Several generals on the side of Xinquan City were very anxious, and Dingbian City and Pubian City were not much better.

When Huang Wenlong received the news from Kou County's order, his heart was cold, and the Hu people sent another 20,000 people to attack Xinquan, which seemed to be determined to capture Xinquan City. Although he also believed in his heart that the 10,000 defenders in the city should be able to cope with the 20,000 troops, he was worried that the Hu people would continue to send reinforcements.

Because, on the side of Dingbian City, there were originally only 20,000 people led by Balatian and Han Qianhu, but in the past two days, 10,000 soldiers and horses brought by the Yeli brothers came, and 10,000 soldiers and horses brought by Kangle Country also arrived today.

At the moment, there is a lot of pressure here in Dingbian City. As soon as the soldiers and horses of the Kangle Kingdom arrived, they immediately merged with the teams of the Balatian and Yeli brothers, and also made dumplings in Dingbian City.

In addition, Huang Wenlong also received a battle report from Jin Xi of Pubian City yesterday, saying that there were also 30,000 horses besieging Pubian side.

At present, on the side of Dingbian City, there are not enough people to defend the city, let alone divide troops to support Xinquan and Pubian City.

In addition, there is another problem, now that Dingbian City is besieged, the township soldiers who escorted grain, grass and materials have not yet arrived, even if the township soldiers escort grain, grass and materials to Dingbian, they will definitely be robbed by the Hu people's soldiers and horses first.

However, the border city is only a small county town, and there is not much grain and grass in the city, and the grain transport troops outside cannot send in grain and grass, and the soldiers in the city will soon starve.

How can you fight without military rations? Huang Wenlong was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. His only hope now is that he hopes that his superiors will send troops to the rescue as soon as possible after seeing the emergency document he sent back to Yongzhou last time.

However, the rush is in the hurry. The battle has to be fought. Although Huang Wenlong was anxious, he still climbed to the top of the city and continued to command the defense of the city.

In the past two days, the Hu people's attacks have become more and more fierce, and the defenders under his command have rapidly been sharply reduced, and there are only about 10,000 people left. If he can't wait for reinforcements, he believes that Dingbian City will not be able to hold it for a few days.

In Xinquan City, the Hu people are still frantically attacking the city from all sides. Kou County Ling, Cao Dutong, and Xiao Ding, each standing on the tower in one direction, commanded the defense of the city.

Kou County ordered to guard the north gate, Cao Du guarded the east gate, and Xiao Ding guarded the west gate. The attack at the South Gate was the weakest, and the city was defended under the command of two lieutenants under Wei Dutong.

At this time, a soldier came to Xiao Ding and said, "Tell General Tian, the new crossbow arrow you ordered to build has been partially completed, and the soldier workshop invites you to come over and accept it." ”

When Xiao Ding heard this, he was overjoyed, and hurriedly said, "Okay, I'll go over immediately." ”

Xiao Ding temporarily handed over the task of commanding the city to a lieutenant beside him, and then went down to the city military workshop.

The military workshop is not far from the county office, and when Xiao Ding arrived, he saw several enlarged crossbow arrows placed in the workshop.

There are two types of newly created crossbow arrows, one is medium, which can fire arrows more than three feet long; The other is a large spear that can fire a wooden pole and an iron head that is more than seven feet long. It's just that this kind of large scale cannot be operated by one person, and it takes at least two or three people to be able to operate it.

In order to facilitate the transportation of this large crossbow arrow, the people of the military workshop also made improvements according to Xiao Ding's drawings, and set the crossbow frame on a small cart, which has four small wheels and can be easily pushed. And the wooden spears in the carriages can be used for equipment.

"That's a good design!" Xiao Ding praised.

With this kind of big killing weapon, it is estimated that it will be easier to defend the city.

"How many of these new crossbow bolts have been completed so far?" Xiao Ding asked.

"Two hundred and thirty pairs were completed for the medium-sized ones, and eighty-seven pairs were completed for the large ones." The person in charge of the military workshop said.

