"Report!" But as soon as he stepped out of the state department's yamen, an urgent report made Qin Yu and others have no intention of celebrating.

"What?" Luo Tao asked, knocking on one knee and kneeling down in front of the border soldier.

I saw the soldier clasp his fists and say: "Back to the general, the Hu army has begun to attack the city again, and it is gathering outside the southern city wall at this moment. ”

"Understood, you go in and inform General Mu."

"Yes!" The soldier got up and walked away.

"Hu Jun is coming?" Qin Yu asked in surprise.

"Hmm." Luo Tao nodded,

"Do these damn Hu people have to come to attack the city so early? It's only three quarters of an hour! Xu Wei, who was standing beside Luo Tao, complained dissatisfiedly,

"Okay, stop complaining! Hurry back to the South Gate! Luo Tao waved his hand, and his soldiers also turned their heads and ran towards the south gate.

During this period, the alarm in the city sounded non-stop, and when Qin Yu and the others had just arrived at the south gate, there were border soldiers from time to time who came out of the tents. Dressed in full body gear, he hurried to the city wall.

What surprised Qin Yu a little was that although it was still early, these border soldiers did not panic, and ran towards the city wall in a neat and orderly manner, moving very quickly, and it didn't take much effort. They lined up neatly in the city below, or waited for the order, or climbed directly to the city wall.

"It's so quick to increase defenses------" Qin Yu said in surprise.

Luo Detao smiled slightly when he heard this: "These soldiers are the last family of the general!" ”

"General!" "General!"

Seeing that Luo Detao and a few others had walked this way, so even if they were lining up in the city, they also made way for Luo Detao and Qin Yu and the others, so that Luo Detao and others could walk unhindered in this crowd.

It didn't take long for Luo Tao and Qin Yu to come to the southern wall of Dingyuan City. And a lieutenant who was temporarily in charge of dispatching on the city wall saw Qin Yu and the others walking on the city wall, so he quickly walked over.

"General"

"How's it going?"

Luo Tao asked, while Qin Yu turned his head to look outside the city, only to see that two or three miles outside the city, he could clearly see tens of thousands of Hu troops in formation.

"How many are there?" Qin Yu asked while estimating.

"I'm afraid it must be more than fifty thousand----- Xu Wei estimated and muttered.

"50,000----- it seems that the highlight of the Hu army's attack on the city today is at our south gate, it is really a bit unexpected by the general, who thought that the Hu army would rest for a few days-----

When the captain heard this, he whispered, "General, your majesty has ordered the whole city to be on guard, and even ordered the soldiers to transport a large number of arrows to the south gate."

"Don't rush yet." Qin Yu waved his hand and said, "I can't conclude that Hu Bing really came to attack us, maybe he has some other major ----."

As soon as the words fell, the war drums that boosted the morale of the army sounded in the Hu army on the opposite side.

Seeing this, Luo Tao was stunned, shrugged his shoulders and said: "Okay, now you can be sure that ------ order the whole army to prepare to defend the city!" ”

"Yes!"

With Luo Tao's order, all the young men who were originally on duty on the city wall were replaced, and they were replaced by the crossbowmen of the Xia army's border army, as well as the shield soldiers in charge of them.

At the same time, the Hu army had already assembled and lined up, and saw that Soba, the general of the Hu army in charge of this battle, frowned and glanced at the Dingyuan city in front of him, which had not been captured for a month, and took a deep breath.

"Former military ...... Offensive! ”

Keeping in mind the advice of his own Great Khan, the general of the Hu army, Soba, did not shout with the Xia army, and directly gave the order to attack.

For a time, the front army of the Hu army, a full 5,000 soldiers, under the command of General Hu in the army, marched towards Dingyuan City step by step.

5,000 Hu soldiers in the first round of attack? ------ it seems that today's Hu army is not trying to test the idea of our army's defense at the south gate.

Frowning, Luo Tao ordered Qin Yu and a few others: "Assist the general to command the battle." ”

"Yes."

Qin Yu and the others hugged their fists and went to the side to assist the command. Only Luo Detao was left to watch the offensive of the Hu army in this section of the city wall.

