Xu Rong immediately sent troops to block the north gate, and the other side sent light cavalry to investigate the situation on the side of Xiayang City. Hu Zhen's troops also reached the south gate, and his soldiers and horses had no fear, sending people to destroy nearby villages and burn the unripe grain fields.

This time, the people of Haoyang have taken refuge for the second time in recent days, so there are no people or property left nearby. Hu Zhen didn't care about how this place would develop under the rule of the imperial court, and directly burned all the farmland he saw, leaving no way for the people here.

Tong Yuan, the soldiers and refugees in the city were indignant when they saw that all the surrounding 10,000 acres of crops had been reduced to ashes, and that the food that had been long-awaited for a year would be hopeless. Within a day, there was no more than half an acre of farmland in the west and south of Haoyang, and everyone who heard about this would be very afraid of Xu Rong, Hu Zhen and other Xiliang soldiers and horses.

Seeing this situation, Huang Yu, who was stationed at the south gate, asked for an attack, believing that the enemy army was plundering everywhere and the military discipline was lax, so he could take advantage of his unpreparedness and attack the enemy severely.

Tong Yuan decisively rejected the suggestion to attack, and the enemy obviously wanted to lure the Xinxi Liang army to attack. Hu Zhen and others deliberately made the destruction of the countryside bigger, and it seemed that the troops were scattered, but in fact, there must have been an ambush of elite cavalry, ready to chase and kill into the city in one fell swoop.

The North Gate is similar, Xu Rongbu doesn't seem to have many soldiers and horses, and he didn't block the road to Xiayang, confusing the city to make them think that they can break through from the North Gate to Xiayang. In fact, this little force will die if it goes out of the city.

The first day was spent in the enemy's rampant destruction and luring Tong Yuan's army to attack, and under Tong Yuan's strict orders, the whole army calmly guarded and determined to defend the city to the death.

Early in the morning of the second day, it was obvious that the enemy army was making siege ladders in the city, which was also deliberately let the enemy see the city, creating a tense and terrifying atmosphere.

Although these wooden ladders are rudimentary, they are enough to attack Haoyang. The Tucheng of Haoyang is only more than two zhang high, and there is no moat. Even some experienced cavalrymen rode on their horses, and their spears were able to pierce the defenders above.

In the afternoon, the sky was covered with clouds, and the dull breath weighed down the breath.

At this time, the war drums in the enemy's formation sounded, and suddenly a terrifying shout sounded, and a large number of people approached the north and south sides of Haoyang with ladders under the leadership of some soldiers.

The war broke out in an instant, Tong Yuan and Geng Qing sat at the north gate, Huang Yu was stationed at the south gate, and some of the soldiers and people were vigilant on the east and west sides at any time. In the end, Hu Lang'er's more than 100 cavalry and 500 or 600 refugees formed a mobile force to increase their strength at any time.

The south gate side was the first to fight, Huang Yu commanded his corporal crossbow arrows to shoot specifically at the enemy soldiers, these Que Zhang crossbows, Zhang Zhang crossbows are loaded with Wangshan, the accuracy is more than the hard bow. These well-trained crossbowmen can target slow-moving, unsheltered enemies and have a hit rate of more than 30%.

A round of aiming and shooting down, instantly put down twenty or thirty people. These enemy soldiers, who only wore two gears of armor but had no shields, had no other way to deal with them except to get out of the way. Even if a few people dragged the people in front of them as a shield, they were pierced by an arrow through the two of them.

More than half of those who were hit by the arrow did not die for a while, and they continued to wail on the ground. was so frightened that the man who was carrying the ladder next to him was heartbroken, so he simply threw the ladder and dodged everywhere.

Seeing this scene, Hu Zhen scolded loudly, ordered the executioner to step forward, cut off all the legs of the retreating people, and made them groan in pain in front of the two armies, and finally died of blood ismosis, creating an extremely terrifying scene.

The rest of the people were terrified when they saw that the people in front of them were tortured before they died, and even the corporals of Hu Zhen's subordinates were faintly cold behind their backs, and they all tried their best to serve their lives.

On the north gate, Geng Qing looked at the surging enemy army, and strictly ordered his subordinates to release arrows together, and a burst of breaking sounds sounded, and hundreds of arrows covered the enemy. However, the enemy places a wooden sign on the ladder, and when the arrow is fired, the enemy hides under the ladder. Although a total of ten people were shot down up and down, more than ten ladders of Xu Rong's department quickly continued to advance.

Just as everyone's attention was on the approaching ladder, five hundred archers dressed in armor ran out of Xu Rong's array. They ran to a distance just enough to reach the city wall, and with the sound of a trumpet, they all drew their bows and released their arrows, and in a short time they fired ten sharp arrows with all their might, forming a continuous rain of arrows to cover the city wall.

It turned out that the ladder in front only led to the position of the defenders' archers, and after the defenders' volley, the positions were all exposed, and these five hundred archers were already ready, and directly covered the city wall with ten volleys. This is the real salvo, in one go, straight to the target.

But unfortunately, the defenders on the city walls are not cattle and sheep to be slaughtered.

In the third song, most of the soldiers were dressed in armor, and according to Tong Yuan's orders, the defenders on the city wall were equipped with a lot of wooden shields and felt carpets soaked in water. Although crudely made and not fully completed until yesterday, these instruments were capable of blocking arrows thrown from a distance of a hundred and fifty paces.

These ten rounds of 5,000 arrows came with a surging momentum, like black clouds avoiding the sun.

Almost everyone on the city wall had a lot of arrows hanging on their armor and shields, but only a dozen people fell to the ground. Under Geng Qing's arrangement, a group of people soon came up from behind the city wall and carried them down.

Outside the city, Xu Rong saw it, and couldn't help but shrink his pupils, what kind of soldiers and horses is this, his own trick has been tried repeatedly against the Wuhuan and Xianbei armies in Youzhou and Liaodong, and the Northwest Rebels and Qianghu are even more unable to parry, this little-known Xinxi Liang Army and the unheard of Tong Xiaowei can deal with it easily, and can't help but sigh that the future is terrifying.

He immediately waved his hand to his side, and the officer in charge of commanding the banner immediately waved the banner, causing the five hundred archers with their arms to retreat. Instead, a thousand light and heavy infantry of all kinds stepped forward, carrying more than a dozen long ladders to kill the city wall.

At this time, the first ladders in the north of the city had all been set up on the city wall, and the enemy soldiers began to ascend the city. Rolling stones and logs were constantly being smashed down on the city walls, and although they could be dodged, they still continued to cause casualties and fear to the enemy, especially those who were strong men without armor or infantry with only two gears of armor, and they were seriously injured when they touched.

Although the battle was not fierce at the beginning, it was already very bloody, and there were painful shouts from time to time up and down the city walls. There is a very terrible reality in the era of cold weapon warfare, and that is that most people do not die immediately, but die slowly and painfully and helplessly on the battlefield.

Moreover, the hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons is very thrilling, requiring the support of hot guts and courage, and ordinary people simply can't withstand the oppression of slashing and stabbing each other at close range, and will directly abandon the blade and flee.

However, the two sides fighting now are all the leaders of this era-Xiliang Army, and everyone is shouting to suppress the fear in their hearts and fight to the death.

There were Xiliang soldiers screaming and yelling in the city, and this small square inch of land instantly turned into a purgatory, and an elite soldier fell to the ground and groaned, watching his vision gradually blur, his mouth became more and more thirsty, and finally he lost consciousness and his body became cold.