"Okay, let them all be transported to the city! Fifty-seven medium-sized and twenty-three large ones were sent to each gate. The north gate can be slightly more, and the south gate can be slightly less. Xiao Ding commanded.

It didn't take long for these new bolts to be distributed to the four city gates. Xiao Ding quickly returned to the West Gate Tower. Today's attack on the West City Gate was personally commanded by Shu Tianxiu. At the north gate, the red cloth hook is in command. Therefore, the North Gate and the West Gate attacked the most intensely.

After the new crossbow arrows were delivered to the city wall, Xiao Ding wanted to test the power of these crossbow arrows. He explained to the soldiers defending the city how to use it, and then asked the soldiers to fire a row with medium crossbows first.

After a "whoosh" sound, more than 50 arrows more than three feet long were fired towards the charging enemy. The enemy army fell suddenly. This crossbow arrow can shoot through the armor of the enemy, and some can even shoot through two or three people with a single arrow. The range was also an astonishing five hundred paces away.

Xiao Ding was overjoyed, and let people test shoot a large crossbow. Because the large crossbow is mounted on the car, Xiao Ding called it a repeater car.

Two or three operated a crossbow cart, more than twenty spears were fired, and the enemy fell again.

The power of this spear-firing repeater is even more impressive. Shooting people can go through more than one, and even shooting horses can go through two or three horses. The firing range reached a terrifying 800 paces away.

At this time, Shu Tianxiu was about eight hundred steps away from Xinquan City. This is a very safe distance, because no matter how strong your arm is, you will not be able to shoot an arrow eight hundred paces away.

But today he was a little unlucky.

The soldier operating the crossbow cart in Xinquan City, who didn't know who it was, pointed the direction of the spear in the direction of Shu Tianxiu. After the spear was fired by the ballista, it went straight to Shu Tianxiu.

Fortunately, there were soldiers in front of Shu Tianxiu, and the spear pierced through the bodies of the two soldiers in a row, shooting Shu Tianxiu's chest, and the heart shield on his chest shattered with a "click", and Shu Tianxiu was also hit under the horse with huge force. He opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood, apparently suffering internal injuries.

The Hu team panicked, and the attack was obviously weakened.

When Xiao Ding saw this scene in the city, he was happy and sighed secretly, although there are no guns and cannons in this era, there is such a big killing weapon, but it is also good.

Similarly, several other city gates also tried this new type of killing weapon, and it really suppressed the momentum of the Hu people's attack. How could the Hu people have ever seen such a divine object! Hundreds of steps away can penetrate multiple people, which is too powerful!

Because of this new type of killing weapon, the Hu people suffered a big loss in this day's attack. The number of dead and wounded rose to seven or eight thousand. As for Xinquan City, it only lost more than 1,000 people.

Even so, the situation in Xinquan City is not optimistic. At present, there are more than 4,000 defenders in the city. If there were no reinforcements, there would be casualties every day, and there would not be many days left to hold on to Xinquan.

Kou Zhixian and Cao Dutong were both worried, and Xiao Ding was also helpless, there was no other way but to defend it. With this amount of troops in the city, it is impossible to open the city gate and go out to fight a decisive battle with the Hu people. Hu Ren wishes you could open the door and come out to fight.

Xinquan stubbornly defended, which made Chibu Gou feel a headache. He had promised the eldest prince to capture Xinquan City, but now he has been attacking for several days, and he still hasn't beaten it, but he has lost his troops. The 30,000 soldiers and horses have now lost more than 10,000, and Shu Tianxiu was seriously injured today, almost losing his life.

He also saw the big killing weapon on the head of Jiuquan City today, he couldn't figure out what kind of artifact it was, it was so powerful, it was really unimaginable.

Since the other party has this kind of big killing weapon, his side can't continue to stupidly step forward and die. There has to be a way to deal with this kind of mass murder.

Chibu thought about it for a long time, and finally came up with a solution that he thought was not bad.

He hurriedly arranged for people to go down to cut down trees, and he planned to have people cut down trees and make wooden carts to resist the big killing weapons and ordinary bows and arrows at the head of Xinquan City.