The 5,000 Hu troops marched slowly, and when they were only a stone's throw away from Dingyuan City, General Hu in the army immediately ordered the whole army to charge.

At the same time, Luo Tao also immediately responded: "The archers are ready to ----- to release arrows!" ”

With his order. A wave of arrows shot out from the southern wall of Dingyuan City, and as many as a thousand arrows rose up on the wind, shooting at the Hu soldiers who were rushing towards Dingyuan City.

"Arrow strike! Arrow Strike! …… Raise your shield! ”

The vanguard of the 5,000 Hu soldiers were all sword and shield soldiers, and under the orders of several Hu generals, they quickly raised their shields to resist the arrows of the Xia army.

"Tuk Tuk"

A knock on the door resounded across the battlefield. The shield made of hardwood and cowhide in the hands of the 5,000-bearded saber and shield soldiers could not resist the arrows thrown by the hard bow in the hands of the Xia army's archers, and just a wave of arrows caused the shields in their hands to crack.

Seeing this scene, the vanguard general Xi Meng's face changed greatly, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Don't stop!" Rush! Keep charging! ”

Hearing this order, five thousand Hu soldiers rushed to the city wall of Dingyuan City with cracked wooden shields against the arrows of the Xia army.

Seeing this, Luo Tao, the general of the Xia army, gave an order with an expressionless face: "The second team." Shoot the arrows! ”

Another baptism of thousands of arrows.

And this time, it can be clearly seen that many of the wooden shields in the hands of those Hu soldiers were shattered by the arrows of the Xia army, although those wooden shields were not broken because they were wrapped in cowhide, but they had lost their original shape and were reduced to a bag of broken pieces of wood wrapped in cowhide.

The gap in equipment......

Qin Yu, who was standing on the side, shook his head slightly.

He also didn't know whether to be glad or lamented, the Hu army's measured weapons and equipment were generally inferior to the Xia army, and he knew the shields used by the infantry of the Xia army's border army. It was an iron shield, and for the sake of the soldier's physical strength, the iron shield was probably slightly thicker than a knuckle, though it was not indestructible. But at least in the hands of the five thousand Hu soldiers on the other side, the wooden shields that could shoot with just two bolts were much stronger.

It is not difficult to guess that those Hu soldiers who have lost the protection of their shields will not survive the third wave of arrows of the Xia army.

And it turned out that Qin Yu's guess was accurate, when Luo Detao, the general of the Xia army, ordered the third wave of arrows to be fired. The galloping Hu soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and from a distance, it looked like a strong wind blowing through the wheat field, falling to the ground one by one.

Just when Qin Yu was embarrassed by the fate of those Hu soldiers, Xu Wei beside him reminded in a low voice: "Hu Jun's brigade has advanced. ”

Qin Yu raised his head in an instant and looked into the distance.

I saw that as Xu Wei said, the huge Hu army team moved forward neatly, and changed the formation, from the original square gate formation to the crane wing formation.

This battle feels different from Hu Jun's previous offsets, and it always feels a little wrong-------

Qin Yu frowned, squinting his eyes and carefully looking at the Xihu army in the distance.

He was surprised to find that the two wings of the "war cranes" that served as the crane wing array of the Nahu army were actually longbowmen, not the infantry that they normally used for surprise attacks.

It's so close----- aren't those longbowmen of the Hu army afraid ----- our army shooting arrows at their archers?

Qin Yu muttered, he felt that Xihu's archer array was too close to their Dingyuan City, not only had they already entered the range of arrows, but they were even closer than this range by almost twenty zhang.

It stands to reason that no one will put their archers at risk, unless ......

Unless they have the intention of attacking first!

"The north wind is blowing today, right?" Qin Yu asked coldly.

Luo Tao glanced at Qin Yu suspiciously, and from the side, Xu Wei nodded and said, "Although the wind is not strong, it is indeed a north wind." ”

Seeing this, Qin Yu's face suddenly became very solemn, and he said in a low voice: "General, it may be possible for the Hu army to launch a salvo against my Dingyuan City!" ”

Luo Detao was stunned when he heard this, glanced at the infantry who were charging towards their Dingyuan City, and said incredulously: "Isn't it?" There are more than 4,000 soldiers of Xihu over there------"

And at this moment, the Hu army that was quietly advancing on the opposite side, and the longbowmen who acted as "crane wings", suddenly raised the longbows in their hands in unison.

