The siege is still ongoing.

"There aren't enough arrows in the city! Take a team to the Ordnance Division to carry some arrows to the city! Luo Tao said to Qin Yu on the side. After yesterday's acquaintance, Luo Detao appreciated Qin Yu very much. Therefore, he took Qin Yu with him and asked him to assist him in commanding the battle.

And Qin Yu also took Xu Wei away from the city wall at this time and went to the Ordnance Division located in the city.

At this time, in the position of the Ordnance Division, Xu Jinyan, the Ordnance Division, is commanding many people who are going back and forth in the Ordnance Department to carry out all kinds of materials for defending the city, Dingyuan is the state city of Lingzhou, and there are more border troops stationed, the number of ordnance reserves in the city is not a small amount, and the number of ordnance reserves in the city is huge, so as to support the Xia army to defend the city for a month.

Speaking of which, Xu Jinyan didn't hear the shouting and killing sound from the direction of the south city wall, but he was a non-combatant and couldn't help at all. The only thing he could do was to constantly motivate the young people around him, so that they would speed up the transportation and deliver the ordnance and materials needed from all over the place to the designated place.

At this time, Qin Yu also took people to the Ordnance Division, and as soon as he came to the Ordnance Division, Qin Yu looked around for the official in charge. Before Qing Zhuang's guidance, he knew that the official in charge of this place was called Xu Jinyan and was in the Ordnance Division.

And Xu Jinyan, who was so busy that he was covered in sweat, raised his hand and wiped his forehead with his sleeve, glanced back, and sure enough, he saw Qin Yu leading a team of border soldiers to this side.

He hurriedly put down his affairs and greeted him: "Where are you a soldier, what are you doing here!" ”

Qin Yu also returned the salute, and immediately smiled and said: "This lord, I am ordered by General Luo Detao to come here to carry the arrows needed to defend against the enemy."

In fact, when he was talking, Qin Yu had already noticed the two "wooden shelves" on the side, after all, they were behemoths, how could he not find out.

"My lord, is there anything like this here?" Qin Yu was pleasantly surprised, he had a good idea in his head.

Although he didn't know why Qin Yu suddenly asked about this, Xu Jinyan still replied, "Naturally, there are these things, the state cities of each state in my Great Xia will store some siege ordnance in accordance with the regulations, and these two building cars are the two building cars stored in the Bencheng Ordnance Division." ”

"These buildings are much taller than the city walls." Qin Yu asked again.

"It's probably a little higher. But these buildings can be heightened, however, these buildings have not been used for a long time, and now there is only a shelf left, and if you want to repair it, it will take two or three days to complete. After that, Xu Jinyan glanced at Qin Yu with some doubts, obviously wondering how this captain who came to carry the arrows could ask himself this.

It stands to reason that now that the Hu army is attacking the city in a big way, this captain should have hurriedly carried back the arrows and then went back to guard the southern city wall inch by inch."

As if seeing through Xu Jinyan's thoughts, Qin Yu smiled bitterly twice and said: "That's the case, Lord Xu Jinyan, right now, the Hu army is attacking our army's city, and the defense on the south city wall is quite tight, so I wonder if I can make these two buildings and cars put into use urgently." ”

"This ------" Xu Jinyan's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he subconsciously looked at the two tall building cars not far from him.

What is this concept of this almost three-foot building car?

You must know that the city wall of Dingyuan, the capital of Xia Kingdom, is only more than three zhang high, and the county towns in other places are generally only one zhang high, and even Dingyuan City, the city of Lingzhou Prefecture, is just over two zhang high.

And this almost three-zhang building chariot means that this is an extremely large chariot, more than two zhang long and two zhang wide, and it will definitely not be smaller than a palace. After all, in the design of this building car, it was a huge chariot that required a full two hundred and fifty soldiers to slowly propel.

How could such a huge project be completed in just one or two days?

