of Pingyuan County must be completely absorbed. Otherwise, it's a hidden danger that can erupt at any time!"

Qin Jin's words surprised Fifth Qi, and he immediately realized that Qin Jin's purpose of ordering the Shenwu army in Henan to wander back along the Yellow River may not only be to go north to attack thieves, but also to monitor the millions of displaced people gathered in Dezhou.

As soon as he thought of this, Fifth Qi couldn't help but feel awe-inspiring in his heart, millions of homeless people gathered together, and if there was a slight disturbance, the homeless people would probably become thieves. It turned out that Qin Jin ordered the Henan Shenwu Army to wander along the Yellow River, and he must be ready to turn homeless people into thieves at any time.

"Is it only possible for the displaced people in Hebei Province to change?"

Qin Jin Dao:

"If it is handled properly, there should be no accidents, Yan Zhenqing is competent as the governor of Hebei Province, as long as the private enterprises going to Hebei can reach the plan step by step, there should be no mistakes. The army is on the side, and it is also a last resort, just in case!"

Therefore, Qin Jin has been waiting, waiting for the 7788 to be disposed of by the displaced people in Hebei Province, after the situation has been decided, the Henan Shenwu Army has no worries, and naturally it can go north in a big way, and the soldiers and horses of Luqi in Hedong Province will flank the rebels of Shi Chaoyi.

Yan Zhenqing's military newspaper said that Shi Siming should have been trapped in the small town of Yuanxiang by Shi Chaoyi, and for some reason, he only besieged but did not attack. Shi Siming's department has also been divided and integrated by Shi Chaoyi, maybe we can make some articles here!"

"Isn't Yuanxiang the hometown of the Dune Palace during the Warring States Period? No wonder, no wonder ......"

Fifth Qi sighed in surprise.

"I don't know who gave him the bad idea, he actually wanted to imitate Gongzi and starve King Zhao Wuling to death, isn't this carving a boat for a sword?"

Fifth Qi did not hide his disdain and ridicule for Shi Chaoyi, indeed, Shi Chaoyi's most correct choice was to take Shi Siming's life immediately, in order to eliminate all hidden dangers and uncertain factors, so that in the shortest possible time to gather all the troops and horses that can be united in Hebei Province.

But Shi Chaoyi delayed his efforts in Yuanxiang for ten days, and refused to kill Shi Siming, maybe this is one of the external reasons why Feng Changqing's subordinates were able to smoothly blend into Fanyang City......