At this scene, Qin Yu was suddenly terrified, and shouted urgently: "The whole army is on guard for an arrow attack!" ----- the archer stops firing and dodges the arrows. Shields on the walls to protect the archers! ”

Luo Detao, the general who was commanding not far away, was stunned when he heard Qin Yu's shout, and subconsciously looked at the Hu army's longbow array in the distance.

He was shocked to see that dense arrows rose from the formation of the Hu army, whistling towards his Dingyuan City.

"Arrow strike! Arrow Strike! ”

A full 10,000 Xihu longbowmen and 10,000 arrows covered the southern wall of Dingyuan City like a torrential downpour, covering the clouds and the sun.

Ten thousand arrows were fired at once, this was definitely the most spectacular scene Qin Yu had seen so far.

I saw that the 10,000 arrows fired by the 10,000 Xihu longbowmen were like a tide of locusts, like dark clouds before a rainstorm, covering the entire sky in front of them, and as far as the eye could see, it was all black and oppressive.

Even Qin Yu, who thought he had excellent psychological quality, swallowed his saliva and his hands trembled uncontrollably when he saw this spectacular and terrifying scene from the bottom of his heart.

And behind it, it's even colder.

"Protect the General!"

Xu Wei shouted, and immediately, more than a dozen Xia Army shield soldiers rushed over nearby, using the iron shield in their hands to protect Luo Detao and several others layer by layer.

After a moment of dead silence, the sound of arrows hitting shields was heard near the southern wall of Dingyuan City.

"Tuk-tuk-"

The sound that was so dense that it seemed like a downpour banging on the window frightened Qin Yu to purse his lips, and he couldn't make any sound.

There is no shame in this.

Because only when we have faced a person who is "ten thousand arrows at once" will we understand that kind of despair, just like a person facing a choppy tide, and the strength of the individual is really too insignificant in the face of such a catastrophe that can be called annihilation.

This rain of arrows has been "falling" for a while.

Qin Yu secretly speculated that the 10,000 Xihu longbowmen outside the city would never shoot more than one arrow, at least three or four arrows per person, or even more than five arrows.

This means that Hu Jun was on top of the Xia army in Dingyuan City, and in just a dozen breaths, he vented a full 50,000 arrows.

Or even more.

The entire southern city wall of Dingyuan City was dead silent.

All the border sergeants hid under cover and shields, and did not dare to take the lead easily.

The Hu army's sea offensive was most fully embodied at this moment.

Outside Dingyuan City, Soba, the commander of the Hu army, finally ordered to stop shooting.

It's not that he deliberately released the water, and it's not that Hu Jun's arrows ran out, but the reason was that the 10,000 longbowmen persisted after each shot five arrows. His arm has long been numb.

It's no wonder, after all, it takes a lot of wrist strength to pull a longbow, and it takes a lot of effort to shoot five arrows in a short time with a full bow. This is extremely exhausting for the archer's physical strength.

If nothing else, at least half of the 10,000 longbowmen have temporarily lost their archery fitness in a short period of time, and it will take some time to recover.

But in the eyes of the commander-in-chief of the Hu army, it is worth it, because if it goes well. The five waves of thousands of arrows of the 10,000 Hu army longbowmen will cause heavy casualties among the border soldiers in Dingyuan City.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to ask the infantry of the 5,000 Hu Army to accompany the burial.

But the current result did not make him feel much satisfied, because he felt that the screams of those border soldiers coming from the direction of the city wall of Dingyuan City did not reach his expectations.

"Is it seen through?"

Muttering, Soba frowned and looked at the dead and silent Dingyuan City, and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed in his heart.

"Second team. Offensive! ”

With Soba's order, Hu dispatched a full 5,000 infantry and launched a charge towards Dingyuan City.