You must know that in Xu Jinyan's estimation, it will take at least two or three days to strengthen and improve the two building cars, and now, there is only one underframe left in these two buildings, and then a frame is initially built on the underframe, what front baffle, internal standing board, and stairs connecting the two floors, these are all not yet.

How does this work?

Xu Jinyan looked at Qin Yu with a dull expression, and only after half a sound did he say in a slurred voice: "You're not joking, even if you work all day, how can such a broken building car ----- how can it ======?"

Seeing him talking hesitantly, Qin Yu waved his hand and interrupted: "I understand what Lord Xu Jinyan means. --------I also know that more than a day's work is not enough to build these two buildings, but the problem is that the defense of the southern city wall is tight, and the more than 2,000 soldiers on the city wall cannot take care of the suppression of the Xihu army and the phalanx of longbowmen in the distance at the same time-----"

As he spoke, Qin Yu briefly explained to Xu Jinyan the battle situation that the Hu army's army was pressed into, and finally he said: "I don't ask for anything else, only that there is a place at the top where the crossbowmen can stand, at this time, even if there are one hundred or two more crossbowmen standing on a high place, this is good---"

"Top? Top? Xu Jin muttered a few words, and hurriedly shouted to the officials and craftsmen beside him: "Quick, nail the standing board of the top pavilion first." ”

The nearby craftsmen actually heard their conversation, and they all picked up their tools and went to nail the station board of the roof pavilion of the building.

However, there were also one or two officials who looked at the two unfinished building cars with strange expressions, and said to Qin Yu in embarrassment: "The stairs have not yet been built inside this ------, even if the top pavilion is nailed to the platform----- the archers will not be able to go up." ”

Xu Jinyan scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously when he heard this, but he heard Qin Yu say with a smile: "Why don't we ------- build a long ladder first, nail it outside the building car, and make do with it?" ”

Hearing this, Xu Jinyan was immediately overjoyed: "Good idea! Just do it, hurry! ”

After the order, the nearby craftsmen and young men suddenly became busy.

It didn't take much effort, and the station boards of the top pavilion above the two building cars were all ordered, and the long ladder was also built and fixed on the outside of the building car.

But looking at these two urgently modified building cars, Xu Jinyan is more and more awkward, after all, he is the head of the Ordnance Division, and the ultimate goal is to be perfect for any piece of ordnance, especially the strict standards of ordnance, the requirements of the Ministry of War are extremely high, and often an ordinary saber needs to be tested repeatedly, and there is no shoddy.

But now, in order to meet the needs of the war situation, the two seventy percent of the building cars that have not yet been built have been put into use urgently, and the temporary parts such as long ladders that seriously affect the appearance have been modified.

And in this regard, Qin Yu didn't feel anything, after all, he focused on practicality, as for whether the appearance was good-looking or not, it was just incidental.

Under Xu Jinyan's instructions, many young people who participated in the construction gathered and slowly pushed the two buildings to the south city wall.

At the beginning of the design, these two building cars were too large, so each one required a full 250 soldiers to push it, but now because nearly seventy percent of the parts have not been built, each building car only needs forty or fifty young people to easily push these two huge buildings to the south city wall.

However, the two building cars were put into use urgently, which also made the craftsmen in the vicinity have no work, and they stand there one by one with big eyes and staring at each other, quite at a loss.

Glancing at these craftsmen, and then at the neatly stacked wooden planks nearby, Qin Yu touched his chin, and a somewhat crazy idea jumped out of his heart.

The Hu army's large-scale attack came too suddenly, two days earlier than everyone expected, but in fact the Hu army attacked earlier than they expected.

Qin Yu originally thought that with the terrifying defensive facilities outside Dingyuan City, the Hu army should not be able to storm this city, but it turned out that he guessed wrong.

It's not that he didn't think about whether after the 30,000 more Xihu Hu soldiers, Soba, the general of the Hu army, would attack Dingyuan City and weaken the strength of his border army.

But the problem is that it is a full 30,000 people, 30,000 living lives, Qin Yu originally thought that the Hu army general Soba would hesitate because of this, and it was not until the last moment that he was forced to increase the casualties and consumption of the border soldiers by storming Dingyuan City, but he did not expect that the Hu army general Soba was more decisive than he imagined.

This commander of Xihu, for the sake of his overall situation, did not hesitate to push 30,000 Hu soldiers into the fire pit, this decisiveness, or this ruthlessness, made Qin Yu breathtaking.

In the face of Hu Jun's large-scale attack, the only thing Qin Yu can rely on at the moment is the two unfinished building cars that are being built in the city.

He asked for nothing else, only a place to stand above the three-zhang tall wagon, because in this way, he could allow more crossbowmen to stand on a high place, and effectively shoot the Hu soldiers outside the camp who were almost like ant colonies.

At this time, even a few hundred more crossbowmen standing on a high place are good.

Relying solely on the projectiles of those border archers on the flat ground in the city across the city wall, to be honest, this kind of "blind shooting" Qin Yu is not optimistic.

"Boom—"

"Boom—"

There was a strange sound, slowly extending from the Ordnance Division to the southern city wall.

Luo Detao, the general who was in charge of directing the battle on the south city wall, heard the strange noise, looked back, and was surprised to see that two three-zhang tall building cars were slowly pushed to the south city wall under the vigorous push of many young people.

"Let's go."

"Guys, let me go."

With the shouts of those young and strong, many Xia army border troops on the flat ground in the city got out of the way. Let those two behemoths pass.

Luo Tao looked at the two behemoths with some emotion, and couldn't help muttering: "What a big ------"

From the side, Xu Wei and the others, who assisted him in directing the order, were even more shocked, and asked in a lost voice: "What the hell is this -----?" ”

"You don't recognize the car?" Luo Tao hurriedly teased.

"Of course I recognize the car. But this is also ==== too big. ”

As soon as the words fell, a joke came from not far away: "Big! Bigger! Is it big enough to have your stuff! ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and turned their heads to look, but saw Qin Yu and Xu Jinyan, the chief of the Ordnance Division, struggling to climb the city wall.

Seeing this, Xu Wei and others hurriedly went over to support Xu Jinyan.

"Lord Xu Jinyan, why are you here?" Luo Tao asked curiously and in surprise.

You must know that Xu Jinyan is a non-combatant, and he should not be here. It is necessary to stay away from the front line, how can we set foot on the wall of the fiercest battle.

With the help of Xu Wei and others, Xu Jinyan climbed the city wall, patted the mud on his robe, and said with a smile: "I wanted to stay in the Ordnance Division, but now most of the young people in the Ordnance Department and the building car have been pulled to the front line, and the official happened to come with me." ”

Luo Tao looked at Qin Yu in surprise when he heard this. He was really a little puzzled, what did Qin Yu do when he got two unfinished buildings and cars.

Seeing this, Qin Yu explained with a wry smile: "I saw that the attack of the Hu soldiers was too fierce, and the position of the soldiers on the city wall was not enough, so I had to use these two unfinished building cars----- at this time, even if there were one or two hundred more crossbowmen, it was good." ”

"I see." Luo Detao nodded suddenly, he could naturally understand Qin Yu's concerns, in fact, "There is not enough place on the city wall to set up people." "It's the problem that is bothering him the most at the moment.

"However, the ----- of these two buildings is also miserable." Luo Tao looked back at the two buildings and cars, and couldn't help muttering.

Xu Jinyan's face was full of embarrassment when he heard this, and he quickly explained: "It's not that I can't wait. It's really ------ a few days to spare, if you wait another three days, we will be able to deliver the two completed buildings-----"

"I'll get it." Qin Yu interjected and interrupted Xu Jinyan's explanation, and said in a tight voice: "Let's not talk about this, Lord Xu Jinyan, this building car currently only has the base and frame. If the soldiers were to stand on top of the pavilion, they wouldn't collapse, would they? ”

"Please rest assured that those standing boards are full of palm thickness and supported by pillars, and they will never collapse easily. ===== this official dares to guarantee the official position of the ordnance department. Xu Jin swore and patted his chest.