It is undeniable that the rain of arrows that shot at the same time was indeed excellent, no, it was clear that the second infantry team of the Hu army had rushed within the range of the archers of Dingyuan City, but there were no archers of the Xia army raising their bows and arrows.

I believe that those border soldiers have not recovered from the majestic rain of arrows at this moment.

Indeed, at this moment, on the walls of Dingyuan City. All the border soldiers were still hiding under their shields, and the whole person shrank into a ball, only to see that on the city wall, all the shield soldiers held their shields above their heads. Together with the surrounding shield soldiers, he protected his comrades, so that at a glance, the entire city wall of Dingyuan City seemed to be a shield wall, but it was facing the sky.

"Bang-"

A shield fell to the ground, and Luo Tao, the general of the Xia army, pushed away the corpse of a soldier who was pressing on his body and stood up.

Rodtao looked at the corpse with some regret and sadness in his eyes. Because the Xia shield soldier was really unlucky, an arrow pierced the gap between the shield and shot into his neck.

But even so, the border sergeant still insisted on holding his shield high and protecting Luo Tao, until the end of Hu's volley, until he lost his breath.

"This is the soldier of my border army!"

Feeling a strong sense of pride, he crouched down, stretched out his hand and gently closed the eyes of the sacrificed soldier, and immediately picked up the shield that the latter had dropped, and his left arm passed through the armband of the shield, and he raised the shield and stood up again.

"The second wave of the Hu army's offensive has arrived, and the whole army is attacking!"

At his command, he saw the shieldmen on the dead walls, and the shieldmen stood up one after another, along with the crossbowmen they were protecting.

But there were also some shield soldiers who remained motionless on one knee and holding their shields aloft.

"Hey, hey, hey?"

A Xia Guo archer pushed the motionless shield soldier beside him, but saw the latter's figure sway, and he fell to the ground with his shield with a bang.

"Hey, you're ......"

The archer's face was shocked, and when he looked closely, he realized that an arrow had pierced through the iron shield and into the back of the shieldman's skull.

The archer opened his mouth, and his eyes couldn't help but redden.

Because he realized that the reason why he was still alive was because this Tongze still held a shield high to protect him after his death.

"Damn hoogou!"

The archer cursed through gritted teeth.

As soon as he had cursed, the archer heard the order from the general, so he shut his mouth and went back into battle.

And a similar scene, the general in charge of the command, Luo Tao, looked at it, but at this moment, he didn't care about regretting the outstanding border soldiers who sacrificed.

"The infantry of the Hu army is approaching the city wall, the archers are under the crossbowmen, and the shield soldiers are responsible for carrying the fallen off the city wall."

Luo Tao calmly gave the general's order, and the border soldiers of the border army also calmly fulfilled the general's order, the archers retreated from the city wall, and stepped forward in place of their crossbowmen, and the crossbows in their hands were aimed at the Xihu infantry who were getting closer and closer to the city wall, and during this period, the Xia State shield soldiers quickly transported the corpse of Tong Ze who died in the rain of arrows from the city wall, so as not to occupy the position.

During this period, the shield soldiers who used layers of shields to closely protect Qin Yu and Luo Tao and others. They also dispersed.

"Xiaoji, be careful, today's Hu Jun's offensive is a little different!" Xu Wei immediately held a shield to protect Qin Yu, for fear that Hu Jun would suddenly launch another volley of bows and arrows.

"It's fine."

Qin Yu gently pushed Xu Wei away, because he found that the formation of the Hu army in the distance outside the city. The longbowmen, who acted as the "wings of the crane", had slowly retreated to the rear for some distance.

This meant that those Xihu longbowmen did not have the physical strength to fire arrows for the time being, so Qin Yu was not worried about the Hu army "sneaking up" on them again.

Yes, a sneak attack.

Although Qin Yu did not know that the commander of the Hu army who commanded the war was called Soba. I don't know this person either, but that doesn't stop him from thinking a little bit of about Soba.

On the frontal battlefield, it is inconceivable to attack the enemy army with dignity!

But Soba did it.