While they were talking, the two carts were close to the city wall, and the young men used the timber scattered on the base to stuff under the huge wheels to fix the whole cart.

Seeing this, the surrounding Xia army and border troops were not stupid, and those crossbowmen climbed up the building car from the long ladder one after another, and climbed to the three-zhang top pavilion platform.

Qin Yu was surprised to see that Xu Wei was also mixed with those Xia troops, carrying a crossbow and a bow on his back and boarding the building car.

For a time, the top pavilion of the two buildings was overcrowded, which shows that the Xia army and the border army are really full of fighting spirit.

Seeing this scene, Xu Jinyan, the head of the Ordnance Division, showed a worried look on his face, after all, according to his estimates, there were almost more than two hundred crossbowmen on each building car, if the building car after completion had no doubt that it could withstand the weight of this number of people, but the problem was that the two building cars were not completed at the moment, and seventy percent of the parts were still just frames, so he was a little worried that these two building cars would not be able to bear the heavy weight of hundreds of people.

"General Luo Detao, isn't this -------- a bit much?" Xu Jinyan reminded worriedly.

As soon as the words fell, I heard Luo Detao complaining: "I don't have enough for these people." ”

Qin Yu also smiled bitterly when he heard this.

In all fairness, Qin Yu also knew that it was a very dangerous thing to have an excess of the number of people in the building, after all, once the building car collapsed, the chariot would be completely destroyed, not to mention for the time being, and it would also cause unnecessary casualties to the Xia army border army on the top pavilion platform.

But the problem is that the momentum of the Hu soldiers outside the camp is too fierce at the moment. It is so ferocious that it does not care about casualties.

The 10,000 longbowmen of Xihu always maintained the suppression of the arrows of the border army on the city wall, and the crossbowmen of the border army on the city wall did not dare to appear casually.

Almost all of the border crossbowmen were squatting to reload their bolts, and then quickly stood up. Shoot an arrow under the protection of the shield men, then repeat the crouch reload of the bolt.

Looking at this scene, although Qin Yu had more efficient crossbow shooting tactics, he knew very well that he was facing the threat of the bows of the 10,000 Xihu longbowmen outside the camp. Even if he came up with more efficient crossbow tactics, it wouldn't help.

Qin Yu was thinking about it, and suddenly Xu Jinyan beside him gently pushed him and whispered, "They're here." ”

Hearing this, Qin Yu glanced back at the city, and saw that many young men were carrying all kinds of planed and polished wooden parts to the south city wall, and behind them, many officials and craftsmen of the Ordnance Department carried burdens full of tools, and also came here, under the puzzled gaze of the surrounding Xia soldiers. Disperse the crowd and occupy a large open space.

Probably hearing the puzzled questions of the Xia soldiers behind him, Luo Detao glanced back and saw a large group of non-combatants rushing to the southern city wall, he was suddenly stunned in his heart, and asked puzzledly: "Lord Xu Jinyan, these people are ......?"

Qin Yu and Xu Jinyan looked at each other and smiled, and did not explain, but said goodbye to Luo Tao, and went down the city wall towards those craftsmen.

Rodtao was wondering. Suddenly, I saw eight young men carrying a wooden plank as thick as their palms, and carrying it to the base of one of the building cars with difficulty, while at the same time, two craftsmen belonging to the Ordnance Division were wearing armor. With a hammer in hand, with the assistance of the eight young men, he struck the wooden plank and fixed the standing board to the frame on the second floor.

Seeing this, Luo Tao's eyes widened in surprise.

"These people aren't going to ...... here"

With a slight movement in his heart, Luo Detao hurriedly ordered two hundred shield soldiers to protect those craftsmen at all times, in case these precious craftsmen were attacked by Hu Jun's arrows.

Not bad. This was exactly Qin Yu's risky and crazy idea: first ask some craftsmen to plane and polish the standing board needed for the building car in the depths of the city, and then let the young Zhuang carry it to the south city wall, and then ask the other part of the craftsmen in the south city wall to assemble it.

This kind of battlefield construction does not affect the emergency use of the building car, but the advantage is that every time those craftsmen build a floor of the station again, more border army crossbowmen can step on the platform of the building car and join in the urgent matter of suppressing the 10,000 Xihu longbowmen outside the camp with bows and arrows.

In addition, Qin Yu and Xu Jinyan also used this method to make the other idle craftsmen urgently make a few stone-throwing carts, wanting to use this siege weapon to deter the Xihu army outside the camp.

If he could, Qin Yu didn't want those officials and craftsmen of the Ordnance Department to brave the arrows of the Hu army to carry out urgent operations, this was a last resort, after all, it was the most difficult moment for the situation in this city.

"Bang ——!"

A stone-throwing cart was the first to be urgently built, and a huge stone was thrown out of the camp with a loud bang.

Hearing this movement, Luo Tao subconsciously glanced back, and happened to see a craftsman quickly climb the city wall, squeezed forward under the puzzled gaze of the nearby Xia soldiers, and glanced outside the camp a few times.

Then, I saw the young man with a face full of joy and turned around and shouted, "Hit! Hit! ”

At the same time, next to the stone-throwing cart, two craftsmen and more than a dozen young men looked nervously, and when they heard the words shouted by the young man, they couldn't help but raise their arms and cheer.

"Wow——!"

Near them, many Xia army border soldiers looked at each other, and then, many people took the initiative to come up: "Hey, brother, do you want to help?" ”

When an army is united in its most important goal of defeating the enemy, this army will be invincible!

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"That's ====?"

Soba, the commander of the Hu army, saw the two behemoths on the inside of the south wall of Dingyuan City for the first time, and his expression couldn't help but be a little surprised.

After all, according to common sense, the building car belongs to a kind of siege vehicle, as the name suggests, it is naturally used for siege, and I have not heard of anyone using it for defense.

It's really tall----- I'm afraid it's a full three feet tall, right? Those Xia people really spared no effort to defend this city.

Soba hummed softly as he thought.

He had to admit that this Dingyuan City was simply a moat-like existence, and it was clear that he had invested a full fifteen thousand infantry, but what was the result? So far, not a single infantry has successfully climbed the walls of Dingyuan City.

The vast majority of the infantry died on the defense line covered with iron thorns, and even the infantry who successfully broke through this defense line could not climb the mountain-like city wall, and were shot to death by the crossbowmen of the border army in Dingyuan City.

With such a huge casualty rate, their Hu army had never suffered such huge casualties since they invaded the territory of the Xia Kingdom, and so far there had never been a city for their Hu army to suffer such huge casualties.

In Soba's eyes, this Dingyuan City was much more difficult to attack than the other counties he had attacked some time ago.

Because when attacking the rest of the county at that time, the Hu soldiers under his command also built a lot of buildings and ladders, therefore, with the convenience of siege weapons, the Hu army occupied an absolute advantage in strength and conquered several states and counties under the rule of Lingzhou in one fell swoop.

But now, in front of this Dingyuan City, which was carefully strengthened by the Xia people, the infantry of the Hu army seemed to have lost their effect.

Because in Soba's view, the process of his Xihu army just repeating the charge and then being shot to death by the border troops in Dingyuan City with crossbow arrows was simply unsuccessful.

And the heavy casualties paid by these many Xihu armies only played a role in holding back the border troops on the walls of Dingyuan City: because only the infantry of the Hu army continued to die and were constantly shot to death by the border troops in Dingyuan City, and these border troops could not spare time to meet the 10,000 longbowmen of the Hu army.