Soba used 5,000 Xihu infantry to attract the idea of the soldiers on the wall of Dingyuan City, and when the latter shot the 5,000 Xihu infantry with a bow and crossbow, Soba quietly changed the formation of the army, and placed a full 10,000 Xihu longbowmen in the two cities on the wings of the crane wing array, and then under the guise of the whole army advancing to Dingyuan City, the 10,000 Xihu longbowmen stood at a sufficient range.

It's a loss that the north wind is still blowing today. The longbowmen of Xihu must get closer to Dingyuan City, otherwise, the Hu army's 10,000 arrows will come earlier and more suddenly.

"It seems that the command of the Great Khan of Xihu is not all rice buckets, but there are still very good commanders-----"

Qin Yu sighed sincerely, he didn't feel complacent at all because he had just gained insight into Soba's intentions, but he was afraid, because if he hadn't detected Soba's trick a moment earlier, he believed that there must be corpses all over the city wall of Dingyuan City at this moment.

Of course, on this. Luo Tao's face was already full of anger.

"Shame! It's a shame! ”

After all, Luo Tao is a general who is good at warfare, and how can he not figure out Soba's intentions now, but he can't accept it, and he can't accept Soba's "shameful" approach.

In Luo Tao's opinion. But there will be casualties in any war, and every soldier and general who has worked hard to train may be killed in a battle, which is understandable, after all, how can there be immortals in war?

However, for tactical purposes. And deliberately asked his soldiers to be sent to death, purely as bait to accompany the funeral, this kind of thing, Luo Tao could never accept.

This is the difference in values between the orthodox generals of the Xia State and the generals of the Xihu Kingdom.

"That Hu Jiang...... What a disgrace! Luo Detao scolded angrily, he sincerely felt inexplicable anger that the outstanding border soldiers under his command died at the hands of a "unworthy general" general like Soba.

Qin Yu did not have such a strong resentment, in his opinion, on the battlefield, each depends on life and death, and everything can be used, but all tactics that can serve the purpose of "final victory" can be used.

Of course, understanding is understanding, but Qin Yu doesn't want a general like Soba, after all, this kind of unscrupulous approach to achieve the end has exceeded the "rules" he pursues.

Look at the Xihu infantry outside the military city who were used as bait by Soba, and look at the fate of those people, I am afraid that these Hu soldiers who risked their lives to rush to the vicinity of Dingyuan City would never have dreamed that they did not die under the bows and crossbows of the Xia army, but instead died under the volley of their friendly troops.

Those Hu soldiers who are difficult to look at until death are simply ironic!

"It's unbelievable that this kind of country has not perished so far, but has become a ----disease of ringworm in the Great Xia Frontier!"

Qin Yu couldn't help but shake his head, feeling that the world was really impermanent.

At least the commander of the Hu army, Soba, did not care about the sacrifices of the infantry who served as bait, at most he just regretted that the sacrifices of these bait did not allow him to get enough rewards for the sacrifices of the border soldiers in Dingyuan City as expected.

Of course, as a general, Soba would not send his army to death for no reason, he was just for victory.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if the sacrifice of the 5,000 bait can be exchanged for the casualties of 2,000 soldiers and soldiers in Dingyuan City, or even just 1,000 soldiers and soldiers, Soba feels that it is earned, after all, according to the information, the Xia army only has 30,000 soldiers in Dingyuan City, but now their Hu army has 110,000 troops, and the high casualty rate of the border soldiers will undoubtedly make the chance of conquering this military city greater.

But unfortunately, today's tactics seem to have been seen through by the border soldiers, and they did not achieve the expected gains, nor did they reduce the morale of the border soldiers.

In the past, Soba would have chosen to temporarily withdraw his troops and think of several tactics that could effectively kill the border soldiers, but today, he can only bite the bullet and continue to attack.

"Third team, attack! …… The longbowmen shot towards Dingyuan City, suppressed the crossbowmen of Dingyuan City, and gave cover to the infantry. ”

The second wave of the Hu army's offensive had already hit, and it was another city of 5,000 infantry, and it was only three or four zhang away from Dingyuan City.