That's all.

But the appearance of those two building cars broke this situation.

I saw that on the two building cars, hundreds of border archers had begun to try to shoot at the 10,000 Xihu longbowmen outside the camp.

This is not good news for Soba.

After all, at a time when the infantry under his command was useless, the 10,000 longbowmen were the only long-range troops that could effectively kill and injure the border troops in Dingyuan City. If this longbowman army suffered serious losses, then it would be purely a fool's dream for them to conquer this Dingyuan city.

After all, 10,000 longbowmen. It was already all under the command of the Hu army general Soba, and he could no longer take out more longbowmen troops.

"Whoosh"

The 10,000 longbowmen and the nearly 1,000 longbowmen on the two buildings in Dingyuan City fought against each other, because the former had an absolute advantage in numbers, therefore. Even if there were hundreds of more longbowmen in Dingyuan City, they would not hinder the advance of the Hu army's large army in the slightest.

But as he shot and shot, Soba suddenly noticed that the arrows shot at the 10,000 longbowmen under his command seemed to be increasing.

What's going on? Could it be that the longbowmen of the border army could shoot arrows by hearing?

Soba couldn't help but be a little surprised.

As far as he knew, there was once a unit of archers who could listen to the enemy's movements and shoot accurately, known as the archers, which were really the elite divisions of the archer army, even in the invisible fog, those elite archers could identify the enemy's position by sound, so as to make accurate shots.

However. That elite has long been a thing of the past, and so far in various countries, there has never been a single archery unit that can reach the level of those archers in history, and the current archer troops are still stuck in the degree of relying on "eyes" to capture the enemy's position, far from reaching the point of hearing and distinguishing the position.

Thinking of this, Soba subconsciously squinted his eyes at Dingyuan City, hoping to see some clues.

hasn't said it yet, he took a closer look, and he really saw something strange.

He found. The border troops on the two buildings in Dingyuan City seem to be more than Fang Cai.

Speaking of which, he also felt funny, funny that Xia Ren actually pushed two unfinished building cars to the front line. No, except for the top pavilion where the border army can stand, the rest of the floors are empty.

But right now, in addition to the border troops standing on the top of the two building cars, the second floor from top to bottom is also full of border troops.

These border soldiers were armed with machine crossbows. Assist the border soldiers on the city wall to shoot the Xihu army outside the camp who tried to climb the city wall, so that some of the crossbowmen on the city wall were replaced by longbowmen, and joined the team that shot the 10,000 Xihu longbowmen.

Strange, don't you say...... Xia people are still continuing to build building cars?

Thinking of this, Soba chuckled in his heart.

Although he also knows how to build a building car, he has never done anything so crazy: he urgently put the unfinished building car into use, and then continues to build the building car while fighting the battle.

So, how do you deploy manpower?

"Whew"

Just when he was wondering, he suddenly heard a whistling in the sky.

Soba subconsciously raised his head, and saw a black thing "flying" out of the interior of Dingyuan City, and flew over the city wall of Dingyuan City in an arc.

"Bang!"

The sharp whistling sound ended with a loud bang.

I saw that in the phalanx of 10,000 Hu army longbowmen, there was an unlucky longbowman with a stone from the direction of Dingyuan City in the middle of his head.

The stone, which was the size of a rugbyball, was frozen hard, and after flying in the air for a distance of more than twenty feet, it finally smashed into an unlucky ghost, and the unlucky ghost burst into brains.

The bright red blood mixed with milky white brains splashed on the faces and bodies of the Xihu longbows around them, making them pale with fright.

Stone-throwing truck?! ------ it turns out that Xia people not only built a building car, but also a stone-throwing car?

Soba's eyes widened in shock.

This made him even more puzzled, after all, as we all know, stone-throwing trucks are generally used to smash city walls and city gates, and they are used to kill enemies, but the effect is not significant.