At this distance, the crossbowmen of the Xia Kingdom in the city shot Hu Bing with a machine crossbow and killed them with one arrow, but almost none of them who were hit by crossbow arrows did not fall to the ground and died.

Once upon a time, the bow was hailed as the most despicable weapon invention in history, but when the crossbow was introduced, the world threw the insulting title of bow to the crossbow. Because the machine crossbow is more powerful than the bow, although it has various weaknesses such as the range is not as good as the bow and the difficulty of loading the crossbow arrows, the lethality of the machine crossbow at medium and close ranges is definitely beyond the reach of the bow and the horse.

You must know that at medium and short distances, the crossbow arrows shot by the machine crossbow can easily penetrate the iron shield, even the iron shield of the Xia army cannot resist the powerful machine crossbow, let alone the wooden shield of the Hu army's infantry, or is it just flesh and blood?

In the face of the continuous crossbow arrow attack on the wall of Dingyuan City, the five thousand Hu soldiers who formed the second round of the offensive fell to the ground one by one, but the worst thing is that even in this treacherous situation, those Xihu infantry still had to slow down.

There was no way, because on the periphery of the walls of Dingyuan City, there were countless sharp iron thorns, and there were dense iron thorns fixed on the ground at an outward angle, and the threat hidden by those sharp thorns made the Hu soldiers who stormed Dingyuan City have to slow down.

These things have a similar effect to rejecting horses and antlers, and if the five thousand Hu soldiers dare not slow down and stop the momentum of the charge, then they will definitely be pierced by these iron thorns that freeze the ground in the cold wind.

"Clear the obstacles!" A general shouted eagerly.

But as soon as he finished speaking, he was hit by two arrows in the chest, and I saw that his eyes widened, and after a few strange sounds of "cough cough" from his throat, he fell to the ground and died in the frightened eyes of the surrounding Hu soldiers.

It's too close. The place where the Hu soldiers were forced to stop their charge was too close to Dingyuan City.

It seemed like it was only a foot or two away.

At such a close distance, no matter how strong the martial arts are, no matter how strong the generals are, they can't resist the powerful machine crossbow.

The soldiers were frightened and helpless. Obviously, the city wall is only one or two zhang away from them, but this distance of two zhang seems to be close to the end of the world, no matter how hard they try, they can't cross this moat.

They withstood the rain of arrows from the Xia army. Grabbing the iron thorns that were fixed on the ground with both hands, he shook them vigorously, hoping to remove these obstacles that blocked the way, but unfortunately, most of the Hu soldiers had just touched the iron thorns with their hands before they were shot to death by the border soldiers on the wall of Dingyuan City with machine crossbows.

The warm blood of the Hu soldiers seemed to flow out of a shocking blood-colored area one or two feet away from Dingyuan City, and in this land that had been poured with blood, it was densely packed with the corpses of those dead Hu soldiers.

"It's a massacre -----"

Qin Yu stood on the city wall and watched. Secretly shook his head and sighed. In fact, it is no wonder that these Hu soldiers were defeated so badly, in January, the Xia army and the border army did not all participate in the battle, more often, they were all with the young and strong to defend the city together, plus the border army's conscious control of the bow and the use of crossbows, which did not care about the use of arrows and crossbow arrows as today, and such a defensive force built by the elite soldiers of the border army, Qin Yu was also the first time to see it in the city.

He really couldn't estimate how many Hu soldiers couldn't cross this "iron forest", the first obstacle set up by the Xia army, and fell to a place only one or two zhang away from Dingyuan City.

What made many Hu soldiers even more desperate was that the "iron forest" was not the only obstacle ahead, the towering wall of Dingyuan City made the Hu soldiers who intended to climb the city wall and attack the city feel a strong helplessness and frustration.

It's like a mountain.

But those Hu soldiers had no choice, because they knew very well that if they fled with their backs to the Xia army at this moment, the generals in their army. Will not hesitate to order the crossbowmen to shoot them.

If they are shot as deserters, they will lose everything they have accumulated in their previous struggles, and the money and goods they hide will be divided among Tongze in the same military tent, and even worse. Even their families will be convicted of it.