Heh, in order to defend the camp, Xia Ren really spared no effort-------

Soba shook his head in a sneer, not really bothering about the appearance of the stone throwing cart, after all, he had just seen it clearly. The huge stone that was thrown from Dingyuan City only killed a longbowman, and incidentally smashed a longbowman behind him, at best, one dead and one wounded. It was nothing for a longbowmen army of up to 10,000 people.

Such a negligible casualty----- what if there were more catapults in Dingyuan City?

Soba didn't care, but continued to order the longbowmen to shoot arrows to overwhelm the city.

In comparison, the number of Hu infantry who were mistakenly killed by these 10,000 longbowmen far exceeded those stone-throwing carts.

But gradually, Soba felt a little wrong. Because he found that more and more stones were being ejected from the interior of Dingyuan City, what did it mean?

This means that the number of stone-throwing trucks in Dingyuan City is increasing dramatically!

Soba seemed to feel a little surprised, surprised that the Xia people could build more than ten stone-throwing vehicles in such a short period of time.

This is by no means the speed that ordinary soldiers can achieve.

He would never have thought that for this battle with the Hu army general Soba, Qin Yu seconded two hundred officials, small officials and craftsmen from the Ordnance Department, which can be said to be the secondment of half of the people in the Ordnance Department in Daliang City.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

More and more huge stones were thrown from Dingyuan City to the position of the 10,000 longbowmen, although the losses of the longbowmen who were killed by these stones were almost negligible. But Soba could clearly see that the ten thousand longbowmen under his command were gradually becoming impetuous, as if they were a little restless.

Come to think of it, anyone who sees the friendly soldiers who were directly stoned to death, and the miserable fate of those unlucky ghosts, will instinctively feel fear from the bottom of their hearts.

Not to mention, with the gradual improvement of the internal floors of the two chariots, more and more crossbowmen boarded these two chariots and shouldered the heavy responsibility of shooting the Hu infantry outside the camp, which freed the hands of the border soldiers on the city wall.

So on the city wall. More and more crossbowmen descended the walls and were replaced by longbowmen armed with strong bows.

And during this period, the infantry of Xihu did not make any achievements, and they also struggled to charge forward. They were also braving the rain of arrows to forcibly climb the city wall, gritting their teeth, holding on to the ladder, trying to force their way up the city wall.

"Rush"

One of the hundred generals in Hu's army shouted, leading the way. But after a few thuds, six or seven arrows were stuck in his body

“-------”

Nearby, many Hu soldiers who had attacked to the foot of the city wall looked at each other, all of them were frightened.

They scolded in their hearts: As long as they are living people, they can't dodge the arrows shot by Sergeant Xia!

But just when they hesitated, the arrow rain of the 10,000 longbowmen behind them attacked this section of the city wall of Dingyuan City, so that many infantry were shot by friendly troops again, and some who escaped by luck were shot by the border soldiers on the building cars in Dingyuan City one by one.

It's simply that the belly and back are the enemy.

Eventually, a small part of the Xihu army could not bear it anymore and fled to the east and west, trying to escape the battlefield.

Seeing this, Luo Tao hurriedly issued an order: let these Xihu deserters flee the battlefield!

He believed that as long as someone was the first to flee, then more and more Xihu troops would flee the battlefield.

And when most of the Xihu army is bent on escaping and saving their lives, then relying on the 10,000 Xihu longbowmen outside the camp, even if they are allowed to shoot for ten days and ten nights, it will not be enough to shake this city!

Soba was not surprised by the presence of deserters among the infantry of his army.

Although Xihu's punishment for deserters was quite severe, even so, if they were asked to attack a city that was almost impossible to conquer, the infantry in those armies would inevitably choose to flee, especially if someone took the lead.

The law does not blame the public.

In the past, Sobado would probably be full of resentment, gritting his teeth at this, and only waiting for the return to his own city afterwards, and then the soldiers who took the lead in escaping were taken out and executed one by one, as an example.

But today, he was silent, as if he had not seen the rout of the front-line infantry at all.