They could only advance, braving the crossbows of the Xia army.

Because only by winning the battle can they have a chance to survive and have a chance to harvest the riches of the city. The Hu army did not prohibit the soldiers from looting the people of the enemy country, and this was also the most important source of income for the Hu soldiers.

However. When the offensive of a full 5,000 people failed to break through the first line of defense of Dingyuan City, "Tielin", but was easily harvested by the border soldiers on the wall of Dingyuan City like a target, nearly half of the friendly soldiers were killed, and the Xihu infantry in the second wave of the offensive finally collapsed.

They wept and howled, and some of them even dared not face the cold and terrifying iron thorn forest anymore, and when they tried to flee with their backs, the Xihu infantry who formed a third wave of the offensive arrived.

The Sihu infantrymen, armed with swords and shields, showed no mercy on the deserters who fled from the front line to the rear, and drove them with their weapons, forcing their former allies back to their original positions, forcing them to uproot the iron spikes that were fixed to the ground at the cost of their own lives.

---------- Dividing Line--------

Looking at this scene, Qin Yu couldn't help frowning frequently.

Perhaps the iron-blooded military regulations are the best means to restrain the soldiers, but Qin Yuda dislikes this from the bottom of his heart, and he is more inclined to use encouragement or motivation to make the soldiers under his command understand "what they are fighting for", rather than using intimidation and deterrence to force the soldiers to fight like the Hu army on the other side.

Having said that, although Qin Yu disdained this way of commanding the Hu army, it was undeniable that the Hu army relied on this ancient method of intimidation and deterrence, and also achieved good results.

No, the first line of defense, "Tielin", has been torn open by those Hu soldiers: I don't know how many Hu soldiers paid the price of their lives to pull out more than a dozen iron spikes. Although the dozen strokes were insignificant, they were enough for one person to squeeze through.

"It's only a matter of time before the first line of defense is breached------"

Qin Yu frowned slightly.

Although only a few Hu soldiers have broken through the Iron Thorn Forest at present, and they were shot to death by the border soldiers without taking a few steps, it is undeniable that with the delay of time, the hole that has been torn apart will only get bigger and bigger, and more Hu soldiers will break through at the risk of death.

However, Qin Yu didn't feel much worried about this.

After all, those iron thorn forests are at best the role of repelling horses and antlers,、。

Compared with those Xihu infantry outside the city, Qin Yu was more concerned about the location of the Hu people's army.

Although he didn't know about Soba, the commander of the Hu army in this attack, the latter's trickery and use of troops that almost caused heavy casualties among the soldiers and soldiers of Junshui in Dingyuan City were enough to make Qin Yu more vigilant.

After all, no matter how much he buried Xihu's national system, system, and way of using troops, it was undeniable that there were also generals in the Hu army who were skilled in using troops.

What worried Qin Yu was that after suffering huge losses in troops, the commander of the Hu army, Soba, was not only indifferent, but instead increased the infantry that attacked Dingyuan City again and again.

What made Qin Yu even more shocked was that the two longbowmen in the Xihu army, after a short rest, once again gradually advanced towards his Dingyuan City.

It seems that there is a sense of a general attack.

"Go on like this...... It's not good. ”

Qin Yu, who was always paying attention to the movements of the Xihu army, couldn't help muttering when he noticed that the Hu army's large army was advancing towards his Dingyuan City.

Don't assume that the defending side has the advantage, but that's not the case.

Take this Dingyuan City as an example, in fact, the city wall in the south can only stand two or three thousand border soldiers at best, this number has reached saturation, and if there are more, the border soldiers on the city wall may not even have room to turn around.

And what about the Hu army outside the city?

The infantry in the Hu army did not mention it because they were no threat to Dingyuan City at the moment, but the existence of the 10,000 longbowmen was like a sharp sword hanging over the heads of many border soldiers.

The fundamental reason is that the space on the city wall is relatively narrow and cannot accommodate 20,000 border soldiers at the same time, but the longbowmen of the Hu army can arrange a formation in the open space outside the city without any scruples, and use the range advantage of the longbow to shoot and kill the border soldiers in Dingyuan City with the tactic of projectile.