The reason for this is that the infantry casualties on the front line have been too heavy so far, and what makes people sigh is that the huge infantry casualties have hardly been rewarded.

You must know that up to now, the casualties of the vanguard infantry of the Hu army have reached nearly 10,000, and the corpses are piled up more and more on the outside of Dingyuan City, especially in the area of the Iron Thorn Forest, as if a bunker completely built from the corpses of Hu soldiers has been piled up, which is half a zhang high.

The blood stained the land even red, making the ground outside Dingyuan City look like a land watered with red blood from a distance.

And after paying such a heavy price in casualties, did the infantry of the Hu army gain anything?

No!

So far, none of them have successfully climbed the walls of Dingyuan City.

In the face of this tragedy, not to mention that the infantry of the Hu army on the front line had no intention of fighting, even Soba himself gradually lost the confidence to conquer this Dingyuan city.

According to common sense, if you can't attack for a long time, you should temporarily withdraw your troops and think of other good strategies.

But Soba did not give the general order for the whole army to retreat for a long time, for no other reason than because the current number of casualties had not yet reached the "hard target" set by the Great Khan for himself, and the casualties were a full 30,000.

"Attack! Continue to attack Dingyuan City! ”

Soba gave the latest order.

But in fact, he no longer had any expectations for whether he could conquer the Dingyuan City in front of him.

Because in his opinion. The defensive arrangement of Dingyuan City has become more and more defensive with the passage of time. For example, more and more arrows were fired back at the phalanx of 10,000 longbowmen under his command, and the longbowmen were gradually suffering a lot of casualties.

And the number of stone-throwing trucks that were urgently produced in Dingyuan City gradually reached thirty or forty. Although the direct casualties caused by these thirty or forty stone-throwing carts to the 10,000 longbowmen were not serious, their deterrent power far exceeded that of thousands of longbowmen of the border army.

The most direct manifestation is the 10,000 longbowmen who were killed by the huge stones thrown by the catapults. It has gradually begun to avoid this kind of stone thrown from Dingyuan City.

Is this a good thing?

No! In Soba's opinion, this is not a good thing at all.

Because, even if a longbowman successfully avoided the stones thrown by the border army's throwing stones, the direct impact of this incident was that the Hu soldiers in a small position near the soldier had no intention of using their bows to press the border troops in the distant city.

Therefore, from the perspective of the generals, the soldiers' practice of avoiding stones is more serious than being directly stoned to death by one or two soldiers, after all, because of the relationship between those soldiers, the soldiers in the nearby small position have a chaotic formation.

You must know that if the formation is out of order, there is no guarantee that there will be a crowding and trampling of soldiers, which is far more serious than direct casualties.

"Stump, Tread, Tread—"

The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near. Soba turned his head to look, and saw another Sihu general galloping towards him.

Soba frowned, for he had already guessed the compatriot's intentions, after all, he had twice ignored the herald's suggestion to withdraw his troops from the herald sent by the same general as himself.

Sure enough, the new Xihu general rode his horse to Soba's side and whispered to the latter: "Soba, withdraw your troops, if you continue to fight, it will only add unnecessary casualties---- there are no siege equipment." Our army will not be able to conquer this Dingyuan City! ”

Soba's eyes were still on the battlefield in front of him, and when he heard this, he said in a deep voice: "Rondo, you also know the Khan's orders, don't embarrass me. ”

Rondo naturally understood what the so-called "Great Khan's orders" meant. Wen Yan frowned and said, "Having said that, what good is it to increase casualties like this needlessly? ------- haven't you noticed? The infantry at the front has fled. You should understand that in my Dachu, the punishment for deserters is extremely cruel, and the soldiers will never dare to run away. But if there are soldiers fleeing on the battlefield, it means that there is no chance of winning the battle-----"

"I don't care! The Great Khan has an order, if our army does not suffer casualties in this battle to a certain number! Never retreat! ”