That's the disadvantage of the defenders.

Of course, the premise is that the attacking side has enough ranged troops, otherwise relying solely on infantry, it will definitely be the advantage of the defender.

"General, it's not okay to go on like this-----"

Qin Yu was watching the battle from the sidelines, and when he saw this, he couldn't help but suggest to Luo Tao: "It's better to have someone raise a soldier and kill it to disrupt the two archers phalanx of the Hu army, otherwise, when they get closer, they will fire a volley above our city wall, and our army's defense will become very difficult---"

Luo Tao's mind moved slightly when he heard this.

To sneak up on Hu's longbowmen's phalanx, they had to be cavalry: only cavalry with high mobility could quickly penetrate the Xihu longbowmen's firing intervals.

At this time, although there is no formed cavalry in Dingyuan City, this does not mean that there is no way to temporarily form a cavalry in Dingyuan City.

Not to mention anything else, there were 800 horses used for transportation in that army alone, and if they were handed over to the soldiers in the border army, it would immediately be a cavalry of 800 men, which would be used to sneak attack and disturb the phalanx of Xihu longbowmen, which was enough.

You must know that in addition to the advantage of range, the longbowman itself has extremely poor defensive ability, and once a cavalry uses the interval between shots to kill the army, most of them may be killed by the cavalry.

But the question is------

A little embarrassment and embarrassment gradually appeared on Luo Tao's face.

"It's good to sneak attack the longbowmen of the Hu army, but ----- the city gate has been sealed----"

Yes, a few days ago, due to the fierce offensive of the Hu army, in order to increase the defensive power of the fixed Yuancheng, Luo Tao sealed the gates of Dingyuan City!

"This wave is indeed a mistake, I should have withstood the pressure earlier, and I shouldn't have sealed this city gate for him! -----”

Rodtao thought hatefully.

With the gradual evolution of the battle situation, the Hu general Soba has invested more than 15,000 Hu infantry, excluding the 5,000 killed by the Hu army's longbowmen themselves in the first round of attack, and in the second and third rounds of the offensive, Soba has also invested 5,000 infantry each.

Among the 10,000 infantry of the Hu Army in the follow-up, more than 7,000 have been shot to death by the crossbowmen of the border army so far, and they have fallen forever on this territory belonging to the Xia Kingdom, and have become the souls of the dead in a foreign country.

On the side of the Xia army, the casualties of the border soldiers have so far only been nearly 600 people, including the border soldiers who were shot dead during the first round of the Hu army's first offensive, during the 10,000 longbowmen and 10,000 arrows, in other words, from the second round of the Hu army's general Soba to abandon the trick, the number of casualties among the border soldiers is only more than 400. The total number of people is just over 1,000.

With the casualties of nearly 1,000 border soldiers in exchange for more than ten times the number of Hu soldiers killed, this is the result of replacing the elite soldiers of the border army for defense, and the effect is indeed extraordinary.

However, this favorable situation for the Xia army gradually disappeared with the advance of the Xihu army and as the 10,000 Hu army longbowmen entered the battlefield again.

I have to say that Qin Yu's suggestion, that is, to lead an elite cavalry to raid the phalanx of the Hu army's longbowmen, can effectively contain the bad thing, Luo Tao previously blocked the city gate for the purpose of strengthening the city.

If it weren't for this, the Hu army was currently very risky to put the 10,000 longbowmen in the forefront, and when they turned their attention to the border soldiers on the Dingyuan city wall, a group of cavalry suddenly killed, and with the speed of the war horses, there was a great chance to disrupt the 10,000 longbowmen's formation, so that the latter could not effectively suppress the border soldiers on the Dingyuan city wall.

It is a pity that the city gate was gambled, which means that Qin Yu's tactics are difficult to implement.

Could it be that an infantry was sent to attack the 10,000 archers of the Hu army? It was no different from sending you to death. This made Luo Tao and Qin Yu not have any good ways to deal with each other for a while, and continued to rely on the tall city walls, bows, and crossbows to resist the attack of the Hu army!